Tonight on The Independents: Two Minutes Hate & Other Highlights From the Show's First Six Months!

Did you miss Wednesday's episode of The Independents, and thus the latest installment of Bernie Maxsmith reading out your Two Minutes Hate? Fear not:

On tonight's episode of the program (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT, repeats three and five hours later) you're in for a treat: The best of six-plus months of The Independents. If you've never watched the show, here's an excellent opportunity to see what you've been missing. There'll be….

Faves: Segments with Penn Jillette, Glenn Greenwald, Michael C. Moynihan, Gavin McInnes and others….

Fights: Rick Santorum, John Bolton, Anthony Weiner, Ryan Anderson, Emily Miller, et al.

Celebs: Kristin Cavallari, Charlamagne tha God, etc.

Games: Try to guess which of our many fun contests will be represented here!

Two Minutes Hate: Featuring you, the beloved Hit & Run commentariat.

And so much more!

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Comments

[Paul.]

OT:

Costco Wholesale will stop selling tobacco products June 1 at the sole Puget Sound area warehouse that still carries them, its Fourth Avenue South location.

The decision comes amid rising pressure by authorities around the country for large retailers to follow CVS Caremark's move to stop selling cigarettes for health reasons.

http://seattletimes.com/html/b.....esxml.html

[Pro Libertate]

The beauty of unlimited government is there comes a point where you can just tell people what to do, without having to go through the facade of enacting legislation or promulgating new regulations. Simply tell the person or company what to do and imply refusal will meet with consequences.

[SlV]

The pressure is already rising to offer paid menstrual leave.

I can hardly fly my Stuka through the maze of trial barrage balloons

[Pro Libertate]

Yes, I read that piece yesterday dismissing this one as "not serious," but I had the same impression: "Not serious this week." It might not be something that ridiculous, but more bullshit is flowing, that we can be sure of.

[Irish]

I can think of no better way to make employers hire men instead of women then to force employers to pay women not to work four days every month.

Paid menstrual leave would basically eliminate the gains women have made in the workplace in the last 40 years.

[Dances-with-Trolls]

I find it basically difficult to credit that this is a real thing, but then I look back at the maddening drift of the last 30 years and I wonder. It seems that there is no issue too outlandish to be championed by the SJWs in their effort to remain relevant and keep the faithful frothing at the mouth. A lot of them don't stick, but I have a feeling we will hear more about it in the future.

[sarcasmic]

Testes... One... Two... Testes...

[Protagoronus]

Three?

[Andrew S.]

Well, in that case, like the guy with two dicks, you could post pictures on Reddit and reap the karma.

[Fr?ulein Nikki]

30-second unskippable pre-roll in front of a 3.5-min video? This comment had better fucking go through.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

The preview is a good indicator. If your comment is blank, it ain't going through.

[Paul.]

My comments feel blank, even when they post.

[Fr?ulein Nikki]

I just meant in return for that absurd amount of ad revenue/content.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

"Hey boss, I have a great idea! We'll shut off the commenting feature every other Friday. People will hit refresh so much that we'll triple our ad revenue!"

[GILMORE]

"That's crazy!...
...so crazy: It JUST MIGHT WORK!"

(punches fist into palm)

[jesse.in.mb]

Comments are always blank for those with an orange name. Or maybe it's just if you have an email listed. Now I don't remember.

[jesse.in.mb]

Comments should've been preview. Y'all better check your preview privilege. Of all the fucking things to go through today...

*runs off sobbing*

[GILMORE]

""On tonight's episode of the program you're in for a treat: The best of six-plus months of The Independents. If you've never watched the show, here's an excellent opportunity to see what you've been missing...."

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Youtube Multiplier? Where do I invest?

[AlmightyJB]

Mine aren't.

[William of Purple]

yes

[William of Purple]

INDEPENDENTS BE OF ONE MIND

[airforce]

Does anyone else have a problem with these videos playing automatically? Stopping them only solves the problem temporarily, so I finally muted the sound. But it's still aggravating.

[Corning]

Holy crap the whole god damn Internet is doing it.

Why Internet??

Why do you betray me so?

[Army of the 12 Monkeys]

""On tonight's episode of the program you're in for a treat: The best of six-plus months of The Independents. If you've never watched the show, here's an excellent opportunity to see what you've been missing...."

If they consider the Charlamagne tha God interview to be noteworthy, they might want to wait another 6 months before assembling a highlights show. Just string together all the 2 Minutes Hate, Welch's interview with Greenwald, the clips of Kennedy driving drunk on Stossel, and various clips of her flipping out on guests and losing her shit on-the-air (like the time she had to cover her face and talk). Actually, it just sounds like a normal The Independents show, now...

[JW]

On tonight's episode of the program (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT, repeats three and five hours later) you're in for a treat: The best of six-plus months of The Independents.

A clip show? The writers are pissed drunk again, aren't they?

[GILMORE]

"JW|5.23.14 @ 2:15PM|#

"A clip show? The writers are pissed drunk again, aren't they?"

"Ahh, and doesn't that remind you of that hilarious time Bernie Max Smith told Kmele to stop drinking before the show...? Good times..." (shimmer screen and fade to clip)

[Bobarian]

WRITERS? WTF?

You think there are fucking writers for this shit?!?

