Open Thread
I feel like everything I write today is rambling and incoherent, more so than usual, so I am just going to sit back and watch the idiot box until Captain Kirk hangs out with Shawn and Guster tonight on Psych.
November 30, 2011 8:02 pm
Posted in: Open Thread
44 Comments
44 Responses
jeffreyw - November 30, 2011 | 8:04 pm · Link
Have a sammich.
BGinCHI - November 30, 2011 | 8:04 pm · Link
Could be worse. You could be Herman Cain. Or married to Newt Gingrich.
Baud - November 30, 2011 | 8:05 pm · Link
I have to admit, I was a bit confused about the point you were trying to make in your last post. But kudos for self-awareness.
Jim, Foolish Literalist - November 30, 2011 | 8:08 pm · Link
@Baud:
I think it was “Jesus Fucking Christ. In this day and age? Seriously, America? Fucking seriously? Fuck”
arguingwithsignposts - November 30, 2011 | 8:11 pm · Link
Steven Colbert and Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking about science for 90 minutes. Via Kottke
Baud - November 30, 2011 | 8:11 pm · Link
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think that was two posts ago.
Dr.BDH - November 30, 2011 | 8:12 pm · Link
Speaking of Captain Kirk, here in Wisconsin (where Scott Walker’s anti-recall ads are burning through Koch Cash faster than a meth-addled honeymooner in Vegas), William Shattner (“Huh, huh, he said ‘Shat’”) is doing ads for the motorcycle tort kings, Hupy and Abramson. Not to be confused with the liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge, Shirley Abrahamson. And now you know some trivia about Wisconsin.
Jprice - November 30, 2011 | 8:19 pm · Link
You don’t write incoherent posts; one of the front-pagers does, though, and all too often. One thing that’s real convenient about gawker is that the post titles try to be both snarky and descriptive. That would be a big help here for a couple of people. Dropping the old paintings would help save space, especially when those images have little to nothing to do with the text content. I’m not saying inverted triangles or anything like that. Just that it would be nice to be able to drop in quickly a few times a day, like I do, and be able to get sense what was going on. I think it’s almost axiomatic that the more page views a blog gets, the more difficult it is to stay sharp and focussed. Look at NoMoreMisterNiceBlog: from sharp comments to his own page to a distracted mess. He should go back to commenting to regain his mojo. Now… if only I could do what I am asking you for….
JPL - November 30, 2011 | 8:20 pm · Link
The Republicans Senators are willing to extend the payroll tax and have offered a way to pay for it
Just to show the Americans folks that they are worried about inequity in income, if a millionaire is laid off he can’t get food stamps or unemployment.
edit..must credit cnn
Benjamin Franklin - November 30, 2011 | 8:25 pm · Link
Speaking of Walker….Any credible challengers? I like Russ Feingold
robertdsc-PowerBook - November 30, 2011 | 8:27 pm · Link
Can we has Tunch pictures? It’s been a while since we’ve seen the big guy.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine - November 30, 2011 | 8:27 pm · Link
You all will love this: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jo.....ercenters/
Obligatory facebook link from a friend that is trending to the dark side…
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink - November 30, 2011 | 8:29 pm · Link
Hey Yuts, you see we got us a pirate on the Palouse? This is gonna be weird. Though the student section full of pirate costumes should prove to be entertaining, along with the offense. Pac 12 football is turning into a video game league. First team to 50 points wins.
Litlebritdifrnt - November 30, 2011 | 8:29 pm · Link
Dick Durban is right now on my tv saying that Republicans are saying that people who make $750,000 or more should not be entitled to food stamp benefits. Are these people fucking serious? These people stand there in front of cameras and seriously suggest that people making $750,000 would a) need food stamps and b) actually apply for them? Really? What kind of alternate fucking universe do these people live in?
JPL - November 30, 2011 | 8:31 pm · Link
@Litlebritdifrnt: I just saw that on CNN.com… comment 8…the repubs also want to screw government workers… how about themselves first…
Jprice - November 30, 2011 | 8:32 pm · Link
I love how my comments await and await moderation while others pop up immediately. ....
quannlace - November 30, 2011 | 8:37 pm · Link
Or both.
Litlebritdifrnt - November 30, 2011 | 8:38 pm · Link
@JPL: I don’t know about you but I have seen someone on foodstamps at the end of the month. They watch the register total add up on every scan. They can afford the bread, peanut butter and jelly but the mac and cheese puts them over the top, so they sheepishly put that back. That is no way to live. The idea that someone making 750K a year would have to do that is so damn laughable as to be Kafkaesque.
The Ancient Randonneur - November 30, 2011 | 8:40 pm · Link
There be pirates here.
Jenny - November 30, 2011 | 8:40 pm · Link
Fox and Villagers turn on Romney
http://youtu.be/ClGkDUO3DF8
JPL - November 30, 2011 | 8:41 pm · Link
@Litlebritdifrnt: I’m glad you mentioned that Durbin was out there.
The front page of CNN.com says Obama issues tax cut challenge
GOP details plan..
I clicked to the link and was shocked.
scav - November 30, 2011 | 8:42 pm · Link
Some days, all I want or can stand is posts consisting of nothing but old pictures, possibly interrupted by mild doses of Tunch and incoherent ranting.
JPL - November 30, 2011 | 8:44 pm · Link
@Litlebritdifrnt: I’m still shocked…Can we swear on this post also, too. fuckityfuckfuckfuck
Suffern ACE - November 30, 2011 | 8:52 pm · Link
@Litlebritdifrnt: Well, I think we have a way of keeping people making $750K per year out of the food stamp program. They apply…and are turned down. It’s really not that much of a hassle.
