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On the internet, no one knows you're a dog....(or a man with a very high pitched voice)

By jollyroger on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 3:04pm |
From the LA Times, a cautionary tale: Multiple men separated from their cash, and not even a “Trick Willie is Back In Town” t-shirt to show for it. “For would-be sugar daddies perusing SeekingMillionaire .com — “the meeting place for...
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Ben Nelson: "Nationalize Medicaid!"(+) NY Times: "Count us in, you extortionate scumbag!"

By jollyroger on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 7:20pm |
Who would have thought that this extortionate scumbag would turn out to point the way towards public option heaven? Having received the (totally proper) assurance that the expansion of medicaid eligibility would not redound to the fiscal detriment of Nebraska,...
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Ba'itullah Mehsud, Assassination by Predator (update): CIA suicide bomber, remorseful snitch on this very hit. Talk about "blowback"!

By jollyroger on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 12:50am |
“Hard cases”, it is said, make “bad law”. We like the outcome, but we deplore the rule. The news from Swat presents just such a confrontation between a tremendously felicitous result (a genuine Taliban surrender!!—they actually found someone to play...
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If Nancy P. is the bad cop, and Prez is the good cop, who are the perps?

By jollyroger on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 7:37pm |
As turmoil swirls around the House-Senate Conference (*or lack thereof….) may we not profitably wonder whether the identity of the “target audience” for the messaging that is without peradventure in progress is immediately obvious? Assume, arguendo, that Prez recognizes the...
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CIA guy to Pashtuns: We're gonna make your daughters into whores; that's how we roll & that's how we're gonna win

By jollyroger on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 1:13am |
Ex CIA (Afghanistan Station) Henry Crumpton chatting with the dumbest man on TV (pace Aunt Sam…) unburdens himself thusly (from memory): “Besides the 20% “hard power” that we must bring to this war, 80% involves…empowering the people, giving them electricity...
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Tax breaks 4 Sarko's buds big dud :<i>Vive La France!</i> This is good governance!

By jollyroger on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 3:23am |
Why can’t we be smart like the French? The body functioning in the judicial review mode that we associate with our supreme court sticks the shiv in Nick’s (otherwise far reaching and laudible) carbon tax. (Yes, that’s the smart and...
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Prez to Joe and Ben: They call me "No Drama", but I wrote this little comedy just for you..."

By jollyroger on Fri, 12/18/2009 - 6:18pm |
Secure in the knowledge that dogs cannot get the internet from their mangers (pace Jacob Hacker), consider the following scenario: If Prez intended all along to use reconciliation for this bill, (knowing that the search for 60 senate votes is...
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Mau-Maus confiscate US Bill of Rights! Jomo Kenyatta to Prez:"You weren't using it anyway, cuz"

By jollyroger on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 11:21am |
It comes to this. The very new democracy of Kenya, born in blood, gives lessons to the supercilious heirs of the original anti-colonial revolution., A junior member of the Commonwealth is called on to vindicate Magna Carta, abused for so...
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Prez to Mullah Omar & Osama: "Get a job! Troop safety requires legalization of Heroin. Compete with Walmart"

By jollyroger on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 2:01pm |
Do I alone find it odd that as he gropes about for the elusive path out of the Pashtun thicket, Prez sees no contraindication to a drug policy that amounts to the expenditure of 80 billion public dollars to keep...
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Hey Prez! Do you feel lucky? (Army Study: Pashtun men's blood testosterone levels 3X U.S. Norm! Tom Ricks: "Afghans are Clint Eastwood with a turban..." )

By jollyroger on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 2:32pm |
Endocrinology is destiny.(OK, I made up the part about the army study) However, I was in Afghanistan just whenTom Ricks was, and his assessment is accurate. I met 12 year old boys in the market (one sold me an ounce...

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