Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

This chaos was totally avoidable.

“woke” is the new caravan.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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

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  2. 2.

    madmommy

    @Mark S.:

    The Evil Empire is never completely destroyed, but to get a win, on the road in game 1 is a big deal. I’ll rest easier after the last out, and worry until then.

  3. 3.

    geg6

    I’m so glad I hate baseball and thus am not subjected to the fucking Yankees. FTFY (I miss Steve!).

  5. 5.

    bago

    Awesome. In the time it took my phone to switch focus to the edit control I was able to watch a full ad for a competing smartphone.

  7. 7.

    madmommy

    Cliff Lee has made two amazing catches in this game. Just now, on a behind-his-back liner, and earlier on a pop-up in the most blase fashion imaginable. Not to mention he has pitched a gem of a game thus far.

  8. 8.

    Hann1bal

    I don’t really have a horse in this fight, but I don’t have anything against the Phillies, while as a Braves fan and native Southerner, I am practically required to despise the Yankees. I think it’s in my pre-nat.

    So go Phillies.

  9. 9.

    Betsy

    Posted below before I saw there was a shiny new OT:

    Also, I can’t participate in the FTFY celebration because my partner is a lifelong, diehard Y fan, and will be super bummed all night if (when) they lose. (He’s really a fabulous guy; don’t hold it against him!)

  12. 12.

    jharp

    This is some performance by Cliff Lee.

    Wow. Couldn’t happen to a better team.

    And a tip of my hat to Steve Gilliard. RIP. I very much enjoyed what you brought to all of us.

    And where is Jen? Always liked her and have no idea of what became of her..

  13. 13.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    Of course FTFY. As a BoSox fan, it’s required, ya know. I have cabin fever. 12 inches of snow and counting. I worked from home, baked a cake, made soup, watch BONES on DVD. Shoveled at least 5x. There is a reason babies are conceived during snow storms, eventually you run out of things to do.

  14. 14.

    Cap'n Phealy

    At the beginning of each game of this series, I shall raise a toast to the late, great Steve G., yell “Fuck the fucking Yankees”, and change the channel.

  15. 15.

    Incertus

    I think I’m one of ten people on the planet who wants the Yankees to lose, but wants A-Rod to hit .700 with 5 homers in the process. Obviously that won’t happen tonight.

    And in honor of the Willie Nelson thread last night, I give you the first Austin City Limits featuring Willie Nelson and Family. My uncle is the guy who spends most of the show hiding behind Willie.

  16. 16.

    geg6

    They just had an interview on the local news with a woman that was stalked by George Soldini, the LA Fitness killer, and was the subject of many of his sickening anti-woman diatribes online. She said she had met him a few times through church and been in social situations with him. But never anything smacking of romance, she never kissed him, never held hands with him, and never even touched him. This apparently went on for quite some time. She did everything right (sensed his “off-ness,” reported him, etc.). But she feels so guilty and she is obviously still freaked out by him even in death. My heart aches for her.

  18. 18.

    randiego

    That Austin City Limits link is the bomb. I’m about to make my wife very happy by sending her that link.

  21. 21.

    Morbo

    Hell yeah, it’ll be a big coup if they can beat CC, (C-2 for those of us in the know about such things). One run per out will get them there, too.

  22. 22.

    robertdsc-PowerBook

    My new laptop is just about dialed in. I erased the drive and loaded 10.4 Tiger, then upgraded to 10.4.11. Almost all of the relevant software has been loaded, custom icons are in place, and my wallpapers are showing pics of my lady friend in random rotaiton.

    My mother is doing well, but the surgery she had took a lot out of her. She’s resting now and may come home either tomorrow or Friday.

    I just hope the Yanks can bounce back.

  24. 24.

    Martin

    @Fleem:

    People (the media, especially) are perplexed why Obama is supporting this. Why is the get-along guy calling someone out?

  27. 27.

    Aaron

    Woah, did anyone see this mini Joe-Wilson from the Daily Show? The guests were a Israeli and a Palestinian (by all appearances both were reasonable) and someone from the audience shouted “liar” when the Palestinian was speaking.

