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And just for the record, I didn't say that the WSJ Op-Ed was not insane, I said that they were somewhat open to publishing consistent deficit hawk conservatives that criticised the Bush White House for its reckless spending.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Jul 1st, 2009 at 02:15:13 PM EST
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WATB: Whiny Ass Titty Babies.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jul 1st, 2009 at 02:23:22 PM EST
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You've got quite a mouth on you today.  What gives?

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Wed Jul 1st, 2009 at 02:24:44 PM EST
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Alas, "WATB" is not my creation.

You hadn't heard it before?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jul 1st, 2009 at 02:25:49 PM EST
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Whiney Ass Titty Baby - a Term Atrios made famous (might even have coined it).

ah I was right

Blog abbreviation for Whiney Ass Titty Baby; "new one from Atrios -- coined for Harris of the WaPo and Keller of NY Times," i.e. someone who makes excuses instead of doing the courageous thing.
The WATB reporter wrote what he thought would please the management and readers, and would be politically correct, instead of actually researching the facts for his article.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=WATB

by PeWi on Wed Jul 1st, 2009 at 02:35:23 PM EST
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Naw. An acronymn does not a novel turn of phrase make. Acronymns are masks of meaning.

I got about as much respect for urbandictionary as I do wiki, but I must say that snap is old skool and not nearly as poetically rich as little red-headed stepchild (which Drew has used, too), both being regional expressions of contempt, strongly associated (in AA culture) with emasculation of black men.

Hope you appreciate it's cross-over appeal to post-racial bloggers of a certain age.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Jul 1st, 2009 at 03:10:44 PM EST
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