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“I’d asked him last year to write a letter to the Immigration Services sponsoring me to finally become a permanent resident of the United States. Who better than my fellow Englishman immigrant of the last twenty-five years? A while later, he emailed: 

Safely in the US mail. I managed to say that your faith had allowed you to extend a warm hand to so many of your fellow men, and then remolded that bit to make it sound a touch less close to the heart’s desire. 

Brunch? Sunday? Smooch Hitch 

I responded, 

lol. many many many thanks. an honor. brunch sounds great. we tend not to be conscious till around noon, tho. xx a 

He replied: 

Dearest Andrew I always think of Sunday lunch as beginning at about 2.30 (“a lavish and ruminative feast”, as Waugh says about elevenses). Want to come here? 

Yes, I do, Hitch. Yes, I do.”

- Sully on Hitch

Uhm… pardon?

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — California and New York are again targeting high-wage earners to address a continuing fiscal crisis and pressure from the Occupy Wall Street movement.

…

The common threads are continuing serious fiscal problems and Democratic governors pressured by their progressive bases.

AP

Naomi Wolf Should Stop Being Touted By People I Don’t Hate

This:

Naomi Wolf did harm to the progressive movement with that screed, because she aligned with the extreme right wing in the name of the Occupy movement. It isn’t the first time she pretends to be progressive while echoing right wing tropes. She called the President Hitler’s equal. She demanded rape victims expose their identities in order to level an accusation of rape, all for the sake of defending Julian Assange. This, from a woman who has the gall and temerity to call herself a feminist.

Lane Pryce IS Ulysses S. Grant!

Progressive Taxation I’m Against

Larry Coon paints a horrifying picture of the Lakers getting fucked explains the new CBA (emphasis mine):

Luxury tax

• 2005 CBA: Teams paid $1 for every $1 their salary was above the luxury-tax threshold.

• 2011 CBA: Teams pay $1 for every $1 their salary is above the luxury-tax threshold in 2011-12 and 2012-13. Starting in 2012-13, teams pay an incremental tax that increases with every $5 million above the tax threshold ($1.50, $1.75, $2.50, $3.25, etc.). Teams that are repeat offenders (paying tax at least four out of the past five seasons) have a tax that is higher still — $1 more at each increment ($2.50, $2.75, $3.50, $4.25, etc.).

• Who benefits? I’ll tell you which teams don’t benefit — the perennial taxpayers, like the Lakers and Mavericks. When the league was unable to negotiate a hard cap, they settled for the next best thing — a more punitive luxury tax that will make teams think twice before committing to a higher payroll. For example, the Lakers’ tax bill in 2011 (when the tax was dollar-for-dollar) was about $19.9 million. Under the new system, being that far over the tax line would cost them $44.68 million. If they were a repeat offender (paying tax at least four of the previous five years) they would owe $64.58 million!

Andrew Sullivan in a nutshell

I certainly don’t have profound knowledge of the deep research of experts in the field. But since the Bell Curve contretemps, I have kept up a little with some in the field who sympathize with my own position on this.

-Sully, “Some of my best friends are black!”

“When you and me have kids we’re going to give them good names like Shannon or Rick”

Ex-McCain Sociopath Nicolle Wallace’s novel about a crazy VP candidate, It’s Classified, sounds like something I would normally very much like to read. But… I… can’t.

The main character is named “Tara Myers,” and it’s just such a terrible name that i can’t imagine reading a book that would presumably say it dozens and dozens of times.