A Colloquy

Evening. A community center, upstate New York. Republican Congressman Chris Gibson rises to speak.

GIBSON: I think there’s a rational way to go forward that we’re going to be able to bring closure to this issue. I tell you there is one thing that you’re saying that’s true: There are people in our country that are not paying taxes because they’re illegal. And that’s gotta be addressed…

AUDIENCE MEMBER: You mean like GE?! (Laughter, light applause.)

GIBSON: Well, GE needs to pay their fair share, too. No, I support that, too.

And, scene. Thank you for supporting the arts.

Rep. Chris Gibson Says ‘Illegal’ Immigrants Not Paying Taxes, Town Hall Attendee Asks: ‘You Mean Like GE?!’ [ThinkProgress]

nojo
5:29 pm • Monday • April 25, 2011
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Choose Your Delusion

Defiant DOMA Lawyer Compares GOP Clients to Murderers, Rapists, Terrorists, Mob Bosses, and Rod Blagojevich Free Market Declares Atlas Shrugged a Train Wreck

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nojo

5:38 pm • Monday • April 25, 2011

Elsewhere in the arts, breaking news from my coffeehouse table: “My friend has never seen my poetry, never read my blog, anything. And he has the nerve to say I should write emo poetry.”

Tommmcatt Be Fat, And That Be That

5:46 pm • Monday • April 25, 2011

@nojo: What is an “emo”? I swear, these kids today.

nojo

5:53 pm • Monday • April 25, 2011

@Tommmcatt Be Fat, And That Be That: Apparently there’s a thriving subculture of poetry devoted to the Australian Dromaius novaehollandiae.

karen marie has her eyes tight shut

6:00 pm • Monday • April 25, 2011

Oh no!

Benedick is not as stupid as he looks.

6:02 pm • Monday • April 25, 2011

@nojo: I would be ashamed. A joke like that. But clearly some of us around here have no shame. When all that poor Catt needed was to feel he hasn’t been entirely left behind. Is it right to mock him?

But bravo on the packaging, excellently well put together.

In other breaking news, this is as fantastic as it is dorky. So it should be right up everyone’s flash drive.

nojo

6:13 pm • Monday • April 25, 2011

@Benedick is not as stupid as he looks.: “Futuristic, yes and surely expensive.” Words to live by.

redmanlaw

6:50 pm • Monday • April 25, 2011

@Tommmcatt Be Fat, And That Be That: I guess it’s like whiny teen pain, whereas goth is teen alienation with bat wings.

SanFranLefty

6:51 pm • Monday • April 25, 2011

Glen Beck: Conservative infighting is like girl-on-girl porn

nojo