President Obama Looking to Kick Can Down the Road on Spending Cuts, Seven Million Estimated to Lose Insurance Coverage Under Obamacare, PETA Criticizes Beyonce for Iguana and Python Skin Suit: P.M. Links

• President Obama wants at least a short term delay in the sequestration's automatic reductions in the growth of spending as well as "tax reforms," while John Boehner says he won't support higher taxes to avoid sequestration. House Republicans are also pressing the president for an actual budget.

• Allowing patients to manage their own care leads to better outcomes, lower costs and higher patient satisfaction, a new report shows. In related news, the CBO estimates seven million people will lose their healthcare coverage under Obamacare. The chocolate rations have been increased.
• French anti-terror police arrested four suspected Islamist militants in Paris.
• The Falkland Islands will be Argentina's within 20 years, its foreign minister said on a visit to London.
• Beyonce is in hot water with PETA for donning an iguana and python skin outfit at the Super Bowl halftime show.
• A strain of bacteria has been found to produce nanoscale gold nuggets. For survival.
• The asteroid 2012 DA-14 will pass within 18,000 miles of the Earth, closer than the orbit of geosynchronous satellites.

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Comments

[Adam.]

python skin outfit, fucking awesome.

[Adam.]

also, finally figured out that the RSS feed is way behind the website so that's why there are always so many comments when finally see the links

[Cdr Lytton]

So I'm not the only one with this problem after all.

[XTSee]

I don't get any of this.

[Pro Libertate]

See, she's doing her part to help reduce the python population in Florida and/or monetize the pestilence.

[Isaac Bartram]

So, have you done your part and taken your python yet?

[Coeus]

I had some python chili last night. It was pretty good. Kinda wish they were in Texas. My favorite part of hunting is the eating afterwards.

[Pro Libertate]

I've done better than that. I've franchised pythons.

[Isaac Bartram]

🙂

[Pro Libertate]

Python--it's what's for dinner.

[Professional Target]

Pissed off PETA? Now I have to figure out how to help her make money without actually listening to her music...

[mr lizard]

Well I knew half of her outfit and he was a python sympathizer. Pretty nice setup by Team True Green if I do say so

[Mickey Rat]

Turn down the sound?

That halftime show was a dance act pretending to singing act anyway.

[Mr Whipple]

Ya know, my python boot is too tight
I couldnt get it off last night
A week went by,
And now it's july
I finally got it off
An my girl-friend cried
You got stink foot!
Stink foot, darlin
Your stink foot puts a hurt on my nose!
Stink foot! stink foot! I aint lyin,
Can you rinse it off, dyou suppose?

[db]

+ 1 Moon Unit

[A Serious Man]

The asteroid 2012 DA-14 will pass within 18,000 miles of the Earth, closer than the orbit of geosynchronous satellites.

Will Affleck and Willis be ready?

[Episiarch]

Aerosmith is standing by.

[Caleb Turberville]

Armageddon allows me to remember the summer of 1998. That was the year my family and I discovered the McFlurry, and all was good.

[Caleb Turberville]

Also it was the only good movie that summer. Mask of Zorro and Godzilla both sucked.

[Episiarch]

Did you just call Armageddon "good"?!?

[Brandon]

Armageddon was an entertaining movie.

[Fist of Etiquette]

STAND YOUR GROUND. ARMAGEDDON IS ONE OF THE THREE GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIMES.

[Clich? Bandit]

every time I hear "stand your ground" I think of ...
...
"Oh you mean this gate key."

[Caleb Turberville]

It was better than Mask of Zorro or Godzilla.

[C. Anacreon]

I just saw the 1998 Godzilla on cable the other night, first time I'd ever seen it. To be honest, I don't remember it coming out. It wasn't so bad, and Ferris Bueller is always likeable as a lead. I really like when they blew up Madison Square Garden, something that in real life is way overdue.

[Heroic Mulatto]

You, sir, are a scoundrel and a villain.

[Mickey Rat]

It is a guilty pleasure, with Willis and Buscemi chewing scenery, but ability to suspend disbelief is inconsolable for days.

[RBS]

Ugggh, I will never forgive them for making Godzilla look so ridiculous. I think that was the first time Hollywood tried to kill my childhood.

[BakedPenguin]

Also, they didn't even use the Blue Oyster Cult song in that movie. What. The. Fuck.

[Mad Scientist]

Hollywood fucking up a movie is nothing new. History shows again and again...

[hamilton]

Dude. BASEketball.

[generic Brand]

Yasmin Bleeth... oooohhhhhh

[Jordan]

Good call. I have a soft spot for the movie that originated the term "derp".

[Stormy Dragon]

Not only wasn't Armageddon not the best movie that summer, it wasn't even the best "Giant Asteroid Heading Towards Eart" movie that summer.

[Virginian]

Deep Impact had a comet, not an asteroid. *grabs Lucifer's Hammer* time to reread!

Seriously, Deep Impact gave us Obama. When people were voting for him, they pictured Morgan Freeman. Or the guy in the Fifth Element. Both pretty kickass Presidents.

[rts]

Gay marriage: MPs back legislation

MPs have approved same-sex marriage in England and Wales in a key Commons vote, despite the opposition of almost half the Conservative MPs.

[iggy]

"Of the remaining Conservative MPs, 127 were in favour, 35 did not vote, and five registered an abstention by voting both in favour and against."

Wait, you're allowed to vote on both sides of a law? What the hell's the point of that?

[rts]

That's how you abstain in Parliament.

[BigT]

MP: "I voted for the law AND I voted against it."

John Kerry sighs deeply.

[Enough About Palin]

I though all Brits gay married. I guess it just seems that way.

[Episiarch]

Beyonce is in hot water with PETA for donning an iguana and python skin outfit at the Super Bowl halftime show.

And hopefully she will tell them to go fuck themselves.

[Rich]

You're thinking of Nicki Minaj.

[GILMORE]

Beyonce is in hot water with PETA for donning an iguana and python skin outfit at the Super Bowl halftime show

FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!! I DONT CARE WHO LOSES AS LONG AS THERES LOTS OF BLOOD!!!

[pmains]

How can you be in "hot water" with a pressure group? Have they been made a new branch of government? Should we expect that Beyonce will care about PETA's scolding? Has society simply gone mad and accepted PETA as something other than the political wing of the anti-human terrorist movement?

[Thane of Whiterun]

Talk about 'nanny state'

[Rich]

You can't fool *me*, Thane.

That's from The Onion.

[Thane of Whiterun]

It's from The Union.

Though it is over a year old, oops.

[Andrew S.]

Gov. Brown ended up vetoing that, I believe. Now that the Dems have a supermajority in California, expect that it will be brought back up.

[$park?]

Seven-year-old facing suspension for using grenade on playground.

A Colorado second-grader may be suspended from his elementary school after he disobeyed a key rule of no weapons, real or imaginary, when he tossed an imaginary grenade Friday during recess and went, 'pshhh,' to indicate that the imaginary device detonated, KDVR.com reported.

Alex Watkins,7, who attends Mary Blair Elementary in Loveland, said he was playing the game "Rescue the World." He plays the role of a heroic soldier out to rid the world of an evil threat.

[John]

No imaginary weapons. Sending your kid to public school really is a form of abuse.

[hotsy totsy]

Kid's in trouble for IMAGINING? They're punishing his thoughts?

[Matrix]

There is no hope left for mankind.

[iggy]

I was in elementary school only 15 years ago. If this had been a rule then, every single boy at that school would have been suspended.

It's amazing how quickly societal cowardice has spread.

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

It's not even cowardice... it's just stupid.

We usually used snow or mud balls for our imaginary grenades, so I wonder if the punishment would be worse for actually using a concrete object.

[$park?]

Throwing concrete? Are you trying to KILL someone?

[Alack]

Fuck you, cut recess.

Wait, that's not right...

[Almanian.]

-30 minutes

[Romulus Augustus]

So in history classes the teacher omits any discussion of wars? Washington crossed the Delaware to drink beer with the Hessians in Trenton?

[Brandon]

Beer? What are you, some kind of crazy libertarian? Coffee. Decaf. No sugar. Like all good Americans should drink.

[Rhywun]

Decaf? Are you fucking nuts?1! That will only seduce children into a lifetime of drug dependency. Washington (and all other humans) drank water.

[MJGreen]

How dare you. Washington drank Smart Water.

[Isaac Bartram]

But, surely Organic Decaf 'Swiss Water' Peru Fair-Trade Coffee is OK?

That is, as long as you buy the right carbon credits, of course.

[Xenocles]

Everyone knows Washington grew weed. The clues are all over his personal papers - not the rolling ones, I mean his journals and such.

[Rich]

I'm waiting for a voodoo "weapon" incident to be protected under religious freedom.

[HellsBells]

Couldn't that be construed as racist?

[Rich]

*** scrawls "HellsBells" on voodoo doll ***

[Ron]

so if I pray to my gun does that make it a religious symbol also.

[BuSab Agent]

+1 Vera

[Anonymous Coward]

If he had been playing President of the United States and fired a hellfire missile at a madrassa full of Pakistani children, there would have been no problem.

[$park?]

What you're suggesting would be lead to an imaginary arms race the likes of which has never been seen on any playground.

[Tim]

Hey there was this episode of Star Trek where imaginary weapons killed a bunch of people. Except it didn't and Chekov came back fine at the end. What was I saying?

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

The kid should have mind-melded with the recess monitor.

[Pro Libertate]

They had invisible phasers in that episode with Harry Mudd and the sexbots.

[John]

The comments in the article in Colorado says the school's comments email has been suspended. I guess they are not liking their new found fame.

[Libertarian]

Anyone know of something like this happening at a private school? Is it always a government school?

[John]

http://www.theatlantic.com/pol.....in/272844/

Congressional Dems sad and angry Obama won't pay attention to them. Suck it bitches. What are you going to do about it?

[Brandon]

Vote for him again? Or maybe ram through any policy he wants without review or discussion?

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

There are signs that the president intends to run his second term differently than his first, perhaps less cautiously, or more liberally, or with less concern for transcendence.

Yeah. That's it. If there was one mistake BO made in his first term it was being too damn transcendent.

But the way he plans to do that seems to center around the bully pulpit and a push to create a standing grassroots army of activists.

You know who else....

Shit, it ain't funny anymore.

[Rich]

OK, this can-kicking shit has got to stop.

How about: Each delay results in a corresponding delay in the income tax filing deadline.

[generic Brand]

God damn, it should mean that.

I can't believe I have to pay taxes by April 15 for this SHIIII-ITE.

[Matrix]

World's largest prime number.

17 million digits! Now, spell it out! oy!

