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You! Be coherent! :)

Where do you draw the line? Does waving a flag and yelling "USA! USA!" count as jingoism?

Thanks for the reminder of what really drives oil prices. Let's remember this next time some politician drags in oil companies execs to berate them about their "obscene profits" and starts an investigation into price gouging.

Recognition, eh? Tell me about it.

You're calling someone else a conspiracy theorist? Um, dude?

Well then, I guess this is the end of our little conversation. I'll see you next time you decide to make stuff up. Or better yet, you could just stop making stuff up and avoid these uncomfortable little incidents altogether.

He said nothing about bin Laden! Nothing at all!!! After he said something about bin Laden, of course. Wouldn't it make you look less foolish to just say "Oops, I missed that. Good catch" and move on?

Thanks. I never thought I'd win Post of the Week and get a gazillion likes for being a scold. I guess that's what makes Alldeaf interesting. :)

McCain said nothing about Osama. Nothing!!! Not a darn thing!!!! Well, except this: You may want to search your own links before making posts like this.

Uh, "restructure to increase effectiveness" was my paraphrasing. If you don't like it, how about "what they were doing wasn't working so they did something else". Better? It may be understandable to have your BS meter go up if it were 2006, but it's now five years later and we can actually...

This thread is disappointing. What a bunch of shameless partisan hacks we have here. President Obama deserves credit for making the right decisions even though they were risky. President Bush deserves credit for making the decisions that allowed us to gather the intel that led us to this...

Sorry for being slow to reply. It's been a bit busy around here. When I talked about it being a rough estimate, I was responding to you saying... I don't object to them using numbers. I object to them using three significant figures because it implies an impossible level of precision for a...

Appeal to authority doesn't really work for me. Someone with credibility and authority may get my attention more than an average Joe, but I'm not going to pretend there are no holes when there are clearly holes. I'm glad it's open and all, but that doesn't change the subjective nature of the...

Color me most skeptical. I'm a little surprised that Nate Silver would run with this, although to be fair, he did express some reservations. However, he goes as far as to call the process "objective". I have to wonder how they judged each bill's "liberalness" or "conservativeness". How did...

You are now lecturing people about sources? Coming from Ms. "Google it" herself? The person who used this as a source to prove Marilyn Davenport's involvement with the tea party? This is golden! :P

Read the post to which I was responding. When people complain about elitism, it's not the same as saying "Gosh darn it, the guy's just too darn smart!"

I get a feeling you're excluding Biden's political party in that statement. Please tell me you're not. What about forwarding a racist email? She was not talking about Barack Obama. She was talking about Ward Connerly. Note that Barack Obama's wife is not white. If you can just brush off...

Elitist != Smart. In fact, many people with elitist attitudes are appallingly dumb. Let's also remember that elitist and elite are not the same. One can be an elite without having an elitist attitude. One can have an elitist attitude without being an elite.

I would consider sending out an email to a few friends a private act, although it's good practice to assume that any email you write could be forwarded along to others. Here's my rule of thumb. If I say or do something that offends someone and I realize that one could reasonably interpret my...

We all do from time to time.