Steeplejack - November 30, 2011 | 8:59 pm · Link
@Cole:
Similar here. Catching up on the Balloon Juice threads, but waiting for Psych to start.
I have worked two early shifts and gotten home by 4:00 p.m. each day. Plus I got a full night’s sleep last night—during “regular” sleeping hours!—so I am feeling uncharacteristically normal tonight.
New episode of Nadia G’s Bitchin’ Kitchen also at 9:00. That’s going on the DVR.
SectarianSofa - November 30, 2011 | 9:03 pm · Link
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Yep, seemed clear to me.
@scav:
Word. Coherent ranting OK, too.
Steeplejack - November 30, 2011 | 9:06 pm · Link
@scav:
Home sweet home.
Poopyman - November 30, 2011 | 9:09 pm · Link
Foreclosure Fraud Whistleblower Found Dead.
No cause of death known, but the Las Vegas cops know it’s not homicide. Uh. Huh.
Paddy - November 30, 2011 | 9:14 pm · Link
Jeebus, did this woman sleep thru her 20’s? Michele Bachmann Makes Another “Historical” Fact Error
She was a fracking Carter supporter and she missed the Iran Hostage Crisis?
AA+ Bonds - November 30, 2011 | 10:05 pm · Link
@Paddy:
She didn’t miss anything, events actively confuse her as they pass before her vacant eyes
AA+ Bonds - November 30, 2011 | 10:06 pm · Link
BTW I love how everyone took their knives out as soon as I left that Iran thread. Sign of a job well done.
I even got one of the BigLaw regret-machines to accuse me of being unemployed to diminish me. Another fake-ass Democrat revealed.
Suffern ACE - November 30, 2011 | 10:14 pm · Link
@Paddy: I think she just assumes that Obama saying something at one time or another about “regime change” not being a goal of his administration meant that bygones were bygones and Iran just opened the door to let us back in. It’s not the history per se, it’s the recent present that she missing.
AA+ Bonds - November 30, 2011 | 10:19 pm · Link
Here’s your dose, top headlines on FoxNews.com right now.
That subhead is absolutely precious but the strategic points here, as I’ve mentioned many times before, are the two smaller headlines, both labor-related. They are attacking labor very hard this year. Expect it to become an issue in the general, even if Democrats don’t realize it.
I’ve often wondered what algorithms Fox uses to promote stories on the front page of its website. My New Years Resolution is to set up a spreadsheet and try to make a crude estimate of their current output based on story themes at certain hours of the day. I’m assuming they’re smart enough to be doing it that way to maximize page views, but then again, that’s the kind of ‘smart’ that Fox News does well.
Omnes Omnibus - November 30, 2011 | 10:19 pm · Link
@Jprice: Whatever you have been drinking or snorting, you either need far more or far, far less of it. Just saying. I don’t judge.
AA+ Bonds - November 30, 2011 | 10:23 pm · Link
With all the NC expats here you’d think there’d be a game thread tonight . . . just me and the radio I guess
Omnes Omnibus - November 30, 2011 | 10:27 pm · Link
@AA+ Bonds: Well, when they call you up to the Show, you can post your own game threads. Until then, you’ll just have to deal.
priscianusjr - November 30, 2011 | 10:43 pm · Link
I’m sorry John, I just can’t follow what you’re trying to say here.
RalfW - December 1, 2011 | 12:16 am · Link
I’m sure many Juice regulars read Charlie Pierce more or less daily now, but this was so spot-on I just wanna quote it:
Mnemosyne - December 1, 2011 | 12:43 am · Link
We’re having one of those freaky LA nights where the winds go crazy and start rattling the windows. Thirty-mile an hour winds with gusts of up to 60 MPH. Always freaks me out more than a little.
Yutsano - December 1, 2011 | 1:05 am · Link
@Omnes Omnibus: Why do you hate me so? :)
Caz - December 1, 2011 | 1:28 am · Link
First thing you’ve said in a long time that I actually agree with! Most of the time you are rambling, incoherent, disrespectful, crass, bitter, naive, gullable, blindly loyal, misinformed, hypocritical, unethical, selfish, and arrogant.
Add to that the inability to see facts and reality in order to form rational thoughts and critically analyze issues and you’re left with what is a totally worthless, but very entertaining show!
It’s like a freak at one of the old-school carnivals. We know how disgusting the freak is, but we can’t look away, and we sometimes feel bad for the freak when he cries. But then we move on quickly in our day and the freak is forgotton, having left society perhaps only slightly worse than it was before the freak was there. The freak doesn’t really play any important part in society other than merely providing a spectacle that grounded indiviuals can use as a comparison to see how unfucked the rest of us really are. Thank god for the freak, for in his incoherent idiocy we see why we can and should make a difference – and the freak always provides some laughs for those of us who really do matter.
But when you let the freaks vote, the whole system can come crashing down. Freaks can’t be taken seriously enough to actually vote. They are for spectacle and entertainment purposes only. So, freak, please know your place and don’t vote.
Troll out!
Amir Khalid - December 1, 2011 | 2:54 am · Link
@Caz:
On the other hand, that ol’ sweetheart Caz is the Golden Prince of Trolls.
Phylllis - December 1, 2011 | 4:50 am · Link
I dvr’d that episode. And will likely watch it from home today, since I have the sore throat from hell and my right eye has leaked water for the last none hours. Bleh.
Oh, and to all the various and sundry who don’t like the pictures, wish John ran the blog differently, blah blah blah fishcakes, is someone holding a gun to your head and making you read and comment? No? Then keep moving. Ain’t like this is the only blog on the ‘nets.
Cheryl from Maryland - December 1, 2011 | 8:08 am · Link
@RalfW: Thank you for the link. The illustration of Gingrich as Megamind with man boobs was awesome.