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  • I don't usually find the blogosphere depressing unless I run across one like this, wherein the blogger blythely kicks the Constitution's remedies for crooks (of any party) around.

    Mostly, We are Idiots. So How Did We Elect a Genius? 2009

  • Then come out and blythely say that we're just looking to the future, not ocncerned about the past.

    Make NO Mistake, Obama Wants Justice Too 2009

  • People who cannot claim to have been elected, cannot blythely continue to rob us blind and ignore our complaints.

    Human Coprophagia 2008: Deliberate Madness 2008

  • Had it been yester evening, I would have met the best blade among these men at arms as blythely as ever I danced at a maypole.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • I'm not even going to get into the abortion crime -- Americans are obsesessed with mindless sex and teenagers chat blythely about acts of fornication that would've made their grandfather's blush with shame to even mention out loud.

    Hope Dymphna 2008

  • “Then I will ride with you blythely, for, to say the truth, I do not know the rendezvous that Craigie was to guide us to this night; and I am sure that, if he is taken, he will tell all the truth of me, and twenty lies of you, in order to save himself from the withie.”

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • I'm not even going to get into the abortion crime -- Americans are obsesessed with mindless sex and teenagers chat blythely about acts of fornication that would've made their grandfather's blush with shame to even mention out loud.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Dymphna 2008

  • In Iraq, however, there is only one viable alternative -- to bring our brave troops home where they are actually needed to help defend America from all the enemies that have been blythely created by George W. Bush, including terrorism, corporate fascism, global warming and economic distress.

    Slim the Cat is on his last legs -- help help help! 2007

  • He shows that most people have no idea what the existing gun laws were, and when blythely asked “Do you support stricter gun control”, they robotically say “yes”.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » David A. Tomlinson, R.I.P.: 2007

  • I've seen this instruction a million times, maybe more, television presenters, cookbooks, even fellow bloggers and I just blythely ignore everyone.

    At My Table 2006

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