February ← 2011 ← FREE KRAUT! ← Page 2

Clearly, there’s a lot of demand for going to Pittsburgh 52

Almost-all-Yglesias-almost-all-the time … Fucking brilliant Sock-Backed Lending Facility? Sock-Backed Lending Facility. Like triples? Sure. But this is a dumb idea. This is at least an entertainingly snarky idea. TWMYS: Where would you put it? my proposed biopic project Young Kathryn Jean Lopez Down with the bum cartel! If when Chavvy gets DFA’ed by the Yankees ...

The cleaner injects a thrill into his job 47

Nobody kicks with de Jesus Hunh. Webb not running for reelect. mikeA bait: it would be funnier, particularly given Crystal’s whimsical, drug-addled persona, if she went against the grain and was fearless of clowns Goodman sticks the shiv in: When you are available in 60 million homes and your primetime average is 23,000 viewers, you ...

Strong men also cry 100

That’s a great plan, Walter. That’s fuckin’ ingenious, if I understand it correctly. It’s a Swiss fuckin’ watch. 18U-year-olds, Dude. Are you employed, sir? Does the female form make you uncomfortable, Mr. Lebowski? Connie was a good owner, and a good man. He was one of us.

Something that intersects with your proclivities 84

YOTW: Un-mitigated climate change is going to be like Operation Rolling Thunder. This seems like an all-advised move by AOL, though I suppose THP is a massive hit machine. Also interesting: I wonder who will quit first: the unpaid Post writers who aren’t making a dime from this deal, Arianna’s Hollywood buddies, or Arianna herself. ...

Supermagundi. Now with more puppies. 45

We Bay Area folk won’t sully ourselves by calling it “the big game,” like so many no-royalty-payin’ advertisers do. So I wave my private parts at Roger Goodell’s auntie and post FK’s annual Super Bowl™ thread. nevermoor, you have the FKin legal support wired, right? Absolutely cannot resist the lure of the Super Bowl™? Dallas ...

… and Thursday’s Grill is a full day late! 59

salb8 (he didn’t even make it through one song!) Yglesias: subsidize small firms at the expense of big rent-seeking oligopolist cartels! Yglesias: don’t subsidize small firms at the expense of big rent-seeking oligopolist cartels! Man, but this Madoff/Mets(/Chase) stuff is fun! Well, that would explain it: Stomper was making out the lineup cards I did ...

Getcher buns to Spring Training 57

The DogMa and I will be heading down on Weds 3/16, returning after the Sunday game, 3/20. We’ll be staying someplace near Papago Park, probably where they leave the light on for you. Cell is 415.307.1600, if anyone wants to get together for a libation or condiment. Feel freek to post plans in this thread, ...

Wednesday’s Grill is in your face 230

**: a cesspool of rent-seeking and shakedowns, or useless and full of wankers because nobody good wants a shitty part-time job that’s easy to get but not really very important? You’d have to be a crazy person to try to base a 21st century anything on these 3,000 year-old ideas Supreme Court Obamacare GOG ptbnl ...

Can Tuesday mean no Grill at all? 130

YOTD: But just like Saudi Arabia’s not going to tell you to use less oil and Denmark’s not going to tell you to stop playing with legos, the US government is poorly-positioned to say people should eat less meat and grain. My takeaway: SJ RE scheme falls 25% short of revenues, major bidder bows out. ...