[Brett L]

Doesn't having an index of large prime numbers seriously undermine the security of just about all current encryption algorithms?

[Jerry on the boat]

I don't think so. As long as factoring remains difficult there is no problem.

[MP]

Dude, that was a 22MB for that one prime number. There is no such list. And even if there were, security is about combinations of primes.

[Auric Demonocles]

The number -- 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, written mathematically as 2^57,885,161-1

Those are not equivalent numbers. I got irritated when the alt-text said the number was "2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times" because I immediately said "that can't be a prime"!

[hamilton]

So I don't have the energy to do the math, but at what point does calculating 2^x-1 become more computationally efficient than just calculating the running product of each prime you find and subtracting 1?

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

That would be O(sqrt(N)). Computing N=2^x-1 is O(log(N)).

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

Actually, if you use a more clever algorithm, by Gauss' prime number theorem you could get the second approach down to O(N/log(N)). But that's still faster than O(log(N))

[Kant feel Pietzsche]

It's a Mersenne prime. (2^x)-1

[Kant feel Pietzsche]

Shit, forget I said anything. I walked into a room in the middle of a conversation.

[Scooby]

That's an error taken directly from the innumerate article. The prime number is actually one less than 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times.

[Auric Demonocles]

That was my point.

[Clich? Bandit]

Add it to this statement:

Prime numbers, which are divisible only by themselves and one, have little mathematical importance.

Seriously WTF?

[Scooby]

Why does it take a 22MB text file to describe a 17 million digit number? Is it the commas every 3 digits that add 30% more characters to the file?

[neoteny]

Yes, that's about right. In binary representation, it is only 6.9 MB (all ones).

[nicole]

Yes, there's still a student loan bubble, and yes, it's getting worse.

In what can only be described as a vendor-financing model, the so-called Perkins loans (for students with extraordinary financial hardships) have seen defaults surging more than 20%. The vicious circle, though, has begun as the ponzi of using these revolving loan funds to 'fund' the next round of students is collapsing thanks to the rise in delinquencies.

So universities are suing Perkins debtors.

[John]

So the most leftist institutions in America are suing poor people for money they don't have to pay the salaries of tenured professors.

[Tim]

Who handed out worthless degrees.

[iggy]

Thank God our noble student loan programs helped poor minorities by consigning them to a life of indentured servitude to a loan they can't hope to pay!

[Anonymous Coward]

Shhhhh....indentured servitude is the tool of rich, white landowners from 100 years ago who wrote the Constitution to protect their land and keep the poor subservient.

This is totally different.

[Auric Demonocles]

About to get my student loans down to half of their original value when I get my bonus at the end of the week.

[Juice]

"You could take a job at Subway or wherever to pay the bills ... It seems like basic responsibility to me,"

Wasn't the whole point of attending Yale to avoid doing just that?

[hotsy totsy]

I thought the universities already got their money.

[rts]

Lumbricomorphic climate change

It may not be all about us humans - earthworms could be contributing to climate change too, according to a new study.

[Rich]

Bacteria in the earthworms' gut produce nitrous oxide and emissions from worm-infested soil can be three times as high as from soil without any worms

Those little fuckers are contributing to the drug epidemic, too!

[Tim]

Maybe we need earlier birds?

[gaijin]

or get rid of the cats

[Brandon]

We're already working on that.

[PS]

Meowschwitz!!!

[Almanian.]

Fucking Top Fuel Worms FTW!

[Mad Scientist]

Soil fertilized with worm castings is also a great thing for plants, which (temporarily) store CO2. I'm guessing the worms will get a pass from the enviro crowd.

[Alack]

So has anyone else been watching House of Cards on Netflix? Kevin Spacey is damn creepy.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

That show is pretty cool. I'm only 4 episodes in though.

[AlmightyJB]

I think Kevin Spacey is always at least a little bit creepy. Hadn't even heard of this House of Cards. Lawyer show?

[Alack]

Politics. Spacey is the Majority Whip in a Democrat-controlled House who backed the man who ended up becoming President. He expects to be made Sec State, but that promise is broken and he begins a subtle campaign of manipulation to move up the food chain.

Netflix bankrolled the project, I believe, and premiered the whole first season in one go this past Friday. Definitely worth watching.

[Isaac Bartram]

The Netflix House of Cards is a remake of the trilogy made for British TV in the 1990s about a manipulative high ranking Tory MP and Party Whip.

The new version has Kevin Spacey as a manipulative Democratic meber of the House of Representatives and Party Whip.

The original version was an example of how the Brits seem to be able to make decent political TV while Americans cannot.

This new version is rapidly changing my mind about that.

The changes they have made to the script to reflect the difference between the Parliamentary System and our Separation of Powers has been generally successful.

I'm now on episode 5. I'm hoping it will hold up.

[A Serious Man]

Like this, I don't: New Star Wars movie to reportedly focus on Yoda.

Disney appears to be planning a series of films that focus on one character. See, one of the many problems with the prequels was that it stripped Yoda and the Force of its mystery with too much exposure. This won't help.

[Tim]

WTF? Are you kidding me? Why not team him up with Goofy while you're at it?

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Goofy is like the greatest Jedi ever

[A Serious Man]

"Da ho, garsh, these are not the droids you're looking for."

[Bobarian]

They teamed Darth Vader and Obi Wan with Goofy in the Phantom Menace, so too late for that idea.

[Tim]

Lucas must have demanded in the sale agreement that they make one movie worse than Phantom Menace.

[Bobarian]

You may be on to something...

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

AOTC already accomplished that.

[NeonCat]

"Ahm usin' the Force! Gawrsh!"

[Gladstone]

How about a Star Wars remake with Mickey, Donald and Goofy?

[Stormy Dragon]

Empire Strikes back remake where everyone is a muppet, accept for Yoda who is played by Frank Oz.

[Anonymous Coward]

Disney should just base the movies on the New Jedi Order series and complete the franchise's destruction.

[Tim]

How about a Han Solo movie?
No, our focus groups are telling us that people want to see cute, young baby Yoda.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yoda is like cumin. You don't need a lot of Yoda to spicen up the movie. The only way Disney could toss Star Wars deeper in the toilet is if they let Karen Traviss and David Brin co-write the script.

[AlmightyJB]

Watch this, I will. Like it , I will not.

[Auric Demonocles]

Aren't these movies supposed to be sequels?

[Joe M]

This. He passed into oblivion in Jedi.

[Auric Demonocles]

It's the Sixth Sense, but in space.

[Gladstone]

The Yoda movie is supposed to be separate from the Sequel series.

[Pro Libertate]

I propose a Yoda talk show. Preferably with puppet Yoda, but CGI Yoda is okay.

Basically, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast but with Yoda.

[Alack]

I'd watch that. Who replaces Zorak, though? Palpatine?

[Pro Libertate]

Yes, that's probably the best analogue. Raspy voice, evil, has it in for the host.

[Pro Libertate]

And the band leader is one of those guys from the cantina in Mos Eisley.

[NeonCat]

"Your new movie, plug or plug not."

[SIV]

Fuck that. Focus it on Wickett W Warrick saving Christmas on Endor.

[Pro Libertate]

That's Wookimas.

[Generic Stranger]

Actually, it's Life Day. /nerd /pedant

[Pro Libertate]

Oh, I know. I personally endured it. Me, Bea Arthur, and Harvey Korman.

[$park?]

Are these the kind of threats that we need to respond to with a lengthy drone war, or not? I get so confused.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, in a statement to FoxNews.com, said the video is another "disturbing reminder" of what a nuclear-capable North Korea would mean to the world.

"The film is yet another disturbing reminder that a nuclear-capable North Korea is a threat in its region and worldwide," Bolton said. "We should not delude ourselves by thinking that Pyongyang will ever be negotiated out of that capability."

[wareagle]

can we just stop giving the Norks what they want, the attention? Just ignore them.

[BakedPenguin]

So you're saying they're basically trolls? Jesus, it's going to be bad if they ever get Internet access.

[wareagle]

either that or we very publically say we will help the Japanese become a nuclear nation. Few things get teh attention of the Chinese more than the Japanese.

I don't see the Norks doing anything beyond the usual sabre rattling because it's all they know.

[BakedPenguin]

I honestly think they may be at their end. NK has a massive meth problem - some estimates are up to 40% of adults.

I think the Chinese are already done with them, they would be happy to see them go, if it could be done in a relatively peaceful way.

[Scooby]

If your only food available was tree bark and grass, you'd want some meth to take the edge off the hunger, too.

[neoteny]

So true.

[BakedPenguin]

I wasn't judging them, just noting it.

[Jesus H. Christ]

Has Bolton ever met a brown person he didn't want to kill? He's really psychotic about it.

[NeonCat]

Condoleeza Rice?

[Enough About Palin]

That was my first thought. BTW, I saw no anti-brown people in the story. Maybe Jesus can point it out.

[nicole]

Bakers union really doesn't think you should eat Twinkies again.

[A Serious Man]

Nicole why do you hate the hard-working people who toil away at the Herculean task of mixing water and sugar together?

[nicole]

Baking is hard. I suck at it. I have mad respect for bakers. Especially the one who lives in my house and does it for a hobby. NOW WHERE'S MY PIE?

[flye]

"No worries mon, sticky bun come soon."

[Pro Libertate]

Doing it well is a skill.

[BakedPenguin]

"That's a nice snack cake you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it."

[$park?]

if bidders don't want to work with us (and re-hire Hostess employees), the union will ask the AFL-CIO to put any Hostess product on its 'boycott product' list.

OK, is this really some kind of serious threat?

[wareagle]

these folks usually fail to realize that boycotts work both ways. How many people will buy Twinkies just to tell the AFLCIO to fuck itself?

[AlmightyJB]

Sounds like I'm going to need to make a twinkie cannon to use up all those twinkies I will be buying.

[Marshall Gill]

I will be killing two birds with one stone by heating my house with a wood twinkie burning stove!

[HellsBells]

So let me get this straight...they expect companies to hire the same employees who went on a strike that contributed to their former company going out of business? Good luck with that.

[Brandon]

They expect companies to hire the same employees who went on a strike that contributed to their former company going out of business at the same rates they were demanding from said former company.

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

Looking at the unionized industries, the only one I can see going along with this boycott is the actors guild.

Sure as fuck no plumbers, mailmen, or cops are going to cut out the Twinkies.

[Thane of Whiterun]

What would it mean to boycott "Hostess"? It is being torn apart.

[Ska]

I really need to set up an account as Jarl of Hjaalmarch.

[Thane of Whiterun]

Hjaalmarch is almost as boring as The Pale.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Fuckin hate Morthal. Build some fucking streets.

