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  • As more and more gets spent on giving everyone vouchers big enough to buy 'premium' insurance those pissed off about tax increases will grow until the marginal benefit of everyone getting yet a bigger voucher is equal to the marginal 'pissed offness' of those paying yet more taxes.

    The Bush Health Plan, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • A concept like that could be merged with a virtual hosting idea to give kinda the best of both worlds - flexibility and hands-offness ... blog comments powered by Disqus

    Google AppEngine & Amazon AWS : #comments 2008

  • The result and consequence of sin is “aloneness … spiritual cut offness … desolating ‘closedness’” (17).

    Matthew Yglesias » Before There Was Early Rawls… 2007

  • There seems to be a certain amount of pissed-offness about the same old names (McEwan, Ishiguro, Coetzee, Rushdie) cropping up again and again (are the judges playing safe, or are these guys playing true to form?).

    Booker Bookies Sharon Bakar 2005

  • There seems to be a certain amount of pissed-offness about the same old names (McEwan, Ishiguro, Coetzee, Rushdie) cropping up again and again (are the judges playing safe, or are these guys playing true to form?).

    Archive 2005-08-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • The pompous self-regard that shows through in the blurb language, the souring offness of the language itself...

    On Literary Envy David Leavitt 2007

  • The audience, in both shows, were charged up, there was a lot of sexual, flashy, show -offness in the air.

    Former “Alas” Co-Blogger Bean on German TV! 2006

  • Gakked from colorwheel in this post in which I acknowlege the debunking but still express some pissed-offness at Pullman, In any case, Pullman defends the film and accuses the Times of spreading nastiness. mood: exanimate music: okay not really exanimate but I wanted this mood icon

    December 31st, 2004 colorwheel 2004

  • But that's just the latest example of the one-shade offness of the whole pre-trilogy--kind of like the soundbite in the trailer in which Samuel Jackson says, "I don't think the boy can handle this assignment."

    Archive 2005-04-01 Holly 2005

  • But that's just the latest example of the one-shade offness of the whole pre-trilogy--kind of like the soundbite in the trailer in which Samuel Jackson says, "I don't think the boy can handle this assignment."

    bastard's gonna do it to me again Holly 2005

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