Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This blog will pay for itself.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

This fight is for everything.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Come on, man.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

I really should read my own blog.

We still have time to mess this up!

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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  5. 5.

    PhoenixRising

    Open thread: my kid, who had used up the batteries in her hearing aids during the Irish Rebellion/Easter Rising set performance of ‘Taming of the Shrew’ at the Globe, missed the train her aunt and grandmother caught…and guided her 13yo cousin to the next correct train so they were able to pop back out of the Tube at the right place. Before my sister had time to panic.

    Most of the things I worry about never happen, and the ones that do I never thought to worry about. So maybe I’ll just stop worrying.

  9. 9.

    Betty Cracker

    @PhoenixRising: I need to take that concept in and marinate in it. My baby is graduating from high school on Friday…and I’m having unexpected feels about it. (Sniff.)

  10. 10.

    raven

    @PhoenixRising: My pal has been using the expensive batteries from the pharmacy. I got her a box of the VA supplied German Powerone’s. SO far so good.

  26. 26.

    Betty Cracker

    @Adam L Silverman: Those bastards decided their spring training connection to Pittsburgh via the Pirates was more important than their actual physical location in the Tampa Bay region, so fuck them with Beelzebub’s accursed horns!

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne

    G is off at a lecture, which gives me an opportunity to smuggle yarn into the house. It’s only three bags (30 balls), so that’s not that bad, right?

    Right?

  31. 31.

    Linnaeus

    Thought folks might be interested in this, so I’m posting it here before I forget:

    Start-Ups Embrace Arbitration to Settle Workplace Disputes:

    Ms. Zoumer tried to enlist colleagues to file what she hoped would be a class-action lawsuit to fight for overtime pay. But the company had instituted a policy that could force employees to ultimately resolve disputes through arbitration instead of the courts, which essentially shut down Ms. Zoumer’s lawsuit, since arbitration bars individuals from joining in a class action.

    When Ms. Zoumer refused to sign the new policy, she was fired.

    I think we’ll be seeing more and more of this kind of thing.

  33. 33.

    Prescott Cactus

    @Adam L Silverman: The Bradenton’s (FL) visitor’s bureau issued an apology after it received backlash for buying rally towels for Pittsburgh Penguins fans who attended the first game of the Eastern Conference Final Friday night.

  42. 42.

    Prufrock

    @Adam L Silverman: Years ago, I went with a friend to watch a Steeler playoff game at a Yinzer bar in Largo. It was the game the heavily favored Steelers lost to the Chargers, with Pittsburg’s last pass attempt into the endzone harmlessly falling to the turf.

    Never heard such a raucous, drunk crowd get so quiet so fast.

  45. 45.

    Prufrock

    @Adam L Silverman: Can’t remember. I just remember that it was the first and last time I ever drank Iron City beer.

    For election season, Iron City should change its name to ewwww!

  46. 46.

    Adam L Silverman

    @LAO: Yes, I’m especially delicate.

    No, just figured someone needed to play straight man.

  47. 47.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Prufrock: No worries, was just curious. The three big sports bars that I recall in Largo are AJ’s, which is a standalone, and Kerr’s Winghouse and Mugs n’ Jugs. The latter two are both Hooters knockoffs.

  50. 50.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Prufrock: Somewhere in the basement I have a can of Iron City beer that’s about 30 years old. It’s probably just as “good” as new, I’d bet.

  52. 52.

    Prufrock

    @Gin & Tonic: That case is the best argument for the Yucca mountain storage facility I’ve ever heard.

    Seriously, I don’t know why the LGM guys hate Yuengling so much when Iron City and Rolling Rock exist. Hate Pennsylvania beer for the right reason guys!

  53. 53.

    Adam L Silverman

    @PaulWartenberg2016: I understand the concept. As for Harrisburg, I lived 20 minutes west of it for four years in Carlisle. Harrisburg is closer to Philadelphia than it is to Pittsburgh. I can make it to the western portions of Montgomery County in about 90 minutes if I’m really pushing it and all the way into Philadelphia in about 2 hours. I can make it to Pittsburgh in 3 to 3 and 1/2 hours.

  54. 54.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Prufrock: My sensei’s dojo is in the corner of that strip mall on the corner of Ulmerton and 66th. Since I’ve not been in the area much for a long time, I wasn’t aware of Mugs name change. We used to go to AJ’s a lot after class until, and I have no idea why, my sensei decided he wasn’t going there any more. Then it was the Winghouse, but the one down in Pinellas Park. Then he dropped that place too. I have no idea where, if anywhere, they are going now. I haven’t been in the area much since I went to work for the Army in 2007, so I have no idea what’s where, nor where they’re going to socialize.

  58. 58.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Gin & Tonic: Exactly. I don’t drink much at all, so when I do, and since I’m usually only having one, I try to avoid cheap.

  64. 64.

    Bitter Scribe

    I have to say, for a second-string goalie, that Russian kid playing for Tampa Bay gave a great account of himself.

  65. 65.

    Bitter Scribe

    @PaulWartenberg2016: Remember the Finals last year, when the Lightning tried to keep Blackhawks fans out of their arena by refusing to sell tickets to credit cards with Chicago zip codes, and all they did was increase opportunities for scalpers?

    It seems like the Lightning have a little success-to-attendance ratio problem.

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