Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

T R E 4 5 O N

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

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Everybody saw this coming.

The words do not have to be perfect.

This really is a full service blog.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Republicans in disarray!

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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  2. 2.

    lamh36

    Welp, I’m off to bed. Night BJ. I know I’ve been harping on the Idris Elba show Luther, but it really is that good. Case in point, tonight’s episode was soo good and so full of suspense. It has been a long time since I yelled at a tv screen or that the ending of an episode mad me damn near cry. Tonight’s episode did that. Damn. I’m telling ya’ll if ya got Netflix, you need to watch Luther season 1 and 2 and then wait for season 3. It is worth it. Tomorrow night’s episode is the last one for at least awhile unless/until they make the Idris movie sometime next year (the writer says he already has the script written, but Idris Elba is kinda busy and if the Nelson Mandela biopic is any good, he’s gonna be even busier!) and then that’s it. Damn you Luther writers.

    Alright, found this gif for the ladies and all @idriselba and #Luther lovers! Enjoy and good night!
    http://t.co/xLPMM5lNcI

  3. 3.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    the Ravens shitting the bed

    That’ll teach ya not to have ravens in the bed. Shouldn’t birds be in a nest?

  6. 6.

    TheMightyTrowel

    Had one of those great cultural differences moments today. Mr. Trowel has a bunch of grey coming in on his beard/sideburns and I was trying to be cute and sexy so I told him it gave me ‘hot for teacher’ tingles. Then I had to explain ‘hot for teacher’, Van Halen and American 80s hair rock/metal. Mr. Trowel was in his teens in the 80s, but damn if he seems to have existed entirely in a cocoon of pot smoke, nail polish and goth bands.

    ETA: losing my mind and substituting phrases I hear on the radio for words I meant to type. Jesus.

  7. 7.

    Joseph Nobles

    And that Ravens-Broncos game is majorly rain delayed. If the Ravens were going to shit the bed, they could have just let everyone know and get the locals to their newscasts in a timely fashion.

  10. 10.

    taylormattd

    And omg, Cole, where are you at in Breaking Bad? What season? I only started it this summer, and just got caught up this week. Holy fuck, you have *no* idea.

  12. 12.

    Bruce S

    Folks need to check out Lawrence O’Donnell’s rewrite this evening on Ronald Reagan and chemical weapons and Saddam Hussein.

    St. Reagan was Saddam’s supplier! And Twice Alleged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sealed the deal.

    The collection of garbage known as “The Republican Party” needs it’s face rubbed in this shit.

  14. 14.

    eemom

    I wish you would stop using shitting the bed as your go-to metaphor. It’s disgusting.

    /longer than 5 seconds

  15. 15.

    The Dangerman

    Leon Lett is smiling tonight as he’s no longer the person that fucked up the worst in a game; give up 7, hurt one of your own players, keeps Manning in the game (where he can get hurt). He best hope he’s not on the cut line or he’s unemployed tomorrow.

  17. 17.

    Punchy

    In his defense, Raven is pretty old. Perhaps shitting beds is a sign of advanced age, or ‘Nam-induced PTSD.

  19. 19.

    The Dangerman

    @Face:

    Did he showboat into the endzone and get caught from behind?

    No, he had the Pick 6 and dropped the ball a yard or two early in his premature celebration; watching it live, I thought, damn that was close to a fumble, but watching replay, it was clear. Ball went through the end zone for touchback.

  21. 21.

    ? Martin

    @mdblanche: Huh. Something’s going on out there.

    I haven’t seen many people writing about the potential influence of Obamacare on the labor market. Job lock is a pretty big phenomena, especially for lower-middle class workers, and more of them should start feeling empowered to leaved jobs. And it seems to be telling even lower-wage workers that (employer mandate) they deserve better treatment and compensation than they’ve been receiving.

    I wonder how much of the GOP opposition to Obamacare is simply the recognition that it empowers workers over employers.

  22. 22.

    Face

    By my rough calc, that last TD pass by Manning just gave him the All-Time Highest Fantasy Points Award. Depending on scoring, he’s got at least 60pts

  24. 24.

    Suzanne

    I have been,having The Talk with my nine-year-old for the last few months. Tonight, I touched on STIs and condoms.

    Me: “Do you know what a condom is?”
    Her: “Yeah. Didn’t we find one on the sidewalk that one time?”

    Awkward. Hilarious.

