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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

Just stumbled across this gem from Dean Baker. He does a fine job of pointing out the idiocy of Friedman <a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.p..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-pres...">http://www.cepr.net/index.p...

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

I've been there once to register my iPad- spent twenty minutes being condescended to and treated like an ignorant technophobe until they embarrassingly realized I had already done every single thing they were trying to teach me how to do while I was waiting to be helped...

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bobbert's avatar

I'd prefer a kick directly in the Friedman Unit.

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BarackMyWorld's avatar

"Suck. On. This."

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bobbert's avatar

Unfortunately, the village isn't missing any of its idiots.

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bobbert's avatar

Exposure to Tom Friedman will do that.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

Kinky is the one that occasionally makes sense...

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

sounds like my last trip to Tijuana

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FeloniousMonk's avatar

You also avoided confusing those of us (OK, me) who forget that some people use parentheses instead of minus signs.

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SullivanSt's avatar

I thought they were using lead.

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SullivanSt's avatar

Most of those people are called accountants. Fortunately, I am not one of those. Although I often feel like it, given how much time we have spent breaking our promise to one of our customers that "we will not be writing an accounting system".

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bobbert's avatar

A grand piano on the head?

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Pierre_de_Fermat's avatar

But ... but ... <i>serious</i> people say we should cut Social Security and Medicare. Not just any Tom, Dick or Harry ... these are <i>serious</i> people. In Georgetown and other places where <i>serious</i> people congregate and talk about serious things. Like cutting Social Security and Medicare. And it <i>pains</i> them to have to talk this way. But they are <i>serious</i> people, and really, they must. Not that they will need any of this themselves, but the folks who do are so incredibly un-serious. I mean, really.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

apparently, the American public

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

Rinse, repeat

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SullivanSt's avatar

On one strict condition: that they form a circular firing squad.

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