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Newest google search to hit

by John Cole|  February 21, 20027:38 pm| Leave a Comment

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Newest google search to hit this site:

Hot+girls+in+both+tude+nude

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Headline: Idiot Googles himself, Does

by John Cole|  February 21, 20026:48 pm| Leave a Comment

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Headline: Idiot Googles himself, Does not like What he Finds, Rebuts Finding, Finds Himself Publicly Smacked Down Again.

Full story at Hawspipe.

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Because our bloated government does

by John Cole|  February 21, 20023:50 pm| Leave a Comment

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Because our bloated government does not make enough transfer payments already, CNN is reporting that the United States Government may begin paying ransom for kidnapped Americans, thus creating a lucrative Welfare program for terrorist thugs.

This, if true, is the worst idea I have ever heard from ANY administration, and will surely be followed by a rapid increase in the number of Americans kidnapped throughout the world.

The only payment I would make to foreign kidnappers is in the form of a 30 cent 5.56 round from a smoking M-16.

*** Update ***

A reader notes that I technically incorrect when I call paying kidnappers a Welfare program. Were it a true Welfare program, the terrorist would have to do nothing for their money (see aid to Egypt). In this case, they will at least be doing something.

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William Quick has a wonderful

by John Cole|  February 21, 20021:35 pm| Leave a Comment

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William Quick has a wonderful message from Teddy Roosevelt to Chris Patten and the rest of the Eurocrats.

Also a must read is the new piece by Mark Steyn. Mark Steyn is all class, and he quotes the Instapundit. I can not wait for Steyn’s website.

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Ted Barlow has found the

by John Cole|  February 21, 20021:14 pm| Leave a Comment

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Ted Barlow has found the Elizabeth Wurtzel cartoon from Suck. It is here.

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A tidy little explanation of

by John Cole|  February 21, 20021:32 am| Leave a Comment

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A tidy little explanation of the shrinking budget surplus that I found from a neat little site called Ipse Dixit.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel takes a drubbing

by John Cole|  February 20, 200210:26 pm| 5 Comments

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Elizabeth Wurtzel takes a drubbing from both the mainstream press and virtually every blogger for her disgusting interview. The much deserved drubbings may be found at these links with my favorite quote, in alphabetical order:

A Dog’s Life: My feelings are adequately summed up by the title of her second book.

Andrew Sullivan: It doesn’t get any Wurtzel.

Daily Pundit: I think you should join some group that involves wet-sheet restraints and allosaurus-sized doses of your favorite drug.

Daimnation: Wurtzel wrote her second book, Bitch, while snorting crushed Ritalin pills. That explains a lot.

Ken Layne: Sure, Ms. Jackass. Too bad there’s not much need for spoiled, whining little girls when we’re at War. Oh, it’s so post-post-modern and all. Thousands of people being killed … yawn, what does that have to do about me? I had a prescription! Don’t I matter?

Midwest Conservative Journal: Jus an introduction to Chris’s regularly appearing feature, And Now… Idiots with the coment: Perhaps the most mind-boggling Idiot that has ever been featured in this category.

New York Post: Despite numerous frantic phone calls to her Greenwich Street apartment, not far from the World Trade Center, the emotionally stunted scribe couldn’t be bothered to get out of bed until the second plane crashed, reports the Toronto Globe and Mail. When she finally did drag herself to a window and saw the towers collapse, Wurtzel says, “I had not the slightest emotional reaction. I thought, ‘This is a really strange art project.’ ” Then her windows blew in and airplane chunks landed on her roof.

The Opinion Journal: No comments really, just inclusion in their Stupidity Watch.

Ted Barlow: Ted is actually asking for help so we can berate Wurtzel more. If you can locate this cartoon, let us know.
There was a great cartoon in Suck a few years ago which had Wurtzel begging her mom to sleep with her so that she’d have something to write about. I wish I could find it.

If I have missed anyone, let me know and I will update. I hope she googles herself.

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