Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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

How stupid are these people?

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

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

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

“woke” is the new caravan.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

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I’m sidelined with a messed-up Achilles’ tendon, so I’m piled up on the sofa with my foot iced and elevated and preparing to take in the sporting action. Here’s the top 25 match-ups:

2016-10-15

Cole’s ‘Eers are undefeated! I had no idea. I’ll eschew that game to watch the ‘Dawgs and ‘Dores (interested since it’s an SEC match-up but indifferent to the outcome), then I’ll catch the first half hour of Alabama vs. Tennessee (Roll Tide!) until the Gators play Mizzou.

Ole Miss and Arkansas should be interesting. I’ll be pulling for Ole Miss since that was my grandfather’s school. Among the evening games, the Buckeyes vs. the Badgers looks like the most interesting (Go Badgers!).

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  6. 6.

    germy

    LUNARIAN: Then when your Congress has passed a law it goes directly to the Supreme Court in order that it may at once be known whether it is constitutional?

    TERRESTRIAN: O no; it does not require the approval of the Supreme Court until having perhaps been enforced for many years somebody objects to its operation against himself—I mean his client. The President, if he approves it, begins to execute it at once.

    LUNARIAN: Ah, the executive power is a part of the legislative. Do your policemen also have to approve the local ordinances that they enforce?

    TERRESTRIAN: Not yet—at least not in their character of constables. Generally speaking, though, all laws require the approval of those whom they are intended to restrain.

    LUNARIAN: I see. The death warrant is not valid until signed by the murderer.

    TERRESTRIAN: My friend, you put it too strongly; we are not so consistent.

    LUNARIAN: But this system of maintaining an expensive judicial machinery to pass upon the validity of laws only after they have long been executed, and then only when brought before the court by some private person—does it not cause great confusion?

    TERRESTRIAN: It does.

    LUNARIAN: Why then should not your laws, previously to being executed, be validated, not by the signature of your President, but by that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

    TERRESTRIAN: There is no precedent for any such course.

    LUNARIAN: Precedent. What is that?

    TERRESTRIAN: It has been defined by five hundred lawyers in three volumes each. So how can any one know?

    (Ambrose Bierce)

  8. 8.

    germy

    LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon inhabits. The Lunarians have been described by Lucian, Locke and other observers, but without much agreement. For example, Bragellos avers their anatomical identity with Man, but Professor Newcomb says they are more like the hill tribes of Vermont.

    (Ambrose Bierce)

  15. 15.

    Citizen_X

    OT (because Texas doesn’t play till tonight, and kinda suck this year anyway), here’s a nice satirical bit from Alexandra Petri about the horror that is Hillary. Nice use of Lovecraftian elements.

  16. 16.

    Some Guy

    Section 44, row 26.

    Beat the Tigers. And now that the SEC has forced LSU to reschedule our game. BEAT them too.

  17. 17.

    Some Guy

    Mizzoo better get ready for some payback for the beat down they gave us in the Swamp 2 years ago.

  19. 19.

    PsiFighter37

    I am seeing that Trump suggests that Clinton is doing coke. Talk about projection at its finest…

  21. 21.

    germy

    @smintheus:

    The message this research sends is very, very clear. There is a segment of the Republican Party that is opposed to racial equality. It has increased in numbers in reaction to the election of a black president. The result was that an anti–racial equality candidate won the Republican nomination.

    Given that the US is one recession away from a Republican winning the presidency, this is a concerning development.

  31. 31.

    gene108

    I hate ACC refs. Doesn’t matter the sport. They are all corrupt shills for the league office.

  32. 32.

    SRW1

    I’m sidelined with a messed-up Achilles’ tendon,

    You also a Klopp victim?*

    *Prolly inscrutable cause it’s the ‘wrong’ kinda football.

  38. 38.

    Geoduck

    @Soylent Green: It’s simple: The UW Huskies are finally getting around to re-asserting their dominance. The natural order has been restored! :-)

    But seriously, as a Husky fan, it’s been a loooong fifteen years wandering in the wilderness.

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