A.M. Links: Blame Game on Downing of Malaysia Air Flight, Israel Launches Gaza Ground Offensive, NASA Scientist Thinks Evidence of Alien Life is Nigh

Ed Krayewski | 7.18.2014 9:00 AM

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The deliberate downing of a Malaysia Air flight crossing Ukraine has been blamed on pro-Russian separatists (or Russia) by Ukraine and Western leaders and on Ukraine by Russia, while John Kerry has called for an international investigation. International flights are now avoiding crossing over eastern Ukraine. In the meantime, the United States has expanded its limited sanctions on Russia to include large firms tied to Vladimir Putin.
The deputy attorney general at the Justice Department has decided the Internal Revenue Service scandal didn't warrant the appointment of a special prosecutor.
Congressional Democrats have finally found spending they don't approve of, questioning how much a House lawsuit filed against President Obama will cost.
The new CEO of Microsoft announced 18,000 layoffs, representing 14 percent of the company's workforce, over the next year.
Israel has launched its ground offensive in Gaza—it says it intends to destroy tunnels used by Hamas and other militant groups to enter Israel and weaken the group's infrastructure in the Gaza strip.
Typhoon Rammasun is gaining strength as it approaches southern China. The storm has already killed at least 54 in the Philippines.
The deputy chief scientist of solar system exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab said in a panel this week he believed evidence of extraterrestrial life could be found in in the next 20 years.

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Fist of Etiquette 11 years ago

...while John Kerry has called for an international investigation.

Into whether AGW had a hand in it.
1. Tim 11 years ago
  
  He's playing catchup
  1. DontShootMe 11 years ago
    
    HaHaHaHam I see what you did there.
    1. Tim 11 years ago
      
      Long may you relish it.
      1. Fist of Etiquette 11 years ago
        
        I can't believe you mustered the wit to come up with it so quickly.
        
        Bee Tagger 11 years ago
        
        "Srira-cha-cha"
        
        - Sammy Davis Jr.
        
        Entropy Void 11 years ago
        
        There must be 57 varieties of that pun ...
        
        Slammer 11 years ago
        
        That was an A1 pun.
        
        Tim 11 years ago
        
        Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
        
        CE 11 years ago
        
        Once that theory gets out of the bottle, you can't put it back in.
  2. Jeff R. 11 years ago
    
    It does put him in a bit of a pickle, doesn't it?
  3. Rasilio 11 years ago
    
    But if we don't have an investigation we mayo never get proof that it was the russian (dressing) behind this and then it will take a miracle to whip the American people into a frenzy for war
2. Rufus J. Firefly 11 years ago
  
  Hello.
  
  "...while John Kerry has called for an international investigation."
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hQEnIT8OXI
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

fist!
1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  Sorry. You just missed him.
2. Fist of Etiquette 11 years ago
  
  Exactly.
3. Lord Humungus 11 years ago
  
  I was speaking of my broken knuckles.
invisible furry hand 11 years ago

Why an Elizabeth Warren presidential bid would be good for all Americans.
1. Bam! 11 years ago
  
  First Native American president.
  1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    Unless I'm mistaken, we've had a lot of native born presidents.
    1. gaijin 11 years ago
      
      zing!
    2. Bardas Phocas 11 years ago
      
      Those were Lizard People.
      1. Agammamon 11 years ago
        
        Doesn't mean they weren't *born here*.
        
        Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
        
        *hatched*
    3. CE 11 years ago
      
      All except McCain.
      1. pmains 11 years ago
        
        President McCain? When did that happen?
2. wareagle 11 years ago
  
  because we haven't gone far enough to the left?
3. Rufus J. Firefly 11 years ago
  
  Why do people on the left dismiss the criticism about her claims to Native ancestry? They say it's been 'proven' not credible. Yet, I've yet to see or hear proof that she is.
  1. Idle Hands 11 years ago
    
    Some people on the left defend communism from time to time so.... As someone once said its principals over principles.
  2. Jon Lester 11 years ago
    
    I think it's on par with "everyone lies about sex," so if Warren cheated the system to get a job, that's the same as polishing a resume. They have to say "everyone does it" so that condoning would be moot.
    1. CE 11 years ago
      
      It's projection. They cheat, so cheating must be okay, so move on, so what difference, at this point, does it make?
4. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
  
  I think a Warren presidential bid would be great for America. And I'm being serious.
  
  If that lady ran and the left started to really get behind her, it would ultimately terrify enough non-voters as to the direction the progressives are taking our government, that it might get enough of them off their asses to actually invoke some fiscal restraint and rein in the insanity.
  
  If she runs, the Democrats will be marginalized for a decade.
  1. Idle Hands 11 years ago
    
    I agree it would be Mondale levels of retard, she won't even make it pass the primary.
    1. SusanM 11 years ago
      
      Nah it'd be well into Dukakis territory.
      1. waffles 11 years ago
        
        I'm voting for Dukakis.
  2. Matrix 11 years ago
    
    You forget who the media backs.
    1. Pathogen 11 years ago
      
      The media has lost a lot of credibility in the eyes of the average American. It's the price they paid for their consistent and inexcusable defense of Chicago Jesus and his robe of many fuck-ups. They'll have an exceedingly hard time convincing any other than those who want to believe, that Warren has any redeeming qualities. See also: Hillary Clinton's plummeting poll numbers, the 'in the tank media' cannot help her..
      1. Overt 11 years ago
        
        Yeah that's what I thought prior to November 2012. "Finally the people have woken up." Then I went hunting and came back to realize that the people are never going to wake up.
  3. Seamus 11 years ago
    
    I wonder if any non-leftists thought, for similar reasons, that it would be a good idea for Juan Peron or Hugo Chavez to run for president of their respective countries.
    1. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
      
      Totally different climate there. We don't have state-run media and with the internet, there's no way her real goals can slip past a skeptical electorate.
      
      Trust me, there's no way in hell Warren would get elected and her candidacy would result in catastrophic losses for Team Theft.
      
      On top of that, there's the fact that Americans are getting pretty tired of a President that is a grievance-monger. After 8 years of being told they are bad unless they kowtow to some less-fortunate group, people are starting to see that their situation ain't so great right now either and maybe, just maybe, that's because our confiscatory communitarian economic policies are actually fucking us in the societal ass.
      
      But that's just my opinion and I may be wrong.
      1. radar 11 years ago
        
        I never thought there was any way in hell that a less-than-one-term senator who had never held a real job in his life would win, either.
        
        WTF 11 years ago
        
        Much less get reelected based on his dismal record the first four years.
        
        sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
        
        Oh, I did.
        
        In the words of Bullet-tooth Tony: Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
      2. Clich? Bandit 11 years ago
        
        Societal Ass, LIVE at Red Rocks. July 23rd...don't forget to bring the green!
  4. alan_s 11 years ago
    
    Same could've been said about Obama though. Never underestimate the capacity of sheep to follow a blind shepherd.
    1. WTF 11 years ago
      
      Are you Ready for Hillary?
      1. CE 11 years ago
        
        If she cuts the budget back to Clinton-era spending levels.
5. MJGreen 11 years ago
  
  I'd blow my brains out, so it wouldn't be good for this American.
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

Tipping perpetuates racism, classism, and poverty ? let's get rid of it!

Racism isn't the only kind of discrimination baked into the American tipping system. Female servers, too, face routine discrimination. As Lynn told Dubner: blonde, slender, larger-breasted women in their 30s earn some of the highest tips. Granted, the decision of how large a tip to leave is up to the subjective whims of the tipper, and different people have their own aesthetic preferences. But when a server's main source of income is her tips, and if those tips are regulated by the prejudices of the tippers, then a case could potentially be made that certain wage practices of restaurants are discriminatory.

This is the very case Kamer made (emphasis mine): "In 1971's Griggs v. Duke Power, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was ruled to prohibit businesses with discriminatory practices against those protected under it, even if that effect is unintended. Tipping, which has been proven to be discriminatory, could be downright unconstitutional."
1. Raven Nation 11 years ago
  
  And replace it with much higher wagers for servers, I assume?
  
  And there will be shock, shock I tell you, at the unexpected consequences.
  1. Brandon 11 years ago
    
    And replace it with mandatory union "protection" for servers.
    1. Bobarian 11 years ago
      
      This would guarantee a certain level of service...
      
      Service with a 'fuck you, what you looking at, so what, you been waiting for 25 minutes, I had my mandated break, but if you want food faster, slip a 5 under that napkin there'.
2. waffles 11 years ago
  
  So because black people don't tip none of us have to? Cool, we have bring lowest common denominator stuff into the service industry. I feel dirty typing that first sentence, but everyone I know who has ever worked a tipped job has mounds of anecdotal evidence. I never wanted to deliver pizza to certain neighborhoods. Ugh, I make myself sick.
  
  But I'll still tip.
  1. wareagle 11 years ago
    
    stereotypes exist for a reason. The pizza delivery guy was never robbed in the higher income neighborhood. In some cities, even black cabbies want no part of going into some areas. Are they racist, too?
    1. waffles 11 years ago
      
      Yes. At least in internet SJW-land. In real life they are just being practical.
    2. Matrix 11 years ago
      
      When I would go with black friends and co-workers into predominantly black low-income parts of town, they would tell me "don't ever come to this side of town without one of us. You're okay because you're with us, but it won't be good if you are alone."
      
      So yeah. They must be racists.
  2. Jon Lester 11 years ago
    
    I didn't have as many calls to those neighborhoods, and the ones where robberies had actually occurred were declared out of our delivery area. Much more often, I'd go to the trouble of finding a temporary parking space at Brumby Hall, go into the rotunda-lobby area, call the girl up, wait for her, then get handed a check for the exact order amount. These were mostly white suburbanites, too.
    1. Seamus 11 years ago
      
      the ones where robberies had actually occurred were declared out of our delivery area
      
      Sounds like racist redlining to me.
      1. Lord Humungus 11 years ago
        
        and contributing to food deserts.
    2. waffles 11 years ago
      
      In a bigger city it's easier to declare places "out of delivery area" . I was in a city of 90,000 which meant all places were fair game. I got stiffed by all races too. So part of it may have been my discomfort with the area multiplied by the likelihood of getting stiffed.
      1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
        
        When I delivered pizzas, the stoners always tipped more and were friendlier - the soccer moms were mostly hassled and tipped less.
        
