I’m sending up the bat signal. We have an urgent need at the Balloon Juice WV HQ for cold compresses, advil, and pedialyte by the gallon.
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I’m sending up the bat signal. We have an urgent need at the Balloon Juice WV HQ for cold compresses, advil, and pedialyte by the gallon.
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stuckinred
Step on your. . .well you know?
taylormattd
Unless you are talking about a child, it sound to me like somebody needs a Bloody Mary.
WereBear
Have you got the flu? It wasn’t me… even though me & the partner have been battling it all weekend.
Jay C
What now?
debit
Water, food, advil, then back to bed. Not that I’m the voice of experience or anything.
ETA: @Jay C: In Cole’s case I’m guessing a hangover of epic proportions.
CaseyL
My god I wish I lived out your way; I’d be there with a truck-sized CARE package.
What happened this time?
Jay C
@Jay C:
Sorry, John, # 4 may have come off as bit short. I should correct it.
WTF now???
Feel better.
J
John Cole
@WereBear: I have a spot of the Irish flu…
Actually feel pretty remarkable, considering.
PurpleGirl
Too much partying last night?
ETA: I second the advice for water, some light food, advil, and more sleep.
Tom
painkillers, electrolytes and cold compresses-sounds like either the flu with fever and runs, or an epic hangover. Good luck either way
nancydarling
@John Cole: For future reference, I have never been hung over when I stuck with tequila. I might not remember what I did the night before, but I have always felt fine the next day. What were you drinking?
drew42
Toughen up, John. I have a hangover, and still ran six miles this morning.
Zam
Thanks for reminding me that in fact I am still young.
Joe Beese
Obama has surpassed his hero, Ronald Reagan.
Where Reagan was only able to kill Gaddafi’s adopted daughter, Obama has killed Gaddafi’s biological son… and three of his grandchildren as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2011/04/30/world/africa/international-us-libya-attack.html?_r=1&hp
Well, if those grandkids didn’t want to end up on the wrong side of a NATO cruise missile, they should have chosen a different grandfather, right?
RossinDetroit
Sounds like some varsity level partying.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
i can’t help with hangovers, but this ought to boost the spirit.
seth meyers, towel waving member of steeler nation
and lets not forget, Obama is secret service code name renegade steeler nation all up in this piece
Rhoda
@John Cole: A glass of OJ, a banana, three eggs scrambled w/tabasco sauce and toast. Have breakfast, feel better.
kdaug
Tuaca, scotch, and tequila?
You knew what you were getting into, Cole.
ETA: Pedialyte is OK, I prefer the powdered Gatoraide mixed at 1.5 strength. Either one will get you back, but you don’t have to drink as much.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
Brown bottle fever.
Breakfast-not too much coffee, shower, brisk walk (hey, I’m feeling better. wait, no I’m not), back to bed.
khead
How about a nice, greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?
robertdsc-PowerBook
Tunch must be laughing his considerable ass off right now.
PeakVT
A ground level video from Fukushima for your contemplation.
Yutsano
@robertdsc-PowerBook: Or even better: wrapping his considerable girth around JC’s head and going into full-tilted purr. Consider it a subtle revenge for slacking on the tuna supply.
Hawes
Alcohol is fat soluble. Have a sausage egg and cheese.
Amanda in the South Bay
Doing my recovery from surgery (orchiectomy) Friday morning.
The swelling and bruising is a bitch, as is not being able to sleep on my side or stomach.
But, pain is bearable, xtra strength Tylenol seems to work better than the disaster of Vicadin on Friday, and I’m dicking around with Natty Narwhal.
Chris Wolf
My cure: Advil and watermelon.
Yutsano
@Amanda in the South Bay: I’m partial to Percocet myself, but YMMV. Good to hear everything went smoothly and you’re okay!
Martin
@Amanda in the South Bay: Was thinking about you the last few days. Good to hear you’re doing well. Rest up, surgeries always lull me into thinking I’m feeling fine until I do something and discover that no, everything still hurts like hell.
debit
@khead: That was just cruel.
Mark S.
Atlas Shrugged sucked again this weekend, but so did everything except Car Racing Movie 5. That producer is on drugs if he thinks he’ll make his $20 million back with DVDs and TV.
Justin
@JohnCole Actually feel pretty remarkable, considering.
Um, that’s because you’re still drunk.
“A round of Bloody’s for everyone!”
