Yglesias Award for E-mail of the Day

Re: this blog post, 

I would like to clarify that Matthew Yglesias is a blogger for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the Center for American Progress' 501(c)(4) affiliated organization. While the Center and the Action Fund share a mission, the Center is a research and educational institute, while the Action Fund transforms progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, partnership with other organizations, legislative action, and grassroots and political advocacy. We hope you will keep the distinction between these two organizations in mind in the future.

Duly noted.

Comments

[Mosquevite Sandwich]

While the Center and the Action Fund share a mission, the Center is a research and educational institute, while the Action Fund transforms progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, partnership with other organizations, legislative action, and grassroots and political advocacy.

Thanks for the uplifting post, Matt.

[Federal Dog]

I think some people on Journolist might have taken him seriously.

[Irresponsible Hater]

But is it non-partisan?

[heller]

More importantly, is it non-ideological?

[Dinosaur 1.0]

Most importantly, who gives a ratfucker's ass?

[DADIODADDY]

mice, I only fuck mice.

[Joshua]

Considering my freedom advocating post on one of the sites never got past the filter, I'd say they're definitely partisan.

[?]

Sounds like a scam to me.

[Hazel Meade]

SHouldn't you be linking to some kind of anonymity website?

[PapayaSF]

*Snort.* +1.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Rapid response communications? In other words, blogging and tweeting. (Possibly while wearing a cape.)

[T]

Yglesias lacks the panache to pull off a cape, even when he's alone.

[Edna Mode]

No capes!

[Jonas]

ftw

[Jonas]

Oh, except you were after the other one.

[Irresponsible Hater]

And chunky glasses! Don't forget the chunky glasses!

[SugarFree]

Or the Beard of Sadness.

[Dinosaur 1.0]

the chunky glasses

I thought they were Glasses of Infinite Irony.
Am I behind the times? Again?

[Wind Rider]

Back in the day we used to call those 'Birth Control Glasses'. Well, me and some Wino that used to hang around the convenience store that would buy us beer if we gave him a couple for the trouble.

[Federal Dog]

No grown man should be doing anything called tweeting. That's why they got Matt instead.

[-]

It seems like a girls' sport. Sorry, "men."

[Edna Mode]

No capes!

[Fire Tiger]

Center for American Progress Action Fund, not to be confused with it's sister group, The Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

[John]

ATHF would never let itself be associated with someone like Yglesias.

[capitol l]

Thank you.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Action Fund, assemble!!!

Also, why does no one talk about Archer anymore?

[Episiarch]

Dancing is forbidden!

[dbcooper]

'Cause it's only had one season bro.

Besides, everyone knows that Captain Murphy era Sealab 2021 was the pinnacle.

[capitol l]

Sealab is awesome, how did I forget to mention it the other day?(I own the dvds and you can watch the episodes over and over again)

Also, why does everyone hate Epi all of a sudden?

[dbcooper]

We have to keep it fresh. Your time will come.

[SugarFree]

why does everyone hate Epi all of a sudden?

Familiarity breeds contempt.

[Episiarch]

Jealousy and envy. Duh.

[ClubMedSux]

Is Archer coming back for a second season? I heard great things about it but completely forgot to watch the first season. I figure if it's renewed then I assume the first season will come out on DVD.

[SugarFree]

Yes, it was renewed. I liked it, but it was no Venture Bros.

[Ska]

Amen to that.

[dbcooper]

2nd season will air next year.

[Tacos mmm...]

You can stream it from Netflix in HD.

[tarran]

You can also watch it on Hulu hier.

[Pip]

This overlooks the more important issue, which is the rumer that Matthew Yglesias fucks sheep.

[Hugh Akston]

I will not stand for unsubstantiated ruminaters on this blog.

[zoltan]

This is an awesome joke. Good god, the witty gems on this board that pop up from time to time.

[Wind Rider]

Yet it works when discussing Joe Pile. Humor is elusive, like that.

[Pip]

"rumor"

[waffles]

a rumor is merely an unsubstantiated fact

[Pip]

No. It's possible that Joel Pile doesn't fuck sheep. Or no longer fucks sheep. It's all very complicated.

[R C Dean]

Or no longer fucks sheep.

I think we are only safe in saying that he has not fucked a sheep in a long time.

Which is true for every case (unless he has fucked a sheep recently, of course).

[SugarFree]

Maybe he didn't want to stop fucking sheep, but rather had to stop out of medical necessity. Maybe he caught a dose of cockthrax.

