Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

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  5. 5.

    lamh32

    OMG. Just watched the TrueBlood finale. My last words were NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    In one final episode, they may have made up for this whole wishy washy season.

  6. 6.

    Roger Moore

    @Ron:

    Should I be looking forward to draft day yet?

    Only if the players burn their draft cards, hold a sit-in, and threaten to move to Canada if their demands aren’t met.

  11. 11.

    John Cole

    @Linda Featheringill: Rosie is doing very well. People were shocked at how well she is behaving these days when they came to the party Friday night. Numerous people commented she was not the same dog as last year.

    She even spent most of the day on my lap watching the NFL.

  12. 12.

    Comrade Kevin

    I usually enjoy watching the 49ers, I’ve been doing it since, well, I can remember. There is something, in general, though, about the NFL and the coverage it gets on TV that really bugs the shit out of me. It’s the way they sort of imply, without actually saying, that they’re some extra branch of the US military.

    Wow, there’s a whole bunch of commas in that paragraph.

  15. 15.

    BruceFromOhio

    @John Cole: Could it be the fence, the crate? Animals need limits, boundaries, to know where “here” and “home” and “this is mine” begins and ends?

    ETA: Every season there is some set of commercials that I come to loathe after the third or fourth time around, and right now its the DirecTV spots with the little floating fairy.

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Hey, John! Check out the previous thread to read all aout the awesome, caloric, delicious dessert I had tonight which is called the JOHN COLE! Srsly.

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Hey, John! Check out the previous thread to read all about the awesome, caloric, delicious dessert I had tonight which is called the JOHN COLE! Srsly.

  29. 29.

    Steeplejack

    @Corner Stone:

    Yeah, what’s up with that? Plax is my favorite mouthwash, but it has mysteriously disappeared from CVS, which is the only place around here that carries it.

  34. 34.

    moonbat

    Seriously, I know the Cubs and the Mets aren’t playing for anything but pride right now, but could we at least pretend to cover the game? There’s so much 9/11 remembering going on that I have no idea what’s going on on the field! If you want to have a 9/11 tribute show with Bobby Valentine and Mike Piazza telling their stories, fine. Do that. But don’t pretend to be covering a baseball game too.
    /end rant of frustrated Cubs fan

  45. 45.

    Ash Can

    @moonbat: If you live anywhere near the Chicago area, turn the sound on ESPN down and tune in to WGN radio (720 AM) for the play-by-play. If you don’t, try going to wgnradio.com; I think they stream the broadcasts on the web.

  50. 50.

    BruceFromOhio

    This is ending up almost as interesting as the Saints-Packers game. Glad I stayed up past bedtime for this one, too!

    ETA: Jets t/o with :08… wtf? Please end it already.

  51. 51.

    eastriver

    I’m watching the Jets do some damage against the Cowboys (on 9/11, how perfect is that?), and I can only think one thing…

    …

    …

    …

    My GOD the Steelers sucked today.

  52. 52.

    Steeplejack

    @Corner Stone:

    I’m watching the game. Why din’t you say Plax-i in the first place?! Of course that’s football. Plax, not so much.

    ETA: Last chance for the ’Boys.

  53. 53.

    Anya

    NY 09: Obama turns Weprin into Toast. Turner Leads 47-41. That’s the title of a Dailykos diary. It looks like a sizable number of the NY09 has a constituency is an Israel first crowd. What the hell is up with that?

  54. 54.

    suzanne

    I am going to sound like the worst parent in the world after FourLoko_chan’s mom and dad, but I totally want a vacation from my kids. I don’t even want to go anywhere. I want THEM to go somewhere. Just for a few days. I want to sleep until noon every damn day and use profane language in every sentence and enjoy some peace and motherfucking quiet and not deal with anybody’s feces and just have lots of sex.

  57. 57.

    Alison

    @suzanne: I am not a parent, but I see nothing whatsoever wrong with your comment, and I’d bet it’s echoed in the minds of maaaaaaany parents out there.

    We need time apart from everyone in our lives – spouses/partners, friends, coworkers, etc…only natural one might need a break from their kids once in a while too. Especially since they come with, as you noted, poop and stuff. Gross.

  60. 60.

    Kristine

    Just watched Jeff Samardzija pitch out of a mess of his own making. Unfortunately, not before he let the Mets tie it up. Damn Cubs. I should bag b-ball and wait for the Hawks to get going.

  62. 62.

    Geoduck

    @Yutsano:
    I’m a lifetime Seattle-area resident, and I don’t understand it. Year after year after year, people keep going to the Seahawk/Mariner/Sonic games, knowing, knowing, that it’s all going to end in ashes, and probably sooner rather than later. But they keep coming back. I sort of half-watch ‘Hawk games, but.. actually buying tickets? Making that deep emotional investment? I realize that Americans are trained from birth that professional sports, unlike politics, are Vitally Crushingly Important, but still..

    And of course, everything’s so larded down with commercials any more, even if they did Win It All occasionally.. sigh.

  64. 64.