Yutsano
@Mark S.: Interesting. Usually a kids movie does at least decent in its opening weekend but Hoodwinked Too is putting up stinker numbers. And the conspiracy to suppress Rand’s ineffable philosophy continues apace I see.
Roger Moore
Dare I suggest that Gatorade would be a manlier source of electrolytes than pedialyte?
RossInDetroit
Vicodin is dangerous stuff. I accidentally double dosed recently (skipped the similar looking antibiotic). Body temp dropped 2 degrees and my heart rate was 38. Chugged a pot of strong coffee and stayed on my feet for 5 hours until it passed.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@khead: Looks pretty good. Now fix fix your self some, dickweed.
Carrie
Bacon sandwich always does the trick for me.
Roger Moore
@Amanda in the South Bay:
Pretty soon you won’t be able to dick around with anything.
Amanda in the South Bay
@Martin: thanks, yeah, walking of any sort is a bitch, as is the swelling. I’m mostly walking back and forth to the fridge to swap out ice packs. Its a weird experience being awake for the surgery.
@RossInDetroit: I thought I took the vicodin on a full stomach. I ended up nauseous, and on my way to the toilet had a brief moment where I felt like I was coming up on something psychedelic. Not fun. Xtra strength tylenol works just fine tho.
Yutsano
@Carrie: There’s a particular British sandwich called the butty that is considered a traditional hangover cure. It consists of a huge slab of bacon and not much else. Apparently Harry served them after the royal wedding.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
@Joe Beese:
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Well… Al Arabiya is reporting that the son is dead, but not the grandchildren. But cheer up, President Obama – it’s the thought that counts. And the speech.
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Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Yutsano: Saw that you got an epidural. I had one too after my 1st back surgery. Worked real good for a while.
@RossInDetroit: Vicodin is dangerous. Send the rest to me and I’ll make sure it causes no more trouble.
Amir_Khalid
Sorry (though not surprised) to hear about the hangover, John Cole. Alas, as I have no experience with being drunk or recovering from it, I can only hope you avoid any mishaps while you recover.
Thor has already been playing here in KL for about a week. I saw it a few days ago. Surprisingly good for a comic-book movie. It helps that the director is a Shakespeare guy who was a comics fan as a kid, and doesn’t treat the material condescendingly. It has a real story with some dramatic heft to it, a hero who isn’t some smug self-satisfied prick like Iron Man, a villain with a more convincing motivation and more smarts than the one on Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, 3D done without any tedious poke-you-in-the-eye stunts. Quite a few moments of comic relief, all of them well-played. And Natalie Portman’s cute, too.
Carrie
@Yutsano: I’m not surprised, i’m not sure why it works but greasy food while hungover really does wonders.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@Roger Moore:
a dirty secret of athletic trainers is that they give out pedialyte or similar, not gatoraid, in order to pre-hydrate if heat combined with humidity is likely to be an issue.
Southern Beale
I *should* have the Irish flu. Last night my hockey team just did the most amazing feat on the ice I’ve ever seen. TWO overtimes … and THEY WON! It was fucking awesome.
We play at home Tuesday night and let me just say: win or lose, Wednesday morning is going to hurt.
Mark S.
@Yutsano:
Maybe kids are as tired of this crappy animation as I am. But $1653 theater average for a wide release opening is fucking horrible.
Superluminar
you do realise the onus is on you guys to show how Gaddafi’s son is really a wonderful human being, right? As to the grandchildren? Well, what kind of asshole likely to be attacked by some of the world’s most sophisticated ordnance keeps his grandkids near?
joeyess
Hangover, huh? You know what they say……….. Hair of the Dog that Bitcha.
andy
One of the peculiarities of my metabolism is that I never get hung over. The only thing that prevents me from being that guy who’s the chipper energetic asshole the next morning is my sour, morose disposition.
Anyway, I just made a crustless quiche with red bell pepper and oyster mushrooms:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40964542@N08/5676680120/in/photostream
Amir_Khalid
@Amanda in the South Bay: Glad to hear that you came through your op okay and already ambulatory. Hope it’s a good omen for what lies ahead. There was a suggestion the other day that you should get the, um, souvenirs preserved as a conversation piece. Maybe I shouldn’t ask, but did you?
Superluminar
@Amir Khalid
If you’re going for understatement of the year, you’ve certainly won it. I still wish Branagh had directed a better superhero than Thor though. I hear that Superluminar guy’s pretty awesome, if only in his own head.
