Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

In my day, never was longer.

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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

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

T R E 4 5 O N

Usually wrong but never in doubt

I really should read my own blog.

Second rate reporter says what?

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

The willow is too close to the house.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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  2. 2.

    Pogonip

    More news from the animal world that I found too late to put below.

    Ant poop is called “frass.”. So I guess an ant will frass, from her ass, frass that will pass into the grass.

  3. 3.

    patroclus

    After the hated Mountaineers beat TCU in the quarters, I think the tag for this thread should be “We are all Baader-Meinhof Now.”

  10. 10.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    Mrs Thunder, Doglius and I just got back from the pooch’s daily survey of all vertical objects in the neighborhood. Where a deficit of canine urine was found remediation was swiftly applied.
    And all is right with the world for another day.

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    redshirt

    @raven: College football, I assume? Pro football seems popular enough here. Betty Cracker’s pick ’em threads are always lively.

    Know your audience. I bet there’s like 5 (if that) people here who give a fuck about the Big 12 championship. Hell, Cole knows how to Twitter – in fact, he had a bigger tweet on this subject then this lame post.

  14. 14.

    dr. bloor

    Appropos of nothing, can you imagine being a Secret Service agent tasked with taking a bullet for Donald Fucking Trump? They can have all the hookers and blow they want, AFAIC.

  16. 16.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @dr. bloor:
    News reports have Trump ‘spooked’ by the protester. Almost certainly he was spooked by the converging mob of armed and body armored men encircling him. That would get my full attention.

  27. 27.

    Kryptik

    As about the only other person on this blog interested in this game, GO ‘EERS

    It’s been back and forth all game up to half-time. I really don’t know who’s gonna win this.

  36. 36.

    John O

    WV is very fun to watch. As an ex-hooper, they would’ve been a blast to play, too, because if you can keep your head (no small feat; also, “the trick”) against the constant pressure you get a lot of open shots and it’s fun to be playing at a semi-hectic pace.

    Can’t find any pure cold-blooded dead stone-eyed shooters on the Eers, though, and that’s a death blow in today’s game.

  37. 37.

    raven

    @Pogonip: Well there were 52 comments on that thread when you posted “too late to put below” and there are over 130 now so I guess it wasn’t too late was it?

  43. 43.

    raven

    @redshirt: Yea, the only reason I said it was the Electric Strawberry was that it was pretty much a parody of Platoon and that was the 25th ID. I liked Thunder Ok, sort of like MASH I guess.I just didn’t think the whole thing was that funny so it sort of took the wind out of it for me.

  53. 53.

    redshirt

    @raven: I thought so but you’re cryptic sometimes so I wanted to be sure.

    I was not in Vietnam, obviously, but I found the movie hilarious because it’s not just a parody of Platoon, but of all Vietnam War movies, and books, and the entire Hollywood representation of Vietnam, while at the same time it’s a parody/mockery of Hollywood itself. It’s got multiple layers of satire which I find brilliant. And hilarious.

  55. 55.

    Pogonip

    @redshirt: In Future Crimes, Marc Goodman builds a persuasive case that to far too many of us, reality is whatever the computer says it is. He starts with the Stuxnet worm and builds from there.

  56. 56.

    Pogonip

    Well, that’s it for me. Ever since Cole improved FYWP it will start kicking me out at random intervals and once it does that’s usually the end for 12 hours or so. Enjoy the game!

  57. 57.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Katy Tur ‏@ KatyTurNBC 6m6 minutes ago
    You see they’re single – Trump says of two women protestors.

    Classy, classy like a mirrored bathroom with all faux-gold plated fixtures where the hot and cold water runs out of a mermaid’s boobs. That kind of classy.

  59. 59.

    raven

    @redshirt: Good read. There are a couple of pretty decent films. Go Tell Spartans and the aforementioned Platoon. I just finished reading “The Only War We’ve Got: Early Days in South Vietnam” by Daniel Ford, the book that was the basis for Spartans. There is also a very good overview of Vietnam film and music in “Late Thoughts on an Old War:The Legacy of Vietnam” by Philip D. Beidler .

    “Beidler brings back the war he knew in chapters on its vocabulary, music, literature, and film. His catalog of soldier slang reveals how finely a tour of Vietnam could hone one’s sense of absurdity. His survey of the war’s pop hits looks for meaning in the soundtrack many veterans still hear in their heads. Beidler also explains how “Viet Pulp” literature about snipers, tunnel rats, and other hard-core types has pushed aside masterpieces like Duong Thu Huong’s Novel without a Name. Likewise we learn why the movie The Deer Hunter doesn’t “get it” about Vietnam but why Platoon and We Were Soldiers sometimes nearly do.”

  62. 62.

    raven

    @Pogonip: Well,, before you leave, my only point was that it wasn’t really too late for your post and I figured that post would get more action than this. It did.

  65. 65.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Steeplejack: At Ronald Rumpf’s House of Classy Bathrooms, down the street from Fountains Of Wayne.

    (My apologies to all Garden Staters)

  67. 67.

    Suzanne

    Almost home after a week and a half in Rome and Athens with the family. It was great to have time away from the Trump shitshow.

    Sitting at a gate lounge at Sea-Tac. Ready for my bed, and my pets, and a shower. Been up since 3am Athens time.

  74. 74.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    “Those people come to get punched,” said Ed Honeywill, a 60-year-old wearing Harley-Davidson gear who sells car stereos in Pittsburgh. “Those people come to object to what’s going on. We didn’t ask for them to come. We’re here having a meeting. And they want to come disrupt it? They deserve what they get. They brought that upon themselves when

    they walked in that door, that hell might break out. And it did. What did they think was going to happen?”
    He’s just an engaged citizen trying to inform himself before voting

    “Go back to Africa!” yelled one man dressed in camouflage clothing.
    Another man trailed the black protesters as they dispersed, taunting them with, “I like your hair! Nice weaves!”
    At one point Honeywill got in on the action, getting into the face of a young black college student.
    “Get off welfare!” he screamed, before adding, “Dogs!”

    But it’s all about economic anxiety, because it’s always about economic anxiety.

    Good luck with your future sales, Ed.

  75. 75.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @debbie:

    Maybe Trump will think twice before shooting his mouth off like that again.

    Oh, debbie, you are so droll. I laughed and laughed….

  76. 76.

    Bruuuuce

    Also, congrats to alma mater Stony Brook, making it to the Big Dance for the first time ever! Go, Seawolves!

  86. 86.

    redshirt

    Advisers recall that Obama would cite a pivotal moment in The Dark Knight, the 2008 Batman movie, to help explain not only how he understood the role of isis, but how he understood the larger ecosystem in which it grew. “There’s a scene in the beginning in which the gang leaders of Gotham are meeting,” the president would say. “These are men who had the city divided up. They were thugs, but there was a kind of order. Everyone had his turf. And then the Joker comes in and lights the whole city on fire. isil is the Joker. It has the capacity to set the whole region on fire. That’s why we have to fight it.”

    Obama cites comic book movie for actual real world decision.

    Comics are our modern myths.

  88. 88.

    Baud

    @delk:

    The apology part isn’t any lengthier. But I was fine with the original apology, so it’s not my call.

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