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Journalists Notice that VP Biden Might Be a Bit Odd, Horrifying Bush-Clinton Dynastic Battle Looms, More Credit for Greece: P.M. Links

J.D. Tuccille | 2.18.2015 4:30 PM

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    The beltway media notices, at long last, that Vice President Joe Biden may be a little…off. But tomorrow is another day.

  • The job of keeping Secret Service agents away from temptations on the road and between nutjobs and the White House falls officially into the lap of Joe Clancy, who has been serving as interim director since the resignation of his predecessor.
  • Ukrainian troops lose ground to pro-Russian separatists as the ceasefire collapses before anybody noticed it had arrived. Putin used the opportunity to taunt Ukraine, of course.
  • Hillary Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) held a closed door meeting in a sign that the leading contender for the donkey party's presidential nomination seeks support from the party's left wing.
  • Jeb Bush polishes his foreign policy credentials, reinforcing fears of the horrifying possibility of a Clinton-Bush dynastic battle. 
  • The federal government considers extending the deadline for Obamacare enollment, probably to minimize the inevitable backlash from those slammed by penalties.
  • The University of Pennsylvania's new sexual assault policies took a beating from law professors concerned about the absence of any pretense of due process.
  • With Greece on the verge of defaulting on its debts, the European Central Bank has offered to loan the country's banks more money. Why not?

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    With Greece on the verge of defaulting on its debts, the European Central Bank has offered to loan the country's banks more money.

    No, dig up!

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Ciao!

      Or Hello.

      Your choice.

      1. DEG   10 years ago

        Guten Tag.

    2. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

      I wish I had a credit card like that.

      You borrowed too much? Can't repay it? Sure! We'll lend you more money!

      You can pay us back in Toilet Paper Currency after you've wiped your a$$ with it!

      1. The Last American Hero   10 years ago

        Where does one get this toilet paper currency?

        /Venezuela

        1. Libertarian   10 years ago

          Reason commenters are the BEST!

      2. Enjoy Every Sandwich   10 years ago

        "Progressive" economics at its best! How else will we create the socialist workers' utopia?

    3. The Other Kevin   10 years ago

      I remember a cartoon on suck.com (yes that far back). It had Donald Trump advising someone about finances. They guy said his problem was he had too much debt. But Trump's response was that the guy had too little debt. With more debt, people will worry about you going bankrupt and will keep loaning you money to keep that from happening. Wish I could find that.

      1. Bobarian (hyphenated-american)   10 years ago

        If you owe the bank $10K that you can't pay back, you have a problem.

        If you owe the bank $10M that you can't pay back, the bank has a problem.

        /The Trump Correlary

        1. d3x / dt3   10 years ago

          And if you owe the bank $1T, you're Greece!

    4. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

      I've long advocated the restoration of the Ottoman Empire to settle the Middle Eastern question, but now I will go further: Restore the empire and let it have Greece back as well.

      1. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

        The term "Ottoman Empire" has always been synonymous with "sound financial management!"

        1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

          Oh, and there's one condition: They have to call Istanbul Constantinople.

          1. Raven Nation   10 years ago

            Added benefit: restored Ottoman Empire would occupy a lot of Putin's attention.

            1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

              Who are you that is so wise in the way of international politics?

              1. Raven Nation   10 years ago

                Just call me Suleiman...

                Not so wise: just thinking of historical precedents. The Ottomans & Russians beat the hell out of each other for about300 years. I would imagine a resurgent Ottoman Empire would capture Putin's attention.

                1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

                  Warm water port for the win!

            2. paranoid android   10 years ago

              Added benefit: restored Ottoman Empire would occupy a lot of Putin's attention.

              And just when he thought it was safe to put his feet up...

          2. paranoid android   10 years ago

            It's been a long time gone, Constantinople...

          3. Old Man With Candy   10 years ago

            Oh, and there's one condition: They have to call Istanbul Constantinople.

            Why they changed it, I can't say.

      2. John C. Randolph   10 years ago

        Speaking as one who has many Armenian and Kurdish friends, fuck that noise.

        -jcr

    5. Harold Falcon   10 years ago

      Fuck you, cut spending.

