Like most people, I've been trying to make sense of Newt Gingrich's rather sudden rise to legitimacy in the Republican primary. You could point to his high poll numbers in December to say that his rise isn't all that sudden, but that was due more to his being the last "Not-Romney" that the GOP elite could tolerate (after all, no party influence peddler is going...
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I'm not one for doomsday predictions and "apocalypse is upon us" sentiments, but damn if doesn't look like the world is going to hell as fast as it can. (It's long and super rantly, fair warning)
The eurozone is tearing itself apart with self-defeating austerity that basically ensure no one will recover from the crisis of 2007-08. It'll be interesting to see what happens when...
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The eurozone is tearing itself apart with self-defeating austerity that basically ensure no one will recover from the crisis of 2007-08. It'll be interesting to see what happens when...
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I want to make a point I feel has been largely absent from all the debt ceiling hysteria posts around the Internet. And that is, we are pretty much fucked all the way around.
Naturally, the worst option is default. While no one actually knows what will happen, I believe it's safe to say that "catastrophic" will suddenly be insufficient. While noting the ludicrous amount...
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Naturally, the worst option is default. While no one actually knows what will happen, I believe it's safe to say that "catastrophic" will suddenly be insufficient. While noting the ludicrous amount...
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I hate airport security. I really do. I've been frisked once, for no real discernible reason, and I felt like I was just going through it because I'm tall, have long hair, and look like a fucking dead beat.
That being said, I still feel like a fucking yuppie every time I go through it. I think airport security checkpoints are a massive waste of...
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That being said, I still feel like a fucking yuppie every time I go through it. I think airport security checkpoints are a massive waste of...
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i miss the news wire. hardcore zen, ftr, hunter the random guest columns, it's what got me into this site before i had any money to be a member. i know it's wishful thinking and probably might be disappointing, but i kinda wanna start a bring back the news wire thing on sg. it'd be fine if i actually knew anybody on here
i find it kinda weird asking suicide girls to be friends, a voice in my head has it playing out like this: hey, i like seeing you naked on the internet, let's be friends." an odd flare of prudeness, considering the context