Reason Morning Links: Adult Diapers, Fighting Judges, and Lulz

• Your latest TSA outrage.
• The defund-the-war bill that wasn't.
• Allegations of physical violence on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
• Home Depot may face charges under the Buy American Act.
• Rhode Island defies the feds in a potential death penalty case.
• The hacker group LulzSec, or someone claiming to be LulzSec, disbands, or claims to disband.

The latest from Reason.tv: "The Facts about American Prisons."

Comments

[John]

The first rule about Supreme Court Flight Club is that you don't talk about Supreme Court Fight Club.

[Bee Tagger]

Some intrepid reporters do, though:

http://hrsugarfree.blogspot.co.....stake.html

[John]

Sugar Free doesn't write much anymore. Reality has surpassed even his imagination.

[SugarFree]

Disgust becomes a quaint emotion once it is all you can feel.

[John]

Yeah. When Mom Brady getting crabs from the Mayor of New York barely raises an eyebrow, we live in a dark age.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

I thought everybody in the 70's had the crabs.

[One more time, with feeling]

Carol Brady had crabs!!!

[Doc S.]

"Does Justice Prosser need to choke a b*tch???"

[Justice Prosser]

A pimp's love is a different kind of love.

[John]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.co.....ffair.html

Brady Bunch mom got crabs from Mayor Lindsey in the late 60s.

[John]

http://pajamasmedia.com/eddris.....ch-avenue/

Yes Kansas and Wisconsin and everywhere else, they really do hate you.

[Joe M.]

"They vote for Bush, they believe in God, they'd have to drive 2 hours for decent Thai. Who are these people?"

I agree with that part.

[Brett L]

Please. I've eaten barbeque in NYC, we don't have to drive to fucking Virginia for it in flyover country.

[Brett L]

Good barbeque that is. Don't have to drive to Virginia for good barbeque.

[Ska]

So....Fette Sau, Blue Smoke, or Dinosaur?

[Matt XIV]

Having lived in both, I can say you'll find better SE asian cuisine Wisconsin than the DC area - WI and MN were major destinations for Hmong refugees, so we have no shortage of Laotian and Thai cuisine. A good portion of them became farmers, so the produce is fresher too.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I find the spit-flecked CULTURE WAR!!! rage in the comments to be even more amusing.

[John]

Yes just because the people who run institutions like the NYT think of most of the country as being sub human doesn't mean there is a culture war.

[Heroic Mulatto]

You exaggerate. David Carr is just a former basehead who is now a t.v./movie critic.

[John]

http://www.snowflakesinhell.co.....-june-bug/

Ray Nagin is actually really no kidding insane.

[Ray Nagin]

What's so crazy about a chocolate city?

[Bee Tagger]

Could they secretly shoot me with a miniature, slow-acting poison dart?

I think he was talking about chocolate poison darts that slowly kill the black community through Type 2 diabetes.

[Fist of Etiquette]

So all you people trust the government all of the sudden?

[Drax the Destroyer]

Waaaaiiiittt...so...you voluntarily pay someone to shoot you with a poison dart? That you know is probably not good for you? And you need to be shot with said dart for years(decades?) for its poison to cause irreperable damage? And, once again, you paid for this? Oh and you also neglected to exercise, which could have curbed most of those excess calories fairly easily? Who the fuck's fault is it anyway when you finally get your feet hacked off while you peruse for a seeing-eye dog?

[JD the Elder]

As someone said on another forum, Nagin is pretty crazy, but you have to take into account that his beliefs were formed in the environment of Louisiana politics. Think less like "Texas" or "Indiana" and more like "Nicaragua" or "Cambodia".

[Ice Nine]

Nagin is clearly nuts...and certifiably incompetent - and he would get 98% of the Black vote if he happened to run for president.

[John]

"Now there's a campaign platform for Obama I'd like to see in time for the 2012 election: The Constitution lets me run up as much debt as I want and there's nothing your representatives can do to stop me."

http://hotair.com/archives/201.....t-ceiling/

[Not John]

We interrupt this John...

[John]

Someone has to pick up the banner from Longtorso. I am not going Golden Girls links out of respect.

[Jesse Walker]

Put your own mark on things. Pick a sitcom of your own. Benson, maybe.

