Morton Malaise

People who still write checks for groceries are evil and should be exterminated. Especially the ones who wait until everything has been scanned to even start looking for their checkbook in their bottomless pit of a purse. Invariably, they run across pictures of their grandkids in the bottomless pit, which they then have to show [...]

Nominations are now being accepted for the location of the next Blogger Bash. There is an important difference between this Blogger Bash and those in the past. This one will be held on WEDNESDAY, December 31st. I’ll give everyone a chance to catch their breath.
OK. Let me explain. PH and I were discussing the next [...]

The Backstreet Boys are singing the National Anthem at Game 1 of the World Series. Asked for his reaction, Jamie Moyer replied, “Hey, my grandkids love those guys!”* Kevin Lowe declined to comment.
*Not really.

Comment from IDKNM on previous post:
on 10 Oct 2008 at 12:36 pm # edit thisidonotknowme
And all the people who took out no principal, 100% mortgages on properties they never even walked into because they were going to “flip that house”. All the people who can’t pay their mortgages should be foreclosed upon and all the [...]

Holy crap, this is getting scary. The Dow Jones is down over 350 points to around 8,000 and oil is down $6. Market indices in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Europe are all down between 7% and 20%. I don’t even want to THINK about how much money my 401(k) has lost this quarter. [...]

From Big Daddy Drew on Deadspin, doing his regular Thursday NFL thing:
…I’d also like to use this economic crisis to make convenient scapegoats out of large groups of people who clearly had nothing to do with perpetuating this crisis, but whom I’ve long despised anyway. Like French immigrants. God, I fucking hate those people. At [...]

Stupid fucking Cubs. Stupid fucking fuckers. Fucking dumb fucks. That was the most disgusting display of half-assed, fuckoff, lollygag baseball I’ve ever seen. I don’t ever remember being so disgusted by anything I’ve watched in the sporting world in my entire life. They should all crawl into a hole and die. Fucking assfuck douche nozzle [...]

Another gem from Big Daddy Drew:
That’s the thing Robert Frost never mentioned. Sometimes the road less traveled is just as shitty and miserable as the one everyone else decided to take. Sometimes trying to be all smart and independent ends up fucking you raw.