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by John Cole|  October 11, 20125:36 pm| 97 Comments

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Does it make me a bad person that I will be watching the Steelers game instead of the debate?

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  1. 1.

    Linkmeister

    October 11, 2012 at 5:38 pm

    I got baseball myself.

  2. 2.

    donnah

    October 11, 2012 at 5:39 pm

    What about halftime?

    It’s my dad’s 81st birthday, he’s fighting cancer, and we want to celebrate with him. No debate viewing for us, but that’s okay. I trust Old Handome Joe will do a good job.

  3. 3.

    karl

    October 11, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    Not bad, per se. Impish, perhaps.

  4. 4.

    Bort

    October 11, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    You can get a re-cap from Sully afterwards. Now with 800% more hysteria and fainting!

  5. 5.

    22over7

    October 11, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    No. It’s a sign of good health.

    You can always check a liveblog of the event. Several are planned around left blogistan. Anyone have a recommendation?

  6. 6.

    Mike Lamb

    October 11, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    I’ll be watching ASU – CU. So, no.

  7. 7.

    hildebrand

    October 11, 2012 at 5:41 pm

    No. Because the bloody thing means even less than the Presidential debates. If they did, we would fondly remember how Vice President Bentsen turned the ’88 election around.

  8. 8.

    maody

    October 11, 2012 at 5:41 pm

    as long as you spin The Terrible Towel for Joe, also, too.

  9. 9.

    Waldo

    October 11, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    Unless Biden rips off his shirt and challenges Ryan to a bare-knuckle brawl (always a possibility), you probably won’t be missing anything. Me, I’ll be watching Yanks vs. O’s.

  10. 10.

    Alison

    October 11, 2012 at 5:43 pm

    Dude, I think I’d rather watch someone getting an enema than watch this debate. (Although…hopefully pulling all the shit out for the world to see is precisely what Biden will do to Ryan…LITERALLY har har.)

    As much as Romney’s face and voice make me want to scream, Ryan is even worse. He’s so fucking smarmy and so incredibly arrogant, in a different way than Mitt. Ryan strikes me as those frat boy types who are overly sweet and polite to their date’s mom and then are the nastiest, booziest egotistical bastards behind closed doors. And he’s just so disgustingly self-satisfied, and all over a bunch of plans and ideas that are horrifying cruel and inept and archaic.

    UGH. Times like this I almost wish I drank.

  11. 11.

    hildebrand

    October 11, 2012 at 5:43 pm

    Does it make me a bad person that I want to smash Howard Fineman in his smug face as hard as I possibly can?

  12. 12.

    Hill Dweller

    October 11, 2012 at 5:43 pm

    I didn’t watch the Obama debate live, but after everyone went mental, I checked it out.

    I doubt I’ll watch this debate nor the next couple of Presidential debates. I’ve always found them to be too scripted and, ultimately, meaningless.

  13. 13.

    wobbly

    October 11, 2012 at 5:45 pm

    Yes!

  14. 14.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    October 11, 2012 at 5:45 pm

    I sure as hell am not going to watch the debate. I don’t need the aggravation. Ryan’s going to prevaricate, Joe’s going to say something awesome and embarrassing, the moderator’s going to make me rethink my position on assault weapons, and all that time I’d be thinking that I could be doing something more productive like repeatedly stabbing myself in the thigh with a spork.

    So no, I don’t think you’re a bad person.

  15. 15.

    kindness

    October 11, 2012 at 5:45 pm

    No PIP John?

    Of course the debate would be the small pic with no sound in my house. Guess I’d use closed caption to act like I was paying attention.

    No, I’d be A-Bing it back and forth during commercials.

  16. 16.

    fubar

    October 11, 2012 at 5:45 pm

    Nope, not a bad person but a sane one. You would however be a bad person if you watched this debate (or any debate for that matter) in order to make up your mind on who to vote for, based on some sort of “who da man/woman” kind of criteria.

  17. 17.

    WereBear

    October 11, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    You are not a bad person.

    I bought a bottle of wine; I was stone cold sober last time. Can’t let that happen again.

  18. 18.

    joeyess

    October 11, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    I’m doing the same thing. After the American football, I will turn on the American baseball.

  19. 19.

    NCSteve

    October 11, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    Of course not. Why waste time watching a debate when the only thing that’s important is how the twittering MSM twits decide we should feel about it in the three days after it’s over?

