I’ve never even felt the temptation to use Cleek’s filter here, but on the other hand, there are Kasich-for-Prez commercials on the local tv news already. (Never run into the guy before this, but his 30-second spots make me think he’s kind of a jerk.) So I can understand the temptation here…
… Say hello to I Haven’t Got Time for the ‘Paign, a life hack for the weary news consumer, and something pretty close to the product of my dreams. Go on over to Paign-Free.com and give it a try.
A few notes on how it works: I Haven’t Got Time for the ‘Paign isn’t meant to cut you off altogether from election news. The biggest, most important campaign stories—how the candidates respond to major tragedies like the one in Charleston, South Carolina, for example—will reach you through the offline media (print newspapers, cable news, etc.), as well they should. The online filters aren’t perfect, either, so lesser stories will sometimes work their way into your feed. Again, that’s OK with me. The software tries to muffle needless noise, not seal you in a vacuum pod. If it can block out, say, 90 percent of the bloviating columns on the candidates, I’d call it a success…
Even with the software installed, you can still read any article you want. When you’re on a filtered page, just click the IHGTP icon on your browser toolbar—the alarm clock done up in stars and stripes—to toggle filters on and off. You can also add your own keywords to a custom list. (Open up the extension options page for that.) With some careful curation, you could turn IHGTP into a filter for any topic in the news that might cause you consternation. (I Haven’t Got Time for Game of Thrones? I Haven’t Got Time for Professional Football? Whatever you want; it’s your snooze bar.)
The servers at my brother’s company will keep track of data on the custom filter settings and on the articles that the filters block but that users end up reading anyway. If these statistics turn up any noteworthy trends, I’ll report them back to you in another posting here in Slate. (The data will be anonymous and presented in aggregate.)…
Yeah, if this is some kind of Onion-esque trolling… they totally pwned me!
***********
Apart from arguing about civic engagement, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up the week?
MattF
Via jwz, this is Puppies All The Way Down. A joke, I think.
Betty Cracker
Awhile back, I read about some outfit that came up with a plug-in called “Kard-Block,” which was supposed to zap any article related to the Kardashians, expunging all references to that clan of vacuous fame-chasers and their hangers-on from the user’s laptop or mobile device.
I sympathize with people who want such filters, and also with folks who want to avoid election news. I can understand why Balloon Juice readers pie obnoxious fellow commenters. But I don’t do it myself, and I’m not sure it’s altogether healthy.
It seems akin to those “active lifestyle” retirement communities in some way. I get why they wall themselves off, but they aren’t living in the real world, which is full of screechy toddlers and sullen teenagers and overly testosteroned young men. We can shut our eyes, stick our fingers in our ears and sing LALALALALA, but they’re still there, and they still influence the world we live in.
Better to see the whole picture, ass pimples and all, I say.
raven
Patterson Hood: South’s Heritage Is More Than a Flag
Baud
Kasich is advertising in Boston?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: I only have one person that expounds on the glory of pie all the time.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I guess he hired Mark Penn.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I wish they all could.
Baud
Newsmax
I’m telling you, Trump can pull this off.
Amir Khalid
Are Slate staff allowed to write shameless plugs for their family members’ commercial products? It would seem so.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Went over to the Times and read his essay. He is more eloquent and far more persuasive then I ever could be. When conversing with the Lost Heritage Boys, my best bet is to just STFU as the less said, the better.
dmsilev
@Baud: Boston media market extends into NH. It’s not an inherently absurd thing to do.
Betty Cracker
@raven: Nice article. Thanks for sharing it.
OzarkHillbilly
This new Pope is doing everything he can to piss off all the right people by pissing on all the right sacred cows:
“No actual or established power has the right to deprive peoples of the full exercise of their sovereignty. Whenever they do so, we see the rise of new forms of colonialism which seriously prejudice the possibility of peace and justice,” he said.
“The new colonialism takes on different faces. At times it appears as the anonymous influence of mammon: corporations, loan agencies, certain ‘free trade’ treaties, and the imposition of measures of ‘austerity’ which always tighten the belt of workers and the poor,” he said.
bemused
Bob Ney and Thom Hartmann discussed Trump yesterday:
Republican donors not happy about spending more money trying to defuse Trump. Also, uneasy about Jeb, worrying he will be too weak against Clinton and Jeb not exactly following GOP script.
