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Trace Urdan
Name:
Trace Urdan
Hometown:
San Francisco
Joined:
May 24, 2010

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Trace Urdan

It sounds like an interesting legal question as well. Maybe Troy and his illustrious podcasting partners could tackle this one in a future Law Talk.

Trace Urdan

Had this exact same thought after slogging through the endless diatribes and links on my Facebook feed. Thank you for articulating and focusing the point. It just makes me so very weary. And I'm not even reacting to the substance of the thing; just to the angry, uncivil, self-righteous, frankly hate-filled tone of the outcry.

Trace Urdan

A grim but excellent description. Thank you and thanks to Ricochet for enticing you to share your contacts, expertise, and sharp prose.

Trace Urdan

It's a derivative of the Mike Murphy argument. Not the best argument for supporting a president but probably the best one we'll get. And FAR better than the Ann Coulter argument which seems to be a version of "He's conservative if I say so. So shut up already. I'm Ann Coulter dammit!"

Trace Urdan

Misthiocracy: "He was told to create Bain Capital."

Who told him to do that? · 30 minutes ago

The partners of Bain Consulting.

Trace Urdan

BSG story line is race of self-aware cyborgs destroys home planet "Caprica" and survivors set out to search for mythical Earth, dodging said cyborgs along the way. The older BSG was sort of corny, with a typical 70's freeze-frame ending -- think A-Team. But the Sci-Fi series is a cult classic. If you are at all oriented this way, it's a great DVD set. For my money it makes "Lost" look like Saturday morning kid stuff.

Trace Urdan

 I find that truly chilling.

Trace Urdan

 A kinder, gentler age.

Trace Urdan

Time to block out all the craziness and focus on the Congress. We need a Congress for which raising the minimum wage will be a non-starter.

Trace Urdan

tabula rasa: EJ has outdone himself.  This is a work of art  And this comes tabula rasa: EJ recently put my sacred symbol in bed with Madeline Albright (causing me several hours of tears). I thought I'd never get over it, but art conquers all. · 7 minutes ago

Edited 6 minutes ago

This may represent poetic license, but those are definitely Lileks' guns... I remember the canary muscle shirt...

Trace Urdan

Brace the servers if "The Great One" decides to tout Ricochet on his show this evening. Just sayin...

Trace Urdan

Pseudodionysius

Pat Sajak

Mollie Hemingway, Ed.

Reporters should stop ripping lines out of context and publicizing them under the banner "This could look bad." 

Mollie...did you know I do Wheel while drunk? · 1 hour ago

As long as you weren't texting or smoking, Mayor Bloomberg is fine with it. · 18 minutes ago

Correction: smoking tobacco.

Trace Urdan

BThompson: How can reassuring people that he's not going to dismantle the safety net, be both pandering to the poor and showing that he's out of touch with the problems of normal people, Trace? The answer is that it cant. You just exemplified the type of strained mental gymnastics and distortion of the actual statement I was just was pointing out. If you have to extrapolate that far out from the words Mitt actually said to come up with a motive and message that bears so little resemblance to the plain point he was obviously making, I think you need to examine why you want to work so hard. · 3 minutes ago

Edited 2 minutes ago

I don't have any better answer than Mitt. I just think it's very weak sauce. I would like to have an election where I didn't have to hold my breath every time my party's candidate was interviewed. The President is the most articulate spokesperson for his side. We haven't had a candidate like that in a long time.

Trace Urdan

BThompson: .

I guess I should look at it this way, the reason stupi triua gets packed up ad run with is precisely because the competence and discipline of Romneys campaign gets all the important stuff right.  · 4 minutes ago

Edited 2 minutes ago

Here's the point BT. Whether looking at the gaffe, or the substance which reveals a lack of understanding of what is going on both in the short term (in terms of recession, where the poor are hardest hit) or in the long term (the fracturing of society,) this soundbite is all about pandering to a perceived electoral stronghold. And even on that basis it is poorly done. He is playing Obama's game at the JV level.

Trace Urdan

EJHill

Percival  ...I half expect him to reach up, pull off the latex mask...

Sometimes you don't want to see too much. · 24 minutes ago

Well if Romney is Skeletor's cousin, then the President most assuredly must be a Decepticon:

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Trace Urdan
Pseudodionysius: Leaving aside the disastrous implications of Trace's graph, its only fair to note that Romney rhymes with nominee. · 2 minutes ago

You're on fire this morning Kitty. Time to lay down a couple of chapters in your comic novel while you're hot.

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