I was too busy writing 20 posts about Juan Williams and another 10 about my snarling hatred of the rich to keep up with reader blogs as well as usual, so this week, instead, I’m going to do a post consisting of reader comments that I liked (some of these are old but stuck in my head).
What would Belfast look like should Obama pass the Wingnut Repatriation Act? I think Stuckey’s and Shoney’s would improve Northern Ireland’s cuisine, but I am willing to be convinced otherwise.
Next ride she’ll come across one of “them” holding a dogged-earred copy of Atlas Shrugged who tells her how desperate he is for school choice and abolition of the estate tax.
Very, very dirty vodka MARTINI. Imagine, if you will, that you stole money from the Salvation Army person outside the department store, then took that money and used it to buy hookers, heroin, scratch off tickets and a copy of Going Rogue at full price.
THAT’S how fuckin’ dirty I enjoy my vodka MARTINI.
Also too, for some reason the phrase “Every day the bucket go to the well, one day the bottom will drop out” has been rattling in my brain a lot recently.
Felonious Wench
2 oz Grey Goose
1 oz dry vermouth
2 oz olive juice
Blue cheese stuffed olives
Drink. Repeat until world becomes all fuzzy and pretty.
Warren Terra
How about that Texas university arts director who was fired because he refused to appear on a judging panel with Louie Gohmert?
TPM link is here, though I learned of it from an interview with the victim on CBC’s As It Happens podcast, which I recommend.
matoko_chan
you should be watching al Jazeera.
slag
This one’s for MikeJ.
Dennis SGMM
@Felonious Wench:
Why, oh why do people dilute perfectly good vodka with foreign substances? Tito’s Handmade Vodka straight up, thank you.
jacy
@Felonious Wench:
Egads, if I have to repeat until the world looks pretty, somebody’s going to have to spot me a new liver.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Felonious Wench: 2 ounces of olive juice? That’s not a martini, that’s a recipe for self-pickling internal organs.
Tom Hilton
Let me just say that if the teatards win big in this election, violent upchucking is on the table.
Gina
Oh noes! Canadian scientists take their sciency talk to the public, directly, via the web! Government conservatards gnashing teeth.
J. Michael Neal
3 oz Bombay Sapphire
Have a vermouth bottle somewhere in the house
There’s no such thing as a vodka martini.
There are, however, now pictures of me snuggling with Eddie. I’m definitely in the maudlin photo taking stage of dealing with this.
My face looks awful, but he looks pretty good.
Tom Hilton
Oh, and by the way? “Vodka Martini” is a contradiction in terms.
Edit: and J. Michael Neal beat me to it.
Tom Hilton
@jacy: Cartoon in this week’s New Yorker: guy slumped over at a bar, bartender saying “looks like someone’s eyes were bigger than his liver”.
Yes, it’s kind of sick. It also made me laugh.
geg6
You know, we Merkins like to make fun of those damn Frenchies.
But it seems to me that they have more balls among them than two Merkas.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2026825,00.html
We Merkins are pussies.
Steve
This story from TPM deserves attention. As someone who practices law in this area it’s fairly flabbergasting. To those who always think The Man is out to get them – maybe not so surprising!
Wendy Gramm is Phil Gramm’s wife, by the way.
Rosalita
Fuck martini’s — single malt scotch please
cleek
@J. Michael Neal:
anything in a long-stemmed, conical glass is a martini, these days. the word has become nearly useless.
Felonious Wench
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
And it’s delightful.
licensed to kill time
That david mizner comment was in reply to something I said, and it blew my comment out of the water (a not infrequent occurrence).
I remember reading that Corner Stone comment aloud to my SO as an example of how foo king funny! the commenters on Balloon Juice can be and why I love reading here so much.
This is a great place to hang out, just sayin’ ;-)
Felonious Wench
@cleek:
I have never had a fruity, chocolatey, Crayon-colored, or any other kind of “martini.” Vodka, straight up, ice cold, extra-dirty.
The only correct response to “what flavor of martini?” is vodka or gin.
MikeJ
@slag: I love pictures of Obama refusing to acknowledge the existence of systems that discourage hacking.
BGinCHI
And speaking of martinis, fuck Dick Fucking Armey.
God I hate that guy.
Will be back to say F Notre Dame tomorrow. I’m only one man.
Mark S.
@Steve:
Wow, that shit is crazy. I fully expect Congress to initiate an immediate investigation into this, or perhaps appoint an independent counsel. This is a bombshell allegation.
