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President Obama Announces Federal Brain Project, Florida Medical Marijuana Bill Going Nowhere Despite Popular Support, Dutch Regret Joining Euro: P.M. Links

Ed Krayewski | 4.2.2013 4:30 PM

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    The Pentagon says budget cuts will see it spending less on its drones, and only $1.03 billion on research and development when they requested nearly $2 billion.

  • President Obama announced the BRAIN project, a fedeally-funded effort to map the human brain that will start with a $100 million "investment."
  • Seven out of ten Floridians support medical marijuana, but a bill legalizing it can't even get a hearing in the legislature.
  • Two men in Texas are suing their local sheriff department for allegedly detaining them for 39 days and seizing $14,000 they say they saved up for a new car.
  • Senators John McCain and Sheldon Whitehouse are visiting Mali to check out the French-led intervention.
  • Tens of thousands of people die in the winter in the United Kingdom, in part because of fuel taxes.
  • A poll in the Netherlands shows 55 percent regretting the country joining the euro. Eurozone unemployment, meanwhile, hit a record 12 percent high.
  • Samoa Air may start to charge passengers by weight.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    Two men in Texas are suing their local sheriff department for allegedly detaining them for 39 days and seizing $14,000 they say they saved up for a new car.

    A new car... MADE OUT OF DRUGS!

    1. Episiarch   12 years ago

      Uh oh, FoE just watched Up in Smoke again.

      Fist's not here, man.

    2. tarran   12 years ago

      Actually, it's worse; the men claim that the source of a significant portion of the cash was a loan from a bank.

      The bank doesn't care what happened to the money, they want their loan payments.

      1. Brett L   12 years ago

        I'm pretty sure your loan repayment is exempt from force majeure.

        1. Randian   12 years ago

          You would think that, but you would be wrong.

          1. Brett L   12 years ago

            Hell, even my credit card has a force majeure clause. We can argue whether this would qualify (I vote aye, because it is neither normal nor within the foresight of a reasonable person.)

        2. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

          Payment is exempt? It's often the one thing not exempted in commercial force majeure clauses.

          1. Brett L   12 years ago

            If they seize your asset, but what about if they seize the cash? Also, what how did they get cash on a loan for a car?

            1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

              Fuck you, pay me.

    3. Joe M   12 years ago

      Probably they were going to put the new car perpendicular to traffic, so this was good police work.

  2. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

    "President Obama Announces Federal Brain Project"

    If only he had one.

    1. gaijin   12 years ago

      but it's to map "THE" human brain...the one "we" all share dontchaknow.

      Seriously, how long until the research shows that those on the right are genetic malformations, who must be identified via mandatory scans, that must be fixed.

      1. NeonCat   12 years ago

        Do they snip out the little piece of brain that causes all the problems, then give it to you in a jar?

        1. Episiarch   12 years ago

          gaijin is Walter Bishop?

          1. NeonCat   12 years ago

            I was making a Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror whichever it was) reference. I never watched Fringe.

          2. gaijin   12 years ago

            Walter Harold Bishop....PhD!

            1. Episiarch   12 years ago

              You want a milkshake, Walter?

      2. Tim   12 years ago

        (Dorothy)
        With the thoughts you'd be thinkin'
        You could be another Lincoln
        If you only had a brain

        1. Bobarian   12 years ago

          "President Obama Announces Federal Brain Project"

          In order to figure what causes Joe Biden to continue to breath?

        2. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

          I could wile away the hours,
          Atop of Stephanie Powers,
          In Dallas or Danang.
          I could rise above flirtation,
          Try my hand at masturbation,
          If I only had a wang.

          1. EDG reppin' LBC   12 years ago

            It's Stefanie Powers.

            That's Mrs. H; she goureous!

    2. IamNotEvil   12 years ago

      Maybe he's trying to find Biden's brain. Or figure out how it works so they can install a 5 second delay to his mouth.

  3. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    Tens of thousands of people die in the winter in the United Kingdom, in part because of fuel taxes.

    A small price to pay for whatever it is artificially hiking the price of fuel gets you.

    1. tarran   12 years ago

      ... that is far outweighed by the tens of millions of people that I am assured are dying yearly because we are raping Gaia for oil.

      1. Anonymous Coward   12 years ago

        Keep Calm and Die Freezing.

        1. NeonCat   12 years ago

          Really stiff upper lip.

          1. Rich   12 years ago

            LOL

            "Had to. Dead, you know."

    2. PapayaSF   12 years ago

      Those deaths get you an average global temperature, 100 years from now, that's .00000001 degree cooler. Totally worth it.

  4. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

    I heard that Australia is allowing direct conversion to Yuan, bypassing the USD. I'm too lazy to link.

    1. Tim   12 years ago

      Juan?

    2. Xenocles   12 years ago

      I guess I just assumed that transactions not involving USD... don't involve USD. Hmm.

  5. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

    "Samoa Air may start to charge passengers by weight."

    That actually makes sense for Samoa.

    1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

      There or Tonga would be a real money maker...

    2. robc   12 years ago

      It makes some sense for every airline.

      Charge X dollars per seat and Y cents per pound.

      I dont expect airlines to do it here because of the whining that would insue.

      1. Zeb   12 years ago

        And you need to watch out for that. I heard something about the Canadian HRC mandating that fatsos get a second seat for free.

      2. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

        "I dont expect airlines to do it here because of the whining that would insue."

        Jezebel would explode!

        1. Episiarch   12 years ago

          Well, that might be worth it.

          Oh god the butthurt that would come with making people pay by weight (which actually makes more sense from a "fairness" perspective, as right now, light people subsidize heavy people, whether they're fat or they're an NFL linebacker) would be epic. Not just from Jezebel, but so many other places as well. What fun! Too bad it'll never happen for just that reason.

          1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

            I would be so on board with this. Tired of subsidizing all you tall motherfuckers (in addition to bitches who can travel sans liquids).

            1. Episiarch   12 years ago

              I knew shrimps like you would be anti-tall people! Bigot! That's the worst kind of discrimination! The kind against me!

      3. gaijin   12 years ago

        Actually, it ought to be the combination of the weight of you and your luggage. No pounds ride for free.

      4. Winded   12 years ago

        You poor cramped peasants...in first class it doesn't matter how fat the person next to me is, until they get over 500 pounds they don't spill over. Plus there is free monocle polishing up there.

    3. Raston Bot   12 years ago

      As a darksider? (200+lbs), I'm not siked. But at least it makes no attempt at calculating BMI or other bullshit metrics.

  6. robc   12 years ago

    Tens of thousands of people die in the winter in the United Kingdom, in part because of fuel taxes global warming.

    Fixed?

  7. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    Seven out of ten Floridians support medical marijuana, but a bill legalizing it can't even get a hearing in the legislature.

    Like what the voters want makes a difference when there's serious money to be made in prohibition.

    1. NeonCat   12 years ago

      If only they could get Disney behind MMJ?

    2. Mickey Rat   12 years ago

      Not exactly the most motivated of constituencies.

  8. Episiarch   12 years ago

    President Obama announced the BRAIN project, a fedeally-funded effort to map the human brain

    I wonder how this could be politicized...maybe finding "unusual brain structure" in your political enemies? There's got to be a way!

    1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

      All courtesy of our new "Scientist-in-Chief".

      1. Episiarch   12 years ago

        I thought that "Scientist-in-Chief" was made up by someone else to mock him, yet, nope, he came up with it himself.

        The guy's fucking ego is the size of Tulpa's ass. He's a complete megalomaniac.

        1. Rich   12 years ago

          It was made up by the "Humorist-in-Chief".

    2. gaijin   12 years ago

      all children scanned at birth to identify the malformations...and sent to special camps for fixin'

      1. Heedless   12 years ago

        Fix in'

        Are you some kind of monster? That's what abortions are for.

    3. Zeb   12 years ago

      Right wingers and left wingers are mostly just scared of slightly different things, so I doubt they'll find much structural difference there. I suspect it will be more like the genome project and we will have people handwringing about how much people should be allowed to know about themselves.

      1. gaijin   12 years ago

        I doubt they'll find much structural difference there

        Politicized science always finds what it's looking for.

        1. a better weapon   12 years ago

          I think Obama is a craven opportunist as much as any opponent of his, but this move doesn't bother me so much. In the category of "Shit Washington Spends Our Money On" I can live with this one.

          I'm with Zeb, since the Genome project didn't result in political gamesmanship, I don't see that happening here.

          1. Heedless   12 years ago

            1000x as useful as the supercollider at 1/40th of the price.

    4. Tim   12 years ago

      "Brain and brain! What is brain?!"

      1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

        Referencing one of the better episodes in Star Trek's canon can only get you so far, Tim.

        1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

          Better? What's better than that?

          1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

            Don't make me choose between Spock's Brain and the Ferengi episodes on DS9.

            1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

              They should make that the next Star Wa--I mean, Star Trek--movie. A mashup of a Ferengi episode with "Spock's Brain."

              1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

                I'm thinking you can really go somewhere if you make it a tasteful homage to Wizard of Oz.

                The Vulcan without a brain, the Ferengi without a heart, the... whatever the hell Neelix was supposed to be without courage.

                1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

                  Who is the Wizard? I'll gut you if you say Q.

