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i have absolutely no idea what all of this is about. and i'm far too busy and bored to find out.

but. can someone with deep wonkette memory confirm that pegs did in fact call us 'dizzy children'? b/c that's what i remember and that's pretty sweet.

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<blockquote>We can imagine Peggy wearing a look of shock as she sits at her typewriter (a massive Webley-Vickers manual, said by the antiques dealer to have once been used by Claire Luce Booth).</blockquote> IDK, I always picture Dame Noonington, attired in silk pyjamas and matching slippers and an expensively brocaded housecoat, reclining on a couch underneath a large framed portrait of Saint Ronnie in the drawing room, which is dimly-lit as always despite the fact that it is blazingly bright daytime outside. One hand occasionally presses a damp cloth over her eyes when it is not otherwise occupied with wild gesticulations to illustrate her pronouncements, and the other hand clutches a finely cut crystal tumbler full of iced gin. Such is her arrangement as she dictates her weekly column in a voice that alternates between a theatrical oration and a hushed whisper to an oleaginous male Sub who cowers in the corner.

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Every time I read something from Peggy, I imagine a hamster wheel/runner inhabiting her skull - spinning furiously, but going nowhere.

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The bigger question: why is she paid to share her thoughts?

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This made me imagine Peggy farting - or not. Never.

Chuckle.

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She's not allowed to open cracks in the universe! The Shadow Proclamation shall hear of this!

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In some countries people who aren't prepared to do meaningful work are shuttled off into the military or to a vocational school. In America they're sent to Washington to become pundits.

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Personally, I can live with that. Would <i>you</i> buy something that was built by Peggy Noonan or George Will?

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Plus side: his memory hasn't gotten any worse.

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Reagan was stupid before he was senile.

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A highly-educated snob who doesn't understand what it is to be a 'Murican, or capitalism, or that Hawaii is in Kenya, also too.

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Blair Bitch papers, more like.

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"She sits there so refined, and drinks herself half blind She lost her youth, and she lost her Ronnie And she lost her mind."

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The Hillary Clinton presidency will be like manna from heaven for the Douche Estate. How many times can Hannity say "shocking . . . troubling . . incredible. . . outrageous. . . indefensible. . . embarrassing. . . [insert Fox rage word generator]" over the next 4 or 8 years?

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