[John]

Maude

[Joe M.]

Maude? Nice try, but it's obvious you're just angling for more Bea Arthur content.

[John]

Okay Phylis. I hear Cloris Leachman is a hot commodity these days after going on Dancing With the Stars.

[SIV]

Cloris Leachman was a hot commodity in the most excellent Kiss Me Deadly back in 1955.

[West Texas]

The joke isn't as funny if you have to explain it.

[Pro Libertate]

The answer is obvious: Sanford and Son.

[kinnath]

+1

[SugarFree]

"You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join you, honey. Your dummy son has made me a wooden overcoat. Oh, Elizabeth!"

[Pro Libertate]

I warn you, woman, vengeance is among me! And ugly is among you.

[Joe M.]

Lamont, is that you?

[sarcasmic]

Q: What do you call a paraplegic in the toilet?

A: John!

[Mister DNA]

Q: What do you call a guy with no arms and legs who posts URLs in the comments of Hit & Run posts?

A: Link!

[sarcasmic]

Skip! Phil! Russel! Art! Stew! Bob! Matt!

[rather]

My theory on why we will all die from an asteroid

[Bee Tagger]

Justin Amash continues to show promise.

I [Dennis Kucinich] have proposed an amendment, with Representative Amash (R-MI) and 11 others, to the FY2012 Defense Appropriations bill that would eliminate all funds for military operations in Libya. It would prohibit the Administration from continuing the war and would take effect when the new fiscal year begins on October 1, 2011.

http://kucinich.house.gov/News.....tID=248537

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

The Amalgamated Japanese Pop Star (You Will Be Assimilated)

[WTF]

Meh - needs some tentacles.

[SugarFree]

[shudder]

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

She's a modern Japanese muppet, makes sense to me.

There must be a very strong link between your conscious and sub-conscious minds. How else could you make that association so quickly?

[SugarFree]

I am a naked, throbbing Id.

[Joe M.]

Japan is a holographic viral projection from an autonomous continuum that is somehow intersecting our own.

[Matrix]

wasn't there a bad Al Pacino movie similar to this?

[Brett L]

Meh. Idoru covered this years ago.

[Bee Tagger]

Is Veronique doing her Olbermann-chipmunk impression in that screen shot?

[Not John]

Video stills can be so cruel.

[Fist of Etiquette]

And it was never a chipmunk. Have you people never seen a chipmunk before? Damn city slickers.

[Abdul]

Yeah, everyone knows there's more dark meat on a chipmunk than on a prairie dog.

[Winocologist]

RACIST!!!

[Lost_In_Translation]

Prairie Dog then, who cares what it is when it could be a better newscaster than Olberman.

[Bee Tagger]

Like most protectionist trade provisions, the Buy American Act has its supporters and detractors. Proponents support the act as a way to boost the economy and preserve U.S. jobs. Critics complain the law limits the government's ability to make the best purchase on price and quality.

Critics that complain that protectionist policies ruin the economy and eliminate jobs can go pound salt.

[John]

The worst government contracting law is the small business preference. You have to buy from a small business if one is available. So if you are say buying a server, printers and a bunch of desk top computers to hook into it, you can't just go down to Best Buy and get it. Instead you have to go to the local crony small business even though he is more expensive and will give you lousy service. Oh and you have to put it to a bid process which will take six months to a year.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

The small business preference has nothing on the 8(a) system when it comes to corruption and outright fraud.

[robc]

If you cant find a local computer business that is cheaper than Best Buy, then you are doing something seriously wrong.

Look for an asian owner with a barely passable use of the english language. Usually get decent (but not great) service too.

[John]

Not in military towns you can't.

[bigbigslacker]

With legal software?

[robc]

Sure.

Now, Im in the linux world, not the Windows world, so it makes finding legal software cheap a hell of a lot easier, so YMMV.

I buy hardware only and put on the software I want.

[Matrix]

don't forget JWOD... oh, and getting contracts for "under priviledged" groups... minority or women owned businesses. A minority woman? double the bonus! Doesn't matter if someone else can do it better and cheaper.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Rhode Island defies the feds in a potential death penalty case.

Don't mess with Rhode Island?

