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John Anderson

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Sunday, January 18, 2009 03:11 PM
Original article: Obama takes the Abe train

feel the love: merely an invitation to hop aboard the peace train

As for some black americans being more equal than other black americans...go there at your own peril.

Sunday, January 18, 2009 03:47 PM

obviously the clown

is not getting any

Sunday, January 18, 2009 03:52 PM

torture doesn't even work on 24

didn't the nuke go off anyway?

Sunday, January 18, 2009 03:56 PM

jag skulle vilja ha en kulspetspenna

it's a secret message

Sunday, January 18, 2009 05:15 PM
Original article: Obama takes the Abe train

London Lad your slur is couched in weasel-words

but the only monkey is you

Sunday, January 18, 2009 06:15 PM

the Green Zone was the part of town where prostitution occurred

green refers to $, and the tender age of some of the hookers...someone told me this, I have no idea if it's true...I'm not in the military

Sunday, January 18, 2009 07:45 PM

"link at sig, if I'm doing this right..."

the cocktailhag has man hands

Sunday, January 18, 2009 08:00 PM

steveindallas has a point

Obama is probably not going to make prosecution a priority, because there's no political "upside" for him to do so. However, this assumes that the left-wing blogging universe is not on his radar, which may not be true: consider the case of John Brennan.

As for torture...I have nothing to add to this exciting debate about genitalia and explosives.

Monday, January 19, 2009 06:03 PM
Original article: I'm losing it in public

why are you so in love with your own rage?

you and Cary both

Monday, January 19, 2009 06:11 PM
Original article: I Like to Watch

maybe they'll find another earth in a parallel universe

mr. spock has the coordinates

Monday, January 19, 2009 06:33 PM

I'm waiting for the spinal implant

with the heads-up display

Monday, January 19, 2009 06:43 PM

obsessing over the precise moment

is a little weird

Monday, January 19, 2009 07:11 PM
Original article: It's an Obamanation!

I have an Obama/JFK "new frontier" button

let's hope for a better outcome

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 09:53 AM
Original article: I'm losing it in public

my brother was one of these ragers

he's gotten better, but he used to be terrible...ragers, boilers, fumers, screamers...I assume they have a mental illness of some sort, not a high iq or elevated personal standards.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:02 AM
Original article: Barack Obama is president

Obama!

getting off to a good start

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:06 AM
Original article: Change comes to the Web

no banner ads

hmm...

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 04:17 PM

the resident contrarians

stumped by a few moments lacking cynicism

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 08:53 AM
Original article: Move over, Dr. House

facial coding system

yes...a genius

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:51 PM
Original article: Move over, Dr. House

"The Sociopath"

Watch "The Sociopath", a new crime/legal/medical drama on TBS, or ABC or whatever.

Thursday, January 22, 2009 09:10 AM
Original article: Move over, Dr. House

i'll just watch MASH reruns instead

that crazy Hawkeye!

Thursday, January 22, 2009 09:15 AM

rise above it

fly free...what color is your parachute...today is the first day of the rest of your life..."hope" is "ope" with the magic H added!

Thursday, January 22, 2009 09:25 AM
Original article: Let's beat up on the Oscars

scariest makeup goes to joker

scarey

Friday, January 23, 2009 12:35 PM

some men make $25K/yr...some men make $90K/yr...some men make $300K/yr

whatever the earning target is...if you don't meet it, she will make you miserable.

Friday, January 23, 2009 12:44 PM

money doesn't buy happiness

but it does buy a lot of cool junk

Friday, January 23, 2009 12:52 PM

maybe this couple needs a Services Agreement Contract (SAC)

with a SAC in place, they could each approach domestic responsibilities from a value-added position.

And sex could finally be disengaged from any remaining emotional content, making it more rational and predictable.

Friday, January 23, 2009 01:00 PM

it's a smart businessperson who can make a life's income from a single transaction

but let's see how she does her taxes

Friday, January 23, 2009 01:07 PM

what the entertainment industry has to think about ANY mental illness

is not of interest to me

Saturday, January 24, 2009 03:56 PM

"Fairy tales are real."

Today at the supermarket I was not able to locate any unicorns or rainbows.

Saturday, January 24, 2009 04:49 PM
Original article: Does my butt look fat?

it is normal for some people to be fat

It is also normal to be attracted to models.

Saturday, January 24, 2009 07:39 PM
Original article: Does my butt look fat?

i'm thinking about that cult that subsists only on water and sunlight

I'm not overweight...i just don't like to eat.

Saturday, January 24, 2009 08:05 PM

the secret to a woman's sexuality

Nylons and chocolates?

Sunday, January 25, 2009 09:23 AM

re: oral sex on the second date

This seems optimistic at best

Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:18 AM

the media is not progressive

so it is not going to say progressive things

Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:22 AM
Original article: Chris Rock's good hair day

white dreads

this is the logical next step for me, but i'm lazy...maybe i can just get a wig on my visa

Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:35 AM
Original article: Chris Rock's good hair day

maureenodonnell how do we know that our hair is not the mastermind of all our suffering?

We just don't know

Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:39 AM
Original article: Chris Rock's good hair day

klytus: black and blue?

trippy

Sunday, January 25, 2009 01:25 PM
Original article: Chris Rock's good hair day

Susan Sontag also had a streak

I'm shattered...was this also a reverse dye job?

