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Friday, January 16, 2009 11:28 AM

Actually, I like Israel...

Yeah, I like Israel. There's not much of a principle there, so I guess I'm in hot water with the UN, P.C., Lefty, the U.S. shouldn't have a-bombed Japan, everybody is equally good and moral, crowd. You know what? You can all kma (that's Arabic for "kish mir in tuchas"). Good for Israel, says I. I much prefer Israelites to folks who do the houra after their children have blown themselves up on purpose. Don't like what you just read? Eat your heart out.

Friday, January 16, 2009 11:51 AM

Oomex

YOU'RE a solemn, pompous ass. Am I warm?

Sunday, January 25, 2009 05:06 AM
Original article: Does my butt look fat?

See, I don't go by "fat"

Just googled your pictures...I don't go by fat or any criterion other than f--kability, and Baby, you've got it big time.

Thursday, February 5, 2009 11:38 AM

To JCourt

@JCourt

I hereby sentence you to death.

Justice Scalia

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:41 AM

Two

1) the vaporizer is a good recommendation, but not a cheap one...get the good one that goes for about $400 (German made)...the cheap ones are reputedly not good

2) next time you encounter him stoned, see if you can seduce him...remember stoned sex?

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 05:53 AM

Pardons not an incentive to torture

Glenn makes a syntactical error stating pardons are an incentive to torture. Who would torture to get a pardon? Pardons remove a disincentive to torture. Glenn's usual precision compels this somewhat pedantic correction. As far as will there be prosecutions -- Obama is not even looking like a liberal any more -- giving money to the Wall St. executives, dithering about troop withdrawals (uh, excuse me, conducting a top to bottom review), silence about FISA and Patriot Act, and so on ad nauseum. I think O is a good president, but just pointing out he's not going to risk anything on prosecuting high officials, which would tear the country in half no matter what Glenn's polls seem to say. But that's just my opinion.

Monday, February 23, 2009 08:24 AM

Tear down Emanuel....

....and you'll take his boss with him.

Thursday, February 26, 2009 03:53 PM

Glenn, couldn't think of a topic today? (n/t)

People have been writing about Palin, Cheney, now Rove...makes me think they're a bit uneasy about their guy in the White House...why else write about irrelevant people just to put them down?

Friday, February 27, 2009 04:43 AM

Joe, you need not stoop

Joe, you're one of the few who delivers...you need not stoop to gimmick of making the hook that you're breaking a personal rule...what does that add, unless of course, you really are god

Saturday, March 14, 2009 05:18 AM

If Larry Summers is so smart...

...why doesn't he fix his bullfrog chin? Cheap, routine surgery. Take off 10 - 15 years from his appearance.

Monday, March 16, 2009 06:36 PM

Obama sounding weak

The angrier he acts, the weaker he seems...Americans believe in action, like getting the $ back, not expressions of anger. Obama better get some results -- and quick!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 06:47 AM

GregoryG's Math error

@GregoryG

Your error is in being precise beyond what the facts allow. To come up with an accurate difference of 100 or so votes you'd need to know how many absentee ballots were cast to the nearest hundred. Otherwise you're creating a false precision. Incidentally, I took the SATs in Brooklyn in the late 50s and in my high school (Lincoln) bragging rights began at 700.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 04:37 AM

Glenn Greenwald vs. Vincent Bugliosi

It's a contest: who is the most naive person who is also extremely intelligent and knowledgeable about the real world? Bugliosis purports to believe Bush can be prosecuted for murder in some place like Vermont...that this is a practical plan. Glenn thinks that politicians will stick to weakening national security (as they perceive it) once they are ensconced in office.

Thursday, April 16, 2009 04:44 AM

femininism is boring...

....but that doesn't mean a comedy can't be made out of it. But how do you satirize something that is self-satirizing?

Monday, April 20, 2009 08:19 AM
Original article: Aubrey Reuben, 76

I hear envy...

I will not go into details, but I know first hand that it is perfectly possible to have great sex in your upper 60s with much younger women. And with women your own age, while we're on the subject. A liberal apparently is a person who thinks that people who have a life style the liberal doesn't like are bad people. I've never read a convincing case from somebody who had little sex or few sex partners and was glad of it, but should such people exist I for one do not disparage them.

Monday, April 20, 2009 04:13 PM
Original article: Aubrey Reuben, 76

Ageism

Ageism....attacks on the writer because he's 76. Or is it that a 76 year old should not have a varied sex life? I tell ya, there're a lot of unhappy people writing letters here, waving their moral bona fides, explaining why this guy shouldn't be getting so much strange. I learned more from the letters I read (about 15 or so seem enough to cover the range of ideas) than from Aubrey's piece -- which, I'll wager, will get him even more young tail. Eat your hearts out!

Monday, April 20, 2009 04:38 PM
Original article: Aubrey Reuben, 76

@Pedrom

Dear Pedrom:

Believe me, I feel for you. Life has been so unfair. Incidentally, some mighty attractive younger women dig older men. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Gratefule Live

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 04:01 PM

Obama soon to be at war with his DNI

The Times website says Obama's own director of national intelligence wrote in a memo that harsh techniques gained valuable information. As part of the Obama transparency program, this part of the memo was censored before release to the public. Obama better get the team on the same page, at least as to what they utter in public or private, and above all, we shouldn't have tortured. No matter what.

Monday, April 27, 2009 05:51 AM

What about Asberger's Syndrome?

I'd like to start an activist movement for Asperberger Syndrome people, but I don't know how you contact interested parties.

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