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Monday Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  October 24, 20118:35 pm| 19 Comments

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Hip/Hop night on the Sing-Off, Ravens/Jags on MNF.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    October 24, 2011 at 8:38 pm

    There hasn’t been a GOP debate in over 24 hours. I’m going through withdrawal.

  2. 2.

    Southern Beale

    October 24, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    Teachers grading papers at Occupy Wall Street are told they “can’t do that here.”

    Really.

  3. 3.

    The Dangerman

    October 24, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    Hopefully, Ravens/Jags be competitive longer than Colts/Saints (it may be impossible not to be).

  4. 4.

    lamh34

    October 24, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    Watching “Practical Magic” on ABC Family! Man I love this movie. I actually have it on DVD, but I still gonna prob watch it on ABC Family tonight…lol. It’s one of the few movies I like Nicole Kidman in, and it’s another movie where Sandra Bullock is more radiant that people think. Plus…Aidan Quinn is in it, and I kinda love him!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbmJlo5owsc

    movie is inspired by, but from what I’ve heard, although the book is def an inspiration id kinda feels like ur reding a diffrent story. Still I love the movie enough to try it.

    Incidentally, this will be only maybe the 3rd time I actually watched a movie before even knowing there was a book. One of the other movies was Girl, Interrupted.

  5. 5.

    robertdsc-PowerBook

    October 24, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    Can we get a Tunch update? How is the big guy?

  6. 6.

    Keith G

    October 24, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    @Southern Beale: I am guessing that grading papers was not the concern.

    Really.

  7. 7.

    Nevgu

    October 24, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    Dow over 11900? Why no breathless headlines Wrong Again Cole? We all know you would do the same (and have) when the Dow went down by this much in such a short period of time.

    Exhibit A
    https://balloon-juice.com/2011/08/04/a-feature-not-a-bug/#comment-2708585

    So what say you Warren Buffet Cole?

  8. 8.

    Mark S.

    October 24, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    @Baud:

    Don’t break the methadone out just yet!

    Gingrich, Cain to Compete in ‘Lincoln-Douglas Style Debate’

  9. 9.

    Baud

    October 24, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    So I was watching tv and a Papa John’s commercial came up and I thought, this Papa John guy, he should run for president.

  10. 10.

    Baud

    October 24, 2011 at 9:08 pm

    @Mark S.: And keeping true to history, the debate will be followed up next year by a “North-South Style Civil War.”

  11. 11.

    Suffern ace

    October 24, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    How can a pro team average just slightly more than 1 trip to the red zone per game? That is a rather different approach than most teams take to winning the game.

  12. 12.

    Jeffro

    October 24, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    This ought to be good: Rep. Paul Ryan is going to give a speech decrying class warfare and the ‘politics of envy’

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/rep-paul-ryan-to-deliver-major-address-on-politics-of-division/2011/10/24/gIQAUxgGDM_blog.html?fb_ref=NetworkNews

    Please, please keep pushing this Republicans…all the way until next November…

  13. 13.

    wrb

    October 24, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    This might actually be a big deal. New administration mortgage intervention leading to 4m jobs, if assisted by the Fed?

    http://www.piie.com/realtime/?p=2456

    Krugman’s intrigued

    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/hope-for-harp/

  14. 14.

    jnfr

    October 24, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    FWIW, Rachel has an excellent segment on how Herman Cain is front for the Koch Bros. tonight. Watch it if you can.

  15. 15.

    General Stuck

    October 24, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    @lamh34:

    Watching “Practical Magic” on ABC Family! Man I love this movie.

    Me too. It’s now on NF instant, and I will soon watch it again. Watching Andromeda Strain now, another fav.

  16. 16.

    DanielX

    October 24, 2011 at 9:46 pm

    Got to be more competitive than Colts/Saints, if indeed that was the Colts and not the second string from Slippery Rock. Tho I have to admit I was howling for the Jags to CLEAN THE GREASE OFF THE BALL…whatsamatta with these guys, they’re getting paid megabucks and they can’t…hold…on…to…the…ball.
    Sigh.

  17. 17.

    Rihilism

    October 24, 2011 at 10:08 pm

    Just finished watching Case Histories 2 on Masterpiece Theater. Man, oh man is Jason Isaacs hot! I thought he was familiar from somewhere but I didn’t make the connection to Harry Potter’s Lucius Malfoy until now.

    Show’s pretty good, too, but needs to increase the shirtless Isaacs quotient…

  18. 18.

    Brian R.

    October 24, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    God, what an awful game. Did they lube the ball?

  19. 19.

    sneezy

    October 24, 2011 at 11:03 pm

    @Baud:

    So I was watching tv and a Papa John’s commercial came up and I thought, this Papa John guy, he should run for president.

    If only Dave Thomas from Wendy’s were still around.

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