I'm absolutely loving this, and I'll tell you why. I'm from New England, and it is utterly amazing how many Patriots fans ardently believe in the "Patriot Way"— that they have had all this success because their organization has higher character and is more noble or whatever. When Tom Brady "unselfishly" restructured…

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Punting in the 3rd qtr when down 24-7 and 31-7. I mean, I'm not fan of TMQ either, but that was blindingly idiotic. I'm a Pats fan but goddamn that almost offended me in its stupidity. Your season is over if you lose this game, why are you punting?

Who handles pucks until they are used? Baseballs? Basketballs? Etc. The fact that teams have their own footballs until they are used is just dumb.

Also liking the freedom to shine his own balls...

the rehearsed speech is probably a by-product of Republicans not wanting another Marco Rubio situation where stopped middle of the speech to drink some water during the live rebuttal to a State of the Union address

We actually intentionally watched the rebuttal on Fox News, so we could see their immediate reaction. It was hysterical. One panel member said, "It was. . . fine. It was fine." They opened the segment, post speech, by explaining that it's always really hard to give the rebuttal to the SotU so people don't expect them…

He looks like he's starring in a Rick Scott made-for-TV movie

Holy god, that was the most canned, rehearsed-sounding speech I've heard in a long while. The tone and cadence were pure Sally Struthers PSA. I kept expecting her to tell us that for just pennies a day, we could ensure that poor Iowa school children would have more than one pair of shoes.

... Why did you need to have more than one?

I got confused too. I thought it was a parody video and Funny or Die was confessing about it.

"Actually, they should be sorry."

The saddest Sons of Anarchy fan club ever.

Ah man, still too soon.

I've been told that the former group are known as "casuals" (with subspecies "filthy" and "fucking") and that the latter group are "hardcore".

In all seriousness, I can't believe those people who only ever play to win. I was playing Street Fighter with my out-of-town cousin, and he was only playing to win. Just…

I already have snapshots of myself with my cat. I gave copies of the portrait to my family overseas, who already knew about my codependent relationship with my cat.

"A common story among parents who have estranged adult children is how much they had focused on their children, how much they did to make sure their children had all the best advantages, made them the center of the family universe — and often how they treated them more like an equal or an adult than a child.
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My mother has a lot of mental health issues (bipolar depression and borderline personality disorder) and she doesn't process guilt at all well. So she denies things so aggressively and persistently that you start to wonder if they ever really happened. I am (mostly) estranged from her because she was emotionally…

Starred for the Partridge reference.