A.M. Links: Obama Wants to Deal With Iran "Permanently," Federal Prosecutors Investigate Cover-Up in Sandusky Case, Retiring U.S. Senator Pens Ode to Bipartisanship

Mike Riggs | 3.2.2012 9:05 AM

Obama on Iran: "It is important for us to see if we can solve this thing permanently, as opposed to temporarily."
Sen. Olympia Snowe on her retirment: "Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship."
Afghans on the U.S. troops who burned Korans: "Bring them to us. We will kill them ourselves."
Advertiser pulls support from Rush Limbaugh due to "slut" remarks.
Feds suspect fraud, bribery in Sandusyk cover-up.
Obama heckled by student for remarks on Iran.

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Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Fizzizzle.
1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  I thought that was foezizzle.
  1. Chupacabra 13 years ago
    
    Tru dat.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Avril Lavigne in undies!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....odbye.html
1. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  Fan service is what music videos are all about. I'm glad she finally gets it.
2. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  She's a 6, maybe a 7 at bar close.
  1. anon 13 years ago
    
    Yeah, it must just be the clothing I'm attracted to. She also has something funny going on with her teeth.
    1. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
      
      Yeah, Canadian health care system.
3. anon 13 years ago
  
  She has to be in her thirties by now. I'd hit it.
  1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
    
    Oh, I would hit it too. She's not hideous.
Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago

POLITICO Morning Energy
...Peter Gleick's career isn't over despite the big scar linked to his duping the Heartland Institute, says Kevin Trenberth, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. "I think this pushes Peter in the direction of getting even more involved on the side of being an advocate," Trenberth told ME on Friday. "He's had a strong science background, especially related to water. I don't see this as the end of the road for Peter by any means."...
1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
  
  ie - "We protect our own by giving them cushy jobs"
2. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  Peter Gleick's career isn't over
  
  Sounds like it is. Sounds like he's starting a new career in a very different field.
3. John 13 years ago
  
  Being liberal means never having to say your sorry.
  1. wareagle 13 years ago
    
    it also means never having to be right.
    1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
      
      Their always right. It's the facts that are incorrect:)
      1. WWNGD? 13 years ago
        
        "They are" (they're) always correct.
    2. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      Well, nobody has to be right.
      1. wareagle 13 years ago
        
        with liberals, being well-intentioned is proof of their rightness. Never mind results, facts, or any of that other icky stuff.
  2. Rush Limbaugh 13 years ago
    
    Mega-Dittos, John! Good puppet!
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      You love me don't you rather.
      1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        based on her blog posts, I would say she has a hearty crush.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        You people pick on MNG. My real stalker is Rather.
        
        BakedPenguin 13 years ago
        
        If you ever have a threesome, just promise not to post the pics.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Sorry pal. Only do FMF threesomes.
        
        Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        who plays the man?
        
        *badoom-tish*
        
        SFC B 13 years ago
        
        I'm fairly certain imagines of a John-MNG-Rather threesome would be classified as a weapon of mass destruction, and the use of them would easily meet the definition of war crime.
4. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  "I think this pushes Peter in the direction of getting even more involved on the side of being an advocate,"
  
  As in, now that his cover is blown, he has to be an open advocate rather than a "voice of reason" who happens to promote the worst case scenario.
  1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
    
    It's pretty much the same job right? He was an advocate pretending to be an objective researcher, now he's an advocate who pretends he used to be an objective observer.
5. Loki 13 years ago
  
  Peter Gleick's career isn't over despite the big scar linked to his duping the Heartland Institute
  
  If anything it probably just adds to his "street cred" among AGW believers. Sort of like how (alledgedly) raping a 19 year old hotel employee added to Kobe Bryant's.
Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago

Where Do Gleick's Apologists Draw the Line?
...In the view of "anthropologist and science communicator" Greg Laden, for example:
My respect for Peter Gleick is unmoved. He is a great scientist, an excellent communicator, a brave guy?...
1. Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago
  
  ...the fact that [Gleick] had the courage to stand up to rich, powerful and increasingly belligerent nay sayers on climate change is an inspiration to all who care about the breakdown of discourse in America. More important, here was a renowned scientist standing up to bullying by right-wing ideologues who are intent on helping self-serving corporations destroy our environment. What he did was unorthodox and clearly beyond the bounds of journalistic transparency, but the people he was fighting have done much worse without any criticism or scrutiny. ...
  1. wareagle 13 years ago
    
    the people he was fighting have done much worse without any criticism or scrutiny. ...
    --------------------------
    except for the fact that the people he was fighting were not attempting to loot the treasury for their own gain, or use govt to shakedown people, or attempt to coerce changes in behavior, or or or. Except for that, no difference at all. It is amazing how liberalism can excuse any means for justifying its desired ends.
2. Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago
  
  ...What Heartland is doing is harmful, because it gets in the way of public consensus and action. Was Gleick right to lie to expose Heartland and maybe stop it from causing further delay to action on climate change? If his lie has good effects overall ? if those who take Heartland's money to push scepticism are dismissed as shills, if donors pull funding after being exposed in the press ? then perhaps on balance he did the right thing. It could go the other way too ? maybe he's undermined confidence in climate scientists. It depends on how this plays out....
  1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
    
    If you publicly say you'll do anything to advance your cause, including lying, cheating, fraud, whatever, don't be surprised when your credibility goes to zero.
    1. Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago
      
      THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED BITCH! THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!!
      1. anon 13 years ago
        
        CONSENSUS!!!111one
    2. oldtimer 13 years ago
      
      and run for a political office...
      1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        And win! We only care about credibility and integrity in other fields of endeavor, not politics.
  2. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
    
    This idea that Gleick even has a small chance of "undermined" in the minds of Team HOT is laughable.
    1. Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago
      
      ...Gleick's intentions matter when we try to work out whether he was wrong to lie. It's worth noticing that he wasn't lying for personal gain. What resonates for me, though, are the consequences of his action. If Gleick frustrates the efforts of Heartland, isn't his lie justified by the good that it does?...
      1. cw 13 years ago
        
        The end always justifies the means in the mind of a fundamentalist.
  3. cw 13 years ago
    
    [Heartland] gets in the way of public consensus and action.
    
    Science now relies on public consensus and action?
    
    Sounds more like Greg Laden is upset not everyone accepts the AGW narrative. Damn that pesky scientific method!
    1. Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago
      
      gets in the way of public consensus and action.
      
      Isn't that Tony's defense of eminent domain?
      1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
        
        That's Tony's defense of any example of "democracy" where it doesn't gore his sacred cows.
    2. kilroy 13 years ago
      
      Dr. Robert Stadler
      A former professor at Patrick Henry University, mentor to Francisco d'Anconia, John Galt and Ragnar Danneskj?ld. He has since become a sell-out, one who had great promise but squandered it for social approval, to the detriment of the free. He works at the State Science Institute where all his inventions are perverted for use by the military, including the instrument of his demise: Project X (Xylophone). [...] To his former student Galt, Stadler represents the epitome of human evil, as the "man who knew better" but chose not to act for the good.
    3. alittlesense 13 years ago
      
      "Science now relies on public consensus and action?" No but it helps you get huge government grants...
  4. Kwanzaa Cake 13 years ago
    
    What Heartland is doing is harmful, because it gets in the way of public consensus and action.
    
    ________________
    
    Unreal. This is our consensus, and don't you go interfering with it. We've all agreed that we want nearly unrestrained power, and that's that.
  5. Maxxx 13 years ago
    
    What Heartland is doing is harmful, because it gets in the way of public consensus and action.
    
    Heretics must burn lest they corrupt the innocent!!!!!11!1111111!@Q
3. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  To me the really shocking thing to me is the number of "scientists" discussing this matter who fail to realize that lying about your identity to get documents doesn't discredit Gleick as a scientist, but mixing documents of varied provenance into one package certainly does.
  
  I'm not a scientist.
  
  I spent an hour or two researching how paleographers establish whether or not historical documents are genuine so I could write a stupid novella.
  
  Even that scant amount of research was enough to show me that concealing the provenance of a questionable document by mixing it into a pile of valid documents would be a first-class scientific fraud.
  
  These "climate scientists" are supposed to work with protocols all the time. How could they miss what's really obvious here?
  1. tarran 13 years ago
    
    They wanted their Protocols of the Elders of the Denialists, and when they couldn't find 'em, they wrote them.
  2. wareagle 13 years ago
    
    How could they miss what's really obvious here?
    --------------------------
    your question implies the possibility of an honest mistake, an oversight. It also answers itself; they hid something within a stack of stuff they 1) thought no one would read and/or 2) believed no one outside their circle would understand.
    1. Fluffy 13 years ago
      
      So IOW the strong implication is that hiding bad evidence in a pile of good evidence is so routine in climate science circles that it's beneath notice here?
      
      Hmmmm.
      1. wareagle 13 years ago
        
        not at all. Nothing is beneath notice here; it just speaks to the intellectual arrogance of the AGW folks - they are, therefore you're not. It's like the old SNL Chevy Chase routine but with tax money.
      2. Maxxx 13 years ago
        
        Lots of good documents and a couple of forgeries normalize to good data.
        
        It's no different than normalizing raw temperature readings.
  3. Evan from Evansville 13 years ago
    
    What do you do, if I may ask?
    
    I've been around reason for 6 or 7 years and I tend to find myself most aligned with you.
    
    I'm teaching ESL in Korea---been here a total of 19 months, for full disclosure.
    1. Evan from Evansville 13 years ago
      
      DAMN SQUIRRELS!
      
      Directed at Sir Fluffs-a-lot.
    2. Fluffy 13 years ago
      
      I hate to be unfriendly, but I'd rather not say.
      
      If the people around here found out what I am doing right now, they would first take a shit and then rag me mercilessly.
      
      Short of me secretly being Obama or Amanda Marcotte or Michelle Duggar, I couldn't be less Fluffed in my occupation right now. It actually makes me laugh sometimes as I post.
      1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        OK Fluffy, that's a challenge... my guesses are:
        
        1. Dave Weigel's fact-checker
        2. Warren Beatty's fluffer
        3. Lindsay Lohan
        
        Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        I vote for Fluffer.
        
        Fluffy 13 years ago
        
        Why would Weigel need a fact checker?
        
        He is incapable of error.
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        I find Lindsay Lohan = Fluffy amusing and not entirely implausible -- true story -- so I'm going with this, at least in my own head, from now on.
        
        BakedPenguin 13 years ago
        
        NH state SWAT team director.
        
