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You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / Wednesday Night Open Thread

Wednesday Night Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  March 9, 201110:30 pm| 125 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2012, Open Threads, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell

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Not completely surprising that an Esquire blogger came up with the best title so far for Gingrich’s self-justifying speech at Ralph Reed’s self-justifying ‘Christian Broadcasting Network’:

How Newt Gingrich Misplaced His Member
Now we get it! Apparently Newt Gingrich was working so hard, loved his country so much, and felt so passionately about Bill Clinton’s intern that he couldn’t find his penis anymore. Again, that’s:
There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate…

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  1. 1.

    jeffreyw

    March 9, 2011 at 10:31 pm

    Mmm…late dinner

  2. 2.

    Mark S.

    March 9, 2011 at 10:35 pm

    Now that’s a great American.

  3. 3.

    Ogden Gnash

    March 9, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    Things happened… I had no control over them, I couldn’t help myself, it wasn’t me making the wrong choice, it wasn’t my fault, it was god’s will… fuck you Newtboy.

  4. 4.

    debit

    March 9, 2011 at 10:38 pm

    The feed is back at theuptake.org. Now they’re showing the outside crowd. Honking cars, a huge crowd and I just know that somewhere in it a distant relative of CMOT Dibbler is selling sausages inna bun.

  5. 5.

    anna missed

    March 9, 2011 at 10:39 pm

    he couldn’t find his penis anymore.

    So, That would mean that Newt must have a detachable penis then?

    Who woulda thunk it.

  6. 6.

    John Emerson

    March 9, 2011 at 10:42 pm

    I hate my country, so I’m immune to the temptations of graft and inappropriate p*ssy.

  7. 7.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    March 9, 2011 at 10:44 pm

    I liked this:

    In a wide-ranging C-SPAN interview in September 2010, Newt Gingrich reflected on the crazy nature of running for president. Small moments or candid photographs can upend a campaign, he noted, mentioning Jimmy Carter’s bout with a “killer rabbit,” which came to symbolize his floundering re-election efforts. As a candidate, you cannot “control all of the events” of your campaign, he said. “Sooner or later” you will “get into some kind of roller coaster and you just have to figure out if you can survive.”
    __Gingrich has opted to get into his roller coaster immediately.

    Jihn Dickerson at Slate

  8. 8.

    newhavenguy

    March 9, 2011 at 10:44 pm

    Profit is to health care is as gambling is to sports. You let that monkey get a foot in the door, and eventually you don’t have baseball or football any more, just gambling. The one interest is so overarching that it inevitably crowds out the original purpose.

    Wish I could blame that on some other fucker, but yeah, I said it. Where is Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis when you need him?

  9. 9.

    Art

    March 9, 2011 at 10:46 pm

    “I was working hard, got hard, and then there was an open mouth in front of me. Any guy in the same situation would have stuck his member in the hottest, wettest thing available. I, instead, aimed for cream cheese, or what I thought was cream cheese It ended up being my 3rd wife.” – Newt

  10. 10.

    scav

    March 9, 2011 at 10:46 pm

    Remember, the Free Market will magically provide the best health care and at the lowest prices unlike the dreaded sozialist sort that kills people. Oh, and it’s always about whats best for those dear little snowflakes and children for the repubs! Price of drug to prevent preemies jumps from $20 to $1,500 after FDA approval.

  11. 11.

    jl

    March 9, 2011 at 10:49 pm

    You people don’t understand that Newt is an intellectual and willpower superhuman, perhaps even a hyperborean!

    Today he announced that, were he President, he could announce a no fly zone in Libya and enforce it within minutes!

    Minutes!

    You wimpy liberals want the truth, but you can’t handle the truth. You can’t handle the strict geometrical logic of Newt.

    He doesn’t need to play by ordinary human rules. He cannot, and he will not, for our sakes. So, see? He is Christlike too, in his self sacrifice.

    There may be some snark above. It would be fun to see him try that out if his sincere lie for the greater good, or, I mean, honest explanation today, designed for lesser mortals, does not work.

    But now that I think about it, it will be better if he makes enough bank with his exploratory trial experimental ‘run’ for President and goes away, like he always has before.

    Might be an actual case for throwing a few bucks Newt’s way, since it increases the chances his finances will be comfortable enough to make him decide to drop out sooner rather than later.

