It won't stick. WJC is the guy who always tries to seduce your wife behind your back and whom you will keep forgiving until she actually responds in kind to him. We all know guys like that; WJC is just the political version.
We all know guys like that
Know and hate.
the guy who always tries to seduce your wife behind your back and whom you will keep forgiving
The hell we will.
I don't believe you actually hate w-lfs-n, Di.
Ogged, I implore you to resist the temptation to hate Chelsea. Do you really want to sound like John Derbyshire?
Know and hate.
Not me. I can't help but like that guy, because he once kicked the ass of another dude I really hate in a brawl down at the bar--though he inexplicably helped the dude up and shook hands with him afterwards.
I don't hate Chelsea, but I am finding the "campaigns for her mother" / "she is a private person; how dare the press speak to her" dichotomy increasing precious and unstable.
I've gotten away with, in retrospect, a lot of stuff in my life, but the Slickster is just embarrassingly shameless.
Do you really want to sound like John Derbyshire?
I don't think this really works as a rhetorical question.
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9: In a country where George W. Bush was elected in 2004, I just don't understand how anyone can talk about Bill Clinton as someone who "got away with" anything particularly important.
Is he making the "dick in the mouth" face?
I will admit to having thought the exact same thing.
Aw, c'mon. It's mostly just bad photos and downright malevolent coverage by the press. They've been pushing the renegade Bill storyline for months. It's got star power! It's gossipy! It contains implicit sexism directed at Hillary! It's got it all!
And, speaking of sexism, Chelsea still seems awfully foxy and therefore above reproach.
I'm even starting to hate their little dog Buddy.
16: So it was you who ran him over with your car several years ago?
I implore you to resist the temptation to hate Chelsea
The reason I hate her has nothing to do with her campaigning for her mother. It's that she went to work for a hedge fund. Way to implement those Democratic values, Chels.
11 is excellent.
I will admit to having thought the exact same thing.
It's that she went to work for a hedge fund. Way to implement those Democratic values, Chels.
Look, the girl needs money. Let somebody who doesn't have to support their whole family a lavish urban lifestyle possibly a small country, at that kind of income work someplace socially responsible.
19: I'd like to think that if I were going to trade on my parents' good name, I would have done something altruistic. I'd also like to think that if I were not going to trade on my parents' name, I'd do something so different that there'd be no way of believing my parents were in on it. (Medicine, engineering, acting?)
That being said, money's green and the hedge funds/consulting are teh hawt right now.
24: You ran over Buddy on foot?
It's that she went to work for a hedge fund.
Which isn't a bad thing in the first place!
Though I'll admit that I don't really get what this post meant to say. They looked like pretty normal pictures to me.
11 is pitch-perfect, I love it.
22: She was, but switched to hedging a couple of years ago. The consulting was, as I understand it, about managing corporations.
Chelsea used to work for McKinsey, but then Marc Lasry -- one of her parents' biggest bankrollers, but also a donor to folks like GWB and Lieberman -- hired her to work for his hedge fund, Avenue Capital. He's one of the guys who wrote the extortion letter to Pelosi.
To be fair, every single person in America went to work for a hedge fund. Except me. So lunch is on you, dude.
And, speaking of sexism, Chelsea still seems awfully foxy and therefore above reproach.
For this, I can overlook your slurpee apostasy. I thought I was the only one.
25: he can't admit to that, heebie. Stomp videos are illegal.
What could be more American than sending your children out to the fields/factories to help support you?
26: I don't think working in finance makes one by definition soulless. But I am disappointed that when she could do almost any damn thing she wants, she chose very management oriented, all-about-making-money sort of work instead of something, including finance, oriented toward social justice.
#25. You'll never pin that on me.
You all realize, of course, that sooner or later someone will demand that Obama denounce this entire thread.
sooner or later someone will demand that Obama denounce this entire thread
Only if DS comments in it.
If you think about it, there's a powerful argument for Obama that's waiting to be made. If Obama is elected President, he will remain our go-to guy for ethnic denunciation and rejection, forever.
Is there any evidence she ever traded on her name professionally? I suspect she's a highly intelligent, if deeply misguided, woman, who is perfectly capable of getting all those overpaid, ethically questionable jobs entirely on her own merit. The link at 33 reminds us that in 2038 she will look exactly like her mother does now, but that's not her fault either.