                  1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

                    I was thinking Harvey Mudd.

                    1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

                      Oh, okay, that works.

            2. Episiarch   12 years ago

              No, the episode where Spock's command abilities are challenged aboard the shuttlecraft. It's the bestest!

              1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

                It's better than "Spock's Brain." I didn't love that episode, because it gets Spock wrong, but that's hindsight. I liked the going to orbit on phaser power bit--Scotty's like a god. Sorry, strike the "like" part.

                Geordi couldn't get to orbit on phaser power, that's for fucking sure.

                1. Episiarch   12 years ago

                  Is this some sort of veiled impotence insult?

                  1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

                    It could be. I mostly pity LeVar Burton, who I've liked since his Roots days, because his character wasn't treated so well by the writers. Kind of like poor Wil Wheaton.

                    1. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

                      You think LeVar Burton was treted badly? What about poor Michael Dorn?

                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edflm7Hh3hs

                    2. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

                      Please. Worf had whole story arcs dedicated to him. And he got regular sex, unlike Geordi.

                    3. Mickey Rat   12 years ago

                      Geordi's best relationship was with a hologram of a real married woman. Worf got to mack on Deanna and Jadzia. I don't think Dorn was terribly disappointed.

                      Geordi was the Mk I version of Harry Kim.

                    4. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                      Geordi was the Mk I version of Harry Kim.

                      I can get behind this. At least Geordi didn't have the filial piety act going on; that was an addition for the Mk II.

                    5. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

                      Did you watch the video? It chronicles how Worf was repeatedly dissed by his crewmates. At least they respected Geordi.

                2. NeonCat   12 years ago

                  Sure, not with the phasers they have in NG days. Back in the Kirk days, they had real phasers that'd knock your shoulder off, if you didn't hold it right, phasers that would shoot true and plow through anything in their path. But too many recruits couldn't take it so they switched to the lower power model the NG bunch runs around with. Makes me sick, this Sevrin-ification of Starfleet. (spits, hits spitoon)

                  1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

                    Yeah, back in Kirk's day, real men used real phasers. De-materialize and self-destruct were options individuals were trusted with before the rise of the Federapetion.

            3. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

              "Those are Klingons??" "We do not discuss it with outsiders."

              1. Rabban   12 years ago

                This is actually explain in a multi episode arc in the Enterprise series. Too lazy to Netflix it? Short version is a failed attempt at genetic modification (like what made Khan) by the Klingons went ary and left them flat foreheaded for a period of time. This was later corrected by improvements in genetic tech.

    5. Anonymous Coward   12 years ago

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1WI8BUe9Eg

    6. Raston Bot   12 years ago

      Dr. Frankenstein: [To Igor] Igor, may I speak to you for a moment?
      Igor: Of course.
      Dr. Frankenstein: Sit down, won't you?
      Igor: Thank you. [sits on the floor]
      Dr. Frankenstein: No no, up here.
      Igor: Thank you. [sits on a chair]
      Dr. Frankenstein: Now... that brain that you gave me... was it Hans Delbruck's?
      Igor: [Crosses arms] No.
      Dr. Frankenstein: [Holds up hand] Ah. Good. Uh... would you mind telling me... whose brain... I did put in?
      Igor: And you won't be angry?
      Dr. Frankenstein: I will not be angry.
      Igor: [Shrugs] Abby...someone.
      Dr. Frankenstein: Abby someone? Abby who?
      Igor: Abby Normal.
      Dr. Frankenstein: [takes a deep breath] Abby Normal?
      Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name. [He and Dr. Frankenstein laugh]
      Dr. Frankenstein: Are you saying... [Stands] that I put an abnormal brain... [Puts hand on Igor's hump] into a 7 and a half foot long... 54- inch wide... [Grabs Igor by throat] GORILLA?!?!?! [Strangling Igor] IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME!?!

      1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

        One of my favorite movie comedy moments. Abby Normal.

        1. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

          The film would be nothing without Feldman. He's the glue that holds it all together.

          1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

            I wouldn't put it that way, exactly, though he was critical and awesome. It probably doesn't work the same without a few of the cast members. Like Frau Blucher, for instance.

            1. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

              True, it was an great ensemble but just think of the scene when Frau Blucher and Igor are on the roof. She's playing violin and he's sitting there just counting rests waiting to play his six notes. And when he does - priceless.

              1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

                No doubt, he was amazingly funny.

    7. SIV   12 years ago

      I predict the "scientists" identify a "rape zone" in male brains.

  9. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

    U.N. passes sweeping international arms regulation viewed by some as Second Amendment override

  10. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    The Pentagon says budget cuts will see it spending less on its drones...

    No more G.I. Bill for drones? Or maybe the drones won't get those up-armored humvees they've been asking for.

  11. Brett L   12 years ago

    Tennessee proposes an end run on the 17th Amendment.

    Tennessee state Sen. Frank Nicely, a Republican from Strawberry Plains, has introduced S.B. 471, which would, beginning in 2016, eliminate party primaries for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee. Members of the state Legislature would instead select the nominees. Republican House and Senate caucuses would pick the GOP nominee, and their Democratic counterparts would select their candidate. State Rep. Harry Brooks, R-Knoxville, has also introduced the bill in the Tennessee General Assembly.

    Repeal would be better.

    1. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

      Given the polarization now you won't see a Constitutional amendment for a long time.

      1. Brett L   12 years ago

        Oh, I agree. But being on record as pro-repeal, I just wanted to put this up and say that while I agree with the sentiment, the mechanism is terrible. For one thing, there's no way to have anything but a 2-party election under the bill.

        1. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

          I would accept the repeal of the 17th in exchange for making gerrymandering illegal.

          1. Kreel Sarloo   12 years ago

            Even in California?

            1. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

              Yes. Gerrymandering is worse than the direct election of Senators.

              1. Certified Public Asskicker   12 years ago

                Come on Shrike, look at MD:

                http://alephblog.com/http://al.....mander.jpg

                That doesn't excite you at all?

              2. MP   12 years ago

                Not sure that's at all practically possible.

                1. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

                  It's easy, just make the House a lot larger. The more finely sampled the electorate is, the hard it is to make districts that deviate wildly from the actual electorate.

                  1. mnarayan   12 years ago

                    It's easy, just make the House a lot larger. The more finely sampled the electorate is, the hard it is to make districts that deviate wildly from the actual electorate.

                    I don't think you've really thought this one through.

                    1. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

                      It's like the Laffer curve. Pennsylvania currently has 12,763,536 people in it. If they were all in one giant congressional district, it would be impossible to gerrymander it. At the other extreme, if we created 12,763,536 one-person congressional districts, it would be impossible to gerrymander them.

                      Obviously, there must be some intermediate district size that creates "optimal" oppurtunities for gerrymandering. If our present situation is too close to that optimum, the solution is to move toward one of the extremes by either creating fewer bigger districts or more numerous smaller districts.

              3. Isaac Bartram   12 years ago

                I'd go along with that but the only sure way to avoid gerrymandering is one of the individual voting methods of proportional representation like Hare or Hare-Clark. Instant-runoff voting is another choice.

                There are other voting methods that might achieve a reasonable distribution of votes but on observation of American voters, thousands of whom do not seem to be able to select a single candidate without fucking up, I'm convinced they are not sufficiently intelligent to use any of these systems.

                It speaks badly of Americans to see that they can probably not master a voting system that Tasmanians use in every election.

                1. Isaac Bartram   12 years ago

                  That said, I'd be OK with doing away with the electoral college if we did away with presidential primaries and just went for Instant-runoff voting for presidential elections.

                  I'd even be fine with separate elections and runoffs until a clear majority emerged if presidential elections were held separately from all others.

                2. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

                  It speaks badly of Americans to see that they can probably not master a voting system that Tasmanians use in every election.

                  Spinning around and slobbering all over the place makes me dizzy.

          2. Brett L   12 years ago

            I would take that deal. However, a good friend of mine is doing grad work in GIS -- specifically political geography -- and introduced me to the complexity of making "objective" districts. For instance, if you try to do a minimum perimeter to area in my state (FL), the smoothing of coastal features and where you start from will give you radically different districts. Also, the VRA won't let us (again, in FL) disregard demographic geographies, although I'm not blaming gerrymandering on that.

            1. Emmerson Biggins   12 years ago

              ya, define gerrymandering exactly, and I'll listen. I don't think it can really be done though. All you can do is make rules about how the districts are drawn get along less easily with gerrymandering.

            2. Mickey Rat   12 years ago

              Why not? It is the reason most openly given to gerrymander.

          3. Acosmist   12 years ago

            It'd be nice to get rid of the Voting Rights Act and its MANDATED gerrymandering, for damn sure.

            1. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

              I realize that it's current GOP mythology that the VRA requires racial gerrymandering, but SCOTUS has ruled on two separate occasions that it does not and that racial gerrymandering is in fact unconstitutional: Miller v. Johnson and Bush v. Vera.

              1. Brett L   12 years ago

                It depends. Try drawing lines without a demographic survey and see what happens.

                1. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

                  It's a false dilemma. The courts have said you can't gerrymander districts to disadvantage minorities. That's not the same as saying you must gerrymander to advantage minorities.

                  The states could, you know, just stop gerrymandering entirely.

