January 2012
12 posts
“The office of East Haven’s mayor was blasted with prank phone calls and a...”
– (via muppetpants)
If I say I want tacos, will people send me free tacos? (via jasencomstock) Oh man racists get FREE TACOS too??
“It is unclear precisely how much money Paul made from his newsletters, but...”
– Why are we not ALL writing racist newsletters?
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Just awoke from a terrible nightmare in which a message of doctrinaire economic conservatism combined with condescending social liberalism only resonated with a handful of elites, thank god our president is still John Huntsman
Ricky Gervais has just faxed me some topical...
“Mitt Romney says we should only discus income inequality in ‘quiet rooms.’ You know, like a cinema playing ‘The Beaver.’”
“People say, ‘ooh, Ron Paul, he’s a bit of a nutter,’ just because he wants to legalize hard drugs and prostitution, but I don’t see what’s so unreasonable about letting Charlie Sheen balance the...
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Arthur Brisbane to launch Sophist version of...
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My brunch with "Adrien Brody"
December 2011
8 posts
felixsalmon:
“During a meeting in Madrid in March 2008, Hurd walked Fisher to an ATM and showed her his checking account balance of more than $1 million to impress her, the document said.” — Hurd Pursued Sex With Contractor Jodie Fisher While CEO of HP, Letter Says - Bloomberg
This is possibly the most bathetic thing I’ve seen all year.
Dude probably did this right before a really big...
Christmas
We live next door to nice condos, constructed recently, tastefully designed to blend into the neighborhood but in their tastefulness quite out of place next to our ugly concrete building and the taxi depot across the street. There were, when I returned home from the fancy cheese shop earlier tonight, six NYPD squad cars, two FDNY emergency medical vans and one ambulance parked directly outside the...
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Some moron pulled the “you never would’ve said those things about Christopher Hitchens when he was ALIVE” card on Twitter, which led me to remember perhaps the dumbest introductory line for a post I’ve ever written that still makes me laugh.
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Truly honored to be recognized as one of Forbes'...
I would also like Felix Salmon to take me to lunch somewhere nice
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November 2011
10 posts
Here's another unpopular opinon.
celebraterickysargulesh:
tylercoates:
I spent about twelve hours on Thursday and Friday nights watching Friends. It’s a really funny show.
This we can agree on.
What is wrong with both of you
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How to Succeed in Political Blogging →
Publishing a guide to political blogging in 2011 is akin to publishing a guide to succeeding in the oil business in 1897 and asking John D. Rockefeller to write a chapter. The game is up. As I’ve stated before, there’s virtually no way for new voices to rise out of the blogosphere in 2011. Without a very specific skill, good luck trying to find a readership outside of your friends. No one uses...
"It is a dry and unfunny liberals attempt at...
New favorite blogger.
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PARENTHETICAL OF THE YEAR
“(The media’s obsession with the Penn State sex scandal can be explained by the fact they think it will hurt Herman Cain.)”
"Hollywood actress Piper Laurie, 79, says in a new... →
marathonpacks:
via Ben Greenman.
Well.
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October 2011
5 posts
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“The statue, in front of one of the airport’s busiest intersections, will...”
– Guess who
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September 2011
17 posts
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“The last time I checked, the president was supposed to sit down and figure out...”
– Diana Taylor is obviously self-evidently awful but this is just a weird thing to assert as an obvious truth. The last time you checked… what, exactly?
Police documents obtained by The Associated Press... →
“Asked about the story Thursday, Bloomberg said, ‘You’re just factually wrong,’ but he did not elaborate. His spokesman, after being shown the documents, also declined to say what the mayor believed was inaccurate.”
“He has also bonded with his staff over their shared love of the Coen brothers,...”
– Mitt Romney: Serious Man.
“Anthropologists gradually fanned out into the world and began directly observing...”
– I like that last one, let’s all get together as a global economy and try it for a while.
“A good starting point for you in a course based on what we call “critical...”
– Liking this guy.
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Most Horrifying Sentence on Our Site Today
motherjones:
Texas’ Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice, Don Clemmer, later testified that his office didn’t have the resources to investigate allegations of sexual abuse at a TYC facility in Ward County because at the time the local agent was busy investigating charges of voter fraud by a 68-year-old Hispanic woman.
Your morning must-read: Why did Rick Perry wait six years to clean...
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It is now clear is that that man, Leroy Webster,... →
“Although liberal New Yorkers tried to pretend Republicans had hijacked a local...”
– Harry Siegel I think you are a good columnist but 52% of people opposed with a 2.9% margin of error does not “overwhelm” me. Just say “a majority.” (Also the poll was taken in August after months of conservative professional anti-Islam bigots lying repeatedly and at length...
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choire replied to your post: I am watching “Friends” for the first time in my life Netflix Instant well finally ran dry, huh. (No yeah that shit is REAL BAD. Except for you know who. LISA LISA KUDROW AND HER KULT JAM.)
she is the best!...
I am watching "Friends" for the first time in my...
and I am actually shocked at how loathsome “Ross” is as a character. He is utterly without redeeming qualities. He is more self-absorbed and vile than Alan Partridge. It’s remarkable. Also Jennifer Aniston is pretty awful too and I’m not sure why people wanted to watch their antics, for ten years.
I mean seriously this is the dumbest genre of libertarian “thought” — a good thing happened, because of capitalism. There is a bad thing nearby, that is government’s fault. Hundreds of millions of dollars of direct subsidies allowed Lower Manhattan to “come back.” (And can anything flourishing in high-tax high-service New York City really be an object lesson in...
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“And government provided some incentives in the neighborhood that surrounded the...”
– NICE HAND-WAVING THERE IRA STOLL.
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The Longest Week: Jets announce game plan for 9/11 →
joshsternberg:
ESPN’s Rich Cimini reports:
The Jets announced details of their plans to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of September 11th. The plans have a Super Bowl-like feel to them. Check it out: PRE-GAME: • Each fan will receive an American Flag upon entrance to MetLife Stadium. • Taps…
* At halftime, a man dressed as Osama bin Laden will be concussed
* Penalty flags...