Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Second rate reporter says what?

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

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

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

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

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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  3. 3.

    Ked

    I’m cheering for Robert Morris U to beat those canadians this weekend. Both sides blew out the semis at PAX today and the final tomorrow should be a doozy.

    And the Foxes are playing tomorrow morning. Premier League doesn’t do playoffs, but at four games left and Vardy out due to a red this will be about as important.

    Not playoffs at all, but the Cubs have me thoroughly confused. The local sportsradio carries their games live and every time I’ve heard a few minutes of it in the car the Cubs have either just lost or seem to be losing. But ESPN is telling me that their pitchers are having an incredible year and when i finally looked at the standings last night they were like 13-4. WTFOMGBBQ.

    I should watch the Blackhawks, I really will regret it if they get to the final and I haven’t been watching but it’s been really hard to like them this spring.

  4. 4.

    RobertDSC-Quad Intel Mac

    My Rangers need a new goaltender. First priority in the offseason. Henrik is done.

  8. 8.

    Haydnseek

    @efgoldman: San Jose had a lot of extra incentive to beat the Kings. Two years ago, the Sharks went up 3-0 in their playoff series. The Kings won the next four, and proceeded to go on to hoist The Cup. That memory will be sweet forever, especially given the longtime rivalry between Norcal and Socal.
    My remaining hope is The Ducks. I didn’t know much about Nashville, but they’re tough. This is shaping up to be a very good series.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    I was going to get the cats’ nails trimmed today, but I called the groomer and they’re too busy this afternoon for me to bring them in. So it’s another week of razor-sharp nails and cats getting indignant when we push them away just when they’re getting a good knead going.

  12. 12.

    smintheus

    @efgoldman: Lundqvist is weak high glove and the Pens are picking him to pieces there. He also seems to fall apart more easily this year under adversity than he did in the past.

  14. 14.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    The Red Wings lost in the first round again, but that’s okay. I’m still enjoying the fact that my #1 sports team won it’s fourth title in five years (with the fifth season ending with a 5-4 loss in the final) a month ago. Hey, BC, how does 40 and No sound?

  15. 15.

    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    Went for a pretty tough 8 miles of hiking (lots of elevation changes). Needed a jacket on the way out the door, realized that everything but fall leather and sportsuit coats was way too large. Hit up basement, found my high school track team coverup.

    It fit, and was a little big…

  17. 17.

    max

    @efgoldman: Damn. I was really hoping the Rangers would at least delay the inevitable.

    I dunno what the hell that was, but I don’t feel bad about the Pens winning.

    Going into the playoffs, I thought that LA, the Blackhawks, and Anaheim were the three best teams in the league.

    Anaheim? Really? I dunno they don’t seem to have the whatever it was they had. Still mean though!

    Chicago is hanging on for dear life;

    Hitchcock is on a one-year contract and face it, the Blues are not really bad enough (quite good actually) that they should lose to the Hawks incessantly. Not without a fight, anyways.

    max
    [‘Also, Sharp is with the Stars now, so it’s the Son of Brett Hull season.’]

  18. 18.

    rikyrah

    How a Local Radio Station Became the World’s Prince Memorial

    The late music legend loved Minny radio’s ‘The Current,’ tweeting along to their Prince blocks and donating. Station head Jim McGuinn remembers Minneapolis’s favorite son.

    “If this is true, what are we gonna do?”

    That was Jim McGuinn, the programming director at Minneapolis’ The Current, speaking to his staff, rifling through internet rumors Prince had died shortly before noon on Thursday. He and some coworkers had already started feeding information to the on-air DJ, Jade, as the reports started trickling in.

    If the rumors were true, they’d have to have a plan. Prince was, after all, Minnesota’s prodigal son and a good friend of the radio station. He used to sign off on Prince-themed programming blocks and send ideas and albums he liked to its brass.

    Everyone would turn to them.

    So, after the first “very unfounded rumor,” McGuinn dispatched a reporter to Prince’s Paisley Park complex.

    Then we waited,” he said. “And held our breath.”

    The Current’s staff quickly assembled in a room and started programming a tribute. After David Bowie died, they started talking about emergencies just like this one—“people we’d treat as large as Bowie”—but they didn’t even think of Prince. “He was so active. We just never even considered it,” he said.

    …………………….

    At 12:09 p.m., The Current played Prince’s “The Beautiful Ones,” and haven’t played a song by anybody else since.

    And everyone did turn to them. It wasn’t just Minneapolis, either: it was anybody on the internet who wanted to listen to Prince right away.

    Since Prince was notoriously protective of his music rights on the internet, if people wanted to memorialize Prince by playing “Purple Rain,” like old times, they had to turn on the radio.

    He’s not on YouTube. He’s not on Spotify. The Current’s website became a de facto vigil for Prince fans anywhere on the web.

    “It was so hard on one hand because we’re all fans, and almost everybody on our staff at some point had some amazing experience going to a show at Paisley Park,” said McGuinn. “But it’s our job to be there for our audience.”

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    Miss Bianca

    @rikyrah: I’ve been listening as much as I can – listening now in fact – but it keeps cutting out on me, sadly. don’t know whether it’s because of my crappy Internet connection or so many people tuning in or both. We’re up to “T” now.

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