Go Bills!
*** Update ***
I’ll just go ahead and get this out of the way, since the Poorman and the Bradrocket will be insufferable anyway:
Also, rumors of Tunch’s demise are overstated:
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Go Bills!
*** Update ***
I’ll just go ahead and get this out of the way, since the Poorman and the Bradrocket will be insufferable anyway:
Also, rumors of Tunch’s demise are overstated:
Comments are closed.
JK
New FBI Report: A Pot Arrest Every 37 Seconds in 2008
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/9/14/13502/2317
Obama and Appointing Liberal Judges
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/9/14/13936/9365
bayville
What was larger?
The dollar amount of the Obama stimulus package or the number of people who attended the Freedom Works pep rally?
JK
Fuck Hank Williams Jr – for those who don’t know, this asshole performed at a McCain Palin rally
Boehner To Vote ‘No’ On Resolution Disapproving of Wilson’s “You Lie!” Incident
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/boehner-to-vote-no-on-resolution-disapproving-of-wilsons-you-lie-incident.php?ref=fpb
Max
Go Bills.
They always make me think they’re going to be good each year, and then they let me down.
Maybe this year will be different.
Lots of penalties so far in this game.
DemonDem
On the train – too bad I’m going to miss Brady’s return. I can’t say that I am a Pat’s fan, but I don’t dislike them enough not to enjoy watching that offense. When they are on, they’re something to see.
JK
@bayville:
Which number is smaller? The total number of IQ points of every single teabagger who attended the Washington DC rally or the career earned run average of Marianno Rivera?
General Winfield Stuck
Looks like ACORN has had it’s wings clipped and gets no more federal money. They did a lot of good stuff, but didn’t police themselves and too often ran amuck. My guess is they’ll be back new and improved, and the wingnuts will start the Jihad once again. Can’t have liberals signing up to vote, which is really the only thing that matters to Malkin et al.
I guess now they’ll turn the pitchforks full onto Moveon,org, and the evil puppet master George Soros. If it keeps them occupied, then I’m for it.
robertdsc
I’m a big Pats fan but these jerseys are awful. I’ll rarely wear this one when I get one somewhere down the road.
LT
Hell yes Go Bills. I’ve lived with this team for as long as my memory – late 60s or so. This is THE year.
Oh, hell, what am I saying?
Go Sabres!
General Winfield Stuck
Looks like Charles Johnson is being measured for his political coffin in greater wingnuttia. Maybe he’ll show up here as a refugee looking to make a new start. Probly not.
JK
@General Winfield Stuck:
Michelle Malkin is a malignant media carcinogean and dumber than a horse’s ass.
Comrade Jake
Who cares about football? We’re in the fifth set of a little tennis game in NY.
Martin
Did Brady last at least 15 minutes this season?
I want a job like that…
General Winfield Stuck
And I just saw the Bitsy Steeler ad. WTF!. This is minion cruelty making me vote for THAT team in order to help an innocent and highly cute puppy. Maybe that big Brownie in the sky will turn away just this once.
Keith G
Ross Douthat is on The News Hour. Boy, that is one vacuous SOB.
@ The General
Wish the same held true for Blackwater/Xe.
Max
Knock on wood, but the Pats look a little off their game.
Please, let my beloved Bills win. It would mean $100 for Max!
DemonDem
Can you call it a tennis “game”? This is not snark…I had a colleague correct me quite sternly that you don’t have a “tennis game” but rather a “tennis match” – the guy was rude so I basically told him he was full of mud, but then I got to wondering which was the correct term. I have no idea, since I don’t watch tennis…
arguingwithsignposts
hey, tds/tcr back from vacation this week! there is a god! the question is how do they fit all teh stupid into 30 minutes each.
General Winfield Stuck
@Keith G:
It was an amendment to some bill they’re working on in the Senate, not sure which, but it will have to be reconciled with the House, so I doubt it makes it into law. But I could very well be wrong.
Karatist Preacher
I don’t like the Pats but I do love the old school unis – the Patriot guy in the 3 point stance is a good look. I like the old Bills look too.
The current Pats logo with the Flying Elvis is just bad.
freelancer
@arguingwithsignposts:
It’s high concentrate, like ingesting tang with a spoon.
robertdsc
I made my peace with that a long time ago. I’m just glad that Cole isn’t a Colts fan. It would be significantly more difficult for me if that were the case, lol.
PS: moar TUNCH plz. Thx.
The Grand Panjandrum
@General Winfield Stuck: Cole goes from one extreme to the other. First we have to put up with the infamous PETA ad and now he’s done a 180 and soon to be the target of one.
Bitsy YOU ARE THE VICTIM! Stay strong.
Bostondreams
@Karatist Preacher:
That would be Pat the Patriot, just FYI.
GO PATS!
Brady looks rusty as hell.
Comrade Jake
@DemonDem:
Call it whatever you want, I don’t fucking care, Roger’s down 0-3 in the fifth set.
JK
@General Winfield Stuck:
Charles Johnson is making the right enemies – Robert Stacy “round up all the Jews” McCain and Pamela “whack job” Geller.
jl
Ahem. Seeing as the niners beat the current NFC champs yesterday, I want to revise any comments that may have appeared uner this handle recently that could be misinterpreted as casting any aspersions on the great and fantastic sport of American Football.
THE NINERS ARE BACK! YAHOO! HOOWAH!
They beat the current NFC champions, and not through a bizarre fluke. The triumphed through finally being able to put on an impressive drive, within one game of the beginning of the season!
I know that people will snear and say the Cardinals may well suck right now. But that is life in the NFC west, been a long time there have been many good teams, and out on the left coast, 49ers fans had to live with radical uncertainty until the playoffs.
San Diego is playing some semi-pro team (I think it is a part of some program to rehabilitate troubled middle aged and elderly football coaches and executives) later on tonight. What is up with that? Some kind of exhibition?
harlana pepper
the teaparty signs are awesome! tho DeMint can suck on an acid bong
DBrown
On the AP wire: “SAN’A, Yemen — A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labor to give birth, a local human rights organization said Saturday.”
So, even in this country, many (but far from all) the religious loons and the crazy Roman Pope would never allow abortion to even save a child’s life (can we remember Brazil and the child there who was raped and made pregnant and what the Pope did to the Mother of the girl and the doctor for saving her life by aborting the fetus?) This poor girl was forced by her father to marry a 24 year old Saudi man at age 11!. She ran away but still had to carry the child to term and bleed to death in the labor. Is this what Christ would allow? Not in the Bible I read.
JK
@Comrade Jake:
Wow, Federer is in big fucking trouble.
Martin
Wouldn’t that form a Tunch neutron star or some such?
Cat Lady
Brady and Welker are both coming back from injuries and timing is off. The linebacker corps isn’t coherent yet but when everything starts to click it’ll be fun to watch. I love Pat Patriot. Parcells is responsible for the Elvii.
joe from Lowell
Go Bills!
Silly John!
It doesn’t matter whether the Steelers meet the Patriots early in the playoffs or late; they’re still going to lose.
Martin
Patrick Swayze died?
Man, I’m feeling old all of a sudden.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
@Martin:
Leelee for Obama
@Martin: Yeah, I just posted in the last thread. 57 f’in years old. I’m heading for 59, I feel ancient.
General Winfield Stuck
@Martin:
no shit, same here
gbear
THIS is one brave old guy. He walked thru the teabagger’s rally with a huge “Public Option NOW!” sign. Feel the hate.
Irony Abounds
Pats have yet to stop the Bills, the Bills have stopped themselves with penalties and dropped passes. Sigh.
Pat fans should be concerned about their defense.
arguingwithsignposts
fucking awesome play! I love watching brady get pressured!
Max
OMG! Before the game I was talking to my mom and she knows a friend of the Schobel family and was telling me that Aaron Schobel is pissed because the local Buffalo press is talking shit and calling him overpaid. She went on to say that maybe he will channel the anger in tonight’s game.
I just called her and told her to go buy a lottery ticket.
Go Aaron!
Leelee for Obama
@gbear: What a hero! Guts like that are wonderful.
Max
@Leelee for Obama: It wasn’t the age, it was the 3-pack a day that did him in.
You’re still young!
