Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

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

Second rate reporter says what?

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

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

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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

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  1. 1.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    Watching the game from a sports bar right on the wharf with a fantastic view of the water here in Juneau, Alaska. 20+ beers on tap and a majestic view between pitches.

    I saw the Steve Gilliard quote when coming here. He would approve as the Dodgers are the Fucking Yankees of the West Coast.

  5. 5.

    raven

    @Adam L Silverman: We don’t get any kids here even though we are just a couple of blocks from the belly of the beast. My bride worked her ass off on her costume for the big Wild Rumpus Parade Saturday and , even though she went, the rain made it less that it has been. She wanted to go and give out goodies so I put on my old basketball official uni, sunglasses and took Bohdi as my guide dog!

  8. 8.

    Betty Cracker

    @raven: Ranked ahead of ‘Bama? Wow! Congrats on that win last weekend, BTW. You’re a class act not to gloat over it. :)

  16. 16.

    PsiFighter37

    @p.a.: He was a legend – and gone way too soon. One of my favorite bloggers of all time, even if he absolutely hated the Yankees (I’m a fan…go ahead and shoot me).

  18. 18.

    TenguPhule

    FUCK.

    That crazy asshole Barrett got onto the 7th circuit.

    Roe vs Wade is now one case closer to being overturned.

  19. 19.

    Adam L Silverman

    @TenguPhule: I’m about 5’10/5’11. I’m also not a stormtrooper. I look terrible in white plastic whatever the hell that stuff is.

  20. 20.

    Adam L Silverman

    @TenguPhule: OT: where you asking about Russia using social media to both foment violence and identify targets in the US? If so, here’s one of the articles I was referring to. Autoplay video at the link because its CNN.
    money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/media/russia-facebook-violence/index.html

    Facebook accounts run by Russian trolls repeatedly called for violence against different social and political groups in the U.S., including police officers, Black Lives Matter activists and undocumented immigrants.
    Posts from three now-removed Facebook groups created by the Russian Internet Research Agency suggest Russia sought not only to meddle in U.S. politics but to encourage ideologically opposed groups to act out violently against one another. The posts are part of a database compiled by Jonathan Albright, the research director at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, who tracks and analyzes Russian propaganda.
    For example, “Being Patriotic,” a group that regularly posted content praising Donald Trump’s candidacy, stated in an April 2016 post that Black Lives Matter activists who disrespected the American flag should be “be immediately shot.” The account accrued about 200,000 followers before it was shut down.
    Another Russia-linked group, “Blacktivist,” described police brutality in a November 2016 post weeks after the election, and stated, “Black people have to do something. An eye for an eye. The law enforcement officers keep harassing and killing us without consequences.”
    The group “Secured Borders” had the most violent rhetoric, some of it well after the presidential election. A post in March 2017 described the threat of “dangerous illegal aliens” and said, “The only way to deal with them is to kill them all.” Another post about immigrants called for a draconian new law, saying, “if you get deported that’s your only warning. You come back you get shot and rolled into a ditch… BANG, problem solved.” And a post about refugees said, “the state department needs to be burned to the ground and the rubble reduced to ashes.”

    More at the link.

  22. 22.

    frosty

    Nice to see the pitchers batting. I’ve been watching the American League since I moved to Baltimore many years ago.

  26. 26.

    TenguPhule

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I look terrible in white plastic whatever the hell that stuff is.

    How could you possibly look terrible in it when the stuff is full body armor and a complete helmet?

  31. 31.

    TenguPhule

    @Adam L Silverman: Since you’re here, what’s your take on the general on the ground in Syria and the Pentagon disagreeing over how many troops are there?

    General said 4,000, Pentagon spokesperson freaks out and claims only 503.

  33. 33.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    All of what Steve said back in the day is sooooio relevant today…including his antipathy toward the Fucking Yankees. :)

    My kind of game thus far: pitchers duel.

  34. 34.

    p.a.

