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  1. This is precisely why we need tort reform
  2. Amazing photo, genius post, and of course several commenters beat me to the observation that that’s clearly Dr. Pierre Chang Obama’s meeting with
  3. Yeah, plenty of stoopid in this (and, yes, Byg has his Twyt on), but this is … odd/alarming/questionable:

    I’d love to tell you what’s going on with Justin Duchscherer, but this is the best-kept secret I’ve ever encountered in nearly a decade covering the A’s. That in itself should tell you that whatever the problem is, it’s very, very serious. I don’t even want to speculate. I just want him to get better in every way.

  4. Zito: not really all that bad
  5. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.
  6. I’ll never forget one back in the ’80s … They brought in the A’s roster and dumped them on the floor in front of my podium. This is not new.
  7. I really don’t understand — why doesn’t Ted simply resign?
  8. My job is not to answer your questions.

66 thoughts on “BANANA SUIT IS FAKE!!! DLD 082009

  1. andeux Aug 20,2009 12:48 pm

    Re. (7), see comment 2.

    TINSTAAFK
  2. andeux Aug 20,2009 12:50 pm

    With Barton finally starting to hit in his rehab assignment, and four games against RHP coming up, it seems like a pretty good time for the A’s to consider considering dumping Nomar.

    TINSTAAFK
    • monkeyball Aug 20,2009 12:54 pm || Up

      The A’s player development department should hire someone whose parents were Harper Lee fans.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  3. nevermoor Aug 20,2009 1:34 pm

    Scarborough, despite refusing to engage the question at the end, at least lets his guests talk.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 2:31 pm || Up

      Apparently, there’s a danger in that. Better to just scream them down, Joe.

      On a related note, I think I have a new hero.

  4. nevermoor Aug 20,2009 2:02 pm
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 2:47 pm || Up

      That was really good. Thank you for sharing it.

    • monkeyball Aug 20,2009 3:55 pm || Up

      Ugh. He sure ain’t above a little mainstream demagoguing on certain issues:

      OBAMA: Well, that will continue because we don’t want a situation in which some child, even if they’re an illegal immigrant, shows up in an emergency room with tuberculosis and nobody is giving them treatment, and then they’re going back to the playground and playing next to our kids.

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      • nevermoor Aug 20,2009 4:13 pm || Up

        Meh. He’s aware of who he’s talking to.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • JediLeroy Aug 20,2009 5:00 pm || Up

      Thanks for that link. Good stuff.

      az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
  5. Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 2:08 pm

    Say, does anyone know where I might get a banana suit?

  6. monkeyball Aug 20,2009 3:58 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  7. monkeyball Aug 20,2009 3:59 pm

    Norm Coleman “goes to Harvard

    (Anyone else think Malkovich should play Norm in the movie?)

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    • Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 4:03 pm || Up

      One would would thinkk, Mis-ter Franken, that you have overplayed your hand…(perhaps?)

  8. andeux Aug 20,2009 4:16 pm

    Shouldn’t that be torte reform?

    TINSTAAFK
    • Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 4:21 pm || Up

      We’re having tarts?!

    • monkeyball Aug 20,2009 4:22 pm || Up

      Did you know that 47 million children in this country have no access to novelty miniature license plates with their names on them?

      Yes, the only solution is Bort reform.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • JediLeroy Aug 20,2009 4:31 pm || Up

        My son is also named Bort.

        az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
        • Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 4:36 pm || Up

          Bort! Bort! Don’t forget your jacket!

      • nevermoor Aug 20,2009 4:39 pm || Up

        Did you know that nobody uses Han’s algorithm?

        Yep… sort reform.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • monkeyball Aug 20,2009 4:53 pm || Up

          That recent Keanu scifi remake?

          Gort reform.

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          • Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 5:05 pm || Up

            My sister came and knocked down all the couch cushions.

            Fort reform.

            • monkeyball Aug 20,2009 5:11 pm || Up

              Now that I’m raising an infant, I’m able to actually observe and adjust some of Freud and Lacan’s theories of child development.

              Fort/da reform.

              you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
              • JediLeroy Aug 20,2009 5:39 pm || Up

                The less intelligent of two aspiring world dictator mice will be in charge of health care reform.

                Zort! Reform.

                az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
          • nevermoor Aug 20,2009 5:11 pm || Up

            All the new sexual harassment laws?

            Court reform.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • monkeyball Aug 20,2009 5:16 pm || Up
              you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
              • nevermoor Aug 20,2009 5:21 pm || Up

                First task for our ever-promised light-speed space ships?

                Oort reform.

                "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 5:23 pm || Up

                  David Simon dedicates to remaking the flawed second season of The Wire.

                  Port reform.

                • nevermoor Aug 20,2009 5:24 pm || Up

                  Medieval engineers discover masonry.

                  Fort reform.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 5:30 pm || Up

                  Prof. Sahl decides Lee Harvey acted alone.

                  Mort Reform.

                • monkeyball Aug 20,2009 5:28 pm || Up

                  Another task for Scotty: teleport reform.

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 5:47 pm || Up

                  The Big Lebowski has put his (metaphoric) foot down with his wild young wife.

                  Cavort reform.