[BiMonSciFiCon]

Hey GILMORE: checkout Matt's twitter feed. You have homework.

The Independents at Cato Prom

[Lady Bertrum]

Kennedy is a beautiful woman. She's got a nice figure, good skin, and wonderful coloring, but she's go the fashion sense of a blind lesbian truck driver.

A pink maxi mumu dress made of pleated chiffon? with a wide purse strap over the shoulder. Ugg. I cannot even.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

+2 minutes

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

My wife has been known to use the purse strap between the boobs trick.

[Corning]

Isn't that trick to keep Victorian era British orphans from purse snatching?

[Irish]

Kennedy is a beautiful woman. She's got a nice figure, good skin, and wonderful coloring, but she's go the fashion sense of a blind lesbian truck driver.

This comment would go in the comment hall of fame if such a thing existed.

[Fr?ulein Nikki]

Omg what IS that bag?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Look at those shoes Welch is wearing. Did he dance to 'Puttin' on the Ritz' at the prom?

[GILMORE]

Those are called 'creepers'

They are shoes for people who thought of themselves as 'punk-ish' in the 90s.

anyone with matt's haircut is usually embarrassed to wear them. You see them often when hanging out in bars during the day in the east-village.

[Sevo]

Man, you are a WEALTH of sartorial knowledge!

[GILMORE]

mock me if you want.

I was never crazy about those things so never cared what they were called. apparently they are a 20th century staple crossing a wide variety of counter-cultures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothel_creeper

[Sevo]

I wasn't mocking, I was serious!
What I know about clothes is no plaid with stipes. That's it.
Fortunately, my wife is kind enough to say things like 'I wouldn't wear those colors' and I can take the hint.

[GILMORE]

har.

Being an average heterosexual male American, I also knew and cared nothing about clothes either for most of my life.

But.. I worked in a 'Formal Business' environment for the Brits for years, and the 'laws of suits' sunk in pretty quick.

The rest is probably just stuff I got from living in NYC... and reading the below for laughs from time to time=

http://www.vice.com/dos-and-donts

[Sevo]

"But.. I worked in a 'Formal Business' environment for the Brits for years"

I managed as an Agency account exec. There was a 'membership' men's clothing store downtown; I went in with a check book, they made me look nice (according to GFs).
3-piece suits at the time, black or dark gray for financial accounts, discrete patterns for others. Sport coats for the adventurous set!
None of it ever stuck.

[Jesus H. Christ]

Don't you mean "Putin on the Ritz"?

Keeping it topical!!

[Army of the 12 Monkeys]

Well, this was happening at the Waldorf-Astoria. I hear you can see the Russian Tea Room from there.

[Daily Beatings]

Dancing to Irving Berlin's song about poor blacks in Harlem? Remember we're talking about Welch here.

[Cdr Lytton]

"The Rat Pack & the 70's Chick"

WTF is with the comments today? Did someone forget to feed the squirrels their zinc phosphide?

[GILMORE]

I told you there was an explanation for why Matt had a tux on.

There is still no known explanation for Kennedy's Dragon Lady outfit.

[Corning]

This is one of those cocktail parties where the cosmotarians betray us all isn't it?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

A clip show so soon? I see they are following the Star Trek: The Next Generation model.

[GILMORE]

I will have to post an Attire Review that is comprised entirely of Previously Quasi Amusing Things I Might Have Said.

or maybe i'll just go play pool.

[Derpetologist]

Foolish Kennedy
Criticize my poetry?
I rhyme when I want

[Derpetologist]

KGB defector explains the meaning of "useful idiots":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLqHv0xgOlc

[Derpetologist]

There is a Chinese woman I've been helping with English online. Today, she asked what the word "traumatizing" means. Here is the context:

Today, a student was injured during recess while playing with his peers. The student is okay and we did speak with the students after the incident occurred. We are informing you because the incident might have been traumatizing to your child and they may experience some anxiety.

Please email [redacted] with any questions or concerns.

Thank you.

[Sevo]

"Today, she asked what the word "traumatizing" means. Here is the context:"

And you can't snark it; it won't help her one bit.
Is she old enough to have been a victim of Mao? If so, you can likely joke about how trivial this is.

[Derpetologist]

I think she's from Taiwan, actually. But I'll bet her parents fled from the mainland.

I was a little snarky in my answer. I said things like war and bad accidents are traumatizing- stuff that causes nightmares. I said the people who wrote this letter over-reacted. She knows what that word means.

[Sevo]

Derpetologist|5.23.14 @ 8:55PM|#
"I think she's from Taiwan, actually. But I'll bet her parents fled from the mainland."

Lat time I got to have a conversation with a 30-ish Chinese, he said his parents really didn't talk about the Cultural Revolution. In reading about it, it's easy to see why; a lot of people were fingered by others and most would rather just forget about it.
Sort of like E Germans and Stasi.

[Corning]

To cause trauma.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Two Minutes Hate: Featuring you, the beloved Hit & Run commentariat.

Will there be new material or just a rehash from Two Minutes of Hate past?

[Sevo]

OK, are you gonna bash the commie kid tonight?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

You know what took longer than 2 minutes? Fixing this website.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I'm heading out for the weekend soon. Serious, you're in charge.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Roger that. Where did you decide to go?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Wild animal park and Legoland. I waited too long to book, so I have to stay at the Lawrence Welk Resort for Old People tonight, and then I can use my Starwood points at the Sheraton next to Legoland for the other 2 nights.

