Erie’s Brig Niagara gets a new captain, lumberjack, and gold medal hammer thrower – in one man

Christopher Cusson – neither a lumberjack nor hammer thrower, but definitely the Brig Niagara Captain. If you’re from Erie, chances are you completely and immediately hate the unknown. If something is new it’s probably the worst, and if I don’t understand it I already hate it – with one exception. Sailing. Think this is an […]

S*** the President Says – 11/19/2018

Ladies and gentlemen, behold, s*** the President said during the past week: “The Florida election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible- ballots massively […]

Local idiot issues gun control “Change My Mind” challenge

Challenge accepted. We’ve all seen the meme. Some dope (it’s Steven Crowder) with a cup of coffee sitting there all smug behind a table with some dumb statement like “Male privilege is a myth”, always followed by “Change my mind”. Sure, it’s a con promoted by some conservative cheerleader to seek out arguments from only […]

Something good happened in Erie – 11/15/2018

A turkey. Without further ado, your Idiotville feel-good story of the week: http://www.goerie.com/news/20181114/free-thanksgiving-dinners-abound-around-erie Look, sometimes things don’t go as you planned. Maybe you’re down on your luck or just having a bad day. Maybe you’ve lost something you can’t get back. As bad as things might get, though, you’ve probably never faced the prospect of […]

Donald Trautman is a Colossal S*** Pile

The scandal surrounding the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania (and nationwide, really) has hit home for me. I was not abused by a priest, I am not related to anyone who was abused by a priest, but the pastor at the church where I was a parishioner as a young catholic after moving to Edinboro in 1986 […]