    Sunday’s WS game outdrew Sunday Night NFL nationally. Radio talk said that’s unusual even for WS games. NFL on teev becoming unwatchable. If they can’t make it seem safer without constant flags, the down trend will continue. (I’ll give them zero credit for actual concern for their ‘prison inmates’, but they want the image.)

  36. 36.

    TenguPhule

    @frosty:

    Great armor, too, that won’t stop a blaster or a light saber.

    Starship hulls don’t stop lightsabers either.

    They do stop blasters up to a certain level. All the ones that pierce through for kill shots in the series were either military grade or illegally modified to that level.

    /Starwars geek

    And its modern anti-blaster armor, not intended to stop serious physical attacks.

  38. 38.

    Duane

    If I were a Dodger fan, I’d be a little nervous. A run or two more for the Astros, with Verlander pitching, could be too much to overcome.

  39. 39.

    Adam L Silverman

    @TenguPhule: Okay, I found it. He’s the Joint Special Operations Task Force (JSOTF) Commander. I don’t know him (as far as I know – the name doesn’t look familiar. I have no idea what he’s referring to. He may be referring to the official top line number of all US forces in the theater of operations, which is 4,000. This number, however, refers to Iraq and includes the officially reported number of about 400 or so train, advise, and assist personnel from Special Operations working with the local Syrian partners (some Kurdish, some Muslim) and the USMC artillerists providing supporting fires. It has long been rumored that we’ve actually got more folks overall in the theater of operations because we were rotating short timers, 90 day deployments, through to fill gaps in the force in order to successfully complete the mission. I find it highly unlikely we’ve got 4,000 personnel in Syria. Someone would have noticed that many. Also, we don’t have that much slack in Special Operations Forces to have 3,600 additional bubbas from the various Service SOFs to make up this number. And if these are conventional Army or other Service personnel they’d be the wrong folks for this type of mission. And here too someone would have noticed a brigade or regimental combat team missing from their home station.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman:

    And here too someone would have noticed a brigade or regimental combat team missing from their home station.

    Divisional G-1: Sir, 3d Brigade is missing.

    Division Cdr: WTF?

    Divisional G-1: Maybe they were Raptured, sir.

    Division Cdr: Raptured? Have you seen their blotters?

    Divisional G-1: Maybe they up and went to Syria. It could happen, sir.

  45. 45.

    randy khan

    Okay, after Sunday’s game, who expected low-scoring nail biter? Okay, probably anybody who’s an actual baseball fan.

    This is my favorite kind of game. Right now, I’m finding myself wondering if Roberts is going to use up his whole bullpen before the night is over. Not that he might have any other choice if he wants to get to a game 7.

  46. 46.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @M. Bouffant:

    I love baseball to include hating other teams just on principle.

    Can’t trash talk because I’m a Nats fan, aka “Caps on grass”

  48. 48.

    M. Bouffant

    Annnnnd stretching.

    Oh geeze; listening to the radio broadcast, & they are playing “GAWD DAMN AMERICA” (I wish.) while Fox has spared us to run adverts.

  50. 50.

    randy khan

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage:

    This is wrong. The only team remotely equivalent to the Yankees in the NL is the Cardinals. If there’s a Yankees-Cardinals World Series in my lifetime, I may have to resort to watching field hockey. (Nothing against field hockey, really, but you get the idea.)

  51. 51.

    randy khan

    Jansen for the two-inning save. His two-inning appearances have not worked out so well in the Series so far, but even if he gets the save I wonder if using him for 2 innings tonight burns him for Game 7.

  52. 52.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @randy khan:

    I live in the heart of “Cardinals Nation”. I despise them as much as a non-Cubs fan can. Mainly because the fan base is working on the douchebag quotient close to Duke fans…and Fucking Yankees fans. :p

  53. 53.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    I should add, however, that everybody in the NL hates the Fucking Yankees of the West Coast because they have money to incinerate…like their East Coast brethren.

  54. 54.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    One more thing, it is cool when they cut away to Koufax. Lotta baseball history here.

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