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My favorite Lithwick was a cross-burning case when, out of nowhere, Clarence Thomas asked a question. It was the first time he'd spoken in court in seven years. She described the people in the courtroom looking around like the Muppets at the end of a Pigs In Space episode looking for the announcer, when that deep voice started.

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The seat has not been stolen YET. This is an important point to remember.

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Wasn't he the token liberal who used to be on with Hannity?

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I don't see that subjecting the west coast to Red State klepto-pluto-theocratic crap does anything to further protection of anything Western, democratic, non-authoritarian. Let the Red States protect the World from the Red States' Russian allies. There's no America here if the Red States seize control of the reins of government by every nasty anti-democratic trick in the book and treat it like klepto-pluto-theocratic orgy. And... Russia isn't gonna invade California. I have no interest in being a pawn of the Trump/Pence/Ryan/McConnell/Gorsuch "America." Fuck that place in the ear. With an ice pick.

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How about Nelson Rockefeller, who was supposed to be the Republican nominee in 1964 but had to be replaced by Goldwater because Rockefeller got a (gasp) divorce?

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Let's split the difference Playing with himself while fantasizing about Ivanka and cheating at golf.

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Well, he did lose all that weight, and that takes a lot of resolve.

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December 2015. Took some Christmas money and bought a snowblower as an investment. A time would come, soon enough, when shoveling even our miniscule driveway would be inviting a heart attack.

Have. Not. Used. The. Damned. Thing. Yet.

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666 Fifth Avenue? Isn't that where that guy Trump shot somebody on the street?

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So, then, Ron and Nancy were just the neighbors of the Beast?

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That wouldn't be the one that agreed to take control of all of Assad's chemical weapons for safekeeping, would it?

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George W. Bush stopped blaming all the fuckups on Bill Clinton on January 20, 2009.

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I haven't been hanging out as much. The actual big red dog passed away and it was hard after that for a while. I also got a new job that forces me to actually be mentally present for most of the day.

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Hey, Roberts cast the deciding vote that gave the final OK to the Affordable Care Act. He's not hopeless.

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Well, I'm glad you're back. Very sorry about your dog.

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come on, McCain. just because you vote to repeal the filibuster from this doesn't mean they won't target you in the next primary. and, unlike on of my favorite TX GOP state senators we lost in the interim, Kevin Eltife who naively put forth the rule change from 2/3rds to 3/5ths for cloture, you're not going to get a sweet agency position like UT Regent.

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