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Tsk, you been watching Fox again?

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Not surprisingly, the folks who made the term widely popular were the Nazis--or rather, the people saying nasty things about the Nazis in the 1930s. Before then, the word "racialism" was in use in the UK, meaning something like "race-based."

But I see no harm in blaming Trotsky. After all, it's what Stalin did. So 1Marchella is in the company she belongs in.

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Could someone drop an old timey wood-paneled teevee on this guy's head, to help him return to the fictionalized universe of yesteryear?

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Ringling Bros. has a medical school.*

*Edit:: There is just no other explanation for these things.

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Whatever you say.

Pass the Metamucil, will ya?

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I'd take Dr. Nick over Dr. Gingrey any day of the week and twice on Sunday. At least Dr. Nick admits he's a cut-rate sawbones.

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And that every problem could be solved in 23 minutes, with or without a hug at the end.

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Ol' "Ferret Face"?

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Can I book a 1-way ticket to Pleasantville for Rep. Gingrey, please?

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my favorite old timey show is the prisoner.

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Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver.

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Nice try, Snowy, everybody knows Wonket doesn't allow comments.

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A commenter here--wish I could remember whom--relieved me of my misconception that doctors are scientists. It's clear they're just delivery units for Big Med and, in Gingrey's case, Big Stupid.

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I'm impressed that Trotsky was somehow adding words to the English language while he was still in the Soviet Union, presumably speaking Russian.

Anyway, a quick check of the OED shows this to be false, of course. "Racist" probably was coined based on the French word <i>raciste</i>, which dates to the 19th century. Before this, the word "racialist" was used, with basically the same meaning. The OED has cites of "racism" back to 1903 and "racist" to 1926; given that both are presented without any sort of explanation, it's clear they were in use before that time.

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I try to live my life like old Bugs Bunny cartoons and Gingrey is my Elmer Fudd.

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Apparently Rep. Gingrey somehow managed to miss the fact that his party has spent 30 years at least constantly, incessantly running their pissflaps about the unmitigated horror of sexual education and won't someone <em>please</em> think of the children and conspire to keep them ignorant?

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