Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

In my day, never was longer.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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  11. 11.

    piratedan

    go my team squadron unit! go!

    I would like to think that both the 70’s and the 80’s have their fair share of musical embarrassments to argue over, hows about we just be happy that we all found some tunes that spoke to us and helped us just get through the day, week, month, year, decade or what have you…

  13. 13.

    schrodinger's cat

    Does everyone else have power? I no has power or water. We had more than a foot of snow in western Mass yesterday. I am officially tired of winter.

  16. 16.

    schrodinger's cat

    @DougJ: I have never lived in Atlanta and I have been to Atlanta once in my life for a conference. Whatever gave you that idea?

    ETA: I am mostly a Northeastern elitist kitteh have lived in Maine, Mass, Maryland and New York.

  18. 18.

    DougJ

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I must have you confused with another commenter! There’s another commenter with a similar name who is interested in math and physics who I had a long conversation with about Atlanta once. Sorry!

  21. 21.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @DougJ: Whatever gave you the idea that schrödinger’s cat was a commenter interested in math and physics?

    Sadly, I know people who would see your comment and ask that question. Sadder still is that one of them spent some years as a HS science teacher.

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I’m worried as well. But I’m sure it will happen soon.

  22. 22.

    losgatosca

    There’s another commenter with a similar name who is interested in math and physics who I had a long conversation with about Atlanta once. Sorry!

    A long conversation about Atlanta with a person who is interested in math and physics? Unless it involved sex at some point, you should be sorry.

  23. 23.

    schrodinger's cat

    @DougJ: No problem! Actually I am quite familiar with your neck of the woods. I have a very good friend who lives about 10 miles outside Rochester and we visit him at least once a year.

  24. 24.

    Reality Check

    Anybody else going to watch the Denver Tebows play in Tebow Stadium on Tebow TV? God I hope he gets his ass sacked by the Lions, I’m sick of hearing about him. I’ll be a Detroit fan just this one week for no other reason.

  27. 27.

    different-church-lady

    I have a legal question.

    * Someone posts a music video on the internet, with the comment, “This song has been stuck in my head for three days.”

    * You click on it.

    * Now the song is stuck in your head.

    Who can you sue?

  29. 29.

    MikeJ

    @piratedan:

    I would like to think that both the 70’s and the 80’s have their fair share of musical embarrassments to argue over,

    Don’t forget the 60s, era of The Stones, The Who, The Singing Nun…

  42. 42.

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

    @Amir Khalid:

    From Wikipedia:

    The song is an up-tempo, electric guitar-driven, modern rocker that features the work of E Street Band members Max Weinberg on drums, Garry Tallent on bass guitar, Clarence Clemons on saxophone, Steven Van Zandt, Clemons and Patti Scialfa on background vocals, and Nils Lofgren on a guitar part underneath Clemons’s sax solo. The opening guitar riff and chord progression are somewhat reminiscent of Tommy Tutone’s 1982 hit “867-5309/Jenny” with Tommy Tutone lead singer Tommy Heath quoted as saying: “Everybody’s calling me about it,”[1] and that, “I think it’s close enough that if I wanted to [take legal action], I could work with it.”

  43. 43.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @DougJ:

    Well, I live in Atlanta but I am not overly interested in math or physics and my name isn’t very close to schrodingers cat except they both begin with the letter S and I’ve never had a conversation with you about Atlanta or anywhere else. You’re probably thinking of me.

  44. 44.

    Loneoak

    For a neutral observer, there has never been a more boring lineup than what is currently available in the early games. But Stillers vs Pats has potential.

    EDIT: Aaaand once again, my Sunday is ruined by Bay Area football. Instead of the interesting game with national implications played by professional football teams, I get to watch the Browns at SF.

  45. 45.

    different-church-lady

    @4jkb4ia:

    ETA: It’s been almost 8 whole minutes and the Saints haven’t scored yet.

    Wouldn’t it be a hoot if they got shut out this week?

  49. 49.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @4jkb4ia:

    That was funny—but “Occupy DougJ” means that we should all descend on Rochester and surround his house as a seat of power, or something.

    Swell idea! What time do the buses leave?

  51. 51.

    different-church-lady

    @piratedan: Cole posted a video. I’m Occupying This Thread.

    1. Safety Dance
    2. Sting — Fortress Around Your Heart

    Uhh… that’s all I got.

  54. 54.

    HeartlandLiberal

    Sadly, right now my teams DO suck. If you live in Indiana, these are hard, hard times.

    I was at the Indiana University game yesterday. The only consolation was that Indiana ran up a lot of touch downs. The problem was, Northwestern ran up about twice as many by the middle of the third quarter. With 8:30 left on the clock in the fourth quarter, with IU trailing by (ONLY) three full touchdowns, I finished my smoothy and we hit the trail to the parking lot.

    And the Colts? What can I say. I think this years situation speaks for itself. Peyton Manning is one of the greatest quarterbacks ever, but if there were ever a lesson in how one is NOT supposed to put all of one’s eggs in one basket, this is it.

  59. 59.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @HeartlandLiberal: Supposedly Manning has begged the Colts not to draft Andrew Luck, but after last night’s game with USC. I can’t see why the Colts will bypass him. Peyton we hardly know ye. Oh BTW the ending of the Ohio State-Wisconsin game was sweet. Braxton Miller makes you forget that…that…guy who plays for the Raiders.

