I wish I could sit down and talk to them, try and talk some sense into them, but there’s no one there, not a single one left with a clue. Republican? that’s just a made up word, yes I know what you think it means, but all that’s left is this hollow shell of a party. So you just go on to your town halls and pass your unconstitutional laws and quit wasting my time.
7.
Gozer
Apropos of nothing in particular…
As I type this I’m sitting on the sofa with my napping wife draped over my lap. I dare not move so as to prevent furious fussing.
What was supposed to be a routine vote in the House — to knock down an amendment authored by conservative Republicans — turned into pandemonium on the House floor Friday, as Democrats tried to jam the plan through, and hang it around the GOP’s necks.
I meant it when I said this last night, Cole – you need to front page this woman. She’s like, a national treasure. An’ stuff.
12.
Martin
I think Fox News has rope-a-doped themselves.
They were so eager to paint anything that Obama does as a Marxist intrusion on fundamental American values that all Obama needed to do is keep staking out reasonable positions and Fox had no choice but to denounce it and demand something completely insane in order to keep their 28%ers on board. And once they started doing it, Republicans had to start going on the record as being fully behind these insane positions. Obama and DWS’s DNC is going to hang this shit around the GOPs necks like a lead anchor by next year with no elections in the interim to tell the GOP that they’re off course. If the current trajectory holds in any way, Dems are going to run the field next year.
13.
Bootlegger
I’m watching The Holy Grail with my 8 and 9 year old boys and they are rolling on the floor laughing at the slapstick. I had forgotten that this is what I first found funny about the movie before I was able to understand all the irony. I’m diggin’ this bonding moment with my boys!
14.
Suffern ACE
@Gozer: Just remember to move the laptop from time to time so she doesn’t get red marks from the heat.
@cathyx:
That’s the whole point! Why be just childish when you can be childish and rude? Skipping a chance to be obnoxious would go counter to the Balloon-Juice ethos.
22.
4jkb4ia
19 comments in and no one mentioned there was a Penguins game.
(I can get the first period of the Rangers game in before Shabbos)
@Martin: next up on Fox, The President has come out in favor of clean air and a living wage and here’s Megan Kelly to tell you why this is a Marxist plot to deny you your right to free speech as well as an attack on American democracy and the capitalistic means to our collective existence.
Is Sarah Proud and Tall really a woman? For some reason I thought not.
I’m still excited about opening my newsprint paper this morning and seeing John Cole quoted on the Op-Ed page. My husband is still mystified about why I’m excited.
@gnomedad: you’re right, there is no way in hell that Faux would ever use the word collective, mea culpa, thnx for fixin it ;-)
36.
Corner Stone
@gogol’s wife: You can rub one out and all, but SPnT is Morzer. A very tall dude.
37.
Uloborus
@Martin:
I hope so. The 2010 election DID teach me the power of election patterning, alas. Of course, election patterning will be in our favor in 2012, and it looks like we’re in for a double helping of the gibbering lunacy that cost the Rs the senate.
38.
Nellcote
Tweety is this )( close to calling birthers racists. It’s amusing to see him talk all around it to make his point without actually using the word.
39.
Martin
@piratedan: Next up? They’ve already said both of those things.
@Martin: I’ll buy that O is adept enough to not do what the Reps are hoping the Dems will do, which is to attack the Reps with non-stop hysteria who will then cry about how they’re all Serious and all they get for their Seriousness is mean people saying mean things. This is their Plan and the Dems have to spin it right or they will blow it yet again.
42.
cathyx
Well now that John is on the A-list, maybe we should have a different “first”.
Maybe if Corner Stone, Cole and the rest of us just had lunch together, we could have a Serious Discussion about the ethos of Balloon Juice.
46.
ppcli
@Bootlegger: Don’t forget to fast-forward through the scene with sir Galahad in the castle of virgins.
My sister and I saw that movie when we were teenagers and it had just come out. Over 30 years later we still have the running personal joke “I’m getting better” – “You’re not fooling anyone, you know!”
It wasn’t until I was at university that I understood the true genius of Dennis the anarcho-syndicalist.
We do have an ethos here. How would you define it?
We’re part of the reality based community, and we respond to people who aren’t with vicious snark. In other words, we’re “a refuge for a snarling mass of vitriolic vicious jackals”.
