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Thirty-Somethings Poorer Than In the Past, Obama Gets Green, Putin Tweaks the U.S. Over Snowden: P.M. Links

J.D. Tuccille | 6.25.2013 4:30 PM

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  • Vladimir Putin
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    Today's thirty-somethings have a net worth 21 percent lower than that of people in their age group just a few decades ago, says the Urban Institute. Uh oh.

  • No cheap power for you! That's the message from President Obama as he calls for mandatory carbon pollution limits on U.S. power plants. You see, there is a way to make solar power viable.
  • Russia's President Putin is … having a really good time over the whole Edward Snowden flap.
  • IRS targeting of political groups reportedly extended to at least some progressive groups, too. Anybody who opposed administration policy, eh?
  • Yet another study, this one from Stanford University, finds that charter school students have better educational outcomes than their peers in traditional public schools. That's worth knowing as the OECD warns that the U.S. is spending a lot of money on education to achieve very little.
  • Reason's own Scott Shackford is stuck at home, in the midst of a neighborhood-wide lockdown, as Los Angeles police officers look for a man who shot and wounded two detectives.
  • In news sure to fuel conspiracy theories, journalist Michael Hastings reportedly sent an email to friends and colleagues warning that he was being targeted by the feds just hours before he died in a fiery car crash.

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  1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

    Mini tsunami hits east coast:
    http://connecticut.cbslocal.co.....his-month/

    1. Matrix   12 years ago

      I'm sure man is to blame somehow.

      1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

        Ha! I know you're joking, but another article suggested that fracking might be to blame.

        Looking for the link now, but I can't seem to find it in my history...

        1. Warrren   12 years ago

          Did you look under the midget scat porn?

        2. Zeb   12 years ago

          Fracking seems a bit far fetched, as it affected a pretty wide area. And I would think that the earthquake that would have caused it in that case would have been detected. It would have to be reasonably strong to move a big piece of the ocean a foot.

          1. Virginian   12 years ago

            Yeah pretty sure a lot of explosives could cause a tsunami. Hell, you might even need nukes.

  2. Matrix   12 years ago

    Idol of Hey-Zeus is allowed to stay up, judge rules

    1. Rich   12 years ago

      the statue does not convey to a reasonable informed observer that the government, rather than a private party, endorses Christianity

      So, go ahead, folks -- Place your statue of Cthulhu on Mount Rushmore!

      1. Nikkis enthusiastic dissent   12 years ago

        Something tells me they are not going to grant you a lease for that.

        1. Rich   12 years ago

          And I suppose *you* are a reasonable informed observer?

          1. Nikkis enthusiastic dissent   12 years ago

            Well I am now.

            1. Rich   12 years ago

              Ah, Nikki, don't block me. I was just teasing. Sorry.

              1. Nikkis enthusiastic dissent   12 years ago

                I was too. I mean, without reading the article I wouldn't have been informed about the lease.

          2. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

            In Nikkis defense, she did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

    2. Ted S.   12 years ago

      Hey Zeus, don't be afriad;
      Take a sad song, and make it better....

  3. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    That's the message from President Obama as he calls for mandatory carbon pollution limits on U.S. power plants.

    Dedicated to fixing the economy.

    1. db   12 years ago

      MANUFACTURING IS MAKING A COMEBACK.

    2. Matrix   12 years ago

      I think the priesthood of old have become alarmists. Wereas before we were told to repent or sacrifice virgins because natural disasters were happening, now we're told to sacrifice money.

      1. db   12 years ago

        Also, we're sacrificing those people over there's money, so Free Lunch.

      2. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

        Wereas? Is that some sort of lycanthropic distortion of the adverb as?

        1. Matrix   12 years ago

          whereas* dammit

          1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

            That's good, because I was worried about how to fend off these supernatural adverbs. Silver bullets?

            1. Matrix   12 years ago

              silver bullet points

              1. Warrren   12 years ago

                Cue canned audience applause.

                1. Ted S.   12 years ago

                  I use child labor to produce fresh applause.

                  1. HellsBells   12 years ago

                    Organic is much better after all.

                2. BakedPenguin   12 years ago

                  Cue canned audience applause.

                  Here you go.

      3. alittlesense   12 years ago

        We sacrifice money because it's so hard to find a virgin *rimshot* I'm here til Thursday! Tip the veal and try the waitress!

    3. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

      Coal prices are very low now so its a good time to enforce the Clean Air Act.

      Let the denialists deny. The Flat Earth Society needs a few new members.

      1. JWatts   12 years ago

        Coal prices are very low now so its a good time to enforce the Clean Air Act.

        Isn't that the reverse of logic? Wouldn't you want to reduce Coal usage when coal prices were already high?

        1. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

          If it does drive prices up (which is unlikely) then they rise to levels still lower than past prices.

          1. Marshall Gill   12 years ago

            If it does drive prices up (which is unlikely)

            Driving the boundaries of peak derp on a daily basis!!

            In your first post you say that the time is now because prices are low. Why? Because you and everyone who actually has a brain knows that it WILL increase costs. In the very next post you posit the possibility that it won't even effect prices! If it is so unlikely that it will effect prices, why does it matter the current price?!

            Nothing is more Libertarian Leftist than the belief that government can understand, and centrally regulate faux pollution through taxation.

            1. RBS   12 years ago

              Driving the boundaries of peak derp on a daily basis!!

              It's been established that Peak Derp is a myth. Consensus!

      2. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlYlNF30bVg

      3. Robert S   12 years ago

        Sounds very libertarian.

        1. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

          It's not. But neither is enforcing existing tax rules.

          Cutting spending is intrinsically good and allows the libertarian goal of cutting taxes.

          Cutting pollution is also intrinsically good and allows the libertarian goal of cutting regulations.

          1. Night Elf Mohawk   12 years ago

            Cutting pollution is also intrinsically good...

            That's insipid nonsense, even fo you.

            1. KPres   12 years ago

              It's a bit like saying if we just stop talking to each other or using the internet, we could cut PRISM.

  4. A Serious Man   12 years ago

    Reason's own Scott Shackford is stuck at home, in the midst of a neighborhood-wide lockdown, as Los Angeles police officers look for a man who shot and wounded two detectives.

    And nothing else happened! Also, I hope Reason doesn't have an office pet.

    1. hamilton   12 years ago

      No, they canned her a few months back.

      1. Episiarch   12 years ago

        DON'T TALK ABOUT LUCY

        1. Marginal   12 years ago

          All the president's hitmen: tracking Washington's secret army

          http://www.theverge.com/2013/6.....ecret-army

          ?

          NYT Magazine: How to Invest in Dope.

          http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06.....iness.html

    2. Scott S.   12 years ago

      I am still fucking stuck at home, by the way.

      1. SweatingGin   12 years ago

        Didn't Garret Quinn get locked down in Boston? What is it with you guys? Is the lockdown just the cover for searching for you?

      2. hamilton   12 years ago

        Yes, but they didn't shoot your dog this morning, did they? Count your blessings.

      3. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

        Really? I still am not clear on how this is legal. . .same question I had with Boston.

        1. Nikkis enthusiastic dissent   12 years ago

          Yeah, I'm really starting to wonder why my Twitter feed isn't blowing up with reports of people being held against their will. (Of course I'm kidding, I'm not wondering at all.)

        2. Robert   12 years ago

          Probably the same way quarantine is.

      4. Episiarch   12 years ago

        At least tell us you have some booze while you *wink wink* "work from home".

      5. Irish   12 years ago

        Be honest, Scott. You shot those cops so that you could have a day off work, didn't you?

      6. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

        Seriously? Are they doing a house to house search for black clothing?

        He is described as a black male, 30 to 35 years old with a medium build, facial hair and wearing all black clothing.

        Good luck figuring out who that is in Mid-City.

      7. A Serious Man   12 years ago

        You mean you haven't jumped on your chopper and hauled ass out of there by jumping the police barricade? What the fuck kind of libertarian are you?

        1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

          Or he could just put numbered shirts on his monocle-polishing waifs 1-5, but skip 3 and send them running pell-mell through the streets. While the cops are distracted, he can escape. We might need to take up a collection for replacement waifs though.

          1. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

            You pay for your waifs? You're supposed to steal them from public daycares to punish their not-stay-at-home mothers.

            1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

              Of course I pay for my waifs! How else are waif-wranglers supposed to stay in business? Besides, who wants to train waifs in the arts of cane and monocle polishing, coat tails ironing, and top hat delinting? My time is better spent swimming in my giant vault of gold coins.

      8. Sevo   12 years ago

        Scott,
        Bribe 'em with a goddam donut.

        1. JW   12 years ago

          Bribe? Show it to them and then throw it.

          Look! A sudden hole in the police line has magically appeared.

          1. Almanian!   12 years ago

            A sudden donuthole in the police line has magically appeared

      9. Rich   12 years ago

        Try getting a drone-delivered pizza.

        That oughta be good for lulz.

  5. Matrix   12 years ago

    Saints Row IV banned in Aussieland

    1. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

      interactive, visual depictions of implied sexual violence not justified by context

      So they're saying there's contexts where sexual violence is justified? o.O

      1. Generic Stranger   12 years ago

        Well, if you were having sex with a prostitute and she turned into a zombie or a werewolf, it might be justified...