                  1. Xenocles   12 years ago

                    Sure, they just have to get their plan approved by a totally nonpartisan process.

                2. Virginian   12 years ago

                  Yeah, there needs to be some study of this phenomenon of the government circumventing the law.

                  See, for example, the "my official email accounts are public record, so I will create a secret email account and use it for secret correspondence."

                  Or the ATF's "The law says we have to delete the background check records, so we'll just 'forget' to do that every night."

              2. Mickey Rat   12 years ago

                Then how do you get purposely created majority-minority districts? How else does a district that starts in Jacksonville end in southwest Orlando?

          4. ant1sthenes   12 years ago

            Fine, I will trade you a system where representatives and electors are chosen at random, which would be the exact opposite of gerrymandering, as representation would be exactly proportional, in the long run.

    2. Calidissident   12 years ago

      I think the state legislature election of senators thing is kinda overrated in terms of protecting liberty. Hell, the 17th Amendment itself was pushed for and approved by the vast majority of state legislatures.

  12. Gladstone   12 years ago

    Well I know this is old but it involes two of HR two favourite things: Firefly and feminists.

    http://users.livejournal.com/_allecto_/34718.html

    http://allecto.wordpress.com/2.....-part-one/

    1. Bam!   12 years ago

      "This is a really long rant about Joss Whedon's Firefly. Why? Because I'm angry and I think it is really important that feminists don't leave popular culture out of the equation. Especially considering that popular culture is increasingly being influenced by pornography."

      Nope; can't get past the first paragraph.

      1. Mickey Rat   12 years ago

        You really should. She seems a mite confused by the meaning of the word "rape".

        "For example, one Guild rule is that the 'Companion' chooses her rapist, not the other way around."

    2. Brett L   12 years ago

      Wait, just so I'm clear, the show that features (a)a female mechanic (who took her boyfriend's job) (b)a prostitute who is treated as an honorable person and (c)a couple where the woman does all of the ass-kicking is anti-feminist and pro-rape. Although, Saffron was clearly worth more than Vera.

      1. Isaac Bartram   12 years ago

        Zoe: I know something ain't right.
        Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

      2. Mickey Rat   12 years ago

        She believes that prostitution can never be anything other than rape and apparently thinks that a minority can ever play an antagonist or heaven forbid an outright villain, else you are portraying the minority group badly (she strongly objects to Jubal Early and the Operative being portrayed by black men).

        1. Calidissident   12 years ago

          Don't forget the part where she says any man who pressures (and if you read the context, she's using that term extremely broadly) a woman into sex is a rapist and that the vast majority of hetero sex today is rape.

    3. Episiarch   12 years ago

      tl;dr

      But I skimmed a little, and if this person gets RAPE from Mal's actions in "Our Ms. Reynolds", then just walk away. They can't be reasoned with, they can't be bargained with, and they will not stop with this shit ever.

    4. Gladstone   12 years ago

      Don't forget this comment by the author:

      I feel awful for Joss Whedon's wife. From what I've read about him and the interviews I've watched, I'm fairly certain that he rapes his wife and abuses her in various other ways. I honestly can't think of anything worse than living with a man like Joss who thinks of women like the way he portrays in his tv shows. How awful. The comment about the money was meant to be about how I personally could see no benefit from being with a man like Joss OTHER than money. Joss uses and abuses her. Probably rapes her and thinks of women as whores etc, etc. Obviously, Ms Whedon has her own reasons for staying. Fear, patriarchal concepts of love, etc. But I would argue that she gives everything and gets nothing. Money is the only concrete thing that she could possibly gain. But as I said money is worth nothing compared with self-integrity, self-esteem, love (sister/lesbian/gynaffectionate love) etc. So she still loses out. Poor woman.

      1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

        Wow, I'm not going to read it but what on earth do I not know about Joss Whedon?

        1. NeonCat   12 years ago

          That he is, in reality, STEVE SMITH?

        2. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

          I was confused too, isn't he known for independent female characters?

          Is the article from yesterday? Maybe it's self-parody.

          1. itsnotmeitsyou   12 years ago

            dani (_allecto_) wrote,
            2007-12-15 23:15:00

            Yeah, I had to check too...

            1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

              I'm trying to come up with some way to structure my picture of this writer where I don't want her put in a burlap sack and tossed into a stormy sea. Maybe she was a college freshman, really impressed with her sociology of gender prof and she went way overboard, or she could have some kind of degenerative brain disease, or be suffering from exposure to toxic waste.

              There, I am at peace with the world again.

              1. itsnotmeitsyou   12 years ago

                Wow, that's some impressive repression and denial you've got going on there. Are you sure you're not a liberal?

                1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

                  Wow, that's some impressive repression and denial you've got going on there.

                  It's been hard to do, but I've watched my liberal friends closely and learned some of their secrets. Now when someone is quite clearly a monster I just smile and feel bad for them because their parents probably gave them mercury to play with during their formative years.

                  It's really relieved my urge to kill with fire those who are wrong.

                  1. Episiarch   12 years ago

                    No, jesse, no. Feel the hate flow through you. Use its strength. Then take it out on Hugh.

                    1. Irish   12 years ago

                      Why Hugh? I thought you said that Nicole is the worst, so why would people take it out on Hugh when we have the worst person floating around here?

                    2. Episiarch   12 years ago

                      Don't worry, I have more detailed plans for nicole. Hugh is a more immediate problem. For instance, he reads--and likes--graphic "novels".

                    3. Irish   12 years ago

                      So? I like deep dish pizza. According to H&R that makes me a stupid, no class fatty who hates real pizza.

                      Because H&R is wrong and probably eats fucking Dominoes or something.

                    4. Episiarch   12 years ago

                      (adds Irish to the list that also has ProL, nicole, and Hugh in it)

                    5. Coeus   12 years ago

                      (adds Irish to the list that also has ProL, nicole, and Hugh in it)

                      Wait. Was this you?

                    6. Irish   12 years ago

                      I can't be. He's not in the midst of stuffing his face with the cardboard that we call 'thin crust pizza,' so clearly it can't be Epi.

                    7. Episiarch   12 years ago

                      No, this is me.

                      (adds jesse and Coeus for being near Irish in the subthread)

                    8. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                      Fucking Shrike-lover.

                    9. Episiarch   12 years ago

                      It's true, I can't deny it.

                      (adds nicole to the list again)

                    10. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

                      Can't you just have the Reason Admin print you off a list of registered commenters and that can be your list?

                    11. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

                      Egad, Irish, are you trying to get onto Epi's hitlist?

      2. Episiarch   12 years ago

        This person is clearly insane, and I'd also throw some projection and dark, dark fantasizing in there.

        1. Eduard van Haalen   12 years ago

          And she's probably guilty of defamation, too, if you want to get technical. Unless she's using a definition of rape different from what normal people use...never mind.

      3. JW   12 years ago

        C'mon, that HAS to be sarcasm.

        It's Poe's Law, that's all that I know it is for sure..

      4. MJGreen   12 years ago

        So to be clear, in her eyes, a woman can only feel love from other women? This is an April Fool's post, right?

        1. itsnotmeitsyou   12 years ago

          nope, it's old..

          Can someone please tell me what the fuck "gynaffectionate love" is?

          I googled it, and all the results were links to her post or people mocking her post.

      5. CharlesWT   12 years ago

        Secretively a member of the Alliance Information Bureau.

    5. itsnotmeitsyou   12 years ago

      Holy crap on a crutch. She used "feminist" FOUR times in the first sentence. Gee, think this may have been written by a feminist? feminist.

      1. NeonCat   12 years ago

        There feminist is no better feminist way to raise feminist consciousness than feminist to feminist say feminist more.

        1. itsnotmeitsyou   12 years ago

          We really need a Poe's Law for feminism. This article is beyond the ridiculous. It's like a caricature of a caricature of a caricature of feminism. I mean, I don't think I've seen this many terrible interpretations out of anything Marcotte dribbles onto the page.

          I mean, she took a series where EVERY SINGLE WOMAN in the cast is a strong independent woman. Zoe is an absolute badass, Kayleigh is a super intelligent ship mechanic, Inara holds more power than anyone, and River is a god damned force of nature. Yet, all she this cunt sees is a subservient minority woman, a patriarchially downtrodden subordinate, a rape victim (who "chooses her rapist"), and whatever she said about River (I honestly couldn't read that far).

          WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?

          1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

            So I read some of it, and I don't actually know anything about Firefly (or probably anything else Whedon has done), but I immediately notice that she has a problem with prostitution. "Companion" is "Joss Whedon's euphemism for prostituted women" who are "raped/fucked/used by a prostitutor." Thank you for taking women's agency away, you fuckhead. I mean it's not like we were doing anything with it.

            1. Episiarch   12 years ago

              I don't actually know anything about Firefly

              The. Worst.

              1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                Look, I know a lot more now than I did 20 minutes ago. Like about how rapey it is and shit. I mean about how "Serenity" is the name of a "Firefly" type ship or whatever. Plus you know I have to put these little notes in for you so I can keep the tiara.

            2. itsnotmeitsyou   12 years ago

              She completely misses the point of the Companions in Firefly. They aren't just whores. Inara actually gets quite offended when she is called a whore. There are actual whores in the world, which Joss doesn't demonize, but Companions are SOOOO much more than a whore.