I think Fox News has rope-a-doped themselves.
They were so eager to paint anything that Obama does as a Marxist intrusion on fundamental American values that all Obama needed to do is keep staking out reasonable positions and Fox had no choice but to denounce it and demand something completely insane in order to keep their 28%ers on board.
Hey, another rope metaphor! I was just thinking that the prez and Nancy believe in keeping their opponents well-supplied with it. Hope they remember to yank at the right moment.
56.
Cheryl from Maryland
Go Caps! And for Sunday, is anyone else excited about The Game of Thrones?
“a refuge for a snarling mass of vitriolic vicious jackals”
Yeah, I heard that somewhere before.
So be it. And let it be done.
“So say we all”
(ETA: I’m guessing that on this series-of-tubes thing, nothing ever goes away, right?)
60.
Uloborus
@kdaug:
I’m more or less with Roger Moore. We’re very politically interested, we’re generally liberal and concerned with actual facts and anti-ideologue, and many of us (not me) enjoy a screaming insult fight.
Also, we apparently like puppies and pictures of food. I’m not part of those camps either. It’s an eclectic community of rugged individualists who bow to no one except our Supreme Dark Master. And when we don’t, that’s because he’s manipulating us in a game of 11-dimensional chess.
Take San Francisco. Rotate 180 degrees. Now rotate 37.6 degrees from Sanity.
And you’ve got it.
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Corner Stone
@arguingwithsignposts: WV is a little far for me for no other reason than to lock eyeballs on the big melon. But I believe you have a reason to love the greatest state in the union aka TX?
C’mon man! Lunch and/or strippers! Let’s do this!
Circumcision record is an acceptable substitute for a birth cert in the new Arizona law. WTF?
Or baptismal record. So in other words, male Christians need only apply. Unless you have that long form thingy which can anyone in AZ even explain what it IS? Because here in Tennessee the sponsor of our own birther bill is an idiot named Mae Beavers and when someone asked her what a long-form birth certificate is, hilarity ensued:
RC: What are the specific requirements in the bill?
__
MB: That they have to have the long form birth certificate.
__
RC: What is the long form birth certificate?
__
MB: Now, you’re asking me to get into a lot of things that I haven’t really looked into yet.
I think we need a new rule: you have to understand something before you try to pass legislation about it. Like that idiot in Texas who said he heard on the radio about Sharia Law and decided he had to do something about it.
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: I am totally in. Do you look more like Nancy Smash or Racquel Welch? Or maybe Sarah Palin?
I will make you forget all about that week with Uncle Milty.
86.
Cheryl from Maryland
@freelancer: Okay, it is based on a series of fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin (alas not yet finished– George, pick it up). The novels have SEX, violence, death, politics based on the 15th C English War of the Roses scramble for the throne, ZOMBIES, SEX, violence, death, SEX. The cast includes Lena Headley (her character in the books has lots of sex), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage (very prominent role — Peter should shine), and more. And did I mention ZOMBIES?
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Gozer
@Suffern ACE: There was a pillow on which I was resting the laptop. Wifey has sadly grown uncomfortable. I am apparently not a soft enough body pillow.
88.
kdaug
@Roger Moore: Oh, don’t you all CompuServe on my ass. My first box was made out of bone and the satellite dish doubled as a wok.
@Southern Beale: O/T but I’m going to be in Nashville next Thursday and would be open to a meetup/drink that evening. Let me know if you’re interested and that time is convenient.
@kdaug:
My first box had so little RAM that you could save your work by writing it all down longhand. That’s literally true, BTW; it was a TRS-80 CoCo 1 with 4K of RAM, so you could fit the whole memory on a few sheets of paper. I didn’t get on the net until I was in college, though.
Here’s how the birther legislation will play out. State passes mysterious “long form” requirement. POTUS sends a copy of the same COLB that’s been flashed around for years. Full faith and credit forces states to accept it, and they’ll say, “Well why wouldn’t he just release it to begin with.
106.
Corner Stone
@eemom: You’re just jealous because no one wants to rattle your old bones like SPnT.
Just sit back and wait your turn you old goat sack.
