Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Everybody saw this coming.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickle?”

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

This blog will pay for itself.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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

Let’s finish the job.

It’s a doggy dog world.

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

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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Late Night Open Thread: Touch Touch

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I knew Makeba’s signature song, going back to its original American presentation in the 1960s. But until now, I didn’t know the defiant dancehall history behind it, per Wikipedia:

… The song’s title “Pata Pata” means “touch touch” in the Xhosa language, in which the song was originally written and sung. “Pata Pata” was also the name of a style of dance that was popular in the shebeens of Johannesburg’s Townships in the mid-1950s. The dancer crouched before his partner and patted her body to the rhythm of the music as he rose up and she spun around, making hip circles. In another version of the dance,

The male dancers stand in a row with their arms extended out to the front, palms to the floor, while the women pat each in turn in a manner resembling security search body-frisking, after which the men do the same to the women.…

D’ya think Mr. Sullivan had any idea what Ms. Makeba was actually talking about?

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