        Zeb 13 years ago
        
        I'd guess tax collector or public school administrator. Or perhaps working for the new healthcare bureaucracy in VT.
      2. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
        
        ZOMGZ...you're Michael Moore?!?!?
        
        cowardly commenter some guy 13 years ago
        
        Not a bad guess, I'll wager.
        
        I still maintain that Moore's success at capitalism indicates he is a ruthless capitalist. He's just providing a certain group of people with a service they are willing to pay for.
      3. Loki 13 years ago
        
        So... you work for the government in some capacity?
        
        I work in the aerospace industry myself, which might as well be the same as working for the government. In a little over 10 years I've never worked on a program/ project that wasn't a government contract. Kind of makes me want to paint the walls with my brain some most days
        
        Loki 13 years ago
        
        ...either that or you're actually MATT DAMON.
        
        Rev. Blue Moon 13 years ago
        
        They are actually an inordinate amount (IME) of libertarians who are government employees. I have considered entering the Anti-Fraud Division of some Cabinet just to make life miserable for everybody there.
        
        cowardly commenter some guy 13 years ago
        
        Direct exposure to the bureaucracy drives people to libertarianism.
        
        Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
        
        I told myself when I started working where I work that I'd either drink the Big Brother Kool Aid, or I'd become much more of a libertarian. I was right.
      4. JEP 13 years ago
        
        Are you Michael Bay? Admit it!
4. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
  
  I love this one:
  
  By this criterion, Gleick's lie was clearly moral, because he was defending a cause that he passionately views as righteous
  
  If being a True Believer is all it takes to receive the cloak of moral authority, then the Westboro Baptists are the most righteous of all.
5. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Sigh. Just read a summary of an article on Wired that claims that ocean acidification is TEH WORST ITS BEEN IN 300M YEARS!!! And also states that for two more recent climate analogues, we don't have good pH data. So we have no way of saying what the pH was the last two times it was this warm and there was this much CO2 in the atmosphere, but now is worse. I fucking hate science reporting.
RoboCain 13 years ago

"Often I find that when a man makes a move on me and I say I'm not interested, he will persistently keep trying until I say I have a boyfriend. What irks me about this is that the hypothetical nonexistent man has more of a voice than the very real me. It would be one thing if it happened once or twice, and I don't know about others, but this is a pretty consistent happening for me. It's why products like fake engagement rings work well, and why in college, I had a fake boyfriend for years."

http://community.feministing.c.....than-mine/
1. KDN 13 years ago
  
  "[It's] why in college, I had a fake boyfriend for years."
  
  I'm sure that ain't the only reason, sister.
2. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  It's more than a little amusing to me that the entire premise of being a feminist advocate is that if you just keep repeating yourself long enough, "retrograde" men will eventually change their minds...
  
  ...but that somehow doesn't apply to guys inviting chicks into the sack.
3. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  he will persistently keep trying until I say I have a boyfriend.
  
  Not going to the link. How are people responding to this? On the one hand, it does a great job of blaming men which the community should enjoy, but on the other hand, she's complaining about attracting too many men, something the community may harbor resentment about.
  1. Paleo 13 years ago
    
    he will persistently keep trying until I say I have a boyfriend.
    ...it does a great job of blaming men which the community should enjoy
    
    The thing is in college I didn't let the boyfriend slow me down unless he was actually there. The (often fake, sometimes not) boyfriend was always "back home" or "going to school somewhere else." I was just clear with the girl I wasn't looking to interfere with that. Amazing how well that worked, letting them know I wasn't interested in latching onto a relationship, but was just looking to have a good time for as long as it remained a good time. It also seemed to make them exceptionally eager to please, which I never quite understood.
    1. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
      
      It also seemed to make them exceptionally eager to please, which I never quite understood.
      
      Seriously? She thought if she was really good, you would want to go steady and, like, totally be her boyfriend and marry her & stuff!
      
      (seriously - that's why)
4. Abdul 13 years ago
  
  It's rare that I had unwanted female attention, but i did have some bugy-eyed crazy chick hit on me for a while. Someone suggested that I just tell that I already had a girlfriend.
  
  After that, non-stop questions about my girlfriend--what's she like, are you getting married, where's you meet her...I felt like every conversation was like some improv acting challenge.
  1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
    
    If I really was hot after some girl, her having a boyfriend wouldn't mean shit. I would just assume she would do better with me than the current boyfriend.
    1. veemee sashimi 13 years ago
      
      We had a saying back in my youth:
      
      "All chicks have boyfriends."
      
      They all had some level of self esteem problems and so they all were terrified of being alone and what that would say about them as people to the outside world. So they would always remain at least minimally attached to whatever guy was available even if they didn't like him very much and even if he cheated on them constantly.
      
      So the challenge was to try and present yourself as an upgrade to the current stiff, and then prevent further upgrades from occurring once you do.
      
      IOW, it's a pain for a young man to try and work through the shit that goes through a young woman's mind, and so you often see strange approaches to the problem.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        Some chicks are like that. They get a b/f when they are about 13 and never go without one. My experience has been that it is best to avoid those types.
      2. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
        
        "it's a pain for a young man to try and work through the shit that goes through a young woman's mind"
        
        That's because most of them are insane.
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        My six-year-old daughter, a blonde who is incredibly cute (like her mother) already has boys in kindergarten claiming that she's their girlfriend.
        It's gonna be a long decade or two...
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        On the plus side, you'll have the cleanest guns in the world.
        
        Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
        
        If she's anything like me, she'll turn into a tomboy/dork and the boys will keep far, far, away until their testicles descend sometime in their mid-20's.
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        She's like a girly girl and tomboy in one, which is really cool. She's already into pretty shoes and jewelry (which is entirely unlike her mother) but she's already an epic toad and turtle wrangler and loves to hunt such critters in our creek.
        
        BoscoH 13 years ago
        
        Dude, I thought you wrote epic load and I was gonna assure you that wouldn't be cool with most boys until their testicles descend in their mid 20s.
        
        Loki 13 years ago
        
        NOMAD: That unit's mind was in chaos.
        
        Spock: That unit was a woman.
        
        NOMAD: A mass of conflicting impulses.
        
        veemee sashimi 13 years ago
        
        "That's because most of them are insane."
        
        While true, that's not entirely fair. I wouldn't wish the evolutionary impulses of women on my worst enemy. They're tasked with the perpetuation of the species and well that's the kind of shit that messes with you.
  2. Cabeza de Vaca 13 years ago
    
    I had a girl practically stalk me in high school. She asked me out dozens of times and caused me to lose out on multiple dates with other girls. Do to her telling everyone in school we were dating when we weren't. She did a lot of other crazy things, but most people thought I was a jerk for telling her to leave me alone, which she never did until after high school. If I had acted the way that girl did. The school administration and police would have been involved. Since it was girl everyone including my parents just thought I was being mean.
5. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Wat? This is the moderately attractive female version of "nice guys don't get laid". Don't be polite after the first time.
  1. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
    
    Pretty much what I was thinking. You've given the polite brush off, now you get to be a bitch. From what I read, I think she has it in her.
    1. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      Yeah, why go straight to "I have a boyfriend" if you haven't tried "you are not attractive, fuck off".
6. oldtimer 13 years ago
  
  ..in a little box in my dresser...
7. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  I always find these "men won't leave me alone" complaints to be funnily ironic. In ten years or so, she'll be crying about how men aren't interested in her like they used to be. Enjoy it while it lasts, girl.
8. rac3rx 13 years ago
  
  Wow, her Marxist Feminist dialectic really did bring the boys to the yard, didn't it?
9. Toasted 13 years ago
  
  Roll eyes. She talks about life as though being hit on by an undesirable is exclusive to women. I'm a victim, hear me roar.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Olivia Wilde plays with her boobs:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitne.....just-right
1. Alack 13 years ago
  
  I read that as "Oscar Wilde" and got unreasonably excited.
2. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  I don't really think it's fair that she gets to play with them and I don't.
  1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
    
    unfair labor laws!
3. Loki 13 years ago
  
  If she ever gets tired of doing it herself, I'd me more than happy to take over for her.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Christina Hendricks still has huge tits:

http://www.blackbookmag.com/tv.....ys-1.45443
1. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
  
  Definitely on my threesome list. Rawr!
  1. wareagle 13 years ago
    
    Kristen sounds like a woman worth knowing. Gotta love a gal open to adventure.
    1. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
      
      Puhleeze, my threesome list is very short and very unrealistic.
      1. wareagle 13 years ago
        
        of course, it's unrealistic; that's what makes it fun. Reminds me of an old George Carlin routine about things teenage boys do, a lot. The debate was whether the object of desire was some Hollywood star or a classmate; George went with classmate because it seemed possible, which violates every tenet of fantasy.
        
        Zeb 13 years ago
        
        I pretty much always went the classmate way with my adolescent fantasies. Much more variety and personal interest that way.
        
        Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
        
        Not me...it was Simon Le Bon and Dirk Benedict all the way, baby!
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Sen. Olympia Snowe on her retirment: "Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship."

Bipartisanship = Communism.
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  Bipartisanship is honorable. Without it, you wouldn't have a consensus that budget cuts must be made, just not to the most expensive bits. Or most stupid bits. Yeah, bipartisanship is swell.
2. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  Process and intention over results.
3. Auric Demonocles 13 years ago
  
  Bipartisanship is not a goal (unless you're just trying to stay in power). It's just something that might happen if your goals align with other people's goals, or you manage to win over people to your goals.
  
  How is that so hard for politicians to understand?
  1. cw 13 years ago
    
    Bipartisanship looks nice and fluffy to so-called independents.
    1. oldtimer 13 years ago
      
      ...halfway between two bad ideas...
      1. el esc?ptico 13 years ago
        
        ^^^^^^^Stealing this one^^^^^^^
  2. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
    
    Bipartisanship happens when a Rebublican and Democrat both happen to share the same major campaign doner.
    1. el esc?ptico 13 years ago
      
      I accidentally read that as "campaign boner." I know, I know... a distinction without a difference.
4. Abdul 13 years ago
  
  Bi-partisan? -Datebi*cO'Mis designed for bipartisan individuals to meet in a friendly and comfortable environment. It hopes that all members can make new friends and establish romantic relationships.
  1. Loki 13 years ago
    
    Congress has a new social network site I see.
Fluffy 13 years ago

Arctic Sea Ice: "Unexpectedly" Back!

http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/we.....he-rebound
1. John 13 years ago
  
  That is just weather fluffy.
2. KDN 13 years ago
  
  Regardless of what actually happens, it's still morally wrong to perform experiments with everyone's atmosphere. Curbing all economic activity is the only sensible solution.
  1. SFC B 13 years ago
    
    Must have read Mr. McArdle's blog this week huh?
  2. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    That is such an absurd argument (I know you are being sarcastic). By that standard, it is not possible not to perform experiments on the atmosphere unless everyone just kills themselves. And even then you will have all those dead bodies giving off all kinds of gases.
3. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
  
  Good news from the Arctic.
  
