May 2012
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Slightly amusing: Paul Krugman argues with a brick wall for twenty minutes. Oh, that was Ron Paul? Sorry, my bad.
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April 2012
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I get that the White House Correspondents Dinner is the epitome of inside the Beltway, DC-centric-ness, but it’s nice to see a different side of Obama, and it seems like a fun thing for everyone involved. So I’m looking forward to it. Here are Obama and Seth Myers’s remarks from last year.
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The scene: around 7:30, deadline is wrapping up
Remeny: Montane, you're in a good mood, come cheer Devin up.
Montane: It's no use, I tried that for three years in middle school.
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Really think I’ve got a shot at the gold in Olympic Sleep Evasion this year.
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It’s all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government...
– Molly Ivins
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This is a couple of weeks old, but This American Life did a great show about the influence of money in American politics. Listen if for no other reason than the fact that John McCain is featured at the end and is surprisingly likable, which I didn’t think was possible after the 2008 campaign.
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The world is run by the stupidest fucking people in the world.
– Atrios
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Santorum, Romney, and the Republicans
Rick Santorum ended his presidential campaign today, delivering a speech announcing his withdrawal from the race for the Republican nomination. It was only a matter of time for Santorum, who badly trailed Mitt Romney in the delegate count. With his three-year-old daughter, Isabella, in the hospital again this past weekend, and the possibility of an embarrassing loss in the primary in...
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Who really needs democracy, you know?
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Republican health care hypocrisy
Ezra Klein:
Ross tries to use this to draw some equivalence between the two parties. Both Democrats and Republicans changed their mind on the individual mandate, he argues. But there’s a key difference: The Democrats changed their mind in order to secure a bipartisan compromise on health-care reform. Republicans changed their mind in order to prevent one.
And so what did Democrats get for their...
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