@ppcli: For a year I lay in bed, sickened and weakened by the drugs for Hepatitis C (which cured me, but I was sick several days each week). On bad days I couldn’t eat at all and went to bed at 6 pm. I couldn’t drive most days. I mean, I was sick.
People would stand outside the bedroom, talking about how I was doing, and I would croak those lines from MP’s Holy Grail: I’m not dead yet. I’m getting better.
It always got a laugh.
109.
dogwood
The Arizona circumcision law proves that the birthers aren’t racists. They just want to see his pee pee. Oops, maybe they’re just a wee wee bit racist. Anyway, I just don’t understand why people can’t ask nicely anymore.
110.
opie jeanne
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: My dad is 92, single and looks a lot younger. You looking? I could hook you up.
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MikeJ
Is it Boxing day already? Escape from Colditz on teh teevee box.
One year ago this month, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana. This week we learned that the company’s CEO, Steven Newman, and other executives of Transocean, the owner and operator of the rig, were not only awarded raises, but also millions of dollars in bonuses for 2010 after “the best year in safety performance in our company’s history,” according to the company’s annual report and proxy statement.
What a wonderful world: kill eleven people, create an ecological disaster, and a year later get a raise and a bonus.
I don’t get the rage against the young one. She makes a good point occasionally, although sometimes tediously. Although no less than about 80 percent of the rest of us.
I do think it helps to picture her as Edward from Cowboy Bebop. (That’s DougJ, Cole and AsiangrrlMN in the background.)
Well, it depends on what metric you look at. If all you care about is the number of incidents, and you only had one incident, that’s a good year, even if you had the mother of all incidents.
Also worth noting: Transocean shareholders are being asked to vote on a resolution authorizing the payment of a billion dollars in dividends. The annual meeting is on April 26 in some little town I’ve never heard of in Switzerland.
I downloaded Transocean’s K. I’m curious about its worldwide effective tax rate. I’m guessing it’s a single-digit number.
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Dennis SGMM
@burnspbesq:
Good point. This is one of those instances that makes me feel my age. Things never have been perfect but rewarding people who weren’t exactly starving in the first place after they oversaw a disaster just seems wrong to me.
Yeah, they should have a “We’re canceling the ceremony this year” type thing.
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Dennis SGMM
@Steeplejack:
Lamentably, that might in some way infer that Transocean may feel some slight remorse about what happened. In this brave new America, if you’re high enough on the food chain then you never feel remorse and the the greater your fuckup the greater your rewards.
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Yutsano
@Steeplejack: I still say you’re insulting teh awesomeness that is Edward. Plus I doubt matoko-chan could handle the genius that is Einie.
Not saying M_C/HGW is as awesome as Edward. But she’s like our Balloon Juice “Mini Me” version of Edward.
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Wingcmdr
Wow, what a blog. I discovered this place after reading Paul Krugman’s column. Then I saw the first post in this thread. What a doozy that was, but hilarious nonetheless.
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bob h
I sense another wave election in the making.
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Corner Stone
Fuck you John Cole!
cathyx
@Corner Stone: Did I miss something? Should I go to the previous post?
gnomedad
@cathyx:
That’s BalloonJuice-ese for “First!”
Politically Lost
And, you used too many words…
cathyx
@gnomedad: Well that’s even more childish than first.
piratedan
I wish I could sit down and talk to them, try and talk some sense into them, but there’s no one there, not a single one left with a clue. Republican? that’s just a made up word, yes I know what you think it means, but all that’s left is this hollow shell of a party. So you just go on to your town halls and pass your unconstitutional laws and quit wasting my time.
Gozer
Apropos of nothing in particular…
As I type this I’m sitting on the sofa with my napping wife draped over my lap. I dare not move so as to prevent furious fussing.
Roger Moore
About time.
@Politically Lost:
Ditto.
BDeevDad
More of this:
mr. whipple
@gnomedad:
I am appaled at the lack of civility.
Studly Pantload, Vibrant Trollbot for Obama
I meant it when I said this last night, Cole – you need to front page this woman. She’s like, a national treasure. An’ stuff.
Martin
I think Fox News has rope-a-doped themselves.