Ney and Hartmann speculation on Trump going after Jeb and ignoring Walker. Trump had retweeted and then redeleted his slam against Jeb’s wife.
Hartmann commented that he thinks Walker is Nixon reincarnated.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s gonna be tough for K-Lo and Paul Ryan to spin that one!
Baud
@dmsilev:
Forgot about that.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Can’t wait for him to visit the U.S. He’ll probably end up attending a Bernie rally.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Nah. Mammon is obviously code for Obama, they’ll say.
MattF
I guess I’ve got an internal filter– e.g., most of the time, I simply don’t read (insert most WaPo and several Times columnists here). I do make an effort to understand how wingers justify their beliefs– I’ll read a more-or-less random sample of things. It’s generally a futile effort, and sometimes it just fails completely, but I do get a glimmer of understanding once in a while.
OzarkHillbilly
And for all you STL Cardinals haters out there, Bill Murray is one with you:
Comedian/Cubs apologist Bill Murray took time out during his round Wednesday at the John Deere Classic to tout his beloved baby bears — who hold a commanding nine-game deficit over the St. Louis Cardinals in the NL Central.
During some banter with the crowd, Murray gloated about the Cubbies’ sweep Tuesday of a doubleheader.
Murray referred to the Redbirds as, “The hated Cardinals, Satan’s messenger on Earth.”
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: FTFY
Baud
Jeb and Hillary were in a twitter war over Jeb’s comments.
Some women on Joe is saying this is good news for Jeb Bush. (Almost literally).
bystander
Most deafening place to be this morning: Confederate flag lowering and ceremonial buttwiping or Canyon of Heroines?
chopper
@Baud:
“If it were me I’d have pulled in 500k, easy”
Botsplainer
I’m concluding that Trump is going to grab the GOP nom. Old whites are gravitating to him by droves. They conclude that because he’s wealthy, been on the TV and wears a nice suit, he’s a smart, moral businessman. Because he’s a blowhard idiot with no filter who voices every absurd notion pumped out by Roger Ailes, they conclude that he’s tough, a fighter who won’t hold back because of PC.
He’s the conservative id, their Kweisatz Haderach, their John Bolton without a mustache.
He’s incredibly dangerous, too. My greatest fear is that Florida, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin make the sudden electoral vote/gerrymandered congressional districts play, which could create about a 47% popular vote threshhold for a conservative to actually win the presidency. Pennsylvania and Virgina would drop that to about 45%, but that isn’t a possibility this cycle.
Imagine how delegitimizing that would be, and imagine the sort of mandate claimed by that “winner”.
debbie
@Baud:
Because the airwaves reach New Hampshire, where he hopes to do well in the primary.
You have no idea. He truly is.
different-church-lady
OK, I’m a little confused: why do we need a technological solution to not read news we don’t wish to read?
different-church-lady
@OzarkHillbilly: THE CHEATRIBIRDS! ASTERISKS ON THOSE TWO WORLD SERIES WINS! AND THE TWO LOSSES TO THE RED SOX TOO!
Iowa Old Lady
@Baud: Mr IOL is happy with any of the D candidates, so he’s planning to go to the R caucus this year and vote in some trouble making way. At the moment, he’s inclined toward Trump. I hasten to say this is trolling. Otherwise, I’d have to divorce him.
Baud
@chopper:
Perfect.
@Botsplainer:
How is he more dangerous than any other GOPer?
debbie
From the link at the top:
Not only this, but he pumps his own job numbers by including “retained” jobs in the number of jobs created under his Administration. If you haven’t been canned, you have Kasich to thank.
Most definitely an idiot.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Have you seen “Muscle Shoals”?
Baud
@Iowa Old Lady:
So Mr. IOL isn’t a Democrat?
Splitting Image
I’ve never really felt the need for a browser filter to take care of uninteresting pundits. All you really have to do is to mentally tune out anyone who habitually uses the phrases “left wing”, “right wing”, “politically in/correct” and “the American people”. That will eliminate 90% of the noise right there, and you’ll never have to read more than a sentence and a half of a David Brooks column.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: You rang?
raven
@Splitting Image: or KABUKI! God I hate that.