Comrade Jake
del Potro just knocked out Roger Federer in five sets in the US Open. Holy fucking shit Batman.
arguingwithsignposts
57 is way too young to die. rip.
Dave C
Holy Shit. You absolutely have to read this devastating evisceration of Ayn Rand’s philosophy by Jon Chait:
http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/wealthcare-0
Josh Huaco
HuffPo reports that Patrick Swayze has passed away.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/patrick-swayze-dead_n_286559.html
Demo Woman
wtf just happened at the open?
and now John is cheering for the bills. Oh please!
JK
@Dave C:
Nicely done. I wonder if how wankertarians Megan McArdle, Glenn Reynolds, and Nick Gillespie will respond.
JK
@arguingwithsignposts: 59 is also too young to die.
For Patrick Swayze and Jim Carroll
People Who Died
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bOjc70f4p8
Josh Huaco
@Dave C:
Libertarians categorically reject radical materialistic economic ideologies advocated by fanatical Russians…and instead embrace radical materialistic economic ideologies advocated by fanatical Russians.
arguingwithsignposts
@JK:
let’s just agree that any age is too young.
West of the Cascades
Go Bills!! Up at halftime to the Pats. At least it’s not time yet to fall off my optimistic prediction of an 11-5 season and first playoff appearance in nine years. LT is probably on the mark (“go Sabres”).
— long suffering Bills fan since 1971.
Doctor Cleveland
I have a terrible feeling that the Pats will miss Bruschi. Their defense has been heavily centered on veteran guile for the last few years.
IndyLib
@arguingwithsignposts:
I think they should both be required to have 3-hour specials just to catch up.
arguingwithsignposts
@IndyLib:
would that we had a vote. bastards. :)
JK
@arguingwithsignposts:
Within reason. Walter Cronkite and Norman Borlaug, who both lived into their 90’s, were not too young to die.
Swayze (57) and Carroll (59) were definitely too young to die.
Jody Powell has also died
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/rip-jody-powell.html
The Grand Panjandrum
@gbear: Loved the lady shouting out, “you can have the public option just don’t make us it.” I guess she could blame the public schools for not teaching her what the word option means.
Demo Woman
TUNCH and LILY pictures would help cheer me up. Don’t make me go in mod hell to get your attention. I might even throw a sh*oe or two.
arguingwithsignposts
@JK:
ok, i’ll give you 80+ is NOT too young to die. but below 60 is definitely too young to die.
just thinking about a friend of mine who killed himself at 18 – 25 years ago – haven’t thought about him in ages. he was definitely too young to die.
gnomedad
If I may revisit Pachelbel Rant for a moment, I forgot to mention that he left something out — the ancient among us may remember the Burger King jingle: “Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce / Special orders don’t upset us …”
The Grand Panjandrum
@The Grand Panjandrum: RATS!
Should read: “you can have the public option just don’t make us have it too.”
Comrade Jake
From Chait’s piece:
That is an absolutely beautiful fucking paragraph. I wish I could write like that.
IndyLib
@arguingwithsignposts:
You’d think Comedy Central would be willing, they had on the same Blue Collar Comedy Tour thing again yesterday, which I happen to think is pretty funny, but Jesus Christ on raisin toast it’s been on about 500 times.
Corner Stone
That was a horrible call.
SiubhanDuinne
Jeez, this has really been a year for super-high-profile deaths, hasn’t it? I know I’m always kind of shocked with all those year-end In Memoriam programs and special mag editions, but 2009 promises to outdo them all. And we still have 3-1/2 months to go.
On another topic, pretty much, did anyone else hear the interview with the editor of Ted Kennedy’s autobiography, out today? (I think is name is Jonathan Karp but am not sure.). It was a really interesting conversation and has me eager to read the book now.
And finally: would any fellow BJ-ers like to join me in taking up a collection for John so he can buy a new camera? Because clearly something dire happened to his other one. I can’t think of any other reason why we’ve seen no pictures of Lily or Tunch in about forevah. Especially Tunch.
The Grand Panjandrum
OK this shit is even wierd by my standards: Charles Johnson is too sane for the crazies AND the Bills are still up after having a lead at half time? Whoa …
jl
I don’t know how I can enjoy any kind of sporting contest anymore without a Tunch pic to put me into proper fighting spirit.
And, during football season, should not any genuine and honest and heartfelt Steelers fan regularly post pictures of a fearsome beast named TUNCH? I think not.
(And by ‘fearesome beast’ named Tunch, I don’t mean some aging sportscaster and ex-Steelers galumphus. I want a real fearesome beast.)
jl
Oops:
And, during football season, should not any genuine and honest and heartfelt Steelers fan regularly post pictures of a fearsome beast named TUNCH? I think SO.
gbear
@The Grand Panjandrum: I just liked how the guy looked so serene as everyone around him went nuts. The lady with the bullhorn just screaming Communism! (or something like it) over and over was pretty good too. I’d like to shake the guys hand and thank him (and pitch in for a sturdier pole).
PaulW
Patrick Swayze is dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Swayze
Cat Lady
@The Grand Panjandrum:
… and Federer lost too. Cats sleeping with dogs!
demkat620
@Cat Lady: Could be armageddon.
Could we get lucky and these people get raptured?
pharniel
pat just got called on the brady rule.
wow.
so far though, been good football.
as a lions fan, i’m always in need of a good football game since i’ll never see one from my home team
The Grand Panjandrum
@gbear: The cop toward the end looked like he was trying to talk him out of going back into the crowd. Probably good advice as some of those folks were getting a bit agitated by the “commie infiltrator.”
slag
@gbear: Love the whole “No public option!” chant. They could have just as well chanted “Down with the people!” or “Insurance companies only!”.
Max
Who is the team announcing the game? I don’t recognize any of the voices. They have quite the mancrush on Brady.
I miss Madden.
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne 8:56 pm
I’m sorry. The interview with the editor was on Fresh Air todday.
The Grand Panjandrum
@slag: Yep. And they can opt out of all that icky gummint healthcare. I’ve been flogging the hell out of Tbogg’s line that that until they start burning their Medicare cards they’re a bunch of fucking posers.
Donald G
@General Winfield Stuck: Is it just me, or does it seem that the various big-name right-wing bloggers (many of whom were Pajamanoids) are now eating each other?
madmommy
@Max:
Jaworski, Gruden and some other dude who’s name I cannot recall. Gruden’s new this year, and he’s starting to get on my nerves. Trying just a bit too hard to be colorful I think.
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne 9:14 pm
Also today.
arguingwithsignposts
the voice on the nfl.com commercial is courtney vance, formerly of law&order:CI. nice voice.
Crashman06
@Max: Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski, and someone else maybe? I never like ESPNs commentators.
The Grand Panjandrum
@SiubhanDuinne: I heard it. It was very interesting. TPM linked to an excerpt from the book. Should be an excellent read.
John Cole
Jaws, Gruden, and the third is Tirico, who is ubiquitous at ESPN. Have you all watched a sporting event in the last decade?
Martin
Oh, in case anyone was wondering, the Gordon Gekkos over at CNBC thought Obama’s speech about financial regulation sucked.
Nobody could have predicted…
Crashman06
@John Cole: Isn’t Gruden new this year?
Josh Huaco
@Donald G:
s it just me, or does it seem that the various big-name right-wing bloggers (many of whom were Pajamanoids) are now eating each other?
I think TBogg once said something to the effect that libertarians are the types of people who start thinking about which of their friends they’ll eat first when the lifeboat sinks three feet off short.
General Winfield Stuck
@Donald G:
Nope it’s not you. It’s the winger purification process. Someone steps out of line and it’s fur and feathers until traitor no more. Kinda like a school of Pirhanas dining on some hapless rodent gone for a swim.
Cat Lady
@demkat620:
They can’t get raptured soon enough, hard enough or fast enough. Imagine Tea Tard heaven. Infinite FAIL.
Tirico and Jaws are great, Gruden meh.
Max
@John Cole: Ummm… my Bills don’t pay a lot of prime time games, so this is a little new to me.
Bitchy much?
