Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

I really should read my own blog.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

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The very oblique angle of this camera feed from Fox, not to mention the fact that the lights are so bright it seems like everyone is glowing, is making this game hard to watch.

Wait- can you be very oblique, or is it a binary construct like unique or being pregnant, in which you either is or isn’t?

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  2. 2.

    MikeJ

    Technically oblique shouldn’t have a very, but people who give a shit about stuff that that are annoying and should be ignored.

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    Schlemizel

    Its more than lighting and camera angle that makes that game hard to watch B-{D

    I assume Tim Tebow has 12 disciples & one is an FB friend who is already suggesting Denver’s loss what the result of trading the sainted one away.

  8. 8.

    Raven

    They have these adjustments on the television where you can modify the brightness, contrast and stuff like that.

  10. 10.

    David Koch

    I blame obama for the bad broadcast. Clearly he could enforce good camera angles via the FCC.

  11. 11.

    BerkeleyMom

    My 18 year old son is at the game–his first ever pro football game. And he’s having a blast. Go Niners.

  14. 14.

    Len

    Gotta cheer for San Francisco in this one. No way I can cheer for a team that comes from the state that elected Scott Walker.

    BTW, I cheered for Baltimore earlier. Seems to have worked.

  15. 15.

    Kathy

    Since there will never be a Super Bowl with the Lions, this Michiganer kindof hopes for a Harbaugh/Harbaugh Ann Arbor Pioneer Super Bowl.

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    Schlemizel

    @Raven:

    I have one on my TV for brightness – I have tried turning it all the way up & the stuff on the TV does not get any brighter. Usually I feel brighter after I have turned it off B-{D

  23. 23.

    The Dangerman

    @Hill Dweller:

    There has been a lot of bad special teams play today.

    Topped easily by the biggest brain fart by a safety that I’ve ever seen; truly unbelievable. Baltimore covered the spread already or Vegas woulda gone nuts (well, nuttier).

  26. 26.

    Jewish Steel

    it seems like everyone is glowing, is making this game hard to watch

    You gotta time those drugs, Cole. Thought you were a Deadhead?

  32. 32.

    Gravenstone

    There’s a nice Butkus moment, hold the ball carrier up so some defensive prick can light him up.

  33. 33.

    Kathy

    Most awesome tweet ever from pourmecoffee:

    God has forsaken the mountain people for betraying his Tebow!

  34. 34.

    Schlemizel

    I have only been watching between periods of the Gopher/Seawolves game – either team playing defense here?

  36. 36.

    PsiFighter37

    This SF defense has not been stingy at all in a while. They were one of the best units; now they get torched like a second-rate unit.

  38. 38.

    Suffern ACE

    I am wearing a cheese hat for the first time. They must make them out of insulating foam. My head is really warm. I don’t think that’s from the beer.

  42. 42.

    Schlemizel

    @Raven:
    good one!
    Plenty of walruses out there on the field, did Paul die & which one is the eggman? Coo – cooka – choo

  46. 46.

    Suffern ACE

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m drinking new glarus beer as well. Seriously, if I can find these things 600 miles away, I think you can solve that problem by, say, leaving your apartment…

  48. 48.

    mclaren

    Oblique seems a continuous quality, not a binary state, so I’d say there are degrees of obliqueness, just as there are degrees of opaqueness.

    Unless I’m mistaken, the term “oblique” originally comes from geometry, where an oblique angle refers to any angle which is not normal to the perpendicular. That covers a wide latitude.

    BTW, if you’re specifically talking about camera angles, the proper term is “Dutch angle.” That’s also vague enough that it has degrees: see the wikipedia article on Dutch angle in cinematography, which defines a Dutch angle as

    The Dutch angle, also known as canted angle, oblique angle or German angle, is a type of camera shot where the camera is tilted off to one side so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame.

    “Tilted off to the side” admits of enough vagueness that an oblique camera angle can indeed be very oblique. Or, conversely, not very oblique.

  49. 49.

    Schlemizel

    @Suffern ACE:

    Well, over heated brain pans could explain an awful lot about the folks from Wisconsin – a state that actually BRAGS its the birthplace of the Republican Party!

  56. 56.

    Suffern ACE

    @BGinCHI: well, you ask your mom for it for christmas, and she goes to the piggly wiggly, and then you drive to pick it up from your sister in Columbus so you’re ready for the playoffs. It helps to have my mom.

  57. 57.

    BGinCHI

    @efgoldman: I don’t get the hate on the Oxford comma. It’s perfectly sensible and useful. It is also incredibly polite and well-dressed.

  58. 58.

    Schlemizel

    @BGinCHI:

    The Dutch angle is to get you high on pot and feed you really good cheese & chocolate.

    The German angle is to claim the Sudetenland sign a deal to neutralize Russia.

    The Dutch angle is much more preferable

  60. 60.

