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If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

This really is a full service blog.

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

Republicans don’t trust women.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

…and a burning sense of injustice to juice the soul.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

He really is that stupid.

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

“They not like us!” (that’s for sure!)

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  2. 2.

    Redshirt

    Class post man. That had to be tough.

    As a Bruins fan, I’m rather shocked at how quickly this went. I guess its Tuuka.

    Crosby got a stain on his rep in this series.

  5. 5.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    As I mentioned in the earlier thread, defense and a hot goalie wins championships.

  10. 10.

    Linnaeus

    Pittsburgh’s weakness on defense really got exposed this series. Team management thought they could just stack the team with scorers and the Pens would win with offense. Didn’t work out this time.

  15. 15.

    Cacti

    Seeing my team get swept always chaps my ass a lot less than coming up short in a game 7.

    When you lose 4-0, not much to say but that the better team won.

  16. 16.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    Fuck the Bruins. I can’t believe the Pens got swept. Oh, well. Go Blackhawks.

  17. 17.

    Ash Can

    Assuming the Blackhawks can salt the Kings away this weekend, I am very much looking forward to the Hawks beating the living crap out of the Bruins in the finals. Just for Derek Sanderson’s Phil Esposito’s 1970’s old times’ sake.

    @Comrade Mary: Not curling. Broomball! Less skill required, plus higher alcohol content.

  18. 18.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Ash Can: Broomball requires skill, jsut like being a hockey goon requires skill. Just because the skills are not recognized by polite society doesn’t mean they aren’t skills.

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    spacewalrus

    I have a hard time getting too upset about a bunch of bitchy millionaires paid to play a sport. In the grand scheme of things, it means nothing, and that we invest so much in it is a good sign of just how sick our culture is. It’s entertaining, it’s nice to see the home team win, but keep it in perspective. Because those bitchy millionaire athletes really don’t give a fk about the heartbreak ordinary people face everyday.

  23. 23.

    Cacti

    @spacewalrus:

    In the grand scheme of things, it means nothing, and that we invest so much in it is a good sign of just how sick our culture is.

    I see the opposite. Sports are just a proxy for our primate us/them tribal instincts, and a lot less destructive than wars.

  31. 31.

    Suffern ACE

    @Redshirt: Ascetic monks to the left of me, puritanical zealots on my right. Can I enjoy a little of the bread and circuses?

  32. 32.

    Dave

    So, hockey season is over. As frustrating as it is to have watched such a good team end on such a bad note, it’s okay. Now it’s soccer season. Go Riverhounds! P! I! T-T-S! B-U-R! G-H!

  35. 35.

    Linnaeus

    If Chicago puts away LA in the Western finals, I’m definitely cheering for the Bruins.

  37. 37.

    max

    @dedc79: bruins look unbeatable

    *Rask* looks unbeatable. We’ll see if he can keep it up against the Hawks.

    Linnaeus: Pittsburgh’s weakness on defense really got exposed this series. Team management thought they could just stack the team with scorers and the Pens would win with offense. Didn’t work out this time.

    Exactly. That’s what I thought they were doing when they traded for Brendon Morrow and all those other old guys. ‘Man, that never works.’ You can’t get everybody on the same page fast enough to get anywhere, once the playoffs start.

    max
    [‘Someone is going to be picking up a lot of aging veterans cheap here shortly.’]

  39. 39.

    Southern Beale

    That’s a bummer, I was rooting for the Pens.

    Okay kids, I need help. I need a song about traveling that uses a lot of travel idioms which would be appropriate for the classroom. The only songs I can come up with are Route 66, which does have idioms but not necessarily the most current ones, and Sheryl Crowe’s Soak Up The Sun, which isn’t necessarily a travel song but has travel idioms in it.

    Anyone have anything else???

  41. 41.

    Redshirt

    @Spaghetti Lee: Cuz then he’d go full Wingnut, quit sports, and move to some mountainous retreat with lots of guns, waiting for CW2, and the Bruins would lose another all star goalie.

  44. 44.

    John O

    @Southern Beale:

    Runnin’ Down a Dream by Tom Petty?

    Here In My Car, by I forget who…Randy Newman?

    Drive, by the Vulgar Boatmen…

    Not sure exactly what you’re looking for.

    I’m In Love With My Car, Queen; Thunder Road, Springsteen; etc.?

  45. 45.

    Linnaeus

    @max:

    That’s what I thought they were doing when they traded for Brendon Morrow and all those other old guys. ‘Man, that never works.’ You can’t get everybody on the same page fast enough to get anywhere, once the playoffs start.

    Nope, you can’t. And when your blueliners are not quite where they should be for the playoffs, your forwards need to step up and play both ways. Pittsburgh’s top forwards don’t really do that.

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    Spaghetti Lee

    @Southern Beale:

    Red Barchetta by Rush.

    If you’re not limiting yourself to cars, then Land Ho! by the Doors, A Salty Dog by Procol Harum, or Space Truckin’ by Deep Purple (maybe NSFC.)

  56. 56.

    Middle Aged Fogey

    One team played well and deserved to win (that said, if anyone ever merited the Duncan Keith Special, it’s Marchand; he’s Sean Avery without the charm, a position heretofore believed to be permanently vacant). The two other teams on the ice performed very poorly and deserve to sit out the rest of the postseason.