:)
gbear
@The Grand Panjandrum: Yep. The cop looked like he’d had enough. Who ever filmed it deserves a beer on the house too. The whole thing was really well executed.
joe from Lowell
Oh, in case anyone was wondering, the Gordon Gekkos over at CNBC thought Obama’s speech about financial regulation sucked.
Thank God.
Martin
ESPN broadcasts sports? I thought they just talked incessantly and back-seat quarterbacked?
elmiraguy
@Dave C:
Steeplejack
@JK:
Carroll was 60.
Leelee for Obama
@joe from Lowell: Full of win!
slag
@The Grand Panjandrum: I couldn’t agree more. Their new slogan: Burn, baby, burn. I think that would apply to a lot of things for them.
Morbo
@John Cole: Three cheers for no more Kornheiser. Particularly if there is going to be a Cleveland game on, who wants to listen to him give Brady Quinn another tongue bath.
Little Macayla's Friend
Bitsy is already at 750 votes on day two of this week!
Steeplejack
@jl:
I want a real fearsome beast.
Maybe all white, with beige “devil horn” marks on its head, and a steely, “take no prisoners” gaze? Where would one find such a beast? Hmm . . .
madmommy
@John Cole:
I could see his face, just couldn’t recall his name. He is everywhere on ESPN, to the point of blending into the wallpaper.
I also miss Madden.
elmiraguy
I meant to say thanks for linking to that Chait article. The quotes in there were beyond belief, with von Mises narrowly taking the prize for most disgusting human being against a very competitive field. I’ve always loved that Atlas Shrugged came out in ’57, a full dozen years after anyone who believed in the ubermensch should have already been banished from the Earth.
Max
I have to commend my Bills’ defense. They are doing a good job in the red zone.
JK
@arguingwithsignposts:
When you stop to think of the writers and artists who attained immortality through thru their writings, musical compositions, etc, it’s amazing how incredibly short their lives were (the legion of rock and jazz musicians who died young is so well known I didn’t even bother to list them) –
Christopher Marlowe – 29
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -35
Jane Austen – 42
Charlotte Bronte – 38
Emily Bronte – 30
Anne Bronte – 29
Lord Byron -36
Percy Shelley -29
John Keats – 25
Felix Mendelssohn – 38
Frederic Chopin – 39
Henry David Thoreau – 44
Stephen Crane – 28
DH Lawrence – 44
Hart Crane – 32
F. Scott Fitzgerald – 44
Thomas Wolfe – 37
Sylvia Plath – 30
Anne Sexton – 45
Jackson Pollock – 44
Jack Kerouac – 47
George Orwell – 46
John Cole
@Max: Sorry, man, For some reason I have been really tired and really crabby today.
Then that Reason video just soured me on the internet.
DemonDem
Gruden may well be trying too hard, buy ANYTHING is better than Tony Kornheiser – that guy was almost irritating enough to make me give up my Monday Night Football. Or at least to watch it with the mute button on. Funny thing is I don’t mind him elsewhere on the teevee, just keep him away from MNF…
Donald G
JK
@gnomedad:
Revisit Pachelbel’s Rant as often as possible. It’s brilliant and never fails to impress me.
Cat Lady
@JK:
The flame that burns twice as bright lasts half as long. Or something.
Max
@John Cole: No problem, lady.
Say three cheers for the Bills as penance.
P.S. – I’m a girl. we should be able to pick pink or blue for our names so we know who we’re talking to.
John Cole
@JK: And Dick Armey will probably live until 80.
The Grand Panjandrum
@John Cole: You’re just waiting for that Bills defense to start playing with their hands around their throats.
General Winfield Stuck
@Max:
I would make Cole apologize on the floor of the House, or his front porch whichever is closest. We can’t let these things become habit. Think of BJ Decorum beatches!!
JK
@DemonDem:
I’d take Tony Kornheiser any day of the week over the breathtakingly smug and obnoxious Dennis Miller.
gbear
@John Cole: Hopefully he’ll finally go to jail by the time he’s 75.
JK
@Cat Lady:
That’s a great line, I’d completely forgotten. Sad, but all too often true.
General Winfield Stuck
@Max:
We can only hope that Mr. Cole will once again start reading his own blog. Everyone else knew this factoid.
Comrade Mary
So is the Daily Show back tonight, or is it still reruns?
If it’s reruns, I need to make myself some cake, then I’ll cry a little.
slag
@Max: No gender role cliches, please. If it’s so important to you for people to know your gender, pick something girly. Like Ms. Max or something.
The Grand Panjandrum
Riehl titties!
Steeplejack
@JK:
Keep in mind that before the 20th century almost everyone died “young,” at least as we would construe it today.
It’s cold out there for a medieval pimp.
arguingwithsignposts
@Comrade Mary:
it’s been three weeks. they are back. but there’s not enough time for teh stupid.
Steeplejack
@John Cole:
Just go punch someone in the neck and you’ll feel better.
Or–perhaps a better idea–give Lily a little skritch.
Max
@slag: We could add “yellow” for those that wish to be mysterious.
—-
The jets just flew over my house for the fly-by at the Raider game. I forgot there was another game tonight.
Comrade Mary
@arguingwithsignposts: Yay! I think I’ll have some cake to celebrate!
JK
@John Cole:
Another reason for me not to believe in God. He’ll extinguish the lives of so many amazing writers, musicians, painters, etc well before their natural lifespan while lowlifes like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Glenn Reynolds, Rush Limbaugh, Eric Cantor, etc will most likely all celebrate their 80th birthday.
JK
@Comrade Mary:
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are back.
freelancer
@John Cole:
Dick Armey’s younger than 80? It’s interrobang time ?!
General Winfield Stuck
@JK:
Mean and crazy dies hard!
JK
15 MINUTES TO THE SERIES DEBUT OF THE JAY LENO SHOW
Does anyone care?
arguingwithsignposts
@JK:
don’t forget scalia, roberts, alito, and thomas, who will actually make an impact.
The Grand Panjandrum
@JK: Be still my heart.
JK
@Steeplejack:
“Medieval pimp” – I like that phrase.
freelancer
@arguingwithsignposts:
Stevens is retiring, Ginsburg has pancreatic cancer.
Have I mentioned that I am an atheist?
JK
@arguingwithsignposts:
You’re absolutely right. I was simply thinking of all the miserable wingnut SOBs who drive the news cycle on a daily basis.
Leelee for Obama
In honor of the too soon gone: Edna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But, oh my foes and oh, my friends
It gives a lovely light
I think of this poem often, For some reason, I find it very comforting.
IndyLib
Jonah Goldberg twits that all of America’s problems are the fault of Seven of Nine and Mike Ditka.
I understand the Jeri Ryan reference but does anybody know what the hell Mike Ditka is supposed to have done?
viaTBogg
John Cole
Second crew will be good, too. Mike and Mike and Steve.
General Winfield Stuck
@IndyLib:
Gawd, have they no shame. 7 of 9, the righteously hot Jeri Ryan, the borg babe. This strikes right at the heart DFH existence.
And Mike Ditka can eat pickles for all I care.
Martin
Everyone is an atheist. Some are just better at it than others.
gbear
@IndyLib: Mike Ditka’s widows peak was enough on it’s own to cause half the worlds problems.
The Grand Panjandrum
@IndyLib: Her husband dropped out of the race against Obama when he ran for Senate. Ditka was rumored as a replacement candidate but they got Alan Keyes.
Crashman06
Bills fumble on the return, with 2 minutes left. One last chance!
JK
OMFG
Rachel Maddow just mentioned Creation, the new film about Charles Darwin that is having trouble finding a US distributor.
Cat Lady
OK, this game just got really interesting.
General Winfield Stuck
@John Cole:
Sounds like Glen Beck’s secret dream.
John Cole
@Max: Blerg. There are known knowns…
Cat Lady
@John Cole:
Steve Young? I like Steve Young and Mike Golic. Greenie meh.
The Grand Panjandrum
Ruh-roh. Bills got the hands tightly clutched around their own throat.
Bostondreams
Oh wow. Let’s hope we see some Brady magic here!
JenJen
Just got home, turned on the TV, saw the score, and said, “Oh, my!”
And it would appear the Pats have the ball again. As if on cue, the thread is already here. Sorry I missed this game so far!
