Reason Morning Links: The Newt Backlash Is in Full Effect, The Romney Backlash Is Still Going Strong, The Online Piracy Act Backlash Gathers Steam

Mike Riggs | 11.17.2011 9:03 AM

Jack Abramoff accuses Newt Gingrich of corruption.
Republican direct mail pioneer Richard Viguerie says "there's no conservative case for Mitt Romney."
The Internet rises up like a hydra to tell Congress not to pass the Stop Online Piracy Act.
America is not the fattest country in the world.
The drought in Texas may last through 2020.
Jerry Sandusky's interview with NBC, in which he said he showered with--but did not rape--young people, has inspired former young people to come forward and share their stories about how Sandusky is a liar (and a rapist).
New report: "Having school resource officers (SROs) and other police in schools causes more harm than good."

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Mike M. 13 years ago

Pop the champagne everyone, the total combined national debt has officially hit 15 trillion dollars. Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  What-ever! We can totally pay it all off with our baby-sitting scrip!
  1. Warty 13 years ago
    
    My mind is, like, totally blown! People who don't understand this are literally insane!
    1. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
      
      No substance, Warty. Not even a music video. I am disappoint.
      1. Warty 13 years ago
        
        CHRISTRAPING BLACK METAL
  2. TPTB 13 years ago
    
    Our babies are shitting scrip!
2. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  Arbitrary boogieman number. Wake me when you get to a figure with some meat on its bones.
  1. Wake Up! 13 years ago
    
    Here ya go.
    1. Restoras 13 years ago
      
      [whistle blows]
      
      5 minute penalty for unsportsman-like conduct - posting chubby-chaser pics. Only sarcasmic is allowed.
3. Restoras 13 years ago
  
  What is it if you include state debt?
  1. mofo 13 years ago
    
    One. Jillion. Dollars.
  2. CoyoteBlue 13 years ago
    
    And Fannie and Freddie.
    1. Restoras 13 years ago
      
      Yeah, we are so totally fucked.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

GOP lawmakers say nation not safer after decade with TSA
http://thehill.com/blogs/trans.....y-makeover

"Americans have paid $60 billion funding TSA and they are no safer today than they were before 9/11," Broun said during a news conference at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport announcing the report.

Mica, who wrote the the law that established the TSA in the wake of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, agreed. Despite the fact that there have not been any incidents since that day, the TSA has not made flying safer, he said.
1. o3 13 years ago
  
  On average, our officers find about two guns a day at checkpoints. Yesterday must not have been an average day, because 10 guns were found in various checkpoints around the country, well above the norm.
  
  http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/08/gu.....point.html
  _
  
  oops - too ez !
  1. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    Ok, triple asshole. Now explain how finding those guns made flying safer.
    1. teh rael o3 13 years ago
      
      foolish question prima facia
  2. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
    
    Makes you wonder how many that they miss, on average.
  3. heller 13 years ago
    
    o3, how many terrorists has the TSA caught?
    1. TSA 13 years ago
      
      Sorry, we can't tell you. National Security and all that.
2. Rich 13 years ago
  
  the TSA has not made flying safer
  
  With all due respect, how does one measure "safer"? Ask passengers how they feel?
3. o3 13 years ago
  
  only th e wignuzt on thes sight thing we is not more safer just moar unoin HATE frm the taalk raidio
  1. o3 13 years ago
    
    ^poor spoof. count the gunz fool
    1. heller 13 years ago
      
      Nice try spoof, we know the real o3 is the one you're replying to.
      1. o3 13 years ago
        
        no its jsut ols mix spofffng me
        
        teh rael o3 13 years ago
        
        ^nope sarcasmic who's active downthread. too ez babiee !
        
        Kant feel Pietzsche 13 years ago
        
        You should go down to Wall Street and demand free lithium prescriptions if you can't pay for them yourself.
        
        teh rael o3 13 years ago
        
        but doesnt team boosch's unfunded medicare perscription plan cover that?
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

State reprimands 7 doctors for Capitol protest sick notes
http://www.jsonline.com/news/s.....74403.html

Seven doctors received a reprimand from a state board Wednesday after issuing sick notes to demonstrators during the protests against Gov. Scott Walker's union bargaining law.

"The board action today holds these physicians accountable for their very public actions," said a statement from Sujatha Kailas, a physician and chairman of the Medical Examining Board.
1. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
  
  Ooo! Scary stuff. Their reprimand is noted on their permanent record.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    The doctors' reprimands would be a factor in determining discipline in future cases if any of the doctors come before the board again, he said.
    
    Yeah, now those guys are in some deep shit if they amputate the wrong leg on someone next year!
  2. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    ? Oh, yeah? Well, don't get so distressed
    Did I happen to mention that I'm impressed??
  3. Dean Wormer 13 years ago
    
    Next step: double secret probation
    1. STEVE SMITH 13 years ago
      
      STEVE SMITH PREFER DOUBLE SECRET PENETRATION
2. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Slap their wrists so docs can continue to pretend their guild is self-policing.
3. Gimlet 13 years ago
  
  "State reprimands 7 doctors for Capitol protest sick notes"
  
  Who was it that claimed to the last breath that these doctors did nothing wrong?
Drake 13 years ago

I'm watching the NYC news channels right now. OWS protestors are making life miserable for commuters. They claim they will be trying to block the subways in the evening commute.

By tonight, the cops will be trying to protect the protestors from New Yorkers.
1. Montani Semper Liberi 13 years ago
  
  Yeah, way to win over the hearts and minds of the public. Retards.
2. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  Yes, because the "banksters" are definitely taking the F train home. Get 'em!
  
  Morons.
  1. Drake 13 years ago
    
    Never spent much time in NYC, have you?
    
    All the "banksters" ride through the city in limos wearing tuxedos and top hats while smoking cigars and sipping scotch.
    1. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Doctor! This patient needs 50cc of sarcasm detector! STAT!
      1. Drake 13 years ago
        
        Sorry...
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        It's OK. They still haven't came out with that sarcasm font.
        
        Fucking recession.
        
        Field Marshall Gill 13 years ago
        
        They still haven't came out with that sarcasm font.
        
        Doesn't matter if they do, this place will just break it on the very first day.
        
        Amerifuntimes 13 years ago
        
        The truth of this statement pleases me.
        
        mr simple 13 years ago
        
        They're not actually making a sarcasm font. The announcement was them being sarcastic.
        
        PermaLurker 13 years ago
        
        I thought Comic Sans was the sarcasm font. It's not?
  2. Banker 13 years ago
    
    As a banker in NYC, I can tell you we do ride the train, just not during the evening rush. Still working.
    1. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Ah, but are you a "bankster"? Because they ride around in palanquins carried by enslaved art herstory graduates, nibbling on the poor's pickled young, laughing uproariously at the devastation they have caused.
      1. Restoras 13 years ago
        
        I can confirm that, indeed, most banksters ride public transportation during off-hours. This poster is an aspiring Bankster! and has yet to be fitted with thier top hat and monocle.
        
        Old Soldier 13 years ago
        
        I want to dress up in a top-hat, monocle, etc... and take a stroll down Wall Street today. Maybe beat some hippies with my cane if they give me any guff. Otherwise I'll just hurumpff them.
        
        stuck in the 60's 13 years ago
        
        good luck finding "hippies"
        
        Chris 13 years ago
        
        Good luck conversing with the rest of us, Stuck in the 80's guy. The 80s, that temporary haven where the hippies and hipters crawled away into an obscure No War in Nicaragua niche. Poor fucks. The fact that Ronnie Raygun agreed with them sucked out all the oxygen for their cause.
        
        Drake 13 years ago
        
        Are you saying that New Wave is the antidote?
        
        I will blast New Order and Pet Shop Boys everywhere I go if you can confirm.
        
        Chris 13 years ago
        
        It just. might. work. Drake. Try it in a coffee shop first before you try it in the streets. gotta be sure first.
3. John 13 years ago
  
  I wish they would try that in DC. Hippie punching would be a fine afterwork activity.
  1. Montani Semper Liberi 13 years ago
    
    John, looks like you may have lucked out
    1. Fluffy Got Demoted 13 years ago
      
      I remember back in the 90's Justice for Janitors would occasionally block a DC area commuter bridge.
      
      It didn't win them any friends, to say the least.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        If they block the Key Bridge people are going to go bizerk. I have an appointment in Georgetown this afternoon. Might have to check it out.
        
        Maxxx 13 years ago
        
        What's bizerk?
        
        FlyoverCountry 13 years ago
        
        It's like berserk but much more XTREME!
    2. Abdul 13 years ago
      
      Holy shit, I'm filling my socks with quarters right now.
    3. JW 13 years ago
      
      Target
      Rich
      Environment
    4. John 13 years ago
      
      They are just going to march to Key Bridge. As much as I would like to go by a really heavy cain and beat them like baby seals, I can't really do that. I was hopeing that they would try and block my entrance to metro and give me an excuse to push a few of them down those endless escalators they have on the DC metro in self defense.
      1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
        
        Psh. Wake me when you push one off a bridge.
      2. JW 13 years ago
        
        As much as I would like to go by a really heavy cain
        
        He already looks to be about 220.
        
        Agammamon 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, but he got punked so hard he's now an announcer.
        
