Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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

After roe, women are no longer free.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

White supremacy is terrorism.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

This fight is for everything.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

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  5. 5.

    ulee

    I hope Oliver continues to suffer. No particular reason. I like him enough, but for whatever reason I want him to throw something at the tv screen. Someone’s gotta hurt in this world and it might as well be him.

  7. 7.

    JPL

    I’m cheering for the skins cuz I know someone cheering for the skins. Is there anyone on the site cheering for the skins cuz they actually like em?

  8. 8.

    Zapruder F. Mashtots, D.D.S. (Mumphrey, et al.)

    Not sports, but I think it’s worth pointing out that Jennifer Rubin of all people wrote something that makes sense. She dumps all over the shitty governor of Pennsylvania for trying to get the NCAA punishment of Penn State thrown out because it hurts innocent people who did nothing wrong. Well, yeah. It does hurt people who did nothing wrong. But so what? Every time we punish somebody for wrongdoing it hurts other people who didn’t do anything.

    I get so sick of the “Oh, dear, this will hurt so many people who didn’t do anything wrong” crap. Sure, some people will get shafted with this deal the school took. And I try to be a compassionate fellow, but in this case, all I can say is, Too bad.

    I mean, what the hell? Any time some criminal gets sentenced or some defendant in a civil suit ends up paying a big settlement, blameless people get shafted. When a killer goes to jail for life, there are often children left behind who grow up without a father. Do we seriously think about not prosecuting murderers because their children will suffer with a father in jail? I sympathize with the guiltless children, and I’m all for some kind of program to help such children overcome this burden; but we still have to prosecute and convict murderers.

    Or if some company dumps toxic sludge into a creek somewhere, and they end up having to pay out hundreds of millions in fines, it might lead the company into bankruptcy and throw hundreds or thousands of people who had nothing to do with the dumping out of work. Those people and their families will suffer because of an award like that. Do we then let businesses do whatever they want, since suing them to clean up their deadly messes will harm innocent people?

  9. 9.

    Raven

    Can’t we find a player on one of the teams that we can bitch about and make us feel all morally superior?

  11. 11.

    Raven

    @JPL: I liked Sonny, Billy and the Diesel! And my old man knew Shanahan when he played at East Leyden. Did you know they gave him his last rites after a practice injury at EIU?

  14. 14.

    Thatgaljill

    Hey, Cole, based on your success cheering for the Colts, I am thrilled to have you cheer for the Redskins. :)

  17. 17.

    Zapruder F. Mashtots, D.D.S. (Mumphrey, et al.)

    @Zapruder F. Mashtots, D.D.S. (Mumphrey, et al.):

    Well, now that I think about it, that does have to do with sports. How about that?

    And I don’t see anything wrong with holding grudges, as long as it’s in sports, where it can’t really do too much harm to anybody. I’ll always hate the Red Sox for beating the Phillies in the 1915 World Series, and that was more than 50 years before I was born. Hell, my father wasn’t even born then, and he was in his 50’s when I was born. He remembers the game in the 1929 series when his A’s were trailing the Cubs 8-0 into the 7th and scored 10 runs in an inning to win 10-8. He heard it over the radio…

  18. 18.

    The Dangerman

    It’s raining in SoCal today, which pisses me off because the rain should stay in the Pacific Northwest (it was mid 70’s and sunny Friday and, yes, I feel entitled to that weather every single damn day)…

    …so I have to root for the Redskins (plus, Pete Carroll).

  19. 19.

    ulee

    Now I remember why I root aginst Oliver’s happiness. The last few times I went to his site my computer froze up and I had to do the unthinkable and push the button on the brain to restart so I finally stopped visiting his blog. Oliver has hurt me and now he and his team must go down.

  25. 25.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Corner Stone:

    Indeed. I was also concerned for your blood sugar level.

    thank you but no need to worry. when i’m beastmoding i sport a greatly enhanced glucose metabolic system.

  26. 26.

    The Dangerman

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    i figure griffin has about one more year playing this way.

