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"It turns out that the Gov't has no privacy either. So the joke is on them as much as it is on us."
Writes Richard Dolan in the comments to yesterday's post "Greenwald Says ‘There’s A Lot More Coming,’ Argues NSA Revelations Don’t Harm Sec…
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"This isn’t real stuff. It isn’t. It truly isn’t. That part of it, that Barnum and Bailey—you know, say anything, do anything you want, you know, I mean, like, you know, Donald Prince Humperdinck—Trump Jr. is not somebody that I really care about."
Said Hunter Biden (in the "Good Morning America" interview) embedded in the previous post. I had to look up the reference. I did understand…
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"Gossip as high-fructose corn syrup."
A theory: There's this idea that modern diseases of excess are due to the human metabolism being evolutionarily keyed for need. Our bodies haven&…
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Humanizing the IRS.
This latest effort at extending the outrage at the IRS scandal is — in my opinion — backfiring. These nameless, faceless bureaucrats are subjected t…
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"New York City Used To Be A Terrifying Place."
A photo essay, from last August about NYC in they pre-Giuliani years, which I ran across this afternoon as I was thinking about the electoral prospe…
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"She caught her fiance sexually assaulting a bridesmaid, police say. They got married anyway."
I only clicked through to that WaPo article to see how far into the comments you have to go before someone analogizes the fiance to Trump and the wo…
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"Scalia opened his talk with a reference to the Holocaust, which happened to occur in a society that was, at the time, 'the most advanced country in the world.'"
"One of the many mistakes that Germany made in the 1930s was that judges began to interpret the law in ways that reflected 'the spirit of th…
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Why are people having so much trouble understanding rhetorical devices?
You may remember Justice Scalia the other day tweaking the kids at Princeton for not being able to handle r eductio ad absurdum : It's a form of…
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"The image in question was an extension of the cultural, historical and living legacy surrounding people of color — particularly young men—being portrayed as violent in contemporary culture and media."
"By using this particular image of President Obama, I unknowingly perpetuated this living legacy and subsequently allowed a medium of SSMU’s com…
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100 years ago today, a suffragette attacked this Velázquez painting with a meat cleaver.
"I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs.…
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"It is as if Nixon held a press conference and began it by saying, 'Yes, I’m a crook. And the American people deserve to know it.'"
"'But McGovern would have been a terrible president and so it was entirely worthwhile. Sure, I committed a high crime in tampering with the …
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"Ronald Rotunda, distinguished professor of jurisprudence at Chapman University in California, called Chisholm’s statements outrageous."
"There is no justification for a prosecutor to do this," Rotunda said. "If you were to write a recipe to chill your political opponent…
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"But wait a minute... there's nothing inconsistent about being a libertarian and collecting Social Security."
"If you believe the government is wrongfully taking your money (in the form of taxes), naturally you should want to take as much of it back as p…
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Biden: "That's the American people, man. We've gotta give them light,"
Wha? He had some analogy going, having to do with diving into a quarry swimming hole when he was a kid — diving from what he says is a height of 100 …
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"Perhaps it would be helpful to imagine me as the White Rock girl..."
"... kneeling on a boulder in a nightgown, either looking for minnows or adoring her own reflection." That's the last sentence of the p…
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100 years ago today, a suffragette attacked this Velázquez painting with a meat cleaver.
"I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs.…
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Megyn Kelly has some trouble with Dinesh D'Souza's America/child molester analogy.
"Look at it this way: If I was in a family and I believed my dad was some kind of serial killer or a child molester, I would still love him. H…
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Shame on NBCUniversal! It's shutting down Television Without Pity and even making all its old content unavailable to the public.
Incredible! I've been reading Television Without Pity since... I think as long as there's been the web. Since long before I started blogging…
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"In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion. If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth."
The true believer is Jill Abramson , the new executive editor of the New York Times, replacing Bill Keller (who replaced). Let's analyze the anal…
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I said it 3 days ago, and now Hillary is saying it: Hillary is Rocky.
On March 29th, I presented the "Rocky" analogy: You know if this campaign were a movie, Hillary would have to win... or at least "g…
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