[Thane of Whiterun]

LIBERTOPIA

[Ska]

See, that's why I built my manor house there, in between one of the Gaulder's tombs and Jorgen Windcaller's tomb.

[Heroic Mulatto]

You po' son?

I built all three manors.

Unfortunately, polygamy doesn't seem to be legal in Skyrim.

[Ska]

Nah, I just rerolled a two different characters, and don't feel like brewing paralysis potions and enchanting daggers of turn undead strictly for the gold. I'm only levels 18 and 19 on these two new guys, and I'm not going back to my other playthroughs who have Deus Mons and Dovahkiin Hideout as their respective homes.

[Thane of Whiterun]

Reminds me, I need to get the Dragonborn DLC now.

I was putting off playing anew (I started on PS3 and switched to PC) until I could have Dawnguard + Dragonborn to shake things up a bit.

[Ska]

Oh that came out? That one looks a lot better than Dawnguard. I'll wait another month and get them on a Steam sale or something.

And then I'll roll ANOTHER new toon. I haven't made a one handed cleric-conjurer yet...

[Brandon]

That reminds me, I have to play through the whole fucking game again so I can kill that useless fuck Ulfric Stormcloak. I think I was almost to the end, too. I captured the dragon in Dragonsreach.

[Jordan]

Screw that. Dark Brotherhood for life, son!

[Thane of Whiterun]

Except for the cool "master bedroom", I'm not all that impressed by Dawnstar Sanctuary.

It would be a lot better if you could make your spouse move there with you.

[Coeus]

Saying that the first lady is unatractive is racist.

The delusion knows no bounds:

It is the deepest and weirdest irony that Limbaugh, who is not of small size, attacks the First Lady in this way, let alone, how "fat" isn't applied ever to him.

Tha fuck?

[Episiarch]

The first lady isn't unattractive to other wookies, I bet. But you'd have to ask Warty, he's the expert.

[Marshall Gill]

Well, since Rush only gets called fat a few hundred thousand times a day it isn't really being called fat.

[$park?]

Ah, but she didn't call him fat. She specifically said "not of small size." There's a difference in there somewhere.

[R C Dean]

Isn't there a sitting Senator who wrote an entire book about how fat Rush Limbaugh is?

[Alack]

Only the title was about how fat Rush is. The book itself was about how great it feels to fellate yourself for 300+ pages.

[Bobarian]

So somebody actually read it?

[Alack]

What? Psshhh. No. No way. Nope. What? Who? Naw.

[C. Anacreon]

Including a long opening chapter explaining why he was calling Limbaugh fat, explaining to readers who didn't go to Harvard that he was using the concept of irony, something no one but his fellow Crimson could understand.

He was never the slightest bit funny on SNL and is the consummate douchebag.

[Heroic Mulatto]

It's not delusion. It is mendaciousness. It is the tactic of the Big Lie.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll go ahead and say it: Michelle Obama looks like she unhinges her jaw and eats her prey whole. No mouth should have that much teeth and gum.

[Corneliusm]

Racist!

[Numeromancer]

+1 Snake-wookie.

[Killazontherun]

They try to bullshit us into accepting her as the style, glamor and beauty reincarnation of Jackie O and expect no push back? Of course, that is what they expect.

[C. Anacreon]

She is the most beautiful, intelligent, inspirational woman who ever lived.
/feministing

[Corneliusm]

Am I the only one who reads feministing as if it were a conjunction of feminist and fisting?

[hotsy totsy]

No, "fat" is never applied to Rush Limbaugh. And "dat ass, damn!" is never applied to Beyonce, dancing in iguana and python at the Superbowl, because in our culture, Black women's bodies are considered unattractive.

[Thane of Whiterun]

Legislators in Michigan pushing naturopath licensing

It would give us back the ability to use the skills we are trained in, including IV therapy among others, as well as give us the right to accept insurance, run lab testing, diagnose and prescribe prescription drugs when needed

[Zeb]

"The right to accept insurance"

Uh, what? I'm pretty sure we all have that right. Now whether insurance companies will laugh in your face is another matter.

[Thane of Whiterun]

That stuck out at me too. More like the right to have the government force insurance companies to reimburse you for quack therapies.

[Zeb]

I begin to fear that the word "rights" is losing all meaning and we are going to need to find another word for the concept. Rights are becoming things that the government forces other people to do for you.

[Almanian.]

"Begin to fear"?

The hell? If you aren't already beyond fear to at least "disgust and horror" (but preferably past that to "bitter anger and disgust"), you are behind.

[Gladstone]

Umm missed the whole "positive rights" things did you?

[Zeb]

Well, no. But we keep using the word for it's "proper" meaning.

[Mickey Rat]

I expect Michigan to mandate "naturopath" coverage in that case. Cannot have a useless licensing racket after all.

[A Serious Man]

Study suggests that diet soda used as a mixer may make your drink more alcoholic.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

but taste like ass

[generic Brand]

I think it brings out the taste of the alcohol more, and leaves more calories for booze if you're a calorie counter (I'm not).

[Zeb]

What the fuck is a mixer?

[GILMORE]

Its a beverage lacking alcohol

I know, weird.

[hamilton]

Oh, good. Vermouth doesn't count then.

[Alack]

It's what pussies put in perfectly good alcohol to make it taste less like alcohol, supposedly to make it "tasate better". Can't say I understand it.

[Brett L]

a couple of drops of water in whiskey really opens up the flavor.

[Zeb]

Well that's different. Unless you only drink cask strength.

[lap83]

That explains much about sorority girls.

[Mickey Rat]

This study will be suppressed:

"This is why southern European countries have lower rates of alcoholism despite their increased alcohol intake," said Petros Levounis, director of the Addiction Institute of New York, who was not involved in the study. "They always drink while eating."

Drinking alcohol as a mundane activity reduces alcoholism, that can't be allowed to become conventional wisdom.

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

Uh, no, Petros. They do have drinks with more meals but they also drink while not eating sometimes. And we have beer with wings, too.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

You say you love me, but do you love me enough to let me tattoo my name across your face?

[Rich]

The teenager initially claimed she had only asked for three stars, and that Mr Toumaniantz had added the rest whilst she was asleep.

So, it wasn't *tattoo* tattoo.

[R C Dean]

Bullshit. No way you can sleep through a tattoo, much less a face tattoo that large and dark.

Maybe he slipped her a roofie or she was otherwise passed out, but taking a little nappy-poo? I don't think so.

[Sidd Finch]

It's an especially odd thing to claim since there's a picture of her (linked below) midway through with eyes wide open.

[BakedPenguin]

He can add POOR IMPULSE CONTROL later, I guess.

[R C Dean]

I think that would be gilding the lily, no? That tattoo pretty much res ipsa loquiturs her lack of impulse control.

[Alack]

Wouldn't that require giving him a nuke?

[BakedPenguin]

You're right, forget it.

[Anonymous Coward]

If this were an ugly girl, it would be funny. Since it is a pretty girl, it's just wrong.

[Brandon]

*Was* a pretty girl.

[Mickey Rat]

Yes, drawing and quartering are too good for the tattoo artist.

[Sidd Finch]

Weird, 30 minutes ago I was staring at this wondering WTF it's supposed to say.

[AlmightyJB]

Nothin says "Fuck it I give up" like a giant face tattoo.

[BakedPenguin]

Tattoo locations, and what they say about you.

[Mickey Rat]

"I know that there are people who are terrified that Lesya has made a rash decision that she'll regret horribly, but sometimes the best decisions are the ones you make in an instant with your heart rather than the ones long-debated in your mind."

And sometimes going all in on an inside straight draw works, but I would not recommend it.

[Zeb]

WTF PETA? Don't you know that pythons eat all the furry little bunnys in Florida?

And I am much more upset (well would be if I had TV or cared about football) that Justin Timberlake wasn't there to pull her top down.

[Pro Libertate]

And pythons are illegal immigrants and have no place in Florida's fragile ecosystem.

[Jordan]

Beyonce is in hot water with PETA for donning an iguana and python skin outfit at the Super Bowl halftime show.

I encourage Beyonce to go back in front of the camera and apologize by stripping out of that outfit. Slowly.

[R C Dean]

I can see her apology involving some of that hot water too. Nice, hot, sudsy water . . . .

[Sevo]

"House Republicans are also pressing the president for an actual budget."

No, really?

[Jerry on the boat]

What difference does it make?

[A Serious Man]

Virginia now accepting concealed carry permits as valid voter ID, liberals outraged.

That to me just smacks as some awesome trolling, intended or not.

[John]

It is a state issued ID. Why would they not? WTF is the liberals' bitch?

[Zeb]

I'd be surprised if anyone took mine as ID. It's just a piece of paper with no photo (As an extra bonus, they misspelled my name and then corrected it in pen).

[Virginian]

Yeah it's not a photo ID. It's like a fucking business card. The GOP in the Assembly does like to troll the Dems though. They stripped out the extra fee for a hybrid, which kinda pisses me off because a Prius does the same damage to the roads my car does, but pays a lot less in gas taxes. Whatever happened to fairness?

[Cyto]

Other people have to pay "their fair share", Virginian... other people.

[Episiarch]

Many states accept pistol permit cards as valid ID for a lot of things. For instance, in New York one time I was getting something notarized and they wanted two forms of ID, and I used my license and my pistol permit.

But it's GUNZZZZ! Oh noes!

[John]

Notice how the salon douchebag never mentions the need for a government issued ID or a (gasp) photo ID. Like a utility bill says anything about whether I am the person whose name is on the bill.

[Bobarian]

Making it the only valid form of voter ID would be delicious.

[R C Dean]

"If you can't be trusted with a gun, you certainly can't be trusted with a ballot."

[NeonCat]

*Warning, do not use gun to punch holes in ballot

[ant1sthenes]

Well, the Selective Service is sort of saying that, at least for men.

[Anonymous Coward]

House Bill 1337, sponsored by Del. Mark L. Cole, R-Spotsylvania, which cleared the House of Delegates today on a 63-36 vote ? would eliminate the use of a utility bill, pay stub, bank statement, government check and Social Security card as acceptable identification that can be presented at the polls.

Notice that none of these have a photograph on them and only one might reasonably verify that you a resident of the state you are voting in.

Voters would still be able to use a voter identification card, concealed handgun permit, driver's license and student ID card.

Requiring free voter ID cards is totally racist. I don't know how it is, but it just is and you are a racist if you dare to disagree with me.

[NoVAHockey]

i thought that had been on the books for awhile.

[Apatheist ?_??]