  12. 12.

    AkaDad

    March 9, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    We need strong men and women to run the country. Newt showed us that he had the strength and courage to hand his cancer-ridden wife divorce papers while she was hospitalized.

    America! Fuck yeah!

  13. 13.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    March 9, 2011 at 10:51 pm

    In other news, 5 people got arrested at the Ohio office of the AOS* protesting the House defense of DOMA. GetEQUAL protesters arrested for trespass

    *Actual Orange Satan, my term of endearment for Boehner

  14. 14.

    The Dangerman

    March 9, 2011 at 10:51 pm

    “Honey, I love my country so much and I work so hard that I just had to fuck her”

    /rejected Hallmark slogan

  15. 15.

    Jack

    March 9, 2011 at 10:51 pm

    Gads, “Things happened in my life that were not appropriate”…

    So, these “things” just “happened”, he had NO control over what he did.

    Holy cow, I can’t believe people haven’t laughed at his denial of responsibility for what he did, the denial is SO freaking transparent.

  16. 16.

    Spaghetti Lee

    March 9, 2011 at 10:51 pm

    He doesn’t need to play by ordinary human rules. He cannot, and he will not, for our sakes. So, see? He is Christlike too, in his self sacrifice.

    He’s on a drug, and it’s called Newt Gingrich.

  17. 17.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 9, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    @jeffreyw: Want. Very much.

    Newt, you are such a lying piece of shiatsu. You know, no one would give a good gobbamn about where you stuck your cock if you weren’t such a public moral scold. What a motherlovin’ hypocrite you are, Newt. And, way to blame it on your country. You guys always have some ready excuse for fumigating around!

    Asshole. (NOT a swear!)

  18. 18.

    Chad N Freude

    March 9, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    Watch the video on the Esquire blog, preferably with an emergency barf bag at hand. Killer line comes at the end — “I’m enjoying the depths of my life.”

    Such sincerity. His hypocrisy cup runneth over.

  19. 19.

    beltane

    March 9, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    Does this mean that Newt now considers Bill Clinton to be a Great Patriot or does this only apply to Republicans? Will Obama be criticized for his marital fidelity?

  20. 20.

    gnomedad

    March 9, 2011 at 10:55 pm

    America ate my homework.

  21. 21.

    SteveinSC

    March 9, 2011 at 10:56 pm

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Asshole. (NOT a swear!)

    Yes but in saying it, you have already committed swear in your heart.

  22. 22.

    John Emerson

    March 9, 2011 at 10:57 pm

    Newt and Susan Smith: http://www.alternet.org/story/8695/

  23. 23.

    Davis X. Machina

    March 9, 2011 at 10:57 pm

    @Chad N Freude: ‘The depths of his life’ come all the way up to his ankles.

    Gingrich is a statesman only in a country where Velveeta™ is cheese.

  24. 24.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 9, 2011 at 10:58 pm

    @SteveinSC: Dagnabbit it! I fear you are correct. Sigh.

  25. 25.

    Triassic Sands

    March 9, 2011 at 10:58 pm

    It’s amazing that a person who clearly fancies himself the smartest human being on the planet can come up with an excuse that even the dumbest adolescent could improve on.

  26. 26.

    PurpleGirl

    March 9, 2011 at 11:00 pm

    @John Emerson: LOL. If only more of them thought your way, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in.

  27. 27.

    jl

    March 9, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    @scav:

    A sad and outrageous story. I don’t understand some things about the story, though. IANAL, and I smell inscrutable legal creepy crawlies infesting the whole business.

    How the company can patent a drug that has already been compounded for time manually for 10 to 20 bucks a shot?

    The drug exists, regardless of how it is made, so I don’t see how they can patent the chemical entity.

    The cheaper manual process exists, so if the company simply automated the manual process, how can their patent prohibit other pre existing production processes that make the same thing. But if the company invented another automated process that is different from the manual process, what can the patent possibly have to do with the existing manual process?

    I just don’t get it.

    Jefferson and Hamilton argued a lot about he proper design of a patent system. Hamilton weighing incentives for invention more heavily and wanting stronger patent protections. Jefferson weighing the benefits of cheap and economically efficient distribution of knowledge more heavily and arguing for weaker protections.

    I think both would agree something is screwy in this case.

