Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

When we show up, we win.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Come on, man.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

We are aware of all internet traditions.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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  3. 3.

    DCrefugee

    There is something to be said about living so close to the beach…

    Waiting on parts for my mower. Kids are coming down!

  4. 4.

    Mike in NC

    Packing to fly to Paris tomorrow night to kick off our Christmas river tour of central Germany. Hate those long miserable flights!

  6. 6.

    donnah

    Betty, when is your book coming out? Because when I read that post, I laughed out loud and scared the cat. Wonderful!

  8. 8.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    Should be a good game tonight. The Giants are –2½; the Dolphins are at home. Both teams are flailing, but they have a shot at the playoffs. Who wants it?

    I’m catching up on Grimm ahead of the game.

  9. 9.

    Baud

    Damn

    Bill Cosby has struck back against some of the dozens of women who’ve accused him of sexual assault.

    The world-famous comedian countersued seven women who’d sued him for defamation, saying they actually defamed him.

    By saying he sexually assaulted them, the women hurt his reputation so much that plans for a new family comedy on NBC were derailed, the counterclaim said.

  10. 10.

    Baud

    Because sooner or later, someone is going to complain that Dems aren’t doing this:

    Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton delivers the keynote at the National Immigrant Integration Conference in Brooklyn, New York, where she slammed Donald Trump and other Republican candidates for recent anti-immigrant comments and called out Marco Rubio for flip-flopping on the 2013 immigration bill.

  12. 12.

    Redshift

    I’ve been sleepy all day because the phone company gave me an “appointment” of sometime today to get my land line fixed. Shortly after I got up early, I got a text that they were coming in the afternoon, but by then I was up. I got nothing much done all day. I probably should have just gone back to bed.

  16. 16.

    David Koch

    Sanders: “We are a country of millions of people in despair, is that reflected on TV?”

    Not sure how you win an election, any election, let alone a national election, campaigning on the theme that there’s not enough Doom and Gloom.

    I mean even at the height of the Great Depression, FDR’s campaign song was “Happy Days are Here Again”, not “Run for it, we’re all gonna die!”

  17. 17.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Betty in OP:

    But they wouldn’t allow it; the reputation of humansbeing associated with Balloon Juice preceded me.

    Fixed it for ya.

  18. 18.

    David Koch

    National Poll — Monmouth — Dec 10-13

    Trump………………41
    Cruz…………………14
    Rubio……………….10
    Carson………………9
    ¿Jeb ?……………….3◄

    BWHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHH

    Deepest bench in a generation

    BWHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHH

  19. 19.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    Tonight’s agenda?

    Laughing at Republicans while I sew.

    There was a robocall on my answering machine when we got back from supper tonight.

    It seems the local Republicans can’t find anyone to run against our Congressman, so they’re phoning around in the district begging for someone to step up.

    In 2010, the Tea Party forced a guy onto the ballot here who believed that “God was going to drop a 1,000-mile high pyramid” on Greenland to create the New Jerusalem. There’s nowhere to go but up after that.

  22. 22.

    lamh36

    Football thread…okay…then

    Legislation targets Mizzou football team strike

    MO. state rep wants to take scholarships from striking athletes

    A Missouri state representative has pre-filed a bill that would cause any striking collegiate athlete in his state to lose their scholarship.

    Yes, this is a real bill…The bill comes after Missouri football players in early November decided to forgo football activities in solidarity with campus protesters who called for a change in campus leadership after a series of racially charged on-campus incidents. The players strike last about three days and the team played against BYU the following weekend.

    Since this is a pre-file there are few details on this bill, however, as noted by the sports editor of the Columbia Daily Tribune, scholarships aren’t state funded…
    The bill is proposed to go into effect on Aug. 28, 2016. The Missouri athletic department has not responded regarding the proposal.

  25. 25.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    Multiple threads late comment about retaliatory gifts. For many years, before the stores got a batter handle on order quantity, I bought discounted Starbucks ornaments after Xmas, to use the following year. They also make good hostess gifts for informal gatherings. I later expanded it into clever ornaments of any type.

    For those in search of retaliatory gifts for this year, Crate and Barrel has baskets of inexpensive ornaments, some of which are cute and clever. In OH at least, they are 30% off while supplies last. I’ve also been known to grab holiday tea towels at Kroger to use as such gifts. A couple of people told me they found them great hostess gifts, which pleased me.