Q. Annoying, Competitive Parents: My daughter does dance (cultural) and loves it. The problem is that the nature of the dance is so competitive that I find there is friction between me and other parents. My daughter is not the best dancer in the school, but loves to dance. However, the parents of some of the other children go to the competitions and act like their kid if winning the Super Bowl every time they get a medal. My daughter is starting to feel quite sad about not being in the group that always wins and I am not sure how to help her handle it. The parents are obnoxious with their competitive nature and need to win at any cost. One of them actually said rather loudly "go so and so, I hope you get a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd." My daughter heard this and was upset that the parent didn't also encourage her. I encourage all the children, but find that some of the parents do not do so to my child. Any suggestions?

I'm having trouble who to hate. The parents who get obsessed over a "cultural dance competition" or the parent who thinks their special snowflake should be cheered on by everyone else.

http://www.slate.com/articles/.....h_him.html

[Alack]

Pretty sure you're allowed to despise them all.

[Apatheist ?_??]

I suppose who to hate more would have been the more relevant question.

[AZ]

Hate both, but hate the letter-writer more.

[Enough About Palin]

I am reminded of this:

It was early December when his mom called to tell him the news. . . . He was, understandably, upset. And when he told me, I remember thinking, somewhat selfishly, "Please don't let her die." Now, I genuinely wanted her to be okay, for the normal reasons. But it was also selfish. I had been slowly realizing over the last few months that I was not happy with my life. And a large part of it was that I was not happy with who I had married. I hadn't yet admitted out loud that I was thinking about divorce, but I was on the brink. And when I learned that his mom might have brain cancer, of all things, I saw a future flash before my eyes. I saw tragedy and grief and I saw myself unable to escape. Because you can't ask someone for a divorce when their mother has brain cancer.
I tried my best to comfort him. I desperately wanted to convince him that she would be fine. And I did want her to be fine--I needed her to be fine.

The story has a happy ending: "They removed the tumor and it wasn't cancer"--and the husband escaped the marriage.

[hotsy totsy]

For some reason this sounds like it could be a Seinfeld episode.

George to Jerry: "How do you ask someone for a divorce when their mother has brain cancer?"

[John]

Is there a reason only people I loath ever seem to have children?

[Bobarian]

Maybe you got a thing about kids?

I know I do. I barely tolerate my own.

[John]

Children are cute but they are a pain in the ass. It is not their fault. But they are a pain in the ass. It is and should be okay to admit as much.

[Zeb]

Other people's kids are great. They usually go away when they start being a pain in the ass.

[Concerned Citizen]

True, but my daughter is the cutest being I've encountered. I was probably the biggest pain in the ass ever. Should I make to Heaven I will apologize to my parents for eternity.

[Jordan]

Yeah, my wife has got the itch now, and I'm terrified. I have absolutely no desire to raise a kid, and I hate other people's kids, especially babies.

[John]

Babies are cute. It is when they hit about three that they turn into monsters.

[Jordan]

See, I just don't get that. Babies are loud, smelly, demanding blobs of fat in my eyes.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Babies are loud, smelly, demanding blobs of fat in my eyes.

You, my friend, are a normal guy.

Don't worry, you'll be a good father.

[RBS]

They are only smelly if you're too fucking lazy to change them and bathe them. They are generally loud because that's the only way they know how to communicate, teach a baby to sign and the problem is mostly solved. Not a whole lot you can do about some of it though.

[AlmightyJB]

Whatever gray hairs I have came from their high schools years.

[ant1sthenes]

But threeish is when they learn to start acting like a decent human being. Not that kids are evil before that or anything, they're just incredibly self-centered.

[Numeromancer]

Babies are cute. It is when they hit about three thirteen that they turn into monsters evil minions of Satan bent on your destruction.

[AlmightyJB]

"Yeah, my wife has got the itch now"

Tell her to get a job at a daycare or something.

[Juice]

That did it for my SO. After working with toddlers all day for years, she is totally against having kids.

[Killazontherun]

Only a few years ago, I was you, Jordon. Time to face the music!

[crashland]

Perhaps your reluctance to propagate your genes will strengthen our species.

[fish]

I'm having trouble who to hate...

It's been my experience that in a situation like this it's simply easier to just hate them all equally.

[Marshall Gill]

Oh, please. I have plenty of hate for both!

[R C Dean]

Its a life lesson opportunity.

"See, honey, this is where you learn not to care what other people think, to do your own thing, and especially, especially, to despise the opinions of people like those controlling, arrested development, helicopter parents. Here, let Daddy show you how its done."

[AlmightyJB]

I'm sure there are plenty of non-competitive activities she can sign her kid up for. If she's not prepared to try and improve so she can win than she needs to learn to accept losing.

[pmains]

Seriously. What unethical things are the other girls doing? Poisoning the competition? Smacking their knees with a lead pipe? Bribing judges? WTF does "win at all costs" mean in this context?

I think it probably means, "practices long enough to win."

[BuSab Agent]

shh....the special snowflake is supposed to win without practice because of how special she is donncha know. One of my side jobs is giving violin lessons. I have a parent who complains about the lack of progress their child is making and yet when questioned about the amount of practice the child does between lessons, says she won't let her do more than 15 minutes because she sounds bad. WTF!

[Cyto]

Just the opposite of my middle-america salt-of-the-earth parent's style. My dad beat a work ethic in to me every day of my youth. When I practiced my instrument a half hour, he wanted to know why it wasn't an hour. When I got all A's, he asked if I put in the extra work to learn beyond what they were teaching.

When I placed 2nd out of 7,000 auditioning for all-state band, his first reaction was "see, if you had practiced a little harder each day, you would have gotten first".

Which strategy do you think is more likely to lead to success in life? "Everyone gets a trophy" or "Even if you win, you failed unless you did your absolute best"?

[hotsy totsy]

Are those the only two options?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Are those the only two options?

Do or do not; there is no try.

[BuSab Agent]

The second of course. These people who want to give all children a trophy just for showing up, and praise them even when they haven't done anything worth praising have gone all cargo cult. The confidence and self esteem don't come from the damn trophy and the praise, but from the ten thousand hours of practice to master the instrument (or whatever).

[Suthenboy]

"Any suggestions?"

As a matter of fact, I do have some suggestions.

[Caleb Turberville]

http://timesdaily.com/stories/.....ays,202194

This is local news for me. Devil's Advocate: What if he was just making a statement about Michelle Obama's weight and health (he is a coach after all) and he just accidentally used language that was racial-charged out of context.

[Caleb Turberville]

http://timesdaily.com/stories/.....ays,202194

This is local news for me. Devil's Advocate: What if he was just making a statement about Michelle Obama's weight and health (he is a coach after all) and he just accidentally used language that was racial-charged out of context.

[iggy]

'He also voiced his dislike for gays, stating: "I don't believe in queers. I don't like queers. I don't hate them as a person, but what they do is wrong and an abomination against God."'

He seems like a real winner.

[Caleb Turberville]

Homophobic, macho statements are the rhetorical toolkit of every high school coach. I thought that was widely known.

[Rich]

TFA says he's been "blown out of proportion".

[BakedPenguin]

Well, if he's getting the girls in class to perform oral sex on him, there's no doubt he should be removed.

[AlmightyJB]

Ba-doom-boom-ch

[Marshall Gill]

So it's really just a lovers spat, then?

[Coeus]

Lets keep pretending that we don't know what the problem is with VAWA

Bounus: feminist hit list reads like a Tea Party voter guide. These guys are starting to redeem themselves.

[John]

I do that with the local teachers' union. They stand outside the polls and give out voters guides to school board elections. I never know who is who. But thanks to them, I know who to vote against.

[Thane of Whiterun]

But letting VAWA expire legalizes rape!!!

[ant1sthenes]

Maybe the problem is that the acronym sounds like an incredibly ill-used set of female genitalia.

[Sevo]

Posted late this morning but worth another: CA hangs out "get lost" sign for businesses.
"Entrepreneurs face back tax bills to '08"
"[CA is] eliminating a 20-year-old capital gains tax break provision, but it [will] be dunning up to 2,500 business owners and investors for tax payments, plus interest, going back to 2008."

Yes, taxes you didn't owe will now be owed, plus the interest since you didn't pay the taxes you didn't owe. Moonbeam laughs!

http://www.sfgate.com/business.....250174.php

[Episiarch]

Why don't they just fucking take money directly out of people's bank accounts? Because they're basically there.

[fish]

Ssshhhh! They're working on it!

[Thane of Whiterun]

Sixty-five percent of Americans say the Nov. 6 results gave Obama a "mandate" on his proposal to raise tax rates on income over $250,000 and "to get it done." Forty-five percent of Republicans agree.

So, what kind of totally unbiased headline can we make out of that?

[Auric Demonocles]

Considering I only saw that line floated about 3 days before the election, I think the mandate was for not being a woman-hating, racist, outsourcing tax-cheat.

[Brandon]

Majorities of about 2-to-1 also read the election results as an endorsement of Obama's pledge to protect Social Security and Medicare benefits

So even though he only got 51% of the actual vote, we're going to make this poll about the vote seem like an overwhelming mandate.

[Auric Demonocles]

Also, he gets a mandate for every single one of his issues, all at once, not just the ones he was actually campaigning with.

[Cyto]

Funny that although he ran on fiscal responsibility and a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, his first priority out of the gate has been gun control.

[Thane of Whiterun]

A female orgasm workshop event is a triumph for gender equality

You know, I don't care if they hold this event or not, but the self-righteous invocation of an "orgasm gap" irks me.

[Episiarch]

They're doin' it wrong.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Bitch probably thinks every time a man squirts semen, he had an orgasm.

[Bobarian]

How is that gender equality?

Where's my male orgasm workshop..?

Oh, wait, I think I found it, it appears to be everywhere. I googled it and only got 32 million hits.

[Anonymous Coward]

Within a sexist discourse that too often leaves it up to women to educate men on their sexual pleasure,

Which is difficult as most of the women on Earth aren't entirely certain what their own "sexual pleasure" entails.

This works pretty well on most women, though

[HellsBells]

"Sadly, the intense ridicule the University has received for this event serves to illustrate that we have a long way to go before we will reach sexual justice."

Sexual justice?? Are you kidding me?

Not to mention she goes off about male dominance in the bedroom and then cites "50 Shades of Grey" as a reference on what women like.

[gaijin]

Sexual justice?? Are you kidding me?
would you prefer sexual chocolate? 😉

[Juice]

And that because she read Cosmo she knew all about male sexuality.

[Cyto]

There is no sexual justice as long as men are denied the multiple orgasm.

[Apatheist ?_??]

