On Some Jews Are Dumber Than Dirt
Weirdly enough, this makes me think of the episode of Mary Tyler Moore when Rhoda’s mother ends up staying with Mary.
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On Some Jews Are Dumber Than Dirt
@johnpseudonym Marcus always has a dreamy, wistful look in his eyes when Michael Caine turns on Bach’s Concerto in F Minor for Barabara Hershey…
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On Drawing Old
Comparing this to the paintings in Lascaux and Chauvet, we’ve reached the conclusion that the first inhabitants of what are now the British Isles were driven there by art critics.
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On Maybe Teachers Aren't To Blame For Every Terrible Thing
@ogradybt Because that’s how it usually plays out in the policy arena. Teachers’ unions are an easy thing for politicians and bureaucrats to make a stand against or demand changes from, whereas to make real strides in performance (which goes way beyond unions) requires lots of dedicated, complex work with tons of extra actors, making it much harder to implement (and take credit for). Also, a lot of that stuff doesn’t scale well, either, so it’s expensive too.
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On The Trend Story, Mastered: HuffPo Does Gay College Hookers!
Are the gay-indebted-sugar babies also wearing those Gaga-inspired pupil-enlarging contacts from that NYTimes fake trend story?
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On Hamptons Jitney "Not Amused" by Mockery
"The Jitney's Just a Fucking Bus" is okay, but not as good as "Spartacus is Just a Fucking Slave" or "The Sabre Dance is Just a Fucking Folk Ballet."
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On More (Sort of) Recent History of Riots
@jfruh And the best part is that football games in modern-day Turkey are only a notch or two below that!
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On Five Democrats Who Should Run Against Obama
@Jim Behrle@twitter Don't be stupid. Looking at healthcare alone, his preferences for finding savings in Medicare involve giving it greater power to negotiate drug policies (instead of just cutting people off), he just required insurers to cover contraceptives, insurers can't cut off people with preexisting conditions and--guess what--you wouldn't have seen expanded health coverage if it wasn't for health care reform enacted by a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic congress. Is it perfect? No. Is it still a major step forward and Big Fucking Deal? Yes. So, even though it's not good enough for you, HCR still broke a few decades' worth of inertia.
Gitmo's still open due to Senatorial knot-tying, you can't just lift your troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and whether or not you agree with the Lybia intervention, it was done through the UN Security Council and the operation's been under NATO control since March--it's not unilateral dick-swinging. The President has a role in all of this, but he's not the only actor involved. The fact that you place all the onus for this on Obama--and to claim he can't go any further to the right (he hasn't bragged about torturing prisoners yet, has he)--shows that you simply aren't paying attention or can't deal with a complex world.
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On Five Democrats Who Should Run Against Obama
@Jim Behrle@twitter In reality, it's really only worth primarying a candidate if you actually intend to take them out. It's a waste of resources to do it for optics--there are other important races to which those resources could be dedicated (say, electing a governor or senator). There is going to be more than one election on November 4th 2012, after all.
And again, a primary from the left will shift Obama to the right, so he'll run from further to the right, and likely govern from there to. There's no logic to a primary--it's just fantasizing about a political prince charming.
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On I Don't Even Know Who You Are Anymore
@Vicky Hey, there’s another one of us here (although I do more than cartography)!