              1. Brett L   12 years ago

                Also, the "I'll be in my bunk" quote and meme derives directly from the Companion taking a female client. So was she also being femsploited?

                1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                  Something something, "maybe someday we'll all be mermaids so men can't get between our legs and we will reproduce only girl babies via parthenogenesis," something something, no I am not shitting you. (Actually, that was a commenter, and on an unrelated post, BUT STILL.)

                2. Xenocles   12 years ago

                  titheni: I'm curious. Given your definition of all prostitution as rape, and also most heterosexual intercourse as rape -- is a woman who pays another woman for sex raping her, in your view?

                  allecto: Yes.

                  1. Episiarch   12 years ago

                    IT'S RAPE ALL THE WAY DOWN

    6. kinnath   12 years ago

      The first scene opens in a war with Mal and Zoe. Zoe runs around calling Mal 'sir' and taking orders off him. I roll my eyes. Not a good start

      wow

      1. JW   12 years ago

        Kinnath and I can think back to a time where we would be blissfully unaware of this frothing moron, since she wouldn't have had an easy way of distributing her batshit crazy, other than pamphletting on a street corner and being shunned by passers-by.

        Now we see the Internet's true dark side.

    7. Gladstone   12 years ago

      http://allecto.wordpress.com/2.....-part-two/

      I won't be allowing comments from anyone who is not a radical feminist (or pro-radical feminist) or a lesbian feminist/separatist. Yes, I am pro-censorship. Boohoo.

      Well nice of her to admit that she is a statist fuck in the end.

      1. itsnotmeitsyou   12 years ago

        Yeah, I read that line as "I'm a closed minded dipshit who's flimsy beliefs can't handle the slightest challenge so I'm just going to lock myself in an echo chamber and pretend no one else exists. LA LA LA LA LA!!"

      2. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

        "I won't be allowing comments from anyone who is not a radical feminist (or pro-radical feminist) or a lesbian feminist/separatist. Yes, I am pro-censorship. Boohoo."

        And the matriarchy continues its oppression of others.

      3. Xenocles   12 years ago

        Anonymous: While I realise you hate my sex, may a gay man comment on what has been a facinating read?

        allecto: I don't hate your sex, I hate your gender. If you don't understand what I mean by that then go and do your feminist homework before attempting to take up space on my blog.

        I'm just going to read some YouTube comments to wash that out of my mind.

        1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

          Thank you, Xenocles, for bursting my bubble...Where is Hugh!?

          1. Xenocles   12 years ago

            Surely you mean raping your bubble.

            1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

              That's what I said. Is there some kind of non-penetrative bubble bursting method that you're aware of?

              1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                Bubbles can explode. Can you be raped by the evil inside of yourself?

                1. Coeus   12 years ago

                  What do you think "Nightman" is about?

                  1. Episiarch   12 years ago

                    Charlie: (singing) Nightman, sneaky and mean, / Spider inside my dreams, / I think I love you. / You make me wanna cry. / You make me wanna die. / I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, / I love you, Nightman. / Every night you come into my room / And pin me down with your strong arms. / You pin me down, and I try to fight you. / You come inside me and fill me up, / And I become the Nightman?

                    Mac: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Charlie! Hold on a second. I mean, the first half of that song was kinda cool, but what's with the second half?

                    Charlie: It's about the Nightman like, you know, like filling me up, and I become him. I become the spirit of the Nightman.

                    Mac: But it sounds like a song where a man breaks into your house and rapes you.

                2. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

                  I suppose, but that would imply that Xenoclese was inside the bubble with me, and therefor sharing my self-delusion, which was not the case. Ipso facto he was an external force penetrating my bubble and freeing me of my false consciousness. Or something like that.

                  1. Xenocles   12 years ago

                    I'm not into kinky rape.

    8. Coeus   12 years ago

      Christ:

      MAL
      She's a nice girl.
      BOOK
      Seems very anxious to please you.
      MAL
      That's their way, I guess.
      BOOK
      (bright, casual) I suppose so. If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the
      theater.
      (My emphasis.)

      Now, that comment right there indicates to me that our dear Mr. Whedon is a porn user. And that it is highly likely that his pornography of choice is Hustler, given that he seems to think it funny to trivialise the sexual abuse of children. How many times has Joss wanked to our degradation in Hustler while chuckling away at Chester the Molester cartoons? I actually really want to know the answer to this question. Joss continues his race hatred by putting this 'joke' in the mouth of a Black man.

      1. Episiarch   12 years ago

        Like I said: she's insane.

    9. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

      Guys. I just read a lot of really terrible things on that blog. It was so much more insane than the usual feminist stuff we get. Well done, Gladstone!

      1. Irish   12 years ago

        Almost all porn is child pornography, really. Mainstream porn magazine almost never feature women even in the advanced age of the? early twenties, and many of them capitalize on having titles like "barely legal!" highlighting that their models, while all still supposedly adult, are just so barely adult that they may as well still be children. Furthermore, porn started the stupid trend of women shaving off their pubic hair in an attempt to look less adult, and then picks women with body types that are less curvy, thus further evoking images of a naked child.

        WHAT?!?

        1. Episiarch   12 years ago

          What part of "she's insane" are you missing?

          1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

            That doesn't even approach the insanity of 90% of what I just saw, either. E.g., "I never said that Joss was a rapist or a wife-beater. I do believe he is a probable rapist but no more so than the majority of men on the planet. All men are probable rapists."

            1. Irish   12 years ago

              I would fucking love to throw the men who come to my blog searching for pornography into the deepest, darkest, most hellish dungeon imaginable, and throw away the key.

              I would love to be able to silence men, those bores, those phallosophers, those wankers. I would love to be able to silence the women who support men's woman-hatred and race-hatred. And here, on my blog, I can do exactly that. And I fucking love it.

              I am not interested in free speech. Free speech has given me nothing and cost me much. Men and Athena's can take their free speech and shove it where the sun don't shine.

              Fuck you, Nicole. THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING WORSE!

              1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

                Who knew feminists were so hung up on Athena as a misogynist?

                However, she is strongly male-identified in classical mythology, assisting male heroes and (often) treating women rather badly.

                1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                  Yeah, that's a whole new thing for me. I mean I can't say I'm super surprised. I almost feel I should have predicted it.

                2. Episiarch   12 years ago

                  You know, I just realized that this woman bears a striking mental similarity to rctlfy, Mary's signature handle. Seething hatred of men. Just seething.

                  1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                    Yeah. She also has some really, really nasty shit in there about her black female relatives being abused by their white husbands. And it's like "wow I wouldn't for a second think this is more a personal than a societal thing for you eh?"

        2. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

          Goddamned, hetoronormative, gay-porn-othering bitch!

        3. Calidissident   12 years ago

          "and then picks women with body types that are less curvy"

          Cause it's not like porn with women with large breasts and big butts is extremely popular or anything?

  13. Brett L   12 years ago

    Sports news:

    Marlins draw fewer groupon claims than $5 pizza.

    Vince Young and Rex Grossman might have careers again. Really?

  14. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    Samoa Air may start to charge passengers by weight.

    I was expecting that from Sumo Air, but not Samoa Air.

    1. Zeb   12 years ago

      It was a better joke unmodified.

      1. Coeus   12 years ago

        "I mean, he got a weight problem. What's a nigger gonna do ? He's Samoan."

  15. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

    After a March 2009 low of 666 the S/P 500 is now 1570, the USD is at 83 (up 15%) and gold is about to enter bear market territory. GDP is forecast at 3% for Q1 and inflation is tamed.

    Good stuff.

    1. gaijin   12 years ago

      remind me again, what was 4Q12 GDP predicted to be in April of 2012?

      1. Restoras   12 years ago

        *blows whistle*
        5 minute penalty for Feeding the Troll.

        1. NoVAHockey   12 years ago

          a major penalty. tough but fair. score at will!

        2. gaijin   12 years ago

          sorry...I thought someone said in AM links it was ok to feed the trolls today. My humblest apologies for breaking the rules.

      2. Mike M.   12 years ago

        Our resident shithead has been predicting gold to go into the tank for like two years now. Like Krugman, he never gets tired of making a complete ass out of himself.

    2. OldMexican   12 years ago

      Re: Palin's Buttplug,

      GDP is forecast at 3% for Q1 and inflation is tamed.

      Look, Buttwipe! Over there! A unicorn!

    3. Juice   12 years ago

      I sure do hope gold goes down again, so I can actually buy some. Waiting for Bitcoin to crash also, but I think it's going to be a while.

      1. Jam   12 years ago

        true dat

      2. Heedless   12 years ago

        I'm skeptical of Bitcoin, simply because it's just as vulnerable to the government's sticky fingers as any other foreign currency. If your country is in such a state that you really need a stable currency, the government will probably be confiscating foreign denominated holdings anyway.

  16. Brett L   12 years ago

    Magic Johnson's son comes out. There's a practicing safe sex joke in there somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it.

    1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

      I don't really think he was that far in the closet to begin with:
      http://www.tmz.com/2013/04/02/.....dad-proud/

      1. fish   12 years ago

        Apple.....tree.....fall!

        1. Drake   12 years ago

          ...far...not..