    At times like this I become somewhat misanthropic, but when people come together to try to establish the IDEA of civil discourse and people feel the need to shout, I wonder how long it will be until the entire world is destroyed by nuclear war.

  30. 30.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Old man winter is creeping through all the little holes in my abode. With a heater that was birthed somewhere around the first WW, I think, it”s brrrrrr….

  32. 32.

    Martin

    Cicero was pretty great, so I don’t know.

    Goldfarb would seem to be more of a Palpatine man, methinks.

  35. 35.

    r€nato

    speaking of FTFY, I surveyed the World Series predictions of the sportswriters at ESPN.com and SI.com

    Something like 9 of 10 or better picked the Yankees. Nearly all of them called it a close series… but 9 of 10 picked the Yankees. It’s what all the cool kids do, right?

  36. 36.

    Martin

    It’s what all the cool kids do, right?

    Nah, they just know where all the steroids are being shipped.

  37. 37.

    John Sears

    Couldn’t care less about sports of any kind, but in memory of Steve Gilliard, I too say: Fuck the fucking Yankees.

    Fuck them in their stupid asses in their tax-fraud-built fucking stadium too.

  38. 38.

    jeffreyw

    Worried sick, my dog Jack is missin, Mrs J took the pups for a walk this afternoon and the two boys ran off, Buddy turned back up, alone. Jack has gone missin before-3 days last year, showed up and announced himself with a bark at the door. Hopin he comes home this time, too.

  39. 39.

    James K Polk, Esq.

    Yes, fuck the Yankees! The only good part about the Yankees in the World Series is that it enrages Red Sox fans (The only sports fans less tolerable than Spankees fans).

  40. 40.

    ruemara

    *hides yankee hat*

    not that I know a base run from a basketball from a cricket match.

    watching history channel. trying to write about homemade egg ornaments and wishing I could play wow, or draw. no fun time until article done. No more balloonj either now, it’s that home stretch writer malaise that draggggggs on.

  41. 41.

    Fulcanelli

    @jeffreyw: A little dog training retrieval trick the trainer we used taught us when we got our latest arrival:

    Find a special treat he goes wild over and use it only when you call him to come to you outside and associate it with a special word used only for the same purpose.

    You’re teaching him to exclusively associate one with the other and for only one behavior. Special word equals special treat when he comes back to you.

    Don’t use it any other time. We use the word “freetime” with string cheese sticks. Works like a charm. I hope you find him.

  42. 42.

    ihop

    i want a wallpaper of the laconic cliff lee slaying the evil yanqui dragon.

    oh yes, and to the music of “fuck the yankees” here’s my all drunk irishman version of “fuck the yankees”.

    use your imagination.

  48. 48.

    jeffreyw

    Good news is that I managed to install a terabyte network drive, took 4 hours to back up my laptop as a disc image on it, just finished.

  49. 49.

    SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta

    @jeffreyw: Hope he comes back very soon. They usually do, but it scares the crap out of us all the same. Thinking homing thoughts for your pup.

  50. 50.

    Fulcanelli

    @jeffreyw: Just cause he isn’t in your line of sight doesn’t mean he can’t hear you. We are talking about dogs here… They get in the sniffing zone and you’ve got to break their focus. Good luck.

  51. 51.

    Cat Lady

    Where is commenter JK? He hates the FY with the heat of a thousand suns, and he hasn’t been around lately to bring the hate.

  53. 53.

    BruceFromOhio

    @bago:

    Speaking of the game, behind the back catch for an easy out is awesome

    That was fricking cool. And he was so blaise about the entire event, which made it even cooler.

    Somehow gravity got switched on high over the plate for Yankees pitching staff, thereby proving the existence of a higher power in the universe which I cannot claim to understand.

    FTFY. Miss you, Steve.

    G O P H I L L I E S ! !

  54. 54.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Cat Lady:

    I don’t know what happened to Jk. He left a single comment a couple of days ago, but nothing since. Maybe just decompressing some from getting too wound up in the crazy stuff that’s going on in the pol arena.

    I miss the tunes he brought tho.

  57. 57.

    Steeplejack

    Watched the game, found it more interesting than I thought I would. Maybe partly because there was nothing else on and I was too tired to do anything else. Gratified by the outcome, of course. FTFY.