Actually, read the article. Not once is Chafee's first name mentioned. He apparently dropped the Lincoln and is doing a Cher thing.

Also, Rhode Island will give in. They always do.

[Mister DNA]

Also, Rhode Island will give in. They always do.

All the Feds have to do is to threaten to have Delaware beat up Rhode Island.

[Lord Humungus]

New from Jackson Games:

Nuclear War in Rhode Island

who will win the ultimate battle?

[John]

http://www.slate.com/id/2297589/

Bob Shafer, since Whitey Bulger corrupted the FBI, all anonymous sources are evil.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

I think it was the FBI that corrupted Whitey.

[John]

I love the story of how the dirtbag FBI agent Zip Connolly went down. The case was blown by a Tulsa, Oklahoma homicide detective investigating a murder of a Tulsa businessman. Connolly, being of a certain type of arrogant big city easterner took the guy from Tulsa to be a hay seed and blew him off. But the hayseed kept coming like Francis McDermott in Fargo. And Connolly is going to Florida to begin a 40 year sentence for his part in that murder. It is right out of a TV Movie.

[Mike Laursen]

That almost casts itself.

[Bee Tagger]

Alarmed by a shortage of primary care doctors, Obama administration officials are recruiting a team of "mystery shoppers" to pose as patients, call doctors' offices and request appointments to see how difficult it is for people to get care when they need it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06.....7docs.html

Lawyers, could this be seen as conspiracy to commit fraud?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hopefully, the shoppers are wearing pimp costumes.

[Tulpa]

Maybe if we pay PCPs less (as Obamacare likely will), that will alleviate the shortage.

[P Brooks]

Fastenal said in a statement that it settled because "we continue to believe that we complied with our obligation under the GSA contract in all material respects. However, we felt a continuation of our dispute with the DOJ and GSA was not the best use of our resources."

"Here's my lunch money. Stop hitting me, okay?"

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

The average general contractor doing work for the gov't keeps a box of USA made fasteners on hand in the trailer just for when the inspectors show up. The rest of the inventory is bottom dollar from wherever they can get it.

[P Brooks]

Pick a sitcom of your own. Benson, maybe.

Benson was supposed to be funny?

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

In the case of Benson, the com in sitcom stands for comatose.

[John]

I always thought it was about a German dominatrix.

[robc]

I liked Benson.

[JW]

A pale shadow compared to that which spat it forth.

[Pro Libertate]

Yes, and what happened to Benson? He was great on Soap.

[Not John]

He was so black and sassy!

[Alfred Rosenberg]

He was good as a supporting character. But that doesn't mean you can make a whole show out of him.

[Pro Libertate]

No. They should've made a show around the possessed baby.

[kinnath]

One of my all time favorite scenes from Soap was when the ventriliquist put a blindfold on the dummy then put on a fake psychic show.

[PantsFan]

No 'him' or 'hers' allowed: Is a gender-free preschool going too far?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com.....le2076480/

[John]

It is just funny. The boys will still be destroying things and the girls will still be playing with dolls. And the idiot teachers will be shocked at the staying power of the patriarchy.

[Ice Nine]

Those twits can change the toy colors all they want but those kids ain't even going to give up playing doctor.

[Abdul]

here's no Snow White on the shelves ? or any fairy tales for that matter ? nearly all the books deal with homosexual couples, single parents or adopted children.

Those kids are going to feel so lied to when the grow up and discover you can actually make babies all on your own--they aren't all mail-order from Korean orphanages.

[CoyoteBlue]

ATF fucks up and supplies guns to narco-gangs to kill people >>> Washington Post thinks the solution is to give the ATF more power.

I keep telling people that the WashPo is just a lot of badly written swiftian satire.

[John]

Someone made a great point over the weekend. Watergate killed how many people?

[SugarFree]

I'm impressed that there is only one AFT-positive comment.

[JW]

Why not? The same argument worked perfectly well for the FBI and CIA after 9/11.

[Bee Tagger]

Apprehend The Future!

[Pro Libertate]

I figured out what WTF actually means. It's "Waste the Future."

[JW]

FWT is "Fries With That?"

[Pro Libertate]

As we move from an industrial economy, through the service/information economy, we shall soon achieve the fast food economy, where we will serve quick, tasty food to fatten up the world.

