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Is that with or without?

Ok, I think I’ve finally figured out the difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to how they treat us “unwashed masses”. The end is the same, but it’s either K-Y: with (Democrats) or without (Republicans). Regardless, you’re still going to wake up sore.

Wiki Commons – The Tube

Am I not important or what!?

I got this in my email:

To: “Blah Blah” <blah.blah.blahr@blah.blah.com>
Subject: Tim Geithner, George Soros, Sheila Bair, & Larry Summers – Oct 15/16th
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:23:34 -0400
From: “Argyle Executive Forum” <mergenyc@argyleconferences.com>

Argyle Executive Forum is pleased to partner with The Economist on The
Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering occurring in Manhattan on October 15th
and October 16th.

Speakers for the event [...]

Oh the horror of it…

Is nothing sacred anymore?:

NYC’s Tavern on the Green files for Chapter 11

Actually I have fond memories of visiting this with my “big sister” (14 years my senior) when I was a little tike. We didn’t eat there, but somehow I understood I was privileged enough to be walking on the holy ground of the great [...]

“Order of The Shrill”?

Hmmm… I’m wondering. I thought Brad Delong always called it  just “ShrillBlog” and then sometime after I posted a comment here about how Greenwald should be inducted in the “Order of The Shrill”, this and this appeared with “Order of The Shrill” in them.

So, was it my idea? I should be so lucky – probably [...]

Conservative “jokes”

Hey, I’m all for a, “What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start!” kind of joke, but have you ever noticed that conservative jokes always have a tendency to be a little, well, violent? I received this recent jem from a friend:

A driver is stuck in a traffic [...]

Time To Go “Sextuple” Meta on Health Care

Brad DeLong goes Quintuple meta on Robert Waldmann’s quadrupal meta on the triple meta of Matthew Yglesias:

Robert Waldmann goes quadruple meta on the triple meta Matthew Yglesias:

Robert’s Stochastic thoughts: Quadruple meta: Matt Yglesias goes triple meta in his blog post “Stay First-Order on Health Care.” writing

It’s difficult, of course, to critique the impulse to “go [...]