Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

This blog will pay for itself.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

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

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

This really is a full service blog.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Republicans do not trust women.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

All hail the time of the bunny!

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

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  2. 2.

    cathyx

    I lived in Philly for about 10 years before I moved out west, after growing up in Pittsburgh. The Philly fans are the most fair weathered fans I ever knew. Only loyal when their team is winning.

  4. 4.

    lamh35

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    Liberty’s choice of Romney leads to angry student response

    Liberty University students and alumni are accusing the Christian school of violating its own teachings by asking Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints whose adherents are called Mormons, to deliver its 2012 commencement address.

    By Friday morning, more than 700 comments had been posted on the school’s Facebook page about the Thursday announcement – a majority of them decidedly against the Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr.’s invitation, citing that the school had taught them Mormonism isn’t part of the Christian faith.

    “I can’t support Romney and I am happy I decided not to walk (in the commencement) this year,” wrote student Josh Bergmann. “Liberty University should have gotten a Christian to speak not someone who practices a cult. Shame on you Liberty University.”

    Janet Loeffler, a 53-year-old freshman at Liberty, expressed her anger at the decision when contacted by CNN. She also sent a copy of the page of the freshman textbook “The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics” which includes the passage, “Mormon doctrine stands in stark contrast to Jewish and Christian monotheism, which teaches that there is only one true God and that every other ‘God’ is a false god.”…

  9. 9.

    uptown

    Illinois ranked third while Wisconsin placed 42nd in the most recent Bloomberg Economic Evaluation of States index, which includes personal income, tax revenue and employment. Illinois gained 32,000 jobs in the 12 months ending in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found. Wisconsin, where Walker promised to create 250,000 jobs with the help of business-tax breaks, lost 16,900.

    Vote Republican’t for a truly sucky government.

  13. 13.

    Friday Jones

    Swear to Dog I read, “Let’s go Penis!” Indeed. Let’s go Penis!! I’m rooting for the Penis tonight!

  18. 18.

    General Stuck

    More Romney winning wingnut hearts and minds

    At a party meeting in Arizona, RNC members and state GOP chairmen were welcomed into a private reception with Mitt Romney “only after signing a form pledging to support Romney as a delegate to the national convention in Tampa,” CNN reports.

    “All three members of Iowa’s conservative RNC delegation… attempted to enter the reception but were rebuffed after refusing to sign the delegate pledge. The dispute became heated in the hallway outside, with the Iowans demanding to know why they had to sign a form to get their picture taken with the former Massachusetts governor.”

    He doesn’t trust them, and they don’t trust him, a marriage made in wingnut Hell.

  19. 19.

    sydney

    Soooo….later we will be treated to a heightened BAC from Cole, and some music videos that where played at ear splitting volumes.

    Whats the poison tonight? I’ll start early.

  22. 22.

    jl

    Is this an ‘open’ open thread, or just a ‘Pens/Flyers’ open thread? So many things about this blog go over my head.

    Just saw a national poll from this February on popularity of states.
    Most popular state is Hawaii. Awright way to go, Obama needs to play up that Hawaii homestate mojo, no matter how much the GOP laughs and the pundits pee themselves about nonsense.

    On other hand, California, my home state, is by far least popular. In the cellar. 27 favorable 44 unfavorable for a -17 spread.

    My feelings are hurt. So, all I have to say to all these jealous people from other dinky primitive states is that

    The SHARKS have been doing a great job of rope a dope, The Blues are exhausted. The SHARKS will now rise to CRUSH all their opposition and win the Stanley Cup!

    It’s a done deal. It’s over.

    PPP State favorability poll


    http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/02/state-favorability-poll.html

  23. 23.

    beltane

    @General Stuck: I don’t know what’s going to happen except that it is all but guaranteed the Republican convention will be every bit as ugly as Rush Limbaugh’s anal cyst.

  26. 26.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Let’s go Pens!