John Cole
@The Grand Panjandrum: Jesus. I seriously think we need a government program to get these wingnuts laid, that way we will not have to deal with Palin, Bachman and the rest of these nuts.
Crashman06
TOUCHDOWN!
JK
JAY LENO IS ON NOW – WOW
For your grandkids, mark down where you were and what you were doing at this historic moment in broadcast history.
Cat Lady
@Bostondreams:
That’s what you’re talking about!
IndyLib
@General Winfield Stuck:
Again with the wingnut sexual proclivities. I honestly can’t believe they don’t understand how creepy they sounds.
I still want to know what Ditka has supposedly done to ruin America, I meant the guy is a dick but the Repugs usually like that about people.
Ash
Brady getting it done.
SUCK ON THAT BITCHES.
Ahem.
John Cole
Bradrocket and the Poorman are going to be unbearable.
Kevin
@JK:
huh? It’s 7:00 PM.
arguingwithsignposts
god i hate the patriots. one more reason i’m an atheist.
Comrade Darkness
Man, being a Bills fan must really really suck. More so than I thought previously, and I grew up a Lions fan.
Midnight Marauder
@John Cole:
Second crew will be good, too. Mike and Mike and Steve.
Dear god, no!
While Mike and Mike are consistently horrendous with their terrible talk show, they always find a new way to be extra awful when they’re in the booth. And Mike Greenberg is such a WATB.
Steve Young, however, always brings the goods.
IndyLib
@The Grand Panjandrum:
Thanks, I knew what the Jeri Ryan part was about, but not about Ditka and I was living in Chicagoland when it happened.
Martin
If you’re an atheist, why are you telling God about it?
Comrade Darkness
@John Cole: Maybe in the future we can assume robots will take care of this and politics will be so much nicer once every one is getting some kind of tail every night.
Corner Stone
Did I just see a backup QB for the Bills named HAMDAN? Man, that was one hell of a USSC Ruling!
freelancer
@Comrade Darkness:
Shorter Future Wingnut:
“No mom, I’d rather stay here and make out with my Marilyn MonRobot.”
arguingwithsignposts
@Martin: LOL good one.
Comrade Darkness
@Martin: I assumed it was God in the biblical sense of the word.
Corner Stone
I used to think Gruden was crazy but a pretty good coach. This broadcast has disabused me of that notion.
General Winfield Stuck
@IndyLib:
I clicked on the article but said nah, no need to create a need for brain bleach later. Some of them, especially Pantloads, come up with this weird shit, I think just to get people to read
their drivel, sort of like dangling a bloody towel to draw in the curious and the crazy.
“Deliver us From Evil” “Godless liberals” “Liberal Fascists” the whole dog whistling the Regenry crowd always with a promise for more blood and hate. And profit.
Crashman06
Wooho. Stole a win.
Midnight Marauder
That lateral free-for-all went on WAAAAAYYYY too long.
Cat Lady
That was some crazy ass shit right there.
Doctor Cleveland
@John Cole: Palin, Coulter, et al aren’t about actually getting laid. They’re about feminine beauty as a confirmation of status. They confirm the wingnuts’ alpha-male fantasies, on the principle that alpha males attract sexy women.
It’s true, individual wingnuts may need some lovin’, and feel too many starbursts for Sarah, but figures like Palin & Coulter meet another psychological need.
In other news:
The kid who fumbled better hope the Pats don’t win the Superbowl, or that fumble will be on NFL films.
The Grand Panjandrum
@John Cole: Hhhhmmmm gummint sex panels. Who could possibly be against that?
James K Polk, Esq.
Tom Brady is the most dislikable QB ever.
freelancer
@Midnight Marauder:
I fucking hate those plays even when I’m rooting for them. “C’mon guys, give it a rest…”
Josh Huaco
@IndyLib:
At least they didn’t call them ‘thingies,’ a la Beavis and Butthead.
Max
I hate the Patriots.
Cat Lady
@James K Polk, Esq.:
Why?
Corner Stone
I’ll just never understand why a so-called leftie agitating show like Countdown would ask Fineman then Page to commentate. David’s doing his best to incite a little harumph from these two and they are the very definition of milqy toast centrist/rightie appeasers.
Ash
@James K Polk, Esq.: He is actually one of the nicest people ever (speaking as someone who’s met him multiple times) but if the fact that he’s the best damn ever makes him dislikable, that’s all good with me.
Morbo
@John Cole: See, that’s just bad economics. If you start a government program to get wingnuts laid, all you’re going to get is millions of people claiming to be wingnuts.
Brady looked like he learned some interview techniques from his college coach.
General Winfield Stuck
@James K Polk, Esq.:
Not to me. I think he’s a class act. And might even be a democrat.
arguingwithsignposts
@Ash:
he is a product of a system. put him somewhere else and he’d be laughable. he’s not the best ever. let him play for the lions and see how he does.
McGeorge Bundy
Brady > Roethlisberger
freelancer
@Morbo:
Not if all the robots look like chunky Reese Witherspoons.
John Cole
I actually only hate the Patriots because they abused the Steelers so often. I do think that Brady throws hissy fits at his receivers a lot, but he has stopped doing that as much the last couple of years.
The coach is pure filth.
Midnight Marauder
@James K Polk, Esq.:
Tom BradyBrett Favre is the most dislikable QB ever.Fixed. For you. Etc.
MoeLarryAndJesus
Just wait until Brady shakes off the rust.
Just wait.
:)
Comrade Jake
Anyone seen what Kanye had to say about Swayze passing?
Comrade Darkness
@General Winfield Stuck: I love tom brady. I’d, well, he probably wouldn’t be interested, but … anyway.
I love tom brady. I’ve followed his career since he was a wee lad.
JK
@Midnight Marauder:
Would you honestly prefer Dennis Miller?
Mike Greenberg, Mike Golic, and Jon Gruden all have their shortcomings, but Dennis Miller is far and away the absolute worst person to ever sit in the Monday Night Football broadcast booth.
Max
For a Bills fan, sometimes it seems like every game is wide right.
General Winfield Stuck
Not the best ever, that would be Elway IMO, but he is very good, especially the last 2 minutes of a close game. That is the measure, and Elway time and again demonstrated his mastery at that. And even a couple of times again my Browns.
As much as I hate to admit it, Bradshaw was high up in that club as well.
MoeLarryAndJesus
The Patriots abused the Steelers during the Cowher years because Cowher was one of the most overrated coaches in NFL history. Belichick against Cowher was like Tyson vs. Cooney.
Also, Kordell Stewart. (snicker)
McGeorge Bundy
@John Cole: The coach is pure
filthgenius.freelancer
@JK:
It could be worse, we may yet see Joe Rogan.
Comrade Darkness
@Crashman06: If you mean “stole” in the sense of accepted the gift wrapped package thrust into your hands . . . then sure, it was stolen.
arguingwithsignposts
i thought i’d seen the last of the crossover baseball/football fields. oakland sucks.
Midnight Marauder
@arguingwithsignposts:
he is a product of a system. put him somewhere else and he’d be laughable. he’s not the best ever. let him play for the lions and see how he does.
Now that is entirely intellectually dishonest. That “system,” as you call it, is one that he partially helped to created and sustain. Brady has been just as integral to the development of the Patriots this decade as has Bellichick and Pioli (the GM). It’s not like he’s some gunslinger coming out of Texas Tech or another mid-major college football program.
And for the record, who do you think finally got the front office to invest in a big-time receiving corp after the Patriots lost to the Colts in the AFC championship back in 2007? You don’t think Brady was behind them going out and stealing Moss from the Raiders and Welker from the Dolphins?
You can hate the man, but at the very least show a little respect for the accomplishments. I loathe Peyton Manning, but damned if I don’t have to acknowledge that he’s one of the greatest. And by your logic, he’s nothing more than a “product of a system” as well.
HRA
I can’t stand Brady no matter who he plays against.
It was a good game until the end. The end that I could not stand to watch.
That’s what I did during the famous game against Houston until I was called back by the cheering.
Go Bills Go Steelers
Ash
@Comrade Jake: And speaking of, Obama called Kanye a jackass, LMFAO, off the record of course.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/
Corner Stone
@freelancer: At least Rogan is funny. Ever seen his stand up live? Dude can bring it.
