Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

We will not go back.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

I really should read my own blog.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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  1. 1.

    hovercraft

    A welcome reprieve from @Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class’s thought experiment about Trumps America.

  2. 2.

    kindness

    Looks like it’s from Dave Grisman’s daughters film. Nice.

    I can’t believe it’s been 21 years since Jerry left his mortal coil.

  3. 3.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    It’s a Tuesday and I miss City of Heroes because tonight I’d be Tanking.

    Tanker Tuesday Rules:
    1) Always follow the Tanker
    2) Witty Dies (No Exceptions)
    3) If Something Bad Happens, Blame Rangle.

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    raven

    Some kind of edit problem. I had Caddy hubcaps on my truck until I found a sweet set of bowtie baby moons.

  18. 18.

    Mnemosyne

    @T S:

    Here? Probably not many, but I also don’t think there are many Deadheads here.

    Mustang Bobby might, but he’s a classic car aficionado, so he would do it ironically.

  19. 19.

    geg6

    So the goal was to ruin my day completely then?

    Mission accomplished!

    (Any time I am forced to deal with anything Jerry Garcia or Grateful Dead related is, ipso facto, a very, very bad day.)

  22. 22.

    p.a.

    @raven: saw Jorma live, solo winter 2015/16. I was 56 and brought the mean age of the crowd down, (considerably), yet there were several near-fights. Continual shouts of “Play it Jorma show ’em how it’s done!” followed by retorts of “Will you shut the fuck up so I can hear the music.” Rowdy hippies are cool!

  25. 25.

    Kilgore Trout

    @Mnemosyne:

    Here? Probably not many, but I also don’t think there are many Deadheads here.

    Some of us try to fly below the radar. But no Cadillac here (Prius).

  30. 30.

    kindness

    The Caddy reference….That was Cassidy. No one else in the family prized Cadillacs. Jerry drove a Beamer (or at least that was what he was arrested in at Golden Gate Park in that 80’s drug possession bust.

    There are many Deadheads here but it comes and goes. The Dead isn’t something one brags about as so many don’t know.

    I drive a Toyota Solara. I do have a Ford F-150 as my mountain car though.

  31. 31.

    Turgidson

    I’m seeing on the NYT homepage that Maureen “Pot Brownies Almost Killed Me” Dowd has declared herself a Cubs fan because she went to Chicago over the weekend.

    This lifelong, non-bandwagon Cubs fan says “Fuck off, MoDo. This is the ‘No MoDo’s Club.'”

  32. 32.

    amk

    David Atkins ‏@DavidOAtkins Oct 31

    A man fleeing rape accusations is helping a Russian homophobe dictator to help a serial sexual predator stop a woman from being President.

    0 replies 1,009 retweets 1,108 likes

  33. 33.

    amk

    At this rate, lil nate silver will give the presidency to the carnival barker on nov 9th and will still insist he is right.

  38. 38.

    corry342

    I almost never Comment, but I am on the farther end of the spectrum with respect to being a total Deadhead, and I read Balloon Juice every day.

  43. 43.

    Zinsky

    The Grateful Dead are/were the most overrated band in the history of rock music. I have heard bands composed of junior high school kids with more talent than those flea-bitten losers. They sucked bad! Good riddance Jerry…

  44. 44.

    A

    Longtime head here. Suspect Cole and I were at quite a few of the same shows in the 80s. Oh and fuck off Zinsky.

  45. 45.

    laura

    @T S: my friend Evan Edgar! One can see it parked on 21st st. Between Q and S. Gold, black roof, a great ship of the highway, dead head sticker squarely centered in the back window.
    He’s a character, runs the Edgar Institute which advocates closed-loop recycling. He peddles it to an increasing number of farmers of many diverse crops or industry. 100% bio-dynamic, waste reducing, alternative energy/revenue generating, deep-red California Valley Ranchers-converting.
    He lobbies at the Capital on same and has an incredible collection of political memorabilia and ephemera.
    Serious Deadhead since the Band began.

  46. 46.

    Bishop Bag

    @T S: 84 Cadillac El Dorado that I inherited when my mother-in-law passed away in 2008. Thing is a tank but it was the perfect High School cruising car for my kids…

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