They were so eager to paint anything that Obama does as a Marxist intrusion on fundamental American values that all Obama needed to do is keep staking out reasonable positions and Fox had no choice but to denounce it and demand something completely insane in order to keep their 28%ers on board. And once they started doing it, Republicans had to start going on the record as being fully behind these insane positions. Obama and DWS’s DNC is going to hang this shit around the GOPs necks like a lead anchor by next year with no elections in the interim to tell the GOP that they’re off course. If the current trajectory holds in any way, Dems are going to run the field next year.
Bootlegger
I’m watching The Holy Grail with my 8 and 9 year old boys and they are rolling on the floor laughing at the slapstick. I had forgotten that this is what I first found funny about the movie before I was able to understand all the irony. I’m diggin’ this bonding moment with my boys!
Suffern ACE
@Gozer: Just remember to move the laptop from time to time so she doesn’t get red marks from the heat.
BDeevDad
I really should have looked at past threads.
BDeevDad
I really should have looked at past threads.
gnomedad
@cathyx:
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Bootlegger
@Martin: The Dems will find some way to blow it, book it.
Martin
@Studly Pantload, Vibrant Trollbot for Obama: I’ll second that.
Greg Joseph
Where is Liz Cheney? I haven’t heard from her for quite a while.
Roger Moore
@cathyx:
That’s the whole point! Why be just childish when you can be childish and rude? Skipping a chance to be obnoxious would go counter to the Balloon-Juice ethos.
4jkb4ia
19 comments in and no one mentioned there was a Penguins game.
(I can get the first period of the Rangers game in before Shabbos)
kdaug
@cathyx: Shorten to FUJC. Easier to type.
piratedan
@Martin: next up on Fox, The President has come out in favor of clean air and a living wage and here’s Megan Kelly to tell you why this is a Marxist plot to deny you your right to free speech as well as an attack on American democracy and the capitalistic means to our collective existence.
gnomedad
@piratedan:
Doubleplusungood; refers unconcept.
Susan Kitchens
Steny and Nancy Smash!
Joel
Salt n’ Pepa, Heavy D up in the limousine…
Corner Stone
@cathyx: Poor thing.
joes527
@Corner Stone: Oh great. That is literally the same as shooting John with a RPG.
I hope you are happy with the way you have destroyed this country.
Martin
@Bootlegger: Obama won’t. And I don’t believe that DWS will.
kdaug
@Roger Moore:
Interesting point. Srsly. We do have an ethos here. How would you define it?
Corner Stone
@4jkb4ia: Mainly because we’re not teh ghey.
Frajinika Canadiennes.
gogol's wife
@Studly Pantload, Vibrant Trollbot for Obama:
Is Sarah Proud and Tall really a woman? For some reason I thought not.
I’m still excited about opening my newsprint paper this morning and seeing John Cole quoted on the Op-Ed page. My husband is still mystified about why I’m excited.
Corner Stone
@joes527: Yep.
piratedan
@gnomedad: you’re right, there is no way in hell that Faux would ever use the word collective, mea culpa, thnx for fixin it ;-)
Corner Stone
@gogol’s wife: You can rub one out and all, but SPnT is Morzer. A very tall dude.
Uloborus
@Martin:
I hope so. The 2010 election DID teach me the power of election patterning, alas. Of course, election patterning will be in our favor in 2012, and it looks like we’re in for a double helping of the gibbering lunacy that cost the Rs the senate.
Nellcote
Tweety is this )( close to calling birthers racists. It’s amusing to see him talk all around it to make his point without actually using the word.
Martin
@piratedan: Next up? They’ve already said both of those things.
Studly Pantload, Vibrant Trollbot for Obama
@gogol’s wife:
I am a gentleman. I don’t pry.
Bootlegger
@Martin: I’ll buy that O is adept enough to not do what the Reps are hoping the Dems will do, which is to attack the Reps with non-stop hysteria who will then cry about how they’re all Serious and all they get for their Seriousness is mean people saying mean things. This is their Plan and the Dems have to spin it right or they will blow it yet again.
cathyx
Well now that John is on the A-list, maybe we should have a different “first”.
piratedan
@Martin: hey that horse is only dead, it isn’t buried yet.