Miller sucked 360degree ass. He could teach those Kabul Embassy contractors a thing or two.
Midnight Marauder
@JK:
Would you honestly prefer Dennis Miller?
Mike Greenberg, Mike Golic, and Jon Gruden all have their shortcomings, but Dennis Miller is far and away the absolute worst person to ever sit in the Monday Night Football broadcast booth.
No, Dennis Miller was a trainwreck. However, that doesn’t negate how terrible Mike & Mike are. But yes, he is a first-ballot hall of famer in terms of the worst people to ever sit in a MNF booth.
Crashman06
@Comrade Darkness: I’ll take that. Good thing that return guy didn’t take the touchback.
Cat Lady
@arguingwithsignposts:
Every quarterback is a system quarterback. What makes Brady special is he’s totally cool under pressure – he has said that the game slows down for him when it’s the most intense. That’s his gift. Think Peyton Manning with his happy feet for all those years of p0wnag3 in Foxboro, and all of those games Brady marched his team down the field when it was really fucking cold. Washington crossing the Delaware River cold. Oh, and he’s good looking. Also, too.
John Cole
Wow. Greenie is horrid.
Updated with Tunch pic for you kids.
The Dangerman
@IndyLib: Because if there is anything we need, it’s a U.S. Senator stupid enough to take his smoking hot wife to sex clubs against her wishes.
Jack Ryan’s IQ has to be smaller than the length of his erect tool…
JK
@Midnight Marauder:
Favre is the most unlikable QB in the NFL and Bill Belichick is easily the most unlikable head coach in the NFL.
Ash
@Cat Lady: Also, his wife is a supermodel. Also.
General Winfield Stuck
Looks like you had to wake the Tunchster up for that one.
John Cole
@Midnight Marauder: Not a MNF crew member, but no one was worse than Jerry Glanville. No one.
Randy Cross is close.
You know who has shocked me- Collinsworth. He has been great the two games I heard him this year, and has a great chemistry with Al.
Betsy
TUNCH!
Ahem. I missed him.
JK
@The Dangerman:
Is Jack Ryan’s IQ smaller than Mariano Rivera’s career earned run average?
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman:
Which no one may ever know seeing as he couldn’t get it up with her crying and all…
John Cole
@Ash: Kanye IS a jackass.
arguingwithsignposts
@Midnight Marauder:
bullshit. he was drafted in the sixth round. the sixth fucking round. watch them play that little drop and catch routine. he didn’t help create that system. he lived off of it. again, put him on the lions and see how he does.
He doesn’t deserve to sniff Manning’s shoes. Or Bradshaws, for that matter.
Comrade Jake
@Ash:
I can totally imagine Obama saying “jackass”. Oh man I wish someone had caught that on film.
Ash
@John Cole: I wonder when we can expect an “OBAMA HATES BLACK PEOPLE TOOO!!!!!111!!!1!!!!!!!!!!” screed.
freelancer
@Corner Stone:
His standup is funny, the show he did for Netflix and Showtime, where he ripped the premise from Idiocracy and set it our ancient past was great. But the guy is unbearable as a personality in the MMA world. I’ve watched like 10 total fights in my life and I know more about the sport than he does. Guy just talks out of his goddamned ass.
Also, aside from comedy, the dude never met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like. He actually debated Phil Plait on the radio about the Moon Landing Hoax.
Sometimes, I can suspend disbelief or dislike of an entertainer if their benefits outweigh my concerns (ie Bill Hicks still is a personal hero to me even though he believed in UFOs and that hallucinogenic drugs sped up Evolution) but Rogan propagates abject Bullshit.
Comrade Darkness
@freelancer: I was thinking of the robot sex as a cure for something like Malkin, who I can only assume never gets any. She’s too strung out and uptight for any other plausible explanation. As to republican men needing to get laid more and therefore make the world a better place… eh, most probably can buy what they need. There is always a ready market to serve the need. And they have the money. Karl Rove I’d say is an exception, but I’d flag him as the “must preserve my vital essences” type, so robots wouldn’t help with that.
You know, this is me without any alcohol. I don’t think this is a good thing.
IndyLib
@General Winfield Stuck:
Ahhhh, those were the days.
I miss the fact that we could be 14 points down with 4 minutes left in the game and we always knew we still had a good shot at winning because Elway had the ability to pull it off.
schrodinger's cat
I iz on Ur futon, plotting Ur demise
JK
NBC just ran a commercial for This Is It, the new Michael Jackson film. Will the entertainment industry ever stop exploiting Jackson?
Anne Laurie
@John Cole:
Jaysus, Jawn, what kind of a grudge do you have against professional sex workers? I’m told it’s a tough enough career path without having to spend time with Jonah Goldberg, especially since a metered hour with Le Pantload sur Dough would involve 3 minutes of “activity” and 47 minutes of listening to him whine about how the liberal fascists stole his parking space. Or trying not to roll one’s eyes while Jonah bitches about his rich wife, who must’ve done something to inspire him to trash his adolescent spanker-fantasy, such as maybe point out certain disequalities in their little Randian all-pleasures-should-be-economically-valued paradise.
slag
@John Cole:
Excellent! And he looks so happy to be here.
Midnight Marauder
@John Cole:
Not a MNF crew member, but no one was worse than Jerry Glanville. No one.
Randy Cross is close.
You know who has shocked me- Collinsworth. He has been great the two games I heard him this year, and has a great chemistry with Al.
Wow, I had forgotten about Glanville, but you’re right. That guy was an abomination to broadcasting.
And as for Collinsworth, he’s been one of those “best kept secrets” for years now. Pre-game show, Inside The NFL, or in the booth, the guy is hands-down the best in the game. No one brings the kinds of analysis and insights that he delivers, and certainly not anywhere with the same consistency. And you’re right, he and Al Michaels have amazing chemisty. Really, they’re the only redeeming aspect about NBC’s SNF.
I know some people are a bit misty-eyed over Madden retiring, but I was hoping he would step aside years ago because I knew Collinsworth would take his spot.
Comrade Jake
Just tuned into Leno’s show. Eyes-bleeding terrible. Not that that wasn’t completely predictable.
schrodinger's cat
Shorter Tunch: Respect my authoriteh
General Winfield Stuck
@IndyLib:
I just wished he hadn’t done it to the Brownies.
arguingwithsignposts
talk about sucking. norv turner is teh suck.
Comrade Darkness
@Ash: This list of contradictory screeds doesn’t hurt them. No one on the right tries to rationalize the big picture, by definition.
reminds me of this John Maguire for some reason…
freelancer
@Comrade Jake:
Was it this terrible?
Genine
Yay! Tunch! *nums*
Also, I agree that Kanye can act like a serious jackass at times.
Max
Go Raiders! Supportin’ the hometown crew.
ellie
That cat has fancy paws.
Corner Stone
@freelancer: I was in Vegas once and he was there to do a couple shows and the local radio had him on and he was taking calls.
Can’t remember what conspiracy he was detailing but it was some funny stuff the way he interspersed it into a moving dialogue with the callers they were taking.
Don’t know if I read the piece I heard wrong, or maybe I just think his comedy is sharp.
Anyway, not arguing he may or may not be 99/100ths the jackass that Miller is, but the saving 1/100th is that at least I find his comedy funny.
Crashman06
@Comrade Jake: NBC is making a big mistake with this experiment.
freelancer
@Corner Stone:
I think we can agree there, cause even though I think he’s a complete jackass personally, his stand up is really really funny.
Comrade Jake
As if to complete the circle-jerk, Kanye is now on my teevee. On Leno’s new show.
Midnight Marauder
@arguingwithsignposts:
talk about sucking. norv turner is teh suck.
Nothing new there.
schrodinger's cat
Is it an optical illusion or has Tunch actually lost some weight, he looks skinnier.
JK
@Midnight Marauder: @John Cole:
Worst Announcing Performance Ever, Bar None, if you can find it on the Internets – A few years ago, NY sports talk show hosts Mike Francesa and Chris Mad Dog Russo called a NY Mets game.
KRK
Not falling for that, Cole. Unless the Tunch photo has a dated newspaper or some other proof that you’re not just recycling old photos, the vigil continues.
dand
1 – I am a Pats fan and like Brady but please kill that video.
