Forum: Diavlog comments
12-31-2008, 07:23 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 7,331
Re: Speaking of Less Happy Topics
Megan, vis-a-vis Israel/Gaza. I don't think being a concern troll about Israel's public relations profile gets to the nub of the situation. There's a power vacuum that's going to be filled by a...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
12-17-2008, 07:26 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 9,073
Re: Qualifications and Disqualifications
I enjoyed how Jack and Ann got bogged down in the intricacies of Illinois constitutional law vis-a-vis Blago when the obvious screamed out for clarification. We've got a President from that, let us...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-26-2008, 12:36 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 11,327
Re: Breaking the Narrative
If Byron or Mark want to play in the political economist big leagues, I suggest they adopt usage of the term "tranche". I sensed Byron was getting to it at one point. I knew the jig was already up...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-10-2008, 06:41 AM
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Replies: 41
Views: 20,155
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-03-2008, 04:43 AM
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Replies: 106
Views: 31,132
Re: ...And Introducing Sarah Palin
[QUOTE=osmium I think conservative pundits on TV (and this dude on BHTV) are coming off like ... I wanna say retards, and I can't think of anything more neutral that conveys the thought, tying...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-01-2008, 09:28 PM
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Replies: 203
Views: 82,495
Re: The Chess Game
Here's a paradoxical thought for you all. If McCain/Palin should win, heaven forfend, maybe his demise would be opportune because I think his choice of Palin makes him seem the most dangerous,...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-26-2008, 05:25 AM
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Replies: 101
Views: 34,902
Re: McCain on the March
If the Dems want to really get down and dirty and make Tony Rezko look like a relatively small fry operator they should send some opposition research into Arizona and dig up stuff on Cindy's daddy. ...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-22-2008, 06:27 AM
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Replies: 169
Views: 59,404
Re: Like a Prayer
I enjoyed Bob and Ann's competing brushes with greatness. I think the gold standard (or pewter if you like) was set in the fake letters column of the old National Lampoon. A Rolling Stone wrote in...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-18-2008, 07:01 AM
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Replies: 184
Views: 57,897
Re: Job offer
Hey John, just a bit of a non sequiter attack here. Sort of coming out of left field so to speak. Let me amend that. Right field is where I'm coming from. I posted earlier about my paradigm, my...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-15-2008, 06:21 AM
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Replies: 184
Views: 57,897
Re: The Noble Lie and Lying
I'm no Strauss expert but I've dabbled over the years and remember there was a quote that I liked that gave some idea about the man, his philosophy and ultimately his comfort with American mass...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-09-2008, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 72
Views: 23,968
Re: Mickey and Edwards
[QUOTE=threep; I am, for instance, pro-deviation. You want to be gay? Awesome. You want to try polygamy? Hey, kudos to you if you can make it work right without unacceptable costs to gender...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-05-2008, 03:39 AM
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Replies: 53
Views: 19,368
Re: Political Superheroes
With Matt talking about McCain "enthusiasts" and Ross talking about "building him up" I've started to think that Bob's instituted some sort of fairness doctrine vis-a-vis McNasty. Even the MSM...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-02-2008, 03:53 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 36,861
Re: The Rise of the Autocracies
Bob said something about owing an historical debt to the Kosovars. That's a pretty recent vintage compared to recognition,if not a debt, we owe to the Russians and Serbs for being on the right side...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-30-2008, 09:08 AM
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Replies: 86
Views: 33,729
Re: Luck o' the Irish
I haven't engaged with this diavlog sufficiently to comment with great confidence, but my provocation index was definitely raised by Jacob's speculation about the USA ceding sovereignty to Europe. I...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-28-2008, 08:22 AM
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Replies: 118
Views: 50,885
Re: Diavlog for One
Quoting Ann Althouse--I say we are all animals. Did I just step out and in the interim bhtv has become the island of Doctor Moreau?
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-26-2008, 03:32 AM
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Replies: 198
Views: 59,025
Re: Strategies of Orcish Containment
Something that's come up, something that I dare to mention, is the subject of product placement. Some newscast in Vegas is taking payola so to speak and next thing you know I'm suspecting Bob's made...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-25-2008, 04:35 AM
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Replies: 198
Views: 59,025
Re: Strategies of Orcish Containment
I've got to hand it to Bob. He's a blithe spirit of the multi-cult universe. He's a veritable Will Rogers when it comes to giving the benefit of the doubt to any culture that comes down the pike. ...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-24-2008, 08:50 AM
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Replies: 89
Views: 39,578
Re: Lipstick Libertarians
A word of admonition to Kerry. I was watching for 15 minutes or so and my head was spinning. I could make a comment of beware of very fast talking women, but that would be predictably sexist. I...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-15-2008, 12:57 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,594
Re: Free Will: Hiya, Hayek!
In a previous post I alluded to devil take the hindmost as a dominant principle of political economy. Let me up the ante and go to the most salient theme of the post-modern polity. We are talking...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-14-2008, 12:56 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,594
Re: Free Will: Hiya, Hayek!
I know that Hayek is a very enticing, seductive thinker. You get to the point however where his adherence to the free market becomes utopian. In his world displaced CEO's become clerks at the 7-11...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-11-2008, 07:34 PM
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Replies: 208
Views: 70,256
Re: Mickey as the white Bill Cosby
Bob, I look forward to opining on any discussion of hip-hop between you and Mickey. A word of warning to both of you though. Please avoid what I witnessed a few years ago on a Dan Rather newscast....
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-02-2008, 01:40 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 9,430
Re: Megan Get Your Gun
Matt and Megan are living embodiments of the libertarian strain of the Whig theory of history. How nice it must be to be young and now successful in the great American intellectual market-place;...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-30-2008, 07:24 AM
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Replies: 150
Views: 51,107
Re: Dump Mickey
Bob, I detect a certain reticence on your part vis-a-vis George Carlin and his propensity to go blue. I know there's a reference in the title to blue--I thought that's what you're referring to and...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-16-2008, 08:08 AM
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Replies: 90
Views: 49,914
Re: Yuban?
Bob, Mickey loved the shout-out to Perry Mason. As a point of information, I just enjoyed the first season DVD. In one episode, Hamilton actually convicts but Perry pulls it out in the end with a...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-12-2008, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 106
Views: 53,428
Re: Love Him, He's A Liberal
jfarmer Range Against the Machine Weren't they that metal/rap/agit-prop country & western cross-over group from the 90's? Wasn't one of their hits called "Captive Bolt in the Head"?
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