    BGinCHI

    @Suffern ACE: Not being able to get NG outside WI is a serious issue for us in the Chicago area. We cycle up there quite a bit (cyclocross nationals are there this weekend), which allows us to stock up.

    Otherwise we’d probably invade and annex everything up to Dane County.

  61. 61.

    Nerull

    When flushing a QB from the pocket, you should probably have someone in place to tackle him. Just a thought.

  66. 66.

    Hill Dweller

    GB can’t get any pressure on Kapernick with their front four. That doesn’t bode well for them.

  71. 71.

    Gex

    So the GF’s port infection was the bad news for the day. The positive angle is that the Vancomycin went down again and that’s her best shot to fight that. Just thankful to get to night time. Nights always seem to be the easiest part of the day.

    Our checklist for tomorrow is to have a better day than today.

    Nurses and nurse’s assistants are angels. Simply wonderful people. We have had a handful of them stay past their shift to make sure the GF gets the attention they want her to have. This one said she won’t leave until GF gets her third dose of Vanco today or she won’t be able to sleep tonight.

    God love ’em.

  74. 74.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @Gravenstone: And our new Die Hard movie, like every one made any more, is in two colors: Orange and Cyan. Watch the trailers for awhile.

    OK, sometimes it’s orange and blue.

  76. 76.

    Yutsano

    OT: Jeebus on a unicycle this crying wolf shit about SS is gonna get cut by Obama and ZOMG CAT FOOD COMMISSION!! is getting really old. I just got an e-mail that says he’s gonna do it for sure this time! We mean it!

  82. 82.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @BGinCHI:

    Bring a cow bell.

    Oddly, I don’t just have one lying about the place. You would think that years of skiing in Austria would have caused me to get one, but no.

  83. 83.

    BGinCHI

    @efgoldman: Your rant on the Oxford comma seemed to cover over some deeper anger issues.

    It was meant to be funny but as with so many things I do it just didn’t work.

  90. 90.

    Schlemizel

    @Gex:

    Thinking good thoughts for you guys. Hope things turn around and she is doing better very soon

    Having had more than my fair share of contact with nurses I concur. They are much more important to regular care that the doctors but they get way less respect than they deserve. Worse is that over the last 25-30 years they have been reduced in numbers so that they have much larger work loads while having their pay and benefits cut. This causes poorer care and must be very stressful for the nurses.

  97. 97.

    Bobby Thomson

    @efgoldman:

    My HS AP writing teacher, back in the dark ages of fountain pens and poodle skirts, taught us not to use it. I write business letters for a living, and the troll who does QC insists on it. I taught the whole correspondence group not to use it, then about two years in this clown comes along and says “oh yes, you will.” Pah.

    It’s not the QC guy’s fault your high school teacher was incompetent.

  98. 98.

    Gex

    @Schlemizel: I think we wouldn’t be having this port problem if doctors had any idea what it is like to give care at the nursing level.

    When the cancer stuff started up, the doctor mentioned ports, but really didn’t go into any depth. But why should he? It is no inconvenience to him if it takes up to a dozen pokes to get an IV in or get a blood draw.

    By the time we had a lull in treatments and we did get the port in, it really had no time to heal up before all this hit. The person who talked us into the port was a nurse. It should have been a no-brainer for the GF who has always had trouble getting IVs.

  99. 99.

    Gex

    @Svensker: Hard to sum up briefly, but I’ll try.

    At the end of December she received her first dose of chemo for her second course of chemo treatments. Dosing chemo is tricky, the upshot of which is she was given way too much. The damage to the immune system allowed some nasty infections to set in and landed us in the hospital. It’s been a real nightmare of trying to get the immune system back online, fight the infections with antibacterials/antivirals/antifungals. We had just had a few days where the blood work looked good and some symptoms were abating when we had a slide today from her port getting infected.

    The poor kid is going through hell. Makes the normal level of chemo side effects look like a walk in the park.

  101. 101.

    Schlemizel

    @Gex:

    Oh god, thats awful. THe problems that landed me in ER on xmas day were caused by a doctor who didn’t do his job.

    Worse, I decided to go to a different doctor so I had to get my records – I found several significant inaccuracies in them including that I refused treatment when the treatment was something the doctor said I shouldn’t do and he didn’t provide alternatives.

    Hopefully this will be her low point & things will get better from here. I hit bottom a couple of times, once when I thought it couldn’t get any worse & then it did. Hopefully you and some of those nurses can get her through.

  112. 112.

    Svensker

    @Suffern ACE: :

    and now we’re putting it back in the fridge. It is probably Viking food anyway.

    No. Lefse and lutefisk are why the Vikings left, looking for edible food. (What was lefse made out of before they discovered potatoes?)

  116. 116.

    Schlemizel

    BTW Gopher mens game ended with a 7-1 win
    Watched the women sweep ND with a 6-3 win, only the second time in 30 some games they have given up 3 goals! They are now 22-0 this season

    Turned it over to the foosball game, looks like the punters are getting a lot of pine time

  122. 122.

