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J[o]h[nn]y L[o][n]gt[o]rs[o] 14 years ago

Golden Girls on Gay Marriage
J[o]h[nn]y L[o][n]gt[o]rs[o] 14 years ago

Golden Girls - Welcome to Awesome80s.com
J[o]h[nn]y L[o][n]gt[o]rs[o] 14 years ago

Am I the only one who remembers this documentary?

Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film
John 14 years ago

What Straight Men Don't Understand About Lesbians

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm.....ans-bindel

On of the choice bits is this

Another Guardian writer, Cath Elliott, is often assumed to be a lesbian by men who take offence at her dislike of rapists and sex murderers. She once got so tired of comments posted on her blog asking her about her short hair and lack of makeup that she told them we both run a lesbian militia training school in the countryside for straight women.

No one thinks Cath Elliot is a lesbian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/cathelliott

That is a man baby.
1. JoshInHB 14 years ago
  
  That's one fugly baby.
2. sarcasmic 14 years ago
  
  we both run a lesbian militia training school
  
  I heard about that. Isn't it called Militia Etheridge?
  1. carmick 14 years ago
    
    +1
    1. WTF 14 years ago
      
      FTW!
  2. Lord Humungus 14 years ago
    
    boo!
    
    but still kudos.
  3. Upgrayyed 14 years ago
    
    Melissa Rubyridge
3. Amakudari 14 years ago
  
  Another Guardian writer, Cath Elliott, is often assumed to be a lesbian by men who take offence at her dislike of rapists and sex murderers.
  
  Uh huh. That's why.
  
  http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i.....40x140.jpg
MNG 14 years ago

Hack Watch

Kenneth Del Vecchio, a Republican candidate for New Jersey state Senate and a producer of conservative-themed films, is premiering a psychological thriller this weekend with a pro-life twist: Three pregnant women, who intend to have abortions, are kidnapped and forced to carry their pregnancies to term.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi.....eekend.php

Also in the film the women are tortured with nighmarish visions, two of the women who feel regret at abortion go to Heaven while the third, who does not, goes to Hell.

Now a while back many here commented on that environmentalist group's video where global warming deniers were blown up with nice, wonderful hasty generalizations about how environmentalists in general wanted deniers dead (I went back and looked at some of the threads, god love archives!). Will the same commenters make the same hasty generalizations about pro-lifers or will we get the sudden development of nuanced distinguishing?

Let's see!
1. J[o]h[nn]y L[o][n]gt[o]rs[o] 14 years ago
  
  ...what you've just said ... is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent [post] were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
2. John 14 years ago
  
  IF the two situations were remotely similar, perhaps you would have a point. Is he condoning the killing of these women? If the green party had made a film about people who denied global warming having nightmares about their sins, I don't think anyone would have complained.
  1. MNG 14 years ago
    
    "Is he condoning the killing of these women?"
    
    No, just kidnaping, torturing, and sending them to Hell for eternal torment.
    
    Nice try John, keep trying.
    1. John 14 years ago
      
      Do the kidnapers torture them? Or are they "tortured by bad dreams"? If this guy made a movie about pro life people kidnapping women who want to have abortions and torturing them (as in like beating them or sticking them with hot pokers or such), then yes, you have a point. But that doesn't seem to be what he did.
      1. MNG 14 years ago
        
        The kidnapers brag about being their "jailers" forcing them to bring the babies to term, meanwhile they are tortured by hellish nightmares. In the end the one character not sufficiently regretful about her abortion decision is consigned to eternal torment in Hell while the two who regret get to go to Heaven.
        
        But it's nice to see you find nuance when it's a right wing revenge fantasy.
        
        John 14 years ago
        
        Of course you are appalled by this, but somehow thing blowing people up in the name of global warming is good clean fun. So at worst I am as bad as you.
        
        I would have to watch the movie. But last I looked you can't send someone to hell. God does that. And there are people all over the world who think this or that person is going to hell for this or that reason.
        
        For the two situations to be analogous, the movie would have to involve people going out and killing women who have an abortion. It doesn't seem to do that, so no they are not he same. Saying that "if you have an abortion you are going to be wracked with guilt and maybe burn in hell" is not the same as making a film celebrating the death of everyone who disagrees with you.
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        I never said I was appalled, but nice of you to follow form and assume that.
        
        "For the two situations to be analogous, the movie would have to involve people going out and killing women who have an abortion. It doesn't seem to do that, so no they are not he same."
        
        That's right, in one case a movement makes a film about its opponents being blown up, in the other they make one about them being kidnaped for months, tortured and consigned to eternal torment. Yeah, they are world's apart John!
        
        " But last I looked you can't send someone to hell. God does that. And there are people all over the world who think this or that person is going to hell for this or that reason."
        
        Oh God I am loving this. This sudden nuance from you is just like my attempts to charitably provide context to the green group's video, and I know how you responded to them!
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        In fact, we could just go back and look at some of those comments of yours, right?
        
        Interested John?
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        I don't understand it. So many people rushed out to condemn the enviromental group's revenge fantasy video, where are they now to do the same for this pro-life group's revenge fantasy?
        
        John 14 years ago
        
        It is not a revenge fantasy you half wit. A revenge fantasy would be happy to see them suffer.
        
        And even if it were, so what? Some right wing anti-abortion guy is as sick and depraved as the AGW cultists. I don't think I want either one of them near power in that case.
        
        You just can't get passed the school yard "they do it too, so it is okay for us to do it" mentality. Pathetic.
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        "And even if it were, so what? Some right wing anti-abortion guy is as sick and depraved as the AGW cultists."
        
        Nice that with the enviromental group it was just "environmentalists" that were "Nazis" (your words), but here you make the distinction that we are just talking about "some" pro-life groups.
        
        John 14 years ago
        
        Since no one in the environmental movement had a problem with the commercials, I would say they think they were just a-OK. It is not my fault many people involved with the AGW movement have grown so depraved.
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        Anyone in the pro-life movement decried this film?
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        " A revenge fantasy would be happy to see them suffer."
        
        As you said in the 10:10 discussion "I don't know what they were thinking, I know what they showed, their opponents being [kidnaped, tortured, sent to Hell]"
        
        Cabeza de Vaca 14 years ago
        
        I will condemn both films. I also believe they have the right to make & distribute both films.
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        Consistency, good.
        
        You might want to talk to this guy "John"
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        I have to go, perhaps I can come back soon with some choice gems from John's earlier 10:10 discussions.
        
