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Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

In after Baud. Damn.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Consistently wrong since 2002

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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  2. 2.

    morzer

    Steelers? Pah! They are the krill in the great NFL ocean ruled by the Dolphins!

    Also too, Go Chargers! Put Goldilocks on his back!

    I’d say Go Bills.. but let’s be realistic here.

  8. 8.

    debit

    Steelers/Dolphins or Redskins/Bears?

    Oh, Miami gets the ball on a fumble. Guess I’ll have to flip between the two.

  11. 11.

    Omnes Omnibus

    I can’t believe I will be cheering for the DC Racially Insensitive Nicknames today, but I guess I can view simply as cheering for the Bears to lose.

  16. 16.

    Bubblegum Tate

    Well, we’re not even 3 minutes into this game, and I’m already royally pissed off. WTFSTEELERS?

  18. 18.

    New Yorker

    Since this is the sports thread, I’d like to comment on the overwhelming schadenfreude I’ve enjoyed over the past 48 hours after Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Howard, all $400 million worth of them, watched strike three fly by. Not only will there not be a rematch of the 2009 World Series (aka the Worst Thing Ever), both teams from that series will be golfing. Wonderful.

    Also, go San Francisco Giants. You know somewhere, some teabagger blogger’s head will explode if the team from the fakest city in Fake America beats George W. Bush’s team.

  23. 23.

    debit

    Neither one of these games are going the way I’d expected. I think it’s safe for me to go do some chores without fear of missing anything awesome.

  24. 24.

    Jewish Steel

    Sweet tipped ball run-back for the Bears defense.

    Is that going to be all the offense we see?

  28. 28.

    JPL

    This is the most shocking headline of the day

    Brett Favre admits voice mails, denies photos

    His wife was talking about her faith so all is well. I’m sure God has forgiven him.
    Edit: according to MSNBC sports

  32. 32.

    Jewish Steel

    @JPL:

    Aren’t those photos, uh, out there? Deadspin has copies I think.

    Will this lead to a line up? A wang line up? A dong up?

  37. 37.

    morzer

    @BGinCHI:

    Doubtless Favre will repent his sins before revealing that God wants him to run for the Senate/presidency/governorship of Alaska….

  40. 40.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @BGinCHI: I have been informed that Deanna issued a press statement earlier today. She said the texts were sent to her, but, since it was Brett, they were intercepted.

  43. 43.

    stuckinred

    @BGinCHI: Pretty strange. I hadn’t seen John, the Ga Theater bartender or Duck, Kyle’s partners in years. After talking with you I ran into them this morning.
    I vant to be Jung again!

  44. 44.

    stuckinred

    @BGinCHI: Pretty strange. I hadn’t seen John, the Ga Theater bartender or Duck, Kyle’s partner in years. After talking with you I ran into them this morning.
    I vant to be Jung again!

  48. 48.

    Yutsano

    Seachickens don’t start breaking my heart for a couple hours yet. I’ll just sit back and enjoy your schadenfreude until I’m a victim of my own.

  51. 51.

    BGinCHI

    @stuckinred: John who has been there forever? My god, I can picture him like it was Bush the Elder years…. He used to be a dick, but we was all youngsters then.

    The GA Bar. I still have my t-shirt. Also have a great Aaron Bonding t-shirt, with the saying on the back “Where It’s Always Springtime.”

  54. 54.

    BGinCHI

    @Bill Murray: I would pay cash money to see him drill Scalia with the ball.

    Brett would have to be careful though. You know Thomas is gonna be putting pubes on his coke can.

  56. 56.

    stuckinred

    @BGinCHI: John Elliot owns Aaron Bonding. Your average Vietnam Vet right wing teabagger who I manage to be friends with in spite of our differences. We used to have a bar softball league that played at the intramural fields on Sunday. The Georgia Bar team wore dresses to one of their games, a real riot. We’re you here that wild summer that the open container law lapsed and it was chaos and anarchy downtown? It ended with the bales of hay in front of the Theater being set on fire.

