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  • Worst Christmas Song

    A classic repost to placate Dig: Tom was absolutely, one hundred percent correct: Christmas Shoes is the most horrible, un-Christian Christmas song of all time. I just heard it today on LaunchCast, and was stunned by its sheer bloody awfulness. Not only is it ham-handedly manipulative, not only is it song [...]
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    Fetched: December 23, 2009, 4:44pm EST

  • Everything You Need to Know About Jackass Right-Wing Ideologues

    Megan McCardle, following paragraph after paragraph of handwringing over the “process” leading to passage of the healthcare bill, couched in high-flown language about its violation of libertarian principles (they have some?), finally comes out with this in her comments thread: “So Megan, if you had thought that they’d [pass a healthcare [...]
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    Fetched: December 22, 2009, 4:44pm EST

  • Happy Holidays

    I’ll be out of pocket until around the 27th, but I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a Happy Solstiramachristmakwanzakkuh. (I’m sure I’ve left someone out. Take it up with legal.) I hope your holidays bring you joy and happiness, whatever holidays you might celebrate, and whether you’re someone [...]
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    Fetched: December 22, 2009, 10:48am EST

  • Support the Bill

    The Senate bill is not a great bill. It is not even not a very good bill. It does a lot of things the wrong way, and in a lot of respects it doesn’t go nearly far enough. Even with all of that, however, killing this bill is just plain [...]
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    Fetched: December 22, 2009, 10:48am EST

  • I Am Have Putty In Your On My Hands

    So I’m walking through this “Christmas Crafts” festival that goes on in Union Square every winter, just sort of wandering around. A beautiful, dark-haired, dark-eyed woman with exotic Mediterranean features grabs me by the arm. She wants urgently to know if I have a girlfriend. I know perfectly well that [...]
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    Fetched: December 18, 2009, 10:43pm EST

  • Flaming Bag of Poo

    Because I haven’t intentionally antagonized our good friend LarryE in a while, and because I think there’s a more than a little bit of truth to it, I give you this: I’ve been getting really depressed lately about politics. I was at first depressed because the public option was dying, but [...]
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    Fetched: December 18, 2009, 4:43am EST

  • Creepy Secularized Religious Holiday Figure Gets Weirder

    I think we can agree that, aside from the presents, drunkenness, football games, and eating too much, Christmas is really fucked up. It’s just weird to begin with, and it makes people crazy. Naturally, however, somebody found a way to turn the cheery story of Santa and his helper elves [...]
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    Fetched: December 17, 2009, 4:43pm EST

  • Bearing Witness on Equal Terms

    Dan M. brings to my attention this article on the decision by one Society of Friends (“Quaker”) meeting in Minnesota to refuse to participate in discriminatory legal marriage certifications, while still recognizing the actual marriages of all its members on equal terms: St. Paul, Minn. — A group of Twin Cities [...]
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    Fetched: December 16, 2009, 1:43pm EST

  • Smart Phone Bleg

    So, I’m in the market for a new smart phone, and am soliciting recommendations. Here’s what you need to know: I only infrequently use my phone as a phone. First and foremost, it’s a texting device. I do some web surfing from time to time. As such, full QWERTY is a [...]
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    Fetched: December 14, 2009, 10:43pm EST

  • Christmas Song of the Day

    Only about a week late. If it makes you feel better, I am not as far behind on my Christmas shopping as I am these posts. This a sweet, sad song that retains just enough wistful hope to keep you from slitting your wrists. Sung correctly, it is both heartbreaking [...]
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    Fetched: December 13, 2009, 4:43am EST

  • Oh, Jesus Christ!

    Apparently, some self-described “tea partiers” think “limited government” means having the government make Christmas music mandatory. [...]
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    Fetched: December 11, 2009, 4:43pm EST

  • A Victory for Law and Order

    Thank God somebody is standing up for law, order, and traditional standards. Armed police in Spain responded to a citizen complaint last Monday, investigated the situation, and filed a formal report. The issue involved commercial fraud and psychological harassment; prosecutors are evaluating the situation for possible criminal charges. Spain’s pistol-carrying Civil Guard [...]
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    Fetched: December 11, 2009, 1:44pm EST

