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  2. In context, blow could be taken two ways. The Tarantoad (Brimelow’s name for him when Taranto doxed him when his first wife was dying of cancer) seems to be talking about a certain drug, not hookers.

  6. I watched Taranto speak at a small convention called to discuss Burnam’s “Suicide of the West” (it was on CPAC and I just happened upon it while flipping channels). It was a fascinating thing to watch.

    He’s a smart guy, but he has this really strange mannerism. It’s bad enough when someone has the “uhs” when speaking. Taranto takes it to the next level by pronouncing it, “aye” instead of “uh”.

    Maybe he had a speech problem as a kid and that’s all that’s left of it. In which case, good on ‘im. But it took me a while to get that that was what was going on with his speaking. Almost like someone dropping “golf” into random, strange places in their speech.

    What does this have to do with Smitty’s post?

    Golf, I guess.

  10. I was messing around with the pre tag, trying to get your ASCII self-portrait to work, and deleted the post (as much as you can) when I was done. I’ll figure it out eventually.

  11. I’ve always liked his writing. His collection of stuff from around the web is always fun to read.

    In fact, if I wanted to subscribe to the WSJ (I probably will again sometime), he’d be one of the reasons.

  12. If you like how they can be in more than one category — the ones at the bottom under “Index” — then you’re welcome. That was such a rough project that it burned me out, haven’t contributed since.

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