    Sadly true; undersized is undersized and he’s getting beat up (Wilson has the same potential problem).

  30. 30.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @MattF: I think he may have learned from Robert Kraft, let the football guys run the team, then you can show your mug when you accept the Lombardi Trophy, a lesson lost on Jerry Jones.

  31. 31.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @MattF:

    We can’t even bitch about Dan Snyder anymore.

    head of the class must have really fucked that guy up

  32. 32.

    PsiFighter37

    Even if it does anger the blogmaster himself, that Super Bowl was gifted by the refs. I’m not a fan of either team, but the Seahawks were the better team, no question. They was robbed.

    That said, Redskins are steamrolling, although the Seahawks are starting to move the ball.

  33. 33.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    if the football gods smile on us, seahawks will make it a game and then get screwed out of the win by officiating. then someday, we’ll have a ‘we wuz fucked’ story for every occasion.

  34. 34.

    Joel

    I’m just glad my team doesn’t feature a “classic” color scheme that makes the players look like Burger King employees.

  36. 36.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Joel:

    I’m just glad my team doesn’t feature a “classic” color scheme that makes the players look like Burger King employees.

    lolz

  39. 39.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Raven:

    Do you know the story of him and Halas when he left the Bears?

    don’t tell me that george halas is really senator allen’s daddy.

  41. 41.

    Raven

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    “At the end of the 1965 season, Allen reached an agreement with owner Dan Reeves of the Los Angeles Rams to replace Harland Svare as head coach. He quickly faced a legal battle with Halas, who claimed that Allen’s leaving was in breach of his Bears contract. (Halas accused Allen and the Rams of “chicanery.”) The Bears’ owner did win his case in a Chicago court but immediately allowed Allen to leave, saying he initiated the lawsuit to make a point about the validity of contracts. Halas would not be so magnanimous in an NFL meeting soon after when he attacked Allen’s character. Upon hearing this, Green Bay coach Vince Lombardi joked to Reeves, “Sounds like you’ve got yourself a hell of a coach.”

    He “Allowed him to leave”, uh huh.

  43. 43.

    burnspbesq

    @The Dangerman:

    It’s raining in SoCal today, which pisses me off

    If it’s raining here, it’s probably snowing in the Sierras, which means we might not run out of water next summer. Suck it up.

  44. 44.

    Culture of Truth

    I used to be a big Redskins fan. Looks like they’ve finally got good… but that’s ok, I’m a Giants fan now.

  45. 45.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I am so sick and tired of the whiny ass Seahawks fans bitching about the Superbowl they lost to the Steelers.

    Go DIAF, Cole.

  47. 47.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    lynch is fully in beastmode now. he went after that loose football like it was an errant skittle

  49. 49.

    Culture of Truth

    true, about Burger King, but the uniforms are distinctive. I like the Seahawks helmets, but the rest is kind of dull.

  50. 50.

    Haydnseek

    @Raven: I remember it well. His last coaching gig was at Cal State Long Beach, where I was a student. Our football program had sucked for a long time, laboring in the shadows of the Jerry Tarkanian coached basketball team. Allen had health problems and died before he could put his stamp on the program. The school dropped football shortly thereafter.

  51. 51.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    don’t really care what happens in this game but pete carroll is one of the really good guys.

  53. 53.

    Culture of Truth

    @redshirt: I was a child in one place, and emotional about the home team, but then a few decades passed by….

    …but who said I never had a head injury?

  54. 54.

    Suffern ACE

    @redshirt: Marriage might do it. I’d start rooting for the Lions if the right man came along. Never the bears though, because be definition, Mr. Right can’t root for the bears.

  55. 55.

    Svensker

    I’m rooting for them both. Grew up in Seattle, and Pete Carroll and Leon Washington(Jets!) and, well, heck, Russell Wilson!

    But then the Skins have been so pathetic and then Santana Moss (Jets!) and, dang, RGIII.

    Gotta love the heart in both teams.

    Can’t it be like kindergarten where everybody wins?

  57. 57.

    redshirt

    @Culture of Truth: LOL. Go Skins! At least you’re no longer a Cowboys fan.