[juris imprudent]

Lawrence Welk Resort and Legoland - man, that is living! [snort]

[Sevo]

'The MAHVELOUS Lennon Sisters! Git-a down and git-a funky!'

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Dude, I shot my wad on the Maui trip. This one's for the kids.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Just drink lots of beer during the wild animal park and have fun flipping off the monkeys.

[juris imprudent]

Oh, I absolutely had it down as a kid trip. It was the LWR that was such a great juxtaposition.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

INDEPENDENTS, ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH DEAR FRIENDS!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sil76t2X_DE

[SweatingGin]

Clip show? Remember that time Riker tried to beam back from the planet, and the signal reflected off the atmosphere, so there was another riker left on the planet? And the time Riker and Picard were running at super-high-speed, down a hallway, so they were able to dodge phasers?

[Derpetologist]

Now that's what I call a stick situation.

http://www.southparkstudios.co.....-situation

[Derpetologist]

*sticky

[William of Purple]

The best Riker episodes is where he got to show off his trombone

/if you know what I mean

[SweatingGin]

If you're on twitter and not following Riker Googling, you should be.

Gems like: kobayashi maru orgy hd bittorrent

[Notorious G.K.C.]

This post made it through.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

So did this.

[William of Purple]

Are you a wizard?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Not in the Robert Byrd sense.

[Army of the 12 Monkeys]

Well, that's just Grand.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Prediction: Clips.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Stossel never resorted to a clip show.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Leg cam is back!

[Notorious G.K.C.]

The most famous Penn since that Quaker guy.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hasn't done enough. Or anything.

[Atanarjuat]

I can't trust people who haven't ever tried pot. There, I said it.

[SweatingGin]

I can't trust people who don't drink.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I can't trust people who don't sniff glue

[William of Purple]

I can't trust people who don't sniff markers.

[SweatingGin]

I picked the wrong week to quit.

[Atanarjuat]

Touche.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Guess I'm not trustworthy, then.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Doob or doob not. There is no try.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

LOU DOOBS

[Fist of Etiquette]

Law Doobs.

[Derpetologist]

I won't say "cant", but I am suspicious of people who do not own guns and especially those who have never fired them.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Have ammunition stores rebounded yet? I was lazily shooting more holes in my burn barrel yesterday and realized I hadn't gone shopping to replenish my supply lately. The Zombie apocalypse is going to sneak up on me.

[Derpetologist]

I haven't been able to buy .22 in over a year. Otherwise, ammo is plentiful in my corner of TX.

[Fist of Etiquette]

.22? Really? I have a ton of that, but that's not going to stop your standard zombie. I'll have to go shopping.

[Derpetologist]

Yeah, so I hear. I suspect the reason i can't get any .22 is because of all the panic buying by paranoid old fogies.

[Fist of Etiquette]

That may be the case. The only reason I have so much of it is because my old man bought it and left it at my place (along with his .22).

[Atanarjuat]

lazily shooting more holes in my burn barrel

You just renewed your man card for the next decade.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ha. Either that or my hick card. And yes, my trash was burning inside it at the time.

[Swiss Servator, CH yeah!]

*bows deeply to Fist*

[Derpetologist]

I won't say "cant", but I am suspicious of people who do not own guns and especially those who have never fired them.

[Atanarjuat]

Well, it's a little bit harder to get into if your parents didn't introduce you to it. Intimidating to walk into a range as a newbie. But I get what you're saying. Kinda like when someone says they've never seen Office Space.

[Specail Sauce]

I must admit, I evolved to libertarianism as a direct result of the prohibition of marijuana. I am embarrassed by that now, that it took my own experience with marijuana to actually self reflect on personal liberty in general. Better late than never I guess.

[Derpetologist]

In case anyone missed it, Special Ed on MSLSD has had some awesome freak-outs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JbYDujTqk0

[juris imprudent]

How can you call that 2 minutes hate when it is delivered with all the acidity of maple syrup?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Wait a minute. The other two aren't even here tonight (or whenever this was recorded)? THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

They swore to drink two pints of vodka for Memorial Day weekend, and they need to get a head start.

[Lord at War]

They swore to drink two pints of vodka for Memorial Day weekend, and they need to get a head start.

Amateurs.

Two pints is known as "Monday".

[BigT]

Two pints is known as "Monday". morning.

FIFY

[Swiss Servator, CH yeah!]

So you met my late grandfather then?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

They saved 60% on their labor costs this episode by sending the male hosts home and having Kennedy do the work.

[Derpetologist]

Hmm.... X + X + 0.77X = 2.77X

X/2.77X = 1/2.77 = 0.36

1 - 0.36 = 0.64

64% savings

Have I mentioned I used to be a math teacher?

[Wasteland Wanderer]

Close enough for government work.

[Derpetologist]

It's the Independents with your host Kennedy the Frog.

[William of Purple]

The lovers, the dreamers, and me

[Rev-Match]

I quit playing ETW for a clip show?! Well, I guess it's beer time. (I know, I know, anytime is beer time)

[Derpetologist]

Olbermann shows off his diploma:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51LJrnHtveo

[Derpetologist]

Olbermann shows off his diploma:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51LJrnHtveo

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Guys I can't drink again tonight.