  59. 59.

    Yutsano

    @jeffreyw: Sounds like an experienced runner. I bet he comes bounding home again with a full tummy and a wagging tail and no clues as to where he’s been.

    Go Phils. That is all.

  61. 61.

    Max

    Obama headed to Dover tonight to attend the transfer of the fallen coming home from Af/Pak.

    I can’t even begin to imagine how that war(and Iraq) weights on him. I never got the sense that it weighed on Bush. Maybe that is unfair of me.

  62. 62.

    shoutingattherain

    I couldn’t help but notice that Sidney Crosby had a hat-trick tonight as the Pens put the thumpin’ to the Habs, 6-1.

    And the Rangers lost too. FTFR.

    A good night. All around.

  64. 64.

    General Winfield Stuck

    I never got the sense that it weighed on Bush.

    The only thing that weighed on Bush were the rocks in his head.

  65. 65.

    HarleyPeyton

    Well, fine. I miss Steve, too. But he was wrong about the Yankees. And his defense of Curt Schilling?

    I miss Steve, too. Anyway.

  67. 67.

    Yutsano

    @Max: Just out of curiosity, did Bush do this like ever? If he had he would have been crowing to the high heavens about how he was “honoring the troops”. Then again he’d just as soon we ignored that there were dead troops coming there in the first place, so probably not.

  70. 70.

    Cat Lady

    I was going to say Obama going to honor the troops was going to make the wingnuts lose their shit again, but my virtual wingnut-thinking lizard brain got burnt out several poutrages ago and can no longer concoct a wingnut reason why. I’m sure that says more about me than them, since Malkin will be on it in 4..3..2…

  71. 71.

    Dr. Morpheus

    Can I just come out and say that I hate sports? I don’t understand a thing about sports (seriously, I don’t know a thing about how their played or anything). And frankly think that people who do care about sports are fucked in the head?

  72. 72.

    inkadu

    Well this is weird.

    A person just wrote me on Facebook saying she’s my sister… and she’s just old enough to have been born before my dad got married. Dad never mentioned her.

    This is interesting and horrifying in equal measures.

  74. 74.

    Mark S.

    Sort of related to Bush and the troops, I’ve been reading Nixonland and was shocked that all these guys, both Dems and Repubs, knew that Vietnam was a lost cause back in like 1965. I had thought that particular insight didn’t become widespread until around 67 or 68.

    Of course, despite this knowledge, everyone was still engaged in the dick size contest of who was the toughest on Communism, and of course sending tens of thousands of people to their deaths. It’s amazing we didn’t blow up the world years ago.

  76. 76.

    asiangrrlMN

    @inkadu: Oooh, intrigue! Did you reply?

    Hi, Balloon Juicer bitchez. Whassup? I just got home from hanging with a friend and having excellent Thai food. I know the Phillies won (YAY) and am watching now.

    Ahem. A general PSA: ALAN RICKMAN IS MINE! The rest of y’all will have to make do with his clones. That is all.

  77. 77.

    inkadu

    @Mark S.: Afghanistan should be equally a lost cause by now.

    The fun news today was that Karzai’s brother is a heroine dealer, paramilitary organizer AND on the CIA pay roll.

    I figured this out a long time ago: If you’re going to go into chaotic places, you’re going to have to work with some real slime balls. And you can’t get a modern democracy by propping up slimeballs with cluster bombs. So what the fuck is the point?

    Here’s how you do it: You go in and you kill a LOT of people, install your own governors, and if anyone complains, you shoot them, too. And to get your point across, you crucify your victims up on a cross on the road and leave the corpses their for the crows to eat. Extra points:

    – for raping their women and making them bear your children;
    – replacing their religion with yours
    – replacing their language with yours
    and
    – selling the population into slavery.

  79. 79.

    TenguPhule

    for raping their women and making them bear your children; – replacing their religion with yours – replacing their language with yours
    and – selling the population into slavery.

    Best of all, we can outsource this to the Spanish, they’ve got plenty of historical experience at it.

  80. 80.

    inkadu

    Oops. Damn touch pad.