    John was pretty hard on the fans but that could be a tough crowd. Remember Steve Fleming, the tall one-armed dude that worked the door?

  62. 62.

    loon juice

    I hear a lot of cheering when the Steelers do something good. I bet the local fanns hate that.

  65. 65.

    BGinCHI

    @stuckinred: I do remember Fleming! You ever play darts there?

    Don’t think I was there for the lapse of the open container. Sounds scary.

    I also lived there the summer of ’93 (in grad school in Toronto at the time, couldn’t afford my rent, so waited tables and slept on a friend’s couch). Was involved with, and moved in with, a certain woman who half owns a certain club and who was just getting divorced from her famous Rickenbacker rock star husband. Got pretty deep into the music scene and got to meet lots of famous musicians and so on. Almost dropped out of school to stay but went back to my life and moved on. What times those were….

  67. 67.

    BGinCHI

    This fucking Bears game is fucking crazy.

    Jay Cutler is a maroon. Can’t we just kidnap Donovan?

  68. 68.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Semi OT: I am seeing a lot of Feingold commercials. Pretty good ones with real people speaking about how Feingold has fought for them. Vets, nurses, etc.

  69. 69.

    stuckinred

    @BGinCHI: We live about three blocks from there over on Hiawassee. Did you get to know Margie across the street? She may have been seeing Armstead from Love Tractor then. Course her sister was married to Ted at the Grit. I almost became Panic’s road manager about that time. Didn’t do it because it would have been harmful to my marriage that ended anyway. Don’t look back, they might be gainin on ya! Btw, John was working some at the Watt after the GT burned down.

  70. 70.

    Bill Murray

    @BGinCHI: But he sure looked like he scored on the sneak before he fumbled. Had Lovie not just challenged the spot they would have likely had a TD

  74. 74.

    trollhattan

    Yet again, due to the NFL’s bizarre home market teevee rules, I’m stuck with the Raiders and Niners even though they’re in a completely different media market. The only relief we get is Raiders home games, which are blacked out ’cause they’re never sold out. Al Davis: still a genius.

    Way to reward your fan base folks. DIAF NFL rulemakerz.

  75. 75.

    stuckinred

    @BGinCHI: I was never a darts player but I hung out in the alley outside the door. Couple of years ago the guitar tech from that band got married and the band played 7 songs in this tiny bowling alley up the street. For your enjoyment.

  78. 78.

    Ash Can

    @BGinCHI:

    Jay Cutler is a maroon.

    That’s putting it mildly. He’s trying to jump over a pile of guys who are all twice his size, and he’s holding the ball straight out away from him. Sheer genius. The only thing keeping da Bears in this game is the fact that McNabb is doing a headless-wonder act too.

  79. 79.

    BGinCHI

    @stuckinred: Dude, I bet we’ve met.

    Ever come over to swim at her house? LOTS of late night swimming. Lots of, umm, stuff going on. Fun as hell.

    All his stuff was still in the house at the time (I got the divorce papers out of the mailbox one day; awkward). Yes, I played his guitars and his records. I didn’t steal anything, but I’ll tell you, it was tempting. And just for the record, the other guys in the band, and especially you-know-who the singer, were incredibly nice to me and glad she met someone who was good to her.

    That’s a nice part of town you live in. Also lived on Hill St right where it curves a couple blocks from the Berrys house. Not sure you ever saw Mary Berry in her little BMW. Yowza.

  82. 82.

    stuckinred

    @BGinCHI: We had to have run into each other. Actually my wife was closer to that scene than I was. She moved here in the late 80’s and got to know Tony from the apartment she lived in. We see Bert and Katherine all the time and know most of the people who work for the band. We have always said they must interview them for niceness. I think the band and everything about them has been great for this community (except when the singer got mad about speed bumps on Boulevard). Whenever they play Atlanta they do a special sale for Athens people. They support all kinds of great causes and are just generally good people. The bass player played on the Ga Bar softball team I was talking about. He pitched!