Chris Wolf
@piratedan:
Love Shawshank.
arguingwithsignposts
Maybe if Corner Stone, Cole and the rest of us just had lunch together, we could have a Serious Discussion about the ethos of Balloon Juice.
ppcli
@Bootlegger: Don’t forget to fast-forward through the scene with sir Galahad in the castle of virgins.
My sister and I saw that movie when we were teenagers and it had just come out. Over 30 years later we still have the running personal joke “I’m getting better” – “You’re not fooling anyone, you know!”
It wasn’t until I was at university that I understood the true genius of Dennis the anarcho-syndicalist.
piratedan
@Chris Wolf: ty Chris for getting it ;-)
Nellcote
Circumcision record is an acceptable substitute for a birth cert in the new Arizona law. WTF?
freelancer
And another short-lived meme is born…
Roger Moore
@kdaug:
We’re part of the reality based community, and we respond to people who aren’t with vicious snark. In other words, we’re “a refuge for a snarling mass of vitriolic vicious jackals”.
piratedan
@Nellcote: the AZ Lege is like a Mel Brooks movie, without the introspection. Mazeltov for Mormons!
joes527
@Nellcote:
Yeah … but they are gonna have to see the evidence to corroborate it.
Roger Moore
@Nellcote:
Maybe they don’t realize the Muslims practice infant circumcision.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Corner Stone:
So not.
gnomedad
@Martin:
Hey, another rope metaphor! I was just thinking that the prez and Nancy believe in keeping their opponents well-supplied with it. Hope they remember to yank at the right moment.
Cheryl from Maryland
Go Caps! And for Sunday, is anyone else excited about The Game of Thrones?
Corner Stone
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Oh. Well then sorry about that Morzer. My bad. #Looming
gnomedad
@Nellcote:
Next up: “Where’s the foreskin?”
kdaug
@Roger Moore:
Yeah, I heard that somewhere before.
So be it. And let it be done.
“So say we all”
(ETA: I’m guessing that on this series-of-tubes thing, nothing ever goes away, right?)
Uloborus
@kdaug:
I’m more or less with Roger Moore. We’re very politically interested, we’re generally liberal and concerned with actual facts and anti-ideologue, and many of us (not me) enjoy a screaming insult fight.
Also, we apparently like puppies and pictures of food. I’m not part of those camps either. It’s an eclectic community of rugged individualists who bow to no one except our Supreme Dark Master. And when we don’t, that’s because he’s manipulating us in a game of 11-dimensional chess.
freelancer
@Cheryl from Maryland:
Yes, but I know literally next to nothing about it.
Anoniminous
@Nellcote:
I take it you’ve never been to Arizona.
Take San Francisco. Rotate 180 degrees. Now rotate 37.6 degrees from Sanity.
And you’ve got it.
Corner Stone
@arguingwithsignposts: WV is a little far for me for no other reason than to lock eyeballs on the big melon. But I believe you have a reason to love the greatest state in the union aka TX?
C’mon man! Lunch and/or strippers! Let’s do this!
Roger Moore
@Uloborus:
FTFY.
Uloborus
@Uloborus:
I’m sorry, I didn’t express that in line with the Balloon Juice Ethos. ‘We’re the reality based community, you ignorant racist fuck.’
@Roger Moore:
TUNCH IS OBAMA. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!
Roger Moore
@Uloborus:
I smell a new tagline.
TooManyJens
@cathyx:
Corner Stone’s just keepin’ it real.
Southern Beale
Democratic Congressman Joe Crowley was literally speechless on the House floor.
Cheryl from Maryland
gnomedadYou mean the long form Foreskin?
WaterGirl
@Southern Beale: Nice!
TooManyJens
@Cheryl from Maryland: The thread, she is won.
Roger Moore
@Cheryl from Maryland:
I don’t think it’s the foreskin that’s “long form”.
kdaug
@Roger Moore:
And I will find something you wrote on a drunken night.
Oh, yes. I will.
And it shall be my tagline forevermore.
More than one knows how to play the archives game.
Corner Stone
@TooManyJens: Kickin’ it ole school. And shit.
piratedan
@Cheryl from Maryland: at a polling station in nearby Phoenix….
Polling station volunteer: do you have proof of residency?
Cleavon Little wannabee: Pardon me while I whip this out…..