    To conclude: That all sounds brutal, but from my reading of history, that’s the only successful way to do an occupation. But beware, because even THAT doesn’t fucking work in AFGHANISTAN. Jesus H. Christ, how can anyone possibly think we have a chance in hell there? Let al-Qaeda bomb us again. We can go in every decade or so and shuffle the deck again. It will cost us less in money and soldiers.

    @asiangrrlMN: yeah, I did reply, but I unfriended her. I’m paranoid and suspect a swindle, even though everything looks like it checks out. But I’ll liquor him up this weekend with Amaretto and see what I can pry out of him about his adventures in the go-go sixties.

  81. 81.

    TenguPhule

    Can someone please explain to me WTF is wrong with South Carolina Republicans. Are they drinking the same water?

    It comes from having bred within the same six families for the last 200+ years.

  83. 83.

    TenguPhule

    Jesus H. Christ, how can anyone possibly think we have a chance in hell there?

    We could if it were possible to reopen the area’s historic area of income: major land trade route.

    Unfortunately, the locals have had generations of learning the family trade of brigandism.

    Afghanistan, Satan picked occupying Hell instead of it.

  84. 84.

    TenguPhule

    @asiangrrlMN

    Aye. Nac Mac Feegles!

    (You will become one of us eventually. Yes, you will :) )

  85. 85.

    Yutsano

    @inkadu: But I’ll liquor him up this weekend with Amaretto and see what I can pry out of him about his adventures in the go-go sixties.

    My father was in the Navy. Ported out all over the world (although we always stayed stateside…unless you consider I was born in Hawai’i so according to Cokie Roberts makes me not an American but I digress…) and I just have this strange feeling there are wild parts of his younger days that possibly resulted in half-brothers out there somewhere. I of course have zero direct evidence of this, not even a drunken confession. Just be prepared, sometimes you don’t WANT to know your parents’ past.

    @asiangrrlMN: Consider me jealous for your dinner choice. Although my brother made some pretty awesome stuffed shells and I just scarfed an Asian pear (which is neither Asian nor a pear…discuss) so I’m not too bad off. Plus I age on Friday and it has me cranky for no rational reason whatsoever.

  86. 86.

    inkadu

    @TenguPhule: Hey, now! The Spanish have their merits, but if you’re into total population liquidation, you have to go with the English. Plus the English have their queen as the head of their religion. It’s not as effective as the Romans making their emperor a god, but it’s better than trusting a major portion of your imperial enterprise to an old pizza tosser in a dress.

  87. 87.

    Martin

    A person just wrote me on Facebook saying she’s my sister… and she’s just old enough to have been born before my dad got married. Dad never mentioned her.
    This is interesting and horrifying in equal measures.

    Welcome to my life. Every 5 years or so, the family trots out a new secret relative of mine. It happened often enough that I now know when the conversation is about to begin.

    FWIW, go with interesting. One relative has been slightly horrifying, but just slightly. All the others have been seriously interesting.

  88. 88.

    asiangrrlMN

    @inkadu: You said this.

    yeah, I did reply, but I unfriended her. I’m paranoid and suspect a swindle, even though everything looks like it checks out. But I’ll liquor him up this weekend with Amaretto and see what I can pry out of him about his adventures in the go-go sixties.

    Very smart of you. That’s just wild.

  89. 89.

    TenguPhule

    Hey, now! The Spanish have their merits, but if you’re into total population liquidation, you have to go with the English.

    Old Spain was hands down more brutal and all around horrifying.

  90. 90.

    Yutsano

    @Martin: It was rather stunning finding out after my grandfather died that the Dionne quintuplets are my distant cousins. I’m gonna point to my reply to inkadu, sometimes you just don’t wanna know.

  91. 91.

    Jack Roy

    Annie, did you perchance get that music from Jonathan Schwartz? This is only the second place I’ve heard it, but Jonathan plays it quite frequently.

    FTFY.

  92. 92.

    inkadu

    @Yutsano: Does your dad have a strange last name? That might be helpful. Everyone has the internet these days, so if you’re the slightest bit curious you might be able to pull something up.

