What Atrios Said

Two Blocks Is A Million Miles

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The Alternative

I want to put up a part of David Kurtz's deconstruction of Rep. Anthony Weiner's speech on the floor of the House.

Too many progressives seem to want to sit on the sidelines until someone, a Marquess of Queensberry, comes along and changes the rules of the game to make it more civilized. What they don't seem to grasp is that democratic politics are the Queensberry rules. They replaced mob rule. The fractiousness, unpredictability, and feralness of politics are vestiges that remind us of what the real alternatives to democracy are. The real alternative is not a debating club and smoking jackets.

Tho Nature, red in tooth and claw




...and then



And what Krgthulu said.

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Stop by Scott's place

... and get the wonder of this

And hit the tip jar if you can.

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Late

I didn't comment on this until I processed a little more information.
Oh, and I was drunk.

In short, you'd want to make Israel look like a paranoid, bloodthirsty and extremely belligerent nation of racist freaks, determined to murder fuck out of civilians with total impunity year-in, year-out, so that the entire planet disowns them by, for example, withdrawing their ambassadors and issuing a barrage of denuncations.

Q. Do those elites really want to go there?
A. Yes

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After Smack, Nothing Else Sastifies

TBogg here, swinging for the fence.
Wanna taste?

Ha ha. So neighbor-lady is fucking Sarah Palin and not in the way that forces Rich Lowry and Matthew Continetti to give each other sad unsatisfying dutch-rudders

Speaking solely for myself,

HOMERUN

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Just the facts, Ma'am.

KThug is getting irritated

So a question for all the people who say that the economic troubles under Jimmy Carter discredited postwar economic policies: why don’t the troubles under Bush similarly discredit post-Reagan policies? Funny how that works.

I suggest you hide.

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Nice To See It Crafted So Nicely

Very Nice

Why th' hell would ducking, or side-stepping, the question have been preferable to affirming that his core beliefs include the idea that laissez-faire property rights trump personal rights, even in the most egregious cases? In a perfect world this wouldn't even be a story; it would be old news.

Go see the finished product here.

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