Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I really should read my own blog.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

“But what about the lurkers?”

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

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

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Consistently wrong since 2002

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  3. 3.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    I hope the Pens win in 7. I’ve watched more playoff hockey in the last 2 months than a normal person.

  4. 4.

    Jeffraham Prestonian

    Goooo PREDS!

    C’mon. No one has ever visited Pittsburgh and said, “Y’know, I would mind living here.”

  5. 5.

    SiubhanDuinne

    This is a politics free thread. Hockey only.

    Wonder who Trump is rooting for.

    Ooooops.

  9. 9.

    JCJ

    there was a person who used to comment here with the nym Southern Beale. I recall that she was a Predators fan. In case she checks, Go Preds!

  12. 12.

    geg6

    @Jeffraham Prestonian:

    I love living in Pittsburgh. A truly wonderful, beautiful city. And above the Mason Dixon line, a requirement for any place I plan to live. Plus, well…the Pens. Nuff said.

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JCJ:

    She’s still around, keeps her own blog going intermittently (I subscribe to it by email, that’s the only reason I know). I think she lurks here, and every now and then looks in long enough to reassure everyone that she’s still alive and kicking, just really busy with life and that.

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Well of course, but the Senators got further this year. And I do have a vast number of Canadian friends, many of whom actually live in Ottawa.

    Naturally, in an ideal world, it would always be the Blackhawks.

  16. 16.

    Yoda Dog

    I want one of whatever El Tigre was drinking last night. Dude had quite an evening apparently, judging by that 3am mugshot..

  18. 18.

    geg6

    Fuck. I know little about this team, so I hope that was a fluke.

    Oooo, now a challenge…

  21. 21.

    Corner Stone

    @Yoda Dog: I wonder where the hell he was *driving* at 3am? Dude is a multi-multi-multi-millionaire. You pay that action to come to you, then you pay them more to leave.

  24. 24.

    Morzer

    This is a politics free thread. Hockey only.

    Balloon-Juice is so decorous these days. I kinda miss the golden age when the front-page media elite would tell us to go puck ourselves.

  26. 26.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Yoda Dog: He’s now apparently saying alcohol was not involved, that it was an unexpected reaction to prescription medications.

    Unexpected, huh?

  29. 29.

    Corner Stone

    @geg6:

    Five on three. Now score, damn it.

    Ahhh, youth. How many times have I heard that before?

  35. 35.

    Steve in the ATL

    @HinTN:

    Nashville can’t hold a candle to Pittsburgh as a city, but by God GO PREDS!

    Having grown up in Memphis, I am inherently anti-Nashville, but Nashville has “In the Round” at the Bluebird Cafe. What does Pittsburgh have to top that?

  36. 36.

    geg6

    I have no idea what that is. But if it has to do with country music, I don’t want to. Pittsburgh’s worst dive bar would be better than that. We do rock and roll here. And sports. I’ll take the Penguins, Steelers and Pirates over anything Nashville has to offer. And let’s not even talk about which city is more beautiful.

  37. 37.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    The first Pittsburgh goal came about because Crosby got away with blatant interference behind the net, or the puck would have been cleared. The third was goofball luck. If the Preds aren’t going to get the calls or the bounces, this is going to be a short series.

    This is a politics free thread. Hockey only.

    Hockey is life, and life is inherently political. So, no.

  38. 38.

    Breezeblock

    Awesome. Nashville goal called back, and the Pengwhines get a 5-3 power play.

    In other words, no need to watch anymore, the NHL is in the sack for the Crysbys.

  39. 39.

    raven

    It can’t be “Hockey Only” and be an open thread. If you haven’t seen “Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” do so.

  40. 40.

    geg6

    @Breezeblock: Yeah that might work if no one had watched the last series. Pens got screwed on almost every call. And still won.

    But whatever makes you feel better, dude.

  43. 43.

    p.a.

    Anecdote=/= data, but in 40+ years of watching hockey, it seems to me an early 3-0 lead is one of the least stable in the game.

  45. 45.

    efgoldman

    @p.a.:

    an early 3-0 lead is one of the least stable in the game.

    I don’t know if that’s actually true, statistically, but the Preds showed huge brass ones in this game. When it was 3-0 they could just as easily have decided it was over and mailed it in. Instead they completely shut Pittsburgh down until almost the end, and took the game over. A good sign for the rest of the series.

  46. 46.

    Bitter Scribe

    Nashville totally got jobbed with Subban’s goal being disallowed. I haven’t seen a video that clearly shows Forsberg was offside.

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