        Speaking of which, Velasquez got his as beat down in his first fight since taking the title. Wasn't even close.
      3. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
        
        I'm surprised regular folks don't die on those hellion escalators.
    5. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
      
      John:
      
      You realize that you have to follow through now, right? And please post pictures.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        I can't just go attack them. They have to do something stupid to give me an excuse and a defense in court.
        
        Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
        
        Some lawyer you are.
        
        ## 13 years ago
        
        In their case, I would think that existing would qualify as doing something stupid.
  2. Abdul 13 years ago
    
    I'm wondering why someone hasn't left a cup of Butyric acid in the middle of Macpherson square already and skunked the hippies out.
    1. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      They can't smell that over the reek of their own dreadlocked armpit hair.
    2. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
      
      They didn't smell a dead body for three days, remember?
    3. Raston Bot 13 years ago
      
      Still no way they smell worse than French u-railers.
4. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  Taking a cue from the Oakland douches and fucking over the people they claim to be representing. Nice.
5. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
  
  Yeah, I saw their little action plan on one of the links here last night, and I thought that was amazingly stupid. It's one thing to park it outside Wall Street, but to try and shut down the public transportation system too? Apparently they forgot what a public relations disaster that was for the unions when they tried that in 2005.
6. Occutards 13 years ago
  
  We're doing this for YOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUU...
7. Ted S. 13 years ago
  
  Normal people need to Occupy the Exits.
P Brooks 13 years ago

Strangely enough, there seems to be a total news blackout on the part of MSNBC and their sister network the MSNBC Business Channel regarding this morning's counteroffensive by the Occutards.
1. Mike M. 13 years ago
  
  Have they destroyed Macy's with a molotov cocktail yet?
  1. Gimbels 13 years ago
    
    nope 🙁
2. o3 13 years ago
  
  'Occupy' movement calls for global day of action
  Organizers plan to mark two-month anniversary with flash mobs, student strikes, rallies and musicals
  
  msnbc.com staff and news service reports updated 11/17/2011 5:44:25 AM ET 2011-11-17T10:44:25
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45.....news-life/
  _
  
  oops - too ez !
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    They are putting on musicals as opposed to sending violent brownshirts out to harrass comuters. Good thing the article didn't white wash it or anything.
    
    Too easy.
    1. o3 13 years ago
      
      p brooks - "...a total news blackout on the part of MSNBC..."
      _
      
      fact check PWND !11!1!!!
      1. o3 13 years ago
        
        ^ ^ old mox spoffing^
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        stop spoffing my mom old mox
      2. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        The news part is still being blacked out. Partial credit.
        
        Propaganda PWND, triple asshole1111!!!!1!!1!
    2. cynical 13 years ago
      
      Wagnerian opera is a sort of musical, right? You know who else -- ah, fuck it.
  2. alittlesense 13 years ago
    
    rallies and musicals? Kristin Chenoweth singing something about the 99%?
    1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
      
      "The Hipster and I"
      1. SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        "The hills are alive,
        with the sound of Coldplay!"
        
        Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
        
        Coldplay's mainstream now, grandpa.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        And musicals are always 10 years behind the times.
        
        BROADWAY PWN!
        
        Rhywun 13 years ago
        
        "Coldplay's mainstream now, grandpa."
        
        They're still unlistenable, so there's that.
        
        Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
        
        I wear knit hats because I'm cold. You wear them because of Coldplay.
        
        /2 broke girlz'd!
        
        Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Somebody actually watches that show?
        
        Chris 13 years ago
        
        I don't but i can see someone else watching it. The fat brunette is kind of hot.
        
        Destrudo 13 years ago
        
        That would be Kat Dennings. There are some nudes out there, if one were to google such a thing.
        
        Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
        
        I don't but i can see someone else watching it. The fat brunette is kind of hot.
        
        Personally, I find the blonde more appealing. Dennings is just playing a slightly older, slightly less mature version of her character from "40-Year-Old Virgin."
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        More people watch it than watch House. The only thing that beats it in its time slot is Dancing With The Stars.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        It's the 3rd highest rated sitcom.
        
        America is doomed.
  3. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
    
    "Student strikes"?
    
    Isn't it only a strike when workers do it?
    1. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      That doesn't make much sense, does it. If someone is paying me to provide them a service and they decide to go "on strike" from receiving the service, while still paying me for it, that sounds like a pretty good deal for me. What do they think they are going to accomplish?
      1. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
        
        Smoke a lot of pot in the dorm room, listen to some shitty hippie music?
        
        I mean, if they were being productive, they'd be smoking pot and playing Skyrim.
        
        Chris 13 years ago
        
        I've got a kid now, and not crazy about the smoke. Pills are the way to go. Also, I drink on the job morning and afternoon so the kid doesn't see his old man drunk. That's just me being thoughtful.
        
        wylie 13 years ago
        
        Man, you know how long it took me to spot the smelter? It's like my eyes don't work.
        
        Or, actually, I think my eyes were just too busy being enthralled.
    2. ## 13 years ago
      
      I thought when students did that it was called cutting class.
      1. Drake 13 years ago
        
        I thought it was called a really expensive apartment.
RoboCain 13 years ago

East Carolina University Locked Down After Umbrella Sighting

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....97382.html
1. JD 13 years ago
  
  Greenville Police spokesman Sgt. Carlton Williams said emergency dispatchers received two 911 calls about 9:50 a.m. Wednesday reporting a man was walking along a major street near the East Carolina University campus carrying an assault rifle.
  
  The campus building was stormed by officers carrying military-style carbines, searched and evacuated.
  
  Gotta love how it's a "military-style carbine" in the hands of the police, but anyone else with the same gun has an "assault rifle" or "assault weapon." The police are probably far more likely to assault someone with it.
2. Mainer 13 years ago
  
  Shouldn't that story be headlined with a picture of an umbrella, since that's what the man actually had. Instead, a scary picture of a semi-auto pistol, which isn't even relevant to the mistaken belief the mand had a military style carbine.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Obama Pushing Shooters Off Public Lands
http://www.usnews.com/news/blo.....blic-lands

Gun owners who have historically been able to use public lands for target practice would be barred from potentially millions of acres under new rules drafted by the Interior Department, the first major move by the Obama administration to impose limits on firearms.

Officials say the administration is concerned about the potential clash between gun owners and encroaching urban populations who like to use same land for hiking and dog walking.
1. Old Soldier 13 years ago
  
  Wouldn't want to offend sensitive uburbanites when the visit the woods once a year.
2. o3 13 years ago
  
  by restricting bullets near urban areas, millions of acres would still remain available for teh gun nutz.
  
  moar lamestream media [LIEZ]
  1. Old Soldier 13 years ago
    
    Sure - because there are some big cities right next to the National Parks.
    1. o3 13 years ago
      
      yep - try CVNP for starters.
      1. Old Soldier 13 years ago
        
        Probably why hunting and shooting is already prohibited there.
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        there are moar. ur sarcasm was misplaced & ineffectual.
        
        educate thyself wingnutz !
        
        http://www.nps.gov/index.htm
        
        Old Soldier 13 years ago
        
        I don't think you are going to win friends on this site with .gov links.
        
        teh rael o3 13 years ago
        
        you shouldnt just foolishly accept agiprop as fact, right or left
        
        Tonio 13 years ago
        
        O3tard: The article specifically mentioned lands managed by BLM. BLM-managed federal land is not the same as national parks which are managed by the National Park Service.
        
        So you fail on many levels, here.
        
        teh rael o3 13 years ago
        
        nope - the headline states "public" lands which would include parks.
        
        >headline PWND 1!!1!!!11
        
        FlyoverCountry 13 years ago
        
        Sometimes it's worthwhile to read more than the headlines. Below them, in a lot of cases, are more words. Those words will help to give you a more complete story than the headline can, by itself, provide.
        
        >general non-douchiness fail!!1111!
        
        teh rael o3 13 years ago
        
        b nice i dunt red to gud 🙁
    2. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      I don't think you can generally go shooting in national parks in any case. They are talking about other federal lands.
  2. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    BLM land isn't near urban areas, those are called "suburbs".
    1. o3 13 years ago
      
      moar fomign winfustz LYEZ takl ardio
      1. RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Enjoy your stroke, asshole.
      2. o3 13 years ago
        
        ^spoof failz. fact PWND 11!!111
        
        teh rael o3 13 years ago
        
        lolwut?! u spoof failz! tripl PWNAGE!11!
RoboCain 13 years ago

Obama Opposes Armed Gamboling

"Officials say the administration is concerned about the potential clash between gun owners and encroaching urban populations who like to use same land for hiking and dog walking."

http://www.usnews.com/news/blo.....blic-lands
1. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  So they didn't even wait until they got an actual complaint.
  
  "Well, somebody might complain about this someday, so we might as well ban it now."
  1. wylie 13 years ago
    
    Wasn't anything else to do that day, why not get proactive?!
  2. ## 13 years ago
    
    It's worse than that.
    
    ""It's not so much a safety issue. It's a social conflict issue," said Frank Jenks, a natural resource specialist with Interior's Bureau of Land Management, which oversees 245 million acres. He adds that urbanites "freak out" when they hear shooting on public lands."
    