    Can any of the mass quantity of knowledgeable lawyers here help me out?

  28. 28.

    jwb

    March 9, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    @Triassic Sands: But depressing that this answer doesn’t disqualify him from being taken seriously as a candidate.

  29. 29.

    MikeJ

    March 9, 2011 at 11:02 pm

    @scav: I’ve long said the solution to drug prices is fixing the stupid patent system. Give drug makes a guaranteed 5x profit v research (or 10 or20. whatever. That can be negotiated. ) Sell your drug for a nickle? Own the patent for basically forever. Charge Bill Gates $5billion for one pill? Lose your patent tomorrow.

  30. 30.

    Calouste

    March 9, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    @Davis X. Machina:

    You could also say that the depths of Newt life goes all the way up to his belt. But that would indicate the saem location.

  31. 31.

    JGabriel

    March 9, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    Newt Gingrich:

    There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate…

    So Newt’s infidelity was just misplaced passion for America?

    I don’t get it. If that’s the case, why would he need a mistress when he was already fucking the country?

    .

  32. 32.

    jl

    March 9, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    @Triassic Sands:

    No, the very obvious ludicrous sub parness by the goofy transparently false adolescent standard proves he was being sincere.

    Why are liberals so full of hate for their fellow man?

  33. 33.

    Davis X. Machina

    March 9, 2011 at 11:09 pm

    @jl: There’s an orphan-drug program that grants exclusivity for a period of time — 7 years in the US, the EU’s program is 10 — in order to give firms incentives for producing medicines that would have limited markets, so limited as to keep the drugs out of profitable production altogether, that’s separate from patents per se.

  34. 34.

    jl

    March 9, 2011 at 11:09 pm

    @JGabriel: But the country gives him money for the service, so that means…

    Not sure what it means, but the country ain’t his mistress.

  35. 35.

    MikeJ

    March 9, 2011 at 11:11 pm

    I would like to state where it can be seen by god, google and everybody, I’ll never watch another Sounders game on Seattle’s KONG-TV, (Channel 6 to you). They don’t just show commercials in the middle of action, they do full length stop sets, padded out with PSAs and promos when they haven’t sold the entire avail.

    Fuck King/Kong and fuck the Sounders for agreeing to this bullshit.

  36. 36.

    dr. bloor

    March 9, 2011 at 11:14 pm

    @JGabriel:

    I don’t get it. If that’s the case, why would he need a mistress when he was already fucking the country?

    Not to put too fine a point on it, but sometimes a superhero just needs the good old fashioned missionary position. He was giving it to America up the ass.

  37. 37.

    Studly Pantload

    March 9, 2011 at 11:14 pm

    For those who didn’t have the fortitude to wade over the 300-comments-mark on ABL’s last entry, AkaDad may have posted the internests QOTD:

    “By stripping collective bargaining rights, the Republicans are creating turmoil in Wisconsin and turmoil is good for economic growth.”

    https://balloon-juice.com/2011/03/09/wisconsin-state-senate-just-passed-the-anti-union-provisions-of-the-budget-repair-bill/#comment-2468103

  38. 38.

    SteveinSC

    March 9, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    One of the greatest affronts to one’s nostrils from Newt is his anti-gay marriage and DOMA defense. This man is a holder of three advanced degrees in Adultery and two in Divorce. In the old days, divorce was illegal, but thanks to the agitations of many to liberalize the concept of marriage, this hypocrite is not in prison for his transgressons. Oblivious to his debt to others for not having to play butt-buggery in some ecclesiatical jail, this so-called “historian” shits on the modern manifestations of the same force in society whose existence has saved him from a well-deserved fate.

  39. 39.

    jl

    March 9, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    @Davis X. Machina:

    Are you sure about that? I looked again, and followed the links in the linked story and found nothing about the drug (or rather the manufacturing process) being developed under the orphan drugs law?

    I don’t even see how the law can be applied in this case.

    Why is getting the drug through a compounding pharmacy for ten to twenty bucks a shot not a ‘commercial process’?

    The pharmacy that gets the money for compounding the drug probably imagines, in not so very wild flights of fancy, that it is getting money for performing a ‘commercial process’ to sell a drug.

    I realize that I am thick in the head and ignorant as rocks on most legal things, but it still makes no sense to me.

