Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Second rate reporter says what?

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

The revolution will be supervised.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Come on, man.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

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  4. 4.

    Eric NNY

    This makes my Easter every year.  Thanks Cole, it’s especially appreciated this year.

  11. 11.

    Jerzy Russian

    @WaterGirl:     Unfortunately, I think the dog Irie is like that parrot:

    ‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to the perch ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

  13. 13.

    JPL

    This is the type of evening that weather folk relish.   Charge your phone and keep a flashlight nearby.    Time to take a nap so I can be alert at midnight.

  14. 14.

    RedDirtGirl

    After hosting a friend’s dog for 5 weeks, the house is quiet again. Boy, do I miss having that energy around. The experience definitely moved me much closer to my goal of being a foster dog-mom. When things settle down out there I will start the application process with Badass Animal Rescue (Saving Badass Dogs from Idiot People), in Brooklyn.

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    And what is the rotating tag which appeared on initial viewing of this post?

    “We can agree to disagree, but I’m right.”

    Kismet.

  20. 20.

    dnfree

    John 3:14 isn’t bad. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.

  21. 21.

    Aleta

    Irie knows that’s no bunny;  a rabbit’s eyes are on the sides not both in front,.  Thus her horror, the realization that humans either don’t know or don’t care about reality.

  24. 24.

    catclub

    @mrmoshpotato: on the other hand, ceased and deceased mean the same thing. also flammable and inflammable

    Contrast sanction.  It means itself and its opposite, depending on the breaks.

  28. 28.

    debbie

    @Baud:

    Thurston gets blamed for everything.

    Sorry, we couldn’t find that page.

    We looked everywhere, and even Lily couldn’t find it.
    Thurston?!!

  35. 35.

    Adam L Silverman

    @WaterGirl: Anne Laurie had put up a post slamming the President, the GOP, and the news media for their coverage of the President and the GOP and about 12 comments in it went poof. That’s why I did the test comment, because I got two error messages when trying to post comments in that post not realizing it had gone poof.

  37. 37.

    Ohio Mom

    I’m assuming Annie Laurie saw she was being big-footed, and metaphorically, took her toys and went home.

    So two traditions in one post: the annual photo of Irie on the Easter Bumny’s lap, and the eternal Cole bigfooting of Anne Laurie.

  38. 38.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Baud: If you click on the link from John’s twitter feed it still brings that post up, but it has definitely gone poof.

  42. 42.

    JPL

    @raven: The local weather folk are all sending out alerts.   You are a tad east but be aware.   I finally just put on PBS create and now Lidia has convinced me to make onion rings and twice baked potatoes tomorrow.

  43. 43.

    khead

    Met Mrs. Khead on a blind date on Easter back in 1993. She didn’t really like me but she did like my one cat, Casey. So I got a second date……

    Casey is long gone now, but it’s worth noting that we have nine cats now.  I figure better safe than sorry.

  44. 44.

    RedDirtGirl

    @WaterGirl:

    @JPL:

    Thanks! What a treat it is to be greeted enthusiastically, every time you enter a room! People say it all the time, and know I understand: I want to be the person Finch thought I was!

  45. 45.

    Adam L Silverman

    @FelonyGovt: It freaked me out. I tried to post a comment with a tweet embedded in it and got an error message. Tried again, same thing. So I screen shotted the error, texted Cole, emailed him the screen shot, then tried again with a  test. Same error. Texted him again. So I logged out and logged back in and when I did the post was gone. Hence my Test comment at #32.

    Honestly, I figured someone wised up and banned me.

  47. 47.

    Adam L Silverman

    @RedDirtGirl: First, good on you for doing that. Secondly, I know a lot of the foster and rescue organizations are looking for foster homes right now because of SARS-CoV2.

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: I think Anne Laurie probably had that scheduled, decided it was too close to something else, and pulled it.  It’s scheduled for about an hour from now.

  52. 52.

    Adam L Silverman

    I’m calling dibs for 10 PM EDT tonight. I have a Floriduh! Woman post, which is topical to Easter.

  58. 58.

    NotMax

    Random thought.

    I guess preparing hasenpfeffer for Easter dinner would be considered too too recherché.

    :)

  63. 63.

    ThresherK

    Plenty of results to amuse you and lighten the load if you search

    “frightened kids creepy easter bunny”

    The “new” (2018) Jesus Christ Superstar is on TV. Spousal Ms ThresherK and I may make it an Easter tradition.

  66. 66.

    Patricia Kayden

    I’m seeing way too many of my peers proudly claim that they won’t be voting for Biden in November, so I made this TikTok in response. There is far too much at stake to vote based on what makes us feel good inside. We have lives to save — and an egomaniac to beat. #Biden2020 pic.twitter.com/wkCpcvAdy8— Ziad Ahmed (@ziadtheactivist) April 11, 2020

  69. 69.

    zhena gogolia

    @Baud:

    One of the people responding compares him to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

    We had a Good Friday Zoom prayer session in which somebody was mourning Sanders dropping out. I kept my mouth shut. But when they did it again this morning, I put in a prayer urging everyone to vote for Biden (without naming him).

  73. 73.

    Lyrebird

    @Baud:

    @Aleta:

    Thanks to both of you and to Sir Cole himself…  needed that laugh after looking at the news!  It’s not turtles but craven awful humans all the way down in that administration, it seems.

    Sad to be praying “Let all who are hungry come and eat”*  when there’s food rotting and people going hungry or nearly there.

    *That’s a big deal in the Passover holiday.

     

    Thanks again to Balloon Juice for levity and for seriousness.

  76. 76.

    Mandalay

    John Conway was a (somewhat) renowned mathematician, and a few here might know about him through his relationship with Martin Gardener, the popular amateur mathematician at Scientific American. He was also the source of this quote:

    You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. It’s the stuff we can understand. It’s cats that are complicated.

    Anyway, he joined the long list of those who have died from coronavirus yesterday.   :(

  77. 77.

    Gvg

    I think it was Friday, watergirl said she was trying to track down which post or threads were causing some problem some posters were having, and she might pull threads temporarily to see if that one made the problem go away, but that she would put them back with all comments so not to worry. I don’t know that that is the current vanishing cause, but I guess it might be.

    i wasn’t having the problem and didn’t quite picture what they were talking about so …I didn’t pay much attention. Sorry, but I’m kind of used to not understanding programming issues.

  79. 79.

    WaterGirl

    @Gvg: Yeah, there was a weird issue earlier this week, where I did exactly what you described.  But that’s a rarity.

    If a post disappears, 99 times out of 100 it’s probably a scheduling issue where someone either steps on your post, so you pull it until later, or you accidentally stepped on someone else’s post.

    So it’s nothing to worry about.  Even if you had written the best comment ever, in the history of balloon juice, the post will come back later with the original comments intact.

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