Comments on: Fixing The Internet

By: Electric Switch

Electric Switch — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:18:43 +0000

most brands of kids shoes are using synthetic leather which is sometimes hard for a kid’s feet ~,:

By: Gray

Gray — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:22:37 +0000

Steve! I miss him very much…
:-(

By: joejoejoe

joejoejoe — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:14:16 +0000

hell yes!

By: Paul L.

Paul L. — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:16:28 +0000

Maybe Steve would post this again.

As former prosecutor Wendy Murphy said last night, if they were so convinced they were innocent, why are they not moving for a speedy trial.

They want this to go away. Having Evans speak was a mistake. Because while the Duke players have support in DC, the Evans are noted Bush supporters, the folks in Durham have issues with them and Duke. But their whole strategy is, like so many rich suburban parents, to make this disappear

As far as the private polygraph test goes, let’s see the questions and answers.

The problem for these guys is no matter how hard they try to buy a door out of this, they aren’t finding it. Calling the woman a liar has one effect, pissing off Crazy Nancy Grace.

Now, you can say what you want about her prosecutorial skills, legal ethics and Paul Bunyan-like personal story, but you also have to say this: she’s no racist. And that’s not a small thing. Because if she was, that show of hers would be a total nightmare. That victim has no better friend in the media than Crazy Nancy. Because everytime one of the defense lawyers or some junior assclown conservative from Duke goes on her show, they get eaten alive.

All of Bob Bennett’s pull has been used to try to make this go away and Crazy Nancy keeps reminding people that these guys are well, accused of a crime and are not the victims here.

Nifong has more than we know, because he’s under a ton of pressure to make this go away and instead he indicts a 3rd player. That’s no small thing.

By: Batocchio

Batocchio — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:43:31 +0000

Bravo, Bravo, BRAVO.

By: CS Lewis Jr.

CS Lewis Jr. — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:21:24 +0000

…and a pony.

RIP

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:37:26 +0000

When the insurgency in Iraq realizes that the Americans are gonna have to get smacked real hard before they get going, and when the Green Zone becomes a trap, and when they literally have to fight their way back to Kuwait in the biggest debacle since Dunkirk, pull up some of Steve’s old Baghdad maps and give him that byline.

By: Gus

Gus — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:13:26 +0000

I miss Steve’s fists of fury (I think that’s a Wolcott-ism).

By: dex

dex — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:20:32 +0000

bret easton ellis-ish banshees never go out of style. they will march on a road of shiny new macs.

i was gonna blog on steve and max roach the other day. youse all beat me to it, and rightfully so. many thanks.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:07:19 +0000

Oh man, this post made me so sad. A fitting tribute, but you guys suck anyway.

By: Dave in ME

Dave in ME — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:17:05 +0000

Think of the fun Gilly would have had carving up McCardle….

By: Mike Harwood (U of Chicago '85)

Mike Harwood (U of Chicago '85) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:42:20 +0000

Incontinentia Buttocks observed with erudition,

“Last I checked, Gilliard didn’t even attend an Ivy League college…so how could he possibly have blogged for The Atlantic?”

Ann Coulter

Samuel Alito

George H. Bush

George W. Bush

Eff teh Effing Ivies!

By: Ugluks Flea

Ugluks Flea — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:31:05 +0000

Damn it! Screwed the pooch. Tries again... Other than as depicted in Lord of the Flies, has there ever been a truly Libertarian state? The Donner Party?

By: Ugluks Flea

Ugluks Flea — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:28:48 +0000

Other than as depicted in Lord of the Flies, has there ever been a truly Libertarian state?

By: zsa

zsa — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:46:44 +0000

Fishbone, that’s it exactly. I wonder if it ever seems odd to them that a whole lot of otherwise smart people never seem to grasp a simple point. Hmm.

Libertarianism, like Communism, is an appealing theory, but real world societies simply don’t operate according to the rules of some over-simplified theory. Other than as depicted in Lord of the Flies, has there ever been a truly Libertarian state?

I miss Steve G too. When he got pissed about something, he was one of the best ranters in the bloggyball.

By: Fishbone McGonigle

Fishbone McGonigle — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:00:05 +0000

The thing that bugs me about these people who value the “market” as the solution to all problems is that they actually think that we don’t understand how markets work.

It’s actually worse, because these people themselves often display an oversimplified grasp of how markets function, ignoring concepts like barriers to entry or (ahem) asymmetrical information in favor of “if there’s a demand, someone will enter the market to meet it.” It’s like they started studying economics but quit once they realized they needed a bit of calculus to do it.

And I also miss Gilliard. Goddamnit.

By: myiq2xu

myiq2xu — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:28:38 +0000

“Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?”

By: Qetesh the Abyssinian

Qetesh the Abyssinian — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:11:12 +0000

Those who stay poor for long periods of time — despite the myriad resources available to them, from churches, to welfare, to public libraries, to charities — tend to be irresponsible, stupid, lazy, or some combination of the above.

Jesus fardling Christ, but I’d so love to smash some people in the teeth. “Myriad resources”?What the absolute buggeryfuck are these people on? It’s not just shiny purpple ponies they’re seeing: they get the full social safety net chorus, where charities have buttloads of cash to spend on feeding the hungry and educating the illiterate.

Sodding arseholes.

By: Qetesh the Abyssinian

Qetesh the Abyssinian — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:07:43 +0000

And as for my second career – well, it’s so new to me that what others might find boring, I embrace like a fresh young student.

I, too, enjoy embracing fresh young students.

By: Sexy Older Woman

Sexy Older Woman — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:50:52 +0000

I used to read Yglesias sporadically; I noticed several times he had linked to her. One day it occurred to me that for me to encounter this so many times, given that I only read him occasionally, that he must be linking to and engaging with this stupid woman on a regular basis.

Haven’t been back since. Not even when Atrios links to him.