    We can't have urbanites freaking out. They might have a stroke something. The local FOP lost their training range last year for the same reason. It was near a lake and they got a couple of calls from scared boaters. I think the officers just point their fingers and quietly say "bang" now.
  3. PermaLurker 13 years ago
    
    Our local range is self-defending.It used to be an old ordinance plant during WW2 and large sections around the range are fenced off with no trespassing signs that REALLY should be heeded. One or two deer a year accidentally blow themselves into deerburger.
    1. FlyoverCountry 13 years ago
      
      That's awesome. Fuck deer. For reals.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Obama Abandons (Private) Labor
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....60086.html

The decision by the Obama administration to "delay" building the Keystone XL pipeline is a watershed moment in American politics. The implication of a policy choice rarely gets more stark than this. Put simply: Why should any blue-collar worker who isn't hooked for life to a public budget vote for Barack Obama next year?

The Keystone XL pipeline would have created at least 20,000 direct and indirect jobs. Much of this would have been well-paid work for craftsmen, not jobs as hod carriers to repave the Interstate.
1. o3 13 years ago
  
  the nebraska legislature (gop) wanted the delay so the pipeline could be re-routed away fm the major aquifer.
  
  poor radio entertainment
  1. mofo 13 years ago
    
    Link?
    1. o3 13 years ago
      
      Alex Pourbaix, TransCanada's President of Energy & Oil Pipelines, announces the company's intention to voluntarily move the Keystone XL pipeline away from the Ogallala Aquifer at a press conference in the Rotunda at the statehouse on Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. (ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star)
      
      Read more: http://journalstar.com/pipelin.....z1dyX6aysG
      1. o3 13 years ago
        
        holy fuck im an idiot it says nothing about wanting obama to delay only to move line DERP
        
        teh rael o3 13 years ago
        
        ^hey spoofer, do some follow-up research on teh intertubez instead on licking murdock's nutt sakk
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        ^ur the spoofer!
      2. mofo 13 years ago
        
        That link does not back up what you claim.
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        it did when mommy red it too me
RoboCain 13 years ago

D'oh!

Great minds or something?
Solanum 13 years ago

I hope this little prick ends up in foster care.

An 11-year-old Minnesota boy who says he was fed up with his mom and stepfather filling their home with marijuana smoke took photos of the drugs, which were then sent to police.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45.....nd_courts/
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  He should be sent to Penn State.
  1. Old Soldier 13 years ago
    
    Why? The kid has balls and was sick of his smelly stepfather stinking up the house. Smoke all the dope you want - but have some courtesy.
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      It's their house.
      1. Matrix 13 years ago
        
        but he's forced to live there
        
        RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Forced, allowed, no one chooses their parents.
        
        Zeb 13 years ago
        
        He's also forced to eat the food they give him, to go to school, etc.
    2. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
      
      It's not balls. It's DARE brainwashings in school that prompted him to rat his parents out to the police.
      1. Old Soldier 13 years ago
        
        According to the article it wasn't the pot itself that offended him - it was the constant stink. I can sympathize.
        
        Like I said, if his asshole parents had a little courtesy and respect, things would have turned out a lot better.
        
        Field Marshall Gill 13 years ago
        
        The stink? Puhlessse! Because if his parents smoke all fucking day long there is absolutely no place that he can go and avoid the smell?!!
        
        He reported his own parents to the government for being stinky?!!
        
        Old Soldier 13 years ago
        
        Sure - open all the windows - in Minnesota in November.
        
        Rhywun 13 years ago
        
        So what. My mom stunk the house up with cigarette smoke - guess how far I would get complaining about that. Well, in the eighties.
      2. Field Marshall Gill 13 years ago
        
        Reason #841,725 to home school. You can be certain that the little, aspiring chekist, didn't learn this from his parents.
        
        I guess that is what they deserve for having someone else take responsibility for the education of their child.
    3. John 13 years ago
      
      You don't rat out your parents unless they are Bernie Madoff or have killed someone. I hope the little swine ends up in foster care for the rest of his life.
      1. R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        Seems pretty much assured, what with both his parents doing time and carrying felony jackets.
        
        Old Soldier 13 years ago
        
        Sounds like kid and Biological Dad will be living together and having a good laugh. Meanwhile Mom (a soon-to-be former probation supervisor) and Stepdad stinky will have their day in court.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Oh he stuck it to mom and step dad. Then those people deserve to go to jail for being stupid. Yeah, let me smoke dope in front of my brat step son who hates me for not being his real father and probably is still pissed his mother got custody rather than dad. Yeah, that will work out well.
        
        Old Soldier 13 years ago
        
        Yes. I really don't care about the pot (except the hypocrisy for a parole officer). But to put yourself at the mercy of an unhappy teenage is too stupid to warrant any sympathy.
        
        wylie 13 years ago
        
        to put yourself at the mercy of an unhappy teenager
        
        Moar Beatings.
2. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
  
  "Take away my video games, huh? All right fuckers, I got something for you."
  
  Never underestimate the capacity for vindictiveness from a pre-teen.
3. Rhywun 13 years ago
  
  Reason #666 not to have kids.
  1. Rick Perry 13 years ago
    
    No, you've got that wrong. Herman Cain's plan is called Nine, Nine, and uh...um...I can't remember the last one.
Arduin Grimoire 13 years ago

The part of $6M RoboTorso will now be played by Arduin Grimoire.

Why Veterans Should Get Their Own Courts
1. Abdul 13 years ago
  
  Their own legal system will be just as great as their own VA healthcare system!
2. John 13 years ago
  
  That is the stupidist most insulting shit ever. As a veteran I am offended. That is just the bullshit liberal idea that all veterans or screwed up psychopaths. Bullshit.
  1. Abdul 13 years ago
    
    That's just the PTSD talking, John.
    
    Thw WaPo had a good article about this.
    
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html
    
    senior military officer at the gala, also attended by the Joint Chiefs then-chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen, saw the troops' role differently.
    
    "They were rolled out like some sort of orphan kid," the officer wrote in an e-mail. "I'm sure the organizers meant well. I know they did. But it wasn't respect, really. It was pity."
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      That just drives me bonkers. Here is the secret no one wants to ever admit. If you don't get shot or blown up, war is kind of fun. People don't volunteer for multiple tours just because they are great patriots. Soldiers are not victims.
      1. Question 13 years ago
        
        I have to ask this; what was your longest combat tour?
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Nine months. It starts to suck after six months. Being away from home sucks. But I know a lot of people who love it. Have gone back multiple times. They love it. I am not quite in that group. But they are out there and more numerous than you think.
        
        wylie 13 years ago
        
        This was the whole point of having an army historically, isn't it? Keep those crazy fucks occupied killing people who live somewhere else?
      2. Resto Druid FTW 13 years ago
        
        I miss my 16 w/ a 203 attached. =(
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        M60, baby. Belt-feds rock, especially when you don't have to hump that pig very much.
        
        Agammamon 13 years ago
        
        Tomahawks baby, so the guys wou're shooting at can't shoot back at you.
  2. Double D 13 years ago
    
    My sentiments exactly.
  3. TrickyVic 13 years ago
    
    ""That is just the bullshit liberal idea that all veterans or screwed up psychopaths. Bullshit.""
    
    I see nothing in the article that claims that. They are talking about a voulntary program for vets that get into trouble with the law and an alternative to punishment.
    
    ""A 32-year-old military-police officer who has trained Iraqi police in Baghdad, she'd been arrested for buying and using a stolen cell phone, the latest in a series of bad decisions she'd made since being released from active duty in 2005. She was offered a choice by a Dallas prosecutor: face a felony criminal charge, or enroll in Snipes's "veterans court" ""
    1. Equal Protection under the Law 13 years ago
      
      WHAT!?
  4. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
    
    Ever watch British TV? It's pretty much assumed that all vets are mentally fucked up, and quite possibly homicidal maniacs.
3. o3 13 years ago
  
  i m a dessert storming vetern and this is godo thinkg the wign utz here h8 us cuz tock ardio
  1. Destrudo 13 years ago
    
    lol wut
  2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    hatez me sum military
  3. Tonio 13 years ago
    
    Don't storm the dessert table too often Ozone - you could end up diabetic like Sug...
    1. ## 13 years ago
      
      I think it's too late, although it does explain why everything this "vetern" posts looks like it was written by someone on the verge of a diabetic coma.
  4. Agammamon 13 years ago
    
    I think we found one of them there fucked up veterans.
4. Grummun 13 years ago
  
  The part of $6M RoboTorso will now be played by Arduin Grimoire.
  
  Arduin, really? Back back way back. Little softcover books that should have been subtitled "prepare to get your ass kicked."
RoboCain 13 years ago

O'Reilly accuses Ron Paul supporters: 'Orchestrated campaign' to attack his book

http://dailycaller.com/2011/11.....ook-video/
1. Orchestrated Paul Supporter 13 years ago
  
  If there were still bookstores, I'd go and turn all of the copies of his book around, unless his picture was on the back, in which case I'd put Snooki's novel over it.
o3 13 years ago

Deportation cases of illegal immigrants to be reviewed
By JULIA PRESTON updated 11/17/2011 4:28:33 AM ET 2011-11-17T09:28:33

The Department of Homeland Security will begin a review on Thursday of all deportation cases before the immigration courts and start a nationwide training program for enforcement agents and prosecuting lawyers, with the goal of speeding deportations of convicted criminals and halting those of many illegal immigrants with no criminal record.