Does anybody actually get beIN sports? I'm mildly annoyed I can't watch the game tonight.

[BakedPenguin]

I do on the TV at work, if that counts.

Also - what game?

[Apatheist ?_??]

US world cup qualifier.

[BakedPenguin]

Ah, the Honduras game. 3 out of the 4 guys who work in our area are soccer fans, so we'll be watching.

My recommendation: take off early from work and go to a sports bar.

[BakedPenguin]

Also, the game is tomorrow @ 4.

[Apatheist ?_??]

Yeah I forgot what day of the week it is. Taking off early isn't an option. I usually dvr afternoon games like that and just not look up the score.

[Rhywun]

They're repeating it at 6:30 and 11 (Eastern). I don't have much hope against Honduras considering they couldn't get it done against Canada a few days ago.

[Apatheist ?_??]

Well doesn't do me much good when I don't ge beIN sports in the first place.

[Sudden]

The chocolate rations have been increased.

RACIST!

[John]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G.....we-do-this

Pauli Krugnuts advocates for death panels while speaking at Washington Synagogue.

[fish]

Him first...for crimes against economics!

[Anonymous Coward]

I shouldn't even say because it will get me in trouble is death panels and sales taxes is how we do this.

How much liquor did they give him before he said this?

[John]

Remember when Palin was a moron because she said Obamacare would lead to death panels?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, but Palin is a moose-shooting yokel and thus deserving of mockery for being a paranoid wingnut. Paulie Krugnuts is a Nobel Prize winning economist and thus is deserving of praise for being so prescient.

[VG Zaytsev]

Governor Richard Lamm beat them both two it by a couple a three decades.

But yeah, it's crazy to claim that any proglodyte believes that.

[iggy]

You know what would be a really easy solution? Don't socialize medicine. Then 'increasing health care costs' would be utterly irrelevant because you'd only have to pay for what you get.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

why do you hate poor people?

[GILMORE]

Argentina 'will control Falklands within 20 years'

There's something somewhat pathetic about a country making 'annexing a penguin-shit-covered-rock in the South Atlantic' a centerpiece of their National Identity

Like, 'the Nation yearns to reclaim its beloved, barely populated, offshore island, which has never once in its history ever been populated by Argentines, and which provides zero strategic value or natural resources' Viva la Malvinas!

I mean, at least North Korea talks *real smack*... they will nuke the world and conquer the planet! ...and no one takes them seriously. But at least its Ballsy! Argies, on the other hand? They claim they'll annex these shitty little islands in the freezing atlantic... and no one takes them seriously.

Mr Timerman said Britain had "occupied" the islands for "access to oil and natural resources".

Uhm. Except Europeans "occupied" an unpopulated island and used it as a shipping entrepot for 250 years. Before 'argentina' existed. And as far as i know, they only started thinking there was oil there in the last decade.

The British reaction is funnier. "Sigh. Sure... Why Not? we need another war where we win decisively. Iraq sucked."

[John]

It is pretty pathetic and sad. But in fairness, that stupid bitch they elected down there isn't any worse than the people we elect.

[Drake]

I think our idiots admire her idiot moves.

As for pathetic - Argentina is so broke, their President has to rent a plane to visit other countries - because they would repo her jet.

They are so broke, they can't afford an air force or navy - but they still try to threaten an island hundreds of miles offshore.

[Sudden]

Coincidental news having just watched The Iron Lady for the first time last night.

[Numeromancer]

That movie was sooo educational! I hadn't realized that during her term in office nothing happened in the UK but riots and bombings.

[Brandon]

Technically, it's several penguin-shit-covered-rocks.

[crashland]

When does Venezuela claim Aruba? It's only 17 miles off of its coast plus its Dutch and everybody hates the Dutch. I mean there is a big difference between a measly 17 miles and over 300. You can actually see Venezuela from the southern end of the island.

Hell, Cuba is only 90 miles off of the coast of Florida. Let's get in on this island claiming action.

[The Bearded Hobbit]

everybody hates the Dutch

+ points for the National Lampoon reference from the 70's (even if it was unintentional)

... Hobbit

[Generic Stranger]

I really don't understand why anyone (cough*Obama*cough) takes their claim seriously. None of the people who live on the island ? who can be truly said to be the native population because there was no one living on the island before the Brits colonized it ? want to be Argentinians. They all like being Brits (I guess it's not so bad when you're half a world away from the homeland). Does self-determination count for nothing? And, like you said, Argentina has absolutely no valid claim on the island whatsoever.

The world should tell Argentina to sit down and shut the fuck up. I also wouldn't be opposed to having the US military help Britain out in the event that Argentina decides to get frisky again (not that they'd need the help).

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

The ol' Monroe Doctrine sorta precludes that.

[Generic Stranger]

The Monroe Doctrine isn't law. It can be modified by the president at any time he chooses. This would be a fairly minor modification.

[Brett L]

Lastros take drastic step to secure the basement of the NL Central against the concerted attack of both the Pirates and the Cubs.

[John]

God I want to see the Cubs and Theo Douchestein fail.

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

Name another major sports team whose ownership ran an anti-Obama PAC.

[fish]

Lastros take drastic step to secure the basement of the NL Central against the concerted attack of both the Pirates and the Cubs.

Except the "Lastros" are in the AL now.

[Brett L]

I thought that was still a year out? Shit. Fuck. I guess if you were 20 games behind the team that finished last in your new division, what's the fucking point? Goddammit. I don't want those fuckers from DFW kicking the 'Stros around at will.

[Andrew S.]

Bzzzt. Astros are no longer in the NL Central. They've moved to the AL West.

[Andrew S.]

And that's why I should've refreshed before replying.

[Apatheist ?_??]

Fuck the lastros. And I refuse to accept that we're moving to the AL with that abomination DH.

[Thane of Whiterun]

Is anyone else following The Following?

[kinnath]

Yes. Pretty happy with it so far.

[Thane of Whiterun]

My main issue is that Ryan has the same facial expression 90% of the time, like Jack on Lost.

I also wonder how long they're planning on stretching this -- I hope it's just for one season. I don't want them to ruin it.

...again, like Lost.

[Gladstone]

I also wonder how long they're planning on stretching this -- I hope it's just for one season. I don't want them to ruin it.

Yeah the problem with these heavily serialized shows is that, unless they are soaps, their premises are quite limited and if they have to stretch them out then coming up with an acceptable ending is hard.

[Rhywun]

I've decided not to bother watching anything new. It's just get cancelled.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

good plan. don't watch anything that hasn't running for 15 seasons

[Coeus]

Feminist takes on a Reason article.

A key factor is that many writers on the left either misunderstand or misrepresent the abolitionist approach as a moralistic one, leading them to draw unfounded conclusions based on what could easily be resolved by having a simple conversation.

I'm disappointed that journalism, the left and the feminist movement has come to manipulating ideology in order to further a rather self-defeating cause, but here we are.

There are a number of recent examples of this distortion. Reason, a libertarian print and online magazine, recently published an article called "The War on Sex Workers." The author, Melissa Gira Grant, criticizes the criminalization of prostituted women in the U.S. ? a righteous endeavor, no doubt. But rather than challenge an unequal and oppressive system that offers marginalized women few viable options outside the sex industry and then criminalizes them for doing what they have to in order to survive (essentially criminalizing poverty) and a porn culture that positions stripping and pornography as empowering professions for women, Grant blames feminists.

[John]

The porn culture, the gun culture. Why is everything someone doesn't like a "culture". What does that even mean?

[fish]

You yourself are part of the worrst kulture of all.....blogging culture!

[Heroic Mulatto]

Culture is a set of beliefs.

*shrugs*

[NeonCat]

It allows you to hate people (while pretending not to) you know nothing about but in a way that no one can claim is explicitly racist or sexist, for instance.

"We don't hate YOU, you've just been brainwashed by your CULTURE."

[John]

^^THIS^^

[R C Dean]

Collectivists gonna collectivize.

Its what they do. Its who they are.

[Thane of Whiterun]

It doesn't take involvement in the sex trade to know that prostitution and violence against women in prostitution is the result of a very effective combination of racism, poverty, and patriarchy.

Or maybe some people like sex. And some people are violent assholes.

PATRIARCHY!

[John]

If some top shelf white girl decides to bang a hundred guys her freshman year in college, that is "empowering". If some girl with meddling prospects but a great body decides stripping is the best way the pay the bills, that is the "patriarchy".

Feminism is all about upper class white women feeling superior to working and lower class women, with a dash of smart homely girls hating attractive women for having power the ugly girls don't.

That is really all it is.

[NeonCat]

Hey, that top shelf white girl doesn't charge money. It's the evil capitalist system that makes it so degrading.

[crashland]

The top shelf white slut doesn't charge money but she does like having her drinks paid for...

[The Bearded Hobbit]

That is really all it is.

And you nailed it.

... Hobbit

[Thane of Whiterun]

The goal of feminism is to end patriarchy. The goal of socialism is to create an egalitarian alternative to capitalism. Prostitution is a product of patriarchy and capitalism.

Product of capitalism?

I guess in a way, as prostitution exists because there is a small supply of women compared high demand for sex from men, but that's not inherently capitalistic, and that's not what she means, anyway.

What a moron.

[NeonCat]

What about pre-capitalist prostitution? Does it not count? A mercantilist girl's gotta bring home the gold, too.

[MJGreen]

In the socialist utopia, you can still sleep with any woman you want, you just don't have to pay for it.

[hotsy totsy]

So why do they call it the World's Oldest Profession?

[fish]

LOOK OUT.....HERE COMES "CODE LANGUAGE"!

It doesn't take involvement in the sex trade to know that prostitution and violence against women in prostitution is the result of a very effective combination of racism, poverty, and patriarchy.

I'm surprised it took her five paragraphs to work this in!

[NeonCat]

"There is no feminist war on sex workers"

It really is more of a police action.

[Coeus]

Bonus: Stronger projection than an IMAX:

Misunderstandings about feminist perspectives on prostitution are perpetuated explicitly by articles like Grant's but further reinforced when other writers aren't willing to do the work of fairly representing the arguments.

VAWA
Abortion
Title 9

Think of any others off the top of your head that feminists refuse acknowledge the other side's arguments? I'm sure they are legion.

[Thane of Whiterun]

Mandatory contraception coverage

[Anonymous Coward]

But rather than challenge an unequal and oppressive system that offers marginalized women few viable options outside the sex industry

Women are too good to be prostitutes no matter if they want to be or not.

then criminalizes them for doing what they have to in order to survive (essentially criminalizing poverty)

This is solely the fault of evil penis-wielding men. Not a woman in sight trying to ban prostitution.

and a porn culture that positions stripping and pornography as empowering professions for women,

What other profession exists in which a woman get a man to give her money to NOT have sex with her? Because that's what stripping is. If men were a little smarter, this would not take place. But it does.

