More from the Hypocrisy Beat

"Antipiracy lawyers pirate from other antipiracy lawyers."

Comments

[Pip]

Hypocrite of the day? You missed by a long shot. That would be the Ed show guy who was saying that some GOP candidate for Congress was a hypocrite because the candidate is opposed to unemployment insurance has a wife who collected it when she lost her job.

A progressive saying that a woman should live up to her husband's standards takes the hypocracy cake in my book.

[?]

That's an all-too-common intellectual error (the morality of collecting unemployment, not the wife vs. husband thing). The victim of theft (taxes paid in order to finance the welfare state) has every right to try and recoup some of his property.

[CrackertyAssCracker]

ya, once the money is already stolen, I don't care if you fill out a form and wait in line to accept free money. Who the hell wouldn't do that? Just make sure you vote against future stealing.

[?]

The money isn't really "free," of course. And in the end you might very well recoup your losses and then some. The confiscation/distribution mechanism is inefficient, haphazard, unpredictable and unsustainable. First it makes you a servant, and then a jealous beneficiary.

[JD]

Was the candidate against unemployment benefits as a temporary safety net until someone finds a new job, or against extending unemployment benefits so that people can collect indefinitely after losing their job (I think you can currently collect benefits for 99 weeks).

[Pip]

The latter. Ed is a big fan of the 99ers, a group that says that 99 weeks of unemployment is just not enough. Two fucking years!

[?]

The "99ers" are ED's answer to Bill O'Reilly's "Folks."
Megalomania as entertainment.

[Episiarch]

Oh, lawyers. What won't you do?

[Lawyers]

Pro bono work on piracy cases.

[Episiarch]

Not bad. I was thinking more like "become human".

[Warty]

The weeping abscesses next to your mom's anus.

Oh, wait, I'm wrong; they do. My mistake.

[sloopyinca]

Thank god there was no link with this.

[Pro Libertate]

Give up cash flow?

[Jason]

This is pretty hypocritical.