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Top 10 Videos of 2011: 7. “Matt Damon Defends Teachers”

by Derek Posted on January 4, 2012

Lesson #1 for agenda-driven interviewers: don’t fuck with Matt Damon. If you do, it’ll probably end up on YouTube. Case in point: this video from the Save Our Schools March last July of Damon pwning a microphone-toting libertarian and her, um, substandard cameraman. Continue reading →

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Mukasey: Don’t Know Much About Waterboarding

by Derek Posted on January 30, 2008

Memo to Sen. Dianne Feinstein: thanks a whole big bundle.

Too well I recall the morning last November when I read your stated intention to vote in favor of confirming Michael Mukasey as U.S. Attorney General. It made what would have been a pleasant breakfast at a local café go down quite a bit less easily. I narrowly averted embarrassment, because your characterizations of Judge Mukasey as independent-minded and repulsed by the idea of torture were such stuff as spit-takes are made on. Continue reading →

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