Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

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

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

I really should read my own blog.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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Let’s go Pens (for those of you who do not want to discuss the NFL).

So happy to have hockey back. I missed one or two Pens games last year and this year I am shooting for 100%.

Oh, and I did not know that Zandar posted the same damned thing about Carson. Wasn’t paying attention.

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  1. 1.

    phein55

    OK, this is it, I’m admitting it up front:

    I like hockey, but I don’t follow the NHL because I don’t know the schedule.

    With football, it’s easy: Friday nights is high school, Saturday is college, Sunday is NFL. The exceptions prove the rule.

    Baseball? Everyday during the season, with the occasional Monday or Thursday off.

    Basketball? Big 10 plays Mondays, Wednesdays, and weekends during the season, more Sundays once the NFL season is over. Can’t figure out the NBA, so I don’t watch the NBA during the season.

    If I could figure out the rhythm of the NHL season, I’d be a little more actively involved as a Blues or Blackhawks fan.

    Is there a rule for when NHL teams play?

  4. 4.

    dedc79

    Was happy to see the NY Rangers beat last year’s champs, the Chicago Rapehawks last night. Your Pens should be improved this year.

  8. 8.

    phein55

    @Richard mayhew:

    That sounds like the NBA. Two? Four? If I assume the first, the second is an imposition. If I assume the second, the first is going to leave me with a serious hockey jones. Also, there come these gaps of four or five days where there is no action at all, maybe longer, and who knows why?

    And are these the same days for the same teams throughout the season? No.

    I confess to a type of entertainment laziness: If I have to track down when the games are going to be played, I really don’t need to follow the team. This may also be why I don’t watch any new shows on TV until I can binge watch them.

    The NHL and the NBA need to carve out their nights of the week the way the NFL does: NBA Thursday! NHL Tuesday! Every team plays, every fan gets a fix, every water cooler supports an argument.

  9. 9.

    JG

    Pens will go wherever their goalie “Flower” takes them. If his GAA is near 3.0 then Sid, Malkin, Kessel, et al, spend extra time backchecking and their points and offence (Canadian spelling) suffer. Pens also need to match teams that check hard and those w hot goalies. A team w a strong offence sometimes need to run hot goalies — bump him, agitate. See TB Lightning from last year. Open up space for the snipers.

    Talent alone will not take them to conf final.

    East teams to beat are TB, NYR, & Mont.
    West are STL, Min, SJ. Blackhawks will not repeat.

    I pick TB to beat STL in 7 for Cup. Bishop doesn’t have a stellar yr in goal for TB but Yzerman as GM is money. He has learned much from Scotty Bowman. Hitchcock finally presses the right buttons and gets STL to a finals but cant manage to win final game on the road.

    Or not…

  10. 10.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Gin & Tonic: Sometimes, in October it isn’t. I spent a summer working in Raleigh and a couple of colleagues went to a Bulls game. They were stunned that I’d never been to a Triple A game. So what kind of baseball games have you been to then? A few World Series home games, I told them and that seemed to explain it. Clearly they were not serious baseball fans or they might have figured it out knowing where I was from…

  11. 11.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @raven: One of my favorite teams(x2*) is playing tonight.

    *UW is playing U$C(x2 cause I went to grad school at UW and the other favorite is for “Anyone playing U$C).

  13. 13.

    phein55

    @raven:

    Again, the exceptions that prove the rule.

    I’m going to an NIU game on a Tuesday night in November. But everyone knows it should have been on Saturday, they’re just taking advantage of the Thanksgiving week to have a little more prep time. It goes against the rhythm of the college football week, but the rhythm is still strong.

  16. 16.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    Jack Eichel scored his first goal in his first game for the Sabres. Sweet. The Sabres still lost. Boo.

  20. 20.

    JG

    @dedc79:

    I think Blues went to Finals first or second year of franchise. But got swept (me thinks) – 1969 maybe. But Hitch wants to break that first round albatross. This should be the year unless Nashville plays gonzo. They have the horses and a smart coach.

  21. 21.

    Lord Baldrick

    Be sure to view the full Phila-TB 3-on-3 OT session. There had to be ten odd-man breaks in 2:17. Oh, and a missed penalty shot.

    Seriously, check out the OT. Great stuff!

  22. 22.

    phein55

    @JG:

    We moved from a city where hockey didn’t exist to St. Louis in ’69. The Blues went to the Finals their first three years (68, 69, 70), never won, never returned.

    My brother-in-law bleeds for the Blues, but he’s pushing 70, so time may be running out. Blues fans are almost Cub-like in their suffering, but more hopeful (until this year).

  23. 23.

    JG

    Hockey is my yearly mistress. I love it! Been a fan for 40 yrs. Played as a teenage for 6 yrs. I must have been a Canadian in a past life. First song I taught to my now 20yo daughter was Canadian National Anthem.

    I’m single now. I’m shocked!

  24. 24.

    redshirt

    I don’t follow hockey much at all except for bandwagon Bruins fandom.

    And I’m cool with that, even if you’re not. I don’t care. I can’t invest in hockey given my focus on the NFL.

    From the chatter I hear the Bruins will suck this year, so I will pay 5% attention till March and then if they are in the playoffs, maybe more….

  25. 25.

    redshirt

    I skated once in my life and I was holding hands with a girl when her “boyfriend” skated up and shoved me down, my face on the ice, my teeth ruined. Last time I ice skated.

  26. 26.

    SRW1

    You’re shooting to miss 100% of the Pens’ games and then fail on the first hurdle?

    Could take up following soccer, Mr Cole. You know, the round football thing.

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