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In Free-Market America, money spends you!

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Starting tonight in Tampa, Fla., and continuing for the next several days, the national Republican Party will transform a cavernous ice hockey rink into a cavernous horse hockey rink.

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Since Willard Romney wants to continue and expand the Bush tax cuts so people like him pay less tax than nail ladies, I think we should just start referring to him as Dubya-II.

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It does no good to measure twice and cut once if you don't start first by thinking three times.

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I'm starting to think that even the people I totally agree with are idiots.

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Direct from Cowboy Monkey, Champaign, Illinois, by RubberCrutch to his entourage:

"There are probably a dozen 58-year-old motherfuckers in here that look stupider than me!"

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Direct from the Cowboy Monkey, Champaign, Illinois, by Rudy:

"Long face, deep throat." [Wise nod.]

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"I'm at Dapper Dan man, goddamit!"

Editor's note: yes, this is a quote stolen from my birthday twin. No, not The 59er---George Clooney! And furthermore, I hope your new year has started out exactly as you wanted it to. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Lemme ask you this:

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Why do the conglomerate media and national politicians of both parties keep pretending that the public is obsessed with the federal deficit when post-election polls show that only 4 percent of Americans consider it a priority?

That's up, by the way, from a total of 1 percent from the same CBS poll in January 2007---so I guess by that measure you could truthfully say that concern about the budget deficit has quadrupled in 3 years! (Also note from the screenshot in Krugman's post that citizen concern about illegal immigration has fallen by 2/3 from the level reported by the same CBS poll in January 2007, that is, from 6 percent to 2 percent!

Editor's note: "Lemme ask you this:" is a brand new copyrighted feature of this blog! It is sort of like the interrogative conjoined twin of "Wise sayings".

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In the 1960s and 1970s, Americans did not like radicals and were afraid of them, but in the 21st century we elect them to consitutional offices in the federal government.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Stan Freberg Modestly Presents

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"Surly to bed and surly to rise."



Unfortunately the needle skips a few times near the beginning of the musical number for the Declaration of Independence. The voice characterizations are a thing of beauty that awed a coupla shorties who overheard their dad playing this album in the early 1960s. Rocky and Bullwinkle fans will recognize the voices of June Foray (the voice of Rocky) doing all the female parts here, and Stan Freberg, who did umpty-nine wiseguy voices pretty much everywhere in Jay Ward cartoons in the early and mid-'60s in addition to his own hugely fruitful and influential output. Paul "Boris Badenov" Frees, is hard to recognize as the narrator. Freberg and partners did very hip and smart parody, and other tracks from this LP, The United States of America, display some pretty biting satire about the white man's relations with Indians (as we used to call Native Americans). I hope to revisit Freberg sometime in the future because he was a giant in 1950s and '60s pop culture, catering both to hipper adults and legions of kids.

Declaration of Independence and Betsy Ross and the Flag, Stan Freberg (1961, from "The United States of America: The Early Years," Capitol W/SW-1573), via YouTube.

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If you think you're 10 pounds overweight, then there's a high probability that you are actually 30 pounds overweight.

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This edition of Wise Sayings is contributed by the very wise Beer-D.

Solving problems has never solved anyone's problems.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Golf balls. Fucking golf balls!

Friday Night Bonus Reel

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While I'm on the subject of  "Buddys," here's a guerrilla recording made on the bus of one instantiation of The Buddy Rich Big Band, date unknown to me.



"Whattaya play?!? CLAMS??!!!"

If you like that, there's more here. I especially like the Beard Confrontation starting at about 5:40. "I got a right hand on your fuckin' brain if ya want it!!!"

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[Editor's note: this edition of wise sayings is provided 2 days early, via the good offices of Beer-D, so you have time to bathe in its wiseness.]

The only thing worse than being alone on Valentine's Day is not being alone.

Most important thing

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Steve Jobs says the iPad will be "will be the most important thing I've ever done." I guess that's not counting the liver transplant.

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Every bottle of wine I don't have to share is a blessing.

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If we learned anything from the Reagan Revolution it was that you only need a president, an army, a site license for QuickBooks Pro, and a bathtub to run a democracy.

I help Josh Marshall make a funny

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Josh: When House Republicans succeed in their own 'color revolution', what color will they be?

StuporMundi: Is "vomit" a color?

Disclaimer: Josh Marshall was in no way helped by StuporMundi.