Comments on: Sympathy for the bad apples http://thepoorman.net/2009/05/17/sympathy-for-the-bad-apples/ leading the Democratic Lynch Mob since 2010 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GeoX http://thepoorman.net/2009/05/17/sympathy-for-the-bad-apples/#comment-20365 Fri, 22 May 2009 20:26:03 +0000 http://thepoorman.net/?p=1774#comment-20365 When I had my wisdom teeth out (I was only twenty-three or four, I think, but that didn’t make it pleasant), I only had local anesthesia because the concept of being rendered unconscious always freaks me out. It was not administered entirely effectively, however, and the dentist got unreasonably annoyed at me when I started making agonizing squealing sounds. Dude–I couldn’t HELP it. It fucking HURT. A LOT.

]]> By: Make Them Accountable / Media & Politics http://thepoorman.net/2009/05/17/sympathy-for-the-bad-apples/#comment-20320 Wed, 20 May 2009 16:10:04 +0000 http://thepoorman.net/?p=1774#comment-20320 [...] Sympathy for the bad apples (The Poor Man Institute) It’s funny that when torture was all the fault of poor, ugly hillbillies of the sort David Brooks writes about in his Adventure Stories for Young Aristocrats, we had to throw the book at the evil-doers. Now that important figures in Washington have admitted to directly ordering more and worse, however, the question of even investigating whether some sort of crime may perhaps have taken place is fraught with all sort of beard-tugging brain-twisters which no man can untangle, even with the help of modern computer technology.  How can we investigate if we don’t know all the facts? How dare we enforce laws against things which might possibly be permissible in some highly artificial thought experiment? [...]

]]> By: Quote of the Day « Fabius Maximus http://thepoorman.net/2009/05/17/sympathy-for-the-bad-apples/#comment-20319 Wed, 20 May 2009 14:13:48 +0000 http://thepoorman.net/?p=1774#comment-20319 [...] response deserves to win “quote of the day” honors:  “Sympathy for the bad apples“, by The Editors at The Poor Man Institute for Freedom & Democracy & a Pony, 17 May [...]

]]> By: kenmeer livermaile http://thepoorman.net/2009/05/17/sympathy-for-the-bad-apples/#comment-20301 Tue, 19 May 2009 22:46:56 +0000 http://thepoorman.net/?p=1774#comment-20301 ‘mon babee, bite my crisp, you *know* you love white meat.

Alas. I was born a poor black child…

]]> By: secondharmonic http://thepoorman.net/2009/05/17/sympathy-for-the-bad-apples/#comment-20296 Tue, 19 May 2009 19:38:34 +0000 http://thepoorman.net/?p=1774#comment-20296 I got red skin an’ a long stem too, I’m the kind you like to eat…”

]]> By: secondharmonic http://thepoorman.net/2009/05/17/sympathy-for-the-bad-apples/#comment-20295 Tue, 19 May 2009 19:35:31 +0000 http://thepoorman.net/?p=1774#comment-20295 Woo Woo!

]]> By: kenmeer livermaile http://thepoorman.net/2009/05/17/sympathy-for-the-bad-apples/#comment-20292 Tue, 19 May 2009 17:24:15 +0000 http://thepoorman.net/?p=1774#comment-20292 The Magnanimous View

]]> By: Realist http://thepoorman.net/2009/05/17/sympathy-for-the-bad-apples/#comment-20291 Tue, 19 May 2009 16:45:24 +0000 http://thepoorman.net/?p=1774#comment-20291 I dunno – I can’t say this about most of the people in prison, but I definitely feel safer with Charles Graner locked up.

]]> By: What He Said - Dan Froomkin Edition « Weilerblog http://thepoorman.net/2009/05/17/sympathy-for-the-bad-apples/#comment-20290 Tue, 19 May 2009 16:34:05 +0000 http://thepoorman.net/?p=1774#comment-20290 [...] one blogger puts [...]

]]> By: joe from Lowell http://thepoorman.net/2009/05/17/sympathy-for-the-bad-apples/#comment-20289 Tue, 19 May 2009 13:54:51 +0000 http://thepoorman.net/?p=1774#comment-20289 Nobody thought “The Credit Mac Daddy” was a bad idea?

Everyone involved saw the white lady mash her husband’s face with a pie, then go dance with “The Credit Mac Daddy,” and they all signed off on it?

William T. Sherman, where are you when we need you?

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