Archive for the ‘Green Balloons’ Category
No one could have predicted
Another day, another closeted right-wing politician (h/t commenter elm): Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — who became the face of Arizona border security nationally after he started stridently opposing illegal immigration — threatened his Mexican ex-lover with deportation when the man refused to promise never to disclose their years-long relationship, the former boyfriend and his [...]
February 18, 2012
· 
DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 
95 Comments
Posted in: Green Balloons
I see my Marianne walking away
I’m not sure how Newt’s second wife can say anything about Newt that hasn’t been said before. And anyway all Newt has to say is that the librul media is out to get him. Is there any chance there’s anything in the interview that makes much difference? If so, what? Feel free to speculate on [...]
January 19, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 105 Comments
Posted in: Green Balloons, Open Thread
Burn down the cornfield
I like Obot/Firebagger flame wars as much as the next navel-gazing blogger—and for the record, I’m mostly with ABL on this one, because I agree with Sam Spade’s “she was your partner and you’re supposed to do something about it”—but, with all due respect to both ABL and Johnny Drama, you’re never going to top [...]
January 3, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 187 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Green Balloons
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?
The one true friend I thought I’d found
It’s not corpse kicking, it’s corpse-kisser kicking: Borges invited Hitch and me into his home, fed us tea and empanadas, and launched into a seamlessly brilliant discourse on surrealism in Latin American history. He talked for 30 minutes without stopping, during which time Hitch smoked six-dozen cigarettes. When Borges finished, Hitchens paused, spat in his [...]
December 21, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 84 Comments
Posted in: Green Balloons, Our Failed Media Experiment
Send in the Drones
Anyone even remotely surprised by this needs to have their head examined: Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him off, he said. Janke knew the gunmen could be [...]
December 11, 2011
· John Cole · 288 Comments
Posted in: Clap Louder!, Decline and Fall, Green Balloons
I celebrate the man’s entire catalog
I hate to link to Halperin but this is sweet: Gingrich to Republican Jewish Coalition crowd: “I will ask John Bolton to be the Secretary of State.” I can’t top that, so I’ll shut up.
December 7, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 102 Comments
Posted in: Green Balloons
We’re all sensitive people with so much to give
I’ve had a lot of interesting email from readers the last couple days. A reader who is a psychologist wrote in to tell me that I was wrong to say that establishment media’s desire to fuck the middle class over was un-malignant tough love, that it was more likely pure assholery and that I shouldn’t [...]
December 2, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 174 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Green Balloons
Open Thread
And WVU wins a very stressful game. If I am on your dead pool for 2011, your Spidey sense should have been tingling somewhere around the 2nd turnover in the 2nd half, when I thought fer sure I was going to coming to meet Elizabeth. But they won, I live, and life goes on. For [...]
December 1, 2011
· John Cole · 21 Comments
Posted in: Green Balloons, Open Thread, Sports
I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
Test, test, test…1,2,3, umm, is this thing on? I know you’re out there, I saw you post in the last thread. When I was fifteen, my parents were at a movie and the keys to the truck were right there by the door. I hope this endeavor ends better than that one did. I feel [...]
November 22, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 288 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Decline and Fall, Green Balloons, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, WTF?
Mister Mojo rising
Rising, rising, got to keep on rising: The poll was conducted Oct. 31 through Nov. 3, starting the evening after Politico first reported the harassment allegations. Support for Cain was basically steady over the four nights of interviewing, even as new charges against him surfaced. Nearly a quarter of all Republicans and GOP-leaning independents now [...]
November 4, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 52 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Green Balloons
Alarmed by the seduction
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to hear a lot about Herman Cain’s history of inappropriate and awkward sexual advances, and none of it is going to be pleasant. I suggest that, as much as possible, we ignore it. I know, however, that I will not be able to, not with Season 5 of [...]
November 3, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 84 Comments
Posted in: Green Balloons, Hoot-Smalley, Rick Perry Presents "Rick Perry"
He just keeps trolling along
Remember when this blogger was our reside PUMA troll? Any bets on how long before someone claims he (Cain) was dogwhistling to the white racists that “he knows his place” by singing an old negro spiritual? Seriously though, he was dogwhistling – to black Americans. He was reminding the black community that he is one [...]
November 1, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 95 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Green Balloons, Hoot-Smalley, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, PUMA = Propping Up McCain's Ass
Yes, we Cain
I have no interest in this Cain sexual harassment story. Do any of you have any interest in it? There’s only one part that amuses me, and that’s the conservative claim that the librul media did this. I agree with those who say that Rove dropped a dime here. Not that there’s anything wrong with [...]
October 31, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 50 Comments
Posted in: Green Balloons, Politics
Over the Fucking Line, Donny
I’m treating tonight like Friday as this is a four day week-end, so if you expect something substantive from me, move on. I do want to pass on this little tale: A repeat public indecency offender has been arrested for allegedly engaging in “sexual activity” with a pink inflatable swimming pool raft, according to Hamilton [...]
September 1, 2011
· John Cole · 84 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow., Green Balloons
