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Accountability, motherfuckers.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

If you are still in the GOP, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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

It’s the corruption, stupid.

It’s a new day. Light all those Biden polls of young people on fire and throw away the ashes.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

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I’m hard pressed to think of a better sports week-end than labor day until the Christmas holidays, when there is a bowl game every night and NFL and NBA and college basketball.

At any rate, here is to the start of the new football season. I hope your team wins.

*** Update ***

Thanks for the reminder in the comments:

bitsy

Vote for me or the ears get it!

For you non sports fans, go vote for Little Bitsy here. It is for a really good cause.

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  7. 7.

    Violet

    Thanks for the reminder! I went and voted. I don’t think she’s going to win, though. She’s not even over 1000 yet. I think we need to concentrate on next week to get her over the top.

  10. 10.

    MikeJ

    My team isn’t allowed to sign anyone until 2011. At least they’re at the top of the table, although this early I suppose it doesn’t matter.

    No game this week, but they play Stoke next.

  11. 11.

    r€nato

    Thanksgiving weekend is actually pretty good as well. You got your favorite traditional/local college football rivalries, you got important end-of-season clashes, you got great NBA match-ups… the only thing that would make it perfect is if they’d end the tradition of having the Detroit Lions play whomever. Lions suck now and into the foreseeable future…

  12. 12.

    demimondian

    @asiangrrlMN: A team from MN gave up an 82 yard punt return (and the game) to a reality show winner who won a slot on the Dallas Cowboys 80 man roster. It’s hard to imagine where they can go after that unique and astounding achievement.

  15. 15.

    asiangrrlMN

    @demimondian: Yes. But they also had a pretty breathtaking runback of their own. Oh, hell, who am I kidding? Even if the Vikes make it to the playoffs, they will just lose when Brett Favre throws an interception with no time left on the clock because he’s just a kid playing for the love of the game. Fuck Brett Favre.

    I was talking about the college teams from MN–except for the football Gophers.

  17. 17.

    burnspbesq

    From the Be Careful What You Over-Hype department.

    Fuse fans are going nuts. New head coach, new quarterback, hometown kid and former nationalHS player of the year who chose instead to play basketball at Duke.

    First offensive play of the Greg Paulus Era, Cuse lines up in the shotgun, and the snap goes 10 feet over his head.

  20. 20.

    arguingwithsignposts

    Liberty U. (Jerry Falwell’s “university”) is tied with West Va. in the second quarter. They are playing “coal is west virginia” ads on the internet stream. I am amazed at the bald-faced greed of the coal industry. No, strike that, I’m not amazed, just slack-jawed.

  24. 24.

    Nutella

    Google chose these two ads for the top of this page:

    McDonnell for Governor
    Unfilled Balloons Cheap

    and Ann Coulter Free

  25. 25.

    Kryptik

    I’m not feeling too good about WVU all of a sudden. This isn’t a game that should even be this close at the half.

  27. 27.

    Ash

    Don’t really care about college football at the beginning of the season.

    The US Open schedule looks great for this afternoon.

  34. 34.

    Tim in Wisconsin

    @Max:

    If I wanted to watch a sport with an excessively long preseason and several meaningless weeks to its regular season while plastic-enhanced cheerleaders roam the sidelines trying to drown out the din of piped-in music, I’d be an NBA fan.

  36. 36.

    Demo Woman

    @Ash: The US Open is pretty good today. Of course, Fed won and I’m hoping for an upset on the ladies match. Oudin lives just a few miles south of me and for a 17 year old, she is really composed.

  37. 37.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Demo Woman 3:37 pm

    Yes, I’m also cheering for Oudin. Quite something for a home-town girl to get as far as she has so far. And so young!

    On another topci, thanks for the Liþtle Bitsy link and reminder. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to cast my ballot from the ‘Berry, but it went through just fine. So that’s a good thing.

  43. 43.

    Rommie

    I live in Kalamazoo, so I get to see Western Michigan a lot. They have a long and sad history of getting blown out on National TV, or choking at the end of games, with their football team. Different day, same result. Bleh.

  44. 44.

    South of I-10

    Best first day of football season ever! Some guy just paid me $50 to park in my yard for the the UL/Southern game. I told him repeatedly he could park for free, but he insisted. So I went to the store and bought beer. This has got to be a record breaking crowd.

  45. 45.

    smiley

    @South of I-10: Heh. And Bush said the French don’t have a word for entrepreneur (not really). At least UL-L is playing someone they might beat (I have a nephew who is a sophomore at UL-L). UL-M is playing frickin’ Texas and Tech is playing frickin’ Auburn. Go Ragin’ Cajuns!

  47. 47.

    sweetgreensnowpea

    you mentioned you have a another friend with a dog named “sam” in the same contest but you haven’t put up sam’s picture. i have more than one e-mail address, i could, in fact, vote for both of them.
    or would that be (OMG) unethical?
    mindless animal lover that i am, i’ve voted for “bitsy” for days without any idea whatsoever who bitsy is competing against… i’m simply trusting a reformed republican…

  48. 48.

    Sarcastro

    Hah! Been too damn long since the Vols truly wailed on an unworthy opponent. Nice. Especially after losing to frelling Wyoming last year. Now things get harder in a hurry though.

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