Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The words do not have to be perfect.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Second rate reporter says what?

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

We still have time to mess this up!

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  13. 13.

    ulee

    Here is where a drunken Cole trips over Tunch and claims he was attacked, resulting in injuries and a prolonged regimen of nyquil and tylenol w/codeine.

  14. 14.

    joeyess

    Would someone kindly tell YouTube that Christmas is over and they can disable the fucking snowflake feature now?

  15. 15.

    joeyess

    @MikeJ: Dontcha know? He’s a card-carrying member of that evil organization that Malkin, Beck, and O’Reilly lose sleep over; La Raza.

  19. 19.

    Shinobi

    Is it wrong that I kindof enjoy it when JC has to come tell us kids to get off his lawn? I feel like I should buy him some scotch or something for putting up with all this crap.

  21. 21.

    Brian S

    Unrelated to anything posted thus far, I have discovered that North Coast’s Acme California IPA pairs up really well with apple pie.

    Umm, fuck off all you fuckers? (Just trying to maintain the mood here.)

  30. 30.

    LesGS

    ‘Cuz there’s a fat man, in the bathtub, with the blues.

    I hear you moan.

    I hear you moan.

    I hear you mo-oh-oan.

  31. 31.

    BruceFromOhio

    I’m thinking the only game tomorrow that will have any real meaning for the combatants is the DAL-NY contest on SNF.

    Everything else meaningful is already in the can, although it would be hilarious if SD and KC both win, and AFC West tumbles further down the rabbit hole.

    If there was a “Fan SuperBowl” it would be cool to see the Saints fans have at the Raiders flock of souls. I’ll go Saints because I bet their tailgating is better.

  40. 40.

    amk

    I was wondering was there ever such a pally-pally prez-veep like Obama-Biden before ? I can’t recall any such friendly duo at all.

    Not to forget both the ladies too.

  44. 44.

    jl

    @ulee: Cole does not usually have adverse run ins with the pets themselves, but rather unsavory pet effluvia and troublesome after effects of various kinds.

  45. 45.

    Dee Loralei IPhone

    My beloved Sooners won, all is right with the world.(sigh). But all of you praying for an asteroid strike to beat both teams, you’re doing’ it wrong, you took out the ESPN SkyCam instead! Neeners! OU won!

  46. 46.

    Brian S

    @BruceFromOhio: Well, if St Louis pulls off the unlikely and beats the Niners, then the 2 seed is up for grabs. But that’s not likely. Other possibility is that Brady goes pass-happy and tries to make up 190 yards on Brees and snatch away the single season record. I suspect Brady and Belichick are douchey enough to consider it. Fortunately for the Saints, Payton’s pretty douchey too.

  47. 47.

    J. Michael Neal

    @amk: That’s because no one has ever *enjoyed* being VP as much as Biden does. It’s frickin’ amazing watching him. I wonder if he’s realized that he’s happier now than he would have been if he’d ever won the top job.

  49. 49.

    scav

    John Cole @ top: I can’t decide if I want to be irritating as a denizen of (so-called) real life or irritating as a you people. Seem to be my two options and I am never satisfied. Can’t I be a real life irritating person? A Prodigy and/or Polymath combining Actual Concrete Physical Existence and Supreme Artistry at Exasperation & Affront simultaneously? Oh well, decisions, decisions. . .

  55. 55.

    hhex65

    I’ve never heard of a Little Feat ‘tribute’ band (unless you count post Lowell Little Feat) there must be some; if I had one I’d call it either Hamburger Midnight or (of course) Sailin’ Shoes.

  58. 58.

    Triassic Sands

    Life must be really sad when one’s fantasy world includes Little Feat. I’m starting to feel sorry of J. Cole.

    @handy:

    I don’t know what to call their music, but it always struck me as mostly just plain ol’ bad.

    But then tastes do vary. (Otherwise, we might all be over at Red State braggin’ about our concealed carry licenses and how ruggedly independent we all are. Oooh, creepy.)

  59. 59.

    JPL

    Wahoo! I received notification that my calendar has shipped. Thanks again to Beth for designing it.
    Happy last day of 2011.