  2. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

    13 Foreign Policy Questions For Hillary Clinton

    4) Do you agree with President Obama that climate change is a greater threat than ISIS, which is currently beheading Christians, crucifying children, and burning people alive?

    1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

      Climate Change will be burning people alive once it stops burying them in snow.

      1. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

        Climate Change will bury people in burning snow.

        Climate Change can do everything.

        1. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

          Climate Change built the pyramids.

          1. gaijin   10 years ago

            Now that's CLimate Change we can believe in.

          2. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

            I'm not saying it was climate change...but it was climate change.

        2. Scarecrow Repair   10 years ago

          Chuck Norris toasts his bread and cools his beer with climate change.

    2. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      Global warming will cause us all to burn alive, y'know!

    3. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

      4) Do you agree with the people who think our biggest threat is getting hit by lightning, or with the people who think we should be most worried about wild dingoes? Please keep in mind that a dingo has eaten my baby.

    4. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

      And if this is true they are also harvesting organs. This is some Nazi level shit right here. That is not a Godwin.

      http://hotair.com/archives/201.....rgans-now/

      1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

        Is it racist if I take anything from Hot Air with a grain of salt?

        1. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

          No. And their source is the Iraqi Ambassador so there is plenty of room for doubt.

          1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

            Accusing Israelis of organ stealing is one of the modern forms of the blood libel. The Iraqi Ambassador is just transferring the usual conspiracy theories to their newest enemy.

            1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

              Wasn't there recently just a Chinese-American couple who were almost executed in Qatar) because their adopted daughter died and the Gulf Arabs couldn't imagine that anyone would adopt an African because they actually loved him or her but only to harvest the kid's organs?

              1. Timon 19   10 years ago

                The Gulf Arabs are a strange lot. They clearly hold black people in lower regard (unless they come from the US) than all but maybe Indians and Pakistanis, but in the Hooker Hierarchy, Ethiopian and Sudanese are the most prized and most expensive.

        2. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

          Having read the post, no, not racist. It is Hot Air taking a report that the UN has not seen any proof of organ harvesting as proof that they are harvesting organs.

  3. Krieger's Waifu   10 years ago

    Hillary Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) held a closed door meeting...

    * jacks furiously *

    1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      paging teenage girl

    2. Slammer   10 years ago

      Paging SugarFree!

      1. PapayaSF   10 years ago

        "So, you'd like my support?" said Elizabeth. "First, get on your knees." She lifted her skirt and revealed multiple piercings and her shaved....

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          Jesus Papaya.

          You forgot the little Gremlin-goiter sticking out...

          1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

            I thought it was gonna be Kuato.

        2. Libertarian   10 years ago

          Must ALL of Reason be labeled "NSFW"?

        3. Swamp Think   10 years ago

          How about a goddamn trigger warning?!

    3. Brian D   10 years ago

      I will not be in my bunk. In fact, I may never need my bunk again.

    4. BigT   10 years ago

      paging Barfman!

    5. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

      Hillary Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) held a closed door meeting...

      A pair of ancient nannycrats warily sniffing each other out, like dogs meeting in the park.

      Bubba definitely wasn't around, not his natural habitat.

      1. Bill Dalasio   10 years ago

        like dogs meeting in the park.

        Dogs being the operative term here.

      2. John Titor   10 years ago

        Artist's interpretation of meeting here.

        1. GILMORE   10 years ago

          Really? I was thinking something more like this

          1. John Titor   10 years ago

            Messiah complex vs. a sociopath was what I was going for.

            1. GILMORE   10 years ago

              Ooh, nice subtext.

              I was thinking "toothless old people bitchslapping each other"

    6. Harold Falcon   10 years ago

      Run, Liz, Run! You've got the run for the office to get the job done!

  4. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    The beltway media notices, at long last, that Vice President Joe Biden may be a little...off.

    It's up to the women he's molesting to decide if the molestation is unwanted, and then decide to fire a shotgun off over his head to scare him off.

    1. Brett L   10 years ago

      C'mon. The dude is creepier than a panel van with cardboard covered windows and a "Free Candy" sign hand-lettered on the side cruising an elementary school.

      1. Old Man With Candy   10 years ago

        HEY!

        1. Brett L   10 years ago

          My son has the soul of a fat kid. I'm already worried that he would totally be lured with candy and he's only been walking for a month.