  27. 27.

    David Koch

    Trump: Cruz is Nutz

    Donald Trump says Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is “a bit of a maniac” who doesn’t have the “right temperament” to be president.

    “The way he’s dealt with the Senate — where he goes in frankly like a bit of a maniac — you never get things done that way,” Trump said on “Fox News Sunday.” “You can’t walk into the Senate and scream and call people liars and not be able to cajole and get along with people. He’ll never get anything done. That’s the problem with Ted.”

    Trump: Cruz is a fake Christian

    “I think we’re going to do, we’re doing really well with Evangelicals. And by the way, and again, I do like Ted Cruz, but not a lot of Evangelicals come out of Cuba, in all fairness. It’s true. Not a lot come out.

    Trump: Cruz wants to take away jobs from Iowa and ship them to Iran.

    “But really, with the ethanol, he’s got to come a long way, because he’s right now for the oil.”

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    Open Thread, so…

    Last Las Vegas bespangled showgirl extravaganza to end after 34 years.

    Somehow can’t imagine there will be a reunion cast parading onstage for the final performance, but stranger things have happened.

  29. 29.

    JPL

    Today on the local news, they covered the Carolina Panthers highlights and then mentioned that they would cover the Falcons highlights but there were none. I don’t live in North Carolina.

  32. 32.

    Ridnik Chrome

    Since someone on another thread mentioned tinfoil hats, I though I’d share the following story. A couple of years ago, I was in a coffee shop in the Mission District in San Francisco, and there was a guy in there wearing an old brown fedora that he had lined with honest-to-God aluminum foil. When he took off the hat the aluminum foil stayed on his head. I wanted to go and ask the guy if he was wearing it as a joke, but in the end I didn’t, because I didn’t want to get drawn into a conversation with him if it turned out he was serious. After a while the owner, an old Chinese guy, went and told the aluminum foil guy that he had to leave. Not because he had aluminum foil on his head, but because he had been sitting there without buying anything…

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    ThresherK

    @NotMax: I never saw Billy Rose’s “Jumbo” *, but in reading the description it seems like “Jubilee” is about as close as one could get. And I’ve never been to Las Vegas. In missing this, did I miss anything?

    *Yes, there’s a movie of it, and by all accounts, it’s not the same.

  36. 36.

    Mike in NC

    @ThresherK: Viking River Cruises. Haven’t used them before. In 2010 we did an amazing Blue Danube cruise with Tauck that took us to Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, Budapest and a few other places.

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    Today is one of those days when Nature reminds those of us who live in So Cal that we live in a Mediterranean climate, not a tropical one. It never broke 60 degrees all day and will get down into the high 30s tonight.

  42. 42.

    Calming Influence

    “If you look closely,you’ll see gulls and sand pipers at the shoreline. I attempted to join them since they seemed an honorable outfit.

    But they wouldn’t allow it; the reputation of humans preceded me.

    Next time, you should really try draping yourself in seaweed and tasty bivalves. You’ll be amazed at how many new friends you make.

  43. 43.

    ThresherK

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): Okay, isn’t “The Greatest Show on Earth” (an Oscar Best Pix, IIRC) basically responsible for all these movies being made?

    And “spellbinding in that 1950s melodrama kind of way”, everything Bigger: Isn’t that what they were going for to compete with TV?

  44. 44.

    Felixmoronia

    @lamh36: This bill will quietly die after said rep. gets a visit from an expensively suited NCAA lawyer to explain to him the student-athlete/employee problem and the millions(billions) it will cost the state of MO. and all the other states.

  45. 45.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    @efgoldman:

    Well, they seem somewhat balanced in their incompetence. So there’s that.

    And Gruden’s vocal mannerisms drive me nuts, so I hardly hear the content.

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    @ThresherK

    It’s an artifact of another time. In that sense, whether one is missing anything by not having experienced it in person is an open question.

  48. 48.

    redshirt

    @efgoldman: I do believe in global warming, but it’s hard to attribute it to any one period of weather. I remember playing golf after Xmas in Mass in 1988. Was that global warming too? Maybe, but maybe not. It’s a tricky subject.

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