Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

“woke” is the new caravan.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

We will not go back.

In after Baud. Damn.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

The lights are all blinking red.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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  2. 2.

    Joel

    Beat the Colts! Beat the Colts!

    I feel a little bad for the Vikings, as my in-laws are all Vikings fans, but how predictable that Favre blows an easy 5-yard scramble to set up his kicker for an across-the-field interception. And, unlike a lot of people, I have nothing against Favre. It’s just that old Favre is a lot like young Bledsoe (but more mobile).

  5. 5.

    JK

    FUCK the Saints and the Colts. I wish both of these fucking teams could lose the Super Bowl.

    Suddenly, I can’t wait until the start of the baseball season.
    How many days is it until pitchers and catchers have to report for spring training?

  6. 6.

    Desert Rat

    Live by the off-balance throw into coverage, die by the off-balance throw into coverage. Thus it has always been with the Favre, and thus will it always be.

    Of course, Adrian Petersen carrying the ball like he was allergic to it didn’t do them any favors.

    Geaux Saints!

  9. 9.

    CaseyL

    I’m happy for them. This is a team and a town that deserves to have something good to shout about.

    Geaux Saints!

  16. 16.

    Comrade Luke

    Look on the bright side. Maybe Landrieu will get laid tonight and the resulting stress release will make her back off on HCR.

  21. 21.

    Kryptik

    The Saints D may not be brickwall solid, but they won this game, flat out. Don’t sleep on the scary tendency to poke the ball out on you.

  24. 24.

    Brett

    Yeah, Saints, fuck yeah! Even if they lose in the Superbowl, they’ll still have gone farther than any prior Saints team.

    Ah, Favre. I wonder if he’ll retire again. Probably not, seeing as how he needs to make up for that playoff loss. That said, he had an excellent game right up until that last pick.

    Saints vs. Colts should be interesting.

  25. 25.

    Crusty Dem

    How do you end up with 12 in the huddle AFTER a timeout? That was some seriously powerful WTF there. Also, did Brees make one decent throw on the game winning drive? Also, WTF NFL? One possession overtimes? WTF?

    Also, WTF?

    I didn’t have anything but a fan’s interest in that game, was cheering for a fun game, lots of points and maybe a feel-good Saints Superbowl. Then Favre and the Vikings won me over. Then, I got a heaping pile of WTF at the end (also, how was that pass that was never caught and hit the ground at the Saints 22 called a completion, even after review?).

    In any case, congratulations to the 2010 NFL champion Indianapolis Colts (probably the case independent of the outcome of this game).

  26. 26.

    Lisa K.

    GO SAINTS!!!!

    No Manning/Favre nonsense!

    I am so happy I actually have a team I can cheer for in the Super Bowl!

  31. 31.

    Lisa K.

    Saints vs. Colts should be interesting.

    Yes, considering there will be 49 states cheering for the Saints, and only one for the Colts. They pissed off a lot of people by spitting on the chance to go undefeated.

  37. 37.

    AkaDad

    And I can remember the fourth of July,
    Runnin’ through the backwood, bare.
    And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin’,
    Chasin’ down a hoodoo there.
    Chasin’ down a hoodoo there.

  38. 38.

    Bruce (formerly Steve S.)

    I really didn’t care what else happened today so long as (1) Dame Brett Somers Klugman Farvuruh didn’t clutch her trophy and pule, “you like me, you really like me!” and (2) we don’t have to hear for two solid weeks about how the NFL’s best defense and running game are blessed with a quarterback who “just knows how to win.” Good day all around.

  39. 39.

    Ash Can

    Favre did way, way better with the Vikings than I thought he would. And that’s felony understatement.

    As far as the Superbowl goes, fuck the Colts. They had theirs. It’s time for someone else to get rings.

  40. 40.

    JK

    @Lisa K.:

    Mute buttons or no mute buttons, the decision to run this pro-life tv commercial during the Super Bowl is total fucking bullshit. There won’t be any tv commercials airing during the Super Bowl that promote left wing causes. This is a flagrant example of right wing media bias.