  20. 20.

    jharp

    October 11, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    I’m watching baseball.

    A really terrific game this afternoon that sent the Reds packing. Could not happen to a better group of fans.

    I sure wish they could pick up Cincinnati and all the racist bigoted redneck white trash and dump the entire city in Alabama where it belongs.

  21. 21.

    Spaghetti Lee

    October 11, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    I won’t be watching football, but I won’t be watching the debates either. I like speeches. I like rallies. I don’t like debates. Everything feels so dull and scripted. I do have 50 bucks riding in Vegas on Joe calling Paul a dimwit before the night is out.

  22. 22.

    KG

    October 11, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    @Mike Lamb: me too

  23. 23.

    stratplayer

    October 11, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    If the Patriots were playing tonight, there’s no freakin’ way I’d watch the debate. There’s always youtube, anyway.

  24. 24.

    MobiusKlein

    October 11, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    @Linkmeister: @jharp: Baceball!
    Mine’s on later tonight, also a 5ths game nail biter.

    Go Oakland!

  25. 25.

    JPL

    October 11, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    John, Your blog will be crashing tonight with or without comments and you won’t know. Does that make you a bad blog dad? I don’t know.

  26. 26.

    KG

    October 11, 2012 at 5:49 pm

    @Waldo: I’m pretty sure if that happened, even ESPN would cut in with a live feed.

  27. 27.

    Polish the Guillotines

    October 11, 2012 at 5:49 pm

    Does it make me a bad person that I will be watching the Steelers game instead of the debate?

    No. It makes you a bad person that you’re not going to be watching the A’s and Tigers.

    Go A’s!

  28. 28.

    Davis X. Machina

    October 11, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    Does it make me a bad person that I will be watching the Steelers game instead of the debate?

    Considering you probably won’t get winked at this go-round, no, it doesn’t.

  29. 29.

    Cris (without an H)

    October 11, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    It might make you a happier person.

    I eschew primary sources anymore. I’ll just wait to see the reactions from Rebecca Schoenkopf, Jon Stewart, and the Balloon-Juice commentariat.

  30. 30.

    quannlace

    October 11, 2012 at 5:52 pm

    No prob’s, John. The pundits will tell you exactly what happened, the ‘gaffes’ and how you should feel about it.

  31. 31.

    James E. Powell

    October 11, 2012 at 5:53 pm

    No. As we have learned to our collective horror, what actually happens in a debate is meaningless. It’s all about the post-game chatter.

    I didn’t watch the Denver debate because I cannot stand watching Romney talk. I hate him more than I hated George W Bush and I didn’t think that would ever be possible.

    Paul Ryan? I can’t stand him or his manner. Like Romney, he is a slick, lying bastard. He didn’t get where he is without considerable talent in that regard. I have to have faith in Joe Biden to peel off the veneer of ‘seriousness’ that the Village painted onto Ryan. I am not getting my hopes up, but then I never do.

  32. 32.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 11, 2012 at 5:54 pm

    Go ahead watch the game, and leave Tunch in charge of live-blogging the debate.

    BTW I made you guys a lol and did not eated it.

  33. 33.

    ? Martin

    October 11, 2012 at 5:54 pm

    Does it make me a bad person that I will be watching the Steelers game instead of the debate?

    No, but aren’t we trying a liveblog here for the first time because everyone lost their shit last debate? As our fearless host, you should probably keep an eye on that at least.

  34. 34.

    geg6

    October 11, 2012 at 5:54 pm

    Well, I’m of the opinion that it’s pretty damn simple to do both. That’s what I’ll be doing. And recording Project Runway at the same time.

    Unlike you, Cole, I can multitask.

  35. 35.

    Alison

    October 11, 2012 at 5:55 pm

    Also too, I’m way too elated about my Giants managing to pull this one out of the fire and win the NLDS to let Ryan and the MSNBC Emoprog Pearl-Clutching Brigade bring me down.

  36. 36.

    trollhattan

    October 11, 2012 at 5:56 pm

    Some of us will never get past the Steelers thing, but I suspect you knew that already. :-P

    Got my ballot in yesterday’s mail, but think I’ll watch tonight’s debate before I fill it out; you know, in case I learn something important.

  37. 37.

    Patricia Kayden

    October 11, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    I’ll be watching Project Runway. I’ll check out MSNBC at 10:30 pm and see if Matthews and Schultz are freaking out like they did last week. I’m sure between BJ, Little Green Footballs and The Obama Diary websites, I’ll know everything I need to know about the debate by tomorrow morning.