  • Cats vs. Dogs

    Since my last post generated so much commentary, I figured I'd tackle another controversial topic. Although I've got twice as many cats as dogs (4 vs. 2), I'll always consider myself to be a "dog person." Well, now I can state unequivocally that the science is on my ...' [...]
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    Fetched: December 11, 2009, 1:44pm EST

  • Crashing Obama’s Speech

    Via TPM: [...]
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    Fetched: December 09, 2009, 4:43pm EST

  • How To Think Like an AGW-Denier

    So I was having a mini-debate with Say Uncle about global warming (in response to this excellent Krugman piece on the topic), and Uncle made an argument that I frankly thought was idiotic. First, though, some background. In response to the piece, Uncly Wuncly complained that Krugman had ... [...]
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    Fetched: December 09, 2009, 4:43pm EST

  • Christmas Lyric of the Day

    Good King Wenscelaus, becasue it is time for a classic. And this song encompasses the charitable spirit that is supposed to be at the heart of the Season. Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even. Brightly shone the ... [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 10:43pm EST

  • Christmas Song of the Day

    Today's song cannot really be called a Christmas song, but the fact that it is perfectly American. Baby, It's Cold Outside is a song of seduction. It can be song with a certain earnestness, or sweetness, or playfulness, or even a touch of the sinister. But it ... [...]
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    Fetched: December 04, 2009, 10:43pm EST

  • A Miracle of Statistics: Another Blackhawk Fan in Memphis

    As far as I knew, there were two hockey fans in Memphis -- me and tgirsch. Not only are there more, they are Hawks fans. It's like an accordion player finding that his neighbor runs a polka hall. Only not as annoying. [...]
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    Fetched: December 04, 2009, 10:43pm EST

  • Christmas Song of the Day

    Today's song is Silent Night. This song is quite beautiful and captures the sense of devotion and love that the birth of the Savior is supposed to. It can also be read as a lullaby. The image of Mary gently singing to sleep her newborn, Son of God ... [...]
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    Fetched: December 04, 2009, 10:43pm EST

  • Live Free or Die Hard

    Finally got around to seeing it last night. Was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Sure, it's wholly ludicrous, but what do you expect? It's a frickin' Die Hard movie! Apart from an extended scene involving an F-35 that was too much even for my ...' [...]
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    Fetched: December 04, 2009, 10:43pm EST

  • Afghanistan

    There really isn't much to say about this. I don't believe that the safe harbor theory of terrorism has much value. 9/11, after all, was largely planned in Hamburg. I don't think the Karzi government or the warlords that run the provinces are the kinds of people ...' [...]
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    Fetched: December 04, 2009, 10:43pm EST

  • The Importance of the Public Option; Or How It, Not Mandates, Is the Real Original Social Security

    Ezra thinks that the public option is not worth fighting for, that it is essentially so small as to be meaningless: That's not true. Indeed, it's not even clear how it could be true. The strongest public option on the table -- the House's version -- would serve a couple million [...]
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    Fetched: December 02, 2009, 7:43am EST

  • Christmas Lyric of the Day

    Seems like we are overdue for a classic, so here is one of my favorites. I like the sense of relief, of finally having someone on your side as you face off with life, that God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen conveys. Maddy Prior has my favorite verison. God rest ... [...]
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    Fetched: December 02, 2009, 1:43am EST

  • The New Face of the GOP

    Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP [...]
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    Fetched: December 02, 2009, 1:43am EST

  • Christmas Song of the Day

    Snoopy has his own Christmas song. How did I live this long and not hear about this until today? It's both uplifting and kinda creepy: the Red Baron let's Snoopy live on Xmas, but they both know they will meet again and try to kill each other. ... [...]
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    Fetched: November 30, 2009, 7:45pm EST

  • Derek Jeter, Success, and Ayn Rand Fantasies

    Take it away, Paul! [...]
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    Fetched: November 30, 2009, 4:45pm EST

  • Teabaggers in All Their Glory

    This is not how you handle this situation: At a town hall held by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Nov. 14,, Dan and Midge Hough spoke about how they believed the death of their daughter-in-law and her unborn child were caused, in part, by a lack of health insurance. Twenty-four-year old [...]
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    Fetched: November 29, 2009, 10:43am EST

  • Christmas Lyric of The Day

    Rudy is an example of my favorite genre of music: songs with an upbeat tempo and depressing lyrics. 99 Red Ballons, of course, is the canonical example. No, this is not a happy song. But it is a very good song, and Christmas needs sad songs. ... [...]
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    Fetched: November 29, 2009, 10:43am EST

