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I could have sworn that I cleaned this column off of my bathroom floor this morning. My elderly cat has just recently ceased to understand the concept of litter box.

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Oooohhhhhhhh Peggy you drunken slutting lover of the pocket pint

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Reagan wasn't selfish. He was all for other rich people like himself.

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You mean Pete "Rimmer" LaBarbera?

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Dude, you've made it clear over time that you don't like Bubba at all, but off-shoring of manufacturing jobs was going on long before he came into office. The sumbitch certainly participated in the expansion of "free trade" (aka, "fuck the US workforce"), but he was hardly the unique turning point.

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A meta-menu?

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<i>But the odd thing, the destabilizing thing as you think about it, is that we’re in a crisis. We’ve been in it since at least 2008 and the crash, and the wars.</i>

Aw, the halcyon days of September, 2001. Oh, and remember how that evil commie FDR caused the stock market to crash?

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This - "Until the nectar curdled in her belly and her lover left her bereft, wandering her penthouse" ... I read it as her lover was wandering around in her pantyhose ...

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Double vision.

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Step 1: admit that Obama's not stupid. Step 2: admit that you're a whore for power, rejecting Christie because he's about to lose his.

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Sorry. I lost my focus at <i>O tempura, O s'mores</i>. I'll be in the bathroom with the first paragraph.

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<i>... it takes a special kind of cluelessness, self-absorption and moral blindness to link the governor of New Jersey closing a bridge solely to punish a town headed by a political enemy with a national effort to open up America’s health insurance industry to even the poorest and sickest and most vulnerable of society.</i>

Yes, this! Thank you, Gary. It really takes a special kind of asshole to be as awful as Dame Peggy and her ilk. Although unlike Pegster, most of them can't even use perpetual intoxication as an excuse, probably.

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Oh for the love of dog. If Peggy Noonan were any more self-absorbed, she would become a black hole.

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