  40. 40.

    beltane

    March 9, 2011 at 11:17 pm

    It’s a little suspenseful watching the crowd at the WI statehouse, like Walker is going to send in the camels at any moment.

  41. 41.

    JGabriel

    March 9, 2011 at 11:18 pm

    @jl:

    But the country gives him money for the service, so that means…

    Country of Johns?

    .

  42. 42.

    djesno

    March 9, 2011 at 11:21 pm

    quadaffi (sp?) IS JOHN GALT.

  43. 43.

    hamletta

    March 9, 2011 at 11:21 pm

    asiangrrrlMN, I found something to aid you in keeping your Lenten discipline.

  44. 44.

    jl

    March 9, 2011 at 11:22 pm

    Dammitall. First the comment is in moderation, and now WP is eating my attempts to purge it of s p * M W 0 r D s
    Previous version of this comment in moderation because of spam words. Let’s see what they could be:

    @Davis X. Machina:

    Are you sure about that? I looked again, and followed the links in the linked story and found nothing about the d r * g (or rather the manufacturing process) being developed under the orphan d r* g s law?

    I don’t even see how the law can be applied in this case.

    Why is getting the drug through a c * m p * * n d * n g p h * r m * c y for ten to twenty bucks a shot not a ‘commercial process’?

    The p h * r m * c y that gets the money for c * m p * * n d * n g the d r * g probably imagines, in not so very wild flights of fancy, that it is getting money for performing a ‘commercial process’ to sell a drug.

    I realize that I am thick in the head and ignorant as rocks on most legal things, but it still makes no sense to me.

  45. 45.

    JGabriel

    March 9, 2011 at 11:23 pm

    @dr. bloor:

    … sometimes a superhero just needs the good old fashioned missionary position.

    So Newt actually needs to look someone in the eye once in a while. Huh, who’d a thunk it? I’m not entirely sure whether I find that comforting or appalling.

    .

  46. 46.

    hamletta

    March 9, 2011 at 11:24 pm

    @JGabriel: I liked Wonkette’s take: He loved America so much, he had to cum on her face!

  47. 47.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 9, 2011 at 11:24 pm

    @hamletta: LOVE IT. My fave so far: Thou cockered reeling-ripe haggard! (It said cock! NOT a swear!).

  48. 48.

    BGinCHI

    March 9, 2011 at 11:24 pm

    @Studly Pantload: I think this is along the lines of:

    “The Chinese character for unemployment is also the character for boot-straps.”

  49. 49.

    AT

    March 9, 2011 at 11:27 pm

    When i’m super busy and working hard i don’t often get out and about to meet chicks to cheat on my partner with, i must be doing it wrong…

  50. 50.

    RSA

    March 9, 2011 at 11:27 pm

    @Jack:

    “Things happened in my life that were not appropriate”

    I wonder how long it took Newt to come up with this phrasing?

  51. 51.

    hamletta

    March 9, 2011 at 11:31 pm

    @AT: Who needs to get out? Just bend a staffer over your desk.

    It worked for Newt!

    @asiangrrlMN: Oh, good! I’m so happy you enjoyed it. I’m sure you’ll get a lot of use out of it, what with the situation in Wisconsin and all.

  52. 52.

    jl

    March 9, 2011 at 11:31 pm

    @RSA: A car backing up out of a parking space backed over my foot once a long time ago, and the guy drove off without stopping.

    That happened to me in my life and it wasn’t appropriate.

    Is that the kind of thing Newt is talking about?

  53. 53.

    BGinCHI

    March 9, 2011 at 11:31 pm

    @RSA: Classic passive voice.

    And this from the party of responsibility!

  54. 54.

    Mike in NC

    March 9, 2011 at 11:33 pm

    Gingrich was working so hard, loved his country so much, and felt so passionately about Bill Clinton’s intern that he couldn’t find his penis anymore.

    Honestly, poor Newt probably can’t even see his penis without a full length mirror in front of him.

  55. 55.

    Svensker

    March 9, 2011 at 11:35 pm

    @scav:

    OMG.

    That is just unspeakable.

    What the hell is wrong with people?

  56. 56.

    Redshift

    March 9, 2011 at 11:40 pm

    …he couldn’t find his pen1s anymore.

    It’s detachable—that explains everything!