The policy, described in a June 17 memorandum by John Morton, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, suggested that the Obama administration would scale back deportations of illegal immigrants who were young students, military service members, elderly people or close family of American citizens, among others.

The Obama administration has removed high numbers of illegal immigrants, nearly 400,000 in each of the last three years. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mr. Morton said those numbers would not decrease, but they wanted agents and courts to focus on deporting the worst offenders, including national security risks, criminal convicts and those who repeatedly violate immigration laws.

Civil violations, not crimes

Many immigration offenses, including being present in the United States without legal status, are civil violations; they are not crimes.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45.....ork_times/
Ice Nine 13 years ago

So Gingrich worked as a lobbyist or a consultant or whatever after he left office. We might not like this system but for doing what so many other ex-congressmen do he should be in jail or something? Wake me up when there is some news.
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Remind me again why he lost the speakership.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    Because he was blamed for the Repubs '98 election loss.
2. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  Well, yeah, but (a) he lied about it and (b) he lobbied for Fannie and Freddia, against Congressional oversight.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    He lobbied for F &F back in '06 - at a time when they were relatively "respectable". Sure, in 2011, when they are political pariahs, the retrospectoscope tells us that it would be better to not have been associated with them. I can't get too worked up about the fact that he was then though.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Where's the tongue, yo?
Give him some tongue bro!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....-imam.html
Spoonman. 13 years ago

The drought thing is serious business. Houston's having a normal November so far at least, which ought to reduce pressure upstream on the Trinity, but since the parks here are basically pine forests (and the neighborhoods are thin pine forests) one idiot could cause a horrific fire.
1. Bastrop, TX 13 years ago
  
  I know!
2. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
  
  Good thing Dubya is back, then. He can get right to work clearing that brush for you.
  1. wylie 13 years ago
    
    Bush clearing brush? No way, it's a political firestorm waiting to happen.
    
    "Bush destroying Texas ecosystems, News At Eleven."
PIRS 13 years ago

I know how we can solve the Qatari obesity problem : Occupy Quatar!
1. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  I finally see a program Michele Obama should be spearheading. She needs to get on a plane, get to Qatar and tell those men how to raise their kids.
  
  I'm sure they would be receptive.*
  
  *And by receptive, I mean they would lop her big head off.
  1. rac3rx 13 years ago
    
    That made me LOL, and I'm on a conference call trying to be quiet and listen. Thank you, Mr. Mute button!
Solanum 13 years ago

A DUI case against a former Panama City Beach police officer has been dismissed because no one could legally prosecute the charges before the defendant's right to a speedy trial expired.

http://www.waltonsun.com/news/.....-city.html
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  Walker and another officer repeatedly sought "professional courtesy" from Trooper Wesley Harsey after Harsey stopped Walker for allegedly driving 50 miles per hour on Front Beach Road after leaving the bar on July 21, according to investigative reports. Walker offered to leave his car parked at the scene and take a taxi home, but Harsey told him he should have done that before they left the bar, the reports said.
  
  Walker initially said he had only two beers, but during the conversation, he eventually admitted to drinking eight or nine beers that night, according to the reports. Ultimately, he refused to submit to a breath test, and Walker resigned shortly after the arrest.
  
  Shockingly, he is currently not a cop. Amazing. Although the rest is pure horseshit.
  1. Solanum 13 years ago
    
    Ever notice cops almost always refuse to take breathalyzer tests in situations like this? Makes you think they might know something we don't.
    1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
      
      It's not something, it's someone.
      Namely the prosecution.
    2. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      They lose their license to drive, they just catch a ride to work or the other officer look away. They actually give evidence of DUI, they will have to resign or very rarely might be fired.
      
      Government driver licencing has gutted the 5th Amendment. And gleefully so.
    3. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      A couple of lawyers I know who do a lot of DUI stuff have said that if there is any chance you will blow over the limit, you should never consent to a breathalyser. If you blow over the limit, you pretty much have no possible defense.
      1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
        
        A friend of mine blew way over the limit, but luckily for him he knew a lawyer who is friends with the prosecution.
        So for a fee of three grand his lawyer convinced his good buddy to drop the charges.
        
        Why bother with a defense when you can rely on good old fashioned corruption?
  2. Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago
    
    ah, the obligatory "I only had two beers, honest" speech.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Jack Abramoff accuses Newt Gingrich of corruption.

Corruption? Yawn. Wake me when Abramoff accuses Newt of comparing his height to his wife's.
1. o3 13 years ago
  
  or his belly to a pregnant woman
2. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
  
  What's with all the "wake me when"'s this morning?
  
  Did you guys not get enough sleep last night?
  1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
    
    It's a meme I invented 18 mintues ago. Wake me when it really catches on.
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      Have you tried an expresso-soaked tampon?
      1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
        
        Yes, but not where you'd expect.
  2. Rich 13 years ago
    
    Wake me when you guys quit using "when me when".
    1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
      
      Wake up; we promise we'll never say that.
Question 13 years ago

Has anyone else popped over to Marginal Revolution this morning? Great news! Italy's money supply has gone negative.
1. Question 13 years ago
  
  Phrased that poorly - the rate of change has gone negative.
2. Raston Bot 13 years ago
  
  Who's the technocrat running that shithole now? Monti in Greece just announced a govt of banksters to fix things. They're going to be able to fix Greece b/c they are apolitical or something.
  
  I don't think Monti has read Game of Thrones yet.
  1. Raston Bot 13 years ago
    
    my bad, reverse that. Monti's running Italy. Papasomebody is Greece's technocrat.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

Wake me up when there is some news.

I see that propofol I gave you is agreeing with you.
Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago

Article - supreme court to decide constitutionality of "Obamacare."

The article goes on to talk about Federalist Society debate between Laurence Tribe & Paul Clement

. . .

"With these observations in mind, what is the Act doing? It is forcing someone to engage in commerce, not regulating commerce that already exists. If this Act is constitutional, according to Clement, the nothing lies beyond the reach of the Commerce Clause ? a violation of our federal system, in which the federal government has specific, enumerated powers, not plenary power that touches upon all things."

http://abovethelaw.com/2011/11.....ore-111156
1. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  It is forcing someone to engage in commerce, not regulating commerce that already exists.
  
  There are, of course, thousands of pages of federal rules and statutes that do exactly this very thing.
  
  "Mandates" to buy goods or services weren't exactly invented by ObamaCare.
  1. Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago
    
    I have had to buy registration for my car & insurance for that, under the rules of the state I live in. So far, federally, I have not been compelled to purchase anything.
sage 13 years ago

Baconlube. Yeah, its what you think it is.
1. Not that Paul 13 years ago
  
  Go get the butter.
2. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  If somebody liked bacon that much, wouldn't they already have bacon grease?
  1. sage 13 years ago
    
    Now you're just being gross.
  2. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    Haven't you ever tried it? - It has all those scratchy little crumbs in it.
    1. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      Just run it through some cheesecloth while it's still hot and you are all set.
      1. Clich? Bandit 13 years ago
        
        coffee filters...I use a chinoise and coffee filters to clarify my butter, if ya know what i mean.
  3. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
    
    In all seriousness, I think bacon grease may not react well with condoms.
    1. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      Why? It's an oil-based lubricant. I bet it'd work as well as canola oil, and that works fine during sex.*
      
      *can't attest to it's condom-interaction, as I don't use the things.
      1. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
        
        ...
        
        ...
        
        sloopy, have ya ever thought that the lack of condom use may have repercussions? I mean, it's not like your own life experience would indicate that or anything.
        
        Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, but...but...
        
        I got nuthin.
      2. Reformed Republican 13 years ago
        
        Coconut oil is the way to go.
    2. Tonio 13 years ago
      
      Latex condoms - used water-based lube only. Polypropolene or polyisoprene condoms can be used with oil-based lube.
P Brooks 13 years ago

Officials say the administration is concerned about the potential clash between gun owners and encroaching urban populations who like to use same land for hiking and dog walking.

Ha.

A friend told me his brother bagged a moose recently, in an area extremely popular with the hipster dayhiker crowd. He said he got some truly evil looks as he was packing out the good parts. I bet their dogs really liked that gut pile.
1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
  
  Did anyone else see The Goode Family?
  
  Their "vegan" dog's constant quest for meat was very funny.
2. o3 13 years ago
  
  A M??se once bit my sister ...
  
  No realli! She was Karving her initials on the m??se
  with the sharpened end of an interspace t??thbrush given
  her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
  star of many Norwegian m?vies: "The H?t Hands of an Oslo
  Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge M?lars of Horst
  Nordfink".
  1. teh rael o3 13 years ago
    
    ^use ur own name sarcasmic
Ice Nine 13 years ago

Jerry Sandusky's primetime television interview Monday led several potential victims to come forward and consider sharing their story,

Jaysus, doesn't this guy have a lawyer?!
1. Montani Semper Liberi 13 years ago
  
  His lawyer put him up to it apparently. Also, his lawyer knocked up a 16 year old when he was 49. No, I'm not making that up.
  1. wylie 13 years ago
    
    Ya couldn't write this shit.
2. Abdul 13 years ago
  
  The best part is that his lawyer knocked up a 17 year-old client about 12 years ago.
  
  Sandusky tried the Michael Jackson defense: "Sure, most people think that sleeping in a bed with elementary schoolers is perverted by nohting I have done ever made sense. I have a fucking pet llama, for chrissakes. Therefore I am not a pervert!"
  
