Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The gop couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

We’re not going back!

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

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

…and a burning sense of injustice to juice the soul.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

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

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

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  1. 1.

    dedc79

    The Pens appear to be starting their third string goalie… Hope the Rangers can take advantage

  3. 3.

    p.a.

    Much as I respect what the ‘Hawks have accomplished, I don’t like em.. Let’s go Blues! And ‘Wings in the East; battle of the 2 best insignia in all sports in the LSC finals. (Not bloody likely).

  4. 4.

    OldDave

    Just arrived home. I see that only the Wings @ Bolts tilt has started. How does that game look?

    Our series starts tomorrow. Butterflies.

  15. 15.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    @raven: Yep. Kobe’s last game tonight and the Warriors are playing for a record 73 win season and we get a thread for Crackers on Ice.

  22. 22.

    raven

    @Omnes Omnibus: SO you think I’m the only one that ever thought or said that?
    Is Hockey a Racist Sport?

    As a hockey nation, we also tend to completely dismiss the character and toughness of European players and, specifically, Russian players. (And, yes, French-Canadian players, too.) We call this analysis, but that’s not really true. Russian players are treated from their draft day like they have to prove something over and above their Canadian counterparts, or like they have to atone for previous players from Moscow and the surrounding area who were viewed as soft or fragile or Prima Donnas, despite any evidence to the contrary.

    Is there really much difference between Henrik Sedin and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins? What about Sergei Fedorov and Steve Yzerman? Or, Teemu Selanne and Ryan Getzlaf? Gretzky and Kurri?

    Let’s face it: hockey is an extension of us, and we all still have a lot of work to do.

    eta This is a Canadian author.

  25. 25.

    raven

    @Baud: Well, it ain’t the hill I’m gonna die on, golf is largely white and I think a lot pf people were happy as hell to see Tiger fall but I thought it was worth it to broach the topic once.

  26. 26.

    raven

    @efgoldman: You love hockey, good for you. I don’t and I sure as hell don’t think there is “nothing better than playoff hockey”.

  28. 28.

    Gin & Tonic

    @raven: I know you don’t care about NBA, but I got a dollar that says we won’t get an NBA playoffs thread as quick as we got an NHL playoffs thread.

  37. 37.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    First time since 1970 there are no Canadian teams in the playoffs. OBAMA>>>TRUDEAU

  39. 39.

    Linnaeus

    @raven:

    That’s a fair beef – bring it up with Cole. But there’s no need to come into a thread for a sport that you don’t enjoy and piss on other people’s enjoyment of it.

  42. 42.

    raven

    @Linnaeus: I’ll bring it up whenever I want to. You don’t like it YOU bring it up with Cole. Every goddamn time I bring up and of the sports I like EF chimes in with some fucking bullshit. Fuck all ya’ll.

  44. 44.

    Linnaeus

    @raven:

    I don’t want to get into a nasty fight about this, so I’ll just say that I disagree with you and leave it at that.

  48. 48.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    @raven: Jesus, just talk about basketball in this thread. It’s an open thread. I sometimes get the impression that your main desire is to bitch about something rather than to talk about a particular subject.

  53. 53.

    p.a.

    @Mike J: I miss having cable for F1 and WRC. Been so long since I had it, it was the Schumacher Ferrari/Renault dominant era, as Renault briefly passed Mercedes & Williams.

  54. 54.

    Linnaeus

    Wings spending too much time in their own zone – they’re lucky it’s not 4-2 right now.

  56. 56.

    dedc79

    @LAO: I was worried the Rangers would make the Pens’ 3rd string goalie into a star, and that seems to be what they’re doing so far.

    ETA: And damn, now it’s 2-0

  62. 62.

    Linnaeus

    @dedc79:

    Yeah, although sometimes that takes players away from the action. Toward the end, the Wings’ Abdelkader didn’t need to be mixing it up with the Bolts’ Palat when it’s less than a minute left and the Wings are trying to get six skaters down the ice.

    The last ten minutes of the game were brutal for the Wings in the d-zone; they couldn’t get the puck out even when Tampa Bay had one forechecker.

  64. 64.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    As a Sabres fan I still watch as many playoff games as a I can. I saw a few Penguins games at The Igloo when they had Lemieux and Jagr. To hell with the Rangers. I liked the Islanders in the 80’s.

  65. 65.

    Linnaeus

    @dedc79:

    They actually looked pretty decent most of the game, so I’m not too worried right now. They got a lot more scoring chances in this Game 1 than they did in the Game 1 against Tampa last year (and that’s a game they won).

  69. 69.

    smintheus

    @Linnaeus: No, it’s not a fair beef. It’s just a stupid complaint; nobody’s preventing anybody from playing hockey, and nothing to stop him from dragooning POC into taking up the sport if that’s what matters most to him.

  74. 74.

    geg6

    @dedc79:

    Am I a terrible person if I hope he’s hurt just enough to not come back for this series? If so, I don’t care.

  76. 76.

    smintheus

    Remember how eager the Rangers were to pick up Eric Staal? He was supposed to be the missing link in their playoffs this spring.

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