2 – I will admit to being worried about those jerseys. I grew up in NY watching the Bills kick the Pats around in those Jerseys, I really did not need a throw back.
The Grand Panjandrum
GOP! Schififty five! With Rush on drums!
James K Polk, Esq.
I have never forgiven Tom Brady for the “tuck rule” game. Never will.
slag
@KRK: Nobody puts Tunch in a corner.
General Winfield Stuck
Speaking on no class. Confederate Yankee re posts the discredited Obama pic falsely portraying Obama oggling a 15 year old young woman. He actually was helping another woman down the steps.
But since it was in his post about ACORN pimps, it was no doubt germaine to the topic in the wingnut mind.
These low life bastards never quit with the sex and race stuff.
Comrade Mary
I actually gasped with delight when I saw the picture of Tunch. I think I’ll have some cake to celebrate.
Corner Stone
This reminds me that I like Steve Young in small doses. Small Doses.
IndyLib
@General Winfield Stuck:
Well, sure, cuz you lost.
I watched that game in an airport bar in Albuquerque. Southwest ended up comping me $158 bucks for giving up my seat on 2 flights to Phoenix. So basically I got paid to stay and watch the end of that game.
JK
@Crashman06: @Comrade Jake:
The Jay Leno Show has to be the biggest Hail Mary pass ever thrown by a television network to shake up its programming schedule. I can’t think of anything that comes remotely close.
I wonder how much time David Letterman will spend ripping into NBC’s new show? Will he just go after Leno tonight or will he rip into the show all week?
freelancer
@The Grand Panjandrum:
saw this over the weekend. David Lynch vs. Tbogg vs. Neutral Milk Hotel vs. Weird Al.
laughed but was very meh.
Max
I have to admit, the games this week have all been really good. From the Thursday night game to tonight’s games, with the Denver, Chicago, etc. games in between.
Parity! That’s why the NFL is the greatest sport in the land.
arguingwithsignposts
watching F__k the documentary right now instead of football. so kill me.
valdivia
I don’t know if anyone has linked to [url=http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/wealthcare-0]this[/url] yet but it is truly a must read take down of Rand. Enjoy!
valdivia
oops bad tag sorry.
here: http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/wealthcare-0
freelancer
@arguingwithsignposts:
any fucking good?
JK
Corner Stone, freelancer
I’ll take Denis Leary any day of the week over Dennis Miller and Joe Rogan.
Midnight Marauder
@JK:
I wonder how much time David Letterman will spend ripping into NBC’s new show? Will he just go after Leno tonight or will he rip into the show all week?
Letterman has been ridiculing NBC, Leno, and the 10 PM slot in general for weeks now. A constant barrage of comments and snipes during show after show. He can barely contain his glee.
But seriously, what a transparently desperate move by NBC. “Please, Mr. Leno, don’t go to ABC or any of those other silly networks! Whatever you want, we’ll give it to you! Money, an ill-fated primetime talk show that’s barely different from the one you hosted before and that’s going to undercut our bright young star taking your place on your old show. Whatever you want, we’ll give it to you!”
arguingwithsignposts
@freelancer:
so far, so f**king good! “it’s a brilliant word” – billy connolly
joe from Lowell
1. Ha ha, Brady rulez. I love being a Patriots fan. When you find your team down by two scores with 4 minutes left, you know what thought runs through your head? “OK, now watch this.” And I won my fantasy game.
2. I’d roll around on Chunky Reese Witherspoon like a cat with a skin condition on a gravelly sidewalk.
2a. Ain’t nothing wrong with the big beautiful girls. Nothing at all.
3. Rush Limbaugh used to do Monday Night Football, so count your damn blessings.
4. You want terrible? I watched the first Chevy Chase Show live. Before the fish tank turned cloudy, even.
Cat Lady
@James K Polk, Esq.:
Because he jedi mind tricked the refs to bend their judgment to his will in a blinding snowstorm? Dude, it was his fate that the refs ruled his way. He didn’t invent the tuck rule. He’s a nice guy who took the luck that broke his way and became great.
valdivia
ps love tunch.
arguingwithsignposts
@JK:
You’re an assh_le!
Dilbatt
I admit it – I have PDS. Patriot Derangement Syndrome. I can’t believe that the Bills choked like that and gave the @%&*()_) Pats a chance to win. :-(
Corner Stone
@JK: Can only take one of his bits before I’ve had enough and need a change of pace.
Personally, as far as right now, I can watch Katt Williams Pimpin’ Pimpin’ over and over and over again.
Ash Can
@The Grand Panjandrum: Yeah, it’s Jeri Ryan’s fault that her ex is a dick. Sure. Typical Goldberg — the manly RW man can’t possibly be at fault; it’s gotta be the girl. Putz.
As for Ditka, I’m thinking he was overcome by a burst of common sense. All of Bears fandom respects him to this day for being Da Coach of Da Bears. If he were to run for office and parade his RW dickitude for all to see, an awful lot of that lovely, marketable good will would go poof. I think he ultimately realized this, and I think it was a wise move on his part.
Corner Stone
I’m more than a little annoyed with the tack Steve Young keeps trying to drive home about the Raiders head coach “getting back to fundamentals” and all the tripe he’s pushing with it.
WTF? You’re telling me the org is paying these grown men millyuns and millyuns of scratch EACH and they can’t grasp the whole “only one man in motion” theme? They don’t know how to block? They don’t know how to play football?
Then why the F are you paying them?
If this is one of those middle age white guy camps then just call it, but stop selling me on this getting back to fundamentals BS.
The Dangerman
@JK: I was measuring it in meters.
JK
@Max:
I love football as much as the next guy, but what have you got against BASEBALL?
If the MLB could just do the following:
1. Impose a salary cap to take away the incredibly unfair advantage the NY Yankees have over all the other major league teams
2. Force the NL to adopt the DH rule to correct the imbalance between the 2 leagues
3. Use instant replay for plays at home plate
Baseball would be close to perfect
arguingwithsignposts
WTF? Leary was on Beck?
Midnight Marauder
@joe from Lowell:
3. Rush Limbaugh used to do Monday Night Football, so count your damn blessings.
Umm, not so much. He worked for ESPN’s Sunday Countdown pre-game show, but that was still when MNF was on ABC and ESPN was doing Sunday Night Football. He was never actually in the booth, and ESPN’s ill-fated experiment with the Fat Devil was quickly aborted. The man only lasted a few weeks, mainly because his idiocy was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
But I will count my blessings that he opened his mouth and got everyone to hate him (as per usual) within a month of getting the job.
freelancer
@JK:
Leary is dead to me.
Stand-up has one rule: Don’t Plagiarize.
from Leary’s Wikipedia page:
For many years, Leary had been friends with fellow comedian Bill Hicks. However, when Hicks heard Leary’s No Cure for Cancer, he felt Leary had stolen his act and material. Hicks famously told an interviewer: “I have a scoop for you. I stole his (Leary’s) act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did”.[17]
The friendship ended abruptly as a result.[18] At least three stand-up comedians have gone on the record stating they believe Leary stole not just some of Hicks’ material but also his persona and attitude.[18][19][20][21] One similar routine was about the band Judas Priest, during which Hicks specifically says “I don’t think we lost a cancer cure.”
During a 2003 roast of Denis Leary, comedian Lenny Clarke, a friend of Leary’s, said there was a carton of cigarettes backstage from Bill Hicks with the message, “Wish I had gotten these to you sooner.” This joke was cut from the final broadcast.[22]
The controversy surrounding plagiarism is also mentioned in American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story, by Cynthia True:
Leary was in Montreal to host the “Nasty Show,” at Club Soda, and Colleen was coordinating the talent so she was standing backstage when she heard Leary doing material that sounded incredibly similar to old Hicks riffs, including his perennial Jim Fixx joke: (“Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut dude. The plot thickens.”). When Leary came offstage, Colleen, more stunned than angry, said, “Hey, you know that’s Bill Hicks’ material! Do you know that’s his material?” Leary stood there, stared at her without saying a word and briskly left the dressing room.[23]
She reportedly said, upon hearing a tape of Leary’s album No Cure for Cancer, “Bill was furious. All these years, aside from the occasional jibe, he had pretty much shrugged off Leary’s lifting. Comedians borrowed, stole stuff and even bought bits from one another. Milton Berle and Robin Williams were famous for it. This was different. Leary had, practically line for line, taken huge chunks of Bill’s act and recorded it.”