  Sandusky didn't lay the groundwork by wearing a Christian dior surgical mask everywhere he goes.
  1. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
    
    Sandusky is going for the Chewbaca defense.
    1. wylie 13 years ago
      
      That's where you rip your accusers' arms off, right?
3. Jerry 13 years ago
  
  Yes, he does: Lawyer for Penn State 'child abuser' Jerry Sandusky 'got girl pregnant when she was 17 and he was 49'.
4. protefeed 13 years ago
  
  This guy's lawyer was sitting there calmly listening in as his client dug the hole deeper and incriminated himself, and didn't end the interview.
  
  What an idiot.
5. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
  
  I can't believe no one's mentioned it yet, but his lawyer also had a questionable relationship with a minor!
  1. Double D 13 years ago
    
    I'm a PA native. Haven't lived there in 18 years, so it may have changed, but age of consent was 16.
    1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
      
      Hence why I said "questionable" rather than "illegal". And a 16 year old is still a minor.
      1. Double D 13 years ago
        
        Fair enough.
  2. MP 13 years ago
    
    Did he get off?
    1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
      
      Hey-Oh!
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

O'Reilly accuses Ron Paul supporters: 'Orchestrated campaign' to attack his book

Or could it be the more likely explanation that the overstuffed bag of wind has worn out his media welcome independent of Ron Paul supporters?
1. tarran 13 years ago
  
  His book on Lincoln is apparently full of factual errors.
  
  Di Lorenzo of the Mises Institute fame panned it.
  
  Of course, there is a huge intersection between the set of LVMI readers and the set of Ron Paul supporters.
  
  O'Reilly is such a pathetic little whiny bitch.
  1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
    
    Ford's Theatre: Lincoln goes in, Booth comes out. You can't explain that!
  2. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
    
    O'Reilly once repeated the smear that Sen. George Smathers (D-Fl) called his opponent an "extrovert" and brother of a "thespian." What O'Reilly failed to mention is that Smathers offered a reward to anyone who could prove he said it, and nobody could collect.
    1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
      
      At least O'Reilly didn't mention Smathers by name.
      1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        Booth was a thespian. Could it mean something?
        
        Master Thespian 13 years ago
        
        Acting!!
        
        Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        You actually thought that I wanted to know what "thespian" meant?!
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Romney has been stuck in the mid-twenties for the entire five years he has been running for President. This is about the same number of Republicans who do not self-identify as conservatives.

In the general election, Romney just needs to make his case to "independent" voters. The middle-of-the-roaders decide presidential elections.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

Jaysus, doesn't this guy have a lawyer?!

Yes; I'm pretty sure it's Lionel Hutz.
1. Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago
  
  "that's OK, the box is empty."
2. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
  
  Barry Zuckerkorn: He's very good.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    The guy is obviously stupid about lawyer selection. His hiring a lawyer with "korn" in his name wouldn't then be terribly surprising.
  2. Bob Loblaw 13 years ago
    
    check out my law blog
    1. Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago
      
      tee hee, haven't heard that name in a while. Thanks for the lulz.
3. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  Better call Saul!
SugarFree 13 years ago

Battleax feminist complains about porn, Part 530,697

Anyone who has gone looking for porn on the Internet?and statistically speaking, that would be all of you?has borne witness to one of the great mysteries of our time: its relentless awfulness. I am not referring to the understandable awfulness generated by low budgets, nonprofessional actors, and tight shooting schedules. No, the most baffling aspect of porn is why most of it seems to treat sex as an endurance test designed to measure how much discomfort and humiliation actresses can handle. Sure, there are porn producers who don't embrace the Fear Factor model (wherein bug-eating is replaced with orifice-stuffing, name-calling, and semen to the eyeballs), but the fact that their work is inevitably designated as "alternative" shows just how badly mainstream porn runs women down.
1. Warty 13 years ago
  
  Her experience working with Max Hardcore really disillusioned her, didn't it?
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    Here she is.
    
    She looks like she dressed up as herself for Halloween.
    1. Warty 13 years ago
      
      If she keeps making that face, her face is gonna freeze like that.
      1. Restoras 13 years ago
        
        Nothing a little bukkake can't cure
    2. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!!
    3. John 13 years ago
      
      That is just tragic. She can't be over 30 years old. She is thin and has decent skin. Yet, she has apparently worked her entire life to make herself into an angry crone. She isn't exactly Marissa Miller, but she wouldn't be half bad if she hadn't spent her entire life apparently trying to ensure she is never the subject of a male gaze. That women is a victim.
      1. tarran 13 years ago
        
        I call it "timorous feminism".
      2. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
        
        When Dennis the Peasant was still blogging, he had a field day making fun of this woman. She's a walking stereotype of every hairy-pitted feminist that Daddies hope their daughters never grow up to be.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Is that stuff still cached somewhere? I would love to read it. I loath the idiots on XXX. It still amazes me that Slate employs Emily Yoffe. Yoffee must be the most patient woman in the world to work with those twits.
        
        Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, he's still got the blog up, even though he's not posting anymore:
        
        http://dennisthepeasant.typepad.com/
        
        Here's the Marcotte stuff:
        
        http://dennisthepeasant.typepa.....al_wimmen/
    4. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
      
      Isn't she also the one who refuses to admit that she was wrong on the Duke Lacrosse thing?
      1. SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        Yes. And she has repeatedly said that presumption of innocence should never apply to sex crimes.
      2. tarran 13 years ago
        
        Yep, her pronouncements on the case were full of nauseating racist prejudice, and to my knowledge she never admitted that she was wrong, expressed any regret for stereotyping the victims or apologized to anyone.
      3. RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Yes, but she's certainly not alone in that regard. If evidence doesn't matter, then overwhelming evidence doesn't matter.
2. Montani Semper Liberi 13 years ago
  
  orifice-stuffing
  
  Doesn't all sex involve an orifice being stuffed?
  
  name-calling
  
  Otherwise known as talking dirty. A common practice in many bedrooms across America.
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    Scissoring doesn't.
  2. Warty 13 years ago
    
    Frottage doesn't either.
    
    Wait, does scissoring count as frottage?
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      Yes, and no one wants to watch it either.
    2. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Frottage is often defined as being over the clothes and often contains the implication that one party is not consenting.
      
      I imagine scissoring could be either clothed or unclothed.
      
      All of this reminds me of a high school friend who tried to coin a new euphemism for female masturbation: Making Soup.
      1. Warty 13 years ago
        
        I made soup just last night. It was delicious.
        
        Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Was bacon grease involved?
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        No, but lots of chicken fat was.
      2. Tonio 13 years ago
        
        It's called "tribbing." Rhymes with "ribbing" and is short for tribadism.
      3. oncogenesis 13 years ago
        
        a new euphemism for female masturbation: Making Soup.
        
        "Stirring the soup" is a well-established euphemism for same. The more you know ...
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        This was back in 1988. I wonder...
3. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  Mainstream porn runs women down? Who knew?
4. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  What about all those poor little animals getting crushed under their high heels? No anguish for their plight? Those mice getting smashed under the red stilettos? The bugs being squashed by the very sexy open toed dress heels? The gerbil under the ankle boots-
  1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
    
    Okay, I'm back.
  2. Abdul 13 years ago
    
    Female-oriented porn has the same arms race to extremity. Watch the shopping network or HGTV for a few minutes--they're putting those Swarovski cystals on everything!
    1. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
      
      Watch actual porn made for girls. The gay stuff is okay, if it occasionally misfires with some super butch chick but the straight stuff... is weird.
5. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
  
  Sorry--not even the threat of waterboarding would get me to read the horror that is Amanduh Marcotte.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

I know how we can solve the Qatari obesity problem

So do I: I say we eat them. Waste not, want not. Falafel, anyone?
1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  I'll bet Qataris have a lot of gas.
2. Restoras 13 years ago
  
  Feed them to the Occutards.
3. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
  
  I thought the Germans were the most obese. They drink all that beer, eat all those sausages, and they haven't exercised since all those calisthenic marches across national frontiers several decades ago.
  1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
    
    They do a lot of very energetic dancing.
    1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
      
      And they do a lot of elbow-bending.
  2. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    You know who else did a lot of calisthenic marches acro....oh, oops.
4. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  According to recent studies, roughly half of adults and a third of children in Qatar are obese, and almost 17 percent of the native population suffers from diabetes.
  
  Rock. Bottom.
  1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
    
    Isn't Samoa still worse?
    1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
      
      At meals, they always want to eat Samoa.
      1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
        
        Ha! Quetzalcoatl is your straight man.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

No, the most baffling aspect of porn is why most of it seems to treat sex as an endurance test designed to measure how much discomfort and humiliation actresses can handle.

Would this delicate little rosebud have as much problem with a bunch of St. Peterbuilts flash 'n slash banging said porn actress with a concrete dildo, or is this just another "PATRIARCHY" rant?
1. protefeed 13 years ago
  
  So, a radical feminist is objecting to porn because it isn't tasteful enough? Who does she think is consuming this stuff? Women?
2. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  I would imagine she has no problem with all the same activities when they occur in her beloved MoM gay porn.
  1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
    
    Just because a feminist criticizes porn doesn't make her wrong. I defer to her expertise on what's in the porn, and nobody's denied it here. You don't have to conjure up a patriarchal conspiracy to say that porn is nasty and offensive to women - and men.
    1. o3 13 years ago
      
      yep (golf claps)
      1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        What if a feminist said it was raining outside? Would you automatically go out without an umbrella under the assumption it was sunny?
        
        teh rael o3 13 years ago
        
        and to think i was agreeing w YOUR post. jeesch
    2. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Marcotte has been so wrong, for so long, on so many things, I wouldn't trust her word that the sky was blue on a sunny summer day.
      