        Jon Lester 11 years ago
        
        My last delivery, at the end of my last night working for Domino's before starting at Gumby's, I was invited in to hang with some guys who gave me a beer, got me high, and showed me a porno involving ghost girls who would dematerialize after doing someone.
        
        Rufus J. Firefly 11 years ago
        
        Sounds like you were in a movie.
  3. Ska 11 years ago
    
    My anecdotal evidence from bartending at a club that had black promoters for Friday night's party and guidos for Saturday night supports your observation.
3. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
  
  Are you horning in on the Derpetologist's territory?
4. SugarFree 11 years ago
  
  Vox: Just like Slate, only two weeks later!
  1. John 11 years ago
    
    As Lynn told Dubner: blonde, slender, larger-breasted women in their 30s earn some of the highest tips.
    
    Isn't that just perpetuating the rape culture?
    1. SugarFree 11 years ago
      
      It is rape culture. Because "tip" is what you call the end of penis.
      1. Ted S. 11 years ago
        
        Ahem. I call it the glans.
        
        invisible furry hand 11 years ago
        
        how about "bellend"?
        
        Bobarian 11 years ago
        
        How about 'safety device'?
        
        The tip is there to keep your hand from slipping off and smacking your forehead.
        
        SugarFree 11 years ago
        
        So on the credit card receipt you just scratch out "tip" and write in "glans"? OK, weirdo.
        
        Hawk Spitui 11 years ago
        
        I'd leave you a tip, but I need every inch that I've got.
    2. Bobarian 11 years ago
      
      "blonde, slender, larger-breasted women in their 30s earn some of the highest tips"
      
      When men are paying the bill. When women pay the bill we see an opposite effect.
5. Slammer 11 years ago
  
  "Don't give me that. She doesn't make enough money she can quit."
  1. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
    
    Chu. Toby Chu?
6. MP 11 years ago
  
  Tipping as a substitute for wages is stupid because it's stupid. But now, based on this article, I'm going to ignore that it's stupid because apparently it'll help me polish my monocle.
7. Rufus J. Firefly 11 years ago
  
  "...He is rightfully entitled to that money, and you are ethically obligated to give him by social norms..."
  
  Er, no. I don't tip if I get poor service. Albeit, it take a lot for me to do so since I'm not that fussy but if I feel it's subpar I give a subpar tip or none. You still have to earn it.
  1. Agammamon 11 years ago
    
    Especially nowadays, when servers are pushing this '20%' crap.
    
    All you did was take the order, bring the food by, and then deliberately interrupt me every 5 minutes during the meal - how the hell is that worth 15+% of the tab.
    1. Matrix 11 years ago
      
      And why is it when I go to a restaurant that doesn't have servers, where I stand in line to get my food, there is a "tip" line on the receipt? Do I tip? Do I not tip?
      
      I really only tip pizza delivery and restaurants with servers. If it isn't one of those two, then I don't normally tip.
    2. Seamus 11 years ago
      
      How did the standard tip creep up from 15% to 20% anyway? I remember being told that 20% was normal in a really high-class restaurant, presumably because you were getting really high-class service (though I would think that 15% of the tab at a high-class restaurant would already be much more than even 20% at Denny's).
      
      But people who stiff waitstaff on the tip, for anything less than insulting the customers' mothers and spilling food on their laps, are dicks who should be shunned in polite society.
      1. waffles 11 years ago
        
        That's the thing. Do we even have polite society anymore?
      2. Rasilio 11 years ago
        
        Important thing though.
        
        If you are intentionally reducing the tip because of bad service you need to give more indication than the poor tip. Otherwise they just chalk it up to your being a dick and a poor tipper.
        
        When I reduce a tip I always write on the bill "tip reduced for poor service" and sometimes add in an example or two of why it was reduced
        
        Rufus J. Firefly 11 years ago
        
        It's only happen a couple of times for me and I explained to the manager why I did so. If anything, to let the server know.
        
        Sometimes my wife and I engage the server to "delve" into the bad service and more often than not the story or explanation is fair enough for us. We tend to over tip by the way because of her allergies. So just as we're generous with tips we do expect decent service.
        
        Pl?ya Manhattan. 11 years ago
        
        I tip a little extra when I take the kids with us. They can make a bit of a mess.
        
        Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
        
        Han Solo (flipping coin to bartender) "For the mess".
      3. Clich? Bandit 11 years ago
        
        There is nothing quite like excellent service. Not fawning or bothering you but actual service. Two places come to mind: The Ritz Carlton High Tea in London (yes I know my monocle is showing) and the Brown Palace, Ellyngtons Sunday Brunch in Denver.
        
        The reason for a higher than average tip is not only the better service but also the ARMY of people serving you. You have a host/hostess, maitre d', Table Captain, servers (2 if big table) Bar staff (for drinks), and bus boys. All of which may be included in that tip. So yeah the tip for High Tea at the Ritz is more than meal for one at a nice steak house but there are reasons. Also, I have noticed that bad tips in environments like that don't lead to customer blaming but to the manager or table captain addressing what they saw wrong with the staff.
      4. CE 11 years ago
        
        The math is easier at 20%.
8. Obama's Buttplug 11 years ago
  
  I've worked in restaurants and it is commonly understood that blacks don't tip for shit. You can call me a racist for pointing this out, but it's true.
  
  Tipping, which has been proven to be discriminatory, could be downright unconstitutional.
  
  Tipping is protected speech.
  1. Elspeth Flashman 11 years ago
    
    Nice handle. Only slightly gross.
    1. Obama's Buttplug 11 years ago
      
      110 Lean / Enough about Palin here. Change from EAP to Lean, because of Palin's Buttplug. Didn't like the similarity to the world's dumbest troll. But then decided to face it head on. Troll got pretty pissed when it first encountered it.
      1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
        
        Should have made it "Reggie Love's gimp suit", if you were going for true outrage.
      2. Pl?ya Manhattan. 11 years ago
        
        110 Lean was confusing too. I though you were talking about yourself, which would be an odd thing for a man to brag about. I had no idea you were talking about your dog.
9. Notorious G.K.C. 11 years ago
  
  "As Lynn told Dubner: blonde, slender, larger-breasted women in their 30s earn some of the highest tips."
  
  What's wrong with blonde, slender, larger-breasted women in their 20s?
  1. Knarf Yenrab! 11 years ago
    
    They become more grateful as they age.
10. CE 11 years ago
  
  Feature, not bug.
Bam! 11 years ago

The new CEO of Microsoft announced 18,000 layoffs, representing 14 percent of the company's workforce, over the next year.

While Bill Gates pushes for more immigration.
1. thom 11 years ago
  
  How many of these jobs are in the US? I know that 1,100 of them are in Finland, and since the layoffs are focused on the former Nokia business, you'd think they'd be a little more internationally distributed.
invisible furry hand 11 years ago

A man wearing a Captain America T-shirt broke into the Kennedy compound looking for Katy Perry.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07.....VODtopLink
1. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
  
  Wait, was he the black Captain America or the white Captain America?
  
  And are we sure he wasn't looking for the female. Thor?
  1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
    
    Wait... KATY PERRY IS GOING TO BE THE FEMALE THOR???
    1. RBS 11 years ago
      
      If the movie is directed by Michael Bay, then yes.
      1. Ted S. 11 years ago
        
        NEEDZ MOAR EXPLOAZHUNS!
    2. Rasilio 11 years ago
      
      Of courth the will be thor after her boyfriend gets done beating the hell out of her for kithing that girl
2. gaijin 11 years ago
  
  Clearly we need new, tougher anti stalker laws to protect our entertainment class.
3. Matrix 11 years ago
  
  Captain Sweatpants?
Fist of Etiquette 11 years ago

The deputy attorney general at the Justice Department has decided the Internal Revenue Service scandal didn't warrant the appointment of a special prosecutor.

I doubt he characterized it as a scandal either. Or even admitted the existence of an IRS.
1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
  
  Time to Moveon.org!
2. Doctor Whom 11 years ago
  
  The administration investigated itself and decided that the scandal didn't warrant the appointment of a special prosecutor. I think I'll make some old tax forms into a papier-m?ch? shocked face.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 11 years ago
    
    You better not use tax forms. The IRS is a stickler for keeping records mandated by law.
    1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
      
      Icy what u did thar.
      1. Agammamon 11 years ago
        
        Oh, but he still has them.
        
        They just got a 'little water on them'.
  2. WTF 11 years ago
    
    Most ethical and transparent administration EVAR!
invisible furry hand 11 years ago

Japanese artist released following arrest over vagina selfie for 3D prints

http://www.theguardian.com/wor.....i-igarashi
1. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
  
  What a bunch of pussies.
2. Tonio 11 years ago
  
  Some followup on this. I finally found a picture of her in her custom kayak. She did not actually create a whole kayak, but rather a fairing which she placed on what appears to be a standard production-model kayak.
  
  The original photo of her standing beside the kayak was suspect because you could see the background through the cockpit (!) hole.
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

150,000 Burmese pythons in the Everglades. Nothing to be afraid of.

... Americans might want to consider the findings of a federal study that says visitors shouldn't avoid Everglades National Park, south of Miami, because some 150,000 Burmese pythons have made a home there.

According to the study by U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service researchers, pythons, among the world's largest snakes, tend not to bite? humans. Everything else, from rats to storks to American alligators, is fair game.

More than a million people visit the park every year, the study says, and not one bite has been reported. Visitors venture out in canoes, on foot, and along trails ? everywhere pythons have been found on the swampy terrain.
1. sarcasmic 11 years ago
  
  Pretty much all non-government studies put the number much lower. But the government number has to be high as an excuse to do something.
  1. wareagle 11 years ago
    
    hard to justify hiring more people at the wildlife agency otherwise, isn't it?
    1. sarcasmic 11 years ago
      
      Last year they had a hunt where 1600 people fanned out into the swamp, expected to find thousands of these invasive creatures. They found 68. The largest was 14 feet. It was so embarrassing that they aren't going to do it again this year. But the government still says the snakes are taking over. Anyone with a functioning bullshit detector can see that the government is lying.
  2. Certified Public Asskicker 11 years ago
    
    ONE BILLION PYTHONS!!11!!
    1. Pope Jimbo 11 years ago
      
      Exactly why you need so many professional wild life experts. An amateur might pull one snake out and then the whole everglades would unravel.
      1. BigT 11 years ago
        
        A billion pythons! Is that the full Monty?
2. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  More than a million people visit the park every year
  
  WHY?!
  
