Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

In my day, never was longer.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

The willow is too close to the house.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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This is a great development:

Sylvester Croom became the first black head football coach in the Southeastern Conference yesterday when he accepted an offer to take over at Mississippi State.

Croom, 49, arrives in Starkville, Miss., with 28 years of coaching experience, including the last three as the Green Bay Packers’ running backs coach. He’ll be introduced at a news conference today as the successor to Jackie Sherrill, who is retiring.

The SEC was the only Bowl Championship Series conference never to have had a black head coach. There were four black head football coaches among 117 Division I-A football schools this season.

“We went after the best football coach and he just happened to be a minority,” Mississippi State Athletic Director Larry Templeton said last night.

I wonder how this will impact the recruiting of talent in the SEC.

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    mark

    Unfortunately for Croom, he is inheriting a near-impossible situation at MSU. His team is about to go on a two-year bowl ban, thanks to the crook Jackie Sherrill. Plus, unlike Kentucky basketball, there is no football tradition to speak of. In fact, they are normally a cellar dweller in the SEC, with the likes of Vanderbilt (Sherrill had them good for a few years, but before him they were horrible).

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    Ricky

    Good points, but Tubby took a program that was in shambles (UGA) & turned it around in a hurry prior to getting his UK job. If he’s a good coach, there’ll be noticable improvement (which wouldn’t take much).

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    mark

    I’m not questioning his ability to coach, Ricky, to be clear. That said, I do hope he fails in one respect: he loses every year to Ole Miss (my school)…

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    Chris Lawrence

    Bear in mind there’s plenty of black coaches in the SEC… Croom is just the first head football coach.

    It might attract a few recruits at the margins, but I think there are bigger issues–facilities, scholarship levels, etc.–that will weigh in a lot of recruits’ minds.

    Bear in mind that State hasn’t been good during the high school careers of most of the kids Croom will be recruiting, and probably won’t be good again until the sanctions are gone (2006+).

    That being said, I wish him the best of luck, and as many 10-1 seasons as he can muster (so long as they keep losing to Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl, they can win the national title for all I care).

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    mark

    Greg,

    Do you really have to ask that question about a coach who shows his players a cow being castrated as a motivational tool?

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    Slartibartfast

    I think Florida’s going to lose Charlie Strong in the near future, unfortunately. It’s what happens when the assistant coaches (DC, in this case) become talented enough to be a head coach somewhere else. Florida lost a major part of the team when Bob Stoops went to Oklahoma. Makes me wish Spurrier had elected to go NFL a few years earlier.

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