I know that from a political science/538.com perspective the midterms were a big success with high turnout and major progressive gains in the House, at the state level, and a victorious stalemate in Senate races that heavily favored Republicans.

But goddamn, I still find it depressing. One of our two (2) actual…

I’m as guilty of clicking on some of this garbage as anyone, but I think we need a better model of content creation than building a web story about how someone clapped back at someone else on twitter about some stupid shit.

I dunno man, I’ll bet the Job Creators wouldn’t be happy with this. And if we anger the Job Creators, they might not be in such a generous mood when it’s time for them to create the jobs for us.

Wait, is that picture from 2002?  Why does Biden look ten years older than I remember him looking now?  Or is it a recent picture and Mitt is still rocking his leather daddy Olympic letterman jacket?

Coffee (just regular coffee, not an espresso-based drink) should have half and half in it, or it should be black.  Both are good, but there is no middle ground.

The first time I watched that movie I facepalmed so hard when she said that I nearly injured myself.

I can attest that the Let’s Go Phillies guy has been at it for several seasons.

But how else will white people register their disgust at brown people getting all sorts of awesome free stuff and money from the government other than by voting for shitbags?

Republicans in 2018: Sure they’re not all Nazis, they just happen to support the same candidates that Nazis are really enthusiastic about.

I like the font too, but I’m not a big fan of black as a primary uniform color, whether for hats or jerseys.

Plus if they played outside, their cheerleaders would be able to impress Greggggg with their professionalism* by still wearing skimpy clothes.

But in all seriousness, weren’t the Vikings considered to have had a huge home field advantage late in the season back before they played in a dome (too lazy to look up whether…

Many years ago, my brother and I went to a Reading Phillies (AA) game, and in the spirit of minor league baseball promotions, they were having a mascot party. This was back before their official mascot was an ostrich, by the way, though I think they did already have multiple mascots including a rubber duck and a…

White House reporters are given hard passes make their entry into the office every day easier. It’s unclear whether Acosta will be permitted to return to the White House briefing room with some other type of pass, or whether he is permanently banned.

I mean, he might as well start appointing some even more monstrous officials since it just became less likely that the Senate will put any kind of a brake on it.  How about Joe Arpaio or Roy Moore for AG?

Yeah, lots of good things happened last night, and lots of previously unthinkable things came really close to happening.  But it’s still goddamn depressing how many voters looked at a Republican party that has gone (even more) off the rails and (even more) openly embraced white supremacy, misogyny, xenophobia, and the…

Before I was the New Jersey Kid, I was the Pennsylvania Kid, so I’m very excited at the prospect of my old state regaining a bit more of its sanity.  And either way, this time around even if Republicans control the legislature for redistricting, the Democrats are wise to their tricks and have some pretty solid court…

This is good, I love reading the deadspin comments. But despite loving the writing at Splinter, the comments have generally added little if anything. God Speed. 

Thanks for this reporting. One question and one observation:

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