  It's a goddamn swamp! You got heat, humidity, muck, bugs, gators and now pythons too. Why do people keep going there?
  1. gaijin 11 years ago
    
    WHY?!
    
    1. Ride one of them airplane boats
    2. Watch alligator wrasslin'
    3. Dispose of corpses
    1. Agammamon 11 years ago
      
      AaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrBOAT!
  2. SugarFree 11 years ago
    
    Somethings you just feel like going home.
  3. Mongo 11 years ago
    
    Swamps are my favorite terrain. Too many hours watching 50s creature features.
    1. Obama's Buttplug 11 years ago
      
      Nothing beats the bayou.
    2. Clich? Bandit 11 years ago
      
      I am a geek, this is true. That being said there is a description of an estate in a fantasy book by L.E. Modesitt (Wellspring of Chaos) that is apline/fjordish. I want that place. The only problem with Colorado is no ocean. If we had an ocean that came up to the front range (like we used to...damn global warming or something) this place would be idyllic.
3. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
  
  Afraid?! They are merely the ranch-stock of Mounty Python's!
4. Doctor Whom 11 years ago
  
  Just convince the tastemakers that Burmese python is both a delicacy and the most fabulous hide for belts and handbags. Problem solved.
  1. Brandon 11 years ago
    
    But then the government will complain because there are only a few thousand Everglades Burmese Pythons left in the wild and turn it over to the EPA.
sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago

Everyone deserves a second chance, right? Well if you're an Evansville Police officer, apparently seventh chances are in order.

http://www.tristatehomepage.co.....Jm7xdN0IQg

How long before he kills somebody, gets a lifetime pension due to the mental anguish and leaves the taxpayers on the hook for a $5M settlement when he finally kills somebody .
1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
  
  I'd say....within two years.
2. SugarFree 11 years ago
  
  $5M settlement
  
  Evansville might have to sell off some of its 800,000,000,000 stoplights to cover the cost.
3. Pl?ya Manhattan. 11 years ago
  
  I see you left a comment. Do you have some sort of google news alert in place for this stuff?
invisible furry hand 11 years ago

Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been acquitted on appeal of charges of having sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power

http://www.theguardian.com/wor.....ution-case
1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
  
  +1 bunga bunga party
2. PD Scott 11 years ago
  
  Italian prosecutors now believe it was Amanda Knox wearing a Berlusconi mask.
  1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
    
    in league with seismologists.
    1. PD Scott 11 years ago
      
      Well, there was a whole lotta shakin' going on...
    2. WTF 11 years ago
      
      I am seriously considering passing on a trip to Italy next year because of their fucked up legal system.
Fist of Etiquette 11 years ago

The new CEO of Microsoft announced 18,000 layoffs, representing 14 percent of the company's workforce, over the next year.

Having perfected the bug-free operating system.
1. Auric Demonocles 11 years ago
  
  You know what's been fun this week? Trying to get the Microsoft SDK 7.1 and Microsoft Visual Studios 2010 to cooperate.
  1. Emmerson Biggins 11 years ago
    
    Has anybody here ever used Mono as a free version .NET . Is it a complete uphill climb or is it worth it?
    
    I'm trying to live a completely microsoft free life if I can. But if I have to do .NET crap, I'm afraid that's going to have to be an exception.
    1. fuck you tulpa 11 years ago
      
      works pretty well actually try it
waffles 11 years ago

I WANT TO BELIEVE.

But holy hell the world seems ablaze this week. Sometimes I wish I could go back to being a person who was completely unaware of current events. It's a drug and it certainly has negative side effects.
invisible furry hand 11 years ago

Laibach is to release an EP to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the doomed Warsaw Rising in Nazi-occupied Poland.

http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Art.....JljkL.dpuf
Slammer 11 years ago

NY Post whines about cops getting sued.

It's open season on cops ? at least in New York courtrooms.

Bottom line? All of this will serve to smear the reputations of the police, make their jobs harder and endanger New Yorkers, as cops worry about litigation over every on-the-spot decision they make.
1. Restoras 11 years ago
  
  Disappointing, but not surprising from the Post.
  1. Rhywun 11 years ago
    
    Yes, the Post is all about cop-sucking. And even more gun-grabby than the Times or Daily News, or at least more shouty about it.
2. Ted S. 11 years ago
  
  I think they're doing it to themselves.
3. Seamus 11 years ago
  
  Yeah, it's terrible how 99% of cops give the other 1% a bad reputation.
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

'Pastafarian' wins battle to wear colander on head in official pictures

Niko Alm claimed he took the bold step of donning the strainer for an official photograph after discovering that headgear was permitted in his native Austria if it was worn on religious grounds.

In an unorthodox move, he claimed to be a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, an apparently spoof organisation based in America.

Its website insists: "Pastafarianism is a real religion."

The site adds that those who observe Pastafarianism are "fond of beer" and observe a religious holiday every Friday.
sarcasmic 11 years ago

Mystery of the hole at the 'end of the world' in Siberia is 'solved': Crater is caused by rising temperatures, not a meteorite

Enormous crater appeared suddenly in part of Russia, Yamal, where name translates as 'the end of the world'
Some thought the unusual and rare geographical occurrence, which was 262ft wide, was caused by a meteorite
Andrei Plekhanov from Scientific Research Center of the Arctic says crater was probably due to rising temperatures

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci.....orite.html
Global Warming is causing random craters! There is literally nothing it cannot do!
1. Auric Demonocles 11 years ago
  
  So a couple of degrees warmer weather (according to some) just dissolved a ton of dirt and rock?
  1. SugarFree 11 years ago
    
    Yup. Maybe you need to learn to science better.
    1. Auric Demonocles 11 years ago
      
      In my defense, those classes were mostly other dudes. Why would I bother to go to them?
      1. SugarFree 11 years ago
        
        Agreed.
  2. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    It looks like a sinkhole to me. It's probably been eroding underground for some time, then this summer's melt touched the upper layer and it collapsed.
    1. Lord Humungus 11 years ago
      
      This is not the time to be reasonable. Instead we must run around the barnyard like chickens with their heads cut off.
gaijin 11 years ago

Hey any Badger (UW Madison) grads out there? Your credentials may soon become worthless...or at least asterisked.

An amazing diversity plan at Madison

GRADES WILL BE GIVEN OUT BY RACE AND ETHNICITY.
1. Doctor Whom 11 years ago
  
  For the trillionth time, "Harrison Bergeron" is a satire, not an instruction manual.
  1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    Next you'll tell my that 'A Modest Proposal' was unserious.
    1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
      
      Wait....it is?!
      
      *shoves large platter out of sight*
2. TwB 11 years ago
  
  UW-Madison has always been one of the most liberal/progressive schools in the Midwest, but this kind of proggy bullshit is beyond ridiculous. UW-Madison can't actually implement that kind of grading system, can they? I sure hope not.
  1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    They'll get sued on equal protection grounds.
    1. TwB 11 years ago
      
      Hopefully
    2. Restoras 11 years ago
      
      So then they'll just give everyone an A.
  2. BiMonSciFiCon 11 years ago
    
    They sure as hell better not.
3. Idle Hands 11 years ago
  
  Don't pretend this wasn't happen already but for the White Privileged, this just levels the playing field!!!/
4. Pope Jimbo 11 years ago
  
  Until HyR comes up with an interface that allows commenting via a crayon Badger alums will not be showing up here.
  1. gaijin 11 years ago
    
    ^nice!
  2. BiMonSciFiCon 11 years ago
    
    What illustrious institution did you graduate from, per chance?
    1. Pope Jimbo 11 years ago
      
      Memphis State for the win!
      
      I currently reside in Sunny Minnesota though and have to put up the shenanigans of the sconnies who somehow cross the river.
5. Lady Bertrum 11 years ago
  
  If you're any kind of serious student pursuing any kind of serious degree that has some type of objective standard, why oh why would you choose UW Madison in light of this?
  1. John 11 years ago
    
    And isn't there some kind of equal protection right to fair grading from a state run school? Imagine if a school decided to give poor performing white kids this advantage. I can't believe that would pass equal protection scrutiny.
    1. WTF 11 years ago
      
      Your privilege, John - you need to check it.
6. BiMonSciFiCon 11 years ago
  
  This is revolting. I am a grad. Appalled.
sarcasmic 11 years ago

Canadian model hopes random word face tattoos will make him the most famous man in the world (as opposed to just the dumbest)
At just 24, Vin Los has 24 tattoos on his face alone
Began at age 16, choosing words as drawings 'don't mean anything'
Has phrases like 'iconic face' scrawled on his face
Also has fake chest hair tattooed on his torso
Says he wants to make an 'impact' and be the most 'famous man in the world'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem.....kings.html
How many stupid pills does that guy eat every morning?
1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
  
  42?
2. Ted S. 11 years ago
  
  For some reason, it reminded me of this hilarious story from Canada.
  1. Rufus J. Firefly 11 years ago
    
    "This is Coca-Cola, this is a big brand."
    
    Would it have been a difference if it was RC Cola?
    1. Ted S. 11 years ago
      
      A year or so ago on a football forum there was a discussion about the NFL and paying for health care for retired players to which I responded, "Because the NFL has a big pile of money and dammit, that's just not fair!"
      
      Oh my did it start a shitstorm. 🙂
      1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
        
        Given the pay of NFL players, if they can't save for it, or leverage their past fame into future employment, I have no pity.
3. Rhywun 11 years ago
  
  His next tattoo should read "I am not a narcissist". That would be edgy.
4. Michael 11 years ago
  
  It looks like he passed out at a party.
sarcasmic 11 years ago

Origin of the faeces? World's longest poo belonging to an unidentified dinosaur measures an 'eye-watering' 40 inches - and it could fetch $10,000 at auction
Longest dinosaur dung on Earth is going up for auction in Los Angeles
It measures 40 inches in length and has a pale brown-yellow colour
Auctioneer I.M. Chait expects it to reach $10,000 when under the hammer
Fossilised feces of this sort if is known as coprolite and can reveal diet info
However researchers aren't sure what dinosaur it originated from

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci.....ction.html
Holy shit!
1. gaijin 11 years ago
  
  I'm trying to understand the 'eye watering' reference...is the author sad? does he imagine a dinosaur straining to produce the fossil?
  1. Auric Demonocles 11 years ago
    
    It still reeks.
  2. Pathogen 11 years ago
    
    "I'm trying to understand the 'eye watering' reference.."
    