  Wow! Is there anything Obama can't do?
  1. Alack 13 years ago
    
    Ding ding ding, we have a winner!
  2. Loki 13 years ago
    
    Well, he did promise to "heal the planet" so I guess he'd managed to keep at least one campaign promise.
    
    /sarc
4. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  What I don't get is how this is supposed to be "good" news. So there's a just right amount of arctic ice we should have every year? What BS.
  1. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    It's good news if you think that loss of sea ice is a bad thing. Which a lot of people seem to think. So it is good news. It is also good news because it might help to quiet some of the more extreme climate alarmists, or at least give the less credibility.
John 13 years ago

Michelle Obama, all class at a state dinner.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....ead_module
1. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  "I can't waste time here, I need to go stomp on New York and kill yuppie kids!"
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvNkGm8mxiM
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    Do you know how long it takes to pillage your way up the I-95 corridor?
    1. Auric Demonocles 13 years ago
      
      Is it at rush hour?
2. Mike M. 13 years ago
  
  "When the fuck do I get to go on my 16th luxurious vacation?"
3. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  Michelle kind of looks like a black Cruella DeVille in those pictures. Not flattering.
  1. Loki 13 years ago
    
    Michelle kind of looks like is a black Cruella DeVille
    
    FIFY
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Dear Olympia,

Fuck you. You should have waited until after you won the election and then let LePage appoint someone. Now we're going to get stuck with an uberlib like Pingrie instead.
Fuck you.

-sarcasmic
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Rumor is her husband is some kind of a crook and is involved in some nasty lawsuit. And that is why she has decided to spend more time with her family.
2. Old Soldier 13 years ago
  
  The backstabbing CUNT announced her retirement 2 weeks before the filing deadline.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

The Jordan effect: Third of young women would swap IQ for larger breasts
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem.....easts.html
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Boobs are power.
2. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  That is a sign of low IQ.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    I don't think so. Being attractive gives women tremendous power. Your IQ isn't going to get some rich guy to come and take care of you. Your IQ isn't going to get you hired over someone more qualified. Women have always used their sexual attractiveness as a tool to get what they want. It is perfectly rational that they would trade a few IQ points to increase it.
    1. Fluffy 13 years ago
      
      It would be a sign of low IQ to trade IQ for big tits, because you can just keep your IQ points and BUY big tits.
      
      Not knowing that = sign of dumbassery
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        Good point. Although I think the point of the poll was "would you trade IQ points for being more sexually attractive". They just worded the question wrong by focusing on boobs.
      2. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
        
        "you can just keep your IQ points and BUY big tits."
        
        Exactly
      3. Loki 13 years ago
        
        Slight chicken and egg problem with that. IF you need big tits to land a good paying job, then you won't be able to afford to buy a bangin' rack. So where's the money going to come from?
        
        invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        Surely you put it on your credit card, take out a personal loan or make friends with your neighbourhood loan shark, get the tits, land the job, and pay off the loan with your new-found wealth.
        
        For the record, I earn a comfortable salary and my, er, embonpoint has never been particularly impressive. But I do wear glasses.
    2. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
      
      We have a really attractive Quality person here. I treat her like shit, just to mess with her mind. Every other guy falls over to help her.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        That is usually a sure fire way to get her into bed.
        
        Paleo 13 years ago
        
        The better looking the girl, the better it works. But for best effect you have to do it in a confident, funny, casual manner.
        
        My favorite? "Has anyone ever told you you have fat ankles? No, I didn't say you have fat ankles, I asked if anyone ever told you that." She'll obsess for weeks about the skinniest ankles on the planet and wonder why you aren't attracted to her like everyone else.
      2. Killazontherun 13 years ago
        
        Apathy works better than hostility. Unless you are good at suppressing all emotion while treating her like shit. That is the real key to a intrigues the women, how we are different from them on the inside. Being too good at being bitchy can be interpreted as being effeminate, but I'm going to assume you are aware of the potential pittfalls in the treat them like shit strategy, and this is just a guideline for the young dudes who don't. But I agree, the worst thing you can do is kiss their asses. They wont respect you for it no matter how many no strings attached gifts you give them or coffees you fetch for them.
        
        Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        I'm not after her - I'm married - and she's not my type at all. I just like messing with her - pretending to forget her name, or speaking rudely - just because everyone else fawns over her.
        
        Almanian 13 years ago
        
        God you're a prick.
        
        You looking for work? I need some people like you....
        
        Restoras 13 years ago
        
        You are my role model.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        You are a great American Lord Humungus.
        
        Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        I don't do it out of spite - it's more like work boredom.
        
        rac3rx 13 years ago
        
        Even more admirable!
    3. Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
      
      The most beautiful woman I've ever known couldn't fill an A cup.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        Sure. But if they could have filled a C cup, they would have been even better. A Bugatti Atlantic, doesn't have power steering. That doesn't mean it is not beautiful.
        
        Fluffy 13 years ago
        
        I don't know.
        
        More isn't always more.
        
        When I was younger I tended to prefer women in the 5' 3" range. You get above a B cup at that height and you start to look out of proportion.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Depends on the women. If she is way small in stature, it doesn't work. But if she has some curves, even a five foot women can pull off Cs.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        I know a 4'11" woman with 34-DD's and is a size 4. And trust me, she carries it well.
        
        Cup sizes are proportional to the bust measurement, therefore the cups of a 34-DD may be smaller overall than a 38-C, volume-wise.
        
        Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
        
        We'll just have to disagree.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        There are a lot of attractive short girls with big tits out the Mohawk.
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        tits out the Mohawk.
        
        I am unfamiliar with this phrase, but I like it.
        
        Paleo 13 years ago
        
        I'm with you on this one. Tits are like chocolate. Big, little, dark, light, the important thing is that the chocolate goes with the rest of the pastry.
        
        Zeb 13 years ago
        
        Not everyone likes big tits. Or so I have been led to believe.
      2. Abdul 13 years ago
        
        Did she have an adam's apple?
        
        Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
        
        Hardly. She looks like Carol Alt wishes she could have looked at her peak, except 5'6" instead of 5'10. And padded As instead of Bs.
        
        kwais 13 years ago
        
        Hahahaha
        Exactly, dude your 10 year old boy toy might be beautiful to you.
        
        I am sorry that is not fair at all
        I just want big boobs, is that so wrong?
      3. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        I think I mentioned this once before, but in college I dated a nude art model. She was thin on top, with small breasts, but with a great behind. Very fit. She was damn beautiful - and judging by her Facebook page, still is.
        
        Pure Psycho - but hey...
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        That pretty much goes with the territory.
3. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
  
  Interestingly, large breasts also lower male IQs significantly.
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    Was gonna say, men would swap IQ points to play with larger boobs.
  2. Loki 13 years ago
    
    Stan Marsh: ATTAH!!!!, ATTAH!!!!
    
    Stan's dad: Looks like Stan's discovered boobs. I'll have a talk with him.
4. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
  
  Sorry guys. I find smart women to be an order of magnitude more attractive than dumb women, no matter the cup size. Maybe I'm gay and don't know it.
  1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
    
    Do you like interior decorating?
    1. Almanian 13 years ago
      
      Gladiator Movies FTW
    2. Restoras 13 years ago
      
      You need a license for that.
  2. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
    
    I think it's similar to the supply / demand curve, and the elasticity varies from male to male.
  3. JW 13 years ago
    
    Wait until you find out the glass in her glasses isn't prescription.
    1. Auric Demonocles 13 years ago
      
      Dump.
    2. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      I never understood the perceived correlation between bad eyesight and intelligence.
      1. Paleo 13 years ago
        
        Glasses are (used to be?) considered unattractive, and people without easier gifts are more inclined to develop more difficult gifts. That's the theory, anyway. My personal version is smart women like to be able to see.
        
        invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        There is a correlation. Some of the theories are that if you're smarter you read more (and as a result wreck your eyesight), or that genes influencing intelligence also influence eyesight. But no-one's really come up with a robust explanation
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        "Guys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses" -- Ted Sturgeon wrote a fun little short story on this, back in the early days of contacts (like, late 50s).
        
        invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        And it's true in my experience. But I think it's all the other things wrong with me that put them off, not my glasses
        
        Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
        
        Fist bump on dat!
      2. Auric Demonocles 13 years ago
        
        I assumed this was a hipster joke.
    3. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
      
      The Whore of Mensa.
      1. Rev. Blue Moon 13 years ago
        
        Woody Allen?! You are dead to me (just for today).
        
        Mia Farrow 13 years ago
        
        And me!
  4. wareagle 13 years ago
    
    yeah, but if she's smart AND has ample boobs, it's the daily double. On the other hand, how many of us just like boobs period? Size becomes a bonus of sorts.
    1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
      
      Exactly. I've never not enjoyed boobs regardless of size.
  5. db 13 years ago
    
    Same here. I couldn't abide spending time with a stupid woman, no matter how hot or talented in bed.
  6. Loki 13 years ago
    
    Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
    1. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
      
      If you mean the Four Seasons in Sultanahmet in Istanbul, then yes.
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Is that on the old side or the new side? I stayed right around the corner from the old Sultan's palace.
        
        Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
        
        Sultanahmet is the historic district - Topkapi, Blue Mosque, Hippodrome, Underground Cistern, Istanbul University, Covered Bazaar are all in or around Sultanahmet. The Four Season is the prison from Midnight Express, I believe.
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Right. I remember now. One of the coolest times of my life, standing in a square that had the old pre-christian Hippodrome, the Haiga Sofia, and the Blue Mosque all visible from the center. You just don't see that kind of layered history in America. Protip: Being with a 6'3" 250lb dude who speaks Afrikaans is an awesome way to not get hassled by Turkish merchants. Apparently "no thank you" in Afrikaans sounds like a death threat to Turks. Or something.
        
        JEP 13 years ago
        
        and Hagia Sophia.
        
        I fell asleep on a bench outside the Blue Mosque, and some nice old gentleman shined my shoes for me...and they weren't even leather.
5. Capitalisms 13 years ago
  
  Why not just use your IQ to make money and then buy some implants?
  1. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    Implants suck. I'd take small breasts over implants any day.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

US President Barack Obama intends to tell Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in their upcoming meeting that he wants to solve the Iranian nuclear problem "permanently, as opposed to temporarily."

