July 2011
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The best writing advice I've read today.
adamweinstein:
I don’t recommend, or even approve, writing personally. It can lead to dreadful writing. The danger is that you’ll get lost in the contemplation of your wonderful self. You’ll include things for the lousy reason that they actually happened, or that you feel strongly about them; you” forget to ensure that the reader feels anything whatever. You may hold the popular view that art...
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“The First Amendment was written neither to guarantee freedom of religion to...”
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American Family Association spokesman and demagogue royale Bryan Fischer, trying to see how many feet he can get into his mouth.
Our only question: If this is how he mangles the meaning of a single 45-word sentence, what’s that say about his interpretation of the Scriptures?
(h/t Joe.My.God.)
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Just One Dumb MFer's View
I know I’m just one of the “dumbest motherfuckers in the world,” but this latest from Jane Hamsher seems like a pretty laughable bit of sophistry.
[T]he Obamabots are so out of touch with who Obama is and what he wants they don’t realize that by cheering for the McConnell deal, and his prowess in making McConnell “blink,” it amounts to twisting the knife for him. It makes it impossible for him to...
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Are there two shows called True Blood?
People I know keep going on and on about some show called True Blood, which they universally agree is awesome.
So there are two True Bloods, right? Because I saw an episode of a show called True Blood, and it was shit.
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“The tea party was pretty useful to the GOP leadership for a while. But now...”
– Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum, in his post “Republicans in Disarray! Film at 11!”
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Milk Ad pitch meeting
CEO: Well, Johnson. What have you come up with for the new milk ad campaign?
JOHNSON: Not a whole lot, to be honest, sir. We've mostly been watching a lot of Spike TV.
CEO: Your job may be on the line here, Johnson. You better give me something.
JOHNSON: Well, sir... so far all we have is, "Bitches be crazy."
CEO: Goddamn. That's brilliant.
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Boone's Farm, please, I'm a lady.
scoldylox:
annalsofonlinedating:
SUP BABY I DIDNT READ YOUR PROFILE CUZ I DONT LIKE READING. U WANNA GET SOME FRANZIA N TALK?
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+100. You win.
TOTAL POINTS: 100.
…yes?
So I guess it’s Dating Site Asshole Awareness Day today.
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oh thanks
itsnotokokcupid:
“Your pretty hot for being so fucked up. I never would have figured you to be disabled.”
I wonder if this approach has worked before.
Also: Incorrect usage of “your.”
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Roundup of reactions to the McConnell plan
There’s been a bit of a… spectrum of reactions, let’s say, to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s offer to agree to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for what amounts to the opportunity for Republicans to periodically (and symbolically) wash their hands of it.
How to make sense of it all? There’s not even a consistent line of reasoning among MSNBC hosts, with...
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“We should move quickly to raise the debt limit and we support a clean piece of...”
– White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, April 11.
Bam.
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Checkmate.
From Talking Points Memo:
BREAKING: McConnell Opens the Escape Hatch
We’re just getting the first word on this. So the details may be subject to clarification. But Senate Minority Leader has just suggested the GOP will give President Obama his debt limit increase without any spending cuts with a legislative maneuver that in essence allows Republicans to say it’s all Obama’s...
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“I have little question that as long as this president is in the Oval Office, a...”
– Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), in a floor speech today.
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Keith Olbermann < Lawrence O’Donnell.
There’s little else to add, really, other than to say the above clips perfectly highlight the intelligence asymmetry between the two show hosts. Olbermann, now harrumphing from his set on Current.tv, predictably harrumphs over possible cuts in benefits. Self righteous finger-waggling included for no extra charge.
O’Donnell, on the other...
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Pakistan is now #2 exporter of Scottish bagpipes →
motherjones:
If the recession-proof bagpipe market isn’t a reason for the US and Pakistan to patch up relations, I don’t know what is.
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“It’s not clear whether Bachmann was aware of the slavery passage on the...”
– Fox News writer Stephen Clark, apparently in an attempt to let Bachmann off the hook for signing the “Marriage Vow” pledge, which suggested that African-American babies were somehow better off under slavery than they are now. The group that published the pledge, The Family Leader, has...
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Where the hell do all these .gifs come from?
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P.S.
Sorry my tumblr posts are so damn long.
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An alternative hypothesis on debt ceiling...
Due, it seems, primarily to a pair of articles published this morning in the New York Times and Washington Post, liberal bloggers and Twitterers have once again set their hair on fire and are loudly complaining that President Obama has “sold them down the river” by possibly agreeing to “extensive changes” to Social Security and Medicare in exchange for Republicans’...
