Archive for November, 2009

Thanksgiving outside the Beltway

by Angry DougJ

Stories like this never turn up in Kaplan’s anti-health care reform screeds: Wes and Katie Covington, from Smyrna, Tenn., were already in debt from a round of fertility treatments when complications with her pregnancy and surgery on his knee left them with unmanageable bills. For Christine L. Phillips of Nashville, it was a $10,000 trip [...]

November 26, 2009 · Angry DougJ · 26 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Domestic Affairs, Good News For Conservatives

It Seems We Have a New Wingnut Commenter

by John Cole

This made me laugh: Maybe you could post about the struggle to figure out how the smartest bunch of folks to ever grace the White House could manage to spend $300 billion dollars (the rest to be spent next year, and that’s just the stimulus) and have unemployment be 2% above your fearmongering projections with [...]

November 26, 2009 · John Cole · 57 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes

Happy Thanksgiving

by John Cole

Go eat some turkey.

November 26, 2009 · John Cole · 108 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread

Late Night Open Thread

by John Cole

I’m lying here with Lily on my chest, and while I love Tunch, I honestly don’t think I have ever loved any one or thing as fully and unconditionally as I love this dog. I know there are some of you who will not understand and think this is an attack on Tunch, but it [...]

November 25, 2009 · John Cole · 205 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging, Open Thread

We are all Spock now

by Angry DougJ

It’s strange and troubling that we now have a president who thinks rationally: President George W. Bush once boasted, “I’m not a textbook player, I’m a gut player.” The new tenant of the Oval Office takes a strikingly different approach. President Obama is almost defiantly deliberative, methodical and measured, even when critics accuse him of [...]

November 25, 2009 · Angry DougJ · 153 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, We Are All Mayans Now

Wednesday Night Rescue Thread

by John Cole

The story: I live with my girlfriend here in Durham NC, and we had been together about two years when we started talking about getting a dog. We had just discussed the idea that morning when her mom calls (they live in Clayton) to tell us that there was a stray in their yard, and [...]

November 25, 2009 · John Cole · 63 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging, Open Thread

We are all Harry Reid now

by Angry DougJ

By popular demand, a post about the David Broder/Harry Reid smackdown that was detailed in Politico last night. The short summary: David Broder has had his Depends in a twist for years about Reid and he recently wrote a column (dissected by Ezra here) telling Reid and other Congressional Democrats to get off his lawn. [...]

November 25, 2009 · Angry DougJ · 67 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Good News For Conservatives

Is It Just Me

by John Cole

I’ve read all my newspapers and online magazines, and I have nothing to write about. I guess I’m just pretty excited about eating turkey and stuffing until I get the meat sweats. *** Update *** Actually, now that I have thought about it, can you get meat sweats from turkey? I’m gonna try, but after [...]

November 25, 2009 · John Cole · 173 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized

Open Thread

by Tim F.

nffcnnr, Window Washer. Grumpy Code Monkey, Calling The Game. Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a short caption if you want one. Click on the photos for [...]

November 25, 2009 · Tim F. · 44 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Photo blogging

I don’t get this

by Angry DougJ

You probably heard about this (via Steve Benen for example): But Perino’s appearance last night with Sean Hannity was more noteworthy than most. The topic was the shootings at Fort Hood, and Perino, playing her usual role, criticized the White House for not having labeled the massacre as “terrorism.” She emphasized that the rhetorical description [...]

November 25, 2009 · Angry DougJ · 97 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Good News For Conservatives

STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP

by John Cole

We have close to 2k. We have plenty. Send any more and I will spend it on booze, gambling and loose women and what is left after that I will piss away. Oh, and thank you. I’ve also had several emails from programmers who are going to help fix this mess once and for all.

November 25, 2009 · John Cole · 102 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread

Sign O’ The Times

by Tim F.

Ross Douthat dreams of a Republican who understands and can talk about policy. Just imagine. For a change Sunday newschat shows might cover actual issues instead of serving as group therapy sessions for stupid angry people like John McCain, Eric Cantor and Joe Lieberman. The dirty little secret of DC is that nobody presses these [...]

November 25, 2009 · Tim F. · 123 Comments
Posted in: Media, Republican Stupidity

Wednesday Morning Open Thread

by John Cole

I don’t know what the weather is like where you all are, but it is pretty nasty here. Not a hint of a chance of sun today, and the entire sky looks like a three day old bruise or a smoker’s cough or what I imagine it would look like in the world of Dire [...]

November 25, 2009 · John Cole · 132 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread

Support Balloon Juice

by John Cole

No longer relevant.

November 24, 2009 · John Cole · 190 Comments
Posted in: Site Maintenance

On Centrism

by John Cole

Larison: Looked at from either side of the spectrum, Lieberman has been anything but interesting. He has been the reliable defender of the “centrist” consensus established in the ’90s that finally accepted welfare reform and insisted on U.S. hegemony abroad. In practice, this “centrism” can be used to justify the most extreme, violent and destructive [...]

November 24, 2009 · John Cole · 120 Comments
Posted in: The Dirty F-ing Hippies Were Right

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