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Youth and treachery

November 8, 2025

As the San Antonio Spurs play an imperfect game and still knock off Kevin Durant and the Rockets, Victor Wembanyama, double-teamed all night and not “on” his game,, still dunked on Durant and ended up with 22 points, 4 assists, 8 rebounds…

Your reminder, Wemby is 21 years old.

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Mississippi State president Mark Keenum, chair of the College Football Playoff, board of managers told EPSN today SEC would prefer to “not have automatic bids” in future iterations of the playoff

Translation, the SEC doesn’t want pesky small conference winners getting in the way of them having half or more of the playoff field..

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Meanwhile, since Fox News and right wing media love everything that their leaders, why aren’t they posting their sleeping beauty picture. (yes, this was during a press conference.)

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Why do things that get you horrible press and cause your party to lose elections? When releasing the Epstein files would be far worse than anyone can imagine.

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Who else honestly thought this was satire? “Melania Trump will receive the ‘Patriot of the Year’ award from Fox at their annual primetime Patriot Awards show tonight.”

So (New York based) media wants to keep talking about what Mamdani’s win as a democratic socialist in New York City means for the Democratic Party.

But not a word about Minneapolis, where Democratic mayor Jacob Frey DEFEATED democratic socialist Omar Fateh.

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As much as we might “relish” the story of the Subway sandwich thrower being found innocent…

How many taxpayer dollars did we waste on this small stop on Trump’s retribution tour?

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Amazing how many people justifying Trump’s efforts to take SNAP benefits away from women and children and seniors call themselves Christian in their social media bios.

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If GOP members of Congress lost THEIR health insurance until the shutdown was over they’d vote to extend ACA subsidies and open the government tonight.

As Trump asks SCOTUS for an immediate ruling to let him starve poor people by cutting off SNAP, he’s dining tonight at Mar-A-Lago. Where memberships start at $1 million. Before dues and meals

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While some grownups in Senate try to come to a deal to open government,

NY Times points out Speaker Mike Johnson “has refused to commit to even allowing a vote on extending Obamacare subsidies.” What does Velveeta Voldemort have on Mike?

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Lindsey Graham today on the Senate Floor defending Donald Trump’s absolute right to declare war without Congressional approval. John McCain was one of Graham’s best friends. I hope John is haunting Lindsey’s dreams.

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Stephen Colbert on the morning after the 2025 elections: “Democrats are walking around with a spring in their step like a divorced mom in her 40s whose new haircut just got her carded in 2 different bars.”

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The sweetest day.

February 14, 2024

Not for some of us “Happy Valentine’s Day.”

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But “PItchers and Catchers Report.”
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Hate to see that it’s only televised on Peacock.

Because the more people who sign up, the more streaming will look like a good future alternative.

But Michigan at Iowa. Women’s basketball Thursday night: T

Wow. Tickets as low as $285 (!) #CaitlinClark

Hoping fans show up to watch Caitlin as a WNBA rookie too.

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Jenny Cavnarhas just named play-by-play announcer for the Oakland Athletics -the first woman to hold such a role for a Major League Baseball team.

This is good news, especially for the Athletics, who are not often referred to as a Major League Baseball team.

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Get more random online ads than most, especially as I read about sports and google for random information. But you know MLB has a marketing problem when you regularly get offers for bobblehead giveway games and you go “who?”

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Some GOP Senators did all night marathon delaying Foreign Aid bill & complaining about border.

Bill finally was passed about 6a Tuesday. If only they’d made effort when REPUBLICAN Senator Lankford along w/ Sinema & Murphy & staffs invited comments while working night & weekends and holidays to write actual border-foreign aid bill.

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A message from congressman-elect Tom Suozzi to Congress: “Stop running around for Donald Trump and start running the country.”

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This was supposed to be close. Even Starry the cat can see #NY03 isn’t. Hey national media – Democrats, especially women, are fired up. And we’re voting.

But in Tennessee, Dem. Gloria Johnson, who GOP tried to expel from state House, is seeking another term while also running for U.S. Senate.

GOP is trying to force her to only run for one.

Meanwhile in Florida, GOP changed rules to allow DeSantis to run both for re-election & for President. #hypocrites

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CNN talks about how GOP especially thinks we should prioritize deporting undocumented immigrants.