[waffles]

but no one said anything about whether or not Joel Pile fucks sheep, or has fucked a sheep, or has ever self-identified as "Joel Pile, sheepfucker".

The issue here is Yglesias. I think?

[Pip]

True, but it's possible Joel Pile is a friend of Yglesias and that they, in tandem, have fucked sheep. Or not.

[DADIODADDY]

they double teamed a sheep? how crude.

[Pip]

2boys1ewe

[Wind Rider]

no, No, NO! Didn't you read the e-mail? Let's keep it straight here. Pile-sheep. Yglesias-Goats. This is EXACTLY how serious policy discussions run right off the fucking rails.

[ClubMedSux]

This reminds me of Vanilla Ice's explanation for how the sample in "Ice Ice Baby" was different than "Under Pressure."

[Virginia]

Exactly.

We hope you will keep the distinction between these two organizations in mind in the future.

The Center even comes off a little indignant. Maybe Action Fund's writings brought them some heat.

[SIV]

Shame! Another Koch funded right wing Matt Welch hit piece stymied by the TRUTH.

[Subsidize Me!]

Kochsucker!

[P Brooks]

A many-tentacled organization, you say?

[Ragin Cajun]

Wait, so which one does Soros fund?

[John]

From Althouse today. Today is the 30th Anniversary of this. Just a reminder of vile hippies really were.

Three years of intense protest activity at the University of Wisconsin reached terrible superlatives on August 24th of this year. An explosion so powerful it broke windows six blocks away, and so loud it woke up citizens over six miles from campus reduced the side of the new addition to Sterling Hall to a shambles. The wall disappeared, and steel-reinforced concrete dangled as if it were limp spaghetti.

The blast killed UW research assistant Robert Fassnacht, leaving a wife and three children without their father.

On the Friday following the blast, underground newspaper Kaleidoscope printed a statement "by the bombers." It called the AMRC "a think-tank of Amerikan militarism," and said that it was "a fitting target for such revolutionary violence."

http://badgerherald.com/news/1.....ty_rea.php

[zoltan]

Disgusting. Because "it" didn't end up being a target. A fucking human being did.

[John]

And the little fuckers that did it got off with very little jail time (seven years served three). Two of them now run a Deli "The Radical Rey" in Madison. The poor bastard they blew up doesn't get to eat there sadly.

[Warty]

Wait, what? How disgraceful that their store hasn't been burned down multiple times.

[John]

I am sure they are little folk heroes just like the Ayers are in Chicago. I would imagine budding little leftist dicks like Yglesias show up and pay their homage all the time.

That is why I don't give a shit when some old hippie tells me how most people didn't support this kind of stuff. Bullshit. If that were true people like these guys and Ayers wouldn't have been welcomed back so easily. As far as I am concerned the whole anti war movement owns these little creatures and all others like them.

[R C Dean]

Before I knew who owned it, I actually ate there a few times.

As soon as I learned who it was, I refused, and made sure everybody I knew was fully informed.

Sad to learn that they are still in business.

[Kyle Roberts]

I am not sure if this is cosmic justice, or just another case of eminent domain abuse, but the Radical Rye was closed down several years ago to make way for the "Overture Center for the Arts."

Talk about being conflicted over who to root for... Eminent domain abuse vs. Commie douche-bag murderers... It's like watching the Eagles v. Cowboys game as a Giants fan.

[I Bleed Eagles Green]

Eat shit, Nancy boy.

[The Angry Optimist]

In the case of Eagles v. Cowboys, you root for the terrorists.

[Warty]

Years of research were destroyed in the blast. Though the bomb was aimed at the Math research Center, it takes up only three floors of the building. The physics department occupied the basement and other offices in the new wing, and the astronomy department used the top floor and roof. The explosion reduced to tiny fragments the carefully ground mirrors in the two telescopes on the roof of Sterling Hall.

Fucking stupid hippie lunatics.

[Hazel Meade]

Too be fair, not all hippies were political at all, much less raging bomb-throwing Marxist fucktards.

And there are plenty of non-hippie, bomb-throwing Marxist fuctards still around today.

[John]

True but a lot of current aging hippies like to view bomb throwing Marxist fucktards as some kind of exotic pet.

[Hazel Meade]

If you're still a hippie after you turn 50, that means you weren't doing it right. Hence the nostalgia.

[Pip]

Talk out your ass much?

[Pip]

Absolutely. The cult of Sara Jane Olson (formerly Kathleen Ann Soliah) comes to mind. Bitch had cookbooks and everything.