    My grandfather was a bit of a wanderer and set up franchises in three countries. He had a unique last name (immigrated from another country and changed it) so every time I run into another family member I get a little more depressed. “Really, Grandad,” I ask myself, “Canada too?”

  94. 94.

    Yutsano

    @inkadu: Dear God this just got scary. My family is HUGE, I swear I’m related to half of Quebec! In fact my father will look at you crosswise if you dare Americanize that name around him. And yeah my last name is very uncommon, at least in the US.

  95. 95.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: Hi, FH#2! I had deep-fried squid and fried rice with pork, beef, chicken, shrimp, mussels, imitation crab, and scallops. My friend had chicken satay and fried tilapia. We shared everything and it was all so yummy.

    I’m glad you’re still up! Aw, don’t be cranky about your birthday. Age is just a number. How many years will you be?

  96. 96.

    inkadu

    @TenguPhule: If the Spanish were so horrible, how come most of the people in Latin America are still brown? The reason the Spanish seem more horrible is that they left enough natives alive to boil in oil, while the English left no one alive to torture.

    I probably shouldn’t talking about this at all since most of my knowledge of the period comes from the manual to “Age of Empires.”

  97. 97.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: 37 revolutions around the sun. Three years away from what used to be considered over the hill. It seems perspective is an amazing thing. And to answer your potential next question yeah the Dawg is a young’un.

  98. 98.

    Cain

    @Max:

    Obama headed to Dover tonight to attend the transfer of the fallen coming home from Af/Pak.

    It’s the least he can do having had to keep them in Afghanistan. No, Bush never did it, and he’s the most patriotic and awesome president. Meh.

    cain

  100. 100.

    inkadu

    @Yutsano: Well, we’re not related. The Canada thing was a joke. My granddad got as far as Minnesota (so far). My dad really hates him for obvious reasons, but I wish I knew more about him; mostly because I might share a mental illness with him. Being bipolar sure would explain a lot about ol’ granddad.

    And Quebeckers are a particularly humorless bunch in general and about language specifically, or so my formerly Francophile Canadian emigrant friend tells me.

  102. 102.

    Yutsano

    @inkadu: If you thought the French were anal about pollution of le lange francais, the Quebecoise are about a thousand times worse. I’m pretty sure that whole movement started in Montréal.

    @asiangrrlMN: First off WOO-HOO! Should we tell FH#1? Second he’s 28, nine years my junior. He’s actually really good about not rubbing it in. Actually considering the number of things he COULD rub in and doesn’t, I should be thankful. BTW thanks for reminding me I need to drop him an e-mail. He’s so busy he’d forget his own head much less it’s my birthday.

  103. 103.

    Cain

    @Yutsano:

    @asiangrrlMN: 37 revolutions around the sun. Three years away from what used to be considered over the hill. It seems perspective is an amazing thing. And to answer your potential next question yeah the Dawg is a young’un

    Ha, I’m already there. Completed 40 revolutions this past May. Hitting 41 soon.. damn. Luckily I think I look better now than I did in my 20s.

    cain

  104. 104.

    Mark S.

    @inkadu:

    But beware, because even THAT doesn’t fucking work in AFGHANISTAN. Jesus H. Christ, how can anyone possibly think we have a chance in hell there?

    Remember how clever we thought we were when we got the Soviets bogged down there for almost a decade? Remember how we laughed when that war brought the Soviet empire down. Ha ha, we going to end up being there even longer!

  105. 105.

    TenguPhule

    If the Spanish were so horrible, how come most of the people in Latin America are still brown?

    Because the Spanish did damage way out of proportion to the actual number of them there.

    The “brown people” are descended from the ones that either didn’t meet the Spanish, escaped from the Spanish or bred with the Spanish.

    We’re talking men who buried little children alive in death trap tunnels to mine for gold and silver and when the little holes inevitably collapsed on them, just *dug around the bodies* for the next batch of miners to go in.

  106. 106.

    Martin

    What’s been most interesting with my newfound relatives are the circumstances that led to them being ‘lost’. Always cases of discrimination when the more liberal members of the family ran afoul of the more conservative ones and annulments, adoptions, and even packing up segments of the family for more liberal places took place.