        I'll be consistent here too, maybe we can make a model for folks like John to follow and improve himself from his rank partisanship.
        
        Both films were bad taste and done to shock people, neither likely exhibits a desire to harm or see harmed their political opponents.
        
        Bill 14 years ago
        
        I am appalled by both of them but I am less appalled by the kidnapping to (in the film-maker's view) save innocent lives than I am about the murders.
        
        In addition, the actual "crimes" are not of the same magnitude. You would have to be completely certain that the deniers were wrong and that their actions really were going to lead to the death of many people in the future to maybe justify murder. (I am assuming that it was not just poetic justice? That they did not get killed by a flood they denied was more likely??) But in the case of abortion, you know with 100% certainty that the fetus will be terminated.
        
        So I see your point MNG but it is not a great one. Sorry.
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        In the eyes of many environmentalists denying AGW will lead to inaction which will lead to catastrophe, including the deaths of many. They are as "certain" of this as pro-lifers are that embryos are ensouled at conception and that aborting them is murder (both claims are contestable, but certain to the true believer of both).
        
        Anoynmous Coward 14 years ago
        
        So many people rushed out to condemn the enviromental group's revenge fantasy video, where are they now to do the same for this pro-life group's revenge fantasy?
        
        Because some pro-life types don't even feign sanity, which make them less fun to play with than the Gaia-freaks who, when poked scream "The Science Is Settled!"
        
        John 14 years ago
        
        The movie is made as a warning. "Don't do this or horrible things will happen to you". The whole point seems to be to tell people what a tragedy abortion is. Clearly the maker of the movie would prefer that the women reform and not have them.
        
        The commercial in contrast is more blunt. It just thinks it is great to kill everyone who disagrees with the cult. One is a moral parable. The other is a revenge fantasy.
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        "Clearly the maker of the movie would prefer that the women reform and not have them."
        
        So he has them kidnaped, tortured and sent to Hell when they don't.
        
        ""Don't do this or horrible things will happen to you"."
        
        You will be kidnaped by Robert Loggia for nine months, tortured by supernatural visions and sent to Hell?
        
        Boy you will say anything to defend your side and not apply the same standards you do to the left.
        
        John 14 years ago
        
        From what you are saying, you nitwit, they were not tortured. They have nightmares. Again, if the movie involves people actually torturing these women, then you are right, this guy is just as sick as the AGW people, which is pretty sick. But so what?
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        "From what you are saying, you nitwit, they were not tortured."
        
        Being consigned to Hell is not torture? What, is it a big dinner party down there?
        
        John 14 years ago
        
        So every movie that discusses hell is a "revenge fantasy"? By your definition, every moral parable is really a revenge fantasy, which is a bit odd and something you would never do if it wasn't in an attempt to score cheap political points.
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        I see, if 10:10 would have just made a film about deniers being kidnaped, forced to have nightmares about the disasters of global warming, and then sent to an eternity of torment for being a denier then you would have been fine with it defending it here as another example of the fine tradition of moral parables.
        
        Hack much John?
        
        John 14 years ago
        
        If they would have, I would not have been able to complain.
        
        Pip 14 years ago
        
        "MNG|6.17.11 @ 9:02AM|#
        I have to go, perhaps I can come back soon with some choice gems from John's earlier 10:10 discussions."
        
        What. A. Fucking Asshole. Why anyone engages with this troll is a mystery to me.
        
        Michael 14 years ago
        
        So if somebody tells me that I will be crushed by the tentacles of Cthulhu for galactic eternity because I deny the Necronomicon, that would constitute torture? What about threatening punishment from the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is that also torture? Think hard, MNG.
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        Why do they get a pass because their revenge fantasy has a supernatural diety involved? It's the depiction of their opponents being harmed that makes it a revenge fantasy.
        
        Azathoth 14 years ago
        
        Because they are not doing the 'torturing'. The movie makes plain that is the women's guilty consciences that is the cause of the dreams--and they are not consigning anyone to Hell. Christians believe that you are consigned to Hell by rejecting God.
        
        A whole crapload of Christian writings make that very plain.
        
        In the commercial, the AGW believers get to make the kills themselves--no all-knowing eternal force has set things up so that the victims know that to do X means you get blown up.
        
        The two are very different. One is the horrific parable endlessly told by right-to-lifers, and one is AGWer's being able to kill anyone who disagrees with them.
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        Hell is kind of one big revenge fantasy for many, yes.
        
        Appalachian Australian 14 years ago
        
        Why is MNG so obsessed with the right to abortion?
        
        Does he like to go around getting women pregnant and then being sure they'll be able to abort his offspring-to-be?
        
        Anoynmous Coward 14 years ago
        
        Why is MNG so obsessed with the right to abortion?
        
        The man wants to make sure his daily supply of fetus juice continues uninterrupted.
      2. Lance Armstrong 14 years ago
        
        Pedal, pedal, pedal, John!
        
        rather 14 years ago
        
        lol
        
        smz 14 years ago
        
        this made me laugh.
    2. JoshInHB 14 years ago
      
      Bad Dreams are torture now?
      
      I think you've just jumped the shark, again.
      1. rather 14 years ago
        
        jumped Oprah's couch
    3. JoshInHB 14 years ago
      
      How do you force someone to have nightmares?
      1. Highway 14 years ago
        
        Same way you 'send' someone to hell, apparently.
        
        MNG 14 years ago
        
        Well, maybe the same way you have magic buttons that make people explode from the inside out? Environmentalists can't do that anymore than pro-lifers can send people to hell or give them nightmarish visions, but both can depict people as the recipients.
      2. Sir Roderick Glossop 14 years ago
        
        Read a MNG John thread?
        
        rather 14 years ago
        
        I love their little Oscar/Felix spat 🙂
        
        Rhywun 14 years ago
        
        Wind 'em up, and watch 'em go.
        
        Au H20 14 years ago
        
        John and MNG hate fucking is why I've stopped downloading porn. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a toilet at work that needs visiting...
        
        *FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP!*
      3. hmm 14 years ago
        
        with this
      4. Trespassers W 14 years ago
        
        How do you force someone to have nightmares?
        
        Dude, it says "tortured by nightmares". Clearly they were being tortured, so the torturers must have had a way to force them to have nightmares. You know, like in Inception or something.
        
        I don't know how it could be read any other way.
        
        Azathoth 14 years ago
        
        Guilt. Christians believe that everyone is wracked with guilt, that only the 'goods news' brought by Jesus can assuage that guilt, and that only by following that 'good news' can one enter Heaven.
        
