Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

This fight is for everything.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Come on, man.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

After roe, women are no longer free.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Consistently wrong since 2002

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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  2. 2.

    MikeJ

    @Elizabelle: Calling an audible.

    ETA: When the Denver QB wants to change the play after everybody has lined up, he yells “Omaha!” to let the team know to pay attention for a coded message detailing the new play.

  4. 4.

    Comrade Jake

    @MikeJ: I thought it was actually a shorthand for hiking the ball “on one”. If you look at the game footage, that’s how it’s normally used. Manning says “Omaha – hut!” and the ball is hiked.

  5. 5.

    BruceFromOhio

    Manning on the line, calling the snap count to the offense.

    ETA: Ah, I should refresh and read first. I’ve also heard that some of the shouty things are just bullshit to confuse the defense.

  13. 13.

    burnspbesq

    Here we go again. Treasury has formally notified Congress that the debt ceiling is likely to be reached in late February.

    Let the lunacy begin.

  15. 15.

    Joey Maloney

    Omaha
    Somewhere in middle America
    Get right to the heart of matters
    It’s the heart that matters more
    I think you better turn your ticket in
    Get your money back at the door

  16. 16.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @burnspbesq: Burns, serious question. Are you embarrassed about all the years you supported the Republican party? Of your views now, what has changed since then?

  18. 18.

    raven

    @Bob In Portland: I was in the Army at Ft Lewis and went to “The Ave” in Seattle. We dropped some double domes and were just hanging around Hippie Hill. We went into an ice cream shop and the really loud juke played the song. The start spooked me and my cone went straight up and stuck to the ceiling. . . for a second. Or was it an hour?

  19. 19.

    IowaOldLady

    @JoyceH: The first rule about that ad is don’t talk about that ad!

    The more you talk about it, the more likely it is to appear, and then we will have to hurt you because it is seriously freaky.

  23. 23.

    Elizabelle

    @gogol’s wife:

    Did you see Nebraska yet? Believe you claim living in a one-horse town and the show done passed through?

    If not, see it!

    Glad to see all the Bruce Dern love while he is around to see it. And he’s (reportedly) up for a part in a new Quentin Tarantino movie that may or may not have been scuttled. Glad to see the man working.

  24. 24.

    Elizabelle

    @IowaOldLady:

    Ad blocker is your friend. Schrodinger’s cat suggested it.

    Blissfully not seeing Newsmax headlines, toe fungus, or buxom women conservatives don’t want me to see.

    Still get the artwork of Tunch and Feed. That’s all that’s needed.

  25. 25.

    Bob In Portland

    Snowden:

    save money? cut this social security bullshit

    hahahayes

    Yeah! Fuck old people!

    social security is bullshit

    let’s just toss old people out in the street

    Old people could move in with [User11].

    NOOO

    they smell funny

    Somehow, our society managed to make it hundreds of years without social security just fine

    you fucking retards

    Magically the world changed after the new deal, and old people became made of glass.

    Later in the same session, Snowden wrote that the elderly “wouldn’t be fucking helpless if you weren’t sending them fucking checks to sit on their ass and lay in hospitals all day.”

  27. 27.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    As I was going to note (and, obviously, still will)

    Somewhere in middle America.

    I’m still annoyed by having a birthday lunch with the Director of the Ohio DRC. Granted, it was part of a advocacy coalition day where the steering committee had a working lunch with him, but still.

  29. 29.

    SFAW

    Not that I have any great love for Seattle (or Brady/Pats/Belichick, for that matter), but I would love to see Peyton lose the Super Bowl (or “Teh Big Game” as some insist on calling it). His persistent step-to-the-line-step-back-yell-an-audible-to-the-tight-end-yell-another-audible-to-the-slot-receiver-step-up-step-back-yell-and-shake-fist-at-sky-step-up-step-back-yell-“Eli gots two rings and I only gots one”-step-up-yell-“Omaha”-or-not-move-to-shotgun-position-step-up-make-the-Sign-of-The-Cross-step-back-WILLYOUCOMEONEALREADY!-step-up-take-the-snap is getting more than a little tiresome. It’s about 38 times worse than Nomar’s 30-second-adjust-his-batting-gloves OCD manifestation.