  • Christmas Lyric of the Day

    This one seemed appropriate for Thanksgiving weekend. Cause, really, who hasn't had a Thanksgiving feast so bad that they dreamed of poisoning all of their relatives. Or is that just me? I knew of two sisters whose name it was Christmas And one was named Dawn of course, the ...' [...]
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    Fetched: November 29, 2009, 10:43am EST

  • Christmas Lyric of the Day

    It's a bit odd to start out with such a irreverent tune, but I went out to the mall today, Black Friday, for the first time in years, so this seems somehow appropriate: It's Christmas at ground zero There's music in the air The sleigh bells are ringing and the carolers are singing While [...]
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    Fetched: November 28, 2009, 7:43am EST

  • The Turkey Holocaust is Upon Us

    Can't say it any better than I did last year. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Time-wasting video of the day: ' [...]
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    Fetched: November 26, 2009, 10:43am EST

  • All Linky, No Thinky: Health Care Reform Addition

    This pretty much sums up the conservative opposition to health care reform. [...]
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    Fetched: November 26, 2009, 10:43am EST

  • Sarah Palin

    Her fans have all kinds of goofy reasons why they think liberals and many conservatives don't like her. Jon Stewart does a fine job of explaining the real reason: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c' [...]
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    Fetched: November 23, 2009, 7:45am EST

  • Noted (Belatedly) Without Further Comment

    This sounds about right. [...]
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    Fetched: November 17, 2009, 7:43pm EST

  • Not What I’d Hoped

    Let me just say that I was impressed and enthusiastic when I first saw the headline on this story: Irish Priest Kidnapped in Philippines Released by MILF It turns out there's something called the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and it is not, apparently, populated by the kind of badass soccer mom hotties [...]
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    Fetched: November 12, 2009, 10:43pm EST

  • I’m On Vacation

    Off for some New Orleans debauchery. In the meantime, enjoy Jon Stewart's brilliant send-up of Glenn Beck: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3 Projectwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2009, 7:43pm EST

  • QOTD: Armistice Day

    From Jacob Levey: A Veteran's/ Armistice/ Remembrance Day observed on November 11 in particular shouldn't just mean a gauzy and somber honoring of live veterans and fallen soldiers. It should be in part a day of anger and horror about the particular war that ended on this day, the stupid brutality [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2009, 7:43pm EST

  • Let’s Have Term Limits Where They Belong

    Senator Jim DeMint (Asshole - CSA) has proposed a Constitutional amendment to impose term limits on federal officeholders (3 terms for Representatives, 2 for Senators). Leaving aside the convenient fact that this gives Senators twice as long in office as Representatives, the proposal is not the craziest thing DeMint has [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2009, 7:43pm EST

  • The Libertarian Solution to Poverty

    Mr. Judd, the floor is yours. No threadjacking necessary. [...]
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    Fetched: November 06, 2009, 1:43pm EST

  • Wait Your F*cking Turn

    Oh god, this is terrible: The CDC is distributing the much sought-after vaccine to Wall Street firms despite reports of vast shortages. In fact, just yesterday CDC Director Thomas Frieden informed Congress that only 32.3 million doses are available, far less than the 159 million needed to cover those at the [...]
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    Fetched: November 06, 2009, 10:47am EST

  • Ft. Hood

    I don't have much to say about this other than my thoughts and best wishes are with the families of all involved. It is a horrible tragedy and I hope everything possible is being done to help the families and the victims, as I am sure it is. Part ...' [...]
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    Fetched: November 06, 2009, 10:47am EST

  • Number of the Day: 3.59

    That's the average number of seasons between Yankees' World Series titles over the course of their existence (not counting the early years when the team existed, but were not yet called the "Yankees"). Now I understand why Yankees fans were impatient with having to wait nine whole years for ...' [...]
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    Fetched: November 05, 2009, 10:47pm EST

  • What the Maine Vote Really Means

    As you no doubt know by now, the voters of Maine have voted for bigotry and overturned a legislatively-enacted recognition of same-sex marriages in that state. What does this mean, really? Clearly, it means that we're not there yet. As a friend of mine wrote this morning, ...' [...]
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    Fetched: November 04, 2009, 1:42pm EST

  • Elections: Teabaggers and Decency Lose

    So the local issues -- the two governorships -- went the way of local issues, the two national races both went for the Democrats. The teabaggers, in all of their ludicrous glory, managed to lose a seat that had been in Republican hands for almost 160 years. That ... [...]
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    Fetched: November 04, 2009, 10:43am EST

  • Election Day: What’s to Think About?

