Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

A consequence of cucumbers

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

No Justins, No Peace

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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

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  1. 1.

    Betty Cracker

    Should be special in your divided household! Got a wager w/ your roomie to make it more interesting?

  4. 4.

    Dog On Porch

    I understand Ben digs the no huddle. Here’s hoping he stays healthy, to to see how that plays out. The Steelers offense already had the makings of being pretty formidable- if no huddle clicks, look out for those guys.

  17. 17.

    Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]

    hmmmmm, murderers or rapists . . . I’d root for head injuries but thats a for sure thing anyway and I’m not really that so inhumane that I would continue supporting something that is known to cause brain damage to its participants.

  18. 18.

    ronin122

    You barbarian lynch-mobbers, how dare you suggest that Roger Goodell knew about the Ray Rice incident before the video link. How DARE you…oh, he knew? Mr. Rice told him the whole story? Oh……

    Via ESPN.

    Tell me again, why has Mr. Goodell not resigned yet?

  21. 21.

    Mike E

    @ronin122: That comment from the post, citing Sean Peyton and ‘Bountygate’, is right on. Nobody craps on The Shield and stays in office….he’ll be gone soon.

  22. 22.

    scav

    As long as he’s there being the shock-absorber of bad management and cuddly-ugly face of abetting crap, fewer will look at the systemic, endemic and organizational issues.

  24. 24.

    scav

    Also, if he holds on for enough news cycles, his singular leaving will be seen as “the” solution to “the” problem instead of one fuck-up among many deep-seated wider problems.

  27. 27.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    I would like to think that Bob Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, who’s late wife once put a kibosh on a draftee when it was found out he beat a co-ed in college, will lead the charge to drop Goddell,and gain back the respect after his team’s craptacular mega fail with Aaron Hernandez.

  29. 29.

    PaulW

    Rays f-cking blew a no-hitter against the Yankees in the Bronx going into the 8th, and then the relief pitcher gave up a 3-run homer to lose it all. Ladies and gentlemen, your 2014 Rays.

  32. 32.

    coin operated

    The steelers are in a tail spin. Somebody got Cole’s blood pressure medicine handy? He’ll need it.

  33. 33.

    JR in WV

    I’m surprised how well the Ravens look compared to the Stillers. I can’t root for either team, Ben is a violent dick, and the Ravens, well, what to say?

    Goodall is a walking dead man, or should be. Professionally, I’m meaning. Not literally.

    I can’t really get videos online, can anyone point me to a transcript of the contractors in Ferguson, MS? I’m just interested, we all know what happened, a dirty cop killed a kid with his hands up. End of story.

    But the confirming story of out-of-town contractors passing through to see a horror show like Dennis’s. That’s interesting.

    I’ve been a Steelers fan for my whole life, as many West Virginian’s were. Except for Green Bay, the family owned team, the Steelers were the best, Rocky Blair, Franco Harris, Terry, the steel curtain, but Ben just rubs me wrong. Talented, but wrong.

    Sorry, John, no offense, but there I am…

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @JR in WV: Rocky Bleier grew up in the town in which I went to college. The house in which he grew up became a bar (Don’t ask; it’s Wisconsin). I have had drinks there.

  35. 35.

    FlyingToaster

    @Mr Stagger Lee: I blame that one on the lackadaisical scouting; they knew he had issues, they even hired Football Jesus to help deal. Well, we all think that’s why they hired Tebow.

    The scouts didn’t know that he was a person of interest in one previous shooting, back in school. And they bloody well should have.

  37. 37.

    BruceFromOhio

    @efgoldman: Who hurts more from that, the league or the owners?

    Maybe that’s a redundant inquiry. If it’s hurting 2 or 3 owners cash flow, meh. If it starts hitting all 31, watch how fast action occurs. (Yes, 31. I exclude Green Bay because Green Bay.)

    But clearly the man knows good defensive coverage.

    Along with Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney II, Mara has accepted Goodell’s invitation to oversee former FBI chief Robert Mueller’s investigation into Goodell’s gross mishandling of the Ray Rice case. It’s all a bit bizarre, this decision by a commissioner to launch an investigation of the man in his bathroom mirror by hiring someone (Mueller) out of a law firm with business ties to the league (WilmerHale), and then asking two longtime in-league allies to supervise it. … And then having the nerve to call it “independent.”

    It is good to have money, and it is good to have friends. It’s great to have both.

  38. 38.

    Gex

    Well, Rhianna was uninvited from opening tonight’s game. Too often when things go badly for men, a woman has to pay. Just sit there and endure your bad “optics” like a man, Goodell.

    ETA: I hope they had to pay her double when they backed out of the deal.

  40. 40.

    Steelers R Bradys bitches AKA 2liberal

    trying my football thread nym on a different computer, but the same IP address. Will it go into moderation?

  42. 42.

    Keith G

    @ronin122: As for why Goodell is still around…

    The vultures are circling over Roger Goodell and pressuring NFL owners to dump the commissioner for what has become Ray Rice (Video) Gate.

    So far, it’s not working. The owners still have his back. Rice committed the crime. Goodell did not. There is no undercurrent to fire him, no small faction that wants him out. In fact, owners are more concerned Goodell is going to get fed up and quit.

    It is certainly possible that Goodell saw the second video, but I have doubts that he did. There would be so little upside in ignoring something that was sure to be made public anyway – and made public with such certain explosiveness.

    It seems that at this time Goodell still has a high enough VORP (to borrow from baseball) to keep him in place.

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