Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We still have time to mess this up!

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

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

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

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

Infrastructure week. at last.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

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  1. 1.

    Paul in KY

    John, I’m a Browns fan, so you know what I’m going to say:

    ‘Rot in Hell, Art Modell!!’

    Go Steelers!!!

  2. 2.

    Mark S.

    Oh, are they playing today?

    Let’s see, I’ve always hated the Ravens, I hate Roethlisberger, and the Jets have been classless dipshits the past week. I guess I want the Pats to win by default.

  5. 5.

    joe from Lowell

    I think it’s funny when teams send a corner blitz at Roethilesberger, and he plants the guy with one hand.

    Come on, man! A corner blitz? What do you think is going to happen?

  6. 6.

    geg6

    My John and I have brand new Steeler gear and we’re fired up and ready to go. We’re headed to a party at our local VFW to hang around with a bunch of Islamofascist commie Stiller fans who once infiltrated our glorious military. This, unfortunately, means that they like the swarthy usurper in the White House and worship at the altar of Black and Gold, making them Not Real Americans. If the Stillers lose, we plan to blood libel Sarah Palin by blaming the loss on her.

  8. 8.

    Paul in KY

    @geg6: If y’all lose today (at home), then surely Sarah! will be the reason.

    I personally wouldn’t mind 7 million or so pissed off Steeler fans after her greasy ass. Also. Too.

  9. 9.

    BGinCHI

    After NE loses tomorrow, I hope DougJ goes back to his real name. Or he has a contest to see who can come up with a better name for him.

  10. 10.

    MikeBoyScout

    Pro sports is the 21st century opium of our masses.

    And today’s game is a high we’ve earned.

    GO STILLERS!

  11. 11.

    billgerat

    @Paul in KY:

    I was gonna say….I have no great love for the Steelers since they played the Seahawks in the Superbowl, but I absolutely can’t stand the Ravens. I hope there’s a special place in Hell for Art.

    Irsay too, but not as much. The NFL should make it a rule that any team that moves must leave the name and records in the vacated city like the Ravens had to.

    And I miss the Oilers.

  12. 12.

    The Dangerman

    No dog in the hunt, but I hope the Ref’s let ’em play. No autopsy, no personal foul.

  14. 14.

    morzer

    It must be difficult to be John Cole, waking up naked and shivering at the bottom of a pit and hearing a feline voice growl from the shadows up above:

    “It wears the Joe Flacco costume, or it gets the hose again”.

  16. 16.

    BDR

    I know Cole is from the Pittsburgh area, but really, the only worse than rabid Cowboys fans who’ve never been in Texas are rabid Steelers fans who’ve never been in Western Pennsylvania. Guarantee you they’re not Pirate fans.

    Go Ravens.

  18. 18.

    morzer

    @Paul in KY:

    Hmmm..but who do you think ends up having to play the Ravens when Cole and Tunch do their pre-game skirmish? I am pretty sure Tunch always gets to choose.

  20. 20.

    Paul in KY

    @morzer: Great point. Hadn’t thought of that.

    Wouldn’t think John wants to piss him off (more than he probably does anyway).

  21. 21.

    Montysano

    On Sunday, 8″ of snow fell in 5 hours here in north Alabama. Today, 8″ of snow remains on the ground. A bad case of Cabin Fever has set in, so we’re thinking “The King’s Speech” might be a fine idea.

  23. 23.

    Ed in NJ

    Should be the last weekend we need to talk about the Steelers for the next couple of months. Jets, too.

  24. 24.

    Tim

    JC, question: Do you REALLY, HONESTLY get this neurotic over the football games, or are you wildly exaggerating for humorous effect?

    Cause…if it’s the former, you might need to get a life.

    If it’s the latter, I’m there with you. Having grown up and lived most of my life in the dead (and I do mean DEAD) center of the country, I remain an Oklahoma Sooner football and Kansas Jayhawk basketball fan, and enjoy following the games. BUT there is little that is more pathetic than the over the top, get a life already, sort of psycho/obsessive fandom displayed by the spittle-spraying Boston Red Sox fans where I now live. It’s kind of sad.

    It’s fun and diverting to follow sports, but if that’s all one thinks or talks about or emotionally invests in…wow…and that’s the impression I get from a lot of RS fans here.

  26. 26.

    hildebrand

    Today was bottling day in the great home brewing experiment (this is my first stab at the home brewing bit). Now the hard part – waiting two weeks for bottle conditioning.