    So it's Election Day tomorrow, if you haven't noticed, which it's easy not to in an odd-numbered year with (almost) no federal offices on the ballot. I've been reading about some of the hot state races around the country, particularly the District-23 soap opera here in my home state, but [...]
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    Fetched: November 04, 2009, 1:44am EST

  • Are There No Workhouses?

    This is horrible: Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say. And remember, that number comes before the effects of the Great Recession have [...]
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    Fetched: November 04, 2009, 1:44am EST

  • The Platonic Form of Bitter Old Man

    Holy crap is this guy off his rocker: The book is fast becoming the despised Jew of our culture. Der Jude is now Der Book. Hi-tech propogandists tell us that the book is a tree-murdering, space-devouring, inferior form of technology; that society would simply be better-off altogether if we euthanized it [...]
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    Fetched: October 31, 2009, 1:43pm EDT

  • Dumbest Painfully Serious Political Metaphor of the Day

    Chris Wilson, at Slate, hips us to a looming political disaster for Obama: he's setting himself up as a fascist, condescending, reactionary, moralizing, religious cultist because the White House switched to the wrong Web publishing platform. Apparently he means it. The White House recently ported its Web content to an open-source platform, [...]
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    Fetched: October 29, 2009, 1:47am EDT

  • Global Cooling a Hoax

    The Associated Press did something very rare and consequently very remarkable: actual reporting on global warming deniers: In a blind test, the AP gave temperature data to four independent statisticians and asked them to look for trends, without telling them what the numbers represented. The experts found no true temperature declines [...]
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    Fetched: October 29, 2009, 1:47am EDT

  • Positive Thinking Will Make You Miserable: A review of Bright Sided

    Bright Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich (the copy I reviewed was provided to me by the publisher) is a well needed anti-dote to the happy, happy bullshit that has infected our country. That last sentence only sounds harsh to someone who has not read the book. In it, Ehrenreich ... [...]
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    Fetched: October 26, 2009, 1:43pm EDT

  • Differently Racially Abled

    Ah, wad some power the giftie gie every wingnut, to see themselves as others see them. But it's always amusing to see how they see themselves. Down Paulding County, Georgia way, they've got a local honky-tonk whose owner would no doubt be described on your typical network evening newscast as "colorful"' [...]
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    Fetched: October 23, 2009, 4:47am EDT

  • What? . . . I’m President?

    Bill Maher nails it: New Rule: Everyone deserves equal rights. That's why they're called "equal" and "rights." Tomorrow night President Obama will speak before a gay rights group, and on Sunday there will be a massive gay rally in Washington, or as I call it, the Million Mo March. Which makes' [...]
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    Fetched: October 23, 2009, 4:47am EDT

  • Basic Arithmetic

    KTK - profanity = LarryE Also, while I'm at it, a hypothesis, stated mathematically: tgirsch + time = KTK' [...]
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    Fetched: October 23, 2009, 4:47am EDT

  • Workers Get Paid! World to End!

    Bloomberg.com (a news service owned by a man with a net worth of $16 billion) reports that the members of the 5-person stage crew at Carnegie Hall earn over $400,000 apiece, with the crew chief pulling down over half a million dollars last year. The story notes in amazement that [...]
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    Fetched: October 23, 2009, 4:47am EDT

  • YouTube War!