Oh, wait, I forgot which country I was in. Has Sarah Palin tweeted anything interesting today?
Ash Can
If you’re going to be doing a post spotlighting great comments, you should at least give honorable mention to that whole thread from a couple of days ago in which that poor sod from OTB came over here and tried to give this joint a piece of his mind. A romp indeed.
Pangloss
If I have to watch John Boehner take the gavel, I may resort to a 21st Amendment remedy.
Redshift
For some reason I’m quite amused at the webads from my congressman’s opponent that appear here. There are now two of them, one of which accuses my congressman of “wasteful spending,” and the other blames him for the bad traffic.
How much of a wingnut do you have to be not to see those two attacks as totally contradictory?
Sentient Puddle
@MikeJ: Well then, you’ll be discouraged to know that he did actually sign it.
Pangloss
If your last name is Armey, why in the world would you name your child “Dick?”
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
We treat the happy hour as an Open Thread, yes? So I can go off-topic with this insanely awesome tumblr called “Muslims Wearing Things“?
My favorites so far are
“This is Javed ‘Hijabman’ Memon. This Muslim is sporting a chapeau made of balloons.”
and
“This unfortunate Muslim is wearing Ed Hardy. He is called Salman Khan.”
Carl Nyberg
Can this song be reworked along the lines of “I shot the banker, but I did not shoot the secretary…”?
geg6
@Ash Can:
Yeah, I was sick as hell (what with the projectile vomiting and its mirror image at the other end) and couldn’t finish reading. Mataconis had just showed up and the beating was just commencing. I never got back to it, but I’d love to read that thread today.
Redshift
@Pangloss: Presumably he was named Richard and chose to go by “Dick.”
I know someone who once worked with a guy named Richard Head. He also chose to go by “Dick.”
DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.
@Ash Can:
I’m a bleeding heart, I felt a little sorry for that by the end.
Punchy
Yanks going down like a meth-addicted hooker tonite.
And how many kick-ass colly f-ball games are there tomorrow? It’s unreal. I may have sit with a sweatshirt in my lap for the next 15 minutes I’m so excited.
PurpleGirl
WRT Juan Williams and Muslim garb: I found this link at Making Light.
http://muslimswearingthings.tumblr.com
In my own personal experience, I frequently see women and young girls dressed with scarfs and/or veils at work or school but I rarely see men in “traditional” or “tribal” dress going to work or traveling. Williams is full of it.
(I didn’t read the thread before commenting; I see now that Ella/Esther beat me to it.)
Roger Moore
@J. Michael Neal:
And if there’s no such thing as a Vermouthless martini, either. If you’re not putting in the Vermouth, you’re just drinking gin. Not that there’s anything wrong with drinking straight gin, but don’t act like a martini purist if you’re not drinking a martini.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Emily L.: That wins many winnings. I think my favorite is:
BGinCHI
@Pangloss: I don’t know, but I’m sure the answer has the word “Satan” in it.
liberty60
@Steve: This story from TPM deserves attention
Roger Moore
@Felonious Wench:
FTFY.
JGabriel
Did you hear the one about the ex-cop GOPer, Jeff Perry, running for the House in MA-10 who covered up his partner’s sexual abuse of teenage girls?
Perry is also on the NY Times list of Tea Partiers:
.
Carl Nyberg
“B of A always hated me/For what I do not know”
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Heh – ensemble from the Middle Ages! Also an excellent, excellent choice. Not to mention the Aasaf Mandvi one!
It was really hard to choose just two favorites, honestly.
Tom Hilton
@Rosalita: also too, not either/or.
@Felonious Wench: go ahead and drink V&V (vodka & vermouth) if you like, but if you care even the tiniest bit about the English language then don’t call it a Martini.
Tom Hilton
@Roger Moore: Agreed.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@JGabriel: I think you’re misunderstanding the notion of “HAPPY hour.”
Sigh. That is just horrific.
Mark S.
@Steve:
Sorry, but I can’t get over this shit. This is complete banana republic shit, and it’s barely going to get reported and will be completely forgotten next week. To a lesser extent, this is how I felt after the Abu Gharib photos came out. I figured that heads would roll, Woodwards and Bernsteins would be dogging the Administration, etc. Instead, some peons got convicted and it was back to business as usual. Just a few bad apples, and are human pyramids really torture?
Sorry to get all emo, but every once in a while it really hits me how fucked this country is.