          1. gaijin   12 years ago

            ...that there is anything wrong with that...

    2. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

      When will Magic come out? You can't tell me a full hetero man didn't infect his wife in the 80s/early 90s.

      1. EDG reppin' LBC   12 years ago

        Good question. I am of the opinion he is gay. But some of the folks at my local bar were practically screaming at me that there is no way he's gay. Ironically, I'm the conservatard libertardian and could care less. Yet the progressive, unionized, enlightened ones are appalled that Magic might be gay.

        He will come out some day. But not for 10 years or so.

        1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

          He's old enough to be part of the closeted generation. I think he is probably gay, but will never come out for the same reason Huell Howser didn't.

      2. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

        You can't tell me a full hetero man didn't infect his wife in the 80s/early 90s.

        Depending on his viral load and their sexual habits, it's entirely possible that he didn't infect his wife while having a rigorous, albeit painfully conventional, sex life with her.

      3. Drake   12 years ago

        He always did seem very happy...you could say gay even.

    3. Mike M.   12 years ago

      That's fine and all, but honestly, who the hell cares? I could see it being a big story if it were Magic himself, but his son simply isn't newsworthy in any way.

  17. gaijin   12 years ago

    Senators John McCain and Sheldon Whitehouse are visiting Mali to check out the French-led intervention

    Wonder if they will be scouting out good locations for a new drone base while they are there.

    1. Drake   12 years ago

      Do we really have a Senator named "Sheldon Whitehouse"? This sounds like a terrorist plot.

    2. Mike M.   12 years ago

      It really is sick how much this motherfucker McCain loves war, especially when you consider what was done to him in Vietnam. There is something seriously wrong that guy.

      1. gaijin   12 years ago

        especially when you consider what was done to him in Vietnam

        Exactly.

  18. Brett L   12 years ago

    In Greece, privatizing the trains. Funny how those public assets aren't worth as much to the private bidders as the government spent to build them.

    1. NeonCat   12 years ago

      Well, sure, they're not high-speed rail, are they? Probably not totally wonderful and in no way in the way trolleys, either.

  19. Archduke Pantsfan   12 years ago

    I am pleased with today's Champions League results.

    /No Spoiler

    1. BakedPenguin   12 years ago

      I must concur.

  20. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    Amanda doesn't understand how GoT works:

    I also love how much of a mockery the show makes of the old rationalizations for sexism that claimed women exert their power in the home: "the hand that rocks the cradle" or "the power behind the throne" kind of garbage people still push today. Cersei has made it her life's work to manipulate men, but she finds pretty quickly that their actual, real world power trumps hers. She's left with kicking her brother Tyrion around?he used his male privilege against her the second he had it, and now that it's been stripped from him, she's going to expend all her anger towards all the men who control her on him.

    Of course Marcotte would see Cersei as the victim in the GoT world.

    1. Auric Demonocles   12 years ago

      Of course Marcotte would see Cersei as the victim in the GoT world.

      Well come on. It's not like she ever used her real world power to overturn a legitimate edict of the king and slaughter a bunch of men right in the open to gain power for herself.

    2. Coeus   12 years ago

      Jesus, I didn't even see all these marcotte links before I posted. I think we're driving half her traffic.

      1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

        Probably.

      2. John   12 years ago

        OMG is she a moron.

    3. Episiarch   12 years ago

      I've said this before, but the prison of perception these insane obsessives put themselves in must be worse than anything else in their lives. To see your boogeymen in everything and everywhere all the time. To hate, hate, hate all the time.

      She's her own worst enemy.

      1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

        It's kind of hilarious. I'm a Christian, was agnostic 10 years ago, and in both cases I never had any motivation to turn the popular entertainment I viewed into a morality play. I'm guessing you and most other forum members can say basically the same sans the Christian part.

        How on earth do people make their political views even more central to their self-worth than religious people? It verges on self-parody.

        1. Drake   12 years ago

          When you have only your feminist reality-bending prism to view the world, Cersei Lannister is a poor victim.

          Holy Fuck.

      2. John   12 years ago

        There is no escaping the world for these people. No such thing as fantasy. Any work of art is immediately reducible to their sorry world view.

      3. MJGreen   12 years ago

        My standard response to these people: It must be exhausting to live as you do.

    4. Anonymous Coward   12 years ago

      Trousers, every time you post an Amanda Marcotte link, it is like you are gently caressing my balls with a lit match. Unlike SugarFree, I don't enjoy it.

      she's going to expend all her anger towards all the men who control her on him.

      Including railroading Tyrion for a crime he didn't actually commit (one theory is that it was done by the seemingly wizened little old lady). But what does truth have to do with anything? The dwarf must be punished for his dwarf...I mean MALE privilege.

      such as the strategies used by the slave traders that Dany meets up with in the first episode of this season.

      If Amanda Marcotte didn't find reading comprehension so difficult and read ahead in the books, she would know what Daenerys has planned for the slavers of Astapor will be somewhat more...unpleasant than robbing them of their "agency."

      1. Dweebston   12 years ago

        She's filling pages. She's a content-generator. The vacuousness of her applied-victimology has absolutely no bearing on her, nor her following. She knows what she's doing, and, I suspect, could give a shit about whether she sounds silly in public. She knows who butters her bread. She's a purveyor for fetishists.

        1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

          It's a living!

        2. fish   12 years ago

          She's filling pages. She's a content-generator. The vacuousness of her applied-victimology has absolutely no bearing on her, nor her following. She knows what she's doing, and, I suspect, could give a shit about whether she sounds silly in public. She knows who butters her bread. She's a purveyor for fetishists.

          So she's the Paul Krugman of feminism......

        3. Anonymous Coward   12 years ago

          As a book fan of the Ice and Fire series, Marcotte trying to tar the series with a broad brush offends my literary sensibilities.

          1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

            She also disses the Lord of the Rings trilogy as anti-feminist in the same article.

            I'm guessing she had to nix her commentary on Dune and Starship Troopers due to time constraints.

            1. Dweebston   12 years ago

              Dune would be the worst. An entire caste of chadored women segregated to their own planet and exoticized by the rest of the universe? It's the ultimate exercise of misogynistic othering ever conceived.

              1. Dweebston   12 years ago

                Also, slut-shaming Jessica and the whole Kwisatz Haderach man-completes-women deal. It's been awhile since I read the original.

            2. Episiarch   12 years ago

              The thing is, look at Martin's characters. They're fully fleshed out, not stereotypes; this is part of what makes his writing so fucking good. So she doesn't even have the taste to recognize the sophistication of a character like Cersei or Brienne.

              1. Anonymous Coward   12 years ago

                THANK YOU! Cersei is not hateable because she's a woman. Cersei is hateable because she is a cruel, petty, spiteful, amoral, maniac who will gladly step over anyone to have her own way and sees no problem in doing so.

                Brienne is the polar opposite of Cersei. She might the most honorable character in Westeros, but she is flat out ugly (except for her eyes). She also happens to be a decent fighter (good enough to defeat Loras Tyrell).

                1. Episiarch   12 years ago

                  And yet there are still moments where Cersei exposes the fact that she is, in fact, human. Her real concern for her children, her love for her brother (incestuous as it may be), etc. Like I said, Martin's characters are amazing and so...real.

                  Of course, Tyrion is the best example of all. I can't wait until he kills [spoiler redacted] on the show.

                  1. Anonymous Coward   12 years ago

                    Of course, Tyrion is the best example of all. I can't wait until he kills [spoiler redacted] on the show.

                    The poor little halfman. He just wants to be loved.

                    But where do whores go?

                    1. Episiarch   12 years ago

                      Actually, now that you mention it, Shae is another very elaborate and interesting character.

                      It's really amazing that Marcotte can't see that. Oh wait, I'd bet $1000 she's never laid eyes on one of the books.

                  2. Coeus   12 years ago

                    And yet there are still moments where Cersei exposes the fact that she is, in fact, human. Her real concern for her children, her love for her brother (incestuous as it may be), etc.

                    "Cersi, your love for your children is your only redeeming quality. Well, that and your cheek bones."

                    1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                      Dude, don't forget her hair. So prettay!

                    2. Coeus   12 years ago

                      Dude, don't forget her hair. So prettay!

                      Yeah, but I think her "little" brother perferred brunettes. That was an in-show quote (first season, I believe, but maybe the beginning of the second).

                2. Mickey Rat   12 years ago

                  Brienne is possibly an even more gooey romantic than Sansa was at the beginning of the series, she just did not think she pull off the pretty princess role so she tried going for "knight in shining armor".

            3. Anonymous Coward   12 years ago

              The Bene Gesserit are totally feminist and cool and don't rule the Known Universe because of TEH MAIL PRIVLEJ!

              Being a feminist writer is easy.

            4. Heroic Mulatto   12 years ago

              She also disses the Lord of the Rings trilogy as anti-feminist in the same article.

              Oh for fucks....

              1. Eduard van Haalen   12 years ago

                You'd think she'd enjoy the metaphor of destroying evil by throwing it into a crack.

        4. Xenocles   12 years ago

          She's a purveyor for fetishists.

          A prostitute, you might say.

          1. Dweebston   12 years ago

            That's a respectable woman you're talking about. Have some respect.

            Nobody deserves to be compared to Marcotte.