    Also what’s interesting is how well cared for the ‘lost’ family members were and the family politics that played out. These aren’t distant relatives, btw, but first cousins, aunts and uncles, half-siblings.

    But yeah, they just keep coming for me. The family tree has gotten very funky.

  107. 107.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: FH#1 knows my age, I think. I am not particularly reticent about it. The Dawg is more like The Pup! Heh. It’s not that big an age difference the older you get. Does that help?

  109. 109.

    Martin

    My family is HUGE, I swear I’m related to half of Quebec!

    Might be related to my stepfather. His entire family tree comes through Quebec. He’s even got the Giroux Barbeau syndrome to prove it.

  111. 111.

    Martin

    I’m taking it’s like ten inches or so?

    BTW, if you have to ask, it’s always like ten inches or so.

  112. 112.

    Yutsano

    @Martin: I had to check to see if that was a different name for Tay-Sachs (which is also in Quebecois populations and due to my fucked-up genealogy means I’m a potential carrier) but hadn’t heard of that one before. Fortunately my family was pretty good at getting the gene pool outside of Quebec, my great-grandfather just happened to buy a Jewish woman and the gene snuck back in strong.

    @asiangrrlMN: BINGO!

  116. 116.

    Martin

    but hadn’t heard of that one before.

    It’s a genetic neurological disorder that is traced back from a single Quebecois family that settled in the late 18th or early 19th century. Only descendants of that family carry the disorder.

  119. 119.

    Yutsano

    @Martin: Gotcha. I Googled and noticed it was totally unrelated. The Tay-Sachs only affects families from a particular part of Quebec, but my family’s been there from pretty much its founding. In fact it would make a fascinating family trip to go back and trace my ancestry.

  120. 120.

    Blue Raven

    We’re talking men who buried little children alive in death trap tunnels to mine for gold and silver and when the little holes inevitably collapsed on them, just dug around the bodies for the next batch of miners to go in.

    And in the case of England, they had people dying with their lips green from eating grass and their reaction was to make broad pronouncements about the invisible hand of the marketplace determining the fate of the natives, ship food thieves to Australia, and ask what Merrie Olde England would do for food if they bothered to let some stay behind with those subhuman micks just to save a few lives. I think the style of the evil is the bigger difference as opposed to the substance.

  124. 124.

    TenguPhule

    And in the case of England, they had people dying with their lips green from eating grass and their reaction was to make broad pronouncements about the invisible hand of the marketplace determining the fate of the natives, ship food thieves to Australia, and ask what Merrie Olde England would do for food if they bothered to let some stay behind with those subhuman micks just to save a few lives.

    So Depression era America minus the shipping to Australia then?

  125. 125.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Fortunately I’m over the whole my head being used for an armrest thing by the mere fact my brothers are 6’3 and 6’5. Call it training for the future if you will.

  129. 129.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Mom is German/Slovenian and 5’3″, her father is the same height as she is. He’s also a total hoot and still sharp in his mind as he ever was. Kinda bites cause he’s losing his sight and hearing.

  131. 131.

    TenguPhule

    @Tattoosydney


    “Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willnae be fooled again!”

  133. 133.

    Tattoosydney

    @Yutsano:

    Kia ora, bro.

    I’m just work fatigued. Tired of people wanting everything the same day, and asking stupid questions, and expecting all of their stupid mistakes to be fixed for them…

    I need a holiday, and had to cancel the one we had booked for 28 November, and put the whole thing back three weeks!

    Mind you, I get half of December and all of January off, and get to have Christmas in Amsterdam, so I shouldn’t complain, but I’m not going to let that stop me.

  135. 135.

    Yutsano

    @Tattoosydney: I know the feeling. I had a client leaning on me hard today because their shipment STILL hasn’t shown up (was supposed to be overnighted, hadn’t even been fulfilled and was due three days ago) so I sent a scathing e-mail to the warehouse basically asking WTF? Not looking forward to tomorrow when I’m certain I’ll get some smarmy reply or even worse they scream at my boss even though they ain’t doing their fucking jobs. I’m right there with you on needing a holiday, I might just do a mental health day some time before the blackout period (nature of my business makes taking any time off from late November until New Year impossible) and call it good. Unless the job things I have set in motion come into fruition. Then life gets entertaining.

