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Friday, April 11, 2008 08:23 AM

Conflation

The big problem with this video is that is conflates actual examples of sexism with legitimate criticism of Hillary Clinton, her tactics, her disingenuity, her poor judgment, and her positions.

This video smears Keith Olbermann in particular by putting him in the same company as the talking asses on Fox and CNN like Jack Cafferty, Tucker Carlson, and Glenn Beck.

Sexism hasn't hurt Clinton more than racism has hurt Obama. If they were both white men, Obama would be Kennedy and she'd be Nixon and he'd still be kicking her butt.

Monday, April 14, 2008 10:04 AM

Is this fucking election over with yet?

I'm so sick of articles like this.

You want to know why our politics is dumbed down and vitriolic? Because of nonsense articles like this and the "gotcha" politics about bitterness and orange juice and the rest of the minutia that forces good, intelligent people to despair of ever getting a smart honest person elected president.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 07:23 AM
Original article: The rubes and the elites

Oh shut up

Do you even believe the crap you publish anymore? Seriously?

Articles like this are why we won't ever get a president who doesn't pander and who can deal with the real problems we face as a nation.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:52 AM

Cruft

This all goes back to the old software industry joke -

Q: Why was God able to create the world in only seven days?

A: He didn't have an installed base.

There's a lot of old crap in Windows designed to make it mostly backwards compatible. With the exception of driver issues, there's an awful lot of software that runs even on Vista that was written a very long time ago.

Apple got a chance to rewrite it's OS with OS/X. It's not the only reason but it's a big part of the reason Macs startup faster and shutdown faster.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 03:40 PM

What can you run on PC but not on a Mac?

A positive bank account balance?

Monday, April 21, 2008 12:09 PM
Original article: Ask Pablo

@Chuck Le Duck

"Pablo assumes that the old car will be removed from the road. In reality, the car population continues to grow"

Whose driving those cars? If he doesn't drive one car, he drives the other. Only in the few urban areas where we have adequate public transportation is it at all likely that changing cars would impact the total number of ACTIVE cars on the road that are polluting.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 08:20 AM
Original article: What Pennsylvania tells us

<i>the nominee still could be Clinton, though that's unlikely</i>

Stop. Unlikely is that the Cubs win the World Series. Impossible is that the Bears win the World Series.

I's not merely unlikely, It's pretty much impossible. Hillary would have to change the rules of the game to win, and that's not going to happen.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:18 AM

iSync + DFS share + Google Mail used as a drive?

That's sorta what it sounds like.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 01:18 PM

Oh hell

If that thing attacked or harrassed me, it'd be lying on it's side, wires yanked, wheels stripped.

Not really a practical deterrent without legal force behind i.

Friday, May 9, 2008 11:01 AM

I don't know if they give web Pulitzers

But by god, you deserve one. Stay on this.

Friday, May 9, 2008 01:56 PM

Get an axe.

Time for the superdelegate smackdown. They gave her space, they gave her respect, they tried to convince her. NOW it's time to force her out.

Monday, May 12, 2008 05:09 AM

Was this intentional?

This quote is typical of a lot of the writing I've seen from the pro-Clinton wing of the media -

"I have occasionally wished Obama himself would say something about the often-sexist viciousness Clinton has faced, but it's probably too much to ask in a campaign this contentious. Certainly Ted Kennedy didn't help Obama on Friday when he said..."

Ted Kennedy didn't say anything sexist. But the organization of this paragraph seems like you're implying his attack on Clinton was because of her gender.

What's sexist is expecting people not to criticize Clinton's tactics or to say she's an angel who's just misunderstood instead of taking her on just as if her name were Harold Clinton instead of Hillary.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 08:38 AM

I know there is a group

Who want to claim that, but for sexism, Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee.

It just ain't so.

Did she face some sexism from the media and from the numbnuts who held "Iron My Shirt" signs up at her rallies? Yes. But, did she also deploy gender as a weapon - using surrogates to imply that supporting her was every woman's duty to previous generations of women who couldn't vote? Absolutely.

What happened to Clinton wasn't a result of sexism. It was a result of running smack into the most charismatic politician of the last two generations, and of not planning to fight for the nomination past February. It was the result of pushing inevitability instead of exciting new ideas and of trusting hacks like Mark Penn to market her to the nation.

Lets talk about sexism, sure, but let's not talk about it as something that did Clinton in.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:50 PM

@jebldmm - context

"Whenever anybody talks about sexism right now the Obamabots immediatly jump in with 'But Clinton didn't lose because of sexism'. "

You leave out the first part of that exchange where you start talking about sexism in the context of the Hillary Clinton campaign. And of course "Obamabots" reveals your bias to begin with.

Sorry, we're just not falling for that tactic anymore. You want to talk about sexism, talk about sexism, but leave that deeply flawed candidate out of it.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 04:37 AM

@jebldmm

You may rest your case, but you also lose your argument.

Monday, June 23, 2008 11:43 AM

Leave it to Rove

To proclaim that basically everyone knows the cast as the country clubs he and his klepto-conservative cronies hang out at.

Sorry, Karl, no, I don't know that guy at the country club because I, like 98% of the rest of America, don't actually belong to a country club.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 09:58 AM

Quick, go register RetireNeifisNumber.com

As a Cub fan, I know I once was very adamant about retiring Neifi Perez's number (and Neifi).

Friday, June 27, 2008 08:01 AM

@ArthGuinnes

The problem with getting it struck down is that to get the case heard you have to have standing and be able to prove damage to you. In an wiretapping case, how could you ever get proof if the civil cases that might provide discovery to get the evidence you'd need are dismissed by the FISA bill's review provision?

No standing, no case, no appeal, no Supreme Court to declare it unconstiutional.

Friday, June 27, 2008 02:19 PM
Original article: Clintons donate to Obama

I'm sure some sleaze will spin this

As the Clintons giving that filthy Obama cash back. Larry Johnson?

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