Takedown du jour -- comment #48 from Kip W
Bashi-bazouks! Posted June 25, 2012 10:35 PM by Kip W
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #47 from Glenn Hauman
In this thread, I think the most obscene word one could use is "merit". Posted June 25, 2012 3:22 PM by Glenn Hauman
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #46 from OtterB
Billions of blistering blue barnacles? Posted June 25, 2012 8:59 AM by OtterB
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #45 from Kip W
Know any good obscenities? I've been reading so much Pogo lately all I can come up with are variations on gosh-a-mickle and dag-nag-pickle. Posted June 25, 2012 12:04 AM by Kip W
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #44 from geekosaur
But some of us not-so-cool kids are still reading.... Posted June 24, 2012 11:47 PM by geekosaur
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #43 from Kip W
Woo! All the cool kids have stopped posting to open threads. That leaves me free to scrawl obscenities in here. I knew I should have bought that big book of obscenities. Maybe I can find some on the...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #42 from Lee
Sally Quinn would like to imagine herself as one of the Patronesses of Almack's -- but she wouldn't have been able to get vouchers, being (as the real Patronesses would have thought) a jumped-up...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #41 from chris
#23: Sally Quinn would have been out of her depth at Almack's. Very possibly, but she doesn't know that. Posted June 18, 2012 9:37 PM by chris
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #40 from mjfgates
Bruce Cohen@38: To be an Israeli Jew, or an Israeli Palestinian, requires nothing more than having the wrong parents. Abortion protestors (or escorts) are self-selecting, and the ones who decide to "be...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #39 from Antonia T. Tiger
The impression I get from the Sally Quinn stuff is that she's part of a de facto aristocracy that may still be riddled with bigoted attitudes. Part of being in that set was an acceptance of sexism and...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #38 from Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)
Mishalak @ 37: Interestingly, a similar effort to bring together Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians was more successful, at least in terms of the people being able to accept people they had thought...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #37 from Mishalak
I heard an interesting anecdote on This American Life, #453 "Nemeses", that related how abortion advocates and foes sat down for a series of secret meetings in the 1990s after murders in abortion...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #36 from P J Evans
35 She's not so much an op-ed writer as a not-very-interesting gossip columnist. Posted June 17, 2012 11:18 PM by P J Evans
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #35 from Matt Austern
Another response to Charlie's question, "who are these people? And do they matter?" Whatever Sally Quinn was 40 years ago, one of the things she is these days is a regular op-ed writer for the...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #34 from Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)
Antonia T. Tiger @ 31: Another proof that diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" while reaching for a large rock. Posted June 17, 2012 2:55 AM by Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #33 from Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)
Antonia T. Tiger @ 31: Another proof that diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" while reaching for a large rock. Posted June 17, 2012 2:55 AM by Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #32 from Linkmeister
Antonia T. Tiger, I'm no gnome, but I was amused. Posted June 16, 2012 2:17 PM by Linkmeister
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #31 from Antonia T. Tiger seems to be...
I attempted to describe what might have happened to a certain US politician if he had picked the wrong mother and daughter.... I trust the gnomes are amused by the results. It should have a soundtrack...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #30 from Antonia T. Tiger
Those who knew the Duchess of Stepney and her stepdaughter also knew enough not to comment. They were two fine vixens, of similar age and as like as two peas in a pod. There had been some scandalised...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #29 from Ginger
Gawker has an excellent piece on her article. The best line for me, so far, has been this: "The tea lights are going out all over Georgetown; we will not see them lit again in our lifetimes." Posted...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #28 from elise
Big love to Fragano for the image of Sally Quinn at Almack's. You are so right. Posted June 15, 2012 11:01 PM by elise
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #27 from Jim Macdonald
I hear Dolley Madison threw some bang-up parties. Posted June 15, 2012 7:54 PM by Jim Macdonald
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #26 from elise
Patrick, your comment caused an unfortunate cascade of thoughts, and now there is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic / Strom Thurmond fanfic plotbunny doing the Godzilla stomp all over my brain....
