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Allow me to suggest again that the Constitution be amended to make senators' votes proportional to the size of their…
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Indeed. That's the bulk of the reason I've gone from thinking about emigrating to actually planning for it. There are…
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No kidding. I have a number of friends in Pennsylvania who view Specter very favorably, a couple of whom are…
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Personally, I wasn't disturbed by the LBJ/MLK flap, although I saw it as a political gaffe. I wasn't disturbed by…
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Not the career CIA people who are placed again and again in those impossible situations [...] Pardon me? Impossible situations?…
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It will get worse for them, especially if they succeed. Obama is a popular president, and if he was assassinated,…
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Indeed. The connection between racism and disbelieving continental drift is quite lost on me. Frankly, I suspect the unifying phenomenon…
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The irony of using a culturally bigoted argument to denounce racial bigotry is, I suspect, lost on our Yankee host.…
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Fuck the south. Southerners who have been eagerly contributing dollars to progressive candidates in tight Northern elections will, I am…
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In no particular order, I'm thinking of Denmark, Germany, and Japan. You're probably right about the southern hemisphere being a…
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Ah, so you're a dingbatter, are ye, Booman? All the natives on Ocracoke are more or less distantly related to…
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Well said. I knew better than to expect a revolution from Barack Obama, but I'm stunned at how aggressively he's…
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I feel about Baucus pretty much the same way I feel about anyone who lets people die because he finds…
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Only if you lack faith in democracy the way Republicans do. What we need is an algorithmic system for allocating…
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That's ten percent more than John Boehner, so I can't be doing too badly.
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I guess a lot of white people either don't pay attention or don't want to. I've spent most of my…
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Sure, where "disorderly" generally means "not kissing cop ass". There's a reason we call them pigs. And yes, it's quite…
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If I were prone to misusing evolutionary biology -- and I most definitely am not -- I'd be tempted to…
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Funny, but I thought Gates' arrest was relevant to me because it was an abuse of one of my fellow…
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But spreading the idea that the president was not lawfully elected is dangerous because a certain small percentage of people…
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