• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Mobile Menu

  • Seattle Meet-up Post
  • 2025 Activism
  • Targeted Political Fundraising
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2025 Activism
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Open Threads / I Have Failed You, Dear Reader

I Have Failed You, Dear Reader

by John Cole|  December 24, 20219:44 pm| 92 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

FacebookTweetEmail

Yesterday was Festivus and I forgot.

Does this mean I am happy?

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « Friday Evening Open Thread: Xmas Eve
Next Post: Late Night Open Thread: Xmas Edition »

Reader Interactions

92Comments

  1. 1.

    cain

    December 24, 2021 at 9:47 pm

    I forgot too .. my wife told me it was yesterday!

  2. 2.

    Spanky

    December 24, 2021 at 9:47 pm

    No. It means you’re aging.

    Welcome to the very large club.

  3. 3.

    sab

    December 24, 2021 at 9:49 pm

    Air some grievances. That’ll change your mood.

    I watched “The Lion in Winter” this morning. I love to see families at holiday time.
    Husband is warching Bob Hope in “Lemon Drop Kid” right now. Husband is a nicer person than I am.

  4. 4.

    RevRick

    December 24, 2021 at 9:50 pm

    You had no grievances to air?

  5. 5.

    debbie

    December 24, 2021 at 9:50 pm

    @sab:

    Such a great film! “What family doesn’t have its ups and downs?”

  6. 6.

    Comrade Colette

    December 24, 2021 at 9:52 pm

    Monsieur Colette, who is often confused on calendar issues, is busy airing his grievances right now! Apparently ordering Chinese food without consulting him was a grave error despite getting all the favorites he always chooses anyway. ?

    Oh well, this too shall pass.

  7. 7.

    HumboldtBlue

    December 24, 2021 at 9:52 pm

    Yeah, I’m watching A Christmas Prince about the young big city girl who is assigned to cover the roguish Crown Prince of Aldovia who is headed to his coronation and she pretends to be a tutor to get inside the palace where she immediately befriends the clever and crippled Crown Princess who is a terror to all tutors and smarter than them too and she and who is the apple of the Prince’s eye and they are gonna fall head over heels in love and it’s all set during Xmas time and she said “there is no loose in this goose” which is some brilliant dialog. So what, you bastards?

  8. 8.

    geg6

    December 24, 2021 at 9:53 pm

    @sab:

    Heh.  I love that movie.  Sooooo good.

  9. 9.

    scav

    December 24, 2021 at 9:53 pm

    If failing the theoretical expectations of pseudonymous readers makes you gleeful, well then . . .  why not?! Merry Merry.

  10. 10.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 24, 2021 at 9:54 pm

    Cole, you must be happy, you put up 3 posts in a row yesterday(2 were about beef stew, but…).

  11. 11.

    Urza

    December 24, 2021 at 9:54 pm

    We’ve been airing grievances for the last 2 years.  Hard to remember the specific day for it.

  12. 12.

    sab

    December 24, 2021 at 9:55 pm

    Forgot to light the Advent wreath’s last candle last Sunday. Hope that isn’t bad luck. So lighting it tonight to at least have it done by Christmas.

    ETA Of course the one I forgot was the Peace one

    Hope, Love, Joy, Peace.

  13. 13.

    Steeplejack

    December 24, 2021 at 10:03 pm

    @Comrade Colette:

    People are funny. Now I’m hungry for Chinese food! Maybe I’ll cruise by my favorite spot on the way home from the airport tomorrow and see if they’re open. I mean, as long as I have to be out and about . . .

  14. 14.

    dnfree

    December 24, 2021 at 10:14 pm

    There was a discussion here yesterday of the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”. I think this article better captures the complexity of the movie to me. It’s not saccharine. It’s the story of a struggle.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/12/its-a-wonderful-life-is-75-and-as-timely-as-ever/621113/

  15. 15.

    Sister Golden Bear

    December 24, 2021 at 10:15 pm

    I have a grievance: Where are the holiday rom coms where a woman leaves her small town, dumping her… eccentric… boyfriend, and moves to the big city, where she learns to hate Christmas and lives happy ever after with a circle of best friends, while remaining single and pursuing her high-powered career?

  16. 16.

    Poe Larity

    December 24, 2021 at 10:16 pm

    Festivus is year round now since I don’t eat bagels anymore.

  17. 17.

    HumboldtBlue

    December 24, 2021 at 10:19 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    Gold Meir on line one!

  18. 18.

    Poe Larity

    December 24, 2021 at 10:19 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Wasn’t that the plot of the last Star Wars movie?

