Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

The revolution will be supervised.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Bark louder, little dog.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

When we show up, we win.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Not all heroes wear capes.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

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  4. 4.

    Corner Stone

    Maybe I can help out. One night only, for the next 5 minutes if you call in now we will send you not one, not two, but three of our patented Triple Suck Multipliers(tm) !!
    All for one low, low price!

  7. 7.

    Steeplejack

    Goddamn Braves seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Let the Phillies tie it up and have gone to extra innings. Starting the bottom of the tenth.

    Watching the stream from ESPN.com, which is working really well. First time I’ve tried it. (The DVR is laboriously recording two shows simultaneously, so I can’t watch on TV.)

  9. 9.

    jl

    What a coincidence, I just read a study, by doctors and scientists in white coats and those shiny mirror things on their heads and stethoscopes, with recently decoded satellite data, and numbers and graphs and stuff, that said posting pet pix is a sure cure for lack of motivation.

    Edit: just occurred to me that Cole is probably bragging. So, never mind.

  10. 10.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack:

    Watching the stream from ESPN.com, which is working really well.

    It tends to be spotty for me. But that could be because of my connection. Or my laptop. Or both.

  11. 11.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    Could your lack of motivation be linked to the fact that it keeps raining and raining and raining and more fucking rain and rain forever, never stopping rain, I swear to Jesus a 3′ catfish just swam up my driveway rain, until everything, even concrete, goes soggy and mushrooms are growing out of every crack and crevice in your town including from your own very personal cracks and crevices?

    ‘Cos that’s why I’m not motivated.

  12. 12.

    piratedan

    @Yutsano: btw… ty for the anime back and forth last night, it was enjoyable to yak about something I actually have passing knowledge of for a change versus being endlessly educated on these threads (much to my benefit, to be sure!).

  18. 18.

    Comrade Mary

    My teeth hurt, my kitchen needs a deep cleaning or a pass of fire from above (still deciding), and the Toronto weather won’t make up its good goddamn mind.

  22. 22.

    Violet

    @Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
    Can you please send some of that my way. We did get a trace last night. Of course it was the night I had planned to cook on the grill outside, so I was standing out in it. We’re in the major drought and when I decide to cook outside it rains. Go figure.

    I’ve been working out a lot lately. I’m increasing things gradually and am closing in on an hour of cardio a day. Weights every other day. Yoga once a week. I haven’t lost much weight but clothes seem to be fitting better. Still rehabbing the hip/back, but I’m better enough that I can work out. It’s a nice change. And it all helps my rehab progress.

  36. 36.

    mac

    Yanks, Phillies send a message: we can win if we want, but we’d rather make you guys suffer through extra innings and a one game playoff.
    YANKs: hey, we’ll spot you a six run inning after dominating with a grand slam.
    PHILs: check out our pitching-we can get back in the game late, even when we don’t bother to get hits.

    Rub it in guys! YANKS PHILS would be a great world series.

  37. 37.

    Steeplejack

    @Steeplejack:

    Weird. The DVR stopped recording, so I put the TV back on the Phillies-Braves game, and I noticed that the ESPN.com stream is actually a few seconds ahead of the “live” TV. What’s up with that?

  38. 38.

    JasonF

    So apologies if this has been discussed, but the meme du jour among my wingnut friends is that the Obama administration pressured Ford to stop running an ad criticizing the bailout. This is based on an op-ed published today in the Detroit News. The fact that both Ford and the administration deny it just proves how deep the conspiracy goes.

  43. 43.

    Chet

    This has been one of the most exciting closing days/nights to a baseball regular season that I can remember.

    Shifting the schedule so the season ends on a weeknight, and doesn’t get overshadowed by the Almighty NFL, is one of the few smart things Bud Selig has done.

    Whoops – Phils just took a 4-3 lead in the 13th.

  49. 49.

    mac

    Yankee and Phillies are pulling the wings off of flies tonight. “We’ve got our homefield advantage. What have you got?”

  50. 50.

