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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.
They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.
GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.
The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.
Republicans don’t trust women.
Found liable for massive fraud, is required to post a massive bond, gets a break, then files a *fraudulent* bond!
I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.
Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.
Hot air and ill-informed banter
You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.
Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.
We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.
If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.
If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.
The willow is too close to the house.
Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.
Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.
Please don’t feed the bears.
Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.
An almost top 10,000 blog!
Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.
“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!
with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.
… gradually, and then suddenly.
asiangrrlMN
Let’s go, Twins! I have yet to see them win a game.
Comrade Mary
Oh, let’s not. Sad here.
Andrew
I kind of hate the Pens already (Wings fan, think Crosby’s a bitch), but their anthem singer just clinched it. He somehow completely sucked at singing at O Canada, one of the easiest songs on the planet to sing.
The Grand Panjandrum
John, I know you probably heard it, but the guy says something like ‘the Canadiens looked like a different team in game one against the Penguins than they did against the Caps.’ Sigh … No shit. Its playoff time and they are playing the Pens now. The regular season in hockey is like the regular season in the NBA. It was just a warm up for the real season. The playoffs IS the season.
BTW can Crosby actually grow a beard or is he still too young?
ETA: See! Look at that goal. Jesus Christ on the hockey stick, Montreal is in trouble already.
Andrew
It’s not that complicated as to why Montreal is struggling with the Pens and didn’t against the Caps. The Penguins actually go to the net and don’t nibble around the outsides letting Halak see everything.
MikeBoyScout
LET’S GO PENS!
mitch
I really wanted to see a Pens-Caps semi-final, but since Montreal won I have to nourish my Canadian roots and cheer for another upset.
demo woman
Some of us are watching the Hawks demolish the Bucks.
Maybe some is not accurate..at least, I am watching the Hawks.
toujoursdan
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Go Habs!
MikeBoyScout
Crap.
demo woman
OT I’m shocked, just shocked, the video of the Nissan left near Times SQ. shows a while male in his forties.
freelancer (itouch)
Can someone tell me why the Canadiens are called the Habs?
tom
Not to rain on John’s parade, but if the Canadiens, Bruins, Blackhawks and Red Wings (my team) advance out of this round, it will be the first Original Six Stanley Cup semi-final and final in goodness knows how long. And that would be way cool.
MattR
@freelancer (itouch):
From about.com
tom
@freelancer (itouch): One of the French nicknames for the Canadiens is Les Habitants, Habs for short. Les Habitants apparently refers to the first French settlers along the St Lawrence in present-day Quebec.
fasteddie9318
Blase effort by the Penguins plus refs that have literally decided that the Canadiens cannot commit a penalty = problem.
MaryRC
@freelancer (itouch):
It’s short for “les Habitants”, an unofficial nickname for the team. Les Habitants were the original French-speaking settlers of Quebec and the Canadiens were originally supposed to be a French-Canadian team. I’m not sure who first called them that but it dates back to the early years of the club, I believe.
MattR
One of the sick aspects of being a hockey fan is rooting for players on your team to be cut in the face (but just a nick) whenever he gets hit by a high stick so you get the 5 minute major penalty.
MikeBoyScout
game over. :-(
Americanadian
And there’s the dagger. The entire island of Montreal is going to be going nuts for the next two games.
asiangrrlMN
Put a fork in the Pens. They’re DONE!
RedKitten
@tom:
That WOULD be neat. If that happens, they should wear the old-school jerseys, too.
Americanadian
And that hit on Bergeron was just stupid and unprofessional. Not to mention eliminating any chance of going 6-on-5 for the rest of the game.
asiangrrlMN
When is the next game?
@tom: That actually would be really cool. I could get behind that.
freelancer
ahhh, Thanks, thanks, thanks, and thanks.
I feel thoroughly informed.
wmd
Sharks are going to take out the Red Wings finally. 2-0 after tonight. 3-1 coming back to San Jose. Will win their series 4-1 and go on to play Chicago in the finals.
The curse will end this year.
Andrew
Counting chickens, etc.
Michael Bérubé
OK, the deal is this: goaltenders can lease their souls to the devil in exchange for a .985 save percentage, but only for two to four weeks at a time. So everything will depend on when the Halak-Lucifer deal expires.
Michael D.
As a Canadian, let me just say how much I hate the Habs. I HATE THEM.
When they played the Russians in the 70’s, my dad bought a Soviet flag and we waved it proudly.
Svensker
Since this is an open thread…
Can anything else go wrong chez moi, short of actual death or dismemberment? I’m expecting a plague of boils and locusts at any moment. An earthquake wouldn’t seem out of line. What’s that old saying? If I didn’t have bad luck, wouldn’t have no luck at all?
Gaaaaaaakkkkkkkk!
Just venting.
At least I don’t live in N.O.
Sorry world, whatever I did, I’m sorry. Truly. Sttttooooopppp.
wmd
@Andrew:
I’ll eat crow if I must, but trash talking prognostication is part and parcel of being a fan.
bh
@Michael Bérubé:
So what determines the 2 to 4 weeks? The “size” of the soul? A percentage of it? 4 weeks gets the Habs past the Penguins.
(And on that subject how does the soul play into the parlaying it into a career? a la Dryden, Roy, but not so much Penney)
john@mm
@wmd: Ha ha!!! Good one. You should check out the open mike night at your local comedy club. Sharks barely held on to win against a team that was coming off a game 7 win. That’s also why the Pens looked so good in their first game. Neither of those games is indicative of how the respective series will go. Wings in 6. Sharks always fold. Thornton’s post-season woes just add to the curse.
And, Datsyuk scores!!!!!
Katie5
Ha ha. Canadiens win. I’m going over to the Bell Centre on Tuesday–no I cannot afford a ticket–to do a drubbing. Of course, the Canadiens tend to tank at home. So the drubbing may be short-lived.
BTW, just to add to the confusion about C v H, francophones call the team Les Canadiens and the anglophones call them the Habs.
Princess
That’s because (and I bet you know this Katie5 but for the rest) “habitants” was used as an insult by the English against the French whom they dismissed as peasants. There was even a whole genre of so-called “habitant” poetry, written in English but recited in a thick French accent — the Canadian equivalent of blackface. One of those poems, the only one I remember, was about the Canadiens:
Boston, she ‘ave good ‘ockey team
Dose Maple Leafs is nice
But Les Canadiens hare de best
Dat hever skate de ice.
And so on.
Comrade Kevin
Well, the Sharks did indeed take a 2 games to none lead on the Red Wings.
Spike
For those of us north of the 49th, what would be even cooler than an original 6 final four would be a Nucks-Habs final.
wmd
@Comrade Kevin:
No eating crow tonight. Might be worth crowing a bit about my stellar prognostication. 2-0 lead. Sharks win one game in Detroit.
Chicago is going to be tough. 4-3.
Sharks v Bruins for Stanley cup. Sharks win 4-2.