Sunday, January 25, 2009 01:48 PM
Original article: Chris Rock's good hair day

maureenodonnell, heather mills and i don't run in the same social circles over here

which will spare me from seeing her hideous roots (her hair, that is...not her native land)

Sunday, January 25, 2009 02:13 PM
Original article: Chris Rock's good hair day

KitchenGirl, there are many reasons why we might have issues with Paul McCartney's ex-wife

I'm going to do the mature thing, and focus on mocking her physical appearance.

Sunday, January 25, 2009 05:38 PM

ever since the "free" wireless in my building vanished, i've been posting with a samsung instinct

it's not so good for that...bloggers are certainly not raving about the instinct.

Sunday, January 25, 2009 07:21 PM
Original article: Louise, 52

wouldn't it be nice to be 16 forever

well maybe not

Sunday, January 25, 2009 07:48 PM
Original article: Does my butt look fat?

@deering

Once i had a lady tell me that she would have been attracted to me if i were more "buff". Point being, there are shallow people of all genders...and they deserve love as much as anyone else.

Sunday, January 25, 2009 08:46 PM
Original article: Does my butt look fat?

deering, "real love", like looks, is subjective

I'm really only suggesting that shallow people deserve the love of other shallow people.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 06:35 PM

amazing

people we don't respect, don't respect us

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 06:41 PM

"editorially curated sites focused on consumer passion points"

all ads, all the time

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 06:51 PM

"almost-romance genre" or "highly original"?

Can it be both? I missed that lecture in film studies, unless we're talking about the chapter on pandering to trends.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 06:58 PM

The Family

This sort of ownership dynamic is why I avoid my own family, for the most part. Sure, you should shun the outcast. Perhaps someone should take out a contract on him, too. You could chip in some money...your cousin will let you know how much.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 07:01 PM

do street theater

put out a hat...dance around and make people happy. Go for it, there are no standards. You can take the money and buy pizza.

Thursday, January 29, 2009 09:01 AM

I was an extra in "Outbreak", starring Dustin Hoffman

$50 + lunch.

They say that being an extra requires no skill whatsoever, but don't believe them. I had to pull all the Method tools out of the toolbox for that one.

Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:50 PM
Original article: Battling Dick Armey

fun with Dick and Jane

sure beats actually thinking

Thursday, January 29, 2009 04:37 PM

why is Walsh debating Armey?

Is she in the house now?

I can't wait for the Cooper/Feinstein matchup.

Thursday, January 29, 2009 06:34 PM
Original article: "Taken"

badass cia fist of death superdaddy

On my bookshelf is a small collection of dvds acquired on sale at blockbuster. They are all so bad I never watch them, except for one: The Professional.

Besson certainly knows how to make quality garbage. Maybe Taken deserves a place on my bookshelf, too.

Thursday, January 29, 2009 06:51 PM
Original article: Welcome to Elsewhere, USA

the "we" of the article

you work too hard, you outsouce your mundane tasks, you won't unplug, you make a lot of money, your baby cries for mommy.

the only person asking you to do it...is you.

Thursday, January 29, 2009 06:58 PM
Original article: "New in Town"

charming

i might need to lose a little more brain function before seeing this one

Thursday, January 29, 2009 07:50 PM
Original article: Ditched for a Whopper

recently I friended an old girlfriend

It had been 20 years...we were actually friends back then, and so I friended her, and then we discussed getting together, and decided not to. She didn't really want to be my friend again, although we are now in fact "friends". Oh well.

I'm trying to figure out how to get money from my facebook friends...that would make them worth having.

Thursday, January 29, 2009 08:15 PM

i'm so glad this film was made by an insider

well, a cultural insider, who in the larger sense is an outsider. One who sees the outside from the inside (although both these characters are really neither in or outsiders but rather "meta-siders" on the outside of the most "in" city there is: San Francisco).

Friday, January 30, 2009 03:52 PM
Original article: Welcome to Elsewhere, USA

intra-thread name change car bombing

cool

Friday, January 30, 2009 04:52 PM

the reproducing segment of the population seems in general more mainstream in its attitudes

you could probably find a guy who doesn't watch sports and would split every last chore down the middle...but he might not want to have kids or even marry you for that matter.

Friday, January 30, 2009 06:50 PM
Original article: "You, sir, are an idiot"

it's a great time to buy a car

the radio said so

Friday, January 30, 2009 06:59 PM
Original article: "The Uninvited"

do their heads spin around?

if their heads spin around I might go see it

Friday, January 30, 2009 07:02 PM
Original article: "Taken"

Darkman yes

Dull Man, no

Friday, January 30, 2009 07:27 PM

she is dead to me

dead to me I tell you

Friday, January 30, 2009 07:31 PM

who are these people?

and why are they dressing up like women?

Friday, January 30, 2009 07:44 PM

politics is not rational

Rational people (those with graduate degrees, GG, his fans) are just one input into the system. There are many others.

WinSmith represents a certain point of view that is not popular here. The fact that some people enjoy him as "trollsport" actually makes him appear more convincing to those who identify emotionally with his arguments.

Friday, January 30, 2009 08:20 PM

hey i have a PhD too you know

it was $59.95

Friday, January 30, 2009 08:30 PM

well sure

but mine says Yale

Saturday, January 31, 2009 01:37 PM

"Was there something else?"

you forgot "zionist"

Saturday, January 31, 2009 02:12 PM

"smithers release the hounds" is from the Simpsons cartoon

a parody of anti-Semitic affluent WASP culture, perhaps

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