  19. 19.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 24, 2021 at 10:20 pm

    Dear wife and I are spending Christmas Eve alone for the first time in ~45 years, since our daughter has not completed her CDC-recommended isolation period after getting Covid recently. Given that everyone is pretty flexible, we simply decided that Christmas Eve will fall on the 28th this year in our household. I mean, Jesus wasn’t born on December 25th anyway, so whatever.

  20. 20.

    Sister Golden Bear

    December 24, 2021 at 10:27 pm

    @dnfree: I’ve always viewed “It’s a Wonderful Life” as a tragedy, a requiem for a dream.

    Bah humbug.

    Admittedly, it’s through my own lens of being the dutiful son (actually daughter) who tried to do what the world expected of me: compliance, sacrifice, resilience — including trying to live as a man until I couldn’t any more.

    It’s obviously not anything the filmmakers intended, but that sense of a dream that seems unobtainable after the all the repeated roadblocks thrown in one’s way definitely that resonates for many trans folks, including myself.

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 24, 2021 at 10:29 pm

    @dnfree: About 30 minutes left on NBC’s airing, and it’s been a mostly depressing movie.

  22. 22.

    Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)

    December 24, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    I think I speak for everybody when I say: I forgive you.

    But you’re going to have to come up with something to rival the Story of Shitmas.

  23. 23.

    OGLiberal

    December 24, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Not exactly that but Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer did a pretty good Hallmark spoof movie this year.  Only funny if you know Hallmark movies and only – well, not really – noticeable as parody unless you know Dratch and Gasteyer.

  24. 24.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 24, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    OK, so “Festivus Yes, Bagels No” does make sense if you’re striving to be lowering your carbs intake.

  25. 25.

    Sister Golden Bear

    December 24, 2021 at 10:39 pm

    On a light noter, don’t forget to leave cigarettes, shoes and a Twinkie in the ductwork for John McClain tonight.

  26. 26.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 24, 2021 at 10:41 pm

    @dnfree: I think we can all agree that Mr. Potter lives on in the boardrooms of corporate America.  Particularly in the financial sector.

  27. 27.

    Comrade Colette

    December 24, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: I watched that a while back and enjoyed it more than I expected. I feel no shame. I also recommend “A Castle for Christmas” with Brooke Shields.

  28. 28.

    laura

    December 24, 2021 at 10:46 pm

    I did a quick house scour and stashed some top of the credenza detritus. Down went a bag of ever greenery and a dozen bubble lights. A big old crystal vase wedding gift has been filled with twinkle lites and shiny balls and the lites are twinkling in a pleasing pattern. Spouse, both cats and the dog all settling in after a dinner of barbequed pork fried rice. It’s a really nice evening.

  29. 29.

    debbie

    December 24, 2021 at 10:50 pm

    @dnfree:

    Thanks for sharing this.

  30. 30.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 24, 2021 at 10:51 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Hahaha!

  31. 31.

    sab

    December 24, 2021 at 10:52 pm

    Wow. Hallmark movies got more diverse this year. Not sneering. It’s about time.

  32. 32.

    HumboldtBlue

    December 24, 2021 at 10:52 pm

    @Comrade Colette:

    I am shamelessly on it.

    On another note, Elvis Elfington made 10 phone calls tonight reminding various and sundry children that the man was on the way and that he is somewhere over Joisey City (it’s always Joisey city) and will soon be in your house, so be abed and asleep.

    Waiting on final reviews, so far, very positive.

  33. 33.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 24, 2021 at 10:53 pm

    @laura:

    Spouse, both cats and the dog all settling in after a dinner of barbequed pork fried rice. 

    Did the cats and dog enjoy the BBQ pork fried rice? ?

  34. 34.

    Suzanne

    December 24, 2021 at 10:54 pm

    Does this mean I am happy?

    Whoa whoa whoa, settle down there, Trigger. You are marginally less grumpy. Don’t go getting soft on me now.

  35. 35.

    leeleeFL

    December 24, 2021 at 11:00 pm

    @Suzanne: You made me laugh with this one!  I rather thought the same thing!

  36. 36.

    Ramona Rosario

    December 24, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    @sab: Did you watch the original with Katherine Hepburn, was it Peter O’Toole?, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton or the relatively newer HBO (IIRC) version with I think Patrick Stewart?

    I had watched the “newer” one several years ago, liked it enough to search out the older version and was completely bowled over by the Hepburn version! The life of Eleanor of Aquitaine is rich fodder for sizzling stories.

  37. 37.

