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    Image of MyNameIsChris MyNameIsChris
    03:53 PM

    In reply to How to Talk to Your Conservative Relatives
    Or take my wife's approach and yell "cunt" at the dinner table as often as possible.
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    Image of NotReadyForPrimeTime NotReadyForPrimeTime
    03:51 PM

    In reply to Polanski is Free! (Kind of)
    I'm not following the rationale about Polanski's Oscar. He shouldn't pay for a crime he committed in the 1970s because he won an Oscar 25 years later?

    International law is so complicated.
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    Image of Benny Benny
    03:50 PM

    In reply to How to Talk to Your Conservative Relatives
    I see pretty much eye to eye with most of my relatives, at least in so far as I'm aware (one creationist, but he's a paradox and damn nice fellow). For me it's my long term girlfriend's family that's the problem, and one time it got ugly.

    Perfectly hospitable people on the surface, but they happen to believe (like many of my fellow citizens, and the federal government, unfortunately) that asylum seekers should be put in prison camps for indefinite detention. You guys think immigration is an issue in the States? Spend some time with an Australian conservative. I'm talking actually putting men, women and children in desert concentration camps as the accepted norm.

    According to them asylum seekers are illegal immigrants, might be terrorists and are out to steal our jobs, money and water. I once tried explaining to them, as we enjoyed smoked salmon on the patio by their pool near their five cars, that these people are desperate, face persecution at home, and far from being illegal, in fact have every legal right to enter the country seeking asylum, in accordance with the UN Charter on Refugees and the Geneva Convention.

    Nothing works. No matter how sensibly you try to present your arguments, you can't make a sheltered, ignorant, xenophobic, moral illiterate see reason. Things became very unpleasant very quickly.
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    Image of NotReadyForPrimeTime NotReadyForPrimeTime
    03:44 PM

    In reply to White House Party Crashers Are Awesome, Sad
    The first thing I thought of when I saw this was another couple who crashed DC parties--Kenneth and Sante Kimes, back in the 1970s. Mrs. Kimes and her son, also named Kenneth, murdered their wealthy NYC landlady a few years ago and are serving life in prison.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    03:42 PM

    In reply to Don't Just Sit There — Go and Shop!
    All I ask for is that these stores put their sales online so I don't have to wake up at four or get trampled by fat crazy people. So far, the only store to get my Black Friday cash is Amazon.com. Thanks for the $5 MP3 albums, guys!
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    Image of Magister Magister
    03:47 PM

    @DahlELama: I'm just about to go through all of the "Black Friday" ads in today's paper.

    I'm not really planning to buy a lot tomorrow and it's way too early for me to think about gifts, but there are a couple of things I've been needing and since I live in a non-metro area, Black Friday isn't a scary thing.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    03:38 PM

    In reply to Berlusconi's Wife Wants $64m Just Because He Sleazed on an 18-Year-Old
    Ay Papi!
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    03:30 PM

    In reply to Five Ways to Avoid a Black Friday Trampling
    The wedge is illegal this year. You can get the chair in the usual states.
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    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    03:12 PM

    In reply to The Internet Knows What You're Eating Today
    Uh, guys? Should I start looking up recipes? Who's headed over for some cheeseball-sweet potato casserole pie? (now with extra gravy!)
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    02:10 PM

    In reply to Berlusconi's Wife Wants $64m Just Because He Sleazed on an 18-Year-Old
    That's Amore?
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    Image of OliversArmy OliversArmy
    03:00 PM

    @Lysergic Asset:

    When the girls that you do are too young to vote for you,
    That's Amore!
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    Image of ShawnP ShawnP
    03:17 PM

    @OliversArmy: When the wife hits your eye 'cus you sleazed on teen pie,
    That's Amore!
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    03:25 PM

    @OliversArmy: When your wife, she refuses to put down that knife, that's amore!
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    Image of OliversArmy OliversArmy
    03:39 PM

    @ShawnP: Bells will ring, ka-ka-ka-kaching, ka-ka-ka-kaching,
    And you'll sing "Damn that old hag!"