  29. 29.

    Loneoak

    Gonna cook me up a nice pot of red beans and rice for the Packers game. Clay Matthews is going to murder some fools.

  32. 32.

    PS

    @Michael D.: Remove the vowels from his name and you have:

    RNC PR BS

    [via asiangrrrlMN at TBogg’s place, who got it from Agnes who got it from Jim …]

  33. 33.

    morzer

    Ravens, Falcons, Bears and Patriots to advance.

    I’d like to see the Ravens, Packers, Seahawks and the Peppermint Toesuckers advance, but it is as it is.

  34. 34.

    hitchhiker

    Maybe I’m just in a bad mood this morning, but finding a stupid racist joke in my mailbox from my stupid racist older brother pissed me off enough to follow it to the bottom and see who started it. Turns out the sender was employed at L-3 Communications. Who dat?

    L-3 Communications is a prime contractor in Command, Control and Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C³ISR), Government Services, Aircraft Modernization and Maintenance (AM&M) and has the broadest base of Electronic Systems in the industry. L-3 is also a major provider of homeland defense products and services for a variety of emerging markets.

    The dumbass used his work email to forward said stupid racist joke. I think I’m breaking the rules in telling you all about it, because the very last thing in the email (now forwarded to god knows how many inboxes) is this:

    These commodities/technical data, including attachments, are controlled under the United States Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). This information may not be exported to a foreign person, either in the U.S. or abroad, without the proper authorization of the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Commerce. Prior to distributing, please contact Amphenol Borisch Technologies to obtain related information for commodity classification and jurisdiction as well as end users. This E-mail, including any attachments, should be considered confidential and proprietary information. Further, this information is intended solely for use by the individual to whom it is addressed. If you received this E-mail in error, please notify the sender, do not disclose its contents to others, and delete it from your system. Any other use of this E-mail and/or attachments is prohibited. This message is not meant to constitute an electronic signature or intent to contract electronically.

    Oops!

    What is the highly confidential information that our correspondent saw fit to pass along to those of us who are not foreign persons?

    A joke that begins like this:

    Two Mexicans are stuck in the desert after crossing into the United States , wandering aimlessly and starving. They are about to just lie down and wait for death, when all of a sudden Luis says………”Hey Pepe, do you smell what I smell. Ees bacon, I theenk.” “Si, Luis, eet sure smells like bacon. “

    The L-3 Communications employee who sent this garbage out is named Gary Nason. The joke ends this way:

    SO SORRY I know there is something wrong with me for sending you this. Just couldn’t help it! The little voices made me do it !!! And I bet you tried to do the accent didn’t you – I know you did!

    Our homeland security dollars at work.

  35. 35.

    Steelers R Bradys Bitches aka 2liberal

    Go Ratbirds! Lose, but cause lots of injuries! Especially to anyone with a first name like Troy.

  37. 37.

    Yutsano

    @WyldPirate: What I really wanna know is what idiot father let Roethlisberger get close enough to actually pop the question. Though I suppose this could be a psy-op by his agent to try and get him back into respectability. And yes said affianced is unnamed.

  39. 39.

    matoko_chan

    Anyone not into meatpuppets bashing each others brains out in the name of sport should go see The Black Swan.
    Again.
    its amazing.

  41. 41.

    Yutsano

    @morzer: Cudlip. :)

    @Barb (formerly Gex): Should said female actually exist, I’m more interested in what kind of father lets a man with a long reputation of disrespectful conduct towards women anywhere near his daughter. Star-struck or just disinterested I guess. The third option is absent.

  44. 44.

    Yutsano

    @morzer: Oops. My bad. Guess I’ll just slink off into the nothingness now.

    Besides which, I feel slightly bad. I caught her in a moment of intellectual laziness and can’t really follow up on it as I’m preparing to leave for the weekend. It promises to be kinda fun for me too.

  46. 46.

    morzer

    @Mark S.:

    Might be hard to find bridesmaids as well. I wonder whether they’ll conscript the cheerleaders? And what would the pay be? Double time? Triple time? Octuple time?

  47. 47.

    morzer

    @Yutsano:

    A moment of intellectual laziness? My dear sir, she’s had a lifetime of it!

    What fun do you purpose? Is the sultry siren of ‘Sota joining you?

  49. 49.

