Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

“Alexa, change the president.”

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

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Composite Christmas!
Dan B

Dan B

30 + years ago my partner and I were infants, right?  Must have been!  And the mortifying matching outfits (my partner hates being the center of attention) were the coup de gras.  I thought d-i-v-o-r-c-e would be the next event to ‘celebrate’.

30 years later we’re still glaring, amicably, at each other.  My former sister in law, she of outfit sadism, has moved to distant Oregon so we are safe at last!

Holidays When We Were Little (or not so little)
MagdaInBlack

MagdaInBlack

Attached is a holiday photo of my 1st cat, the Original Cookie Cat ( all my tabbies were named Cookie) in her favorite Christmas spot. She never bothered the tree.

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Medium MagdaInBlack

Medium Magda.

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MagdaInBlack

Itty Bitty Magda

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A (very much appreciated) Lurker's boy Travis

A lurker

I am just a lurker.  But i read balloon juice every day, and saw your request for Xmas pet pictures. Here’s a picture of our boy Travis with Santa.  He loves dressing up.

He’s 72 pounds of love and naps.  He’s my wife’s service animal, helps her take off her brace, puts clothes in the wash for her, etc.  He’s a good boy.  I held up a treat while we took the photo to get his absolute FOCUS.
All he wants is more treats and his daily 4 naps, he’s easy. And maybe a new sweater.
Merry Christmas!
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way2blue

way2blue

Here’s a photo of Skeeter for our holiday series.  Actually might be one of her brothers, Jazzbo or Misha.

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Trivia Man
Trivia Man
These two seem to fit. I remembered them as much more humorous – but 40 years later I cut my
young self some slack.
My first Xmas in my own place, the tree is very sparsely decorated.
For a topper I thought a hat was hysterical. At the time it was 50%
eye roll and 50% polite chuckles but it still amuses me.
Same season, we had a party for my cousin and his friends from the
dorm -they wanted to get off campus and par-tay. As I set up to get
the picture of a passed out guest, someone threw a christmas card at
his head. It happened to land just exactly perfect – I guess you had
to be there (and drunk on cheap vodka) to appreciate the sheer
absurdity.
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Trivia Man

Trivia Man

 

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Trivia Man

circa 2003 with my 2 sons

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Trivia Man

hat tree topper

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    MagdaInBlack

    @Princess: Well…..my husband always said I had a good twin sister my parents sent to live elsewhere to save her from my influence……….😉

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    There go two miscreants

    I have enjoyed all the pictures in this series! I am very envious of folks who actually have pictures from their childhood; very few have survived from mine. Many rolls of undeveloped film went…undeveloped forever!

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    Trivia Man

    Some good memories, glad I dug them out.
    That early, hatted, tree was pretty sparse on decorations. But I direct your attention to the mistletoe- I made sure we had that! Sadly, I think that batch was defective because it never worked even once.

    Tip: if you don’t have mistletoe you can use parsley (most people won’t notice!). One year the parsley was very effective for me.

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    Trivia Man

    on the tree with a REAL topper you can see a big, paper plate sized ornament with my sons picture. Hand made by him in pre-k it is one of very few things we have of our sons before the adoption. We missed the early years so we tried to hang onto every scrap of those treasures so they wouldn’t lose them, too.

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    Central Planning

    @MagdaInBlack: I had a haircut almost like your Itty Bitty Magda pic, and pretty much a towhead (sadly now dark brown and turning gray).

    I’m told one year when I was a kid, it took us something like 6 hours to open the presents under the tree. Apparently after each present I had to assemble/play/whatever with it before moving on to the next one. I have no recollection of that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Barbara

    @Trivia Man: The first thing I thought when I looked at that final picture is, “So that’s why the ER needs extra staff over the holidays . . .”  Great picture, for what I am sure was a very fun moment.

    DanB: you can enhance the fun of events like this by having a game of “name the color,” for those shirts– “aubergine” and “burnt nehi orange.”  Your SIL’s lime daiquiri shirt isn’t too shabby either.

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    Ruckus

    @There go two miscreants:

    I’m the last one left in the family and just before my sister passed she sent me the family photo album. It is interesting to see the progression over the first 1/4 century of my life, after which the major change was my beard turning mostly white and the hair on my head disappeared. Next year will be 3/4 of a century. It has been an interesting trip and I hope that I make that milestone, a century of breathing.

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    John S.

    I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Dan B and his partner in person at a BJ meetup. They are good people.

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