    Yutsano

    @suzanne: Nope. Not unusual at all. There are reasons why kids get shipped off to the grandparents for a week or two. It’s to give Mom and Dad a break. And it’s hugely important too.

    @Geoduck: I’m going to a Seahack game mostly because it’s on my birthday and it’s a good excuse to get my family to visit. That and I enjoy people watching. But folks have got to wonder if the tax raise for the two new places was worth it.

  65. 65.

    Svensker

    @Roger Moore:

    Really cool. What is it, where’d you find it?

    We were just up at Lake Huron and found trilobite fossils which was SO exciting.

    Also, Revis is the man.

  67. 67.

    JCT

    @suzanne: Hah! Been there done that! We had no relatives to help so it took awhile, but hang in– they’ll grow up fast and decide that hanging with you sucks (this is when you get date-nights back).

    Just save the bucks to send them out of state for college…

  68. 68.

    suzanne

    @Yutsano:

    There are reasons why kids get shipped off to the grandparents for a week or two.

    We tried having the baby stay with my mom for a sleepover. The first time, she did just fine, no anxiety at all. The second time, a couple of weeks ago, my mom called me at 10 pm to come pick her up because the baby was just freaking the fuck out and couldn’t deal with the disruption to her routine. Total cockblock. So we’re going to give it a few months before we try having another sleepover.

    Argh.

  71. 71.

    Roger Moore

    @Svensker:

    What is it, where’d you find it?

    Which one? There’s a natural dinosaur footprint cast from the Johnson Farm Museum in St. George, UT, fossil oyster shells from beside the Notom-Bullfrog Road in Capitol Reef National Park, and a sauropod humerus from Dinosaur National Monument. Only the track was in a museum.

  73. 73.

    FlipYrWhig

    I realized today that Tony Romo is like the Tony Stewart of QBs. Doughy, lackadaisical, and error-prone. (Also, Mark Sanchez looks just like the star of Entourage, and I dislike both of them.) That whole game was just two different styles of ineptitude. Kind of like Romney vs. Perry.

  79. 79.

    4jkb4ia

    I am sorry I missed the Mahler, especially since it was the Philharmonic, but I don’t know it well enough to listen during the commercials. I had to do the pots, also too.

    That game was full of um, incident. Svensker put it well with “miraculous”. I guess TNC can take heart that the Cowboys aren’t going to be any worse this year. But Sanchez was seen doing things you would never have relied on him to do last year.

  81. 81.

    Alan

    @4jkb4ia and whoever else wants to hear the Mahler

    You can listen to the concert or watch the concert online for at least the next week or so. Check the Great Performances website. Of course, you can also download a good recording of the piece for not much money.

  86. 86.

    burnspbesq

    @Kristine:

    So many empty seats.

    It’s after midnight on a school night. A sudden and unexpected outbreak of responsible parenting is the cause of those empty seats.

  87. 87.

    burnspbesq

    @Alan:

    Of course, you can also download a good recording of the piece for not much money.

    I’m a fan of the San Francisco Symphony/Tilson Thomas Mahler cycle. You can definitely download them from http://www.hdtracks.com (CD-quality or hi-res), and probably also from http://www.sfs.org.

    You can also buy the entire cycle on vinyl, but it’s appallingly expensive.

  88. 88.

    Arclite

    Flipping between the Jets/Cowboys and Mahler’s Symphony #2 on PBS.

    Jesus, that’s pretty schizophrenic.

  89. 89.

    moonbat

    @Ash Can: Don’t live in the Chicago area unfortunately but will try the internet work around next time. Thanks for the tip. We get to see so few Cubs games here on the left coast that it’s just frustrating when one is on basic cable and you don’t really get to see it.

  90. 90.

    jprfrog

    I don’t have any love for the Cowboys but I HATE the Jets. Didn’t know about the alternative being Mahler but that’s just as well, as I tend to get over-emotional (just like the composer) and I had to sleep last night. Funny, never did that when I had to actually play the piece (which I did about 30 times). I suppose it’s like playing football: you never really feel the pain while you are playing but oh man the next day!

    Tonight it matters: My Pats vs. the Fish. Not easy at all. Gone are the days when you could assume the Pats would win.

  92. 92.

    Marc

    Something going on over at dailykos…

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/11/1015546/-SistahSpeak?via=siderec

    I think kos banned a bunch of people for fighting over Obama, and a lot of them were apparently AA posters. The latter group is organizing some sort of boycott because they feel singled out. I don’t hang out there much, so I don’t know about the right & wrong & the like. I do know that the diaries, especially the comments, are virtually unreadable to me right now.

  93. 93.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Marc: Do you remember the original “pie fight,” where a lot of Kossacks (especially women) complained about a racy web ad and ended up getting a front-page harrumphing from Markos himself about the “sanctimonious women’s studies set” and identity politics? A lot of women who used to participate over there ended up elsewhere.

  95. 95.

    Waterballoon

    It’s ironic considering how often kos harangues single issue voters for not seeing the bigger picture, but will be actively rooting against senator Tester because he didn’t vote for the Dream Act. Everyone else’s priorities are identity politics, his priorities are bedrock principles everyone else must comply with.

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