Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

An almost top 10,000 blog!

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

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

“But what about the lurkers?”

T R E 4 5 O N

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

We are aware of all internet traditions.

I really should read my own blog.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

This blog will pay for itself.

In my day, never was longer.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

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  3. 3.

    Martin

    I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Raven didn’t get a Red Ryder BB gun that Christmas.

    also Raven’s family: we’d rather eat in the basement than not have everyone around the table. Good call.

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    JanieM

    There’s that era again. The first one is a familiar scene–clothing, hairstyles, the whole aura–except for how Italian my gang looked.

    The second one–does Santa bear a family resemblance to the two kids, or is that nose just a coincidence?

    This is a nice set as it ranges through the years. These last couple of nights have made me want to get some of my old family photos scanned into digital format. All I need: another endless project.

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    Yarrow

    Love these. I really like the streamers in the family photo. Gotta make it festive. And raven you look like you’re going to slug Santa if it he doesn’t take his hands off your sister. She looks like she can handle herself, though.

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    Pete Mack

    Visiting my parents this year*, and today I shared duty with my mother. The result was an inadvertent Festivus feast. She made chicken thighs in coconut milk and garam masala Marinade.  I fell back on my old stsndby: greens and beans served on polenta (yellow grits), as an acidic contrast to the sweet of coconut milk. Started with browned lemon slices, added onion and some mystery masala in a jar mislabeled piri piri. Then added chickpeas and dried mint. Finished up with turnip greens.** And finally topped it with pan-fried plaintain with lime juice. Huge success! Dessert was leftover apple crisp, using my recipe. (No flour–only rolled oats and chopped walnuts. Honey instead of brown sugar. Cardamom, cloves. allspice instead of cinnamon. And 2 oz of amaretto with the apples, cranberries, and lemon juice.)

    * yes, I got a test before driving the  130 miles.

    ** the usual is cannellini beans and bacon with broccoli rabe. Lemons are the same.

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    Mary G

    I bet LBJ demanded that Army Christmas card. Fuck him. My mom graduated from Austin High School in 1940. The program featured “our young Congressional Representative, Lyndon Baines Johnson” as the head speaker. I asked her if she remembered anything he said and she no, I hated that SOB, we just wanted him to shut up so we could celebrate.

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    raven

    @Mary G: In those days Korea had and incredible market in all kinds of stuff they would produce. They could take black and white photo’s and colorize them, make personalized photo albums and attache cases, unit yearbooks, short-timer sticks and all kinds of other items that we would buy. It’s no mistake that they became such a high-tech nation, they were incredibly industrious and hard working people. Oh, fuck LBJ.

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