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"We have updated the article; Wonkette regrets the error."

This IS fake news! No real news organization admits error and corrects themselves.

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After reading the news and getting angry every morning, this site makes it all seem somehow tolerable for one more day. Thanks!

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Was he handcuffed to a briefcase on the way in and empty-handed on the way out?

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Oh.my.god.I have never seen natural history, political science, existential philosophy, and What Came Before Genesis expressed as a Proustian parody of national, dare I say universal, conservative protectionism.

(runs off to find full episode and more Lee)

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I have seen him live a few times and he makes me laugh until I am in physical pain.

Look for the 'comedy vehicle' shows. With the pop-will-eat-itself interviews and the whole deconstruction of the form.

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We are. *thinks wistfully of the Osiris rose and ancient tea roses which lead up the border to the delicious lemon yellow rambler on the back fence. (I am a disappointment to my nation for only knowing the English names of my plants, rather than the Latin ones.)

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They mostly do. Our right wing idiots aren't as closely linked to religion as yours are. They also use it as an excuse I judge people on their skin colour- more vs less evolved. Sigh. Twats.

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That sounds like a death spiral, but that can only happen with Obamacare.

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There are so many goddamn dots, it's turning into a pointillist painting, titled : "Treasonous Fuckwads"

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A pedant notes: Farage is a member of the EUROPEAN Parliament, a body which he despises and does not recognize the authority of. UKIP has only one member of the BRITISH Parliament, and it's not him (actually a former Conservative who is on the moderate wing of UKIP and doesn't get on with his ex-leader and his Trumpist-fascist buddies).

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That's reading something in that I don't see evidence of. As it is, hedge fund investments are a BFD in the Ecuadorian elections right now (the conservative candidate is a hedge fund manager). My musings were more based on Wonkette's open antipathy towards Assange, focusing on his alleged sexual predation, when it seems more based in his role in undermining Hillary Clinton's campaign (alleged). It seems what's overlooked is that Clinton was seen as a much bigger threat to Latin America than Trump, who is merely a boob and racist.

Besides, Ecuador (and the rest of Latin America) would welcome more business ties to Russia.

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Try this. Stewart Lee makes me laugh until only dogs can hear me and my face aches, but he's not everyone's cup of tea. I'm not saying I base friendships on how people feel about Stewart Lee, but...

https://youtu.be/6KVO378tjsw

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Sunday in the Kremlin with Pooty.

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There was one in the clock display of the microwave at work today. Here, have some sympathy for your plight.

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Ruro Scooby. You may want to wipe that shit-eating grin off your face Dampnut.

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I'm pretty sure he went to a public school at a time when that sort of behaviour went unremarked and unpunished.

(I don't mean consenting adults sticking fingers up each other's bums, I mean children at school being mistreated/ assaulted in the name of tradition)

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