Certainly those photos are gag-worthy, but I can't help but refer to the sorts of things my mom said on the phone recently in favor of Hillary Clinton and against Obama. That she doesn't trust Obama's "background, his Muslim upbringing." Hm. That he seems a poser, a snake oil salesman; she does not like his affect, essentially, at all. "It's just a feeling." She does trust Hillary's good work in the past. Hm.
Her response to the nominees' public faces is almost entirely the reverse of mine and of many people here. How does one respect the elders in a situation like this? Our society moves so fast.
I'm Even Starting To Hate Chelsea
Let you inner John McCain come out ogged, I'm sure the press will cover for you.
McCain's Chelsea joke from 1998. WaPo did not because it was "was too vicious to print", plus it was in front of fundraisers and we all know that does not count ... IYAAR.
"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."
I don't believe you actually hate w-lfs-n, Di.
Only because, to the best of my knowledge, w-lfs-n has never attempted to seduce my wife.
The commenter who dares not speak her name.
39: You have been Yothersrolled!
33: That isn't really Chelsea, is it?
I've been trying to be surreptitious, but you probably are all onto me anyway...
41: The terms "poser" and "snake-oil salesman" also figure heavily in the "he's a muslim!" emails. Google either + Obama and one finds 60,000+ hits. So it seems those sorts of emails are having a significant impact on some folks' take on his appearance and affect.
perfectly capable of getting all those overpaid, ethically questionable jobs entirely on her own merit
She got the hedge fund job without an MBA, which very likely had to do with her name. But she's clearly smart, so I don't have any real problem with that versus, say, legacy Yale-ites who are dumb as rocks.
So it seems those sorts of emails are having a significant impact on some folks' take on his appearance and affect.
Right. I think apo and I were saying a couple of months ago that the underground "he's a muslim" campaign is huge and effective.
44: Yothers is only 34? I must not be remembering Family Ties accurately, because I thought all of the people on the show were older than me by more than a few years.
I gotta say, Bill Clinton in the Bobby "The Brain" Heenan role was pretty inspired.
Is there any evidence she ever traded on her name professionally?
What would this mean? If Jesus comes down again, goes to Harvard, and is the smartest most amazing student they've ever had, he's still getting hired because he's the Son of God.
She got the hedge fund job without an MBA
It's not the lack of an MBA. It's the lack of technical chops. Do hedge funds really hire MBAs? If so, I'd love to know which ones so I could short their entire portfolio. On Chelsea, one person's influence peddler is another man's "rainmaker." This is standard operating procedure, and nothing to be ashamed of (from the hedge fund side, at least).
If Jesus comes down again, goes to Harvard
Fucking legacy students.
When I was younger, I used to get accused of looking like Chelsea pretty often. It's nice to know that I too will be pretty if I get some good plastic surgery!
If the answer to 17 were yes your father would have sold Soap Opera Digest to Murdoch at a $50,000,000 profit.
If Jesus comes down again, goes to Harvard
They never should have abolished the Jewish quota.
Do hedge funds really hire MBAs?
Not that it's particularly relevant to this thread, but yes. They are picky about the programs and the people, though.
18
"The reason I hate her has nothing to do with her campaigning for her mother. It's that she went to work for a hedge fund. Way to implement those Democratic values, Chels."
Hedge funds are part of the Democratic base, just ask Schumer.
55: Is that a joke or are there rumors that I'm not aware of?
Not at all a joke. It's quite evident that she's had work done.
I'm not aware of my mom having gotten "Obama's a muslim!" emails. The notion was, as we know, floated in the press some time ago, and took. The problem is really that people would think it would be such a huge problem. Intolerance, willful misunderstanding, and hatred are popular these days, I notice.
60: General consensus is rhinoplasty, chin implant, and whatever the surgery is called to get rid of a super gummy smile. You can find before and after pics with plastic surgeon commentary at various places on the web.
64: Holy cow. I did think she looked different, but I chalked it up to flowering in your 20s and a different haircut. Fascinating.
How do you straighten hair that dramatically?
Is it just her nose? Her jaw and eyes look different, but I don't really know what you can do for those, so maybe it's just the harmony with the new nose.
How do you straighten hair that dramatically?
Blow drier, flat iron, "thermal reconditioning" (aka new-generation chemical straighteners).
And she also covers up the freckles. I miss those, and the curly hair. Fly your freak flag, Chelsea!
(Not that her appearance is really any of my damn business.)