Bulworth
Everybody hates Bill Clinton. No one goes to see him anymore. “He trashed the place”, etc.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101022/ap_on_el_ge/us_campaign_bill_clinton
Dennis SGMM
@Pangloss: @Pangloss:
His parents may have had a flash of prescience and decided to beat the world to the punch.
lamh32
I’ve been thinking about Obama’s “It gets better” video and a couple of thoughts ran threw my head.
First, I thought it was interesting the contrast between how Hilary Clinton’s video was viewed warmly by most people, even with the fact that Bill C is the reason for the law in the first place. It didn’t therefore necessarily surprised me that Obama would make a video (I honestly expected First Lady Michelle O make a video instead of Obama) cause I’d be really shocked if HIlary as SoS did her video without the “approval” of the WH, or any other member of the Obama WH for that matter.
Secondly, I don’t agree, but I dont’ begrudge certain activist saying that rhetoric without action means nothing, because it is STILL, IMHO, a good thing. Cause I have cousins who are younger and gay, and unlike older gays, DADT, DOMA and such are not really something they think alot about. So for them, as young African American gay males and females, to have the President of the United States, a Black man, not just acknowledging their “struggle”, but also actually telling them that “It Gets Better”, and that there is nothing wrong with them, and suicide is not the answer.
Obama’s video will REALLY resonate with them!
JGabriel
Pangloss:
That’s what you wonder? All I can think is, what a pity it is that they didn’t name him Gabe. As in, “Hey, Gay Bar Me!”
No, I don’t have any resentments about the puns people have made on my name over the years. What makes you ask?
.
Roger Moore
@Steve:
Nice of the guy to mention it, but hasn’t he ever heard of timeliness? He’s been watching his colleague screw over the little guy for 20 years without saying anything, and only has the guts to bring it up now because he’s retiring. Fuck the judge who’s been ruling in favor of his corporate masters, but fuck the enabler who cared more about making his life easy than stopping injustice, too.
Mark S.
Chart of the Day: SS benefit cuts in the Ryan Plan
Not yet been analyzed by Nobel Prize winning economist Megan McCardle.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@lamh32: The line that hit me the hardest was “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
Indeed, it hit me so hard that I wrote a little something about it in the middle of the night, whilst drying my tears, when I should have gone to bed, instead!
On an imperfect POTUS, gay kids, & the arc of the universe.
SRW1
OT: Wikileaks is going to publish 391.832 Irak war documents tonight. As with the 77.000 Afghanistan documents The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Speigel had access to the documents before publication and are apparently going to publish series of articles about the documents.
The Grand Panjandrum
@J. Michael Neal:
Thank you! It needed to be said.
Mark S.
Well, it’s hard to pick just one:
Heckuva job, Bushie.
fasteddie9318
@JGabriel:
Or Foob. Foob Armey would be a good name.
Max
THE Best Dirty Martini Mix evah…
Ash Can
@liberty60: According to the story, the only one claiming he has mental problems is his estranged wife, and his son and niece deny it. He wants to divorce the wife, she wants legal guardianship of him. No possible problems with that scenario, uh-uh. So I’d say that part of the story is questionable too.
Dee Loralei
@J. Michael Neal: Awww, he’s a most gorgeous kitty. I’m so sorry all the effort you and he and the vet put into curing him didn’t work out. I’m glad you guys have this last bit of time to say goodbye. It must be so hard on you.
Dennis SGMM
@Mark S.:
Yeah, according to the article he specifically regrets not privatizing Social Security. Apparently the economic collapse at the end of his watch was just a bump in the road and privatized Social Security would have been just ducky.
Right.
Tom Levenson
@Felonious Wench: The only correct answer to what flavor of martini is gin, dry or exceptionally dry.
Vodka “martinis” may be tasty. They are, however, just drinks of neutral spirits, tarted up in one way or another. They are not martinis.
(Adjusts his evening coat, checks his spats, converses with his fellow dinosaurs.)
Steve
@Roger Moore: Search me. I just wish I practiced before the CFTC, sounds like I’d have a better winning percentage.
Dennis SGMM
@Tom Levenson: I’m trying to remember who said that the only proper way to make a dry martini was to think about Vermouth while pouring the gin. I believe that it was a character in an old movie but, my mind is like an attic.