    5. Mickey Rat   12 years ago

      Well Cersei is a proto=feminist who constantly engrossed self-pity or delusions of grandeur when she is not half as clever as she thinks she is.

  21. Brett L   12 years ago

    Now this is how to pay back your mother-in-law.

    At least one person isn't ready for Google's futuristic world of self-driving cars: CEO Sergey Brin's mother-in-law, who freaked out during a ride in one of the robo-cars.

  22. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    90s Nostalgia, Day Two: Grunge

    Seriously Marcotte, please stop if only for your own mental health.

    1. fish   12 years ago

      Seriously Marcotte, please stop if only for your own mental health.

      I think that ship has sailed.....

      1. EDG reppin' LBC   12 years ago

        I think that ship has sailed.....

        ...into an iceberg.

    2. Episiarch   12 years ago

      Just walk away, TIT. Just walk away and there can be an end to the horror, an end to the suffering. Just walk away.

      1. fish   12 years ago

        I can see you in the "Humungous" role!

        Try a few more sit ups though.

        1. Episiarch   12 years ago

          Be still my fish of war. I understand your pain. We've all lost someone we love. But we do it my way!

  23. NeonCat   12 years ago

    US moving sea-based radar to western Pacific

    http://english.yonhapnews.co.k.....0315F.HTML

    The U.S. military has sent the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX-1) based in Hawaii to the Western Pacific Ocean to better monitor potential attempts from North Korea to launch a long-range missile, they said.

    The advanced radar is a floating platform and has the ability to search and track targets, communicating with interceptor missiles at its overseas base that can shoot down a target missile.

    Seoul defense officials confirmed the movement of the key U.S. military asset, refuting some local reports that said the radar platform was moving toward the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula.

    "As SBX-1 has a range of 2,000-5,000 kilometers, it doesn't have to come close to the Korean Peninsula," a military source spoke on the condition of anonymity.

    1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

      They had one in port in LA last week that is out to sea now...

      I have seen it docked here a few times:
      http://goo.gl/maps/LYIAb

  24. Coeus   12 years ago

    This is astounding. First Marcotte says this:

    ***I have no idea why women aren't allowed to say they're wearing or doing something because they think it's sexy. I don't wear red lipstick so you can see me in the dark or miniskirts because I like having a breeze on my ass. I'm sick of pretending otherwise.

    So you're not showing 3 square feet of clevage at work cause it's more comfortable? Nice to hear one of them finally admit it.

    1. Coeus   12 years ago

      Then there's this:

      Most of the time, it's left at that, but this tendency of women to tell themselves they could tame the savage beast by acting better than the victim can also take a romanticized spin. After all, one of the most common romantic fantasies presented to young women is the story of the woman whose loyalty, beauty, etc. causes the "bad boy" to mend his ways to settle down with her. Isn't this really what "Twilight" is about?turning the vampire into a loving husband? Romantic comedies do it, too, with endless stories of women taming philanderers, sexist pigs, and even slackers.

      But there's a dark side to this fantasy, where the "badness" that is tamed is not just womanizing or smoking pot all day, but in fact abusiveness. Romance novels used to have a standardized plot where the nubile virgin is raped by the hero but then wins him over with her innocence.

      What's that? Lots of women do like the bad boy? I thought that was a myth?

      1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

        Yeah, but the women who like the bad boy only do so because of internalized patriarchy, and not because they're immature or have personal issues or whathave you. Or something. I dunno.

  25. Coeus   12 years ago

    Yet another fact free article about Rand Paul from a feminist.

    1. OldMexican   12 years ago

      Re: Coeus,

      Yet another fact free article about Rand Paul from a feminist.

      Jabba the Hutt is a feminist?

      1. Coeus   12 years ago

        "oo-doo a-wa boo-boo bletchic" Is actually Hutt for "Death to the Patriarchy".

    2. JMos   12 years ago

      Because clearly the only civil liberty that matters to women is abortion. It's ridiculously sexist to think that women could care about anything else.

  26. Coeus   12 years ago

    And to complete the social justice info dump:

    An article written by a F to M transsexual wondering "Where's all this male privledge I was told so much about?"

    In the comments, she admits she might have tried to stay a woman if she'd known what it was like to be a guy, even though she always felt like a guy.

    1. Brett L   12 years ago

      High five, brother. We been trying to tell you this.

    2. fish   12 years ago

      "Where's all this male privledge (sic) I was told so much about?"

      That must be one serious case of buyers remorse!

    3. playa manhattan   12 years ago

      All of this should be fairly obvious without having to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Just look at life expectancy, incarceration rates, and college graduation rates

      1. NeonCat   12 years ago

        "Math is hard."

    4. Anonymous Coward   12 years ago

      The problem with the notion of "male privilege" is that it was created by wealthy white women who don't seem to appreciate that "privilege" doesn't come from having a set of balls, it comes from having MONEY.

      1. NeonCat   12 years ago

        Ah, so they wanted to distract the uppity prole women from the money so they had them focus on the balls.

        1. Anonymous Coward   12 years ago

          In their own little sphere, the balls were the issue. In the world not occupied by the old money and its delusions of aristocracy, if you spread enough cash around, people won't care if you have breasts or not.

          Money talks.

    5. mr lizard   12 years ago

      I read the article from the link and I am slightly skeptical. It seems more like a collection of well aimed gender themes expressed by unconventional character. Basically I somewhat believe the story is plausible but I don't believe the character exists.

      1. Coeus   12 years ago

        Don't forget. This is not the first time a feminist has taken this particular journey and ended up in a mental hospital from the stress. I forget the name, but another feminist just posed as a man for like 8 months (used a professional make-up artist and prosthetics) and wrote a book about it after she got out of the nut hatch. She's not invited to the feminist parties anymore either.

        1. Thane of Whiterun   12 years ago

          Her?

          1. Coeus   12 years ago

            Ah, 18 months, not 8. Yeah, that's her.

          2. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

            I read Self-Made Man it was interesting, but confusing, partly because I think she was trying to make her experience more interesting and mostly because her discoveries about what it meant to be a man didn't really resonate with me.

            1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

              her discoveries about what it meant to be a man didn't really resonate with me.

              And we all know why that is amirite?

              1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

                Because my gender identity isn't informed by a lifetime of being a Rachel-Maddow-masculine lesbian, I don't have weird anxieties about bonding (Platonic [not the way he bonded with Aristotle]) with straight men, and because I can have a rockin' beard without use of spirit gum?

                1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                  Honestly, the weirdest thing about this stuff is always the idea that it's hard to bond with straight men. I mean I could see it being hard to bond with like hardcore bros, but that's because bros are constitutionally douchy. It's kind of their thing. But like, normal straight men are super welcoming. (I was just reading an article about this woman, because I hadn't heard of her project before, and that was what really stuck out for me: the astonishment that a group of straight dudes just accepts more dudes into the group.)

                  1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

                    I've been really shocked at how many of my straight male friends are absolutely panicked about trying to make new guy friends after they leave college. I've never been able to figure out the problem.

                    Even weirder is that they all think it's "easier" for me. Just hang out someplace with like-minded guys, and start (or jump in on) some kind of innocent conversation about sports, ethnic minorities' driving skills, or porn and 10 minutes later you've exchanged phone numbers and are grabbing beers with them on Friday.

  27. Sidd Finch   12 years ago

    http://blogs.thescore.com/tbj/.....-shooting/

    On Easter Sunday, Barack Obama invited the Washington Wizards over to his White House to look for Easter Eggs and shoot some hoops. Obeezy then proceeded to go a positively Wizardian 2-22 from the field.

    1. fish   12 years ago

      Stop Mocking President Shaq!

      1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

        At least Shaq could play in the paint. Obama's got to be even worse with his inside game.

    2. Xenocles   12 years ago

      The President was shooting some people outside the White House?

  28. Coeus   12 years ago

    Ok, so I lied about stopping the social justice postings today. But I didn't know that Connor Friedersdorf was gonna do a piece today.

    But there are limits to how far they can take us. Group dynamics cannot be mapped onto individuals nearly so neatly as Marcotte attempts it. Her ideology causes her to write as if she doesn't understand what is plain to most observers: Kate Upton is far more privileged, powerful, culturally savvy, and capable of fully exercising her autonomy than the vast majority of straight white males in America, and certainly more than a dateless, non-celebrity 18-year-old high school student on YouTube.

    Speaking of "the dynamics of difference and power," as they called it at my alma mater, Marcotte, in her capacity as a regular columnist at a prestigious, internationally read Web magazine, presently possesses a lot more cultural power and privilege than the high school boy she just called "creepy," accused of implicitly threatening Upton with being called a bitch, and told that his prom invitation is rooted in the same premise that stalkers and rapists operate under.

    1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

      Ha, I almost posted this!

      1. John   12 years ago

        It is so true. Marcotte is one of the most privileged people in our society. Yeah, upper middle class educated white girls have it so fucking hard.

        1. fish   12 years ago

          Why can I imagine Amanda at home stomping her little Birkenstocked feet crying....Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!

          Sorry to those of you not Brady Bunch literate.

          1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

            No, quite to the contrary, all those hours wasted not being Brady Bunch literate went to being just literate.