How dare you, ogged. Barack Obama played the race card on Bill by making him say racist shit about Obama! And Bill doesn't have to take that shit from you or anyone - not after everything he's done for black people, like getting rid of welfare and raising mandatory minimum sentences for crack and executing retarded black people! You all should be ashamed.
He only executed ONE retarded black person, strasmangelo.
Unless you think he made it more likely that they will be executed in the future.
67: The most dramatic thing to me is the new chin. That's a pretty common surgery. I think she looks great now.
72: She looked nice before and after. Now she looks more fit to be photographed in magazines.
The existence of plastic surgery is one of those things that sends me into a tizzy if I think about it too much, like I'm doing now from browsing that website in 64.
Learning about Chelsea getting plastic surgery and working for a hedge fund made think for a moment. That maybe the Clintons don't actually care about the poor very much. Which is silly because they fixed welfare. That they support NAFTA. Silly because they've always been against it. That she's for the war. Silly because it's obvious that she voted for inspections, not war.
She got the hedge fund job without an MBA
My college roommate got hired to be a hedgie with just a BA. Then again it was an econ BA, and Chelsea majored in history. A McKinsey job with a history degree is certainly no cause for surprise.
Unless you think he made it more likely that they will be executed in the future.
Actually, he made it more likely for anyone to get executed in the future.
I can't believe I'm becoming an "ever since Super Tuesday, I'm outraged by welfare reform" person, but I am.
Welfare reform was pretty crappy, but then there's this.
People still respect their elders? Where? Why?
I can't believe I'm becoming an "ever since Super Tuesday, I'm outraged by welfare reform" person, but I am.
Such a great description. I tried to go there--I want to go there--but I can't.
Part of me would like to read a tabloid story (with pictures, natch) of a Nazi sex orgy with Chelsea, Lauren and George P. Bush so that we could be done with both families politically forever. kthxbai
Crap, I forgot about the Bush twins. Them too.
54: Fucking legacy students.
You people must not be Catholic. Jesus, being both the son of God and God, is both a Harvard alumnus and a legacy applicant.
On Chelsea, one person's influence peddler is another man's "rainmaker."
Distinction without a difference, no? Or at least, all influence peddlers are rainmakers.
Repeating 79: what does 78 mean? Welfare reform was bad at the time. What does Super Tuesday have to do with it?
Distinction without a difference, no?
I think that's the point.
Repeating 79: what does 78 mean?
It means, I believe, that ogged was fine with welfare reform--however bad it was--until this HRC's campaign started being a pain in the tuchas.
87: I took Ogged to mean that he didn't think much about welfare reform at the time, but now that he no longer likes Bill Clinton it seems kind of shitty to cut lots of poor people off from money they need and then tell them it's for their own good.
87: search here for "Chappaquidick"
88, 89. Oh. I was afraid that's what it meant.
I hereby rule that 89 is not pwned by 88 because stras's bitterness (which I share) adds so much.
86: Yes. I almost hate to admit it, because I do not doubt at all that Chelsea is super smart and capable, but when a uber-big-money donor, who has made it clear he's interesting in purchasing and throwing around as much influence as possible, hires the daughter of a former president and sitting senator from NY, it's hard for me not to think of it as a way for Lasry to transfer large sums of cash to the Clinton family. (No, I don't think Chelsea hands Bill&Hill a cut or anything.)
I think apo and I were saying a couple of months ago that the underground "he's a muslim" campaign is huge and effective.
My father, whom I described here a few months ago as being frantically in love with Obama, has finally been swayed by the massive deluge of emails he receives from distant cousins taking quotes out of context to "prove" that Obama is secretly Muslim. My attempt to walk him through the fun-house of "if he's a Muslim then it doesn't matter that he has a crazy Christian preacher and if he listens to his crazy Christian preacher then he by definition isn't a Muslim, right, so can you please just pick your stupid reason for backing down from voting for the black guy and stick to it" was a tremendous failure and I find this unbelievably embarrassing to admit.
and I find this unbelievably embarrassing to admit.
You really shouldn't.
If Jesus comes down again, goes to Harvard, and is the smartest most amazing student they've ever had, he's still getting hired because he's the Son of God.
It is important to understand that there is no contradiction between being an equal opportunity employer and having high standards. No one gets a job here because of his or her divinity. We have active programs to increase the diversity of our applicant pool, which includes targeted outreach to the Divine-American community. We encourage gods, godesses, and demigods to explore career opportunities here because we know that a diverse workforce is an asset to our company. In the final analysis, a candidate's divinity only becomes a factor when deciding among a pool of comparably qualified applicants. Mr. Christ, like all of our employees, was chosen holy--er-- I mean wholly on his merits.
