Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

You cannot shame the shameless.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Come on, man.

Not all heroes wear capes.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

T R E 4 5 O N

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

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

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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I think we should have a week of favorite dog pictures / favorite cat pictures in the run-up to Christmas.  Are you up for it?

Send me your favorite dog and cat pictures and I’ll put up a post every day for the next 7 days.  First post will go up later today after I (hopefully) receive some photos!

Here’s a little Henry for some inspiration.

Open thread.

*Tom is working on a post in the back room, so we will likely be treated to that in a little while.

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  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    @Tom Levenson: I peeked at your post to see if it was ready to go, and it looked like you were still working on yours, so I went ahead and put this up.

    Looking forward to yours!  It’s like a holiday gift to all of us that you have been posting more lately. :-)

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    Dangerman

    I’ve seen that face recently; oh, that was MY face yesterday after the last play of the Raiders game. What WAS he thinking? Someplace Leon Lett is smiling for no longer having the worst play in NFL history.

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    Joy in FL

    Henry has the sweetest face.

    I will send you some photos for sure. It will be hard narrowing my selection to under 500 photos in your inbox  : )

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    Miss Bianca

    @MattF: Gee, sure seems like it would have been helpful for some of this information to have come out *before* the election, huh?

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    piratedan

    WG, was going to ask if you had that pic of my Eskinu Mochi still around… the one with him on the shelf on the wall.. I think everyone kind of enjoyed that one a bit…

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    kindness

    Hey now.  I sent in a pic, but I couldn’t figure out where I should send it to.  I don’t see front pagers e-mails any more.  So I sent it to On The Road submissions.  Sorry about that.  Please dig it out from there.  Many thanks.

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    Miss Bianca

    @raven: I remember that photo! How did Raven and Bodhi do together, btw? Wondering if introducing a male puppy to our household and to Watson, who has acted like a douche canoe to younger male dogs before, would be an unmitigated disaster or…um…a mitigated one.

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    raven

    @Miss Bianca: They did fine, Raven got the cancer diagnosis shortly after we fiend the Bohdi and I think they were good for each other. After we lost Raven we got Lil Bit and they basically ignored each other.

  42. 42.

    Jackie

    Sent one of our senior dog acting like a pup in the snow. Will send more as I sort through. Dogs and cats😊

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    CaseyL

    Sent you a recent one of Oscar, snoozing on fleece as it is Fiercely Cold here in Seattle.

    Something interesting I noticed about Oscar’s floof:

    When he is comfortably warm, he is more sleek; his ruff, in particular, kind of minimal.

    When he gets cold, the floof… fluffs up. It’s very noticeable when he first goes outside – not instantaneously (which would be amazing) but over a minute or so, his ruff and bib expand. I’m sure the fur all over his body does the same thing, but it’s not as clearly visible.

    I figure this is the insulating mechanism at work: fur fluffing up just enough to trap/protect body heat.

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    StringOnAStick

    @MattF: Thanks for that gift link; this Santos guy is definitely sketchy as all hell.  Is he being funded by state of non-state actors as a conduit for information that House members are privy to?  A mole of some kind?  All, and I mean, ALL of his story/biography/funding sources make zero contact with the truth.  Letting someone this sketchy into the halls of government is dangerous, so of course the R’s are cool with it.

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    Jess

    @WaterGirl:

    I guess they should have vetted him earlier and then put the information on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

    Nice one!

    I just sent you one of Cody, my Russian street dog. He’s a “natural” land-race dog, more like a coyote or a semi-feral cat than a typical domestic dog. Extremely smart, alert, and strong willed, but has turned into such a lover!

  53. 53.

    Annie

    I just sent a picture of my cat Harry, who died on October 2 at age 17.

    always, always happy to see Henry!  He’s adorable.

  56. 56.

    karen marie

    I just sent you an email with some pics, WaterGirl!

    Seeing people’s pets is one of my favorite entertainments.  Thanks!

  59. 59.

    WaterGirl

    I’ve had a hectic day so I haven’t even looked at all the email messages yet, but keep ’em coming, we’ll put them up until we run out.

    Holiday cheer, dog and cat style!

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