Out.Coached.

I know what you may be thinking but — despite the title in the header of this blog — this is not a website dedicated to the Chicago Blackhawks Game 4 performance.
In fact, one of the reasons we named the blog ‘Dirty Games’ is so that we could call that sort of cheap, thuggish and [...]

Barack ‘Eight Mile’ Obama

I’m offering this without much comment, except to say that I hope Obama’s team is smart enough to dig this speech up and use it almost exactly the way this Youtuber has done. It’s a very effective argument.
As soon as I saw this, I thought of Eminem’s performance at the end of ‘Eight Mile’. If [...]

Joe Biden has the Patience of a Saint (or Why Americans are Finally Ready for a Professor)

There’s an old jpeg, or maybe it’s a gif, floating around the Web.
It says: “Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you’re still retarded.”
The same could be said for “debating” Sarah Palin.
I’m not faulting poor Joe Biden. He did the best he could under difficult circumstances — [...]

Everything you need to know about American politics and voters

Alternate title: The reason we’re going to start writing about hockey and basketball tomorrow.
From the Washington Post this morning:

In the Washington Post/ABC News poll released this week, 48 percent of respondents said the candidates’ positions on issues are their main concern, compared with 37 percent who said they place greater weight on personal qualities such [...]

Shaolin’s Finest: the Detriot Red Wings

I could use this space to write a 1,000-word ‘I-told-you-so’ post right here that would sum up everything I’ve been saying for the last few years about the Detroit Red Wings. I could wax poetic about how much joy it brings me to see a team of supposedly-weak foreigners hit back whenever they’re attacked, score [...]

Part II: In which my festering hatred for Courtney Love continues to grow

Are you fucking kidding me?
Is nothing sacred to this whore?
Shoes? Converse fucking shoes? The same kind of Chuck Taylor one-stars that everybody remembers from this iconic photo.
You are selling your dead husband’s lyric sheets to be reprinted on shoes? The same brand of shoes that he died in?
Do you need money that badly? I thought [...]

The 40-minute Obama-non-story challenge

I’ve been known, on occasion, to be somewhat crude and dismissive when faced with obvious media bullshit. Sue me. It’s what I do.
Which is why it is both surprising and extremely uplifting to see my favourite politician respond to the sort of non-issue, lazy-journalism, lowest-common-denominator pandering exactly the way that I would, were I smart [...]

Mike Huckabee. Common sense. Who knew?

So … the whole ‘OMG! Obama’s Pastor hates Amerikkka! Can’t ever vote for him!’ bullshit of the past few days has brought about an interesting result:
I have a great deal more respect for a completely crazy Evangelical Conservative who wants the Constitution to more properly reflect the values of the Bible.
Don’t get it twisted — [...]

From the ‘font of blather’

“The dinosaurs will slowly die
And I do believe no one will cry
I’m just fucking glad I’m gonna be
There to watch the fall
Prehistoric music industry
Three feet in la brea tar
Extinction never felt so good”

— NOFX
Oh, Rosie. You won’t go down without a fight, will you?
No, of course not.
So, how about we deconstruct this idiocy? (The [...]

Two-for-one Eulogies: A Lengthy Essay on Failure

R.I.P. Toronto Maple Leafs’ 2007/08 NHL hockey season.
R.I.P. Hillary Clinton’s decisive mandate as the Democratic Presidential candidate.
Yes, you both still have a chance. Technically. By the numbers. In a perfect world. If the dice comes up seven. Then eleven. If the 8-ball breaks the right way. If you catch a card on the river. If [...]