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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - January 27, 2026January 27, 2026

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Meet the new boss, same-ish as the old boss White smoke has been sighted in Orchard Park, and for once it’s not due to a poorly constructed oil-drum-cum-barbeque-grill. In the single most important decision pending in the United States today, the Buffalo Bills have taken a bold and innovative step in…promoting

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - January 13, 2026January 13, 2026

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Usually Tuesdays are the Dead Zone for news, but I have been Blessed With An Abundance today! I won't step on Hippo's good work and rehash the weekend playoff games except as follows: "Ten Yard Tush Push" is going to be my fantasy football name next year. And possibly my

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - January 6, 2026January 6, 2026

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Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man? -Death, Reaper Man by Sir Terry Pratchett As Scotchy noted yesterday, six empty chairs today at the NFL Head Coaches Table. Two were shitcanned midseason, one about ten minutes after the final whistle, and three on

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - December 30, 2025December 30, 2025

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Bad time to be a Diggs brother. -Stefon "Pink Powder" Diggs has been charged with "felony strangulation or suffocation and misdemeanor assault and battery" in suburban Boston in connection with an (alleged) December 2 incident. According to the filings, Diggs hired a woman to be his personal chef for the duration

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - December 23, 2025December 23, 2025

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Before I became the spiritual head of a world-spanning multi-level-marketing-scheme-cum-religion, I was a history major. Specifically, late-Medieval to early-Modern Europe, with an emphasis on the development of dedicated navies as a driving force behind the increased centralization of state power. Why yes, I was rolling twelve hoes deep 24/7. Bitches love

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - December 16, 2025

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Injuries! Injuries aplenty! Those student loans for doctors don't pay themselves, and the NFL Meatgrinder is doing its part to make sure surgeons' hands don't go idle. -If you were anywhere near a North Texas gentlemen's club on Sunday afternoon, chances are reasonable that you heard a giant whoop and a

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - December 9, 2025December 9, 2025

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Fuck me sideways, boys and girls, everything old is new again! Phillip Goddamned Rivers is rejoining the Colts! As a player! Rivers, last seen losing to the Most Glorious Buffalo Bills in the 2020(!) playoffs, has been signed to the Indianapolis practice squad in the wake of Daniel Jones' right Achilles noping

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - December 2, 2025December 2, 2025

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So we buried my father last week, and that sucked. Yes, he was dead at the time. Smartasses. Needless to say, I'm a bit out of sorts. Pope Mayhem was not a perfect man; he was lazy, he was sometimes self-centered, and he never met a moral high ground he couldn't immediately

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - November 18, 2025November 18, 2025

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So I don't think we had the term "heavy work" when I was growing up. If it did exist, it hadn't penetrated the circle of suburban parenting in which I was raised. Which is a shame, because as a quietly ADHD child, I think it would have been a very useful

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - November 11, 2025November 11, 2025

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I don't want to talk about the NFL right now. Not just because the Bills have now utilized both of their yearly Trip Over The Worst Teams On Your Schedule games- remember, Buffalo gave Urban Meyer one of his two career NFL wins. And not just because the ostensible class of the