Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

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

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

“woke” is the new caravan.

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

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

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  1. 1.

    General Stuck

    Think positive, dude. If the Steelers pull another one out, they’ll be tied with Cleveland for first place, along with those team stealing assholes in Baltimore. If they lose, maybe next week, hey?

  5. 5.

    JPL

    OT..because I am swearing off sports. ugh
    Instead of morning bloviating shows, I watched Mao’s Last Dancer The movie might not win acting awards but it’s worth watching for story.

  6. 6.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

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    Steelers/Colts Open Thread – by John Cole – Hope things turn out better than they did last night.

    I say, do they no longer give these professional football teams a day off? They should form some sort of union to prevent this type of managerial/owner abuse.
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  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Are all the piglets wearing their Stillers gear? Might we kindly have a photo to prove it is so?

  8. 8.

    Trainrunner

    Which one has the rapist quarterback?

    Because that’s the team I want to win.

    Nice goin’, Cole.

  9. 9.

    The Dangerman

    …the clubhouse leader in the Andrew Luck sweepstakes…

    I thought Seattle was a lock for Luck; now, they go and actually win a game. I think that makes Arizona a viable Luck winner, but Indy will be tough to beat.

  16. 16.

    BruceFromOhio

    @efgoldman:

    It does kind of expose the lack of contingency planning in the Colts’ front office though, doesn’t it?

    This exact point was topic for some heated debate of late. Did not the Falcons conclude the same? Build an offense around one guy, and what happens when that one guy can’t punch the clock that day?

    Oops.

  18. 18.

    The Dangerman

    @blackfrancis:

    I wasn’t aware that the Steelers’ bye week was being televised.

    NBC must be pissed; their audience will leave at the Half to go watch something more competitive (clubbing baby seals on the Nature Channel, perhaps).

  19. 19.

    piratedan

    well thankfully The Amazing Race starts up tonight, so I won’t have to listen to the usual pundit blather about how good the Falcons and Eagles and Jets still are… etc etc etc and settle in for tomorrow night’s Romo lovefest.

  24. 24.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I hope the Colts don’t get Andrew Luck. I don’t have anything in particular against them, but it would be so monumentally unfair. Like how the Packers inked in Brett Favre at QB every week for 18 years, then they turn around and get Rodgers. The Colts should have to struggle for a couple years like the rest of us, and Luck should go to some team that needs a QB, like the Dolphins or Seahawks.

    Or Luck could end up not being any good. Man, wouldn’t that be a hoot?

  25. 25.

    Chris from Arlington, VA

    Question for my fellow Steeler fans, why does William Gay still have a job? He’s awful. They just keep picking on him, because he never defends a pass.

    What does Dick LeBeau see in him that seemingly no one else does?

  27. 27.

    Arm The Homeless

    @Spaghetti Lee: This is my immediate emotional reaction as well. I am sure this a whole lot of sour grapes, but I mean can you be a Dolphins fan and not wish to have a decent QB that isn’t trash from another team, or Chad Henne? I still remember the halcyon Marino days.

  31. 31.

    The Dangerman

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    …then they turn around and get Rodgers.

    I would agree except that Rodgers slipped down to 24 (had to look it up). Alex Smith was 1 that year.

    So, it’s all a crapshoot.

  33. 33.

    The Dangerman

    @burnspbesq:

    Each team left runners in scoring position in the ninth.

    Red Sox better win quick; they brought in Papelbon (sp?) for the last out in the 9th.

  39. 39.

    Ron

    Gah. so terrible. 3 turnovers = suck. but the dumbest play was Brown(?) not touching the guy on the ground after he picked off the pass. you can see him avoiding touching him.

  43. 43.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    @Joel:

    The Bills are 3-0, the Lions are 3-0, the Raiders look like a solid contender, the Iggles went from Preseason Beast to Mid-season bust, the Colts seem like an afterthought…strange days. Strange days indeed.

  46. 46.

    Arm The Homeless

    Something about that commercial where they call ‘Football’, ‘Futbol Americano’ just doesn’t sound right. I think it may be the accent

  47. 47.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I know Rodgers was 24th. That’s why it’s not fair. They just pick up this guy and suddenly he turns into a great quarterback.

  53. 53.

    MikeJ

    Who is the Red Sox fan in the ad with Baldwin?