    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    I thought about that, but the difference was only 2-3 seconds. Didn’t seem long enough for a censor delay.

    Double damn. Braves down to their last two outs in the 13th.

  51. 51.

    MikeJ

    @Steeplejack: Digital cable? There’s a delay in the a->d->xmit->d->a steps. I have one tv with a digital box, one with no box and the one on the box always lags the no box by a second or two.

  54. 54.

    Anne Laurie

    ALLERGIES. The lousy friggin’ pressure front stalled over the godsdamned Northeast is holding this golden summer’s bounteous crop of ragweed & other seasonal irritants in best position to be inhaled. My sinuses are simultaneously ‘blocked’ and seeping, my eyeballs itch, and my brain is fogged. Ergo, I’m cranky.

    And I don’t think I’m the only one, either, Mr. Cole.

  57. 57.

    Chet

    Well, it’s already old news but the Braves hit into a DP to end their season. The Phillies’ 102 wins are a new franchise record.

    Uh-oh! Orioles, down to their last strike, homer to tie with Boston, 3-3 in the last of the 9th.

    Yanks/Rays still 7-all, going into the last of the 12th.

  72. 72.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    Cripes. I just realize that Atlanta lost too. So we just witnessed 2 historic collapses the same night. I mean….couldn’t the Yankees have been the one to collapse? I’m thrilled the Rays are going, but I kinda wish the FY got locked out again.

  74. 74.

    MattR

    What’s next? One of the Red Sox gonna accidentally take out one of Tom Brady’s knees to ruin that season as well?

  75. 75.

    Lockewasright

    @ MattR I’ve been on an Allman Bros kick for couple of decades now. Karl Denson really does this song very well with them.

  76. 76.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    @MattR:

    I think the only real consolation left for the Red Sox is Atlanta beating them to the whole ‘first team to blow an 8 game+ wild card lead in Sept.’ dubious honor.

  79. 79.

    Spaghetti Lee

    Jesus fucking Christ. If you had told me yesterday that this is how the last game of the season would go down, I would have called you a liar.

    Let’s review:

    One 13-inning game, one 12-inning game, a 2-out walk-off home run to win it in Baltimore, a 2-out, 2-strike home run to send it into extra innings at Tampa, then the winning home run in Tampa immediately after the one in Baltimore. Holy goddamn shitballs.

  82. 82.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    @MattR:

    The Rays may have jacked their spot in the Wild Card, but The Fucking Yankees are still The Fucking Yankees. No one but Yankee faithful celebrate when they win.

  84. 84.

    burnspbesq

    The Slough of Despond is open for business. Dollar drafts and $2 well drinks for Sox and Braves fans. Plus all the wings you can eat for five bucks.

  90. 90.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I’d like to see the Brew at least make the WS. Every other team has a pennant in at least the last ten years.

  91. 91.

    piratedan

    about to embark on a grand project…. converting about six years of VHS recorded MST3K episodes into computer files for conversion onto DVD’s….. wish me well!

  92. 92.

    Chet

    @Spaghetti Lee: Not even close to being true. If by “pennant” you mean a league championship that puts a team in the WS, then more than half of the 30 ML teams have been pennant-less over the last decade, and four of them have had longer droughts than the Brewers: Cubs (1945), Nats/Expos (1969), Mariners (1977), Pirates (1979).

    If by “pennant” you mean a postseason berth of any kind, then there are five teams that have gone without over the last ten years, and none of them are the Brewers. Milwaukee was the NL wild card just three short years ago.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_franchise_postseason_droughts#MLB_franchises_with_the_longest_current_postseason_drought

    Having said that, 29 years is an awfully long time to go without a WS appearance. I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing you guys play my Tigers in the Fall Classic. It’d be right neighborly, in fact.

  93. 93.

    Suffern ACE

    @Chet: I think she means, of the teams remaining, all of them execept the brewers have been to the series in the past 10 years, which is true. Heck, even Atlanta has been out of the series for longer than anyone else currently remaining in the hunt.

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