        Of course, they don't quite agree on what following it constitutes, and some of them have slightly different versions of what the 'good news' is, and some don't even believe that whole guilt thing I mentioned--but RTL people definately think that anyone who has or contemplates an abortion is wracked with guilt--the nightmares would come from within.
  2. the real oo 14 years ago
    
    deniers should be waterboarded, using glacial runoff, till they confess their apostasy
3. Fist of Etiquette 14 years ago
  
  Three pregnant women, who intend to have abortions, are kidnapped and forced to carry their pregnancies to term.
  
  Holy fucking shit! How about a spoiler warning next time?
  1. Cyto 14 years ago
    
    Guffaw!
4. MP 14 years ago
  
  Environmentalists pretend to operate under a veil of reason. But videos where they blow people up remove the veil and show the religiosity behind the movement.
  
  Finding strong similarities between an Environmentalist video and a Christian video only reconfirms the cult-like nature of Environmentalists.
  1. John 14 years ago
    
    Very good point.
  2. Tony 14 years ago
    
    No one is so generous in applying the mantle of rationality to himself as the libertarian, particularly the objectivist. An entire philosophy that rests on the unassailable premise: "I am right according to the laws of nature, because I say so."
    1. Trespassers W 14 years ago
      
      Jesus.
    2. the real oo 14 years ago
      
      no tony - because galt said so!
    3. Bill 14 years ago
      
      That may have some truth, for the most extreme versions but it is equally true that no one is more generous in applying the mantle of self-righteousness and believing that "if I think it is morally right, then it has to work" than the progressive. (As I consider myself an uber-liberal, I won't use the word liberal in a disparaging sense).
    4. Cytotoxic 14 years ago
      
      "I say I am right because according to logical deduction, I am" -Objectivist
      
      FIFY
    5. yonemoto 14 years ago
      
      No true scotsman!
5. Amakudari 14 years ago
  
  Some pro-lifers are wackos. No shocker there. This is not a video I'd ever make or watch, and I think it's stupid to make. Kidnapping is wrong. Blah blah blah; I'll denounce it.
  
  But really, in the enviro revenge fantasy, didn't they actually kill children? Whereas here they committed kidnapping, but all punishment was self-inflicted or inflicted by God (likely with the subtext that all three would have gone to H-E-L-L otherwise). So I'm sorry, but I'm not going to consider these equivalent.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfnddMpzPsM
  1. John 14 years ago
    
    Exactly. For it to be the same, the movie would have to be about a group of people who ran around blowing up women who had had abortions.
6. Mammy Sent Dis Ovah 14 years ago
  
  "Let's see!"
  
  Who gives a fuck, asscunt?
7. Boxbot 14 years ago
  
  That movie is psychotic and indefensible. But the fact that there are religious people doing psychotic and indefensible things is well-known. It's called cultic behavior. But at least in the US, the theocratic elements are weak and stagnant, and our culture has good defense mechanisms against religious cultus behavior. AGW, on the other hand, is still hugely influential. The fact that AGW types are engaging in cultic behavior as bad as, or worse than, a pretty horrifying religious group, is worth noting, especially since the AGW death messages didn't draw any significant opposition from within the environmental community.
  1. Au H20 14 years ago
    
    Well, to be fair, religious types do have a rather big influence in US politics- hence the whole, "Almost all Republican candidates are both pro-life AND support a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage."
8. Anoynmous Coward 14 years ago
  
  Also in the film the women are tortured with nighmarish visions,
  
  I was totured with nightmarish visions once. So I threw the rest of the pizza away.
  1. Quetzalcoatl 14 years ago
    
    That'll teach you to order mushroom pizza.
9. cynical 14 years ago
  
  Since pro-lifers were actually blowing people up for a while, it seems pointless to complain about a movie. I doubt the movement has been fully purged of radical elements.
John 14 years ago

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....s_opinions

Why not corporal punishment in lieu of prison? Prison as we know it is the invention of 18th and 19th century religious fanatics.
1. MNG 14 years ago
  
  It's why they call it a Penitentiary. But in fairness there was also some Enlightenment thought mixed in with the religious ideas on the subject.
  1. John 14 years ago
    
    I can't give you a good reason why locking someone in a cage for weeks or months depriving them of the ability to make a living or support their families in many cases is somehow more humane than just lashing them and being done with it.
    1. MNG 14 years ago
      
      One just 'shocks the conscience" I guess...I read that Southern states rejected prisons over lashing in many referendums because they felt the latter allowed a person to retain more dignity than the former.
    2. sarcasmic 14 years ago
      
      All prison does is teach people how to survive while locked in a cage with rapists and murderers, while depriving them of a portion of their life that they will never get back.
      
      I think that is much more cruel and unusual than, say, pain and public humiliation in the form of lashes and/or stocks.
    3. Lord Humungus 14 years ago
      
      Reading some 18th/19th century accounts of lashings, it seems like a particularly cruel punishment. Depending on who was doing the lashing, bones could be exposed, potentially killing the lashee from infection or even blood-loss.
      
      I'm sure in the 21st century we would have a more humane version, like the "lashing machine" (patent pending).
      
      Having said that, I would prefer a couple of lashes over a couple of years.
      1. Troy 14 years ago
        
        No. Cops would do it. Sign up in fucking droves.
      2. Upgrayyed 14 years ago
        
        When I was a kid I had a choice between the belt and being grounded...took the belt everytime. So not sure how well that works as a deterrent.
        
        Lord Humungus 14 years ago
        
        I suppose it depends on your pain threshold.
        
        Jim 14 years ago
        
        Going to jail is a sign of respect in some gangs. I fail to see how getting lashing scars would be any less so. They'd wear them with pride, and brag about how many lashes they could take. It will do nothing to deter certain types of crime.
        
        That being said, it's a theoretical objection, and I've never been of the opinion that bad possible scenerios should prevent us from taking action to stop current, absolutely occuring as we speak bad things.
MNG 14 years ago

Police must be sensitive to the age of child suspects when deciding whether to inform them of their Miranda right against self-incrimination, an ideologically split Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The court ruled in favor of a 13-year-old who confessed to a burglary during a schoolhouse interrogation before being given a Miranda warning.

