Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

White supremacy is terrorism.

The lights are all blinking red.

Come on, man.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

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

Books are my comfort food!

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

We will not go back.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

The revolution will be supervised.

I really should read my own blog.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Republicans in disarray!

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

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  1. 1.

    ulee

    Men running around a field with a ball making a million dollars a game then going home and hitting their wives, and suckers sitting home and cheering them on. We’ll see how they do.

  3. 3.

    Suffern ACE

    Yep. I need 5 touchdowns and 450 yards from Rothlessberger or I’m doomed. Doomed to the humiliation of losing to the 0-6 doormat in the work fantasy league.

  4. 4.

    The Dangerman

    Steelers haven’t lost at home on Monday night for something like 23 years; I’m thinking that one goes down tonight. Along with Big Ben. A lot. Sorry.

  5. 5.

    schrodinger's cat

    Do you put Steve on that ugly yellow and black blanket, like you used to with Tunch, while watching your favorite team? BTW could you put up a photo of Tunch sometime. I miss the floofy white kitteh.

  6. 6.

    Howard Beale IV

    I’ms amazed the Lions came from behind yesterday. And they get to play at Wembly this weekend.

  9. 9.

    Schlemazel

    @Judi:
    rule?
    Three footballs for the left coast under the sky,
    Seven for the East in their halls of stone,
    Nine for fly-over land doomed to die,
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne at 345 Park Ave
    In the Land of New York where the Shadows lie.
    One football to rule them all, One football to find them,
    One football to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
    In the Land of Wisconsin where the Shadows lie.

  15. 15.

    Tree With Water

    Did I see right? Did a Steeler just come running off the field spewing as he went? Gruden said he was sick, and let it go at that. If he was spewing, it’s the first time I can recall ever having seen such a thing.

  18. 18.

    Machine

    Need at least 25 points from Foster else the wife wins this week’s matchup. She’s playing Houston defense but started Peyton this week so I’m in the hole already.

    In the meantime I’ll just run my crank down ulee’s throat for major yardage.

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @RobertDSC-iPhone 4: When I ran the 400 back many years ago, I puked after just about every race. Cross the finish line, head into the infield, and spew. Never happened after I switched to the 800.

  28. 28.

    raven

    McNabb puked all the time during games. I remember him hurling and throwing a TD against the Hokies when he was at the Cuze.

  30. 30.

    Tree With Water

    @Schlemazel: A dozen times? No kidding. I’ve been watching NFL games more or less religiously for 40-plus years, and for years prior to that albeit with a child’s attention span. So help me, tonight was the first time I ever saw a guy get sick like that.

    It’s like a particular scene in the Errol Flynn movie, Santa Fe. The camera is focused on a cowboy town’s main street, when suddenly a horse standing in the forefront of the shot unloads a dump onto the street, as horses will do. I’ve darn near seen every western ever made, but had never seen that happen before, either. Or ever again for that matter.

  37. 37.

    ursine

    24 points in three minutes? Incredible. 20 minutes ago Chuckie was about fellating Watts, but I haven’t heard a word about him since. Enjoy.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    Don’t know nuthin’ ’bout football, but always cottoned to the antics and legends of whipsmart Johnny Blood, the Vagabond Halfback (also dubbed “The Magnificent Screwball”) whenever an article popped up about him.

    Both McNally and Hanson knew the custom of the day was for college players to dabble in pro football under such assumed names as Smith or Jones. Young McNally varied the routine. He spotted a theatre marquee billing Rudolph Valentino in the film “Blood and Sand” and immediately picked Blood as his name and
    induced Hanson to switch his to Sand. From that day forward, Johnny signed all documents Johnny Blood. Source (.pdf)

    Plus just plain like the name of one of the teams for which he played: the Pottsville Maroons.

  40. 40.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @NotMax: Green Bay would have retired his number if he had stayed with just one. He is an inaugural member of the Packer Hall of Fame and is on the Ring of Honor at Lambeau.

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Howard Beale IV: The only de la Renta item I ever owned was a sky blue tie with pink stripes. It was a nice tie – usually worn with light gray pants, a blue or pink shirt, and a blue blazer (early to mid 80s – worked well in the Spring).