Women make up the vast majority of prostitutes (statistics say approximately 80 per cent) and, beyond that, women of colour are overrepresented.

I'm having trouble keeping up with these moving goalposts. First she's opposed to prostitution, then "women of color" are overrepresentated in prostitution? Do we need to kidnap some white girls and balance the stats?

It doesn't take involvement in the sex trade to know that prostitution and violence against women in prostitution

Could that be because prostitutes have no legal recourse against violence perpetrated against them and they would be incriminating themselves?

Then she runs off on a Marxist tangent and I lose interest. KTHXBAI.

[hotsy totsy]

Women make up the vast majority of prostitutes (statistics say approximately 80 per cent) and, beyond that, women of colour are overrepresented.

Well, duh! I'm surprised it isn't higher. I'd speculate that the majority of male prostitutes are for gay sex.

Chris Rock said it best. "Pussy is expensive. Dick is FREE."

[Coeus]

Lesbians more likely to be domestically abused than straight women.

Gee, who'd a thunk it?

[John]

That has been known in gay circles for a while. The lesbian community has a nasty wife beating problem that no one ever talks about because everyone knows only straight white males would ever beat their wife.

[NeonCat]

Obviously what we have here is straight white males pretending to be lesbians just so they can beat women and get away with it.

[Almanian.]

SHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

[BakedPenguin]

Bisexual women were also the most likely to have been raped by anyone, partner or not ? 46.1% of them had experienced rape at some point, compared with 13.1% of lesbian women and 14.7% of straight women.

I have to assume they aren't using the FBI's definition of rape, or else the under-reporting of rape is big. Those numbers seem huge.

[John]

IF waking up with buyer's remorse is rape, then I guess that whole "only a man can rape someone" thing is kind of not true anymore.

[Brett L]

I would imagine that people who define themselves as bisexual have huge overlap with the set of people who engage in high-risk sexual situations.

[HellsBells]

I know it's pc today to say that all homosexuals are born that way, but I've known several who became lesbians or bisexual after being raped while they were strictly hetero. I have to wonder if the higher rates are accounted for, in part, by similar circumstances.

[Coeus]

I'd be more likely to believe that if the very few studies that ask this question (not much funding for this angle) didn't find a majority of DV cases didn't have the wife admitting to hitting first.

[Aresen]

Sochi Olympics to cost $50 Billion

http://rt.com/business/news/so.....story-404/

[Jordan]

I'll toss a bone to Reason 24/7 here: TX trolls CA, runs Ads in CA Inviting Businesses To Relocate.

[Sevo]

Jordan,
Check at 4:55 above; Moonbeam just threw Perry a BP fastball.

[Coeus]

How dare he advocate not funding gender studies!!!

Bennett had made light, or perhaps that's dark, of gender studies courses at UNC-Chapel Hill, a top school offering a broad array of courses in the sciences and also in ... careful now ... liberal arts. The governor, as The News & Observer's Under the Dome reported, seemed eager to cast his lot with Burly Bill, saying, "That's a subsidized course. If you want to take gender studies, that's fine, go to a private school and take it. But I don't want to subsidize that if that's not going to get someone a job."

Awesome, right?

Check this out:

The governor seems to be saying that all courses should be aimed at the job market. Leaving aside for a minute the impracticality of that idea, consider that English majors go into brokerage houses, and business majors go to the Peace Corps and, these days, many people are working outside their academic specialties. A course of study in college reflects, or should, a well-balanced approach that will give any student a broad-based education with a major of particular interest. But that's no guarantee that the student will follow that major into the workplace, or should.

English majors are usually useless. So I guess that justifies funding all other useless classes.

[Thane of Whiterun]

And thanks to feminists, you can't even get a perfectly good MRS degree anymore!

[John]

The big state universities in the South still have thriving MRS departments. They are known as sororities.

[Brett L]

Yep. My buddy's wife got an art history degree, then immediately pregnant. He's still bitching about that $25,000 MRS degree he's paying for, but at least she is talking about homeschooling their kids.

[Thane of Whiterun]

Hell, one of my friends at Vanderbilt says the MRS degree is pretty big there.

But yeah, probably half the girls I knew in HS went to UGA -- I know what you mean.

[John]

Poor people in every state are paying taxes to fund a university for middle class and rich kids to take gender and various other hate studies courses. Now I can understand paying taxes to train nurses and engineers and farmers and other professions that you need. But it is pretty damned rich to expect people to subsidize the indulgences of the upper class. Why not have state subsidized polo and sailing?

[Brett L]

English majors are usually useless.

Well, now that they don't force English majors to learn rhetoric or composition, nor make them read the Western canon (which anyone should be able to do, at least through the 18th century) there's not much point. Once upon a time, you'd have learned some damned useful skills like how to make a cogent argument in clear, concise terms.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Well, now that they don't force English majors to learn rhetoric or composition, nor make them read the Western canon (which anyone should be able to do, at least through the 18th century) there's not much point.

They do, at least in the places I've studied and taught at.

[Brett L]

They beat all 3 into me in the late '90s at UT, but I was talking to a friend locally who told me he went all the way through without ever taking a dedicated rhetoric or comp class. As a creative writing major. They had workshop classes, but no baseline course that everyone needed to go through to ensure they had minimum skills. I was aghast.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Well, creative writing is a different animal.

[Heroic Mulatto]

The reason one should study a subject is because one enjoys learning about the subject. If you use that subject for your livelihood, great! The Liberal Arts were named as such as they were disciplines that could only be studied by those who were "free" (liber) from having to earn a living. The worst thing about having post-secondary education sucking from the public teat is the constant campaign to reduce universities into glorified voc-tech programs. The marketplace for education is robust enough to support a large range of educational options. The sooner we free education from the State, the better it will be for all involved.

[John]

And when that happens we will return to the days of the liberal arts being dominated by the idle rich. And that is fine. But the reality is that while it is great to live a life contemplating Shakespeare or reading the Greek plays for a living, living such a life is pretty much reserved for the lucky few who don't have to worry about making a living.

[Heroic Mulatto]

But the reality is that while it is great to live a life contemplating Shakespeare or reading the Greek plays for a living, living such a life is pretty much reserved for the lucky few who don't have to worry about making a living.

Well, here's the thing; all of us are commenting on the blog of a magazine that is concerned with protecting and increasing liberty. The battle for liberty must be fought, mostly, through the Humanities. You cannot create a justification for self-ownership with CAD, just as you cannot use fluid dynamics to prove why a society based on mutual, free association is superior to one based on coercion and aggression. Such arguments come from disciplines like philosophy and expressed through belles-lettres and even literature. Did you glean an insight concerning the primacy of the individual over the collective from a blueprint? No. However, you did gain such an insight when you read a novel about an architect whose struggles against those who envied this natural talent and sought to destroy him for it.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I believe our society is at a stage where the market demand can justify an affordable Liberal Arts post-secondary education.

[Isaac Bartram]

It's already there. It's called the Public Library, one of the least objectionable examples of government involvement out there, IMO.

It isn't just affordable, it's free.

[Coeus]

00:19:23 And two: You dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education...

00:19:26 you could've got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library.

00:19:32 Yeah, but I will have a degree...

00:19:34 and you'll be servin' my kids fries at a drive through on our way to a skiing trip.

00:19:40 Yeah, maybe. Yeah, but at least I won't be unoriginal.

[Heroic Mulatto]

It's already there. It's called the Public Library, one of the least objectionable examples of government involvement out there, IMO.

It isn't just affordable, it's free.

If you're an autodidact, go for it! Unfortunately, most people aren't.

[Isaac Bartram]

True, but the kind of English majors who can succeed in brokerage houses (one of the example in the article) probably would have succeeded just as well if they had started in the mail room with a high school diploma, and spent their spare time reading the books from a structured reading list.

[Isaac Bartram]

That said, I will confess that what I wrote was mostly tongue-in-cheek, but, then, most of what I write at HandR is.

[Numeromancer]

But understanding it costs time and effort. What many want is for the State to pay someone to tell them what to say so that they sound as though they understood it. And it does. And there are enough products of this system to provide those products with social proof that they do, in fact, have the Liberal Education they are pretending to have.

[Tonio]

Bravo, HM. Bravo.

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

Humanity is authoritarian by nature, Humanities plurally so. There's a reason why few humanities types turn out to be anything but rank statists.

We need humbling and anti-human courses to promote liberty. Like multivariate calculus and differential equations.

[Brandon]

And when that happens we will return to the days of the liberal arts being dominated by the idle rich.

Not necessarily. We live in a culture where even the poorest are wealthy enough to have leisure time without worrying about starving. People may not be able to spend their time exclusively contemplating old literature, but they would still have the option of doing it. Some would even be able to make a living at it. One of the great benefits of a free, individualist society.

[Thane of Whiterun]

The sooner we free education from the State, the better it will be for all involved.

Yeah, the issue is, I'm totally cool with majors that aren't that useful in the job marketplace -- but should taxpayer-subsidized schools teach those subjects? Probably not, especially when their stated purpose is to increase class mobility.

[Coeus]

especially when their stated purpose is to increase class mobility.

Bingo. No matter how much they bitch, hate studies classes will never advance their stated goal. Good thing they don't really care about their stated goal.

[The Bearded Hobbit]

Well said, thank you.

I have a degree in EE which I used to mold my career. However, once established, I've taken many, many college courses for the simple enjoyment of learning about something that I'm interested in. Those courses are, as you describe unnecessary for a living but I'm glad that they were available.

... Hobbit

[pmains]

Leaving aside for a minute the impracticality of that idea

Translation: I can't defend this assertion, so I will pronounce it dogma and then "leave it aside."

[John]

http://www.nationalreview.com/.....e-bialosky

Jon Corzine's crime of the century. Remember not a single person involved in big bank fraud has gone to jail in the last four years.

[Palin's Buttplug]

All the money has been located and in the process of return, you fucking idiot.

Keep rubbing that lantern though. It doesn't work.

[John]

So it is okay to steal as long as you give 90% of the money back. And the biggest financial collapse in history didn't result in a single criminal prosecution because it was all bad luck not because of President Wall Street.

God you are pathetic, even for a sock puppet. You are just a little fucking monkey.

[Palin's Buttplug]

No one "stole" a dime at MFG. It was a run on the bank caused by ineptitude.

Corzine was buying millions in stock two months before the collapse.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100429911

And why did Lehman, Merrill, and Bear defraud themself? All the execs lost their asses.