But dissenting conservative justices said that the majority was "embarking on a new expansion" of suspects' rights.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

Supposedly Clarence "Most Libertarian Justice" Thomas, who signed on with the dissent, said "Hell, the police should have just strip searched the kid!"
1. Spoonman. 14 years ago
  
  Clarence "Most Libertarian Justice" Thomas
  
  "Tallest Midget"
2. Clarence Thomas 14 years ago
  
  Bitch could have put pubic hair on my Coke
3. Zeb 14 years ago
  
  Tallest midget, etc.
4. Brett L 14 years ago
  
  Everyone knows Thomas doesn't view children as people w/r/t the law.
5. Amakudari 14 years ago
  
  Clarence "Most Libertarian Justice" Thomas, who signed on with the dissent, said "Hell, the police should have just strip searched the kid!"
  
  Thomas was thoroughly awful on the strip-search case? Do you think libertarians disagree? He's just marginally, marginally, better than the rest on some of the other stuff.
6. MJ 14 years ago
  
  I suspect Thomas makes a distinction between school staff and the police. However, police officers being in attendance when the kid was being questioned by school officials makes such a distinction not obvious.
  
  On the other hand if you believe that the public school system is an obvious extension of the police state, then who am I to argue?
7. Cytotoxic 14 years ago
  
  A mistake yes. But Clarence is still da bomb.
J[o]h[nn]y L[o][n]gt[o]rs[o] 14 years ago

The Definitive Scandal: 'Gunwalker' Much Worse Than 'Iran-Contra'
...The more than 2,000 weapons that the Obama Justice Department allowed to be delivered to Mexican narco-terrorist cartels are thought to have been used in the shooting of an estimated 150 Mexican law enforcement officers and soldiers battling the cartels. Two American law enforcement officers have also presumably fallen prey to these weapons, along with an unknown number of civilians on both sides of the border.

President Barack Obama's Department of Justice has purposefully armed narco-terrorist drug cartels that have been accused of bombings, ambushes, mass murders, public executions, and the assassination of police, politicians, and civic leaders.

Obama's Justice Department armed the enemy of our neighbor and ally, providing enough arms to equip ten infantry companies, or two battalions, of violent drug dealers.

Iran-Contra was a misguided attempt to trade arms for hostages and supply a covert supply of arms to rebels fighting against a communist dictatorship during the Cold War.

Gunrunner was an attempt to develop enough gun-running evidence to bring down a cartel, and instead supplied thousands of arms to drug cartels locked in a life-or-death struggle with a key U.S. ally and trading partner.
1. MSM 14 years ago
  
  Run along....nothing to see here.
2. Anoynmous Coward 14 years ago
  
  I don't see why this is such a big surprise. The State Department has shipped millions in military-grade hardware to the Mexican government (and by extension the drug cartels) for years.
  
  Why are we getting all excited about a few pieces the BATFE sold just so they could see where they went?
  1. Quetzalcoatl 14 years ago
    
    ... have been used in the shooting of an estimated 150 Mexican law enforcement officers and soldiers battling the cartels.
    
    FWIW
Bee Tagger 14 years ago

"If [the AARP] come around and say they're ready to do something, it will be like the Arctic icecap cracking," said former Sen. Alan Simpson

So he's saying old people are full of hot air?
Also, what does this have to do with Global Warming?
1. Fist of Etiquette 14 years ago
  
  That reminds me of another Simpson, which I believe is more indicative of the AARP membership:
  
  Marge Simpson: Where did you get all the money?
  
  Grandpa: The government. I didn't earn it. I don't need it. But, if they miss one payment I'm gonna raise hell!
  1. Shmenge 14 years ago
    
    Bart: Didn't you wonder why you were getting checks for doing absolutely nothing?
    
    Grampa Simpson: I figured 'cause the Democrats were in power again.
2. Zeb 14 years ago
  
  I don't think it has anything to do with global warming. The Arctic ice cap is over an ocean, so it cracks all the time and always has. So I guess Simpson is saying that this is a common and unremarkable thing to happen, which seems to be the opposite of what he is trying to say.
  THe message here is that old people are stupid.
  1. Bee Tagger 14 years ago
    
    I accept your apology.
    1. Zeb 14 years ago
      
      ?
3. cynical 14 years ago
  
  I think he means that they've become painfully aware of how many ice floes are out there now.
J[o]h[nn]y L[o][n]gt[o]rs[o] 14 years ago

Garrett Epps is back at it for The Atlantic, but I didn't get my comment in until late.
1. cynical 14 years ago
  
  What comment is necessary? He's actually more or less correct, for once.
MNG 14 years ago

A meeting of anarchists, progressives, a self-described "surly feminist" and others on the far left of the political spectrum is underway. They're young and radical. They're organizing intently. The matter at hand could be oppression, or the police state, or revolution.

But it's not. It's walking dogs.

The seven people present belong to Brighter Days, a dog walkers' collective founded on anarchist principles. Last year, the five-year-old business grossed more than $250,000. Its members have equal ownership and make business decisions by reaching consensus during weekly meetings such as this one. Any of them can block any decision. They split their earnings evenly, have a group health insurance plan and cover for each other on days off. They even get paid vacation ? seven weeks of it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html
1. MP 14 years ago
  
  WTF does anything about that business have to do with "anarchists principles"?
  1. Brett L 14 years ago
    
    Probably the part where they refuse to pay taxes because its thievery.
    1. MP 14 years ago
      
      But they do pay taxes.
      1. Brett L 14 years ago
        
        So they're pro-state anarchists like the G8 protesters? Punks ruined anarchy.
        
        Michael 14 years ago
        
        Leftists ruined punk.
        
        Banjos 14 years ago
        
        THIS
  2. R C Dean 14 years ago
    
    Sounds like a pretty ordinary general partnership to me.
    1. Isaac Bartram 14 years ago
      
      It greatly to see this kind of stuff.
      
      They are so cluless about how other people act in the world that they think they invented this kind of arrangement. And that it's somehow different from (and superior to) everyone else's partnerships.
      
      Also, something that stands out for me is the notion on the part of the writer that because their beliefs are "political" they are somehow more scientific, rational or valid than the beliefs of members of minority religions who have to deal with working in a world that is frequently unable or unwilling to accommodate their practices and have to face the same kinds of tradeoffs.
      1. Quetzalcoatl 14 years ago
        
        I think you accidentally a word.
      2. Isaac Bartram 14 years ago
        
        Ooopss
        
        "It greatly amuses me to see this kind of stuff.
2. Appalachian Australian 14 years ago
  
  This sounds exactly how my own business (with libertarian partners) is run.
  
  By the way, you might want to read up on anarcho-libertarianism. By "anarchist principles", you probably mean stuff like freedom of association, freedom from coercion, etc.
  
