Yes, here’s when my behavior that puzzles Prime begins. She doesn’t actually say it, but she clearly thinks, “How can you waste an entire day watching THREE football games?” One more reminder to me about SP’s perfection- she would just be disappointed that there weren’t four, then spend halftimes and game breaks making incredible junk food. “Some gougeres with the Green Bay game? I made some eggplant parm, if you’d rather.” Then she’d rant about the shortcomings of every ref in the game we were about to watch, and start in on the mental defects of the announcers. Prime has her own virtues, VERY considerable ones, but football Sundays do give me a pang…

Besides football, there are birthdays today, including a chick known for her taste in collars; a guy who could run rings around anyone else; a guy whose name has become synonymous with “taxpayer bailout”; a guy whom the Tin Man should have met; a guy who shows up in just about every NY Times crossword; a guy famous for saying, “Behave, or I’ll get out the belt!”; a guy honored every year on St. Thomas; a guy famous for his glasses and getting killed; a woman known for her blue hair; and the Republican version of Thomas Friedman.

And while I pregame, y’all can chew on some carefully curated Links.

I’m shocked that a McCain demonstrates that the family is 100% pieces of shit.

Whatever will those farms in DC do?

I hope Heroic Mulatto has an alibi.

The fact that this is happening in the Basque region is a delicious irony.

Speaking of irony…

Want to know how low the Catholic church has sunk? One more demonstration.

“I know, how about we do a stupid, performative over-reaction?”

And this is why, as much as I love football, I hate the NFL.

I’m sure it was the Jews, trying to deny the poor Arabs of their porn.

One of the best second basemen I ever saw, the second best manager, and proof that Peter Angelos was a vindictive moron. RIP, Davey.

The Old Guy found the perfect wake and bake cut for today, in case that’s the sort of thing any of you reprobates would do. Deadheads will recognize that (fitting) guitar.