And, more importantly, after November.
1. Loki 13 years ago
  
  Not necessarily. There's nothing like a good old fashioned war to distract the stupid rubes from the fact that the economy is still in the shitter, our civil liberties are still circling the drain, you've doled out unprecedented amounts of cash to your loyal supporters, and have broken pretty much every campaign promise you made the first time around.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

What Obama can learn from New Hampshire's budget reform
http://nhjournal.com/2012/03/0.....et-reform/

State Democrats called the spending cuts a "war on the middle class" and predicted they would result in catastrophe. But the state's unemployment rate continues to fall and currently stands well below the national average at 5.2%.
1. Spoonman. 13 years ago
  
  But austerity inevitably leads to a DEATH SPIRAL! Obviously New Hampshire is faking it.
2. Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
  
  And, yet, their mistaken predictions will result in zero (0) self-evaulation of the premises which led them to an incorrect conclusion.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Rick Santorum faced with strategy shift that will test his shoestring campaign
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

Rick Santorum does not plan to abandon the fiery Christian rhetoric or the shoestring campaign that got him to where he is today. But as a slate of high-stakes Republican presidential primaries approaches, he is being forced to shift his strategy to beat back perceptions that he is obsessed with controversial social issues and harbors outdated ideas about women.
1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  Young people cannot stand him. Nor can I.
  1. Loki 13 years ago
    
    Young people cannot stand him
    
    If only...
rather 13 years ago

Chimps are not slutty, unlike men.

I guess that accounts for the DNA difference
1. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  Bonobos are also not violent.
  
  Oh wait, that turns out to be BS.
  1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
    
    Really? I'm disappointed.
    1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
      
      Chin up Pro Lib. They'll have sex with you for a banana.
      1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        I had this vision of me and a bonobo employee, who would help me with contract negotiations by having relations with the opposing counsel. Violence isn't an option in those situations.
        
        Solanum 13 years ago
        
        I've always assumed violence and hot monkey sex was just a typical day working for Urkobold & Urkobold.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        You have no idea. No take your kids to work day for me, let me tell you.
John 13 years ago

Great review of The Darwin Economy in Spiked.

The technocratic approach to policymaking has become immensely influential and pernicious. Although it is often expressed in terms of economic arguments, it has an impact across the whole range of social life. It is anti-democratic, anti-political and anti-human. To counter the rise of technocracy, it is necessary to delve deep into how its arch-exponents think.

http://www.spiked-online.com/i.....cle/12149/
1. cw 13 years ago
  
  anti-political
  
  ?
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    It means they want to solve things by dictate rather than through the political process.
  2. John 13 years ago
    
    It means they want to solve things by dictate rather than through the political process.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Stay classy, Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.com/po.....e-20120301
1. John 13 years ago
  
  I am sure its five readers had a good laugh about it in the nursing home.
2. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  A little more respectful than I was expecting from the headline.
  1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
    
    This wonderful non-sequitur from the comments:
    
    I subscribe to Rolling Stone because I like music, I like pop culture .
3. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  That the outrageous Breitbart was standing right there, looking gorgeously gassy in his unbuttoned shirt, bloated Joey Buttafuoco cheeks and splendiforous silver half-mullet, made the humiliation of the trim and neatly-groomed Weiner even more abject.
  
  Way to stay topical in their references, too. Do people in their target demographic even know who Joey Buttafuoco is?
  1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
    
    I think it's easy enough for most people to just imagine what someone named Joey Buttafuco would look like.
  2. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    You need readers to have a target demographic.
4. rac3rx 13 years ago
  
  People hit the author over on Wikipedia, apparently.
  
  http://dailycaller.com/2012/03.....who-couldn't-be-happier-about-breitbarts-death/
  
  The Vaseline & sock comment made me laugh.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Super PACs can't crown a king
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

When communists and sympathizers made excuses for Stalin's terror, they said, "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." To which George Orwell responded, "Where's the omelet?"

The Post, dismayed about super PACs, reports "a rarefied group of millionaires and billionaires acting as kingmakers in the GOP contest, often helping to decide, with a simple transfer of money, which candidate might survive another day." Kingmakers? Where's the king?
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  Good point.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Massachusetts: Early February Poll Showed Scott Brown Up in Senate Race
http://atr.rollcall.com/massac.....nate-race/

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) led Elizabeth Warren in a head-to-head Senate matchup by 9 points, according to a private poll taken earlier this month and obtained by Roll Call. The survey had Warren garnering 43 percent and Brown taking 52 percent.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Please God let her lose.
P Brooks 13 years ago

Dear Olympia Snowe,

Fuck off.

xoxoxo
mr simple 13 years ago

"Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship."

Wow, what a stupid, meaningless, self-aggrandizing quote. Good riddance.
1. cowardly commenter some guy 13 years ago
  
  "Public service" is one of those terms that doesn't mean what most politicians think it means.
  1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    When you serve The Public, every individual person is subordinate to you.
    1. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
      
      It's a cookbook!!!
      1. Almanian 13 years ago
        
        JINXXXX!!!
    2. Almanian 13 years ago
      
      I wish "To Serve The Public" wasn't a cookbook....:(
2. BoscoH 13 years ago
  
  She's like Feinstein without the dick.
P Brooks 13 years ago

Who the fuck is Gleick and why should I give a shit?

I didn't buy a program.
1. Warty 13 years ago
  
  The climate change alarmist who stole and hoaxed some documents from some climate change deniers.
  1. Almanian 13 years ago
    
    "Stole and Hoaxed" would be a great pseudonym to paint on a drag race car. A gasser, specifically.
    
    "Stole and Hoaxed Racing". Nice.
    1. Warty 13 years ago
      
      It would also work as the title of a barely-legal themed porn series. Stole and Hoaxed 6 was the hottest of them all, dude.
      1. Loki 13 years ago
        
        Better than Back Door Sluts 9?
        
        Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        how about "girls who pretend to be amateurs who just happened to be walking down the street as the camera is rolling" part 13?
2. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
  
  Some GW "scientist" who lied to get documents from a skeptic organization.
  1. Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago
    
    And forged a doc when the ones he stole weren't good enough.
cowardly commenter some guy 13 years ago

Paul Krugman calls Ron Paul a "spendthrift". True story.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03.....ef=opinion
1. Warty 13 years ago
  
  But if you look at the details, it turns out that Mr. Paul is assuming trillions of dollars in unspecified and implausible spending cuts. So, in the end, he's really a spendthrift, too.
  
  ...
  
  ...uh...
  
  ...
  1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
    
    Yes, because continuing to spend money we don't have is plausible.
    
    Is the guy retarded? Seriously.
    1. Warty 13 years ago
      
      Consistent definitions of words are as much a tool of the bourgeoisie as balanced budgets, bro.
      1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Nice thing about reality is that it doesn't go away. You can only delude yourself and others for so long, then it smacks you in the head.
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        REALITY-BASED COMMUNITY
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Frankly, that's one of the most Orwellian things to come out of the left. They're like the exact opposite. Even more so than the fundamentalist arm of the right.
        
        BakedPenguin 13 years ago
        
        Here are a few communities dealing with reality right now. Funny, most are in states where the government acts very much like Krugabe would have them act.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Whoa. That's too much reality. No wonder they like fantasy so much.
  2. cw 13 years ago
    
    Calling someone a spendthrift is like calling someone a fascist, duh.
2. Krugman's Cat 13 years ago
  
  Meow.
3. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  From the comments:
  W did everything wrong and the country suffered terribly. President Obama, without much help but a lot of hindrance from the Republican dominated Congress prevented economic disaster and has us now on the road to recovery.
  
  Republican dominated congress? Road to recovery? The self delusion is strong in these people.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    It's almost unbelievable.
  2. cowardly commenter some guy 13 years ago
    
    "Republican dominated Congress"
    
    Where did the commenter get that idea? I didn't always agree with Brietbart, but I already miss him...
4. Brandon 13 years ago
  
  Along these same lines, there is a piece on CNN this morning titled "U.S. Gas High? Not as High as UK!" I don't remember the media making excuses like this when Bush was in office. Nor do I remember Krugman making up bullshit to discredit anyone who was not Bush.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Boss Hogg Ate My Balls:

http://moonbattery.com/?p=8742
GILMORE 13 years ago

Obama on Iran: "It is important for us to see if we can solve this thing permanently, as opposed to temporarily."

Stephen Walt on how idiotic it is we pretend that Iran is a 'major threat' =

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/.....ran_debate
rather 13 years ago

Why would anyone go, or even stay in Wisconsin?
http://www.independent.ie/brea.....37957.html
1. Mongo 13 years ago
  
  It's a beautiful state populated by drunken dwarves.
  1. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
    
    It's a beautiful state populated by drunken dwarves.
    
    True story.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Mila Kunis is still hot:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....shoot.html
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Her ass is a force of nature.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    Yes, it looks like she put on a few pounds since Black Swan, and kudos to kugel -- I completely approve.
    1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
      
      Mila Kunis > Natalie Portman
  2. JW 13 years ago
    
    We really aren't worthy of it.
2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  I almost posted that one, but I figured I should leave you something.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    It's casual Friday, I didn't even run a search.
3. wareagle 13 years ago
  
  "..the turgid early Spring weather.."
  --------------
  you know what else was turgid.
  
  Did the writer think that was clever or is she just fucking with us?
  1. Bobarian 13 years ago
    
    Turgid is another good adjective for describing anything Santorum like.
4. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
  
  Too bad I see Meg Griffin when I hear her shrill nagging voice.
John 13 years ago

According to my liberal friends on Facebook, the Kochs are behind the rise in gas prices. They are manipulating the market as part of their election strategy. They really believe this. And had links to prove it.

So I told them "every time one of those links says "Koch" substitute "Jew" and then re-read it. Then you might realize how vile and ridiculous this crap is." Much indignation ensued.
1. Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago
  
  Nazi Propoganda - blame everything on Jewish Capitalists
  
  Communist Propoganda - blame everything on Jewish Capitalists
2. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  You know, they aren't rich enough to do that. I don't think anyone is. Particularly without there being any obvious hallmarks of such activity.
  
  Bogeymen are always more powerful than anything real.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    Of course they are not rich enough. And even if they were, it would violate a slew of anti-trust laws. So the Obama DOJ is not indicting them out of kindness?
    
    It is really gross stuff. And I am very saddened to see some very old and respected friends by into it.
    1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
      
      It is really gross stuff. And I am very saddened to see some very old and respected friends by into it.
      