OzarkHillbilly
@Iowa Old Lady: The thought is almost enough to make me move to Iowa.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: No. Worth it? (I do loves me some R&B)
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Hold on there, stud. I’m sure IOL was just kidding about getting a divorce.
MattF
@Splitting Image: There’s also a long list of economic terms that demonstrate departure from reality. And yeah, I read Krugman a lot. Here‘s todays, K-essay.
Betty Cracker
@Botsplainer: I don’t think he’ll win (insufficient ties with the establishment, not enough big money backers, a record of supporting liberal ideas when he deemed it fashionable to do so, which the corporate media will publicize if they start to take him seriously, etc.), but I hope he hangs in there long enough to put his stamp indelibly on the Republican brand. Because you’re right — he is the base voter id incarnate, at least this version of Trump is.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Oh it is great! You won’r believe the bands those guys played with. One of the funniest parts is about Duane, They explained that the townspeople finally got used to the Wicket Pickett and Aretha but, damn, those longhairs were too much!
http://www.magpictures.com/muscleshoals/
WereBear
I pie some people, because life is too short and these comments contribute nothing. I lose enough time out of my life for vacuous idiocy and this is one sucking cesspit I can avoid.
Yes, I pick and choose my wider world, and will continue to do so. Having a machine Skynet my reality for me does not appeal.
MattF
@Betty Cracker: Also, he just doesn’t seem have a real focus. Outside of his own head, that is.
Baud
@MattF:
It’ll be interesting to see how he does when he has to talk about something else other than immigration.
beltane
@Betty Cracker: One has to wonder how strong Trump’s cult of personality is. Under normal circumstances, the fact that he once supported single payer would be a deal-killer with Republican base voters. However, these people are totally inconsistent. If one of their own supports an certain program, than that program is by definition the most conservative, Freedumb-promoting thing ever. The only exceptions to this, the red lines that cannot be crossed, relate to issues dealing with racism and xenophobia, and Donald Trump is the last person who would ever cross the GOP base on these issues.
raven
Boz Scaggs & Duane Allman ~ Loan Me A Dime
Betty Cracker
@beltane: I just visited Nat’l Review online to see if Sister Inviolatta had addressed Pope Frankie’s latest heresy. Sadly, no. But they are trashing Trump for his past support of Obama’s candidacy, criticism of GWB and support for universal healthcare. They sound kinda scared.
Botsplainer
@Baud:
With the exception of Tailgunner Ted, the rest are just opportunists. He and Ted actually believe in the power of their will.
Cruz only falls apart because he seems to have this belief that debate team rules govern the psychology and economics of enactment of, opposition to or fulfillment of policy.
Iowa Old Lady
@Betty Cracker:
Geez. No wonder you don’t set a pie filter. You’re too tough to need one.
OzarkHillbilly
Chinese man impaled by iron bar in truck crash
Go ahead, you know you want to look, it’s irresistible.
I once shot a 16 penny nail into my hand (went in at the heel of the palm and was pressing against the skin on the back of my hand near the index finger) (thought I’d broke every bone in between, locked up every finger) I swear to Dog, every single human being at this major trauma center who wasn’t tethered to a desk by lock and chain found a reason to wander thru my room to “SEE THE AMAZING MAN WITH A NAIL THOUGH HIS HAND!!!!!!” Something about impalement that just brings the vulture out in most every one.
When the Doc finally showed up with a pair of pliers, he brought with him the intern (who totally freaked when she first saw it) and every ER personnel who was available. He said, “OK, I’m going to pull the nail while you” he looked at the intern, “hold his arm. The rest of you? Hold him.” I thought, “Oh shit! I’m in for it now.”
In spite of 7 or 8 people holding me, I still managed to levitate about 6 inches.
gogol's wife
Anybody watch Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) last night? It was cool as hell.
WereBear
@gogol’s wife: A household favorite.
@OzarkHillbilly: Geez. Don’t they believe in novocaine in your neck of the woods?
MattF
@Botsplainer: I had some serious fears about Ted at first, but he’s ‘way crazier and ‘way more dysfunctional than I realized. That New Yorker profile about him really missed the boat– I think it never mentioned old Rafael Cruz, and that’s turned out to be crucial. Ted’s still dangerous, but in a different way.