[JW]

We shall conquer them with our yummy, greasy burgers.

[Pro Libertate]

It's all part of our master plan.

[Pro Libertate]

Make that master menu.

[P Brooks]

Lawmakers should give the ATF the tools it needs to fight illegal gun trafficking. They should enact stronger penalties for straw purchases and craft a federal gun-smuggling statute; close the gun-show loophole, which allows buyers under certain circumstances to purchase weapons without a background check; resuscitate the ban on assault weapons; and give the ATF the authority to collect data on multiple sales of long guns in border states. The Senate should move quickly to confirm a director for the long-leaderless bureau.

Or maybe the ATF should, you know, enforce the laws which currently exist instead of actively encouraging gun shop owners to ignore them, in the hopes of getting a huge P R win.

That whole thing reads like it was written by the ATF's Head of Communications.

[John]

State Run Media.

[Jersey Patriot]

A corrupt, dictatorial, unaccountable bureaucracy just needs a little motivation and a strong hand. Wow.

[Somalian Road Corporation]

A man of steel to run things. I'm sure it'll work out.

[P Brooks]

Apparently, MLB is headed for the ditch.
The House Committee on Un-American Activities must investigate this outrage; alert the media!

[Mike M.]

Having so far failed to kill Ghadafi from the air, the west decides on a brilliant new strategy of putting out a warrant for his arrest.

[Winocologist]

Saw Nick and Matt on Stossel this weekend. Good job, boys. Good job.

[SugarFree]

I am about to show you how Social Media is just another White, kyriarchical, status-quo upholding, oppressive medium.

The comments are gold...

MINTY wrote:
Please don't use the word "White" as if it's a synonym for "racist" and "oppressive".

FLAVIA DZODAN wrote:
Minty, upon reading your comment, I'll try to convey my reaction as best as I can via a written medium: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

...
FLAVIA DZODAN wrote:
Minty, when we talk about Patriarchy, do you think we refer to every male on the planet? Or do you think it is a framework to identify and disarm a form of dominant culture that systematically oppresses people?

Along the same lines, when we talk about Whiteness or Whites, do you think it refers to every White person being held personally accountable or identified as an "oppressor" or whatever other negative trait you might infer from it? No, White and or Whites refers to a form of domination and the implied power exercised over minorities. It certainly does not mean every White person on the planet and it does not mean YOU.

---
You know, like if I said "Black people are lazy", I would only be talking about those Black people who are lazy and not making a generalization about a whole group of people based on their skin color.

"Anti-racist" rationalizations of reverse racism are always hilariously lame.

[Pro Libertate]

There is no reverse racism. There is only racism. When you learn this lesson, can snatch this pebble from my hand, can walk on rice paper without leaving a trace, and, yes, can move this iron cauldron full of burning coals, then you may leave this place.

[Warty]

A few months ago, I would have looked up kyriarchical and probably laughed hysterically over it, sort of like cisgender. Now, the thought of it just makes me tired.

[John]

What a made up word.

[Pro Libertate]

Simiarchical, domination by simians.

[Warty]

The Greek roots would mean "rule by lords", I think. Con-fucking-gratulations, you stupid feminist twats, for using tautologies to name your dipshit theories.

[SugarFree]

Semiarchical: Rule by midget kings.

[Pro Libertate]

Sammiarchy: Rule by Sammy Davis, Jr. Also known as sacchariarchy.

[SugarFree]

Sammiearchy: Rule by idiots who can't or won't pronounce "Sandwich."

[Ice Nine]

Archiarchy: Rule by Carroll O'Connor.

[Pro Libertate]

Simsarchy: Rule by characters from The Sims.

[Joe M.]

I actually had to look up "kyriarchical" myself. That and "trigger warning". Someone should really spoof that site with one of the following two options:

1) "Real cute blog you got here. Ever post any recipes?"

2) As KKK: "That's what we've been trying to say for years about the Black Problem!"

[Alfred Rosenberg]

It is the framework of world Jewish domination we are talking about not every individual Jew.

[MNG]

JOOS!

[Brett L]

And all this time, I've been taking offense when someone used the word 'patriarchy' in a negative manner.

