La Cieca commented on Why Can't Obama Embody All Our Irrational Fairy Tales Already?

"@ADismalScience: Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying."

La Cieca commented on Why Can't Obama Embody All Our Irrational Fairy Tales Already?

"@ADismalScience: See, I was sort of with you until you say "the Republicans have a point." The only point the Republicans have is to obstruct as much as possible and then (ahem) point an accusing finger at Obama in 2010. I have a lot of confidence in the healing power of a strong economy, which is to say that I am willing to believe that whatever hypothetical damage done down the road by "certain of the budget items" will be negligible in comparison to the current and long-term benefits of the package as a whole."

La Cieca commented on Why Can't Obama Embody All Our Irrational Fairy Tales Already?

"@ADismalScience: You should either learn to say what you mean in the first place, clearly and without the disingenuous use of buzzwords, or else to stand by what you say without backpedalling."

La Cieca commented on Why the Portland Mayor Sex Scandal Is Good for the Gays

"@LatestBy: A process perhaps new to Gawker, though a classic elsewhere in popular culture: dissibilanting."

La Cieca commented on Why Can't Obama Embody All Our Irrational Fairy Tales Already?

"@Nemesisesq: To use another analogy the Market is like a dog, some times it loves you some times it bites you, but if you trest it right and apply to right rules it will be loyal to you."

La Cieca commented on Why Can't Obama Embody All Our Irrational Fairy Tales Already?

"@ADismalScience: "Pork" is an urban myth and you know it."

La Cieca commented on Why Can't Obama Embody All Our Irrational Fairy Tales Already?

"I may be wrong, and please do stop me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Pareene posted this same piece four or five times a day every day since the election? Dude, you're staring to make Maureen Dowd seem deep by comparison."

La Cieca commented on David Denby Clearly Has Big Crush on Maureen Dowd

"@Richard: Do you see himOn the hill at Gettysburg'Neath that great triumphal arc?If you see him as he's trampling through the grapes of wrath,Stand up and snark, snark, snark!"

La Cieca commented on Hud Morgan's Fruity Trousers

"@Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): I think it's counterintuitive to go to a Studio 54 party dressed as "The Guy Who Never Was Admitted to Studio 54." Now, if the theme of the party had been "The Best Man at My 1982 Wedding Was a Gay Dental Technician," Morgan would have it aced."

La Cieca commented on "See? Denorex Tingles."

""No, actually she and and the board are about equally stiff.""