    Benw

    December 24, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: excellent. My daughter insisted on leaving a carrot with the cookies and milk this year.

    I’m wishing for peace and joy to you all even and especially if those are hard to come by these days.

  38. 38.

    Comrade Colette

    December 24, 2021 at 11:05 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: so Elvis has left the building?

  39. 39.

    sab

    December 24, 2021 at 11:06 pm

    @Ramona Rosario: Peter OToole and Katharine Hepburn. I didn’t know there was a newer version.

  40. 40.

    Jackie

    December 24, 2021 at 11:12 pm

    Waiting for over-stimulated granddaughters to wind down and crash, so Santa’s helpers can start doing their jobs. Eight and ten yr olds are especially wound up this Christmas Eve!

  41. 41.

    HumboldtBlue

    December 24, 2021 at 11:12 pm

    @Comrade Colette:

    Yes he has.

  42. 42.

    BeautifulPlumage

    December 24, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    @sab: loved that movie the time I saw it

    “I’m so miserable, if I were on fire there isn’t anyone who would even piss on me to put the flames”

    Brother pulls out flint ” let’s see”

    (paraphrasing)

  43. 43.

    mali muso

    December 24, 2021 at 11:17 pm

    @sab: If you like Christmas rom-coms, I thoroughly enjoyed Netflix’s “Single all the Way” which centers a gay couple and ticks off all the schlocky beats of the genre.

  44. 44.

    BeautifulPlumage

    December 24, 2021 at 11:21 pm

    Canceled an invite to Chinese food tonight because of Omicron. I don’t have it that I know of, but my some of my coworkers aren’t vaxxed and my booster was less than 2 weeks ago. Hosts are travelling to see his elderly parents & 3 other guests are > 65. I would hate to be asymptomatic and give it to any of them.

     

    Instead, I cooked the turkey I was “gifted” and now the place smells Christmas-y. I’ll be making turkey dishes for the freezer tomorrow!

  45. 45.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 24, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    @Ramona Rosario: @sab: Glenn Close plays Eleanor to Stewart’s Henry. I’ve never watched it precisely because I’m a big fan of Glenn Close and even as I recognize all the criticisms of Hepburn, many of them valid, I can’t imagine anyone else playing that part.

    Also can’t quite see Patrick Stewart eclipsing O’Toole’s Henry. “How was your crossing? Did the channel part for you?”

  46. 46.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 24, 2021 at 11:25 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: Enjoy your turkeyful future.

  47. 47.

    BeautifulPlumage

    December 24, 2021 at 11:26 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: ha ha ha

    And thank you for sharing some of your journey with us. Not ideal to transition as an adult, but I’m grateful that you are living your true self. Cheers!

  48. 48.

    BeautifulPlumage

    December 24, 2021 at 11:29 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: tbank you. It’s a lot of turkey for one person! Looking forward to turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey chili, turkey pot pie…

  49. 49.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 24, 2021 at 11:34 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage:

    turkey sandwiches

    Mmmmm open faced turkey sandwiches (covered in gravy of course).

  50. 50.

    HumboldtBlue

    December 24, 2021 at 11:36 pm

    Uh-oh, technical glitch with a local call… seems messages not going through (could it be the storm, Pa?) may have to resort to actual face-to-face contact and no one wants that.

  51. 51.

    H.E.Wolf

    December 24, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    A nice piece of trivia:  James Goldman, who wrote The Lion in Winter, was the older brother of William Goldman… who wrote The Princess Bride.  :-)

  52. 52.

    frosty

    December 24, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: Shepherds Pie is my favorite leftover Turkey dish. Joy of Cooking has a good recipe.

  53. 53.

    NotMax

    December 24, 2021 at 11:48 pm

    “Calling Houston. Are you receiving, Houston?”

    “Houston here. Come in, ISS.”

    “We’re detecting an anomaly somewhere in West Virginia.”

    ;)

  54. 54.

    debbie

    December 24, 2021 at 11:49 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I’m beginning to think remakes will be the end of civilization. Lazy, not as good, etc.

  55. 55.

    BeautifulPlumage

    December 24, 2021 at 11:51 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: mmmmm gravy

  56. 56.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 24, 2021 at 11:51 pm

    @debbie: I just looked up the trailer. I think I’ll watch Hepburn and O’Toole et al again before I give that two hours.

  57. 57.

    BeautifulPlumage

    December 24, 2021 at 11:52 pm

    @frosty: will check it out. There’s  snow in the forecast, so might need to stick to what’s on hand.

  58. 58.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 24, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    Windy.com’s snow accumulation forecast shows quite a bit of snow falling at low elevation on the 30th, so the mountain backdrop for the Rose Parade/Bowl may be pretty white.