[Pip]

http://www.seattlepi.com/opini.....lumn.shtml

[Episiarch]

When the other team (or anyone you perceive as being on the other team) is funded by someone, it's nefarious. When your team is funded by someone, it's philanthropy. Or, more clearly, other team: fullonrapist, your team: philanthropist.

[Mikey]

Africans, dyslexics, children; that sort of thing.

[heller]

Same difference...

[J sub D]

I would like to clarify that Matthew Yglesias is a blogger for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the Center for American Progress' 501(c)(4) affiliated organization. While the Center and the Action Fund share a mission, the Center is a research and educational institute, while the Action Fund transforms progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, partnership with other organizations, legislative action, and grassroots and political advocacy. We hope you will keep the distinction between these two organizations in mind in the future.

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[Ted S.]

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[wylie]

!?

[Ted S.]

?!

[Pip]

Baaaa. Baaaaa.

[ClubMedSux]

Wei?t man da?, man auf Sprachen au?er Englisch hier nicht posten kann?

[ClubMedSux]

Well I just proved myself wrong. For some reason when I tried to use an upside down question mark the filter told me to post in English. Bastard.

[wylie]

It objects to the foreign punctuation, but not the blatant non-english words...Another victory* for the spam filter.

*using the Iraq War definition of victory at least.

[Nazi]

No, it just rejects non-Aryan forrms of speech.

[DADIODADDY]

Yes Virginia, there are people who think this sort of shit is important and indeed worth clarifying. Just remember, no matter how finely you mince shit, it is still shit.

[Ken Shultz]

"...the Action Fund transforms progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, partnership with other organizations, legislative action, and grassroots and political advocacy."

That just means they're "hippies", right?

[Hazel Meade]

It means they're the useful idiots.

[hmm]

Tax status. It is important.

[James]

When you ride alone you ride with Hitler

http://www.darkroastedblend.co.....r-two.html

[John]

Those are cool. I like the "Americans will always fight for liberty" one with the revolutionary war soldiers watching the World War II ones walking by. A lot meaning in that one.

[Tacos mmm...]

What? Did the Russians do most of the fighting then too?

[John]

Yeah because the US did nothing. Just created a second front, took on the Japanese and also kept the sorry ass Russian war machine supplied. Had the US not joined the war in 1941, the Russians would have been done for.

Seriously, you know how to bring the stupid don't you?

[DADIODADDY]

not so much the fighting as the starving and dieing...bad weather and disease killed more than the armies did.

[PapayaSF]

The Russians lose a lot of credit for starting the war along with Hitler and staying allies for nearly two years.

[Uncle Joe]

Not very nice to talk about your uncle like that!

[Warty]

The Ukrainian anti-Soviet poster is the best of the bunch.

[hmm]

You must distinguish between the two because the IRS distinguishes between the two. And IRS tax status is clearly the best metric to be used when distinguishing partisanship.

[bubba]

To the extent it's just a boilerplate email to protect tax status, it's doesn't completely suck.

[hmm]

suck, no

Completely fucking hilarious when taken in context. yes.

[Wind Rider]

It still sucks, because they totally fail to clear up the whole which does sheep, which does goats, and where the hell Joe Pile fits into the mix. Lube boy, perhaps?

[dbcooper]

We need a Sarbanes-Oxley for blog/think-tank separation.

[dbcooper]

Apropos of nothing:

"I'm currently dating a couple of anorexics. Two birds, one stone."

[James]

What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.

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Dave drowned. So at the funeral we got him a wreath in the shape of a lifebelt. Well, it's what he would have wanted.

[dbcooper]

Ha! 🙂

[Dagny T.]

Take your un-American Britishisms elsewhwere, ya hoser.

[James]

If they took all of the urinals out of all of the bus station men's rooms in America and laid them end-to-end, you wouldn't want to be there when they did it.

[Matthew Yglesias]

When you piss alone, you piss with Hitler.

[DADIODADDY]

it would not make any damn difference where people pissed...

[John]

Just because you Canadians were too stupid to throw off the British yoke and ended up as cannon fodder on the Somme is not our fault.

[Dagny T.]

Every time an American is reduced to Googling "how many pounds is in a fucking stone, again?", God kills a bald eagle.

[dbcooper]

And yet you silly people use BTU's for heat.

[James]

British Twink Units?

[John]

The boot of my car can carry at least three stone worth of groceries.

Take that.

[Federal Dog]

Yeah? Well, my car has a lovely bonnet.

[Mr. FIFY]

I'm off to take me kids to the rugby match. The shooting brake holds them and all the blood pudding I'll ever need.