But I am going on an 8 mile hike tomorrow, and it's going to be upwards of 85 degrees.

[Pathogen]

"..it's going to be upwards of 85 degrees.

LOL!

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

I'm not complaining.

[Pathogen]

I'll be enjoying a spirited 95? with ~85% humidity...

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I'm doing a five mile hike with kibby on Tuesday. Going to be 100 in the desert.

[The Bearded Hobbit]

1) Wear a hat
2) Take lots of water
3) Drink it

... Hobbit

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

also sunscreen

and does the desert have ticks?

I'm going into tick country.

[The Bearded Hobbit]

Ticks; we hate's em!

I can't speak for the Arizona desert but ticks in NM are generally not found in extreme arid climes.

BH

[Wasteland Wanderer]

I can't speak for the Arizona desert but ticks in NM are generally not found in extreme arid climes.

They were plentiful in Nevada, which is about as arid as you can get in the US...

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

He'll need protection, all right.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Wanna buy me a Stetson hat?

[poloniusium]

my kind of outdoorsman.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I can't get enough of stories of people waking up to Obama's true nature. I'M TALKING TO YOU, REASON.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Hated his job? Doing a real-life video game?

/sarc

[Dances-with-Trolls]

In case you were wondering if the big three networks were still in the tank for the Blue Team.

In nearly four and a half weeks, the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news shows have offered 110 minutes to an evolving Obama administration scandal involving secret lists designed to keep veterans from receiving proper medical treatment. Back in January, it took those same network shows just four and a half days to churn that much coverage for Chris Christie's Bridgegate.

[Derpetologist]

REALITY HAS A LIBERAL BIAS!

/derp

[Fist of Etiquette]

INTERRUPT HIM, KENNEDY!

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Yes, Kennedy, why is it that so many people who come on the show are so irritable?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

You're supposed to highlight the *good* points.

[Pathogen]

Highlighting Kennedy's interruption smackdown..

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Who else is watching these train wrecks?

[Rev-Match]

For some reason, I just can't look away.

[GILMORE]

I have the sound off and am waiting for the "2mins Hate" greatest hits.

I really don't need repeats of wieners, commutards, and celebritinis

[Fist of Etiquette]

Rick ought to shut his pie hole.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Kennedy is all over it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Fuck you, adopters!

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I missed this Santorum interview. I hate to say Santorum is right about anything but yeah, Kennedy was doing a lot of talking over him.

[Army of the 12 Monkeys]

Santorum is the Libertarian Beelzebub, to be sure, but the man knows how to drive a bus during a carjack attempt.

[Rev-Match]

...Not doing anything you want to do, but doing what you ought to do.

And who's gona tell me what I ought to do, prick?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ugh. Weiner.

[Pathogen]

Kmele should've rubbed hot sauce in Weiner eyes... "And welcome to the Independents, Mr. Weiner..."

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Yeah, eyes.

[SweatingGin]

TRY NOT TO TWEET ANY DICK PICKS ON YOUR WAY TO THE PARKING LOT!

[Fist of Etiquette]

TOO LATE.

[Swiss Servator, CH yeah!]

+37

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Even in a clip show they barely give Kmele any speaking time.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Yes, will you repent for all the horrible things you did?

Good way to get a helpful answer!

[Fist of Etiquette]

ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Yes guys, we all LOVE it when your show turns into a more poorly dressed version of TMZ.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Oh, for shit sake. This thing again.

[Fist of Etiquette]

So we're highlighting the show's independent thinking here?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Too bad The Independents wasn't on the air during the O.J. Bronco chase.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Little known fact: The original Charlemagne smoked crack with Alcuin.

/The More You Know

[Hollywood]

Oh are comments working now?

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

no, it's only an illusion

[Hollywood]

I was horrifying when only Fist could post. l felt trapped inside his deranged mind.

[Hollywood]

It*

[Fist of Etiquette]

I thought it was kind of nice.

[Almanian!]

It WAS much more placid and "of a piece" than usual.

You know who else managed to make things "of a piece"....

[Fist of Etiquette]

John Knowles?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Jesus. Moynihan is a vampire, right?

[Corning]

No.

There is a Vice video about his arm pit sweat.

vampires don't sweat.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

You know who else liked to see crowds of white people?

[Almanian!]

Sherrod Small?

[Derpetologist]

I have thought carefully how to best celebrate Memorial Day. I plan on pissing on the grave of a WW2 veteran, since that will be less disgraceful then what has happened in this country since 2001.

[Almanian!]

I'm taking my M1 Garand and Remington 1903 (both in 30-06, as God intended) to the range and shoot a shitload of targets. Then come home and work on my Jeep.

[Atanarjuat]

Gavin McInnes' beard is almost as manly as lazily shooting holes in your burn barrel to ventilate your burning trash.

[Derpetologist]

Bah, I had a much manlier beard:

http://platedlizard.blogspot.c.....-time.html

[GILMORE]

That's "cavemanlier"

Not exactly the same thing as 'manly'

I mean, the bald dude who killed people with drones? That was definitely a post-apocalyptic style-winner.

[Derpetologist]

I was going more for "fierce desert prophet".

