(due to some technical difficulties at the moment, this week’s edition of my football column for troubl.org, Down and Distance, didn’t make it onto the site. Since it’s got a definite sell-by date stamped on it, I’m running it here today. Next week’s edition should run on troubl, as scheduled.)
It should be obvious at this [...]

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Still keeping it slow around these parts while the Repatriation Roadtrip is underway (today- Indianapolis to some stretch of I-40 between Memphis and Little Rock), but I figure I ought to make a quick announcement.
Starting Tuesday, on TROUBL.ORG, I’ll be writing Down and Distance, a weekly column on America’s two current favorite contemporary sports- [...]

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Well, there’s probably dumber, but this is definitely the most embarrassing thing I’ve read all week. Here’s noted retard Glenn Beck trying to explain why taxing rich people is bad, using a straw-man “liberal whiner” and attempting to refute it with an NFL metaphor:
‘I’m just talking about leveling the playing field, to give everyone [...]

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People in Wisconsin are fucking weird.

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McCain’s got a new ad in his bid to get elected student council president of America. It’s about, like, how hot young white girls are totally into Obama, which means A) you’re a dumb girl if you vote for him and B) those white girls want to fuck him, doesn’t that piss you off? I [...]

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And now Brett Favre is the starting quarterback for the New York Jets. I think if you asked anybody last January, right before Eli Manning and the Giants stomped every storybook fantasy that every NFL fan who wasn’t from Minnesota or Chicago secretly harbored, if there were any chance that Brett Favre would end [...]

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In case you’ve ever wondered why I have a hard time writing about football without talking politics, or politics without bringing up football, it’s because the two sometimes occupy almost the exact same role in American culture. For further proof, witness the fact that the Green Bay Packers have just hired Ari Fleischer as a [...]

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Still waiting to see what the damage is from the recent spate of resentment-stoking from the McCain campaign? There’s an itty-bitty poll out there that, working from a sample of 320 people, suggests that it’s bringing some Democrats from Obama to undecided, but nobody to McCain. Which is good, as far as these things go, [...]

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