  6. Matrix   12 years ago

    In news sure to fuel conspiracy theories, journalist Michael Hastings reportedly sent an email to friends and colleagues warning that he was being targeted by the feds just hours before he died in a fiery car crash.

    ....................................... ?.?

    1. rts   12 years ago

      Bush advisor: Hastings crash 'consistent with a car cyberattack'

      Richard Clarke, a State Department official-turned-special advisor to several United States presidents, said the early morning auto crash last Tuesday was "consistent with a car cyberattack," raising new questions about the death of the award-winning journalist.

      "Car cyberattack" isn't even a good name for a band.

      1. Brett L   12 years ago

        What in the fuck? Is this one of those places where cyber got randomly inserted?

      2. JWatts   12 years ago

        Would "Cyber Drone Attack Mercedes" be a good band name?

      3. B.P.   12 years ago

        What the hell is a car cyberattack? I guess it's time for me to bust out my 1975 Mercedes diesel from the garage -- no computer thingees on board.

      4. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

        So the Cylons killed Hastings. Damn, Battlestar Galactica 1980 warned us this would happen. Why didn't we listen?

      5. Tonio   12 years ago

        Each new model year brings more and more automation (control and monitoring by the car's onboard computers). Especially for higher-end cars like Mercedes. So what these people are speculating is that Hastings' car's controls were compromised and the car was deliberately crashed as a result.

        This is scary.

        1. Zeb   12 years ago

          Drive by wire has always seemed like a bad idea to me. I like having the steering wheel actually mechanically attached to the wheels and the brake pedal connected to the hydraulics that drive the brakes even if the engine is all fancy and computer controlled.

          1. Tejicano   12 years ago

            This.

            I have actually converted an automatic transmission car to a manual 5-speed - retrofit a clutch, modified/fabricated parts for the transmission to fit, etc.

            I'm no Luddite (currently deciding between Drupal or WordPress to support my company's website) but I know too much about technology to trust my life to the cheap electronics most cars have under the hood.

      6. Don Mynack   12 years ago

        This is why it's best to stick to an 82 Ford Granada if you plan to, you know, do reporting and stuff.

        Seems like most reporters have already gotten that message.

        1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

          (Plus (Plus double) plus)

  7. Matrix   12 years ago

    Bloomberg vindicated!!!
    Woman drinks only sodas for 16 years and suffers heart problems
    WE DEMAND YOU BAN IT NOW!!

  8. Matrix   12 years ago

    SCOTUS declares that homeless people have property rights, too
    But... but... property rights are EVUL!!!

    1. Damned Fool   12 years ago

      Depends on whose property it is. Protected classes have rights to their own property, and possibly to others' as well.

  9. Episiarch   12 years ago

    IRS targeting of political groups reportedly extended to at least some progressive groups, too. Anybody who opposed administration policy, eh?

    How quickly will this be used by the administration water carriers in the media as to why it was OK? See, they did it to everyone! That makes it OK!

    1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

      Equal Lack of Rights Amendment.

    2. John   12 years ago

      "reportedly" is the key word there. From what I have read they flagged a few liberal groups. BFD. There is no evidence at all that they harassed these groups. Just flagged them. My guess is they flagged them to cover up what they were doing.

      1. Matrix   12 years ago

        flagged them for expediency.

      2. C. Anacreon   12 years ago

        Yes, and now it is easier to say that there is nothing to see here, please move along. On CNN Sunday some Dem spokeschick kept saying that there was absolutely no IRS story, that no one had done anything wrong, and the whole thing was all made up by the Republicans to distract everyone from the important issues of the day (she really said this!)

        1. John   12 years ago

          that no one had done anything wrong,

          Then why did Lois Lehrner plead the 5th. I am sure no one asked him that question.

          1. C. Anacreon   12 years ago

            No, the voice from the Right they were using was Cal Thomas, who mostly stammered and smugly said something about abortion or Jesus or something like that, rather than calling her on the BS.

        2. B.P.   12 years ago

          Which one of these scandals is the distraction, and which one are we supposed to focus on again?

    3. Generic Stranger   12 years ago

      How quickly will this be used by the administration water carriers in the media as to why it was OK? See, they did it to everyone! That makes it OK!

      They started that pretty much immediately.

  10. Matrix   12 years ago

    Hopefully your lunch has settled.
    Woman puts five years of menstrual blood on display

    1. db   12 years ago

      What, all at once? Someone call the Red Cross!

    2. Tonio   12 years ago

      That second sentence is missing a period, Matrix.

      1. hamilton   12 years ago

        You're worse than Hitler.

        1. db   12 years ago

          You know who else had blood on his hands?

          1. Warrren   12 years ago

            Jesus?

          2. Almanian!   12 years ago

            Sweeney Todd?

          3. Rich   12 years ago

            Not Piero Manzoni.

          4. gaijin   12 years ago

            the artist's boyfriend?

            1. db   12 years ago

              To fingerpaint is not a sin
              I put my middle finger in
              Your monthly blood is what I win

              1. Virginian   12 years ago

                Up to my ass in alligators
                Lets get it on with the alligator haters
                Did what you did did what you said
                What's the point yo what's the spread

          5. trshmnstr   12 years ago

            Alexei Nikolaevich?

          6. Ted S.   12 years ago

            Not Harold Russell.

        2. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

          Considering that Hitler has a 3.8 rating on Amazon, that's really not so bad.

          1. Warrren   12 years ago

            Activia!

    3. Rich   12 years ago

      each cloth is sprayed with a disinfectant, eliminating all odors. That, however, hasn't stopped patrons from trying to sniff the art

      From non-conceptual to performance, this has something everyone can appreciate!

      1. Sevo   12 years ago

        Go to a race track during, oh, practice for a vintage event.
        Some car will leak some fluid in the pit lane. It doesn't matter who does it, just watch what finger they use to wipe a bit up and sniff it.
        Yep, same finger...

        1. Almanian!   12 years ago

          Ahhhh, the smell of Castrol in the morning...

      2. gaijin   12 years ago

        the cost of admission is blood money?

        1. Almanian!   12 years ago

          "I went to an art exhibit and fucking "Carrie" broke out...."

    4. Tonio   12 years ago

      Excuse me while I pull this out.

    5. Warrren   12 years ago

      "Dear, I thought we were going to a minstral show!"

      1. hamilton   12 years ago

        This, sir, is brilliance. Go talk to Tonio about puns and wit.

      2. Rich   12 years ago

        Bloody *genius*, period. 😎

      3. Tonio   12 years ago

        I approve this message.

      4. sloopyinca   12 years ago

        Oh-ho! The jokes are flowing now.

  11. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    Reason's own Scott Shackford is stuck at home...

    And yet no Macaulay Culkin aftershave in the mirror look for us anywhere on the site.

  12. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    ...journalist Michael Hastings reportedly sent an email to friends and colleagues warning that he was being targeted by the feds just hours before he died in a fiery car crash.

    So the NSA was well aware he was on to them.

  13. Damned Fool   12 years ago

    "charter school students have better educational outcomes"

    Oh, no, inequality! Best rid of those schools.

    1. C. Anacreon   12 years ago

      In Oakland CA the school district has done their best to close the highest-performing school in the district, a charter school with great test scores for formerly low-performing kids, and far less cost-per-pupil, by insisting the head of the school mishandled funds (and therefore rather than punishing him the school must be closed). Biggest problem is: it makes the teachers' union and the grievance industry look bad and therefore must be eliminated.

      Of course, the usual suspects in the local media only report about how terrible it is the guy mishandled funds, shake their heads and agree the only possible solution is to close the school.

      1. Mickey Rat   12 years ago

        They're accusing him of mishandling funds with getting better results at a lower cost per pupil? Then what the frack are the regular school administrators doing with their funds?

      2. Sevo   12 years ago

        C. Anacreon| 6.25.13 @ 4:59PM |#
        "In Oakland CA the school district has done their best to close the highest-performing school in the district, a charter school with great test scores for formerly low-performing kids, and far less cost-per-pupil, by insisting the head of the school mishandled funds (and therefore rather than punishing him the school must be closed). Biggest problem is: it makes the teachers' union and the grievance industry look bad and therefore must be eliminated."

        I've seen articles about this, but in skimming them, I'm damned if I've found what he's accused of.
        Other than pissing off the unions and that turd Quan, of course.

  14. kinnath   12 years ago

    Nice alt-text.

    1. Robert   12 years ago

      Yeah, worthy of the last frame of a Vladimir Putin Action Comic. Any new entries in that series lately?

  15. Matrix   12 years ago

    Ancient beer may have been really, really bad
    But still better than Budweiser.

    1. Bee Tagger   12 years ago

      Does that mean they had to endure even more skunk-face commercials than the 1990s did?

    2. Killazontherun   12 years ago

      Good beer requires a ton of sanitation at all steps where the beer or the wort are potentially exposed to bacteria. I imagine that was damn near impossible then, nor would they have known the cause of the problem of bacteria making the beer go bad (tastes like puke when it does).

