Matt Yglesias

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1. Anon Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

   FFFFUUUUUU–I just lost the game. Pretty sneaky, Yggles.

2. 24AheadDotCom Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 6:23 pm

   I will sue anybody who attempts to appropriate my handle.

3. Queen Sarah the Quitter Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 6:37 pm

   36 coalition troops have been killed in Afghanistan so far this month and it’s only the 10th of the month.

   The most deadly July on record previously had 30 coalition troops killed for the entire month.

   Kudos, Richard Milhous Obama!

4. Alan Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 6:53 pm

   Israel moved a step closer to receiving its first stealth fighter jets this week after the Israel Air Force submitted an official Letter of Request (LOR) to the Pentagon to purchase its first squadron of 25 F-35 stealth fighter jets.

   http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443770618&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

5. bobby Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

   I don’t get it. Is The Game saying that Jay-Z is the borg? Is he attempting a PC vs Mac riff with his Bill Gates reference?

6. joejoejoe Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 7:01 pm

   I saw Smashing Pumpkins play in front of a crowd of like 15 people in a dead Chicago club before they had a record deal. It said ‘buttplug’ on the bass drum of their kit and they used air raid sirens as part of the songs. They weren’t…good. Thankfully my friend was there to yell ‘Buttplug!’ again and again during their set, a kind of ‘Oi!’ for the moment. We were at that club for free pool night and cheap Wisconsin Club beer, not the pre-Telly Savalas look Billy Corgan.

7. onymous Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

   But that book review conflates death metal and black metal! Everyone knows they’re different!

8. cmholm Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 8:36 pm

   Re: Bow & Arrow, all of my college hangouts have croaked, too.

   Even though I have a couple of CDs for both (dating myself), I used to confuse Blind Melon with Smashing Pumpkins. Get off the dope, dope.

   I don’t know if Podesta has room in his yard, but I wonder if firing up an imu is against the law in his neck of the woods.

   That really was a killer book review. Your New Yorker missives can suck it, Updike!

   I used to care what punk a** b*itches like The Game were up to, when they were older than I was.

   In retrospect, the reason that songs like “Cherub Rock” weren’t doing it for me back in the day was because I couldn’t hear them over “The Dam at Otter Creek”.

9. joe from Lowell Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 8:41 pm

   That is quite the book review.

10. brendan Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    the book review is simply the best thing ever, as noted, but who the hell wrote it?
    and how do i subscribe to wherever he or she is now?

11. fostert Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 8:49 pm

    “John Podesta kills stuff”

    Mmmmm, pig roast. Yummy. I try to minimize my meat consumption for health reasons. But pig roasts rock.

12. Manu Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    dude what’s wrong with star trek blogging? embrace the nerd-ness. to the light, leland, to the light…

13. Manu Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    and the reference to twin peaks is not idle – a lot of the character actors in twin peaks make appearances in the various star trek series (as well as seinfeld…) – i challenge the ubernerds out there to tell me who appears in the 3 shows…

14. sm Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    I have no idea who wrote the book review but it reeks of Matt Taibbi. Anyone else have any ideas?

15. Eric Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    Was that Aimes or Taibbi that wrote that review? Both of them?

16. Forrest Brown Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 11:27 pm

    Wonderwoman won.

17. eriks Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 11:28 pm

    I too love the review. I think I got this from a commenter here, and it is also awesome.

18. The Lorax Says:
    July 11th, 2009 at 1:34 am

    Better than Smashing Pumpkins is My Bloody Valentine. If you like “Cherub Rock”, check out, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf8j1bUgwJ8

19. Alan Says:
    July 11th, 2009 at 10:13 am

    If you’re going to commit a war crime, subcontract the job offshore:

    Obama: No Grounds to Probe Afghan War Crimes

    http://arisfreedomswitch.blogspot.com/2009/07/obama-no-grounds-to-probe-afghan-war.html

20. Edward, the mad shirt grinder Says:
    July 11th, 2009 at 10:20 am

    I once heard Pres. Gerald Ford tell the crowd assembled to hear him how happy he was to be at Ohio State University. The problem was, he was in Ames, IA, at Iowa State University. It didn’t go over well, either.

21. joe from Lowell Says:
    July 11th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

    If you’re going to commit a war crime, subcontract the job offshore:

    That crafty Obama, ordering Afghan fighters to commit a war crime in Afghanistan while he was a still an Illinois State Senator.

    Is there nothing this man won’t do in his quest for power? The mind boggles.

22. Adam Villani Says:
    July 11th, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    Confusing Poland and the Czech Republic is almost as funny as a Harvard-educated blogger confusing Germany and Denmark, having it pointed out numerous times in the comments, and never correcting it because he doesn’t read his own comments.

23. myglesias Says:
    July 11th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    I read ‘em sometimes. When did the Germany/Denmark confusion happen?

24. scythia Says:
    July 11th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/03/school_shooting_in_denmark.php

    You should read them more often. Sometimes your typos are so egregious they actually invert the meaning of your sentences, and in some cases your entire argument. People spend half these threads deciphering what you meant to say.

    ….LOL, I was hunting for the Ryan Powers thread and found this. Who created this?

25. the words she knows, the tune she hums… « Blurred Productions Says:
    July 11th, 2009 at 10:36 pm

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26. Eric Says:
    July 12th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    That book review was great. I used to read the New York Press all the time when I actually lived in New York. But oy, this sentence:

    Punk started off going for the throat of Normal Society, but in the game of chicken it didn’t have the nerve to go all the way, snagglepussing safely leftward or detouring into kitsch just when it had to lay its last cards on the table.

    So, when you play chicken, it ends with laying cards on the table? I’ve been doing it wrong.

27. linus Says:
    July 12th, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    note to self: watch 1989’s “Twister” with Crispin Glover and William S “Bill” Burroughs again

    that was funny