[JW]

What's with women drivers? I mean C'MON.

What's that? No, I'm not talking about you, sweetie. Just the bad drivers who are female.

[SIV]

tumblr?

they have politics on tumblr?

Trigger Warning!

[TRTB]

Help! Help! I'm bein repressed!

[Warty]

Your latest TSA outrage.

I remember when I used to get outraged all the time, back before outrage sold out and went all mainstream. My new emotion is Fremdsch?men.

[Art-P.O.G.]

Damn, that's a great word. How does the German language do it?

[Warty]

Art! You're alive!

[Warty]

Hate

[Warty]

FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR SHITTY PUNS, MSNBC

[Clich? Bandit]

ohh yeah, there is a special level of hell for the dipshits who make alliterative/pun headlines.

[Homer S]

Get to the working overtime part!

[Au H20]

Lulz Sec finally admits that there are but one true group of monocle wearers, disbands:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13918458

[Au H20]

Damn you and your quick fingers, Jesse! You win this round, Walker!

[Au H20]

LA Times: Somhow, both ATF AND Congress under the gun:

http://www.latimes.com/news/op.....9377.story

How, you ask?

"Congress is rightfully angry that the operation went awry, and it should demand an explanation. The ATF must be held accountable and must provide answers.

But it is worth noting that the ATF is charged with an impossible mission: enforcing weak laws in a nation awash in firearms, where even the most modest attempts to regulate or prevent mass straw purchases invite accusations of infringements on 2nd Amendment rights from the gun lobby."

[Brett L]

How about starting with, I don't know, not telling gun dealers to make illegal sales?

[John]

IF we just eliminated the agency, they wouldn't have that problem anymore.

[Almanian Statist Puke]

IF we just eliminated the agencysecond amendment, they wouldn't have that problem anymore.

FIFY!!

[JD the Elder]

Damn those weak laws! It's so hard to enforce them! I mean, you might have to...I dunno, do some police work or something!

[Somalian Road Corporation]

"weak laws" = "lack of a total ban on private firearms ownership"

[Matrix]

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms... should be the name of a convenience store, not a government agency.

[Somalian Road Corporation]

Also I am endlessly amused and dismayed by the implications that the "gun lobby" is some sinister deep-pocketed group funded by oodles of blood money from those incredibly profitable firearms manufacturers.

[Fatty Bolger]

Drunk Wife Sprays Breast Milk At Deputies

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

That's a win for the deputies. PTSD lawsuits and a great bar story.

[Brett L]

I love a good wedding fight.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Municipal Debt: It's not just for Americans anymore (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bond)

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

"China's local governments have piled up debts of $1.6 trillion, the national audit agency announced Monday, amid mounting concern Chinese banks might be hurt if borrowers cannot repay loans."

[John]

But the Truth tells us they used all that money to build high speed rail which will allow them to conquer the world. So it is all good.

[Winocologist]

They still need to build a damn long bridge over the Pacific.

[The Truth]

Oh, they'll repay the loans. In one for or another...

[Au H20]

And now for some light comedy, the Washington Post takes you inside Nancy Pelosi's drive to win back Congress:

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

Excerpt:

"Nancy Pelosi no longer has a balcony with the grandest view in Washington. The size of her staff has been cut by a third. And it took months, she said, to get rid of the smell of cigarette smoke from the second-floor suite she received in her swap with now-House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio)."

[John]

LOL. I don't even smoke but I would if I knew my office was going to that bitch.

[R C Dean]

No kidding. Before I handed over the keys, I would probably light a whole box of the cheapest cigars I could find and leave them smoldering overnight.

[Almanian]

I'd start smoking again if I knew it would piss off Nancy P.

[Gramps]

Not that Nancy isn't smoking hot!

[TRTB]

The size of her staff has been cut by a third.

The horror.

[Ice Nine]

Nancy Pelosi no longer has a balcony with the grandest view in Washington. The size of her staff has been cut by a third. And it took months, she said, to get rid of the smell of cigarette smoke from the second-floor suite she received in her swap with now-House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio).

How long do you suppose it took Boehner to get rid of that certain old lady smell in his new office?

[Zeb]

Is he just a cigarette guy, or does he have a cigar every now and then?