      1. T   12 years ago

        Yeah, but the sanitation is for taste, no health. Beer was still better than drinking water.

      2. Clich? Bandit   12 years ago

        unless it's a lambic.

    3. Fatty Bolger   12 years ago

      Or not. I remember watching a show where they tried to recreate a Roman catapult using the same raw materials but modern tools, and it was a piece of shit. Then they tried using more modern materials and it was a slightly better piece of shit (that broke after use, IIRC). There is no way to quickly replicate a process that developed over a long period of time, too much expertise has to be redeveloped. I'm sure the ancient brewers had many tricks they developed to make a better beer.

      1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

        I see your point and you are likely right. Say, to minimize bacteria, all they would have to have known is that brews that are kept separate from the air around them and are boiled thoroughly taste better than those that don't. They would have not have needed to have known any more than the processes that prevented their food from spoiling in order to accomplish that.

  16. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    Russia's President Putin is ... having a really good time over the whole Edward Snowden flap.

    There is literally no upside to any of this for the Obama Administration. It's pretty much all good.

    1. Episiarch   12 years ago

      Did you really think his administration would handle this any better than everything else they've botched?

      1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

        Their competence is so great that you simply cannot conceive it.

        1. Marginal   12 years ago

          They were pretty competent at ramming that healthcare bill through.

          Made me sad.

          1. Episiarch   12 years ago

            Not really. They went completely to the mat and still barely got it through. That wasn't competence, that was expending a shitload of political capital.

            1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

              That law needs to die a horrible death.

              1. JW   12 years ago

                We have to kill it to find out how much we miss it.

                1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

                  Indeed!

                2. BakedPenguin   12 years ago

                  Well done, sir.

        2. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

          Good luck lecturing other nations on human rights now.

          1. Tonio   12 years ago

            ^This.

    2. DJF   12 years ago

      I always find it funny that whenever outsiders attack Putin for being a dictator, Putin then turns around and follows the law to the letter and it pisses off those who attack him as a dictator. They want him to use dictatorial power and he refuses.
      Snowden had not actually entered Russia so Russia has no legal control over him

      Snowden has not broken any Russian laws so Russia has no reason to arrest him

      Russian and the USA have no extradition treaty so Russia is not legally required to deport Snowden

      The same with Pussy Power, Putin refused to overrule the Russian legal system and his critics hated it.

      1. Brett L   12 years ago

        This is what an actual intelligent, not-quite-psychotically-monomaniac can do with power.

      2. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

        It's not so difficult to follow the law when, for all intents and purposes, you have control over what is enacted into law and what is not.

        1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

          However, I do agree that Putin is much more rational a quasi-dictator than the usual.

          1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

            Unless he is coveting a ring, and then he goes all Gollum on you.

  17. Matrix   12 years ago

    Los Angeles is banning ride-share apps, and Gizmodo thinks that's just dandy

    1. John   12 years ago

      The city claims (quite correctly) that these services are "rogue taxis" that are "bypassing all safety regulations created to protect riders and drivers."

      Remember when liberals were all about saving the world from CO2? Neither do I.

      1. db   12 years ago

        How about we each get to decide what's within our tolerance for safety?

        1. gaijin   12 years ago

          you would think that if a car had a licensed driver, with insurance, that whoever she wanted to ride with would be her own business. Why are taxis a special class of driver/car? Oh, because of greedmoney!

          1. Zeb   12 years ago

            I have no problem with Taxis being a special class of car/driver per se (particularly if it were certified by a non-government body). Just let people choose a taxi if the extra cost is worth it for the assurance that it is safe and legit. Let the market decide how much that is worth.

        2. JW   12 years ago

          Citizen db: report to Education Booth #39 immediately for cognitive re-alignment.

    2. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

      LA is broke. Cabs are a revenue source, ride-sharing not so much.

    3. Warrren   12 years ago

      The article wasn't as aggressively stupid as I expected and neither were the comments.

      1. Matrix   12 years ago

        it hasn't been posted long enough. Give it time...

        But then, Gizmodo isn't normally as bad as the main Gawker site.

      2. Brandon   12 years ago

        Of course, there are also the aggressively stupid "gotchas" that are standard replies to any libertarian-sounding comment.

        smcallahUzbiggies1L
        Then taxis should be able to run unregulated too, no? It is someone's property and they should be able to do with it what they want.

        People should be able to run stores and bars out of their houses as well, it is after all their property, they should do with it what they want.

        Having said that, I think people should be able to sell rides to strangers if they're going the same way or to the same place, but not because it's simply their property. But because it cuts down on cars on the road and pollution. Today 4:09pm

        1. Tonio   12 years ago

          Useful idiots, Brandon. We may not like our allies, but we accept their support and then let them fall by the wayside when an issue on which they are hostile to our ends comes along.

          1. Zeb   12 years ago

            And the funniest thing is they are useful idiots for the established taxi companies. Mandatory taxi licensing has nothing to do with the environment or traffic congestion. It's just protectionism.

        2. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

          Of course everything should be regulated up the ass. All we need now are new regulations allowing two people going to the same place at the same time to do so, provided they've received mandatory training and applied for a license and know basic first aid and have passed a reasonable background check and their vehicle conforms to current safety standards and the fees they charge are within set limits and they have no history of drug use and their student loans are not in arrears. Anything less would be chaos.

        3. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

          Having said that, I think people should be able to sell rides to strangers if they're going the same way or to the same place, but not because it's simply their property. But because it cuts down on cars on the road and pollution.

          He thinks this activity is ok because it lessens pollution, but it's inherently dirty because someone is making money off of property that isn't specifically sanctioned to be profitable.

          Bah, the stupid is strong with this one.

          1. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

            Special pleaders are unscrupulous assholes. This one is just a stupid, unscrupulous asshole.

          2. Brandon   12 years ago

            Although it gets worse:

            CaptainJackUMatt Novak11L
            Seattle is fighting the same issue. If these were real rides-haring programs, you know where actual duplicate trips were eliminated, I don't think the cities would be so against it. I checked into a few of them recently and was stunned how not-ridesharing they are. I commute by boat and have no ground transportation in town, so I can often use a lift. I don't care for taxis for numerous reasons, but these are just taxis. These are people driving people around all day for money... Just like a taxi service.

            They should really regulate how the term ridesharing can be used. If the driver is not already going that way, it shouldn't be allowed. I don't see a way to keep it honest as long as money is changing hands, so maybe they should just focus on stopping the money part of it. Today 4:24pm

            The noble and selfless city governments wouldn't have to fight this if it wasn't for the dirty profits! They should regulate how words are used, that would solve everything!

            1. C. Anacreon   12 years ago

              I don't see a way to keep it honest as long as money is changing hands

              Really? I think money changing hands is one of the basics of honest trade. It's when money doesn't change hands that the trouble starts, CaptainJackUMattNovak.

        4. Zeb   12 years ago

          I don't know whether to laugh or cry that people think that things like this sound obviously absurd:

          Then taxis should be able to run unregulated too, no? It is someone's property and they should be able to do with it what they want.

          People should be able to run stores and bars out of their houses as well, it is after all their property, they should do with it what they want.

          Of course people should be able to do that.

          1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

            Particularly amusing, since in most third-world countries this is exactly how many people earn their keep.

            1. Irish   12 years ago

              ARE YOU SAYING YOU WANT US TO BE LIKE A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY?!?!

        5. cavalier973   12 years ago

          Bars used to be private homes where the owner brewed up a large quantity of beer and set out a sign advertising the ad hoc "tavern" was open for business.

      3. Warrren   12 years ago

        Yeah, I should have waited for a bit.

  18. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    Today's thirty-somethings have a net worth 21 percent lower than that of people in their age group just a few decades ago...

    Cloward-Piven says hi.

    1. Tonio   12 years ago

      Thanks, Fist. I just looked that up. Scary. And typically socialist.

  19. playa manhattan   12 years ago

    I am thinking about heading to the gun store today to get myself an early birthday present. Any recommendations for a semi auto/combat 12 gauge shotgun?

    1. Matrix   12 years ago

      you damned terrorist! get out of here! Guns are evul!!

      1. Matrix   12 years ago

        Caveat: A break-action double barrel shotgun is okay, says Uncle Joe.

        1. Warrren   12 years ago

          But only if you have a second-floor balcony to fire it off of.

    2. db   12 years ago

      I love my 11/87 tricked out with an extended tube. I put a short slug barrel on it (still legal length) and a rifled choke. That spreads the pattern out a bit. Then mount a sidesaddle carrier for some extra loads. The rifle sights on the slug barrel can be replaced with a ghost ring and you can't miss.

      The 1100 is a good gun too and will shoot lighter loads than the 11/87.

      1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

        I was looking at the 1187 and the Versa. Also the Saiga-12. Unfortunately, they are all sold out locally right now...

        1. db   12 years ago

          I have not seen a Saiga that didn't need some work to be reliable. I still want one. But if you're looking for out of the box reliability the Remingtons stand tall. I shoot 3-gun with mine and it is the most reliable of the three.

          1. T   12 years ago

            Benellis are nice, but spendy. My dove hunting buddy swears by his.