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #25 from Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Avram, that comment needed a unicorn chaser. Posted June 15, 2012 1:28 PM by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #24 from Lila
"I guess," said Rachel with some embarrassment, "that I'll go see if the cake is ready." She was getting up rather forlornly when suddenly Laura and Carrie came back. "We decided that there wasn't...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #23 from Fragano Ledgister
chris #12: Sally Quinn would have been out of her depth at Almack's. She wouldn't have known how to deal with, say, George Brummell. Posted June 15, 2012 11:54 AM by Fragano Ledgister
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #22 from rea
Another attempt at answering Charlie Stross: Sally Quinn was a Washington socialite with no discernable qualifications who managed to get herself a job as the gossip columnist for the Washington...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #21 from J.D. Rhoades
This is the first news I've had of this editorial by Quinn. Dear God. I thought it had to be a joke at first. Posted June 15, 2012 9:32 AM by J.D. Rhoades
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #20 from PrivateIron
@8 Heckblazer is right I think that there could have been interesting things to say in there about the style and efficacy of power in different eras. Ms. Quinn did not elucidate those points because...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #19 from elise
Avram @11: That comment needed a beverage warning. You owe me a keyboard. Posted June 15, 2012 3:33 AM by elise
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #18 from Dave Bell
Avram @11 Some people in Washington DC might still want to be Strom Thurmond, but they don't need Sally Quinn to get their fun. Posted June 15, 2012 3:27 AM by Dave Bell
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #17 from Marie Brennan
Abi @16: Clearly this is a strong argument in favor of electing AARP members to the presidency. Posted June 15, 2012 3:24 AM by Marie Brennan
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #16 from abi
PJ Evans @9: There's something else that the Obamas and the Clintons have in common, which might affect their appearances on the dinner-party circuit: kids at home. Posted June 15, 2012 2:56 AM by abi
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #15 from Linkmeister
I'm now wondering who the Dolly Harrison character in Advise and Consent was modeled after. It was published in 1959, years before Quinn married Ben Bradlee. Probably Perle Mesta. Posted June 15, 2012...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #14 from Serge Broom
What's that about the Cardassians ruining Washington? Posted June 14, 2012 11:34 PM by Serge Broom
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #13 from Jamie
Another take for Charlie: Imagine a small town where everything is in its place. Sometimes, you had to deal with a Problem, or, worse, someone comes to town, but the folks who made choices did so in...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #12 from chris
She wants to be Pearl Mesta or Kay Graham and is about 40 years late. Funny, I was thinking Almack's and about 200, respectively. Posted June 14, 2012 10:07 PM by chris
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #11 from Avram
Surely there must be someone in DC willing to cosplay as Strom Thurmond and make Quinn feel young again. Posted June 14, 2012 10:07 PM by Avram
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #10 from Evan
Charlie Stross @4: They're wealthy, shallow idiots who used to host and attend a lot of fancy dinner parties and believed they were America's equivalent of the aristocracy, entitled to unquestioning...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #9 from P J Evans
Quinn had the same complaints (minus the 'how dare the president be black') when the Clintons showed up. I guess she's forgotten about that episode. Posted June 14, 2012 9:06 PM by P J Evans
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #8 from heckblazer
The most positive spin I could put on Quinn is that she misses a time in Washington when there was enough comity that people from different parties would actually socialize with each other, and when...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #7 from Fragano Ledgister
Caroline #5: That should be the one-time editor. Charlie #4: Quinn wishes that, like a previous generation of Washington hostess, she did matter. That's the point of her resentment. She wants to be...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #6 from Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)
How sad. Quinn has just discovered that no one really cared about her, and now they don't care about her parties, either. Posted June 14, 2012 7:22 PM by Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #5 from Caroline
Charlie Stross @ 4, I'm a USian, but had never heard of Sally Quinn myself. Evidently she's the wife of the editor of the Washington Post, and used to be rather a queen bee of the Washington, DC social...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #4 from Charlie Stross
A confused foreigner writes: who are these people? And do they matter? Posted June 14, 2012 5:44 PM by Charlie Stross
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #3 from Fragano Ledgister
Quinn declareth "The diplomats, too, have no power. The good ones, such as the British and the French, are more interested in economics than in power. They follow the money, as well." The bad ones,...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #2 from Steve Buchheit
Ah, back when we were real people hobnobbing with all the other real people. We were so glamorous, beautiful, young, and knew who the hoi polloi were and where not to be with them. And now these days...
View ArticleTakedown du jour -- comment #1 from Kate Kirby
This is the first article I've read in a long time that actually made me think there's some positive change in Washington DC! Posted June 14, 2012 11:37 AM by Kate Kirby
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Jonathan Chait explains what Sally Quinn really meant. Once Washington was a happy place where a girl and her mother...
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