      And she betrays her kind's total lack of understanding of economics... there is a huge amount of porn with a staggeringly wide variety. It's not a few id?e fixe villians that made porn the way it is, the market did that. It's the typical Marxian false consciousness argument: People aren't expressing what they really want because they haven't been allowed by shadowy forces to know their true natures. Which is horseshit of the highest grade.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        She doesn't know shit. Helfner and Guicione and Flynt are completely irrelevent today. They were totally blind sided by the internet and the demand for "amateur" home made porn. They didn't drive the market at all. The market drove them.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        The market is the most efficient way to respond to consumer demand. That doesn't tell us whether the consumer is demanding something good.
        
        If consumers are looking for the best iPhone, the healthiest food, etc., the market can get it for them. If consumers are looking for the filthiest, most degrading porn, the market can deliver that, too.
        
        I'm not saying throw out the baby with the bathwater and abolish the market - I'm saying that we can't assume all consumer demands are good things.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Good or bad is subjective. But what Marcotte and other feminist maintain is that evil forces drive the market by corrupting people into wanting bad things. Bullshit. People like sex. And some people like wierd devient sex. Such has it always been. Porn just fills that niche.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        Yes, I don't agree with the conspiracy theory or Marxist claptrap about what drives porn. I'm saying its the result of what the consumers want - but that doesn't let the consumers off the hook, quite the contrary.
        
        If it's Marcotte, I'm sure that her explanations are crap. But the porn she describes (unless she's making it up) sounds utterly vile.
        
        Mainer 13 years ago
        
        "some people like wierd devient sex"
        
        I know I do.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        Whoever said the market was a moral force? It's virtue is efficiency.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        It's moral in that it feeds people better than a command economy, produces medicine better, etc. It's OK to note that many goods and services provided by the market are Good Things.
        
        Conversely, it's OK to point out that consumer demand can bring Bad Things as well. Who says A must say B.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Sure it is vile. And there are few things more boring and unsexy than hardcore porn. But Marcotte is still an idiot.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        The demand is the moral force in the system. Not the market.
        
        People demand "good" things, then "good" things are produced; people demand "bad" things, then "bad" things are produced.
        
        Ted Bundy drove a VW Beetle because he thought it made him less threatening to the girls he stalked and murdered. Is VW culpable for Bundy's crimes?
      2. RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        I have no idea why people keep publishing her crap. Even putting aside that she is almost always wrong, she's a lousy writer. Her rambling lack of verbal clarity exposes her lack of mental clarity.
        
        Also, Hugh Hefner did more for women's lib than almost anyone. He also was a strong proponent of civil rights and racial equality.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        I think they keep her around so there is someone who makes Dalhia Lithwick look smart by comparison.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        Hefner probably had a symbiotic relationship with the "women's lib movement," to the extent that the movement urged greater "sexual freedom" and dropping traditional restraints. Hefner certainly approved. So there really isn't an either/or conflict here.
        
        As for racial equality, good for him, but plenty of people managed to support racial equality without boosting a sexual revolution which had harmful effects on (for instance) the African-American community.
        
        RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        "a sexual revolution which had harmful effects on (for instance) the African-American community"
        
        I don't think Hefner being pro-choice had anything to do with welfare.
        
        Randy 13 years ago
        
        Or the WOD.
      3. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Someone should just post the Rule 34 xkcd cartoon as the refutation of this. If someone gets off on it, its on the Internet.
3. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
  
  I'm actually a fan of a porn studio who emphasises real orgasm for its performers. And after watching it, stuff with fake orgasms really put me off.
  1. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    Yeah, and I watch it for the acting...
    1. ## 13 years ago
      
      ...and the great stories.
Mr Whipple 13 years ago

Thank the lord, the "Christmas Tree Tax" has been "sidelined".

It's a week old, but I just found out about it today.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-50.....er-uproar/

From Claire Wolfe:

http://www.backwoodshome.com/b.....ge-orwell/
1. Mr Whipple 13 years ago
  
  and
  
  http://www.backwoodshome.com/b.....-response/
  
  and
  
  http://community.mises.org/sil.....-tree-tax/
  
  and
2. Mr Whipple 13 years ago
  
  and
  
  http://community.mises.org/sil.....-tree-tax/
  
  Merry Christmas!
  1. Sparky 13 years ago
    
    Merry Christmas!
    
    How DARE you!1!1!!1!!!!111!1!1
    
    It is now Happy Holidays!
    1. WTF 13 years ago
      
      Funny how it never seems to occur to the secularists that 'Holiday' is derived from 'holy day'.
3. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
  
  I'm not sure what you're so thankful for. How will Christmas tree farmers be able to survive now that congress isn't going to set up a board to promote Christmas trees?
  1. Mr Whipple 13 years ago
    
    Creative destruction, bitchez.
Fluffy Got Demoted 13 years ago

A second poll shows Paul in second in Iowa and cracking 20%.

http://caucuses.desmoinesregis.....-ron-paul/

The Cain The
1. Rich 13 years ago
  
  The Cain The
  
  Wake me when this makes sense.
  1. Fluffy Got Demoted 13 years ago
    
    It's a Simpsons reference.
    
    Wake me when you have a basic awareness of cultural touchstones.
    1. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      That one was a bit oblique. Took me a minute and I'm always ready with a Simpsons quote.
  2. Abdul 13 years ago
    
    It's the english translation of fluffy's original German:
    
    Die Cain Die.
    1. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      "No one who speaks German could be an evil man."
      1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        Cain wasn't killed - there is a mark on him to prevent that very thing (Gen. 4:15).
2. kinnath 13 years ago
  
  http://www.kcrg.com/news/local.....-Game.html
  
  The meat of the new poll.
  
  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa ? With fewer than 50 days until Iowa's first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses, the race appears to be up for grabs based on the results of an Iowa State University/Gazette/KCRG poll of likely caucus-goers.
  
  "That's more the story than who's ahead," said Jim McCormick, chairman of the ISU Political Science Department, who coordinated the poll.
  
  "The number of people who are firmly committed to a candidate is really only 16.5 percent," McCormick said. "A majority of them, 52-plus, are undecided and 30 percent are sort of leaning toward one candidate."
  1. Joe M 13 years ago
    
    The meatier meat:
    
    Among the least well off, Paul leads at around 41 percent....
    
    Among those who report no religious preference, Paul is winning a majority at nearly 59 percent.
Ken Shultz 13 years ago

"By international development standards, all this growth has happened virtually overnight, making Qataris' lifestyles much more unhealthy, and at the same time leading many to hang on resolutely to what's left of their fleeting tribal traditions -- practices that include inter-marriage between close family members and cousins."

Kissing cousins? Okay, I've heard about that before. I've even heard of cousins getting married--in various parts of the U.S. and the world.

Close family members?!

I studied about that as an ancient world practice in a Zoroastrianism class I took years ago. I had no idea this was still going on. Just because a cultural artifact is maladaptive, I guess that doesn't necessarily mean nature gives up so easy!

It's interesting that nature will try just about anything--fascinating that nature will still keep trying.
1. Clich? Bandit 13 years ago
  
  Regarding the evolution comment above, that shit take geologic time scales sometimes and even then if the vestigial feature is not truely hindering then it sees less pressure to go away. Just sayin, a couple thousand years isnt usually enough without some serious environmental changes.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

Doctor! This patient needs 50cc of sarcasm detector! STAT!

It's too late for him, Saccharin Man. But I'll make sure his kidneys find a good home.

Sarcasm detector is contraindicated in those with an intractable case of stoopid. It's my main argument for keeping those OWS camps running: at least those little fuckers (ha!) were isolated and quarantined. Ya know, like lepers and those with bacterial meningitis.
1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
  
  Wake me when you figure out comment threading.
John 13 years ago

Congress wants to cut GAO's funding and authority. Yeah, they really are that corrupt. Stupid bastards

http://washingtonexaminer.com/.....dog-lapdog
1. Matrix 13 years ago
  
  Think of it like having an advisor. If you have an advisor giving you good-sound advice, but you never use it. Even if you are hurting because you refuse to use that advice, you are wasting money by continuing to pay the guy you're not listening to. So, I guess in their twisted effed up minds, it does make sense to cut their budget.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    It makes sure there isn't a written record of what crooks they are.
Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago

My Skyrim review is coming tomorrow. Haven't had much time to play it this week, but have carved out some extra time tonight.

But in the meantime:

Who is that Hot Ad Girl?

The most important tumblr of all time!
1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
  
  I've probably put in 20-30 hours so far. My wife & daughter are out of town until Monday though, so I hope to triple that before they get back.
  1. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
    
    I have about 12 at the moment. My roommate has turned me on to Burn Notice and I have just been super tired after work this week, so I'm normally semi comatose on the couch most nights, watching that.
    