  38. 38.

    ? Martin

    October 11, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    Is there any way we can get Sully’s hyperventilating in it’s own liveblog without his reporting on the debate, and then we can re-imagine what must be taking place in the debate based solely on his emo responses? That could be far more entertaining.

  39. 39.

    trollhattan

    October 11, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    @geg6:
    Ooh, snap. That’s an attack on a dude’s very essence: “You cannot handle entertainment technology!”

    [also, too, my cable rig cannot handle three HD feeds simultaneously, but there’s no reason to watch the debate in HD unless one’s fascinated by Joe’s plugs or Rand Ryan’s hypnoeyes.]

  40. 40.

    Scout211

    October 11, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    I just voted and dropped the ballot in the mailbox. Now I don’t have to watch any debates.

    Yay!

    Note to California voters: the Cal Dem Party has a list of the propositions and their endorsements at their website. It was very helpful.

  41. 41.

    Cris (without an H)

    October 11, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    The debate starts at 7:00 in my time zone, when I will be reading the second half of chapter 7, “In The House of Tom Bombadil” to my six-year-old. He’s totally jazzed to hear more about the barrow-wights.

  42. 42.

    trollhattan

    October 11, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    @Scout211: Since I’m lazy, what do they say about the competing tax initiatives?

  43. 43.

    John D

    October 11, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    Yes, it does, if only because they are playing the Titans.

  44. 44.

    Scout211

    October 11, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    @trollhattan:

    yes on 30

    which other one?

  45. 45.

    gelfling545

    October 11, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    For the health of my electronic equipment (which I might smash) and myself (who might pop an artery) I do not watch debates.

  46. 46.

    trollhattan

    October 11, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    @Scout211:

    Prop 38, the Molly Munger initiative.

  47. 47.

    jharp

    October 11, 2012 at 6:04 pm

    @MobiusKlein:

    Sorry friend but my heart is with Detroit. Used to live up there and love the city.

    Nothing against Oakland mind you.

    And sorry to remind you that Justin Verlander is one tough cookie and maybe the best player in baseball.

    Should be an exciting game. And I have to say many of the games have been really good. Don’t remember so many exciting games as this.

    Oh, and good luck should the A’s come out on top.

  48. 48.

    PurpleGirl

    October 11, 2012 at 6:04 pm

    I only watched a half-hour of the presidential debate. I’m planning on spending some time this evening researching crafts programs on the web. And then spending some time crocheting. I’ve got politics overload and I want the election NAOW before I go truly insane.

    Your sanity is more important; then football it is.

  49. 49.

    ? Martin

    October 11, 2012 at 6:04 pm

    @Scout211:

    Yes (taxes, ⅔)
    No
    No
    No
    No (I support it, but this is the legislature’s job)
    No (same as above)
    Yes (Should be same, but can only be changed by initiative – stupid fucking state)
    No (support but legislature’s job)
    No
    Yes (taxes, ⅔)
    Yes (stupid fucking reverse rules for initiatives)

  50. 50.

    Scout211

    October 11, 2012 at 6:05 pm

    trollhattan,

    No on 38

    [they don’t state why they say no, and for the other ones they give a reason]

  51. 51.

    N. Eugene

    October 11, 2012 at 6:08 pm

    Not unless I’m a bad person for missing the first debate because I was watching David Byrne and St. Vincent blow my mind. I still haven’t watched it, but I’m told it didn’t go well for the President?

  52. 52.

    trollhattan

    October 11, 2012 at 6:09 pm

    @Scout211:
    Okay, thanks. I know there’s a concern that they could somehow knock each other both into the loss column, so it may be the CDP wants to minimize that possibility. Were they to both pass I suspect the top vote getter would prevail, but two raise-taxes propositions passing in the same year seems extremely unlikely.

    We’re hosed if they both go down.

  53. 53.

    Redshift

    October 11, 2012 at 6:12 pm

    @James E. Powell: I think the difference between Romney and Ryan is that Ryan is a true believer. Romney is a total BS artist with no core beliefs whatsoever, and will say (and probably even believe, temporarily) whatever serves his ambition at any given moment. Ryan, I think, actually believes that his budget will accomplish the great things he says, and that people are poor because they “don’t believe in the American Dream” and all that other crap. He isn’t anywhere near as smart as he (and the Village) think he is, so he is unbothered by the fact that if pressed, he can’t explain why his numbers don’t add up. He doesn’t need them to add up, he just knows, they’re right.