  44. 44.

    Schlemazel

    @Tree With Water:
    For a number of years I was an emergency responder at the Metrodump for Vikings games. Saw a lot of shit they do not show on TV. That stopped when we moved to Florida.

  46. 46.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @ulee: Let people enjoy what they enjoy. If it isn’t your thing, that’s fine. You don’t catch me bitching on gamer threads.

  48. 48.

    p.a.

    @efgoldman: Have you noticed how many Chinese restaurants have Fung signs outside? Maybe that could be a growth demographic for Republicans. Until the Geriatric Oddball Party brings up Quemoy and Matsu. Or are restauranteurs Chaing Nationalists?

  50. 50.

    Steeplejack

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    When I was on the swimming team in high school, I always puked after the 200-meter individual medley, which was always the first event of the (all day Saturday) meets. I was fine the rest of the day—several more individual events and some relays—but that first race was the perfect storm of nerves and sudden extreme effort. Always made it to the locker room, at least.

  51. 51.

    Arclite

    Man, some guy in the UK got convicted for having cartoons depicting child porn. As gross as that is, is it illegal? In the US, seems like the first amendment would protect that.

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Steeplejack: Well, making it ti the locker room is more important around the pool. At the track, it wasn’t a huge thing. I was happy, though, when my coach pulled me aside and said, ” Hey, you run cross country, but you do track as a sprinter…. Why don’t we try you in the 800? Just stay with the distance guys, and try to sprint past them at the end.”

  56. 56.

    Steeplejack

    I caught the Steelers’ little scoring spurt there right before halftime. Houston has gone lifeless in the second half. Yawn.

    Baseball is almost forgotten. Both of the league series ended so quickly that there is a semi-abnormal gap before the World Series. I had to check the ESPN site to see when it starts (tomorrow night). Don’t care about either team, but I’ll probably check the games to see if they’re interesting. After the Nats and the Orioles got excused from further participation, I’m just glad the Cardinals didn’t get in. Dunno why, but I dislike them almost as much as the Yankees. There’s nothing specifically awful about them; they’re just so bland and corporate and red.

    Now spooling The Blacklist on the DVR for uninterrupted viewing. That is all.

  60. 60.

    burnspbesq

    Since there is no other open thread currently, I will post this cautionary tale for early adopters here.

    If you have upgraded to Yosemite, and use Safari to access your Gmail account, beware. I have my Gmail account set to use two-factor authentication on both my work and personal laptops. Somehow, the combination of Yosemite and Safari hacked my Gmail account and set my personal laptop to “trusted,” which turns off two-factor authentication. It took me a fair amount of rooting around to find the source of the problem.

    Also, all of a sudden in Firefox, the “keep me signed in” checkbox on the Gmail login screen is defaulting to checked.

    Sheesh. This is some nasty, out-of-bounds shit, Apple.

  61. 61.

    Violet

    Pimping the vote for Karen in GA’s Iggy. He’s adorable. You don’t have to sign up–just click Vote. He’s being treated for heartworm so they could all use a little pick me up.

  65. 65.

    Violet

    @Elizabelle: Karein in GA reported in a previous thread today that she saw a dog that had over 1000 votes. So Iggy has a way to go. She said you can vote from various devices–I voted once by phone and once by computer today. Maybe even different browsers but I’m not sure. If they check IP addresses that may not work.

  74. 74.

    Violet

    @Omnes Omnibus: It’s a pet photo contest run by Publix, a supermarket chain in the southeast. Karen in GA entered her schnauzer Iggy. You can vote for Iggy just by clicking through the link in my comment and hitting Vote. You don’t have to sign up or give an email address.

    Poor Iggy tested positive for heartworms and the treatment requires he stay calm for a month. That’s tough for a young dog and they’ve had to trade off who is staying with him to keep and eye on him day and night. Exhausting. The winner of the contest gets a $750 gift card to Publix. There are runner up prizes too. They could use that to offset some of the heartworm treatment expenses.

    I’m good at pimping votes so I decided to do my part and help remind people.

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