Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Petty moves from a petty man.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

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

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

When I was faster i was always behind.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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

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

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Republicans do not pay their debts.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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  1. 1.

    ArlingtonRob

    Ron Hextall comes to mind. 1987 Flyers lost to the Oilers in 7 games and Hextall was awarded the Conn Smythe.

    His post game presser was one sad affair.

  3. 3.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    Ron Hextall in 1987 for Philadelphia.

    JS Giguere for Anaheim in 2003.

  4. 4.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    Hextall went on to get his name on the Cup as part of the Kings’ 2012 front office group.

  5. 5.

    The Dangerman

    Friday the 13th and a Full Moon (won’t happen again until 2049); at least two shots hitting post/crossbar in the OT. Hope this ends on something that isn’t a mistake by either side…

  7. 7.

    bmoak

    Unfortunately, I think the game is going to end when the bad ice leads to a bouncing puck misplay or a defender blowing a tire.

  8. 8.

    Hal

    Ugh. Something I ate today did not agree with me, and that disagreement reached a crescendo while driving to work. Nothing infantilizes you quicker than being a grown man/woman who needs a bathroom asap. This night shift should be fun.

  9. 9.

    ronin122

    Apparently 5 guys from losing teams won the Conn Smythe. I’d agree that Lundqvist has been the guy keeping the Rangers in the series this whole time, and is at least a candidate.

  11. 11.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @ArlingtonRob: My view, articulated before: “Hawks; Original Six (except Detroit, because fuck Detroit); cold weather cities (except Minneapolis) ; just about everyone else; and if it is Detroit – Minnesota, I would need to consider meteor strike vs. Detroit as my preferred outcome.

  12. 12.

    Violet

    @Hal: I had the same thing happen to me today. Had to cancel an appointment because I was so ill. Could not be too far from a bathroom. Fortunately it seems to be over. Definitely whatever I ate for breakfast. I hope you feel better soon too. Wiped me out, though. I’m heading to bed soon.

  13. 13.

    MikeBoyScout

    All hail Emperor Chaz!

    Coach Noll passed away tonight at his home in Pittsburgh.

    Sad night in Steeper Country.

  14. 14.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    Okay, it looks to be a quiet night on the blog front. It turns out that I was too tired to go out but not tired enough to get some sleep. I’ll need to look for alternative entertainment.

  16. 16.

    Violet

    Remember Shanesha Taylor, the Arizona mother who left her kids in the car when she went for an interview? She was granted visitation with her kids for the first time since March. I didn’t know she was a veteran–she served in the Air Force for several years and was honorably discharged. She’s still got felony charges hanging over her head.

  18. 18.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Linnaeus: I always knew there was something wrong with you. I just couldn’t put my finger on it until now.

  22. 22.

    eldorado

    my friend used to carry around a newspaper clipping from pa, where some unfortunate bar patron got stomped to death for criticizing coach noll.

    rip

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Linnaeus: Oh dear, my flaws have been so open for so long that I am shocked that it took until now for you to despise me. (Excuse me – I can’t type now, I am listening to “Tim” and Bastards of Young just started.

  25. 25.

    pseudonymous in nc

    And it’s over.

    Have to feel for Lundqvist, and yeah, the CBC commentators want him to get the Conn Smythe too.

  28. 28.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Corner Stone: I am a military brat. Never served myself but I will take every bit of credit that I think I can for things that someone other than me did.

    ETA: I know you are just being sarcastic, but that shit just actually pisses me off.

  29. 29.

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

    Roger Crozier- of Omnes Omnibus’ beloved Detroit Red Wings- did it in 1966. No player- goalie, defenseman or forward- had done it previously.

  31. 31.

    Hal

    @Violet: Thanks. I can’t tell if it’s getting better or worse. Maybe something’s going around, but I seem to be the only one in the house with any issues. Oh well. This should make the work night interesting.

  35. 35.

    max

    @efgoldman: Kings in five, but wow!

    Soon as I typed that, Alec Martinez scored. Gah. (I was actually pulling for the Kings, but I wanted the Rangers to take it to seven.)

    Lundqvist stopped 48 of 51 vs. Quick stopping 28 of 30.

    max
    [‘That guy can write his own ticket.’]

  36. 36.

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

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):

    Dude! Paternal grandparents were Yoopers. I root for the Packers in the NFL, then everything else is Michigan.

    How in the hell can you root for the team most responsible for keeping an NHL franchise from your state?

  39. 39.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    I’m disappointed that the Rangers couldn’t take it any further. They were outplayed by the Kings and I’m fine with that.