    At first glance it looks like you have dyslexia and are cheering for a schlong.

  28. 28.

    General Stuck

    @beltane:

    I think the republican party is more of a train wreck than it appears through the msm prism, and the campaign and RNC convention is going to bring it all to the surface.

  29. 29.

    jl

    @Mr Stagger Lee: No, the Sharks are poised to sweep all before them like dust! Keep the dream alive. Clap your hands! Pray, promise the FSM you will be really good from now on, if only.

    I’m going to hold my breath. That will work. Something. Anything.

  31. 31.

    Yutsano

    @efgoldman: Is that not the natural state of goaltenders? My ex is a defenceman and no booze slouch. The goalies tend to be about a third his size. And drink like fish.

  32. 32.

    J. Michael Neal

    @Mr Stagger Lee: These playoffs have done nothing to change my mind that women’s hockey is actually a better game. Where a championship team can play an entire season and pick up exactly one major penalty and even that one was kind of a stretch.

  37. 37.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    So this is on yahoo:

    Hundreds gather for Hitchens memorial

    No one smoked or drank on stage during the memorial for Christopher Hitchens, although one overhead picture featured a cigarette drooping from his mouth. And few of the speakers swore, unless quoting from their departed friend.

  40. 40.

    coin-op replicant

    Say what you will…Fleury played one hell of a game in the last two minutes. Philly has been brutal in the final minutes of their games, and Fleury game thru tonight.

  41. 41.

    RL

    @Belafon (formerly anonevent): I had a terrible lapse of judgment and went to Sully’s place to read about Hitch and was greeted by this pleasant passage: ” but most of the material was Hitch’s writing itself. And it was some of his most vivid, powerful prose. I particularly admired his evisceration of Bill Clinton, a reminder of what a complete tool that man was”
    What a w@nker.

  43. 43.

    Breezeblock

    The pengwhines live to whine another day. The Team with The Ginormous Asses is losing (yeh, that’s the Dead Wings). So this night could be good after all.

  44. 44.

    cathyx

    @RD: Not sure, when was that? When I was in Pittsburgh, the team was terrible, but I remained loyal. Everyone in Pittsburgh did. I was too young to understand their financial issues. When I left home, it was difficult to follow them.

  45. 45.

    Amir Khalid

    @becca:
    Styx and REO Speedwagon are still playing? And their opening act was supposed to be 63-year-old has-been Ted Nugent? Meh.

  46. 46.

    Gravenstone

    @WWBreitbartD: Fucker had to have a heart first for it to fail. Not supported by the facts in evidence. Now go play in traffic like a good little wingnut.

  47. 47.

    Gravenstone

    @becca: That’s this summer’s package tour. Styx and REO have been doing the nostalgia thing for quite a while now. They’d been wandering around with the current iteration of Journey the last couple years.

  48. 48.

    RD

    @cathyx:

    Everyone in Pittsburgh did

    No, they didn’t. While the Pens were accumulating first round draft picks by sucking, their “fans” stayed home in droves.

    Mario Lemieux ended up as majority owner because his partners defaulted.

    One more fun fact: The Pens deliberately tanked a late season run to gain the rights to Mario.

  50. 50.

    Friday Jones

    @cathyx: *you’re

    Sadly, when I saw the i in Pens I was completely sober. I’m drunk now and all I see are PENS. I’d rather see swords, ifyaknowwhatimean.

  52. 52.

    Friday Jones

    @cathyx: Sorry about the “you’re”…I’ve been teaching grammar to high schoolers all day. Which may account for the [vino].

  53. 53.

    Friday Jones

    Annndddd…when I write I’ve been “teaching grammar to high schoolers all day,” my legal representation informs me that I must clarify that I was actually across the street from the high school (WAY more than 50 feet–I MEASURED). And “grammar” was actually explaining in a really loud voice about “punctuation required for restrictive and non-restrictive clauses”. Geesh.

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