Wonder if those pollsters mentioned how many service workers- in hospitality, agriculture, construction, landscaping, child-care, housekeeping, restaurants, ARE currently undocumented workers…

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Conservative Congressman Ken Buck – who voted “no” on impeaching Mayorkas. “You don’t have all that many serious people in this place who really want to work on policy and get serious problems solved.” Understatement of the year.

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MAGA Republicans are attacking their own GOP Senators today for standing against Vladimir Putin. What’s next, a posthumous effort to impeach Ronald Reagan because he didn’t tell Gorbachev to build up that wall?

(and maybe put snipers on it?)

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Embarrassing?

November 16, 2008

A questionnaire for applicants for one of 8,000 jobs in the Obama administration asks about anything potentially embarrassing you may ever have said, done, or posted, including on blogs, MySpace, and Facebook. 

Forget 8,000 jobs, with those criteria they might be lucky enough to find that many people who could attend his inaugural.

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And those who do pass the criteria will certainly be over 50.

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A new benefit for the baby boomer generation: being lucky enough to grow up during a time where every stupid thing you did in college and high school was likely only witnessed by contemporaries who couldn’t remember it well either.
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Another sign you need to get a life post-election:  (And hey, I resemble this remark.)

You get dressed in the morning and feel naked without your Obama button.

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The University of Michigan paid a total over $4 million to get coach Rich Rodriguez away from West Virginia University.  Now,  with a 3-8 record, Michigan boosters wonder, how much do they have to pay for West Virginia to take him back?

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The New York Yankees are prepared to make a record offer to pitcher  C.C. Sabathia for 2009.   With the added inducement of no recent record to live up to in the playoffs.

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And kudos again to the University of Cincinnati Bearcats, who will move into the college football top 20 after knocking off Louisville Friday night and are almost certainly headed to post-season play.

To which Bengals fans ask – what’s post season play?

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You know it’s time to get a life after the election when…

November 15, 2008

Okay, it’s 11 days after the election and over two months until Obama’s inauguration.  Which means it’s a good time to look for signs that you might need a life again…

For example:

You still get up first thing in the morning and automatically go to Pollster.com

You plan to watch the 2-7 St. Louis Rams against the 2-7 San Francisco 49ers, and you don’t even live in St. Louis or San Francisco.

For that matter, you plan to watch the Rams – 49ers game and you DO live in St. Louis or San Francisco.

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You really really care if Obama or McCain end up winning Missouri.

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Back to sports.

Is it time yet to rename it “Frequently Suspended University.”

Nine games into the season, the FSU Seminoles have played only TWO games without at least one player suspended.  19 different players have been suspended at least one game. each.  And they haven’t even had final exams to get caught cheating on yet.

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The Philadelphia Phillies have announced after their first World Series win since 1980 that they will be raising ticket prices.   Guess  after a championship this is the only way to be sure in 2009 that they  give their fans something to boo about.

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And back to politics:

Governor Sarah Palin was asked what she thought of Hillary Clinton possibly being named Secretary of State.  And she responded, “which state?”

Or,

 Sarah Palin was asked what she thought about Obama choosing Hillary as his Secretary of State.  And she responded. “No more trick questions,  America’s not a state, it’s a country.”

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After the election…

November 6, 2008

It should be at least a few weeks before the first candidates declare for 2012.

 

One day after the election, Barack Obama is working on his transition team.  And Joe Biden is just finishing delivering his VP acceptance speech.

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Sarah Palin said she doesn’t believe she cost John Palin a single vote.  Well, Obama may have won most of the swing states, but Palin certainly owns the state of denial.

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After the election there were plenty of phone calls.  George W.  Bush and Dick Cheney called John McCain to offer condolences.  And Bill Clinton called Sarah Palin to offer to buy her lunch.

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After the end of the baseball season Manny Ramirez said he wanted a big longterm contract, saying  “I want to see who is the highest bidder. Gas is up and so am I,”

Yeah, proving exactly why smart teams won’t sign him to a long term contract…

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There are reports that Major League Baseball agents are scrambling to sign their clients’ big contracts before January 1,  when President-Elect Obama’s expected tax increases will hit multi-millionaires.   

So who knew, they may not make the playoffs, but the Yankees could at least help pay off our national debt.

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And voters in San Francisco overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have renamed a local sewage plant after George W. Bush.  Of course, San Franciscans being San Franciscans, no word as to whether they thought the renaming would be unfair to the president,  or to the sewage plant.

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