  Best of luck to them when they get destroyed for not complying with some arcane tax code. They might want to consider a Democratic tax accountant.
MNG 14 years ago

"The Mississippi Supreme Court confirms: Going to church can't be a bail requirement."

God I love the Deep South.
1. Bee Tagger 14 years ago
  
  That's actually another bail requirement option: praying to God and telling him you love the Deep South.
  1. MNG 14 years ago
    
    Only in Mississippi baby. This is the same state where the Supreme court passed off on a confession induced by hanging a black man from the neck (case leading to Brown v. MS).
    1. Salem 14 years ago
      
      We do one better with a duck
2. Amakudari 14 years ago
  
  The issue here is that the stupid is so bald. But I'd hardly consider something like drug rehab to be much more than faith-based, just more science-y.
  1. John 14 years ago
    
    I bet there is a stronger correlation between good behavior and church attendance than there is between good behavior and drug rehab attendance. Rehab is a cargo cult if there ever was one.
    1. Brett L 14 years ago
      
      I've got a great idea, lets put all the people who know where and how to score dope in one room and then wonder why many of them go score dope immediately after.
      1. John 14 years ago
        
        +1
    2. Otto 14 years ago
      
      It depends - if the person freely chooses rehab, it can work.
      1. Amakudari 14 years ago
        
        Absolutely. My dad's partner's son had to check into rehab (long story, but he was abusing prescription painkillers), but he really wanted to quit, and afterwards left the city to avoid the temptation. So I know rehab has totally legitimate uses and can be a force for good.
        
        What's more common, though, is that the people and the courts treat rehab as a magic wand for fixing addiction. The issue is people being forced to go.
      2. John 14 years ago
        
        If you freely choose church it can work. Utimately, you just have to decide not to be a degenerate. The rest is just an excuse.
3. Brett L 14 years ago
  
  Thank the baby Jeebus playing Freebird in front of the Confederate battle flag.
4. Gibby 14 years ago
  
  "God I love the Deep South."
  
  Which one? The one that made the bail requirement or the one that said no, you can't do that?
  1. MNG 14 years ago
    
    Maybe the one where the court initially did this and it had to go to the Supreme Court of the State to be struck down?
PantsFan 14 years ago

Why do breeders get weekends and evenings off?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com.....le2064112/
1. Just the facts 14 years ago
  
  Because if you're too dumb to take off your pants and get laid, you're too dumb for a weekend off.
2. SugarFree 14 years ago
  
  Fucking threads...
  
  Because if you don't let them off you will be tortured by dreams of Hell.
  1. The Gobbler 14 years ago
    
    I really like your style.
3. JoshInHB 14 years ago
  
  the other is single and getting over a breakup through vigorous water-polo practices.
  
  Explains why he got dumped.
4. Amakudari 14 years ago
  
  One staffer has children, the other is single and getting over a breakup through vigorous water-polo practices. Who gets the Sunday off work?
  
  Steven Bereznai, a 37-year-old Toronto journalist and perpetual single, knew who his boss was likely to choose. So he ended up serving notice that he wasn't available for Sunday shifts any more, leaving out the water-sport detail.
  
  So workplaces assume (or are even told) by those married with families that they're busy on weekends. Singles aren't, which means it's easier on them personally to work. I'm not married and I've been asked to work weekends frequently. And usually, I am more available than married folk.
  
  Problem solved, right?
  1. R C Dean 14 years ago
    
    Of course, voluntary, blah blah. Still, it would be nice to get some compensation for doing more work.
    
    Comp time would be my suggestion.
    1. Brett L 14 years ago
      
      I solved this problem by staying a contractor. I get paid for every hour I work and I very rarely get asked to work overtime. Even as 'the single guy'.
    2. Amakudari 14 years ago
      
      I was promoted faster than my colleagues. My first boss actually kept a list of every little project his employees did for him and how well they did it (something I learned from). I offered to work nights and weekends and moved past the entry-level pretty quickly.
      
      Again, I'd say that if you don't like what you have, you don't have to stay. That's maybe harsh, but if it's an important issue you should ask about it in the interview, bring it up with your boss, etc.
  2. The Gobbler 14 years ago
    
    "the water-sport detail"
    
    I do not think that means what the Globe Mail thinks it does.
    1. BigBob 14 years ago
      
      ...or does it?
5. Appalachian Australian 14 years ago
  
  If employers want to favour parents or couples with children, let them. Restricting the labour market reduces comparative advantage and increases unemployment.
Bee Tagger 14 years ago

"the General Command for Qaida't al-Jihad Group?and after finishing the discussion?announces the undertaking of responsibility of Amir of the group by Shaykh Dr. Abu Muhammad Ayman al-Zawahiri."

Yeah, how many of the people on General Command were placed there by al-Zawahiri's father? For once, hanging Chad has nothing to do with the group's foreign policy.
1. SugarFree 14 years ago
  
  Because if you don't let them off you will be tortured by dreams of Hell.
2. Citizen Nothing 14 years ago
  
  Note in the story how an expert compares al-Zawahiri to Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. You gonna let them get away with that, John?
  1. Citizen Nothing 14 years ago
    
    Terror expert Evan Kohlmann likens Zawahiri's ascent to the prospect of Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann or former Alaska governor Sarah Palin winning the Republican presidential nomination.
    Heh heh heh.
    1. John 14 years ago
      
      No bias in the media. None at all.
    2. John 14 years ago
      
      America's most famous john telling us how "radical" the Republicans are. If only.
    3. John 14 years ago
      
      http://www.slate.com/id/2297141/#add-comment
      1. Fist of Etiquette 14 years ago
        
        There are three core examples of this: the cut-taxes/deregulation libertarian perspective that puts even greater faith in the magic of an unfettered private sector than it did before the economic cataclysm of 2007-08...
        
        Stupidly eschewing faith in the magic powers of the appointed regulators who did such a great job before the economic cataclysm of 2007-08.
        
        ...a social conservatism that is hard line on same-sex marriage and abortion rights...
        
        The anti-gay shit's not going away anytime soon, and abortion is what it is.
        
        ...and a newfound isolationism that is an overreaction to the adventurism and unilateralism of President George W. Bush.
        
        The left is going to champion free trade now?
        
        John 14 years ago
        
        I love how everything was deregulated in the 00s. It is as if SARBOX never happened.
        
        A hard line on gay marriage, you mean like the one Obama has taken for years?
        
