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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 04:33 PM
Original article: Who gets to use the N word?

In the words of that great poet DMX

Just cause I love my niggas, (Ruff Ryders)

I shed blood for my niggas. (Ryde or die)

Let a nigga holla, "Where my niggas?" (Get down or lay down)

All I wanna hear is, "Right here my niggas"

(We here nigga)

You won't take this from me baby!

You will not take this from me baby!

Ya know grrrrr

My niggas some niggas that you don't wanna try

My niggas some niggas that's really do or die

My niggas will have you cowards ready to cry

My niggas will fry my niggas will rob

My niggas keep niggas on they fuckin' job

My niggas know what it's like when shit gettin' hard

My niggas stay pullin' you other niggas cards

My niggas It's God my niggas we'll shine

My niggas just knew it was a matter of time

My niggas let me know to keep fuckin' with the rhymes

My niggas ain't no longer livin' with crime

My niggas is fine my niggas is good

My niggas keep you niggas knocking on wood

My niggas know how to take it back to the hood

My niggas will put you down right where you stood

My niggas they could my niggas they will

My niggas take you straight to the back & get ill

My niggas give it straight to the bank when we kill

My niggas put niggas on ice til they chill

My niggas is still my niggas is dogs my niggas [echoes]

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 04:37 PM

Halberstam got out of the press business in 1967

I think his impressions while interesting were second hand. 40 years is a long time to be an outsider commenting.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 04:42 PM

I always rooted for the Indians.

I always rooted for Magneto in X-Men.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 07:12 PM

Let me just kick things off here

Exterminate all Jews.

Now continue.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 06:09 AM

Only some sex offenders

Apparently rape, sexual battery, flashing and whatnot are ok. You're really only talking about the archetypal greasy meth head scraggly child kidnapping rapist, aren't you?

Here in NC a high school student was convicted of a 4th deg sexual assualt felony for bra snapping a fellow student. Men (and women) are routinely locked up for statutory sex crimes, e.g. being 18 having sex with someone 18 months younger. Or vague claims of date-rape. And so on. I'm not sure the peasants with their torches and pitchforks would be marching up the windmill for those folks.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 06:13 AM
Original article: Duncan Hunter on the attack

So he's a cookiecutter asshole.

Ok, fill in the far right wing psychochristian check boxes. Gotcha. I hope they kill and eat each other.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 06:27 AM

You still need to have some equitable solution

You simply can't take IP when it suits you or your cause. You simply can't wake up and decide that this drug or that one should be given away. Why? Because very soon drug research will dry up. Moreover IP holders will simply withold all their other products from that market as well. In a weird way you'd be rewarding countries like Thailand and South Africa for willfully ignoring their public health disasters. Would that we in the US could ignore obesity and then simply steal someone's new miracle weight loss drug because 'it's a crisis'. No there needs to be some basic functioning system that ensures that drugs get produced.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 06:33 AM

Well to some people it is a moral equal

In the US only animals have human rights. Sorry, I thought you got that memo.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 06:36 AM

If he liked Renoir

You'd say he's plotting to destroy all the plants. God only knows what you'd say about a Jackson Pollack. I think you read too much into kitsch and taste.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 06:38 AM

I'd rather have half my stuff

..than all of you.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 06:40 AM

A 100,000 civilians died

On Okinawa. Just sayin.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 06:55 AM

Please

take your head out that garbage can full of uncapped highlighters.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 07:03 AM
Original article: This little piggy

Takes all kinds I guess

Some of you want to sit down and have a heart to heart about every little thing. You want PERMISSION from your kids to parent them. You're looking for their approval. You want it all to make sense. That's too bad.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 07:42 AM

It sounds like the essence of Soviet political reeducation really.

All this standing at the bar and declaring your crimes smacks of Gulags and Soviet psychiatry. That doesn't sound like mercy, it sounds like an apology for things not yet done.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 07:45 AM

We will leave someday

And it will either explode in violence or plummet back into totalitarianism. In either case, we will all collectively ignore it and pretend it's all better now. I'm fine with that.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 08:50 AM

Why are all our flags still at half mast?

Exploitive? Gerald Ford's death didn't get this much flagtastic stuff.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:06 AM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

I'm unclear how this bullshit helps the sport, the league or the game

Maybe his Royal Highness David Stern can edumakate me. $25,000 for tossing a mouthpiece into the stands? Tfouls for clapping? Why doesn't David "Soccermom" Stern throw players out of the sport for no longer playing fucking defence? If I wanted to watch And-1 I'd tune that in. But hey - please keep treating everything like a middle school lunchroom. I'm sure that will work out for you. Maybe they can make Wilbon the Commissioner of Ethics what with his calls for 1 million dollar fines and such.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:11 AM

For what it's worth

I am 100% certain that in my lifetime an American will be legally executed for crimes against an animal. I'm not sure though whether that's irony or something else.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:14 AM

As long as

They don't all become shrill wealthy delusional human rights activists like Cherrie Blair, it's ok with me. Swing for the fences, ladies.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:16 AM

If you flout a Congressional subpoena

It's up to the President to enforce it, I believe. I chortle heartily at thee.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:31 PM
Original article: The long war

The Biritish Army

Maintained troops in Iraq for 37 years, previously. It still wound up as a flaming abattoir lead by one cannibal king after another. I think we can conclude that that's how it will always wind up.

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