Ash Can
@Mark S.: She’d say that Social Security should be eliminated altogether, and if the old geezers didn’t want to starve they should be out working for a living, dammit, instead of sitting around crabbing about their sore backs and bunions and being a burden on society. After all, she met an octogenarian on her way home from the bus stop and he was digging ditches for the cable company, and that’s what he said himself.
slag
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: I’m not buying that Muslims wear transitions lenses. I call photoshop!
Omnes Omnibus
@Dennis SGMM: I have always been a fan of a capful of vermouth for every 2-3 shots of gin. I like olives in it as well. That is all.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tom Levenson: Sir, your comment caused my monocle to become dislodged. I demand an apology.
Dennis SGMM
@Ash Can:
McArdle will come up with one of her famous proofs. It will be along the lines of, “Ninety-nine percent of Social Security recipients die within two decades of receiving their first check therefore, Social Security causes death.”
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@slag: Well, we all know that Reza Aslan is actually Mo Rocca when he feels like being serious.
joeyess
Ummmm, Cornerstone? That’s not a dirty martini. That’s a slutty martini.
Cat Lady
As one of the commenters noted in Corner Stone’s thread, “vodka martini” is a category error. As the kids say, “this.”
ETA: I saw Bob Marley and the Wailers live, twice. It Was Good.
slag
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Great. Now you’re going to make Juan Williams afraid of Mo Rocca. Way to give a guy a complex. ANOTHER complex, that is.
soonergrunt
Wikileaks has posted their stuff.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@slag: That’s ok. Fox will probably give him another cool mil if he starts going after Jon Stewart and all the comedians the Daily Show has spawned, starting with Mo/Reza.
Juan will be ok. Don’t worry.
Sentient Puddle
Happy hour. I’m off to see Gorillaz. Cheers.
BR
@Mark S.:
I’m sorry to say, I’m feeling very much the same way. Seeing the wikileaks stories today is just a reminder of the problem.
That commodity futures trading commission report is horrible – TWO DECADES of judges conspiring to not execute the law. And just as a reminder – remember when Blanche Lincoln pushed for a serious derivatives regulation amendment (that she clearly wasn’t that wed to)? That was to give more power to the CFTC to regulate derivatives. So this isn’t some esoteric commission regulating cattle futures or whatnot – this is one of the many bodies, including the SEC, etc. where the fraud on wall street should have been teased apart. And yet we have nothing.
I leave you with this:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/10/mbs-investors-are-calling-their-lawyers/
Ash Can
@Felonious Wench: Let the purists cry. I like a nice smooth vodka with just a hint of vermouth, up and shaken, dirty optional, and a couple of olives (usually anchovy). I’d be happy to call it whatever these old farts here want me to call it, but the waitstaff and bartenders in my neck of the woods are busy people, and would much rather I just say “martini” rather than “hand-shaken vodka and vermouth drink in a tall-stemmed conical glass that 99.9% of the civilized world call a martini but we mustn’t, you know, because that really isn’t a martini as far as the purists are concerned.”
Omnes Omnibus
@soonergrunt: Yeah, matoko_chan is virtually spamming a thread from this morning about it. Apparently, there is something wrong with us because we are not live-blogging it on al-Jazeera. Also, it could have an effect on the elections, and she was right that it was coming out now.
Linda Featheringill
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:
Muslims who wear stuff:
Totally charming! I tweeted the url, try to pass it on.
[and I’m still chuckling.]
Steve
@Ash Can: Better not call a virgin bloody mary a bloody mary either. After all, it doesn’t even have alcohol in it! (Personally, I’m partial to virgin screwdrivers.)
Ash Can
@Dennis SGMM: Actually, she’d probably say something like “nine hundred and ninety-nine percent, and it should be even more, but my calculator doesn’t go into the billions.”
suzanne
Just to update y’all (’cause I know you all care so much), now, in addition to throwing old clay roof tiles into a metal dumptruck from the second story, the roofers who are working on the house across the street are also using power saws to cut the new roof tiles. And then using a jackhammer to attach them. And then using a mega-leafblower to clean up the dust.
My dog is going batshit.
I think I sprouted about fifty new grey hairs today.
John - A Motley Moose
It’s been a relatively slow news days. We need a good John Cole rant. Hasn’t Sully said anything silly today?
slag
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: True enough. Getting fired from the librul media is money in the bank on the wingnut welfare circuit.
Plus, think of all that money he’ll save on the therapy he’d need in order to be able to successfully participate in civilized society.
