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Peter Joshua

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Editor's Choice: 6

Monday, December 15, 2008 10:06 AM

The only punishment suitable:

Pitching lessons to improve his aim.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 07:01 AM

There's nothing funnier . . .

than what we shouldn't laugh at.

Saturday, December 20, 2008 08:09 AM

Thank you, TC-F

The ad copy for this is a pants wetter. Just the lift I needed in pre-holiday craziness.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:07 AM

has there ever been this much carping from all quarters before a president actually started governing?

Somebody at Salon forward this line to Greenwald.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 06:58 PM

Looking for a story there, Mike?

"The promises of transparency were undercut, just a little, by the fact that the orders Obama had signed weren't posted on the White House Web site by the close of business Wednesday. In fact, the text of Tuesday's inaugural address didn't show up until sometime after lunch Wednesday."

Yep, there goes transparency. I mean it couldn't have anything to do with a new administration still finding their feet. Editing, anyone?

Thursday, January 22, 2009 02:04 PM

Happy

to hear Broadsheet staff smacking a collective high five.

Now for the sound of Ms. Walsh smacking her lips on that plate of crow.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 03:05 PM
Original article: Quote of the day

Sue Storm

bitch slaps that dumb bastard out of the park.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 11:12 AM

Bad sub-headline

It's misleading. It makes it sound as if the Times is editorializing against the limit instead of quoting execs who are against it.

Saturday, February 21, 2009 05:45 PM

Are you all sharing a brain?

Here's what the line reads:

not made "for" white people

Does anyone understand what irony means?

For Christ's fucking sake.

Monday, March 2, 2009 05:49 PM

You were saying, asshole?

Obama releases secret Bush memos AP

Thursday, March 5, 2009 06:14 PM
Original article: Obama's timid liberalism

Sirota and Greenwald and Lind, oh my!

Boy, JW just can't get over Hillary losing, can she? How many more of these limp attacks coming?

Saturday, March 7, 2009 07:30 AM
Original article: The A-word

A sure sign of the apocalypse:

Taking "deepthink" from David Sirota seriously.

Monday, March 16, 2009 08:41 AM

While it's true

it's close to German for "black," anybody using it as Mason did who claims not to be using it in a racist way is lying.

Thursday, March 19, 2009 07:51 PM
Original article: "I Love You, Man"

It's one thing . . .

for the average troll who thinks the world need his opinion to get on and express doubts about a movie he hasn't seen. But, Raphael, aren't you allegedly a critic? Or is that an alleged critic?

Thursday, March 19, 2009 07:53 PM
Original article: "Duplicity"

Oh, great

Another one with too much time on his hands. Blackwell, can't you go clean the lint out of the clothes dryer or something.

MI5. MI6. No one going to see this gives a shit.

Friday, March 27, 2009 06:11 AM
Original article: "Monsters vs. Aliens"

"I haven't seen the movie and you have"

End of discussion.

Sunday, April 5, 2009 06:40 PM

A publication

that can claim the genesis of this brilliant book deserves to congratulate itself. It's a fine, fine piece of journalism.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:21 AM

@ anticleon

It can be either, or both, or neither. Williams is having a response to one performer here, contrasting her with today's prefab porn bunnies. That you assume she has a doctrinaire response to porn is your presumption -- it is nowhere in her writing.

Monday, April 20, 2009 01:12 PM

Uh

Traister believes politicians should have a private sex life but is bothered by Spitzer's hypocrisy.

Who's the real hypocrite here?

Thursday, May 7, 2009 09:33 PM
Original article: "Star Trek"

@gozer

One scary bit with Kirk being chased by a dinosaur-like creature. Nothing bad happens, and it's brief, though intense. I don't think, if she likes Star Trek, that's going to ruin the nine-year-old's enjoyment.

Thursday, May 28, 2009 09:20 PM
Original article: "Up"

THIS is what a critic has to defend herself against???

"There is absolutely no way a normal, adjusted human being cannot like "WALL-E" or "Up". There. Is. Not."