  44. 44.

    Ed in NJ

    The Archie Mannings vs. the Peyton Mannings

    I’ll take anything off Storyville by Robbie Robertson

  48. 48.

    JK

    @Zam:

    I don’t recall the specifics, but I vaguely remember some left leaning group being denied the opportunity to air a commercial during the Super Bowl. CBS can go fuck itself.

  49. 49.

    de stijl

    I’m a Vikings fan and they totally deserved to lose.

    I was almost embarrassed when they were about to win at the end of regulation. Yeah, I would have taken the W, but 17 or whatever turnovers when you’re playing away and at a dome.

    Sheesh, that was ugly.

  56. 56.

    Zam

    But its hopes were dashed when CBS said the spot, which asks “Guess who’s going to pay off President Bush’s $1 trillion deficit?” was an issue piece and could not run.

    From the link asiangrrl had. So how is Tebow’s not an issue piece?

  57. 57.

    lamh31

    All season, no matter how well Saints played, they got no respect. We heard it all.. so win or lose maybe now we gonna get the respect we deserve!!!!!

  58. 58.

    Aredubya

    I’d go with CCR, “Born on the Bayou”. Nasty riff, classic Fogerty vocal, great stuff all around.

    Oh and Brett Favre, tee hee.

  62. 62.

    DougJ

    AKA Dad

    The best part of the song is opening:

    Now when I was just a little boy standin’ to my Daddy’s knee
    my Poppa said son don’t let the man get you do what he done to me
    ’cause he’ll get you ’cause he’ll get you now now.

    So true. The man will get you. And I mean that with no irony or snark.

  63. 63.

    JK

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Thx for that link.

    asiangrrlMN, Zam: Despite the outrageous, disgusting decision by CBS to air this fucking Tebow ad, we must not forget that CBS is a Trotskyite organization according to people like Joe Scarborough, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Bill O’Reilly.

  67. 67.

    Lisa K.

    @JK:

    Mute buttons or no mute buttons, the decision to run this pro-life tv commercial during the Super Bowl is total fucking bullshit. There won’t be any tv commercials airing during the Super Bowl that promote left wing causes. This is a flagrant example of right wing media bias.

    I don’t disagree, but it is making me roll my eyes more than anything. Most football fans are not going to want to see this crap during the biggest sports event of the year. We watch sports to get away from garbage like this.

  69. 69.

    DougJ

    @DougJ: Composed by John Fogerty, who grew up in the backwoods country of Berkeley, California!

    Actually El Cerrito.

  72. 72.

    DougJ

    Louisiana 1927.

    Yes, great also. I’d go with it but Randy Newman is a well-off LA songwriter now whereas James Booker died prematurely in the streets like a real genius should (like Paul Morphy).

  75. 75.

    JK

    @Lisa K.:

    What drives me crazy is the stunning hypocrisy of CBS and how every right wing asshole like Limbaugh et al continues to claim with a straight face that CBS and the rest of the MSM are a bunch of Maoists, Trotskyites, and Anarchists.

  81. 81.

    Lisa K.

    @JK:

    What drives me crazy is the stunning hypocrisy of CBS and how every right wing asshole like Limbaugh et al continues to claim with a straight face that CBS and the rest of the MSM are a bunch of Maoists, Trotskyites, and Anarchists.

    I do not expect anything better from any of them, actually. Maybe that is why I am more cynically amused than outrgaed this time.

  83. 83.

    Comrade Luke

    @DougJ: Agreed. I also like the Aaron Neville version. Hopefully they’ll have him or Connick perform it if they choose to do so.

    We’re in for two weeks of jambalaya…

  89. 89.

    NobodySpecial

    No linky for you due to time pressures, but I enjoy the Nawlins flavor of ‘Sit Down Servant’ by Mike Farris.

  90. 90.

    DougJ

    Got the wrong Randy Newman song.

