Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

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

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

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

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

I also would like a pony to improve my balloon juice experience.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

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

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  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    Thank God. Maybe we can trap the gun zealots in the below thread and talk about something else for a while.

  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    I’m not sure why the Texans are even playing Matt Schaub. They obviously don’t give a shit about winning, for the second week in a row, so why not just sit the big three offensive starters and call it quits til playoffs?

  3. 3.

    c u n d gulag

    WOW!
    The Giants are beating the Iggles!

    The last few weeks, after tuning in to watcht their game, I was watching the cooking shows on one of our local PBS stations by the middle of the 2nd Quarter.

    Uh-on!
    The Iggles just scored!

    Hmmm… What are they making on “Cooks Country” at 2?

  7. 7.

    Villago Delenda Est

    My team is the Seahawks, and there is no chance this year of any shenanigans like that in the Super Bowl that shall not be mentioned.

  8. 8.

    Alison

    Here’s hoping my gridiron football team has a better game than last weekend’s, and also better than my association football team did yesterday. Oof on both accounts…

  9. 9.

    Kathy

    I have two teams and they both suck. Eagles on track to lose 84 to 21 and Lions are just the Lions. They will never be consistently good as long as William Clay Ford has life.

  14. 14.

    JPL

    The Falcons need to rest their players unless they are playing crappy intentionally to fool their playoff opponents.

  15. 15.

    Bob In Portland

    I’m waiting to see if the Niners can rebound or if they’ve run out of gas. Hopefully, the Packers can snatch defeat out of the hands of victory while we limp past the Lambsies.

  18. 18.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @JPL:

    I don’t think they’re as clever as say the Packers are in the “fooling your playoff opponents” department.

  22. 22.

    koolearl

    Good gravy, Manning could have shown up today staggering drunk and hit these wide open Giants receivers

  26. 26.

    Corner Stone

    This is just embarrassing. No TD in almost 6 quarters now against the lowly Viqueens and now the #Chuckstrongs.

  30. 30.

    Corner Stone

    @Raven: This is awful. The #Chuckstrongs actually aren’t a bad team but we’re just flat for two weeks in a row now.

  37. 37.

    Burnspbesq

    To humiliate the Iggles and not get the help needed to back into the playoffs would be a fitting end to the G-men’s season.

  38. 38.

    Corner Stone

    @Raven: We’ve had some injuries but that has nothing to do with this extremely bad level of intensity or execution we’ve puked out the last two weeks.

  39. 39.

    Raven

    @JPL: I have the NFL Redzone, like I said it is dizzying. Jump around coverage and as many as 4 screens at once. We used to get CBS from Toccoa but no more.

  45. 45.

    Kathy

    Anyone think the Giants will score more than 50 today? They have the whole city of Philadelphia rooting for them.

  48. 48.

    JPL

    OT…Copied with out shame from the Wash. Post

    With a matter of hours left before the nation goes over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” the Senate opened for business at 1 p.m. Sunday with a particularly pointed prayer from Senate Chaplain Barry Black.“Lord show them the right thing to do and give them the courage to do it. Be their shelter in the midst of the storm, regardless of how high the waters rise,” he prayer over the largely still empty Senate chamber………..
    “When they feel exhausted, remind them of the great sufficiency of your grace. Look with favor on our nation and save us from self inflicted wounds.”

  50. 50.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    So the Browns will start a clean slate again, beginning Monday.
    To all you Seattle Seahawks fans aren’t you glad they decicded to go with John Schnieder and Pete Carroll and not Mike Holmgren (may his walrus mustache burn in eternity)

  52. 52.

    beckya57

    Go Seahawks!!!

    Unfortunately they will probably be on the road for the playoffs, and they are MUCH better at home, but they sure are fun to watch!

  54. 54.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    Hope your team is better than mine.

    Unfortunately, yours is mine :(

    PS- I saw a thing on a travel show not long ago about a cool converted railroad bike trail that started in WV and went in to PA. Just curious if you or anyone else out there has ever done it. It has B&B lodging along the way and looked lovely.

  63. 63.

    Corner Stone

    I’d take Matt Schaub out. He has happy feet and is scared to death of getting injured.
    This Texans team looks like the coaches all ate brownies the Broncos sent them.

  64. 64.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @Oltrol: I wonder if the Colts have the same momentum mojo the Seahawks have, hell the return of Coach Pagano itself is a powerful incentive. Houston is going to get smoked in the playoffs. I am thinking of the return of Peyton Manning in the Super Bowl. NFC is going to be harder, but I am leaning Green Bay.

  69. 69.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @Corner Stone: Oh I would say anyone but the Cincinnati Bengals :-) Houston no doubt is a good team, and next year watch out, but this year,they remind me of the Atlanta Falcons a year or so back great run in the regular season, then got stomped in the playoffs. (And I think the Falcons may get it again)

  75. 75.

    Corner Stone

    Fucking Turtle McConnell. You can’t agree to raise tax rates for the rich and you freakin know it. Don’t sit there and tell us about courage to close the deal.

  82. 82.

    burnspbesq

    @FlipYrWhig:

    Thad Lewis is the Browns number three QB. From Duke. This is his first appearance, although he has been in the league three seasons.

  84. 84.

