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by DougJ|  November 25, 20117:51 pm| 30 Comments

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  1. 1.

    AA+ Bonds

    November 25, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    GOD DAMN IT

  2. 2.

    JenJen

    November 25, 2011 at 7:57 pm

    Oh for the love of fuck!

  3. 3.

    ABL

    November 25, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    are you fucking kidding me?!

  4. 4.

    C.J.

    November 25, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    drowning in the failure

  5. 5.

    JenJen

    November 25, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    Along these lines, while stuck in traffic on Thanksgiving Eve I was mercifully behind a pick-up sporting countless entertaining DFH slogans, among them this gem: “Support Media Literacy”

    But the one that made me LOL read “CAN SOMEONE MAKE THE SCARY REPUBLICAN GO AWAY”

  6. 6.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    November 25, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    I love the alt text – it’s dead on!

  7. 7.

    Scamp Dog

    November 25, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    Remind me to never read Ruth Marcus again. I found the article, and yes, it’s as vacuous and stupid as you would expect. WTF is up with the Washington Post that they think this nonsense deserves a public forum?

  8. 8.

    inventor

    November 25, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    Whatever life form digs us up in 50 million years or so will probably assume some intellect munching virus overtook humans or wonder what evolutionary pressure caused idiocy to dominate in the later years of humans.

  9. 9.

    JenJen

    November 25, 2011 at 8:08 pm

    @Scamp Dog: Hey, it’s the seven-day Thanksgiving holiday for corporate America and Ruth just phoned one in. Her editors probably approved her column via text over gin-n-tonnies.

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    November 25, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    Was that based on the NY Times story about Romney’s hair from this morning? I’m not sure what would be worse, that both of what are ostensibly the leading newspapers “chose” to cover such a crucial subject on the same day, or if the Post saw the Times story and decided that it needed the journalistic equivalent of re-Tweeting.

    I did leave a comment on the Times story to the effect that with Romney’s track record of consistency, we should expect him to be sporting a Mohawk within a month or so. Amazingly, it was published.

  11. 11.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    November 25, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    In a country that sneered at Al Gore for wearing earth tones and growing a beard and so elected a drooling drunken idiot to its highest office, that article is hard hitting political commentary.

  12. 12.

    Schlemizel

    November 25, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    Sadly, Ruth is one of the saner pundits that is carried in my local fish wrap, the “even the librul StarTribune.

    We are well and truly fucked

  13. 13.

    Maude

    November 25, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    @dmsilev:
    I read your comment and it’s true. His hair stays the same.
    We’re in trouble when there are two reporters writing an article about hair.

  14. 14.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 25, 2011 at 8:29 pm

    Ruth Marcus…a Village Superstar.

    See my nym. The sooner, the better.

  15. 15.

    moonbat

    November 25, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    God(s) save us! Whenever I convince myself I am not living in the last days of the Roman Empire something like this comes along to kick me back into the pit of depression.

    Garcon, another martini!

  16. 16.

    Karen

    November 25, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    Is this Mitt Romney or Justin Bieber?

  17. 17.

    David Koch

    November 25, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    Hmmmmm.

    There was a front page story in today’s Times on Romney’s hair.

    Two separate stories in two separate papers, appearing on the same day, on something as silly as one candidate’s hair.

    Sounds like some PR memo on Romney’s hair has been making the rounds.

  18. 18.

    David Koch

    November 25, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    Doug, I’m surprised you didn’t use any lyrics from “Hair”.

  19. 19.

    somethingblue

    November 25, 2011 at 9:21 pm

    Well, at least this time round they’re writing inane wardrobe pieces about the boys too.

    Progress, sort of.

  20. 20.

    Cat Lady

    November 25, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    Breck Girl redux. Somewhere John Edwards is enjoying a chuckle.

  21. 21.

    MikeJ

    November 25, 2011 at 9:31 pm

    @David Koch: Sounds like they were sitting in the same bar Monday afternoon trying to come up with some shit to fill Friday’s newshole without doing any work over the holiday.

  22. 22.

    suzanne

    November 25, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    I’m waiting for FourLoko to show up to tell us how discrimination on the basis of hairstyle is commendable behavior because humans evolved to consider the douchebag hairstyle to be an indicator of virility, and therefore, all those who don’t conform to the appearance standard must be shunned.

    That would be the only thing stupider than that article.

  23. 23.

    Kane

    November 25, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    From who would you rather have a beer with to who’s hair would you rather brush.

  24. 24.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    November 25, 2011 at 9:58 pm

    The article isn’t quite as dumb as that blurb, but that’s not saying much.

  25. 25.

    Console

    November 25, 2011 at 10:15 pm

    Shit that ain’t nothing but some ultra perm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwMBNE8uC3c

  26. 26.

    Sly

    November 25, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    @Console:
    Mitt’s just lettin’ his Soul Glo.

  27. 27.

    Mike in NC

    November 25, 2011 at 10:44 pm

    How soon before the WaPo has an article extolling the virtues of Willard’s pubic hair?

  28. 28.

    Anne Laurie

    November 25, 2011 at 11:17 pm

    @Mike in NC: Don’t hold your breath; the Villagers are afraid to find out whether Millard ‘Witt’ Romney really wears ‘temple garments’. Or at least, they’re afraid of being accused of taking an unseemly interest in the “weird” magical underpants…

  29. 29.

    Schlemizel

    November 26, 2011 at 8:18 am

    @Mike in NC:
    I’d expect Brooks to write that given that he is most likely to be intimately familiar with what Willards pubs look like.

  30. 30.

    Pere Ubu

    November 28, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    Okay, I’m all for starting a new campaign – Mitt’s hair is just so goddamn awesome, let’s elect it for President in 2012. As I put it on my blog:

    “It’d certainly be just as competent at Presidenting than the rest of the GOP candidates, probably is more able with foreign and domestic policy than Bachmann or Perry or Santorum, and is less likely than Herman Cain to pinch a female reporter’s ass. And it’s just so goshdarn charismatic!

    Obviously the GOP has but one choice for their candidate next year:

    Mitt Romney’s Hair, 2012
    We Could Hardly Do Worse At This Point.
    “

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