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Nobody expects the NRA! Our chief weapon is guns. Guns and fear. Fear and guns. Our two chief weapons are fear and guns... and ruthless efficiency... Our *three* weapons are fear, guns, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the 2nd Amendment.

(My point, of course, was that as exercises in <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Direct_democracy" target="_blank">direct democracy</a>, ballot initiatives directly contradict their claims about what we are not.)

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Yeah, it's cute how dumb they are, isn't it?

Especially when they're the same ones running around trying to push through ballot initiatives.

We can, of course, also add small-r "republicanism" to the list.

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So, the GOP is the party of small ideas. No news there.

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Centuries, what are centuries? I'll tell you what they are, centuries are just another big idea of the left that has dragged this country down into the gutter for too long.

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exactly.

(and shhhhhh: i've kinda been in love with your avatar for a couple of decades)

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this is OT but GlaxoSmithKline healthcare fraud? barclays rate manipulation?

wass up britain? you rootin for our man barry?

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He was funnier when he was on drugs or was what it when I was on drugs?

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Would that Mencken were around to express his opinion of O'Rourke...

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Please, oh please!

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H.L. Mencken was anti-Semitic so at least they share that.

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Instead of <em>by</em> fucking big ideas, which is what PJ's attempting, but simply waving your dick from a considerable distance isn't fucking, Mr. O'Rourke.

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Where does Victoria Jackson fit in this pantheon of rightwing repartee?

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"But liberty isn’t a big idea. "

Really? Tell that to every pharaoh, baron, grand vizier, priest, king, prince, preacher, prime minister, emperor, cesar, czar, and queen who actively worked to keep "liberty" in the hands of a select few.

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I don't thing she fits into anything unless is special made.

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<blockquote>It gives us pause to hear our spouse say “I have an idea!”</blockquote>

Maybe you, because you're a misogynist. My wife has good ideas, so those are words I like to hear.

<blockquote>If our boss says it, we panic unless we’re sufficiently quick-witted to spill coffee on the iPad the boss has just used to Google some portentous concept.</blockquote>

This is understandable - your boss was, it seems, stupid enough to hire you, but it's rather irrelevant to the concept of <em>big</em> ideas, because he's clearly a man of tiny brain. And yes, I'm assuming a male boss, because, well, you probably wouldn't work for a woman, and a woman probably wouldn't hire you, you dinosaur.

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he embarrasses me every time he opens his mouth on wait wait don't tell me.

especially when he's with the delicious paula poundstone.

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