Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

The revolution will be supervised.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

I really should read my own blog.

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

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

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

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

In after Baud. Damn.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

American history and black history cannot be separated.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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  2. 2.

    harlana pepper

    Wankers: guys who put up a personal that says: “You want an honest man, you got it” and then makes up really lame excuses on the internets and on the phone about why they haven’t called you after they initially fall all over themselves to contact you with a bunch of phony bullshit lines; and then call you at 11:00 am because he happens to be in town and do I want to have lunch that day.

  3. 3.

    asiangrrlMN

    Go Pencaps! Oh, wait. Those are two teams. Go, Penguins!

    harlana pepper, well, at least he showed himself to be a jerk right off the bat. Better off not wasting time with him.

  5. 5.

    Incertus

    Pens-Caps–and yet it is nowhere to be found on my satellite system, which leaves me with a basketball game I care nothing about (Cavs-Hawks) and a baseball game I care even less about (Mets-Braves). Hrmmph.

  6. 6.

    ruemara

    Is this a pen nibs versus pens with caps thread? Because I am all about the nibs.

  7. 7.

    andrea

    No Versus from your satellite provider? Ugh. My cable has Vs. but there are times I wished I lived near the Canadian border so I could get CBC.

  8. 8.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Incertus: Well, you know, hockey is not a REAL American sport. Suck it up and watch basketball or baseball, you so c i a li st!

  9. 9.

    Brandon T.

    You know, I was reading through TNR/other political periodicals from the late 90s and some of Andrew Sullivan’s stuff from 2001…and I’ve concluded that John’s idea of “peak wingnut” isn’t actually wrong, it’s just that it only applies to national politics and not the GOP. From this viewpoint, “peak wingnut” was between 01 and 04, which is where wingnut policies ceased to be sustainable in all their slobbering furor at a national level.

  11. 11.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    Gah. How ’bout dem Cavs, eh? On the verge of a second sweep in the playoffs.

  12. 12.

    gbear

    If the pen wins, you wind up with an ink stained pocket. Caps are our friends.

    Did this article come up in the Rush threads earlier? Clearchannel is going belly-up, and it can’t happen soon enough for me. Fucker’s have done so much damage to almost every aspect of the media. Fun fact from the story:

    The astronomical worth of Limbaugh’s eight-year pact: $400 million. The amount of money Clear Channel execs have been trying to scrimp and save this year as they lay off thousands from the struggling company: $400 million.

  13. 13.

    TheBus

    Go Pens!!! Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go!!! Just under four months until kickoff!!!

  14. 14.

    Third Eye Open

    It has reached that point where I am relegated to rooting against the wings, so with that in mind, here goes:

    FUCK THE WINGS!

  15. 15.

    Ruemara

    @gbear:
    You can’t deny that a nib is a lovely thing and caps, even when put on correctly, nastily slip off and cause leaks.

    @ clearchannel’s demise. I only feel sorry for the grunts and I hope that toxic mess never works in radio again. But I know his friends will save him.

  16. 16.

    TheBus

    Third Eye….While I like the Pens and LOVE the Steelers, I am from Detroit (my family brainwashed me for years to cheer only for Pittsburgh teams), and those are fightin’ words. The Wings are the good guys in the league. I like the Pens, but if they go up against the Wings for a second consecutive game, then, it’s GO WINGS!!!

  17. 17.

    KG

    Actual online exchange between hockey fans:

    Person A: Go Pens!

    Person B: Go Staplers!

    After game…

    Person C: Did the Staplers win?

    Edit: Person C, not a hockey fan.

  19. 19.

    DecidedFenceSitter

    Although I don’t much care for hockey, I feel the need to show the colors.

    GO CAPS!

  20. 20.

    Third Eye Open

    @TheBus:

    I am from Denver and have been an AVS fan my entire hockey loving life, so I have no qualms about telling the Wings to fuck-off. OTOH, if you’re ever in Tallahassee during the season i’ll buy the first round

  21. 21.

    demkat620

    From Hitchens:

    “The president should be squirming in his seat. Not smiling,” he said. “The black dyke got it wrong. No one told her the rules.”

    You stay classy Chris.

  23. 23.

    Third Eye Open

    @Comrade Kevin:

    I intimately understand the stakes here. On one hand you have the Wings, on the other you have a professional sports team named after a Disney movie starring Emelio Estevez. It’s one of them lose-lose scenarios for all free-thinking hockey fans.

  24. 24.

    chuck

    Clear Channel paid rush $400M and that’s what they’re now in the hole? Amazing. If El Fatso doesn’t finish the company off himself, the shareholder lawsuits will.

    [edit: I learned that CC took itself private, buying itself out of a previous shareholder suit. I guess it’s off to bankruptcy court to renegotiate Blowhardo The Magnificent’s contract)

  25. 25.

    burnspbesq

    I grew up as a Rangers fan, and was convinced that I would never see them hoist the cup. When they returned to suckitude post-1994, I gave up on them, and since I live less than 15 minutes from the Honda Center, I suppose that makes me a Ducks fan. So I will join in a hearty chorus of “F**k the Wings and Their Octopus-Abusing Fans.”

