Month: July 2006

Open Thread

Wanker of the Day, plagiarist Jeff Jacoby: “Chicken hawk” isn’t an argument. It is a slur — a dishonest and incoherent slur. It is dishonest because those who invoke it don’t really mean what they...

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Summertime Blues

Gonna take two weeks Gonna have a fine vacation Gonna take my problems To the United Nations Well I went to my congressman He said, quote: “I’d like to help you son, But you’re too young to vote.”...

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Make a Stink

A little over a week ago we learned that Senator Specter reached a “compromise” with the administration that would make legal the illegal NSA warrentless wiretapping program and grant the executive sweeping new powers. As Atrios...

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Jeff Goldstein Thinks I’m an Anti-Semite

I don’t mind being criticized for intemperate language. Many members here took me to task. But being called: “a bit too close to the gates of (Marxian) Hell”, “racist”, and accused of “bald...

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