    I too think Lundquvist should have won the Conn Smythe, but it wasn’t to be.

    Now if only Glen Sather could be fired. Time to start over.

  41. 41.

    SFAW

    @RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual:

    They were outplayed by the Kings and I’m fine with that.

    “Outplayed by” implies they were there for all the games. Tough to prove that the Rangers were there for Games 3 and 4, and the the third period of one or two more.

    And before someone tries to make a point by noting that the Rangers won Game 4: I saw the game. There were some skaters on the ice, but no NHL players there. At least, none wearing blue (except for Henk).

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @dance around in your bones: Well played.

    Let me just say that I think that the commenter Tommy is disingenuous. I doubt that an Illinois suburb of St. Louis exists where every school levy passes and fiber optic cable is being introduced because people are that enlightened.

    ETA: Stay with us. We like you and enjoy your stories.

  44. 44.

    SFAW

    @? Martin:

    SoCal showing y’all how to play hockey.

    If by “SoCal,” you mean Canada and Milford, Connecticut, maybe so.

    Any other meaning, and you’re – how do you say it politely? oh, yeah – full of merde.

  48. 48.

    dance around in your bones

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):

    “And all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average,”

    I still like Tommy and his comments about what might be possible with good ol’ socialist-type gummint. Hell, let’s try it here and there, what could it hurt?

    eta: well, thanks for the encouragement. I have been so bloody burnt out with politics lately (and tgthe general mood of the culture) that I have just not felt like talking. Maybe that will change.

  49. 49.

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

    @Linnaeus:

    Back atchya. ;)

    Funny thing about Hawks’ fans is that they don’t realize that we got stuck with them as rivals when Toronto was moved to the Eastern Conference. They don’t realize that during the Original 6 era, there was actually a special three-way rivalry between the Wings, Leafs and Canadiens.

  52. 52.

    SFAW

    @dance around in your bones:

    with good ol’ socialist-type gummint. Hell, let’s try it here and there, what could it hurt?

    I don’t know if having one leads to having a black president, or having a black president leads to socialism, but either way, it’ll be bad for the Jaahhb Creators, so I’m agin’ it.

  56. 56.

    dance around in your bones

    @Mnemosyne:

    Thank you! Kaffe is my man – he turned me on to what knitting could be back in the day.
    Why am I getting a “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” vibe in the first minute?

    OMG – Court case!

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @dance around in your bones: I support social democratic solutions. I doubt that Tommy lives in that place. I may be wrong, but I am not often cynical on this site, right? I am cynical about this commenter. YMMV.

  61. 61.

    max

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): I doubt that an Illinois suburb of St. Louis exists where every school levy passes and fiber optic cable is being introduced because people are that enlightened.

    One of the ones in Madison County, Illinois, just north of E. St. Louis. (According to the last couple of general election summaries, two school bond issues of some type seem to have passed.)

    Dunno about the rest of it, haven’t paid attention.

    max
    [‘Just because such a place may exist does not mean someone is from there.’]

  62. 62.

    Mnemosyne

    @dance around in your bones:

    That’s sometimes the nice thing about knitting — it flies under the radar. ;-)

    I just realized today that tomorrow is Worldwide Knit in Public Day, so I may need to rearrange my weekend plans slightly.

  64. 64.

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

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):

    I get it.

    Sometimes I’m questioned as to why I’m not a Bucks’ or Brewers’ fan, and I have to explain how those grandparents moved to Muskegon in the early ’40s, when neither the Bucks or Brewers existed (and more than a decade before the Braves moved to Milwaukee).

    The maternal side of the family almost all roots for Michigan teams, with the exception of a few Red Sox fans. Grandfather was born in Boston in 1900, and his dad and older brothers remembered their Sox winning the first modern WS before they moved to Michigan in 1905. One of my aunts and one of my uncles (of gramps’ sixteen kids) and a few of their kids remain Sox loyalists, while the rest of us pull for the Tigers.

  65. 65.

    Corner Stone

    @Suffern ACE: You’re probably not too familiar with Austin, TX but I was there recently looking for potential properties to buy. Either to one day live in, or as an investment.
    Texas is going fucking crazy right now (last 18 months) as far as residential property prices. Both Houston and Austin are so hot it’s like Kate Upton is selling all the houses.
    Anyway, think for a bit about me finding an affordable property in the Shoal Creek BLVD district.
    Thanks

  66. 66.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    Okay: the commenter Tommy has come in for some abuse. Does Tommy have a response?

  67. 67.

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

    @Mnemosyne:

    …us Flatlanders…

    Oh. That’s what you FIPs are calling yourselves these days.