Otherwise,

OOGA BOOGA! RAAWR!

[Fist of Etiquette]

You look like David Krumholtz there. Make of that what you will.

[Derpetologist]

I've heard Topher Grace too. I don't see the resemblance with either.

Jesus? Oh, I've heard that from many- including my mom.

My retort is there were no cameras back then, so no one really knows.

[Pathogen]

"..lazily shooting holes in your burn barrel to ventilate your burning trash."

I've.. I've.. done this before..

/shifts eyes

[Fist of Etiquette]

I did it to stop the flames from judging me, but okay.

[Army of the 12 Monkeys]

Manufacturing Marvels is dead on the money tonight. I can't imagine a show more deserving of ads for the restrooms used in Antarctica.

[Almanian!]

Oh, sure - NOW the commenting works.

FUCK YOU, INDEPENDENTS!

PS My kid named my first granddaughter Kennedy. I informed her it was after this Kennedy. She looked at me funny and disagreed, since she "doesn't know who that is."

HAHAHAHA! No, seriously, you named granddaughter #1 after THIS Kennedy...

#BackToRegularlyScheduledSquirrelInterference

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Congrats!

[Almanian!]

Thanks! She's a cutie. Couple weeks old now.

The best part TOTALLY is giving her to the kids and saying, "BYE! Gotta run!"

Love it.

[Jesus H. Christ]

I'm jealous. I've a 22 year old and a 24 year old and no grand babies in sight.

[GILMORE]

unsurprisingly, the 'crazy person on the street'-thing? is what Kennedy does best.

[Hollywood]

Agreed

[Fist of Etiquette]

McInnes was out there too?

[Trollo]

The show should be McInnes, Moynihan and Foster. Mebbe they can try it out when Welch is over in his adopted homeland of France and Kennedy is out on paid menstrual leave.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Quasi War, 1799.

[Rich]

Two Minutes Hate: Featuring you, the beloved Hit & Run commentariat.

Very well.

HATED the comment squirrels today! *** repeats for two minutes ***

[Paul.]

(if you are a certifiable Young Person, of course

What the fuck?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

It's a trap! Kennedy retains her youthful appearance and beautiful skin by consuming the souls of younger people.

[Army of the 12 Monkeys]

Anyone who views this show is automatically rendered certifiable.

[GILMORE]

"This dude I know!!.... cookies!...... uh, Jesus fuck! HOW.... ERGG!!"

These conversations would take half as long if people just 'disagreed in full sentences' without interrupting.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I remember this. Foster mops the floor with this guy's ass. Even gets in the corners.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

The Judges of the FISA Court:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7il7IKyfqlQ

[Pathogen]

The Kennedy show.. starring Kennedy, with also special guest.. Kennedy, with thought provoking interruptions by Kennedy..

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Bolton is my favorite musician!

[Fist of Etiquette]

He's the one who sucks.

[Rich]

I think he means *John* Bolton.

[Pathogen]

Does it matter?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Has no one seen Office Space?

[Paul.]

Seen it? I live it every day.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Oh gawd. Good thing no one is here so I don't have to listen to speculation about this guy's sexuality.

[Derpetologist]

Ya hear that? People will stop having children unless they have a special piece of paper from the govt.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

OK, here we go!

[Hollywood]

TWO MINUTES HATE! TWO MINUTES HATE!...

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

this is great

[GILMORE]

Do you consider yourself a "firearms dork"?

Then you will probably enjoy this 1.75hr lecture...

Introduction to Magazines and Clips - Design, History, and Function

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3zQb3KZpNM

[Atanarjuat]

Holy crap, Mannlicher clips? Paraphrasing PJ O'Rourke, "No one will take Vietnam seriously as long as their currency is still the 'dong'". Silly foreigners.

[GILMORE]

TRIFECTA

[Fist of Etiquette]

Gilmore well represented.

[GILMORE]

5

[Hollywood]

Good showing
*salutes*

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

W00t!!! I'm on the board.

[Derpetologist]

Epi, Gilmore, FdA, Fist, BP, Pantsfan, WTF & 2 or 3 I couldn't recognize.

None for me.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yours was too fresh. It still stung. Plus this episode was taped three months ago.

[Derpetologist]

Well, at least I made it through the week without caffeine. And I exercised everyday. And I did not drink any beer between Sunday and 7 pm today.

[Lord at War]

I did not drink any beer between Sunday and 7 pm today.

How many people did you kill?

[SweatingGin]

He drank whiskey.

[Derpetologist]

No booze and no murder. But I thought about both a lot.

[Army of the 12 Monkeys]

I want to give an award to whoever wrote the "Shut up shut up shut up shut up" rant from Wednesday's 2MH. That was a good one, even if it didn't originate here.

[Fist of Etiquette]

AH! Not Law Doobs.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

YES!

[GILMORE]

AH! Ash...ley Webster?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"And Greenwald? In his mind, he is not a reformer but a ruthless revolutionary ? Robespierre, or Trotsky. The ancien r?gime is corrupt through and through, and he is the man who will topple it. Sounding now like Herbert Marcuse with his once fashionable theory of "repressive tolerance," Greenwald writes about "the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: Pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about....""

