What is the general opinion on Glucosamine chondroitan? Do we think it works? Studies have been negative to date, but my father swears by it.
Any experience with it?
John Cole started Balloon Juice early in 2002. Those who have followed along know that this has been quite the journey.
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What is the general opinion on Glucosamine chondroitan? Do we think it works? Studies have been negative to date, but my father swears by it.
Any experience with it?
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Also via OTB, this jackass who will probably win the Alabama Governorship based on this bit of idiocy:
The entire point behind driver’s license tests is to ensure that people know how to drive a car and don’t go careening through a red light and kill the good citizens of Alabama. Not to make sure your population speaks English.
The entire Republican party, starting with the Palin worship, the birtherism, the tea party idiocy, the obscene existing while brown law in Arizona, extending through the Guy Fawkes nonsense and this kind of asshattery has basically decided that the winning 2010 slogan for the GOP is the following:
Vote Republican- We’re Stupid Assholes
BTW- I can’t be the only one who is really impressed with the GOP minority outreach in the Michael Steele era.
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Dodd Harris is a good man and wrote a blog that stayed on my blogroll some 3-4 years after it died in the hopes it would restart, but this whole idea of everyone drawing Mohammad as an act of defiance just sounds so warblogger circa 2003-2004. Which isn’t surprising, because the idea started with the glibertarians at Reason.
But what is it going to accomplish? Can you imagine what would happen if some relatively unknown magazine in Saudi Arabia joke reached out to its readership for them to submit derisive jokes about the trinity?
Nothing. Well, nothing, that is, until some fanatic like Tony Perkins or that idiot at the Catholic League or someone at the NRO got win of it, and then they would whip up the already clearly fanatical people in the US that listen to those bozos. But would it really accomplish anything? Why do we have to actively try to piss people off?
*** Update ***
Read this profile of the jackass who made the threats, and you can understand why breaking out the crayons right now is so compelling.
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And after a long day, Lily and I are both pooped:
Tunch normally claims the right thigh, but he is busy bitching through the screen door at something on the deck. Prolly coons.
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Just stumbled across this and it made me laugh:
Mixed memes FTMFW.
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Day two of the anti-dandelion counter-insurgency at the Cole household has ended with me sunburnt, exhausted, and with only half the yard done. I put down 12 bags of mulch and got the second herb planter done, hung some wind chimes, and mowed and de-dandelioned half the yard before the shoulder started to ache. I’ll finish the rest tomorrow. I’ve also decided that I need a compost heap.
Also, still no songbirds, but with me outside raising a stink, cackling while throwing dandelion carcasses all over the place, I can’t say I blame them. Some of you wanted to know what kind of feed I picked up, and i looked at the bag and it was Kaytee Ultimate Songbird. Having run a blog for a decade, I am fully aware that this is when you all are supposed to leave 100 comments about why my choice in birdseed sucks/is bad for birds/hazardous to other animals/bad for the environment/all of the above.
I’ll be back in approximately 1/2 bottle of wine to fight back.
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Done with the work-work and now am going to spend the afternoon venting my authoritarian impulses on the yard. I figure politicians don’t listen to me, you all don’t listen to me, my friends and family don’t listen to me, my animals, whose continued existence relies upon my generosity and good will, don’t listen to me and actually actively defy me at every opportunity, so all I have left is my yard, and I am going to go impose my will on it for the better part of the afternoon.
Not to mention I am now heavily armed with this implement of destuction:
How awesome is that! You won’t even hear the dandelions scream, it will be that quick.