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Wow. Seriously. Not a single thing to disagree with here.

It’s not clear why Sarah Palin resigned her position as governor of Alaska, but it must have been for one of the following…

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Wow. Quite a contrast from “I hear there’s rumors on the Internets…”

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Pat mentioned this behavior the other night … that people that think like this start with a conclusion that fits their preconceived (not to mention ill-conceived) notion of How…

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Diz-amn.

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This American Life did a story about the Rubber Room a few years ago. Positively nuts.

The Rubber Room is the name for the places where New York City teachers who are…

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Coming to a university near you: an emergency meeting of some breathless concerned academics and various IT people, with the academics in full freakout mode, asking: “How can we…

Sure, Politico is full of shit. No denying that.

But let’s stop to reflect for a moment on this GOP talking point. They’re hoping that the Obama Administration’s maneuvering with GM is such an epic failure that it could be viewed as analagous to Bush’s failures with Katrina and Baghdad.

Look, GOP spinsters can talk about hoping for Obama to fail all they want. I don’t think anyone really cares, if for no other reason than it just sounds stupid.

But when they feel the need to beef up that talking point by breathlessly throwing around “Katrina” and “Baghdad”, apparently in the hope that W’s failures are contagious, they’re not just throwing their own guy under the bus, they’re putting it in reverse and doing it again and again.

What a deplorable excuse for a political organization the GOP has become. Whither thou, Eisenhower?

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That phrase — “unauthorized access to copyrighted works” — haunts the shit out of me even now.