  68. 68.

    dance around in your bones

    @Suffern ACE: I think this calls for an interpretive dance. You go first, I’ll follow*

    *I wanted to say ‘wearing my fuck-you pumps’ but it sounded kinda harsh.

  70. 70.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Mnemosyne:

    hasn’t lived in IL for over 20 years

    And is freaked out by cold? Let’s not have a fight, okay?

  71. 71.

    Mnemosyne

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

    I doubt most of the FIPs are actually from the city. More like the North Shore (and I can say that since I grew up on the North Shore).

    It’s like the people who ask my best friend where she’s from, and when she says, “Detroit,” they say, “Oh, Grosse Pointe or Bloomfield Hills?” (The fun part is to watch their faces when she says, “No, Dee-troit. The city.”)

    ETA: The giveaway in the Urban Dictionary entry is asking for the Tribune. Republican North Shore.

  72. 72.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Mnemosyne: With the exception of living in Seattle for grad school, I’ve lived within 50 miles of where I was born. Right now it’s about 5 miles.

    ETA: I have no idea what a FIP is.

  75. 75.

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

    @Mnemosyne:

    (The fun part is to watch their faces when she says, “No, Dee-troit. The city.”)

    Heehee. I’ve seen that look, many times. But I see that look on the face of some G.R. suburbanites, too, when I tell them that I am, indeed, a real Rapidian, one of those people who voted (in the majority) to decriminalize teh eebil eebil weed- and that I’m a product of the G.R. Public Schools.

  76. 76.

    Mnemosyne

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    Can’t remember if I’ve told this story before, but:

    My husband and I both grew up in the Chicago suburbs (Oak Park for him, North Shore for me).

    We both came out here to go to USC.

    We both went to film school at USC (different departments).

    We had at least one class together (large lecture class).

    We graduated in the same graduation ceremony.

    And we met through an ad on the internet seven years after graduation.

    ETA: FIP = Fucking Illinois People. People in surrounding states like the Fucking Illinois People about as much as people in Oregon and Washington like Californians.

  78. 78.

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

    @Suffern ACE:

    I never did. Pistons’ fan, but not much a fan of the NBA for a few years.

  79. 79.

    dance around in your bones

    @Violet: Nice to be remembered!

    Ok, here’s a story – you guys will think it’s gross, no doubt…but! I saw Led Zeppelin when I was on acid back in the ummmm….70’s? and I kept thinking I was imagining like, bleeding in my seat until the end of the show? and then I got up and saw the seat soaked with blood (no, I hadn’t killed anybody) and I trailed my way out of the stadium and saw/thought I saw/did see blood splots on the floor all the way out…..and in the car after there were no drug stores open to buy the necessary item so I bought a bag of tube socks and used those to, you know, stop the splots.

    There ya go! One of my stories! Wanna hear an opium story next?

  80. 80.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Mnemosyne: Folk in the dorm at Washington took a dislike of me when I told them I was from Southern California; they liked me much better when I told them I went to UCLA not USC.

  81. 81.

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

    @Steeplejack:

    Fucking Illinois Person

    It’s more of a small town Wisconsin thing, but you’ll here it from time to time in Southwest Michigan. It describes those Chicagoans- or, as Mnemosyne pointed out, Chicago suburbanites- who travel to these small towns, find their shops, bars and supper clubs charming, then buy those businesses and watch the charm run out.

  84. 84.

    max

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): the commenter Tommy has come in for some abuse. Does Tommy have a response?

    In case you thought you were on to the scent I think you think you are on, you are barking up the wrong tree.

    One doubts Tommy is around tonight, whomever might be running the sock. (To be clear, not moi.)

    My interest lies in the fact that when my dog starts point and growling I become curious and tend to investigate.

    max
    [‘I become very curious when the thing I was thinking of investigating says it’s related to the author of a special kind of book from a certain kind of college. I did not find the book in question. So.’]

  85. 85.

    Mnemosyne

    @dance around in your bones:

    Well, if we’re trading menstruation stories, I know that science currently claims that menstrual synchrony doesn’t exist, but it actually happened to me one time — I went on a weekend trip to the Bay Area and met up with my best friend to hang out. I wasn’t due for another week and was quite surprised when Aunt Flo showed up since I’m usually like clockwork. Sure enough, J was on the rag. Very weird.

  86. 86.

    Mnemosyne

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    Oddly, most of the a-hole college students with Beemers that I knew went to UCLA. Maybe I was hanging around with the wrong right people at USC.

  88. 88.