    Yutsano

    @morzer: Nah, just a jaunt to the folks’ ranch for the weekend. Roads in the mountains are wide open so I’m in no hurry as to departure time. Four hour drive and I’m there. And AAA in case things go boingo on the trip.

    And I really want to choke Makoto’s brain on the notion that there are Americans who indeed have studied the Islamic world and understand the dynamics of what may indeed be happening in Tunisia. And honestly I see a shit ton of bullshit being thrown around by a lot of folks.

  51. 51.

    WyldPirate

    @Yutsano:

    Big Ben is like a lot of dudes, particularly jocks. He gets liqoured-up, little head starts over-ruling the big one and trouble ensues.

    As to your question, sometimes, some chicks dig bad boys and daddy can’t keep them away from ’em. Then you’ve got Kanye’s girls–the Golddiggers.

    It’s a hazardous world out there for those pro athletes. Can’t even chase some leg without being a little paranoid. At least I hope Big Ben is a little paranoid now and has maybe learned what the word “no” means. I think he is all out of “strikes” at this point.

  52. 52.

    Punchy

    Anyone not into meatpuppets bashing each others brains out in the name of sport

    matoko seems….concerned.

  55. 55.

    Polar Bear Squares

    John I love this blog. But I’m kinda glad you’re a Steelers fan. Seeing how I hate the Steelers (Cowboys fan … I puke everytime I see that smug punk Sexualmisconduct-berger) I think it’s good to see people you respect to have flaws. And being a Steeler fan is a HUGE flaw. Keeps you off a pedestal.

    I can’t root for them but I wish you all the best of luck. At least your team is still in the hunt.

    Many blessings.

    PBS

  56. 56.

    Ron

    Well, I got beer for the game today. I think probably both Ravens fans and Steelers fans feel like alcohol and/or antacids are necessary for these games. Our household is going doubly crazy today since my wife is from Green Bay originally and has no doubts as to who she is rooting for. (What we do if somehow there is a Packers – Steelers superbowl has yet to be determined)

  57. 57.

    Batocchio

    Yeah, I’ll be feeling the same way during the Packers game later tonight. Good luck to the Steelers! Beat the Ravens and the Pats! (Or the Jets if there’s an upset.)

  60. 60.

    Yutsano

    @Svensker: Mine did. Whether they should have is another debate for another time. But seeing the 12th man flag on top of the Space Needle told this thing has now gone too damn far. I’d be totally okay if they lost tomorrow.

  61. 61.

    Svensker

    @Yutsano:

    Nah, it’s all good. I think it would be great if the Hawks advanced and you gotta give the 12th Man credit — the team has sucked so long but the fans hang in.

    I’m just hoping somebody knocks out Dr. Faust’s team before the SB — I’m just afraid it’s not going to be the Jetties tomorrow.

  63. 63.

    J. Michael Neal

    ODIs are a decidedly inferior form of cricket, but there’s a fabulous one coming to its end down in South Africa. The South African tail seems to have bailed out the middle of the order. They need four runs with eight overs and two wickets left. India needs some big time bowling, starting right now.

  68. 68.

    J. Michael Neal

    @S. cerevisiae: God, I hate shootouts. That said, I think we played better than you did last night. The officiating was brutal, and I think it hurt us, but it was so bad that I’m not sure of that.

    And it’s always nice to see the men get a win up in Grand Forks. Ugly, ugly incident at the end of the second period, though.

  70. 70.

    J. Michael Neal

    And Munaf Patel gets Parnell to cut the ball to point. India survives, and the South Africans have no one to blame but themselves. Oh, and the refs, for giving Johan Botha out for lbw when the ball never hit the pad.

  78. 78.

    matoko_chan

    that there are Americans who indeed have studied the Islamic world and understand the dynamics of what may indeed be happening in Tunisia

    .
    SRSLY? name one…..there arent any IMHO.
    because when muslims are democratically empowered to vote, they will vote for more islam, not less.
    that seems gobsmackingly obvious to me.

  79. 79.

    Svensker

    @morzer:

    Sexy Rexy’s favorite sandwich? Five dollar foot long, acourse.

    Apparently Billy Belichick’s favorite sandwich, both at home and on the job, is the one someone else has been eatin’ on.

  80. 80.

    adolphus

    Great, the Baltimore Murderers versus the Pittsburgh Rapists. I wonder if the in-stadium jail will have a players’ section and a rocket-docket to arraign between quarters.

    Go Ravens.

  83. 83.