        And the "new found isolationism" line is too fucking despicable to even comment on.
      2. Somalian Road Corporation 14 years ago
        
        Eliot Spitzer. I didn't even notice it at first.
3. The Gobbler 14 years ago
  
  It's Dr. Abu Muhammad Ayman al-Zawahiri, I didn't spend six years in Evil Medical School to be called "mister," thank you very much.
Bee Tagger 14 years ago

Officers pursued the car for a few blocks until it stopped along the 1700 block of Pratt Street.

Police opened fire, wounding one of the men in the car.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/st.....id=8196178
1. Matrix 14 years ago
  
  I don't want to make judgement until I hear all the facts, but why would the police just open fire without knowing what was going on the car? One of the men could have been a hostage.
2. WTF 14 years ago
  
  The article doesn't make any attempt to say why the cops opened fire, whether there were guns found, etc. And the comments are the usual cop-fellators.
3. R C Dean 14 years ago
  
  A stopped car isn't a threat to anybody. Unless they saw a gun in somebody's hand, demanded that they drop it, and had their demand refused, this looks like murder to me.
  1. TrickyVic 14 years ago
    
    A stopped car can quickly surge forward and strike an officer. 😉
    1. deluded1 14 years ago
      
      Being from Philly myself, it's likely they didn't hand over the protection money
Bee Tagger 14 years ago

"It produces a high similar to THC," Fink said. "You can go into a store and buy it. Due to a loophole in the law, it's not a banned substance."

Teen jumper had been smoking fake pot, police say
1. Fist of Etiquette 14 years ago
  
  Due to a loophole in the law, you're able to post stories like that.
2. Zeb 14 years ago
  
  So the lack of a law banning something counts as a loophole in the law now? Awesome.
  1. Bee Tagger 14 years ago
    
    Simple solution: Everything is illegal until made legal. You canaries would be singing a different tune when a law was passed in that world!
    1. PantsFan 14 years ago
      
      that would make a great setup for distopian sci-fi
    2. Brett L 14 years ago
      
      Everything not mandatory is forbidden. We already live here.
mr simple 14 years ago

The picture was brought to the attention of school officials after the yearbook was distributed last week, and they notified the Big Bear Sheriff's Station, which is conducting an investigation.

An investigation into what exactly? Are they going to charge the photographer or the kids with child pornography? Or charge the kids with anything? how fucking stupid is this? It's like school officials and sheriff's departments were created in dungeons as adults and never had a childhood.
1. Sinic 14 years ago
  
  It's like school officials and sheriff's departments were created in dungeons as adults and never had a childhood.
  
  And the parents and politicians who are going to be outraged and demand that something be done.
2. Matrix 14 years ago
  
  I bet the boy will be charged and spend time in jail. Then he'll have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Don't you just love today's justice system?
3. sarcasmic 14 years ago
  
  The yearbook was distributed.
  That means every household who received a yearbook was in possession of child pornography.
  
  They're going to need to build a new prison to house all these felons.
  1. Slocum 14 years ago
    
    Nevermind that -- the school officials are guilty of distributing child porn. They're under arrest already, right?
    1. sarcasmic 14 years ago
      
      No. They're government. Laws don't apply to them.
      1. Robert 14 years ago
        
        My favorite example was a movie that made up the bulk of a 1 hr. program that aired a few times on WNYC-TV in the 1980s, made possible by a grant from one of the National Endowments. The program was called "Images of Children", and the movie (whose name I forgot) in the middle of it was some biopic of a left-wing couple from Cambridge, Mass., one of whom died from a cancer. In what was pretty clearly staged to look like child-initiated clowning around, the little boy & girl did naked splits for the camera, calling it the Penis & Vagina Dance. Not to say that kids don't do that sort of thing on their own, but it pretty much had to be a command performance under the circumstances.
        
        It's getting to be like Singapore, where gov't suppresses sexual activity, then decides there isn't enough of it and so holds official singles events.
  2. CrackertyAssCracker 14 years ago
    
    A simple book burning should take care of the problem.
4. Rich 14 years ago
  
  The school has offered to reimburse students who do not want their yearbooks back.
  
  I suppose the school has offered to arrest students who do not want their yearbooks confiscated. Also, along the lines of mr simple, how about charging everyone at the dance and everyone who worked on and distributed the yearbook?
  1. John 14 years ago
    
    If this had been a private summer camp, I could see charges being filed. Yes, we really are that insane about this stuff.
    1. TrickyVic 14 years ago
      
      Execpt when it's done at the airport by federal agents.
    2. Robert 14 years ago
      
      More likely in Britain than the USA or Canada.
5. Zeb 14 years ago
  
  How do they even figure that that is pornography? If someone said "here's some porn" and gave me a picture of some guy sticking his hand in a girl's shirt, I would be a little disappointed. As far as I'm concerned, it's not porn if there is no penetration.
  1. Dirty Internet Guy 14 years ago
    
    Except furries. They count too.
    
    Or you can go with the rare hybrid - Eeyore porn.
    
    Actually, all manner of fetish porn eschews penetration. Foot fetish, stockings, bondage, caning, splooshing, facesitting, humiliation, and on and on. All include significant segments that focus only on the fetish and skip the other aspects of sexuality.
    
    Of course, I'm with you. If there's no penetration, it ain't porn. At least not good porn.
    1. Pr0n 14 years ago
      
      You penetration fetishists
Fist of Etiquette 14 years ago

Ayman al-Zawahiri is now officially in charge of Al Qaeda.

Looks like a lot of days ahead eating at his desk for al-Zawahiri.
1. John 14 years ago
  
  Being the world's leading arch villain is not an easy job, a lot of late nights and weekends.
  
  I once had a conversation in Iraq with a Colonel intel type. He was convinced that Al Quaeda had a hidden complex somewhere in Iraq and a staff that looked just like hours. My first reaction was "no wonder they are so willing to blow themselves up." It was really a scene out of a Kubric movie.
2. Pope Jimbo 14 years ago
  
  Sure stick the guy with only 5 wives with all the overtime, and let the other evil masterminds with 15 wives go home.
3. Anoynmous Coward 14 years ago
  
  Quake in fear America! Ayman al-Zawahiri is in command of Al-Qaeda! Even though the police are more likely to kill you than he is, be afraid!
  
  OOGA BOOGA!
Carmick 14 years ago

YaY Ohio! so proud of my state today with the passing of this legislature 🙂
1. Rich 14 years ago
  
  Ohio's legislature liberalizes the state's gun laws.
  