Sure, pal. No way a normal, adujusted human being can have an opinion different from you. And if a critic doesn't like a heartwarming movie, she must be losing her soul. Or a snob. Or a cynic.

Someone wake me when the Village Idiot Convention leaves town.

Friday, June 19, 2009 05:51 PM
Original article: Dream big, Obama

Oh,

grow up you whining little pissant.

Monday, June 22, 2009 02:53 PM
Original article: Is the burqa a prison?

The notion

that it is a ban on women's freedom to prevent them from wearing the burqa assumes that they are free to choose not to wear it.

Sunday, June 28, 2009 01:39 PM

A place where you can disconnect completely

Imagine, a place where there's no chance of reading Sirota . . .

Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high . . .

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:42 AM

Conspiracy theories aside . . .

can anyone tell me why Olson is taking this case?

Thursday, July 2, 2009 07:36 AM

Oh, for God's sake

Show me a culture where women are prevented from leaving the house if they don't wear Jimmy Choo's or skinny jeans. Sarkizy has this one exactly right.

Thursday, July 2, 2009 02:24 PM

I'm not going to judge it without seeing it

until I do.

This isn't journalism.

Friday, July 3, 2009 06:22 AM

@dustball

The Girthers! HAHAHA!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 07:20 PM

Good God

Is there anything more disgusting than someone who insists on the supreriority of their grief?

Friday, July 17, 2009 03:15 PM
Original article: "(500) Days of Summer"

Dear Noodle Spine

If subscribers go away because they can't tolerate an opinion different from their own, a publication is better off without them. Extortion is never a good way to put your idea across.

Monday, July 27, 2009 05:24 AM
Original article: Guy friends rule

Thank God for the Brits

In the UK, what I'll politely call "the c-word" is gender free. Men as well as women can be c _ _ _ s. The nasty negative letters to this sweet-spirited articlt up front us of the wisdom of the Brits. You're a bunch of . . .

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 07:16 PM

Funny . . .

how nobody criticizes the Policeman's Union for their support of Crowley even though they didn't have all the facts. But then they weren't an uppity black president forgetting himself.

Gene Lyons should be ashamed of this piece.

Friday, July 31, 2009 08:04 AM

@Prof. Andmaryann

You're my hero.

Friday, July 31, 2009 08:58 PM

Today on "Joan!"

"Mothers Who Eat Their Children: Crime or Feminist Tragedy?"

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 05:41 PM

So. . .

the fact that Olbermann attacked O'Reilly is proof that he complied with an order NOT to attack O'Reilly? And the proof that there was a deal comes from an anonymous source used by a lawyer-playing-journaliist who has always lambasted actual journalists for using anonymous sources. Delicious.

Thursday, August 6, 2009 07:54 PM
Original article: "Julie & Julia"

Magling the reading

Because the reviewer praises this performance for "lightness and outright glee" doesn't mean she expected that in "Doubt."

Friday, August 7, 2009 07:18 AM
Original article: "Julie & Julia"

Who can't read Pt II

The reviewer is referring to a scene -- one scene -- where Child is sad because her sister gets pregnant. She wasn't putting blame on her, and the movie isn't involved in some family-values conspiracy. Take a pill, for crissakes.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 01:25 PM

It should be noted

that Hillary graciously shook the kid's hand on her way out -- presumably after being told of the translator's mistake.

I agree that the response to her response is sexist. But let's hope Broadsheet says so when -- inevitably -- Maureen Dowd uses it to bash Hillary again. Just as she used Bill's trip to N. Korea to bash her.

Sunday, August 16, 2009 09:59 AM
Original article: "Ponyo"

Wonderful to see

tolerance and diversity of opinion honored as usual by the ayatollahs who post in letters.

Friday, August 21, 2009 08:44 PM
Original article: "Inglourious Basterds"

@Lev Raphael

Do you ever get tired of opening your pie hole to bitch about movies you haven't seen yet?

If you want to complain about somebody's opinion, get off your ass and see the thing first.

Monday, August 24, 2009 06:50 PM

Do your research

Vivid, the largest porn company, requires condoms.

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