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            My kids would get in the car with anyone that's not me.

        2. PapayaSF   10 years ago

          LOL

    2. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

      Has he shot a hunting buddy in the face while drunk?

      1. Spencer   10 years ago

        with cum.

        1. Trouser-Pod   10 years ago

          Is this gonna turn into some kind of measuring contest?

      2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

        Do you not support shooting lawyers in the face with birdshot and then making them apologize for getting in the way?

        I have little love for Cheney, but if the guy didn't want to get shot in the face, he shouldn't have become a lawyer.

        1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

          This is the best answer to that I've ever seen.

      3. Harold Falcon   10 years ago

        HAHAHAHA! Because everybody here supported that jackass! You've got us there, fuckface!

    3. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

      The beltway media notices, at long last, that Vice President Joe Biden may be a little...off.

      Nothing micro about that aggression.

    4. Atanarjuat   10 years ago

      I guess that means he might be seen as a threat to Hillary's inevitability.

  5. BigT   10 years ago

    New Jersey public officials at the trough.

    New Jersey's $100K Club of retired public officials has more than doubled in the past four years, according to a New Jersey Watchdog analysis of state Treasury pension data.

    As 2014 ended, 1,988 retirees were collecting state pensions in excess of $100,000 a year ? the elite "1-percenters" among New Jersey's 285,000 retirees. (Click here for the list) That number has grown quickly since 2010 when the count was 971.

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      THEY EARNED IT!

      1. gaoxiaen   10 years ago

        That's why they don't want the proles to have guns.

    2. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

      Come on, did you really think that anything was going to contract under Chris Christie?

      1. Unreconstructed   10 years ago

        I think anything you put under Christie would be forced to contract...well, maybe not liquids, since they don't compress well.

  6. tarran   10 years ago

    Hillary Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) held a closed door meeting in a sign that the leading war party contender for the donkey party's presidential nomination seeks support from the party's corporatist wing

    Fixed it for you.

    1. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

      On a serious note, I think she may be trying to get Warren as a VP candidate.

      1) As LBJ said, it's best to have your enemies in your tent pi$$ing out than outside your tent pi$$ing in.
      2) A Female/female ticket will get a lot of illogical buffoons to vote for them.

      1. PapayaSF   10 years ago

        Seriously? I can't see that as a plus. It just doubles down on the feminist/affirmative action angle.

      2. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

        1) As LBJ said, it's best to have your enemies in your tent pi$$ing out than outside your tent pi$$ing in.
        2) A Female/female ticket will get a lot of illogical buffoons to vote for them.

        Keeping enemies close might be one thing, but on point #2 Clinton will lose more votes than she gets anointing the socialist squaw.

        Has anyone else noticed the performances from Taxachussettans on a Presidential ticket since Kennedy? God they're have been a lot, even a Republican in the bunch, and they are the kiss of death.

        1. tarran   10 years ago

          Massachusetts is really governed by a pretty corrupt machine. The members of the machine have no interest in leaving the trough that is Boston.

          They also tend to stick to jobs where the honest graft is not flagrant and steady.

          Thus they are really not interested in the sort of statewide offices that are a springboard to DC.

          The people who do have the ambitions for national office have to get the machine's support to win consistently. The machine doesn't want intelligent, capable people who get things done occupying those seats because the ambitious people might upset the flow of honest graft.

          So the machine promotes either the corruptible (Warren) or the idiots (Coakely) for those roles.

          Thus the national politicians hailing from the commonwealth tend to be milquetoasts whom the machine thinks are safely not a threat to rock the boat.

          That's my personal take, anyway.

      3. Libertarian   10 years ago

        "a lot of illogical buffoons "

        I smell a landslide! Once you lock up the illogical buffoon vote, you're coasting to electoral victory.

    2. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

      Which is which?

  7. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

    The University of Pennsylvania's new sexual assault policies took a beating from law professors concerned about the absence of any pretense of due process.

    Due Process = Jezebel Shrieking "Witch!" "Rapist!" until they get what they want.

    1. Brett L   10 years ago

      "Can we just put a fig peaf over that penis?"

    2. gaoxiaen   10 years ago

      They don't have police in Philly?

  8. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

    "The federal government considers extending the deadline for Obamacare enollment, "

    How about following the law?

