Take comfort in the fact that every time someone types out the phrases "should of (sic) complied" or "play stupid games win stupid prizes" a spirit appears like in A Christmas Carol and shows them the future where they die alone without ever having known the love of another living being.
We hear you, we see you, and we know - as you do - that you're a miserable sorta-excuse for a human being who will never know a moment's happiness let alone be tolerable to any other person. Your existence is a cancer on the world and everyone forced to encounter you, even for a moment, is worse off for it. And unlike this woman shot down in cold blood, the moment you die will pass entirely unnoticed and unremaked upon. It will be like you never existed, and you know every word I said here is true. That's why you act the way you do and talk the way you do - because at night, when you're alone, you know all of this. The only thing that never occurs to you is that everyone around you knows it about you, too. You think your act fools anyone, and that's the scariest thing to you: the possibility that people see you for the coward you are.
They do. We do. Sleep tight. ...
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you. ...
Ten Bears says:
Since the strike the increase of fights has me wondering if hockey is going to way of wrestling
Will says:
That kind of large lump-in-the-throat/trouble-swallowing is a pretty classic presentation of strep. Might want to head to a doctor if you haven't already.
Erin says:
The 1992 strike? There have been three owner lockouts since then (1994-1995, 2004-2005 and the last one). Fighting has also been in decline for several years in the NHL. I can only imagine the slight uptick in fights this year is due to the increased workload a 48-game season in 100 days.
I'm not sure what's meant by going [the?] way of wrestling. Wrestling in the Olympics? Entertainment wrestling?
c u n d gulag says:
Feel better, Ed.
My Rangers take on the Bruins tonight.
Sally's Dad says:
2nd c u n d & will
As for the NHL, I'm still mourning over the Ducks loss… I suppose I shouldn't be surprised since they ran hot n cold all season.
sluggo says:
I am starting my annual Blackhawks bandwagon jump.
StoneFoxx says:
That would be a happy ending, he's pretty hot.
proverbialleadballoon says:
Despite the Hawks carrying play the last two periods, Howard kept the Wings in it until the end. And it took a money play from Seabrook to keep it from a one-goal game with less than three minutes left. So yeah, tight game, tense game, and the Oduya goal seemed to loosen everybody up a bit, the Hawks, the United Center crowd, those of us watching at home. The Hawks' play the last 40 minutes is promising, but you never count the Wings out.
JazzBumpa says:
Here's my Wings fan perspective, though I only saw part of period 3.
It was late period 2 as I was driving home listening on the radio, and the Detroit announcers were more or less in shock at the Hawks dominance in period 2, when they outshot the Wings 17-5. Final tally was something like 43-21. [more or less] The Wings NEVER get outshot like that. Except they did.
I watched period 3 until it was 3-1, then turned it off to spare myself the agony. It was men against boys. I've seldom seen any sporting event in which a team was so badly outclassed.
Going in, I thought there was a remote possibility the Wings might somehow finagle their way through this series, mostly 'cuz Howard is playing awesome. [How often is the best player on the ice the goalie in a 4-1 loss?] Now it looks like a sweep.
Sadly,
JzB
Jane says:
and what about last night's match between Canada and Sweden?! GOOOOO SWEDEN :)
Elusis says:
I keep vainly hoping to see you turn in a rant on how it's definitely unfair for the IRS to try to make sure that political lobbying groups aren't trying to clothe themselves as not-for-profits by giving extra scrutiny to not-for-profit applications that name themselves after political lobbying groups.
Bitter Scribe says:
I will be dipped in shit. I have loved the Blackhawks all my life, but I had no idea Oduya's dad was from Kenya until I read this post. Yet another reason to love G&T.