Archive for December, 2011
Keep ‘em separated
I have long believed that Judaism is superior to Christianity because it makes its craziest members wear special hats. The crazier you are, the more prominent the head-gear. It’s pretty fucking brilliant—imagine if Gary Bauer had to wear a huge hat whenever he was on teevee! That might make CNN tolerable. But maybe it doesn’t [...]
December 28, 2011
· 
Angry DougJ · 
161 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley
Jon Swift Memorial Roundup 2011
Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar has posted this year’s John Swift Memorial Roundup of “The Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves”. On the Balloon Juice front, it includes a frippery from yours truly, and characteristically fine posts from Kay and Tom Levenson and from a number of BJ favorites, such as TBogg’s [...]
December 28, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 7 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture
We’ll Regret This One Day
I know this will mainly fall on deaf ears, but this is not a good development and not something we should be proud of: The Obama administration’s counterterrorism accomplishments are most apparent in what it has been able to dismantle, including CIA prisons and entire tiers of al-Qaeda’s leadership. But what the administration has assembled, [...]
December 28, 2011
· John Cole · 233 Comments
Posted in: War
Did the dirty work for free
I don’t think this is getting enough attention: Super PACs are dominating the air waves in Iowa in the run up to the state’s caucus, the first time that Republican voters will get to cast their ballot in the 2012 GOP presidential primary. According to numbers tallied by the Des Moines Register, super PACs accounted [...]
December 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 76 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M.
Jaan Pehechaan Ho
Here’s a little Bollywood for your open thread.
December 28, 2011
· mistermix · 58 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
More Than Meets the Eye
Rick Perry now opposes abortion in the case of rape and incest: Responding to a question about the change in position, Perry said, “You’re seeing a transformation.” Perry says his unprecedented and heartfelt transformation came after watching Mike Huckabee’s new documentary, “The Gift of Life”, which premiered in Des Moines. In related news, the latest [...]
December 28, 2011
· mistermix · 65 Comments
Posted in: Vagina Outrage
President Obama Plays The GOP Yet Again
Republicans are preparing to go into full OUTRAGE MODE over the Obama Administration’s request to the Treasury to raise the debt ceiling another $1.2 trillion. The debt ceiling deal worked out earlier this year gives the Republicans a chance to pass a resolution of disapproval, but the President would have to sign the resolution after [...]
December 28, 2011
· Zandar · 81 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Election 2012, hoocoodanode, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Republican Stupidity
Willard Romney, Class Warrior
Your morning dose of righteous indignation, via Mr. Charles P. Pierce at Esquire: ... Comes now this pure piece of manufactured product, this vacant replicant of American plutocracy, to lecture a country in the middle of a fragile recovery from an economic disaster brought on by the other soulless replicants on the topics of our [...]
December 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 35 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Excellent Links, Republican Venality, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
Santorum – Mired
A little leftover from before the holiday weekend—I think it would have gotten more media traction if Santorum’s campaign looked to be anything more than a trivia question. Also, there’s the terminology problem; I don’t think it’s quite “simony”, which only applies to the sale of religious office, and it’s only “barratry” if the secular [...]
December 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 31 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012
It Ain’t No ‘Dalliance’, They Like the Crazy Ones
... being as they—the modrun GOP —is more than a little crazy itself. Frank Rich on “The Molotov Party“: In the standard analysis of the race, which the embattled GOP Establishment is eager to believe, the rapid ascent and implosion of each wacky presidential contender is seen mainly as a passing judgment on Mitt Romney, [...]
December 27, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 123 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Republican Stupidity
Open Thread
How is everyone tonight? I spent the day getting the house in order, so was away from the intertubes. It always seems like the week between Christmas and NYE is a news void, so I figured this was as good a time as any to pick up all the things I’ve been ignoring (the basement [...]
December 27, 2011
· John Cole · 103 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Shame on a blogger
Kudos to mistermix and Stephen L. Taylor for their coverage of Ron Paul’s crazy-ass racist, anti-Semitic newsletter. And shame on on Sully, EDK, and Young Conor for pulling their ridiculous Paul-endorsement stunt. I understand supporting Ron Paul’s non-interventionist foreign policy ideas. That’s fine. But it’s pathetic when bloggers with reasonably large traffic (with the possible [...]
December 27, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 210 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
You may not wish to read this if you have just eaten
Warning: Adult (and extremely immature) Content. I’m somewhere in the mountains in the west of Portugal at a health spa. There are extended families everywhere looking virtuous after their appointment with the hotel nutritionist and a cleansing dip in the healing waters. I am celebrating by sneaking outside for a smoke and drinking as much [...]
December 27, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 84 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Green Balloons, Republican Stupidity, Where's my Moore Award?
Vote for Dan
Dan Savage is up for a Moore Award because he wrote a something scathing and true about Michele Bachmann, and that hurt poor Andrew Sullivan’s delicate fee-fees. He wants your vote, so vote for him to send a tiny little fuck you to Sully and his pompous, stupid awards. For some reason, this image seems [...]
December 27, 2011
· mistermix · 99 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse
Ben Nelson to retire
Hard to get too upset over this, honestly: Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska will announce his retirement, according to Politico. Nelson will hold a press conference as early as today to announce his decision according to “several Democratic insiders close to the leadership,” Politico reports. Nelson, first elected in 2000, was facing a tough [...]
December 27, 2011
· Kay · 125 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity, Election 2012
