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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    08/04/09

    In reply to Our 'Reasonable' Times Conservative Has Become David Brooks 2.0
    Born in San Francisco, grew up in New Haven, lives in DC.
    Yep, sounds just like the typical conservative commentator: writes in favor of conservative "real America" Home Depot shoppers in suburban Kansas but wouldn't be caught dead actually living in that world.
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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    08/03/09

    In reply to Our 'Reasonable' Times Conservative Has Become David Brooks 2.0
    Mr. Douthat notices (or rather he noticed suburban sprawl advocate and anti-rail city scholar Joel Kotkin noticing)

    I hear you, Pareene. Douthat should be forced to pay some sort of fee to Kotkin for such "borrowing," right?
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    08/03/09

    In reply to Our 'Reasonable' Times Conservative Has Become David Brooks 2.0
    Here's the most telling passage: "... and, inevitably, the tendency toward political corruption. The Republicans have their mistresses, but the Democrats are dealing with a more serious array of scandals: the Blagojevich-Burris embarrassment in Illinois, Senator Christopher Dodd’s dubious mortgage dealings in Connecticut, the expansive graft case in New Jersey, and a slew of corruption investigations featuring Democratic congressmen.

    Translation: "Democrats are more corrupt than Republicans, you see. It's simply inevitable. (Although we Republicans DO like to fuck, it's true! Hee hee hee ...)"
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    08/03/09

    In reply to Our 'Reasonable' Times Conservative Has Become David Brooks 2.0
    Why'd he have to go and Douthat?
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    08/03/09

    @MisterHippity: I am very sorry for that.
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    08/03/09

    @MisterHippity: No, that was awesome.
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    08/03/09

    In reply to Our 'Reasonable' Times Conservative Has Become David Brooks 2.0
    Uh, California does have a property tax. It's just limited by Prop. 13. Are you thinking of Florida, a reddish state that's in deep poo poo right now?
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    08/03/09

    @Nic Fit: Prop 13 crippled California and continues to do so. Thank Howard Jarvis for gutting the most illustrious, and practically free for residents, university system in the world. Sad. California and Florida shouldn't be in the same 'graph.
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    08/04/09

    @Mediahohoho: When you buy a house in California, your annual property taxes are 1% of the purchase price (with small increases each year). My understanding is that the 1% figure is actually fairly high in comparison with most states.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    08/04/09

    @BenSheffner:
    You're right:
    [en.wikipedia.org])
    And, if you consider that it's 45th as a percentage of home value, wrong:
    [en.wikipedia.org])
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    08/03/09

    In reply to Our 'Reasonable' Times Conservative Has Become David Brooks 2.0
    Whenever I visit the red home state of my honey I am struck by the number of boarded up businesses and the thriving "pay day loan" (legal loansharking) establishments on every block.

    Also, wondering if Texas would still like to secede, given the immense amount of water it is about to start receiving from its neighbors to the north.

    Finally, thank you for adding "reasonable conservative" to my lexicon of oxymoronic phrases. It's right there with jumbo shrimp and military intelligence.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    08/03/09

    In reply to Our 'Reasonable' Times Conservative Has Become David Brooks 2.0
    That column read like it was posted on Townhall.com. Great job NYT.
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    01/16/09

    In reply to Adolf Hitler Taken Away from His Parents
    I would happily take that child off the state's hands, give him a real good Old Testament-style name, and raise him up right. He looks like an angel.
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