[Almanian]

1) Jesse Walker - NICE selection for this morning's links! A little bit of everything. Well done, indeed!

2) John - way to pinch hit for Longtorso! Outta the park, bro (we'll forgive the no "Golden Girls" in consideration of the "Brady Bunch Mom Had Crabs"...*barf*)

3) Home Depot may face charges under the Buy American Act.

See, this is why me and Mrs Almanian shop at Lowes. Despite the fact that they sponsor Jimmie Johnson in NASCAR. Just this weekend, I picked up a nice DeWalt angle grinder at Lowes, to go with the nice DeWalt impact drill/driver I bought there a month or so ago. They work nicely, Made in 'murca, and are helping me and Almanian, Jr. rebuild his '99 Jeep Cherokee, thus saving it from a landfill or Michael Bay film. So Lowes is Keeping America Beautiful, while Home Depot is supporting the terrorists and that little punk Joey Logano.

No animals were harmed in the creation of this blogpost.

That is all. Carry on.

[Au H20]

Oh, by the way, playing the role of Johnny Longstrono this week will be Au H20:

US Team booed in own stadium after returning from Gold Cup:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....ornia.html

"f the U.S. soccer team were hoping for the home advantage during Saturday's Gold Cup final then they were in for a nasty surprise.

Despite being the 'home' side in California's Rose Bowl stadium, the majority of fans - most of them American born of naturalized Mexicans - booed and jeered the U.S. team.

The surprising scenes were followed by angry outbursts from U.S. team goalkeeper Tim Howard, who was visibly shaken after the entire post match ceremony was conducted in Spanish."

And, of course, the Golden Girls:

Reflecting on the styling 80s, as seen in the Golden Girls.

[Almanian]

Well, I'd sure boo if I were forced to watch a soccer game. What a douche sport.

[Zeb]

"the entire post match ceremony was conducted in Spanish"

I guess the organizers know who the audience for soccer is.

[Almanian]

Also, I have (another) brain defect that is triggered every time I read Jesse Walker's name. I picture all the little feral kids in "Thunderdome" telling Max about the Pockyclypse, and shouting, "Captain Walker...MISSUS WALLLLKKKKER!!!" when they show the pics through the viewfinder.

And I can't make it stop...

[wylie]

It's probably a tumor.

[R C Dean]

even the most modest attempts to regulate or prevent mass straw purchases invite accusations of infringements on 2nd Amendment rights from the gun lobby.

Really? I wasn't aware that the NRA was opposed to the laws against straw purchases, much less "mass" straw purchases.

[Mainer]

Letting "facts" and "reality" get in the way of the narrative ?

[Au H20]

First, Frankenfish, now... FRANKENBURGER!!!

"The first 'test-tube' hamburger is only a year away, scientists claim.

They believe the product, beef mince grown from stem cells, could pave the way for eating meat without animals being slaughtered.

The Dutch scientists predict that over the next few decades the world's population will increase so quickly that there will not be enough livestock to feed everyone."

Also, there will be no excuse to be a vegetarian any more.

And, from the "activists can never, ever be happy, because otherwise they wouldn't have a job":

The Nation explains rains on the New York Gay marriage parade.

"But that's where my congratulations end. Because I have limited patience for narratives about political courage or "conversions" or bipartisanship when it comes to most long-time opponents flipping, especially when polls clearly indicated they had nothing to lose. New York's politicians have been playing political football with same-sex marriage since the '90s. The fact that just enough of them finally calculated that it's to their political advantage to kick us over the goal post is no reason to start lauding the human spirit.

I'm particularly disgusted by all the pols who participated in that long, drawn-out dog and pony show that featured self-professed "religious" legislators from both sides of the aisle covering their asses by pretending that the bill, which already included religious exemptions, needed yet more of them. No one's forcing religious institutions that oppose same-sex marriages to perform them?every religion will still be permitted to set its own requirements for who can be married within that faith tradition. Or, as Karen Loewy, a senior staff attorney at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, explains: "Everyone agrees that religious institutions have complete autonomy to decide which marriages to solemnize and celebrate, and the bill already reiterates those protections."