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Cheryl from Maryland: But I’m sure that some only have short form foreskins; it would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Roger Moore
@kdaug:
Knock yourself out, dude. I’ve been posting on the intertrons since the early 90s, so there should be plenty of material to look through.
Keithly
@Cheryl from Maryland: If the foreskin is long, you’re doin’ it wrong.
joe from Lowell
Barack Obama’s entire life has been defined by wealth and white privilege.
Cheryl from Maryland
@Roger Moore: No, that would be the long form helmet.
joe from Lowell
What says “wealth and white privilege” to you: circumcised or uncircumcised?
Southern Beale
@gnomedad:
Or baptismal record. So in other words, male Christians need only apply. Unless you have that long form thingy which can anyone in AZ even explain what it IS? Because here in Tennessee the sponsor of our own birther bill is an idiot named Mae Beavers and when someone asked her what a long-form birth certificate is, hilarity ensued:
I think we need a new rule: you have to understand something before you try to pass legislation about it. Like that idiot in Texas who said he heard on the radio about Sharia Law and decided he had to do something about it.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Corner Stone:
Your obtuseness is kind of appealing.
How do you feel about granny-sex?
Roger Moore
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Of course they only have the short form foreskin. It’s the uncircumcised ones who still have the long form.
Corner Stone
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: I am totally in. Do you look more like Nancy Smash or Racquel Welch? Or maybe Sarah Palin?
I will make you forget all about that week with Uncle Milty.
Cheryl from Maryland
@freelancer: Okay, it is based on a series of fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin (alas not yet finished– George, pick it up). The novels have SEX, violence, death, politics based on the 15th C English War of the Roses scramble for the throne, ZOMBIES, SEX, violence, death, SEX. The cast includes Lena Headley (her character in the books has lots of sex), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage (very prominent role — Peter should shine), and more. And did I mention ZOMBIES?
Gozer
@Suffern ACE: There was a pillow on which I was resting the laptop. Wifey has sadly grown uncomfortable. I am apparently not a soft enough body pillow.
kdaug
@Roger Moore: Oh, don’t you all CompuServe on my ass. My first box was made out of bone and the satellite dish doubled as a wok.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Corner Stone:
That depends whether I have my makeup on and my teeth in. I’m 92 – looking respectable takes a shitload of work.
Janet
You have to look at this dog taking another dog for a walk!
http://sobeale.blogspot.com/2011/04/dog-blogging.html
Two sweet dogs!
SiubhanDuinne
@Southern Beale: O/T but I’m going to be in Nashville next Thursday and would be open to a meetup/drink that evening. Let me know if you’re interested and that time is convenient.
ETA: obvs includes anyone else in Nashville area.
Roger Moore
@kdaug:
My first box had so little RAM that you could save your work by writing it all down longhand. That’s literally true, BTW; it was a TRS-80 CoCo 1 with 4K of RAM, so you could fit the whole memory on a few sheets of paper. I didn’t get on the net until I was in college, though.
D-Chance.
Anyone want to play some poker?
Oh, that’s right… Dear Leader says you can’t.
Corner Stone
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Then don’t bother putting the teeth in. And bring it.
Southern Beale
@SiubhanDuinne:
That sounds great but I’ll have to play it by ear, as I’m on deadline next week … hopefully I can get away for a beer or something.
Are there any other Nashville folks over here?
MikeJ
@Roger Moore: 4k? Pure luxury!
And I was on the internet when you had to return a signed statement swearing you wouldn’t use it for commercial purposes.
lllphd
hm. well, walker’s plan to declare financial emergencies and dismantle elected local governments is now in action.
sure hope the aclu takes this one on. anyone here ever run across quite so blatant an undemocratic piece of legislation?
oh yeah; jim crow. that was worse.
TooManyPaulWs
1) The Lightning are winning vs. the Pens tonight, so it’s 1-1 heading to Tampa for the next set of playoff hockey games.
2) Would it be okay to shamelessly plug a CafePress page?
3) Give me a reason to laugh.
kdaug
@Roger Moore: TI-99/4A. Hooked straight up to my teevee.
Phoebe
This is an insanely long, very satisfying interview with David Simon:
http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/2530/simon_4_1_11/
SiubhanDuinne
@Southern Beale. When you know pls shoot me an email at judith (dot) Costello (at) International (dot) gc (dot) ca.