    If he just gets King Missile to write his campaign theme song, he’s home free!

  57. 57.

    Davis X. Machina

    March 9, 2011 at 11:41 pm

    @Svensker:

    What the hell is wrong with people?

    I’m rolling with ‘original sin’, but that’s the Jesuit in me.

  58. 58.

    djesno

    March 9, 2011 at 11:42 pm

    A) nominate newt
    B) hillarity
    C) newt and charlie sheen reality show involving a balloon ride over paris
    D) profit?

  59. 59.

    Svensker

    March 9, 2011 at 11:42 pm

    @Davis X. Machina:

    Yeah, stuff is getting pretty biblical, I gotta say.

  60. 60.

    djesno

    March 9, 2011 at 11:44 pm

    maybe there’d be more viewers if it’s a balloon ride over paris HILTON….me dunno, nom nom nom five-dollar foot long.

  61. 61.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 9, 2011 at 11:44 pm

    @hamletta: I facebooked it.

  62. 62.

    djesno

    March 9, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    okay, cage match time~! — who are your favorite competitors?
    1) Sarah Palin vs. Bill Maher
    2) Glen Beck vs. Paris Hilton
    3) Quadaffi (sp?) vs. Jon Voight
    4) Andrew Brietbart vs. “the corpse of Ronald Reagan”
    5) Neil DeGrasse Tyson vs. corporate conventional reality
    …..
    ….votes?

  63. 63.

    JGabriel

    March 9, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    @hamletta:

    I liked Wonkette’s take: [Newt] loved America so much, he had to cum on her face!

    My God, that’s foul. And hilarious.

    .

  64. 64.

    General Stuck

    March 9, 2011 at 11:52 pm

    They don’t even try to hide it anymore. Stunning vid

    It was about Obama all along, and defeating him in 2012

  65. 65.

    JGabriel

    March 9, 2011 at 11:53 pm

    @djesno:

    newt and charlie sheen reality show involving a balloon ride over paris

    The funniest part about that? The French have nukes.

    .

  66. 66.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 9, 2011 at 11:54 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: What did you FB? The Shakespeare insult thing or the clusterfork in Madison thing? And, how might I find you on the Book of Faces? You can email me if you prefer.

  67. 67.

    djesno

    March 9, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    @JGabriel: and GODDESSES!

  68. 68.

    Cermet

    March 9, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    @jl: Please, it has been proven that big pharm has only one issue – profit off the sick; their lie that new drugs cost 960 million was shown to be, at best 85 – 95 million and that is using their cooked data; more likely far less than that. These companies and anyone who defends them needs to be shot. They murder children and anyone else for the endless bucks they shove up their asses – truely better than nazi’s; not only profit off the sick and dying but make everyone think they are good guys. only in amerika.

  69. 69.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2011 at 12:03 am

    @debit:

    [. . .] I just know that somewhere in it a distant relative of CMOT Dibbler is selling sausages inna bun.

    Heh. Win!

    (Terry Pratchett reference, for those who are wondering.)

  70. 70.

    Studly Pantload

    March 10, 2011 at 12:04 am

    @BGinCHI:

    I initially read your quote as:

    “The Chinese character for unemployment is also the character for strap-ons.”

    I clearly must get my mind out the gutter. Wonder what it’s like outside of there?

  71. 71.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2011 at 12:06 am

    Night shift checking in. I don’t know if I am up for all the sturm und drang tonight, so I’ll have a beer and see how I feel. I do know that it can’t be any worse than being forced to listen to the soundtrack to Mamma Mia! for an hour while hosing down the big box bookstore after closing. One of our store manager’s favorites, which she was happy to share with us. The silver lining was that it made the walk home in a cold drizzle seem refreshing.

    Steep +½

  72. 72.

    BGinCHI

    March 10, 2011 at 12:06 am

    @Studly Pantload: I think that’s Korean, actually.

  73. 73.

    BGinCHI

    March 10, 2011 at 12:08 am

    @Steeplejack: Checked for that Italian crime show you mentioned. The Sicily one.

    Netflix shows it but doesn’t have it available. Did you buy it or something? I know the novels the show is based on and would really like to see it.

  74. 74.