            I'm still rocking a beat up old 870 Express. You kids and your newfangled semi-autos!

  20. Irish   12 years ago

    White House Climate Adviser argues that we need a war on coal.

    Genius!

    1. Tonio   12 years ago

      The two major industries win WV are coal and federal government. Government can't expand jobs, so the next best thing is to kill coal and make all those people dependent on government handouts.

  21. A Serious Man   12 years ago

    Scientists use XBox Kinect to hack into a cockroach and control its movements.

    1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

      Oh, good. Cyborg roaches controlled remotely. That can't possibly go wrong.

      Wait, this is familiar to me somehow. The Fifth Element?

      1. db   12 years ago

        Dude, the Mondacheewans were the good guys.

        1. db   12 years ago

          If by "good" you mean painting an enormous target for The Embodiment of Evil on an unsuspecting planet.

      2. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

        That's no way to talk about Chris Tucker's performance.

    2. Ted S.   12 years ago

      Microsoft versus cockroaches. Can't they both lose?

      1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

        I've actually been impressed with the Kinect. And they gave it capabilities far beyond those currently being exploited. Some of the hacks have been amazing.

        1. trshmnstr   12 years ago

          My senior project in college involved exploiting some of those capabilities. That thing is very, very fun to play with.

        2. Brett L   12 years ago

          Yeah, Kinect is one of those accidentally badass things that gets built from time to time that started out as a gadget and is going to be really useful in a lot of places. Like duct tape.

          1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

            The open-ended capabilities were intentional--I read something about that before the thing was even released.

  22. SweatingGin   12 years ago

    No cheap power for you! That's the message from President Obama as he calls for mandatory carbon pollution limits on U.S. power plants.

    If you love him enough, he'll turn the heat back on.

    1. Sevo   12 years ago

      I'll stay cold.

  23. Caleb Turberville   12 years ago

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/25/.....?hpt=hp_c3

    CNN.com's headline states that today's SCOTUS ruling will make the 1965 Voting Rights Act "harder to enforce."

    Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the provision under dispute, Section 4, merely a qualifier to the enforcement of the law and not an actual enforcement provision in and of itself?

    1. John   12 years ago

      Yes. DOJ has been hit with all kinds of court fees for misusing it. They tried to stop Alabama from collecting DNA from felons.

    2. Caleb Turberville   12 years ago

      And really, how much has the 1965 Voting Rights Act done to stop the biggest and most egregious violation of minority enfranchisement? The Drug War?

    3. Damned Fool   12 years ago

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23051808

      Pretty good description here. They invalidated a test that determines who has to jump through the hoops. Although the hoops are still there, there's no way to pick the people who have to use them.

      1. John   12 years ago

        And racists former confederate states like New York and Michigan were some of those subjected to it. Funny how that never gets mentioned.

        1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

          THE CRA stopped being properly enforced when the Johnson and Nixon administrations got away with institutionalizing Affirmative Action.

      2. Caleb Turberville   12 years ago

        So, this will in no way dilute the federal government's enforcement powers? In fact, it might actually improve the enforcement of the Act by doing away with an outdated vestige from the 1960s.

        So, how, again, how does the ruling make enforcement of the Act any "harder"?

    4. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

      Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the provision under dispute, Section 4, merely a qualifier to the enforcement of the law and not an actual enforcement provision in and of itself?

      Yes.

      Today's decision in Shelby County v. Holder, a new challenge to the preclearance requirements, boils down to a new message to Congress: we warned you, you didn't listen, and now it's your problem to fix. The Court did not invalidate the actual preclearance provision of the statute. But it did something just as significant: it struck down Section 4 of the Act, which contains the formula that is used to identify the state and local governments that have to comply with the preclearance requirements. The upshot is that although the preclearance requirement survives, none of those jurisdictions have to comply with it unless and until Congress can enact a new formula to determine whom it covers ? a prospect that, given the current state of gridlock in Congress, might not happen for a while or even forever. (It is also possible that the federal Department of Justice could bring new lawsuits under a separate provision of the Act to extend the preclearance provisions to new jurisdictions, but today's decision could make it much harder for the government to win those suits too.)

  24. A Serious Man   12 years ago

    Three 'super-Earths' found in habitable zone of triple-star system.

    1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

      Jinx?

      1. A Serious Man   12 years ago

        Did I miss something?

        1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

          Niven.

    2. DJF   12 years ago

      I proclaim these planets to be named D, J and F and they will be the home worlds of my Galactic Empire.

  25. AuH20   12 years ago

    The queer feminist response to that trans kid in Colorado

    It's scary and uncomfortable when people are seemingly obsessed with how and where you go to the bathroom. It's even scarier when people are trying to force you to use a men's bathroom when you're a woman. Imagining how that fear and unease must be amplified for a little girl makes me physically ill. Forcing a first grade girl to use a boys' bathroom isn't only opening her up to bullying and weird looks outside the bathroom, it is more insidiously opening her up to violence and bullying inside the bathroom. Imagine being a scared young girl in a place that already probably makes you feel uncomfortable. Now imagine there are half a dozen boys aged 6-12 in there with you and that they can take one look at you and see you don't belong. If the school district had it's way, this is what Coy Mathis would have had to face every time she had to use the bathroom. Normally, it's the school's job to protect it's students from dangerous situations like this. But instead, the school decided to join in with any potential bullies and say that she is different and strange and doesn't deserve to be treated like a "normal" student.

    1. DJF   12 years ago

      """half a dozen boys aged 6-12 "'

      Yeah, like girls can't be as unwelcoming as boys. What are they going to do with this he/she/whatever?

      1. Tonio   12 years ago

        Try having a bit of sympathy for Coy. If Coy is the puppet of the parents, then Coy deserves sympathy for that. If Coy is genuinely TG she's already in a world of hurt.

        1. John   12 years ago

          yeah. everyone should have sympathy for the kid. He is six years old for God's sake.

        2. DJF   12 years ago

          I am just pointing out that I don't think that Coy will be treated any better in the girls bathroom then the boys bathroom.

          1. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

            "I am just pointing out that I don't think that Coy will be treated any better in the girls bathroom then the boys bathroom."

            Doesn't matter. A win is a win for these people.

        3. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

          I'm not really sure the right thing to do in this sort of situation. It seems like many parents opt to encourage their kids to go to school in "normal" wear and let them dress up at home until they get a little older. Whatever the right thing to do is, turning this kid's life into a complete circus is not even a tiny bit it.

  26. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    From the vault of 'Mandyisms...

    But what's fascinating is whether or not a rape victim's account is given social weight by being collaborated by a Be-penised American, the same slurs come out as would if rape apologists thought they could get away with calling the victim a liar.

    "Be-penised"?

    1. Nikkis enthusiastic dissent   12 years ago

      I'm so much more amused by "collaborated" for "corroborated." That was awesome.

      1. AuH20   12 years ago

        That's just like a Vagina American, although who am I to judge being be-penised and all.

        1. SugarFree   12 years ago

          The proper term is "Envaginated."

      2. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

        Proofreading is the enema! I think I spelt that write.

    2. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

      Is that a person with a penis or one who later acquires one? Or is that a reference to women taking control of male genitalia, as described by Sam Kinison?

      1. Almanian!   12 years ago

        You need to BE the penis, ProL.

        BEEEEEEEEE.....the penis....

      2. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

        No Danny, see your penis. Be...Be...Be your penis.

        1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

          Fap on, fap off.

    3. Rich   12 years ago

      Sounds like a Harry Potter spell.

      1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

        Biggus dickus!

        1. Warrren   12 years ago

          Two penetrations to Gryffindor!

          1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

            This does raise the question of what Rowling is going to do when she inevitably returns to the Potter universe.

            1. Warrren   12 years ago

              She has a huge world to set stories in. How about tale from the American public wizarding schools?

              1. Eduard van Haalen   12 years ago

                Better be a charter school.

                1. Eduard van Haalen   12 years ago

                  I know, the Robert Byrd Grand Wizard Academy!

                  1. Warrren   12 years ago

                    A lot of hoods at that school.

    4. Episiarch   12 years ago

      She's referring to all dudes with what she rates as a "B level" penis. I'm not familiar with her rating system so I'm not sure what the qualifications are, but I'm sure you don't meet it because you obviously have a "D level" penis. I'd say F level but I generally reserve that just for NutraSweet.

      1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

        D is the highest rating, moron. It stands for "Dick level" penis. It's just like a Z-peen to get such obvious facts completely backwards.

        1. Episiarch   12 years ago

          I don't use the English Standard rating system, you limey-loving buffoon. I use the American Porn Industry rating system, it works better for me.

          Why don't you just go back and report your tiny dong to the queen.

          1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

            Dude, Ron Jeremy just told you that to make you feel better about the Z-rating.

            On second thought, nevermind. Koreans in bathroom stalls laugh at you because they're jealous. Yeah, that's it, you stunted Sicilian.

            1. Episiarch   12 years ago

              Sicilian?!?

              1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

                OK, fine, Bosnian. Happy now?!

        2. db   12 years ago

          Z-peen is a little harsh. That's reserved for the worst hair-covered monstrosities.