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06.....books&_r=0

[SweatingGin]

I've very much enjoyed seeing Kinsley's review ripped apart from all sides. This paragraph makes me think he might have something decent to it. Probably just enough to wrap the "oops, I accidentally called for prior restraint"

[Notorious G.K.C.]

I should have quoted that paragraph.

But Robespierre and Trotsky?

[SweatingGin]

His audience sees them as revolutionaries, not monsters? It strikes me as interesting writing.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

He's always interesting.

[GILMORE]

I think he wanted to sound smart.

Its Kinsley, dude.

[Army of the 12 Monkeys]

I have to wonder why they gave Kinsley this assignment, unless it was to encourage him to take up a different career.

[Sevo]

"Sounding now like Herbert Marcuse with his once fashionable theory of "repressive tolerance,""

Pretty sure the NYT was a big fan of Marcuse, who argues like Dear Abby on a bender.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

A PROFESSOR has filmed his nine-hour ordeal after he plunged over 20 metres into a Himalayan crevasse. And he did it all with a broken arm, broken ribs and internal bleeding.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Quite impressive - and that footage is some of the most claustrophobic stuff I've every seen.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Quite impressive - and that footage is some of the most claustrophobic stuff I've every seen.

[Pathogen]

Get that man a talk show, and book deal... and tenure!

[Derpetologist]

I prefer the story of the guy who got lost in the Himalayas and survived about a month with almost no food:

http://www.medicaltranslation......-survived/

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17095605

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Your move, James Franco.

[GILMORE]

Pppt. TOUCHING THE VOID has that shit completely beat.

Yeah, uh, that's the full movie. With horrible Spanish overdubs.

you can just cut to the 'good part' @ 38:43

He took...what, 3 days? to crawl out with 2 broken legs.

[Irish]

Democrats are vile and disgusting worshipers of power, exhibit 327 million.

[Irish]

Ted Cruz wins.

I love how Dems seem to immediately grab on to bizarre talking points when statistics are against them, too. Cruz posted about the decline in the labor force participation rate, so a Dem tweeted this:

Dan ?@dsmith0525 7h
@tedcruz ah yes...the statistic that ignores retirement and the extension of education.

Except that the labor force participation rate had been pretty steady for a decade and has plunged in the last 5 years. I guess no one was retiring between 1990 and 2010 and retirement suddenly became a phenomenon when Democrats need it to explain away a 6% drop in LFP over the last 5 years.

I also love 'the extension of education.' Yeah, back in the dark ages of 1998, America was a nation that had yet to discover book learning.

[ZackTheHypochondriac]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....47490.html

Right to try unapproved drugs for terminal patients in colorado.

Has reason covered this yet?

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Morgan Freeman. On Helium.

[SweatingGin]

In the middle of that, I heard Levar Burton.

[Rich]

Of course, what you really heard was ... SATAN!

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Most popular Google search terms in certain states:

http://www.bizjournals.com/sea.....terms.html

[Corning]

I hate my state....

Any suggestions on where i should live?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Monaco.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Except the 4 weeks the Grand Prix rolls around and messes up traffic.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

I wouldn't know, they wouldn't even let me in to clean the restrooms.

[Atanarjuat]

Floriduh, the 2nd-most economically freest state. Hot, flat, dumb, and awesome.

[Pathogen]

Hey!.. I take issue with that statemen... Yeah, you're right..

[lap83]

So the Washingtonians are the ones to blame for the obsession with circumcision in H&R comments?

[Derpetologist]

The alternate history theme park where dinosaurs fought in the Civil War:

http://io9.com/5084491/the-alt.....-civil-war

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

alternate?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

A letter of congratulation to Abraham Lincoln on the occasion of his re-election in 1864:

"If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery." "When an oligarchy of 300,000 slaveholders dared to inscribe, for the first time in the annals of the world, 'slavery' on the banner of Armed Revolt, when on the very spots where hardly a century ago the idea of one great Democratic Republic had first sprung up, whence the first Declaration of the Rights of Man was issued, and the first impulse given to the European revolution of the eighteenth century...then the working classes of Europe understood at once...their hopes for the future, even their past conquests were at stake in that tremendous conflict on the other side of the Atlantic...

"The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world."

http://www.wsws.org/en/article.....i-m23.html

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Hint on the authorship: Think dinosaurs.

[Irish]

Paul Erlich predicts that humanity will soon be forced to cannibalize its dead when we run out of food.

The coauthor of Erlich's new book also praised Erlich for his earlier predictions which have been proven wrong, and said they actually understate the problem.

[Pathogen]

"..humanity will soon be forced to cannibalize its dead when we run out of food."

Why wait?

[SweatingGin]

Barbecue Thread!

[Lady Bertrum]

'Soylent green is people!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IKVj4l5GU4

[SweatingGin]

You spend the whole damn movie waiting for that line...

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Uh, you mean "Spoiler Alert"!

Thanks for ruining the movie.

[juris imprudent]

Paul Erlich is no Jonathan Swift.

[Irish]

Korea nobly fights climate change by not allowing its citizens to burn evil fossil fuels in order to produce things like food.

Like many poor countries, North Korea, where such problems are endemic, is least able to cope with climate change impacts. These weaknesses include food insecurity, energy shortages, economic fragility and a rigid political system. So North Korea is using the UNFCCC as a vehicle for projects designed to increase agricultural output and build the resilience of the agricultural system to disasters.