  64. 64.

    Kirbster

    It irritates me that the CD version of “Waiting for Columbus” left out “Don’t Bogart That Joint.”

  65. 65.

    henqiguai

    Wait, wait!

    when irritated by you people or real life

    Are you saying you think we (ahem) are some fantasy conjured up in your feverish mind? Gotta ask, then, what’s you reality like???

  67. 67.

    Schlemizel

    I enjoy a great night out with the missus & wake up to find this! You people should be ashamed of yourselves! Poor John works his fingers to the bone to make this a decent place and you go and hurt him like this!

    Seriously – I guess I have to scroll back & see what went down.

  68. 68.

    jayboat

    “there was hookers… and hustlers…
    they filled up the room…”

    Sounds like a normal gathering of goopers, except for the bad cocaine part. Everybody knows that repubs are party aniimals and get all the best chit.

    {my favorite Feat song of all time)

  69. 69.

    RossInDetroit

    @Raven:

    Lowell George was incredible.

    His daughter Inara George has a fantastic voice. Her band The Bird and the Bee is well worth hearing.

  70. 70.

    JR in WVa

    We went to a Little Feat concert in Charleston once. Because Bonnie Raitt was the opener. She Rocked! It was early in her career, but she already hid what it takes to rock her world.

    We stayed for a couple of LF tunes, then left with the rest of the crowd. Well, much of the crowd.

    I’m glad this year is almost over. I won’t miss it for an instant. ’12 has to be better. 2011 sucked. If the ‘eers beat Clemson, 2012 will already have beaten 2011.

  73. 73.

    Kola Noscopy

    @Dee Loralei IPhone:

    Loralei, I went to OU for two glorious, drunken years in the late 70s, after which I had to take two years off from college to get my act together before going back to school, but I loved my time there.

    My family from my dad’s side is from OK and we all grew up rabid Sooner football fans; something that’s in my blood. What’s your connection?

    I’m happy about the win too, overall I find Stoops to be an uninspiring leader who has choked and mis-coached OU out of a couple of national championship opportunities.

  75. 75.

    dj spellchecka

    @BruceFromOhio:

    “I’m thinking the only game tomorrow that will have any real meaning for the combatants is the DAL-NY contest on SNF. Everything else meaningful is already in the can.”

    actually if the ravens lose in cinci [which could happen] and the steelers beat cleveland [a near certainty]….pittsburg wins the division….

    something to watch

  76. 76.

    msskwesq

    @jl: I went back to that aforementioned thread and read what Cole was so upset about. He is right, it was kinda icky. Saying that, I think you were right to call out that troll about his remarks about the Sandusky child/victim. It may have been better to just have told him to get lost as his views were way out of bounds and not sink to his level of calling names. But I share your outrage and probably would have sunk to that level too. (if I had been online at the time.) I work on child sexual abuse cases regularly and I can tell you (I know it goes without saying) that NO child enjoys being raped. It is VERY disturbing that the troll could make that argument.

  77. 77.

    msskwesq

    That comment was actually meant for Yutsano, not sure who jl is or why it didn’t reply to Yutsano, but anyway….

  78. 78.

    Dee Loralei

    @Kola Noscopy: I was there in the early 80’s. Same connection, both my folks went there, my dad’s father and several of my moms older relatives. And I was born in Norman and returned for college. My mom’s family still lives in PoDunk, OK. But yea, I got the crazy crimson in my blood.

  80. 80.

    catmandoodo

    If there was truly a benevolent god, he would reincarnate Lowell George and Molly Ivins to help get us through the current tidal wave of excreta washing over us

  81. 81.

    Aardvark Cheeselog

    A good friend once pointed out that, if solid proof of the nonexistence of a benevolent omnipotent god was needed, it could be found in a comparison of the fates of Lowell George and Barry Manilow.

    I think we were listening to Spanish Moon at the time.

  83. 83.

    moderateindy

    Think what you want about Little Feat but any band that came up with a line like this can’t be all bad

    I am just a vagabond
    a drifter on the run
    and eloquent profanity
    it rolls right off my tounge

    Roll ‘um Easy Little Feat

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