You sound like a little whiny progressive. "Arrest teh Banksters!"

[MP]

Well, of course. If I rob a bank, and the cops find the money and return it, we're all good, right?

[John]

If you are a major fund raiser for Obama, sure it is.

[Palin's Buttplug]

The money was at JP Morgan and other counterparties.

Stay the fuck out of finance, you two idiots.

We covered rehypothecation at the time here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.....othecation

[Tman]

You heard him John, if there's two things Shreek knows it's finance and the inside of Obama's rectum. And how to say "christofag".

THREE things. If there's THREE things that shreek knows it's finance, the inside of Obama's rectum, and how to say "christofag". And rednecks from Georgia who make him uncomfortable.

FOUR THINGS. Ok........

[Sevo]

And his dad? Don't get him started!

[Palin's Buttplug]

It's "Christfag". I hate religion. Any man that "loves" Jesus (or Mohammed) is a sick fuck.

Reason and enlightened self-interest are my guides (thanks Ayn Rand).

[fish]

Reason and enlightened self-interest are my guides.....

(snicker)

Metaphorically blowing the Prez and daytrading from your moms basement is no way to go through life son!

[Palin's Buttplug]

S&P 500 was 806 the day Obama was sworn in, pal.

It's gone straight up since.

1511 now.

People love money and rising valuations. It's not all about Team Red winning.

[fish]

Pump Money boy! Pump money. Why'd Corzine send that MFG money to JP Morgan....couldn't he just ask Ben to wire them a trillion or so?

[Tman]

S&P was 815 on September 2002. By September 2007 it reached a high of 1549.

I suppose you will now explain what Bush did that allowed it to flourish so well, just as you use the same measure to fellate Obama so easily.

Shreek, seriously, you aren't the only person here who knows finance. And what you've shown as your "knowledge" is somewhat laughable at best.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Obama is merely better than any Republican. I scored him just a 57 on the LP Purity scale. Bush is low 30s in comparison.

Nothing great at all.

[Tman]

Answer the question stupid.

If you claim we should all bow to Obamas superior financial planning by using the S&P 500 as an example, then what did Bush do to achieve the same results differently than your buddy?

[Palin's Buttplug]

There are no "same results". You are wrong.

The S&P 500 was 906 when Bush left office. The crash is on the party in power (GOP).

He pumped the housing bubble all he could. Giving $10,000 down payments. Lowering mortgage rules. Dropping capital requirements. Bush even protected Fannie/Freddie by killing HR 1461/S 190.

Now shut the fuck up.

[Palin's Buttplug]

806 - not 906.

[Tman]

The crash is on the party in power (GOP).

The GOP was the party in power when Bush left Office?

God you are dumb.

He pumped the housing bubble all he could.

Here we go again. We embarrassed you last time you made this argument, I'm not wasting my time on it again.

Franklin Raines is responsible for the GSE market that sucked up the housing market, and the DEMS WHO CONTROLLED CONGRESS continually thwarted and GOP attempts to rein in F&F. This is not debatable.

Your stupid argument about the pocket veto Bush did with HR 1461 is bullshit as we explained to you last time your ass was handed to you on this argument.

[Tman]

Here stupid, this was the last time you looked dumb on this argument.

http://reason.com/blog/2010/05.....nt#comment

[Palin's Buttplug]

Bush killed the GOP led 'GSE Reform Act' in 2005,

Whether it was a pocket veto or just a White House veto is pedantic.

[DesigNate]

It wasn't "vetoed" at all you disingenuous piece if dem shit. IT NEVER LEFT THE SENATE!

[DesigNate]

God I love when you prove how big a demfag you are.

[Palin's Buttplug]

You Bushfag, you should know he published a letter from the White House SAYING he would veto the bill.

It killed it then and there.

[Tman]

Shriek, you need a new talking point. Bush has a host of things he did wrong in eight years to choose from, but since you're such a fucking moron you choose the one thing he did right, which was try to increase federal oversight of F&F, against the wishes of idiots like Frank and Dodd.

There are several examples of his efforts to do so, none of which have anything to do with your stupid pocket veto which never happened.

Starting in 2003-
The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.

I mean really, you could choose from dozens of things Bush did wrong and you beat this dead horse instead?

That is enough to show how fucking clueless you are.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Yeah, Bush "reforms" were endorsed by Franklin Raines.

After those assurances, Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chief executive, endorsed the shift of regulatory oversight to the Treasury Department, as well as other elements of the plan.

(Same link) Fail.

[Tman]

So what? WTF else was he going to say?

"Uh, no I don't think it would be a good idea to implement the new policies I just spent a month having explained to me."

Franklin Raines was not in a position to say no, plus he knew Democrats would sink it anyways so he could have someone else to blame when the whole thing went to shit, which it so surely did.

He had guys like Bawney to bail him out-

''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''

Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.

''I don't see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,'' Mr. Watt said.

GET A NEW SLOGAN CHRISTOFAG.

[Palin's Buttplug]

HR 1461 PASSED the House with Barney in it - you idiot.

It was written by Mike Oxley (R) - one of the last good Republickins.

Bush killed it quickly.

[DesigNate]

Ill just drop this here

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/.....KSoiNbnQY0

[DesigNate]

"Bushfag"

Hahahahahahahaha.

My hatred of Bush is only surpassed by my hatred of Obama. I bet next you'll call me a Beckerhead.

[Not a Libertarian]

Why are you Mr. or Ms Palin using such offensive language directed towards me?

Or is this someone "else" using gay slurs in the voice of Mr. "Shriek"?

[Palin's Buttplug]

CBO: Deficit to fall to $845 billion this year - smallest since Bush's last year of $1.2 trillion.

http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43907

[John]

It is almost as if kicking the Democrats out of the House in 2010 had some kind of an effect or something. The deficit fell right up until 2007. What happened that year? What could it have been? Something in November of 2006 maybe?

[MP]

Hey chuckles...remember Fiscal Cliff II...you know, the one your butt-boy is already trying to ward off? That's what's built into CBO's #.

[Alack]

Bush's last year also included massive one-time spending that wasn't covered in the budget, so beating that number ain't exactly commendable.

[fish]

Whew....only a cunt hair shy of a trillion more debt! Well done fellator of TEAM BLUE politicos!

[Xenocles]

"smallest since Bush's last year of $1.2 trillion."

In other words, it took him an entire term to shrink the deficit below Bush's worst year?

[Sevo]

Yeah, and it wasn't from cutting spending, either.

[Palin's Buttplug]

True.

Spending is up 1% under Obama. Comparatively a stellar record.

[DesigNate]

Sllllllluuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrpppppppppp*

[Sevo]

Palin's Buttplug| 2.5.13 @ 7:59PM |#
"True.
Spending is up 1% under Obama. Comparatively a stellar record."

How do you keep from getting dizzy, dipshit?

[Sevo]

Dipshit, see here:
http://www.google.com/imgres?i.....AQ&dur=736
Yeah, 1% in the first two weeks of March if you compare spending on ...
Go fuck your dad, asshole.

[Loki]

In related news, the CBO estimates seven million people will lose their healthcare coverage under Obamacare. The chocolate rations have been increased.

Err, Racist?

[Warty]

I'm not the only Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds fan here, right? His new record is excellent. WARNING: NAKED TITS

[Gladstone]

So what about their penmanship medals?

[Alack]

He said "tummy". No amount of naked tits changes that.

[Coeus]

How to Talk to a Woman Without Being a Creep live your life in the friend zone. A feminist guide to flirting in public.

[Coeus]

So you decide to go up and talk to her. Try complimenting her on something that isn't physical or sexual. It's easier than you think: "Awesome sneakers." Or, "Is that a vintage messenger bag? I want one, but I'm worried the straps will hurt my shoulders."

[Auric Demonocles]

Is that a vintage messenger bag? I want one, but I'm worried the straps will hurt my shoulders

Yeah, that's great advice for your gay friends who want to talk to women in public.

[Thane of Whiterun]

I didn't find this article particularly objectionable, besides the all-too-predictable condescension (women are people!) and the pretentious bullshit ("vintage messenger bag" and the like).

But it's not, um, useful. All it says is "Be polite and aware of your surroundings". Most of the "tips" are basics that apply just as well to interaction with other men.

[Stormy Dragon]

Screw the messenger bag, I want to know where the entirely non-physical soul-sneakers came from!

[The Immaculate Trouser]

"Is that a vintage messenger bag? I want one, but I'm worried the straps will hurt my shoulders."

HIPSTER ALERT

[Warty]

Don't be mean. Some guy with beer goggles might someday hit on a Jezzie reader, dude. They need to be prepared for that possibility.

[Tman]

I saw that earlier when I was perusing Deadspin.

Nothing is more hilarious to me than a Jezzie giving out pick-up line advice. The most hilarious part is that half of the advice consists of "Fuck you, pervert. Don't talk to her."

I'm sure thousands of relationships will blossom with this new found wisdom.

[Apatheist ?_??]

That's a lot of strawmen to fit into one article.

[Heroic Mulatto]

You do realize that Jezebel is nothing but Cosmo for Fat Chicks, right?

[HellsBells]

So just realize that if you are interacting in any way with a female you don't know in a public place, you are bothering her, she doesn't owe you anything and....fuck it. Go home and watch porn.

[Jordan]

No, porn is degrading and evil, according to feminuts.

[Warty]

Only the good porn is degrading.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Porn is my anti-drug. What's yours?

[Thane of Whiterun]

Asian porn.

[Heroic Mulatto]

My anaconda don't want none, unless you got Evelyn Lin, hon.

[Thane of Whiterun]

Yeah, she's definitely one of the best in stateside Asian porn.

Lately I've been into Russian Asian porn, because I can't understand what they're saying so I don't have to hear (or rather, comprehend) the sort of brain-dead drivel they say, unlike in American porn, and don't have to deal with as much creepiness as in Japanese porn.

[Auric Demonocles]

I dated a girl for about 6 months, starting a week before graduating undergrad. She was a virgin at 23 and eventually lost her virginity about a month after we broke up, to a guy in his mid-30s who picked her up on the subway. At night. While she was somewhat drunk and alone.

It seems like following this article's advice is not the best choice for a lot of men.

[Heroic Mulatto]

This is the woman giving advice about pick-up lines. The only pick-up line she had ever heard in her life was when she walked by a police horse and it neighed at her.

[fish]

Actually that's not as bad as I was expecting. I thought we going to be treated to another picture of that fat girl who thinks she's funny.

[Thane of Whiterun]

Ditto.

[Auric Demonocles]

She's got red hair and I don't want to screw her, so she's doing something wrong... But I can't help but feel like she's so close to putting in enough work to pull it off.