  25. 25.

    mdblanche

    @? Martin: I’d say it’s also a sign of improvement in the labor market even if the quality of jobs is still a serious problem. Nobody feels empowered to leave their job if they doubt they can get a new one.

  27. 27.

    Felonius Monk

    @Suzanne:

    Me: “Do you know what a condom is?”

    Just be thankful her response wasn’t: “Yeah, Mom. Do you want me to loan you one?”

    ETA: Really awkward — probably not too hilarious.

  28. 28.

    Suffern ACE

    Ok. I’m now thinking that if the election were held tomorrow, Putin might beat Obama. He’d probably carry 40 states.

  29. 29.

    magurakurin

    @eemom: I don’t recommend your watching the film “Trainspotting.” Seriously, don’t do it if that image bothers you….

  31. 31.

    Groucho48

    In one of my FF leagues one team has both Peyton and Julius Thomas. They had a total of 88 fantasy points between them and they were both on the bench. The owner won’t live that down for a while. (He drafted both Manning and Drew Brees, which means this kind of thing will be happening to him all season.)

  33. 33.

    max

    @TheMightyTrowel:Then I had to explain ‘hot for teacher’, Van Halen and American 80s hair rock/metal. Mr. Trowel was in his teens in the 80s, but damn if he seems to have existed entirely in a cocoon of pot smoke, nail polish and goth bands.

    OK, I was a teen in the 80’s and I existed in a haze of cigarette smoke, beer and industrial/goth/alterna/whatthefuckever and I knew what the fuck ‘Hot for Teacher’ was, so I say…’Husband in a Coma’.

    I love his solo efforts, and always did love Wall of Voodoo, so this is a nice earworm to have.

    Stan Ridgway – Talkin’ Wall of Voodoo Blues Part 1 (5:55)

    “Yeah, we played a show for 40 grand / and the manager took … every… cent”

    Which makes me feel kind of bad about linking Wall of Voodoo — Call of the West (1982) — Call of the West (6:00)

    This might be better: Stan Ridgway – Mosquitos (1989) – Newspapers (2:42)

    But honestly, Stone Temple Pilots – Purple (1994) – Vasoline (2:57) fits my mood better.

    max
    [‘Flies in the vasoline we are / sometimes it blows my mind’]

  34. 34.

    MC Simon Milligan

    Wall of Voodoo. Best thing they ever did was the “Ring of Fire” cover in Francis Della’s art-porn masterpiece “Nightdreams”. Colloquially known as “The Burning Wall of Cowgirl Cunnilingus” scene. Now THAT was a music video.

  35. 35.

    SmallAxe

    @Face: 49 pts in my league for Manning. Loving my opening night action last minute change to Denver woo hoo, good to get a great start.

  40. 40.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @max: But did you grow up in a small semi-industrial beach resort town in England, because that’s where Mr. Trowel grew up and apparently they didn’t get Van Halen there. So he claims.

  42. 42.

    Steeplejack

    @lamh36:

    (Note: no spoilers included.)

    I (mini-)binge-watched the first two episodes of the new Luther early this evening. Very good. My only minor complaint was in the second episode, where two women had an attack of horror movie “What’s that noise? I’ll go look!” syndrome. Does no one ever think to get out of the house, go to the neighbors’ and, oh, yeah, call the cops on your cell phone while you’re doing that? Jeez.

    But, like I said, minor complaint. The visuals are good, the acting is good, the story is good (so far). And Idris Elba does have, uh, charisma. Looking forward to the next two episodes.

    And the first two seasons are very good, for people who haven’t seen those.

  43. 43.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    Leave one job site for the next and the Ravens are up 14-0. 1 1/2 hours later, they’re getting absolutely crushed. Did the lights go out again, or what?

    I got yer earworm here. Hate on, beeyotches.

  44. 44.

    handy

    Great song John! I always thought Ridgway a great crafter of lyric. “Drive, She Said” is another favorite from his solo work.

  45. 45.

    handy

    Love Payton, can’t stand his brother. Also that jailtime-skirter Ray Lewis. Hated it when my Niners lost to the Carpetbaggers last year. Without him though, the feeling just isn’t the same. No hate, no schadenfreude tonight. Especially since I kind of like Joe Flacco.

  46. 46.

    burnspbesq

    Oh, yay. Another topical storm headed up the west coast of Mexico, heading straight for Cabo San Lucas, landfall expected Saturday. Another week of insane humidity for SoCal and Zona.

