Tag: assholes
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Can a self-aggrandizing fat man really win the presidency?
I don’t know if William Howard Taft was a pompous gasbag. Assuming he was not, Newt stands to make history. “I was charging $60,000 a speech and the number of speeches was going up, not down,” Gingrich said in South Carolina, explaining why he didn’t actually need his consulting fee from Freddie Mac. “Normally, celebrities […]
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Steve Jobs was an asshole
You can tell everything about a person by how they treat people who bring them food. It’s a subservient position, one that’s easily taken advantage of or belittled by egomaniacs. From Walter Issacson’s upcoming bio on the Apple co-founder. Jony Ive, Apple’s longtime design chief, tells Isaacson; perhaps that’s why he parked in handicapped spots, […]
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‘Assholishness’ infects Arizona GOP
Apparently the Pima County, AZ GOP considers tact a violation of the Second Amendment/Commandment, which, as you know, is the most sacred of God’s 10 edicts. Eight months after a mad gunman killed six and injured 13, including Pima County’s congressional representative, Gabrielle Giffords, the party figured it was a good idea to hold a […]
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And an overbearing ex-sportscaster shall lead them
Debuting on the MySpace of cable TV networks, Keith Olbermann reminded viewers he’s the “last line of defense” against those evil corporations, in their corporation buildings, acting all corporation-y. I trust everyone’s sent Keith an e-mail thanking him for saving America.
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The biggest a-hole in Congress
“We hear the CBO says well if we don’t raise the debt limit, it’s going to put so many people out of work, I don’t remember then number, I think it’s 250,000 or something, are gonna be put out of work. Well those are gonna be government employees that are put out of work. There […]
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Asshole state rep. strikes again
Already this year Bobby Franklin, a state representative from Marietta, has compared gays to “unrepentant drug dealers” and tried to criminalize miscarriages. Now he’s badmouthing tornado survivors. At least 340 people were killed by the historic tornado cell that passed through the South, causing property damages ranging from $2 billion to $5 billion.
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