[John]

And that has to be one of the funniest things I have ever read on here Dagny.

[Dagny T.]

All part of the Canadian infiltration. Don't think for a second that Miss Canada and her fugly dress wasn't intentional.

[John]

The whole point of an evening gown is to lift and properly present breasts while showing as much leg as politely possible. It seems to do both of those quite admirably.

[James]

I suddenly have a full syrup bucket.

[Anonymous]

How does one properly present breasts?

[SugarFree]

Miss Canada and her fugly dress

Oh, shit... It's Snowbird!

[Ted S.]

The even worse Snowbird

[SugarFree]

Another in a long list of The Canadian Crimes Against Popular Music.

[Ted S.]

The music of Michael Buble: proof that Canada has no problems committing crimes against humanity.

[DADIODADDY]

I thought that was Celine Dion...

[SugarFree]

I enjoy the full range of expression that results from people not being able to speak American properly.

[Clich? Bandit]

Too bad those ebonics translators are busy in GA.

Pie...Key

[SugarFree]

I would like to clarify that Matthew Yglesias is a blogger for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the Center for American Progress' 501(c)(4) affiliated organization. While the Center and the Action Fund share a mission, the Center is a research and educational institute, while the Action Fund transforms progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, partnership with other organizations, legislative action, and grassroots and political advocacy.

The difference between the douche and the nozzle, in other words.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Those go-getters in CAPAF are full of piss and vinegar.

Go, Team Progress!

[Hugh Akston]

At first, they were just full of vinegar.

[Gelding]

Iowa police investigate 'beat whitey night' - Des Moines Register

http://www.desmoinesregister.c.....-overtones

[Lamar]

ETA is not Herri Batasuna. Duly noted.

[John Thacker]

Not that different from distinguishing Reason Magazine and the Reason Foundation, I guess.

[Pip]

Neither of which are the least bit distinguished.

[Son of Rea]

"We hope you will keep the distinction between these two organizations in mind in the future." Drink?

[John]

Hey Matt,

Does this e-mail mean you are now on Journolist?

[Pip]

Report: NYC, Philly, Detroit top bedbug list

http://dailycaller.com/2010/08.....dbug-list/

Blue Cities, Blue States -- Beg Bugs.

[John]

Do you know the kind of carbon footprint washing your sheets creates?

[Charlie Rangel]

That's why I have mine washed in dignity.

[John]

http://yourmindblown.com/post/.....-word-nerd

Dr. Seuss coined the word nerd. He really is America's Shakespeare.

[SugarFree]

I noticed that Matt was too kind to mention the funniest series of posts ever on Yglesias' blog is running right now. Yglesias is spinning this fully-fleshed out fantasy that he's on vacation in Maine with a girlfriend.

[John]

That is not funny. It is sad.

[James]

Are they doubling with Weigel and his Alaskan "girlfriend"?

[SugarFree]

I get the impression that he's in a Motel 6 ten miles from his house googling pictures of Maine to post to his Facebook and crying in the bathtub, drunk on Root Beer schnapps.

[John]

For some reason I always assumed he was gay. NTTAWT But it just seemed natural to think that he was one of those fat goofy gay guys that everyone in college knew was gay but wasn't quite cool enough or confident enough to come out. One of those guys who stayed way too long at your house party wanting to help you "clean up" and you had to forcibly evict.

[SugarFree]

Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias always did make a cute twink/bear couple.

[John]

Yeah. And I can totally see Stewart Ackerman being the slutty little home wrecker that Klein runs off with.

[NoVAHockey]

Klein's on vacation this week too. Has a bunch of guest bloggers. That's confirmation enough for me.

[Your Favorite Queer]

Hey fellas! Time for a pile on!

Kiss kiss!
YFQ

[The Gobbler]

When you say pile, is that code for Joel Pile?

[Shrike's Ghost]

Christfag!!

[Federal Dog]

I call bullshit. Everyone knows that Matt is his own girlfriend.

[Fire Tiger]

I hear you can still buy one cheap in Russia.

[SugarFree]

It's not that I think Yglesias is gay. I just think he's really, really, really alone. And he cries a lot.

[waffles]

that's offensive to people who are really, really, really alone and cry a lot. or gay, I can't tell which.

[bags]

Unless ye want an Android app.

[fendibags]

Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias always did make a cute twink/bear couple.

[Wind Rider]

So, back to this whole distinction in the organizations thing. Still unclear. Sheep versus Goats? Hamsters maybe? Lube/no-lube? Raincoat versus bareback? Wish the jerks would be a bit more direct about it.