Juan Williams won’t be weighing on my liberal guilty conscience anytime soon.
DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.
@John – A Motley Moose:
I think it’s time we have no Sully Fridays. I just can’t take talking about that blog anymore.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ash Can: This is why we can’t have nice things. At the very fucking least, call that thing a vodka martini. A martini sans adjective is made with gin.
Linda Featheringill
@lamh32:
I agree. I thought it could save lives.
Also, the lives of any young person who looks to Barack as an idol. And there are many of those.
Attention kids: Ignore those other creeps. Listen to your president. Be you.
Ash Can
@suzanne: Speaking of martinis, it sounds like you’re ready for a pitcherful or two.
freelancer
@John – A Motley Moose:
yeah not so much.
PurpleGirl
@suzanne: AWWW. Poor doggie. Please hug him for me.
lamh32
Um isnt’ this a violation of some law or something? So I guess here next ad will be “I’m Not A Crook!”
O’Donnell admits using campaign cash to pay rent
I guess she didn’t learn enough from the “quitta from Wasilla” that if you’re gonna take people’s money and spend it on yourself, don’t admit to anything!
Mark S.
@John – A Motley Moose:
It’s like this and like that.
Awful repercussions. Heh. Indeed.
How about Instapundit Fridays? Or does anyone still read that tool?
suzanne
@J. Michael Neal: Eddie is lovely. Hugs.
SiubhanDuinne
@Redshift #31:
I once knew a man named Peter Harrower. People referred to him as “the mohel.”
suzanne
@Ash Can: Oh, God. You have no idea. They’re on hour seven of this. Unfortunately, the fetus can’t hold her liquor yet, so I’m SOL.
Dennis SGMM
All this talk of martinis reminded of the great “Delicious” skit by Jim Backus and Phyllis Diller.
“Delicious”
Cris
But that’s the thing — normally, the smallest variation in ingredients results in a complete name change.
For instance, you don’t ask for a “Scotch Manhattan,” you ask for a Rob Roy.
You don’t ask for a “Galliano screwdriver,” you ask for a Harvey Wallbanger.
For that matter, to stay in Martini territory: you don’t ask for a “Martini with an onion” you ask for a Gibson. A fricking garnish change entails an unrelated name. Why does changing the main payload not do the same?
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: It took me a minute (being WASPy and all that), but I got there.
Svensker
@J. Michael Neal:
One of my favorite martini recipes is from the 60s, for a “Fissionable Martini.” Since apparently a bottle of vermouth was blown up in atom bomb tests in Nevada in the 50s, to make a Fissionable Martini you hold your glass of gin out the window that faces Nevada.
Forgot to say, sweet kitty pics. Awwww.
JoeC
As for the Bob Marley, I still think this song has one of the all-time scary lyrics:
“Every time I try to plant a seed, he say kill it before it grows…”
Also, we generally go to Maine for summer vacation. Was surprised one year to see a bunch of “Bob Marley” CDs in the local Supermarket in Southwest Harbor (I think). I thought, “Who knew Mainers were so hip”. Turns out he’s a standup comic from Portland…
Tom Hilton
@Ash Can: Call it a V&V. It’s short and sweet, and people won’t think you’re trying to make yourself seem cooler than you really are by pretending to drink Martinis when you actually don’t.
valdivia
I am totally on the a martini is made with gin camp.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@SiubhanDuinne: Hey there! How’s the trip going? (Or is it over…. Has it been that long since we saw each other?)
suzanne
I am totally in the doesn’t-matter-as-long-as-it-tastes-good-and-it-gets-you-schnockered camp.
John - A Motley Moose
@freelancer: I don’t see a lot of new news there. Many of the killings were Iraqi vs Iraqi. No surprise there. Iraqi captors were rougher than U.S. captors. Again, no surprise. Iran aided Shiite groups. Again, no surprise. Wonder if we’ll see any new revelations?
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@Linda Featheringill: It really is more awesome than we, as a nation, deserve right now, frankly. We have nearly run out of awesome chits, I think!
Cris
Chocolate choo-choo
soonergrunt
@Omnes Omnibus: So now a dead thread is full of very insistent statements that chocolate pie is great?
Cool.
Perhaps Mclaren can chime in with his insistence as to the superiority of strawberry-rhubarb, and we’ll get a whackjob-on-wackjob pie fight going.
Omnes Omnibus
@soonergrunt: I am sure she proselytizes for key lime as well. I have never used the pie filter; there are people I scroll past but sometimes I like to to see what is going on in their heads.
