Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Cole, when it comes to calico cats, restraint is overrated.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

The revolution will be supervised.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

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

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Second rate reporter says what?

The lights are all blinking red.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. don’t touch it.”

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

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What Do Batman and Ben Wikler Have In Common?

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  1. 1.

    Tony Jay

    What do Batman and Ben Wikler have in comment?

    “I’m not jumping through your hoops, Riddler. Tell me what you’ve done with Robin or it’s bat-punch time!”

  2. 2.

    piratedan

    not exactly off-topic but in the distance… I hear the sounds of shoes…. falling and getting closer…

    AZ indictments appear to be imminent. Link

  4. 4.

    trollhattan

    @Tony Jay: In micro grade we mastered the Bat punch long before learning to pull the Bat punch, leading to all kinds of misadventure and stayings after school

    See also, the karate chop, favorite of “Man from U.N.C.L.E.” “The Avengers” and several others of the time.

  7. 7.

    piratedan

    @trollhattan: well, specifics matter, it’s one thing to be subdued by a well groomed young/middle aged male.. and it’s quite another to encounter said same by a latex wearing goddess… just sayin’.  Per the Henchman’s FAQ.

  11. 11.

    Tony Jay

    @trollhattan:

    During the 1980s heyday of bonkers Chinese live-action fantasy series Monkey my entire school was all about the kicking and the hitting (with fighting sticks) and the screaming “MonKEY!!!” into each other’s faces.

    Good times.

  15. 15.

    Armadillo

    Ok I probably missed it but wanted to celebrate our candidate Michael Feggans winning in VA-97.  He was the one who put the VA Democrats over the top with the 51st vote.  Our other VA candidate, Kimberly Pope Adams is still in it, with votes still counting, so keeping fingers crossed for her.  Many thanks to WaterGirl for doing the work of organizing and picking candidates!

  16. 16.

    Jay

    What do Batman and Ben Wikler have in comment common?

    They have never been seen at the same place, at the same time?

  17. 17.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Tony Jay: Since that show was virtually unknown in the US, I never watched it as a kid, but what I have seen of it stuns me with how basically faithful an adaptation of its 16th-century source material it is (“Journey to the West”). The story really was that bonkers.

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    @Armadillo:  Thank you!

    I very much hope Kimberly Pope Adams asks for a recount if she comes up shot.  As the numbers stand now, with 98% reporting, the difference in votes is .006 of the total vote.

    Very much hoping she can win this.  The other Kim is god-awful.

  20. 20.

    H.E.Wolf

     In every one of these fights we’re celebrating tonight, there were moments when those on the ground doubted whether victory was possible—and then decided to just keep on doing the work.

    PostcardsToVoters.org is not sitting idle – they’ve got addresses for the ongoing FL Vote By Mail project, in collaboration with the FL Democratic Party. This go-round, they’re writing to FL Democrats who have used Vote By Mail in the past, and need to renew for 2024.

    To sign up, email [email protected]
    If you’re already signed up, email [email protected]

    Let’s use our powers of stealth to sneak up on FL Republicans and bedevil them.

  21. 21.

    Balconesfault

    Obviously, you can trust the size of the rallies, right?

    I mean if one candidate has a dedicated fan base that’s willing to follow him from arena to arena and fill the stadium, decked out in high price merchandise he sells them, clearly that’s evidence that if he didn’t win there must have been voter fraud, right?

  23. 23.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Tony Jay: With my nephew, it was Power Ranger kicks. In the living room. In front of his oblivious parents. And me sitting there in horrified awe.

    Good times, indeed 🤗

  26. 26.

    RSA

    @M. Bouffant: Cool!  The best thing about that page is the mini-bio of the actor:

    Byron Keith
    Born on 17th November 1917
    Died on 19th January 1996
    Birth name was “Cletus Leo Schwitters”

  27. 27.

    Tony Jay

    @Jay:

    Did Kung-Fu have a sexually obsessed pig-spirit and a depressed hippie fish-demon helping the eponymous monkey-god protect a steamingly hot Buddhist priest whose horse was actually a shapeshifter dragon?

    I think not.

    @Matt McIrvin:

    It could easily have been sub-titled ‘Brilliantly Insane Lunacy With Fighting’. The special effects were garbage but, man, the combination of fight scenes, humour and weirdly inappropriate moral messages turned me into the man I am today.

  31. 31.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Tony Jay: ​
     

    The 1960s in Australia were a time of samurai mania. Kids went crazy over Shintaro the Samurai and his sidekick Tombei the Mist.

    We all learned of the nefarious Iga Ninja and how to cut our own shirukin out of cardboard. I am absolutely amazed now that nobody was blinded when we threw these things at each other.

    What was most amazing was that this was less than 20 years after the end of WWII and the Japanese were still regarded as monsters by many of the parents of these same kids.

    There is even a documentary on the subject.

  35. 35.

    Argiope

    @H.E.Wolf: ​
      Late to the thread as always (my nym should be “Argiope, LttT”) but I just wanted to give you personal thanks for writing to folks in my town for Issue 1. Mr. Argiope and I wrote a mere 60 postcards to folks in the county, but here’s the funny part–he received 2 more from other writers! I really feel like the postcards saturated OH this time around.

  37. 37.

    Tony Jay

    @Viva BrisVegas:

    Back in the 60s kids had tougher eyes, tougher everything, impervious to most materials. Not like these namby-pamby Gen Z.epsilon kids today with their emotional safe spaces and their rice paper skin.

  40. 40.

    Miss Bianca

    @Tony Jay: So, so late to this thread but this is just such a thing of beauty and a joy forever that I totally needed to see it again:

    ETA: And I think I need to track down this series, because great googly-moogly, does it sound like my kind of deranged!

    Did Kung-Fu have a sexually obsessed pig-spirit and a depressed hippie fish-demon helping the eponymous monkey-god protect a steamingly hot Buddhist priest whose horse was actually a shapeshifter dragon?

    I think not.

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