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Monday, January 28, 2008 06:00 PM
Original article: A farewell note

Enjoyed your do, Tim...

Glenn..all of us... will be thrilled to have you bringing

a little more class to the marginal?Politico effort.

Saturday, January 26, 2008 09:14 PM

I'm embarassed but...

When I saw the image lede for this piece...

I thought, - I really do kinda like Barack -

Well! There's one for the Brown 'Bamer.

I swear. I'm old or I wouldna even thought. Sorry.

But it was pretty impressive, wasn't?

Friday, January 25, 2008 12:15 PM

Poverty, education and...money.

A recent piece, dunno where...allowed as how good nutrition was contingent on three external factors.

These were:

1)income...poor people definitionally don't have much of that.

2)time...they may /or more probably*not?/ have more leisure available for the shopping and food preparation experience

3)education..largely withheld from the entire demographic.

It was given that with all three in hand,

one was golden,

with two in a quite nice place but with only one...screwed -

As to proper nutrition and everything that accompanies that feature in a life.

So the interconnections are well established; it simply is that they are made persistent in the poisonous AEI atmosphere steadily gassing us

by a truly dastardly crew of crooks and ....us. Yes, us.

These are critters enabled mainly by...us.

[*many poor spend a lot of their free time...surviving.

Been there, done that. It is a true thing]

Thursday, January 24, 2008 03:19 PM
Original article: There's no taking sides

Fair enough

You wrote what you wrote.

And if whiners venture into parsing any of that into

advocacy in any direction at all..

That's their own grief.

[Must say I never went all intuit as to whom you supported.

Just good commentary...but them I'm slow. So...]

Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:03 PM

Uh..and like...flatulation

Or going potty..

Part of the draw of RU-486 is also the promise of discretion, which in itself belies the sense that abortion is "normal."

A simple kiss might be something one might wish to be a bit private.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 04:27 PM

'Bout time for a dethroning, mebbe...

and export the crown.

Or with the price of gold...melt the sucker.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:34 PM
Original article: Remembering Heath Ledger

I had just watched a bit of...

that drecky 'Brother's Grimm' ...which it is.

[although mainly just really unersious fun]

And came into the next room to have the BBC announce his passing.

And I missed him, unwonted for me, saddened.

I found that curious...that I might.

RIP.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 03:47 PM

This my bench-mark..

...absolutely;

For where I'm putting my two cents in November.

Fixed -- sine qua non.

Firms that eschew that dirty business, likewise.

[In brief flashes of what has to be bipolar, kinda wish Paul wasn't outta Grimm's]

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 01:31 PM

Hey, brother - her body, her very blood...

We recognize that you may have feelings

for the conceptus she bears within.

We also know - as should you - that anything proprietary

beyond that is feudal, patriarchal ownership thinking and,

in fact, actually inhumane.

So quit with the seed meme ...sooner rather than later.

You've been casting that 'upon the stones' ...for years.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:11 PM

Well said, Sir.

As usual.

A lot of this schadenfreude stuff circling lazily about

in the stagnance of the City of London and Wall Street bowls.

Monday, January 14, 2008 05:06 PM

Uh...a little tough getting all enthusiastic over things currently Democratic

...it shows that "Obama is a fighter for Obama" rather than for "the Democratic Party or Democratic values.

Q.v.

Looking over there to the terrific Democratic party in action in either Chamber?

And their record for the past -admittedly sorta hamstrung - many years.

Maybe a little stand-offish isn't actually all bad?

Monday, January 14, 2008 11:55 AM

Xenophobia includes...

a fundamentalist aversion to to 'other'-speak so;

It is perfectly reasonable that Governor Romney would say...

....the trees are all the right height, people talk without an accent* and most of the cars -- yada, yada...

Innit?

*[formatting entirely mine]

Sunday, January 13, 2008 12:52 PM

Insert *[-deal]

...a single conviction: a guilty plea* by Australian David..."

.

Not at all a real pleading.

Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:17 AM

C'mon Shapiro...

Your terminology...

senior adviser to the former Arkansas governor. Pinkerton -- a Newsday columnist, commentator on Fox News and a fellow at the centrist* New American Foundation --

The creature who is truly centrist is never, can never be a regular Fox Commentator....ever-oxy-more.

[*bold mine]

Thursday, January 10, 2008 05:12 PM

What?...an adult?

Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach wrote an incisive piece in the Financial Times this week pointing out once again that the underlying problem is that Americans don't save enough.

He was also interviewed on BBC..made great sense.

Enough so that I -unusually- actually retrieved the name.

Calls for a little pain to avoid a real chop.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 06:27 PM

Very Cute...

...close-the-barn-door-after-the-subprime-horses-have-gone-extinct

Wish I'd thought to think of that.

You can kinda see their marbleized horse bones jutting a bit from the hardpan in some dry gully.

Saturday, December 15, 2007 04:02 PM
Original article: Generation XXX?

BYU is in some guise or another...

A fundamentalist University appended to a fundamentalist creed.

Not to stretch this overfar but...

The use of or addiction to porn has often been held to be

exponentially more substantial in these sorts of

believers.

Be they Mormon or...any.

Monday, December 10, 2007 07:36 PM

Sam`o..sam`o

Past conservative Democrats, such as Scoop Jackson, have specialized in it as well.

Scoop Jackson.

Washington State

Boeing.

Military-industrial-complex.

Not so much Democrat as just ..boughten.

Like usual.

Thursday, November 29, 2007 04:23 PM

Glad you're here to tell...

Some small bits of those truths so long withheld.

[or obfuscated or spun or kneaded or...]

They'd still be were it not for the likes of y'all.

THNX

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 03:52 PM
Original article: One woman, one daughter

Or...

And lots of free condoms for the men.

Get the whole gay movement thing into a better job of 'recruiting'

And like that.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:31 PM

Well, absent the antigravity function of a good bra...

[for those inclined -several justifications come to mind- to such support...]

being barely chest-deep in water is good.

Monday, November 19, 2007 04:16 PM
Original article: America's water war

The main man does it again...

.., the reporter had reached the edge of some precipice down which no one cares to look, lest we all go over.

And Tom will take us to the edge to look and learn the abyss.

Good for him then...and us, for sure.

Sunday, November 18, 2007 09:30 AM

He don' wanna be like, WIMP

So he go WINEP, 'stead.

Y'see

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 07:24 PM
Original article: Mind your manners online

On the plural of 'argument'...

The Internet is always going to be dominated by arguments.

This is going to come across as inexcrably nit-picky but to me - just me..

ArgumentS are almost invariably experienced -and multiply- as disagreeable, combative, heated thingS. It's a connotation thing, you see.

[I can, you must know, imagine a babel of debate going off all about.]

While Argument done as civil discourse must always be done without heat... if not coolly, done with a view to eventual agreement and never on the fight.

Yours, Mr Kamiya was a lovely argument. And you are spot on.

While this, rises to civil quibble, I'm sure, at best. But there you have it.

Thursday, November 8, 2007 08:30 PM

Bless you

That's all.

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