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Barry Ritholtz: if you can't say anything nice....

Sat, 09/26/2009 - 9:34am — gob

Oh Barry, don't be so mealy-mouthed:

If the Fed is Wall Street’s bitch, than Congress is the Street’s whore.

Read the whole thing. He forgot to mention the criminal "news" media, but it's still good.

[I've spent a lifetime looking past misogyny fossilized in language, so I'm letting this one go too, almost.]

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[I've spent a lifetime

By hipparchia on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 9:50am

[I've spent a lifetime looking past misogyny fossilized in language, so I'm letting this one go too, almost.]

i know what you mean. i was going to growl at you for quoting that, and i wasn't going to click through, just because of the misogynist language. i only did so grudgingly because of your adding almost at the end].

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Sure they are almost all men,

By thebewilderness on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 3:02pm

Sure they are almost all men, but hey! when you want to insult men the default is to call them female.
Asshat! I will not be clicking through.

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There's a great paucity of gender-neutral pejoratives.

By jumpjet on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 4:06pm

I suppose we could just call everyone a motherfucker.

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