    But the point is that while he’s also a BS artist, Ryan has ideas he’s committed to, and I think he’ll have a harder time than Romney just pretending he never believed them. While Romney’s default response to unpleasant questions has been “of course I believe whatever people want right now,” Ryan’s has mostly been “I’ve signed on to Romney’s plan, I won’t talk about anything I believed before.” I doubt we’ll be lucky enough to get an “A Few Good Men” moment, but if pressed on his record, I think Ryan will have a hard time getting through 90 minutes not talking about it and still look good.

  54. 54.

    Bubblegum Tate

    October 11, 2012 at 6:12 pm

    Ha! My mom called me a little while ago and said, “I know the Steelers are on tonight, but I’m sure you’ll do the right thing.”

    My response: “I sure will do the right thing. I will watch the Steelers game, then catch up on the debate later.”

  55. 55.

    trollhattan

    October 11, 2012 at 6:15 pm

    @Redshift:
    “90 minutes just isn’t enough time to go into the math.”

    This is my prediction, which is mine.

  56. 56.

    ? Martin

    October 11, 2012 at 6:16 pm

    @Scout211: The problem with 38 is how the money is earmarked, the higher tax rates in that initiative, and the longer duration of the initiative. It’s not a bad initiative in isolation, but the goal is to pass 30.

  57. 57.

    trollhattan

    October 11, 2012 at 6:17 pm

    @Cris (without an H):
    Reading to a 6 YO pretty much trumps anything, short of clearing the house due to fire.

    Mine’s now 10 [sigh].

  58. 58.

    Joel

    October 11, 2012 at 6:18 pm

    Debates just make me angry. I learned that lesson from Cheney-Edwards and I broke my embargo only to watch parts of last week’s debate. So that probably turned me off from debates for another few years…

  59. 59.

    Scout211

    October 11, 2012 at 6:18 pm

    @? Martin:

    thanks

    I did vote no, but it is nice to know why 30 was recommended over 38

  60. 60.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    October 11, 2012 at 6:19 pm

    I’ll watch the game too. Unless the Steelers are winning, then I’ll prolly switch over to the debate and comment on Wonkette.

  61. 61.

    trollhattan

    October 11, 2012 at 6:22 pm

    And in Bain news, gee, they helped big tobacco break into post-Soviet Russia, along with other swell advice on “maximizing shareholder wealth.”

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_10/merchants_of_death040439.php

    As Kilgore notes, pretty odd for somebody high in the rabidly anti-tobacco Mormon church.

  62. 62.

    lamh35

    October 11, 2012 at 6:23 pm

    I’m at work and don’t get off until 8pm so once I get home, I sure won’t feel like watching the debate.

    I don’t think it’s a big deal if ya don’t watch the debate, but I sure as shhhh don’t wanna hear bitchin’ later cause the pundits say Biden did this or did that. It would make you no better than the average person who didn’t watch the debate, but took cues from the media. So no, I won’t be watching it, but I also won’t be chiming in on how bad Biden was or Ryan, unless I watched it for myself.

  63. 63.

    James E. Powell

    October 11, 2012 at 6:23 pm

    @trollhattan:

    90 minutes just isn’t enough time to go into the math.

    I think it is, depending on whether the moderator allows Biden to follow up and demand an answer.

    The budget has a huge gap between revenues and spending. The only deductions or credits or treatments (sometimes referred to as ‘loopholes’) that are big enough to make a measurable reduction in that gap are popular.

    So Ryan, like Romney, has to be pressed to name the ones they want to eliminate or, at the very least, name the ones that they are not going to eliminate. Their entire campaign is coming down to this tax plan, no? What else do they have?

  64. 64.

    trollhattan

    October 11, 2012 at 6:24 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Also, too, I keep hearing and reading that Ryan needs to avoid being too much of a wonk tonight. This strikes me as odd, as I’ve yet to hear him function as an actual wonk–just a dumb person’s idea of what a wonk may sound like (to borrow a phrase).

  65. 65.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    October 11, 2012 at 6:26 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Also, too, I keep hearing and reading that Ryan needs to avoid being too much of a wonk tonight. This strikes me as odd, as I’ve yet to hear him function as an actual wonk—just a dumb person’s idea of what a wonk may sound like (to borrow a phrase).

