Comments on: Notes From The Class Struggle

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:33:52 +0000

Oops, that’s right, that’s what I get for not double checking.

By: Porlock Hussein Junior

Porlock Hussein Junior — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:50:29 +0000

Actually it was the White Queen who practiced believing impossible things before breakfast. The Red Queen was the one who could run fast enough to stay in the same place, and even faster.

Hey, I never realized they symbolized Republican and Democrat.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:21:50 +0000

Jeez, almost 50% of Republicans STILL think she’s qualified? At the same time they think Obama isn’t? The Red Queen has NOTHING on these folks when it comes to believing impossible things.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:07:05 +0000

http://www.cbc.ca/world/usvotes/story/2008/10/01/usvp-debate.html

…new polls indicate growing doubt over whether [Palin] is ready for what the job might hold.

Palin, 44, faces increasing skepticism over whether she is ready to serve as president should there be cause for her accession, particularly in the aftermath of a series of exclusive television interviews.

Just 25 per cent of likely voters think Palin has the right experience to be president, according to an Associated Press-Gfk poll released Wednesday. That number is down from 41 per cent who expressed confidence in the first-term Alaska governor following her appearance at the GOP convention last month.

The poll indicated even Republican-leaning voters were increasingly suspicious of her abilities, with 47 per cent saying she has the right experience to be president, down from 75 per cent in the earlier survey.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:01:55 +0000

Btw, will the VEEP debate have a live audience or a laugh track?

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:53:18 +0000

a free-market glibertarian could turn her policy prescriptions inside-out completely, without revising her ideology or diminishing her sense of self-righteousness... Multiple diagrams here. I really should be working.

By: OneMadClown

OneMadClown — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:27:10 +0000

I think it passes the “smell test” so I’m not too interested in wasting time checking the kerning, when it’s consistent with everything else we know about John McCain being a big dumb poop-head. That fish stinks a wee bit too much for me, even being about McMumm-Ra. That doesn't prove that it never happened, but doesn't really bode well for its truthiness. Besides, there's more than enough completely verified examples of his being a vile, loathsome old prick.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:24:57 +0000

How come we never get to hear from the run of the mill ologists
In the course of this thread I have learned more about bottomology than I really wanted to know.

By: crossbuck

crossbuck — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:16:39 +0000

Megan reminds me of a character in a movie I saw, where an older industrialist is taking a medicine-and-rest cure at a country club and a trust fund twit who’s making a play for his daughter tries to engage the old guy in conversation. It goes nowhere fast, and after a short conversation with his wife, the industrialist asks her if the twit (who has a number of useless “jobs”) takes any medicine. After she replies,”How one earth should I know”, the industrialist says, “Because he’s never done a darn thing and he’s still more or less alive”.

By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:58:44 +0000

P.S. Speaking of short…

Thursday, October 02, 2008
Simple Answers To Simple Questions
Thers askes:

Has there ever, ever been a sorrier, more discredited asshole than Glenn Reynolds? Ever? In the entire history of discredited sub-moron-level pompous assholes?

No.

This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.

-Atrios 17:45

Ha ha.

By: crossbuck

crossbuck — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:52:37 +0000

PeeJ –
You mean the phrase “power bottom” doesn’t mean that Sully will take it up the ass from anyone in power? I thought it had a specific political meaning when I first heard about it, and nothing he’s written had disabused me of that misreading. Live and learn.

By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:46:07 +0000

Geez, SC.

How come we never get to hear from the run of the mill ologists, you elitist you.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:29:31 +0000

a free-market glibertarian tying herself into a macramé tea cozy

If memory serves me well, it was Stephen Smale who demonstrated in 1958 that a free-market glibertarian could turn her policy prescriptions inside-out completely, without revising her ideology or diminishing her sense of self-righteousness. Later topologists like Morin and Thurston came along and described the actual sequence of operations required.

By: SomeNYGuy

SomeNYGuy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:28:59 +0000

At one point the woman says McCain complained about [paraphrasing] pushing the black bastard around Arizona in a shop[ping cart. Doesn’t sound like Jism to me.

Maybe he didn’t mean Bridget. Isn’t it more probable the “ugly black thing” he was referring to is his own soul?

By: SamFromUtah

SamFromUtah — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:25:38 +0000

…further proving to me that silly people occupy all ends of the spectrum.

Whenever I find myself doubting that, a quick trip to Democratic Underground straightens me out again.

By: PeeJ

PeeJ — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:22:42 +0000

McCain’s Holiday doesn’t quite pass the smell test for me. There’s only one problem but for me it’s the difference beetween pass and fail. At one point the woman says McCain complained about [paraphrasing] pushing the black bastard around Arizona in a shop[ping cart. Doesn’t sound like Jism to me. What the fuck would he be doing pushing a shopping cart?

The kerning is off just a bit.

By: Crissa

Crissa — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:16:40 +0000

What I wonder is why we’re worried about her making sense for once.

Honestly, if we let the market limp forward, banks like WaMu will close, some bigger bank will get a windfall, the feds have to foot the bill. and it’ll all cost more than the Paulson plan.

Which is really, really annoying me. Trust conservo winger one, or conservo winger two?

By: handy

handy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:13:19 +0000

A diary at the GOS had a fit over that “life isn’t fair” quip, further proving to me that silly people occupy all ends of the spectrum.

By: justme

justme — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:10:10 +0000

Wall Street bankers tend to do things like buy their houses for cash.

FAIL.

Why on earth would somebody that understands the concept of leverage, and can get a better rate of return on their cash than the rate the bank charges for a mortgage, ever buy a fucking house in cash?

She’s not even a middling-smart gliberarian.

By: Gary Ruppert

Gary Ruppert — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:02:28 +0000

The fact is, I’m absolutely for equal pay for equal work. The Ledbetter pay act – it was gonna turn into a boon for trial lawyers who, I believe, could have taken advantage of women who were many, many years ago who would allege some kind of discrimination. Thankfully, there are laws on the books, there have been since 1963, that no woman could be discriminated against in the workplace in terms of anything, but especially in terms of pay. So, thankfully we have the laws on the books and they better be enforced.