    Rednecks is one of the great, great albums of all time. Guilty is on there too, I think.

    And the opener is great. Free to be put in a cage in the south side of Chicago.

  94. 94.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @arguingwithsignposts: BTW, just to add to my comment, I grew up in Southeast Texas, and thus was raised on cajun from an early age. I used to joke that if Texas ever got in a war with Louisiana, SE Texas would be lost on the first day because of the Boudreaux and Thibodeaux influence in our area. But there were a lot of zydeco/creole bands who never made it big who played all throughout that area, people like BooZoo Chavis and the aforementioned Beausoleil. Like the bluegrass folks on the east coast, they never made a huge amount of money, but they made a lot of people dance. And I am grateful for that. lese lez bon ton roule!

    ETA: i would KILL for some decent boudain right now, with some crackers. mmmm. mmm.

  99. 99.

    bubba

    @arguingwithsignposts

    Married one. Lived in southwest Louisiana for 8 years, that didn’t work but married another one. Ledet and Leger.

    I’ll drink an Abita to you as I’m munching on boudin and crawfish in a few weeks.

  101. 101.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @bubba:

    Dammit, don’t even bring up the crawfish. I miss me some crawfish boils.

    Bubbbbaaaaa!!!!

    ETA: my step-dad makes a mean gumbo, with whatever meat he can put in the pot – shrimp, chicken, dear, whatever. mmmmm. mmmmm. Gumbo.

  103. 103.

    lamh31

    One last thought from the Saints vs Vikings game tonight:

    I’m thinking that the Saints this season had the opposite experience that the Cowboy had. What I mean is based on the Saints history, no one really believe that the Sains had what it took even while there were winning. The Cowboys cause of their champioship history was given more of a chance even after defeat after defeat. To me it’s a leasson that history is in the past, it’s what you do right now that gonna matter tomorrow.

    Anyway, good night ya’ll.

  107. 107.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Yutsano:
    We desperately need to have a BJ crawfish boil, then. Toss some potatoes and corn cobs in the pot, get the music rollin’ and have us a grand ole time. what river are you talking about, btw? Our Tunch shirts should be the icing on the cake.

  108. 108.

    Yutsano

    @arguingwithsignposts: The Columbia. Of course we get salmon runs that only natives get rights to, so we have to take what we can get. Though if you catch them in the ocean you can haul in five of the suckers and they’re HUGE! Best salmon you’ll ever have in your life.

    BTW I am all about a good ol’ fashioned crawdad boil. Heh. Crawdad is in the Firefox spell catcher as correct.

  111. 111.

    xian

    @DougJ: between your excellent taste in New Orleans piano perfessors and Cole’s Deadheadedness, I’m starting to understand why I feel this site is so simpatico for me!

    One or the other or both of you may enjoy a nice copy of the elusive Booker-rehearsing-with-the-Jerry-Garcia-band recordings from ’76, which I would be happy to render to you.

  114. 114.

    scarshapedstar

    At least I have something to take my mind off politics. I might never give a fuck again, ever.

    Time to buy some Mardi Gras beads for the Super Bowl. Yeah, I’m gonna be trolling Bourbon. :D

    WHO DAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  115. 115.

    Incertus

    @Andy K: Took 69 comments for someone to mention the good Professor, but thanks for doing it.

    About that Tebow ad, I wonder how many of the employees Focus on the Family cut loose a few months ago feel about their former bosses dropping big bucks on a Superbowl commercial?

  116. 116.

    Incertus

    @mandarama: I will admit to liking Cowboy Mouth and that I have seen them in concert a couple of times. But they’re also guilty of one of the most heinous puns in the history of music. From the song “Jenny Says”: My name is Cain and I am now unable. Yeesh.

  122. 122.

    PTirebiter

    Randy Newman- New Orleans Wins The War

    “People have fun here, and I think that they should
    But nobody from here ever come to no good
    They’re gonna pickle him in brandy and tell him he’s saved
    Then throw fireworks all ’round his grave”

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