Yutsano
@Carrie: Alcohol is soluble in fat. So I guess increasing your lipid profile temporarily helps wash it out. Although hangovers are actually the toxic byproducts of ehtyl alcohol breaking down in the body, so I’m not sure what good that really does.
@Mark S.: Let’s just say it’s not high on my list of must see movies and leave it at that.
Carrie
@joeyess:
I always thought it was drink like a pig, sick like a pig.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@Amir_Khalid:
or at least take them on a fishing trip to see how they work as bait.
Mark S.
@Superluminar:
Why are we trying to kill Gahdafi? The UN authorization was to protect civilians, not to assassinate foreign leaders.
Yutsano
@Mark S.: Apparently the way they’ve decided is best to do that is to chop the head off the snake. The problem is Qaddafi is a survivor, and has been for years. You could nuke Tripoli and he’d survive it somehow.
Superluminar
@Amanda
yeah great to hear all ok. Good for you and no, I have no suggestions for what to with stuff…
Amanda in the South Bay
@Amir_Khalid: Oh goodness no, I was too freaked out to look at them. I very much asked the doc to cover them up. I guess some people take pics of them, etc. Not me!
PurpleGirl
@Yutsano: Re your comment to Carrie: It’s best to eat fatty items like cheese while you drink the alcohol so that they mix in the stomach and the fat takes up the alcohol. Although some of the alcohol is absorbed directly through the mouth into the blood stream.
nancydarling
@Amir_Khalid: In 1948, I was given my tonsils in a jar of formaldehyde, but it is no longer allowed. In the OR for hip replacement 2 1/2 years ago, I asked my anesthesiologist if I could take the ball of my femur home. He was saying something about health laws, and then I was out so didn’t hear the rest.
Yutsano
@nancydarling: Ah damn. I wanted to take mine home when I got them done. If for no other reason than I wanted to see the actual damage there. Looking at an MRI picture just isn’t the same.
Face
What kinda name is “Pippa”?
Silver
This thread really does deserve a hoocoodanode tag. Just saying.
MizB
For the hangover-QP w/cheese, fries, coke, nap.
Superluminar
@Mark S
I will happily admit to a certain amount of trollishness in my remark, combined with sensible commentry. To wit, you are right about the UN mandate, and although I generally support the Libya intervention, the Obama/Sarkozy/Cameron line about insisting on Gaddafi’s removal is not consistent with what the UN said was justified. OTOH, the guy is a brutal dictator, and if we’re going to intervene on humanitarian grounds, I can’t say I would shed a tear at his demise (or that of his sons). I don’t say this to attack anti-interventionists, as I completely understand where you’re coming from, which is understandable given the past ten years, I’m just a bit tired that sone of you guy’s won’t give the benefit of the doubt to those of us on the other side.
Loneoak
Just out of curiosity, does anyone have an explanation for why the Balloon Juice twitter always posts twice? It’s rather annoying.
Amir_Khalid
@Face:
As noted in a previous thread, Pippa is short for Philippa.
licensed to kill time
@Loneoak: Cole uses Stwutter. Who knows why.
TooManyPaulWs
One of my nephews has a birthday today, off to it soon.
Also, NFL Draft review. Bucs did okay building up their defense, and getting a decent TE in Stocker. What say you about your teams?
Superluminar
Oh and having just seen it, I am fucking ashamed at the crappy language skills applied to my previous post. I can do much better than that, sorry. /punches self in face
Amir_Khalid
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:
Is that any way to talk about a lady’s balls?
jeffreyw
@andy: Yay! Moar pr0n please and thank you!
Superluminar
No seriously, I just re-read it. It’s like Gen Stuck having an OD.
Mandramas
Happy Worker’s International Day!
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@Amir_Khalid:
you’re right,i support a woman’s right to use her nuts in any manner she pleases.
burnspbesq
Arsenal played well this morning, and deserved to win. But now Chelsea has a real chance to win the whole thing. Fuck fuck fuckity fuck.
PeakVT
Before and after aerial photos of Alabama from NOAA.
burnspbesq
@Superluminar:
Don’t hold your breath. Joe Beese is utterly convinced of his own rightness and rectitude, and equally convinced that anyone who doesn’t agree with him on everything is both stupid and evil. And as if that weren’t enough, he’s in love with the sound of his own voice. He’s really quite tiresome.