      2. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

        I think it's guys with 2 dicks. You know that "fuck a B, it has more holes" joke? Well, this is specifically about being raped by a guys "B" penis.

    5. Brett L   12 years ago

      Nikki will back me up here, but this is why professional writers need editors. They get caught up in their own cuteness and write a giant turd of an article. And the less often they experience criticism by people who actually understand the rules of written English, the more indignant they get when you point out how shitty their writing is.

      1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

        If I ever becoming some best-selling author, one thing I'm going to not do is ignore editors. It's destroyed many a writer and has resulted in some very, very long books.

        1. Episiarch   12 years ago

          Still angry about The Wheel of Time, ProL?

          1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

            I wish. Sure, I'd be ashamed of what I'd done, but I could relieve my shame in money baths.

        2. Brett L   12 years ago

          Be nice to Neal Stephenson! I'm sure any editor would have left in that random scene in Cryptonomicon with the entire four page Penthouse Forum letter instead of a five line excerpt.

          1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

            He's one of them. But there are many others. Heck, even a woman writing kids books went down that path.

      2. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

        Have to be a mighty masochistic editor to put the effort into revising Mandykins' brain droppings.

        Still, seeing as how she has written a couple of published books I have to assume that such an editor exists somewhere.

        1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

          Someone should edit comments around here. Tighten them up. Reduce them to their basic meaning, free of unnecessary adjectives and waste. Simple.

          1. RBS   12 years ago

            Yes.

      3. Nikkis enthusiastic dissent   12 years ago

        A decent rule is, "The more the writer likes it/thinks it's cute, the more you should CUT CUT CUT." So, yeah.

      4. MJGreen   12 years ago

        She doesn't need your penis logic mansplainin' how to write for feminist audiences that are more interested in content than the oppressive patriarchal rules of grammar devised by men like Strunk and White. Fascist.

        1. MJGreen   12 years ago

          Hmm, I submitted that prematurely. I could have added a couple more clauses to that sentence.

          1. hamilton   12 years ago

            The Be-penised are continually subject to pathetic displays of premature submission.

    6. Irish   12 years ago

      Nothing says 'I'm not a sexist' like basing your opinion about someone on whether they have a penis or not.

    7. MJGreen   12 years ago

      NOT THE BEE-PENISES!!

    8. Calidissident   12 years ago

      I've read this paragraph five or six times, and I still have no idea what she's saying.

      1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

        That's a sign that your brain is still functioning as normal.

        When you begin to understand her ramblings, you should consult a doctor, a psychologist, and an exorcist to remove the poison from your soul.

      2. Nikkis enthusiastic dissent   12 years ago

        Well, out of context it doesn't make a lot of sense, though it actually does in context. It's from an old post about Roman Polanski, and she's talking about how even though he admits he did rape a 13-year-old girl, people still defend him and do so by saying the same types of shit about the girl that they usually do when claiming something "wasn't really rape" or whatever. I.e., even when a man corroborates a woman's claim of having been raped, the woman is still going to have people say she was lying/asking for it/etc.

        1. Calidissident   12 years ago

          Not talking about the Polanski case, as I think the guy should be in prison, but why is believing that someone making a rape accusation is lying any worse than believing the guy denying it is lying, as long (as long as it's based on logic and evidence and not simply based on sexism)? Women are humans too. They lie, just like men do.

          1. Nikkis enthusiastic dissent   12 years ago

            Well that's not exactly what she's saying--she's saying that even if both a man and a woman agree that the man raped the woman, people will say she is lying. Which, I don't know, it's true in the Polanski case but in how many others? I truly don't know, but it is fucked up.

            1. Calidissident   12 years ago

              My comment wasn't necessarily aimed at the writer of that paragraph, although from that paragraph, and the use of term "slurs" it seems like she does not approve of thinking a woman making a rape accusation is a liar (obviously anyone who thinks this in every instance is an asshole, I'm talking about someone who simply isn't convinced that by evidence that a rape took place). And yeah, I do agree that people who excuse Polanski and guys like him, even after they admit to wrongdoing, are fucked in the head

  27. Matrix   12 years ago

    Stephen Walt via Twitter: If Snowden were Chinese or Iranian, had leaked info about their spying and then sought asylum in US, we'd grant it and call him a hero

    1. Almanian!   12 years ago

      HIYO!

    2. Rich   12 years ago

      But, to be fair, if he were *Russian*, we'd hand him right over.

    3. John   12 years ago

      Of course if Snowden were Jewish and had gone to Israel, I doubt old Walt would have very much good to say about him.

  28. A Serious Man   12 years ago

    Ancient Egyptian statue at British museum moves on its own.

    1. B.P.   12 years ago

      Rooby-Dooby-Doo!

  29. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

    Texas state Senator 13 hour filibuster for women's liberty.

    http://www.austinchronicle.com.....-progress/

    Not bad to look at either.

    1. John   12 years ago

      CHRISTFAG!!!

      Shreek take your meds before you start trying to eat your box again.

    2. Brett L   12 years ago

      Well fuck, Kirk Watson is now the State Senator for the Austin area? I wish the homeless transvestite who lived on 6th street won that mayor's race (1998?2000?).

  30. A Serious Man   12 years ago

    I think I've found the worst thing on the internet today: Jezebel writer explains why Justice Clarence Thomas is the worst ever.

    3. He's Scalia's "black friend"

    One of the worst things about Justice Thomas is, because of his visibility as a Supreme Court Justice, his vile worldview is given undue credence by conservatives. "How can this be racist?" they ask innocently. "My black friend thinks it's OK!" Justice Scalia has essentially admitted as much, saying that he has followed Thomas's lead on certain issues?that it was Thomas that led Scalia down a more conservative path, not the other way around.

    Nowhere is this "tokenization" of Thomas more evident than the circumstances under which he became a Supreme Court Justice in the first place. Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall?the first black member of the Court, crusader for civil rights, and former chief counsel of the NAACP. When Justice Marshall retired in 1991, President George Bush, the first of his name, replaced him with Clarence fucking Thomas. Like, oh, Clarence Thomas is black. Good enough. Basically the same as Thurgood Marshall, right? Yeah, sounds good.

    These people are the lowest form of life on Earth.

    1. Irish   12 years ago

      'I'm not racist, but I think when black people disagree with me it's because they're pawns controlled by white people.' /A disturbing number of liberals

    2. John   12 years ago

      They are total racists. What you have here is a bunch of white women who can't under deal with or understand a strong black man who forms his own opinions. They are utterly puzzled and threatened by Thomas. They to use their own phrase, have not checked their privilege.

    3. Episiarch   12 years ago

      What this person wrote says a lot more about them than they realize.

    4. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

      Epi is right about the projection thing. Racists see racism everywhere.

    5. Nikkis enthusiastic dissent   12 years ago

      She lost me halfway through the lede.

      Everyone knows Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the best Supreme Court justice

      Wait, what now?

      1. Irish   12 years ago

        Yeah. All the best Supreme Court Justices vote with the majority in a case that decides it's okay to take the land of poor people and sell it to a corporation.

        What a wonderful person Justice Ginsburg is.

      2. Nikkis enthusiastic dissent   12 years ago

        In one of its worst opinions of all time, the Supreme Court ruled that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional.

        Sorry, lady, if you really think this was one of the worst opinions of all time, I have a few others to remind you of. How do you like Dred Scott? How do you like Korematsu, motherfucker?

        1. Irish   12 years ago

          Buck v. Bell. Schenck v. United States.

          Of course, both of those were products of early 1900 progressives, so neo-progressives like to forget that they happened.

          1. trshmnstr   12 years ago

            Let's toss Wickard v. Filburn on the list while we're at it.

            1. Irish   12 years ago

              Kelo v. New London. Plessy v. Ferguson. Muller v. Oregon (a case that upheld an Oregon ban on women working more than 10 hours a day.) Hamdi v. Rumsfeld.

              1. Almanian!   12 years ago

                Now, Plessy Fergusan made a good tractor back in the day. It was a racist tractor...but a good one.

                It kept the other tractors in their place - separate, but equal places.

          2. Nikkis enthusiastic dissent   12 years ago

            Yep those are two more good ones. I know people care about voting rights, but do they really think they are more important than not being just fucking imprisoned or maimed because you are a minority? I kind of don't think so.

            1. John   12 years ago

              Dred Scott really takes the prize. It says in so many words that the natural state of the black man is enslavement and any white person is free to enslave any black person wherever they may be found.

              But telling the feds they can't control how the states gerrymander districts is just so much worse than that.

              1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

                It's a horrible decision, but I love the guy's name: Dred Scott.

                1. John   12 years ago

                  Yes it is. And he was a good guy too.

              2. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

                Exactly; it completely demolished the rights of free blacks in the north.

                People wonder why I find the CSA's supposed stand for states' rights a bit hard to swallow.

                1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

                  What bothers me about the lost role of the states in federalism isn't that the South was right but that the Union was wrong. Not about slavery, but about the political structure itself.

                  1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

                    I suspect that this change was in some ways inevitable. Half of CONUS was administered as federally-chartered territories; the other half was torn apart by slavery and conflicting economic impulses. Secession wouldn't have solved those problems, and frankly a Unionist-led CSA which went to pains to preserve its own union through force of arms (see e.g., Georgia or Virginia's attempts to assert states' rights in the region) would have been no better on that issue than the Union.

