Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Everybody saw this coming.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

We still have time to mess this up!

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

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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  4. 4.

    Baud

    Our oft-tested spam filter (Akismet) seems to have gone on a work-to-rule strike — *every* comment is getting thrown into moderation, for (no) reasons

    Can’t really blame Akismet. We know what we did.

  5. 5.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Baud:

    Given how squirrely the site is acting this morning, I think the birthday gods are fucking with John.

  9. 9.

    Soprano2

    On a more positive note, when I commented on my phone this morning it seemed that the comment box was acting normally again.

  10. 10.

    Chief Oshkosh

    Happy Birthday, John Cole!

    As to the 55 new citizens, welcome! (Not that they can hear me cheering).

    Been reading EB White’s New Yorker essays a lot lately. Great reminders that we’ve always had problems, we’ve always had losses, but we’ve also always had successes.

  11. 11.

    Zzyzx

    I was cleaning the ceiling over the bathtub last night when the step ladder slipped and I hit my head. If only I were naked, I would know what it feels like to be our esteemed blog master.

  13. 13.

    germy

    Does anybody know where Trump donated the last $200K of his presidential salary?

    I'm looking for his Q3 & Q4 donations for 2020. I've tried the White House, Trump Org and Trump's post-presidential office — but found nada so far.

    If you know, reply here so you can get credit!

    — David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) June 17, 2021

    Five days later and he’s still looking. Nothing’s turned up yet.

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Zzyzx:

    Yikes! Hope you don’t suffer any lingering damage. If you notice any symptoms at all, please don’t be stoic. Go and have it checked out.

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Chief Oshkosh:

    I have a full set of E. B. White’s essays — in storage at the moment, unfortunately — which I dearly love to read and reread. Such a good choice for these times.

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Zzyzx:

    Yikes! Hope you didn’t do any lasting damage — but if you notice any symptoms at all, please get it checked out immediately. Don’t be a stoic about your brain.

  18. 18.

    Helen

    I’ve attended a number of naturalization ceremonies to help with voter registration. The local courthouse is not as scenic. But, it is always very moving. If you ever have the opportunity to go to one, most federal courthouses have a ceremony monthly.

  19. 19.

    Amir Khalid

    Some days, it feels like Balloon Juice is the Millennium Falcon of blogs. I can almost hear Han and Chewie arguing in the background.

  20. 20.

    Soprano2

    @germy: That “donate my salary” crap was so bogus, because he got a tax deduction for it! All his fans would harp on how he did this, they didn’t like it when you pointed out he got a tax deduction. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if he stopped doing it the last couple of quarters.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    BTW, as there are those here who favor crime procedurals, noticed the first 21 (!) seasons* of the determinedly somber journeyman forensic investigative series Silent Witness are available on Prime.

    *British seasons, so somewhat less than a multi-lifetime commitment.

  26. 26.

    geg6

    Lots of trouble getting linked to BJ this morning and now I think I know why. Did Cole forget to feed the hamsters again?

    By the way, happy birthday Blogmaster (who never reads it) Cole.

  28. 28.

    zhena gogolia

    @Zzyzx: They’ve had an excellent study-abroad program in St. Petersburg for years. This is all because of George Soros’s association with the college.

  30. 30.

    zhena gogolia

    @Zzyzx: They’ve had an excellent study-abroad program in St. Petersburg for years. This is all because of George Soros’s association with the college.

  32. 32.

    Ohio Mom

    Cleaning the ceiling over the bathtub — cleaning ANY ceiling — is something that never occurred to me to do.

    Though sometimes I use the dust mop to brush away cobwebs, I now feel like a complete slob and failure at housekeeping.

  33. 33.

    Zzyzx

    @zhena gogolia: the thing is that it’s a school filled with creative and radical people; when I went there in the late 80s/early 90s our campus branch of ACT UP ran the school government… which, btw, was modeled after the Soviet one because the constitution was drafted when the socialist club was in charge. We didn’t have a class president; there was a central committee that ran everything. It seemed normal when I was there but explaining it to others…

    Anyway, the frustrating thing about being a smart person in a small school in the woods is that everyone ignores you. This is going to make people so happy. Suck it Reed!

     

    if only we had a school song that I could sing in celebration.

  34. 34.

    Zzyzx

    @Ohio Mom: us neither which is why it was like black and looked like it had mold on it which was scaring me. Turns out it was just a decade of caked on dust.

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    @Zzyzx

    Hoping all remains well. At least you weren’t vacuuming. (That’s a shot of Jayne Mansfield inside one of her house’s bathrooms. Enough to give a Roomba a nervous breakdown.)

    Bonus: When in doubt, paper it.

    ;)

  36. 36.

    Zzyzx

    In other other news, today is the 50th anniversary of the release of one of the best albums of all time: Joni Mitchell’s Blue. Feels weird to play it in the summer when it’s such a great Seattle February “it’s raining again?!?!” release.

  37. 37.

    Anne Laurie

    @Zzyzx: In other news, the small liberal arts college that I graduated from has been deemed an undesirable organization by Russia. I couldn’t be more proud.

    The little I do know of Bard College suggests that the entire faculty, staff, and student body, while excellent scholars, would have some trouble threatening a couple of Girl Scouts out of an extra box of Thin Mints, so, yes, be proud!

    (Firmly tongue in cheek, of course… )

  38. 38.

    Librarian

    Bard, of course, is the college where Donald Fagen met Walter Becker, and the rest is rock history. In fact, it’s the school they were referring to in “My Old School.”

  40. 40.

    Zzyzx

    @Anne Laurie: you say that but we would have argued rings around the Scout using references to 18th century philosophers that would have been irrefutable.

    And then a few really stoned people would have come along and bought them out.

  47. 47.

    Wapiti

    @Zzyzx: Huh. I think I heard of it because Bard has a summer writing program for high schoolers; my niece in Seattle went in 2019.

  48. 48.

    Zzyzx

    @Librarian: the more obscure reference is the song Barrytown off of Pretzel Logic. The song only makes sense if you know that Barrytown (about a mile from campus) had a Mooney camp and people would show up to get new converts.

    in my last year they built some new dorms but didn’t have a rich alum to name them after at first. So students made up signs calling them Chase (after Chevy Chase) and Fagan. The real names never caught on as a result.

  53. 53.

    Raven

    I’m over 24 hrs since the last oxy, I’ve developed a nasty case of roids and doing a sitz bath. A week since surgery and it’s a blur but the walking is good.

  58. 58.

    Amir Khalid

    @germy:
    It took us thousands of years just to recognise that we’re not even the only intelligent species on our planet. When we do find intelligent life forms out there, they will probably not resemble the Vulcans of Star Trek, and they might at first not recognise us as intelligent creatures.

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    a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio

    I am likely not the first to mention this, but it looks as if life may be a bit complicated for the governor of West-by-god-Virginia.

    $700 million is a lot, right?

    But he’s a billionaire so I guess it’s just couch cushion money.

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    Our oft-tested spam filter (Akismet) seems to have gone on a work-to-rule strike — *every*comment is getting thrown into moderation, for (no) reasons. I hope this will be corrected shortly, but please be patient as we random front-pagers fish your thoughts out of the filter by hand!

    If this ever happens again, will someone who has my phone number please call me?  Not text, but a phone call, even if its really late or really early.  thank you!

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