• 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.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Everybody saw this coming.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

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

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Come on, man.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Mobile Menu

  • 4 Directions VA 2025 Raffle
  • 2025 Activism
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2025 Activism
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
Open Thread:  Hey Lurkers!  (Holiday Post)

Open Threads

You are here: Home / Archives for Open Threads

For the second time in

by John Cole|  January 8, 200212:47 am| Leave a Comment

This post is in: Open Threads

For the second time in a week, the NY Times has an editorial criticizing Democrats. This has had more than a slight effect on my understanding of the world, and for some reason I feel as if I am in some alternate universe (remember bizarro Seinfeld?). I am going to hop over to the Washington Times andthe Free Republic to search for editorials praising Clinton and Daschle.

For the second time inPost + Comments

Haven’t seen this online anywhere

by John Cole|  January 7, 200210:45 pm| Leave a Comment

This post is in: Open Threads

Haven’t seen this online anywhere yet, so I thought I would mention it. On the televisin news this evening, it was gleefully noted by the MSNBC crew that Bush referred to the Pakistanis as “Paki’s,” which is apparently a derogatory term for Pakistanis. No doubt this will be fuel for the fire for the ‘Bush is an idiot crew.’

At any rate, “paki” seems to be slightly less derogatory to my ears than ‘The Great Satan,” as we are affectionately called in those oil-rich sinkholes a couple thousand miles to the east.

Haven’t seen this online anywherePost + Comments

One of the first things

by John Cole|  January 7, 200210:33 pm| Leave a Comment

This post is in: Open Threads

One of the first things I noticed when I started to read all ofthese blogs was that I no longer feel the need to have the tv running on CNN, MSNBC, or FOX 24/7. Bloggers are funnier, faster, and wiser. At any rate, I still watch some shows while I am working, and I would like to nominate this gem as the Best Question by a Telepundit for the Year 2002.

At any rate, last Thursday or Friday, Mike Barnicle was filling in for Chris Matthews, and he asked Alon Pinkas to “explain to me the difference between Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat besides height.”

I could not have said it better myself, Mike.

One of the first thingsPost + Comments

I guess I did not

by John Cole|  January 7, 20025:53 pm| Leave a Comment

This post is in: Open Threads

I guess I did not miss the debate. Today Will Quick discusses blogs and Fair Use, something I was babbling about in my usual incoherent manner the other day (yesterday??).

I guess I did notPost + Comments

Jima Romanesko points out this

by John Cole|  January 7, 20025:41 pm| Leave a Comment

This post is in: Open Threads

Jima Romanesko points out this conversation in which it appears that some people are initmidated by Donald Rumsfeld. And, no. It is not the Taliban.

Jima Romanesko points out thisPost + Comments

Rich Galen is up to

by John Cole|  January 7, 20025:36 pm| Leave a Comment

This post is in: Open Threads

Rich Galen is up to his usual antics: providing plausible explanations to things I normally am to lazy to understand.

Rich Galen is up toPost + Comments

Moira Breenand Damian Penny trade

by John Cole|  January 7, 20022:57 pm| Leave a Comment

This post is in: Open Threads

Moira Breenand Damian Penny trade salvos about Newfoundland.

I can personally attest that at least one segment of their economy is working- telemarketing. Capital One has called me from a Newfoundland extension three times in the last two days.

Little Green Footballs posts one way how to best employ telemarketers.

Moira Breenand Damian Penny tradePost + Comments

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 5280
  • Page 5281
  • Page 5282
  • Page 5283
  • Page 5284
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 5289
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

On The Road - UncleEbeneezer - Enchanted Fall Color 2025: Road to Mora (Part 2 of 5) 1
Image by UncleEbeneezer (11/5/25)

Recent Comments

  • Carlo Graziani on Part 2: AI State of Play (Nov 5, 2025 @ 10:39pm)
  • WeimarGerman on Part 2: AI State of Play (Nov 5, 2025 @ 10:38pm)
  • RevRick on Part 2: AI State of Play (Nov 5, 2025 @ 10:35pm)
  • Ramona on War for Ukraine Day 1,350: A Brief Wednesday Night Update (Nov 5, 2025 @ 10:34pm)
  • Fair Economist on Wednesday Night Open Thread (Nov 5, 2025 @ 10:33pm)

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
On Artificial Intelligence (7-part series)

🎈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

Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup

Upcoming Meetups

Virginia Meetup on Oct 11 please RSVP

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
Rose Judson (podcast)

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