              • JediLeroy Aug 20,2009 5:35 pm || Up

                I hear Terry Pratchett’s going to rewrite part of the fourth Discworld book.

                Mort reform.

                az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
                • monkeyball Aug 20,2009 5:46 pm || Up

                  The Mists of Avalon: Le Morte d’Arthur reform.

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • andeux Aug 20,2009 5:48 pm || Up

                  La petite mort reform

                  TINSTAAFK
                • Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 5:50 pm || Up

                  Gad! Let’s hope they don’t reform that one.

  9. Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 5:09 pm

    I stabbed my precept in the neck repeatedly with the edge of my Derrida Reader. He died.

    Cohort Reform.

    • nevermoor Aug 20,2009 5:23 pm || Up

      Picking up the ball and running with it.

      (apocryphal) sport reform.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Aug 20,2009 5:48 pm || Up

        Better Padres blogging.

        Ducksnorts reform.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 5:51 pm || Up

          Planters decides they just need to be more orderly about their nut distribution.

          Assort reform.

          • JediLeroy Aug 20,2009 6:12 pm || Up

            LB embarks on a journey to make hot pants even hotter.

            Short reform.

            az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
            • nevermoor Aug 20,2009 6:17 pm || Up

              Fail. You needed this:

              Salb purchases stilts… short reform.

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  10. nevermoor Aug 20,2009 5:12 pm

    I wonder if anyone will make the obvious joke.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  11. whiteshoes40 Aug 20,2009 8:13 pm

    There is probably more green-and-gold merchandise in the Baylor bookstore than there is at the Coliseum. Also, there are real bears on campus. When the A’s get their new ballpark (in, oh, 2068), they need to feature a pair of real elephants. And they can walk them on the field before the games, and it’ll be like the old days, when the Raiders destroyed the grass. But elephants are much more interesting than the Raiders, so it would be better. Much better.

    • Leopold Bloom Aug 20,2009 8:30 pm || Up

      nice and cool there?

      • whiteshoes40 Aug 21,2009 4:49 pm || Up

        But of course.

        I’m glad the moving-in part is done, because that was just horrendous in the heat.

  12. AsFanInLA Aug 21,2009 10:48 am

    This is worth a read. I am still laughing just thinking about it. Bears and squirels = good. Raccons = bad. More Wap-a-pap.

    • nevermoor Aug 21,2009 10:57 am || Up

      I have to admit that I’m shocked it was so well received.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Aug 21,2009 11:04 am || Up

        Me too.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • monkeyball Aug 21,2009 12:38 pm || Up

        I have to say I actually find it pretty offensive. This isn’t a slippery-slope argument, but a simple equivalence: would this be less funny/more offensive if it were in an “Ah, so, Confucius say …” or shuck-and-jive Stepinfetchit “dialect”?

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        • nevermoor Aug 21,2009 1:02 pm || Up

          I have to agree, which is why I linked to 149’s impressive work on the “it’s ok, we don’t mean any offense” argument.

          26 recs, though, blows my mind.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • monkeyball Aug 21,2009 1:05 pm || Up

            Napoleon using the Tonto “humor” himself in a response in another post kinda blows my mind.

            you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
            • nevermoor Aug 21,2009 1:07 pm || Up

              I know. I was thinking of saying something like “at least Nico isn’t giving it the seal of approval” but then I saw that.

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  13. nevermoor Aug 21,2009 10:57 am

    I knew electing Rice to the HOF was a big mistake.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  14. Poppy Aug 21,2009 11:32 am

    Just trying out my new, mysteriously melancholy sig line…

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  15. Poppy Aug 21,2009 11:43 am

    I’m disturbed by what Urban had to say about Duke, but I’m also disturbed by this:

    the first song to which my wife and I ever danced together — AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long”

    That’s a… strange song for a first dance. Or any dance.

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • nevermoor Aug 21,2009 11:47 am || Up

      First dance songs are HARD. I, for one, don’t want to do one that everyone else does, but I want it to be slow and not super long. My ability to locate such options has so far closely approximated Crosby’s ability to hit sliders.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Aug 21,2009 11:54 am || Up

      I wonder who wears the British schoolboy uni?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • batgirl Aug 24,2009 12:56 pm || Up

      I kind of read it as–it wasn’t at his wedding, but maybe more on a first date.

      Though I did go to a wedding where the first dance for the bride and groom was Rod Stewart’s “Do you think I’m Sexy.” It was pretty entertaining.

  16. xbhaskarx Aug 24,2009 9:07 am

    It was a Republican, the lawyer Joseph Welch, who delivered the coup de grâce to Senator McCarthy when he said, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” Where is the Republican who would dare say that to Rush Limbaugh, who has compared the President of the United States to Adolf Hitler?

    Does he mean “the President of the United States” or “Obama”? Is this kind of like how Photoshops of the President are now a big deal?

    • nevermoor Aug 24,2009 10:12 am || Up

      Politicians
      John Valder. Fidel Castro. Government of North Korea. Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei.

      Equivalency fail.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Aug 24,2009 10:25 am || Up

        equivalency WIN:

        Palin is to politics what Dr. Nick Riviera is to medicine

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