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Posts by Ben Scott

I love lamb but I let someone else make it out of sheep flesh for me.

2 weeks ago 0 0 0 0

Either we're overlooking something or they left something out of the description regarding how it depicts scale - in the past I'd have presumed the former, but these days....

2 weeks ago 2 0 0 0

You were TOLD this, or you actually THOUGHT it for any length of time...?

3 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
Photo of Jimmy McMillan who ran for office in NYC on the "Rent is to damn high" party platform

Photo of Jimmy McMillan who ran for office in NYC on the "Rent is to damn high" party platform

We should have listened...

3 weeks ago 2 0 0 0

HAH!

4 weeks ago 1 0 0 0

Who could possibly be positioned to look over a shoulder like Jimmy's??

1 month ago 1 0 1 0

I'm sure they can still manage to, they just don't see us as worth lying to any more. Fear of public backlash has been replaced by a soothing feeling of calm contempt.

1 month ago 1 0 0 0

Do we know anyone like that?

1 month ago 1 0 1 0

After each Olympic Games, they hold a Paralympics to get some extra use out of the facilities. I wonder if they should try that with F1 - run more races the next day, but maybe some of the cars are missing a wheel or have seats where you can't adjust the lumbar support any more?

1 month ago 1 0 0 0

You're going on a list somewhere for this one....

1 month ago 0 0 0 0
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At least Cheney could string together a coherent paragraph, and had enough respect for the public to bother lying to us. And here I thought I'd never have anything positive to say about the evil bastard...

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And yet we have both managed to reproduce...

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This is the opening line from your "61 and over" show I take it?

1 month ago 1 0 1 0

To be fair, forcing banks to act as stable, responsible institutions could baffle and frighten modern generations, who've grown to expect a consistent economic boom-bust cycle to fuel their existential angst.

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There is No Left CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten reported recently, “When we’re talking about 42% of Democrats under the age of 35 identifying as democratic socialists

Direct link: www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/23/t...

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Jon Stewart made a similar point last week while interviewing Richard Thaler on his podcast - I'm not fully convinced that nudges are potentially harmful or that they distract from the underlying issues, I believe it's more about the different approaches of utopian vs utilitarian. But...?

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

These days even high court judges won't stay bought.

2 months ago 0 0 0 0
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2 months ago 1 0 0 0

If you get a good tan and call yourself Roberto he'll come find you

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

The guys in line behind him are no treat either, sadly...

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Third base!

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Yes, he's on tape calling it that

2 months ago 1 0 0 0

If you sucker punch someone, you don't invite them to come stay at your place, duh. Unless you're the good guys, in which case you don't sucker punch to begin with.
I see no inconsistencies.

2 months ago 1 0 0 0

For balance they can just officially expand their targets to add a majority group - such as poor people, I'm thinking...

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

I felt as though I shouldn't like this one, and yet....

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

The word "demand" doesn't seem apt when perched atop a photo of Schumer - he's usually more of a frown-at-the-problem sort of malcontent.

2 months ago 2 0 0 0
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Bought out by private equity? It's their own fault for being a thing out of which value can be extracted.

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

We can unite against something, but what or who are we FOR? Behind POTUS is Vance, then Johnson... Who on the D side even resembles a front-runner?
We need the machine from The Fly to merge AOC and Bernie...
C'mon let's get a name we can rally around (then tear to shreds right before the election!)

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Not sure he needs the excuse. Or the act. The amount of attention paid to norms and even basic logic varies against whatever he's trying to distract us from, or who's paying him most recently.

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ICE Vows To Restore Order Using Whatever Force Unnecessary

ICE Vows To Restore Order Using Whatever Force Unnecessary

ICE Vows To Restore Order Using Whatever Force Unnecessary

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