Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

He really is that stupid.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Second rate reporter says what?

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

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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  2. 2.

    Steeplejack

    Hope springs eternal, any given Sunday, etc. After all, the Rams beat the Saints today, and even Minnesota won. But, yeah, looks bleak for the Stillers. I mean, Brady is en fuego.

  11. 11.

    MeDrewNotYou

    Trust in Mike Wallace, John. The man is magical. My fantasy team is 10x better this year and one of the big reasons is Wallace.

    (And just as I type this, Wallace dances around NE tackles.)

  12. 12.

    edmund dantes

    Still looking good for the Steelers. Heath Miller is decimating the Pats all by himself.

  17. 17.

    2liberal

    my teams are teh cardinals and the patriots. the cardinals just lost for the 6th time in a row and the patriots can’t stop rapistberger.

  19. 19.

    Lockewasright

    It’s a good thing my Buckeyes pulled off the upset yesterday, because my Broncos are not good at all. Tebow has completed two out or ten passes. That’s TWO out of TEN! Perhaps a little more time working on his mechanics and a little less time filming commercials telling people about whose situation he knows nothing how they should live their lives would be a good idea.

  20. 20.

    Anonymous At Work

    You could improve your fan-dom by rooting for better teams and/or conferences…say…something to the east and to the south?
    NFC-South…except for NOLA this week it appears…

  21. 21.

    edmund dantes

    Patriots really haven’t stopped the Steelers once yet. The interception was Ben being an idiot. So long as the Steelers stay away from stupid mistakes, they are going to kill this game.

  23. 23.

    geg6

    One more half like that, and I’ll be singing while I make delicious shrimp fried rice for dinner. Got the mise en place all ready to go and dinner will be ready within 15 minutes of the end of the game. Maybe even TWO bottles of wine if the Stillers pull it out. Got a good show about characterization on tv on PBS and the first episode of Next Iron Chef to look forward to tonight. This might just be a very good day.

  24. 24.

    jimmiraybob

    After all, the Rams beat the Saints today….

    The Rams got a shot of vitamin La Russa and the Cardinals before the game.

  25. 25.

    Martin

    Just think, if football could change the game to only have two 2-minute halves, you could get all of the games on one channel, so you’d never miss anything, but the Pats would never lose a game.

  26. 26.

    Lockewasright

    @geg6:

    I’ll be making chicken soup tonight. My son’s kindergarten is a freakin’ petri dish! I have this cheaters’ recipe where you buy one of those whole, cooked rotisserie chickens from the grocery store and then set the meat aside and boil the skin and bones in chicken stock to make the broth. Then you dump it through a strainer into a big bowl, put the pot back on the stove and saute the veggies, add the stock and meat back in and let it simmer. Boil egg noodles separately and voila!

    Smokin’ baby back ribs over hickory on Tuesday!

  27. 27.

    Yutsano

    @Lockewasright: That’s not cheating. That’s how it’s done! :)

    @geg6:

    This might just be a very good day.

    I should hope so. It’s me birfday and a Marine ordered me to have him cook me a steak. I’ll even put slacks on to comply with that!

  32. 32.

    J.W. Hamner

    I can’t decide if I’d rather the Pats or the Steelers to lose today… one the one hand, living in Boston makes Patriots fans’ tears soooo delicious, on the other hand, as a Ravens fan, I know that every time the Steelers win a kitten dies. It’s a conundrum.

  33. 33.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    @Yutsano: Next week, Time will fall back to standard time again on Sunday, November 6, 2011, when daylight saving time ends.

  37. 37.

    edmund dantes

    Just brutal defense by the Pats so far. It’s shocking this score is not more in favor of the Steelers.

  40. 40.

    cathyx

    This weekend is the weekend that clocks would have changed if they didn’t extend the daylight savings time. And I have 3 clocks that have preset time changes built in so that I don’t have the hassle of changing them twice a year. Except now that the dates have changed for when we set clocks back, I now have to change my clocks 4 times a year instead of never. Ugh.

  45. 45.

    Joel

    @Yutsano: You might say that the Christians are being fed to the Lions.

    That was too easy. I can’t believe no one else made that quip.

  47. 47.

    R-Jud

    @Yutsano: Hail, fellow Scorpio. My birthday is tomorrow; I get to spend part of it having highly intimate pictures of myself taken (by a radiologist).

    OT: I don’t mean to barge in on the handegg action, but do any of you cat owners have a really good covered litter tray you’d recommend?

    The new addition scrapes about 3/4 of her litter out of the tray with every visit (along with the leavings).

  48. 48.

    geg6

    Happy birthday Yutsie! Mine is on Thanksgiving. I love when it falls right on the holiday.

