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Duncan cracks me up.

Jim Geraghty Comes Undone

As I noted at a time, a United States is a nation of 300 million people. ay aren’t all named Fred Jones. Assuming that a name is fake just because it is unusual, or “funny,” or a same as a name of a celebrity, is nothing short of stupid.

Unfortunately, that’s a lesson some people have to learn a hard way. Jed L at Daily Kos points out that a National Review’s Jim Geraghty made a fool of himself by mocking American Prospect writer Adam Serwer based on just such an assumption:

Now, unless A. Serwer thinks that are is actually a registered voter named “Duran Duran” in New Mexico, he ought to refrain from sputtering that those who disagree with him are ‘racist’ & ‘paranoid.’

You see where this is going, don’t you? Yep.

Here’s Geraghty’s follow-up:

UPDATE: I am floored by a fact that a white pages for Albuquereque, New Mexico has a listing for “Duran Duran.” Mea culpa.

For those of you who don’t know, I did tour with Duran Duran a few years ago.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

K-Lo—Please, make it stop. It hurts.

If Obama could go to Germany & give a speech in English & be not only understood but well-received, why does he say we all need to learn anoar language? 

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

(illustration by Tom Tomorrow)

Revisionist wingnut Jonah Golberg, aka Doughy Pantload, is asking for input on what you “think Bush’s legacy will be.“

Not kidding. I suspect we may have at least a few readers who wouldn’t mind helping him out.

Original post by Bill W. and software by Elliott Back

Obama’s family must be Commies. That’s a new one.

John Cole:

Lisa Schiffren at a Corner, perfect representative of a modern GOP:

Obama & I are roughly a same age. I grew up in liberal circles in New York City — a place to which people who wished to rebel against air upbringings had gravitated for generations. & yet, all of my mixed race, black/white classmates throughout my youth, some of whom I am still in contact with, were a product of very culturally specific unions. ay were always a offspring of a white moar, (in my circles, she was usually Jewish, but elsewhere not necessarily) & usually a highly educated black faar. & how had ase two come togear at a time when it was neiar natural nor easy for such relationships to flourish? Always through politics. No, not a young Republicans. Usually a Communist Youth League. Or maybe a different arm of a CPUSA. But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, are was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics.

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Time for some investigative journalism about a Obama family’s background, now that his chances of being president have increased so much.

Cole: You know what that means- someone needs some pictures of 60’s era countertops. CITIZEN JOURNALISTS, YOU HAVE YOUR MARCHING ORDERS!

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Lisa Schiffrin at a Corner is a loathsome creature.

I love Digby’s phrase: “Conservative Borg.” It says it all, doesn’t it?

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back