    I assume the following fan tautology:

    Birth team – you must cheer for them forever
    Adopted team – if you live in another area for a long period of time. But you don’t forsake your birth team.
    Friend Team – got a friend who roots for some other team? You can root for them too, as long as it does not go against your favorite team.
    Team you love to Hate – or the NY Giants, in other words.
    Divisional favorites – teams in other divisions you can like as long as it does not go against your favorite team.

  58. 58.

    Opie_jeanne

    This game is better than we expected. We thought the Redskins would walk all over the Seahawks.

  59. 59.

    PurpleGirl

    As there are a number of regular readers/commenters who watch Downton Abby, can one of the front pagers put up a thread for it tonight. Series 3 starts tonight and PBS also has a show on Highclere Castle, where the show is filmed. TYiA.

  62. 62.

    CaseyL

    Well, I was busy putting together a lasagna for tonight’s memorial dinner party for my friend Dylan, who died last Sunday.

    I had the TV on, but couldn’t hear much from the kitchen. What I did hear didn’t sound good. Finished with the lasagna, sat down just as Wilson took the team down to the Redskin 30, so things are improving.

    Go, ‘Hawks!

  65. 65.

    Napoleon

    @Joel:

    PS, local news here in Clev will be on shortly and my guess is they will lead with that if its the case

  66. 66.

    Raven

    @redshirt:

    Birth team – you must cheer for them forever

    Illini/Bears
    Adopted team – if you live in another area for a long period of time. But you don’t forsake your birth team.

    Dawgs/Falcons

    Friend     Spouse Team – got a friend who roots for some other team? You can root for them too, as long as it does not go against your favorite team.

    Hokies
    Team you love to Hate – or the NY Giants, in other words.

    Michigan, Auburn, Florida

    Divisional favorites – teams in other divisions you can like as long as it does not go against your favorite team.

    NA

  67. 67.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Joel:

    I can’t wait for Chip Kelly to make the Browns at least marginally interesting.

    he made them as interesting as they can be. now he’s going to philly.

  68. 68.

    Suffern ACE

    @Svensker: hmmmm. If the nfl allowed everyone to win in a playoff game, would the Hawks have to play two teams next week? Would the two teams combine, alternate downs, or just double the number of players on the field? A game with two QBs and centers on the field at the same time might be kind of interesting to watch.

  69. 69.

    asiangrrlMN

    HOOK ‘EM, HAWKS! ::waggles horns left over from Vikes game::

    Thus, continuing my longstanding tradition of rooting for the team that inevitably loses.

  74. 74.

    Opie_jeanne

    @redshirt: I moved to Seattle two years ago but the Rams moved away from LA too many years ago, and I hate the Raiders. Just noticed the Seahawks a few weeks ago, mainly because of Wilson.

  75. 75.

    Haydnseek

    @Raven: Well, we always were a basketball/baseball school anyway! (I can rationalize with the best of ’em.) Long Beach area high schools have been a farm system for big-time college programs for a long time, and still are to this day. Hell, Long Beach Poly could probably beat a few teams in some of these “mid-major” conferences.

  76. 76.

    MattR

    @redshirt: The real question is what conditions would it take for you to switch allegiance to your current team’s rival? How would you react if your best friend was drafted by the Giants? Or your son?

  80. 80.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    i’m from alleghany county, virginia and it was a steeler’s bastion when i was a kid. now it’s redskins territory. not sure when that happened, maybe when they connected 81 to dc via i-66. anyway, i can’t support a team for reasons as flimsy as geographical whim. that should just be one factor of many. a real fan will spreadsheet it based on 16 different criteria before making such a life-altering pledge.

  81. 81.

    mainmati

    @JPL: Born and raised in Pittsburgh so am a Steeler fan but now living in the DC area so do follow the ‘Skins so yes, I’m watching with rest of family.

  82. 82.

    MattR

    @redshirt: If my nephew-to-be were to be drafted by the Raiders in 21ish years, you might get me to root for them to win individual games, but only once they are pretty much eliminated from the playoffs or if they are facing a team that Denver needs to lose.

