It’s like Bigfootception!
Also:
A number of you, from what I can tell mostly long time commenters, keep getting trapped in comment moderation. It appears someone or something turned it up to 111 at some point earlier today. I’ve let Cole and WG know. I’m fishing you all out as fast as I can, but I’m going to be heading out to run an errand in a bit, so if you get trapped, you know what you did!
Open thread!
Jerzy Russian
I also got some kind of SSL error after I clicked on the “refresh” button, so presumably something could be wrong at the server end.
Major Major Major Major
25 minutes is not a bigfoot, but 13 is. Glad you got to break your news again. Come on man.
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: Rationalize it however you feel you need to.
Roger Moore
Let’s see if I’m one of the regular posters who is winding up in moderation.
ETA: Apparently not.
Adam L Silverman
@Roger Moore: If you’re not, I can make a call for you and arrange for that if you like.
Yutsano
Something definitely went meschugnah right then…
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: I am fairly sure we all agreed on twenty minutes some years back. Whatever. I’ll just go.
Adam L Silverman
@Yutsano: Gezundheit!
Steeplejack (phone)
Hello?
ETA: Okay, I’m good.
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: Dude, I’m just teasing you. And if someone decided on an actual time, I was not privy to those discussions. Or have blocked them from memory.
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack (phone): New post, who dis?
Steeplejack (phone)
@Adam L Silverman:
Wrong number I call back.
Another Scott
So far I seem to be spared.
Yay?
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
This being Balloon Juice, shouldn’t we be thrown into progressivation?
zhena gogolia
@Major Major Major Major: Your thread is still alive! It’s very distinctive. And the Samwise photo is primo.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: You will spend an eternity in purgatory with Joe Lieberman and you will like it!
Adam L Silverman
@zhena gogolia: It is a very sharp photo of his Samwiseness.
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: just frustrated.
John Cole
blame this on the ads you fuckers
Major Major Major Major
@John Cole: which fucker are you talking to, we are legion
ETA Aw you fixed it.
UncleEbeneezer
“It’s all the fault of Merrick Garland!!1!” in 5…4…3…
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: I’m sorry.
laura
*testing* Burn the patriarchy to the motherfucking ground *testing*
If my comment suggests burning the patriarchy to the ground I have no complaints about the blog or it’s posts. If my comments are unclear or blocked or bollixed by the blog, my intent was to convey my desire; with every fiber of my being; to burn the fucking patriarchy to the fucking ground until the end of my days.
Let me know if there are any questions I can clear up.
Steeplejack (phone)
Anti-vax muppet speaks out! (Via Brent Terhune).
NotMax
@laura
“We’re gonna need a bigger ash hole.”
//
Omnes Omnibus
@laura: One is somewhat unclear as to your point about the patriarchy. Can you just say if you are in favor of it or not with so much equivocation?
raven
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@raven:
The courage, independence and assertiveness it takes to curl up in Donald Trump’s lap like a pekinese and sit quietly for four years.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@John Cole: I blame it on the Bossa Nova.
Fair Economist
@raven: Josh Hawley: Those mean antifa are forcing me to fap off to porn all day! Waaanh!
Leto
@John Cole: I blame this on your haircut and extra gravy.
different-church-lady
@John Cole: I blame it on you mouthing off to the waitress.
Baud
@raven:
Leftists don’t do concerted.
Yutsano
Fixteth. With all apologies to those who have owned such wonderful lapdogs. Vizslas are a close second here.
Starfish
@John Cole: I tried to comment earlier, and it was really slow.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Blame it on Cain.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: King Charles.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Blame it on the rain.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: you can blame the stars
you can blame the wind
you can blame the meteor showers
or original sin
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: it’s fine. I get moody.
Gin & Tonic
@Major Major Major Major: Blame it on the end of Daylight Saving Time, and it now being dark at 5:00.
UncleEbeneezer
@Baud: They do seem to have a lot of circle jerks.
NotMax
Ducked out for a few minutes to do some banking. Passed by a roadside protest* displaying a sheet draped over 4 by 8 panel of something, painted with a message to “Stop The Masking. Recall The Mayor.”
*2 – count ’em, 2 – people.
Pathetic moronismo.
M31
blame it on the boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV3DGdbtWeQ
Steeplejack (phone)
“Put the Blame on Mame.”
Rob
Test comment: WPRB is New Jerseys *only* radio station, or so they (https://twitter.com/wprb) say. It’s a darn good freeform station.
The Dangerman
I have a Big Bird RIGHT HERE, for you, Ted.
ETA: Whew!
ETA2: Eli Manning Special for you, Ted.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
“Dr” Naomi Wolf
raven
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Wolf ultimately returned to Oxford, completing her Doctor of Philosophy degree in English literature in 2015…Since around 2014 Wolf has been described as being a conspiracy theorist.[a] She has received criticism for promoting misinformation on several topics, such as beheadings carried out by ISIS, the Western African Ebola virus epidemic, and Edward Snowden.[10][11][12] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wolf has objected to the lockdowns,[13] and is a vocal critic of COVID-19 vaccines.[14] In June 2021, her Twitteraccount was suspended for posting anti-vaccine misinformation.[15]
Scout211
There are some wild rumors in California about the sudden withdrawal from the public by Governor Newsom the day after his live appearance getting his COVID booster shot on October 27th. The media is getting restless and there are starting to be rumors about why. Most have guessed that he or one of his kids caught COVID. But tonight, supposedly there is a leak from a hospital that he had a serious reaction to the booster, the Guillain-Barré like one. Yikes. I hope this is not true. The conservatives are already all over this and we really don’t know anything. yet.