John - A Motley Moose
@soonergrunt: Strawberry-Rhubarb? That’s sacrilege. Who would pollute a perfectly good rhubarb pie with strawberries? Why, that would be like making a martini with vodka. Unthinkable.
soonergrunt
@John – A Motley Moose: Well, that’s what Mclaren is always going on about–how great strawberry-rhubarb pie is. You’ll have to ask him about it, but I warn you, he’s fucking insane.
At some point in the conversation when you say something he can’t logically refute, he’ll decide you’re a paid shill for some group or another that may or may not be nefarious and will then declare that his assertion of your status as an evil paid shill equals proof of your status as an evil paid shill.
soonergrunt
@Omnes Omnibus: I find both of them more coherent after the application of the pie filter.
John - A Motley Moose
@soonergrunt: Oh, I’ve seen his posts. I’ve been a lurker and rare commenter on here for a few years. I’m familiar with most of the regular posters – even BoB. I’ve taken to commenting more often, mainly because the blog I usually comment on has been fairly quiet lately.
Tom Hilton
@suzanne: That is an entirely reasonable approach to the question of what to drink.
It is not a reasonable approach to the question of what to call what you drink.
Paula
@Mark S.:
Well, I’m looking over the Wikileaks Iraq docs and while I’m glad it’s getting the kind of front-page coverage it deserves, I’m afraid that there’s absolutely nothing in there that
1) Couldn’t be guessed at by anyone with a functioning brain and a basic knowledge of history and
2) Lends policy-influencing strength to the antiwar grass-roots movements here in the US, mostly because the people who would care about what’s inside the Wikileaks docs would already be anti-war, and those outside the anti-war movement would probably already assume that all of this was/is necessary to “protect our freedoms” or “fight the war against terrorism” or just wouldn’t even want to read about any of it in the first place.
3) I’m also a little afraid that all the evidence of Iraqi police/military forces abusing detainees and of sectarian violence among Iraqis themselves is going to give people here in the US a chance to excuse our role in the process.
Origuy
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:
I sent a submission to Muslims Wearing Things. Sultan Salman Abdulaziz Al-Saud was a payload specialist on the space shuttle in 1985. He was the first Muslim in space.
Edit: Moderation? Porquoi?
suzanne
@Tom Hilton:
I just call it “yummy” or “more, please”.
frosty
@Dennis SGMM: My parents had a book all about martinis, with this recipe that was somewhat like yours:
Fill martini glass with 2 oz gin.
Place 100 W lamp on table
Carefully place vermouth bottle between martini and lamp
Turn lamp on for precisely 10 seconds
Garnish with olives and enjoy!!
Redshirt
@DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.: You’re not giving up, are you DougJ? Cuz while you might be feeling a bit beat down by the negative heat right now, I predict you’ll be feeling your oats soon enough. A Moore Award is enough to shake anyone, but just bounce off the ropes and come back out swinging.
This is a fight, after all.
J. Michael Neal
@Dee Loralei: @frosty: I prefer my martinis a little drier than that.
John - A Motley Moose
@Redshirt: Oh, that’s right. I forgot about the Moore Award. No wonder Dougj wanted a Sully-free Friday. Heh…
schrodinger's cat
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Great website, I had a huge crush on Imran Khan when I was growing up, as for Salman Khan he is always dressed rather unfortunately. The website seems to have a lot of muslims from the subcontinent.
DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.
@Redshirt:
No, I forgot about the Moore Award when I wrote that. I don’t really care about Juan Williams anyway.
It’s the stuff about showing gratitude to the wealthy that bothers me so much I just can’t read that blog anymore.
Redshirt
@John – A Motley Moose: I’m squarely in DougJ’s camp in this matter – a Mickey in the corner, if you will – so I want him to get back in the mix. To heck with backing down, especially when you’re right!
Redshirt
@DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.: Get a good night’s sleep and come out fighting again tomorrow. We all know you can’t resist anyways – that shiite is like catnip, man.
thomas Levenson
@Omnes Omnibus: I apologize sincerely. You may drown your sorrows in exceptionally cold Plymouth Gin.
You will thank me.
Mnemosyne
@Origuy:
Part of al-Saud’s job title has a boner pill in it. FYWP.
Comrade Kevin
My only comment about those comments is that people who like to make stupid jokes about how awful Irish food is have obviously never been to the place.