    Because, 'mouth watering' would of sounded.. awkward..
2. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
  
  Bah. Warty can churn out 40 inches after one cup of morning coffee.
  1. Restoras 11 years ago
    
    The post-coffee morning deuce is one of the best parts of my day.
    1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
      
      The magic of coffee!
3. Matrix 11 years ago
  
  And here I've been flushing my shit down the toilet for years. *sigh*
4. Entropy Void 11 years ago
  
  Just how does one pronounce the auctioneer's name?
  
  Methinks this story is full of chait.
sarcasmic 11 years ago

Majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are related to domestic or family violence, study finds
Everytown For Gun Safety carried out analysis of FBI data and media reports
Analysis found 110 mass shootings between January 2009 and July 2014
Total of 57% of mass shootings were related to domestic or family violence
FBI defines mass shootings as incidents in which at least four people were murdered with a gun

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....finds.html
From the comments:

Perhaps if the US stepped into the civilised world and banned firearms, nobody would get shot?

Wow.
1. Restoras 11 years ago
  
  That comment is why Europe can go fuck themselves the next time they decide to have a civil war.
  1. Tim 11 years ago
    
    Just ask a Bosnian, the ones that are still alive that is.
  2. Rufus J. Firefly 11 years ago
    
    Eat shit "civilized" world.
  3. WTF 11 years ago
    
    Majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are related to domestic or family violence
    
    Clearly the answer is to ban families and relationships.
    1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
      
      They did, as a result of their ban, domestic violence went up.
      
      /sarcasm
2. Jordan 11 years ago
  
  Remember when we banned drugs and nobody ever got high again?
  1. Doctor Whom 11 years ago
    
    I've used that argument on people who call for a nationwide firearms ban in the US. They've answered with some weapons-grade "La la la, I can't year you."
  2. Auric Demonocles 11 years ago
    
    And Britain banned guns and nobody ever got killed again? (It's good that people are immune to stab wounds)
    1. Jordan 11 years ago
      
      I remember recently two female cops were shot to death in the U.K. and it was discovered that you can purchase a handgun (illegally, of course) in the U.K. for less than you can purchase one legally in the U.S.
      1. Doctor Whom 11 years ago
        
        No way. Everyone knows that black markets are a Randroid, teathuglican myth.
      2. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
        
        The result of their gun ban was that gun violence went up.
  3. wareagle 11 years ago
    
    just like Prohibition meant no one touched a drop of liquor.
  4. gaijin 11 years ago
    
    wait, drugs are banned?
    
    /nervously checks self to assess stae of highness
  5. Lord Humungus 11 years ago
    
    good days, man...
3. MP 11 years ago
  
  Stop! Or I'll say Stop again!
4. Rufus J. Firefly 11 years ago
  
  In fairness, that comment got 10 thumbs up and 40 down.
  
  I find the readership over at Daily Mail not to generally be anti-American.
  1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
    
    Don't they get Drudge related swarms of Yanks too?
  2. Rhywun 11 years ago
    
    Yeah, they have every other newspaper for that.
sarcasmic 11 years ago

Couple face $500 fine for letting their lawn turn brown - after they stopped watering it to comply with California water-saving rules
Michael Korte and wife Laura Whitney face $500 in fines and criminal action if they don't revive their lawn
California is desperate to conserve water in the state's third year of record low rainfall
Couple say they plan to completely re-seed the lawn

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....-much.html
Catch-22
1. Doctor Whom 11 years ago
  
  It's right there in the California FYTW Code.
2. Ted S. 11 years ago
  
  Spray-paint it green.
  1. Jon Lester 11 years ago
    
    When I was in Albuquerque in the 80's, there was a guy who poured cement over his yard and painted it green. I'll be passing through again next month, so I'll have to see if it's still there.
    1. perlhaqr 11 years ago
      
      I'm there now if you wanna post the address, I can go look.
      
      Or heck, google maps street view.
3. kilroy 11 years ago
  
  Astroturf?
sarcasmic 11 years ago

43 gold bars, 1,300 double eagle coins and thousands of pieces of silver: Inventory of treasure worth MILLIONS of dollars revealed from 1857 shipwreck off South Carolina coast
The recovery effort at the SS Central America shipwreck, about 200 miles off the South Carolina coast, began in April and continues throughout summer
So far, 43 solid gold bars, 1,300 $20 double eagle gold coins, and thousands more gold and silver coins have been brought up from the wreck

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....eased.html
1. Jordan 11 years ago
  
  Hopefully the salvage company doesn't get buttfucked by the government, as happened recently to another company.
John 11 years ago

http://watchdog.org/149377/joh.....ic-okeefe/

It would be nice if Reason would pay more attention to the John Doe lawsuit in Wisconsin. I know O'Keeffe is not acceptable to the beltway douche bag set. But he and the Club for Growth are destroying these people in court.
1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
  
  That is not James O'Keefe, the guy who is always getting video of progs behaving badly, but Erik, who is a WI figure, solely.
  1. John 11 years ago
    
    Ah. Regardless it is an amazing story. And it looks like the prosecutors are in real danger of being held personally liable.
    1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
      
      I am hoping.
2. Ted S. 11 years ago
  
  Fucking Disqus comments.
Restoras 11 years ago

NYC-area Reasonoids:

Meet-up Saturday July 26.
Place: Rattle and Hum http://www.rattlenhumbarnyc.com/home
Time: 5:00PM

Who's going?
1. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
  
  DC area Reasonoids,
  
  Meetup next Wednesday in Old Town Alexandria
  O'Shaugnessys from 5:00 on
  
  Who's with me?
  1. TwB 11 years ago
    
    I'm still planning to be there, probably around 6:30 or 7.
    1. Doctor Whom 11 years ago
      
      Ditto.
      1. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
        
        If either of you (or anybody else) is game, I'll be at Elephant and Castle on K Street around 5ish today.
        
        sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
        
        I Street actually.
  2. Idle Hands 11 years ago
    
    Sounds okay. Is it okay if I lurk from a distance and watch your conversation or do I have to actively participate.
    1. TwB 11 years ago
      
      From the sounds of it, the bar is kinda small, so you will probably be participating whether you like it or not.
    2. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
      
      You can do whatever you want, man.
      
      I know Los Doyers will be there, as should Kaptious Kristen.
      
      I'll plug it to the staff at the DC office and see if any are up for it. I know it's not on the Orange Line, but we can still cross our fingers some,of them will make it.
      1. Idle Hands 11 years ago
        
        yeah sounds fun, I'm always in for drinks.
2. Rhinonamous 11 years ago
  
  I will be at the Bacon/Beer fest at Citi field and maybe swing by on my way back through Manhattan.
3. jesse.in.mb 11 years ago
  
  Restoras, you might want to try to hit up Freedom Frog or Slammer directly. They were interested in IRL socializing and live in NY.
  
  If NY and DC are going to get active I'm gonna have to roust the LA folks.
4. Brandon 11 years ago
  
  Denver area Reasonoids:
  
  I'm going to be getting baked by my firepit in my backyard sometime Saturday night. Just thought yall might like to know.
Bee Tagger 11 years ago

The deputy chief scientist of solar system exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab

Sure, I always trust people who produce hot air for a living.
1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  +1 laminar flow
Fist of Etiquette 11 years ago

...it says it intends to destroy tunnels used by Hamas and other militant groups to enter Israel and weaken the group's infrastructure in the Gaza strip.

Plus Netanyahu knows those Hamas gets in the country it will just vote Democrat.
1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
  
  DEY TOOK UR J....JOOOOS?
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

CNN correspondent calls Israelis cheering bombing 'scum,' then deletes tweet
1. Ted S. 11 years ago
  
  Obligatory
Tim 11 years ago

" John Kerry has called for an international investigation"
Because nothing is certain unless the Americans, Bolivians, Kenyans and Koreans can agree on it.
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

Thief makes off with giant 'Skittles' from kids' playground

Three giant "Skittles" had disappeared from the children's play area.

The "Skittles" are part of a colourful art installation scattered throughout the area.

The large balls are anchored to the ground and according to park officials, are very heavy.

"It is a bit of a mystery how and why someone might want to take them," said Assiniboine Park's Laura Cabak. "We searched the park in the hopes that the culprits may have discarded them somewhere on the grounds but have had no luck.
Bee Tagger 11 years ago

The deputy attorney general at the Justice Department has decided the Internal Revenue Service scandal didn't warrant the appointment of a special prosecutor.

How about a regular one, at least?
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

Why Triangle craft beer won't be brewed with sheep feces

A recent West Coast-style IPA from Iceland's Borg Brugghus was made with malts smoked over a fire burning sheep droppings. It's creating a stir online, and the beer is making its way to the states.

According to North Carolina's beer aficionados, the N.C. Beer Guys, who have reviewed most of North Carolina's craft beers, this type of fecal-based experimentation isn't as wild as it sounds.
1. Auric Demonocles 11 years ago
  
  We better make sure none of the barley in US beers was fertilized with manure!
  1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
    
    YOU ARE DRINKING DOO DOO!!!
2. Tim 11 years ago
  
  I wouldn't drink that shit.
Auric Demonocles 11 years ago

The deputy chief scientist of solar system exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab said in a panel this week he believed evidence of extraterrestrial life could be found in in the next 20 years.