      Nearly all of my friends from my childhood are liberals, and have become even more partisan as they've aged. Fortunately, they don't post a lot of the goofier conspiracy shit on Facebook, but regardless we've learned since college not to bring politics into the personal realm. Ultimately, the friendship was far more important than where we stood politically, and focusing on that all the time would do nothing but poison the friendship.
  2. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    And from what I have heard, the Kochs donate far more money to educational and charitable things (even television programs that accept and one might even argue promote the idea of AGW from time to time) than they do to any political causes. I really know very little about them at all, but they seem like a really strange choice for the bogey men of the left.
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      A few weeks ago there was a mention of them on Slate? HuffPo? - well, one of those sites - which provoked the usual vitriol. One comment was about how they were fascist, Patriot Act-loving bastards. Someone pointed out that each Koch gave the ACLU $10m to fight the Patriot Act. God, the knots the commenters then tied themselves into to prove that $20m somehow didn't really count...
      1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Libertarians are fascists! Exactly the same as conservatives!
3. Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago
  
  The difference between Nazi and Communist propoganda is the blame on "Jewish Capitalists" vs. just "Capitalists".
4. Warty 13 years ago
  
  Oh, I bet the sputtering was delicious.
5. Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago
  
  Take one word out of Nazi propoganda about "Jewish Capitalists" and you get liberal propaganda about "capitalists".
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    And that point went right over their heads. All they could do was scream about how I was accusing them of being racist, which in a sense I was. But I wasn't accusing them of hating Jews. I was accusing them of embracing crackpot conspiracy theories and collective guilt.
    1. cw 13 years ago
      
      +100
6. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  The other funny thing is that these people don't realize that you'd need to rig the European and Asian commodity markets, too, for this to work.
  
  "Europe's speculators hate Obama and are setting themselves up to lose money so they can have a marginal impact on the outcome of the US election!" Um, wat?
  1. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
    
    That's a bit of American exceptionalism they won't get. Irony loses its sting when dealing with the completely self-unaware.
    1. Brandon 13 years ago
      
      I've been trying to figure this out. Is it self-unaware, or unself-aware? I have just been parsing it out to say "demonstrates a lack of self awareness."
      1. R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        Try "idiotic".
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, I Don't Bluff'
http://www.theatlantic.com/int.....ff/253875/

hahahahahaaha
1. John 13 years ago
  
  People who don't bluff, don't have to announce that fact. In fact, saying "I don't bluff" is a sure sign you do and are in fact bluffing.
2. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  Great. Let's back ourselves into a corner, because I guess we need a war this summer.
  1. The Other Kevin 13 years ago
    
    Just in time for the usual summer rise in gas prices! It will be a hoot!
    1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
      
      War. . .it's a gas.
3. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  I have this weird image of Ted Knight saying, "Gambling is illegal at Bushwood sir, and I never slice."
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    Too bad Rodney died. He might have been the perfect candidate to put up against Obama. "But that hat looks really good on you Mr. President".
    1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
      
      I would rather have a Rodney Dangerfield-type as president. Just think of all the foreigners, plus Kings and Queens he could offend with the lack of protocol. The progressives of America would faint at his boorishness.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        I would too. I don't want to see physical harm come to Obama. That would make him a martyr. And no one deserves that. But what Obama deserves more than anyone, save perhaps his wife, is ridicule. He really is a 21st Century version of Judge Smells or whatever his name is.
      2. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Or there's Penn & Teller. Just imagine the Queen's face when they release ten million roaches from their top hats! Did I mention they'll be wearing top hats?
        
        BakedPenguin 13 years ago
        
        Penn's a libertarian. It was implied.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        They've always dressed semi-formal just to do magic, so I figure top hats and tails at a minimum. The monocles will just be a little inside acknowledgement to the rest of us.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Pretty sure Teller is, too.
        
        Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
        
        Pretty sure Teller is, too.
        
        He won't say.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        You know, he even talks on stage, just not into the mike. Didn't notice that until I saw them in person.
      3. Ska 13 years ago
        
        Plus legalized coke. Really, really good coke.
      4. Loki 13 years ago
        
        Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity.
    2. kinnath 13 years ago
      
      Zombie Rodney -- 2012!
  2. ChrisO 13 years ago
    
    Fifty dollars says the Axelrod kid picks his nose.
PETA & ASPCA 13 years ago

some Afghans are still venting their rage over the incident -- at a bloody Kabul dogfighting ring.

Bring them to us. We will kill them ourselves.
1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  "We call the dogs who lose Americans.
  
  I don't know about the rest of you but I am wounded by this.
  1. Fluffy 13 years ago
    
    What do they call the dog that sends in a drone to blow the other dog up, then?
    1. Bowwow Obama 13 years ago
      
      "Mr. President"
  2. cw 13 years ago
    
    We call the dogs who lose Americans.
    
    If that makes you feel better...
    1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
      
      One thing is clear - they don't use bloodhounds.
2. WTF 13 years ago
  
  Nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., had said at last week's hearing that the panel's focus was on whether the administration policy was a violation of religious freedom. He said at the time that Fluke, invited by Democrats in her capacity as former head of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice, was not qualified to speak on the religious rights question.

"I'm an American woman who uses contraceptives," Fluke said, when asked Thursday by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., about her qualifications to speak on the issue.

What the hell is "reproductive justice"?
1. Rick Santorum 13 years ago
  
  What the hell is "reproductive justice"?
  
  It's having a baby every time you have intercourse.
  
  And please keep a civil tongue in your head.
2. cw 13 years ago
  
  "Reproductive justice" means having a right to someone else's wallet to pay for contraceptives.
  
  Sad how the word "justice" has so many pet issues attached to it, like that somehow makes that pet issue more important.
  1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
    
    I want to know where my fucking beer and lap dance justice is. Fucking moochers. I have an idea. Instead of paychecks we'll just have employers provide all of our basics needs for us. We did that once before in the south.
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      This.
3. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  The declining French birth rate?
4. WTF 13 years ago
  
  What the hell is "reproductive justice"?
  
  Probably "Moar free stuff!"
  1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
    
    It's like economic justice but instead of redistributing money they redistribute your children
5. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
  
  Something something something Male Gaze. Something something something microagression.
  1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
    
    I against microagression. I say, go macro or stay home.
6. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  "Justice" now means free stuff.
Mike M. 13 years ago

Breitbart: "Wait 'til they see what happens on March 1st." - Breitbart died hours before planned release of damning Obama footage.
1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  Romney, Santorum, et al might just want to reconsider.
2. The Ghost of Rod Serling 13 years ago
  
  Although it is reported that Breitbart was rushed to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, when Lawrence Sinclair called the hospital, they denied that anyone by that name had been admitted within the previous 72 hours.
  
  ** dee-dee dee-dee, dee-dee dee-dee **
3. Capitalisms 13 years ago
  
  I guess it's a complement of sorts to Breitbart that he died famous and politically dangerous enough to warrant wacky conspiracy theories.
  1. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
    
    I'm looking forward to the Breitbart/Andy Kaufman press conference.
    1. AuH20 13 years ago
      
      Briebart WAS Andy Kaufman. It was merely an elaborate performance piece.
  2. H man 13 years ago
    
    I'm still sticking with my STEVE SMITH theory.
4. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  Right. I'm sure he didn't make any copies of whatever exciting info he had or tell anyone else about it. He was the only person in the world with the information and with him dead no one will ever know. That seems plausible.
  1. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    Conspiracy theories are the Jello of the internet.
5. Loki 13 years ago
  
  Iocane powder slipped into his wine glass...
  1. Translucent Chum 13 years ago
    
    I can tell by the smell.
NotSure 13 years ago

Good to see the Nobel Peace prize winner is still continuing on his crusade for peace.
rst 13 years ago

"Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship."

I had no idea Snowe was so much of a dimwit. How sad.
1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  I met her once at the local Greek Festival, and yes she is dumb as a box of rock.
  
  Most politicians are.
  1. Alack 13 years ago
    
    I met her once at the local Greek Festival
    
    Is that a euphemism?
    1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
      
      I think it involves scat play a day after eating pounds of Greek yogurt and Souvlaki...NTTATWWT
der 13 years ago

Sen. Olympia Snowe on her retirment: "Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship."

I'm an attractive, caring, honest, good hearted women in search of bilover to explore bipartisanship. I, so I got a profile(lily green) on --Datebi dot c'0m--. It's the first and safe place for men and women looking for intimate encounters, casual encounters. Come in and discover the excitement you deserve! ^_^
Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago

Dear squirrels - I'm not a spammer.
Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy) 13 years ago

Nope, I'm still not a spammer, squirrels.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

I know this was of great concern to all of you, but I went and bought an Audio Analogue integrated to replace my Audio Research separates. Italian-made electronics? *kills self*
http://www.audioanalogue.net/p.....e-P37.html
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  I always thought the Unison designs were neat:
  
  http://unisonresearch.com/wp-c.....ed_eng.php
  1. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
    
    Magnesium coned tweeters? Wow.
  2. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
    
    ooh - hybrid amps.
    
    on a side note, I have a Chinese-made 6DJ8/LM3886 hybrid amplifier that cost less than $200. For the sound, it's one helluva deal.
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      I think Unison is all tube, and their sister company (Unicon?) builds hybrid stuff.
      
      I'm not sure what the point of hybrid is, but you can make tubes much quieter if you use an SS PS.
      1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        I suppose the point of hybrid is ditching the output transformer. Of course Audio Research made some hybrid amps with a jfet front end and a tube output stage.
Kevin 13 years ago

Everytime the word "bipartisanship" is spoken, grab your wallet.
P Brooks 13 years ago

"Nobody has announced a war, young lady," Obama responded to applause.

"But we appreciate your sentiment," the president added. "You're jumping the gun a little bit there."

I saw the film clip this morning. What a condescending douchebag that guy is. I hope a garbage truck backs over him while he's "vacationing" at Martha's Vineyard.

And the whoops and hollers of love for The Zero and derision for the person who asked the question were truly sickening. Fucking cultists.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  young lady?
  
  Can you imagine the case of the vapors feminists would have gotten if Bush ever referred to a female reporter as "young lady"? God what a dick.
  1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
    
    Sounds like a case for ... microaggressions.com!
    
    BTW, to all sensitive souls out there, microaggressions.com will be offline this weekend, so get over there now to share your horror stories of having the door held open for you
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      Seriously.
    2. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
      
      That's one of the greatest sites ever, right up there with the "99%" tumblr site. They're both living archives of just how truly broken and emotionally dysfunctional a large percentage of our populace really is.
    3. Rhywun 13 years ago
      
      Just... wow. I thought you made that url up.
2. Mike M. 13 years ago
  
  And that woman is no doubt one of his die-hard supporters. Imagine what he thinks of his enemies.
3. Jerry 13 years ago
  
  You're jumping the gun kinetic action a little bit there.
  
