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Are you creeping on dog owners now?
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Irish Wolf Hounds are the largest of canines.
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I believe Charles' ideas about the 1% can be summed up in this quote from 1984:

"But in among all this terrible poverty there were just a few great big beautiful houses that were lived in by rich men who had as many as thirty servants to look after them. These rich men were called capitalists. They were fat, ugly men with wicked faces, like the one in the picture on the opposite page. You can see that he is dressed in a long black coat which was called a frock coat, and a queer, shiny hat shaped like a stovepipe, which was called a top hat. This was the uniform of the capitalists, and no one else was allowed to wear it. The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw them into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'. The chief of all the capitalists was called the King..."
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Man Walks Dog!
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@2, sorry, tallest.
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Wonder what Charles would make of the St. Paddy's Day parade.
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Bougie people love owning animals. For real, I think it's creepy. i don't know anyone who agrees with me though, so maybe i'm wrong. 😂😂😳
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What does it mean?

You get paid per blog post, perhaps?
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An Irish breed, long associated with British Aristocracy? What f'n planet are you on Mudede? The Celtic war dogs go back to the pre-Christian era. They spent two millenia in service to people and their tribes - and your focus is on the incidence of their occasional use as gifts?

Your ability to overlook the obvious, in search of exceptions to satisfy your sense of aggrievement is apparent.

Irish Wolfhounds is a vestige of elitism -- the way Michael Brown is evidence of systemic, institutional racism that prevents progress in the black community.

Sure. If that's whatcha' need to believe. Fool.

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Dear Diary:
Today I saw a GREAT BIG DOGGIE!!!
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That’s the biggest damn Corgi I’ve ever seen!
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I wish I could indulge in mind-altering substances and get paid to muse about whatever intensely mundane thing happened around me on the way to work, like Mudede does. But I don't fulfill any affirmative action criteria, so it's not in the cards.
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This is what The Stranger has become. Sad.
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My two Austrian-Geman Dachshunds don't know what to make of this. On the one hand, they've always considered themselves royalty. On the other hand, they are quite upset that Irish Dogs are living in a much better neighborhood.
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Such sweet dogs. Haters gonna hate.
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We have neighbor with a Borzoi here in Georgetown. It is always incongruous to see him, all sort of G-Town scruffy, walking this dog that looks like it's moving in slow motion in the center of a spot light. Dumb as a bag of hammers, but such a beautiful dog!
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Jesus Christ, Charles. It's a fucking dog. I know you're trolling and all, but you're teetering on the edge of self-parody here.
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The Irish Wolf is extinct. So, we should fear the extinction of American wolves?
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@19 david jw:
Every time I read a post or article from Mr. Mudede (always interesting, usually enjoyable) and then see the inevitable hate mail I wonder: why do people like you take the time to do this over and over again? You alright bro?
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Have to agree about this being seriously stupid post. Charles, you definitely have some odd perspectives on animals.
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@21.....I regard this particular article as being something of human interest and of no particular consequence; sort of in the "gee whiz" or "so what" category. The thing is that a lot of Mr. Muddies personal prejudices and attitudes toward our society in general come out in most of his writings. Sometimes he is very rude and condescending, though in a subtle way. This is why people respond to him in the way that they do to his writings. I have been critical of him but not in a personal way; I do not stoop to calling him names or use innuendo to his personal life. But, when something is written there will be response.
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@21 We get annoyed because out of this entire wonderful city with interesting and important issues, the only news-like sources we get are the Seattle Times and this navel-gazing horse shit. Sure, Charles could write about homelessness, social justice, new city council politics, or other legit Seattle issues, but he's booked because someone in SLU has a dog he doesn't approve of.
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Charles takes deadly aim at the heart of our ongoing malaise! Everyone knows that the Scottish Deerhound is the hound of the Proletariat!

don't anyone tell him about Seattle's pretentious purebred cats (one of whom is lounging at my home in a heated cat bed).
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@25 Not to mention the fact he repeatedly writes about scientific or technology issues he clearly doesn't understand and is too lazy to speak to any experts about.
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Charles,
Go ahead with odd stories including photos. I like them even when you are dead wrong which is awful.
The takeaway to this post is not the connection to aristocracy -- if that were your issue you'd be talking about Corgis and many many other breeds -- but should be why anyone wants a dig that big in Seattle?
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"awful" should be "often" but I guess both work.
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Charles is capable of doing very good work, even within the context of his self-limiting "drunk pseudo-intellectual Marxist performance artist" persona (I'm old enough to remember when his movie reviews were mostly just incoherent ruminations on Hegel). He's coasting on the persona now; the material is getting lazier. It can still be an amusing character, if he can be bothered.
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@31: Maybe so. Still, the vitriol...seems out of proportion. Almost like it's not the content of the post that's driving it.
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@32 You're being needlessly obtuse. He's treated as some sort of intellectual yet he doesn't engage fairly (or oftentimes at all) with criticism nor does he have any sort of experience or expertise in many of the topics he chooses to write about.

The problem here isn't your so called "vitriol", the problem is that this sort of crap is coming regularly from an Editor of this paper.

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