    On the other hand, if the J-E-T-S had him, I might feel differently.

  31. 31.

    Jim Foolish Literalist

    I don’t want to make more of this than it is, I am neither betrayed nor thrown under the bus with a shit sandwich but… Why, Barack? Why?

    President Obama will sit down with Fox News bloviator Bill O’Reilly in an interview that will serve as the undercard for this year’s Super Bowl.

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JoyceH:

    I’m not particularly a Regency fan, but I am a Joyce Harmon fan (really enjoyed the two Passatonnack books) so I’ll gladly give you an opportunity to change my mind. Either way, congratulations!

  34. 34.

    Origuy

    The Reduced Shakespeare Company has been doing three-man comedy shows for more than 25 years. Their show about the Bible was scheduled to open in Newtownabbey outside of Belfast but Ian Paisley’s Democratic Union Party pressured the town council to cancel it. The RSC has been doing the show almost 20 years, but this is the first time than any of their shows have been shut down for its content.

  35. 35.

    daverave

    @Elizabelle:

    This is the only site on which I do not use AdBlocker so that our blog host can participate in some of that advertising cash flow, even if it is generated by toenail fungus and Newsmax. Someone please correct me if I am wrong and that the money flows with or without AdBlocker.

  37. 37.

    Trollhattan

    @Jim Foolish Literalist:

    Uhhhh. Yeah, good question, why indeed?

    Hopefully president blah man, when asked a question constructed around a lie, will parse and dissect the lie rather than answer the question. Is that too much to ask for?

  39. 39.

    Jim Foolish Literalist

    @SFAW: On the other hand, if the J-E-T-S had him, I might feel differently.

    Heh. Sports fannism in a nutshell, ain’t it? I’ve come to like Peyton, even though as I think Letterman, a balls-out self-proclaimed Peyton fan boy, observed the other night, He won’t be playing in the Superbowl as he had already scheduled a commercial shoot. (with the right wing Papa John’s douchebag).

  41. 41.

    PaulW

    I still think it’s a shout out to Omaha the Cat Dancer.

    …what?

    Any Browns fans here? How the hell did the owner(s) ever think to interview Schiano for the head coaching gig? SCHIANO?! You poor bastards were thisclose to getting doomed with a worse coach than the one just fired. I wouldn’t wish that fate on a rival football team… well, maybe the R*dsk*ns.

  43. 43.

    PaulW

    @SFAW:

    Look, either root for EVIL MANNING or else live with the Patriots and The Hooded Dark Lord. At least if he wins this Super Bowl Evil Manning will retire…

  45. 45.

    MomSense

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I wanted to say that I have enjoyed your reviews. I realized reading the last one that I had dozed off a few times so I will probably go re-watch that episode. Sounds like I missed the better parts.

    As a general review, I would say that I have been underwhelmed. I felt that way last season, too but I like some of the characters well enough that I want to see what happens to them. I hope they develop Lady Edith much more as I think she has the potential for some more exciting story lines.

  46. 46.

    SFAW

    @Jim Foolish Literalist:

    The SFAW-ette, possibly more of as commie than her old man, changes the channel when she sees those two doing a commercial. Peyton doesn’t annoy her nearly as much as he annoys me, but she know the Pap John’s guy is a rightwing asshole.

    Agree re: sports-fannism, most of the time.There are some things (e.g., if Jack Tatum had been traded to the Pats) that can’t be overlooked, but playing for a team’s rival is no big deal.

  47. 47.

    MikeJ

    @SFAW:

    or “Teh Big Game” as some insist on calling it)

    Advertisers who haven’t paid for the right to say “Super Bowl”.

  48. 48.