    Atrios started it here. D. Aristophanes counterattacked here. Thers volleyed back with this. To which Tintin responded thusly. My contribution: [...]
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    Fetched: October 23, 2009, 4:47am EDT

  • Books That Changed Your Life

    Stumbled across this while browsing "Cool Tools" - tech guru Kevin Kelly's cooperative encyclopedia of awesome design and problem-solving. (If you're not already enthralled with it, get so.) One entry is his list of "Books That Changed My Life" - he lists books that . . . well, you understand .' [...]
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    Fetched: October 23, 2009, 4:47am EDT

  • The Problem With The Health Care Debate

    Via ACK and SayUncle, we see that Bob Corker (R-TN) either doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about, or is arguing in bad faith: Audience members expressed their frustrations about the health care issue. One audience member asked, "I'm wondering why you can't support my right to choose a government'" [...]
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    Fetched: October 23, 2009, 4:47am EDT

  • Liberal Media Bias Yet More Dumbshit Right-Wingers

    Agence France Presse blares a headline today: "Majority of Nobel jury 'objected to Obama prize'". Oooh! Quelle scandale! Except not. As the attached article makes perfectly clear, the committee discussed the pros and cons of a number of candidates, and reached a unanimous decision, fully supported by all the members including those [...]
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    Fetched: October 23, 2009, 4:47am EDT

  • A Choice For Anti-Abortion Activists

    Abortions happen at roughly the same rate in countries that restrict abortion and in countries that do not: The survey concluded that abortion occurs at roughly equal rates in countries where it is legal and where it is highly restricted. The key difference, according to the report, is the high rate [...]
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    Fetched: October 23, 2009, 4:47am EDT

  • It’s Not Too Soon!

    Start thinking about Halloween costumes for your kids! [...]
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    Fetched: October 23, 2009, 4:47am EDT

  • “Mr. Gorbachev, Build Up This Wall!” – Jackass Rightwingers’ Cynical Hypocrisy Hits Historic High

    Margaret Thatcher, the posturing far-right ideologue provocateur who was Prime Minister of the UK at the same time Ronald Reagan, posturing far-right ideologue dumbass was President of the United States, conducted a life-long political love affair with Reagan and shared his delight in empty rhetorical blustering, coddling of fascists, and [...]
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    Fetched: September 11, 2009, 1:35am EDT

  • Bizarre Video of the Day

    Protect your chicken from Dokken! [...]
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    Fetched: September 09, 2009, 4:36pm EDT

  • Depressing Realization of the Day

    Since I was about thirty, my waistband has tracked my age remarkably closely. [...]
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    Fetched: September 09, 2009, 4:36pm EDT

  • Health Care Discussion-O-The-Day

    Here's your topic, via commenter cursorial at ObWi: Was just watching Anthony Weiner talk about medicare on the Rachel Maddow show, and it struck me for the first time how ridiculous - not just self-interested - the insurance industry's position is. They play in a market where the most expensive recipients, the [...]
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    Fetched: September 09, 2009, 1:32pm EDT

  • You Know It’s Gotten Bad

    When Newt Gingrich comes across as the voice of reason on the right. Of course, he's got to at least pretend to seem reasonably if he's seriously considering a run in 2010 2012 (D'oh!).' [...]
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    Fetched: September 08, 2009, 4:32pm EDT

  • Forced to Use Count on a Second Hand

    Used to be, I could count on one hand the number of things about which I agreed with Xrlq. Not anymore. Unless it's April Fool's and I didn't know it, it looks to me like he just bucked conservative ideology and admitted that things like social security and ...' [...]
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    Fetched: September 08, 2009, 1:36pm EDT

  • Forced to Use a Second Hand

    Used to be, I could count on one hand the number of things about which I agreed with Xrlq. Not anymore. Unless it's April Fool's and I didn't know it, it looks to me like he just bucked conservative ideology and admitted that things like social security and ...' [...]
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    Fetched: September 08, 2009, 1:35am EDT

  • Around the Horn

    A 5-4-3 triple play. Not something you see every day. (Digg can probably recite from memory how many times it's happened, on what dates, what the odds are, etc.) UPDATE 8 Sep 2009, 14:21: I should have known, somebody has a site that lists every triple play in ...' [...]
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    Fetched: September 07, 2009, 10:36am EDT

  • Comedian or Senator?

    Clearly Franken has settled into the latter role: I just wish more Democrats in both chambers were able to communicate this effectively and accessibly on this subject. [...]
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    Fetched: September 04, 2009, 4:36pm EDT

  • Health Care Reform: Worth A Listen

    Dr. Atul Gawande, who wrote arguably one of the best pieces on health care in recent memory, was today's featured guest on The News Hour's ongoing series of conversations on health care reform. Unfortunately, my local PBS affiliate experienced "technical difficulties" 2/3 of the way into the interview. ... [...]
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    Fetched: September 03, 2009, 10:37pm EDT

  • How Provincial Are Americans?

