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Edited by The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx at 11/06/09 1:00 PM
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Notwithstanding what the Post says, Sheehan isn't really a crisis PR guy - he's more of a media/debate trainer. Also, he's usually only on board for a day or two and then goes away to another client. #christmasiscanceled
Lo, in these PC times, the problem with canceling Christmas lunch is that you then have to cancel Hanukkah tea and Ramadan happy hour. #christmasiscanceled
@If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Well, I had a good reason: To cancel Kwanzaa would be to violate kujichagulia* (self-determination, in Swahili), which just seems like a really mean thing to do at Christmastime.
*No, I totally and completely did not look that up on Wikipedia. #christmasiscanceled
After how many years of cancellations does it become the former Xmas lunch, the onetime Xmas lunch, the Xmas lunch of a bygone era, the Xmas lunch of ad budgets past, etc? #christmasiscanceled
Cocktail party? Man, this is why you wanna work in NYC. In DC, all the think tanks that cancel their xmas parties replace them with "Economic Forums." #christmasiscanceled
I'm sure those who were laid off will appreciate the irony of a hefty salary being paid to a flack who will try to mitigate the image damage done by the layoffs. #christmasiscanceled
Here's a thought, for all the CEOs running around hiring consultants to help figure out how to economize during the recession: cut the salaries of your top (most likely overpaid) employees, including yourself, and stop wasting money on consultants... #christmasiscanceled
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
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
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
@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
@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
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
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
@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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*No, I totally and completely did not look that up on Wikipedia. #christmasiscanceled
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@TheHonJudgeSmails: Now there won't be any Christmas... #christmasiscanceled
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Yep.
Here's a thought, for all the CEOs running around hiring consultants to help figure out how to economize during the recession: cut the salaries of your top (most likely overpaid) employees, including yourself, and stop wasting money on consultants... #christmasiscanceled
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WeepyVP JoeAnd he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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WeepyVP JoeEither 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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