NBC Olympic Coverage Sucks

Ok, I’m hoping that that post title will get someone’s attention over in the NBC Offices.

Olympic coverage has always had a high schmaltz to action ratio, but this Winter Olympics from Vancouver is especially craptastic. Please NBC, stop bidding on the Olympics.

Even the critics that eat this shit up agree:
Here’s some of what Robert Bianco [...]

Getting Serious for a Moment

I’ve been saying this for so long, it’s about time someone “in charge” said it too.

In an interview on MSNBC this morning, newly retiring Sen. Evan Bayh declared the American political system “dysfunctional,” riddled with “brain-dead partisanship” and permanent campaigning. Flatly denying any possibility that he’d seek the presidency or any other higher office, [...]

Don’t Wanna Be the Life of this Party…

See the original over at Failbooking.

Geaux Saints

I watched the Superbowl yesterday, with the rest of the world, and, like much of the rest of the world not from New Orleans or Indianapolis, would have been happy with either team winning, but really wanted the Saints to win because they’ve sucked for so long and their city tried to drown itself a [...]

More Small Town News

ROCHESTER — The following items, based on entries in the Rochester Police Log, were selected from 1,120 calls for service from Jan. 4 to 10: Taken from Foster’s Daily Democrat, the original is here.

Monday, Jan. 4

7:10 a.m. — A woman reports that last evening she was jumped by two men and two women and robbed [...]

More Small Town Crime

Those of you who have been reading these know they are pure gold. Those of you new to this blog who might wonder wtf or think tl/dr, here’s why we read this:

12:32 a.m. — There is a report of five men on North Main Street yelling “Niger.” This is more likely to be a racist [...]