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  • "Why the warm embrace of the deeply insane? The only possible reason is that the insane has become the base. Teabaggers and birthers are now the mainstream of the Republican Party. It has lost so many moderate voices that this nuttery is all it has left."

    -Dan Sweeney, Embracing the Crazy

    July 24, 2009

  • .... I wanted this word to mean a warm and cozy-scented building where they make peanut butter and cashew butter and stuff like that. And I come here to see, and it's about Republicans.

    That, sir, was a dirty trick.

    July 24, 2009

  • That does sound like a place I'd like to pass some time. Especially these days, with all the...ummm...nuts.

    July 24, 2009

  • I thought it would mean something along the lines of an asylum. I'm actually glad I'm wrong.

    July 24, 2009

  • ... I think it does mean something like that, P_U. I mean, from the quote, it sounds like a bunch of crazy people.

    *clinging to her dream of a building filled with the warm happy scents of varieties of nut butter*

    July 24, 2009

  • Sod my comprehension skills. I couldn't read properly for clinging onto hope that nuttery isn't used to describe asylums. bah.

    July 24, 2009

  • *is hungry for peanut butter*

    July 24, 2009

  • nutt is halfway between hatch and deming: get thee to a nuttery - nutt : middle of now here: the smell of new hatch chile roasting - nirvana

    July 27, 2009