        2. John   12 years ago

          Nikkis,

          Stop with your mansplanning with all of that history and stuff.

        3. Episiarch   12 years ago

          The natural end result of the type of hysterical partisan politics that TEAM BLUE uses to whip its sheep into line is that everything that just happened is the most important thing EVAR. Already dumb people are getting massively worked up and making themselves even dumber.

          1. John   12 years ago

            It is about narcissism. How dare you imply that anyone has ever suffered more than her or fought in more noble and important causes. Everything that just happened is the most important ever because she is the most important ever.

            1. trshmnstr   12 years ago

              And narcissism is the primary driver of the "self-esteem" movement, which leads to identity politics.

              As they've been telling 3 going on 4 generations now "you're special, and you're unique, and nobody knows the hard times you've been through"

              1. JW   12 years ago

                As they've been telling 3 going on 4 generations now "you're special, and you're unique, and nobody knows the hard times you've been through"

                It's like they never left adolescence. Well, intellectually they never did.

                They should have a few more tantrums. Those are always effective at persuasion.

                1. trshmnstr   12 years ago

                  Even intellectually, some have matured, but not emotionally. Some of the smartest people I've ever met were emotionally immature.

                  People completely forget about emotional maturity because it's been absolutely obliterated over the last 60-75 years.

                  Try telling a girl of 14-16 today to go round up 10 chickens, cut their heads off with a butcher's knife, drain the blood, and gut them. With most girls, you'd get a river of salty tears and no dinner.

                  1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

                    ICKY!

        4. Nikkis enthusiastic dissent   12 years ago

          And among all those problematic opinions written or joined by Thomas, nothing about Redding and the fucking Advil strip search.

          1. John   12 years ago

            That is because they agreed with him on those. Or more likely they are really stupid and uninformed and have no idea such cases were ever decided.

    6. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

      Thomas was an affirmative action hire - deny it all you wish.

      OF course he had the minimum requirements too.

      1. John   12 years ago

        Thomas was an affirmative action hire

        So you are saying the Senate all voted for him because he was black? Like when all of the racist white people like you voted for obama? Like that

        Take your racist bullshit elsewhere. We put up with your sock puppeting. But you and Alec need to stop posting racist shit on here. Stop it or we will call the moderators like we do on Mary Stack.

        We all laugh at you shreek because you are retarded. But sometimes even the retarded kid gets out of line. And when you post your racist rants on here, that is one of those times.

      2. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

        Before the Peanut Gallery spins out of control:

        In those days, U.S. presidents submitted lists of potential federal court nominees to the American Bar Association (ABA) for a confidential rating of their judicial temperament, competence and integrity on a three-level scale of well qualified, qualified or unqualified.[39] Anticipating that the ABA would rate Thomas more poorly than they thought he deserved, the White House and Republican Senators pressured the ABA for at least the mid-level qualified rating, and simultaneously attempted to discredit the ABA as partisan.[40] The ABA did rate Thomas as qualified, although with one of the lowest levels of support for a Supreme Court nominee.[41][42][43][44][45][46]

        Wikipedia

        And Bush 41 told Toobin that he wanted a black replacement.

        1. John   12 years ago

          Yes Shreek. We know, you are a racist. Stop posting your racial trash and move on. Come on shreek, go back to screaming Christfag and throwing your own shit like you usually do. Racist rants against Clearance Thomas is bad even for you.

          1. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

            You can't even fake PC well, John. Clarence Thomas is Team Red so you support him.

            1. John   12 years ago

              Stop insulting Thomas for being black. We put up with a lot from you because we know you are retarded. But racism is something that is just not allowed. Take your white supremacy over the Kos where its only white people and they will accept it.

        2. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

          It's nonsense. I've read a number of Thomas' opinions. He's as good and as well-reasoned as any other sitting justice. Regardless of whether you agree with his politics.

          1. John   12 years ago

            People like Shreek can never accept the existence of a brilliant and strong black man. There is nothing they hate more or find more threatening.

            1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

              It's pretty telling how much hate is thrown at individuals from certain identity groups who "betray" the leftist cause.

        3. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

          It really is sad to see you hide behind the ABA when what you really want to do is scream about how that damned nigger took another job away from the whites.

          Let it all out.

          1. John   12 years ago

            Yup. No one ever calls Scalia or Alito affirmative action hires. Shreek just can't stand that a black man took a white man's job.

            1. Palin's Buttplug   12 years ago

              OK. I will remember how much you guys support Affirmative Action the next time there is a ruling on it.

              1. John   12 years ago

                We support equality shreek. We judge Thomas as a human being not by his race, something you can't do.

              2. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

                ^^This is your brain on stupid^^

    7. John   12 years ago

      Like, oh, Clarence Thomas is black. Good enough. Basically the same as Thurgood Marshall, right? Yeah, sounds good.

      Is it any surprise that Thomas hates these people and affirmative action so much? A bunch a pampered white women taking a shit on a black man who grew up in the Jim Crow South only to become a Supreme Court justice. They really are unbelievable repulsive people. It is not even intelligent writing. They are vile but then make up for it by being comically stupid and uneducated.

      1. JW   12 years ago

        They're really going out of their way to prove Thomas' main opposition to affirmative action right, aren't they?

        Like, oh, Clarence Thomas is black. Good enough. Basically the same as Thurgood Marshall, right? Yeah, sounds good.

        Any black in a position of power is there only because they're black and not on merit.

        1. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

          In their defense, they've been promoting affirmative action for decades to bring about that exact effect. So it should come as no surprise that somewhere along the way they forgot just what was in the Kool-Aid.

      2. Calidissident   12 years ago

        The writer is biracial, but I otherwise agree with your point. And then are a ton of 100% white liberal women who agree with her (ignoring their own advice of "checking one's privilege")

    8. MJGreen   12 years ago

      Justice Scalia has essentially admitted as much, saying that he has followed Thomas's lead on certain issues?that it was Thomas that led Scalia down a more conservative path, not the other way around.

      When a person from an oppressed group tries to share their experience, the proper response is to stop talking and listen. You might learn something.

      Unless he's a no good conservative, in which case it will just make you more racist.

      1. BiMonSciFiCon   12 years ago

        It's definitely impossible that the arguments and evidence Thomas put forth influenced Scalia. No, it's just because he's Scalia's black friend.

    9. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

      It really is projection, like Epi said. Many white progressives (especially upper-class white women) in their heart of hearts don't believe that blacks can succeed on their own.

    10. JW   12 years ago

      A Fugitive Ideological Slave Act is just the answer they're looking for.

    11. Apatheist ?_??   12 years ago

      returnofthehoneyUMeagan Hatcher-Mays101L
      I've always said that the worse kind of person is one is a traitor amongst his or her own, racially, gender-wise, religion (e.g. hurting fellow Jews), or sexual orientation. I've despised Thomas for so long I've forgotten he exists. I can't wait for his fall, which will be the day he looks in the mirror and realizes he's been black all along. 45 minutes ago

      AriaheadUreturnofthehoney31L
      He reminds me of Clayton Bigsby from the Chappelle Show. At least Bigsby was blind. 37 minutes ago

      returnofthehoneyUAriahead1L
      Yeah, but I see more of Uncle Ruckus (The Boondocks) from him. Scary! 31 minutes ago

      1. John   12 years ago

        And a white person has so much standing to call a black person a race traitor.

        1. Irish   12 years ago

          They might not be white. I mean, they're on Jezebel, so they're probably white. But one of them could be a black person.

          All three of them probably aren't though, so there are at least two racists.

        2. Apatheist ?_??   12 years ago

          Clayton Bigsby and Uncle Ruckus are modern Uncle Tom characters taken to a comedic extreme. It's racist as shit to call him that.

          1. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

            Uncle Tom himself was the protagonist of the novel. The novel ends in him dying to protect runaway slaves.

            1. Apatheist ?_??   12 years ago

              Well I meant the later derived characters that the modern insult comes from.

          2. Tonio   12 years ago

            And the really sad thing is that Uncle Tom was a character of dignity and integrity in the eponymous novel.

            1. Tonio   12 years ago

              As much as one could be under the circumstances, of course.

      2. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

        I've always said that the worse kind of person is one is a traitor amongst his or her own, racially, gender-wise, religion (e.g. hurting fellow Jews), or sexual orientation.

        So we can expect a similar denunciation of George Soros sometime in the near future?

        1. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

          First thing I thought of.

      3. MJGreen   12 years ago

        I've always said that the worse kind of person is one is a traitor amongst his or her own, racially, gender-wise, religion (e.g. hurting fellow Jews), or sexual orientation.

        But I thought these are all social constructs? What's the crime in "betraying" social constructs? Can't that also be called changing your mind?

        Interesting that family, friends or other people you've intentionally made promises and obligations with are not in the list. Betraying them isn't as bad as betraying someone who shares your skin color.

        What a piece of shit.

  31. sloopyinca   12 years ago

    Did you enjoy your lunch? Was it pleasant?

    Well, prepare to vomit it back up.