  61. 61.

    Loneoak

    Here’s a worthy find over at Sully’s: drunk stump speech by Perry.

    As a fan of debate drinking games (leading to the great tequila disaster of ’08), I want the next GOP debate include a drinking contest between candidates. I bet it comes down to Herman Cain and Marcus Bachmann, who step in as dh for Michele. Herman is the only candidate to advocate for weaker drunk driving laws and Marcus … probably has a few demons to hide.

  70. 70.

    4jkb4ia

    It’s been almost a whole HALF, the Saints haven’t scored yet, and a professional football team appears to be playing them!

  72. 72.

    Svensker

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Mom and friends’ power is out in northern NJ. They have no cell phone service either (no one believed the weather service so no one bothered to charge their cells!) and no one has a plug in phone so we’re communicating via one guy down the street who has a working phone.

    Listen up, folks. Keep your cell phone charged. Have at least one plug in real phone, keep your car full of gas, and have some bottled water and some food that doesn’t need to be cooked for at least a day or two in case the power goes out. How hard is that?

  75. 75.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    If they have no cell phone service it doesn’t matter if their phone is charged does it?

  78. 78.

    4jkb4ia

    Steven Jackson 32-yard run to the New Orleans 3. This game is over, folks. Time to get ready for the parade at 4:00. Amazing what a difference it makes having Jackson back. What was the spread the other way, 13.5 points, almost as big as you can have a spread?

    @different church-lady:
    They should have saved some points for this week.

  79. 79.

    schrodinger's cat

    80% power outage in my area, since we get our water from a well no water either. I have no idea when our power will be restored. I am staying in a hotel tonight since the temperature is going to fall to teens at night. I can’t believe this is October.

  80. 80.

    different-church-lady

    @4jkb4ia:

    They should have saved some points for this week.

    I heard that last Monday the maintenance guys were sweeping up the Colt’s end zone and they found another couple of touchdowns.

  81. 81.

    cathyx

    @schrodinger’s cat: One thing to remember when you need power to have water is that you still have 40-50 gallons of water in your water heater you can draw from to drink. Also, too, the toilet tank is potable water, although some are unnecessarily squeamish about that one.

  82. 82.

    MikeJ

    @4jkb4ia:

    Steven Jackson 32-yard run to the New Orleans 3.

    He’s controlled by the comic book collectors who are controlled by the Boy Sprouts who are controlled by the gnomes of Zurich.

  84. 84.

    S. cerevisiae

    Wow where did the Saints offense go? Are the Colts really that bad?

    ETA: Nice drive by Ponder and the Vikings – AD all the way!

  85. 85.

    burnspbesq

    Music was the only thing that made the Age of Reagan and Thatcher survivable. Other than that, it was a decade of unmitigated suckitude.

    No football for me today. Still recovering from last night. Good luck to Stanford the rest of the way, but I really hate those fuckers.

  88. 88.

    burnspbesq

    Correction: the only football for me is Galaxy-Red Bull. 1-0 Galaxy early. Snow piled up along the sidelines at Red Bull Arena.

  94. 94.

    S. cerevisiae

    Vikes win with a little luck and a lot of AD. Ponder looks really good for a rookie in his second start.

  96. 96.

    hamletta

    I loved The Producers.

    I don’t remember much of the ’80s, but I’m pretty sure I saw them at Mainstreet in Murfreesboro, TN when I was in college.

  101. 101.

    burnspbesq

    Full time, 1-0 Galaxy. Good that it was 12 against ten. Marquez helped the Galaxy a lot more than he did Red Bull.

  102. 102.

    2liberal

    Your team sucks

    my teams are the patriots and the cardinals. this has not been a good day so far.

  103. 103.

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

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Fuck! I just back-paged after writing up this multi-paragraph thing explaining low-powered college stations that use campus electrical lines as their broadcast antennas (MSU has two of these, one on either side of campus) that you can’t hear just blocks from campus. Suffice to say, if you were near a college of any size that allowed you to hear the student station broadcast at a radius of further than two miles from the broadcast tower, you were very lucky.

  105. 105.

    burnspbesq

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

    They used to have one of those arrangements at my undergrad school. A couple of years before I got involved in radio, there was a windstorm that knocked one of the lines that carried the broadcast signal around campus onto a chain-link fence around six tennis courts. The story goes that the station was picked up in Missouri (from upstate New York).

    The administration strongly encouraged the radio station to switch to FM, and put up most of the money for the transmitter.

  110. 110.

    burnspbesq

    I didn’t think anyone was listening in morning drive on Saturday, either. I found out differently when I played “What Do You Want From Life” by The Tubes at 7:00 a.m. on the day of the MCAT and GMAT, and ten guys wanted to fight me when I walked into the campus pub that night.

  112. 112.

    kindness

    The 80’s were a rock era wasteland. Oh, you had a few acts that did OK. Tom Petty held on, The Police did OK. the Pretenders did a couple good albums. Really it wasn’t till the end of the 80’s when grunge came on that rock picked back up again.

    Otherwise, nothing but Flock of Seagulls bullshit….overproduced, introspective and house/trance crap.

    Thank god Jerry Garcia was still alive. The Dead made the 80’s tolerable.

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