    But you'll pay, tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay,
    because you are a scumbag!
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    Image of Helio Helio
    01:39 PM

    In reply to Berlusconi's Wife Wants $64m Just Because He Sleazed on an 18-Year-Old
    No, she wants it because he's a huge sleazeball in general. Going to the party of your jail bait paramour but not bothering to make an appearance at the parties of your own offspring is straight up disgusting. And he had three chances to do so! Fucking a.

    She should have rounded up to 65mil, it's just a drop in the bucket for him anyway.
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    Image of pmarble pmarble
    02:38 PM

    @Helio: Yeah, I was going to say she should get a billion just for being married to that pig for so long.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    01:35 PM

    In reply to Berlusconi's Wife Wants $64m Just Because He Sleazed on an 18-Year-Old
    Come on, Veronica! "He has never come to the 18th birthday parties of any of our children despite being invited." That's because he wasn't fucking them. The man is a saint!
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    01:29 PM

    In reply to How to Talk to Your Conservative Relatives
    I recall one family gathering with my ex-wife's observant Jewish relatives in which both the New York Times and I were deemed insufficiently pro-Israel because we thought that the Palestinians just might deserve a right or two. Jews hating the New York Times. I nearly choked on my brisket.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    01:58 PM

    @TheBusinessGuy: I nearly just choked on my Cabernet.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    01:59 PM

    @momof3wildkids: Baron Herzog, I hope.
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    Image of random_play random_play
    02:14 PM

    @TheBusinessGuy: The best thing about Jewish Thanksgiving is the turkey with eight drumsticks.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    02:17 PM

    @random_play: Growing up, who knew from white meat? Even today, to me eating white meat is as tasty as eating a tallis.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    03:23 PM

    @TheBusinessGuy: White meat is for suckers.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    03:35 PM

    @TheBusinessGuy: Nope this Irish Catholic gal eats pork and mixes meat and dairy with impunity.

    I am actually quaffing a very nice Pahlmeyer cab 1995. Hubby and I bought it on our honeymoon in Napa many moons ago.

    YUM!
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    03:41 PM

    @momof3wildkids: Ah, an Irish Catholic girl! If you weren't married, I'd be in love! It's the Hebrew-Hibernian alliance! Enjoy your trafe and that tasty wine.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    01:28 PM

    In reply to How to Talk to Your Conservative Relatives
    You could just not visit your family. It's not the law.
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    02:02 PM

    @allyzay: It's not?! Why the fuck am I here right now?
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    Image of Colander Colander
    02:12 PM

    @allyzay: Exactly. That's why I have a cell phone.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    01:23 PM

    In reply to The Associated Press' Helpful List of Excuses For Not Visiting Your Family this Thanksgiving
    I have been blessed with a job that requires you to work at least some of the holidays.

    It is the best excuse ever and everybody thinks I am swell gal because I will always work Thanksgiving if you ask.
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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    01:07 PM

    In reply to How to Talk to Your Conservative Relatives
    You know, it's not necessary to be racist to favor a rational immigration policy distinct from open borders. I'm not even saying that's my position, I'm just saying I can see valid concerns folks might have with the idea of total deregulation of our immigration system. Between this and all the Lou Dobbs harping a clear pattern has emerged. Polarizing and oversimplifying the discourse that way doesn't do anybody any favors.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    03:16 PM

    @Solomon Grundy: I wish there were a 'like' button. You are completely, 100% right.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    03:34 PM

    @Solomon Grundy: I'm not seeing where anyone said anything you could really read as disagreeing with this stance. The thing is, the people who one generally hears going on about illegal immigrants as if they were emissaries of Satan don't tend to have anything like a well-thought out proposal regarding immigration, they just think brown people are stealing our jobs and our health care. If someone has a critique based on having really educated themselves on the issue, as opposed to just watching Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck, it would be an interesting thing to discuss, but that's not the kind of person we're talking about here.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    03:49 PM

    @Solomon Grundy: The wisdom of Solomon Grundy! Now watch your back... there are those among us who do *not* tolerate tolerance or anything that threatens the tiny little bubble within which they live and write and seethe.
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