    Amir Khalid

    I just finished watching Der Untergang(Downfall), all 2h 35m of it. I like its lack of sentimentality in depicting the last days of the Third Reich, much of it as seen through the eyes of Traudl Junge, one of the Fuhrer’s personal secretaries. Junge’s memoir is one of the two books on which the film is based..A particularly disturbing scene is the one where Magda Goebbels poisons her young children in their sleep, before going outside to take a bullet from her husband Joseph.

  49. 49.

    SFAW

    @PaulW:

    Or root for the Seahawks?

    Also: I have no love for Belichick. I mean, he’s been a great coach, and I wish he had stayed with the Jets (instead of getting the string of buffoons they’ve had for 13 or so years now), but as a person, I’m glad he’s dating someone else’s daughter, and not living in my neighborhood.

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    @SFAW:

    or “Teh Big Game” as some insist on calling it

    It’s really not their fault. It’s the NFL that gets on people’s case for using the term “Superbowl®” without their permission. Unless you’re willing to pay to license their All-Holy Trademark®, you must find something else to call it or face the wrath of their lawyers.

  52. 52.

    Punchy

    buxom women conservatives

    Who on the right brings the top junk? Cant see the ads….so…guessin….Megyn Kelly or Pam “Atlas Shrugged”?

  56. 56.

    lamh36

    Ok. So I just had to share this moment. So I’m at walgreen buying some stuff including some “feminine care” items and I notice the older lady cashier is kinda examining the packaging of the feminine products. So she started ringng me up and gets to them and she asks me are these any good. Now remember I said older she really looked like she was long past them days so I go with the flow, so to speak, and I said yeah they are pretty good. She’s likes oh I was wondering about the “leak protection”, are they better than Depends? I’m admit my flow stopped a minute but I said I doubt it. She finished ringing me up and I got out of there. ..lol

  60. 60.

    schrodinger's cat

    @MomSense: Thanks! I wish that JF had done something different with Edith, given her a career instead of another inappropriate suitor. Could have made a famous writer or something. She is so sidelined at home that she falls for anyone who says something nice to her or gives her a compliment. She is so needy.

  61. 61.

    Amir Khalid

    @Elizabelle:
    Yes, the one with Bruno Ganz and that much-parodied scene. You know, the one that where Hitler screams, “Das war ein Befehl! Der Angriff Steiners war ein BEFEHL!!” By then, of course, the forces General Steiner needed to make his attack were all in Hitler’s head. It was fascinating, in a way, to watch the gradual collapse of the reality-distortion field that surrounded a charismatic leader like Hitler — to see it crumble from the outside until it fell in on the Leader himself.

  62. 62.

    No One of Consequence

    I submit to the gallery, an as-of-yet-unused, but sure-to-be-a-hit post title:

    “He’s the Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man!”

    probably best for some outrageous inanity that disguises itself as a David Brooks column.

    Regards,

    – NOoC

  63. 63.

    SFAW

    @Amir Khalid:

    By then, of course, the forces General Steiner needed to make his attack were all in Hitler’s head.

    You go to war with the army your Fuehrer thinks you have, not the army you want.

  72. 72.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Jacquie:

    Whereever Stockman is, let’s hope he never returns from there.

    The man is potting soil, and that’s being charitable.

  78. 78.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    @Amir Khalid:

    Bruno Ganz is great in that. A nice palate-cleanser is Gillian Armstrong’s The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992). Not quite a full-on comedy, but Ganz in a lighter mode.

  79. 79.

    BruceFromOhio

    @PaulW: It’s a fracking farce writ large. Steeler boy buys a bottom-of-the-league-since-forever team for a ridiculous sum, promises big things to go along with his new orange tie collection, and then cops the pages that fell out of Jerry Jordan’s “How To Make Long-Time Fans Hate You In The Course of a Single Season,” just as the FBI starts sniffing around the corrupt business practices in his national business. Browns fans are loyal to a fault, and the team still sells out the stadium for every game. This town wants a winner *SO**BAD* the fans are willing to tolerate just about anything, even another shit-for-brains front office and a continued merry-go-round in place of the head coach.

    As the song goes, wake me up when September ends.

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