Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

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

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

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Pets of Balloon Juice calendar 2018

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balloon juice calendar covers from 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017

i’ve spent 2017 marching, calling, writing letters, sending emails, signing petitions, donating, participating in GOTV for critical elections happening in states other than the one i currently live in and existing in a rollercoaster of emotions most of which require high level coping mechanisms and raging at the universe and trump voters. much like everyone else.

the balloon juice calendar, though, is a project near and dear to my heart that highlights the good a group of politically aware, animal-loving people can do at a very local level. each year the proceeds of your purchase of the calendar go to support a small, local animal rescue.

here’s how it works: you, dear balloon juice reader, send in a photo or five of your favorite pets and i put them into a calendar format that is then sold through CafePress (you can still buy calendars going back to 2011 — collect them all!). the calendar is slated to be ready in very early december.

nit picky details: your photo(s) should be the highest resolution possible. if you can, name your file with the name(s) of the pet(s) in it and if you can’t, you can tell me in the email. then email it to me at bjcalendar18 at yahoo dot com. cut off for submissions is about a half an hour before i upload the final files to CafePress but aim for the sunday of thanksgiving weekend.

questions? ask ’em here or at the email address.

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  5. 5.

    bluefish

    Dear dear sweet Walter — Always brings a tear to my eye, that amazing story — and that sweet sweet dog.

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @raven:

    That Bohdi was a little fluffbudget! I adore that picture.

    And your Raven was a beauty. Such dignity. You honour him every time your nym shows up on a comment.

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @bluefish:

    I still want Walter’s Story to become a children’s book I think it could convey some powerful messages about love and loss and the strength of community. We have some terrific writers here. Any volunteers?

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @raven:

    Oh right, like no one else ever said “Fuck LBJ.” Or cheered for the Illini (“We’re loyal to you… We’re orange and blue….”)

  17. 17.

    Patricia Kayden

    @raven: Cute cute cute. And he’s still kicking the cuteness as evidenced by your recent photos of him in the doggy parade.

  21. 21.

    Patricia Kayden

    @raven: Yes and I commented on it. Poor darling. If I recall correctly it was on his forehead over an eye. Hope it’s healing quickly.

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @raven:

    Yup LOL

    Apparently Falcons are doing well tonight. I have never learned how to follow football, so if I find myself temporarily deafened I assume something good has happened.

  26. 26.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Planetpundit: That entire story was beautiful. From John rescuing Walter from starvation in an empty house to debit adopting Walter and treating him to love and kindness during his last few months of life. The Youtube videos are a joy to watch.

  31. 31.

    Fair Economist

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Neat trick with the pic! Had a great time with all you jackals, let’s do it again soon! Amazing how much BJers have to talk about.

    At my end of the tables we were actually talking about the BJ calendar for a while. Does that count as synchronicity?

  32. 32.

    Mary G

    @raven: A classic of both of them – Bohdi’s bouncy happiness and Raven’s weary “Really?” One of my faves on Balloon Juice.

  34. 34.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Fair Economist:

    Does that count as synchronicity?

    Yes, it was nice to see you.

    ETA: Re the 360 degree camera…I love photospheres, but they’re a real pain to take with a cellphone. This is one click and you’ve got a photosphere. Flickr is the best I’ve seen online at displaying them.

  53. 53.

    Suffragette City

    Sending one of the last of our Shadow taken by his buddy my son where he still looked so mighty before getting sick. He passed earlier this year.
    We still have the submission from 2012 on our fridge…He was such the celebrity in our house !

  59. 59.

    glaukopis

    My sister’s golden, Mac, is with us now in Ohio and settling in well. I’ll be submitting a picture of him and his new buddy Gibby. She was in last year’s calendar and we’re all looking forward to the next one. Thanks for compiling these!

  60. 60.

    Dave C

    I would love to submit a pic of my recently departed dog Heidi (Anne posted about her a couple weeks back). Not sure I have any pics that are high enough resolution though. What kind of resolution should I be aiming for?

  61. 61.

    Watership

    This might be the year my pups (all 4 of them) end up participating in Balloon Juice more than their lurker dad. Ah, and worse than being a lurker with just a handful of comments in 9 years is that I’m an LA local and spaced on the meetup today. :( Hope everyone had fun. Love the photo sphere

  62. 62.

    geg6

    @Dave C:

    The ones I submit every year are taken directly from my phone. I don’t even worry about resolution and mine always look great in the calendar.

  63. 63.

    beth

    @Dave C: dave, if you are sending photos you have digitally, they’re probably fine for this purpose (just don’t save them down to send if your phone asks to do so). cafepress has a minimum of 150 dpi for printing but between photoshop and how i size the photo in the calendar, i can make a lot of low res photos work. send them in and i’ll let you know if i need them larger.

  64. 64.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Watership:

    I’m an LA local and spaced on the meetup today. :( Hope everyone had fun. Love the photo sphere

    Sorry you missed it, it was fun. There’s always the next one… Glad you liked the photosphere.

    I’ve tried to send AL the jpg’s, but no luck. I keep getting delivery failure with annelaurie (at) verizon (dot) net. Sigh.

  67. 67.

    Fair Economist

    @Mnemosyne: I was the guy who introduced myself to you at the end and chatted about Hamilton tickets. We were on opposite ends. You can’t see my face in the pano pic because I was chatting to a person away from the camera. It wasn’t intentional in my case; I didn’t even notice Bill was taking that pic. I am in some table shots.

  73. 73.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    @Fair Economist: Ah, that was you. I actually JUST FINALLY started listening to the Hamilton soundtrack (in prep for going to Pantages in December.). For an almost lifelong musician I’m ridiculously late to check out good, new music. That said, holy shit, it is well worth all the hype. Can’t wait to see the live show.

  74. 74.

    Fair Economist

    @Mnemosyne:

    Why was I convinced beforehand you were a woman? Oh well, that’s one of the things that meetups are handy for getting straightened out!

    Probably because from time to time I mention my husband, which would make me 95% or so likely female if that were the only factoid. I occasionally mention being gay but much less often. Also “Fair” is often read as “pretty” or “blond” which enhances that effect (even if subconciously). I didn’t intend that when I picked the nym and actually didn’t even think about until somebody on another blog said they’d thought I was claiming to be a pretty girl. I was floored, and a little embarrassed I didn’t realize about the other interpretations beside my intended one of “even-handed”.

    Once I realized what was going on I actually intentionally let the misconception slide a little bit because the internet is a misogynistic place at time and I figure having a nym of ambiguous gender does a tiny tiny bit to scramble some sexist trolls.

  75. 75.

    Fair Economist

    @Uncle Ebeneezer: I really want to see it and I just checked the Costa Mesa prices and – holy cow, almost $400 for nosebleed? Well, maybe I can try to use that to convince my moneyhungry wannabe rapper son to study history ;-)

  77. 77.

    No One You Know

    I have some favorites although they’re all on my cell phone. I will enjoy getting used to a full-sized camera again!

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