Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Fairytale of New York

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In what appears to be a perfect symbiosis, America's Mayor picks up the coveted endorsement of the cultural equivalent of its wacky nei...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Eighth Continent

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So there's this gargantuan mass of garbage , twice the size of Texas, conglomerated out in the Pacific Ocean. The enormous stew of trash...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

Free Fall

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Great article in New York magazine, encapsulating some of the financial topics we hit from time to time -- the collapse of the derivative-...

Face in the Crowd

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Shorter Broder: Eminent moderates agree that Republican pragmatism is just like Democratic pragmatism. Super. Bobby Jindal is heralded here ...
Saturday, November 03, 2007

Made Men

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Ladies and germs, your GOP front-runner, Rudy Walnuts: In 2000, more than half the mayor’s cabinet had opposed Mr. Kerik’s appointment to be...
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Like a Cheap Accordion

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I swear this is true -- immediately after reading the list of Judiciary Committee members (Whitehouse, Durbin, Kerry, Kennedy, Leahy) who ha...
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Stuffing the Box

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Okay, so who do ya gotta fuck to get nominated for these things anyway? I mean seriously, the Ole Perfesser for Best Individual Blogger? Ma...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Expert Opinion

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The Senator once again prepares to use the only tool in his box. Bob Schieffer is pretending to be surprised and/or interested. When he'...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Fuck Fred Phelps

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Let's put it this way -- if there really is a God, and He has anything other than blistering contempt for puling fucks like Phelps and ...

Silver and Blackout

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Truth hurts. If enough Raiders fans buy tickets to Sunday's home game against the Texans, the game will sell out, the TV blackout will b...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Taking a (Wide) Stance

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You can set your watch to it -- the more a person bitches about Teh Gay, the more likely it is that they're projecting their own inner ...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Swept Away

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Congrats to the Red Sox -- after going the full seven in the ALCS against Cleveland, they pounded the well-rested Rockies like red-headed s...
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PILF

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Argentina gets its groove back. Good luck fending off Hugo Chàvez, though -- they say he's all hands.

Symptom of the Universe

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Juan Cole , per usual, is absolutely correct: The Bush administration's entire Middle East policy is coming undone -- if it even has a p...
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Writer's Block

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No doubt the link will be de-hacked as soon as Jonah gets wind of it and rouses some increasingly disgruntled intern, but in the meantime, ...
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The Invisible Finger

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I got your meritocracy right here: Merrill Lynch’s directors may be weighing E. Stanley O’Neal’s future, but one thing is already guarantee...
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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Desktop Publishing

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I don't know what to make of this , except that if the video excerpts of the handout are accurate, a chimp with a copy machine could hav...
Friday, October 26, 2007

Potemkin Government

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Love it. It was only a matter of time. Tuesday the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced it was holding a news conference to answer...
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Famous Last Words

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Highly edifiying. And here I'd have assumed it would have been more along the line of "Leave me the fuck alone, you bastards....
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Amused to Death

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Pete Stark had it all wrong, but only by one word. He should have said "delusion" rather than "amusement". Even so, he...