Roger Moore
@Yutsano:
Ethanol is not especially fat soluble, and is actually very water soluble (100% miscible with water). Also, it’s not the breakdown products of ethanol that are the big problem. Ethanol is converted to acetic acid*, which your body metabolizes very efficiently. Instead, it’s partly dehydration (your body trying to flush the ethanol out of your system with water) and partly the metabolic products of all the other things that are mixed with the ethanol (some of which are mostly fat soluble) that cause the hangover.
The thing about the other things mixed with the alcohol causing the problem is why some kinds of alcohol have a worse reputation for hangovers than others. Liquor that is distilled in inefficient pot stills and/or aged with things that add to its flavor tend to have more nasty contaminants than liquors that are distilled to high proof and not flavored. Aged tequila is bad in both respects, as are Scotch and Bourbon.
*ETA: In most people. I think there are a few people who lack the enzyme that converts acetaldehyde to acetic acid. Since acetaldehyde is really nasty, those people can get sick from even very small amounts of alcohol.
Amanda in the South Bay
TBQH, my first thought on seeing JC’s post was “STFU and stop complaining about being drunk. You try having your testicles removed!!”
Tim, Interrupted
Back in the day, my hangover cure was several Bloody Marys. Of course, this just meant we were off on another binge, but at least it alleviated the hangover. Eventually I was able to establish a reliable drunk/vomit/pass out/drunk cycle that skipped hangovers altogether.
Feel free to imagine how that worked out long term.
Meanwhile, at the Cole house: Post-40 year old fat men with hangovers remain as fetching as ever.
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: In spite of being here at BJ pretty much every day, I must have missed the run-up to Amada’s surgery. I decide to google orchiectomy and then wonder why i thought the person having surgery was female.
Come back, find the comment, and it says Amanda in South Bay, so i wasn’t wrong about gender. Google “balloon juice orchiectomy amanda in south bay” and find a couple of links that explain all the background info I had missed, so now the world makes sense again.
Come back to the thread, lose my place (damn the code that makes it so you no longer come back to the right place when you refresh) so I start reading up from the bottom this time. I find your comment “Ah damn. I wanted to take mine home when I got them done.” and do a double-take because you have apparently had an orchiectomy, too, and once again everything i know is wrong, ’cause this doesn’t mesh with the Yutsano i’ve seen here for a few years.
Then I click nancydarling to see what she had written and i find that the subject has turned to tonsils. And the world has righted itself once again.
The Dangerman
Shouldn’t that be the cat signal and is the sky big enough?
Hair of the dog, mate.
Mark S.
@Superluminar:
I supported this at first because I thought the rebels just needed a little help. It turns out they need a lot of help. I think we should try to get a cease fire and hope our new allies learn how to become at least a ragtag army.
Amir_Khalid
@burnspbesq:
Ah well, at least Mancunia United don’t get to wrap up the title early.
Some completely unsurprising news about The Donald’s reaction.
nancydarling
@Amanda in the South Bay: May I say that I think you are very brave? I wish you a speedy recovery and a long and happy life.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@MizB: I once lived a half a block from a Taco Bell and that was my favorite Sunday morning hangover cure. Burrito, tacos, large Pepsi.
Emma
Amanda: I have been following, although I haven’t commented, but now I have to say: YAY!
WaterGirl
@Amanda in the South Bay: The thought of being awake during any kind of surgery turns my stomach upside down. You are one tough cookie. Hope your recovery is uneventful.
Yutsano
@WaterGirl: Sorry, I should have been clearer. I’m due to have a dual hip replacement some time in the next year. And me being the strange and twisted individual that I am I’d like to keep the tops of my femurs. I guess that’s not feasible though. Drat.
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: I’ve heard you talk about your back and your future hip replacement surgery before, so that’s not the part that confused me. it was thinking you had had an orchiectomy that did it. As a gay man, I would think you would be kind of fond of your ‘guys’. :-)
Edit: I think if you tell them you work for the IRS, they might assume you are an auditor and make an exception.
nancydarling
@Yutsano: Yatsuno, I hope you are having the ‘anterior approach’ done. I was in the hospital 2 days, flying home to AR from L.A. in 8 and driving my 5-speed Saturn in 15. Here is the web site if you need more info. My daughter also had two periacetabular osteotomies done there last year.
http://www.hipandpelvis.com/
nancydarling
Sorry I misspelled your name—typing fast.
quaint irene
Hmm, you and Oskar Schindler.