Hope we can make it work.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Corner Stone:
Heavens. The last person who said that to me was Fidel Castro.
eemom
@Corner Stone:
You only know that because toko-loko and I figured it out for you.
Srsly, stick to finding Nicks under the bed and in the closet. It’s what you do.
opie jeanne
@BDeevDad: Still laughing about that.
dogwood
Here’s how the birther legislation will play out. State passes mysterious “long form” requirement. POTUS sends a copy of the same COLB that’s been flashed around for years. Full faith and credit forces states to accept it, and they’ll say, “Well why wouldn’t he just release it to begin with.
Corner Stone
@eemom: You’re just jealous because no one wants to rattle your old bones like SPnT.
Just sit back and wait your turn you old goat sack.
Gozer
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Do tell…
opie jeanne
@ppcli: For a year I lay in bed, sickened and weakened by the drugs for Hepatitis C (which cured me, but I was sick several days each week). On bad days I couldn’t eat at all and went to bed at 6 pm. I couldn’t drive most days. I mean, I was sick.
People would stand outside the bedroom, talking about how I was doing, and I would croak those lines from MP’s Holy Grail: I’m not dead yet. I’m getting better.
It always got a laugh.
dogwood
The Arizona circumcision law proves that the birthers aren’t racists. They just want to see his pee pee. Oops, maybe they’re just a wee wee bit racist. Anyway, I just don’t understand why people can’t ask nicely anymore.
opie jeanne
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: My dad is 92, single and looks a lot younger. You looking? I could hook you up.
MikeJ
Is it Boxing day already? Escape from Colditz on teh teevee box.
Southern Beale
My team is determined to lose this game for some reason.
MAJOR SIGH
MikeJ
@Southern Beale: That’s life as a Democrat.
burnspbesq
It’s been at least a month since anyone around here was called a cudlip. Anyone else having withdrawal symptoms?
Omnes Omnibus
@burnspbesq:You’re a cudlip. There, do you feel better?
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Cudlip
Studly Pantload, Vibrant Trollbot for Obama
@burnspbesq:
A week and a half at the outside, but then maybe you have a life which permits you the odd few moments away from this joint…
Dennis SGMM
This is disgusting:
What a wonderful world: kill eleven people, create an ecological disaster, and a year later get a raise and a bonus.
Steeplejack
@burnspbesq:
I don’t get the rage against the young one. She makes a good point occasionally, although sometimes tediously. Although no less than about 80 percent of the rest of us.
I do think it helps to picture her as Edward from Cowboy Bebop. (That’s DougJ, Cole and AsiangrrlMN in the background.)
The Edward experience (“Just a Girl”).
Everything is WAI.
burnspbesq
@Dennis SGMM:
Well, it depends on what metric you look at. If all you care about is the number of incidents, and you only had one incident, that’s a good year, even if you had the mother of all incidents.
Also worth noting: Transocean shareholders are being asked to vote on a resolution authorizing the payment of a billion dollars in dividends. The annual meeting is on April 26 in some little town I’ve never heard of in Switzerland.
I downloaded Transocean’s K. I’m curious about its worldwide effective tax rate. I’m guessing it’s a single-digit number.
Dennis SGMM
@burnspbesq:
Good point. This is one of those instances that makes me feel my age. Things never have been perfect but rewarding people who weren’t exactly starving in the first place after they oversaw a disaster just seems wrong to me.
Steeplejack
@Dennis SGMM:
Yeah, they should have a “We’re canceling the ceremony this year” type thing.
Dennis SGMM
@Steeplejack:
Lamentably, that might in some way infer that Transocean may feel some slight remorse about what happened. In this brave new America, if you’re high enough on the food chain then you never feel remorse and the the greater your fuckup the greater your rewards.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: I still say you’re insulting teh awesomeness that is Edward. Plus I doubt matoko-chan could handle the genius that is Einie.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
Not saying M_C/HGW is as awesome as Edward. But she’s like our Balloon Juice “Mini Me” version of Edward.
Wingcmdr
Wow, what a blog. I discovered this place after reading Paul Krugman’s column. Then I saw the first post in this thread. What a doozy that was, but hilarious nonetheless.
bob h
I sense another wave election in the making.