    Paul in KY

    @matoko_chan: I agree that when muslims have the chance to vote in free elections, they tend to vote for governments that will explicitly maintain the religous hegemony of Islam.

    I personally don’t think you’re going out on a limb when you say that.

  84. 84.

    Sam Hutcheson

    In the yearly contest between the Accessories To Double Murder and the Serial Rapists I think I have to default to the Accessories.

  86. 86.

    S. cerevisiae

    @J. Michael Neal: We’ll see how the rematch goes tonight. I am actually watching the rebroadcast of the Gopher-Sioux men’s game on the NHL network, it is one of the few chances I get to see a game on TV out here. I never mind seeing North Dakota get beat.

  88. 88.

    techno

    @stuckinred:
    Those Stressless are incredibly well made. Make certain you shop long enough to get one that fits you since they all come in an assortment of sizes.

    One of our Stressless is 12 years old and the leather looks brand new. It is so buttery soft that our cat will sit almost nowhere else in the house–princess that she is.

  89. 89.

    FlipYrWhig

    Is Ben Roethlisberger the least handsome quarterback ever to play the game? His face looks like one of the potatoes at the bottom of the bin. And it looked that way before the motorcycle accident too.

  91. 91.

    eemom

    so, I have deducerated that this game today is the last chance for the Stealers, which is John’s team, to stay in the…… top four?

    I haz that right?

  95. 95.

    techno

    @stuckinred:
    Get the wife one too. Because while she will be able to sit on your big chair, she will never know why you like it. A chair that fits is VERY important (as the Stressless sales honeys will be happy to tell you.)

  96. 96.

    stuckinred

    @eemom: Sort of, the NFL playoffs are single elimination. You lose you go home. Right now there are 8 teams left, tomorrow at 7 there will be 4. Two of which will have the initials, Bears and Falcons!

  98. 98.

    matoko_chan

    @arguingwithsignposts: not a counter-example, sry.
    there can certainly be islamic democracies based on enlightenment concepts.
    Iraq is an example.
    Shariah in the constitution, religious political parties, and the mullahs and imams still function as government advisors.
    you FAIL again.
    old harpy patrol — 0
    matoko_chan — aleph nought

  99. 99.

    Paul in KY

    @FlipYrWhig: I loved it when Terry Bradshaw was commenting in the wake of his Georgia pillaging & said that all those girls flocking around him aren’t doing it because of his noble countenance.

  105. 105.

    techno

    @stuckinred:
    OK. Let her have the couch. I understand Stressless chairs are expensive, but they are an investment. And since bad chairs can lead to bad backs, we talking about potential REAL cost savings here. This is especially true for guys over 6′ tall.

  107. 107.

    merrinc

    @hitchhiker:

    You reported him, right? I’d bet real money there’s company policy which strictly forbids that kind of nonsense. My husband works for a large utility which has been known to march former employees out of the building after doing a mass forward with one’s work email. I’m not usually a narc but I have zero tolerance for being included with eleventy billion other people on anything whether it’s a racist joke or a recipe or wishes for world peace.

    Speaking of stupid emails, the chiropractor I saw a couple of times last spring put me on his mailing list. I usually hit delete and move on but I noticed the one I received yesterday invited me to his class on “Restoring America’s Constitution.” Geez, put a black guy in the White House and suddenly everybody’s a fucking constitutional expert. And yeah, I’ve already made a note to find a new chiro next time my back goes out.

  108. 108.

    Cliff

    @merrinc:

    this is a perfect time to send(Re:Email) a nice note explaining the free market to him, and why he won’t be getting more of your $$$

  109. 109.

    FlipYrWhig

    @stuckinred: I dunno. YA Tittle still looks dignified, like an ancient Roman. Young Bradshaw kind of looks like Favre. Roethlisberger’s head looks like a Nerf ball that’s been left out in the rain. Lumpy, pocked, and asymmetrical.

  111. 111.

    asiangrrlMN

    @PS: That’s so freaking funny because I posted it here, too, at some point last night. Heh.

    @morzer: Sultry siren of ‘Sota? Melikey!

    Whazzup, bitchez? Stillers and the Pack today, Bears and the Jets tomorrow (for whom I am rooting–not necessarily who I think will win).

  112. 112.

    morzer

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Ravens, Pack, Winged Tuna, Peppermint Toesuckers are the rootees for me. But I reckon that only the Ravens will come through.

    And sultry siren of ‘Sota is well deserved.

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