I realize that Reason editors don't often credit comments in the AM Links with hat-tips, but wasn't this an official Link just a couple of days ago? Or is this a new announcement, covering a slightly different time frame? I hope this doesn't become the new Voyager.
1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
  
  Alien contact will be like practical nuclear fusion power generation....always 20 years away!
  1. Tim 11 years ago
    
    Just so.
  2. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    Wait, you mean the last peice we need will be delivered by aliens?
  3. sarcasmic 11 years ago
    
    Don't forget the practical electric car.
  4. Auric Demonocles 11 years ago
    
    To be fair, fusion power probably would help in discovering aliens.
    1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
      
      We just have to get Pro L to share his ship design, next time he is in from his Oort Cloud base.
    2. Tonio 11 years ago
      
      "fusion power probably would help in discovering aliens"
      
      Yeah, but not for a long time since it would still take a while to ramp up into a true spacefaring species. The most likely evidence will be radio signals.
      1. Tim 11 years ago
        
        No man they are using MP3's
      2. Auric Demonocles 11 years ago
        
        I really doubt that. We'll probably find microbes in this solar system long before we detect intelligent life outside.
        
        Tonio 11 years ago
        
        Oops, you may well be right. I was focused on alien civilizations.
2. Tonio 11 years ago
  
  Well his statement is absolutely true - "could be found". It could also not be found.
  
  Also, "evidence" includes radio signals and with advancing electronic and computing capabilities it's increasingly likely for us to detect any signals that are out there.
MJGreen 11 years ago

NYC Reasonoids: Was there a movement on a get-together? Last heard I was possibly Saturday the 26th. But shortly after that, Reason announced a shindig on Monday the 28th. I don't know if that's changed people's plans.
1. Restoras 11 years ago
  
  Posted above, MJ. Here it is:
  
  NYC-area Reasonoids:
  
  Meet-up Saturday July 26.
  Place: Rattle and Hum http://www.rattlenhumbarnyc.com/home
  Time: 5:00PM
  
  Who's going?
  1. Slammer 11 years ago
    
    I'm going to try. I might not be able to. If I miss, I'll make the next one.
    1. Restoras 11 years ago
      
      Hope you can make it. Anyone else?
      1. Rufus J. Firefly 11 years ago
        
        I said I'd try but looks like my course for gun registry with the RCMP takes place that week-end.
  2. Restoras 11 years ago
    
    I know there's more of you out there...good beer! Food! Conversation!
  3. MJGreen 11 years ago
    
    Hah, damn. I knew I shoulda posted this yesterday!
    
    I'm planning to join. I'll be the bearded white guy with glasses. I'm sure such a sight will stand out.
    1. Restoras 11 years ago
      
      Cool. I am leaning toward a Rush t-shirt (band, not the man) to stand out.
      
      Let's circle back here on Monday and try to round up some more Reasonoids.
2. Restoras 11 years ago
  
  What is the event on 7/28?
  1. MJGreen 11 years ago
    
    "Revel with Reason" at Henley Vaporium, 6-9. I can forward the eventbrite link; I suspect the blog will have a post on it eventually.
sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago

Plymouth, MA cop beats handcuffed man and then commits perjury. Sentenced to 366 days.

I guess firearm enhancer don't exist for a violent physical assault when you are one of the King's Men.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/201.....sentenced/
1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
  
  OW!!!! So early in the day for kicked in nuts.
John 11 years ago

http://thefederalist.com/2014/.....fb20134fa8

In other news Sad Beard is still really stupid. Hemingway doesn't even pile on by mentioning that the same guy who criticizes conservatives for not caring about religious minorities calls himself an old-school Jacobin-style line that religion should be stamped out.. Bonus points for when some cute 20 something editor at Vox steps in to try to calm the retard down before he hurts someone. Hey Eleanor, next time just offer him some cake.
1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
  
  So he really was coming at us like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows.
2. Ted S. 11 years ago
  
  In other news Sad Beard is still really stupid.
  
  That's not news.
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

The Obama Albatross

The Virginia Progress PAC, a Democratic committee supporting Senator Mark Warner, issued a list of talking points for potential donors that laid out the challenge the Obama albatross represents for Democrats this fall: "The 2014 midterm elections are shaping up to be similar to the wave elections of 1994 and 2010, particularly with an unpopular President and an unpopular piece of major legislation that will serve as a referendum on the sitting President. . . . A difficult political climate coupled with the rising unpopularity of President Obama could affect the Democratic brand as a whole and hurt Senator Warner."

Bob Beckel, a former Democratic campaign consultant, said on Fox News this week that he spoke with a Democrat "intimately involved in [Obama's] campaigns, both of them." The message was sobering: "He said you have to know what it's like to get through [presidential counselor] Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama, and I think that's a tough deal for anybody on a staff to do. . . . [Obama] lives in a zone that nobody else goes to."
1. John 11 years ago
  
  Obama is going full retard. He won't compromise and he is just going to keep coming.
  1. Ivan Pike 11 years ago
    
    Obama is going full retard
    
    FIFY
    1. John 11 years ago
      
      Since there is no peak retard, Obama can always be said to be "going" full retard.
      1. Ivan Pike 11 years ago
        
        It IS amazing the levels one can attain if one really works at it. But it seems it comes naturally to him as he has it turned up to 11.
  2. ant1sthenes 11 years ago
    
    I just hope the moron manages to do more damage to progressivism than he does to America.
    1. Rufus J. Firefly 11 years ago
      
      Doubt it. I know someone - an American - who is very well informed and intelligent and he's just not biting on all these issues. Very strange.
    2. Tonio 11 years ago
      
      The proggies I know do not consider Obama to be one of them. They all voted for him, of course, but their real standard-bearer is Warren.
      1. WTF 11 years ago
        
        They all voted for him, of course, but their real standard-bearer is Warren.
        
        See? There really is no such thing as peak retard.
      2. John 11 years ago
        
        The ideology is never wrong. So if Obama is wrong, and even they can't deny he is, he must not be a Prog.
2. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
  
  Was Beckel's source the Chinaman who worked on Obama's campaign?
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

Republican lobbyist warns conservatives: 'Big Business' might 'change sides'

Some Republicans are beginning to extend their free-market, limited-government beliefs to include opposition to corporate welfare, like the Export-Import Bank. Many conservatives hate the idea of centralized education standards driven by a coalition of unaccountable bureaucrats and big business.

K Street lobbyist and former GOP congressional aide John Feehery warns that this is a dangerous for the Right to walk, asking:

What would happen if Big Business decided to change sides? What would happen if the Chamber of Commerce suddenly stopped being a huge fundraising machine for the Republican Party and started financing pro-business Democrats?
1. John 11 years ago
  
  I thought they already had.
  1. Restoras 11 years ago
    
    It's less about picking a side in terms of principles, and more about picking the winners and thus having access to rent-seek.
    1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
      
      Yeah, piss on the Chamber and their rent seeking. They want to hang with the corporatists-cronyists, go ahead.
    2. WTF 11 years ago
      
      Well, actually a combination of rent-seeking and protection money.
      1. Restoras 11 years ago
        
        Yes, exactly.
        
        The corporations give money to politicians, that use that money to stay in power and peddle influence.
        
        The politicians use that money to dole out favors that benefit the corporations - which prevents competition from usurping the existing centers of money and thus securing their source of funds.
2. wareagle 11 years ago
  
  Some Republicans are beginning to extend their free-market, limited-government beliefs to include opposition to corporate welfare
  
  who are these Repubs and are there more of them? And if Big Biz decides to change sides, it deserves the fucking it will surely receive.
  1. Ted S. 11 years ago
    
    Justin Amash.
3. ant1sthenes 11 years ago
  
  "What would happen if the Chamber of Commerce suddenly stopped being a huge fundraising machine for the Republican Party and started financing pro-business Democrats?"
  
  Then it would be easy to call the Democrats the party of the elites and the GOP the party of the people? They already have the celebrities, media, government officials, and intellectuals. Add the business elites, and it's undeniable.
  
  I think Brat/Cantor already showed that their money isn't really as essential as they make it out to be, as long as you have some populist kingmakers out there willing to drop your name.
sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago

Not sure if this counts as an idiot cop story or an idiot C-list celebrity story. You make the call.

http://www.turnto10.com/story/.....ifes-rival
1. Restoras 11 years ago
  
  Isn't 'idiot cop story' redundant?
Jordan 11 years ago

MSNBC's Krystal Ball pranked by caller about plane crash and Howard Stern's ass

After establishing live on-air contact, Ball asked Boyd to please tell the audience what he saw there from the ground in Ukraine. The prank caller then said that he was looking out the window when he saw a projectile flying through the sky. He continued by saying that it would appear that the plane was shot down by "a blast of wind from Howard Stern's ass."

Quite incredibly, Ball had a follow-up question for Boyd rather than ending the interview right then. She asked Boyd if, from his military training, he could tell what type of missile system that might have been coming from. Shocked at the follow-up question, the prank caller told Ball, "You're a dumb ass, aren't you?" She then said, "I'm sorry, sir?" as if she didn't quite understand him. After a pause, she went to a commercial break while promising that she would be back with all the latest, according to the Daily Caller.
1. Idle Hands 11 years ago
  
  How does the set producer not hang up?
  Is she so boring her producer doesn't pay attention? Either way its incompetent idiots all the way down.
  1. Ted S. 11 years ago
    
    I'm reminded of the beginning of Network, when Howard Beale announces live on air that he's going to commit suicide in a week's time.
2. Rufus J. Firefly 11 years ago
  
  That's literally 'breaking' the news!
Slammer 11 years ago

Metal Friday- New OVERKILL
1. MP 11 years ago
  
  Sounds alright. I never liked his vocals though. But I did always enjoy I Hate, if only for its simplicity and easy go-to song when you are pissed off.
  1. Lord Humungus 11 years ago
    
    my go to pissed-off song
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edtEpPhSk20
    1. Michael 11 years ago
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAl3iQupaFU
2. Aloysious 11 years ago
  
  Nice. Vocalist reminds me of Udo Dirkschneider. His sound, not appearance.
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

from Salon:

7 biggest myths about big penises

Patrick Moote had a similar experience when he proposed to his girlfriend at a UCLA basketball game. Instead of accepting his offer, she walked away off camera, later admitting that the reason she wouldn't marry him is that his penis was too small.The moment was documented on YouTube, becoming a viral phenomenon, and Moote later filmed a documentary, Unhung Hero, chronicling his exploration of society's preferences around penis size.

How much does penis size matter and how much is myth? To address the issue, Daily Dot sexperts EJ Dickson and Nico Lang put together a list of seven reasons that penis size doesn't matter as much as we think. The results will surprise you.
1. sarcasmic 11 years ago
  
  I remember having a conversation with a waitress who said that for a while she was into black guys (she's white), until she got naked with her black boyfriend. She saw is dick and said "You want to put that where?" Needless to say that ended both the relationship and her infatuation with black guys.
  1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
    
    Too buku?
    1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
      
      Naw, she realized that she really was just a racist and she'd been overcompensating.
      
      /sarcasm
2. Ted S. 11 years ago
  
  Frankly, every woman should walk away if they're subjected to a public marriage proposal like this, and tell the guy to ask again in private instead of putting her on the spot.
  1. invisible furry hand 11 years ago
    
    Amen.
3. Idle Hands 11 years ago
  
  as I've always said "there is an ass for every seat."
  1. Lord Humungus 11 years ago
    
    The Man Who Could Sit Anywhere
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHKiGl02NmU
Jordan 11 years ago

Is anybody else unable to connect to Google? Wondering if it's just my work network.
1. Jordan 11 years ago
  
  Nevermind. It works on my phone.
Certified Public Asskicker 11 years ago

Huffpo with the answerz:

Want To Fix Social Security? Start With Giving Women Equal Pay

Making sure women earn equal pay for equal work could trim Social Security's long-term shortfall by up to a third, according to a study released Thursday by Social Security Works, a non-profit group advocating to protect Social Security. That's because boosting women's pay would put more money into the program's coffers.

Brilliant study.
1. Idle Hands 11 years ago
  
  How many times does this "Making sure women earn equal pay" have to be disproven on national tv for them to give up this meme?
  1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    How long does the temperature data have to fail to fit the models for the environuts to give up AGW?
    
    It's an article of faith, facts don't matter.
    1. Idle Hands 11 years ago
      
      yeah but in this case it far more retarded because ANY apple to apple comparison show the pay gap is like at most a couple of cents.
  2. sarcasmic 11 years ago
    
    Why do you lick the corporate boot that holds you down?!? Show me something disproving this fact and I'll show you something funded by the corporations! It's the corporations! They put profits before people! Aaaaaauuuggghhh!
2. TwB 11 years ago
  
  Well sure it would, in theory. That doesn't mean it's going to save the SS system. How about some actual reform of the SS system itself? Or is that too much to ask?
  1. Certified Public Asskicker 11 years ago
    
    We can help women and old people with one fix.
    
    Why do you hate the children?
    1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
      
      Because I've just learned 'A Modest Proposal' was unserious. What use are they now?
    2. TwB 11 years ago
      
      Because they don't have to work M-F or pay taxes. I envy them.
  2. Idle Hands 11 years ago
    
    Click here to learn how this "one easy trick" that will change SS forever.
    1. Lord Humungus 11 years ago
      
      The clicking does nothing!
3. Brett L 11 years ago
  
  How about we start charging them equal taxes?
4. Emmerson Biggins 11 years ago
  
  "Social Security Sucks : Women and Minorities hit hardest."
  
  Actually, that is a true statement, factually speaking. But still, it's funny to use the template. And it's funny that that'll never inspire them to notice that Social Security, does in fact suck.
Slammer 11 years ago

Anti nut punch of the week.

Readers retouch photo of man's daughter who passed away.
1. Jordan 11 years ago
  
  I saw that. That's a good one, for sure, albeit still quite sad.
2. invisible furry hand 11 years ago
  
  Sometimes it's worth relying on the kindness of strangers
3. Rufus J. Firefly 11 years ago
  
  Ever since my daughter was born two things happened. I can't handle bad stories about kids even in movies and I tend to get easily emotional. Not exactly a character trait of mine.
  1. Restoras 11 years ago
    
    I've had a similar experience.
    
    A couple years after my son was born, I happened to watch Mystic River. I didn't sleep for two days afterward.
4. Matrix 11 years ago
  
  Fine... fine... I won't blow up the world today... *sniff*
Certified Public Asskicker 11 years ago

Fuck Bill Maher...

...but this is stupid

He tweeted:

Dealing w/ Hamas is like dealing w/ a crazy woman who's trying to kill u - u can only hold her wrists so long before you have to slap her

? Bill Maher (@billmaher) July 18, 2014

[removed][removed]

And you can use your imagination as to how people on Twitter reacted.
1. Idle Hands 11 years ago
  
  I do love it when they eat their own.
  1. Certified Public Asskicker 11 years ago
    
    Me too.
    
    I think it is dumber to suggest if someone is trying to kill you, that you only fight back with a slap.
    1. Idle Hands 11 years ago
      
      I think he's suggesting that their response is a slap compered to what they actually are capable of doing. the one thing I will say for Maher is that he is a principled asshole on nearly all issues and won't issue some dumbass apology.
      1. WTF 11 years ago
        
        Maher is a smug giant douche, but sometimes he is right.
    2. ant1sthenes 11 years ago
      
      I think he's saying that, thanks to Iron Dome, there is a massive disparity in capacity to do harm and thus some social pressure to be tolerant (ie, strong man versus vicious but petite woman), but it's not so effective that they can simply tolerate the rockets indefinitely.
2. John 11 years ago
  
  It is an offensive analogy but a valid one. That said, I agree with Idle Hands, few things make me happier than watching Progs eat their own.
  1. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
    
    How is it offensive? If you're holding the arms of a person trying to kill you, at some point you are going to release a hand and strike them until they're no longer trying/able to kill you.
    
    And that's the part the proggies are omitting...the "trying to kill you" part of the comment is what makes it apt. But all they see is the slapping a woman part.
    1. Idle Hands 11 years ago
      
      Contextualizing anything has never been their strong suit. If they put things into perspective that would require having a rudimentary understanding of the issues.
    2. John 11 years ago
      
      It is offensive in that it trivializes family violence by making a joke out of it.
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

The War on Sex Workers Escalates with FBI Shutdown of MyRedBook

Five days after MyRedBook was seized, US senators Dianne Feinstein of California and Mark Kirk of Illinois introduced the SAVE Act. The bill, intended to crack down on the sex trafficking of children, would entirely eliminate online "adult advertising," including advertisement of legal adult services. It would make having a website that "facilitates or is designed to facilitate" adult advertising "to facilitate commercial transactions" a federal crime. The Center for Democracy and Technology and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have criticized the bill for its broadness and potential effects on free speech.
1. Ted S. 11 years ago
  
  I'm more surprised the publishers of Redbook magazine didn't get it shut down for trademark infringement.
  1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
    
    They probably liked the "overflow" to their title.
    
    *cut to scene of a man frantically pawing through hardcopy of Redbook*
    
    "Aw, shit, this ain't hos!?"
Jordan 11 years ago

New Obamacare Exemption: All U.S. Territories (After Years of Complaining)

As if I needed another incentive to move to the Virgin Islands.
1. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
  
  Oh God, I hope the influx of right-winger extremist moving to Guam doesn't cause it to tip over.
Agammamon 11 years ago

The deputy chief scientist of solar system exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab said in a panel this week he believed evidence of extraterrestrial life could be found in in the next 20 years.

Yeah, but when does Voyager leave the solar system again?
1. John 11 years ago
  
  "could be found"? You could have said the same thing 20 years ago.
  1. Tim 11 years ago
    
    There's no one out there. The Milky Way is the cosmic equivalent of a starter home. As soon as you can afford to, you move.
Sevo 11 years ago

Well, the Chron is a bit late since they just published this edi-cartoon today, but I'm awfully glad Tom Toles points out that investigating the IRS crooks leads to rich people paying less taxes!
I did not connect those dots:
http://www.gocomics.com/tomtol.....8kmcsoTG64
1. WTF 11 years ago
  
  The comments....they're just....I don't even...
sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago

Just an FYI, Tiger Woods is shitting the bed so far in the second round.
1. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
  
  After he doesn't win this weekend, he will actually be behind Nicklaus's pace of major wins at the same age. And with the fitness levels of today's players coupled with Woods injuries, I think,it will be safe to say that the. Golden Bear's record will remain safe.
  1. Restoras 11 years ago
    
    I find both of them insufferable.
    1. BigT 11 years ago
      
      How can anyone find Nicklaus insufferable?? He is the penultimate gentleman, sportsman, and father. He gets my vote as greatest sportsman ever.
    2. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
      
      Jack insufferable? I'll admit he's no Gary Player,* but he seems like a like able enough guy.
      
      *Met Player at Augusta several years back. He might be the nicest, most approachable athletic celebrity I've ever had the pleasure to shake hands with. A truly wonderful man and ambassador of the sport.
      1. John 11 years ago
        
        Jack is okay. He just has a funny sounding high voice.
      2. Restoras 11 years ago
        
        I find Jack to be as smug and arrogant as Tiger, albeit in a different manner.
        
        I prefer Arnold Palmer, but there's no accounting for taste.
        
        John 11 years ago
        
        I prefer Palmer too. But in fairness, it would be hard not to be smug and arrogant if you had done the things Jack has done.
    3. Timon 19 11 years ago
      
      What the hell? Jack's one of the nicest human beings who has absolutely no reason to be (because he's fantastically wealthy and won so much shit).
      
      Jack wasn't as outwardly personable as Arnie, but that's nearly impossible.
2. Ted S. 11 years ago
  
  Why are we supposed to care about Eldrick the Slut?
  1. Roger the Shrubber 11 years ago
    
    Sorry the World Cup is over, Ted, and the country is again rightfully ignoring a sport played by the most fit pussies in the world.
    1. Timon 19 11 years ago
      
      Random attacks on soccer are totally awesome and certainly don't expose any deep-seated angst or anything...
  2. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
    
    I'm cheering for Sergio, as I tend to do in majors.
    
    I loathe Woods more for the way he treats the crowds than for his love of strippers, whores and Perkins wait staff. He's just an asshole.
Sevo 11 years ago

And then those anti- Happy Meals laws? Well, they WORKED:
"Kids meal law served as nudge to healthier path, study finds"
[...]
"Kids meals at fast-food restaurants in San Francisco have gotten healthier since San Francisco supervisors passed the (in)famous "Happy Meal ban" in 2010"
http://www.sfgate.com/default/.....629422.php

Uh, not so fast:
"But the law itself can't be directly linked to the improvement, researchers found.
[...]
The fast-food giant[...]reduced calories in a Happy Meal by 110, and cut the sodium and fat content of the meal as well."

