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WhatTheBuck

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  1. That’s part of the job description. That’s the goal. Mission accomplished. I’ll bet the ratings are good.
  2. They know their audience.
  3. Now, having reached that conclusion, isn’t the logical course of action to put him on ignore and disregard all the drivel he spews? Why pay attention to what a true idiot has to say? Who has the time or the interest? What does it say about you if you continue to read his posts and respond? Who’s the idiot then?
  4. That’s a perfectly fine url. When I copy and paste it into this reply, it embeds. Comme ça:
  5. The last time I bought a dozen large eggs at Kroger, they were $3.19. Probably a couple weeks ago. On Friday they were up to $4.99. Same large eggs.
  6. I read that book. It didn’t age well. For example, one of the “great” companies it recognized was Circuit City.
  7. Brrrrrrr. Close the windows, turn the heater on.
  8. That’s when I lost interest.
  9. Please cut Mom’s Social Security check. Maybe that will wake her up. <sigh> Probably not.
  10. When they come for the king, they’d best not miss.
  11. Jesse Watters is laughing.
  12. Like the ones on the payroll of the fossil fuel industry like S. Fred Singer (who I’m happy to learn passed away 5 years ago), Alex Epstein, Judith Curry et al. who deny the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming? I didn’t get the impression that he meant it that way.
  13. A new study? That’s not exactly breaking news. It also fueled the spread of Protestantism which is well documented and not in the least unrelated.
  14. Bullshit.
  15. The original lineup.
  16. That sounds like rationalization. It doesn’t satirize the novel. That’s not how satire works. (And how did you get sold on the excuse that instead of finishing the book the director decided to satirize it? How did he know what he was satirizing if he didn’t read the book? That’s an obvious cop out.) Let me think of an analogy that the illiterati might understand. I’ll use a movie instead of a book so non-readers might get it. You wouldn’t try to satirize Star Wars with a bad remake that omitted The Force, Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Jedi Kinghts, and then called it Star Wars. Anyone who saw the original Star Wars would say it sucked. Anyone who said it was satirizing Star Wars would sound like an idiot. ”What happened to Obi-Wan Kenobi? May The Force be with you? Use The Force, Luke?” “It’s satire.” ”No it’s not. That’s not how satire works. What the fuck is wrong with you?”
  17. It’s like he’s not remotely qualified for the job.
  18. Just saw this reported on CBS News Mornings. They gave it about 15 seconds as they read off various top stories. They gave a little more time to the subsequent story of Cardinal Timothy Nolan, archbishop of New York, giving his homily in Canada after his flight to Ireland was grounded due to bad weather, which included video.
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