  83. 83.

    Culture of Truth

    At least you’re no longer a Cowboys fan.

    Ack! Never! I’ve always hated them!

  84. 84.

    redshirt

    @MattR: Situational ethics is a wonder! And it’s true too.

    I grew up a Steelers fan, but am Patriots born and bred. I’ll cheer for the Steelers when it means nothing for the Pats, but I defer to the Pats in any conflict, by default.

  90. 90.

    redshirt

    Does anyone know the statistic about the number of players from Samoa who’ve made the NFL as a percentage of their country’s population? It’s quite impressive.

  98. 98.

    Elie

    Go Seahawks!!!!

    (I am ordinarily a Bears fan, but we live in northwestern WA and I am going to pull for my Seahawks)

    The only team I would NEVAH root for are the Stealers. Glad they are home…

  100. 100.

    Svensker

    @Just Some Fuckheadomfg

    Now, why’d you have to post that? I’ve always liked Irish Mike. Some stuff is just TMI — such as details on genital warts and/or political views of Football Guys I Like.

  102. 102.

    Cassidy

    @Ron: You say whine, I say be accurate and honest. Steelers fans are capable of enjoying any ill gotten win, but the loudest whiners if they “feel” cheated.

  103. 103.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Birth team – Browns/Reds/Buckeyes
    Adopted team – Seahawks/A’s(Used to live in the Bay Area)San Jose Sharks
    Friend Team – Washington Huskies
    Team you love to Hate – Steelers/Ravens all NY and LA teams/Michigan
    Divisional favorites- N/A

  104. 104.

    CW in LA

    Bah, this is a good blog, but I guess some things are bigger than politics.

    Fuck the cheating, league-pampered stealers, and fuck John Cole. I’m out.

  105. 105.

    Mike in NC

    Left the party at halftime. Like us, most of the neighbors moved here from the DC area. Not a lot of happy campers with the score nearly tied.

  107. 107.

    JPL

    If the game were to end now, the Falcons would play Seattle. I’d rather see the Redskins come to town but what ever.

  112. 112.

    Vico

    Hawks getting the game in hand now.

    Looks as though Cole may be The Biggest Loser where football is concerned.

  114. 114.

    RinaX

    I hope that knee twist with RGIII looked worse than it actually is.

    I still have to LOL at Cole’s football fortunes today, but hopefully RGIII’s injury isn’t serious.

  118. 118.

    Elie

    @RinaX:

    I hear you completely. It is really at the edge of ok to have had him in there anyway…. despite his desire to play.
    It is very hard to get the knee to perform the same on damaged ligaments — as much psychologically as physically.

    We’ll see. Its terrible to have this issue come up with a rookie superstar quarterback. Russel Wilson will also have to watch out — and he is much smaller…

    Still — its the head thing. Bad problems with the joints is bad — but the head thing is paramount and absolutely devastating.

  119. 119.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @RinaX: If I was Little Danny I would be wondering who are the top college Offensive Linemen? I would hate to see RGIII becomes a one year wonder.

  121. 121.

    trollhattan

    Loving this. Did not expect the comeback after Q1.

    Hope Griffin is okay–he’s an exciting player.

    And the Steelers can suck Cartman’s balls.

  122. 122.

    Poopyman

    Criminally bad QB management by Shanahan. RGIII shouldn’t have been in after halftime. Cousins would have had a better chance if he hadn’t been thrown in such a hole.

  126. 126.

    Elie

    YAY Seahawks! Overcame early difficulty and stayed centered…. Good for them!. Look forward to seeing them in the next round… Young Russel Wilson has the “goods”

    Jay Cutler (Chicago– take a look. Do you have the “leadership” to model either of these teams? Do you even know what that IS?

  127. 127.

    Schlemizel

    Thank Gawd. I work with an inflamed asshole who happens to be a huge fan of the Washington Racially Insensitive Stereotypes. He has been honking about that team for weeks now & we are all terribly tired of it. Unless he whines that they got cheated tomorrow will be blissfully peaceful.