    JGabriel

    March 10, 2011 at 12:09 am

    Cermet:

    Please, it has been proven that big pharm has only one issue – profit off the sick…

    While I agree with the general tone and points you make in this post, don’t you think it’s kind of hyperbolic to get upset over that particular point? I mean, if you’re gonna sell medications, the business model kind of requires a clientele of sick people in order to work, ya know?

    .

  75. 75.

    Kryptik

    March 10, 2011 at 12:10 am

    As if to simply bolster my continued feeling of helpless despair, I looked all over to responses in general to the Wisconsin bullshit and such, outside of the core blogs and Maddow and such. The general air I’m feeling: ‘Good, Fuck the Unions and Fuck the Democrats, GO AMERICA!!!’ Fuck, I even found a good chunk of people actually in support of the Michigan ‘dissolve all contracts and city gov’ts, install Corporations to run everything wholesale’ bill.

    We’re all hostage to Villagers and the village mindset. There’s no getting a-fucking-way, there’s no fucking win to be had anymore.

    Just fuck it all. Tell me when serfdom is officially made legal again.

    EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot to add, somehow this is totally equal to the PPACA bill being “crammed down America’s throat”. Because this was all under discussion for 18 months and had everything totally watered down with Dem suggestions before Dems voted lockstep against it and stirred up protests and near assaults at town halls over it. Oh wait…

    And yet somehow this is so much more justifiable than the health care reform passing after one and a half years of limbo, which was totally SHOVED DOWN AMERICA’S THROAT’.

  76. 76.

    gbear

    March 10, 2011 at 12:11 am

    @djesno: D) Grift.

    @asiangrrlMN: When a friend of mine wanted to shut someone up, he’d tell them to ‘Bite a fart’. It usually stopped them cold.

  77. 77.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 10, 2011 at 12:11 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Insults. Email sent.

  78. 78.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 10, 2011 at 12:12 am

    @Steeplejack: Hi, Steepman. This is all so depressing. Crack one open for me.

    @gbear: Nice one. That would make me stop and think, too.

    @Omnes Omnibus: Cool. Please to accept my friend request.

  79. 79.

    burnspbesq

    March 10, 2011 at 12:21 am

    @MikeJ:

    I would like to state where it can be seen by god, google and everybody, I’ll never watch another Sounders game on Seattle’s KONG-TV, (Channel 6 to you). They don’t just show commercials in the middle of action, they do full length stop sets, padded out with PSAs and promos when they haven’t sold the entire avail.

    Dude, you can make this a non-issue rather easily. Get your ass out to the match. In particular, get your ass out to the match next Tuesday, when the Galaxy will be happy to show you what a real football club looks like.

  80. 80.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 10, 2011 at 12:22 am

    @Steeplejack: Christ, mate. Drink more, much more. Try this as a palate cleanser.

  81. 81.

    burnspbesq

    March 10, 2011 at 12:23 am

    @jl:

    Can any of the mass quantity of knowledgeable lawyers here help me out?

    Sorry. Patent law is an impenetrable thicket for me.

  82. 82.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 10, 2011 at 12:24 am

    @burnspbesq: For me as well.

  83. 83.

    soonergrunt

    March 10, 2011 at 12:24 am

    So I’ve been doing the patriot thing wrong all these years, apparently. I spent 22 years of my life in military service, and gave up my back, knees, ankles, hearing, intestinal and lung function, and PTSD.
    I had no idea that I could’ve shown my love for my country on a greater scale, by simply fucking around on my wife…twice.

  84. 84.

    Mark S.

    March 10, 2011 at 12:27 am

    @soonergrunt:

    Oh, I think Newt has shown his love for his country a lot more than twice.

  85. 85.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 10, 2011 at 12:28 am

    @soonergrunt: Ah, but which would be more dangerous? Also, you gotta be able to live with yourself.

  86. 86.

    General Stuck

    March 10, 2011 at 12:30 am

    @soonergrunt:

    Yes, but how many Blow Jobs For Freedom have you had?

  87. 87.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 10, 2011 at 12:33 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Done. Be polite about Mme Omnibus; she is small but dangerous.

  88. 88.

    Chris Grrr™

    March 10, 2011 at 12:35 am

    Things happened in my Diebold voting machine that were not appropriate.

  89. 89.

    RossInDetroit

    March 10, 2011 at 12:36 am

    IIRC in one of his affairs Newter insisted on only receiving oral because it was technically not cheating. Hairsplitting bastard. I hate that guy. Even after all these years he just makes me see red.

