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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 11:03 AM
Original article: Sarah Palin, one tough mama

Readrereader

8. Yes, but won't new polls come out showing a post-resignation fade? That's possible, but she has another ace in her sleeve: the announcement of 1/1 through 6/30 PAC fund raising, which is due by 7/31.

Maybe Palin can build interest by resigning from that too.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 12:37 PM
Original article: We're all intersex

@Phio Gistic

If you're fertile, your sex is definitely either male or female.

If you're sterile, you might be genetically intersex...or you might have a medical condition that has made you sterile.

My point is that the genetic mutations that lead to sterile intersex individuals would seem to preclude the idea that "we are all intersex".

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 12:47 PM
Original article: We're all intersex

@bigguns

Once you starting Othering someone into an "it" via a lack of procreative ability, decency demands that you consider children and post-menopausal women to be its.

Nice strawman. One could simply consider post-menopausal women "post-menopausal women".

And the term "children" has nothing to do with either sex or gender.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 01:27 PM
Original article: We're all intersex

bigguns I'm not saying there aren't social repercussions to looking at it this way

however the 8th grade biology class approach is valid when looking at one's own sexual reality, IMO.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 01:53 PM

@tomreedtoon

And the freedom is gained the same way, by dying and being burned in an oven.

Have you considered Match.com?

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 09:16 PM
Original article: Women: The choosier sex?

choosy mothers choose Jif

smooth or crunchy, it doesn't really matter.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 09:19 PM

the pop culture wailing wall

war isn't real...entertainment is.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 09:27 PM
Original article: Can Palin ever come back?

@professor dumm

your caps lock is on

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 09:35 PM
Original article: Women: The choosier sex?

if only she would choose ME

but unfortunately it's a complex cultural dynamic with multidimensional vesting.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 09:39 PM
Original article: Mom, lawyer, musician?

once I had a guitar

I wasn't very good, so I quit...is this helpful advice?

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 09:41 PM
Original article: Women: The choosier sex?

it's true, women approach me on the street

they always want to know what time it is.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 09:48 PM
Original article: Sarah Palin, one tough mama

@Readerreader

A couple of months after Palin gets her radio or tv gig...check her poll numbers then.

She'll be popular with the same people who love her now...everyone else will be repulsed.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 09:51 PM
Original article: Can Palin ever come back?

denying Paglia a forum

yes, I do believe that makes perfect sense.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 06:27 PM

poor Block

Mia: You don't look so happy.

Antonius Block: No.

Mia: Are you tired?

Antonius Block: Yes. I have boring company.

Mia: You mean your squire?

Antonius Block: No, not him.

Mia: Who do you mean, then?

Antonius Block: Myself.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 07:09 PM
Original article: The end (of men) is coming!

a world without men

there will always be women who can pinch hit.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 07:27 PM

maybe you should only date other orphans

go on match.com - specify orphans only.

Because only orphans understand.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 08:48 PM
Original article: The poison of celebrity

"Though not in tune with her political ideololgy, we've been standing up for her from the get go..."

gender über alles

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 09:13 PM

this spreadsheet shows Palin's predicted value as a presidential candidate

link at sig

Thursday, July 9, 2009 11:27 AM

unresolved trauma will waste your life

The day I stopped seeing myself as suffering from -x- was the day I got my life back. And it took decades.

Do you want to waste that kind of time?

Thursday, July 9, 2009 04:28 PM

better to play checkers with O'Hehir

than scrabble with compassus

Thursday, July 9, 2009 06:56 PM
Original article: Can Palin ever come back?

single-payer

we should have single-payer oil, too. and single-payer steel, and cars, and high tech, and toys, and housing, and food.

It will all be paid for with taxes!

Thursday, July 9, 2009 07:15 PM

you don't have to play the addict game

why not try somebody without the big problem?

Thursday, July 9, 2009 07:46 PM

Readerreader, you forgot option 4

queen of the maypole - link at sig

Thursday, July 9, 2009 09:20 PM

Readerreader always gets his knickers in a twist when you don't buy into his delusions

but he'll be back.

Thursday, July 9, 2009 09:50 PM
Original article: Clergy say, "I won't"

the breeders cup

the church gives the seal of approval and the state sets up the legal details.

Imagine if you needed a "single" license.

Friday, July 10, 2009 07:33 PM

it's not surprising

young people are simply acknowledging the shallow and transitory nature of most human relationships.

Friday, July 10, 2009 09:13 PM

weirdness at CIA

they seem to have some mysterious impulse to spill selected parts of their guts at random intervals...they love what they do but also hate it, and want to share a little bit of it with YOU.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 05:57 PM

why limit yourself to primates?

maybe you could wake up as a giant cockroach.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 06:17 PM
Original article: IKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart

my IKEA bed is wonderful

it looks good, the dense foam mattress is terrific for my back, and it's holding up just fine...because I don't use it for a trampoline.

