Slog - Comments on The Morning News

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:20:19 -0800

Feeling less ill: I'm starting to feel a little better. Sorry no link.

Comment by Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:23:25 -0800

Fun Fact on Tibet: Did you know that before Tibet was taken over by China it was an absolutist monarchy? The citizens had no civil liberties and the Dali Lama has never mentioned that he would establish even a constitutional monarchy if Tibet was freed from China.

I would be all for "freeing Tibet" if their being free actually met, you know, making Tibet a free nation and the citizens of Tibet to map their own destiny.

Comment by Stupid excuses

Stupid excuses — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:29:40 -0800

Wall Street didn't force Spitzer to take his dick out of his pants.

Comment by Jake

Jake — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:33:21 -0800

Post the NYT stories with links that work?

Comment by idaho

idaho — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:18:34 -0800

Re: Luv Guv -- what the hell is a "pneumatic tart"?

Comment by scary tyler moore

scary tyler moore — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:31:37 -0800

pneumatic means pumped up. ergo, pneumatic tart is fake-tittied slut.

Comment by Natalie

Natalie — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:05:03 -0800

On Spitzer:

Those paragraphs were OK, but the real gold was in the comments:

"I congratulate Spitzer on his hard-won freedom. Finally at the age of 48, he is free from the forced march of senseless over-achievement set by his tyrannical, parvenu father. Now, for the first time in his life, Spitzer can be his own man and not his father's boy. And, we're all the better for it. So long as the increasingly bitter and resentful Spitzer held office, we were all at risk from his flailing arms and roundhouse blows, all aimed at surrogates for the father who stole the first half of his life. With his Oedipal battle over, let the man grow a beard, sleep late (and with prostitutes if that's his preference), reinvent himself and start measuring success on his own terms.

Rwordplay, New York, NY"

Comment by Natalie

Natalie — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:09:01 -0800

Also on Spitzer: The article mentioned that many critics and interpreters of this 'issue' are dragging out the old saw that powerful men need the 'escape' and 'comfort' of anonymous sex as a result of their high-flying lives. Isn't that just another way of saying they can't handle the pressure?

Comment by Mike in MO

Mike in MO — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:10:51 -0800

My fav from the Spitzer story:

�We all have our private hell. I hope his private hell is hotter than anyone else�s.� -Kenneth Langone, founder Home Depot

I gotta use that!

Comment by erika

erika — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:16:37 -0800

I know I shouldn't say this because the crane accident is really awful and people were killed, but I need to point out that a bar named Fubar was obliterated by a falling crane.