Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Learning To Flinch

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Rob Reuter

“In South Korea, teachers are known as ‘nation builders.’ That’s what they’re — that’s how they’re described.” Big fucking deal. In South Korea, cocker spaniels are known as “antipasto” Continue reading →

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Joint Session Not As Fun As It Sounds

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Rob Reuter

As speeches go, it would have been more impressive if it weren’t a pile of bullshit we’ve all been hearing all out lives. Let’s face it: sticking it to the fatcats on Wall Street isn’t exactly a Web 2.0 idea. That line was older than dirt when FDR could still bend it like Beckham. [read more at link] Continue reading →

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Insert Witty Pun About Balls Here

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Rob Reuter

Of course, there was also one significant con [to attending an inaugural ball]: Everything I do every day between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. becomes a class 3 felony if you do it with 100 yards of the President of the United States. [read more at link]

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Dear President-Elect Obama

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Rob Reuter

Last night at 11:30, you were The Hero, sir. This morning, you are The Man. And as such, we want to start hearing some specifics about what you’re gonna do to, well, fix us. Yeah, yeah; I know: middle class tax cut, keep your own doctor, controlled withdrawal from Iraq, blah blah blah, bullshit bullshit bullshit. We all know that that’s just the campaign shit you say to get people to vote for you; you might as well have told us that you’ll last sixty minutes, wear a condom and won’t come in our mouths. [read more at link] Continue reading →

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Call.

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Rob Reuter

Which is a fine attitude to take when we’re talking about a simple baseball game, but… if the Red Sox announced that if they won the World Series they would raise the cost of bleacher seats to $300 bucks while giving away the luxury boxes to the corporate sponsors for gratis, all while charging a fifty-dollar franchise fee on Red Sox caps to pay for the change, well… I might check the box scores to see how Jeter was hitting. [read more at link] Continue reading →

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