The whole thing with sheets and blanket was around $650, vs maybe $2K for a quality conventional mattress, box spring and frame.

It's perfectly fine if the bed is too crappy to pass on to my kids, because I don't have any kids. And to suggest that Bed Mart is somehow a better corporate citizen that IKEA seems ridiculous.

Maybe my bed should have been hand-crafted out of organic hemp by elves in Northern California, for half my yearly salary.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 06:31 PM

living together is for people who want to play house and have sex but who are not really that sure about each other

of course, eventually she married someone else.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 07:12 PM
Original article: IKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart

@AJCalhoun

In contrast to my crappy bed, I have a rather expensive telescope with optics fabricated right here in the USA.

However, lately I hear that this company is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 07:34 PM

we were trying to make lasagna

with an ez-bake oven

Saturday, July 11, 2009 08:38 PM
Original article: IKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart

I will agree that shopping at IKEA is a disturbing experience

Tranquilizers and dim glasses are almost a requirement, to dull the throbbing masses of value-hunters and blank-eyed "sales associates".

After going there I feel the need to throw up, or at least have a few gin and tonics.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 08:50 PM
Original article: IKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart

"Then what will we need bookcases for?"

Mr. Hutman, I have a lot of knick knacks.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 08:52 PM
Original article: IKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart

and speaking of cheap crap

I lost my reading glasses, and bought some new ones at the dollar store. One dollar for reading glasses! They're from China of course.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 09:02 PM
Original article: IKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart

particle board is probably the greatest invention of the 20th century

it's like penicillin, or the integrated circuit.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 09:20 PM
Original article: IKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart

used computers are a good deal and a good way to conserve resources

mine was only $150. I can use it to access something called the INTERNET.

Monday, July 13, 2009 11:19 AM

bernbart: the leadership of our country is mostly made up of disfunctional males

and yet abortion is legal

actually you can prove almost any point with the "disfunctional males" argument...in fact you can prove contradictory points with it.

Monday, July 13, 2009 12:20 PM
Original article: IKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart

IKEA University, IKEA surgery center, IKEA auto mall

IKEA needs to challenge itself and expand into other areas outside its core expertise.

They already have the smoked salmon salad plate...the rest should be pretty easy.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:37 PM
Original article: IKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart

sitting in the cafeteria at IKEA, eating meatballs

of course I'm jealous of the people in the part of town with $25 gourmet breakfasts and late model european sports sedans. Look at the barnwood siding, brought in from Medocino! Next door, there's a grandfather clock for sale...only $5500.

But they are not the future. We are the future.

We are IKEA.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 02:59 PM

GTA for girlz

pink handguns?

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 03:12 PM
Original article: Miami sociopath

all the evidence points to the fact that the majority of people like very low quality entertainment

like the Super Bowl...it has a halftime show, not a halftime aria.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 09:29 PM

Harry Potter is great

I also like Trapper John and Hawkeye.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 02:07 PM

interacting with the marriage-unit

is the marriage-unit happy?

can the marriage-unit go out tonight?

does the marriage-unit kiss with tongues?

everybody wants to know!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 02:17 PM

Canada's biggest solar thermal installation circa 2008

Canada’s biggest solar thermal installation with 223 kW (319 m²) pumps heat to Wood Green Community Services in Toronto.

http://www.solarthermalworld.org/node/309

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 07:21 PM
Original article: The trans bathroom debate

laws allowing public urination and defecation would solve this problem

stop the hate!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 07:24 PM
Original article: My wife doesn't miss me!

mr. nosy, maybe there's a reason why your wife doesn't miss you

P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L S-P-A-C-E

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 07:35 PM
Original article: Who you calling a "midget"?

we could call them "andromeda-thirteens"

"We are having a cattle call of andromeda-thirteens for the new Flavor-Berry cola commercial"

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 08:48 PM

Palin is the enemy and we must destroy her

that should be obvious to you by now.

Friday, July 17, 2009 05:56 PM
Original article: "(500) Days of Summer"

pretty people hurt too

yes it's a tragedy

Friday, July 17, 2009 06:09 PM

we shouldn't worry about the CIA

everybody there has to pass a background check or something

Friday, July 17, 2009 06:42 PM

the Environment Wars

coming soon to an administration near you

Friday, July 17, 2009 07:21 PM
Original article: Iraq, the world's oil pump

in the coming age of the cockroach

can I run my suzuki on cockroaches?

Saturday, July 18, 2009 06:50 PM
Original article: When summer TV goes bad

Horatio Caine quote

"We are being detoured into the land of make-believe."

Sunday, July 19, 2009 12:13 PM

the news process is completely politicized

every media market is defined and subdivided...and wants its biases validated.

Sunday, July 19, 2009 02:56 PM

top flight or titleist?

inquiring minds want to know.

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