  51. 51.

    burnspbesq

    Somewhere in San Jose, Costa Rica tonight there is a guy trying to figure out how to make snowballs and keep them usable until 9:00 local tomorrow night.

  54. 54.

    Freemark

    I haven’t looked yet but I’m thinking having the Raven’s defense as your fantasy play probably really sucked.

  57. 57.

    Cacti

    @Redshirt:

    Putin would get 44-48% of the US vote if he ran as a Republican. Free Republic has gone Full Putin, for reference.

    DU(mb) has some serious Putin love going on these days too. Obama and Kerry have betrayed us. Trust Vlad.

  59. 59.

    Debbie(aussie)

    Would just like to thank John and many BJ commenters for their recommendation of the ”furminator’. Wow! Mine arrived yesterday( purchased through RSPCA, so good works from profit) and both my kitteh and puppy love it. Even tho I had seen the pics still could not believe the amount of fur it removed. Thanks all.

  60. 60.

    OGLiberal

    One player keeper league and I kept Peyton. So disappointed. Much more disappointed that I passed up Demarius Thomas for somebody else (can’t recall but not a slacker so not that disappointed) because I was concerned about losing two key guys on a bye week. I could have won the week outright tonight had I had D. Thomas as well. Will win anyway…have 67 points already and Peyton only guy who played so far.

    Julius Thomas went undrafted in my league. Guess who’ll be the top waivers pick (not mine) this week?

  61. 61.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Debbie(aussie): How are you holding up with all the election horriblity? The electioneering is actually not too bad (ironically) in the capital, but it seems like Brisbane is constantly on my news….

  63. 63.

    Alison

    @Debbie(aussie): I just got one too and I agree – it’s pretty amazing. I could probably sit there brushing her for an hour and still have more fur coming off. And she seems to love it, which helps, because she’s usually pretty…averse, shall we say, to any sort of grooming :)

  64. 64.

    Amir Khalid

    News from the Golden Chersonese: The Malaysian government has denied US metal band Lamb of God a permit to play a gig here on September 28 — on the grounds that the band has been known to quote the Quran in its song lyrics. Not being a LoG fan, I have no idea if the quotations are out of context or otherwise offensive in themselves, although I do know that the Malaysians who support this kind of ban have no great love for metalheads.

  67. 67.

    Suffern ACE

    @Amir Khalid: it’s not just the smell. It’s that they look suspiciously like armored Tribbles. Durians aren’t trustworthy and are plotting something. If not, why the spikes?

  68. 68.

    Debbie(aussie)

    @TheMightyTrowel: hubby and I voted Tuesday, we fly to Townsville to visit our daughter(so excited) tomorrow.
    I am not impressed. I despise Tony Abbott and am very disapointed with the ALP all around, voted Greens 1, AlP2nd. The senate was a bitch. Wanted my preferences to count so had to vote 1-82. Very scared about federal level austerity. We have already experienced it here in Quinceland. Absolute fools if they vote as the polls suggest.

  72. 72.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Debbie(aussie): Ugh. it’s a shit show all round – i have my fingers crossed that the polls here are as bad as the UK polls that predicted a blowout for Cameron in 2010. Not hopeful though. I’m constantly astounded by the level of pettiness mixed with amateurishness in Australian politics. It’s like watching middle schoolers fight for a student council seat so they can be the one to plan the next dance. No long term thinking, no policy, no respect (even if only for themselves). It’s been ugly and depressing to watch, but as a non citizen, thanks for voting Green. I’m thinking green thoughts for the ACT senate seat.

  74. 74.

    NotMax

    @Amir Khalid

    Love ’em, even if it is against the law to carry them on certain public mass transit services.

    One (and only one) store here sells wafer cookies with a durian filling.

    They come in a metal box which has a plastic liner, packed into a double plastic bag inside.

  76. 76.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    Strange. Stan Ridgway’s Don’t Box Me In was my earworm earlier this week, and I haven’t heard that track in years.

  78. 78.

    Steeplejack

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    I want to say yes, since most of the time I obsessively check back on threads until I’m pretty sure they’re dead—i.e., no comments in quite a while or last comment by mclaren—but to be honest I don’t remember which conversation you’re talking about.

    ETA: I have to go out for a while, so it may be a while before I get back to this thread. Assuming you have bothered to check back. (And so goes the recursive wheel of life.)

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