WereBear
The extraordinary thing about the conservative reaction to this new Pope is that it clearly demonstrates they aren’t unthinking followers of whatever the hierarchy has put over them.
They like oppression. They like doing the awful things they do. They want to keep doing them!
beltane
@Betty Cracker: They should be scared. Lefty concepts such as universal health care can be made acceptable to teabaggers if the person implementing it is a crazy wingnut and not a Kenyan Muslim. Outside of the right-wing’s intellectual elite, there is no coherence to these people’s beliefs. You see this a lot in Europe now, with the extreme right-wing parties being the ones who are most against austerity. Hatred of immigrants is their only inviolable principle, everything else is up for grabs. He’ll probably lose interest in the project, but there is the possibility that Donald Trump could run successfully as a Martine Le Pen type candidate.
Betty Cracker
@gogol’s wife: I did! I watched most of the TCM alien invaders line-up last night.
Botsplainer
@WereBear:
Cardinal of Pretty Much Nothing Anymore Raymond Burke is undoubtedly in agonizing pain over the cow he birthed over the latest pronouncement of Frank.
Baud
@WereBear:
They’ve told themselves they are guardians of civilization. They don’t like to be told that they are in fact threats to civilization.
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
Yes, very much worth it. Now I want to watch it again just thinking about it now.
OzarkHillbilly
Something tells me this story would have ended differently in Texas, Two dead in Bavaria shooting
“The local Nuernberger Zeitung newspaper reported the man was tackled by workers at a gas station in Bad Windsheim, about 20 miles (35km) from the scene of the shootings, after threatening them with a gun. They tied him up and called police, the paper reported.”
You can add ‘unarmed gas station attendants’ to the list of things that will stop a bad man with a gun.
Betty Cracker
@beltane: Yeah, populism is a double-edged sword for the right and the left. I don’t think the NRO types are afraid Trump will actually win or that he’ll sway teaturds toward policies like universal healthcare (he’s probably dropped support for that; he’s not consistent on anything, apparently). I think they’re afraid he’ll tarnish the party brand so badly during the primary that they’ll get crushed in 2016, which is party chairman Rinsus Repeatus’ big fear too. They are establishment to the core at NRO.
PurpleGirl
@gogol’s wife: I’m sorry I missed that one but I turned on TCM in time to see The Day the Earth Stood Still. I still really like Michael Renie and Patricia Neal. And Hugh Marlowe. Klattu barada nikto.
Randy P
@gogol’s wife:
I was having flashbacks to the 70s, watching a movie called The Hot Rock whose existence I only discovered recently.
I know I should be used to movie adaptations destroying their source material, but I always go in with high hopes. This one takes the beloved Donald Westlake characters of the Dortmunder novels and casts them unrecognizably as Robert Redford (!) as Dortmunder, and George Segal as Kelp. Murch was good, and so was Murch’s Mom. And Zero Mostel was fantastic as a slimy lawyer. But it just wasn’t a Dortmunder story.
This came about because the wife and I were asking ourselves whether there had ever been a Dortmunder movie made, so I did a search and voila! But we were suspicious going into it. “Redford as Dortmunder? How can that work?” So not altogether surprised.
Another recently-viewed disappointing adaptation of a beloved character: Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Pollifax, old lady who is a volunteer CIA agent. That should have been perfect casting, but the writers destroyed everything that makes Mrs. Pollifax wonderful and left us with a ditzy old lady, some sort of stereotyped old lady created by a 20-something who never actually knew anyone over 50.
MomSense
@raven:
Have you seen Sweet Summer Sun yet?
Randy P
@WereBear: That was my question too. Or at least give the poor guy a slug of whiskey.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
They’ll end up talking about how moderate they are because they are not as bad as Trump.
PurpleGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: Sorry, I’m not clicking over. I’ve seen enough men with bars, sections of golf club, whatever stuck through their bodies on the various ER reality shows I often watch. It’s amazing how the accidents happen and how often the men are lucky not have residual deficients. (Then there was the woman who was speared together with her sky-diving instructor.)
Iowa Old Lady
@Baud:
Mr IOL is far more concerned with preventing another disastrous R presidency than with measuring the fine distances between Clinton and Sanders.
raven
@MomSense: No, my sis grew up going to Hawthorne High, she’s a few years younger but knew them. I never “got” Pet Sounds, I was a surfer/hot rod dude,
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: On my list.