Typical HR department idiots can't spell "goddesses" and don't know that "Christ" is his title, not his name.
But "H" is still his middle initial, right?
"Christ" is his title, not his name.
You know less about my brother than you think.
94: I think I convinced my mother not to boycott the general election (despite her strong distrust of Obama) sheerly in order to keep McCain out of office. That only works because she's (a) anti-war and pro-social services; and (b) pro-choice, though she personally is against abortion. In other words, she's still a democrat. I had to remind her about the Supreme Court.
But yeah, it was a long slog on the phone, picking carefully through each of her misunderstandings, remaining calm, hearing her tone change in turns from listening to me to guarded suspicion of my explanations and back again. It's clear that whatever media she partakes of has done a job on her.
No shame in having (so far?) failed to convince, RMcMP. I hear that accusing people of racism doesn't work very well, though.
Not related to Chelsea-bashing -nor, for that matter, Clinton bashing in general- but maybe someone can help out.
I was just having a heated argument on whether presidential candidates should release their medical records and other rather private information. I think they should -they are *public* figures after all-, but I don´t know if they are legally required to do so in the States. Are they? And should they be, ya think?
100: isn't "Jimmy Christ" Christian slang for a condom?
97: Mr. w-lfs-n, this memo is to inform you that you are to be enrolled in the company's mandatory sensitivity training seminar. Please report to Ms. Goodvibes in the training center tomorrow at 7:00am for this all-day training session. We will be using the "It Takes all Kinds" curriculum specially developed for the company. Failure to attend the seminar, or failure to complete the seminar with a passing grade, is grounds for disciplinary action up to and including dismissal for cause.
A candidate's medical condition is a reasonable factor for a voter to take into account, and they're certainly free to draw a negative inference about that medical condition if they haven't made their records available, and opposing candidates should feel free to bring this up, but I don't know why you'd want a legal duty to release records.
I kind of like how Chelsea keeps saying straightforwardly that Hillary would be a better president than Bill. I don't necessarily believe that, but I do think Chelsea is being entirely sincere.
No shame in having (so far?) failed to convince, RMcMP. I hear that accusing people of racism doesn't work very well, though.
I've got a long row ahead of me but encouragement is welcome. I didn't actually accuse him of racism (though I did say, "don't turn ignorant on me!" and he laughed) and in fairness he is the more philosophical of my parents and so he can be turned around in time and with much effort. I'm a little hampered by having grown up in a house in which it was considered almost offensively evangelistic to state openly how one voted or planned to vote, lest one shame anyone who disagreed, and in which the mention of politics in front of others was almost always preceded by an apology despite everyone being, at farthest right, centrist Democrats. I think they've just been so flooded with the Sekrit Mohammedan stuff that it's drowned out his better angels. I'm hoping it's only temporary.
85: So many heresies floating around these threads.... What are they teaching in our public schools?!
Please report to Ms. Goodvibes in the training center tomorrow at 7:00am for this all-day trainingpegging session
Fuckin' hr, man.
guarded suspicion of my explanations and back again.
Also, yes, this. Like, I was not ready for that. I was not ready for someone to so transparently apply the Part Of the IslamoApologists filter to what I said. I was forced to wonder if those were the same shields that go up around me when I see someone I dislike on TV. I suspect the answer is yes.
110: I think my parents, though leaning toward HRC, are still within reach. My mother in particular I think I have shamed with the thought that she would be voting alongside those who oppose Obama for ignoble reasons. My father I'm not sure about. I think he favors HRC because of Bill, i.e. she's a Clinton and therefore knows how to beat Republicans. But he might be open to persuasion with the argument about down-ballot races and targeting a 60-seat majority in the Senate. They are safe votes in November, though: either one of them would sooner drink goat piss than vote for McCain.
My parents do simply despise the Republican party at the moment. My father has voted cross-ballot, I think, but my mother I think blocks out conscious knowledge of the existence of Republicans. Both of them hate Bush and are ardently anti-war so I can't see them going McCain no matter how many emails they get about secret Muslims.
My parents do simply despise the Republican party at the moment.
I wish I had a better sense of how wide and deep this sentiment is. My father-in-law was a reliable Republican for his entire life, but switched in 2000 because he just couldn't stand Bush. I'm pretty sure the past 8 years have cemented him pulling the D lever for the rest of his life.
