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Aw jeez. Here we go again… WASHINGTON (AFP) Republican presidential hopeful John McCain Monday warned that plans by his Democratic rivals to withdraw from Iraq were “reckless” as the US general running the war prepared to testify to Congress. Oh yes. Gosh darn those Dems. So reckless! Says the crotchety old git [...] Via Badtux, snarkiest and most esteemed of all penguins: Brilliant. But the inevitable backlash has already begun. Badtux reports: BTW, the Lebanese dude who made up that list is now being Freeped big time. Go by and give him some love — let him know that all Americans aren’t Freepers. Go and read the comment thread for [...] In the current issue of the New Yorker, a short story about the final days of the Spanish Civil War and a Francoist captain’s decision to surrender to the soon to be defeated Loyalists. When asked if the heroic deeds of the National Army were his reason for betraying the Fatherland, he replied that [...] Remember the good old days? Remember when we could enjoy the delicious ironies of Randy Newman songs like “Political Science” and part of our enjoyment was knowing that the song narrator’s hilariously psychotic worldview was recognizable –hey, we’ve all had thoughts like this!–but at the same time was a worldview that could never, [...] Naah. Not what you might be thinking. Groucho Marx. Irving Berlin. In 1972 Groucho Marx was 82 years old, and bored.  The caller ID reads “US MARINE CORPS”. I reach for the phone, and in the fraction of a second it takes for the words “US MARINE CORPS” to register in my brain, I become every mother who has ever existed. Or at least every mother who’s ever existed since that first fateful day when Moonwatcher showed [...] |
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