Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Well, this is a bit awkward. COVID-19 may cause long-term erectile dysfunction in men. Yet another reason to heed public health advice as the coronavirus continues to spread. https://t.co/rFiNEUbpGy pic.twitter.com/sTmCGJrNiV
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) December 5, 2020
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Wisconsin court rules there is enough evidence to warrant a trial for Kyle Rittenhouse in the killing of two men and the wounding of a third in Kenosha in August. The killings came two days after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man.https://t.co/Nn8TlP5lGF
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 3, 2020
While his right-wing-crowd-funded lawyers did their uneven best, it seems that ‘hapless manchild forced to defend himself against angry pervs and violent anarchists’ was an insufficient excuse to just quietly flush this whole unfortunate incident down the memory hole. So here’s some horror tales for a Saturday night:
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Well, I just witnessed some WOODPECKER DRAMA.
First, here’s a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker hard at work. These woodpeckers make rows of shallow holes in tree bark, then return to drink sap & eat insects caught in it. It’s like woodpecker farming, persistent work 4 future payoff. 1/4 pic.twitter.com/QzAUtgVuLN
— Christina Larson 可心 (@larsonchristina) November 25, 2020
These days, everything feels political!
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The 2021 Pets of Balloon Juice Calendars are ready to order!
Trying to do one post a day at different times in order to catch folks who might not have seen the previous posts.
The very first calendar has shipped, and Calendar A is on the way to someone whose initials are M.R.
Calendar A
Calendar B
You can click this link to order and you can order by clicking the special blue box up top.
If you have pets in the calendars and have not yet reviewed the calendars, please do so before placing your order. You will find the pages of each calendar in the links in the sidebar.
If you find a problem, corrections can still be made. But the calendar has to be changed BEFORE you place your order with Cafe Press. The calendars are printed on demand by Cafe Press, and there’s no way to stop an order once you place it.
If you find an issue:
Calendars are $25 each. We planned to offer $5 off if you ordered both Calendar A and Calendar B, but Cafe Press doesn’t offer a way to do that. So all calendars are $25 each.
The calendars cost $15 to print at Cafe Press, so we make $10 on each calendar, which goes directly to the pet rescue.
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It’s a quiet day here at Balloon Juice, so maybe this is a good time to check in.
I have three questions for you guys:
Back Arrow:
Can you see if the back arrow is working for you?
iPads:
Are iPads still having major issues with the front page?
Ads:
Are the full-page ads still coming up when you click on a post from the front page?
Are there still ads within the banner with Balloon Juice and the balloon man?
Are there still ads within the post itself?
Are there ads in the comments – how frequently? Every 10 comments, 5 comments, 2 comments?
And a bonus Tucker.
Open thread.
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The face he makes when I forget to give him a piece of my breakfast banana.
“You know I can smell banana on your breath”
Looks like we could use an open thread.
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‘If we don't act now, the future will be very bleak’: President-elect Joe Biden urged the U.S. Congress to pass a coronavirus relief bill immediately and to follow up with ‘hundreds of billions of dollars’ in more aid in January https://t.co/GzAZJ0wScL pic.twitter.com/Re4ME5n4dn
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 5, 2020
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