Yes, clearly the solution to North Korea's poverty is more government control.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Wham, bang, sweet Pyongyang.

[Irish]

Holy fuck:

The country exists in a state of near-perpetual food insecurity (the FAO estimates a food deficit of 207,000 tonnes in 2012-2013), stemming from a structural food deficit along with an inability and unwillingness to buy food from international markets. In these circumstances, any disruption to domestic agricultural production will have a significant impact on the food security of at-risk segments of the population, creating ripple effects across the country's economy and political system. This illustrates the degree to which food insecurity is an existential problem for the North Korean leadership.

Let me get this straight. When an American child goes to bed hungry once a month, that's food insecurity. When a North Korean child starves to death, that's also food insecurity.

I feel like progressives need to learn the difference between western 'food insecurity' and fucking slow starvation.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

It's not the North Koreans' fault, Irish, it's the potato blight.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Too soon?

[Irish]

My ancestors' food insecurity is no laughing matter.

[Pathogen]

They turned to cannibalism, like Paul Erlich suggested.. didn't they?

[Pathogen]

This is to ensure that they don't raise a generation of disgusting little fat-bodies like those capitalist pigs in the decadent west.. Let's Move!
(when we have a little more energy..)

[Rich]

Nice catch; but you missed the "at-risk segments of the population" parallel.

[SweatingGin]

what's a couple of inches of height if it means a happy planet?!?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

I don't think these leftists have many inches to spare.

[Sevo]

"Let me get this straight. When an American child goes to bed hungry once a month, that's food insecurity."

Nope. You think the term has a quantifiable meaning, silly"
"food insecurity
anxiety concerning availability of sufficient nutritional resources; a possible psychological contributor to obesity."
http://medical-dictionary.thef.....insecurity

So, you see, "food insecurity" can lead to obesity!

[Sevo]

"Let me get this straight. When an American child goes to bed hungry once a month, that's food insecurity. When a North Korean child starves to death, that's also food insecurity."

(second try, incompetent Reason web people)
Ha and HA! Nope. You think the term has some quantifiable meaning. Not on your life!:
"food insecurity
anxiety concerning availability of sufficient nutritional resources; a possible psychological contributor to obesity."
http://medical-dictionary.thef.....insecurity

You see, "food insecurity" leads to obesity!
Why, over in the Piketty thread craiginmass is assuring us that the French find greater happiness with lower incomes, which means that Piketty should really be promoting poverty!
To lefties, Up always equals Down!

[Sevo]

Well, squirrels need "treatment":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAd3ALa--gg

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

The Onion: GOP vetting Rand Paul for lack of anything better to do

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus, who claimed that, although a thorough appraisal and series of personal interviews would certainly not result in the senator and libertarian-leaning Tea Party member coming anywhere close to the Republican nomination, it would at least provide GOP strategists an interesting, time-consuming endeavor to get them through the next couple months. "Obviously, there's not a chance we see the name 'Rand Paul' on the ballot in 2016, but running his political positions by a few focus groups and making sure he doesn't have any dirty laundry that might come up in a hypothetical presidential run is better than just sitting on our hands, you know? To be clear, though, once a halfway appealing centrist whom the American people might actually consider getting behind dips his toes in the water, we're dropping this whole Rand Paul thing on the spot." Priebus added that, given the utter lack of legitimate 2016 candidates currently out there, the GOP might vet Ted Cruz as well "just for the fuck of it."

[Pathogen]

It's funny cause its true..

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

So I'm finally caught up on Fargo.

So, wow.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Yeah, loving the Biblical things and how that fish storm was something beyond Billy Bob Thornton's control.

And the actress that plays Molly is adorable.

[Lady Bertrum]

I just googled it. Looks cool. Is it on Netflix or Hulu?

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

It's on Netflix Netherlands, Vudu, and Itunes.

[Lady Bertrum]

🙂

[Derpetologist]

I found a liberal who admits that taxes are not voluntary. Skip to around the 3 minute mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R23Z75fsfwI

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Oh

Peter Suderman ?@petersuderman
The main lesson of X-Men Days of Future Past is that all of America's problems can be traced back to Richard Nixon.

[Army of the 12 Monkeys]

Wasn't that the main lesson of Watchmen, too?

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

SQRLZZZZ

[Notorious G.K.C.]

The artist formerly known as Mos Def was reportedly kept out of the U.S.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ent.....-1.1801864

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I got fat-shamed on the train

I sat down as I usually do when it's a middle seat...It was a tight fit, but this didn't bother me since it was an early morning commuter train to WTC, and seat real estate is a pretty hot commodity at this time.

A few seconds after I sat down, though, I noticed something odd happening. The 40-year-old man wearing sweats next to me was clearly upset about something, muttering very animatedly under his breath...

It was then that I realized he was muttering about me. "Fat b*tch" I heard him say over and over again under his breath, shaking his head at me in disgust.

He kept glaring at me, and then at the seat he had just vacated, and then back at me again. He offered his seat to a much slimmer woman, but he didn't seem pleased about his act of chivalry one bit.

[...]

Did it really bother this man that much that we were touching legs on the train? Was it the audacity of this "fat b*tch" to think she could fit in the space? Or was it that she felt she had the right to sit down when clearly, a little standing could do her some good?