  128. 128.

    Nerull

    @CW in LA: I always wonder about people who are unable to read the 50 other political posts put up today, but expect their lack of intelligence to be missed by anyone else.

  129. 129.

    Poopyman

    @James E. Powell: It was obvious he couldn’t avoid a rush or outrun it for the whole second half. Cousins has played very well when he’s had to come in, so you’d think he Shanahan might want to avoid ending his rookie QB’s career.

  132. 132.

    Fluke bucket

    @Poopyman: Agree completely. But the owner may have been the one making the call to play him. An injured
    knee screws up passing as well as running. Any coach that decided to play him long after it was clear he was not able to perform should be dealt with severely.

  133. 133.

    gene108

    @Zapruder F. Mashtots, D.D.S. (Mumphrey, et al.):

    The only positive thing I have seen about the Corbett suit, is the cesspool of cheating at UNC-CH is at least getting some attention.

    From Corbett’s lawsuit:

    (d) A recent internal investigation at the University of North Carolina revealed massive academic fraud, including unauthorized grade changes by forged signatures, and classes in which no instruction took place; approximately forty percent of the students enrolled in these classes were football and basketball players. In August 2012, one month after sanctioning Penn State, the NCAA took the public position that none of the alleged conduct violated NCAA rules.

    The NCAA, UNC System BoG, UNC-CH BoT and the NC state legislature should be flogged for not doing more to address what is the largest case of academic fraud in the UNC System and probably in modern college athletics.

  137. 137.

    Heliopause

    Also, because I am so sick and tired of the whiny ass Seahawks fans bitching about the Superbowl they lost to the Steelers.

    If you didn’t have a guilty conscience you wouldn’t care.

  138. 138.

    Villago Delenda Est

    My childhood team is the Rams. Because of the cool helmets, let’s be honest.

    However, being a Pacific Northwesterner nearly all my life, I’m a Seahawks fan first and foremost now. Even when they play the Rams, which they do twice a year now thanks to that moronic NFL reorganization a few years back.

    College, of course, it’s the alma mater, despite becoming the Fighting Fashion Nightmares who do runway stuff for Phil Knight.

  139. 139.

    Liquid

    Cole, as a Seattleite that was in Michigan for our Super Bowl (taking the field to Bittersweet Symphony was a bad omen) I will fucking hunt you down. I won’t use a gun…oh no…guns are for pussies.

    I’ll bring a second-place steak knife and footage of that ****sucker *****lisberger placing the football over the line six seconds after he was down.

    In short I hope *****lisberger rapes something you love.

    And there was actually an article in the Times about some mother and her 14-year old son surprised at just how ‘profane’ football fans were. Shocking.

    Cheers!

  142. 142.

    Brendanyc

    If we’re looking for a target fir ‘sports hate’ i don’t hink we could do better than Shanahan. disgraceful.
    if he had not lied about Dr. Andrews’s report on this same knee in the previous game, it might have been possible to think he left RG# in there just out of the excitement of the moment…..or something. But this is obviously a calculated policy choice by him–to throw his team members, is rookie star no less–under the bus.
    i sure hope he hasn’t ended the kid’s career.

  143. 143.

    Brendanyc

    If we’re looking for a target fir ‘sports hate’ i don’t hink we could do better than Shanahan. disgraceful.
    if he had not lied about Dr. Andrews’s report on this same knee in the previous game, it might have been possible to think he left RG# in there just out of the excitement of the moment…..or something. But this is obviously a calculated policy choice by him–to throw his team members, his rookie star no less–under the bus.
    i sure hope he hasn’t ended the kid’s career.

  144. 144.

    burnspbesq

    @gene108:

    Cheating in Chapel Hell is old news. Ask any Duke or NC State fan; bullshit grades for no-show classes have been an open secret for the last decade. The NCAA”/ response will probably be … nada.

  145. 145.

    taylormattd

    OMG, I’m just seeing this.

    Seriously, you are going to be a bitch about the Superbowl you fucking stole from us?

    *slap*

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