    I had to make a phone call to the UK this afternoon, and I had no idea how to do it. I had to look it up. In my defense, I did know that the country code is 44. [...]
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    Fetched: September 02, 2009, 10:32pm EDT

  • No Such Thing?

    A common right-libertarian talking point these days -- at least I've heard it a lot -- is that there's "no such thing as a quick trip to the post office." This is often brought up to illustrate how evil and awful "government-run" health care will be. Today, I had to ...' [...]
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    Fetched: September 02, 2009, 10:32pm EDT

  • A Flame-Starter Too Good Not To Share

    So I'm on a social networking site which shall remain nameless, and I see Dvorkin has posted a paean to Joss Whedon, concerning the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series, in which friends of his start trying to one-up one another with who can best stroke Whedon['s ego]. Not ...' [...]
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    Fetched: September 02, 2009, 10:32pm EDT

  • Hybrid Race Cars: Unclear on the Concept

    BMW has jumped into hybrid auto technology in a big way. A big stupid way. They have just announced a 155mph, 356hp hybrid sports car. It's incredibly slick-looking, in a way that can only make you gape with awe and ask . . . WTF? Seriously, dude . . . WTF? This [...]
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    Fetched: September 02, 2009, 10:32pm EDT

  • Hope for LarryE on Health Care Reform?

    TPM seems to think so: As Senate leaders begin work on a Democrat-only health care bill, they're finding themselves confronted with an unexpected irony: Though the caucus has reached an uneasy consensus around a public option that's modeled in many ways after a private insurer, it may be necessary to make' [...]
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    Fetched: September 02, 2009, 10:32pm EDT

  • The Poll Question I Wish Someone Would Ask

    If you were able to get health insurance at a cost similar to or lower than what you pay today, with coverage similar to or better than what you have today, do you give two squirts of piss whether it comes from the government or the private sector? [...]
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    Fetched: August 29, 2009, 1:35am EDT

  • The Magazine Has Been Disabled

    But they tell me there are still rounds in the chamber. I had the Big Snip done today. I'm not sure if this means I'll be blogging less than usual over the next few days, or if I'll be bored out of my skull and blogging more. What I do know ...' [...]
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    Fetched: August 29, 2009, 1:35am EDT

  • Shorter David Brooks: We Need to Slow Down the Liberals So More People Can Die in Misery

    Christ, I fucking hate conservatives. I really don't think there are any more political "issues" in America. There is nothing to politics, and nothing that happens on the public scene, other than a basic inhuman power play between minimal decency and ravaging, predatory viciousness. Every individual issue is just another scene' [...]
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    Fetched: August 29, 2009, 1:35am EDT

  • Five Myths About Health Care Around The World

    Via The WaPo. Bottom line: Scattered anecdotes aside, most of the horror stories you're hearing about European-style health care are either grossly exaggerated or just plain false. UPDATE: On Thursday, The News Hour did a pretty good segment separating fact from fiction in the health care debate. ...' [...]
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    Fetched: August 27, 2009, 4:37pm EDT

  • Senator Kennedy Has Passed

    The Liberal Lion of the Senate is gone. In my lifetime, he was the man most likely to stand with the workers, with the dispossessed, with those the American Dream was leaving behind. He fought for equal rights, he fought for safer workplaces, he fought for better education, he ... [...]
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    Fetched: August 27, 2009, 4:37pm EDT

  • What Is The Sound Of One Side Arguing In Good Faith?

    John Holbo continues to tilt at the windmill that is Megan McArdle. To his credit (or discredit, I'm not entirely sure which), he still seems to assign to McArdle an intellectually-consistent position, even has he can't quite put a finger on what that might be. Our own KTK ... [...]
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  • Holder Doesn’t Go Far Enough

    Holder is going to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate American torture: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according [...]
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  • Why Defend Insurance Companies?

    This makes no sense: "I have a problem with this government option plan," Boucher said. "I'm troubled that the government option plan could become very popular and if it became sufficiently popular it could begin to crowd out the other" private insurance companies. If the public option is so popular that it' [...]
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  • Jim Cooper in Trouble?