Amanda in the South Bay
@Emma: yay, my body is no longer poisoning me!
@WaterGirl: thx, I still cant believe it myself
Amanda in the South Bay
@nancydarling:
TYVM!
Yutsano
@nancydarling: The guy they want me to do it with is an expert in anterior approaches and also in hip replacements in younger folks. He’s also Canuckistani. I’m still doing all the research on my side of things, although there is no question that the surgery itself is necessary.
@WaterGirl: I like my boys very much. The plan right now is to keep them both for the rest of my life unless the FSM has other plans.
Heh. A conversation with a Marine last night came up something like this. Though he suggested I abuse my authority to get a certain football player who just got drafted and lives less than two miles from me into a compromising position. I demurred.
Villago Delenda Est
@burnspbesq:
He’s an inverse wingnut, basically.
nancydarling
@Amanda in the South Bay: I would also hope that you can retain some of your upper body strength. As a divorced older woman, that is one of the things I miss about having a man around. I sometimes have to depend on the kindness of strangers.
hilts
Glenn Instadouchebag Reynolds can’t handle the fact that Obama nailed Trump last night
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/119623
Amir_Khalid
@WaterGirl: I underwent two angioplasties five years ago this month, and both times I was wide awake throughout. If I recall correctly, I was offered general anesthesia as an option but declined. For the operations where you have the option of staying awake it’s kind of scary but hardly traumatic. Now what would be scary is waking up during an op when you’re still supposed to be under.
Amir_Khalid
@hilts:
This is best in life, to drive your enemies before you and read the lamentations of their bitchez in blog posts.
Yutsano
@hilts: Whiny wingnut is whiny. I’m sure that happens every morning when he wakes up and realizes that THAT ONE is still in the White House. And Reynolds makes it sound like Obama suggested Trump be present, as if he had any choice over who gets invited to these things. Sweet wingnut tears, what a brunch.
Superluminar
@Mark S
agree very much with that statement. Let’s see how it pan outs… :-(
shano
Kombucha will clean your liver. I make my own, it is easy when you have a good scoby.
eemom
umm……I don’t know quite how to ask this…..but I assume an orchiectomy is followed by another……ectomy?
Amanda in the South Bay
@Amir_Khalid: the worst part of the procedure was, well, it felt like a kick in the crotch during the operation. Not sharp pain, but sorta weird. Trust me, I was babbling non-stop about EVERYTHING.
PurpleGirl
@Amir_Khalid: Now what would be scary is waking up during an op when you’re still supposed to be under.
I had an arthroscopic procedure on my knee; they usually do them under local anesthesia. However because I’ve had a hemilaminectomy at L5-S1, the doctor wanted to be sure enough of the chemical got through to keep me under long enough for the surgery. She wasn’t sure I wouldn’t come of the local too soon, so she gave me a general instead.
WaterGirl
@Amir_Khalid: My stomach is turning over again. I am SO not brave about anything medical. That would scare the shit out of me. Glad all seems to be well after your procedures 5 years ago!
Amanda in the South Bay
@eemom: For me, no, this is the only procedure Ive wanted. What you are thinking of is vaginoplasty, which is where the penis is turned inside out to create a vagina. I’ve never felt any dysphoria about having a penis, so its not something I really want.
hilts
@Amir_Khalid: @Yutsano:
Glenn Reynolds is one of my favorite wingnuts to read when he’s having a rough time dealing with a bad news cycle.
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
He’s a left wingnut rather than a right wingnut. The left wingnuts are less common, or at least less prominent, than the right wingnuts, but they do exist.
Mark S.
@hilts:
I saw the video; Trump wasn’t smirking.
Reynolds is the biggest tool not named Hindrocket.
Jade Jordan
John, Your hangover is punishment for watching any of the Royal madness. I was hoping you sent Rosie to England as a wedding gift.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amanda in the South Bay: No, thank you. However, best wishes to you for a speedy recovery.
Jay C
@hilts:
I guess that’s what the Instahack would spin as a “contrarian” view of Donald Trump’s ordeal at the WHCD: the man gets mercilessly -deservedly – mocked (and by the POTUS no less) in a public venue, and Prof. Reynolds assumes this is an example of “embiggen[ing]” him?
