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I've been reading Maddox for nearly a decade now.
If you don't understand the humor then you are simply dense.
The whole rant about childern's pictures, or the classic "I'll eat three animals for everyone that you don't"
What sets Maddox apart for the Coulters of the World is that Maddox actually does far more research than Ann does. Maddox checks his facts, and is humorous.
Do I laugh at everything he does, of course not. But that's the point, he doesn't pick sides or care who he pisses off, so he comes across as more believable.
His humor seems really young
But how can someone who voted for Perot be only 28? Or did I misread something?
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Perot ran in 1992 and 1996. If someone is 28 today, he'd be 18 in 1996 and eligible to vote.
Unlike Ann Coulter who commited perjury and lied about her age in 1980 in order to vote for Reagan.
IMDB list's Dan Coulter's birth date as December 1961.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1326010/
Coulter's Connecticut driver's license lists her birth as December 1961.
The hag is plenty old to vote for Reagan in 1980.
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She also has a Washington DC driver's license showing her birth date as December 1963.
She confirmed to the Washington Post that she was born in 1963.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43120-2002Sep5?language=
So, she's either stupidly lying about her age now, including on officials documents to get a driver's license, or she lied in 1980 and the statue of limitations has long since passed.
Now, a 40 year old women claiming to be younger is nothing newsworthy, but most don't actually get a driver's license with the wrong birth year, then point to that document as being the correct one.
Yes, Maddox is 26 years old.
He got a job right out of High School making shit money and is basically self taught. Not at all uncommon.
Having been reading his site for years and years you can actually see him going to college at night and how he's changed with the years.
I'd say his funniest years are behind him. He doesn't have the time to update his site anymore and most of his best stuff is a couple years old now.
It does crack me up though, people trying to make fun of him for his "manliness" and wearing a gold chain, as someone pointed out, he's wearing his book around his neck, as a joke.
I suggest that anyone who has a problem with Maddox to simple email him an obnoxious email bating him to post your email address.
Others talking about the reviews on Amazon. All Maddox had to do was post on his site and thousands of people posted their "reviews" before the book came out.
He actually has quite a bit of net power in terms of those who will defend him, his site is still one of the busiest on the net, despite infrequent updates the last year.
PS. Don't really get him to post your email address, you'll regret it.
The far right has their Intelligent Design, Homosexual Agenda, and the far left has their 2004 stolen election.
They have no basis in fact, reason nor logic and all are demonstrably wrong, yet their adherents are the superglue of conviction, and nothing will prey them off the perch of the true believer.
While I want to believe that the 2004 election was stolen, the problem is rational people require proof. Simply having a conclusion and looking for evidence to support that conclusion is not an argument, it’s a justification and is the method used by Holocaust Deniers, people that believe the lunar landing were faked and that someone other than Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him.
They type of stolen election being presented isn’t even possible in the manner described, as it requires the assistance of Democratic Party observers. Even inflating vote totals is difficult because the other side is checking, much less transferring votes from one candidate to another.
The type of Republican election fraud that occurs is of the nature of attempting to reduce turnout of Democratic voters. Jamming phone lines, placing signs challenging ability to vote, having police cars patrol near polling places, giving false information on where and when to vote, purging voter rolls, etc. Rarely are these types of activities actually enough to sway even a very close election, and the 2004 election was not one of those rare cases.
While keeping people from voting is repugnant and we should endeavor to fight against such schemes, if we allow ourselves to become convinced that this alone was the reason for the 2004 outcome, then we lose the opportunity to correct our mistakes in time for 2008.
Bush would have won 2004 even if everyone who wanted was allowed to vote, even if Blackwell was not in charge of Ohio voting. I know plenty of otherwise rational people in Ohio that voted for Bush in 2004. We want to ensure these people do not vote Republican in 2008, and cancelling Salon membership because it doesn’t always feed us the palatable information we may desire does not help win in 2008.
The conflict in Israel and Palestine has many distortions, one of which is the perception that Jews are not welcome in the territories.
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I guess the law against Jews buying land has been repealed and someone forgot to report it, or maybe people are just simply killed for selling land to jews.
Let's be honest, and the level of welcoming to a Jew in Palestine is directly releated to how long said Jew really plans to stay in the area.
Stay there a few months with the ISM and everyone will love the Jew. Decide to move there and suddenly you are a settler and should be killed.