Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

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

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

White supremacy is terrorism.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

The words do not have to be perfect.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

Second rate reporter says what?

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

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

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  1. 1.

    pete

    I think I prefer my Olomooks on the syrecky side though perhaps it would be worth trying rokpol. As for the head-tire, pfui, I’ll go with the spicy one. So I guess its the Czechs and Russians for me?

  4. 4.

    pete

    Game 3 of these mini-groups often turns into a weird kind of knockout. But this is very strange, if I understand it right: As is, both Russia and Greece go through, but one goal for the Czech Republic or Poland and Russia is out. I’m not really rooting for any of them, but come to think of it let’s have the half-hosts and Greece deserves the pick-me-up.

  7. 7.

    lol chikinburd

    Can they just eliminate this entire group?

    Not that it’ll matter. Two Group B semifinalists now seems a certainty.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    Greece are parking the bus in front of goal to ride out the last few minutes. (Did I just mix a metaphor here?)

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    The Czech Republic finish on top of Group A with a goal difference of minus 1. Greece, who started the evening at the bottom of Group A, are in the quarterfinals; Russia, who were at the top of Group A, are out. Weird.

  14. 14.

    pseudonymous in nc

    Well, well, well. That’s hurt a few brackets, including mine, even though I didn’t see any of Group A getting past the quarter finals. The UEFA tiebreaker rule on head-to-head was what got the Greeks through; the FIFA tiebreaker of goal difference would have given second place to Russia.

    Oh my: Germany-Greece in the quarters? That’d be heavy with symbolism.

  16. 16.

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

    @Randinho:

    That’s what I figured. I nearly went to ask someone to check for it on one of Doug’s posts that dropped right around starting time…But I didn’t.

    What got me is that when it did pop up, it did so in the time-slot for which you scheduled it, so I think I missed it because I was expecting it to publish at the top of the front page.

    BTW, don’t take this as me being upset. I know that these things get goofy.

  20. 20.

    handsmile

    A preemptive comment on Sunday’s Group B final matches. By the time Randinho’s open thread on it appears, I will be among the Oranje army of supporters at its bivouac in NYC, the Times Square sports bar, Tonic.

    For me the most compelling element of today’s contests is whether Arjen Robben or Cristiano Ronaldo, both among the world’s best players but suffering diabolical Euro2012 performances, will redeem his reputation. Pitted against each other in a match that will advance either Holland or Portugal to the QFs, the battle between these titanic talents and egos should be transfixing.

    After yesterday’s shocking results in Group A (Poland’s stagnant performance at home in a match of such significance and, even more, the failure of the sleek Russian offense to score against a hardly impressive Greece), one might well expect that both Denmark and the Netherlands (among the pre-tournament favorites but hugely disappointing thus far) will be victorious this afternoon. (That said, I do favor Germany and anticipate that Portugal (on goal differential) will go through.)

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