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The Michael Hastings book about Newsweek was disappointing in my opinion. It was obviously just a rough draft. If you enjoyed that chapter in his 2012 ebook where he pretended to be Hunter Thompson, you'll like it, but otherwise not so much. Or maybe I'm just too desensitized to that stuff from the internet to the point that none of it was as shocking as he intended it to be.
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It's a shame that Thompson became a caricature of himself in his later writing Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: 1972 is still the best campaign memoir ever written and you wish that he still had that energy for Better Than Sex, his book about the 1992 campaign, but it's mostly scans of faxes that he sent to Clinton staffers while drunk.
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XyloJW posted:It kind of annoyed me that what felt like half of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail was excuses for why he hadn't written it yet or for how his publisher was getting mad at him for missing deadlines. That was all real, by the way. If you ever visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame they have a whole wall of HSTs hand written letters to his boss asking them to mail him more speed.
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paragon1 posted:So, I have been wondering, are we only allowed to make political threads in Debate Disco, or can we make a thread debating anything? Posting new threads is against the rules in D&D.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:43
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Before the Storm is better than Nixonlabd, in my opinion, but Nixon Agonistes is better than both and is the one book you should read to understand American politics. I've got the Reagan book on preorder and am reading Republican Gomorrah while I wait, which I hope will be a better update on movement conservatism than Spanking the Donkey was, which I found disappointing.
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Jun 30, 2014 00:36
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Comedians are usually less informed about politics than they believe, which makes it embarrassing when they try to pronounce on them seriously.
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Jun 30, 2014 01:47
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:Nixon was years before my time, what's a good start (besides Wikipedia) to get in on the insanity? Honestly, start by reading or even just watching the movie version of All The President's Men. It will at least disabuse you of the notion that Watergate was just a hotel burglary.
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Jun 30, 2014 01:51
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Wolfsheim posted:I've never seen it, but I've heard that the show that most consistently matches real-life beltway politics is Veep, confirm/deny I can confirm that it's really funny.
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Who What Now posted:For those who don't want to wade through the SCotUS thread, what happened? "Closely held" (i.e. private, majority ownership) corporations whose owners have strong religious beliefs about contraception cannot be forced to provide it to employees if they manage employee health insurance. This ruling does not apply to vaccines or blood transfusions because Justice Kennedy thinks that people with those religious beliefs are nutty.
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Victoria Jackson is running for Williamson Country Tennessee Commissioner this year, so we'll get a numerical gauge of her popularity in at least one region.
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Jun 30, 2014 18:23
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Dan now spends his days trying to sell overpriced vodka in ridiculous packaging.
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Jun 30, 2014 19:42
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Speaking of conservative comic actors, Malcolm in the Middle and Sheriff Joe are buds.
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I would watch a Frankie Muniz & Steven Seagal buddy cop martial arts movie.Pissflaps posted:Malcolm Somewhere in the Middle 
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The posts people get reported for making are almost always incredibly boring, so it's not really a mark of pride to top that ranking.
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SedanChair posted:I was the soul of wise, measured posting in the gun thread. I'll admit that I enjoy very little about those threads, but the overwhelming majority of Leninists posting on SA is interesting if nothing else.
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Agreed. We should all listen to Tom Friedman more.
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OK, but enough meta poo poo, let's spend a minute reflecting on how awesome Abe Lincoln's slippers were.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:You really are digging those slippers, dude. Yeah, I am. I'd wear the poo poo out of those slippers.
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Dancin' David Gregory is still the worst offender in that video.
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Hold on, Karl Rove is on Fox News saying that David Gregory might not have embarrassed himself in that video....
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XyloJW posted:Back when the internet was young, I found a website selling exotic meats. It was a plain html website with just the choices of meat, a description, a picture, and "email for price and shipping information." Buffalo steaks and buffalo burgers at the top, then ground emu chuck. Then lion steaks and lion ribs. Hippo steaks and hippo roasts. Ground giraffe meat. And at the bottom, "We have acquired an elephant. Transporting elephant meat is illegal in many countries, so please verify that you have a way to receive it before contacting us. We will cut to specification." I've had whale before and it's pretty tasty.
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Femur posted:Did it taste like pork? No, it was a bit gamey.
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I don't see what's so surprising about the claim that cooking food in fat makes it taste better.
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Jul 1, 2014 12:22
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This Cook Put Butter in a Pan. You Won't Believe What Happened Next.
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willus posted:How is everyone this fine evening? "It's morning in America." ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Jul 1, 2014 13:54
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I think it might say something about America that our politicians' go to method of insulting a foreign country involves food.
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Further in that twitter thread Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS reveals that he eats gluten free, so he wouldn't eat Belgian waffles anyway.
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XyloJW posted:Imagine having like Bob Johnson (D-Batman) on CSPAN. There is Mike Rogers (R-Hell)
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NYT review of Belgian men, 1882.
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Speaking of Batman, Ann, which superhero would Mitt most like to be? Ooooh, nice try but no. 
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Apparently there was a Mormon Marvel superhero, but it was a woman named Dr. Deseret and she was from an alternate history where the South won the Civil War.
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Senator Thune is watching the game. But two thirds of Vermont's Congressional delegation are living it. 
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As usual, Ted Cruz is trying too hard. also: omg gold fringes! someone alert Alex Jones!
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Of course, Ted Cruz decided that he had to out-do his colleagues with the fake(?) jingoism. He's really overcompensating for that time he was a Canadian, which was his entire life until last month. Also, it wasn't just Freedom Fries. There was Victory Cabbage too! 
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Jul 1, 2014 23:07
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Matoi Ryuko posted:How come America only gets one soccer team even though we have 28x Belgum's population? Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have teams too!
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Ratoslov posted:Okay, so I've got myself a taste for some olde-fashioned cocktail mixing. I like me some whiskey sours with home-made sour mix, but I wanna try something else. Important note: I am pretty drat broke and don't really want to make anything that involves more than one bottle of liquor at a time. What should I make? It's a good time of year for mojitos.
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The US might not have a great World Cup record, but we're still 107-2 in the World Series.
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ReidRansom posted:And Canada pretty much. May as well toss in Mexico also soon enough. Could have had Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and Iraq on that list, but America wasn't ready for President McCain. 
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Why was Pikachu the Japanese national team's mascot again Joementum posted:Could have had Uzbeki-beki-beki-stan-stan on that list, but America wasn't ready for President Cain.
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Woah. I didn't know that the guy in the peyote employment case that started the whole RFRA business was named Al Smith. That's some deeply ironic poo poo right there.
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