  59. 59.

    frosty

    December 25, 2021 at 12:00 am

    @BeautifulPlumage: The nice thing about Shepherds Pie is that it’s one of those recipes where you can use what you’ve got.

  60. 60.

    delk

    December 25, 2021 at 12:03 am

    @mrmoshpotato: turkey clubs.

  61. 61.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 25, 2021 at 12:07 am

    @delk: Those too!

  62. 62.

    dmsilev

    December 25, 2021 at 12:08 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Somehow, ‘I’m Dreaming of a White New Year’s  Day’ doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

  63. 63.

    James E Powell

    December 25, 2021 at 12:09 am

    @Ramona Rosario:

    The life of Eleanor of Aquitaine is rich fodder for sizzling stories.

    Absolutely. This is the two or three season HBO series that is right there, just dying to be made.

  64. 64.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 25, 2021 at 12:12 am

    Christmas Eve from above Glendale.

  65. 65.

    delk

    December 25, 2021 at 12:13 am

    @mrmoshpotato: have you been to Alexander’s on Granville? They’re opening up a location by me.

  66. 66.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 25, 2021 at 12:14 am

    @dmsilev: Well, not on the parade route, remember the Rose Parade folk made a deal, no parade on Sunday so they always get good weather.

  67. 67.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 25, 2021 at 12:15 am

    @delk: No.  I know of it.  Good food?

  68. 68.

    delk

    December 25, 2021 at 12:17 am

    @mrmoshpotato: never been. They are taking over Jeri’s Grill on Western and Montrose. Jeri’s closed after 58 years.

  69. 69.

    Sister Golden Bear

    December 25, 2021 at 12:19 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: On a related note, Mammoth (CA) is supposed to get eight feet of snow (yes eight feet) in the latest storm. They’d already gotten four feet as of this afternoon.

    If it weren’t so hard to get there from the Bay Area I’d be sorely tempted to head over there for powder skiing.

  70. 70.

    Fair Economist

    December 25, 2021 at 12:20 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Wow, great cloud shot.

  71. 71.

    BigJimSlade

    December 25, 2021 at 12:21 am

    @Comrade Colette: He wanted Thai?

  72. 72.

    dmsilev

    December 25, 2021 at 12:22 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: It actually briefly snowed in Pasadena a couple of years ago. To say that people here were surprised and confused is putting it mildly.

    Not going to happen this week though. Lots of rain, but no frozen stuff in the city.

  73. 73.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 25, 2021 at 12:24 am

    @Sister Golden Bear: I’m thinking of heading up to Lone Pine on Sunday for some shots of Mt. Whitney with lots of snow on it.

  74. 74.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 25, 2021 at 12:25 am

    @Fair Economist: Thanks, the color’s a bit better than reality.

  75. 75.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 25, 2021 at 12:25 am

    @dmsilev: True, but might get some on the Verdugos.

  76. 76.

    BigJimSlade

    December 25, 2021 at 12:26 am

    Happy Winter Solstice-adjacent Holidays to everyone!

  77. 77.

    joel hanes

    December 25, 2021 at 12:31 am

    Merry Christmas, blogfather.

    May the dark give way to light for all the jackals, everywhere, of every creed and persuasion.

    And may 2022 be a better year for all of us.

  78. 78.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 25, 2021 at 12:33 am

    @delk: I see.  Hopefully they can keep both places going.

  79. 79.

    NotMax

    December 25, 2021 at 12:36 am

    @frosty

    Questionable variation

    ;)

  80. 80.

    Citizen Alan

    December 25, 2021 at 12:37 am

    @dnfree:

    This is a heretical take, I know. But I can’t help seeing It’s A Wonderful Life as the story of a man who continually sacrifices all of his personal dreams and ambitions in order to stay in a little hicktown continually cleaning up his family’s mistakes until it drives him to the breaking point. At which point God personally intervenes to show him a contrived “What If” scenario as a way of justifying his lifetime of disappointments.

    Apropos of nothing, I’m back in Hicktown, Mississippi for the holidays. Visiting my nephew who proudly gets all his news from Youtube and his mother, my sister, who just adores Tucker Carlson.

  81. 81.

    Comrade Colette

    December 25, 2021 at 12:54 am

    @Citizen Alan:

    I’m back in Hicktown, Mississippi for the holidays. Visiting my nephew who proudly gets all his news from Youtube and his mother, my sister, who just adores Tucker Carlson.

