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Apparently everyone in the running has some diresome black mark down against them...some of this is relentlessly lame issue politics at it's most miniscule and self defeating.
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Romney started his term making diresome threats against the culture of nepotism on Beacon Hill and ends it by appointing his churlish lackwitted Lieutenant Governor and sundry other lackeys to various boards and commissions.
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The great and abiding need here is for a change, the candidate who best embodies that diresome necessity is Deval Patrick.
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Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev who made all sorts of diresome nuclear threats at the UN, Idi Amin but most of the ass-holes rated police protection...
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James Rappaport has been making diresome noises at Kerry Healey but is he personally ready to break with the State GOP?
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I think he is diresome harbinger of things to come, even more corrupt theocrats are no doubt waiting in the wings, inspired by Delay's example and intoxicated at the possibilities presented by his kind of raw power worship.
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Are we then to have a speech code enforced by the diresome likes of OReilly and Laura Ingraham?
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In which, once again we are exposed to the diresome parameters of Jeff Jacoby's Seasonal Affective Disorder.
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A habit his political descendents have the same diresome tendencies....to this day they are still hung up on such early eighties classics as the strategic defense initiative and a balanced budget amendment to constitution.
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They also have a need to come off as pseudo contrarians...marking out hard for Mitt Romney fulfills that impulse quite nicely...as if kissing the ass of a governor who won by a wide margin was ever a diresome risk.
zeke commented on the word diresome
I encountered this word in David Mitchell's wonderful novel, Cloud Atlas.
March 3, 2012