    And why don’t we have another Red Sox/Yankees thread? Bottom of the 12th in the second half of the double header.

  61. 61.

    Billgerat

    This whole season so far, lockout and all can be summed up in that old, old song: “Yet let’s be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn’d upside down”.

  62. 62.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    Look man.

    I’m a Bears fan. The Bears haven’t had a good starting quarterback for as long as I’ve been alive. Jay Cutler, for all his faults, is able to stay healthy and post passer ratings above 60 for the most part, and that’s a fucking victory as far as this franchise is concerned. So to watch our archrivals roll out the same HOF quarterback, day after day, for almost 2 decades, and then, when he finally retires, instead of wandering around in QB limbo for a while, to stumble, just fucking stumble upon another great quarterback who is learning how to shred us just like the old man…well, it leaves a man a little bitter, is all I’m saying.

    I’m not saying that the Packers cheated to get him or had some inside information or whatever. I’m saying, in a karmic, cosmic-justice type perspective, that it ain’t fucking fair.

  65. 65.

    Suffern ACE

    @Spaghetti Lee: O.K. that said, the Packers did go a long time between Arnie Herber and Bart Starr and then between Starr and Farve. Loved Lynn Dickey and David Whitehurst when I was a boy, but I’m not going to feel sorry for teams that can’t field a team with a good quarterback once a decade.

    If it makes you feel better, I still get nightmares that someday I’ll wake up and Mike Singletary will be on the field and all we’ll have between us and that defense and a three touchdown loss is Randy Wright and Gary Elleson.

  67. 67.

    The Dangerman

    @Geeno:

    What kind of odds could you have gotten for that bet in Vegas in the preseason?

    Well, 32 teams, the number of possible outcomes in any 1 week would be:

    2**16

    So, how many of those possible outcomes are Lions/Bills wins? Shit, I should know how to do that (it’s getting late and/or I’m getting old). That would give you P1 (week1)

    Then it’s just P1 x P2 x P3

    Bottom line, it’s snowballs chance in hell. Besides, Vegas won’t give you the real odds.

  74. 74.

    burnspbesq

    Morales blows away Gardner with runners at second and third. Going to the 14th. This is turning into a baseball epic.

  75. 75.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    Roethlisberger has his “girl’s cornered in the bathroom” face on as the 2 minute warning sounds.

  76. 76.

    Irony Abounds

    Gainey is the second coming of Marv Levy. The Bills are the only undefeated team in the AFC. I’m quite sure these are the end times.

  78. 78.

    rb

    @spaghetti lee. I’d say it’s worse than that. Cutler is better than his critics admit, but Rodgers is better, today, than Fav-ray ever was. It looks to be a long few years for the NFC north.

  82. 82.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    Jacoby Ellsbury now owns the major league record for RBIs by a leadoff hitter in a season with 103.

    7-4 Red Sox, yes!

  83. 83.

    Chris from Arlington, VA

    @Corner Stone

    Our O-line looks worse than the 2008 line, which was god awful. Then again, the Colts D-Line was absolutely savage tonight. I haven’t seen anything like than in a while. Mendenhall can run with the best of them, but he needs some holes to run through.

  86. 86.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    @MikeJ:

    Well, yeah, but Beckett is next. Maybe the Sox can do it on their own.

    The Ellsbury feat won’t get much attention but it’s amazing. What a player he has become.

  87. 87.

    MikeJ

    Nick Clegg at the Lib Dem conference is up next. 45 minute speech in which he doesn’t mention the PM that he is in coalition with by name.

  90. 90.

    2liberal

    the Patriots and Cardinals both lost on a field goal. I see the Steelers managed to beat the Colts. Congratulations to capping off a really crappy football day.

  91. 91.

    JWL

    The Steelers have looked old and slow these first few games. They might well be looking at a long season.

    Did anyone see the fantastic catch that Ochocinco grabbed that sealed the Patriots win?

    Neither did the Patriots (hardee-har-har).

  92. 92.

    moderateindy

    @efgoldman:
    wild rice and sausage stuffing? what kind of pinko/queer/ hippie/liberal monster are you? Real Murkins know a Turkey is only to be stuffed with bread of some kind,possibly hamburger, or for really special occasions, a duck and a chicken? Wild rice,… go back to whatever country you came from!

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