    FTA: Rizzo is among the fraternity of Chicago cops who, despite repeated run-ins with the law, have continued working for the department.

    Some have been convicted of misdemeanor crimes ? including assault and battery and theft. By law, the police department can't employ convicted felons.

    Just how many officers have misdemeanor convictions, the department won't say. Three have been convicted of misdemeanors since Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office in May 2011, but the department won't say how many others were convicted before then and remain on the job.

    The department has stripped 74 officers of their police powers. Sixteen of them have been suspended without pay, and five have taken a leave of absence.

    The other 53, including Rizzo, are on "call back" ? working desk jobs. That's less than one half-percent of the department's workforce, according to a spokesman for police Supt. Garry McCarthy.

    1. Brett L   12 years ago

      It's 5:15 here in God's Timezone. I'm on my 3rd drink.

  32. Matrix   12 years ago

    If you feel like you're a girl, then it's okay to use the girl's room. But if you were born a female, and a typo listed you as a male, you have to prove it first to get it corrected

    1. Rich   12 years ago

      The Vital Records Services' ... were able to verify Grimes' gender eventually by using her son's birth certificate.

      Right.

    2. MP   12 years ago

      I'm not seeing the issue here. "It's obvious!" is not way to run a records department, government or otherwise.

  33. sloopyinca   12 years ago

    Psycho-nutball cop shoots and kills somebody (and of course will not face charges). Chief says the officer committed over 100 serious violations of department policy prior to the killing and wants the guy gone. The union disagrees.

    FTA: The 58-page complaint, which Wray filed late Friday, alleges 118 violations of 13 department policies, including the department's equal protection policy aimed at assuring the community the police are not biased in enforcing the law. The complaint also cites violations of harassment, workplace violence and weapons handling policies.
    Most of the alleged violations involve comments Heimsness made about citizens, dispatchers and fellow officers and supervisors, many of them filled with obscenities and remarks that could be considered racist or sexist.

    Thank God we have strong unions that protect people like this from termination. Without them, there would be total anarchy!

    1. Metazoan   12 years ago

      otoh we have DUE PROCESS and its funny how you 'libertarians' would deny it to people just because they work for the GOVERNMENT.

      we still have DUE PROCESS and my years of service are nothing compared to you

      hth

      1. Warrren   12 years ago

        Smooches!

      2. sloopyinca   12 years ago

        due process and work rules are one and the same for union employees. if you worked for a public sector union and were FORCED into the line of fire like we are, you would be entitled to the same due process we negotiate separate from the laws we gt to enforce.

        i have a spotless 20 year record and you are a pissant civilian. i will not back up my claims, but i will tell you that you BIGORATI couldn't be on the streets like i am, fighting for truth, justice and the american police state. except, of course, for the 8 months out of the year when i'm on long term disability. but that's negotiated in good faith and even though i am a drain on the state's taxpayers and do not provide value for the money i am paid, that doesn't mean i shouldn't remain on the payroll.

        hth

        1. Metazoan   12 years ago

          very nice. I need to practice.

        2. Almanian!   12 years ago

          lol!

          *flexes*

          ow! pulled another muscle - probably tore it. shit, now I've injured myself again. per our negotiated agreements, which are contract law and therefore legal and justified and correct, I will now extend my medical leave. plenty of case law backs tha up - it's clear once you understand the total fact scenario.

          smooches!

  34. Coeus   12 years ago

    Clarence Thomas is Racist!!!

    Today, though. Today was the white hood on the top of Thomas's racism cake. In one of its worst opinions of all time, the Supreme Court ruled that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. That section prevented jurisdictions with a history of suppressing the minority vote from changing their voting procedures without approval from the Department of Justice. This procedure has been so effective in improving voter turnout and ending discrimination that the Court decided we don't need it anymore. Not only did Justice Thomas agree with this, he wrote a separate concurrence just to point out that he'd strike down the other sections of the Act that protect minority voters! WHAT? BECAUSE FUCK BLACK PEOPLE TRYING TO VOTE IN ALABAMA, AM I RIGHT?

    1. Coeus   12 years ago

      Dammit, missed the link by serious.

    2. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

      Today was the white hood on the top of Thomas's racism cake.

      I see that competition for the Thomas Friedman Prize in Botched Mixed Metaphors will be stiff this year.

      1. Irish   12 years ago

        NO ONE IS WILLING TO FALL ON THE SYRIAN GRENADE AND MIDWIFE A NEW ORDER!

      2. JW   12 years ago

        The raw imbecility contained in that sentence just took 5 years off my life.

    3. sloopyinca   12 years ago

      I heard someone once say in Newsweek that he heard Clarence Thomas refer to a black guy as a "nigger". He should be impeached and forced to walk a day in a black man's shoes to see what pain his words cause. There is no place in this world or in the American court system for outdated bigotry like his.

      /Kos Kids

      1. Irish   12 years ago

        Clarence Thomas isn't nearly black enough. He doesn't listen to the kind of cool black person music that my maid does.

        /Privileged white liberal

        1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

          Back when he was being confirmed, it was pretty obvious that the left really feared the idea of a prominent black conservative being named to the court. The crap thrown at him was really shocking, capped, of course, by what in hindsight appears to have been a totally political set of accusations from Anita Hill. Note that nothing has even been suggested like that about him in his subsequent career, which is atypical of the sort of person who was supposed to have done what he did.

          By any means necessary, right?

    4. Don Mynack   12 years ago

      Speak it! Black turnout was so suppressed these last few elections.

  35. Brett L   12 years ago

    From my neck of the woods: I think it hits all of the SWPL tropes. Although why they would work for North Florida CC in Tallahassee (which has TCC) puzzles me.

    In Tallahassee, Fla., two women are upping the urban-farming ante. Claire Mitchell and Danielle Krasniqi started Ten-Speed Greens last November. They not only grow lettuce, tomatoes, and other produce on a formerly vacant lot in the city, they literally pedal their wares to local restaurants and cafes on a pair of bicycles.

    If that wasn't eco-friendly enough, Mitchell and Krasniqi make their deliveries with a pair of bikes made by a Tallahassee-based cycle-maker who uses their city-grown veggies to supply his other business ? a vegan restaurant.

    Although the vegan restaurant, Sweet Pea Cafe, is good.

    1. JW   12 years ago

      If they didn't fertilize only with their own bodily waste and menstrual blood, then they haven't hit all of the tropes yet.

    2. sloopyinca   12 years ago

      Good for them. I can only hope they're trolling the local businesses and actually run their A/C 24 hours a day with the windows open and line their fields with used motor oil to separate the crops.

      Meh, I can't get worked up about this. I am, after all, still trying to get my organic artisinal mayonnaise company off the ground.*

      *Fucking California OSHA and DFA fucking me up at every turn.

      1. Brett L   12 years ago

        I just love the checkboxing of the article.

        1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

          Reminds me of the comments at PoliceOne:

          POS...check
          Had it coming...check
          UOF continuum...check
          Furtive movement...check
          Menacing look...check
          Went for waistband...check

          And that's just from an article where a cop shot a guy 14 times at point blank range as he stepped out of his truck!

  36. sloopyinca   12 years ago

    Washington State cop sexually assaults woman under color of law. Will not face jail time, of course.

    Because, you know, an armed civilian who sexually assaults a victim never gets jail time either.

    1. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

      Union rules allow 2 sexual assaults a year without jail time. Now if he commits a third, he might have to take a paid administrative leave.

      1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

        Ah, yes. The "Three strikes and you're on vacation" union rules.

        How did we live without this great advance in workers' rights that is called the Public Sector Union? I bet Washington State was like one big 365 day a year version of The Purge prior to the PBA.

  37. sloopyinca   12 years ago

    By my accounting, the litany of crimes this cop is purported to have committed should result in a bot more than $300 in fines.

    And I wonder how that breathalyzer and blood test they surely took him in and had administered came out. Oh, they never did? Wow, I guess that's just lucky for him.

  38. Joe M   12 years ago

    Experts say this is likely because of higher school loan debt, and losses from the housing bubble burst.

    In other words, nothing to do with the economy, just poor money management.

    1. Acosmist   12 years ago

      ???

  39. sloopyinca   12 years ago

    Cops cuff 7 and 8 year old kids and take them to a holding cell.

    They agree top pay $25k in restitution, but will not have to admit they did anything wrong in the settlement.

    This is the shit I was talking about in the Shackford Can't Move Freely About SoCal article earlier today. People need to take these to trial and show there was wrongdoing. If they don't, every following case is treated like a first offense and there can't be any enhanced discipline or punitive damages.

    1. Libertymike   12 years ago

      OT: Is neoliberal Kochtopus the old TAO?

      1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

        Not sure. I thought I got into it (shocking, I know) with TAO on here the other day. Why would he change his handle? Did I internet-kick his ass so bad that he had to rebrand?

        1. Libertymike   12 years ago

          He's changed his handle more often than Liberace changed costumes.

          1. Libertymike   12 years ago

            Or more often than the Boss hired and fired Billy Martin.

            1. Coeus   12 years ago

              I realized I was having an old argument with him a few months ago. Has he changed it again since then?