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Don’t want to start a threadjack, to each his own and all that, and I think there’s a reason he moved into acting and isn’t doing much standup anymore.
Ash Can
BTW, I could swear Tunch is flipping us off in that photo. Discreetly, though.
General Winfield Stuck
@IndyLib:
Sticks tongue out at Indylib.:o)
Max
@ JK – Baseball? meh. I’ve never lived in a baseball town. (I say that as I currently live in Oakland).
Music Rec for the BJ Crew….
New Pearl Jam “The Fixer”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxDwU_SpiMI
I love Eddie Vedder.
Corner Stone
Regarding cold leftovers:
The argument could be made that there are many choices *as good* as Chik Fil A nuggets, but I defy anyone to make the case that there is something *better* than Chik Fil A cold leftover nuggets.
I guess what I’m saying is I like the nuggets. I like to put them in my mouth.
HRA
Great pic of Tunch! I feel better now.
Ash Can
@JK: Fuck the DH. The AL can dump the goddamned DH and go back to playing real baseball, instead of that tricked-up company-league softball shite.
2liberal
@JK:
Which number is smaller? The total number of IQ points of every single teabagger who attended the Washington DC rally or the career earned run average of Marianno Rivera?
the career era of Papelbon.
freelancer
@arguingwithsignposts:
You should see this vid produced by Channel 4 in the UK with celebs from different areas saying their favorite swear words.
Seeing Derren Brown say “CUNT!” and then John Spencer from West Wing say “Fuck!” is great.
JK
@arguingwithsignposts:
This is heresy. Nobody I like has any damn business going on Glenn Beck’s tv show.
Denis Leary is dead to me now.
@Freelancer
You’re right. Plagarism in comedy is terrible. However, If you did a Patrick Fitzgerald scale investigation, I think you’d find that many comedians have been guilty of plagarism to varying degrees. Milton Berle and Robin Williams have both been accused of plagarism.
IndyLib
@General Winfield Stuck:
Returns a smug grin. :}
Wile E. Quixote
@John Cole
JK
@Ash Can:
I couldn’t bear the thought of no DH in baseball. Pitchers are specialists, who have no absolutely no business whatsoever swinging a bat.
The DH should have been in existence in both the AL and NL 50 years ago.
Pitchers are automatic outs. It’s time for the NL to come out of the Dark Ages and adopt the DH immediately.
Midnight Marauder
@JK:
You’re right. Plagarism in comedy is terrible. However, If you did a Patrick Fitzgerald scale investigation, I think you’d find that many comedians have been guilty of plagarism to varying degrees. Milton Berle and Robin Williams have both been accused of plagarism.
True, but speaking as a stand-up comedian (not like it gives me any great authority, but still), Leary’s case in one of the all-time most egregious examples of joke thievery. It’s almost like how Dane Cook and Carlos Mencia are today’s most notorious joke thieves.
Except a million times worse because Leary ripped off a legend. Those two toolbags just took from anyone and everyone. The reason people hated (and continue to hate) Leary is that he catapult to superstardom not only because he took Hicks’ material, but mainly because he blatantly stole his persona.
That’s the real unforgivable crime there.
Wile E. Quixote
@schrodinger’s cat
It’s an optical illusion caused by gravitational lensing.
freelancer
@JK:
Robin Williams is famous for it to the point where other comedians won’t go on if he’s in the audience. However he tends to be so spastic and free associating that he twists material he borrows, ie his 2002 live HBO special borrows heavily from Hicks, Izzard, Seinfeld, David Cross, however they weren’t mad because he took their premises but went for varying punchlines. No Cure for Cancer is almost verbatim a ripoff of material from Hicks’ first two albums.
I won’t ask that you stop watching Rescue Me, just burn his standup.
arguingwithsignposts
hicks is teh awesome. i think we can all agree on this point. Even david letterman agreed.
JK
@freelancer:
I apologize for not reading your full post before responding. For some reason, I’m sort of willing to let Denis Leary, Milton Berle, and Robin Williams slide regarding plagarism allegations.
Thanks to arguingwithsignposts – I am excommunicating Denis Leary from my pantheon of comedy heroes because he has committed the cardinal sin of going on the Glenn Beck show. Good Riddance Denis Leary. You no longer exist as far as I’m concerned.
Cat Lady
I’ve been trying to play teh Brady vid since it was posted and I still can’t. WHat is it?
freelancer
After all his material on albums, in bootlegs, his bit on Charlie Hodge in the UK Brighton bootleg has me in tears every time I hear it.
“‘…I’m caught in a trap.’ That’s a doorway, Elvis, take some speed buddy.
‘Sonny, Red, I’m caught in the portals of Graceland. Get the crowbar and the butter ‘n Pop me.'”
ninerdave
@Max:
Me too, however Steve Young is not that bad.
I guess I have to root for Brady this year, he’s on my FF league.
Brick Oven Bill
Re: ‘A Jackass’
At Balloon Juice, we were first informed that Kanye West was a jackass. This is also known at high levels of government, but the data is highly classified:
“In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview. This was done before our editorial process had been completed. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again.”
Shhhhh.
freelancer
@JK:
No need, we’re good.
ninerdave
Oh and why defenses still run the prevent is beyond me.
arguingwithsignposts
Just for the laughs, bill bailey and billy bragg.
JK
@Midnight Marauder: @freelancer:
Given your comments, it really sucks that Bill Hicks doesn’t have wider name recognition.
Someone with clout, like Martin Scorcese, should make a documentary about Hicks to let the younger generation know who he was.
Max
@ninerdave: With a name like “NinerDave”, I am shocked that you dig Steve Young… :)
Speaking of the Bay Area, the Raiders surprisingly don’t suck tonight.
It sure is a beautiful night in Oakland.
jl
I have never been a Leary fan, in anything. I actively dislike the dude’s comedy and acting.
But in that clip I think Leary was on 2007 CNN Beck, which was bad enough, but nothing like the Fox Beck.
So Leary is not ‘dead to me’ (though effectively he is, since I will not voluntariy watch him in anything).
Leary is far better at everything than Dennis Miller, though, who I found unwatchable back when he was doing SNL.
jl
@ninerdave: Maybe Madden could buy out Davis and be a good owner/coach. Raiduhs is up. Actually moving forward more often than back, and scored points! Prideunpoise, etc etc.
JK
@jl:
I love Rescue Me, but Leary going on Glenn Beck’s show, whether it be the CNN version or the Fox News version, is flat out unacceptable to me. Beck is a malignant media carcinogen and Leary should be ashamed of himself for giving that asshole the time of day.
freelancer
@JK:
There’s is a biopic of him in development hell that Russell Crowe is attached to.
Thing is, I can see it.
I just hope its as good and edgy as Dustin Hoffman was as Lenny Bruce in Bob Fosse’s “Lenny”.
James K Polk, Esq.
Is there another team in the NFL that gets as routinely hosed by the Refs as the Raiders?
joe from Lowell
Yeah, the cat has definitely gone from “obese” to merely “chubby.”
If I were a chubby cat, I would roll around on Reese Witherspoon like she had a skin condition.
Wait…what?
arguingwithsignposts
So I love Bill Bailey. No plagiarism there.
JK
@Brick Oven Bill:
Hey, what happened to that order I placed with you over 5 hours ago?
2 large pizzas – 1st pie half sausage, half plain; 2nd pizza half pepperoni, half plain
2 dozen garlic knots
1 calzone
1 order of extra spicy buffalo wings
1 liter bottle of Pepsi
JK
@freelancer:
Thanks for this info. I hope the film sees the light of day while I’m still among the living.
2liberal
@MoeLarryAndJesus:
what he said. times two with italics.
Cat Lady
@Cat Lady:
LOL Brady!
Ash Can
@JK: He’s still trying to figure out how to shift his bicycle out of park.
ninerdave
@Max:
I know, shocking isn’t it. Yes gorgeous tonight and my tomatoes appreciated the rain last night.