  FT.
4. NotSure 13 years ago
  
  It truly is a cult, if Bush was the one leading the coming war against Iran, they would no doubt be screaming for his head. There is no principled stand against war, its a cult of personality, if he does it, then it will be supported.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    Notice how all the liberal anti-war protesters disappeared after Obama took office, even though the same wars continued unabated.
    1. Fluffy 13 years ago
      
      There are still anti-war protestors in my town every month. They're still out there, if in reduced numbers, around the country.
      
      The media sure cared a lot less as soon as Bush was gone, though.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        What they did with Cindy Sheehan was gross. They took a grief stricken and a bit crazy mother and exploited the shit out of her for years. Then when Bush was gone "discovered" she was a little crazy and dropped her like a rock.
        
        Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
        
        The Sheehan case is an interesting one one its own level. I read an interview years ago where she said that Casey's enlistment took her and his dad completely by surprise, and then he still re-enlisted even after she literally begged him not to do so.
        
        I wouldn't be surprised if Casey had joined the military simply as an excuse to get away from his mother. I mean, you know your unit is going to Iraq and you re-enlist, even though it's making your own mom hysterical to do so? I'd be surprised if that wasn't a not-so-subtle "Fuck you, Mom," gesture on his part.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Probably so. And I will always give her some slack. Losing a child will make anyone a bit off. The media knew she was off. But she made a good prop. And they exploited the hell out of her until they didn't need her anymore.
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        "Losing a child will make anyone a bit off."
        
        Not unlike people who've lost friends and family to omnipotent drones right?
        
        SFC B 13 years ago
        
        I've known a lot of Soldiers who have come from... less-than-optimal... family backgrounds. For some folks the Army is the first group of people they run across who is actually interested in their well-being. Granted, they are interested in the person's well-being in the context of being able to serve the needs of the Army, but there are a small, but sizable, number of people for whom the Army really is their family.
      2. MSM 13 years ago
        
        If a war protest is held and nobody covers it, did it really happen?
        
        We say no.
RoboCain 13 years ago

"Japanese researchers develop a gun that, quite literally, drowns out certain voices."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1785.....lling-you/
1. Tim 13 years ago
  
  The Acadmey Awards could use that thing.
  1. Loki 13 years ago
    
    The presidential debates could use that thing too. Now if only they developed a gun that shoot people through the internet...
2. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  This should be big on college campuses.
shrike 13 years ago

So PigBoy lost an advertiser? That will mean more ED and prostrate cure ads.
1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  Yep. He's headed for the poor house now.
2. Restoras 13 years ago
  
  No doubt his show will be cancelled soon.
  1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
    
    If Limbaugh and Ed Schultz died in a fire, the world would be slightly better off.
3. Knutsack 13 years ago
  
  Thankfully, all the political correctness of Air America has kept them in business for so long.
  
  Say what? It did? That's unpossible!
P Brooks 13 years ago

When you serve The Public, every individual person is subordinate to you.

Nice.
SugarFree 13 years ago

Racial profiling is horrible! Unless we are doing it!

Bad Ash Thu 01 Mar 2012 11:00 AM
Whenever I am waiting for an elevator and my choice is to get in one with one or more obviously moneyed white dudes, I suddenly have to check my phone and take a call. Cuz you know who is going to get away with assaulting you? White dudes with money.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Yeah because rick white guys always love to risk their jobs and freedom to feel up some women in an elevator.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    You've obviously never met any elevator survivors.
  2. Tim 13 years ago
    
    Rick white guys = Santorum?
2. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  Are you responsible for the discussion thread on that page on Phil Collins by drunkexpatwriter?
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    I wish.
  2. AuH20 13 years ago
    
    The weird thing is how openly drunkexpatwriter has admitted having a small cock.
    
    Seriously, not the kind of thing I would bring up (then again, I would never need to, but that's beside the point) but you would think he wouldn't mention it. Maybe it is some kind of feminist badge of honor.
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      Do you really pay that much attention to those people?
3. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  And apparently they think American Psycho was real.
4. An Observer 13 years ago
  
  I totally call BS on that, because I have never met a crunchy crazy feminist who wouldn't immediately go down on any rich guy she could corner in an elevator.
5. Tim 13 years ago
  
  Definitely! I would also urge young women to shortcut through with dark alleys and empty parking lots, avoid crowds of people and well lit areas.
  1. AuH20 13 years ago
    
    VICTIM BLAMER! For even thinking that their are behaviors women can practice to prevent rape, you are worse than Hitler.
6. Almanian 13 years ago
  
  SF, your pseudo post yesterday about the "Mediator" was, in my estimation, your best work ever. Direct AND meta lulz in the same post. That's 400-level work. Bravo.
  
  MY LIFE FOR YOU!
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    You are too kind.
  2. AuH20 13 years ago
    
    Link?
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      +1
RoboCain 13 years ago

"20 Obvious Truths That Will Shock Liberals"

http://townhall.com/columnists.....k_liberals
1. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
  
  The greatest evil this country has ever committed isn't slavery; it's killing more than 50 million innocent children via abortion.
  
  Shiva H. Vishnu. What a moran.
2. shrike 13 years ago
  
  4) When the Founding Fathers were actually around, there were official state religions and the Bible was used as a textbook in schools. The so-called "wall of separation between church and state" has absolutely nothing to do with the Constitution and everything to do with liberal hostility to Christianity.
  
  Jesus Fucking Christ Townhall is filled with morons if this piece is any indicator.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    It is true. Some of us read books rather than listen to the voices inside our head.
    1. AuH20 13 years ago
      
      Eh, it varied by state, and any number of those didn't have public education, so I think the comparison is lacking.
      
      Also, the most notable state church was Massachusetts, which established Puritanism, enshrining the two hallmarks of Massholery: Statism and feeling superior to everyone else.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        It did vary. But the point is that the founders were okay with amounts of religion in the public sphere that would make nuts like Shreek have a case of the vapors.
        
        Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
        
        It did vary. But the point is that the founders were okay with amounts of religion in the public sphere that would make nuts like Shreek have a case of the vapors.
        
        In the post-Great Awakening period, it wouldn't have even been considered that unusual. It was typically only hardcore atheists like Paine or Jacobin sympathizers like Jefferson that were truly uncomfortable with it.
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        How many schools allow students to read the works of John Maynard Keynes?
P Brooks 13 years ago

Dick Bove was just on Bloomberg, talking about hoe the administration is driving small banks out of business as they talk about how much they want small banks to succeed. What a shock.
DEG 13 years ago

I'm making plans to move out of southern NH in the next year or so. I have some ideas of places to move to, but I'm curious what the folks of Hit n Run think.

My biggest priorities are places with low taxes, lower cost of living than southern NH, lax gun laws, and proximity to programming jobs (yes, I know they can be done remotely but not all companies agree with me on that). I plan to rent for a year or so, and then buy. Despite the drawbacks of homeownership, I'd rather own if I'm going to be in a place for several years. What places would the folks of Hit n Run suggest?
1. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
  
  Northern NH?
  1. Old Soldier 13 years ago
    
    Dammit!
2. Old Soldier 13 years ago
  
  I would recommend northern New Hampshire.
3. T 13 years ago
  
  Texas works for me on all of those but programming jobs. But somehow, I suspect there's a few of those around here.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    Then there's Mogadishu.
4. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Come to Tallahassee. The only thing the rest of Florida has that we dont is beaches and tourists. If you get serious about it, look me up in the comments section. I know just about all of the tech recruiters in town. Its a boom market for a programmer.
5. Spoonman. 13 years ago
  
  I think there's a fair amount of programming in Nashua but I don't know what the CoL is there.
6. kilroy 13 years ago
  
  Huge supply of programming jobs in the Atlanta market. Anywhere but Fulton county you'll have reasonable taxes and we love us some guns. Shall issue state for CCW. Reasonably good sized libertarian community, though it's dwarfed by the red team.
7. phrygian 13 years ago
  
  Why are you leaving NH? As a texas resident, NH is one of the few other states I would consider leaving for. In my mind, your only other option would be Texas.
8. db 13 years ago
  
  Google and some other software companies have offices in Pittsburgh and there is CMU's Software Engineering Institute. The gun laws are great in PA and there's a thriving ahooting culture in the 'Burgh area. Taxes aren't so great but if you live outside allegheny county they're lower. The weather is meh (lots of cloudy days) but there is plenty of outdoors stuff to do in PA.
  1. SFC B 13 years ago
    
    Doesn't PA have some INSANE liquor rules? Not quite Utah, but danger-close.
9. Loki 13 years ago
  
  Colorado's not bad either. As long as you avoid the People's Republic of Boulder as well as Denver proper, most of the outlying suburbs are fairly low tax, or at least not too outrageous compared to most of the country (and that's where most of the tech jobs are anyway).
  
  The state income tax is a low flat rate (~3.5% IIRC), the gun laws are pretty decent http://www.rmgo.org/gun-law-faqs, and lots of tech/ programming jobs (aerospace and telecomm industries in particular). Also, some of the most lax medical MJ laws in the country.
  1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
    
    Even with the suburbs, you still have to shop around a little bit. Thornton, and Northglenn, for instance, were pretty nice communities 30-40 years ago, but there's huge pockets in there where I really wouldnt want to live anymore.
10. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  Where you live now? South west and south east NH are pretty different. SE NH, I'd just as soon give to MA at this point.
  1. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    Though if you don't like the snow, I guess somewhere else entirely woudl be the thing. I love snow and this winter is killing me.
11. Banjos 13 years ago
  
  Phoenix
12. Brandon 13 years ago
  
  Austin, Texas
13. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  Austin, TX.
14. Britt 13 years ago
  
  Virginia is good for everything you mentioned, though I'm not totally sure about the programming jobs. I know there's a shitload of tech companies in Northern VA, but then you'd be in Northern VA.....
  
  Look into it. I'm a bit biased, but I consider it the best place to live right now.
horselips 13 years ago

Matt Taibbi on Breitbart.
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  ^^^^^^^
2. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  A great example of the "new civility"
RoboCain 13 years ago

"I told my little vagina-blog about these developments. A few people proposed that that might be an unfair way to treat both me and her, and that he should really consider a policy of open honesty; I had previously encouraged advice from my commentariat about my sex life. (In fact, I still crowdsource my dating decisions.)"

http://jezebel.com/5889750/my-.....s-of-abuse
1. AuH20 13 years ago
  
  Wait, I thought crowdsourcing dating decisions just resulted in anal?
  