But some opponents of same-sex marriage are trying to stretch this religious exemption to try to protect the caterers, reception halls and musicians who want to refuse to provide services to gay couples getting married. This is clearly unlawful, based on years of anti-discrimination law in New York state.Think about how this would all be playing out if someone in the mainstream media actually bothered pointing out the parallel between the "right" to refuse public services to same-sex couples and the "right" to refuse to allow people of color to sit at public lunch counters. All of this solemn talk about "religious freedom" is KKK-worthy code for "We can still discriminate against LGBT people even when we hang out a shingle and provide services to the public, can't we?""

[SugarFree]

Also, there will be no excuse to be a vegetarian any more.

"activists can never, ever be happy, because otherwise they wouldn't have a job"

The 2nd statement invalidates the first.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

The Frankenburger pales in comparison to the Pooburger.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....78210.html

[Art-P.O.G.]

Pooburger will definitely put a shit-eating grin on your face.

[chris_dennis]

Seriously, if I had feelings like these people, I would drink heavily to make them go away. Or possibly develop a heroin habit... which would solve the weight problem too, probably.
@ I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to
our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a
46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get
all this stuff, BetaSell.com

[Au H20]

Europe actively discouraging car usage in cities.

"Cities including Vienna to Munich and Copenhagen have closed vast swaths of streets to car traffic. Barcelona and Paris have had car lanes eroded by popular bike-sharing programs. Drivers in London and Stockholm pay hefty congestion charges just for entering the heart of the city. And over the past two years, dozens of German cities have joined a national network of "environmental zones" where only cars with low carbon dioxide emissions may enter."

Weren't Italian motorists already doing this for them? Why make it a formal policy?

Jezebel ensures it will always have a fat friend to boost its self esteem, explains how weight loss leads to friend loss.

That skinny bitch!

[Brett L]

"One woman garnered the ire of her granddaughter when her fitness regimen meant that she stopped having time to drive her to school and the girl was forced to walk the 2.5 miles herself. "

Seriously? You don't have 5 fucking minutes? 10 for the round trip? Don't blame weight-loss.

[Brett L]

"It's something that bothers me more outside my friends circle and especially with dating. If I order a salad I feel people give me a look of "haha look at the chubby chick trying to eat a salad" and if I order fries it's no better. I feel like guys in particular want you to be able to eat anything but look as if you only eat lettuce. "

Priceless. Yeah, its the men honey.

[TRTB]

Notice that it's not "I think that..." it's "I feel like...".

Why are you trying to invalidate her feelings?

[Brett L]

Seriously, if I had feelings like these people, I would drink heavily to make them go away. Or possibly develop a heroin habit... which would solve the weight problem too, probably.

[Fluffy]

This is such BS.

Does anyone know of ANY guy out there who ever gave a damn what his date ordered, unless he was broke and she ordered something expensive?

If people roll their eyes when you order a salad, it's probably because they saw you eat a whole sleeve of fig newtons in one bite an hour before and they wonder why the hell you're bothering to pretend.

[Zeb]

Seriously, if the woman being fat is not a turn off to begin with (in which case it doesn't matter), no guy is going to analyze what she orders to eat.

[Tulpa]

Does anyone know of ANY guy out there who ever gave a damn what his date ordered, unless he was broke and she ordered something expensive?

In that case I would join the feminists in smashing the patriarchal tradition about who pays for dinner.

[Septugenarian Libertarian]

2.5 miles! And she complains??? That's nothing!

Why, back in my day...

[kinnath]

London started charging people extra to go to city central along time before the AGW issue arose. It's just plain fucking crowded down there -- too many cars.

[Zeb]

I think the congestion charges are a reasonable idea. Space for cars in city centers is limited, and the value of being able to drive to the city center is diminished greatly if there is too much congestion. Being able to get around the city center is a scarce and valuable commodity and people should pay for it.

[Brett L]

We could ban public roads, and let the market work. SOMALIA!

[The Truth]

BTW John, since you were missing from the Sunday thread:

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2.....n-and-egg/

America can't even build a fucking bridge for one of its cities anymore, thanks to a (lack) of an industrial policy that led to the collapse of our steel and fabrication industries. So we send yet more money to a country that DOES have a policy of industrial growth and economic protection.