I suppose I understand that when some people look at me, all they see is fat. But what I don't understand is why they hate me for it

Some people are jerks. But you should never impose yourself in a tight space because a lot of people don't like having their personal space violated.

[Fr?ulein Nikki]

a little standing could do her some good?

Uhh...that's not really how exercise works.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

I AM IN PUPPY HELL!

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Korea?

[Derpetologist]

Between an adult who owns dogs/cats and one who sleeps with stuffed animals, I can only conclude the 2nd one is smarter.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

At least it is not Meow-schwitz.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

My bane.

Another.

[Fr?ulein Nikki]

What'd you end up naming her?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

My other two are named after trout (Brook and Bow) so this one is Cutty (for cutthroat).

[Fr?ulein Nikki]

Yeah I remembered the earlier thread. She is adorable!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

You want her?

Everyone should have to go through this before being allowed to procreate.

I can't even imagine having a kid.

[Fr?ulein Nikki]

Ha, you ain't alone!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

No Brittany!

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Just found this:

"In dogs' play, researchers see honesty and deceit, perhaps something like morality"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Hard-line conservatives call for public flogging of Iranian actress who kissed her director on the cheek during Cannes film festival

An Iranian actress has infuriated ultra conservatives in her home country after kissing the president of the Cannes film festival's on the cheek.

Leila Hatami's peck has been seen by fanatics as an affront to the 'chastity' of the Islamic republic's women. A photograph carried by Iranian media shows Hatami pecking 83-year-old Gilles Jacob at the opening of this year's festival.

Now Hizbullah Students, a group of university students with links to Iran's Revolutionary Guard have filed a complaint with Iran's judiciary for Hatami's prosecution.

'We, the undersigned, who are a group of student Muslim brothers and sisters, ask the cultural and media branch of the judiciary to prosecute Leyla Hatami for her sinful act of kissing a strange man in public, which according to article 638 of Islamic Criminal Justice carries a prison sentence,' the petition read.

'Furthermore, the action of this film star has hurt the religious sentiments of the proud and martyrs breeding nation of Iran and as such we also demand the punishment of flogging for her as stipulated in the law.'

"Making it worse? How can it be worse? Allah Allah Allah!!!"

[Rich]

"What do we want?"

"FLOGGING!"

"When do we want it?"

"NOW!!"

[Notorious G.K.C.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjgnHXzvogg

[Notorious G.K.C.]

That's funny, I thought "radical Iranian university students" was synonymous with "easygoing, relaxed pacifists."

[Notorious G.K.C.]

I mean, traditionally they've been all talk and no action.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

But seriously, who associates the Revolutionary Guard and radical Iranian students with conservatism?

[Palin's Buttplug]

Almost everyone.

Conservatism (def) "the disposition to preserve or restore what is established and traditional and to limit change."

[Notorious G.K.C.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N73840RcgYw

[Palin's Buttplug]

Find a dictionary. Use it.

[Pathogen]

BOOOOSH! booosh -\?buuuu?sh!\

Boooosh booosh boooooosh booooooosh booosh booosh boosh booooooosh booooosh boosh boooosh, boooosh booosh. Booosh booosh booosh boooosh boooooosh.

[Bobarian]

NEEDS MOAR CHRISTFAG!!

[Pathogen]

Thought provoking insight from PB... Thanks for sharing!

[Paul.]

Conservatism (def) "the disposition to preserve or restore what is established and traditional and to limit change."

So... progressives.

[MJGreen]

A photograph carried by Iranian media shows Hatami pecking 83-year-old Gilles Jacob at the opening of this year's festival.

Pfft, these guys wouldn't be so upset if she was pecking Gillian Jacobs.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

We know Househunters INTL isn't truly real,
but the culture shock of Americans looking at apts in Europe is hilarious.

"In Germany, people take their kitchens with them"

[Sevo]

"In Germany, people take their kitchens with them"

In CA (natch) it is mandated that a RE seller pays certain costs and the buyer pays other costs.
Now some ignoramusws in Sacto thought the buyer was gaining by one and the seller by the other, and the same damn ignoramuses think "corporate taxes" are paid by the "corporation".
They don't hand out seats in the CA legislature for IQ points. No siree, Bob.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"Four Orthodox Jewish rabbis and one of their sons conspired to kidnap and force Jewish men into granting their wives religious divorces, according to a federal indictment handed up on Thursday....

""This is not a kidnapping matter, these women were locked in terrible marriages," [defense attorney Aiden] O'Connor said."

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com.....47781.html

[Rich]

If a husband refuses to give a get he's, in a sense, leaving the woman in limbo.

And he, in a sense, has placed himself in chikkhai bardo.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Buffalo Bills fans call for Bon Jovi ban due to Toronto rumours

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I have arrived. This place is way older than I thought it would be. Average age is like 85.

[Pathogen]

You chose to vacation at the Matlock marathon museum of Matlock history?

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Monaco Grand Prix: How Each Corner of the Famous Circuit De Monaco Got Its Name

[Tman]

Give me a 917/30 and I'll race ya.

[RishJoMo]

Sometimes dude you really gotta roll with it.

http://www.YourAnon.tk

[BigT]

Doppelg?nger: Kmele and Duane Wade

[619 Limo]

cool story