  83. 83.

    stuckinred

    @BGinCHI: Yea, he seemed good at that party but it was a while back. Did you know the bands accountant? We used to meditate after she left the band and became a massage therapist. There is a little cafe right across the street from us and the singers family comes there quite a bit.

  85. 85.

    JCJ

    Nice pass, Cutler. Personal foul on Chicago on the return. Orton might not have been great, but Cutler is supposed to be better?

  86. 86.

    Svensker

    @J.:

    Jets fans for Steelers!

    Nah, still too pissed off about Ben “Scuzzbag” Roethlsberger and I like Chad Henne, even if he does have a funny looking head.

    What happened to the Saints? Did someone kidnap the real ones and substitute Zombie Saints in the off season?

  89. 89.

    BGinCHI

    @stuckinred: Heading out for a while but will check back in. Second all your thoughts on how they impact the community there.

    My friend Catherine used to cook for J Holt. When we lived on Hill St she’d bring us his leftovers.

    Find some makework for the Regents and get up here. Bring the wife. Mrs. BG is a fluent Welsh speaker, so that’s always entertaining.

  95. 95.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Last five Bears possessions have ended in turnovers.

    ETA: Possibly the sloppiest game ever.

  96. 96.

    Ash Can

    The Bears and the Redskins aren’t just trying to give each other the game, they’re begging each other to take it.

  102. 102.

    Andy K

    Michigan State up to #5 in the AP poll…Oklahoma down to #11…Mizzou up eleven spots to #7….Weird year in college football.

  109. 109.

    AxelFoley

    I know I’m a little late for this. I generally like the Steelers, but not when they play my Dolphins. So for today, fuck the Steelers.

    Go Dolphins!

  111. 111.

    morzer

    @Svensker:

    All this detente between Jets and Dolphins fans is really rather heartwarming, isn’t it? The Steelers have performed their first, admittedly accidental, service to humanity.

  113. 113.

    Bill Murray

    What a cop out by the referee in the Dolphins-Steelers game. Just because one of the guys that jumped on the ball came out of the pile with it, is no reason to assume that he actually recovered it. What a pile of doo

  114. 114.

    tim serbo

    is Cole bellowing at the TV screen? are the livestock cowering under the furniture? lo, verily, chez Cole must be a House of Wrath today.

    go Pats, also, too.

  116. 116.

    Ash Can

    Wait, TO Bears? Did I see that right? Is it just me, or is burning a TO with 12 seconds to go till the two-minute warning just plain goofy?

  119. 119.

    morzer

    @JCJ:

    Is it time for the NFL to create a new MVP award?

    The Season MVP for Teams Other Than His Own for 2010 is….

    Jay Cutler.

  121. 121.

    Studly Pantload

    Since when the Hell has who came up with the ball after a fumble been subject to review? You just unstack the bodies and see who’s clutching it, right? Now, what, a ref needs a note from Mommy saying whether it’s OK to make a ruling on the field?

  122. 122.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Always nice to see the Bears lose. Now, I just need to not develop an ulcer before tonight’s game.

  123. 123.

    Andy K

    @Ash Can:

    I wasn’t paying attention, but it depends upon down and distance. If you think you can stop ’em before they pick up the first down or make ’em throw incomplete, you end up looking like a genius.

  125. 125.

    Bill Murray

    Did Big Ben promise Gene Steratore a BJ from one of his floozies? I think that’s the most likely explanation for that call

  126. 126.

    Ash Can

    @morzer: At the end of the season the area around Cutler’s locker is going to be piled high with fruit baskets from half the NFC.

  127. 127.

    JCJ

    @morzer:

    Definitely. Cutler would have that award wrapped up already.

    I think the NFL should have a new award for Favre – MVPenis

  130. 130.

    morzer

    @Perry Como:

    To be scrupulously fair, the refs fucked it up without any apparent transfers from the Rooney Friendship Fund, and with no apparent ACORN involvement.

  131. 131.

    Andy K

    I would like to thank Fox for the bonus coverage of the Panthers-Niners game. Not that the game was worth watching, but anything that cuts into my local affiliate’s airing of 2 1/2 Men and/or Everybody Loves Raymond is cool by me.