@raven: Thanx for that. Never got to see Duane. My first Allman Brothers concert was right after he died. Dicky smoked it any way but I can only imagine how much better it would have been if they were playing off each other.
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear: Not much point, the pain only lasted a second or two and after that was just an overwhelming sense of relief at having this thing that did not belong there gone.
MomSense
@raven:
No, this is a film about a free concert the Stones did at Hyde Park. It was on the 40th-45th (?) anniversary of their first free concert in Hyde Park. I don’t think the band has ever sounded better and Bobby Keys gives an incredible performance. I think you would enjoy it. The audience has people of all ages just grooving.
MomSense
@PurpleGirl:
The summer I was a candy striper a dude came into the ER in a speedo impaled by a beach umbrella. That sight made an impression.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I saw them at the Barn in Peoria right after he died but saw him twice, once in NYC and once on Boston Common for free. I was able to get a CD of that show.
Another Holocene Human
@Baud: To be fair, a lot of NH voters work in Boston.
Mass voters even bought those deadbeats a new highway so they can run back to their lowtaxes hellhole quicker every evening.
Another Holocene Human
Mass has its primary on Super Tuesday, as God intended.
raven
@MomSense: Ah, thought that was the new beach Boys movie. I saw the Stones in Chicago, November 65!
FortGeek
@Botsplainer:
One plus for Florida: our Supremes just knocked down a gopper-drawn districting map. They’ve got to redraw 8 districts.
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly: I totally get that :)
OzarkHillbilly
@PurpleGirl: I could tell you stories, like the guy who fell over backwards onto a piece of rebar and when he couldn’t stand up he realized it was because it was protruding from the center of his fore head, or the guy he was installing a sliding door when his ladder kicked out from underneath him and he fell on his drill, the only way he could stand up was to put the drill in reverse and back it out from the side of his skull, but I’ll spare you. ;-)
Then there was this award winner (tho not an impalement): Scrotum Self-Repair
No pics, but the story alone is so graphic I would suggest it only to those with a truly strong constitution.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: You, sir, are clearly someone who does not need a pie filter.
Another Holocene Human
@dmsilev: That too, but you’d be surprised how often big companies do media buys including giant billboards in Boston for products that cannot be purchased in the Bay State, e.g. car insurance not licensed for sale by the Mass insurance commissioner.
On a similar vein, large durable goods dealers in Southern NH (furniture, appliances, cars) make the pitch to MA purchasers that they can buy stuff without sales tax … that is, unless Mass tax authorities catch you. (It’s “use tax” in your tax return.) Whole state based on deadbeatery, no wonder libertarians flock there as if it’s paradise. When it was just summer homes and parks visitors they could actually work that out financially but then the deadbeats had to take their families there year round and that got expensive.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: There was a dude who took an M 79 round in the head and it didn’t go off. The surgeon operated behind sandbags with a monitor so he’d hopefully just lose his hands if it went off. It didn’t.
MomSense
@raven:
You will definitely like this. They show some cool footage from early shows.
Another Holocene Human
@OzarkHillbilly: Germans got TOLD.
Now Catholic Germans can join the lament about how much they hate New Pope.
MomSense
@Another Holocene Human:
Ha! LePage wanted to put in an East-West highway and it did not go over well.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: After your Boz Skaggs I got directed to this: Studio Jams- Eric Clapton and Duane Allman One hour and 20 minutes of absolutely killer guitar.
Another Holocene Human
@Betty Cracker: They’re used to the Base doing what they tell them to do. But Donald Trump say what you will is adept at manipulating the media. He’s good at getting attention and right now that’s all he needs.
A Ghost To Most
@raven:
Thanks Raven; here is the direct link:
Southern Heritage
Patterson Hood is definitely an important voice on these matters.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I don’t know, there have been times when I wished my life had come with one.
Another Holocene Human
@WereBear: The weird thing is that the Catholicism I grew up with (Irish-Americans) had to apologize for all the bad stuff the leadership did, “they’re only human, only the Word is inspired”. They had to argue for keeping the organization even if it seemed deeply flawed, and pointed to all the good being done in the world with parishioners’ donations, or the good work done by monks and nuns. (Some people go into orders to do social work, others enter these organizations for other reasons, which is why there are all these different orders to choose from.)
