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Saturday, September 27, 2008 10:19 AM

This one is also going out to my one true love ...

you know it -- The Ladies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dN3tu1iW0M&NR=1

this one takes a little bam-wiff ...

Midnight,

and I'm a-waiting on the twelve-oh-five

Hoping it'll take me just a little farther down the line

Moonlight,

you're just a heartache in disguise;

Won't you keep my heart from breaking

if it's only for a very short time

Playing with the queen of hearts,

knowing it ain't really smart

The joker ain't the only fool

who'll do anything for you

Laying out another lie,

thinking 'bout a life of crime

That's what I'll have to do

to keep me away from you

Honey, you know it makes you mad

Why is everybody telling everybody what you have done

Baby, I know it makes you sad

But when they're handing out the heartaches

you know you got to have you some

Lovers, I know you've had a few

But hide your heart beneath the covers

and tell 'em they're the only one

And others, they know just what I'm going through

And it's a-hard to be a lover when you say you're only in it for fun

Playing with the queen of hearts,

knowing it ain't really smart

The joker ain't the only fool who'll do anything for you

Playin

with the queen of hearts ...

you know it ain't really smart

Friday, October 24, 2008 03:42 PM

moving on

I think it's time for the media to get past focusing on the media focus on the media focus on Sarah Palin's clothes, and get back to focusing on Sarah Palin's clothes.

Did that make sense?

Monday, October 27, 2008 03:12 PM

Gettin all racial up in here

You must be one of those people who think Barack Obama is a black man. You want some mayonnaise on yours?

We want the funk

Give up the funk

Oh, we want the funk

Gotta have that funk

Tear the roof off the mother

Gonna tear the roof off the mother sucker

Tear the roof off the sucker

Fifty percent, right. Hold on to your orange soda, brother, I gotta find a parkin space here.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 09:52 AM
Original article: When filth is not enough

Me and Dr. KGB

I knew Karl Marx.

Karl Marx was a friend of mine.

Barack Obama is no Karl Marx.

But -- and pay attention now --

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is really Maynard G. Krebs (the G. stands for Walter).

http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/lawrence/153/krebs.html

You can take that to the freakin bank.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:00 AM

love bugs

There are love bugs no one knows the name of.

Who are the Love Dogs?

Where are the Love Dogs playing?

You don't have to answer.

http://www.thelovedogs.com/whoare.htm

Oh yeah.

I got a feeling.

Sunday, November 2, 2008 07:06 PM
Original article: Racists for Obama

make mine the P

Make my funk the P-Funk

I want my funk un-cut

Make my funk the P-Funk

Don't want my funk stepped on

I want the bomb

I want the P-Funk

Don't want my funk stepped on

Make my funk the P-Funk

I want my funk un-cut

We interrupt this program so as to bring you this message

Do not attempt to adjust the dial

We have taken control of your set

We will return it to you as soon as you are groovy

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 03:16 PM

Go easy with your cold fanged anger

I guess they must of sent a whole team of Black Pamfer commandoes up to Dixville Notch, NH, to intimertolate all them hepless white folk up there, cause they apparently all voted like 17 to 4 for Barack. LOL.

Black Panthers. LOL. You gonna have a hard time explaining North Dakota though.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 05:40 PM

but isn't this a "party" thing, not a Senate thing?

Really, Joe Lieberman didn't do anything to the Senate. And the Republican Senators aren't even being asked what they think about this. This whole thing is about whether it was wrong for Joe to split out of the Democratic party and run against their nominee for Senate after he lost the Democratic primary. The Senate as an institution is not really what that is about. And Barack (besides still being a Senator still for now, for whatever that is worth) is a Democrat -- sort of the top dog Democrat right now.

The two party system, I have to say, is pretty weird in its own right. It is kind of an ad hoc bizzaro institution. It is not our friend in the same way the Constitution is our friend. So, I have to say, I think this whole line of argument about separation of powers is out of place in this intra-party controversy. It would make more sense in theory at least to say, "Hey, y'all, stop messing up our Constitutional system with your so-called parties." But that is kind of unrealistic, I realize.

Monday, November 17, 2008 06:20 PM
Original article: First lady got back

hmm...

Okay, this is just wrong.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 04:28 PM

How the what?

Your column is called "How the World Works" and all you just did is ask questions.

What's left to fix? You must be trippin.

So -- let me ask you -- if prices are dropping, then it's okay if Obama deficit spends -- no? I mean, real inflationary print-some-money-now deficit spending? Because if it is okay, one thing that he could maybe fix is the District of Columbia school system. You could spend money on that thing for a long time and not run out of stuff to fix. For that matter, suppose we just fully fund every school system in every urban center in the United States? Would that get some people working, maybe?

How about, let's build and staff emergency rooms and primary care clinics based on where the population is. Would that create some wealth? How about, let's rehab a bunch of decrepit old substandard housing? Could that improve the unemployment rate and stimulate some consumer spending?

Just trying to think creatively here.

Friday, November 21, 2008 09:46 AM

A what?

As a socialist libertarian, I am feeling very marginalized right now.

Saturday, November 22, 2008 07:08 AM
Original article: Get over it, Clinton haters

r u busy?

Yeah, okay, you're right.

Maybe these two great minds could also apply themselves to making communications via Blackberry secure. Then they could efficiently exchange their cool ideas and excellent thinking in private over long distances.

Just saying. My tubez is leaky wtf????

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