  136. 136.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Dad is French Canadian/Jewish/Native American (total mutt here!), my SN came out of my brain like years and years ago. I needed a unique name and kinda smashed that one together.

  138. 138.

    robertdsc

    (total mutt here!)

    I am reminded of then-President-Elect Obama calling himself the same thing during a press conference. Made me laugh. One of the early highlights for sure.

  139. 139.

    Tattoosydney

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I’m ok – Booking holidays all over again is kind of fun, although a little frustrating… we now have two weeks in this apartment, and then three weeks in Lisbon, and a wedding reception (and PRESENTS!!) to look forward to…

    I should be over the moon, but the grind is getting to me…

  141. 141.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Soon he’ll be on holiday drinking all sorts of exotic wines and having the time of his life. The best part about bad days? THEY END!

  143. 143.

    Tattoosydney

    @Yutsano:

    all sorts of exotic wines

    Yum. Portuguese wine, and the best coffee in the world (which is not even to mention the manifold delights of Amsterdam).

    I feel better now.

    What have you bitches been up to?

  144. 144.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Tattoosydney: Read the damn thread! I had fabulous Thai food and excellent conversation this evening. FH#2 has been because he’s turning thirty-seven on Friday. I scoffed because I, myself, am thirty-eight.

  145. 145.

    Mark S.

    @TenguPhule:

    I remember reading about that lady a month or so ago. The Redskins are being assholes, but Jesus, these people got to show up to court and avoid the default judgments because the team is not entitled to the full price of the duration of the contract. This guy explains it:

    Attorney Alan Silverberg argued in pretrial discussions that the team found a tenant for the suite last year and this year and should reduce the damages sought by the amount collected from the new tenant. “It is basic, fundamental law that [a landlord] can’t remain idle when premises are abandoned,” Silverberg said. “They can’t sit back and say, ‘You breached the lease, and you owe for the duration.'”

  148. 148.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: I’m slowly getting over it though. I happen to have a friend whose birthday is the day before mine so I just sent him an online card that was pretty damn close to perfect for him. I think more than anything I just don’t want to go to work tomorrow.

  149. 149.

    Yutsano

    @Mark S.: It doesn’t really excuse them from acting like massive douches in this whole situation. And yeah she was going into a gunbattle with a butterknife, so no matter what she was beyond screwed. Of course Snyder will just shrug this off like just about every other criticism of him.

  156. 156.

    PurpleGirl

    I know very little about baseball and care even less…. but in remembrance of Steve… yeah, FTFY!

  157. 157.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Anybody from Indiana? I just heard Chuck Todd report on POTUS’s visit to Dover to honour returning servicemen in their caskets, and Chuck said that one of them was from “Terry Hot, Indiana.” Is this right? Is this the preferred Hoosier pronunciation, “Terry Hot”? All my life I’ve said something closer to “Terra Hote” but if I’m wrong I can change, maybe.

  158. 158.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    The only good thing about having the fucking Yankees in the World Serious is that we can all take a moment to remember Steve, his writing and his impact on our lives (particularly in my case).

    And why do we remember? Precisely because of what’s becoming his catch phrase.

    RIP Steve, we really do miss ya and FUCK THE FUCKING YANKEES!!!!!!

  159. 159.

    Fulcanelli

    So has it been confirmed that BoB has been banned? If so, is it permanent? Makewi is so… weak. Perhaps we can import a better troll for our amusement from time to time?

    There’s a Rep for that. Or so I’ve heard.

  160. 160.

    r€nato

    so, what will the right wing freakout fauxtrage du jour be today? Obama invited a few members of the press to Dover, so it was just a photo op? He never served so he has no right? He is exploiting the war dead? Wearing a blue tie is a grave breach of decorum?

    (they can’t harsh on his salute because it was textbook perfect)

  161. 161.

    RememberNovember

    The Yankees are the best team money can buy.

    and according to Jean SHepherd, it’s pronounced “Terra Hote”. Chuck Todd is an ID10T error.

  168. 168.