    Lockewasright @28:

    What a coincidence! My John made chicken soup for lunch today from half a roasted chicken he made for dinner the other night. It was delicious and there is plenty to take to work for lunch. That and an apple from the local orchard that he bought when up at our cabin in Titusville will make me feel healthy enough to fight off the germs that are rampant on a college campus. I hope.

    Stillers are freaking me out. Damn, I want them to beat the Pats. I hate the two Bs: Brady and Belichek.

  50. 50.

    cathyx

    @Linkmeister: I’m actually very glad they extended the DST. I hate standard time. My body never adjusts to it. It’s very difficult for me until we go back to DST again in the spring, then I’m back on track.

  52. 52.

    SRW1

    I’m bracing for another humiliating defeat at the hands of Brady.

    Sorry, don’t mean nothin to me. The Gunners stormed the bridge, this weekend is safe.

  53. 53.

    Yutsano

    @R-Jud:

    Hail, fellow Scorpio

    I had a meeting with my manager last week. She commented on my birthday along these lines. “No wonder we get along so well!”

    I don’t mean to barge in on the handegg action

    Okay I LOLed.

  55. 55.

    robertdsc-PowerBook

    The Pats just don’t have it today. Congrats, John. Give Tunch an extra scritch for me.

  56. 56.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllleeeerrrrsssss.
    Other than Brady breaking his leg, so far so good. Fuck the pats!

  65. 65.

    J.W. Hamner

    @Joel:

    23-17. Just sayin’ I don’t want Tom Brady within two scores of my team with what was at the time roughly 6 minutes. Still think the Steelers will win though.

  69. 69.

    Joel

    @J.W. Hamner: The missed call on the Gronkowski TD might actually matter here. Not that Pittsburgh doesn’t deserve to win. They absolutely dominated Vollmer, attacking the right side of the Patriots line all day long. Even Brian Waters couldn’t cover for Seabass’ incompetence.

    On the other side of the ball, they really smoked the Patriots’ linebackers, particularly Spikes and Mayo (don’t even know why he’s back), in coverage.

  75. 75.

    hrprogressive

    Hey how about that, I actually picked the Burgh to beat Brady this time around.

    And I was right.

    Suck it, Pats fans.

  76. 76.

    Litlebritdifrnt2

    Whocoodaknowed my DH tells me that the Stillers are winning. Cue John Cole drunken tweeting and blogging for the rest of the night.

  77. 77.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    @Joel: Yup. That’s me. Just trolling away b/c the Steelers are my team and I HATE the pats. Please excuse my excitement for watching the Steelers beating these fucksticks from New England after they’ve had the Steelers’ number all friggin’ decade. And if you’re a proponent of secretly video taping an opponents practices then godspeed.

  80. 80.

    SamR

    Pats didn’t deserve to win that (what’s with all the play-action? That only works if you can run the ball) but man, was that a ref screwjob at the end with the claim that Gronk didn’t break the plane when he caught it in the end zone and Polamalu’s deliberate swatting of a fumble, which led to this immortal announcing:

    Jim Nantz: Oh, what a heads up play by Troy Polamalu!
    Phil Simms: Well, its illegal…

    Oh well. The Steelers are definitely the most improved team in the league since the start of the season, and the Pats still can’t beat top teams on the road.

  81. 81.

    Yutsano

    And the Seachickens continue their long slow spiral into mediocrity. If I’m Andrew Luck I come back for my senior year.

  86. 86.

    S. cerevisiae

    @Yutsano: Happy birthday, but the Seahags should have talked to a few Viking fans before signing T-Jack as a starter. Rice is great when he is healthy, the only problem is keeping him that way.

  87. 87.

    Ron

    @SamR: I have to agree it was a bad call with the non-TD, but that is on Belichick to challenge there. That was a huge mistake not to challenge. The Polamalu thing was just probably an instinct. Even if they call it correctly there was no way the Pats win at that point.

  88. 88.

    different-church-lady

    @Ron:

    @SamR: I have to agree it was a bad call with the non-TD, but that is on Belichick to challenge there.

    The tricky part was that there was no replay for them to see before throwing the red flag. Usually the coaches in the box get to see the network replays and call down to the field and tell them to throw the flag before the next play goes off. But in this case you have a choice to make — wait for a replay and let precious seconds run off the clock, or line up again quickly to save time, which means the network isn’t going to cut away to a replay.

  89. 89.

    burnspbesq

    Giants won and Jets had a bye.

    Arsenal won. Galaxy won. Not only did the Duke women win, the Carolina women lost (to FSU!).

    A great weekend, with one huge, festering exception.

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