  133. 133.

    Andy K

    The commissioner’s office needs to seriously consider fining and/or suspending DeAngelo Hall for his blatant misrepresentation of the truth during his post-game interview. “We knew Jay Cutler is a good quarterback,” my ass!

  135. 135.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    I’m no Dolphins fan, but Miami was ROBBED. On that play an official MUST determine who recovered the ball, regardless of what the initial call was. The officials have to be cognizant of replay possibilities.

    The Steelers got a huge gift.

  136. 136.

    Yutsano

    Dammit. It’s gonna be a score 3 and be done kind of a Sunday for the Seachickens again. And it’s even pouring outside too.

  137. 137.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @morzer:

    Well, the Steelers win this because the refs fucked up the recovery call

    Weird how the Steelers can maintain possession of a live ball in the endzone and not get 6 points for it.

  138. 138.

    Bill Murray

    @Just Some Fuckhead: well the call was, the officials did not know who recovered it, so possession reverts back to the last known point of possession — Linda Blair Roethliesberger just short of the end zone — notwithstanding the Dolphin that came out of the pile with the ball.

  141. 141.

    morzer

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Only if you are too blind to see the ball coming out before Roethlisberger crosses the goal line, and then being recovered by around FOUR Dolphins before a Steeler got anywhere near it. But I assume that being so frequently head-fucked has affected your eyesight.

  143. 143.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @morzer: I agree the Dolphins recovered it. But by saying the Dolphins did not recover it, and turn possession over to Miami, they are tacitly saying the Steelers did recover it and yet didn’t award them 6 points.

  144. 144.

    J.

    @Svensker: I hear you, Svensker. The spouse and I feel the same way about Roethlisberger, and I too have a soft spot for the Chads, but business first. We needed the Phins to lose.

  145. 145.

    morzer

    @S. cerevisiae:

    One of the great NFL rivalries of our time. One of these proud men must inherit the Clown Shoes left behind by Master JaMarcus before he left for the west….

  148. 148.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    @morzer:

    It’s called Norv Turner Disease.

    How he’s still an NFL head coach is one of the mysteries of our age.

  149. 149.

    Yutsano

    Somehow the Seachickens are up by 10 going into halftime. I’m still awaiting the inevitable meltdown.

  150. 150.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @morzer: Well, at any rate, kudos to the Steelers for creating an entirely new strategy heretofore unknown in the NFL. When there is a live ball on the field, just have everyone jump on the pile to make it too difficult to figure out who got possession.

  151. 151.

    Bill Murray

    @Just Some Fuckhead: again, they did not say the Dolphins did not recover the ball. They did not say the Steelers did not recover the ball. They said they could not tell who recovered the ball — 1. because the play was ruled a TD, the officials did not check at the time, and 2. the replay, despite one of the Dolphins emerging with the ball, was inconclusive as to recovery. Once this is determined the ball must go back to the last point of possession

  152. 152.

    p mac

    @BillMurray
    They didn’t have to see who recovered the fumble–that’s what the replay is for. And it was pretty obvious to all but the most biased observer that a Dolphins player recovered it. What more do you have to do than fall directly on the ball and grabbing it to your chest with both hands?

  153. 153.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Just Some Fuckhead: In 35 years of watching football, I’ve never seen such a thing. If that’s the case, and they can’t review the tape to see who recovered, then they simply need to announce they were too invested in rubberstamping a Steelers touchdown to do their fucking job.

  155. 155.

    Bill Murray

    @p mac: right and they said they couldn’t tell from the replay. So they go back to last possession.

    In other news, the Patriots go for it on 4th and 1 from about mid-field, miss and give the Chargers a short field to tie the game up.

  156. 156.

    Bill Murray

    @Just Some Fuckhead: I would agree it was very weird, but they did review the tape, and could not determine definitive possession.

    Chargers hit the upright from 51 so the Patriots will likely win

  157. 157.

    fbihop

    As a Chiefs fan, I’m conflicted. I love that the Broncos are getting beat down. But I hate that the Raiders are playing really well.

