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Well, the true masochists pay attention to how we don't manage to improve the team over the winter, but yeah, the actual on-field losing is mercifully over for now.

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$260 mil on a trillion-dollar deal? That's an incredibly low commission. No wonder he quit.

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Right now, the Visible Man is on sale, but the Visible Woman is out of stock. Possibly "because tits". Skilcraft need a better proof reader for their website, which says both models require "Pain brushes".

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<blockquote>It's just too embarassing...</blockquote>

Assumes facts not in evidence, namely the ability to feel embarassment.

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Bloomberg libel!

Harold Ford non-libel!

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For the right price, I'll work for them. I promise to reduce their stock price by <em>at least</em> 90%, so I'm at least as qualified as him...

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Human Thumb libel! (Yes I watch The Soup.)

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I'm sure Jamie Dimon will be offering him a shoulder to cry on. Oh wait no, that's a $5,000 suit, get the fuck away from me with those tears you pussy.

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Yeah, right now I find it quite hard to ignore just how dependent my family is on the mortgage interest and college tuition deductions, and how Mitt hasn't exactly promised <em>not</em> to go after those, and it's certainly impossible for his math to work without slashing them.

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I know the whole thing about how violence is the resort of losers of debates is so cliche, but sometimes things become cliched because they're true.

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Clyde McPhatter LIBEL!

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He might consider having everyone else locked out of the subway so he could take it alone.

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!!!.

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yeah but (left-y, ira glass-y) planet money rocks everyone's world and routinely scores bigger stories than all of them combined.

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While Pandit deserves to end up a drifter, I suspect he'll do just fine with his couple of hundred million for a while yet.

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Yes, it's <a href="http:\/\/articles.economictimes.indi...\/2012-10-17\/news\/34501006_1_citigroup-inc-chief-executive-citigroup-s-vikram-pandit-citi-shareholder" target="_blank">all the fault of</a> the President and those smelly hippies...

<blockquote>Within minutes of the bank's announcement, Pandit's name was gone from Citigroup's website. Chief Operating Officer John Havens, a long-time associate of Pandit, also resigned.

Pandit's sudden resignation is the culmination of months of disagreement with the board, in particular O'Neill, over strategy.

...Citigroup shares rose as much as 1.5 percent in morning trading as some investors said they were not sorry to see Pandit leave.

...The board's relationship with Pandit was already under pressure after shareholders rejected the CEO's pay package in an advisory vote in April. He was awarded more than $15 million in 2011 compensation, but 55 percent of shareholders voted against it.</blockquote>

All hail the jerb creators.

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