    PsiFighter37

    49er offense is just punishing the Packer defense now. Think the Packers have to score next possession or we can call it a game.

  123. 123.

    Svensker

    @Raven:

    Ever had Kumla?

    Nope. Had to google it. Doesn’t sound too bad. My knowledge of Swedish food is mostly based on recipes that came over in the 1890s (and since, from Ikea). Growing up in Seattle I had Norwegian friends and they had lefse but never saw kumla.

    It’s funny, one of the favorite old Swedish dishes we had in Seattle was potato sausage (potatoes, meat and spices ground and stuffed into guts, then boiled). I went to a Swedish festival here in Toronto — with real, modern Swedes — and none of them had ever heard of potato sausage. An old fashioned thing, I guess. One of the few Swedish foods, outside the baked stuff, that I really love. May have to buy a meat grinder so I can make my own.

  125. 125.

    Schlemizel

    @Svensker:

    Mostly graham or whole wheat flours, the potato probably made the texture more pleasant as well as changing the flavor.

    @Raven:
    Like so many of the potato or flour fillers poor people eat they are proof that butter and sour cream make everything tasty!

    Still its one of the oddities that so many places have their flat breads Lefse, tortilla, Chapati (in India), Pita and a bunch more

  126. 126.

    Schlemizel

    @Svensker:

    Had a Norwegian co-worker who vacationed there one year & visited relatives. He asked them about lutefisk and was told “Hell, we haven’t eaten that crap since we got refrigeration!”

    I think a lot of the foods we think of as ‘from the old country’ really were made not because people enjoyed them but because it was what was required to survive. And folks in the old country don’t miss them at all!

  127. 127.

    Svensker

    Looks like the Harbough bros are a winning combo. I’m bailing. Best to all. Save some sour cream and butter for me for the morning, with good coffee!

  128. 128.

    Jewish Steel

    ‘Sa tall dude.

    Can I also note that it just occurred to me that Joe Buck is about my age and that means I might have to listen to that sanctimonious fuck for the rest of my days.

  138. 138.

    Suffern ACE

    Well we just needed someone to run the ball, someone to passblock, and someone to stop the run and kicker and we coulda been a contender.

  139. 139.

    PsiFighter37

    There’s the game.

    As someone who doesn’t have a horse in the playoffs, who do the Niners want next week? The Falcons away, or the Seahawks at home? I don’t think you ever hear people say a team would rather face the top seed on the road, but the Hawks absolutely creamed the Niners last time they played. That said, I know that Seattle’s homefield is absolutely deafening and about as intimidating a place to play. Maybe it would be better in Candlestick?

  140. 140.

    Nerull

    @Batocchio: An offensive line that can stop pass rushes would be nice too, so we can stop letting the other team beat the shit out of Rodgers every single game.

  144. 144.

    Schlemizel

    Ran into Bill Clinton the other day

    I asked him how Hillary’s head was

    He said, “not bad, better than Monica’s actually”

  149. 149.

    Schlemizel

    @efgoldman:

    I really don’t care about the NFL any more, I did at one time.

    I have a cousin who actually played for the Packers. He quit though when they hired some guy named Lombardi. In the cousins own words “He expected us to show up sober for the games!”

  151. 151.

    Suffern ACE

    Oh shut up with the “the fact that they got this far is impressive” crap. These aren’t the jaguars…

  152. 152.

    Schlemizel

    @Schlemizel:

    But of course at the time they played 8 games a season. He considered himself a truck driver since thats what he did most of the year & how he made most of his money

  155. 155.

    Donut

    Enjoy that, Bears fans, just don’t forget, your shitty team still sucks (more).

    And: Jay Cutler.

    Off to polish off the last of the booze now.

  156. 156.

    Donut

    @Ron:

    The Pack obviously could have played better all around, but come on, give the young man his due. Guy played an excellent game. Got to hand it to him.

  160. 160.

    patrick II

    @Donut:

    and Jay Cutler

    What really hurts about the “Jay Culter” jibe is that I have been thrilled to have him. He is the best quarterback the Bears have had (with the exception of about two McMahon years) since the 1950’s. The Bear passing records he is surpassing are sixty years old.

  161. 161.

    Schlemizel

    @efgoldman:

    Yeah, I remember the first Stuper Bowl but no NFL championship game before that. I don’t think many people paid a lot of attention around me about the NFL then. I can remember the Rose Bowl always being a big deal. Family always came over on NY day & watched several bowl games but the only one that really mattered was the Rose. Probably because we were in a Big 10 city.

    Even after the Vikings arrived I still don’t think they were as big a deal as college ball until they won the NFL championship game in 69. That and the total irrelevancy of the Gopher football program caused a shift in interest

  164. 164.

    kindness

    Now that game was fun. The morning was too. Tomorrow I’m more interested in the New England game. I don’t think I’d like to see a Harbawl superbowl.

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