• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Nevertheless, she persisted.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

We need fewer warriors in public service and more gardeners.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Call the National Guard if your insurrection lasts more than four hours.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Peak wingnut was a lie.

It’s not even safe to go out and pick up 2 days worth of poop anymore.

Lighten up, Francis.

We still have time to mess this up!

Han shot first.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn – Nancy Pelosi

False Scribes! False Scribes!

How do you get liars to care about the truth?

Everybody saw this coming.

The math demands it!

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

What fresh hell is this?

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Mission Accomplished!

Shelter in place is one thing. Shelter in pants is quite another.

Mobile Menu

  • Look Forward & Back
  • Balloon Juice 2021 Pet Calendar
  • Site Feedback
  • All 2020 Fundraising
  • I Voted!
  • Take Action: Things We Can Do
  • Team Claire, and Family
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • BJ PayPal Donations
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • Nature & Respite
  • Information As Power
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • On The Road
  • Garden Chats
  • Nature & Respite
  • Look Forward & Back
You are here: Home / Search for ""

Tom Levenson

Incompetence Is Its Own Reward

by Tom Levenson|  January 19, 20211:09 pm| 76 Comments

This post is in: Dolt 45, Open Threads, Politics, Trumpery

Here’s a bit of contextually good news: President Trump’s last-ditch effort to remove civil service protections from tens of thousands of career federal employees appears to have lost steam, facing time constraints and legal hurdles as the administration prepares to leave office, officials said. This was to have been the finishing blow in Trump’s and …

Incompetence Is Its Own RewardPost + Comments (76)

May FSM Have Mercy On His Soul…

by Tom Levenson|  January 12, 202111:21 am| 116 Comments

This post is in: Artists In Our Midst, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity

…Because I sure won’t. Sheldon Adelson is dead. My reaction to the news: No f**king nil nisi here. His major competition for most destructive asshole (not holding political office) of our time is Rupert Murdoch, with whom he kept common cause. When (apocryphally) the eulogist at Louis B. Meyer’s funeral asked  “does anyone have anything …

May FSM Have Mercy On His Soul…Post + Comments (116)

Respite-ish Open Thread

by Tom Levenson|  January 8, 20216:08 pm| 284 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

A friend from college sent me this, and while it hurts too much to be all the way funny, I have to confess, dear reader… I laughed: I’ve got a longer post cooking about the fact that the GOP is the New Shimmer of politics: both the party of treason, and one that ideologically and …

Respite-ish Open ThreadPost + Comments (284)

A Good Guy With A Gun…

by Tom Levenson|  January 3, 20218:14 pm| 82 Comments

This post is in: Ammosexuals, Gun Issues

A tragedy occurred in Texas today: A pastor was killed and two people were injured in a shooting at a Texas church on Sunday…A suspect is in custody, Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith said. This was a classic story of a good guy with a gun…with a catastrophic rewrite to the ending many gun-advocates imagine …

A Good Guy With A Gun…Post + Comments (82)

Some More Thread

by Tom Levenson|  January 2, 20218:02 pm| 146 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Pet Blogging

Seems we need a new thread for the halibut. So as not to flounder further (and to forestall carping from the cheap seats) here are a couple of pictures from an hour or so ago. It seems that some folks don’t think I should be working this evening: When I protested the intrusion, I got …

Some More ThreadPost + Comments (146)

Let’s Talk About Cars…

by Tom Levenson|  January 2, 20211:10 pm| 324 Comments

This post is in: Not Politics, Open Threads

Reading this morning’s thread I got caught up in the memories of pickups (vehicles, not attempts).  In between thinking about the alternate history of the decline of the United States that can be read in the emergence of  “luxury” light trucks and the pseuds who buy up to and more than six figures of rolling …

Let’s Talk About Cars…Post + Comments (324)

Respite: Magnets!

by Tom Levenson|  December 29, 20204:50 pm| 100 Comments

This post is in: Nature & Respite, Open Threads, Science & Technology

My brother the magpie sent me this old clip of Richard Feynman explaining that explaining why magnets repel or attract each other is not at all a simple matter:   I saw this aeons ago, and had forgotten it, and am very glad to reencounter it. Because 2020, I can’t help hearing our current predicament …

Respite: Magnets!Post + Comments (100)

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 180
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Guest Posts: Priorities

Kakistocracy
I believe In My Fellow Americans
Defeat Them
Turning Bystanders Into Activists
UFOs and Officers
First Up, COVID
Idiots and Maniacs
Our National Illness
Libraries
You Have One Job

Do Something!

Call Your Senators & Representatives
Directory of US Senators
Directory of US Representatives
Letter to Elected Officials – Albatrossity
Letter to Elected Officials – Martin

I Got the Shot!

🎈Ways to Support Our Site

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal
Shop Amazon via this link to support Balloon Juice ⬇  

Recent Comments

  • sab on Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Hydroponics for Winter Cheer (Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:29am)
  • Just Chuck on Saturday Night Open Thread (Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:29am)
  • Shalimar on COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Saturday/Sunday, Jan. 23-24 (Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:25am)
  • japa21 on Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Hydroponics for Winter Cheer (Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:14am)
  • Chris Johnson on Repub Stupidity Open Thread: These Colors Don’t Run… But *We* Do! (Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:11am)

Team Claire, and Family

Help for David’s Niece Claire
Claire Updates
Claire update for the holidays 12/23

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year

Featuring

John Cole
Silverman on Security
COVID-19 Coronavirus
Medium Cool with BGinCHI
Information Is Power

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Submit Photos to On the Road
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Meetups: Proof of Life
2021 Pets of Balloon Juice Calendar

Culture: Books, Film, TV, Music, Games, Podcasts

Noir: Favorites in Film, Books, TV
Book Recommendations & Indy Recs
Mystery Recommendations
Medium Cool: What If (Books & Films)
Netflix Favorites
Amazon Prime Favorites
Netflix Suggestions in July
Fun Music Thread
Longmire & Netflix Suggestions
Medium Cool: Places!
Medium Cool: Games!
Medium Cool: Watch or Read Again

Twitter

John Cole’s Twitter

[custom-twitter-feeds]

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2021 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc