Reason.com - Free Minds and Free Markets
Reason logo Reason logo
  • Latest
  • Magazine
    • Current Issue
    • Archives
    • Subscribe
    • Crossword
  • Video
  • Podcasts
    • All Shows
    • The Reason Roundtable
    • The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
    • The Soho Forum Debates
    • Just Asking Questions
    • The Best of Reason Magazine
    • Why We Can't Have Nice Things
  • Volokh
  • Newsletters
  • Donate
    • Donate Online
    • Donate Crypto
    • Ways To Give To Reason Foundation
    • Torchbearer Society
    • Planned Giving
  • Subscribe
    • Reason Plus Subscription
    • Print Subscription
    • Gift Subscriptions
    • Subscriber Support

Login Form

Create new account
Forgot password

Politics

A.M. Links: Hamas Sticks Tongue Out at Israel, Federalist Efforts and Marijuana Legalization, TSA Drives Travelers Away from Airlines

Scott Shackford | 11.20.2012 9:00 AM

Share on FacebookShare on XShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL
Media Contact & Reprint Requests
  • The top leader of Hamas has dared Israel to invade Gaza. No word on whether he made chicken sounds or called Netanyahu a pussy.

  • Four men in California were charged with an international terrorism plot. One source in the case was paid $250,000 and was previously convicted of drug trafficking.
  • Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have introduced a bill that would alter the Controlled Substances Act in order to force the federal government to respect state-level legalization of Marijuana.
  • Despite growing support for medical marijuana and its legality in 17 states, health insurance providers rarely cover its purchase.
  • Thanks to how awful the Transportation Security Administration has made the process of flying, Americans are taking the more dangerous route of driving long distances in order to keep from dealing with them.
  • The Czech Republic has its own anti-austerity protests organized by the trade unions and opposing budget cuts and pension reform.

Have a news tip for us? Send it to: 24_7@reason.com.

The updated Reason app for Apple and Android now includes Reason 24/7!

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for Reason's daily updates for more content

Start your day with Reason. Get a daily brief of the most important stories and trends every weekday morning when you subscribe to Reason Roundup.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

NEXT: Shared Origins For Water on Earth, Mars

Scott Shackford is a policy research editor at Reason Foundation.

Politics
Share on FacebookShare on XShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL
Media Contact & Reprint Requests

Hide Comments (470)

Editor's Note: As of February 29, 2024, commenting privileges on reason.com posts are limited to Reason Plus subscribers. Past commenters are grandfathered in for a temporary period. Subscribe here to preserve your ability to comment. Your Reason Plus subscription also gives you an ad-free version of reason.com, along with full access to the digital edition and archives of Reason magazine. We request that comments be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to delete any comment and ban commenters for any reason at any time. Comments may only be edited within 5 minutes of posting. Report abuses.

  1. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

    Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have introduced a bill that would alter the Control Substances Act in order to force the federal government to respect state-level legalization of Marijuana.

    That's quote a slippery slope.

    1. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

      And you can quite me on that.

      1. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

        Nice save

        1. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

          All part of the plan.

          1. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

            Procedure was followed.

            1. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

              Words were typed.

              1. Ken Shultz   13 years ago

                Deadlines were met.

                1. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

                  Heckuva job, Fist!

                  1. Ska   13 years ago

                    What a crappy complaint.

              2. ericamitchell   13 years ago

                Many of us do not believe that he could work and profit from the Internet. I personally, at first I did not believe it . but when I made $76 /hr I knew it was not difficult. you wont forgive yourself if you don't check it out..Mel7.CoM

              3. ericamitchell   13 years ago

                Many of us do not believe that he could work and profit from the Internet. I personally, at first I did not believe it . but when I made $76 /hr I knew it was not difficult. you wont forgive yourself if you don't check it out...MEL7.CoM

          2. AuH2O   13 years ago

            I love it when a plan comes together!

    2. R C Dean   13 years ago

      Interesting. Here's hoping it makes it into law.

  2. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

    The Stars Are Beginning To Go Out?
    http://blogs.scientificamerica.....to-go-out/

    They really are.

    The universe is apparently well past its prime in terms of making stars, and what new ones are being made now across the cosmos will never amount to more than a few percent on top of the numbers already come and gone.

    This is the rather disquieting conclusion of a new and significant study of the rate at which stars have been produced through cosmic time.

    1. Episiarch   13 years ago

      We're all going to die in a few billion years!!!

      1. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

        I knew you would show up here when it suited you. Everyone, remember what Epi really thinks about the morning links: they are too gauche and jejune for the likes of him.

        1. Episiarch   13 years ago

          It suits me when I'm in Connecticut and woke up at 7 AM. Back east, everything is just gauche and jejune enough because we're on Eastern time. Plus, IT'S COLD. God damn, I am such a Seattle pussy.

          1. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

            You cannot let that place turn you into some west coast asshole who thinks it's cold right now.

            1. Episiarch   13 years ago

              I'll always be an east coast asshole, nicole, nothing can ever change that. No matter how west coast I live, my origins remain strong.

              1. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

                Biggie 4eva

                1. Episiarch   13 years ago

                  Nutmegga represent, yo.

          2. Restoras   13 years ago

            Cold? This isn't cold. This is mild. I played golf this past weekend it was so mild. Cold is reserved for January.

            1. Episiarch   13 years ago

              Look, I went from epic rain and 45 degrees to sunshine and 28 degrees. I think I might go practice my serve in the cold to remind myself of where I'm from.

              1. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

                I might go practice my serve in the cold to remind myself of where I'm from.

                I would say think of England, but, you know.

                1. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

                  RAPE JOKE!

              2. Agammamon   13 years ago

                Jeeesus! I feel sorry for you dude. Out here I *still* have to turn onthe AC during the day.

          3. $park?   13 years ago

            The fact that you're in Connecticut explains so much. I knew the sun looked a little dimmer this morning.

            1. Episiarch   13 years ago

              I bring darkness wherever I go.

              1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

                How many words for rain do you have?

          4. protefeed   13 years ago

            Plus, IT'S COLD. God damn, I am such a Seattle pussy.

            It's pretty cold here, too. 69F in Honolulu right now, prolly 65F here where I live at higher altitude.

            I mean, we've got all the window louvers closed, and I'm wearing a short sleeve shirt to stay warm. FN COLD! =P

        2. Ted S.   13 years ago

          I would have gone with "nonce and insipid" myself.

      2. mnarayan   13 years ago

        Speak for yourself. I plan to make it to at least several billion years, perhaps even many.

      3. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

        I'm sure Roland Emmerich is all over that.

      4. VG Zaytsev   13 years ago

        We're all going to die in a few billion years!!!

        A new gotcha question for the Christ Fags.

    2. $park?   13 years ago

      Sometimes, ok most times, I think astronomers and physicists just make up random shit to sound all smart and important.

      1. Karl Hungus   13 years ago

        Sometimes, ok most times, I think astronomers and physicists just make up random shit to sound all smart and important.

        Shit, wouldn't you? I mean, who's gonna call them on it?

        1. protefeed   13 years ago

          Yeah, when someone says "Doom. DOOM. DOOOOOM!" because our sun is gonna wipe out all life on Earth in five BILLION years, I start to question their ability to grasp the more immediate problem of their imminent and certain mortality.

    3. 0x90   13 years ago

      And how many light-years-old is this news?

      1. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

        30 parsecs.

    4. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

      The universe has a low star sperm count. From wearing skinny space jeans.

      1. Episiarch   13 years ago

        So you identify with the universe, then.

        1. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

          This is AM Links. Why are you even here?

          1. Episiarch   13 years ago

            FoE, you are in a position to ask nothing. I, on the other hand, am in a position to answer nothing.

            1. Ted S.   13 years ago

              So you're in missionary?

              1. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

                Face down, stuffed against pillow. Duh.

                1. protefeed   13 years ago

                  Face down, stuffed against pillow. Duh.

                  You left out "... and crying like a little schoolgirl. Possibly dressed like one."

                  1. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

                    Schoolboy, I think, but yes.

              2. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

                From Hell's heart, I stab at thee.

                1. hamilton   13 years ago

                  We should just get a convenient hotlink button to the first khan dialogue to save everyone time.

                  1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

                    Let's start with an edit button, and go from there.

                    Did I tell you I did go to the Broncos game? TicketExchange is really paying off.

            2. Agammamon   13 years ago

              Apparently I'm the only one to get the "Star Trek" reference.

    5. Bee Tagger   13 years ago

      Meanwhile, poorer universes are creating stars at much higher rates.

    6. Ted S.   13 years ago

      I thought the universe was supposed to end on December 21 anyway.

      1. mr simple   13 years ago

        That's only life on this planet. Earth has been repossessed by the universe through Eminent Domain for new development. This is what we get for living on a blighted planet. 12/21 is our eviction date.

    7. Suthenboy   13 years ago

      Disquieting? How so?

    8. bostonaod   13 years ago

      Maybe in your universe /cackles across the transdimensional void

    9. Killazontherun   13 years ago

      Don't get too worried. If time is anything like we are capable of thinking of it then everything would have burned out an eternity ago.

    10. Red Rocks Rockin   13 years ago

      This is the rather disquieting conclusion of a new and significant study of the rate at which stars have been produced through cosmic time.

      "Clearly, what's needed is a massive galactic redistributionist program to provide cosmic justice and prevent the stars, upon which so many of our hopes and dreams are based, from being lost and ensure their survival for future generations."

  3. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

    San Francisco lawmakers set to vote on nudity ban
    http://staging.hosted.ap.org/d.....9-04-04-47

    Where will Warty go? WHERE?

    1. DJF   13 years ago

      Gay Pride Parades are exempt so he will just declare himself a perpetual Gay Pride Parade.

      1. Warty   13 years ago

        That's a gaping loophole. You could fist a truck through it.

    2. mr simple   13 years ago

      Scott Wiener, the supervisor who represents San Francisco's predominantly gay Castro District

      Really?

  4. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

    Despite growing support for medical marijuana and its legality in 17 states, health insurance providers rarely cover its purchase.

    Mellow-Harshing Panels.

    1. Raston Bot   13 years ago

      just like they cover lasik and breast augmentation?

    2. Agammamon   13 years ago

      'Course its not like pot is expensive.

      Its really fustrating when people bitch about insurance not covering this or that, showing complete ignorance at what insurance is *for*.

  5. Bee Tagger   13 years ago

    Despite growing support for medical marijuana and its legality in 17 states, health insurance providers rarely cover its purchase.

    That will be fixed when the federal government is even more involved in health insurance, right? I mean, the federal government is super on board with pot after all.

  6. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

    Time to End Military Tribunals?
    http://www.nytimes.com/roomfor.....ef=opinion

    As President Obama prepares for his second term in the White House, should he put an end to military commissions, used to prosecute captured enemies for war crimes, and finally close Guant?namo?

    hahaahahahahaha

    1. DJF   13 years ago

      As thought the NYT's knows better then a President who not only has a Nobel Peace Prize but a new mandate from the voters.

      1. Ted S.   13 years ago

        I can't wait until the slapfest between the NYT's house Nobelist Krugnuts and the Bringer of Light begins.

    2. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

      The all-powerful Republicans will stop him.

      1. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

        again.

        1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

          How sad is it when your defense of a president is that he's the most impotent president in decades?

  7. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

    Petraeus scandal puts four-star general lifestyle under scrutiny
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

    Then-defense secretary Robert M. Gates stopped bagging his leaves when he moved into a small Washington military enclave in 2007. His next-door neighbor was Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, who had a chef, a personal valet and ? not lost on Gates ? troops to tend his property.

    Gates may have been the civilian leader of the world's largest military, but his position did not come with household staff. So, he often joked, he disposed of his leaves by blowing them onto the chairman's lawn.

    1. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

      troops to tend his property

      Well, banging your autobiographer is definitely cooler than that, although probably a lot less useful in the long run.

      1. Corneliusm   13 years ago

        Well, banging your autobiographer is definitely cooler than that, although probably a lot less useful in the long run.

        FTFY.

      2. R C Dean   13 years ago

        See, I just assumed "tending property" was one of them euphemisms.

        1. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

          I like a well-manicured lawn meself.

      3. VG Zaytsev   13 years ago

        banging your autobiographer

        He's a masterbater too?

      4. Agammamon   13 years ago

        I bang my *auto* biographer all the time!

    2. Ted S.   13 years ago

      Government is the 1%.

    3. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

      I knew there were more reasons I hated Mullen than I could express.

    4. Dr. Frankenstein   13 years ago

      Aren't there personal servitude rules in the military to prevent things like this?

      1. T   13 years ago

        Not for 4 stars. There is a specific MOS (or used to be when I was in) that is basically assistant to a general.

      2. Red Rocks Rockin   13 years ago

        No, this is actually pretty common amongst the top brass. It's thankless and often pointless work, but it can enhance a career, just because of the access you have to so much of the top guy's day-to-day routine.

        You know who the most influntial person in the European courts typically was during the Middle Ages? They guy who--no kidding--cleaned out the king's shitter. He's the one who saw the king every day and was privy (heh) to the inner workings of the court.

    5. Agammamon   13 years ago

      If he was a real arsehole, he would hav emade the Chariman pick them up.

  8. $park?   13 years ago

    Here's a mildly interesting story. New smell discovered.

    The smell is dubbed "olfactory white," because it is the nasal equivalent of white noise, researchers report Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Just as white noise is a mixture of many different sound frequencies and white light is a mixture of many different wavelengths, olfactory white is a mixture of many different smelly compounds.

    1. Bee Tagger   13 years ago

      They walked into the local YMCA locker room, this is science?

    2. Rich   13 years ago

      Participants rated it right in the middle of the scale for both pleasantness and edibility.

      Story of my life. 😉

    3. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

      Don't sell yourself short! That was definitely at least a moderately interesting story!

      Plus: it's got a good title photo.

    4. Ted S.   13 years ago

      Ooh, that smell

    5. gaijin   13 years ago

      The smell is dubbed "olfactory white,"

      Racists!

  9. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

    What would happen if a meteor or asteroid the size of _, made of _, hit Earth at a speed of _? There's an app for that
    http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/

    fun with physics!

    1. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

      Eh. Update me when they can generate the hypothetical president's inspirational speech.

      1. Brett L   13 years ago

        I'd think you could tweak one of those fake journal article writers with no problem.

        1. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

          Which is why its absence is all the more mystifying.

          Sure, "calculate asteroid impacts" is interesting, but "create your own presidential speech to go along with it" is viral gold.

    2. Brett L   13 years ago

      See here for this taken to an illogical extreme.

  10. Rich   13 years ago

    'Anti-Thanksgiving' sparks controversy

    Let's go around the commentariat. What are *you* not grateful for?

    1. Episiarch   13 years ago

      Your mom?

      1. Rich   13 years ago

        I just *knew* you would say that, Epi! 😎

      2. SugarFree   13 years ago

        I'm also going to go with "Rich's mom."

        1. Rich   13 years ago

          This'll be Mom's Best. Prom. Ever.

          1. SugarFree   13 years ago

            Tell her I'll be by around 7 and to wear something slutty.

            1. Episiarch   13 years ago

              Wear something?!?

              1. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

                All Nude Prom!

                The one and only time I went to prom - at the tender age of 16, I ended making out with three girls (at different times), getting drunk on a cold Michigan beach, and got my first BJ. Weird night.

                1. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

                  "Weird night."

                  WTF?! I don't think I would be using the term, "weird". Awesome, Best Ever, Glorious and such, perhaps.

                  1. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

                    I didn't go into the details - so I'll stick with weird/unexpected.

                    1. JW   13 years ago

                      The BJ was from Mrs. Newsome. 11th grade English.

                    2. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

                      and she was totally into it

                2. SugarFree   13 years ago

                  Weird night.

                  You misspelled "awesome."

        2. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

          You guys aren't thankful for Rich's mom? Clearly you haven't gotten to the kinky shit yet.

    2. $park?   13 years ago

      Well my kids can be ungrateful little bastards at times.

    3. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

      The list would be a lot shorter the other way around.

    4. T   13 years ago

      Being a thinking mote in an uncaring universe.

    5. protefeed   13 years ago

      Let's go around the commentariat. What are *you* not grateful for?

      Statists who vote. The ones who are too lazy or stoned to get their ass off the couch on election day -- I'm OK with them.

  11. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

    One source in the case was paid $250,000 and was previous convicted of drug trafficking.

    So now reason is discounting the word of capitalists and drug dealers? Because that's what's being inferred here!

    1. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

      That brave American is obviously a libertarian hero!

      1. Whahappan?   13 years ago

        Just ask Shriek, Fast and Furious was all about free trade in guns!

  12. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

    A new study from the Congressional Budget Office starts with the scariest graph you'll see today.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/...../?hpid=z13

    Potential GDP is the measure of what the economy is capable of producing if almost all of the people who want jobs are able to get one and almost all its machines and buildings were humming at their potential. While it has grown consistently through modern U.S. history (we can thank a growing population and steadily improving technology for that), it doesn't always grow at the same rate. In periods when baby boomers were reaching their working years and women were entering the workforce in large numbers, the rate at which potential GDP rose was very high, over 4 percent at times, by the CBO's reckoning.

    In recent years, though, those trends have reversed. Baby boomers are starting to retire and the proportion of women who work has leveled off. The CBO's estimate of potential GDP was rising at gradually steady rates for most of the 2000s even before the great recession hit, and has continued that downward trend since then.

    1. Certified Public Asskicker   13 years ago

      Now that the election is over...

      ...looks like the Obama recovery has been awful.

      -WaPo

      1. 0x90   13 years ago

        ...unexpectedly, it looks like the Obama recovery has been awful.

      2. Brutus   13 years ago

        You mean the way to make the economy grow isn't to hang millstones around its neck and toss it into the Potomac?

    2. Rich   13 years ago

      the scariest graph you'll see

      It could be worse.

      /WH spokesperson

      1. Numeromancer   13 years ago

        It could would be worse.

        /WH spokesperson

        FTFY

    3. CampingInYourPark   13 years ago

      "lotion2012
      11/19/2012 12:31 PM EST
      This couldn't have anything to do with the GOP's and FOX News' efforts to everything humanly possible to further tank the economy and slow any recovery, could it?"

      See...the GOP and Fox News controls the economy but not elections...yet.

      1. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

        lotion2012 - it makes the government raping so much easier.

      2. Somalian Road Corporation   13 years ago

        The increasing popularity of kulak wrecker-hoarder accusations is an extremely disturbing cultural trend.

      3. Greg   13 years ago

        You should have given us a little taste of the lotion, the whole post is long but even reason #1 is enough

        "1. Cut as much spending as possible, laying off as many workers as possible so they aren't adding to the economy. "

        I mean you can even put aside the stupidity of his general argument and just limit the response to "did these things you talk about even happen?"

    4. Greg   13 years ago

      What a collection of punchable faces that is on the right

    5. JW   13 years ago

      Obama inherited this recovery.

      BOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!

      1. Randian   13 years ago

        "Gotta be one left around here somewheres...try the liberal call, boy!"

        BOOOOSH. BOOOOOSH.

        1. JW   13 years ago

          I had that on my fridge for *so* many years.

          Time to re-apply.

    6. mr simple   13 years ago

      The new CBO report claims that two-thirds of the underperformance (sic) of the economy over the past three years compared to a typical recovery is due to a slower rate of growth in potential GDP.

      Yes, the slow recovery has nothing to do with the policies of the administration or congress. It's all the fault of a fantastical extension of a made up statistic.

  13. Mike M.   13 years ago

    Sloopy goes 14 for 14 on the picks! I'm impressed; that's never easy to do in the Not For Long league.

    1. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

      wow - I only pulled that stunt once. Of course I had someone help me with my picks - a college receiver who played on the practice team for the Detroit Lions but got cut after a long-term injury.

    2. Brett L   13 years ago

      Bastard. I needed one more good week to get back on top. Thanks a lot, Panthers, for melting down in the last 30 seconds of that game.

      1. Ted S.   13 years ago

        I'm actually leading by two games in my pick-em league, which is a shock, since I normally suck at these things.

        Everybody in the league got the NYJ/STL game wrong, but half of us got the other 13 right this week.

        1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

          The Jets game is where sloopy really shined this week.

          1. Translucent Chum   13 years ago

            F-ing Browns...

  14. Bee Tagger   13 years ago

    Americans are taking the more dangerous route of driving long distances in order to keep from dealing with them.

    Hopefully my driving companions' bladders are permitted to hold more than 4 ounces of liquid at a time.

  15. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

    How to Live Without Irony
    http://opinionator.blogs.nytim.....out-irony/

    If irony is the ethos of our age ? and it is ? then the hipster is our archetype of ironic living.

    The hipster haunts every city street and university town. Manifesting a nostalgia for times he never lived himself, this contemporary urban harlequin appropriates outmoded fashions (the mustache, the tiny shorts), mechanisms (fixed-gear bicycles, portable record players) and hobbies (home brewing, playing trombone). He harvests awkwardness and self-consciousness. Before he makes any choice, he has proceeded through several stages of self-scrutiny. The hipster is a scholar of social forms, a student of cool. He studies relentlessly, foraging for what has yet to be found by the mainstream. He is a walking citation; his clothes refer to much more than themselves. He tries to negotiate the age-old problem of individuality, not with concepts, but with material things.

    1. $park?   13 years ago

      I'll bet they have a picture of Epi in his tiny shorts playing trombone to the sounds of some old record playing on his portable record player.

      1. Episiarch   13 years ago

        How did you know I used to play the trombone?!? I just wanted to be like Riker. Sad, I know.

        1. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

          I... I... am struck speechless.

          The horror, the horror.

        2. Restoras   13 years ago

          Did you want to be from Alaska too?

        3. $park?   13 years ago

          Given the the amount of personal information you've provided to H&R, it's not really a stretch.

        4. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

          Guido Horn?

          1. Ska   13 years ago

            That hangs from his rear view mirror. And in the days of ancient Rome it was a bull's cock.

    2. Restoras   13 years ago

      Any chance there is a lab in the Pentagon working on a hipster-specific pathogen to rid us of the scourge?

    3. Brett L   13 years ago

      WTF. If they want to see an irony-free lifestyle, just read the editorial page of NYT.

    4. T   13 years ago

      Home brewing is an outmoded hobby? And hipsters do it?

      Funny, all the guys I see at the hombrew store near me are fat middle-aged dorks. In other words, my people.

      1. Restoras   13 years ago

        And I bet they listen to ironical bands like Rush too.

      2. Ted S.   13 years ago

        You're a hipster, obviously.

      3. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

        I think a lot of it depends why you are home brewing.

        Like wearing glasses can be hipster, depending why.

  16. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

    How Free Speech Died on Campus

    Nothing that most of us haven't read before, but a good introductory article to share with friends and family, if you're "that guy/gal".

    1. Suthenboy   13 years ago

      Got pissed and didnt make it all the way through that. A shame I am not in university anymore....I would make a career out of being their worst nightmare.

  17. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

    The primate behaviour expert Frans de Waal compared the monkeys' behaviour to humans who participated in the Occupy Wall St movement.

    1. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

      Hairy and smelly -- Check!
      Both chuck poop -- Check!

  18. The Late P Brooks   13 years ago

    Thanks to how awful the Transportation Security Administration has made the process of flying, Americans are taking the more dangerous route of driving long distances in order to keep from dealing with them.

    Shocked, I am.

    You know, leaving everything else aside, the fact that His Zeroificness has not had Janet Napolitano dragged from her office in manacles would justify impeachment in my book.

    1. Ted S.   13 years ago

      His Zeroificness has not had Janet Napolitano dragged from her office in manacles

      That's sexist! :-p

      1. Agammamon   13 years ago

        Womynacles is just to difficult to say.

    2. Pound. Head. On. Desk.   13 years ago

      Thanks to how awful the Transportation Security Administration has made the process of flying, Americans are taking the more dangerous route of driving long distances in order to keep from dealing with them.
      Shocked, I am.

      Yep, me too. The last time I flew we went to Disney World in 2003. Some guy got gladbagged for complaining about the flight delays in Charlotte. Since then I either drive or take a train.

  19. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

    It's a plan so crazy it just might work: goatse.cx to be relaunched as a webmail service

    1. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

      link

      http://arstechnica.com/busines.....l-service/

    2. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

      linky-winky

    3. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

      It's a plan so crazy it just might work: goatse.cx to be relaunched as a webmail service

      1. Brett L   13 years ago

        You can't trick me! I ain't clickin' that with your mouse.

        1. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

          For once, your paranoia* leads you astray. That link is SFW

          * or the heady smell of yak vomit has befuddled you

          1. Brett L   13 years ago

            The new ointment is working, I only smell like dog vomit now.

            1. T   13 years ago

              I've cleaned up enough dog vomit to know that's not a good thing.

              But I have yet to smell yak vomit, so it may be a decided improvement.

            2. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

              Yes, but the Patchouli Poisoning Syndrome is doing its evil work, Brett. You may be laden with the waft of canine
              emesis, but that PPS doesn't wash off.

              You're doomed, and that what you get for cavorting with dirty hippies. -)

              1. Brett L   13 years ago

                I'm doing my best to pass it on to as many hipster chicks as I can before I succumb. For the irony.

  20. Bee Tagger   13 years ago

    Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have introduced a bill that would alter the Control Substances Act in order to force the federal government to respect state-level legalization of Marijuana.

    Pieces of paper aren't forcing the federal government to do much it doesn't want to do, lately.

    1. Rich   13 years ago

      Ah, but these are pieces of *rolling* paper.

  21. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

    No word on whether he made chicken sounds or called Netanyahu a pussy.

    He made a whipping noise because the United States won't let Israel invade.

    1. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

      And he made it in a ski mask, hiding from sight so a 500lbs bomb didn't land on him, heh heh.

  22. Jordan   13 years ago

    Despite growing support for medical marijuana and its legality in 17 states, health insurance providers rarely cover its purchase.

    I'm sure progressives will get around to correcting that. And then wonder why it has become so expensive.

    1. Certified Public Asskicker   13 years ago

      Regulate it, tax it, and then insure it. A winning combination.

      1. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

        "Insure it" - Since you basically can't make money covering pharma in the US, who would insure it? If the American tort plaintiff bar can run things like Vioxx off the shelves, what do you think will happen the first time someone's special little snowflake gets into trouble because of the demon weed?

        1. Certified Public Asskicker   13 years ago

          It's a loop. Insure it. Fuck, how do we do that? MORE REGULATION!

      2. VG Zaytsev   13 years ago

        Remember Reagan's maixim of government action:

        If it moves, tax it.

        If it keeps moving, regulate it.

        When it stops moving, subsidize it.

  23. The Late P Brooks   13 years ago

    What are *you* not grateful for?

    So many, many things...

    *highpitched hum, followed by explosion of head*

  24. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

    YA Fiction and the End of Boys

    WHEN I WAS PREGNANT the first time, I hoped I would have a girl. I know, obviously, that it's hard to be a girl (the grim realities of Not Having it All, slut shaming, Todd Akin, etc.) but it seemed that parenting a girl, as a task, offered an appealing kind of clarity. You teach a daughter to be a strong, brave woman. But what, I wondered, do you teach a son? "Don't get too full of yourself," was about the best I could come up with.

    Seriously? Seriously?

    1. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

      what, I wondered, do you teach a son?

      Wipe up when you piss on the toilet seat?

      1. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

        You're way behind the times. Now you teach them to sitzenpinkeln.

        1. Pound. Head. On. Desk.   13 years ago

          It shouldn't surprise me boys aren't taught to aim any kind of gun, not even their plinker. Far too many boys aren't taught anything about how to be a man these days.

      2. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

        My god, if a guy ever has to take a crap at a football game...

        1. JW   13 years ago

          Hold it and pray for no overtime.

          1. Pound. Head. On. Desk.   13 years ago

            Stand on the seat squatting like a lot of foreign countries do.

            1. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

              "Afghan footstand"

    2. 0x90   13 years ago

      Makes a compelling argument for compulsory sterilization, I'll say that much.

    3. Restoras   13 years ago

      Just awful.

      1. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

        I don't read YA, so I am not all that knowledgeable in the subject, but I fail to understand why boys and girls need vastly different literature to teach them how to grow up...or why they need "YA" literature for this in the first place, which is why I don't read it.

        1. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

          Exactly! Like when Disney's "Pooh & Tigger" (that name being a travesty in itself) featured a female replacement for Christopher Robin. What little girl said, "Oh no, Christopher Robin is just too virile and masculine for me to connect with."

          1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

            Maybe it was too many little boys emulating him.

        2. SIV   13 years ago

          Dr. Adder is a pretty good YA novel.

          A life-affirming tale of a young man's journey from chicken farm to the big city.

          1. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

            ha!

        3. Hell's Librarian   13 years ago

          Most (prolly 90% +) YA is all about the grrrrlz, regardless of genre.

          or why they need "YA" literature for this in the first place

          But yeah, this point is (among others) what makes this article amazingly stupid.

    4. Brett L   13 years ago

      "Don't be a dick like your mother" seems like a good place to start.

      1. Certified Public Asskicker   13 years ago

        Son, once a month your mom is going to become a super bitch. Stay away from her then. You have been warned.

    5. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

      Also, I thought this was really bizarre because I would always have rather had a son if I had a kid. I mean, which would you rather deal with 12 years later, some middle school mean girl bitch or some kid you can just tell to go play outside?

      1. John   13 years ago

        My parents raised three of each will tell you you are nuts to want a girl. That said, whatever happened being happy your kid isn't sick or handicapped and accepting them for who they are? What kind of a hate filled monster would look at their own kid and think "I am so disappointed you are a boy"? I wonder how this woman would feel if some biracial couple was hoping their child were white? She is doing the same thing here.

        1. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

          Get Jude Law a wheelchair, it's a prelude to Gattaca!

      2. Hell's Librarian   13 years ago

        I love my kid, but (pre)teenage girls are the devil. I think they grow out of it in their early twenties or so (right around the time life starts kicking them in the nads a bit). So I guess I have a ways to go for that.

        1. $park?   13 years ago

          Teenage girls are only the devil to their mothers.

          1. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

            Marsha Klein: She's not a teenager, she's the devil in an A-cup!

          2. JW   13 years ago

            I love my kid, but (pre)teenage girls are the devil.

            Yep. The wife-unit clearly appreciates the son more, though no the husband for the same reason. I love my she-spawn, but she can be a shrieking nightmare.

            "Boys are so...simple, easy." "Yes? AND?"

            She doesn't seem to grok the idea that we don't really change all that much, except for the size and price tag of our toys.

            1. Hell's Librarian   13 years ago

              I love my she-spawn, but she can be a shrieking nightmare.

              They start off so sweet, and then WHAM!!! Puberty.

              1. JW   13 years ago

                Here's the thing: she's been a shrieking nightmare for most of her life. She's actually *mellowed* with teenagedness, but not completely nor evenly. A whole new crop of anxieties to replace the old.

                The boy just wants to know when he can get back on his Xbox and when we can buy more skinny jeans for him.

                1. $park?   13 years ago

                  She's actually *mellowed* with teenagedness, but not completely nor evenly. A whole new crop of anxieties to replace the old.

                  This sounds exactly like my 17-year-old.

                2. tarran   13 years ago

                  I'm hoping my daughter will mellow with teenageitude. Because one moment she's a tomboy with bugs in her pocket that "need a home", then she's a princess, then she's pummeling her older brother.

                  I think I have PTSD from taking her clothes shopping for the round of holiday parties coming up. /sobs

        2. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

          OMG a librarian who doesn't talk up YA? No wonder you're in hell!

          1. Hell's Librarian   13 years ago

            Haha. I like (some) YA, depending on the genre, but I do recognize that it's female-centric. A lot (most? hard to say because of pen names) of it is written by women.

    6. Rich   13 years ago

      what, I wondered, do you teach a son?

      Sometimes it's OK to slap a woman?

    7. Drake   13 years ago

      You teach your son not to trust women and to avoid relationships with liberal women at all costs.

    8. SugarFree   13 years ago

      That is some hateful shit, right there. But it can't be misandry. Misandry doesn't exist.

      I hope going forward that her womb be as barren as her mind.

      1. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

        The scary bonus part is that I only saw that article because I read another one complaining about how this one was too boy-friendly and didn't take into account enough the struggles of women.

        1. Episiarch   13 years ago

          NEEDZ MOAR HATESES

          1. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

            Fortunately, those are always available.

        2. SugarFree   13 years ago

          The only consolation I have is that boys aren't reading any of these damn books.

          1. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

            I think that's why we're supposed to be worried about it, or something.

            The underlying thing I'v never understood: the traditional literature was somehow not sufficient for girls. They needed a special girl-literature. But then they expect boys to also be satisfied with the girl-literature. If the previous literature was male-dominated rather than gender-neutral, why wouldn't boys be uninterested in the new, explicitly non-neutral girl literature?

            I.e., if a girl says "I don't like The Outsiders because I can never relate to Ponyboy, because he's a boy," why would it be unsurprising for a boy to say "I don't like The Hunger Games because I can never relate to Katniss, because she's a girl"?

            (Relatability being, of course, complete bullshit to begin with, but it does seem to be the premise.)

            1. SugarFree   13 years ago

              You see the same sort of stuff run through the library world as well. "Boys aren't reading? What can we do?"

              It a) hilariously over-estimates the impact of reading on young people and b) has a fairly simple solution (promote the writing of books that appeal to boys and stop worrying that both sexes can't equally enjoy a single work) but everyone would rather run around screaming and rending their clothes.

              1. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

                Totally. But then without all that screaming and rending people wouldn't have nearly as much to write about on the internets.

                You know, actual concern trolls.

                1. SugarFree   13 years ago

                  Also, the comments make the common error that YA literature is merely responding to the "evolution" of manhood toward the feminist idea, instead of driving it.

                  YA writing has always been pedagogical and filled with progressive ideas--it has always been the horse and not the cart. Part of it is personal politics on the part of the writers, but mostly they are attempting to appeal to teachers, largely left-leaning women--which is just good market economics.

                  1. Nikki Diamond, Book Whore   13 years ago

                    Yes, 100% this.

                    1. JW   13 years ago

                      Who are you and what have you done with my Janey? I liked her the best.

                    2. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

                      I did too, JW, I did too.

    9. Kaptious Kristen   13 years ago

      How to throw a sinker?

    10. Brutus   13 years ago

      Just castrate the little guy at birth so he never knows what he's missing.

    11. Christina   13 years ago

      Though the piece's author is a stupid female chauvinist, she does make some good points about males portrayed in children's/YA lit.

      I was on Amazon a few nights ago into the wee hours because I was looking for a book or series of books to give to my BFF's 6 year-old son. I am completely stumped as to what to get him. I seem to recall that being the age when chapter books first came on the scene for me, but everything I could think of that I enjoyed is not really boyish. I thought maybe The Boxcar Children books, but the only kid these days I know who reads those is a girl. So please tell me, gentle commenters, what do boys in early elementary grades read these days?

      1. Randian   13 years ago

        I read Fear Street.

        I don't think that helps you any.

      2. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

        The Redwall Series by Brian Jacques (RIP) is a classic. I may have been 7 when I started reading it, but it is an excellent series.

        1. Charlotte Sometimes   13 years ago

          At 6, my boys loved:
          My Side of the Mountain
          Ginger Pye
          A Cricket in Times Square
          Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
          The Dragon in the Sock Drawer series
          Gordon Korman's Swindle series
          Terry Pratchett's Bromeliad trilogy
          The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
          The Bunnicula series
          All of Roald Dahl's children's books (especially Danny, the Champion of the World).

          1. SugarFree   13 years ago

            I also recommend My Side of the Mountain. And in a few years, Bridge to Terabithia in order to create horrible emotional scars.

            1. Charlotte Sometimes   13 years ago

              Imagine my surprise when, at age 11, I picked up Dahl's Omnibus.

              1. Charlotte Sometimes   13 years ago

                Wait a minute--I just checked the date published and I was 13. I could have sworn I was younger than junior high when I read it. . .

              2. SugarFree   13 years ago

                No one told me that there was any difference between Heinlein's children's books and his adult work. This is how I ended up reading Time Enough For Love when I was 10.

                1. tarran   13 years ago

                  THAT IS AWESOME!

                2. Hell's Librarian   13 years ago

                  LOL.

                  I read The Happy Hooker when I was 10, mostly because I was curious why my parents had it "hidden" in the bottom drawer of their clothes chest.

                3. Charlotte Sometimes   13 years ago

                  My love of Watership Down led me to read The Girl in a Swing in 5th grade. I was disappointed on so many levels.

        2. Charlotte Sometimes   13 years ago

          Oops. I meant for that to be in response to Christina. My boys also loved the Redwall series, though 🙂

      3. $park?   13 years ago

        Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

      4. Suthenboy   13 years ago

        By the sixth grade I had read all of Robert Howards Conan and Solomon Kane stories....Sneak 'em in class and hide them insde a textbook and read while the teacher droned on 'waa waaa waaaaa' like charlie brown's teacher.

        Six though? Maybe wait until the kid is 8?

      5. Kaptious Kristen   13 years ago

        I'm a chick, but I think the Dragon trilogy by Ruth Stiles Gannett could be enjoyed by boys - lots of action and danger, and the protagonist is a boy.

      6. Hell's Librarian   13 years ago

        What sort of kid is he? Kids read at different levels, and some are readers, and some are "doers". I kind of like giving "doers" things like The Dangerous Book For Boys. For straight readers, who tend to read above their age level, maybe things like Heinlein's juveniles, or Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books?

        1. SugarFree   13 years ago

          I've often argued that librarianship is an infection and spending time in libraries and around librarians are the main vectors of infection.

          My initial exposure was in 3rd grade when an awesome school librarian gave me Heinlein's Red Planet to read while I was bored and hanging around the library while the other kids were still being taught to read.

          1. tarran   13 years ago

            Sugarfree, you need to pick up a copy of the Alcatraz books:

            1st book: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians.

            YOU WILL ENJOY IT! /morgo voice

        2. Emmerson Biggins   13 years ago

          Jack London.

      7. protefeed   13 years ago

        what do boys in early elementary grades read these days?

        FAQs online on how to be more awesome at Halo 4.

        Seriously.

    12. Enough About Palin   13 years ago

      "what, I wondered, do you teach a son?"

      That it's just fine to cum in her mouth even though you promised her otherwise?

      1. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

        On her face, EAP. On her face.

        Or maybe that was just me.

        1. Heroic Mulatto   13 years ago

          See, it's assholes like that who ruin the White Tigress Tradition for the rest of us.

          1. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

            Oh come now HM, nothing has been ruined.

          2. protefeed   13 years ago

            You SFd the link. It seemed like an awesome link, BTW.

            Googled it:

            http://www.google.com/search?h.....80&bih=619

    13. protefeed   13 years ago

      But what, I wondered, do you teach a son?

      "If you gotta fuck sluts -- and I really, really recommend against that -- tell 'em that you'll call them the next day. Then don't. Because they're sluts, and if you make the mistake of putting your dick in crazy, get far away afterwards."

    14. Red Rocks Rockin   13 years ago

      But what, I wondered, do you teach a son? "Don't get too full of yourself," was about the best I could come up with.

      Well, gee, you dumb bitch, maybe if you didn't view men as nothing more than sperm donors and ATM machines, you'd be able to figure out how to raise a boy into a man.

  25. SugarFree   13 years ago

    For everyone who managed to survive their initial contact with this nightmare gallery since this time last year, you might not yet be aware that we have certain traditions. This is one of them:

    Welcome to the 4th Annual Trample Friday Flashback thread!

    There's Safety In A Union

    1. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

      Shouldn't we flashback on Friday?

      1. SugarFree   13 years ago

        Don't question me, woman.

      2. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

        that's the problem with flashbacks, they come unbidden and seize your mind

      3. Trespassers W   13 years ago

        I concur. I was eagerly anticipating (well, anticipating) Friday so that we could rehash this. You jumped the gun, man.

        1. SugarFree   13 years ago

          I'm going to be bloated on turkey and playing the new Borderlands DLC/reading the new Banks novel Friday, so I wanted to get it out there.

          1. Charlotte Sometimes   13 years ago

            So glad the new DLC is coming out today. Just picked up a Lucid Hellfire and Loaded Maggie last night. Woohoooo!

            1. SugarFree   13 years ago

              I've gotten crap Legendary drops so far, except for the Infinity Pistol I got with Zer0 at level 9. I'm just going to keep passing it down to my other new characters.

              Gaige is fun to playthrough with, even if the Anarchy system takes a bit of getting used to.

              1. Charlotte Sometimes   13 years ago

                We have had horrible luck with getting legendary drops from bosses and we have not found a single legendary in a regular/non-DLC chest. We are getting most of ours by farming the glitch in the Leviathan chamber.

              2. protefeed   13 years ago

                I haven't the slightest FN idea what any of that means, SF.

    2. Episiarch   13 years ago

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

      joe doing his internet tuff gai routine, classic. Where's his pussy handle The Derider to threaten us?

    3. Randian   13 years ago

      joe| 12.2.08 @ 1:35PM

      When I'm kicking a dozen people's asses at the same time, Dello, it might take me a while to get back around to yours. Patience.

      Classic.

      1. SugarFree   13 years ago

        I can't imagine why so many people hated him. Seriously, no clue.

      2. Ted S.   13 years ago

        So wait a second. Joe and Dunphy are the same person?

        1. Episiarch   13 years ago

          Incorrect, joe knows how to use capitalization and punctuation.

          1. SugarFree   13 years ago

            And the police have minimum height requirements. Not one takes a cop seriously that has to sit on a stack of phone books and have someone else work the pedals so they can drive the cruiser.

            1. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

              They should. Getting shot in the kneecaps by an angry entitled dwarf hurts

        2. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

          So it is Officer Joe Dunphy, POWERCOP and unmitigated force for good?

    4. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

      Aww, no me in there under my old handle.

      But there is some J sub D. Here's some office scotch to him!

      1. Randian   13 years ago

        Hear hear!

    5. robc   13 years ago

      lol,

      I made both a Who concert and a Hillsborough reference in one post.

  26. The Late P Brooks   13 years ago

    what, I wondered, do you teach a son?

    "Seriously, kid- check to see how deep the water is before you ride your bike off the roof of the boathouse."

    1. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

      "before you ride your bike off the roof of the boathouse"

      That sounds kind of fun.

  27. $park?   13 years ago

    I have a question (or two, depending how you look at it) for the paleos out there. What is your main source of fiber and how much do you eat/drink in a day?

    1. T   13 years ago

      Most of my fiber is the lettuce and other veg that goes in the salad I eat for lunch.

    2. Trespassers W   13 years ago

      My main source of fiber is vegetarians.

    3. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

      I'm not paleo but a low carber -

      nuts
      leafy greens/salad
      minimal helping of some fruit
      green beans
      broccoli

  28. sarcasmic   13 years ago

    Megan Fox is still hot!
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....birth.html

    1. Episiarch   13 years ago

      Why wouldn't she be?

      1. Brett L   13 years ago

        She did just squeeze out a pup.

    2. Randian   13 years ago

      Megan Fox is still hot!

      False.

      1. Episiarch   13 years ago

        Is there something wrong with your brain?

        1. Randian   13 years ago

          Yes. I mean no.

          I find Meghan Fox to be an attention-whoring skank, and if I was feeling generous, a 7 at best.

          1. Episiarch   13 years ago

            You say that like that's a bad thing. Is there something wrong with your brain?

            1. Randian   13 years ago

              I did reconsider backing down, but given that this is Joe Remembrance Day, fuck you I'm the A#1 Thread Winnah:

              joe| 12.2.08 @ 2:57PM

              J sub D,

              Wow, I'm really under your skin, aren't I?

              "You dishonest fuck?" My my.

              Go drink with your war criminal buddies, old fart. It's all you're good for.

              1. Hell's Librarian   13 years ago

                It is for posts like this that I sometimes wish H&R had a "like" feature.

              2. Brett L   13 years ago

                Now I'm gonna have to crack the office bottle and drink one for J sub D.

                1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

                  Brett,

                  You just beat me to that idea. Let's toast!

                  1. Brett L   13 years ago

                    May his monocle be clear, his servants attentive, and his spats ever undirtied in a heaven free of cops and statists.

                    1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

                      Would it be better to have the cops be the servants?

                    2. Brett L   13 years ago

                      How would they get to heaven?

                    3. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

                      being a libertarian's servant is their hell

          2. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

            Have you been eating yoghurt?

          3. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

            what's better than a 10? A 7 who swallows /old joke

            1. sarcasmic   13 years ago

              Q: What's the difference between a job and a wife?

              A: After a few years the job still sucks.

      2. sarcasmic   13 years ago

        You're just jealous that she didn't turn into a blimp after squeezing out a brat.

        1. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

          This is why there are no libertarian women. Cunt.

          1. sarcasmic   13 years ago

            Can't
            Understand
            Normal
            Thinking

  29. sarcasmic   13 years ago

    Home invader holds infant at gunpoint. Who does he think he is? The police?
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....ousin.html

  30. sarcasmic   13 years ago

    Taylor Swift appears to be shedding her "good girl" image. Really? How many breakup songs does she have? Might as well change her name to 'Butter' because she spreads so easy!
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....-AMAs.html

    1. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

      Edmund: This is the Jane Herrington?

      Percy: Yes.

      Edmund: Jane - bury-me-in-a-Y-shaped-coffin - Herrington.

      1. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

        "bury-me-in-a-Y-shaped-coffin"

        Excellent - that is one of the most useful descriptors I have ever seen. Love it. Rowan Atkinson is wasted talent doing Mr. Bean, and not more Blackadder.

        1. Enough About Palin   13 years ago

          There was married couple named Ed and Martha who did EVERYTHING together. No one ever saw them apart. Everyone said "Ed and Martha? Those two were just made for each other!"

          And then the man died. The woman dealt with her loss by fucking men. Lots and lots of men. This went on for years and years until finally, one day, she died too.

          After her funeral, mourners followed the hearse to the cemetery, where Martha was buried beside her long-dead husband Ed. As the reverend prayed over their graves, two of the mourners began whispering, "Well, they're finally together."

          "Ed and Martha?"

          "No, her legs."

      2. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

        You'll get over her. I did

        1. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

          So did Baldrick actually.

          1. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

            at least she bangs like a privy door when the plague's in town

  31. Brett L   13 years ago

    Moonshinin' in City Hall. Hopefully, things like this will help lead an anti-prohibitionist movement in home spirit making. I mean, this is obviously a licensed microdistillery, but if it doesn't blind people, maybe they'll relax the laws.

    The clanking of the still and the smell of corn and alcohol fill the room several yards and a few interior walls away from the offices of the city clerk, the mayor and other officials running the town about 60 miles north of Atlanta. The city leases the space to the distillery.

    1. sarcasmic   13 years ago

      if it doesn't blind people, maybe they'll relax the laws.

      Haaaaaaaa ha ha ha ha! They only reason why it doesn't blind people is the laws! If it doesn't blind people well then there needs to be more laws just to be on the safe side!

      Relax the laws... that's hilarious!

  32. sarcasmic   13 years ago

    Robbers bring knife to a gunfight. One dies, the other is captured.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....knife.html

    1. Drake   13 years ago

      Do they report this in an UK paper to mock the Brits for their lack of gun rights? Or, because U.S. national media won't touch these stories.

      1. Restoras   13 years ago

        Well US newspapers certainly don't want US citizens to know that they have a Constitutional guarantee to keep and bear arms and actually use them to defend your life, loved ones, and property.

        Decided I am going to buy a Marlin 1894 or a Springfield M1A. Thoughts from gun owners out there?

        1. Suthenboy   13 years ago

          Go with the Springfield, it is more firepower by far. The marlin doesnt feed was well as the winchester 94 and holds less pressure....also the extractors on the marlins tend to fail over time. If you just have to have a lever go with win 94....but for all around purposes go with the springfield.

        2. R C Dean   13 years ago

          I've got an M1A. Wonderful gun, a little on the heavy side and not the easiest to maintain (that gas-operated semi-auto mechanism will get gunky). Mine's damn accurate, and fun to shoot. I tricked it out with a fawncy stock (one of those aluminum ones with all the rails) and a nice Trijicon sight.

          If I ever have a thousand bucks with absolutely no other purpose in life, I'd like to put a silencer on it, just for fun.

        3. Drake   13 years ago

          Don't buy that stupid Springfield Scout.

          The shorter barrel makes it less accurate, and the noise and recoil is horrendous. A 21" barrel is about right for a .308. A friend has one, it is a miserable thing to shoot.

          You can probably find a PTR91 for less (again, don't buy the short barrel) and a DS Arms for more.

        4. T   13 years ago

          I'd go with an LR308, but that's just me.

  33. sarcasmic   13 years ago

    Vegetarian firefighter claims harassment!
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....arian.html

    1. Kwanzaa Cake   13 years ago

      I think this confirms that becoming a vegetarian turns you into a pussy.

      1. sarcasmic   13 years ago

        You are what you eat.

    2. Brett L   13 years ago

      I 100% believe that this dude got merciless shit in the firehouse for being a vegetarian. The firefighters I knew in Houston were some of the most redneck, ball-busting assholes in the world. Funny as shit, but they were always fucking with someone.

      1. Suthenboy   13 years ago

        So you fuck with 'em back. Geez.
        I would guess there is more reason that food that they wanted him out.

        1. Brett L   13 years ago

          Oh, I agree. I'm just saying that they most definitely harassed him, because they harass everyone.

        2. Somalian Road Corporation   13 years ago

          He was probably one of the many, many holier-than-thou vegetarians/vegans who are utterly humorless about food, so he simply couldn't take it in stride.

      2. NoVAHockey   13 years ago

        My first week as a EMT I was told to go into the supply closest and get "a few feet of Fallopian tube."

        apparently some of the firefighters don't know what that is and would spend hours searching the fire station. i just told one of the female medics to that the lieutenant wanted to see her. and with that, i was "in" -- that and not fucking up/puking at my first trauma call.

        and if you don't eat with the crew, you're not part of the crew. you eat what they cook and STFU. and clean up your mess.

    3. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

      From my understanding, firehouses tend to cook and eat meals together. So I can fully understand if Tofu Salad Night at the Station incurred some harassment.

  34. Fatty Bolger   13 years ago

    Artist repaints dolls of stars so they really do look like the people they're supposed to be

    Plastic mini-me dolls manufactured to resemble iconic characters from film and TV invariably look nothing like the iconic characters from film and TV.

    At least, not until Noel Cruz has taken his paintbrush to them, that is.

    The portrait artist - known in the doll community as a 'repaint artist' - is known for his ability to turn even the most basic Mattel or Hasbro figurine into an incredibly realistic version of the celebrity on which it is modelled.

    1. Kaptious Kristen   13 years ago

      They blacked out a doll's tits. For fuck's sake.

      1. T   13 years ago

        For the children, Kristen. Because no child ever in the history of the world stripped Barbie naked and saw her plastic boob shaped protruberances.

      2. Fatty Bolger   13 years ago

        Yeah that cracked me up. I checked out his website and it was the same there, so at least it wasn't the paper doing it.

    2. $park?   13 years ago

      HA! They blacked out the breasts on the naked dolls.

      1. Kaptious Kristen   13 years ago

        PWNED!

    3. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

      The repainted Bella-doll's eyes are too lifelike.

      1. Ice Nine   13 years ago

        He was doing great until he got to Kate Winslett. Also, really, what kind of a guy puts freakin' rollers in dolls' hair anyway? OK, don't answer that question.

    4. Fatty Bolger   13 years ago

      Oh, and I heard somebody here has a Sucker Punch fetish. For $1000, this can be theirs.

      1. Randian   13 years ago

        $1000? It better be real-life and anatomically correct, ifyouknowwhatImsaying and Ithinkyoudo.

        And it should have a coffee maker built in, FFS.

      2. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

        is a sucker punch better than a donkey punch?

  35. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

    A woman in western Sweden who was arrested after police found skeletons in her apartment has now been charged for using the bones as sex toys, a hobby she claimed was motivated by an interest in history.

    http://www.thelocal.se/44536/20121120/

    1. Ken Shultz   13 years ago

      Well if she did it becasue of an interest in history, that's one thing; just so long as it wasn't to avoid paying sales tax.

  36. SugarFree   13 years ago

    World's Funniest Human doesn't understand Black Friday and would certainly never participate in such a crass ritual of capitalism. So why does it even exist?

    Long, long ago, in a time known as the '80s, Black Friday sales started on a day called "Friday," at an actual hour that an actual store might actually have been open?say, 8 or 9 or 10 am. Over the years, the kick-off hours have been slowly rolling back?to 3 am, 4 am, midnight. And this year, stores such as Target, Wal Mart, and Toys R Us plan to start their Black Friday sales at 7 or 8 pm on Thursday, smack in the middle of the Thanksgiving dinner hour. Because fuck your turkey, MEN'S POLAR FLEECE MOCK-TURTLE HALF-ZIPS ARE 60% OFF. Get ready for Black Friday Part Deux: Black Thursday: The Legend of Curly's Pulverized Ribcage. I am not following any of this. Can someone explain it to me, slowly and using small, nonthreatening words? Please?

    1. Episiarch   13 years ago

      Pure comic genius. Why doesn't this person have their own show?

      1. SugarFree   13 years ago

        TV can't afford her.

        1. Episiarch   13 years ago

          Thank Jeebus.

        2. Randian   13 years ago

          TV can't afford her.

          Wide lenses are expensive and all the good ones are on set at Mike & Molly.

      2. 0x90   13 years ago

        DON'T GET ME STARTED. There was a time, you know, back when we had a thing called talent, where a person(a MALE person, anyway, but let's not quibble) could move to LA and have their talent recognized. Full House? Mad About You? I could've done that, plus some. BUT NO LONGER. NO, SIR. How do I know? I. Don't. Have. A. Show. I mean, seriously?!? Have you read my stuff? Pure gold. And not some weak 14K shit, like my imaginary boyfriends give me, no, we're talking real 25K gold. Yeah, that's right, this gold goes to TWENTY-FUCKING-FIVE. And screw this Lena Gangnam bitch, talentless flavour of the month HACK. Yeah, I could sell out too, but I WON'T. Because I have too much respect, for me and for you. So put THAT in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Hollywood Bigwig who I didn't even try to peddle my talent to. You can't have me. Because I belong to my fans. It's a principle thing. And. You. Wouldn't. Get. That.

        1. SugarFree   13 years ago

          A+

        2. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

          *Applause*

    2. Kwanzaa Cake   13 years ago

      7pm is the middle of Thanksgiving dinner hour? I thought everyone ate mid-afternoonish.

      1. Trespassers W   13 years ago

        Yes, but she's still eating at 7 pm.

        1. Fatty Bolger   13 years ago

          The author enjoying her Thanksgiving feast

          1. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

            all i could think was "Do I make you horny, baby?"

    3. nicole just can't even!   13 years ago

      Oh good, I was going to complain you hadn't posted this along with the flashback.

      1. SugarFree   13 years ago

        Is the handle "Complainy Janey" free for you to use?

        1. Episiarch   13 years ago

          "concern troll nicole" has a nice rhyme to it.

          1. SugarFree   13 years ago

            As does Nicki Diamond, Book Whore.

            "Book Whore? Does that mean you whore out books or you sleep with books or what?"

            "Shut up, dumbass... I'm reading."

            1. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

              I do. not. do. Nicki.

              1. SugarFree   13 years ago

                That's why it's funny. Duh.

              2. T   13 years ago

                How about Nikki? Does that work for you?

                1. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

                  I was going to include a note that alternate spelling are also no good, sigh.

                2. Warty   13 years ago

                  It looks like the whorename "Nikki Diamond" is taken. Shockingly enough, she claims to not do nudes. Steal her name and outwhore her, nicole.

                3. Episiarch   13 years ago

                  We should unquestionably call nicole Nikki Diamond, Book Whore from now on.

                  1. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

                    I am obviously willing to be internet-bullied, but let me mansplain for just a second that, aside from "Nikki" being just a horrible, horrible thing (I was called "Nick" as a kid), the "book whore" thing is like...a thing. See bookslut, "insatiable booksluts," etc.

                    But I, I will be the best book whore of them all.

        2. Complainy Janey   13 years ago

          Yes, yes it is.

    4. sarcasmic   13 years ago

      Stubble on Michael Jackson? Really?

      1. sarcasmic   13 years ago

        That was supposed to be a reply to the painted dolls.

      2. Fatty Bolger   13 years ago

        It was entirely possible before the 17th surgery.

    5. Brett L   13 years ago

      Talk about rich yuppie othering. Some people have 2 kids and 8-10 nieces and nephews for whom they would like to get one or more than one present for. Its pretty easy to run up $400-$600 in that scenario without going nuts. If you don't happen to be rich, keeping it to $400 by standing in line for several hours is pretty fucking economically sound. Just because her family are cold, bitter people doesn't mean everyone else's are.

      I, for one, will have Amazon play Santa for me, but I don't turn my nose up at people who are willing to stand in line for several hours to buy something nice for their family members.

      1. T   13 years ago

        I know people who use a spreadsheet to keep track of whether they've bought for all the nieces and nephews. If they didn't keep it under 20 bucks a kid, they'd go broke.

    6. ant1sthenes   13 years ago

      Does she get that if people don't show up, they won't waste time doing it?

  37. The Late P Brooks   13 years ago

    Speaking of Trample Friday Thursday, if I were not so goddam lazy (and crowd-averse), just or fun I would go to Walmart Thursday evening and buy some bullets, just in case the commie fags from the union are protesting.

  38. Zeezrom   13 years ago

    "was previous convicted"

    "the Control Substances Act"

    Did you guys start the long weekend a little early?

    1. Kaptious Kristen   13 years ago

      There's a long weekend?

      1. SIV   13 years ago

        You don't get 2 paid days off for THE FEAST OF GENOCIDE?

        1. Kaptious Kristen   13 years ago

          Nosir...just the one. And Thursday is normally my telework day, so the only difference is I get to wake up slightly later.

        2. Kaptious Kristen   13 years ago

          Genocide of the Dee-Troit Lions? I can get behind that.

        3. Brett L   13 years ago

          You get paid to take days off?

          1. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

            My orphan servants pay me to take a day off.

          2. Enough About Palin   13 years ago

            I get paid ten bucks just to take a shit.

            1. Brett L   13 years ago

              I'm an independent contractor. I always bill crapper time. They'd throw me out of the guild if I didn't.

    2. Scott S.   13 years ago

      It was 5 a.m. out here when I wrote that. I even proofread it.

      1. Zeezrom   13 years ago

        Making the west-coast guy do the morning links? Those Koch brothers really are evil bastards!

      2. Quetzalcoatl   13 years ago

        Under Balko's watch, etc, drink.

  39. Palin's Buttplug   13 years ago

    Rand Paul considering 2016 run:

    http://livewire.talkingpointsm.....-not-going

    1. Randian   13 years ago

      So what excuse will you be employing to vote Democrat in 2016?

      1. Palin's Buttplug   13 years ago

        Hillary or Rand? I would vote Rand. But Hillary won't run so that choice won't matter.

        I would vote for the Montana Governor over Rand though - per my rule of voting for the most secular capitalist.

      2. KDN   13 years ago

        "Look, the stock market is up 3% in the past year thanks to Obama and Buffet loves Biden's plan to increase taxes. Rand's just peddling more GAWD talk and typical GOP tax cut bullshit. Biden's clearly the better option for libertarians and capitalism even though he fails the LP purity test."

        How'd I do?

        1. Randian   13 years ago

          Needs more aborto-freak Christfag.

        2. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

          A very good first effort - by 2016, we won't be able to tell, is it live or is it shreik-ex.

    2. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

      Barring Pro Lib making a run, he's got my vote.

      1. Kaptious Kristen   13 years ago

        Don' worry 'bout a thing...it's not Rand's "turn". He's gotta get in line behind Santorum, Jindal and FaFu.

  40. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

    Puck me:

    Sex Toy Sales Up In Canada Due To NHL Lockout, Retailers Say

    1. Ken Shultz   13 years ago

      Well it's cold outside.

    2. Restoras   13 years ago

      As long as there isn't a baby boom in Canada as a result. The last thing the world needs is more fucking Canadians.

      1. Kaptious Kristen   13 years ago

        fucking Canadians

        That train sailed as soon as the lockout started.

    3. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

      You better check yourself and get on the high stick, IFH.

      1. SugarFree   13 years ago

        What do Ukrainians do for Thanksgiving, Dear Doctor?

        1. Randian   13 years ago

          They run around ruining games of Risk.

          1. Zeezrom   13 years ago

            UKRAINE IS GAME TO YOU?

            1. Fatty Bolger   13 years ago

              Seinfeld

              Back when we played this game constantly over summer vacations, it did seem like Ukraine was often the key to victory.

              1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

                False. Victory comes from a stronghold in Siam. Ukraine is the key to being attacked from all sides.

                1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

                  Though I did see someone manage to hold Europe once... By stacking a massive army in Northern Europe and only one guy in the border countries, so no one (especially the guy trying to hold Africa) wanted to unleash the dragon while denying him his continent bonus.

                  1. Fatty Bolger   13 years ago

                    It's been way too long for me to remember specific tactics. I just remember that Ukraine was where the tide of the battle often turned, one way or another. Which was actually pretty realistic for the time period.

                    1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

                      Ukraine is connected to way too many other countries, making it impossible to hold.

                      Siam is the only connection point to Australia. The best strategy is to get Australia, and stack up troops in Siam to prevent anyone getting in. Then you just keep raking in that +2 army continent bonus.

        2. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

          They don't have American Thanksgiving, Saccharin Man. I haz a sad, so I will have to improvise. However, I will be in Odessa for Turkey Day. I wanted to have the appropriate foodstuffs shipped, but I will have to make do with the local fare. -)

          Unlike some of the novelty American Holidays, like Halloween, "Thanksgiving" proper hasn't matriculated over here yet, and probably won't. Besides, these people are hearty eaters anyway. They just don't eat a bunch of highly processed shit, and you really have to look hard to find a lardass, unless they are either Brit, Canuckistani, or the highest likelihood, Yank. -)

          My favourite game has been, "Spot the American."

          1. Brett L   13 years ago

            And you've started adding the Imperial "u" in favorite to throw people off?

          2. SugarFree   13 years ago

            May you find the turkey in anything you wind up eating.

          3. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

            The person not wearing the track suit?

          4. Randian   13 years ago

            They just don't eat a bunch of highly processed shit, and you really have to look hard to find a lardass, unless they are either Brit, Canuckistani, or the highest likelihood, Yank. -)

            I like you, but don't turn into THAT GUY, please.

            hurr durr americanz are teh fats. PROCESSED FOODZ.

            1. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

              Truth hurts, TAO. Genetics, what you eat, and most importantly, how much has great influence on one's waistline. These people tend not to gorge themselves into states of Corpulo Tyrannico Muy Gordo.

              The overwhelming number of Fatties I have seen are, well, USA born an bred. Canuckis are running a close second. The Brits with whom I have become acquainted are almost all skinny, oddly enough. I expected them to be a bit more on the lardassed side.

              1. Tim   13 years ago

                It's because we are eating everybody elses food?

              2. Randian   13 years ago

                Your anecdotes about who is fat is not backed by data.

                Yes, the United States has the highest obesity rate. That is followed by countries like Luxembourg, Finland, the UK and Ireland.

                1. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

                  I'm simply relating what I see, TAO, and granted Okie-land is a pretty hefty state since the majority of my patients there were obese (probably about 52% or so), but odds are better than 2:1 if you see a lardass here in UKR, it's an American.

                  1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

                    Maybe those Ukrainians should get better at producing food.

          5. R C Dean   13 years ago

            However, I will be in Odessa for Turkey Day.

            I'm sorry to hear that. Midland/Odessa may be the bleakest town I've ever driven through.

            1. JW   13 years ago

              I think he meant THE Odessa, not that Lone Star one-off.

  41. Tim   13 years ago

    Are we largely monkey free now?

    1. SIV   13 years ago

      Here

    2. $park?   13 years ago

      Have we won in Libya yet?

      1. Tim   13 years ago

        We haven't examined all of the intelligence yet.

    3. SIV   13 years ago

      spam by a third-party spam filter:

      Here

    4. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

      do we want to be?

      1. Tim   13 years ago

        We wants it, oh yes my precious, we wants it.

  42. Brett L   13 years ago

    Both Chevy Volt owners butthurt by hecklers.

    owners of the Chevrolet Volt, GM's innovative plug-in hybrid, report that they've been booed, heckled and vandalized, presumably because they own a car deemed offensive to fellow taxpayers. These tales of Volt rage were uncovered by the car-research site Edmunds, which runs several online forums where owners swap stories.

    1. Zeezrom   13 years ago

      Why is the writer assuming that the vandals are taxpayers?