    Oh, golly. Wishing you a weekend of intermittent, inexplicable hearing loss and myopia, to be miraculously cured when you shake the dust of that place from your feet.

  82. 82.

    Steeplejack

    December 25, 2021 at 12:54 am

    @Citizen Alan:

    Progress, dude. I can remember a year or two ago when you thought you were going to live out your miserable life in Mississippi. Now you’re a hard-bitten hipster New Yorker. Somehow you achieved escape velocity. You don’t ever have to go back. Y0ur relatives may never change, but you don’t need them do. There’s a difference between the family you’re born into and the family you choose for yourself. Sometimes they overlap, but not always.

  83. 83.

    NotMax

    December 25, 2021 at 1:00 am

    @Citizen Alan

    “You run into a lot of Jooz in that hellhole, boy? Gotta keep your guard up, y’know. Shifty critters.”

    //

  84. 84.

    Benno

    December 25, 2021 at 1:08 am

    Grades were due yesterday, so the students in my department had plenty of grievances to air. And, sadly, as the program director they are airing them all to me.

  85. 85.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 25, 2021 at 1:18 am

    Yeah Die Hard With A Vengeance!

  86. 86.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 25, 2021 at 1:30 am

    @NotMax: That’s not the worst of it, there’s Antifa and their ‘No Go Zones’.

  87. 87.

    Ruckus

    December 25, 2021 at 3:13 am

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    I watched my sister (lesbian – unknown to me until I met her partner when I was 24) go through this (I think/bet it was an easier journey than you likely had) and then a number of gay folks who I met along her journey. I count being able to watch this to be one of the great joys of my life, watching someone find their real self. I hope that the journey has given you peace and comfort. The last 5 decades has given me a picture of humanity that is both great and far less than it should be. That humans are complicated, selfish, compassionate, not always as they appear, and often incredible. I’ve often wondered what life would be like if a whole lot of people didn’t need to have their their lives justified by demanding that everyone else bend to their rigid pictures of living.

    Merry Christmas everyone, it just turned Saturday here.

  88. 88.

    sab

    December 25, 2021 at 5:44 am

    @BigJimSlade: I love that greeting.

  89. 89.

    debbie

    December 25, 2021 at 8:50 am

    @Ramona Rosario:

    Lauren Groff’s novel Matrix is about Marie de France, one of the children born of Henry’s dalliances. Eleanor makes more than a few appearances. Unpossible, of course, but I definitely see Hepburn in Groff’s Eleanor.

  90. 90.

    Miss Bianca

    December 25, 2021 at 10:44 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I must be the only person in the world who, upon seeing O’Toole and Hepburn chewing up the scenery in this movie, just went, “Meh,” at the end of it.

    @frosty: Actually, apparently (according to my recipe source) it’s only Shepherd’s Pie if you use ground lamb. Ground beef or any other meat-like substance turns it into Cottage Pie.

    Speaking of – I actually made my very first Shepherd’s Pie from scratch last night. Good enough to warrant a re-make in the future.

  91. 91.

    BigJimSlade

    December 25, 2021 at 11:12 am

    @sab: Thanks – I had just come up with it a few hours earlier :-)

  92. 92.

    brantl

    December 25, 2021 at 11:52 am

    @sab: I detested Bob Hope when he was alive, and see no reason to change it, now that he’s dead. He wasn’t funny; he was Richard Nixon made over into a comic. Yech.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

On The Road - Albatrossity - Serengeti Day 2, Round 3 9
Image by Albatrossity (6/12/25)

PA Supreme Court At Risk

We did it!

We raised the 25,000 for The Civics Center, and with the external matches, that gives them $60,000 for this Spring effort!

You guys rock!

Recent Comments

  • prostratedragon on Well, This is Fucking Horrifying (Jun 13, 2025 @ 2:24am)
  • No One of Consequence on Well, This is Fucking Horrifying (Jun 13, 2025 @ 2:20am)
  • columbusqueen on Thursday Night Open Thread (Jun 13, 2025 @ 2:00am)
  • Bruce K in ATH-GR on Well, This is Fucking Horrifying (Jun 13, 2025 @ 1:59am)
  • prostratedragon on Well, This is Fucking Horrifying (Jun 13, 2025 @ 1:58am)

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
War in Ukraine
Donate to Razom for Ukraine

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)
Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Social Media

Balloon Juice
WaterGirl
TaMara
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
DougJ NYT Pitchbot
mistermix

Keeping Track

Legal Challenges (Lawfare)
Republicans Fleeing Town Halls (TPM)
21 Letters (to Borrow or Steal)
Search Donations from a Brand

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!