              1. Libertymike   12 years ago

                It would appear so.

          2. Warrren   12 years ago

            And bed linen.

  40. Libertymike   12 years ago

    sloop-

    Suppose the two of us hosted a morning drive time sports talk show in Akron. Suppose further that on the very same night that the Heat win game 7 of the NBA Finals, Ohio State fired Urban Meyer.

    What is our lead on our show the next morning?

    1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

      What is our lead on our show the next morning?

      Probably how I went all Budd Dwyer and blew my brains out on live TV because the best I could do was land a gig in Akron.

      Now if the show was in a civilized part of the world, say Cincy, it would probably be the Meyer firing.

      1. Libertymike   12 years ago

        Doesn't the NBA Finals game 7, no matter the teams, merit the lead, even if there is a significant local story?

        Or, for that matter, the college football national championship over the significant local story?

        For example, take the 2002 national championship game. In my view, that is the lead whether our show is in Columbus or Boston or Santa Barbara or Coral Gables.

        1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

          It depends on the city and their local sports fans' dedication to a particular team, IMO.

          Barring an earth-shattering story like Meyer getting the axe, the lead in Cincy would certainly be the Heat winning the NBA Championship.
          Lewis gets canned by the Bungles? The Heat is the lead.
          The Lizard gets fired by the Reds? The Heat is the lead.

          But if it has to do with TOSU football and is big, you can bet your ass that'll take top billing.

  41. Brett L   12 years ago

    Cuttlefish, attack!

    1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

      Indeed Brett, indeed.

    2. sloopyinca   12 years ago

      ^^Gay^^

  42. Acosmist   12 years ago

    Charter schools select students. Stop buying this bs.

  43. Xenocles   12 years ago

    I wonder how much home values have to do with the net worth thing. I'm contributing to the decline by not owning a house at all, I bet.

  44. Irish   12 years ago

    Shut the fuck up.

  45. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    If libertarians had balls, they'd put the blame for the education nation crisis where it belongs, on the degenerate culture of these blacks and Mexicans.

    Most libertarians are either D- or B-peens, as has already been established above -- except for Episiarch. God, what a loser.

  46. trshmnstr   12 years ago

    If libertarians had balls, they'd put the blame for the education nation crisis where it belongs, on the degenerate culture of these blacks and Mexicans.

    Or they'd go to the source of said degenerate culture and blame Head Start, Food stamps, the WOD and other gov't programs that reward laziness, criminality, and a general lack of concern for personal responsibility?

    Nah, let's blame black people instead, that's just easier.

  47. Lolo Stahko   12 years ago

    I wouldn't say it the same way Alac does, but only a dumb cosmo would try to say that the culture of some of the black underclass doesn't affect their test scores. I'm not saying ALL blacks follow this culture and ALL black culture leads to bad results, but there are definitely parts to it that do, see things like "acting white." Many blacks make similar points about black culture, are they also racists?

  48. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    Since you haven't defined "degeneracy" (and mostly haven't thought of what it might mean besides being a rhetorical broadside), there's no point in discussing what is an effectively meaningless assertion.

  49. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

    A
    Loser
    Assed
    Cunt

  50. trshmnstr   12 years ago

    stupid formatting... i can't ever get it right

  51. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

    There, there, Alac. Just because you're a degenerate collectivist doesn't mean everyone else is.

  52. Irish   12 years ago

    Also, he should shut the fuck up.

  53. Matrix   12 years ago

    I did not realize that an individual ruled over China.

  54. Calidissident   12 years ago

    What relevance is democracy when the people don't know what the government is doing?

  55. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

    Sock puppet fight!

  56. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    Good point.

  57. Calidissident   12 years ago

    Irish, good call on nailing this guy as American earlier. I suspected it, but wasn't 100% sure

  58. Irish   12 years ago

    No. You've listed a large number of unrelated things, many of which are common in low income white communities.

    Define degeneracy, racist.

  59. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

    Why yes, yes I do get the picture (look down)

  60. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    Stupid decisions like being an open racist in a society where such is an enormous impediment to success? That kind of stupidity?

    Just trying to gauge how degenerate you are, exactly.

  61. Enough About Palin   12 years ago

    http://reason.com/blog/2013/06.....nt_3828112

  62. trshmnstr   12 years ago

    It is hypocritical to demand personal responsibility from people and then blame their lack of personal responsibility on someone else.

    I absolutely agree, and that's where the government comes into the picture. When out of one side of their mouth they preach social programs, and the other side they rue the lack of educational equality in these communities, I see tons of hypocrisy.

    I also agree that individuals and families are accountable for their actions, however much of that accountability is learned through experience, both first-hand and observed. How are the people in the impoverished culture supposed to learn to be accountable for their actions? They see no consequences, they perceive no harm. They are shielded from the results of their irresponsibility and only hear the tsk-tsk of a bunch of perceived do-gooders.

  63. Calidissident   12 years ago

    Blacks were disproportionately poor when the Great Society kicked into full bloom (and none of what you said is relevant to his point about the WOD). Asian immigrants are not an apples to apples comparison to native blacks or Hispanic immigrants. On average, they're wealthier even before coming here, and much better educated. The relatively poor Asian immigrant groups have higher levels of crime, less educational achievement, etc.

  64. Virginian   12 years ago

    Well Thomas was and is qualified to be a USSC justice. Affirmative Action, to me, is when you promote someone who is less qualified due to their race or gender or sexual orientation.

  65. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    Exactly.

    If you wanted to hire a black person and the person you ended up hiring for the job was both the best qualified in your eyes *and* black, that's surplus value -- not affirmative action.

  66. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

    I haven't seen an acrostic in a while.

  67. SugarFree   12 years ago

    How much you want to bet that American would stop being anti-abortion if it was made illegal only for White Babies?

  68. Irish   12 years ago

    And mandatory for black people.

  69. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    If both applicants are equally qualified then in either case the decision is arbitrary.

    Since I think Thomas is far and away our best Justice, I'm not even sure there are grounds on which to claim that there were better or equally situated applicants for the position.

  70. Calidissident   12 years ago

    I guarantee you this loser doesn't have the balls to say this shit in public so he trolls Internet boards to get his release.

  71. Calidissident   12 years ago

    *And Hispanics Irish. And Hispanics.

  72. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    I thought you and I were racists for not wanting people who move here get to vote immediately afterwards -- and now we're godless nihilists who want blacks and Hispanics overrunning the country?

    I'm so confused.

  73. SugarFree   12 years ago

    The Zimmerman-Martin case must a a real conundrum for American. Hurrah a niglet is dead, but a dirty spic got the honor of killing it.

  74. Calidissident   12 years ago

    He's probably glad Martin is dead, but still wants Zimmerman convicted.

  75. Calidissident   12 years ago

    That's your brain on American logic. And IT, aren't you Puerto Rican? You know American demands you go back to your home island. Your mere presence offends him

  76. Irish   12 years ago

    Are you talking to me, IT?

    Yeah. It is pretty interesting that we were super racist for thinking this immigration bill is a mess but now we're race traitors.

  77. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    Seriously. The demographics of Cambodian and Hmong immigrants are very similar to those of blacks in America.

  78. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    Yeah, I'm Puerto Rican. 'Twas amusing to be accused of being an anti-Hispanic racist in the weekend threads. And don't be absurd; as a US territory American believes that Puerto Rico should be cleansed of Hispanics and repopulated with white or Asian immigrants.

  79. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    Agreed, but I wouldn't call it black culture, persay. Thomas Sowell has quite persuasively argued that both black and white underclass culture in the South was very similar until relatively recently, and that it is traceable to borderlands Scots-Irish culture moreso than any supposed African or slave culture, or a supposed racial difference.

  80. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    It's a damned shame, really. I already ordered my white hood off of Amazon and everything; guess I'm going to have to sell it off to pay my Black Panther membership dues.

  81. Irish   12 years ago

    The scheduling is what tends to get really fucked up. When you accidentally walk into a La Raza meeting wearing your Nazi armband, they don't want to hear that it was just an honest mistake and you must have read your calendar wrong.

  82. The Immaculate Trouser   12 years ago

    It's especially awkward when you're toastmaster for the National Socialist party, and you accidentally pull out the notes for your "Death to Whitey" speech. I tell you, talks around the whites-only water cooler got pretty frigid after that.

  83. Irish   12 years ago

    ^^ If this is a parody, it's wonderful. If not, then I weep for humanity.

  84. Irish   12 years ago

    So I think he should just get five years behind bars and then be deported back to Peru.

    Okay, definitely a parody. This part made me laugh.

  85. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

    NEEDS MORE PHRENOLOGY!

  86. Calidissident   12 years ago

    I think that's a parody, and it's a really good one. I can almost imagine American saying that word for word

  87. Calidissident   12 years ago

    Although honestly, if not for the line about a random white girl, and the comment in the parentheses, I would be really unsure

  88. Warrren   12 years ago

    This is awesome. Since Arco or whatever was memholed it looks like you and the others are telling ASM to fuck off over his link.

  89. BuSab Agent   12 years ago

    Since I came late to this thread, I must admit to a moment of serious confusion over A Serious Man's supposed racism, as well.

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