113- Reminds me of the Chris Rock joke that Bush is so bad, he's made white people not want to vote for a white man.
. I'm pretty sure the past 8 years have cemented him pulling the D lever for the rest of his life.
I suspect that it depends what the Democrat he gets next does.
113: My dad's the same. But he's not typical; he's a high information voter who would never believe anything like the Sekrit Muslim rumors and is very pragmatic when it comes down to pulling the lever. ("Pushing the button" or "filling in the little circles" just don't have the same ring, do they?)
Right, my mom would die before voting Republican: the task is to convince her to vote for Obama, against Republicans. WHAT is WITH the hatred of muslims? (she asks)
I was not ready for someone to so transparently apply the Part Of the IslamoApologists filter to what I said. I was forced to wonder if those were the same shields that go up around me when I see someone I dislike on TV. I suspect the answer is yes.
Interesting. True, I wasn't expecting the odd suspicion I got from my mom, though I think it was due more to her general suspicion of any and all accounts of political matters that she hears. Which, okay; and so I did explain further. We can and should learn from this.
As for shields going up, a good point.
WHAT is WITH the hatred of muslims?
Well see, we used to have a perfectly good boogeyman in the Japanese, but then those sneaky bastards up and switched sides. So we traded them in for the Soviets, and all was right with the world again except, after a while, the Soviets got all boring and staid, so we auditioned the Vietnamese as their replacement. Unfortunately, the Vietnamese proved to be a little too effective of an enemy, so back to the Russians.
But then came Gorbachev, who clearly wasn't interested in nuking us. What to do, what to do? Hey, drug users, that's the ticket! However, once the country realized that pretty much every family in the US had at least one person in that camp, well, not so good at keeping the troops rallied. And then those sneaky Soviet bastards took away our safe fallback by dissolving the Evil Empire™.
We flirted with Mexicans for a bit, but who's threatened by friendly guys with leaf blowers and rosaries? So really, it was Muslims by default.
So really, it was Muslims by default.
Not so, my friend. The Chinese kept the score close through the first three quarters of the title game, on the strength of their trade surplus the Hainan Island incident, but the Muslims broke away in the fourth quarter and have held the title ever since.
The Chinese kept the score close
Yeah, but we couldn't really pick the Chinese, since we'd be left with with no electronics or Happy Meal toys.
119- Ah, but aren't the Muslims actually polling better than atheists?
Apo, don't forget that the Chinese auditioned for the part, but were blown away by the Muslim's show stopper. I wouldn't rule out the Chinese for the long haul, especially now that they have figured out the check is no good.
http://www.rgemonitor.com/setser-monitor/252511/ut-oh-is-china-starting-to-blame-the-us-for-its-currency-losses/
122: Similarly, the Dept of Motor Vehicles is polling ahead of the IRS, and car jackers are edging out child molestors.
The atheists are the Enemy Whitin, asl. They have been allied with ALL of our external enemies over the years, and the Satan&Allah&Secularism vs. Jesus battle is only the latest of their alliances.
What? The Enemy Mark Whiten? I mean Within.
Don't distract me with talk of the atheists. I know they are the final enemy.
Apo's account in 119 is appreciated for its brevity. My question is: are we really a nation of children? No, actually my question is: are we really a nation defining itself in terms of enemies racially and spatially defined?
I don't know why I keep fighting it.
122: Yes, but we atheists are still polling better than the Scientologists!
are we really a nation defining itself in terms of enemies racially and spatially defined?
We always have been.
119: The Russians are back! Haven't you heard? McCain wants them out of the G-8 and is calling them revanchists (which might have some truth to it). On the other hand, this doesn't seem to have attracted much attention.
are we really a nation of children?
Hippie talk.
124
122: Similarly, the Dept of Motor Vehicles is polling ahead of the IRS, and car jackers are edging out child molestors.
I was really confused until I realized that you probably intended both of those to be analogous to 122, but not to each other. "What the hell," I thought, "Does the IRS have to do with child molesters?"
129: I know. It's just been really stunning to me in the last while to fully acknowledge it. I mean fully. I don't know what to do about it.
I/we need a new narrative to explain ourselves to ourselves. This is not a new topic; people have certainly done work in this area. It still almost always comes to something aspirational: we look for something to overcome or strive towards. Fair enough. Sometimes it's expansion of property, sometimes it's promotion of an ideal. Depending on what you think counts.