  90. 90.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 10, 2011 at 12:36 am

    @Chris Grrr™: You were in Ohio in 2004 as well?

  91. 91.

    piratedan

    March 10, 2011 at 12:39 am

    @soonergrunt: you see if he had been a patriotic Spaniard instead, he may have only been able to fuck around on his first wife, but thanks to American exceptionalism…..

  92. 92.

    Jeddy

    March 10, 2011 at 12:39 am

    Well, some people have a hard time separating work from life.

    For instance, my day job is as a staffing manager for a large company. Sometimes when I’m a little stressed and zonked from work, I find myself inappropriately lapsing into “interview speak” during social occasions. Do you know how awkward and socially undesirable it is to basically put a poor unsuspecting cocktail partier through the rigors of a job interview on a Saturday evening?

    Anyway, my point being, Mr. Gingrich’s job in Washington was to fuck over Americans day in and day out, so I can see how after a long, hard week he would get a little confused and start taking his work home with him.

  93. 93.

    jl

    March 10, 2011 at 12:43 am

    @RossInDetroit:

    It is odd that everyone seems to know everything about all of Newt’s affairs.

    There are even Newt affairologists who argue about whether he just told his first wife that he was getting a divorce while she was gravely ill in the hospital, or went to the next step of awfulness and delivered legal papers to her.

    So, since everyone knows everything already, for a long time, why does he have to bother to pretend to explain, or lie, or semi apologize, or whatever it is he is doing.

    This is an odd country in some ways.

  94. 94.

    RossInDetroit

    March 10, 2011 at 12:47 am

    @jl:

    What amazes me is that a man so disconnected from basic human decency still has a political life. Reason and honesty would seem to require his banishment from the public sphere, yet here he is considering running for president again. What kind of stake do you have to drive through this guy to get him to stay down?

  95. 95.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 10, 2011 at 12:49 am

    @RossInDetroit: Clearly reason and honesty won’t do it. Mockery and derision might be worth trying.

  96. 96.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2011 at 12:50 am

    @BGinCHI:

    I saw them originally on MHz, a D.C.-based “international” channel that is available on some cable systems around the country. I ended up buying them all (18 feature-length episodes on six DVDs) after MHz published them last year. They are available from Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

    Getting Netflix streaming set up is currently on my shovel-ready infrastructure project to-do list, but it is my understanding that MHz has its own “channel” on Netflix where it makes available Montalbano, as well as some of its other programs (maybe The Octopus and the original Swedish Wallander).

    I have read some of the Andrea Camilleri novels, and I think the movies stick pretty close to them, at least in theme and general approach, if not in actual detailed plot. What I like: great cinematography, great music, good acting all around and pretty tight scripts (at least tight enough to keep things moving). And Montalbano is very much his own man: he thinks outside the box, and he’s a refreshing change from the usual Anglo-American cop hero.

    Here’s a quick taste: a trailer for The Shape of Water.

  97. 97.

    piratedan

    March 10, 2011 at 12:50 am

    @RossInDetroit: obviously his ex-wives need better lawyers, don’t see why ol’ Newt should even have a pot to piss in much less a political career.

  98. 98.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 10, 2011 at 12:50 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Wow. Mrs. Omnes Omnibus is very lovely. I will be on my best Ps and Qs around her.

    @jl: He’s trying to win over the religious right. He has to make very visible amends or explain it away somehow. But, who the fudgescicle cares anyway? It’ll be a cold day in Hades before he gets the nomination. I have a better chance than he does.

    Jackass (not a swear, either).

  99. 99.

    General Stuck

    March 10, 2011 at 12:52 am

    22 days till opening day, and life will have meaning again.

  100. 100.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2011 at 12:52 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Well, I just got home and I’m just getting started.

    Steep +2

  101. 101.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 10, 2011 at 12:53 am

    @asiangrrlMN: The compliment will be passed along.

  102. 102.

    jwb

    March 10, 2011 at 12:57 am

    @jl: Reading between the line, it sounds like the pharmacies were only allowed to compound it because a commercial version of the drug was not FDA approved. Once a commercial version was approved then the FDA no longer grants the exception for compounding. So I don’t think it’s a patent issue but rather a regulatory issue. Under normal circumstances I would doubt this had any chance of holding up, since in this case even the doctors are appalled, but with the current craziness who knows.