    2. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

      What I'm annoyed at is the free charging stations for these things. You want to use electricity instead of gas to run your car? Cool. Go for it. But use your own damn electricity.

      1. Ken Shultz   13 years ago

        There are $10,000 of government incentives to buy in every car...

        The vandals are just takin' a few bucks back, and that's not including the billions GM owes them becasue of the bailout.

        Just because something like vandalism is and should be illegal doesn't mean it's ethically wrong.

      2. Mike M.   13 years ago

        What do you expect, given that most of these exploding clown cars have been sold to government entities.

        I still have yet to see one out on the road being driven by an actual person.

    3. Suthenboy   13 years ago

      Ha! Now that is amusing.
      The first time I saw a volt it was parked on the street. I put a big lung cookie on the windshield. It warms my heart to know that other volt owners are suffering the same kind of derision.

  43. Enough About Palin   13 years ago

    "The top leader of Hamas has dared Israel to invade Gaza. No word on whether he made chicken sounds or called Netanyahu a pussy."

    Dead children pics or it didn't happen.

    1. Tim   13 years ago

      "NOW it was serious. A double-dog-dare. What else was there but a "triple dare you"? And then, the coup de grace of all dares, the sinister triple-dog-dare. "

  44. np   13 years ago

    who likes Korean models?
    Heo Yun Mi

    1. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

      Chinese models are better

      1. np   13 years ago

        I have to wonder, if gramps was secretly into it all along, like LBJ or something. He looks great in that bottom gangnam style pic though.

  45. Brett L   13 years ago

    Sweet. A friend just called with an extra ticket to the FSU-UF game. I can't wait to see the fucking Gators lose.

    1. Tim   13 years ago

      So you're a Gator hater?

      1. Brett L   13 years ago

        Apparently, from way back. When other kids were singing nonsense nursery rhymes, according to my mother, I was chanting "go to hell, Gators". I also have a degree from FSU.

      2. SIV   13 years ago

        "Go To Hell Gay-tors Go To Hell...EAT SHIT!"

      3. KDN   13 years ago

        Isn't everyone? Between Spurrier, Tebow, the SEC, that awful group cheer, Urban Meyer, and Emmitt Smith there's something for all of us.

        1. Spartacus   13 years ago

          GOOD! GOOD! Let the hate flow through you!

        2. Kaptious Kristen   13 years ago

          Percy Harvin. I can't hate on UF. I just can't even...

    2. Spartacus   13 years ago

      Get ready to cry. We will enjoy your delicious salty Nole tears.

      1. Brett L   13 years ago

        Gator cheerleader tryouts.

        1. Spartacus   13 years ago

          OK, that's pretty funny. Almost as funny as this.

  46. Jerryskids   13 years ago

    So Holder is holding on for "about a year" into 0^2 - do they think it will take about a year to cover up his crimes or about a year to uncover something they can actually send him to prison for?

  47. Fatty Bolger   13 years ago

    Child's appendix bursts after 20 hour ER wait

    William arrived at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in Stockholm last Thursday after suffering stomach pains for days. He was immediately diagnosed with appendicitis, but then nothing happened.

    After having his operation repeatedly pushed back by doctors, William's desperate parents were told by the chief surgeon that an operation would only be possible if it was carried out "the old-fashioned way", rather than using a procedure which resulted in less scarring.

    "There was only one overnight operating room to handle all of Stockholm's children," William's father told DN.

    1. Tim   13 years ago

      That's how we keep costs down.

    2. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

      If only Sweden had socialised health care

    3. SugarFree   13 years ago

      Damn those, Kulaks!

    4. JW   13 years ago

      You get what you pay for.

    5. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

      OH FOR FUCKS SAKE!!! This is inexcusable! I do lap appies, and they should NEVER be "pushed back". Generally, the only reason an open procedure is indicated is when the appendix ruptures and spills all over the place within the abdominal cavity.

      The reason the scarring is so large is: A) Open proceure, meaning a big incision (called a Mc Burney's incision) B) The healing has be delayed and second intention healing employed, meaning the WX has to heal from deep to superficial to prevent pockets of infection becoming incarcerated and settling in the rejoined tissues.

    6. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

      and let's not forget the three related stories on that page:

      Woman awakes during hysterectomy op
      Man left with rotting leg after hospital 'loses' him
      Swede forced to fake stroke to get x-ray

      1. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

        Kathleen Sibelius approves.

        1. JW   13 years ago

          You just know that Donald Berwick is experiencing a priapism over this.

          1. LTC(ret) John   13 years ago

            Thanks, JW - I am going to have to pour hot acid in my ear to burn that image out of my brain.

      2. Somalian Road Corporation   13 years ago

        I can never make headway with any of these socialized healthcare horror stories because FREE FREE FREE and "well it's even worse in America!"

  48. The Late P Brooks   13 years ago

    I would vote for the Montana Governor over Rand

    You mean the guy who wants the First Amendment repealed?

    That suits you, Shreeek.

  49. The Late P Brooks   13 years ago

    I will be in Odessa for Turkey Day. I wanted to have the appropriate foodstuffs shipped, but I will have to make do with the local fare.

    Endeavour to persevere, Groovus. Endeavour to persevere.

    One of the best Thanksgiving dinners I ever had was crab curry.

    1. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

      Thanks ya, Brooksie! I'll be cooking a few of my family recipes, but I'll be using local stuffs and fowl. The rest will be local fair.

      And vodka. Lots of vodka. And wine. -)

  50. 0x90   13 years ago

    24/7 reports Asian Leaders Launch Free Trade Talks

    Being from the west, I naturally read it as "Launch Free Lunch Talks."

  51. Fatty Bolger   13 years ago

    Man accidentally gives away life savings in old shoe

    A Texas man thought he was being charitable but ended up being a little too generous: Included in a pair of shoes donated to Goodwill were his and his wife's life savings.

  52. Gleep Glop   13 years ago

    The Magic Tree house series might be a good choice for a 6 year old boy:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.....use_series

    1. Gleep Glop   13 years ago

      Damn...I have not yet mastered the art of placing comments where they need to go...

      Can a comment ninja help?

      1. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

        why bother? The Late P Brooks shows a lordly disdain for threaded comments, and perhaps we should learn from his example

        1. robc   13 years ago

          Reading thru the trample thread, its great to see unthreaded comments again.

          1. Brett L   13 years ago

            Took me a second to readjust my brain. My first thought was, "wow, everybody talked past each other that day."

            1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

              I like how everyone always quoted what they were responding too. We don't get that now with either responses to long posts or after you've hit the right wing wall.

              1. robc   13 years ago

                Thats the problem with the right wing wall.

                1. Auric Demonocles   13 years ago

                  Who are you talking to, robc?

    2. Tim   13 years ago

      Godzilla movies are better.

  53. ericamitchell   13 years ago

    Many of us do not believe that he could work and profit from the Internet. I personally, at first I did not believe it . but when I made $76 /hr I knew it was not difficult. you wont forgive yourself if you don't check it out..Mel7.CoM

  54. ericamitchell   13 years ago

    O

  55. ericamitchell   13 years ago

    Many of us do not believe that he could work and profit from the Internet. I personally, at first I did not believe it . but when I made $76 /hr I knew it was not difficult. you wont forgive yourself if you don't check it out..http://nka.nu/61o

  56. ericamitchell   13 years ago

    Many of us do not believe that he could work and profit from the Internet. I personally, at first I did not believe it . but when I made $76 /hr I knew it was not difficult. you wont forgive yourself if you don't check it out..nka.nu/61o

  57. ericamitchell   13 years ago

    Many of us do not believe that he could work and profit from the Internet. I personally, at first I did not believe it . but when I made $76 /hr I knew it was not difficult. you wont forgive yourself if you don't check it out..WWW.MEL7.CMM

Please log in to post comments

Mute this user?

  • Mute User
  • Cancel

Ban this user?

  • Ban User
  • Cancel

Un-ban this user?

  • Un-ban User
  • Cancel

Nuke this user?

  • Nuke User
  • Cancel

Un-nuke this user?

  • Un-nuke User
  • Cancel

Flag this comment?

  • Flag Comment
  • Cancel

Un-flag this comment?

  • Un-flag Comment
  • Cancel

Latest

Americans Celebrate Independence Day Less Proud of Their Country Than Ever

J.D. Tuccille | 7.2.2025 7:00 AM

Brickbat: Take a Bite out of Crime

Charles Oliver | 7.2.2025 4:00 AM

Trump's 'Giant Win' Does Not Validate His Unconstitutional Birthright Citizenship Order

Jacob Sullum | 7.2.2025 12:01 AM

Trump Says the Courts Have No Business Questioning His Dubious Definition of 'Alien Enemies'

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2025 5:40 PM

Medicaid Work Requirements Are a Short-Term Fix to a Long-Term Problem

Tosin Akintola | 7.1.2025 4:18 PM

Recommended

  • About
  • Browse Topics
  • Events
  • Staff
  • Jobs
  • Donate
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Media
  • Shop
  • Amazon
Reason Facebook@reason on XReason InstagramReason TikTokReason YoutubeApple PodcastsReason on FlipboardReason RSS

© 2024 Reason Foundation | Accessibility | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

r

Do you care about free minds and free markets? Sign up to get the biggest stories from Reason in your inbox every afternoon.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

This modal will close in 10

Reason Plus

Special Offer!

  • Full digital edition access
  • No ads
  • Commenting privileges

Just $25 per year

Join Today!