Seriously, why does anyone even bother linking or citing Glenn Reynolds any more these days? He’s had his day in the sun – 9/11/01 – but in the years since, he’s turned into the blogger equivalent of a vuvuzela: one loud note, endlessly blatted out without the ability to change tone. In Reynolds’ case the predictable snark-laden pushing of every hippie-punching, librul-bashing right-wing trope under the sun, followed by the same-old disclaimer: “I’m not a right-winger, I’m a libertarian”
He is right about one thing, though:
The thing is, which party are they sycophants for? YMMV.
eemom
here is an interesting link I just found in attempting to answer my own question:
http://sherrylanina.tripod.com/sjc.htm
Amanda in the South Bay
@eemom: My previous comment ended up in moderation, the “other” procedure you are looking for isn’t an -ectomy, its a plasty. Va**noplasty. (There, oughta circumvent the filter).
Amanda in the South Bay
@Jay C: Even back in my wingnutty days, I never got what the BFD was about Reynolds. He almost never offered serious analysis, and simply gave his patented heh, indeeds to links to other wingnutty blogs.
suzanne
@Amanda in the South Bay: Yaaaaaaaay! I was wondering how you were doing. Glad to know you’re coping okay. This is exciting. :)
Mouse Tolliver
@Mark S.:
Ouch. Ticket sales fell another 54% and 94 theaters stopped showing it.
Maybe the producer should spend less time playing moviemaker and more time saving his failing fitness machine business. He could start by fixing the design flaw in one of the 600 pound machines that he builds that allows them to fall over on people. Because the next time one of his exercise machines tips over, it might kill somebody instead of leaving them paralyzed.
Hal
@Mouse Tolliver
There are more than 94 theaters showing this film?
piratedan
all of this celebration over the Redskins taking a WVU NT as the next to last pick? you sir, know how to party.
srv
I haven’t followed this whole press corps Trump thing – has anyone argued yet that Obama is trolling Trump to piss him off so much that he does run?
Mouse Tolliver
@Hal: 371 to be exact. Funny thing is after its middling opening weekend, all the rightie publications were hyping Atlas’s titanic box office. The producer said he was expanding to 1,000 screens! Three weeks in and it’s already getting yanked.
Mike in NC
@Yutsano:
Served on the rocks, they’re supposed to be very good for a hangover.
RossInDetroit
@srv:
Very probably provoking him into some irreparable unforced error. But with The Donald’s history one wonders just what he couldn’t bounce back from. Murder?
RossInDetroit
Sadly, Trump can’t run. The hilarity provoked by his financial disclosures would dominate the news about him and the campaign would end up nowhere but standup comics’ routines.
This emperor knows he’s naked and doesn’t dare step into the light.
hilts
@Jay C:
White House correspondents are courtiers when a Republican is president, but revert back to reporters when a Democrat is president.
stuckinred
@piratedan: ON the upside, I just sent in my payment for Georgia football!
hilts
@srv:
I’ve never believed that Trump or Palin would run for president. They both crave attention 24/7 because of their narcissistic personality disorders, but neither of them has the stomach to endure even the mildest degree of inquiry from the MSM. I also can’t imagine Trump or Palin fielding questions from voters at town hall events in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Roger Moore
@Mouse Tolliver:
Just proof that we need tort reform, so Galtian genius inventors don’t get run out of business by parasites.
Jay C
@srv:
Yes, see # 100 above. That is, course, if you consider Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds to be “anyone”. Opinions differ. Heh.
@Amanda in the South Bay:
I think the persistence of the Instahack as a blogosphere personage is a function mainly of longevity and laziness/old habit: the blogworld’s equivalent of Howard Johnson’s: the food may suck, but you’ll still go there, as it’s a recognized and dependable “name” you’ve been patronizing since childhood. Glenn’s been doing his shtick for like ten years, now (decades/centuries by the blogosphere calendar) – and can always be counted on to provide a reassuringly familiar echo-chamber for RW reinforcement/epistemic closure. Which he kinda invented by making sure that his hackery was always bolstered by numerous links to other RW hacks, who, in their turn, would always cite Reynolds as some sort of Internet guru. IOW, the blogosphere as a circle-jerk. Indeed.
Valdivia
Late to wishing John hangover tips. Fat and lots of liquid. working out usually works for me, but I only recommend it if you’re in a coordinated mood.
I’m totally laid up with a bum back. The pain is killing me but hopefully I’ll be able to move again someday….
stuckinred
Omnes Omnibus
@stuckinred: Shorter Trump: WAAAHHH!