    I do, however, have a stirringly poetic review.
    1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
      
      Enjoy Burn Notice while you can. It peaks in the second season, and goes downhill thereafter. Gradually downhill, but still.
      1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
        
        And someone should have warned Gabrielle Anwar that "attractive skin" does not equate to "rich Corinthian leather."
        
        Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
        
        HAH!
        I think she's going for the Iggy Pop look.
        
        tarran 13 years ago
        
        Watching one of Anwar's movies from the 90's and then watching Burn Notice is quite the melancholy experience. She was such a beauty.
        
        Perhaps it's botched plastic surgery. I don't know.
        
        Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
        
        I've never understood the appeal.
        
        Every actress they've had on that show has been better looking that Anwar.
        For goodness sake, they had Tricia Helfer!
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        It's just age. I mostly stopped watching show because of all characters exhibiting the delusion that she was 28.
    2. Destrudo 13 years ago
      
      How bad are the bugs in skyrim? Should I wait until they do a little patching before purchasing it?
      1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
        
        i7 920 CPU
        Raedon HD 4550 512MB graphics card
        6GB RAM
        
        I run it on the lowest settings, but I haven't noticed any bugging at all. Beyond the minor pathing issues that you expect from any modern AI.
        
        Matrix 13 years ago
        
        lowest setting?? Why?!
        
        Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
        
        Lowest setting still looks pretty darn good. Once some optimizing mods come out, I'll install them and up the settings.
        
        I was getting just enough lag at "medium" to make it annoying.
        
        wylie 13 years ago
        
        drop $150 on a 6xxx series, I can run on "high" with only a bit of lag on more demanding views.
      2. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
        
        I haven't noticed any bugs so far, but I'm using the PS3 version.
        
        Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Still waiting for the Wii launch...
        
        Destrudo 13 years ago
        
        So, nothing like the New Vegas level of bugginess? Sweet.
        
        rbenchley 13 years ago
        
        Beware the PS3 version. There's a bug where the save file gets larger and larger the longer you play until everything starts to lag and becomes unplayable. Bethesda is supposedly working on a patch, so hopefully it will be a non-issue for you.
        
        Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
        
        There's a bug where the save file gets larger and larger the longer you play until everything starts to lag and becomes unplayable.
        
        Thankfully, I only rented it, so hopefully when I get around to actually buying the game they'll have fixed that little issue.
      3. deluded1 13 years ago
        
        Save often. Bugs aren't bad, but they tend to bite if they hit too hard.
        
        Also, your perks are limited, so don't use them until you've decided your path.
        
        I've probably put about 60 hours in so far. I'm level 20, and I haven't started the main quest...
        
        Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
        
        Dragons apparently don't spawn until you get to a certain point in the main quest. FYI.
        
        deluded1 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, the dragon rising quest. I put it off because I focused on non-combat skills, and I'm rockin' the guilds for the time being. Exploring the world, first.
      4. deluded1 13 years ago
        
        Save often. Bugs aren't bad, but they tend to bite if they hit too hard.
        
        Also, your perks are limited, so don't use them until you've decided your path.
        
        I've probably put about 60 hours in so far. I'm level 20, and I haven't started the main quest...
      5. cynical 13 years ago
        
        I haven't had any memorable bugs except for a crash. Though I did have to make a few tweaks to the PC config to get it working well, and mouse acceleration is still wonky. And the UI could sure be better, but it's fun enough that I don't really mind.
    3. Joe M 13 years ago
      
      Okay, I've heard the interface sucks. The menus are unwieldy and slow to navigate. There was something on Reddit where they were compared Skyrim's interface to Morrowind's. I always thought the Morrowind interface was pretty damn brilliant, since you could re-size and re-position every window as much as you wanted.
      1. wylie 13 years ago
        
        The menus ARE unwieldy and slow to navigate...if you're only using the mouse. Try using W,A,S,D to navigate them.
      2. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
        
        The interface IS absolutely terrible unless you're using the keyboard. For some reason, I get more lag on the menus/map than in the actual game.
        
        Pro-tip: If the menu gives you a "Y/N" prompt, you can just press Y or N rather than clicking.
2. John 13 years ago
  
  I love the new TMobile chick that looks like a younger better looking Liv Tyler
  1. TrickyVic 13 years ago
    
    Agreed.
3. Sparky 13 years ago
  
  Wake me when anyone cares about Skyrim.
  1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
    
    Sounds like you've overslept by about a year.
Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago

Science finds women aren't having enough sex.

Also, ladies, remember: It takes more muscles to give a blow job than to frown OR smile. So... that's your workout right there.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

Wait, does scissoring count as frottage?

Depends; is there a dual-ended dildo involved?

Otherwise, if there is no penetration involved, yes, the term frottage would apply.
1. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
  
  It's also called tribbadism.
  
  ...
  
  What? Lesbian porn is awesome.
  1. Matrix 13 years ago
    
    no disagreements here.
  2. Joe M 13 years ago
    
    Only one "B".
Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago

So, on Sunday, the New York Times had an actually intelligent editorial. No, I am not joking. It was by Katie Rophie and it covered how vague sexual harassment is.

For example, this passage:

The truth is, our Puritan country loves the language of sexual harassment: it lets us be enlightened and sexually conservative, modern and judgmental, sensitive and disapproving, voyeuristic and correct all at the same time.

Recent conservative parodies of the concept of sexual harassment hinge on a certain weakness or blurriness in the definition. The problem is, as it always was, the capaciousness of the concept, the umbrellalike nature of the charge: sexual harassment includes both demanding sex in exchange for a job or a comment about someone's dress. The words used in workshops ? "uncomfortable," "inappropriate," "hostile" ? are vague, subjective, slippery. Feminists and liberal pundits say, with some indignation, that they are not talking about dirty jokes or misguided compliments when they talk about sexual harassment, but, in fact, they are: sexual harassment, as they've defined it, encompasses a wide and colorful spectrum of behaviors.

Well, judging by the comments on the NY Times AND Jezebel(how infantilized Ms. Rophie, calling her "so cute"), Ms. Rophie isn't being invited to any Womyn's Studies courses OR nice, liberal New York parties any time soon.

For example, one of the first comments on the "All" section of Jezebel is as follows: "Why was this published in the New York Times? Isn't that a reputable periodical? Aren't they ashamed of themselves?"
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  You me'd the Jezebel link.
  1. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
    
    Damn. I was trying to do you a favor, SF, but if you insist...
    
    http://jezebel.com/5859329/wom.....re-so-cute
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      "My sex-perp counseling expert tells her charges that people have the right to not be aware that they are being thought of in a sexual manner."
      
      The right not to be aware? Congress should make no law abridging your head up your ass?
      1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        We can be pretty sure that the corollary is that sex-perp counselors (WeverTF that is) have the right to be aware that they are not being thought of in a sexual manner.
      2. tarran 13 years ago
        
        I think it's time to introduce them to my dual Analyst/Therapist services.
        
        Tobias F. 13 years ago
        
        I know a great place where you can get some cards made up
    2. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      Holy shit! That may be the most insane Jezebel article yet. The quotes they cite in no way support what they are saying about Rophie. A gem from the comments: "My sex-perp counseling expert tells her charges that people have the right to not be aware that they are being thought of in a sexual manner." What?
2. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  Having read two of her books, and that editorial, I can assure you Katie Rophie is an excellent author.
3. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  Katie Roiphe, as I live and breathe, you are simply precious.
  
  -
  
  "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel."
  
  1 Timothy 5:8
4. Mike M. 13 years ago
  
  Absolutelyt amazing. I can't believe the NYT ever agreed to print the piece.
  
  The only important, and rather ironic, point that Katie Rophie left out is that this modern construct of "sexual harrassment" is largely the creation of lesbians, not normal women.
John 13 years ago

http://www.jammiewf.com/2011/t.....-jail-that's-kind-of-the-tough-thing/

The key people are in jail. I love it. Maybe starting a half assed movement trying to get arrested isn't such a great idea.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

You don't have to conjure up a patriarchal conspiracy to say that porn is nasty and offensive to women - and men.

I didn't; the use of the word actresses as opposed to the male flavored(and supposedly gender neutral term these days) actor(s) says it all.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

Helfner and Guicione and Flynt are completely irrelevent today. They were totally blind sided by the internet and the demand for "amateur" home made porn. They didn't drive the market at all. The market drove them.

Driven good, and hard.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Because no one ever wanted to see things like bondage films before the evil porn lords of the 70s corrupted their minds. It is not like Betty Page ever made any movies or anything. I think people like Marcotte are paid to be stupid.
P Brooks 13 years ago

Wake me when you figure out comment threading.

Wake me when you're ready to throw off your shackles.
James Ard 13 years ago

Chu's getting ready to defend green energy in front of the Solyndra panel. This should be interesting.
P Brooks 13 years ago

The problem is, as it always was, the capaciousness of the concept, the umbrellalike nature of the charge: sexual harassment includes both demanding sex in exchange for a job or a comment about someone's dress.

Next you're going to tell me tipping back in my chair and craning my neck to watch some empowered and efficient businesswoman's ass as she walks away is "inappropriate behavior".

