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Balloon Juice: Monday Morning Open Thread: Scandalmania Among the Professionally Manic
(Jim Morin via GoComics.com)Spring may have come late to much of the country, but the summer Silly Season is starting early. Frank Rich, NYMag, May 15th:… Wasn’t the BP spill supposed to end the Obama presidency? Or was it the revolt against Oba...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 3:15am -07:00T (992 words)
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Balloon Juice: Later Night Open Thread: Good News for Democrats in 2016 – GOP Edition
My current assumption about the 2016 GOP primary is that, barring an act of the Trickster God, its end stage will devolve into an epic battle between Rick Santorum and whichever schlub the “sane” business rump of the party can shepherd through...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 12:45am -07:00T (690 words)
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Balloon Juice: Late Night Open Thread: Good News for Democrats, 2016
The Washington Post, in its role as the industry paper of a company town where the product is national politics, takes five pages to highlight four people who swear they won’t be working for Hillary Clinton’s potential 2016 campaign. And even...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 11:30pm -07:00T (997 words)
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Balloon Juice: Open Thread: Different Societies, Different Solutions
As the great Richard Pryor once said, “People are people, all over the world… they fck with your luggage in Nairobi just like they fck with your luggage in Newark.” And every society has its own workarounds for the universal belief that ...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 8:00pm -07:00T (513 words)
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Balloon Juice: Whack a mole
A convincing case can be made that Jonathan Karl is a GOP mole:Karl came to mainstream journalism via the Collegiate Network, an organization primarily devoted to promoting and supporting right-leaning newspapers on college campuses (Extra!, 9-10/91)—su...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 5:30pm -07:00T (224 words)
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Balloon Juice: Kitty 4:20
After a long day of relaxing in the sun and cool grass, what’s better than a little after dinner catnip buzz:It’s good to be the king. I just love this cat. I hope I never ever have a skinny cat. I want them big and lazy and fluffy. This i...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 4:15pm -07:00T (65 words)
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Balloon Juice: NHL, Game of Thrones, Mad Men Open Thread
Let’s go Pens! ...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 4:15pm -07:00T (4 words)
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Balloon Juice: Sunday Evening Open Thread: “Do Not Waste A Minute Living Someone Else’s Dream”
Many thanks to Paddy at Political Carnival for the video. This is truly an excellent commencement speech, and not just for the snippet everybody is quoting:“Failure is the key to success for so many great people… Oprah was demoted from her fi...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 3:00pm -07:00T (115 words)
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Balloon Juice: And we don’t care
As with LewisnkyGate and TravelGate and SoxGate and FastAndFuriousGate before it, the public doesn’t give a fuck about IRSGate and BenghaziGate and APGate:According to the survey, which was conducted Friday and Saturday, 53% of Americans say they ap...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 12:30pm -07:00T (72 words)
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Balloon Juice: Karl’s Folly
Here’s the media matters rundown on how veteran journalists are reacting to Jonathan Karl’s exploits last week:The slippery language Karl and ABC News adopted in describing the emails has drawn fire from media ethicists and veteran journalists...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 11:15am -07:00T (658 words)
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Balloon Juice: The Plural of “Noonan” Is Not “Data”
So Peggy Noonan went to the Fainting Couch Superstore over the IRS this week and got a few new pieces. It was bad enough in her eyes that anyone would dare question the notion that Tea Party groups were perfectly non-political and deserve tax-exempt sta...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 5:30am -07:00T (608 words)
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Balloon Juice: Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Gearing Up
Roses in Georgia, from commentor Raven.I’m looking forward to thirty-eight heirloom tomato plants arriving from three different mail-order companies, anytime starting this Monday. If I tell you it took both me and the Spousal Unit over an hour to d...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 2:15am -07:00T (154 words)
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Balloon Juice: Later Night Open Thread: Eurovision
Denmark won. Bonnie Tyler, representing England, was totally eclipsed, but for those of us who remember the 1980s, the Bay City Roller seem to have been strong contenders:(Footnote: Yes, I am aware that the Celts, long before they were driven to the ston...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 1:00am -07:00T (65 words)
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Balloon Juice: And That’s a Wrap, Folks
Talk amongst yourselves:One of my all time favorite songs from one of my all time favorite bands, but when I was watching it tonight, about halfway through, I said to myself “Mark Knopfler really looks like Jerry Seinfeld in this video” and th...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 11:45pm -07:00T (98 words)
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Balloon Juice: Late Night Open Thread
I forget who suggested Old Boy for my Netflix movie, but thank you 100 times over. Not only was the movie awesome, but now I am getting the “Because you liked Old Boy” suggestions, and that is leading me to more great movies.BTW- Why doesn...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 10:30pm -07:00T (60 words)
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