Probably most of those folks have quit, like myself. It wasn’t one pedo priest, no, it was the bishops covering that shit up and redeploying problem priests to offend again.
Betty Cracker
@raven: Wow. Now that’s a heroic doctor!
Another Holocene Human
@MomSense: Republicans:
Don’t want to pay for rail, let’s fund buses
Don’t want to pay for transit, spend it on the roads
Don’t want to fill potholes, let’s build a new road
New roads are too expensive, let’s pass a tax cut
Another Holocene Human
@OzarkHillbilly: Those are some freaky industrial accidents. I’m kind of of the theory that there aren’t a large about of nerves on the skull (and like none in the brain) which is why people survive these kinds of accidents (also, low bleed rate, unless it’s low). Thinking of our old friend Phineas Gage. He lived … but considerably worse for wear.
As for that drill … have you seen Pi?
PurpleGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: At one time I could really handle graphic medical stuff… One breakfast (pancakes from scratch), my then boyfriend (a pysch RN) described the first time he worked with a patient with gangrene. I no longer tell people about this because they either get green around the gills or think I’m crazed.
@MomSense: The year I was a Candy Striper, I worked in the dietition’s office and delivered the liquid diet supplement to the ICU. It became my regular duty because the first time I delivered the sippy diet I returned to the office without being green around the gills. Most of the other candy stripers looked at patients with tubes and stuff and couldn’t handle it. I ignored the patients I passed on my way to the kitchen area of the ICU — I figured the patients deserved privacy from being stared at. I also worked in the medical records department, I was very good and tracking down files for updating.
Kathleen
@OzarkHillbilly:
“The hated Cardinals, Satan’s messenger on Earth.”
This times eleventy.
OzarkHillbilly
This’ll make you laugh: Naked man steals police car in New Mexico – video
MattF
@OzarkHillbilly: Ha ha. Unarmed but still dangerous.
OzarkHillbilly
@Another Holocene Human:
The # or the movie? Only seen bits and pieces of the # but I own the movie. Left my wife kinda flat but I love it. Beautiful.
MomSense
@Another Holocene Human:
In fact we did end up with potholes and tax cuts.
@PurpleGirl:
I got ICU, surgical ward, and the ER. I also did a lot of finding and then wheeling heavy xrays from the library to various places. It was an interesting summer.
Germy Shoemangler
@OzarkHillbilly:
Tom Selleck, best known as Magnum P.I., has apparently settled, at least tentatively, with the Ventura County water district after the actor was accused of stealing water from a fire hydrant and trucking it to their 60-acre ranch.
Is he a conservative? He’s not a fan of conserving water.
Cervantes
@different-church-lady:
I bet you couldn’t see the Emperor’s new clothes, either.
They were fine.
Cervantes
Kasich? You don’t remember his son-of-a-mailman schtick as the kindler, gentler face of the Gingrich regime?
Felonius Monk
@Germy Shoemangler:
Well, he is on the Board of Directors of the NRA, if that gives you a hint.
Cervantes
@Betty Cracker:
They are scared because he can elect Clinton and they know it.
Cervantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
I once saw a Chinese boy crushed between a moving school-bus and a highly stationary metal fence. His brains were on the pavement. There was nothing to be done.
Cervantes
@WereBear:
Interesting observation …
Felonius Monk
@Cervantes: Yeah. He’d be on TV news every night along with that idiot congressman from Oklahoma (Don Nichols, IIRC) railing about the evil Clinton.
debbie
@Cervantes:
Don’t forget he then went on to Lehman Brothers, and then after they crapped out, he moved on to Fox as a commentator.
Cervantes
@Another Holocene Human:
No nerves in the brain?
Cervantes
@Felonius Monk:
Yes, and almost every Sunday morning, too.
WaterGirl
@Iowa Old Lady: I thought Baud was making a joke – suggesting that if your husband could be happy with any of the democratic candidates, he certainly couldn’t be a democrat, because how often are democrats happy with their candidates. We eat our own.
catclub
@Cervantes: fewer sensory and pain nerves. Lots of brainy brain nerves.