  58. 58.

    Middle Aged Fogey

    One team played well and deserved to win (that said, if anyone ever merited the Duncan Keith Special, it’s Marchand; he’s Sean Avery without the charm, a position heretofore believed to be permanently vacant). The two other teams on the ice performed very poorly and deserve to sit out the rest of the postseason.

  67. 67.

    Southern Beale

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    Not limiting myself to cars by any means. It just has to be about travel and have a lot of recognizable travel-related idioms in it. Like “on the road,” “hit the road,” “backseat driver,” etc.

    Guess those are all cars-related, but you get the drift.

    And it has to be safe for the classroom. Nothing vulgar.

  68. 68.

    Southern Beale

    @p.a.:

    I thought of Running On Empty, that’s on my list. Most of the idioms are plays on the word “running” which would be cool if that was the focus of my lesson but it’s not. But it’s on the list.

  69. 69.

    dance around in your bones

    @Southern Beale: I guess you could try Route 66 by Nat King Cole or Chuck Berry.

    Fast Car by Tracy Chapman,

    Little Red Corvette by Prince.

    Truckin’ by The Grateful Dead.

    Problem is, most car songs aren’t really suitable for kids, being associated with freedom and drugs and breaking the law, breaking the law…..

  73. 73.

    p.a.

    @spacewalrus: In hockey markets, the media who have to deal with athletes almost always consider hockey players the most decent of the lot. Baseball players on the whole the worst.

  76. 76.

    burnspbesq

    Cardiac job by the USA in Kingston, but they got the three points.

    When we left the restaurant, Panama was 15 minutes away from grabbing a huge point from Mexico. Gotta check and see whether they finished the job.

  79. 79.

    p.a.

    @Southern Beale: Springsteen has lots of car songs. Dave Edmunds does a killer version of IIRC a Graham Parker song, ‘Crawl in’ from the Wreckage’- if you are talking driver’s ed/safety. ;-/

  81. 81.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @Southern Beale:

    How about Life is a Highway by Tom Cochrane and/or Rascal Flatts? Pretty lightweight pop music (not to say it isn’t any good.)

    Edit: Maybe too lightweight upon closer inspection. Not many metaphors/idioms other than the title.

  85. 85.

    Southern Beale

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    I looked up Life Is A Highway, no idioms other than the title, and that’s not really an idiom. I’m teaching my students phrases they’re likely to hear when talking with people about vacations, like, “the hotels were all booked up but we had a friend who could put us up for the night.”

    There are lots of idioms in songs but not always the ones I want for my lesson. Think Route 66 might do it though.

  86. 86.

    eemom

    Does this mean we are finished with infinity “Go Pens” threads for a while? Justaskinzall.

  90. 90.

    A Ghost To Most

    Tear-Stained Eye by Son Volt has lots of idioms (don’t know if this is what you are looking for):

    Walking down Main Street getting to know the concrete
    Looking for a purpose from a neon sign
    I would meet you anywhere, western sun meets the air
    We’ll hit the road, never looking behind

    Can you deny, there’s nothing greater
    Nothing more than the traveling hands of time?
    Sainte Genevieve can hold back the water
    But saints don’t bother with a tear stained eye

    Seeing traces of the scars that came before
    Hitting the pavement still asking for more
    When the hours don’t move along, worn out wood and familiar songs
    To hear your voice is not enough, it’s more than a shame

    Can you deny, there’s nothing greater
    Nothing more than the traveling hands of time?
    Sainte Genevieve can hold back the water
    But saints don’t bother with a tear stained eye

    Like the man said, rode hard and put away wet
    Throw away the bad news, and put it to rest
    If learning is living, and the truth is a state of mind
    You’ll find it’s better at the end of the line

    Can you deny, there’s nothing greater
    Nothing more than the traveling hands of time?
    Sainte Genevieve can hold back the water
    But saints don’t bother with a tear stained eye

    Sainte Genevieve can hold back the water
    But saints don’t bother with a tear stained eye

  95. 95.

    Joel (Macho Man Randy Savage)

    As a once-Bruins fan who was pretty much driven away from the sport during the Jeremy Jacobs years, I can just say that I hope the Bruins win the Cup without Tim Thomas, because fuck that guy.

  100. 100.

    Thymezone

    So, this game, hockey, that you people talk about … it’s played with a broom? I thought that was curling.

  102. 102.

    Arclite

    Well, at least you know it wasn’t fixed. Otherwise they would have stretched it to seven just for the money.

  104. 104.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    I was fed up with hockey for the year after the Sharks were bounced by the Kings. At least they’re about to be thrown out by the Blackhawks, who I don’t particularly care about one way or the other.

  105. 105.

    Amir Khalid

    I’m very very late and this thread is as dead as a parrot. But it has just occurred to me that the broom is a SIGN! That John Cole is about to take up following pro Quidditch!

  106. 106.

    Viperbuck

    You had to know that no possible good could come from a Brooke County resident rooting against “The Bruins”!!

  107. 107.

    klondike

    @Redshirt: We sent Thomas to Long Island. Message delivered. If you can’t say something smart, don’t say anything. Or we ship you to Long Island.

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