xmonkeydr commented on How Bloggers Defy Despots

"@VirusWithShoes: I think that you underestimate the extent to which even totalitarian governments need a large measure of acquiescence from their populace and how free access to information undermines this."

xmonkeydr commented on Will McCain's Joking Sink His Candidacy?

"@Mike_Jahn: John Paul Stevens seems likely to leave the Supreme Court on the day that he leaves the earth."

xmonkeydr commented on Model Dies in Apparent Suicide

"FWIW, the two guys who I was close to who killed themselves were unexpected suicides by myself and our mutual friends."

xmonkeydr commented on Stripper Porn Will Get You Out Of Iraq

"No porn => the terrorists have won."

xmonkeydr commented on The BlackBerry Continues To Destroy The Workplace

"People have employers who expect them to buy/pay for their own Dingleberry and then do work on it?!?!"

xmonkeydr commented on Investigative Stories

"I just heard an interview with him on NPR, of all places."

xmonkeydr commented on Help Julia Allison Find Her Hard Drive!

"When I was doing my masters thesis back in the day I had it on two floppy disks and one died while in the machine."

xmonkeydr commented on John McWhorter Explained

"Leave John alone!"

xmonkeydr commented on Is Hedge Fund Dater a Phony?

"I keep reading his name as "Pressed Ham"."

xmonkeydr commented on Girl: 'Should I Move Home?' Cary Tennis: 'I am a child of Florida's warm, wet indolence'

"This reminds me of Chevy Chase in Caddyshack."

xmonkeydr commented on Class Warfare Over Starbucks Seats

"The best Starbucks customers are those who come in, get an overpriced coffee, and leave."

xmonkeydr commented on Disaster At The Sex And The City Premiere?

"As Nico said, "Fucked in the City"."

xmonkeydr commented on Titans Of Finance Undone By Larry The Cable Guy

"They would have done better paying Larry The Cable guy to advise them on strategy."

xmonkeydr commented on Sponsor Drops Workout Over 'Negative Icon'-Gate

"Koreanish: I think mocking the reconstructed breasts of a breast cancer survivor would indeed get a straight male gym rat fired. I second that the two sports bras are funny."

xmonkeydr commented on The City That Glowed In The Dark

"Nice how upstate NY is described as Appalachian Mountains."

xmonkeydr commented on 'Today Show' Polls Important Walter Sobchak Demo

"With an economy headed down the shitter and an unpopular war it would seem that there's no way the Democrats could lose this time around."

xmonkeydr commented on Another Graph Proves That Obama Will Win, No Seriously He Will, Shut Up

"Hahaha, hence the effort by the Clintons to reinstate the FL and MI votes that weren't supposed to count."

xmonkeydr commented on Lonely Bloomberg Really Truly Not Running For President

"So he has turned down the calls for him to run that only he could hear."