Adam L Silverman
@raven: Perhaps he should wait till he’s gone through puberty to tilt at this windmill.
Dan B
I got booted off the blog after making the first comment on John Cole’s post on the five
boorishnutso sins of his day. 505 error message or somthing like that. Lasted about 45 minutes.jeffreyw
Rob
@Adam L Silverman: He should!
Major Major Major Major
@Scout211: well whatever the truth ends up being, I hope they’re all ok!
Dan B
@Scout211: Awful news about Newsom.
Scout211
@Dan B:
No actual news yet. Just rumor and speculation.
mvr
@Rob:
Used to have a housemate who was one of the WPRB Jazz DJs. What he played around the house got me to understand Jazz well enough to really like and appreciate it. Also used to listen to their indy/college radio shows at night while dropping off to sleep when I first moved from Oregon to NJ 35+ years ago. It was in fact a damn good station.
laura
@Omnes Omnibus: I ain’t fer it, I’m a’gin it! And I do appreciate you asking after it.
Rob
@mvr:
Excellent! I’m down here in Maryland listening to it streaming. Right now the dj is doing a special program of all Japanese psych rock.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
It is an awkward situation. Christie would probably be dead of his own loyalty to trump (and his own stupidity) if trump hadn’t dramatically (and if it wasn’t illegal it should have been) intervened to get CC the same then-experimental monoclonal antibodies that had a few weeks earlier saved trump from dying of his own stupidity
James E Powell
@Scout211:
The California press really hates him for not only beating the recall, but beating it so soundly that it was clear it was all bullshit.
James E Powell
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Another one of those WTF happened to her? situations. Or was she always like this and we were just blind to it?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Kellyanne Conway:
Ventilators, masks, TPP in general, ICU beds, space in mortuaries….
Toilet paper, paper towels, hand sanitizer, chicken, beef
those are off the top of my head
ETA: and of course, in that White House: Shame, souls, compassion, human decency….
Wyatt Salamanca
Speaking of assholes, fuck Aaron Rodgers’ goddamn feelings:
h/t https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/aaron-rodgers-didnt-expect-negative-000753529.html
Wyatt Salamanca
@Rob:
Also check out WFMU –
Independent freeform radio broadcasting at 91.1 and 91.9 fm in New Jersey and New York City, and at 90.1 and 91.9 fm in the Hudson Valley
https://wfmu.org/
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Wyatt Salamanca:
paraphrasing the multi-millionaire cry baby: “I know the woke mob will come for me, but I’m like MLK so fuck them”
KrakenJack
@laura: but what about Patriarchy-adjacent social structures that may indirectly benefit old white guys?
Rob
@Wyatt Salamanca: I have already! I listen to a couple of their shows regularly: Bad Animals on Saturday morning and Rock and Roller Derby on Sundays.
NotMax
@Wyatt Salamanca
Ooh, both WFMU and WLIR were a hoot to tune into back during the 70s. Hadn’t realized Upsala College (the former’s original stomping ground) had shut down until I went to look up current info on WFMU.
Juju
@John Cole: I’m pretty sure it’s not the ads. My guess is Aaron Rogers.
Ohio Mom
@Wyatt Salamanca: Ohio Son introduced us to WFMU and now it is our family go-to in the car (which is the only place we ever listen to radio).
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
To be fair, masks weren’t due to supply chain issues; that was outright theft by Trump and Jared.
And why is Kellyanne back and yapping?
Dan B
@Wyatt Salamanca: Rogers is a hero to many boys and men, and admired by many women as well. Public figures have a responsibility to be careful what they share in public. He has claimed that Joe Rogan is a better expert on health than 98% of doctors.
A big part of the problem is he grew up after polio and other dread diseases. He has no visceral response to deadly disease.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Dan B: also, his head is so far up his own ass it comes out his neck again
Tony Gerace
My wife of 35 years often reminds me that ALL of my comments need to be moderated. I can’t disagree with her on that point.
eclare
@Wyatt Salamanca: Boo-fucking-hoo, A-aron.
Tony Gerace
@Adam L Silverman: Lieberman should just go straight to hell. No purgatory for him.
E.
Jesus FC. I just got back from my School Board meeting where the board voted to defy the State Mask Mandate for public schools. They adopted a resolution allowing students to attend school without a mask. Amid a wildly cheering crowd. Pray for me.
E.
Also, do people here know the town of Oroville, CA has declared itself to be an independent Constitutional Republic? I keep wishing someone would ask to see their Constitution. https://www.businessinsider.com/oroville-city-council-constitutional-republic-city-2021-11
eclare
@E.: That sounds very stressful and frustrating.
Another Scott
ObOpenThread:
I didn’t read it often, but it seemed to be a good paper. And an accessible source for non-Ukranian speakers. :-(
(via CherylRofer)
Cheers,
Scott.
AlaskaReader
The MAGA hats here are protesting at our one over-capacity local hospital demanding the hospital begin prescribing and dispensing ivermectin.
Edited to note straight to moderation.
Morzer
@Juju: There’s no immunization against stupidity…
Tony Jay
I got that 505 error message last night but just assumed it was down to me using up my bi-annual word count.
Miss Bianca
@raven: Isn’t this the same dude who whined that being held to actual expectations of humanity was FORCING men to become porn and gaming addicts? Yeah, right, Josh.