Just a few things that need go away in my humble (and often correct) opinion:

1) “back in the day …” – when?  The 60s?  The 70s?  June 22, 1874?  No – say “I remember when …” Say “when I was in my teens …” Don’t be a douchebag.

2) “robust” – it’s so Condoleezza Rice. People who use “robust” in a sentence also use “proactive” all the time. Fuck ’em.

3) “it is what it is …”. – No, often it isn’t.  String theory, whatever. It sometimes is not what it is, not as it appears.  What a stupid fucking observation. Don’t do it – makes you sound like David Fucking Brookes.

4) “take a step back” – use “reconsider” unless you like to be kicked in the ‘nads.

5) “circle back” – makes you sound like you’re in a bad Western.

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When the right eats its own, we laugh.  My enemy’s enemy is still my enemy, but its a lot more fun to watch them fight it out from afar than to be all up in the tussle, you know?

Anyway, Megan McCain went and dropped some very commonsensical knowledge regarding “nutjob” Christine O’Donnell, who is a candidate for Senator from Denmark or something, when she said:

Christine O’Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have.

While this statement is humorous because you could easily change “running for public office” to “being a tv pundit” and it would apply to McCain, the reaction of other conservative bloggers to McCain’s claim is better:

this self-indulgent set of mega-breasts doesn’t belong anywhere near a TV studio commenting on anything.

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During the reign of terror of our old friend, Tom DeLay, there was one thought that kept coming to mind: “would somebody take him out to a baseball game or something?”

It was a semi-serious thought.  Everything about the Hammer screamed a single-minded focus on political gain — mostly, through cold, calculating attempts to make the Democratic Party look like a bunch of baby-eating, God-hating, economy-killing monsters.  My strong desire was to see verifiable evidence that Tom DeLay had the capacity to do something fun — in the hope that taking time for the finer things in life would make DeLay less of a jerk.

You see a bit of this in the lip-flapping about Stephen Colbert’s performance on Friday before Congress — as further explained post-jump.

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