  We really need a better term for this than "liberalize".
  1. Carmick 14 years ago
    
    well... it is the historically correct term to use when a state allows for more range in individual freedom... it was ours before the socialists bastardized the word...
  2. Somalian Road Corporation 14 years ago
    
    Fuck that, I'm not going to abandon a perfectly good word because it was hijacked by statist idiots. Plus "progressive" is so hip and trendy nowadays that I'm seeing it used far more.
    1. Flo 14 years ago
      
      "progressive" is so hip and trendy nowadays that I'm seeing it used far more.
      
      Thank you very much!
2. Carmick 14 years ago
  
  *legislation
  
  my bad
  1. Clich? Bandit 14 years ago
    
    RC's LAW +2
    
    The passing of the legislature can't be all bad.
3. Appalachian Australian 14 years ago
  
  NPR is warning me of the "dangerous mix of guns and booze" I can now expect at my neigbourhood Applebee's.
  1. 14 years ago
    
    Eating good in the hood.
  2. Somalian Road Corporation 14 years ago
    
    Did the phrase "blood in the streets" come up?
4. cynical 14 years ago
  
  Finally, we can be drunk and armed.
SugarFree 14 years ago

Your nut "punch" for the day.

Jennifer Kolone, 30, was arrested on May 24 after her boyfriend called 911 to report that she was being abusive, according to charges filed in King County Superior Court. The alleged victim, a 40-year-old man, told police that the couple had argued and he threatened to leave. When the man ignored Kolone's apology, she grasped his testicles and "squeezed very hard," Seattle police Detective Pilar Curtis wrote in a report.

The man felt "extreme pain" and saw blood on his groin area, charges said. After the assault, Kolone "calmed down and began to clean the house as if nothing happened," Curtis wrote in the report.

The man was taken to Northwest Hospital & Medical Center for surgery. Dr. Karen Jacoby told police that the man's wound looked like it was a "knife injury," charges said.

Neither police nor prosecutors say that a knife was involved.
1. Rich 14 years ago
  
  I'm betting she did it with her little finger nail.
2. CrackertyAssCracker 14 years ago
  
  Well, if he's not a allowed to beat the crap out of her after this happens, that is what the police are for right? Violence by proxy?
John 14 years ago

http://www.theatlantic.com/int.....ts/240441/

Cambodia apparently has its own Daily Show.
1. Lord Humungus 14 years ago
  
  On a side note, I have a good friend who is a government contractor currently working in Iraq. He's basically a truck driver in the airport.
  
  Anyways, he has vacationed in Cambodia several times and loves the country. He's been to the Killing Fields, motorcycled through the countryside and even shot off Russian-made machine-guns (no, not SMGs but MGs) there. There is a huge amount of personal freedom there - provided you have money to throw around... sure, there are downsides, but from his telling it sounds like an interesting country to visit.
  1. John 14 years ago
    
    I would love to go to Cambodia. Before the fucking commies got their grimmey paws on it, it was the pearl of southeast Asia.
  2. Fist of Etiquette 14 years ago
    
    Would he say his experiences there were seared - SEARED - in his memory?
    1. Lord Humungus 14 years ago
      
      What happens in Cambodia stays in Cambodia.
    2. bosty 14 years ago
      
      like a diamond bullet right through the forehead
  3. Quetzalcoatl 14 years ago
    
    Yes, but how are the roads?
P Brooks 14 years ago

However, authorities said they were concerned enough about the picture that they demanded that all Big Bear High School students return their 2011 yearbooks to the school so that the photo can be removed or covered up.

Won't they have to kill everyone who has already seen it?
1. John 14 years ago
  
  No. Just put them on a sex offender list and issue them a tent so they can live under a bridge for the rest of their lives.
2. Sneaky LEO 14 years ago
  
  Pics or it didn't happen.
  1. Lord Humungus 14 years ago
    
    I'm sure this pic will eventually filter to "b".
John 14 years ago

http://legalinsurrection.blogs.....heads.html

Wisconsin protestors lock their heads to metal railings. Why didn't they just turn the lights off, lock the doors and leave them there?
1. SugarFree 14 years ago
  
  Along with the two who locked themselves to the railing, a group of a dozen protesters loudly chanted "Kill the bill."
  
  It's violent rhetoric and eliminationist imagery like this that got Gabby Giffords shot.
  1. Tim 14 years ago
    
    "Kill the Bill"
    Quentin Tarantino gets $1.50 every time somebody says that.
2. sage 14 years ago
  
  Wisconsin protestors lock their heads to metal railings.
  
  Further proving that we will never reach Peak Retard.
3. R C Dean 14 years ago
  
  I bet there was a serious discussion about just leaving them there.
  
  I can just see the tour groups filing by while the morons begged someone to cut them loose.
  1. FlyoverCountry 14 years ago
    
    My question is, why are these protesters so young? 20 and 23? What the fuck are they protesting for? Surely neither one of them has a job, so that's not the issue; and if they were hoping to become teachers, then they are going to need some of the old fucks to retire already and free up some positions.
    
    I've never understood how college-aged people can support this kind of 'progressive' crazyness - an I'm only 26! Why is my generation striving so hard to reach Peak Retard?
P Brooks 14 years ago

Due to a loophole in the law, it's not a banned substance.

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
1. John 14 years ago
  
  The irony is that unlike actual pot, the fake stuff probably really is dangerous.
  1. sarcasmic 14 years ago
    
    What do you mean actual pot isn't dangerous?
    
    It can get you killed by the police or raped in prison!
    
    That sounds pretty dangerous to me.
    1. John 14 years ago
      
      True. I hear it is deadly to canines.
    2. Rich 14 years ago
      
      Well said. "Pot today is much more dangerous than it was in the sixties."
John 14 years ago

http://www.theatlantic.com/mag.....avez/8557/

I guess the new book on Caesar Chavez portrays him as a bit nuts. Interesting article if you skip the first ten paragraphs of Caitlin Flannagan pondering her hard life growing up as a rich bitch in Berkley. God that woman is awful.
Tim 14 years ago

I am going to miss not being able to read the headline:
"Ethics Committee Grills Wiener"

Sorry.
1. Amakudari 14 years ago
  
  Weiner Pulls Out Too Late
  1. Tim 14 years ago
    
    "Wiener fights for every inch"
    1. sarcasmic 14 years ago
      
      "Erections have consequences"
      1. gaijin97 14 years ago
        
        will he soon run for re-erection?
        
        Amakudari 14 years ago
        
        Potential movie title:
        
        Weiner: The Director's Cut
        
        Get it? Cuz he's Jewish.
        
        Res Publica Americana 14 years ago
        
        Lmao. Here, have ten free Internets.
P Brooks 14 years ago

Sorry.