At this point, environmental degradation counts seriously enough to suspend such hand-wringy questions, anyway. Perhaps altering our rapacious ways will take precedence.
"What the hell," I thought, "Does the IRS have to do with child molesters?"
Believe me, child molestation does not generate nearly enough income to have to pay taxes on it.
129. Yeah apo, why you didn't start with the injuns, only briefly displaced by the Mexicans, is beyond me. The red man was the enemy until what, 1890? (1886 capture of Geronimo).
"What the hell," I thought, "Does the IRS have to do with child molesters?"
You haven't heard Bush's latest tax proposal? He will fight child sexual abuse by cutting the top marginal rate of personal income tax and exempting long-term capital gains from tax.
The Democrats have countered with a plan for a refundable non-molestation tax credit, to be available on a sliding scale to parents who refrain from molesting their children. Infrequent molesters may be able to claim a portion of the tax credit, provided they do not exeed the income phase-out ceiling of $56,000 for an individual or $113,000 for a married couple filing jointly.
why you didn't start with the injuns
Since written history began with WWII, I didn't want to stake my credibility on something that might well just be a myth.
Further to 136, House Republicans plan to sabotage the legislative proceedings by offering an amendment that denies the proposed non-molestation tax credit to same-sex couples raising adopted children. This is intended to split the Dem caucus and force Democratic Reps from red districts into an awkward roll-call vote.
56 seems to have failed abysmally at my plan to make you guys wonder why I know things about the father of the person who ran over Buddy.
139: I thought you grew up in Chappaqua? Or was that someone else?
I just got a copy of Cotton Mather's two sermons on the hanging of my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-aunt Elizabeth:
Warnings From The Dead, In Two Parts.
Part I: A Blessed Medicine For Sinful Madness;
Part II: A Holy Rebuke To The Unclean Spirit.
Cotton didn't hold anything back. Pretty much everything he says applies to each and every one of you.
I was going to deny having ever said so in a googleable format, but it turns I've done that too.
142: Is the dog killer also the wife killer, w/d?
137 really makes me very happy, even a bit giggly.
141: I recently lectured on Cotton Mather (well, he was part of the show): a boring lecture filled with great quotations.
One of the wife-killer's kids may well have been the same year in high school as the dog-killer, but that's as close as it gets.
Cotton did not, in fact, support the witch trials. Or so the internet tells me.
As Emerson knows, I spent a week teaching two of his (crazy, violent) aunties.
And come to think of it, the wife-killer only moved there a couple of years ago, so not even that.
Cotton's denunciation of the sinners sounds a lot like a description of secular liberals: this-worldly, hedonists, think they're God, use birth control, etc.
As Emerson knows, I spent a week teaching two of his (crazy, violent) aunties.
I'm guessing they didn't learn much.
151: Heh. Hannah was all right, but there's no hope for Elizabeth.
According to Cotton, "There never was a Prisoner more hard-hearted, and more unfruitful, than you have been.."
He also says "We count it a sort of Murder to disturb Conception; and what shall we count it then to Kill Infants already Born into the World?"
Take that, unclean women!
154: What a liar Cotton was. Elizabeth was super fruitful! 3 kids before 20!
Cotton Mather did not believe that Killing Infants Not Yet Born Into the World was murder?
interesting.
131: Hippie talk.
This is mystifying.
The hippie-barter complex will be destroyed. Twinkies will be the only food.
The Emerson dwelling was known as that wicked house.
In outline Cotton Mather's sermons are exactly like the average wayward-youth sermon of today. It's like he made the template.
This post should have been titled, "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea."
159: In which reading comments elsewhere is retarded, in a way.
Melons will be the only food.
Viewing caged chickens is horrifying.
Free your feet.
Oh, sorry, that should have been 158. Drat.
For all you Elizabeth Edwards fans out there, you might have to reconsider:
Newsweek's Howard Fineman said on MSNBC last night Elizabeth Edwards is likely to show up at a Clinton rally or two, but can she convince the ex-candidate to come over? It's a tough decision for John Edwards since Obama is such a heavy favorite in his home state.
Bill Clinton chews qat, and is finally revealed as the secret muslim he is. Finally it all makes sense.
Ok, who's going to write the e-mail spreading rumors that Obama is a secret Christian?
Parsimon's comment way back at 127 made me imagine a video game, where you think the final boss is going to be the Muslims, but in a stunning surprise, it's the atheists.