  158. 158.

    Svensker

    @Bill Murray:

    In other news, the Patriots go for it on 4th and 1 from about mid-field, miss and give the Chargers a short field to tie the game up.

    No Chargers’ fan, but I hate the stupid Patriots. Hate them. Why do they always have to friggin win? I mean, you can’t even have their players break their legs or have strokes — they fugging overcome having strokes and breaking legs and come back to play even better than before. Bellicheck is the Devil. It’s the only explanation.

  159. 159.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Bill Murray: If you can’t determine possession from the video showing two Dolphins jumping on the ball first, followed by a Dolphin emerging trimphantly with the ball then I would suggest charitably you find another line of work that doesn’t require senses or sense, uncharitably that you be investigated for corruption.

  160. 160.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    @Svensker:

    Yeah, it’s a real shock when a team coached by Belichick (one of the best coaches ever) beats a team coached by Norv Turner (the most Norv Turner coach ever) in a close game.

    Sheesh.

    Meanwhile, did anyone else catch Ben Rapistburger claiming that he had his arm wrapped around that ball at the bottom of the pile?

    I think he’s drinking again. During the game.

    Bad news for Steelers fans.

  162. 162.

    Geoduck

    @Yutsano:

    The Seahacks won, and now lead the division. The commentators were saying that Hasselbeck is the best quarterback in the division. How sad is that for just about everyone concerned?

  163. 163.

    Svensker

    @MoeLarryAndJesus:

    Meanwhile, did anyone else catch Ben Rapistburger claiming that he had his arm wrapped around that ball at the bottom of the pile?

    Yeah, Ben obviously didn’t watch the replay cuz it was a big ole lie. Odd.

    And, yes, Belichick (how do you spell his name? who cares) is a really good coach, but I’d argue that his powers are derived from the dark side. Demonic.

  164. 164.

    John Cole

    On that play an official MUST determine who recovered the ball, regardless of what the initial call was.

    Not when they signal touchdown. I’d be pissed if I were a Miami fan, too, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen refs sort out a pile for possession when a touchdown has been called.

  167. 167.

    BGinCHI

    Cole sounds sober. I hope he didn’t run afoul of the WV blue laws.

    OK, now, who wants Jay Cutler? Any offer considered.

  169. 169.

    Ron

    I just finally got a chance to see the replay. The officials actually did the right thing. It’s clear that Ben fumbled short of the goal line. There isn’t “indisputable evidence” that Miami recovered the ball.

  170. 170.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    @John Cole:

    I’ve definitely seen it. Remember, on these plays refs have different responsibilities. I just can’t believe none of them were looking to see who had possession, just in case.

    Never mind that the tape seemed to show FOUR Dolphins all over the ball.

    This was one shitty call. I’m just glad I didn’t have money on the game.

  171. 171.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    @Ron:

    Another one. The reason there isn’t “indisputable evidence” is that the officials fell asleep and fucked up big time.

  172. 172.

    fucen tarmal

    @MoeLarryAndJesus:

    ok…this isn’t difficult. once the referees signalled touchdown, it is a dead ball….if even for a split second, the steeler players lapsed in their effort to recover the ball, assuming the play was dead(remember, players in the game aren’t by definition watching it on tv, they don’t know whether or not the ball crossed the plane before or after the ball came loose…they rely on signals for that) so, if by the touchdown signal and the resulting dead ball, the steelers hesitated to recover, or stopped amidst the effort to recover it, then picking up a ball the other team is no longer fighting for, after the refs have convinced one side there is no need to fight further, proves nothing…

    its about the entire sequence. not some imaginary world where you get to pretend everyone had perfect information.

  173. 173.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    @fucen tarmal:

    That’s just silly. In the actual game no one “stopped fighting” for the ball, and the refs were right there to see what was happening.

    They just fucked up, and any impartial observers who were watching that game realized it.

    I saw the entire sequence. It doesn’t sound like you did.

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