    Corner Stone

    Hell, maybe even the lowly Stillers could smoke these Texans when they meet in the playoffs.
    Oh…wait.

  88. 88.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @Corner Stone: Regular season yes but this will be the playoffs, you might win one, but I don’t see them in New Orleans, and watching them now, my doubts grow. Look I have no axe to grind with the Texans and I think there is a Super Bowl dynasty within them(it would be cool to consign the Cowboys to 2nd banana status in Texas) I admit I am not Jimmy the Greek, but I’m going with the 2nd rising of Peyton Manning. (If I am wrong I will crawl to your feet and beg forgiveness. ;-D )

  90. 90.

    Corner Stone

    Sigh. I guess it’s MSNBC punditing about the cliff.
    Just sit the Texans starters and let’s fight from #3 seed. They clearly aren’t coached up to win this contest.

  91. 91.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    I noticed on the Fox channel they took off the G-men-Iggles game to Detroit-Chicago. Can you say “giving up on your coach, Iggle Fans?” Vick an Raider QB next year, according some on ESPN.

  93. 93.

    Thlayli

    Eli Manning had 13 completions today, 5 of them touchdowns. That’ll help the old QB rating.

    Also too: isn’t it great how the league schedules all division games for the last weekend?

  98. 98.

    opie_jeanne

    Damned Fox, advertised the Seahawks/Rams game but are going to show Green Bay/Vikings instead. mr opiejeanne is not a happy guy.

  101. 101.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Just happened to go by ESPN, and they are doing a roundtable show on Notre Dame? F^%k them I am going to root for the Crimson Tide! Now back to the Seahawks-Rams game in progress.

  112. 112.

    JWL

    Can anyone explain what would have to happen for the Colts and the Broncos to square off in the playoffs?

    It’s really amazing, isn’t it. The Colts let Peyton Manning go in order to start a rookie QB, and it panned out for all concerned in storybook fashion. I remember thinking in September: “let’s see how Manning’s neck holds up (if it holds up at all) when winter hits Denver [chuckle, chuckle]”. Well, now I know. And my best guess back then was that Andrew Luck might win 5-6 games this year, tops. It will be very entertaining if the two teams meet this month.

  113. 113.

    geg6

    @Mr Stagger Lee:

    I can’t possibly root for either team in the stupid “national championship” game. You couldn’t dream up a worse pair of teams as far as I’m concerned. I detest BOTH Alabama and Notre Dame, so there will be no eyeballs watching in this house. They had an article in the Pgh. Post-Gazette saying basically the same thing, something along the lines of who will watch this game and the poor souls who do will have to choose to root for whichever one they despise less. It reflected my feelings in this exactly.

    Since today is the last football game I’ll see until August, I’m glad the Stillers didn’t embarrass themselves against the Browns again. Now can someone knock some heads so I can at least enjoy a few hockey games? I’d hate to think I will not see another professional sporting event until August. Thank FSM for college basketball!

  114. 114.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Off topic, but it looks like Anonymous
    is going to out members of the Steubenville (OH) football team, as well the coaches and the administrators, unless those involved publicly apologize to a girl and her family, in a suspected sexual assault. My school used to play them in football. I suspect Steubenville has a hacker in the midst. Be afraid, be very afraid.

  118. 118.

    JWL

    @Oltrol: Thanks for that, but I was thinking of concrete play-off scenarios. Of course, we’ll know in a few hours after the dust clears from today’s finals. In the meantime, idle curiousity got the better of me.

  119. 119.

    Thlayli

    @JWL:

    If:

    Denver ends up as the #1 seed
    and
    Indy wins next week
    and
    the #3 seed (Houston/NE) wins next week

    Then the Colts would play the Broncos.

    If Denver is the #2 seed, then the #6 would have to beat #3 to get the matchup.

  122. 122.

    JWL

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: It should never have got to this point. Something is wrong with Akers, and it’s been obvious for enough games to have been dealt with by now. I’m listening to the Niner game as I type, and think they should have announced to the crowd during the second quarter that tryouts for a field goal kicker will be held in the parking lot at halftime.

  123. 123.

    Comrade Dread

    Meh. Giants didn’t make the playoffs this year. Guess I can’t really complain after last season though, so best of luck to those that made the final cut and hopefully NY will figure out how to keep up with Washington next year.

  124. 124.

    Thlayli

    And we have another idiot coach throwing the challenge flag on an automatic review.

    This time, the flag was thrown after the booth signaled the ref for the review, so the review went ahead and the penalty was charged afterwards.

  126. 126.

    Dave N.

    Jesus tap-dancing Christ! Why in the name of Zeus’s butthole does someone rush only 3 on 3rd & 11 against a QB who routinely shits his pants with any pressure in his face?

    Way to go Green Bay. Way to piss down your leg and lose a week off.

  127. 127.

    JWL

    @Dave N.: Just a wild guess, but you’re a Packers fan, aren’t you?

    I’m a Niner fan myself, and would like thank Adrian Peterson for today’s splendid gridiron work.

  129. 129.

    mainmati

    My team, the Steelers won today but they are out of it, post season. My substitute team, the ‘Skins are in a duel for NFC 1st place with the Cowboys. I really hate the Cowboys but this will be a really tough battle no doubt.

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