  Also, Robocain, I thought we were doing this link battle thing monday. You rouge!
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    Oh, I'm not participating in a link battle. And I guess I must have missed your response about Monday.
    1. AuH20 13 years ago
      
      Dude, this is like the duel in the Firefly episode Shindig. There is no way to back out, but a timely link of a hot chick may save you.
      1. RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Which episode was that again?
        
        Speaking of hot chicks and Firefly, has anyone heard about Summer Glau lately?
        
        Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
        
        I saw her on a syndicated rerun of Big Bang Theory, but that was probably from a couple years ago.
        
        AuH20 13 years ago
        
        It was the episode called Shindig. Inara is with some rich asshole, Mal challenges him to a sword duel, he almost gets killed but Inara intervenes, Mal refuses to kill the rich jerk and gives a kickass youtube speech:
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDhDoWTghmk
2. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  She blogs about her vagina? Are we sure she isn't an elaborate misogynist prank?
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    Well, second-wave feminism is an elaborate misogynist prank, so either way, the answer would be yes.
    1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
      
      OMG...the fucked up brain of a perpetual victim. Where is natural selection when you need it.
  2. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    She blogs about her vagina?
    
    No. For some reason she blogs about her little vagina.
3. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
  
  her little vagina-blog?
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    The lesson here, if you ever write something small about your penis, hyphenation is important.
    1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
      
      I'd like to know how little her vagina is... or maybe not.
AuH20 13 years ago

Are you a woman who doesn't want daughters? Jezebel hate you.

Which oddly proves that they are wrong about the bitchiness of women towards other women.
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  That article is terribly poor childish writing.
  1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
    
    All Jezebel "writing" is childish.
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      Point taken.
Suthenboy 13 years ago

Pro L - I havent been on much lately. I got called away a week ago just as you were asking for my black bean hummus recipe.

Here it is - Mince a clove of garlic in a food processor. Add a can of black beans sans the liquid. Add 2 tablespoons of the liquid from the beans. two tablespoons lemon juice, two tablespoons tahini, 1/2 teaspoon cumin, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1/ teaspoon paprika. Process well.

I then garnish with finely chopped sweet onion, some chopped fresh tomato and sprinkle with additional cayenne. Dip with your favorite corn chips. Yum.
1. Banjoopy 13 years ago
  
  I'd (we'd) replace the bean liquid with extra virgin olive oil, but that's just me (us).
  1. AuH20 13 years ago
    
    I told you two not to mind meld until AFTER the ceremony!
    
    The consequences could be terrible. Here, take this slowly fading out photograph.
  2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    Wow, you're still running with it. Good for you!
  3. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    And by the way, spoofer, you shouldn't replace the juice with olive oil, as it will not react well to the processing. If you want to add oil at the end, that would be acceptable, but not for processing. It turns bitter, dumbass.
    
    If you're gonna spoof me, please don't do it on food comments. You're way out of you depth, whoever you are.
    1. Banjoopy 13 years ago
      
      You're not very bright, sloopy. Olive oil is a standard ingredient in hummus. Good olive oil is not bitter. Drizzling it in during the processing emulsifies the mixture.
  4. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
    
    I'd also replace the black beans with pork butt. Skip the lemon juice, tahini, and food processor and cook low and slow until it pulls apart. For the garnish, replace the tomato with bbq sauce. That should be much better.
    1. Suthenboy 13 years ago
      
      You almost got it....replace pork butt with brisket ( 99 cents per pound on sale right now ) wrapped in foil with 4 chopped onions and you would have nailed it.
2. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  Sounds good--thanks for sharing!!
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    I've never made a hummus I was happy with, but I'll give this one a try.
    1. Suthenboy 13 years ago
      
      Tip - Anything good with beans is better with black beans. They have more substance and flavor.
      1. RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        They have more fat, but make sure they aren't turtle beans sold as black beans.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Asshole: "Only Assholes Think You Won't Sleep With Them Unless They're Assholes"

http://jezebel.com/5889669/onl.....e-assholes
1. Matrix 13 years ago
  
  I imagine a lot of the writers at Jezebel and feministing have boyfriends that have been thoroughly emasculated, but they still fuck the assholes behind their boyfriends' backs.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    That wouldn't surprise me at all.
    
    Of course, liberal feminist men are still assholes, just a different kind of assholes.
    1. Matrix 13 years ago
      
      but not the assholes these girls want to have sex with.
    2. Ska 13 years ago
      
      The term you're looking for is "bottoms".
      1. RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        No, that's not it. These guys are assholes because they are dishonest, have no moral principles, and only say what they think feminists want to hear.
        
        Almanian 13 years ago
        
        So, "average guys". Got it.
        
        RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        I don't think they are average either. Thankfully, they seem to be a tiny minority of men.
Banjoopy 13 years ago

This is like the worst chat room ever.
1. Lame 13 years ago
  
  Oh wow!. Hey, everyone, look at this comment above! I mean, just look at it. It's the perfect comment...so clever...such a perfect example of satire...just bravo, sir, or madame, bravo.
  1. Banjoopy 13 years ago
    
    That's why you totally ignored it.
    1. Lame 13 years ago
      
      Oh man! he/she does it again! So good...so witty...such insight and clarity. Just...wow! You are gonna go places, my friend.
RoboCain 13 years ago

"The Senate Committee on Public Health, Human Services and Revenue held a public hearing Wednesday on a controversial bill targeting single parents.

Senate Bill 507, introduced by Senator Grothman (R-West Bend), would require the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize non marital parenthood is a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect. Single parents make up a third of all Wisconsin parents."

http://www.defendwisconsin.org.....ild-abuse/
1. Tonio 13 years ago
  
  Ah...non-marital parenthood as opposed to single parenthood. IOW, it's not about the kids being raised by "single" (ie widowed or divorced) parents; it's blatantly about teh gays (no SSM in WI) and "sluts."
  1. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    Yeah, that's pretty weird way to put it. Non-marital parenthood is not the same a single parenthood. Lots of people raise kids together without getting married.
sloopyinca 13 years ago

I wonder if she has Xavier Roberts tattooed on her ass?
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Roberts
2. Suthenboy 13 years ago
  
  'The most disgusting thing is my head started to leak pus,' she said
  
  So....WI is actually a woman?
  1. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    That is one of the more compelling theories going around lately.
3. Almanian 13 years ago
  
  Jesus H - she was fugly enough "before. The "after" just made it worse.
  
  It's a she-Yeti! Run for your lives!!!
  1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    I'm always leery of "before" pics that utilize the Internet Fat Girl Angle. They always end up Jabba-esque when the full frontal shots come out.
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      Speaking of fat girls, here's one for John
    2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      Evidence!
      
      NSFW!
      1. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, not sit on the NSFW, especially if you have reasonable!
        
        Methinks I need to change my settings...BRB.
        
        Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
        
        Errr..."not sit" = "no shit"
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Dammit, that was supposed to be reasonable-safe. Not sure why it showed up. I had it set to link to the page, not the direct pic. Sorry about that.
        
        Nipplemancer 13 years ago
        
        if the URL ends in .jpg, it's gonna show up for reasonable users.
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        The Reasonable surprise! You just need to learn to have a quick scrolling finger to avoid those uncomfortable work moments.
      2. RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Wow.
P Brooks 13 years ago

Senate Bill 507, introduced by Senator Grothman (R-West Bend), would require the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize non marital parenthood is a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect

WTF?
1. Suthenboy 13 years ago
  
  There is nothing in the article to support this view, but, I suspect Senator Grothman, given the opportunity, would require all parents to be married. Out of wedlock pregnancy would be a felony. No doubt any sex he personally doesnt approve of would be felonious. We have loads of sanctimonious assholes like this in my state.
  
  Since he cant have that enacted he is attempting to spitefully punish 'offenders'.
  
  On the other hand, his assertion that liberals want people to be poor and dependent on government hand-outs is true.
2. rac3rx 13 years ago
  
  Statistically, Mom's boyfriend is the most likely culprit of child abuse by astronomical numbers.
  
  http://www.post-gazette.com/re.....riend2.asp
  1. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    That seems like one of those facts that shouldn't be surprising to anyone. And the article doesn't really make it clear that mom's boyfriend is more likely to abuse a child than mom or dad.
    I love this from teh beginning of the article:
    Most statistics show that child abuse by unrelated adults living in the same household as the child is the exception rather than the rule.
    
    Anecdotally, however, child abuse experts paint a different picture.
    
    And now we are going to tell you some nasty anecdotes. It amazes me the shit people get paid to write.
Stormy Dragon 13 years ago

It's kinda hard to get worked up about the Reiki thing, given fraud should be illegal.
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  What's fraudulent about it?
  1. Stormy Dragon 13 years ago
    
    They're taking money under the pretense they can cure things like cancer by waving their hands around over you.
    1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      Cure? I've yet to see that.
      Relieve pain? Yes, but relief is different than cure.
  2. Suthenboy 13 years ago
    
    What isnt fraudulent about it?
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      There is no intent to deceive in that they actually believe their claims. So do astrologers, homeopaths, etc. Otherwise you end up banning consensual activity based on what you believe "works".
      1. Stormy Dragon 13 years ago
        
        At some point reasonableness comes in to it. Otherwise pretty much any crime can be avoided by saying you sincerely believed the situation is different than what it was ("Honest officer, I was absolutely sure that this was my car when I took it").
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        If I got caught in a stolen car, that's exactly what I would say. It's the burden of the state to prove a crime, not of the alleged offender to prove his innocence.
        
        I'm pretty sure a fraud case against any of these guys would fail to meet the "beyond a reasonable doubt" threshold, so they should be able to ply their trade free from government intimidation or licensing.
        
        RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        With car theft one party is not consenting. With mystical woo-woo both sides agree to the exchange.
        
        Stormy Dragon 13 years ago
        
        Why would I need another party's consent to break into my car (which I totally believe this car to be).
        
        Brandon 13 years ago
        
        Stormy Dragon, are you an idiot?
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        No, he a contrarian dick. And he knows the difference in consent and lack thereof. He's just arguing in bad faith.
        
        Maybe he went to the wrong kind of massage parlor once and got pegged.
      2. Suthenboy 13 years ago
        
        You are half right. I agree we should not be banning such things or requiring licenses for them.
        However, it isnt true that these people actually believe their claims. I have known a few and they are out-right cons.
        
        Still, if a person is naive enough to fall for it.......
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Still, if a person is naive enough to fall for it.......
        