            1. fish   12 years ago

              Don't mock me for my wasted life full of 70s television....pity me!

              PITY ME!

              1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

                Did you have an older sister that made you watch? I did. She would sit on me to make me watch it while babysitting. I would shut my ears and yodel until she let me go. The depth of my hatred for the Brady Bunch would easily consume the Pacific if it dared flow near.

    2. Episiarch   12 years ago

      To be honest, though I admit I don't read her crap in any detail, she just really seems like a hateful bully more than anything else.

      1. John   12 years ago

        She is the geeky smart girl who never got asked to the prom and will never forgive the world for such.

        1. Heroic Mulatto   12 years ago

          Marcotte is not smart.

        2. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

          Dude. John. She ain't smart.

          1. John   12 years ago

            But she thinks she is. She got good grades didn't she? All of her lefty professors have been telling her she is smart her whole life. How could they be wrong?

        3. Episiarch   12 years ago

          John. Dude. Marcotte is not smart.

          I felt a third time would be the charm.

          1. John   12 years ago

            I never meant to imply she was. But most certainly thinks she is smart. She is the geeky girl who got good grades and thinks she is just so fucking brilliant even though she is in fact a moron.

        4. Red Rocks Rockin   12 years ago

          Marcotte, like a lot of feminists, is determined to make the world pay for her daddy issues.

    3. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

      Marcotte, in her capacity as a regular columnist at a prestigious, internationally read Web magazine

      Conclusive proof that Lucifer exists and has a sense of humor.

    4. Killazontherun   12 years ago

      Well, in Marcotte's defense, the object of her scorn really was a male, just as in the defense of the Spanish Inquisition those executed really were Jews and Muslims.

  29. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Home prices are up. Foreclosures are down. Construction is up. And now comes the latest sign of the U.S. home market's revival: Fannie Mae, the mortgage giant that nearly collapsed five years ago, has earned its biggest yearly profit ever.

    Fannie Mae earned $17.2 billion last year and said Tuesday that it expects to stay profitable for "the foreseeable future." It also paid $11.6 billion in dividends to the U.S. Treasury in 2012.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/.....11295.html

    1. Matrix   12 years ago

      so... reinflate the bubble? We'll get it right this time?

    2. OldMexican   12 years ago

      Re: Palin's Buttwipe,

      Home prices are up. Foreclosures are down. Construction is up.

      The printing of money by the Fed is up, the value of the dollar is down. The gullible think we're rich again.

      1. fish   12 years ago

        Forget OM. Trying to explain anything to TEAM BLUEs biggest cheerleader is like showing a dog a card trick...he's just not going to get it

      2. Isaac Bartram   12 years ago

        OK, I'm going to ask, except for preserving the portfolios of the pampered "American middle class", why are high home prices a good thing?

        This is directed at Shriek, of course, not you OM.

        1. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

          They're not.

          But demand is a good thing. Supply will follow.

          1. OldMexican   12 years ago

            Re: Palin's Buttplug,

            But demand is a good thing. Supply will follow.

            "Why did the Keynesian cross the road?"
            "I don't know! Why?"
            "To get to the aggregate demand curb!"

            Ba-rum-bum!

          2. BigT   12 years ago

            Housing prices are not up in real terms, only in monopoly money - the US govt monopoly on printing it.

          3. BigT   12 years ago

            Once symbols of the reckless risk-taking that fed the housing bubble, Fannie and the smaller firm Freddie Mac were seized by the government in 2008 after they were buried by bad mortgages. Taxpayers have spent $188 billion to rescue the two ? collectively the costliest bailout of the financial crisis.

            So no real profit, merely return of investment.

    3. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

      http://www.youtube.com/v/k3VtzMxmPs0

    4. Brett L   12 years ago

      Tell that to Zillow. My house is valued at 65% of purchase price, (2006 - never taking financial advice from my parents again) and there haven't been any comps within a half mile sell in over a year except foreclosures. At the very least, the recovery is unevenly distributed.

  30. 16th amendment   12 years ago

    American news HQ says the brain project is one thing the president and Eric Cantor agree on. The question is whether the government should be funding this project at all. Because there is practical application and money to be made, I imagine private companies will do it.

    I swear that there is a socialist gene.

    1. ant1sthenes   12 years ago

      I can tell you right now that it isn't the socialist part of the brain that they'll be looking to excise.

  31. Caleb Turberville   12 years ago

    http://freethoughtblogs.com/ph.....r-freedom/

    I swear, when PZ Myers talks about politics, and especially about (L!)ibertarians, he completely loses his mind.

    1. fish   12 years ago

      He's just pissed because he's stuck teaching 13th grade.

    2. Caleb Turberville   12 years ago

      By the way, I can't be the only libertarian who pretty much hates the Mercatus ranking of the states?

      It's like ranking your favorite albums. New York and California are obvious choices for the bottom of the list. Tennessee is somewhere at the top. But all the rest are just a jumbled mess, and there's literally no practical difference between Missouri and Colorado.

    3. Coeus   12 years ago

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      glodson
      2 April 2013 at 7:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
      So, they don't care about reproductive rights, love guns, and want no regulations for how private education or homeschooling is done?

      It is almost like they are attempting to appeal to the lowest common denominator. I'm sure their reasons behind putting a piority behind prostitution is less enlightened than we might hope.

      Emphasis mine. Tha fuck?

      1. Irish   12 years ago

        They don't care about reproductive rights

        Where do people get this stuff?

        1. ant1sthenes   12 years ago

          From them not factoring abortion in?

    4. Coeus   12 years ago

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      Gregory in Seattle
      2 April 2013 at 8:12 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
      Women are property, as far as Libertarians go. They count only insofar as men are allowed to treat them as a commodity.

      1. Irish   12 years ago

        I just sold my sister to an Iranian imam, so he might have a point there.

      2. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

        Uh can someone please let me know who owns me?

        1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

          I'm assuming your father, eldest brother or significant other. I'm sure there's a provision for claiming abandoned property if none of those apply.

          1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

            Thanks, jesse. I'm still not exactly sure. I mean, none of those people seem to have very much control over me so I'm feeling kinda abandoned now.

            1. Heroic Mulatto   12 years ago

              You signed up for my fan club, remember?

              That gives me mineral rights, at least.

              1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                That seems like a euphemism for something disturbing.

            2. Irish   12 years ago

              Don't tell anyone that. It's a little known fact that if you're a woman and a man does not wield control over you, as is his birthright, any other man can come along, bundle you up into his van and take you to his sex cave.

              It's in the constitution.

              1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

                bundle you up into his van and take you to his sex cave

                so...Warty?

                1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                  That was my thought.

                  Um...so earlier it wasn't true self-determination but false choice from within the patriarchal model that made me say I was abandoned property. My boyfriend is actually super controlling. Just so EVERYONE KNOWS.

                  1. Irish   12 years ago

                    Too late. Warty's been dispatched.

        2. Coeus   12 years ago

          So many joke possibilities here.

          1. Coeus   12 years ago

            trying again. Damn squirrels.

    5. Coeus   12 years ago

      This guy just made up an article in his head:

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      pacal
      2 April 2013 at 8:37 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
      Guys you have to understand where Libertarians come from. In their world the only source of oppression is government. Only government is evil. Coercion by private power is absolutely a-okay in their world. Thus the prevalence of theocratic views in a state like Oklahoma and influence of such views is absolutely no problem. For only government is evil.

      Thus years ago I remember readingf a piece which argued that Somalia was a Libertarian paradise, benefiting from a lack of that wicked thing called government. That large sections of Somalia were a theocratic state run by despotic clan centered organizations that ruled their members autocratically was of course irrelevant because they wern't that evil thing called government.

      In their view regulation that keeps people from being able to screw other people is evil. However "private" theocracies are a-okay. For again only government is evil. Thus we get so many Libertarians defending corperations and writhing in extasy about how good and wonderful they are. Thus we get Penn's Jillette's breathless estatic defence of Walmart. Because you see only government is evil, only government coerces anyone. Or if something other than government coerces it doesn't count.

      1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

        I feel like that dude read the comments section one day and thought people were serious or something. Only it can't be that, because he'd hate us way more.

      2. Irish   12 years ago

        Why are retarded statists always such terrible writers? One would think that being a moron doesn't necessarily preclude you from being able to write relatively well. Yet they seem incapable of writing in complete sentences.

        It's like their entire brains just rot as their fascism increases.

        1. Episiarch   12 years ago

          Because they are sheep. They have no independent thoughts. Do you think sheep make good writers?

          1. Irish   12 years ago

            Thus the prevalence of theocratic views in a state like Oklahoma and influence of such views is absolutely no problem.

            This fucking shitfuck doesn't understand what coercion means. 'Culture' is not coercion. If there's a theocratic 'culture' in Oklahoma, no one is being coerced, just like no one is being coerced by progressive culture, inner city culture or suburban culture. You can only be coerced when someone is LITERALLY FORCING YOU TO DO SOMETHING.

            The theocratic views of Oklahoma are not coercion. If the government made those theocratic views illegal, THAT would be coercion. They don't even know how words work, Epi. They don't even know the definitions of the words which fire randomly from the syphilitic depths of their empty minds.

            Then there's fucking this:

            Thus years ago I remember readingf a piece which argued that Somalia was a Libertarian paradise, benefiting from a lack of that wicked thing called government.

