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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/07/09

    In reply to Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal
    When you make that much money that easily, you are the very definition of "Idiot Savant."
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    02:49 PM

    @raincoaster: I saw the Willem Dafoe performance of "Idiot Savant," and even that play made more sense than this guy.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    12/07/09

    In reply to Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal
    subtitled ("unless those cliches are also a stereotype of some sort of bleeding heart liberal cause. Then cliches are a-okay.")
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/07/09

    In reply to Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal
    FFS, I know it's only 140 characters, but what is he trying to say? Did the freepers formulate their own language on purpose so us liberals wouldn't catch on too quickly?

    Sigh, do i have fix everything?! Replace "knee" with "have," take away those useless question marks (even if it weren't rhetorical, your readers wouldn't know the answer) and change "women" to "hos." You're welcome, Jonah!
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    Edited by Helio at 12/07/09 4:03 PM Helio was starred Helio was unstarred
    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    12/07/09

    In reply to Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal
    This next book is, for now, called The Tyranny of Cliches

    Chapter 2. It is what it is!
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/07/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Chapter 3: You can't win 'em all!
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    12/07/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: @Helio: It takes one to know one.
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    Image of Beau Nerd Beau Nerd
    12/07/09

    @Mediahohoho: Chapter 6: A Half-Dozen of the Other
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    12/07/09

    @Beau Nerd: Chapter 7: Stuffing 10 lbs. Of Shit Into A 5 lb. Bag (Fashion And Philosophical Tips For Today's Young Conservative)
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    12/07/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Author Photo Caption: I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    12/07/09

    In reply to Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal
    Yes, but how do you top cover art that has a smiley face with a Hitler mustache, since everyone knows the way to intellectual success is to trivialize the Holocaust. Or is lazy ass here going to draw a dotted line from Arbeit macht Frei to have a nice day?
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    12/07/09

    In reply to Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal
    I'm going to start a blog (then a book) titled: This Is Why You're Stupid chronicling all of the awful, awful pundit books that keep getting green-lit.
     Reply
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    12/07/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: This is why you're a fat head?
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/07/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: OMG! Please do!
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    12/07/09

    @Mediahohoho: @PaisleyPajamas: Actually, check it - done: This Is Why You're Stupid
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/07/09

    In reply to Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal
    Ech.

    Check out these young commies. I think they have a good chance of signing a record deal within 2 years that will make Jonah Goldberg's book deal look like the $18 check that Aunty Rose stuck in his ill-fitting, gooey bar mitzvah suit pocket.
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    Image of no I said no I won't no no I said no I won't no
    12/07/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: So, as Commies, they'll be giving it to the people?
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    12/07/09

    @no I said no I won't no:

    That would be awesome (as long as the people make sure they have health insurance and modestly-sized yachts).
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/07/09

    In reply to Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal
    Well, when CAN you knee surgery?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/07/09

    @braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: 'Cause your friends don't knee surgery, and if they don't knee surgery, well, then they're no friends of mine.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/07/09

    @BookishLookish: EVERYBODY LOOK AT YOUR PANTS!
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    12/07/09

    In reply to Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal
    I refuse to buy this book unless there is a Kathryn Lopez Playboy-style centerfold included.
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    12/07/09

    @bluebears: Excuse me while I gouge out my mind's eye..
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    12/07/09

    @stahvinahtist002: what? she's hot. I mean if you like dogmatic pre-Vatican II style Catholics who are also not so secret fascists. mmm-mmmm.
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    Image of flossy flossy
    12/07/09

    In reply to Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal
    Wow. You could write an entire dissertation on all the logical fallacies and straw men packed into those 140 characters, to say nothing of the grammar and syntax atrocities. In a way, it’s sort of awe-inspiring.

    In retrospect, we should have seen this coming. If you accept the premise that tweets/status updates are the bumper stickers of the internet, then of course conservative assholes would be the ones to perfect the use of the medium to tell the maximum number of lies in as pithy a manner as possible.

    In conclusion, fuck Jonah Goldberg sideways.
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    12/07/09

    @flossy: Out of self-preservation my brain refused to continue reading that "tweet" mid-way through.
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    12/07/09

    @bluebears: My brain does something similar; halfway through, I get a pop-up message that says, "CAUTION: Reading this to the end will piss you off for the rest of the afternoon and likely drive you to drink this evening. Are you sure you want to do this?"
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    12/07/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Tweets are too short for my self-preservation instinct to kick in fast enough. By the time the "Oh my god, this is so fucking stupid and dishonest and it's making me angry" alarm has been sounded, I've read the whole thing.

    So... you'll find me at the end of the bar in about two hours.
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    12/07/09

    @flossy: I'm trying to condition myself to instinctively ignore anything under 160 characters. Fortunately for me (unfortunately for others), this includes text messages, tweets, Facebook updates and the like. I'm hoping to eventually get to the point where I ignore everything under, say, Ulysses.
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    Image of ParahSalin ParahSalin
    12/07/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Welcome to my world. I don't know how to tweet, I refuse to look at Facebook, and I barely know how to use the Inner Tubes, and I kind of wish I hadn't even learned to use them.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    12/07/09

    In reply to Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal
    I'm starting to think that being able to piece together a coherent tweet should be a serious requirement for getting a book deal.
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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    12/07/09

    @DahlELama: @jacobestes: "Lesbian bloggers wants a system where says it you book deal, yet they menstrual cry about free speech of gay penguins!!!"
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    12/07/09

    In reply to Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal
    I was kind of hoping the title would have "sweater" in it.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Steve Forbes Done In By Editor He Deposed, Probably
    On Forbes.com today: When Siblings Don't Pull Their Own Weight
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Steve Forbes Done In By Editor He Deposed, Probably
    Forbes Foiled by the Pinkerton Detective Agency!
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    11/30/09

    In reply to Palin Not Actually Taking Tacky Bus on Tacky Book Tour
    It's okay. She actually knows how to make fossil fuels.
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    Image of ParahSalin ParahSalin
    11/30/09

    @Mediahohoho: She also knows how to solve the world's most vexing economic problem. How do we pay for the deficit? Easy! We cut the taxes on the small business owners who are creating the wealth, who should keep the wealth that they created, because that's their wealth, and if they could keep it we could pay the debts and create the jobs and the people could work, because they are the ones that create the jobs that America and the Troops and Jesus think we deserve because we're the best country ever. Damn, it's so simple it's brilliant. When she's right, she's right. If only Republicans had thought to cut taxes for the past 30 years! Geez, they must feel like real simpletons now that she's pinpointed the problem and the solution in such an informed and incisive manner. I think I may vote for her in 2012. Cutting taxes to reduce the deficit! Who'd a thunk it?
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    11/30/09

    @ParahSalin: Funny thing about Republicans. Neither my taxes nor spending ever go down when they're in office. Things just get shitty and mean. She's perfect for that party.
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    Image of ParahSalin ParahSalin
    12/01/09

    @Mediahohoho: My taxes do go down when Republicans are in office, but mainly because I never can find a job when they're in control. It's fairly hard to tax me when I have no income. In your face Republicans! I'm broke, nothing left for you to take. Wow, that doesn't really feel as good as I thought it would.
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