    As an ademndum to my post about the Blue Dogs below, some district polling is starting to come out. Jim Cooper has reason to worry: VERY FAV FAV UNFAV VERY UNFAV NO OPINION BREDESEN 22 36 20 9 13 COOPER 18 29 24 17 12 ALEXANDER 14 18 30 31 7 CORKER 13 17 30 32 8 OBAMA 32 34 16 9 9 And his opposition to the public option is just making things worse: QUESTION: Do you favor or oppose creating a new public ... [...]
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  • You Better Not Pout, You Better Not Cry …

    .. Santa Claus is carrying a multi-megaton nuclear warhead ... I love the world. Hat tip Lawyers, Guns and Money. [...]
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  • What Are the Blue Dogs Thinking?

    So it seems that the Blue Dogs are intent on killing the public option. And that makes no sense to me at all. From a purely optic standpoint, a plan with a mandate but without a public option will be easily demagogued as a give away to the ... [...]
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  • Hey, You Government . . . Get Off My Lawn!

    Another self-parodying libertarian lays it all right out there with unusual clarity. This is really a magnificent example of total anti-social obliviousness and selfishness in its purest form. It ought to be carved into a rock, someplace where very, very stupid people live. Leave Us the Hell Alone I've been in an' [...]
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  • In Which I Intentionally Attempt to Antagonize LarryE

    John Avalon argues that killing health care reform over the lack of a public option would be political suicide for liberals. Broder away, and flame on! [...]
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  • British Public to US Right-Wingers: “Fuck You!”

    Or, "Sure, we've got complaints about our health care system, but we like it a hell of a lot better than the piece of shit you Yanks have." Or something like that. :) See also here, via publius.' [...]
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  • Deep Thought

    The people who oppose the public option are the same people who would oppose public schooling if we didn't currently have it and were trying to get it. And I think we should probably take them just as seriously. Discuss.' [...]
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  • Barney Frank Acts Like His Constituents Are Adults (No One Knows Why)

    Barney Frank kicks ass at a health-care Town Hall appearance. The whackjobs are much in force, as usual, and even the ones who aren't deliberately disruptive or openly insane are just grossly misinformed. But Frank insists on treating them like the truth matters. To a woman holding up a picture of Obama' [...]
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  • Shorter Ayn Rand

    The world's greatest, and shortest, summary review of The Fountainhead! The Fountainhead is best read before you're fifteen. That way, if you conclude "Dude, Ayn Rand is an awesome writer!", adults will merely smile - and ask you to turn your baseball cap around so that the brim points forward. And' [...]
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  • Health Care Reform

    Via The Onion: WASHINGTON—After months of committee meetings and hundreds of hours of heated debate, the United States Congress remained deadlocked this week over the best possible way to deny Americans health care. "Both parties understand that the current system is broken," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Monday. "But what we" [...]
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  • Set your DVRs!

    This Saturday, at 2:30 PM Eastern Time, TCM will be playing Zero Hour! Never heard of it? It's a 1957 thriller whose claim to fame is that it was the basis for the movie Airplane! -- they even kept several of the character names intact. I've never seen it, ...' [...]
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  • Is Health Reform Worth Passing Without the Public Option?

    So the public option, while not dead, is in serious jeopardy. Insurance company Senators like Baucus and Conrad seem intent on killing it and the White House doesn't seem to think it worth fighting for. The question is whether or not the White is correct. The public option has really ...' [...]
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  • Speaking Truth to Power

    Tell it, Vinny! [...]
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  • How Superman Should Have Ended

    H/T: Gary Farber of Amygdala. [...]
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  • How Bad is Brewers Pitching?

    So bad that despite scoring 12 runs, they had to rely on their closer to pick up a save. This less than two weeks after they scored 7 runs in one inning and still managed to lose. [...]
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  • Payday Loans

    In a recent thread, an off-topic conversation on the relative merits (or lack thereof) of payday loans came up. Coincidentally, my home town indy paper just did a cover story on the subject: They were kicked out of North Carolina, are constitutionally banned in Arkansas and heavily regulated in Minnesota. ... [...]
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  • Oh, That Liberal Media, Part Eleventy Billion

    CNBC apparently conspired with Teabaggers to generate townhall riots: Yesterday, Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin sent an email, obtained by TPMmuckraker, to a Tea Party google group. Martin told the group: "We have a media request for an event this week that will have lots of energy and" [...]
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