So it didn't have a damn thing to do with the law, but that doesn't stop lying headline writers and slimy statists:
"They said it wasn't in response to the ordinance, but it was certainly in a direction consistent with the intent of the ordinance," Otten said."

It's all about feelz, according to that asshole.
1. Fluffy 11 years ago
  
  It also fails a basic methodological test by comparing the Happy Meal content before the ordinance and after the ordinance without taking into account what people actually ORDER.
  
  My kid loves Happy Meals. But when they reduced the size of the fries in the meal and added a portion of apple slices, he rebelled. He now asks for a Happy Meal plus a small fries, to make up the fry difference. And he throws the (utterly unpalatable) apple slices away without opening them.
  
  So did the meal really get healthier when you factor in the additional small fries? Probably not.
  1. waffles 11 years ago
    
    More fries = more happy!
  2. Sevo 11 years ago
    
    "So did the meal really get healthier when you factor in the additional small fries? Probably not."
    
    Hey, you really expect that 'study' to pick all the cherries?
    I mean, it wouldn't 'prove' the claim if they did!
  3. sarcasmic 11 years ago
    
    My daughter eats the apples. Then again, she's never known the meals to not have them. And she likes apples.
    1. Rasilio 11 years ago
      
      My youngest would rather have an extra serving of apples and skip the fries altogether
  4. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
    
    Quibble: the meal got healthier. The overall trip didn't.
    
    they also don't measure the impact that meal has on the other meals of the day. The value of a McD's meal/dollar may have been healthier before they cut the portions down. It may have also had a negative impact on the overall cost of a family's food budget.
    
    This report is fucking retarded and useless.
2. Bo Cara Esq. 11 years ago
  
  If Happy Meals were banned, what's up with the part about McDonalds reducing calories, sodium and fat in Happy Meals?
  1. sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
    
    They banned happy meals because they said the free toys were causing kids to buy unhealthy foods. McD's worked around it by selling the toy, IIRC, for a nominal price.
    
    So happy meals exist, albeit in a slightly different way.
    1. Bo Cara Esq. 11 years ago
      
      OK, thanks.
    2. Sevo 11 years ago
      
      "McD's worked around it by selling the toy, IIRC, for a nominal price."
      
      They did better yet; they out feel-nazis the feel-nazis:
      They charge $0.10 and donate 100% to charity!
3. Jordan 11 years ago
  
  Fat and sodium aren't unhealthy anyway.
Sevo 11 years ago

And we can't let a Friday go without a bash of Big Pharm, right?
"Would California spend $6.7 billion for hepatitis C drug?"
[...]
Those estimates were released by the Express-Scripts Holding Co., the nation's largest pharmacy benefits manager"
http://www.sfgate.com/health/a.....629200.php

Do we need a better example of rent-seeking? I mean if E-S Holding Co. can't get the state to beat on Gilead, those profits will go to the maker rather than the finance company!
And, it gets better (or worse) if you read the article instead of the headline innuendo:
"The drug can cure more than 90 percent of patients with the most common type of hepatitis C. And Gilead argues that taking a daily $1,000 pill for 12 weeks is much cheaper than traditional treatments, which last about a year and cure roughly half of patients, or than costly measures such as a liver transplants."

Does E-S get a 'cut' (sorry) from the transplant buzz? Who's zoomin' who?
BigT 11 years ago

Women's pubic hair now officially 'offensive'. WTF!

Please, offend me.
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

British Bosses Must Treat 'Severely' Fat Workers As Disabled

British bosses must treat severely fat employees as disabled under European Union legislation on equal rights in the workplace, Europe's most senior legal advisor has warned.

UK companies will be required to treat obese workers as "disabled" providing them with larger seats, special parking spaces and other facilities.

The warning comes following a case brought to the EU courts by a Danish child minder, who claims he was sacked by his local authority employer in Denmark because he was so overweight.
1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  All the more reason for them to sever reamining ties with the EU
2. Rhywun 11 years ago
  
  What could possibly go wrong?
  
  "I'm purposely gaining 61 pounds to get on disability!"
3. Emmerson Biggins 11 years ago
  
  So fire them or don't hire them in the first place, but make up some other reason?
4. Scruffy Nerfherder 11 years ago
  
  Oh for fuck's sake
5. Michael 11 years ago
  
  Wait, I thought only the United Snakes of Amerikkka had an obesity problem. Isn't the UK part of the "civilized world" that we're constantly badgered to emulate?
John 11 years ago

It is so easy to hate on American automakers these days. But there was once a time when they made things like this

http://hymanltd.com/vehicles/5.....sedanette/

That is not a car. That is a piece of art deco sculpture you can drive.
1. Bo Cara Esq. 11 years ago
  
  I do not hate them, I love the newer, muscular throwback Mustangs, Camaros and Chargers for example.
  1. John 11 years ago
    
    I don't hate them either. I just wish they were what they once were. I view them more as like an aging alcoholic prodigal son. You can't help but look past the balding head, the pot belly, the chain smoking and the lying and remember what he once was.
    
    That said, there are still American cars I like. The ones you listed and a few other, like the Focus ST.
    1. sarcasmic 11 years ago
      
      It's all due to CAFE standards. Gotta make cars ugly and aerodynamic. Uncle Sam said so.
      1. John 11 years ago
        
        Yes. And also the safety standards. If you notice most of the really stunningly beautiful cars ever made were made before 1966. That was the last year before the beginning of safety standards. Since then, cars have slowly been regulated into uniformity.
        
        Bo Cara Esq. 11 years ago
        
        I agree, but I'm guessing the market and tort law would have pushed towards those hideous models, though to a smaller degree.
        
        John 11 years ago
        
        Probably. The combination of safety regs and CAFE regs have made cars larger and more bubble shaped. It is amazing how petite many cars from the 1960s and before really were. Sports cars like the Porsche 911 or the Austin Healeys or economy cars like the Bug or the Mini were tiny compared to today. You couldn't make cars that small today.
        
        sarcasmic 11 years ago
        
        You couldn't make cars that small today.
        
        Ahem...
        
        John 11 years ago
        
        You could do it, but you couldn't do it and have it look like anything.
        
        sarcasmic 11 years ago
        
        If all I did was drive around in a city and I didn't have to deal with a lot of snow, I'd consider one of those Stupid Cars. Instead I drive a Subaru. Love that AWD.
        
        Rhywun 11 years ago
        
        I'm not a car person but until about 1995 even I could identify some of the major makes. Nowadays except for a few deliberately weird exceptions, they all look exactly the same to me.
    2. Bo Cara Esq. 11 years ago
      
      I love the more muscular sportscars of the 60's, so any emulation or throwback to them I'm sold on.
      
      Don't get me wrong, I drive a little foreign model, because gas mileage and dependability, I'm talking pure aesthetics.
      1. John 11 years ago
        
        I like them too. And the new corvette is spectacular.
        
        Bo Cara Esq. 11 years ago
        
        Total agreement there. Corvette is my dream car. Hopefully, when I become some big corporation's kept in house lawyer-slave I will buy one.
        
        John 11 years ago
        
        They took a 2013 Corvette and the Lotus 49 that Ron Clark won the 1967 F1 world championship in out to the Circuit of the Americas in Austin. The Lotus was quicker but only because it had better gearing. The Corvette couldn't reach its top speed so its bigger gears didn't help it. But the Corvette's cornering speed was just as fast. Basically it was as fast as a 1960s F1 car. That is amazing.
        
        sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
        
        I saw a Ford GT40 the other day in Old Town. I,almost came in my pants it was so beautiful.
        
        Seriously, I make Banjos stand there for five minutes while I walked around it about 5 times and marveled at its magnificence.
        
        I've seen beautiful cars before. I've even driven a DB5 from Charlottesville to Harrisonburg and a 911 on the track at Charlotte. But that GT40 was probably the most beautiful thing on wheels I've ever seen.
        
        sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago
        
        Holy shit, that was Wednesday. Hopefully it's there next Wednesday as well so I can marvel at it after the meetup.
        
        John 11 years ago
        
        And speaking of cars Sloopy, in Great Falls, VA town center, every Saturday morning at 6 am they have a cars and coffee meet up. This being Washington and filled with money, there are always some spectacular cars there. Everything from new Ferarris and Lambos to hot rods, to old 911s and Jags. You name it.
        
        John 11 years ago
        
        Sloopy,
        
        For me, the original GT40 was the most beautiful race car ever built. I think they are even more beautiful than a Ferarri250 GTO or Testerosa, especially in the blue and orange Gulf colors.
        
        http://www.gt40gulfliverycars.com/thecars.html
        
        Now that you on the the East Coast, take a day and go up to Philadelphia and see the Simione Auto Museum. They have one of the GT40s that raced at LeMans in 67. Not the winner, the third place car I think.
        
        Sevo 11 years ago
        
        "Lotus 49 that Ron Clark won the 1967 F1"
        Uh, Jim Clark.
        
        Restoras 11 years ago
        
        If that's your track, and you succeed, you will be able to afford both.
  2. Jordan 11 years ago
    
    I hate them because they are gigantic parasites.
    1. Bo Cara Esq. 11 years ago
      
      Parasites?
      1. Jordan 11 years ago
        
        I'm referring to the GM and Chrysler UAW bailouts.
        
        Bo Cara Esq. 11 years ago
        
        I get that, but I'm not going to let politics trump my aesthetic sense regarding cars. Also, don't hate the Mustangs because of GM and Chrysler's theft conspiracy!
Idle Hands 11 years ago

This new troll is hilarious.
1. WTF 11 years ago
  
  Might not be new, might be Mary off her meds.
2. Sevo 11 years ago
  
  Smells a lot like commie kid. Same sort of ridiculous statements and non sequiturs:
  'Libertarians are evil; discuss!'
  1. Raven Nation 11 years ago
    
    In general, trolls enliven HnR postings.
    
    Discuss.
    1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
      
      Do not confuse volume with quality!
      
      A squabble between actual libertarians is better than prog-derp being flung around by the likes of Mary Stack, Shriek and T o n y.
      1. Scruffy Nerfherder 11 years ago
        
        Do not confuse volume with quality!
        