  103. 103.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

    March 10, 2011 at 12:58 am

    .
    .
    Perhaps Governor Scott Walker didn’t hear the historic President Obama speech supporting American Labor he gave in Madison, Wisconsin recently, while wearing a pair of comfortable shoes.
    .
    .

  104. 104.

    Valdivia

    March 10, 2011 at 1:00 am

    @gnomedad:
    LOL.

  105. 105.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2011 at 1:01 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Nice song. It bookends well with this.

  106. 106.

    Chris Grrr™

    March 10, 2011 at 1:01 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: We are all Ohio in 2004.

    When one Ohio hurts, we…

    Aaaaaah, never mind.

  107. 107.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 10, 2011 at 1:03 am

    @Steeplejack: I think we can all do with a bit of this song.

  108. 108.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2011 at 1:09 am

    @BGinCHI:

    According to Wikipedia, MHz is available in Chicago on WYCC. Maybe your cable system carries it.

    International Mystery is shown at 9:00 p.m. and midnight Sundays and Tuesdays (Eastern time). Synchronicity: this coming week it’s Montalbano!

  109. 109.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2011 at 1:13 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Heh. When can’t we do with a bit of that song?! It restoreth my soul.

    Seriously, I am developing a stalker fixation on the brunette.

  110. 110.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 10, 2011 at 1:16 am

    @Steeplejack: Never ever ever. The brunette is a cutie. I wonder if I can incorporate go-go dancers into my real ‘Murikan(TM) wedding.

    And, of course, there’s this brunette as well.

  111. 111.

    BGinCHI

    March 10, 2011 at 1:19 am

    @Steeplejack: You need to read The Marseilles Trilogy if you haven’t already.

    Just awesome.

  112. 112.

    BGinCHI

    March 10, 2011 at 1:20 am

    @Steeplejack: Oh, shit.

    Thanks my friend.

    Will be checking it out.

    Let me know how you like Life on Mars.

  113. 113.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2011 at 1:23 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    And, of course, there’s this brunette as well.

    Oh, no, you di’nt!

    I knew what was coming but I clicked on it anyway. But I did force myself to pause for 10 seconds before doing it. It hurts so good.

  114. 114.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2011 at 1:26 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I think the concept of go-go-dancing bridesmaids has possibilities. And it appears that Julie Taymor may be free of her Spider-Man obligations on Broadway. Just a thought.

  115. 115.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2011 at 1:29 am

    @BGinCHI:

    Jean-Claude Izzo, right? Again–in the queue, but way down. Will bump it up.

  116. 116.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2011 at 1:32 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Like you skip any chances to watch Alan Rickman. Right.

    ETA: WTF?! Your comment to which I was replying has disappeared.

  117. 117.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 10, 2011 at 1:33 am

    Seriously, FYWP?

    @Steeplejack: Yet, you keep clicking. Fascinating. And, my bridesmaids are going to be wearing Statue of Liberty outfits, which kinda contradicts the whole go-go dancer vibe, I think. Hades and Damascus figs.

    No Ms. Taymor. Too liberal for this shindig.

    ETA: Yes, but I was not married to Alan Rickman. Alas.

  118. 118.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2011 at 1:36 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I was not married to Texas girl, but it was intense. Uh-oh, gas station scene. Back in a minute.

  119. 119.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 10, 2011 at 1:39 am

    @Steeplejack: ‘Coz I added a link to it that FYWP didn’t like, and it marked my comment spam. Funicular you,WordPress!

    @Steeplejack: I know. Just her doppelganger. Heh.

  120. 120.

    djesno

    March 10, 2011 at 2:17 am

    also, too….THIS: never eat spinach with a stranger!

  121. 121.

    rapier

    March 10, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    I thought it was when his passion for The Nation rose he had to insert his penis into the mouth of a woman who was not his wife. There is nothing too odd about that. Except the inexplicable willingness of those women to open up.

  122. 122.

    Karen

    March 10, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    So he couldn’t fuck his wife because he was fucking this country?

  123. 123.

    Bex

    March 10, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    @djesno: @asiangrrlMN: He gave up most of the religious right vote when he converted to Catholicism.

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