        ^^This^^
        
        Sorry, but the inability of customers to tell the difference in opinion and evidence is their own problem. And I've yet to see one of those places say they cure anything. Relief, yes. Cure, no. And relief is in the eye of the beholder. Just look at medical MJ. It's relief of pain is incontrovertible, yet many docs want to keep it criminalized because they say it doesn't cure anything.
        
        Stormy Dragon 13 years ago
        
        http://healwithlori.com/blog/h.....res-cancer
        
        http://www.reiki.org/reikinews/rn960405.html
        
        Wow, that took me all of 30 seconds.
        
        Stormy Dragon 13 years ago
        
        Sorry, but the inability of customers to tell the difference in opinion and evidence is their own problem.
        
        So you feel businesses, have absolutely no legal obligations to properly represent what they are selling, and if the customer fails to detect the fraud, it's entirely their fault? ("Sure I put fiberglass insulation in my ground beef. If he didn't want his intestines shredded, he should have had his burger tested before he bit into it")
        
        RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Beef doesn't contain fiberglass, but astrology is pure bullshit.
        
        There is also the risk that maybe we're wrong and some of these things actually do work. At first many people thought Pastuer was crazy. And till this day, there are nutjobs claiming that vaccinations are a tool of the evil corporations or whatever.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Even bad vaccinations can lead to good results. Witness: Rick Perry.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Right, numbnuts. Because lots of businesses intentionally make their products deadly for their customers. It's the best way to ensure repeat business!
        
        Stormy Dragon 13 years ago
        
        I am not intentionally making my products deadly. I sincerely believe that glass fibers are an important part of the human diet, and that most of our health problem are really a result of glass deficiency.
        
        Now you and your science may say that some of my customers are dying from it, but that's really just because you're biased against eastern cooking.
        
        Brandon 13 years ago
        
        Jesus Christ, Stormy, are you Tony? The exact same fallacies.
        
        Zeb 13 years ago
        
        "However, it isn't true that these people actually believe their claims. I have known a few and they are out-right cons."
        
        I'm sure some people believe their claims. And some are frauds.
        
        I think that the best course is for non-idiots to try to educate people about science and reality and stuff. If people don't want to hear it, it's their problem if they get suckered.
    2. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      The otehr problem with calling it fraud is the problem of knowledge. Do you really want government to determine what is and is not a fact? If people want to believe in stupid bullshit and other people want to indulge their beliefs and make some money off of it, I'm not going to lose any sleep.
      
      I've got a rock that prevents tiger attacks for sale if anyone is interested.
      1. Stormy Dragon 13 years ago
        
        Again, at some point the government has to determine some fact, unless you're going to eliminate all crimes ("I mean, sure the government wants you to believe that John Doe died when I cut his head off with an axe, but do we really know he's dead? Who is the government to tell us what things do and don't kill people?")
        
        Brandon 13 years ago
        
        You are confusing "intent" with "action." One is provable, the other is not.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        I'm pretty sure I'll be able to sleep at night knowing that a doctor determined John Doe's death. I don't need the state's Coroner, Medical Examiner or Department of Vital Statistics to do it for me.
        
        Are you so afraid of trusting professionals or your own eyes that you need the state to tell you what is a fact and what is not? If so, I really feel sad for your wife and/or children, because they have a retarded pussy for a father.
        
        Stormy Dragon 13 years ago
        
        When the "professionals" are telling me they can cure cancer by Force pushing my tumors via the internet, then yes, I have trouble trusting them. They're conmen, pure and simple, and deserve to be punished as conmen.
        
        I'm not the pussy handwringing about whether we afford to call their pile of bs a pile of bs because we might hurt their feelings by declaring that reality is real, its nature can be understood, and that if they say otherwise they're frauds no matter how hard they want to pretend their invisible friend gave them magic powers.
John 13 years ago

http://www.boston.com/Boston/m.....index.html

James Q Wilson has died.
Invisible Finger 13 years ago

Sen. Olympia Snowe on her retirment: "Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship."

What a complete and utter asshole!

First she equates government work with "holy orders" and then she tells everybody there should only be two political parties.

Olympia Snowe - fuck you and die you horrible piece of shit!
1. Banjoopy 13 years ago
  
  I don't think she can hear you.
Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago

So the man and I are going on our first road trip together - a straight through overnight 10-hours to ATL. I be meeting some of his friends, too.

I feel like I'm about to jump into a Seinfeld episode.

I hope I don't barf.
1. Warty 13 years ago
  
  Do you have any valium or equivalent? Bring that.
  1. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
    
    Nope...just Dramamine & Benadryl.
2. kilroy 13 years ago
  
  We're looking forward to meeting you. When he runs out of gas near that hotel, don't buy it.
3. Mancaveman 13 years ago
  
  It's very important in a relationship that you both can tolerate the way the other drives.
  1. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
    
    I absolutely trust his driving ability, but his upbringing (his dad was a stock car driver), makes him think it's fun to get a little wild at times. But that's what the Dramamine is for (I'm driving first shift).
4. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Have fun! It's great to hear about how people are happy in their personal lives on here.
  
  Hear that, rectal? IT'S A GOOD THING WHEN PEOPLE ARE HAPPY AND TALK ABOUT IT.
  1. Banjoopy 13 years ago
    
    It's not narcissistic at all!
5. JW 13 years ago
  
  I hope I don't barf.
  
  Why? First impression barfing makes for such memorable stories.
Invisible Finger 13 years ago

Back in the days before the printing press, I could maybe understand the "sacredness" of a book. But now that we can print a Koran for ever man, woman, child, and insect on the fucking planet, only a useless piece of shit would get worked up over a handful of "copies" of the Koran getting destroyed.
1. Suthenboy 13 years ago
  
  Clearly magical thinking is a concept that escapes you.
  1. JHC 13 years ago
    
    Can't they just burn the Constitution in retaliation? (I know, we beat them to it.) An eye for an eye. What they're asking for is a life for a fingernail.
John Thacker 13 years ago

I'm interested in the recent news that the Cato Institute is apparently a libertarian tontine.
DEG 13 years ago

Thanks folks for the advice on places to move. I have to break my reply up because of the 900 character comment limit.

phrygian, I want to leave southern NH because I've never liked New England. There are jobs, which is why I moved here, but I'm tired of the place. There are too many Puritans and Progressives. I'm tired of snow. I think the area is too expensive. The gun laws in NH and the lack of an income tax on my salary are nice (but they tax my interest and dividend income).

Kristen and Old Soldier, Northern NH was never on my list because of the lack of access to jobs.

T, I've considered Austin, which is on my list. Austin has Dell, HP, and IBM.
1. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
  
  I'll trade places with you, except I would want northern NH (I'm a ski bum) and you're right about the lack of jerbs. But there are contracts out there that are 100% or 95% telework. I'd look into Patent & Trademark (yes, a gubmint bureaucracy, but as was noted earlier, a lot of us have sold our souls in that way) - they have a reputation for being very telework friendly.
2. rac3rx 13 years ago
  
  If you're trying to escape progressives, stay away from Austin. They've absolutely ruined the place.
  1. Old Soldier 13 years ago
    
    San Antonio would be vastly preferable to Austin.
  2. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    You don't have too get too far from Austin proper to be well clear of the progressives. I mean, it is still Texas all around Austin.
DEG 13 years ago

Brett L., I had considered Tampa and Sarasota but dropped them because of the lack of programming jobs. I hadn't thought of Tallahassee. I'll contact you.

Kilroy, I had dropped Atlanta because the programming job market didn't look that good but I will take another look.

db, I have some experience with Google and am not interested in working for them. I'm familiar with the Pittsburgh area and Pennslyvania (I grew up near Philly and I have friends in and around Pittsburgh). I'm not interested in moving back to PA though the cost of living tempts me.

Thanks again folks! If you have more advice I'd like to hear it.
1. Loki 13 years ago
  
  See post above Re: Colorado. I didn't realize you'd already posted your follow-up down here. Missed it by that much.
  
  Not sure what inustry you're looking at ("programming job" covers a lot) but as I mentioned earlier, there's a pretty decent amount of aerospace and telecomm companies here who hire lots of programmers.
2. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Email here if you get serious.
DEG 13 years ago

Brett L., I decided posting one of my e-mail addresses (one I don't use often) would be easier than pouring through the comments looking for your e-mail address. If you could send me a note there, we can talk more about Tallahassee. Thanks!

Loki, What tech companies are near Denver? I like Denver, pubs with good beer all over the place. My impression of the programming market there was the companies there are in storage and not much else.
1. Brandon 13 years ago
  
  DEG, not many large ones, but tons of small tech companies are based in Denver. I just started working for one.
DEG 13 years ago

Kristen, Once upon a time I worked for a defence contractor. A memorable occasion: A VP held an all hands meeting. At the meeting he talked about pork barrel spending and government waste. He said, concerning the company's contracts, "Yes, it's pork. But it's our pork and that makes it good!"

I have no interest in working for another defence contractor or doing any other contracting for the government.
DEG 13 years ago

Loki, hah! I just posted another reply. I eschew the threaded comments. Telecomms would work for me. My background is in networking with some security and operating systems work.
Banjoopy 13 years ago

HP is in Boise, too.
4th-Freest State?!
Kolohe 13 years ago

Obama on Iran: "It is important for us to see if we can solve this thing permanently, as opposed to temporarily."

You know who else looked for final solutions?
P Brooks 13 years ago

IT'S A GOOD THING WHEN PEOPLE ARE HAPPY AND TALK ABOUT IT.

You othering monster!
1. + 13 years ago
  
  Lots of happy people are not narcissists.
  Just sayin'.
2. + 13 years ago
  
  (Much sensitivity here. Insecurity. Funny.)
test 13 years ago

TEST
DEG 13 years ago

Old Soldier, I was in San Antonio not too long ago. I wasn't overly impressed. Folks were friendly, which I liked. The Hill Country isn't far away. However, the downtown core seemed dead except for the Riverwalk. The only economic activity looked like the military, energy, and health (UTSA's research hospital).

Banjos, many moons ago (late 90s) I interviewed at Motorola in Phoenix. Motorola and Intel seemed to be the only shows in town for programmer types at the time. How is it now?

Brandon, thanks for the information about Denver. I'll take another look.

Thanks again everyone.
DEG 13 years ago

rac3rx, I'm not surprised to hear that Progressives have taken over Austin. UT Austin and the state capital. Though as RC Dean points out, Texas is all around Austin so I'll keep Austin on my list.
DEG 13 years ago

SFC B, yes, PA's liquor laws are absurd. There is a glimmer of hope. Wegman's successfully fought the PLCB over their in store cafe's that include bottle shops. I've heard other grocery stores have started doing the same thing, though I've only seen the Wegman's bottle shops on my trips to PA.

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