Amir_Khalid
@hilts: I’m hoping Trump and Palin both run and make complete asses of themselves. I still think it’s possible.
hilts
@stuckinred:
Instead of seeking the Republican nomination, Trump should run as the Pity Party candidate for president.
eemom
@Amanda in the South Bay:
thanks. Using that term I found an even better website.
This is fascinating for someone who knows very little about these procedures.
I know this is a REALLY stupid question, but has any progress been made in getting insurance to pay for the surgery? What about in countries that have sane healthcare systems — i.e., the civilized world?
hilts
@Amir_Khalid:
Nothing could be as sweet as a humiliating election defeat for Trump or Palin. I’d love to see one of these hucksters have to deliver a concession speech.
scav
@hilts:
1) is there a difference; and
2) still a hell of a competitive field.
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
pay no attention to me, just getting FYWP to let me see the mobile version, oh pretty pleeeeeeaaase?
Sko Hayes
@stuckinred: He looked absolutely livid during Seth Myers lines.
And people around him were looking at him and trying not to laugh(not succeeding in most cases).
At least when Obama was jabbing him, he had smile on his face (a bit pained, though). Maybe more of a grimace.
Yutsano
@efgoldman: Sarah would concede on Facebook. And her followers would eat it up.
James E. Powell
@hilts:
Fixed.
hilts
@efgoldman: @Yutsano:
I regret the fact that McCain’s staffers didn’t let the Mooseburger Queen speak at his concession speech.
My only consolation is that the other Dimmer Twin, Michele Bachmann, is stupid enough to get into this race and ends up delivering her own concession speech.
Shoemaker-Levy 9
Rough morning at church?
Yutsano
@hilts: That won’t be a concession speech. That will be a firebrand of hillbilly populism and Moebius logic twists that will cause all impure ears within hearing distance to bleed. If Bachmann goes down her end will not be quiet I can guarantee that.
Hal
Why does Bill Maher keep hosting Andrew Breitbart on his show? I could barely watch this weeks Real Time because once again, Maher decides to have this asshole on a panel. Brietbart is a supreme hack who has clearly been proven a liar, and yet he keeps getting gigs. I just don’t get it.
hilts
@James E. Powell:
Good point. Palin belongs in the Guinness Book Of World Records for making the most money off of her 15 minutes of fame.
Yutsano
@Hal: Bill sometimes invites guests on just to stir up shit. Other times it’s to watch them make fools of themselves in a rather public forum. In this case I think he wanted to have Breitbart and Laura Flanders go at eac other knowing full well what would happen.
hilts
@Hal:
I agree. Breitbart is a thug and a blowhard. At least Maher had the good sense to invite Laura Flanders on to the show. She’s great and deserves far more exposure. I wish Maher would invite Amy Goodman on sometime.
WereBear (itouch)
Feel better, Amanda. You too John.
And aMerry Beltane to all!
hilts
@Yutsano:
I think Michele Bachmann would handle a concession speech by speaking in tongues.
Amir_Khalid
@WereBear (itouch):
I’ve been meaning to ask you this. I know that when you call a cat she only comes if she feels like it. But is it normal for a cat to expect you to come when called? That’s what my Bianca does with me.
sneezy
@Hal:
Sounds like you need to reevaluate your view of Bill Maher (hint: he’s an asshole, too).
Mouse Tolliver
@Roger Moore: Can’t tell if this is snark, because Atlas producer John Agliaro made this exact argument to the Wall Street Journal in an article that also noted seven other tip accidents happened prior to the one involving a 110 pound woman who was crush by his 600-pound machin because she rested her hand on top of it while doing stretches.
Roger Moore
@Mouse Tolliver:
It wasn’t purely snark because I knew that at least some glibertarians would make that point. It’s classic free market extremist hypocrisy. On the one hand, they oppose protective regulations, saying that we’re better off letting injured parties sue for damages. On the other hand, they want “tort reform” to make it impossible in practice to recover those damages.
I see it as part of a larger pattern. Randites argue in favor of greed, arguing that each person pursuing their own selfish interests will produce long-term good. But that’s only true when operating within a system of law and custom that channels people’s greed into productive actions. But the Randites have gotten so hung up on the “greed is good” part that they’re trying to dismantle the legal and social apparatus that ensures that selfish actions actually do produce real good.
Paul in KY
@Amanda in the South Bay: Glad you came thru surgery well. Now you can get them literally bronzed ;-)
Paul in KY
@Amir_Khalid: When the cat has properly trained you, yes it is natural.