@jl:
I’ve been convinced for years that until Davis dies, the Raiders will be in perpetual suck, however I agree, they do look good tonight.
ninerdave
What the hell was up with calling back that TD? As much as I can’t stand the Raiders, that was bullshit.
If that affects the outcome of the game, those refs should be fired.
Brick Oven Bill
If you want free stuff JK, keep voting Democrat, but I’d be sure to keep three to four weeks, perhaps two months, of grains and water in the house. Also a means of defense. Tuna is a great way to store protein.
If you want some of my pizza, I have a web-site, feel free to contact me. There we can arrange an exchange.
James K Polk, Esq.
@ninerdave: Obviously you haven’t been watching da Raiders as a fan for that long. Shit happens like that all the time.
PanAmerican
The deal with Ditka is he’s a frikkin’ Moran.
Rumor is he assaulted someone in a bar which was subsequently hushed over. Which is why he was floated and then melted under vetting for the Senate run.
Damn you Iron Mike!
shakes fist in anger
I guess the fantasy is he would have been a Schwarzenegger slash Ventura type that stopped Obama. The reality is he would have been an even crazier speed bump than Keyes.
burnspbesq
@JK:
2. Force the NL to adopt the DH rule to correct the imbalance between the 2 leagues
That tears it. You and I are going out back and throwing down. The DH is the worst fucking thing in the history of the universe. The DH was invented by Ayn Rand, with the help of Adolf Mengele. John Yoo and David Addington like the DH. Dean Smith likes the DH. The DH is pure evil.
burnspbesq
@ninerdave:
Oh and why defenses still run the prevent is beyond me.
The only thing that the prevent defense has ever prevented is victory by the teams that employ it.
burnspbesq
We seriously need an edit function.
ninerdave
@James K Polk, Esq.:
Oh I’ve lived in the Bay Area my entire life, currently reside in Oakland, I’m very familiar with the calls that routinely go against the Raiders (although I’m a die hard Niners fan). “Tuck rule” is how I greet my Raiders buddies, however that was egregious. While normally I’d mock my friends for the calls that go against the raiders, I can’t with that one.
JK
@burnspbesq:
Why don’t you throw in Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, Lou Dobbs, Newt Gingrich, and Tom DeLay?
James K Polk, Esq.
Holy bomb JaMarcus!
Midnight Marauder
@James K Polk, Esq.:
Holy bomb JaMarcus!
Seriously. That was sick. Definitely makes up for the shit-tastic second half.
Steeplejack
@JK:
You are remembering, I hope, that Rush Limbaugh sat in that booth at one time?
Steeplejack
@John Cole:
You know who has shocked me–Collinsworth. He has been great the two games I heard him this year, and has a great chemistry with Al.
Yeah, I have been surprised too. Collinsworth has sounded better than I remember him being, and he has some sort of verbal jujitsu that allows him to (partially) cut through the Al Michael yak-fog. Maybe it is just great chemistry, although “chemistry” and “Al Michaels” make me shudder in such close proximity.
Steeplejack
@JK:
From Wikipedia:
[Milton] Berle was well known among his peers to have one of the largest joke collections in the world, which Berle estimated to be between five and six million jokes. Berle had a reputation for stealing material from other comedians, which eventually became known to the public. Bob Hope quipped onstage with Berle that he “never heard a joke he didn’t steal.” “Uncle Miltie” would then mug for the cameras with an exaggerated innocent face. On more than one occasion, Berle would commend a costar for a punch line, saying, “I wish I’d said that,” to which the costar would invariably reply, “Oh, you will.” Columnist Walter Winchell famously labeled Berle with the unflattering nickname “The Thief of Bad Gags.” Upon being accused of stealing jokes from Berle, Jack Benny once quipped, “When you take a joke away from Milton Berle, it’s not stealing, it’s repossessing.”
ninerdave
@John Cole:
Dan Dierdorf. He’s like nails on the chalkboard and captain of the obvious.
“Dan, their going for it on 4th down”
Dan: “Yeah they really need to pick up the first down here”
Gotta agree, and I hated him on the pregame shows. Good.
While I love Madden, the Michaels/Madden thing seemed forced. Michaels would always ask Madden for a comment, essentially “Hey John, say something trademark here”.
I still think the Pat Summerall John Madden combo was the best of my generation. Drunk or not, listening to Pat Summerall call a game is great.
However the greatest living sports broadcaster is John Miller. He could read the ingredients on a shampoo bottle and I’d listen. Anyone outside of the Bay Area should stream a KNBR broadcast of a Giants game. Yeah I know he does Sunday Night Baseball with Joe Morgan, but he really shines on where (imho) baseball really shines: the radio.
Steeplejack
@burnspbesq:
I’ll hold your coat while you give him a damn good thrashing. DH, indeed!
Anne Laurie
@Midnight Marauder:
Never had the good fortune to see Hicks in person, but from what I’ve seen of his recordings, his “persona” was the Appalachian Shitekicker. Leary, on the other hand, is every godsdamned Irish Catholic bhoyo from the working-class Bronx parish I grew up in (parochial Boston apparently bearing a very close resemblance to parochial NYC). Shame on Leary for stealing another comedian’s lines, but to me the differences between the two men’s “personas” are very obvious. Of course, it may be like spotting the difference between a Scot and an Irishman, or a British and an Australian accent — important only to those on either side of the divide.
John K
Amazing, you libs supporting ACORN. Then again libs never did have an issue with child prostitution!
Gravenstone
@John Cole: I always get a good laugh when I recall Glanville yammering about blocking schemes on a CBS pregame, “but ya got to hit your A-hole!”.
robertdsc
I’m glad the Pats won. I turned it off before the end because I had to finish a Photoshop project before work. When i got to work, I learned that Brady had pulled out the win.
That’s a great shot of the Tunchinator. He iz king!
Persia
@joe from Lowell: God, yes, there’s just something about being two TDs down with two minutes to go and knowing there’s still a decent chance of winning. Having said that, those assholes didn’t beat the spread, so it’s a good thing my pick ’em league starts next week.
I will say the announcers didn’t have to fellate Brady quite so passionately, though. He was throwing for crap in the first half. It’s okay to say it!
jon
I’m just glad the game ended on time so the referees could make it to the final dress rehearsal for their olde timey barber shoppe quartet competition.
General Winfield Stuck
Jules Crittendon grieves the loss of Patrick Swayze, and brings the love to Swayze’s roll as teenage commie fighter in “one of the best movies ever made”.
And of course pooh poohs the acclaim he received for his romantic roles.
Red Dawn MOFO’s. Or how I creamed my jeans fighting hordes of pinko libtard hero’s/wingnut/
asiangrrlMN
Aw, man, I take ONE night off the grid, and Cole has the temerity to post a Tunchie pic?
TUUUUUUUUUNCH!
Oh, and:
Damn you, COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLE!
Redshirt
I was at the Pats game last night, in great seats. What a rollercoaster! Crowd was FIRED UP to start the game, but got silenced pretty quickly and for a long time. Doom was in the air – the lack of Seymour was acute – and then: Terrific Tom Time! Awesome. I was sitting in the endzone where the last TD’s were scored – it was all there in front of me. Sweet.
Stayed up WAY too late watching all of the SD v. Oakland game. I only have this to say: Philips Rivers is a punk, and I will not cry when some DT plants his face in the grass.
Chinn Romney
Did the Nation catch it? Tom Terrific, THE NFL’s marquee player is BACK! Hope Pittsburg enjoyed their caretaker status, they are worthy keepers of the flame when the injuries become too much for the Flagship of the NFL.
Really looking forward to teasing the NY Jets all season long, keeping them just close enough to give them hope. Crushing that pathetic franchise and their loser worst-in-the-league fans is much sweeter when we delay the inevitable.
Jets fans – Show us your TEATS!
Redshirt
I’m actually a bit concerned about the Jets. They looked great against Houston; but the question remains: Was that because the Jets were really good, or Houston is really bad?
Lisa K.
Brady is THE MAN. Everybody else is just background noise.
LONG LIVE TOM BRADY!!!!!!!!!!!