    I’m pretty sure “wonky” for a Republican means looking thoughtful while you are pushing for more thoughtless tax cuts, deregulation and shredding of the safety net.

  66. 66.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 11, 2012 at 6:27 pm

    @trollhattan: I guess if you are not a Mormon RMoney does not care if you die.

  67. 67.

    MobiusKlein

    October 11, 2012 at 6:27 pm

    @jharp: Root for who you like! Can’t fault you choice of the Tigers. And yes, it’s been quite a series. Verlander is tough, but A’s have beaten him before.

  68. 68.

    geg6

    October 11, 2012 at 6:27 pm

    RIP, Beano Cook, a Pittsburgh institution:

    http://espn.go.com/dallas/ncf/story/_/id/8490526/beano-cook-espn-commentator-cardinal-college-football-dies

  69. 69.

    Maude

    October 11, 2012 at 6:28 pm

    @trollhattan:
    Wonk is really spelled wanker.

  70. 70.

    trollhattan

    October 11, 2012 at 6:30 pm

    @James E. Powell:
    Given that he wouldn’t even go into it for Chris Wallace, despite being hoisted on a pillow of the finest eiderdown at Fox Galactic Headquarters and plied with a gallon of 5-Hour Energy, the last thing I think Ryan will allow is to be cornered into budget specifics.

    He has shown the ability to spout Republican bromides at seventy miles per hour, and that’s the Ryan I expect, tonight. Can Joe and the moderator force it? Something to hope for, at least.

  71. 71.

    Mnemosyne

    October 11, 2012 at 6:30 pm

    I’m going to a debate-watching party despite the fact that I kinda feel like poop since my flu shot this morning. But, on the other hand, 1,000 Chocolate Chip Cake.

  72. 72.

    trollhattan

    October 11, 2012 at 6:31 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:
    Admittedly, it leads to moar and faster post mortem baptisms.

  73. 73.

    blingee

    October 11, 2012 at 6:31 pm

    @Bort: Sully is a drama queen. He will do the same thing in the opposite direction next time around. This time with added ‘spunk’…if you know what I mean.

  74. 74.

    jwb

    October 11, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    I’ll probably follow it on twitter, perhaps turn it on with the sound off for 15 minutes or so to observe body language. But I think it will make me physically ill to actually watch it. Just way too nervous.

  75. 75.

    Raven

    October 11, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    I can’t believe Cole doesn’t have PIP!

  76. 76.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    October 11, 2012 at 6:50 pm

    No, you’re a bad person because you’re not watching the Orioles.

    FTFY. That is all.

  77. 77.

    MTmofo

    October 11, 2012 at 6:54 pm

    Yes. Because it’s the fucking NFL channel which is wholly owned by the fucking NFL. On Dish the NFL chnl is on the second tier, which costs more than the basic tier.

    Call it the Replacement (or scab) NFL channel.

  78. 78.

    geg6

    October 11, 2012 at 7:01 pm

    @MTmofo:

    They play it on a local channel here. But here is Pittsburgh, so if you’re not here, you’re out of luck.

  79. 79.

    2liberal

    October 11, 2012 at 7:05 pm

    Does it make me a bad person that I will be watching the Steelers game instead of the debate?

    only because you will be pulling for the Steelers.

  80. 80.

    Dee Loralei

    October 11, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Recipe. Want. Now.

  81. 81.

    danimal

    October 11, 2012 at 7:09 pm

    Californians–It’s ok to vote Yes on 30 and 38. The top vote getter will be implemented. The CA Dem Party can’t come up with a reason to vote No on 38 because there isn’t one from a liberal POV except that 30 is Jerry Brown’s proposal, and his credibility is on the line. It would be a disaster if 30 doesn’t pass; it would be party time if 38 and 30 both passed.

  82. 82.

    Heliopause

    October 11, 2012 at 7:11 pm

    Does it make me a bad person that I will be watching the Steelers game instead of the debate?

    Yes, but because you’re watching the Steelers, not because you’re skipping the debate.

  83. 83.

    Kadzimiel

    October 11, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    @trollhattan:

    “That’s fine, Paulie. Name the loopholes Mr Romney is going to close and how much revenue each of them will raise.”

  84. 84.

    Scout211

    October 11, 2012 at 7:19 pm

    @danimal:

    good to know

    thx

  85. 85.