I don't want to live in your world!
1. John 13 years ago
  
  God created pencil skirts because he loves us and wants us to be happy.
P Brooks 13 years ago

It's also called tribbadism.
Neu Mejican 13 years ago

News flash: John enjoys beating up hippies, and war. They make him giddy, apparently.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Everyone needs a hobby.
2. heller 13 years ago
  
  And your ideological record is stellar is it?
3. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  It's their own fault. It is a proven scientific fact that hippies release aerosolized endorphins when beaten. The initial pleasure of beating a hippies causes even more pleasure. Soon, it is an addiction. If stupid hippies could control their own biochemistry, they wouldn't get beaten so much.
  
  SCIENCE PWN!
  1. Matrix 13 years ago
    
    I thought that was nerds...
    1. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      It's a similar mechanism, but they release a pheromone that reduces gay panic in the attacker.
P Brooks 13 years ago

Drat!

It's also called tribbadism.

Sex with tribbles?
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  Triddles. Duh.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

This is for all you anti-threading Luddites out there.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

And she has repeatedly said that presumption of innocence should never apply to sex crimes.

I see; has she weighed in on the Sandusky episode(s)? Or since pederastic pedophilia was involved, one can assume she doesn't give a shit about those poor boys and their ruined lives*?

*Yes, I think Sandusky is as guilty as sin. He should be very popular in prison.
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  Here's what Jezebal ran with:
  
  What if Penn State's Coach Had Victimized Girls?
  
  If Sandusky's victims were girls, people might doubt the assaults took place at all, as many female victims of sexual abuse are doubted. Whispers would suggest that the girls were being paid by a rival school to sabotage Penn State's recruitment efforts by seducing the coach. Intrepid sports bloggers would dig relentlessly to uncover the identities of the girls and attempt to find something, anything, that would validate their theory that they somehow tempted their beloved defensive wizard. There's be a horrible nickname for one of the victims involving the word "honeypot." If a young girl were victimized by a giant in the world of college football, would she even have the courage to come forward, knowing what sort of scrutiny and character assassination awaited her?
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    They really do live in lala land. Yeah, if he had been raping 10 year old girls, everyone would think it was a lie or it was okay. Jesus, what is up with these people?
  2. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
    
    They're probably right, if the accusers had been adults. With children, it would have been the same reaction.
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      Are you saying that people care more about male on male rape than male on female rape? Because they don't.
      1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
        
        No, my point was the age of the hypothetical female accusers, not the gender.
        
        RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        As long as the alleged perpetrator was male and the alleged victims were female, it would have nearly the same reaction regardless of their ages.
        
        Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
        
        I disagree.
  3. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
    
    ...I think Jezebel is a publication in an alternate reality, who, through the use of the LHC, posts in our reality.
    1. wylie 13 years ago
      
      I guess I'm glad the Superconducting Supercollider was never completed.
    2. teh rael o3 13 years ago
      
      quantum mechanics explains apparent teleportation
  4. My Myself and I 13 years ago
    
    We know what would happen. We saw it w/ that movie guy who drugged and raped the 13 year old. Conservatives wanted him jailed, and liberals defended him.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

God created pencil skirts because he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Is that what you call those in your neck of the woods, John? Around these parts, we call them "dollar bills" and "belts".
1. John 13 years ago
  
  I don't get it.
  1. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
    
    You were in the military and you never went to a strip club or titty bar?
    
    Bet you were happy when they repealed DADT, NTTAWWT.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      I get the strip club reference. But I dont' see how that relates to pencil skirts.
2. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  Pencil skirts are those long straight, close fitting skirts which are very flattering to women with slim waists and well proportioned bottoms.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Nov. 16, 1904: Vacuum Tube Heralds Birth of Modern Electronics
http://www.wired.com/thisdayin.....cuum-tube/

I was actually listening to a very nice tube amplifier last night.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  I think something is really being lost in the music world with the growth of technology. The other day I was running and had my Ipod on shuffle just listening to whatever random songs came up. Back to back a live Rolling Stones recording from 1969 and their one from 2006 that Scorcese made. The 1969 one just sounded darker and more grungy. Same musicians, same music, but the 69 recording sounded better. The same is true of blues recordings. The stuff made in the 1950s with primitive equipment sounds different and I think better than the stuff made later with more advanced equipment.
  
  Sadly, you can't buy the old equipment. I doubt even the Stones could recreate the sound they had in 1969 if they wanted to. And that I think is a shame.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    You can still buy it, and there is a substantial market for boutique clones and such.
    
    What's becoming increasingly difficult to buy are engineers who know how to use tape and cut lacquer.
  2. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
    
    mixing consoles, recording equipment, and even the 'taste' of the recording engineers has drastically changed over the years.
    
    Heck, a 3-track or a 4-track back in the 60s was considered high-tech, and 8-track recording - whew! It made for simpler, more 'live' recording of the bands at the time. But as the number of tracks grew, it led to slicker production since the musicians could record on individual tracks, or re-record over, etc etc.
    
    Heck, check out some of the Frank Sinatra recordings for the late-50s/early 60s - 2 or 3 tracks, all live, direct to the tape.
    
    or some Sam & Dave, or heck, even CCR...
  3. Elder Scrolls Enthusiast AuH20 13 years ago
    
    Well, digital stuff is a lot more compressed than non-digital, in terms of data.
    
    There is actually a market for like, 1 GB large symphonies, as I recall. They cost more but the sound quality is better.
    1. Destrudo 13 years ago
      
      I use an Ampeg vacuum tube amp for my guitar. Sounds like god.
  4. Neu Mejican 13 years ago
    
    Same musicians, same music, but the 69 recording sounded better.
    
    Nope. Different musicians. Even the ones who are the same person are not the same musician after all these years. And then there's the dead one.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

I don't get it.

Don't worry, it will hit you upside the head later. If your lucky, that is. It'll be an Aha! moment.
P Brooks 13 years ago

anti-threading Luddites

*puffs chest, smirks*
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

It's a similar mechanism, but they release a pheromone that reduces gay panic in the attacker.

Your theory still fails to explain Gleeks and BandFags.
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  You dare argue with SCIENCE?!?
2. rac3rx 13 years ago
  
  The term is "BandQueers" thankyouverymuch.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

You dare argue with SCIENCE?!?

Three words: Justin. Fucking. Bieber.
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  Nothing can be done until we find the boy band gene and eliminate it totally.
Fluffy Got Demoted 13 years ago

"My sex-perp counseling expert tells her charges that people have the right to not be aware that they are being thought of in a sexual manner."

The right not to be aware? Congress should make no law abridging your head up your ass?

This is ultimately what sexual harassment law - and most of modern feminism - is about. The desire to use violence to control what men are thinking, if they're the "wrong" men or "unapproved" men.

There is absolutely no difference between saying, "I have the right to not be aware that I am being thought of in a sexual manner," and "Hang that nigger boy, he whistled at a white woman." None.

(Unapproved Male) (Sexual Thought) (Disapproving Female) (Violence).

When you diagram these sentences they are the same.
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  That's a good point. It seems that few people realize most of the lynchings were based on false rape accusations.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

This is ultimately what sexual harassment law - and most of modern feminism - is about. The desire to use violence to control what men are thinking, if they're the "wrong" men or "unapproved" men.

This conundrum would be much easier to solve if women (and men) were born with neon signs with the names of the members of the opposite (or same) gender that are expressly allowed to ogle and flirt.

"You can look at me, but you can't!"
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  http://www.nbc.com/saturday-ni.....nt/258532/
2. Fluffy Got Demoted 13 years ago
  
  For centuries class and race systems were employed to accomplish this.
  
  Everyone knew who was socially allowed to consider whom a potential partner.
  
  Now those class and race systems are largely gone, and women have decided they don't like it.
  
  As adolescents, they are able to employ violence-based systems of control to keep "unapproved" males at bay. "That nerd looked at me, I'm going to get my boyfriend to beat him up!" But increasingly they can't get away even with that any more. And it certainly doesn't help them as adults in any event.
  
  But feminism is stepping into the void, to build up brick by brick a system of state violence via the civil court system, in order to restore for women the ability to punish men who have the impertinence to look at them.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    One could argue that feminism is inherently racist and classist. Notice that it is largely dominated by privileged white women through elite universities.
  2. Joe M 13 years ago
    
    What hope does the Male Gaze have against such forces?
    1. wylie 13 years ago
      
      I just stare harder, works fine.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

This is for all you anti-threading Luddites out there.

This is for you, Fist of Smurfette-iquette.

Love,

GM
1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  Mine was more horrid.
RoboCain 13 years ago

New York Times: Microstamping is a Minority Issue

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c.....man/79859/
Fatty Bolger 13 years ago

"Students are needlessly arrested for offenses as minor as disorderly conduct, which can include swearing at a teacher or throwing spitballs," noted Petteruti. "SROs lead to discipline applied without the filter of school administrators or policies. This in turn leads to a troubling disruption of the educational process through suspension and expulsion, the result of which is some students who never become re-connected to school."

I wonder about that. I have a relative who worked as an SRO, and he told me that school administrators were constantly pushing him to arrest kids for minor offenses and non-criminal activity. Dealing with the kids was easy and they were rarely a problem, it was the admins who were a constant PITA. They apparently thought that breaking a school policy was sufficient grounds for arrest.
1. PermaLurker 13 years ago
  
  This is believable. School admins are notoriously decision averse. If they can dump off a problem on someone else then they can claim "the rules" made him do it and avoid any responsibility for being a spineless twit without a lick of common sense.

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