Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Petty moves from a petty man.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

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

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

“They all knew.”

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  5. 5.

    seefleur

    I HATE tapioca, grew up in a family who totally rooted for the Chiefs, and I firmly believe that 60 Minutes lost relevancy many years ago.  As a lurker, I guess this is for the likes of me…  Btw, I love the jackals – you all make me feel like I’m not nearly as alone up here in the hinterlands of ME. Thanks a ton!

  11. 11.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Baud: We are literally eating tapioca while watching the superbowl.

     

    I don’t know whether to post in this thread or the other now. Torn!

  23. 23.

    Juju

    I’ve been watching “Air Disasters”. I watch 60 minutes if it’s going to be interesting or relevant, so not in a while. Tapioca is good if you make the whipped egg white type, but it has no chocolate, so I don’t waste my calories on it unless there is absolutely nothing else for dessert. I’ve never watched a whole super Bowl in my life and the parts I’ve watched were viewed by accident.

  29. 29.

    Ohio Mom

    I could take or leave tapioca, much prefer rice pudding.

    John, I know you said no medical advice but I hope you pursue additional ENT opinions on your sinuses.

    Sometimes you have to make a fuss to get doctors to sit up and pay attention.

    I told two doctors, an internist and my oncologist, that I was sure I had rheumatoid arthritis. They shrugged me off but the onc nurse gave me a referral to a rheumatologist anyway.

    The rheumatologist also wasn’t particularly impressed, though she ordered blood tests, whether to humor me or run up the bill, I don’t know.

    Was she embarrassed or apologetic when the tests proved me right? Of course not, she’s a doctor. She’s taken good care of me since, so I’ve given her a pass (for now, one more screw-up and I’m outta there).

    The moral of this story (and I have additional similar ones) is Be a Squeaky Wheel with Doctors.

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    joel hanes

    I liked tapioca “pudding” as a kid; haven’t had it or even been offered it since.

    Back when I could ski, the Superb Owl Sunday was often the best skiing day of the year: empty slopes on an early Feb weekend, ski right into the lift chair.

  35. 35.

    Felanius Kootea

    I recorded the Shakira and J Lo concert – it was amazing! Had to fast forward through a bunch of guys violently knocking each other about the head to induce brain damage but finally I got to the music.

    Shakira has talent off the charts – she played the guitars, the drums, featured rock, pop, cumbia, champeta (Colombian music with Nigerian, Congolese and South African influences), and my 2nd favorite Cameroonian song, Zangalewa, which she previously covered for the 2010 World Cup. She also knows how to dance. J Lo was good as well – I loved that she had on a Puerto Rican flag cape as she covered “Born in the USA.” Laughed out loud at that one because I know some in that stadium have no clue that Puerto Rico is part of the US (I know J Lo was born in the Bronx).

    50 and 43 and they could pass for women half their ages. They killed it!

  36. 36.

    sdhays

    I don’t even know who’s playing the Super Bowl this year. I had forgotten about it until a colleague mentioned it on Friday.

    Regarding 60 Minutes relevance, I think the George W. National Guard story was probably the last time it was relevant, and I don’t think it has recovered from that debacle.

  37. 37.

    Juju

    @Ohio Mom: a friend once asked me if I liked rice pudding with or without raisins. I hate rice pudding so wether with or without raisins is a moot point. Also, Raisinettes, who came up with that monumentally bad idea and waste of perfectly good chocolate?

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    I’m watching the Six Nations Rugby championship. Italy V Wales in pool play. Once this is over I’m watching Ireland V Scotland. I’ll watch the England V France game tomorrow.

    And I like both tapioca and rice pudding.

  43. 43.

    TomatoQueen

    Tapioca is highly useful for thickening fruit fillings for pies & galettes. Tapioca pudding is for children and also for crushing large pills in.

    60Mins drives me nuts or bores me or is exciting or repetitive at random, and if they’d ever sort out their schedule properly during f-ball season it would be most helpful. But still I am old school and loyal to the memory of Don Hewitt & so I watch.

    F-ball should be banned as a health hazard.

  44. 44.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Virginia:

    There is a musical, almost lyrical quality to her speech and cadence that sucks you in and you haven’t even gotten to the food yet.

    I also love the fact that at one point in earlier episodes the YouTube plaques/awards she earned were hanging on the wall behind her.

  45. 45.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @Adam L Silverman: Brother Adam, Mahomes come from behind win, scoring TWO touchdowns, when all looked lost, with only a handful of minutes left on the clock was a beautiful thing.

  46. 46.

    Adam L Silverman

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I will take your word for it. And I’m glad you enjoyed it.

    I don’t watch American football. I find it slow. I don’t like the NFL, the moron they have as a figurehead to run the NFL, the team owners, and, frankly, I find the game boring, tedious, and slow.

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    bluefish

    Brazilian tapioca is something altogether different. Divine. With a cup of hot coffee. Like the American kind too. In small cups, really cold. Can football be over now?

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    Ruckus

    @Ohio Mom:

    Yep. Every patient has to be or have an advocate. Being docile doesn’t cut it. I tell docs that the internet doc at my house studies up on what’s going on. Me. Doesn’t make me a doc in any way but it does often give me questions to ask and at least some understanding of what they tell me.

  53. 53.

    Ruckus

    @RaflW:

    A man after my own heart.

    Tapioca is of the devil. Yes, yes it is.

    Mom used to make it once in a while and I’m the only one that hated it. At least I had a passion as a kid, hating tapioca.

  54. 54.

    RandomMonster

    I was all good up until the tapioca part. It has the texture of swallowing snot. It has no pleasant flavor without vanilla or something else. There’s a reason you never see it on a dessert menu.

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