    Corner Stone

    @max:

    I become very curious when the thing I was thinking of investigating says it’s related to the author of a special kind of book from a certain kind of college. I did not find the book in question. So

    I become very curious enough to ask what this codicil means.
    Thanks

  89. 89.

    Violet

    @Mnemosyne: One of my high school friends was the alpha in sychronizing cycles. No matter who she lived with, their cycle always synched with hers. Happened all through college and law school with various roommates. At some point she figured out they were always synching with her. Hers never changed.

  90. 90.

    Mnemosyne

    @Violet:

    I think most women have a story like that. And yet there apparently is no scientific evidence, or at least they haven’t been able to figure out how to replicate the effect.

  92. 92.

    dance around in your bones

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    Thanks, BillinGDCA. ATM I am still listening to the NINE part Tommy opera as well as watching The Wire. Whew, I am overwhelmed. But I have been monitoring us Juicers all this while……ain’t no place I’d rather be.

    Well, maybe in my friend’s personal opium den in Kabul back when there was still a King and the Taliban hadn’t been created by the Paki ISI. It was a beautiful place then and I love it still and I wish ,,,,aw, fuck. If wishes were horses and etc….still love the poppy, not that I’ve had any in many a year.

  93. 93.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Mnemosyne: They were called frat boys, every college has em.

    ETA: I was a dorm resident my first two years, apt the next two years.

  96. 96.

    eemom

    I’m a little puzzled by the Tommy-hate on this thread. Haven’t been around as much lately as I used to, but I recollected him being a sincere well meaning sort of fellow. What did I miss?

  98. 98.

    dance around in your bones

    @eemom: Like I said, I like Tommy. No hate here!

    I just recognized Omnes’ ref, that’s all.

  99. 99.

    Violet

    @eemom: Not really sure. Something to do with the military maybe. Seems like a well meaning guy to me. Likes to tell his stories. Maybe some people don’t like those?

  101. 101.

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

    @Steeplejack:

    Heehee. Yes.

    If you go to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan there are Yoopers (natives) and trolls (who live “under” the Mackinac Bridge). If you’re around Mackinac Island (or St. Ignace, or Mackinaw City) trolls are also known as fudgies- tourists who are going to the Island, where, inevitably, they will eat some of its famed fudge.

    The mother of my child has lived in St. Ignace and in Northampton, MA, and she worked in the food and beverage service sector in both. I think she could write an encyclopedia consisting of every different nickname- naughty, nice and in-between- for tourists that’s used in the USA.

  108. 108.

    dance around in your bones

    @Corner Stone: No, it starts when you’re always afraid. Step outa line, the man come and take you away.

    Ok, I’m an old. George Michael? WTF, over.

  112. 112.

    tsquared2001

    Since it is a open thread
    Here are some my favorite lines from romance novels

    I would like to tell you what that felt like-what you did to me. But I don’t have any words: Gaffney To have and To Hold

    This was who she was, quick and gleaming and intricate. She’d known that already. Now someone else knew: Grant A Gentleman Undone

    And for the kicker. Only the greatest ever – Laura Kinsale For My Lady’s Heart

    I depend on thee for truth. There is but one person on the earth I trust and that is thee.

  117. 117.

    David Koch

    The NY Neo-Con Times is really pounding their war drums. They have 5 stories on the front page of their web site and 3 stories on the front page of the print edition.

    Check out this gem:

    American air power could play an important role in reversing the Sunni insurgent offensive in Iraq, current and former American military officials said on Friday, but it would be most effective with improved intelligence about insurgent targets and if the United States were willing to deploy small teams of advisers to call in airstrikes.

    Despite skeptics, particularly Democrats, who say that American airstrikes are unlikely to change the course of events in Iraq, President Obama is considering them among a range of options to help the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

    A major question for the Obama administration would be whether to also strike targets in Syria as the group is moving freely across the Syria-Iraq border.

    Damn those “Democratic skeptics”. Iraq would be a Jeffersonian paradise but they thwarted Cheney and Kristol.

    And of course, they want to use this as excuse to bomb Syria.

    The biggest crime is the Times will always be labeled as liberal, when they’re nothing more than warmongering Likudniks.

  118. 118.

    tsquared2001

    I have a theory that women of certain age know certain songs simply by the opening bar. To The Left To The Left would be one.{Beyonce} Doc Chana Na Na would be another {Destiny Child} or Activate for TLC.

  120. 120.

    dance around in your bones

    @tsquared2001:

    Darlin’, what ‘certain age’ would that be? I couldn’t recognize the opening bars of those songs if I was on “So You Think You Can Recognize Opening Bars” for a million bucks.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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