DeLong Sr’s Law of Proofreading
It sounds like a corollary to Douglas Adam’s Somebody Else’s Problem field or Murphy’s Law… J. Bradford DeLong suggests a … More DeLong Sr’s Law of Proofreading
It sounds like a corollary to Douglas Adam’s Somebody Else’s Problem field or Murphy’s Law… J. Bradford DeLong suggests a … More DeLong Sr’s Law of Proofreading
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Republicans are people who want to shrink government to the point that it can fit in your bedroom.
The penalty good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.—Plato
“If this be treason, make the most of it.”—Patrick Henry
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They slipped in a double negative, the tricky little bastards. —Leslie in CA@DKOS. Re Bush/Cheney2004’s allegation that Kerry is a … More Double Negatives
“We’re just sitting around here – Jay’s ragging on his sister, Mika’s being duly oppressed… As it should be.”—tobasc0cat’s LiveJournal
It’s hard to stay in a good mood when you’ve been wearing a Kevlar vest for 13 hours.—Inspector “Westside”.