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I was away when this

by John Cole|  July 30, 20028:16 pm| Leave a Comment

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I was away when this was first posted, but everyone should read it. Driving tips from Cold Fury.

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Donahue is a smarmy, condescending,

by John Cole|  July 30, 20028:12 pm| Leave a Comment

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Donahue is a smarmy, condescending, self-righteous bastard,

but I am sure glad he is on television again. AT first I was opposed, but when I thought about it, I actually was quite pleased. Why? Because he admits he is a liberal, and people might begin to associate his idiotic ideas with the failed experiment that modern liberalism has become. This is a good thing- quite unlike the liberal NY Times, which merely distorts every libertarian and conservative position without admitting they are liberal.

Donahue is out there spouting off at the mouth, inundating the airwaves with his limousine liberalism, and we can all laugh at him, and thank goodness that his ideas have no traction whatsoever. I hope the Streisand/Clinton crowd keep cheering him on when he spouts the Democrat party line- it makes my job easier to out your stupid solutions.

BTW- I really like Jerry Nachman’s show. I disagree with him on a GREAT number of things, but I think he is very fair with his guests, very respectful, and I like the fact that there is little or no shouting. I did get a slight chuckle tonight when he mentioned the beached whales in Massachussetts. I am sure you can figure out why…

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Everyone breathe deeply: The

by John Cole|  July 30, 20028:04 pm| Leave a Comment

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Everyone breathe deeply:

The Spoons Experience went off the deep end with this reaction to a recent P.J. O’Rourke commentary piece in the Weekly Standard.

I HOPE P.J. O’ROURKE GETS ANALLY RAPED

Wouldn’t that be hilarious? Wouldn’t it?

I mean, I just assumed that that was the funniest fucking thing in the world, since P.J. jokes about it happening to accountants involved in corporate scandals.

What does it say about the way our society really feels about men that raping them is viewed as both amusing and frequently deserved?

Fuck you, P.J.

Holy loads of over-reaction, Spoons. Read your own comments. P.J. is joking about it, and I do not think in any way can it be inferred that he is in favor of ‘anal-raping’ acountants. In fact, he didn’t even use those words- you did.. Here is the comment Spoons objects to:

However, if corporate corruption does exist, it has benefits as well as liabilities. Auditing scandals will no doubt improve the sex lives of accountants. Bean counters were previously thought to be drab and unattractive creatures. Now accountants are considered cute–by their fellow prison inmates.

For those with little ability to discern humor, the entire column was written with a tongue-in-cheek/ bad-taste- typical of P.J. Myself, I am not in favor of anal-rape in prisons- I think it is awful. I think punishment enough for these accountants would be an accountant cellmate- or worse yet, a hyper-sensitive lawyer.

BTW, a couple of paragraphs later, P.J. wrote this:

Potentially, our own sex lives also are improved. Numerous senior executives’ trophy wives will soon be running around unattached. We wouldn’t have stood a chance with these women before the legal bills arrived and the skinny blondes got poor.

I seriously hope that all of you who got your knickers in a twist over the accountant/prison rape allusion are not at home waiting for your trophy wife…

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Don’t forget to watch the

by John Cole|  July 30, 20027:55 pm| Leave a Comment

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Don’t forget to watch the John Stossel report tonight on the gawd-awful drug war. Republicans think we are too stupid to know how to spend our free time, Democrats think we are too stupid to spend our money. Both want to lock us up and throw away the key when we try to just do what we want to do. They can both go to hell.

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I am back from my

by John Cole|  July 30, 20027:54 pm| Leave a Comment

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I am back from my trip, and I had a great time. I spent five days in the suburbs of Philly with some great people, lounging by the pool and drinking scotch til the wee hours of the morning. Trip highlights included a concert, a night of fireworks at the country club, a boisterous game of Trivial Pursuit, and finding out that I have a cinder block for a right foot when I drive a 2002 Mercedes (I routinely found myself doing 95 on the highway- but in my defense, 95 in a Mercedes feels like 50 in my old Chevy Celebrity). I also got a pedicure (my father had one in NY three weeks ago and said it made his feet feel 20 years younger). It was wonderful, and it restored much of the damage that my lacrosse cleats and my combat boots had inflicted on my poor feet. A great time, indeed.

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No posting until Sunday, as

by John Cole|  July 24, 20021:24 am| Leave a Comment

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No posting until Sunday, as I will be out of town. Try the links to the left. Speaking of left, Matt Yglesias, one of my favorite Dems, has been posting with almost Blogfather like determination. Make sure you read the comments, as he has cultivated a coterie of lefty-liberals who say bizarre things every now and then.

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I read this blog just

by John Cole|  July 24, 200212:27 am| Leave a Comment

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I read this blog just once- a moment ago- and it goes in permalinks. Welcome Will Wagner and Babel Log.

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