[NY Times]

Our fabrication industry is doing just fine.

[Lord Humungus]

speaking of fabrication...

[Lord Humungus]

http://blogs.forbes.com/gordon.....-handbags/

[Au H20]

Proving that even a broken calendar sometimes can predict the correct day of the week, for a given day, the New York Times actually has a good editorial:

Why Science Struggles to Correct Mistakes.
"ONE of the great strengths of science is that it can fix its own mistakes. "There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong," the astrophysicist Carl Sagan once said. "That's perfectly all right: it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process."

If only it were that simple. Scientists can certainly point with pride to many self-corrections, but science is not like an iPhone; it does not instantly auto-correct. As a series of controversies over the past few months have demonstrated, science fixes its mistakes more slowly, more fitfully and with more difficulty than Sagan's words would suggest. Science runs forward better than it does backward."

Jezebel catches up to Reason, finally discovers the boys over girls study.

The comments are great. Did you know that boys are easier because they never get bullied, while girls suffer through traumatic experiences in high school that are worse than war?

[Fluffy]

Maybe science would correct its mistakes faster if all scientists went into deep meditation and waited for a voice from the sky to tell them the right answers.

[Zeb]

Well, there's science and then there's science. I think that hard science like physics or chemistry is pretty effective in its self correction, and its practitioners tend to be a lot more open to their hypotheses being wrong (nothing should make an hones scientist happier than having their hypothesis proven wrong). But in softer sciences, I think that incorrect hypotheses are harder to root out. And soft sciences masquerading as hard sciences, such as climate science, are probably the worst, particularly when highly politicized.

[Au H20]

The arsenic thing is a hard science debate- it's biology. He's just saying too little science is based on double checking results.

[P Brooks]

Home Depot is supporting the terrorists and that little punk Joey Logano.

I fucking hate NASCAR, but watching those fucking shitboxes try to get around Sears Point is pretty amusing.

And, after watching the little punk drive that fucking retard Robby Gordon right past the turn-in to the hairpin the hairpin and into the tires I have this to say:

"Kid- you're all right!"

[PantsFan]

I'm not a NASCAR guy, but Watching Tony Stewart and Lewis Hamiltion swap their NASCAR and F1 at Watkins Glen last week was kinda cool

[P Brooks]

thanks to a (lack) of an industrial policy that led to the collapse of our steel and fabrication industries

Now, THAT's funny.

[P Brooks]

Fucking editing- how does it work?

[Au H20]

And, saving the best for last...

Walter Russel Mead on the failure of Al Gore.

"But while some forms of inconsistency or even hypocrisy can be combined with public leadership, others cannot be. A television preacher can eat too many french fries, watch too much cheesy TV and neglect his kids in the quest for global fame. But he cannot indulge in drug fueled trysts with male prostitutes while preaching conservative Christian doctrine. The head of Mothers Against Drunk Driving cannot be convicted of driving while under the influence. The head of the IRS cannot be a tax cheat. The most visible leader of the world's green movement cannot live a life of conspicuous consumption, spewing far more carbon into the atmosphere than almost all of those he castigates for their wasteful ways. Mr. Top Green can't also be a carbon pig."

And, the cherry on top, Maureen Dowd, who is possibly the most tolerable NY Times columnist (not a compliment) wonder why President Obama is bi.

No, not that kind of bi. Or that kind. Dirty minded pervs... read the damn article, it's great.

[Somalian Road Corporation]

Re: the Dowd piece and its comments, I am continually running into people who insist that the reason Obama hasn't lived up to his own promises/their expectations of him because he's paralyzed by fear of criticism from right-wing talk radio and those mean Republicans. Yeah, sure, buddy. That's gotta be it.

[NY Times]

LEAVE OBAMA ALONE!!!!!!

[Au H20]

I hope I did JL proud this morning, even if I missed being the first. I mean, who the hell posts morning links at 6:15 mountain time? Jerks, that's who!

[John Thacker]

I don't understand the argument against explicitly defunding only half the war. Why not defund half now, then come back for the rest later?

I can't believe that I'm finding Kucinich the reasonable one.

[Homer S]

oh yeah, it's the WINNIPEG JETS

[Pro Libertate]

Winni and the Jetssss.

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