    Lojasmo

    October 11, 2012 at 7:21 pm

    Yes. > Previous thread.

    Lojasmo + 2

  86. 86.

    hitchhiker

    October 11, 2012 at 7:35 pm

    Matt Taibbi in the RS that came in my mailbox yesterday:
    (paraphrased b/c I’m too lazy to go get it and quote directly)

    There are three things in an election: the Democrat, the Republican, and The Process. We’re not allowed to just spend a day or two considering the relative merits of the first two. We have to, instead, spend 2 years having The Process shoved into every available square inch of our lives. And we hate The Process so much that we just turn away in disgust.

    Yes to that. I had to stop with all election-related press/podcasts/broadcasts/livestreams or lose my sanity . . . I will admit to being the sort of person who always looks at the end of the tense novel ahead so that I can relax and enjoy the story.

    I’m going to enjoy reading the books written about this era of our beknighted history very much. The real-time blow-by-blows? NO.

  87. 87.

    folsom ca

    October 11, 2012 at 7:38 pm

    @? Martin: I know there was a front pager that said local issues could be covered. I have some questions, as a Calif resident about some of the initiatives, it would be great to have an open thread on some of these. I have two sons, and I am compiling a book for them to read, one lives in La Jolla and the other in Placer county, which is (well fill in the blank). I live in Folsom, but I am anti death penalty, but I do have some education questions, (both of my kids went to public schools, and graduated college). I would love a CA open forum. Thanks.

  88. 88.

    MTmofo

    October 11, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    @geg6:

    Thurs. night is the NFL chnl’s nationwide broadcast of that week’s game, in this case Pit at Ten.

    But, duly noted, he can enjoy a local broadcast of the game. We don’t have those nice things in bumfuck Montana. :)

    Thanks for that clarification.

  89. 89.

    geg6

    October 11, 2012 at 7:52 pm

    @MTmofo:

    Yeah, everyone HATES the Thursday night games. Somehow, the local Steelers station (they get all the pre-season games) get to show the games on their secondary channel, which is a broadcast channel. This occurred a few years ago when they began running the games on the NFL Network and the local populace went apeshit because nobody wanted to pay for the extra channel for, maybe, one game a year.

  90. 90.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    October 11, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    Me, Imma refresh 538 every few minutes and watch Obama shed 10 electoral votes every time.

    This is getting silly.

  91. 91.

    Darkrose

    October 11, 2012 at 8:27 pm

    @Alison:

    Also too, I’m way too elated about my Giants managing to pull this one out of the fire and win the NLDS to let Ryan and the MSNBC Emoprog Pearl-Clutching Brigade bring me down.

    That game took years off my life, especially since I was about to go into a meeting with my boss’ boss’ at 2. If Romo hadn’t gotten Bruce out when he did, I might have imploded.

    That picture of a dejected Mat Latos in the dugout is my new happy place.

  92. 92.

    Mnemosyne

    October 11, 2012 at 8:46 pm

    @Dee Loralei:

    Sorry, it’s from the Ralphs (Kroger) market, so no recipe. :-( But it is quite tasty.

  93. 93.

    trollhattan

    October 11, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    @Darkrose:

    Did NOT expect that, especially coming back from 0-2. Especially sweet for Buster, coming back from the gruesome leg injury. Maybe the As can keep things interesting in the Bay?

  94. 94.

    apulrang

    October 11, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    Not at all! I’m watching “My So-Called Life on Netflix. Because apparently, in addition to being terrified to watch the debate, I’m a 13 year old girl in 1995.

  95. 95.

    Darkrose

    October 11, 2012 at 9:05 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Did NOT expect that, especially coming back from 0-2. Especially sweet for Buster, coming back from the gruesome leg injury. Maybe the As can keep things interesting in the Bay?

    Fingers crossed…I really am happy for the A’s and their fans. It’s amazing seeing O.com full.

  96. 96.

    Ted

    October 11, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    No worse than you already are, what with being a Steelers fan and all.

  97. 97.

    Uncle Cosmo

    October 12, 2012 at 12:25 am

    Speaking of football– FINAL: Tennessee 26, Pittsburgh 23. Rob Bironas 40-yard FG as time expired.

    –Anyone check in on Cole? I have this distressing vision of him in the bathtub as it fills with body-temperature water running his thumb along the sharp edges of a broken Iron City longneck & muttering Matt Fucking Hasselbeck under his breath over&over again …

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