You know what you did! And you know what to do…
Overtime Open Thread: Which One of You Jinxed Things?Post + Comments (61)
by Adam L Silverman| 61 Comments
This post is in: America, Domestic Politics, Open Threads, Sports
You know what you did! And you know what to do…
Overtime Open Thread: Which One of You Jinxed Things?Post + Comments (61)
This post is in: Open Threads, Popular Culture, Your Place Is In The Resistance
WOW. Amazing.@ladygaga's #PepsiHalftime Show! ?#SB51 https://t.co/z9vCKRBKkC
— NFL (@NFL) February 6, 2017
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Let’s see if this works… (okay, it comes up in a new tab on my machine, but you can watch the whole show there)…
Don’t know whether Alex Jones will be disappointed or not:
UPDATE: It still says 'bowel.' pic.twitter.com/16yNdL0Nr4
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 5, 2017
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The Onion still killing it after all these years:
Also, I can’t believe no one else front paged this yet, but Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer was inspired:
Amazing.
This post is in: Open Threads, Sports
Super Bowl Update: flag to be presented by survivors of the Bowling Green Massacre. Lady Gaga replaced at halftime by Frederick Douglass.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 5, 2017
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FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL…
Here’s cheering your team, Raven!
Token political content for the rest of us:
In which the publisher of The Federalist urges the republic to better attend to bread and gladiator-filled circuses: https://t.co/UinpHLcjTD
— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 3, 2017
Serial plagiarist Ben Domenech:
On Sunday, President Trump will continue one of President Obama’s Super Bowl traditions: a televised pregame interview, in this case with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News. While Mr. Trump is rarely one to shun the cameras, on this day I hope he will reconsider, and give the nation an opportunity to enjoy the game free of his presence.
Andrew Breitbart, whose namesake publication was an important factor in the election of Mr. Trump, was fond of saying that American politics is downstream from culture. Yet in the early days of the Trump era, it seems clear that the reverse is true. From television to comedy to sports, politics surrounds and engulfs us, leaving us no space to gather as citizens without giving a thought to it.
American culture today is infected with politics to a degree that it hurts our ability to share cultural moments and experiences with people who have different views. The problem isn’t the CNN “breaking news” headlines that increase blood pressure for the political addicts among us. It is that it is now impossible to consume media without the constant encroachment of political divisiveness and partisan tribalism…
by DougJ| 193 Comments
This post is in: Election 2018, Vive La Resistance
Democrats don’t know how long they’ll be able to keep up the pace of protests against President Donald Trump — and they’re worried Trump and his team are counting on them to run out of energy before the White House does.
Two weeks into the Trump administration, party leaders have already reached a frantic, fevered pitch, throwing around talk of constitutional crisis and raising the specter of impeachment.
“The thing that we don’t want to do is anesthetize the public with dozens and dozens of press conferences and marquee events,” said Seattle Mayor Ed Murray. “Then it’ll just become background noise. I’m worried that’s exactly what they’re trying to maneuver us into doing.”
Look, we can do the time. We can keep it up for years. We can keep it up for eight if necessary. And personally, I’m going to love every minute of it. I’m sad that Trump is doing so much damage to people’s lives and to the future of the country, but what can we do except fight back and have as much fun as we can doing it.
I’m tired of hearing about outrage fatigue. Fuck fatigue! Fatigue only hurts, it never helps. You fight through that shit. Cause fours year from now, when Kirsten Gillibrand is kicking it in the White House…
Here’s what’s going on in my local supermarket.
This post is in: Domestic Politics, Open Threads, General Stupidity
Y’all, I got Tom Sawyered SO bad:
My husband bought these pants that he needs to wear tomorrow for an important golf outing. He accidentally purchased pants that are two inches too long and was going to return them today. But he somehow goaded me into claiming that I can sew a simple hem.
I can sew buttons on, but so can kindergarteners with reasonable fine motor skills. Now that I’m embroiled in the task, I’m not so confident I can handle these hems.
I’ve poked holes in three fingers already. My grandmothers and mother were excellent seamstresses, but it doesn’t seem to be a heritable quality.
I’ll probably sew the leg holes shut. But on the bright side, he’ll never try to get me to sew anything ever again!
Open thread!
PS: I don’t know what sorcery is involved with this simple needle-threading device:
But thank Beelzebub for it. Otherwise, I’d still be on the first leg.
PPS: Nailed it!
The hems are both serviceable and badly done enough so as not to invite a repeat. I am well pleased.
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U.S. to refocus domestic anti-extremism efforts on Islam https://t.co/Pm1FOKwfAS pic.twitter.com/RPOKECvvpL
— Reuters TV (@ReutersTV) February 2, 2017
Critics decry Trump plan to limit counter-extremism program https://t.co/mFmJjJQxO9
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) February 3, 2017
Must be something in the zeigtgeist! From AP/KOSU, “New Film Links McVeigh to Far-Right Ahead of OKC Bombing“:
It didn’t start out that way, but a new documentary tying various threads among far-right extremists and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh serves as a history lesson and, indirectly, as a warning that something so horrible could happen again.
“Oklahoma City,” directed by Barak Goodman, airs Tuesday night in PBS’ “American Experience” series (9 p.m. EST) after its premiere last month at the Sundance Film Festival. Producer Mark Samels developed it as a means to “excavate” the story behind the bombing, Goodman said.
“This was hatched a couple years ago,” Goodman said in an interview. “It was time to take a look at this worst case of domestic terrorism in American history … and find the roots of the story.”
The two-hour documentary unpacks separatist and white supremacy movements that dogged the country in the 1980s and early 1990s — detailing anti-government rhetoric that still echoes. McVeigh’s involvement grows from selling anti-government bumper stickers in Texas to packing a Ryder truck with racing fuel and fertilizer and blowing it up in Oklahoma….
The filmmakers concluded that McVeigh acted after hearing anti-government rhetoric for years.
“You cannot demonize a federal government and make these radical claims and put forth these radical conspiracy theories without there being some concrete real-world effects sometimes,” Goodman said…
The Southern Poverty Law Center estimates there about 500 anti-government groups in the country today.
“They never quite go away,” Goodman said. “I think the only thing that we can take some comfort in is that law enforcement is much more attuned to this than they used to be. They are listening and watching, but whether that can stop something like Oklahoma City — who knows?”…
If you remember, the nuttier members of the Republican Congress under Speaker Gingrich were gleeful about the Oklahoma City bombing, because they were certain it was the weapon that would allow them to eject Bill Clinton from the White House. I’m pretty sure “President” Bannon dreams of being handed an equivalent opportunity…