    Bob In Pacifica

    Grew up in New Jersey in the fifties. My dad was a Red Sox fan so I was one too. Back then they’d perennially finish seventh in the eight-team league (last place was for Kansas City). As a child I remembered the reception VP Nixon received in Venezuela, with people chanting “Yanqui Go Home!” I thought it had something to do with my dad’s hate for the Yankees, who were beloved by my uncle.

    On his deathbed my dad told me he was a Red Sox fan because red was his favorite color.

    Nevertheless, I still hate the Yankees.

  169. 169.

    Ailuridae

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    Rhymes with boat.

    Not sure if anybody watches morning meeting but Dylan Ratigan had on the execrable Dan Senor and Glenzilla. Mr Senor showed up for a knife fight armed with a spoon.

  170. 170.

    Michael57

    I love the Yankees. Does that make me a bad person? My father loved the Yankees. How about him?

    F the F Y-haters.

  172. 172.

    MikeJ

    @Phoenix Woman:

    Fox News on saluting:

    Obama is not the first president to depart from the traditional code of behavior.
    …
    In 1981, Ronald Reagan began saluting members of the U.S. military. Such salutes had always required the wearing of a uniform, and no American president — including former five-star Gen. Dwight Eisenhower — had ever before returned a salute.It is custom not to salute enlisted personnel or officers of lower rank.
    …
    Reagan, who took special pride in setting the new standard, later advised Clinton on how to refine it.
    …
    “The president generally has the ability to make decisions on how he would like to conduct business, and certainly there are customs that can be altered,” Brinker said.

    foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/12/pub-presidential-protocol/

    I don’t trust fox on anything, but it might shut up the wingers.

  174. 174.

    Comrade Darkness

    @inkadu: Oh. Wow. Given the number of crazy people out there, maybe start by getting a good picture of this person to look for resemblance.

  175. 175.

    r€nato

    @MikeJ:

    I don’t trust fox on anything, but it might shut up the wingers.

    I bet you also think this time Lucy won’t pull away the football, for sure.

  176. 176.

    r€nato

    @MikeJ:

    you know, it is an article of faith among wingnuts that Obama doesn’t ever put his hand over his heart for the national anthem and that this shows his lack of respect for our nation.

    (I have tried repeatedly to point out, always in vain, that the custom is to put one’s hand over one’s heart for the Pledge of Allegiance, not for the National Anthem.)

  179. 179.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Jack: True. The last time I was in Taiwan, I saw an exhibit at the Grand National Palace of the aborigine of Taiwan. They looked very similar to the indigenous people of America. I feel better now!

  180. 180.

    OriGuy

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’m from Bloomington. “Terra Hote” is how it’s said locally. The only place I’ve heard it said “Terra Hot” on on the old Family Affair show from the 60s. It was where Buffy, Jody, and Cissy were from before they went to live with Uncle Bill and Mr. French. (And don’t try to tell me there wasn’t something going on there!)

  181. 181.

    mak

    @James K Polk, Esq.

    “The only good part about the Yankees in the World Series is that it enrages Red Sox fans …”

    As a lifelong Bosox fan/Yanker hater, I can tell you that under ordinary circumstances, that would be true. But I can also tell you that the rule does not apply when, as appears to be the case here, the Yanks are systematically disassembled and chagrined as they were by Cliff Lee et. al. this night.

    As for the second part of your post,

    “…(The only sports fans less tolerable than Spankees fans)”

    while that may be true, please understand that it’s only because we care more about our team than anyone else does about theirs.

  183. 183.

    mak

    @SiubhanDuinne

    You are correct. It is Terra-Hote.
    But just as importantly, how do you even get “Terry-Hot” from reading “Terre Haute”? Chuck’s third grade teacher would not be pleased.

  184. 184.

    Lila

    I love the Yankees. Does that make me a bad person? My father loved the Yankees. How about him?

    Yes. You are both bad people.

    F-ck the Yankees. Might as well cheer for Mr. Potter.

    GO PEDRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  186. 186.

    Lou Dyer Jones

    while that may be true, please understand that it’s only because we care more about our team than anyone else does about theirs.

    Damned skippy. Especially MFY fans.

    Oh, yeah-GO PEDRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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