[Redmanfms]

She's got a lot of gum, but except for her shitty posture and unflattering clothes (well, and asinine worldview), she's cute. I'd hit on her and I wouldn't have to be drunk to do so.

[Juice]

Rule 1: Be handsome.

Rule 2: Be attractive.

Rule 3: Don't be unattractive.

[DesigNate]

Rule 0: have lots of money

[Sevo]

Best pickup line ever:
"I'm not really this tall. I'm sitting on my wallet."

[STEVE SMITH]

STEVE SMITH rape all except for those he no rape. STEVE SMITH no rape feministing and jezebel contributors since STEVE SMITH no like pretentious feminazi shit.

[XTSee]

My cat has scabies. Or maybe she's in heat. She ("Puffy") is inarticulate, being a cat, so she cannot comment here, but her constant itching and howling (in cat language) and carrying-on and acting queer with the kids is getting to me.

What should I do? I'm thinking about shooting her in the head, after the kids have gone to bed, and burying her behind the shed. Would this be cruel and insensitive, in keeping with libertarian ethics?

Let me know. Thx.

[Warty]

Grab a steak knife and spay her. She'll thank you later.

[XTSee]

Spay? Why spay?
I could use that verysame knife to end her (and my) misery.
I don't think you have thought this out.

[fish]

You could use it on your self Mary and end my misery.

[XTSee]

You have "misery," "fish"?
Oh, do share it with the rest of us!
Please?

[fish]

You and the other "personalities" will need to work on your collective reading comprehension.

Troll grade: D

[XTSee]

Oh "fish," you haven't shared your misery with us. That's cheating!

Come on, "fish," tell us what you really think!
Why are you so unhappy?

[XTSee]

And are you Warty's sockpuppet?
I think you are.

[fish]

Jesus Mary....I thought you had worn out the "White Indian" interrogatory.

Troll grade: D-

[XTSee]

Hi, Warty!

[Auric Demonocles]

You should rhyme just a little bit more.

[Tonio]

Troll*B*Gone. You know you need it.

[XTSee]

Well, we've ascertained tonight that "fish" is "Warty"'s sockpuppet.
That's something.
Isn't it?

[The Immaculate Trouser]

NYT Exec promotes women to the exclusion of men; feminists cheer

Almost sounds like an Old Girls' Club to me.

[Thane of Whiterun]

Hey, I bet you're the type that likes to whip out the old reverse racism card, too, when discussing Affirmative Action.

Logic yr doin it rong

You also wonder why there's no White History Month too, don't you?

Think about what you're saying here.

Personally I don't whip out the reverse racism card, because that's not a thing. It's just racism.

[Dunphy (the real one)]

yes, ^this.

there is no such thing as reverse racism (or sexism). there is nothing 'reverse' about racism. it's either racism or it isn't.

[lap83]

The "reverse racism" phrase is proof that you don't need to be smart to recognize the horribleness of progressive racial politics.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Ron Paul took a beating today from conservatives for his comments on this dead sniper.

Was there a thread on this?

[OldMexican]

You missed it by a whole day, you buttwipeness....

[Heroic Mulatto]

THE GREATEST GENERATION

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Spin the wheel, today science says grains are Good

Eat your Wheaties ? literally. Whole grains are essential.

[Dunphy (the real one)]

whole grains are not ESSENTIAL.

there are essential amino acids and essential fatty acids. neither are found exclusively in grains, and in fact grains are rather poor sources of same.

one can completely cut out whole grains from a diet and be perfectly healthy. that is not true of various nutrients (vitamins, etc.) and macros - efa's and eaa's.

so, they are hardly essential.

whether they are "good" or not is a different question. but they are clearly not essential.

[Xenocles]

Book him, Danno!

[Dunphy (the real one)]

"Lesbians more likely to be domestically abused than straight women.

Gee, who'd a thunk it?"

i've been to several pretty hardcore lesbian DV's - iow, not just shovy -pushy- chippy bullshit, but full on battle royale ass-kicking DV's.

[Heroic Mulatto]

When I lived in Thailand, I loved going to watch kids beat the shit out of each other in Muay Thai fights. When my wife was a kid, she fought in Muay Ying fights as well. So you can imagine my joy when I discovered that they have Youth MMA in the States!

[XTSee]

Awesome links, Heroic One. Not clicking on any of them, but just the same, thanks for sharing, Brown Guy. Keep the faith! Or not.

[Mr Whipple]

I had a pair of python boots, one. I also had a pair of diamond backs. Maybe they can send Alicia over to spank me.

http://www.didntyouhear.com/wp.....rstone.jpg

[Mr Whipple]

Beyonce is in hot water with PETA for donning an iguana and python skin outfit at the Super Bowl halftime show

I only got one thing to say: Morpheus, bitchez.

http://www.myfreewallpapers.ne.....aded.shtml

Only $250,000

http://www.luxist.com/2009/01/.....ench-coat/

[Mr Whipple]

The Falkland Islands will be Argentina's within 20 years, its foreign minister said on a visit to London.

I guess that will be after the price and wage controls.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/.....aos-follow

[Dunphy (the real one)]

"Could that be because prostitutes have no legal recourse against violence perpetrated against them and they would be incriminating themselves?"

do you honestly think that if a prostitute comes forward to report a sex assault or assault that she is prosecuted for prostitution? because it doesn't work that way. and yes, i have investigated such a case. no prostitute is going to get prosecuted for prostitution if she comes forward to report being assaulted or raped by a john. it simply does not work that way.

it is true that many do not come forward because they don't want to be "on record" as a prostitute, and it's true that obviously the report is going to document that they are involved in prostitution, but i have seen sex assault detectives work damn hard to investigate crimes against prostitutes. many of these women have been severely beaten and./or raped and we (in law enforcement) take these crimes seriously.

just because a woman is involved in prostitution doesn't mean that she shouldn't expect a compassionate, vigorous law enforcement investigation if she becomes a victim of assault, rape or god forbid homicide (think green river killer).

we don't choose our victims and many victims of crimes are involved in criminal activity. that's reality.

[DesigNate]

Yeah, and cops never shoot innocent people.

[Heroic Mulatto]

A corrupt Vice squad? That's unpossible!

[XTSee]

"That's unpossible!"

Awesome! Hahahaha!
Instead of saying impossible...
He said...
Unpossible!
Heroic!

[Dunphy (the real one)]

CONTENTLESS nonresponse noted.

again, cover up ignorance with snark.

i speak from experience in investigating such cases and in reading case law. you speak from a vacuum

[iggy]

Okay, let's do this, Dunphy.

http://www.bayswan.org/jeremy1.html

Here's an article called 'police abuse of prostitutes. I only linked to page 1, since it's a long article.

[iggy]

Let's do this some more!

http://sexworkersproject.org/d.....oorFS.html

Here's an article which claims that 'Eighty percent of street-based prostitutes interviewed had experienced or been threatened with violence while working. When asked about reporting violence to the police, they reported that police did not take their complaints seriously and often told them that they should expect violence.'

To continue:

"Thirty percent of sex workers interviewed told researchers that they had been threatened with violence by police officers, while 27% actually experienced violence at the hands of police."

[iggy]

http://articles.courant.com/19.....r-sergeant

"The last time the cop picked her up, Stacy Richard says, he scared her more than any violent boyfriend or john ever had."

I could do this all day. I googled 'police abuse prostitutes' and got 6.6 million results. That's just legitimate abuse, not situations where a cop just ignores abuse committed by someone else.

[DesigNate]

You forgot to call me a bigot and rate me on the troll-o-meter.

I am disappoint.

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

And that has what-all to do with what Dunphy is talking about?

[DesigNate]

The idea that it "never" happens is as laughable as the idea that cops "never" shoot innocent people.

Jesus Christ but you laol's can be fucking dense.

[Mr Whipple]

investigated such a case. no prostitute is going to get prosecuted for prostitution if she comes forward to report being assaulted or raped by a john. it simply does not work that way.

And how many prostitutes have you ever provided protection for, for a fee, of course. Sorry, but I've been there. I don't know where you live, but it don't work like that on Kennsington Ave in Philly, or Admiral Wilson Blvd in Camden.

[Dunphy (the real one)]

the reality is that when a prostitute is assaulted or raped and they come forward to report same, they are not prosecuted for prostitution

that's reality. snark aside, some people prefer to wallow in ignorance, believing that if a prostitute is assaulted or raped and she comes forward to report it that she is prosecuted.

ignorance is one thing, but this is just colossal stupidity completely divorced from the reality of what actually happens in the real world.

peope with zero experience in such cases and no research whatsoever just make stupid comments with no basis in reality, the only justification for same being their ignorance and cynicism.

the reality is what it is.

[Mr Whipple]

Zero experience? You are the one with no experience of actually being out on the street dealing with what these girls go through. They simply do not trust the police, and they have no reason to.

You have no idea where I come from ,or what i have been through. Spare me your little "good cop" bullshit. People on the street don't trust you assholes for a reason.

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

how many prostitutes have you ever provided protection for, for a fee, of course

That is totally out of line. Dunphy is a good cop who agrees with you on most issues.

The way you guys treat him is an outrage.

[Redmanfms]

The way you guys treat him is an outrage.

"fuck him, he deserved to die."

[Redmanfms]

this guy was a fucking moron begging to get shot

He's also a guy who admits to breaking the law for a drug collar (which you also defended him on, unsurprisingly).

You two really deserve each other Tulpa. Both of you are disingenuous malignant pieces of shit and consequently neither of you get any respect.

[The Late P Brooks]

Wow.

In Pennsylvania, where infrastructure woes are among the worst in the nation, Gov. Tom Corbett unveiled a plan Tuesday to generate nearly $5.4 billion in new revenue over five years by lifting a cap on gas taxes paid by wholesale gasoline dealers, while lowering the tax paid by consumers by two cents per gallon.

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The Republican governor, who has promised not to raise taxes, said the proposal didn't amount to new taxes but removed an artificial limit on taxes paid by companies. "It is time for oil and gas companies to pay their fair share of the cost of the infrastructure supporting their industry," Mr. Corbett said.

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

[John]

They would never pass on the costs. That is dirty pool.

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

This is the shell game that results from Mr Norquist and his brainless tax pledge.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Not really a pickup line:
I had a friend who would go through the ATM receipts and find a huge balance, and wrote his phone number on the back to give the ladies.

[Sevo]

See 9:02 above.

[Clich? Bandit]

AWESOME!!!

Fight drones with clothes!

[waaminn]

That cat totally knows what is going on ver there. Wow.
http://www.Im-Anon.tk