I know I’m kind of a sucker for Barack Obama these days. I know there’s a tag on my blog that exists because I keep posting about cool shit that he does. I know I’m supposed to use this blog to call out the bullshit obfuscation that is so prevalent in politics instead of cheerleading [...]
Look, I need to do something to justify my creeping sense of impending doom, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to walk around telling everyone the sky is falling like Chicken Little with a goatee and glasses.
So to help relieve the gloom, I figured … fuck it, if the ship really is going down, [...]
If you missed all the weirdness, or even some of it, MSNBC has put together a wonderful 10-minute recap of the past six months of American politics … it’s really all you need to see to come to the same conclusion as Stan Marsh.
“Dude … this is fucked up right here.”
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Sports, and sports fandom, exist partly to mark the passage of time.
You can see it in the names we give to some of the events (the October classic, March Madness, etc.), by the way a diehard fans of certain sports use championships and other events as a way to remember dates (ask a Maple Leaf [...]
I’ve watched the Detroit Red Wings win three Stanley Cups. This is the sweetest. These guys are an incredible team. Maybe the best I’ve ever seen in Wings uniforms. And that, people, is saying something.
Words sort of fail right now … but this Cup … this Cup is …
for Dan Cleary, a proud Newfoundlander, who [...]
Hey! Check it out everybody! this comes from the file of Shit-I-Probably-Shouldn’t-Have-Needed-Maps-To-Realize…
First, a map of how Barack Obama stacks up against John McCain in current electoral college votes as of this week (Obama is blue, obviously):
Next, we have this map:
But to play the race card in this election would be just another example of Obama’s [...]