Don't be.
Res Publica Americana 14 years ago

I'm still waiting for Ohio to wholly eliminate all schemes of licensure and record by legislative repeal; 'constitutional carry' is on its way, I hope. And it's among the first mega-states (large populations, major urban centers) to take such a step.
1. cynical 14 years ago
  
  Ohio is a much better choice for the free state project. It's a statistical fact that 64% of all libertarians live in OH, mostly in or near Columbus.
Tim 14 years ago

I actually got this response on another blog concerning the shooting of Marine Jose Guerena by the Pima SWAT:

"Tim, they didn't shoot the man for nothing. He obviously had to have been not cooperating in some manner.

It's like the professor from the beer summit who was arrested for breaking in to his own house. Had he cooperated with the cop he would have been fine, instead he chose to not to cooperate and the cop acted accordingly.

While it is tragic the man was shot, if the cops were cleared there had to have been due cause. Whether he had drugs or not therefore becomes irrelevant.

Lesson, if you have nothing to hide the don't. Let the cops come in search, ask questions and leave. Afterall, that is their job. "

!
1. John 14 years ago
  
  We are unworthy of our freedoms.
2. SugarFree 14 years ago
  
  STOP RESISTING!
3. Brett L 14 years ago
  
  Right. And rapists' hobbies are rape, but it doesn't make cooperation the preferred interaction.
P Brooks 14 years ago

"What do you mean, 'presumption of innocence'? The police wouldn't come to arrest you if you weren't guilty!"
1. Tim 14 years ago
  
  Yeah, I was stunned. It wasn't sarcasm. That guy is a believer. Oh well.
John 14 years ago

http://wattsupwiththat.com/201.....ciety-ams/

Why have they dodged open discussion on such an important issue? I've been told that the American Economic Society does not take sides on controversial economic issues but acts primarily to help in stimulating back and forth discussion. This is what the AMS should have been doing but haven't....

Many of us AMS members believe that the modest global warming we have observed is of natural origin and due to multi-decadal and multi-century changes in the globe's deep ocean circulation resulting from salinity variations. These changes are not associated with CO2 increases. Most of the GCM modelers have little experience in practical meteorology. They do not realize that the strongly chaotic nature of the atmosphere-ocean climate system does not allow for skillful initial value numerical climate prediction....

The AMS is going to be judged in future years as having foolishly sacrificed its sterling scientific reputation for political and financial expediency....

But the science is settled!!
1. RyanXXX 14 years ago
  
  Ignorance is strength!!!!
P Brooks 14 years ago

Wisconsin protestors lock their heads to metal railings.

Well, be fair; it's not like they were doing anything useful with them.
hmm 14 years ago

I like the song and video.
Trespassers W 14 years ago

Ohio's legislature liberalizes the state's gun laws.

Apparently somebody's not thinking of the children.
Au H20 14 years ago

Why is feminism afraid to focus on its flaws?
Au H20 14 years ago

Most Illinois specialists won't take medicaid patients

We also have a winner for "statist fuck of the year" in the comments, with these two little gems:

Sorry, Medicine is not a free market. Never has been, never should be. If you don't want to serve the public that gives you the license that lets you practice, find a new line of work.
Au H20 14 years ago

AND:

I don't want to indenture them to my sense of moral obligation. I want to indenture them to appropriate regulatory terms that are based on the public interest. Providing care to the indigent yet insured is part of the public interest. This is standard practice in the rest of the developed world. For some reason American citizens just don't count for much, I guess.
Warty 14 years ago

Ohio's legislature liberalizes the state's gun laws.

What a nice coming-home present. Let's celebrate with Rotting Christ.
Au H20 14 years ago

Lastly, Feministing's Jos, "Men Can Get Pregnant" Truit is at netroots. Let's take a whiff of the stupid:

. I really struggle with problems with the nonprofit model. I think it's incredibly important for people to get paid to do social justice work ? it needs to be sustainable. But big picture issues with organizations speak to the difficulties of working for justice within a fundamentally unjust capitalist system.
1. Appalachian Australian 14 years ago
  
  As usual, the author is frustrated with the heirarchical model of organisations, yet at the same time is espousing a philosophy which embraces collectivism (belonging to an underprivileged group) at the expense of individualism.
  
  They really want to have it all and not have to work for anything.
Au H20 14 years ago

Oh yeah, almost forgot: Jezebel helps you navigate the social minefield of... TRAVELING WITH FRIENDS?!
1. Warty 14 years ago
  
  Pool your money.
  I talked to Marybeth Bond, founder of Gutsy Traveler and author of Best Girlfriends Getaways Worldwide, who says, "When you start to plan, put $100 into a nonrefundable kitty. And that way, if anybody backs out, they lose the $100, but it isn't such a big hit to everyone else."
  
  What the fuck? All you need are friends who aren't total fuckstains, and road trips become awesome.
  1. Au H20 14 years ago
    
    I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Women hate other women.
    1. Banjos 14 years ago
      
      Just the vast majority of them.
  2. Brett L 14 years ago
    
    Right. Jezebelians who have friends who aren't total fuckstains.
2. Amakudari 14 years ago
  
  I always thought the rules were 1) find a good friend, 2) travel, and 3) don't be a douche.
  
  It worked for me on two cross-country trips by car.
  
  Are they really struggling to travel to a city without bickering over which outlet to go to?
P Brooks 14 years ago

but it isn't such a big hit to everyone else.

"Stealing money from your friends; it doesn't hurt at all."
P Brooks 14 years ago

working for justice within a fundamentally unjust capitalist system.

Horrible, horrible capitalism!
1. Res Publica Americana 14 years ago
  
  Why, just last week, I saw Congressman Paul sneak into Wendy's bedroom and suck the blood right out of her baby through the rear bedroom window! His monocle and Klan apparel didn't match, but it sure did confirm my opinion of anybody that doesn't like socialized medicine and progressive politics! I called the police right away, but by the time the good guys arrived, the bloodthirsty capitalist pig had turned into a vampire bat right before my eyes and flown away! Oh, the horror! Well, off I go to collect my food stamps! 🙂
2. Au H20 14 years ago
  
  In Soviet Russia, airbrush make women uglier!
Invisible Finger 14 years ago

So then all prom photos are child porn.

They should go after the enablers of proms, with them there wouldn't be these photo ops.
Pooky 14 years ago

Fareed Zakaria socks it to conservatives. Libertarians, too. Y'all living in a dream world:

http://www.time.com/time/natio.....id=fbshare
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