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Standing Athwart History Yelling Stop

Punning Pundit — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:32:59 +0000

Ladies and Gentleman: the Will.i.am remix, featuring John Boehner

If anyone asks, this is why I’m a yellow dog.

Why disemvoweling was invented

Punning Pundit — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:05:45 +0000

McCain’s campaign is encouraging trolls. They’re literally giving trolls “points” for leaving pro-McCain talking points in the comments section of various blogs. Their view of the blogworld is fairly skewed, they list Glen Reynolds (Instapundit) as neither right, nor left, nor moderate, but “other” (he’s a fairly doctrinaire conservative).

This isn’t the worst idea in the world– many large companies employ trolls to get their own word out. Its just so transparent and icky that I can’t think it will do much good. Yes, this blog is a bit annoyed not to be included on the hit list.

If you try, you just might find that you get what you need.

Punning Pundit — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:06:27 +0000

As I understand it, conservatives think that it is silly to talk with Iran until Iran A) stops supporting Hammas B) gives up it’s nuclear ambition C) stops repressing its own people. Doing anything about point C) would violate the priciples of the treaty of Westphalia, so I assume this is mere saber rattling.

As for the rest: my understanding is that these are the points to be negotiated. Which means setting them as preconditions indicates that certain parts of our governing class really do not wish to meet at all– outside the field of honor. This, of course, makes them wildly out of touch with most Americans:

Seems like talking with people we don’t like in an attempt to settle our differences is a political winner. Who knew?