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    youngmarblegiant: I'm a Yelp elite, and let me tell you it is really all about the free booze at the parties. You review a certain number of establishments and you get... more »
    contradicto: What's with the tiny Business Insider link at the bottom of this post? more »
    sfBirdie: Yelp is useful, but you have to read reviews with an open mind - especially in the Bay Area. Many of the 'Yelp Elite' reviewers take the title way to... more »
    DennyCrane: Boutros, Boutros, golly! more »
    raincoaster: The older Yelp gets, the more closely it resembles a cheesy freebie newspaper, the kind with 50-year-old jokes to keep the ad columns apart. The longe... more »
    resipsaloquacious: Henry Blodget? Really? more »
    lil red: Think about this; a patient fighting lung cancer on average pays $403,142 to fight the disease .... with little chance of survival beyond a few additi... more »
    Valkyrie607: This article illustrates an important divide in the ideology of the American left, but does not seem to realize the implications of this. Had the writ... more »
    BearDownCBears: Pareene, thanks for shouting out the Abolish the Senate cause. It really should become a popular movement. more »
    taritac002: Yes, this bill will do some good. But the idea that it will get "better" in later years is pure fantasy. If we can't do any better with a supermajorit... more »
    ampersandparade: I'm not sure why people are confused about why liberals would dislike this. The liberal wing of the Democratic party, those that are most closely in ... more »
    Botswana Meat Commission FC: Ezra Klein has written lately about how certain legislators have been consistently good about making behind-the-scenes sacrifices to move this legisla... more »
    onebadclam: Once again, Team Sarah bloggers know shenanigans when they see it. "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to sneak ObamaCare by the American pe... more »
    Blueberry26: "this bill will help poor and working people, and no bill will hurt them," Except for that whole mandate and fine thing. What? Poor people aren't buy... more »
    JennaW: Do people realize we wouldn't even be a country if the Founders had held out for perfect with the Declaration of Independence? You have to start some... more »
    Shadowlayer: 500M for a "company" nobody outside SF uses or even knows about... Thats it, google just went fucking retarded. more »
    Double Banger: Abolition of the Senate is a banner idea. Either that, or restore it to its original design, with Senators appointed by state legislators. Replace t... more »
    Double Banger: Is this post a "backlash" or a "rebuttal?" Is there a difference on the Internet? Contemplate this, grasshoppers. more »
    daveyjonesisdead: It's also possible to think of it this way: Obama took the other side's main modus operandi - private companies living off the public trough - and use... more »
    BaconCat: "Obama, who is not just "Bush-lite" but Bush-same! (Remember when Bush attempted to negotiate an international climate deal, pass a jobs-focused econo... more »
  • #twits

    GOP House Members Know Exactly What It's Like to be An Iranian Freedom Fighter

    Who let Republicans use the Twitter? Who told them that was ok? Michael Steele? "Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House," Representative Pete Hoekstra says. More »