Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

This fight is for everything.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

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

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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These gents once adorned my birthday cake (they’re about three inches tall and now live on my dresser):

  

This is “World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party” day, Florida vs. Georgia, the one day of the year valued commenter Raven and I are sworn enemies. Makes Halloween even scarier this year. Go Gators!

PS: Got a good ghost story to share? Post it here. We’ve got some doozies so far. 

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  2. 2.

    Davebo

    I managed to make two game when I lived in Jax while in the Navy. Definitely a big time cocktail party!

  4. 4.

    Gator90

    I’m afraid my kids are going to want to go trick-or-treating before the Cocktail Party is over. Could be a real problem if, as I expect, the game is close. Maybe I can bribe them to wait…

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    If anyone’s interested, New Zealand are leading Australia 27-17 in the Rugby World Cup final, with about ten minutes to go. If they hold on, the All Blacks will be the first national side to win two World Cups in a row.

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Only tricks-n-treats in my life today are the tricks of stagecraft and the treats of great music. Wagner’s Tannhäuser is today’s Met Opera Live in HD, and it really is glorious music. Production is a little creaky, but I can live with that.

    Okay, intermission is nearly over! May the best team win!!

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    @Amir Khalid:
    Make that 34-17, with a couple of minutes left. It will be the All Blacks again.

    ETA: And indeed it is. The All Blacks have achieved the first successful defence of the Rugby World Cup.

  16. 16.

    Eric U.

    as far as we can tell, we missed trick or treating this year. I was having a meltdown anyway. Wife was out driving our son around, one downside of him going to the local college

  17. 17.

    Phylllis

    Gamecocks stayed with A&M in the 1st half; second half starting now. A glimmer of hope, at least.

  20. 20.

    Amir Khalid

    @HumboldtBlue:
    This is the worst season an English Premier League defending champion has had in two decades. Jose always loses the plot in his third season at a club. That’s what happened in his first third season at Chelsea too. Abramovich must surely remember.

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): The only time I will ever disturb the kitty on my lap is when they are there for so long that I really have to go to the bathroom and I just can’t wait anymore. Even then, I explain it to them so they will know I wouldn’t have disturbed them except for extraordinary circumstances.

  24. 24.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): Sleep ray generator!

    We’re in Charleston for the weekend and very grateful that we don’t live here. The TV has been riddled with JEB! commercials. They’re…pathetic.

  25. 25.

    satby

    OK so the thing I didn’t count on when I agreed to host teenagers again was how much I’d be driving. 23 miles to and from St.Joe this morning to pick them up after the all night party, almost another round trip that I just said no to this early afternoon (I said she needed to sleep) and in another hour another round trip back to St Joe to go trick or treating for UNICEF (I’ll find a park to hang out in if they’ll be doing it only a couple of hours, because it’s 35 minutes each way). WTF was I thinking??

    Anyone need soap? Mama needs new shoes gas!

  33. 33.

    Felonius Monk

    @efgoldman: I thought with all those Brinks trucks that Rising Bullshit (or whatever his current nym is) keeps talking about Jeb? would not have to resort to prostitution so soon.

  38. 38.

    Baud

    @efgoldman:

    At this point, Jeb attempting to shiv anybody would probably result in nothing more than an uncomfortable tickle. He’s that bad.

  41. 41.

    raven

    Ya’ll have fun. This is one of those where I’ll be totally engaged with the game. Of course, we don’t stand a chance.

  47. 47.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @satby:

    Anyone need soap?

    Why yes, as a matter of fact… :-) Check your store.

    Hang in there!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  52. 52.

    PaulW

    One dark night a noise begins echoing down the house’s hallway into my bedroom.

    It wakes me up. I’m nine years old at the time.

    It’s the sound of a baby crying, low and mournful and unsettling, and it won’t stop.

    It’s loud. The rest of the house should hear it but nobody else is getting up. No lights are turning on. My parents have to be hearing this, and there’s no action. Everyone else may be deep asleep.

    Everyone but me.

    There are no light switches near my bed that could brighten my room and steel my resolve. The noise keeps on and on, for minutes, into hours.

    I curl under the bedsheet, terrified that there’s a ghost baby in the hallway and no one else can hear it but me.

    Thirty years later I tell this story to my mother.

    She slaps the backside of my head. “That was a cat in heat, you dummy, out in the front patio.”

  54. 54.

    gogol's wife

    @PaulW:

    My version of that is when I told my friends in Moscow at midnight that we had to go outside quickly, somebody was out there torturing cats and we had to stop them. They looked at me as if I was crazy and said, “You never heard that before? It’s the cats mating with each other.” No, I’d never heard that in the US of A.

  55. 55.

    jl

    You didn’t pay them anything, didn’t give them any food, right? That could be a big NCAA rules violation and they would get in big trouble.

    Edit: well, looks like you did because it looks they aren’t doing squat but warming the bench now. Shame on you, Cracker.

  56. 56.

    Gin & Tonic

    My only real break today was to watch the All Blacks beat down the Wallabies – the rest of the time is cleaning the basement, a seemingly Sysiphean task. Luckily my wife is still in Europe, so I get the misery all to myself. Later tonight I will probably watch the World Series and drink one too many beers.

  58. 58.

    SiubhanDuinne

    So I’m out of the opera now. It was long. It was Wagner (but I repeat myself). Have quickly scrolled through this thread and do not see who won the GA-FLA game.

  60. 60.

    JPL

    @raven: The Florida folks across the street left the game to bring their little boy trick or treating. The flag is still waving in front of their house though.

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