            No libertarian would ever make this claim. He clearly read an article insulting libertarians and decided that's what libertarians actually believe. He's on the intellectual level of someone who would read A Modest Proposal and assume that Swift was literally in favor of eating children. That is what we're dealing with. Mentally incompetent, borderline illiterate morons.

            1. Episiarch   12 years ago

              I can't argue with you there. Irrational people will believe and come up with irrational things.

            2. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

              I've seen articles pointing out that lawless regions of Somalia were better off than some of the neighbors with incredibly shitty governments. I could see reading that, forgetting the salient comparison points and regurgitating it as being SOMALIA IS GALT'S GULCH. Provided the author is a complete simpleton and/or reading comprehension challenged.

              1. Coeus   12 years ago

                Provided the author is a complete simpleton and/or reading comprehension challenged

                I think you can take both of those conditions as a given from a regular poster on FTB.

              2. Episiarch   12 years ago

                Remember, folks, they have zero interest in being honest, rational, or logical. They embrace a philosophy that says first and foremost that they are right and they are good, therefore it is acceptable to misrepresent others, to lie, to do anything they want because they are right and they are good. They don't say "I have behaved according to a moral code and therefore am good", they say "I am good so whatever I do is moral".

                It's basically the opposite of what many of us do. This is why we are astonished at how clueless or mendacious they can be. It's because in their own eyes, they can do no wrong.

          2. Tejicano   12 years ago

            I believe there is a direct connection here. Progtards have been steeped in their BS lines of "thinking" for so long that a lot of what should pass for thought is just short circuited into mental libertard short-hand. So when they try to form a thought while writing anything great gobs of their logic chain gets dropped out as self-evident. And lacking any reflection or exercising of rational logic they just accept that they have caught their tails and stop working at it.

      3. Xenocles   12 years ago

        He probably did read such an article, but it was probably someone actually trying to use Somalia as an example of a libertarian regime.

    6. Coeus   12 years ago

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      glodson
      2 April 2013 at 9:17 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
      The fact that Libertarians think that they have real life plot armor and view people who aren't themselves as just a statistic is just par for the course.

      This sounds like every libertarian that I've ever come across. The other thing I commonly experience with libertarians is the pseudo-rationalism. It is a bit of an illusion they pull on those who don't always understand logic, reason, and evidence.

      1. Irish   12 years ago

        BURN STRAWMAN, THE LIGHT YOU GIVE OFF IS GLORIOUS!

        1. Coeus   12 years ago

          And more projection than fucking IMAX.

          1. Episiarch   12 years ago

            Dude, everything they think is projection. Everything.

    7. Coeus   12 years ago

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      kemist, Dark Lord of the Sith
      2 April 2013 at 11:34 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
      The thing they don't get is that all the entities that enforce rules are a form of government.

      Whether it's a city, state, country, corporation, church or a warlord, that's still someone who forces you to do some things, and it's completely unavoidable unless you mean to live all alone, by your own ressources on your own island or planet.

      The only government libertarians seem to want to do away with is governement that is decided by vote, ie democracy.

      Tha fuck?

      1. Irish   12 years ago

        They don't know what coercion is. They don't. They think that if your pastor tells you premarital sex is wrong, it's coercion. They see no difference between that and someone outlawing premarital sex.

        They think that if a corporation won't give you something for free, then that is the same thing as the corporation taking that item from you.

        They are on the intellectual level of two year olds.

        1. Coeus   12 years ago

          I guess. I've just never met a libertarian who thought that making someone do something at gunpoint wasn't force. Who doesn't know that?

      2. fish   12 years ago

        kemist, Dark Lord of the Sith

        White, 5' 9", 375 lbs........laid once he thinks.

      3. ant1sthenes   12 years ago

        So, unless something shitty is entirely avoidable, you just fucking give up? Well, given that death is entirely unavoidable, I reckon he ought to off himself right now.

    8. Joe M   12 years ago

      You know, I've come across a handful of "liberals who went Libertarian because they thought Ron Paul sounded liberal". But by far most libertarians and Ron Paul sound like Republicans haplessly trying to hide their multi-thousand dollar business suit and their golden cross necklace. And it is pathetic just how transparently conservative many of these alleged libertarians really are. Actually, it is pretty damn similar to all the Tea Partiers pretending they are a distinct group instead of being a group of the most inane, loudmouthed Republicans.

      Ooh, can we add business suits and golden cross necklaces to our current repertoire of monocles, canes, and top hats?

      1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

        Golden crosses are so nouveau riche. Besides, gold would clash horribly with my silver cane topper.

        I suppose silver cane toppers for some, golden crosses for others.

        1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

          White gold, jesse, white gold. I mean really. Besides, I know you were raised Protestant, so I expect you to hate on the idolatry at the very least. This is just pathetic.

          1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

            Protestants are cool with crosses, they're just weird with crucifixes.

            I hadn't thought of the white gold angle... I still don't think crosses and business suits out libertarians high-robber-baron regalia.

            1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

              Yeah, some of y'all are, but not real Puritans like my dad. Who instead wears a fake saint's medal, because people are consistent like that.

              The suit thing is simple. Three-piece, bitches, end of story. And yeah, that four-in-hand bullshit? You better end that right now. The true mark of the libertarian is the full Windsor.

              So basically the list is: three-piece suit, full Windsor knot, cane topped in the precious metal of your choice (ladies, don't forget about rose gold! or green gold if you want to stand out!), monocle, and rape.

              1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

                I think you're making this too complicated, Nicole, THIS and rape.

              2. Heroic Mulatto   12 years ago

                How the hell am I to tie a full Windsor with my bow-tie!

                1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                  You know you have a special dispensation for that.

                2. Zeb   12 years ago

                  Weirdo.

      2. Xenocles   12 years ago

        No. I'm not some greasy eye-talian.

        1. Episiarch   12 years ago

          He didn't get the WOP part right. Instead of business suits it should have been (expensive) track suits.

          1. Xenocles   12 years ago

            That's Russian, dude.

            1. Episiarch   12 years ago

              Oh yeah?

              1. Xenocles   12 years ago

                Yeah.

                Okay, this example might be Ukrainian. But still.

                1. Episiarch   12 years ago

                  Oh shit, I had forgotten that scene. Good stuff.

                  1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

                    Man, Groovus must be livin' the life.

    9. Tonio   12 years ago

      Caleb, it's not that Myers loses his mind, it's that he assumes his expertise in his field translates into expertise in all fields.

      1. Heroic Mulatto   12 years ago

        it's that he assumes his expertise in his field translates into expertise in all fields.

        You know who else assumed that expertise in his field translated into expertise in all fields?

        1. Episiarch   12 years ago

          Neil deGrasse Tyson?

          1. Heroic Mulatto   12 years ago

            Sorry, the correct response was "Who Was Noam Chomsky?" Chomsky.

            Tonio, you still have control of the board.

            1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

              Uh oh, HM, dude is still alive. "Who is Noam Chomsky?"

              1. Heroic Mulatto   12 years ago

                Undeath as a vile lich doesn't coun't, nikki.

            2. Episiarch   12 years ago

              I don't recognize your authority! Now give me damn Daily Double!

              1. Heroic Mulatto   12 years ago

                Now give me damn Daily Double!

                Fine.

                A blow to the back of the neck is named after this animal.

                1. Episiarch   12 years ago

                  If only Jeopardy could be like that all the time.

        2. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

          Dr. Oz

        3. fish   12 years ago

          Dr. Sheldon Cooper

  32. Killazontherun   12 years ago

    Is this love, I'm feeling?

    http://cdn.wwtdd.com/wp-conten.....50x675.jpg

    1. Heroic Mulatto   12 years ago

      NIGGA GODDAMN!

      1. Shine on, Nikki Diamond   12 years ago

        Yeah ditto.

      2. Coeus   12 years ago

        Question: Is it real? I am just recently coming to understand the vast proliferation of butt implants.

        1. Heroic Mulatto   12 years ago

          I have a feeling that Ms. Turner is more machine than man.

          Doesn't bother me overmuch.

          1. Jordan   12 years ago

            She's a lawyer. Flaw located.

  33. SumpTump   12 years ago

    Heck yeah man, now thats what I am talkign about.

    http://www.DatAnon.tk

  34. Coeus   12 years ago

    Also on FTB:

    How to get grant money for political bullshit studies.

    Among other things to include in the abstract, a recent post at NIH OER Nexus lists the following:
    Include the project's broad, long-term objectives and specific aims

    Taken literally, this would seem to imply that you should literally list the three Specific Aims of your grant. Don't do this! Only describe the aims of the grant in broad general terms.
    The reason for this is that you don't want the reviewers of your competing renewal to be able to compare in detail exactly what you accomplished in terms of published results in the previous project period to the exact metes and bounds of the Specific Aims of that project period. You want to be able to have as much freedom as possible to explain how your research accomplishments forwarded the overall broad goals of the grant, without being hemmed in by minute details of what you originally proposed.

  35. crashland   12 years ago

    Yeah nothing better than having some strangers fat ass encroaching into your seat. I've been stuck in the middle seat next to a fatty, fat, fatso who needed to raise my fucking armrest to get his ass into his and my seats.

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