  27. 27.

    burnspbesq

    @ Comrade Kevin:

    All of the Disney stuff was purged when the team was sold. Not sure what local fauna you would want to name them after, although “Anaheim Convicts” has a certain ring to it, seeing as how the principal owner pled to multiple counts of securities and wire fraud and is awaiting sentencing.

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    asiangrrlMN

    Wait, what will happen to Rush if the company goes under? Does he still get his bazillions? Bastard.

  32. 32.

    Third Eye Open

    @burnspbesq:

    Anaheim Huns, in recognition of its decidedly German history, I dunno. But what I can tell you is that the duck is one of the least menacing mascots besides perhaps banana slugs and buckeyes.

    In my personal opinion I would like to see 6 or 8 teams purged from the league. I would offer up the Panthers, Sabres and Islanders in the East; Coyotes, Oilers and Ducks in the West.

  33. 33.

    Dennis-SGMM

    @burnspbesq:

    All of the Disney stuff was purged when the team was sold. Not sure what local fauna you would want to name them after…

    The Anaheim Gridlocks would work. Used to drive right by the Pond during my commute to nearby Newport Beach.

  35. 35.

    Turgidson

    Just took my last exam of law school. Thank fucking god. Now I have a week to relax before I start studying for the 3 day torture fest known as the California bar exam. Hooray for this week…

  37. 37.

    Third Eye Open

    @John Cole:

    Crosby reminds me of Gretzky in his first season. If he can stay somewhat healthy and the Pens spend the money to shore up their D, he might even make a run for a few of the Great One’s records.

  40. 40.

    Turgidson

    @Dennis-SGMM:

    Thanks!

    My preferences are for labor and employment or antitrust law, but the firm I’ve signed on with (so far, they’re telling me I still have a job…fingers crossed) will pretty much just put me where I’m needed, which might be bankruptcy. No word yet on that front, but I’m just happy to have a job.

  41. 41.

    Third Eye Open

    @J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:

    They were, but now that we have exercised all the frenchy-french Canadian ghosts with a couple Cups we need never speak of the aforementioned Canuckistani Franco-philic tendencies of what is now a solidy pro-‘Merican hockey club.

  43. 43.

    Andrea

    Being a Shark season ticket holder, I want Detroit to kick all sorts of Duck ass. They have a bunch of Swedes, too (dad’s from there).

    None of these guys are Lemieux.

    A few weeks before he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s, the Pens were in town to play the Sharks and he was questionable with a bad foot or residual back stuff. Didn’t matter, what with 1 goal and 6 assists later.

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    @Turgidson:

    Congrats! Fwiw, I consider the difficultu of the Cal Bar to be vastly overrated. I passed it first time, as a fourth-year associate, with only two weeks of full-time prep. The pass rate for grads of ABA accredited schools is much higher than the overall pass rate, and the pass rate for graduates of the Big Five (Stanford, Boalt, USC, UCLA, and Hastings) is consistently above 80 percent. I have no doubt that you will prepare thoroughly and kick its ass.

  46. 46.

    MikeJ

    All I ask is that you do better than Bybee and Yoo.

    Aiming sort of low, aren’t you? I’d ask that s/he not commit any crimes, not just crimes against humanity. Not that I expect that to be a problem for anybody with any sort of conscience.

    Anyway, mazel tov Turgidson!

  47. 47.

    Turgidson

    @MikeJ:

    I don’t plan on finding unfathomably specious legal reasoning for advocating crimes against humanity. Now, finding specious reasons to protect corporations from legal liability for monopolization (or keeping their employees under the jackboot heel)? Well, that’s a different story. Sigh. I only plan on selling my soul long enough to pay back my loans, and maybe put a down payment on a house.

    But anyway, thanks everybody! Feels great to have this hurdle cleared! (assuming I didn’t fail anything!)

    and yeah, I went to Hastings, so hopefully I’ll be among the lucky 80% that passes the bar the first time. Just not looking forward to the prep class.

  48. 48.

    asiangrrlMN

    @MikeJ: Yes. That way, I won’t be disappointed. Actually, I fully expect anyone who frequents this board and is not a troll to be a hell of a lot more moral and conscientious than either Bybee or Yoo. Especially the latter fucker.

  49. 49.

    Turgidson

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I have friends at Berkeley’s law school who say they loved the class they took from him. I think I’d have a hard time separating a class from what I know of him outside that class, but who knows.

    I’m more moral than that fartknocker (my Beavis and Butthead language aside), I’ll tell you that.

  50. 50.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Turgidson: I don’t think I could have taken a class from Yoo without punching him in the neck (h/t John Cole). I just wouldn’t have it in me.

    I have no doubt that you will be a better lawyer than all the Bush fucks put together.

  51. 51.

    Krissed Off

    As for the Anaheim NHL franchise, shouldn’t we just recast it as the Lick Manoeuvres?

  52. 52.

    Batocchio

    @Turgidson:

    I know a guy who had Yoo as a teacher, thought he was lousy and couldn’t stand him. Bybee was supposedly a pretty good teacher – NPR had one of his students on who was far more liberal than Bybee who gave a positive assessment. With Yoo, maybe it was the class. His opinions and op-eds are so transparently crappy and dishonest, I find it hard to believe he’d be a very good teacher. Some scumbags can be somewhat personable when not practicing the dark arts, though.

    Regardless, congratulations and best of luck.

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