        I keep telling my wife that.
Brett L 11 years ago

Driving to work this morning I saw two guys wearing black sweatshirts, combat boots, and black tanker-style helmets (the ones with the ear covers) holding an SS flag. I'm not sure why they were standing on the corner next to the Waffle House. It was an odd thing. Man, I hate Tallahassee Nazis.
1. Poppa Kilo 11 years ago
  
  They can take our Waffle Houses, but they'll never take our FREEDOM!
  
  Wait - they can't take our Waffle Houses, either.
  
  They thought Waffen, maybe?
  1. Lord Humungus 11 years ago
    
    Waffen House
    
    lol.
2. Sevo 11 years ago
  
  "Man, I hate Tallahassee Nazis."
  
  But the Orlando ones are OK? Just askin'.
  1. Los Doyers 11 years ago
    
    I prefer mine grilled and served with mustard and sauerkraut.
Adam. 11 years ago

World Health Organization Quietly Supports Drug Decriminalization
Idle Hands 11 years ago

Anarcho, new troll or sock-puppet?

Discuss....
1. PRX 11 years ago
  
  a new weigs sockpuppet? certainly not too intelligent to rule out the possibility. the timing is dumb enough.
2. Doghouse Reilly 11 years ago
  
  I'm saying troll. Ridiculous enough to be satire (then again, Poe's Law). The first few rantings might've suggested a sincere effort on Anarcho's behalf, but 73 posts later, I think they're just trying to parody the other resident leftist retards here.
jesse.in.mb 11 years ago

Huh, I got to work early enough that AM Links is still a thing...

Since I'm here.

Aids conference says 100 researchers may have been on flight MH17

As many as 100 of the world's leading HIV/Aids researchers and advocates may have been on the Malaysia Airlines flight that crashed in Ukraine, in what has been described as a "devastating" blow to efforts to tackle the virus.

Prof. Richard Boyd, director of the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, told Guardian Australia he was "gutted" by the losses.

"There were some serious HIV leaders on that plane," he said. "This will have ramifications globally because whenever you lose a leader in any field, it has an impact. That knowledge is irreplaceable.

Nicely done Russia.
1. Idle Hands 11 years ago
  
  Well we already knew there was a #waronwomen, now it looks like we've entered the age of the #warongays. Which in all honesty looks a little more real.
  1. jesse.in.mb 11 years ago
    
    Don't forget #waronafricans.
    
    I do like that Russia is so good at being dickish to gays that they can do it completely by accident now though.
    
    That's skill.
    
    One of the guys had been involved in HIV research since 1983. That's as long as I've been alive. Fuck.
    1. Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago
      
      I always wonder how researchers like that do not burn out - of course there were people working on polio, etc that probably went their entire lives and never got to see the vaccine, cure or whatnot.
      
      God's work, seriously.
2. Francisco d'Anconia 11 years ago
  
  I got to work early enough that AM Links is still a thing..
  
  Starting to believe the AM links will be the ONLY thing.
  
  Reason staff in a meeting?
  1. jesse.in.mb 11 years ago
    
    Gas leak in the east coast HQ and Shackford hasn't rolled out of bed yet?
    1. jesse.in.mb 11 years ago
      
      Shackford is awake. There's a new article up.
OldMexican 11 years ago

Re: Anarcho,

The assumptions underlying game theory shouldn't be applied to the real world as they're based on an assumption that mentally ill mathematics professors

Leftists are unaware that one does not apply assumptions to the real world, one compares them with the real world.

Trolls are stupid. Leftist trolls are the stupidest. That is why it is easy to fool them into staying for the sunrise so they turn into stone.
1. sarcasmic 11 years ago
  
  +1 Hobbit
GILMORE 11 years ago

Mary is a sad troll with the emotional maturity of a 4 yr old who is going to die alone and despised and then be forgotten entirely

Dis-cus
MJGreen 11 years ago

Well you didn't need to delete the troll's posts, Reason administrators...
Clich? Bandit 11 years ago

Yeah I missed the posts cause now I have incoherent comments about SAMs and R Lee Ermy regarding fat kids in the UK...but thats cool.
John 11 years ago

I am pretty sure the Russian separatists in Ukraine don't go to the latrine without permission from their Russian handlers.
John 11 years ago

Oh Mary, take your meds.
sarcasmic 11 years ago

Discuss...

No thanks.
WTF 11 years ago

Looks like we have a new troll. I bet you're the kind of guy who would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you.
sloopyinva (previously -inca) 11 years ago

Lol. Hey dock face, remember during the sequester...when there were no accidents although the air traffic controllers were all furloughed?

Oh, and even WaPo called for ATC to be privatized. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinion.....story.html
sarcasmic 11 years ago

Discuss...

No thanks.
UnCivilServant 11 years ago

Of course the launchers don't, they're useless without the missiles. And a radar station helps too, unless you're willing to trust the missile's onboard tracking from ground all the way up.
sarcasmic 11 years ago

Discuss...

No thanks.
UnCivilServant 11 years ago

False equivalence, you'd need a surface to surface or air to surface missle (or other ordinance). SAMs can't shoot other SAMs.
KWebb 11 years ago

Everyone knows that when dealing with SAMs you should lead off with an ARM for the radars and follow up with a cluster bomb for the launchers and control truck.
PRX 11 years ago

John, nothing says market failure and demonstrates the folly of the second amendment like a government owned plane being shot down by a government missile system during a conflict between governments.
Jordan 11 years ago

Governments have certainly never shot down an airliner before.
WTF 11 years ago

Quit, you slimy fucking walrus-looking piece of shit! Get the fuck off of my obstacle! Get the fuck down off of my obstacle! NOW! MOVE IT! Or I'm going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world! I will motivate you, IF IT SHORT-DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!
John 11 years ago

Some people are so stupid they are not even aware that what they are saying is nonsense.

Discuss.
OldMexican 11 years ago

Re: Anarcho,

Information should be free and all copyright is evil... except for my information which should be private and copyright.

Leftists can't even make coherent syllogisms.

Discuss.
John 11 years ago

That is impossible Jordan. Top men and all.
Jordan 11 years ago

Not new. It's almost certainly Mary.
WTF 11 years ago

Were you born a fat, slimy, scumbag puke piece o' shit, or did you have to work on it?
John 11 years ago

I thought for a moment this was Mary. But this is not Mary sort of crazy, you can't fake that kind of crazy.

This might actually be a no kidding retarded prog. I am sure whether to laugh or cry that he thinks he is making clever points. But I do know that he is obviously so far gone, there is no point and trying to explain to him why the points are not so clever.
OldMexican 11 years ago

Re: Anarcho,

The assumptions underlying game theory shouldn't be applied to the real world as they're based on an assumption that mentally ill mathematics professors

Leftists are unaware that one does not apply assumptions to the real world, one compares them with the real world.

Trolls are stupid. Leftist trolls are the stupidest. That is why it is easy to fool them into staying for the sunrise so they turn into stone.
WTF 11 years ago

Sure fits the pattern.
Bo Cara Esq. 11 years ago

This one actually made me laugh a bit.
UnCivilServant 11 years ago

After the eighth or so I realized they were interested in discussion.

Or would somehow mistake my snark of that anyway.
Raven Nation 11 years ago

I read Ferguson's take down of Krugman yesterday. Epic. Up until that point, I thought Krugnuts was simply an egomaniac who was wrong about most things. But, he really is an unpleasant, odious person.
invisible furry hand 11 years ago

you had best square your ass away and start shitting me Tiffany Cufflinks or I will definitely fuck you up!
sarcasmic 11 years ago

+1 R. Lee Ermey
Idle Hands 11 years ago

I lost it on this one:
The assumptions underlying game theory shouldn't be applied to the real world as they're based on an assumption that mentally ill mathematics professors and amoral fraudsters are the ideal barometer for human society.
Bo Cara Esq. 11 years ago

Yes, that one was good too, especially the last part.
sarcasmic 11 years ago

Stupid leftists truly feel that ad hominems are a compelling way to discredit a person's ideas.

Discuss...
Jordan 11 years ago

I'm curious: do you receive USDA subsidies for producing so much straw?
John 11 years ago

Leftist "intellectuals" nearly always turnout to be really odious people in private for some reason. It is almost as if the ideology attracts that sort of person.
Rhywun 11 years ago

I want to check that out. The 2nd Google link is from Salon telling me that Ferguson is a "disgraced neoliberal" with a "one-man crusade" against Krugman, so I'm sure this will be good.
Raven Nation 11 years ago

I would probably limit that to "public" intellectuals. Most of my leftist academic friends are very pleasant except sometimes when it comes to their political statements. And, on the rare occasion I call them on it, they almost always have the good graces to be embarrassed and apologize.
John 11 years ago

Yeah public intellectuals of all kinds often turnout to be narcissistic sociopaths. See for example Bill Bennett, Mr Book of Virtues in public, degenerate gambler in private.
Sevo 11 years ago

Hey, a stupid lefty talking point that won't go on a bumper sticker!
Anarcho-ass has done it!
OldMexican 11 years ago

Re: Anarcho,

Immunization programs are just socialist healthcare.

They're the sort of corporate welfare schemes preferred by scocialists.

Discuss.
Scruffy Nerfherder 11 years ago

What is this, I don't even....
Swiss Servator, Alles Klar 11 years ago

Now make some decent comments, or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull fuck you!
tarran 11 years ago

It's like someone boiled PZ Meyers until all that was left was his bigoted, hateful, paranoid essence, and drank a LD15 dose of that bitter brew.
Pl?ya Manhattan. 11 years ago

What did your lawn look like 6 months ago?
jesse.in.mb 11 years ago

Probably still better than mine...
BigT 11 years ago

Badger is not a gopher.
Raven Nation 11 years ago

Well, Ferguson does support the idea of a de facto American empire and argues that the US may as well play a role in the 21st century parallel to that which Britain did c. 1820-1920.

BUT, he's fairly humble (at least in public) & willing to admit mistakes.
Pope Jimbo 11 years ago

BigT you are so right. Gophers are bright and plucky rodents who thrive in Sunny Minnesota. Badgers are surly animals who have been known to chew through tin to get to paint thinner (which they need to fuel their chemical dependencies)

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