    1. Ted S.   10 years ago

      How about repealing it?

      Yeah, I know, fat chance.

      1. Brett L   10 years ago

        I reiterate my call for the Republicans to tie implementation of the ACO provisions to two successful consecutive enrollment periods.

        1. Atanarjuat   10 years ago

          That is genius.

  9. John   10 years ago

    The more I hear about Jeb Bush's campaign, the more I think it is going to be a comic train wreck.

    1. MJGreen   10 years ago

      The Rick Perry of this election cycle.

      1. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

        The Rick Perry of this election cycle.

        I don't know about that.

        Jeb is the Team choice; so to defeat Jeb, one must defeat the Team. And the Republicans are a tougher Team to beat - at least internally - than Donk teams, which seems fleeting and vacuous as their ideology.

        For instance, note how the Donks abandoned Hillary in 2008, and the obvious unspoken Donk want to dump her again this cycle already for the Squaw.

        Contrast that with Republican Team efforts; quashing McCain in 2000, and carrying Romney to oblivion in 2012.

        1. John   10 years ago

          Romney only won because every other viable candidate self destructed. I can't see that happening this year.

          And the whole "you have to vote for someone we say is electable" took a bit of a beating the last two elections.

          1. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

            Your points are true, however McCain's 2000 'maverick' shtick was basically what Obama did in 2008; the difference being Team Bush in 2000 had peeps like Karl Rove working for him, and Team Hillary had the likes of Mark Penn working for her.

            The two sharps who managed the Obama sock puppet - Axelrod and Plouffe - don't work for Clintonia, or really any other Democrat. Just like OFA and Obama's staff, they are fixtures of him, not the Democrats - who themselves seem to rent Obama's loyalty as a transient figure more than integrate him in their own institutions for the long-haul (like the Clintons and their people).

            Instead, its the same hapless 'consultant' faces - clowns like Chris Lehane or Howard Wolfson - that keep showing up in different Donk campaigns; there is much more Team loyalty (not to mention competence) in Republican circles I think.

            And they work for Jeb this cycle.

        2. The Last American Hero   10 years ago

          I'm wondering if Team Blue sees Hillary the way Team Red saw Dole - they know they're going to get clocked in 2016 after the Lightworker's promises fail to produce results, so they send in Hillary to go through the motions of running for office.

          1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

            That's absolutely part of it. The writing is on the wall, and it would take a really major sea change for the GOP nominee to lose, I think. Not that the GOP won't try to alienate people, because it will.

            1. Mad Scientist   10 years ago

              This is exactly why they'll try to nominate some social conservative weirdo who normally wouldn't stand a chance.

              1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

                They'll try, but I don't think the appetite for such a candidate is there this time.

  10. Slammer   10 years ago

    The University of Pennsylvania's new sexual assault policies took a beating from law professors

    Did the professors go home safe to their families, though? Because that's what's important.

  11. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

    Indo-Israel defence ties 'out of closet' now: Israeli minister

    It has been India's policy for long to keep the bilateral military ties under wraps due to international and domestic political sensitivities even though Israel is among one of the top defence suppliers to India.

    international political sensitivities = portraying of India as an Israeli ally by Pakistan, making it easier to recruit men for Jihad
    domestic political sensitivities = large muslim population which may disapprove

    Doesn't Israel already have ties and some level of military and intelligence coordination with mostly-muslim countries of Jordan, Turkey, and Egypt? I wonder how those countries manage their ties.

    The whole "Make in India" thing is BS. The government essentially has a monopoly on defense. There is no Lockheed-Martin or Boeing or Northrop-Grumman. So it is natural that a lot of defense sh1t doesn't get made.

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Poor Israel.

      The girlfriend the boy won't or can't take home.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        I'll take her in the backseat.

      2. John Titor   10 years ago

        Well, she does have all those tattoos...

        /Keepin' it classy with Auschwitz jokes.

      3. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

        Who wouldn't want to take Bar Rafeali home?

        1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

          Me. My wife would be irate.

          1. BigT   10 years ago

            She antisemitic or something?

  12. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Hillary Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) held a closed door meeting in a sign that the leading contender for the donkey party's presidential nomination seeks support from the party's left wing.

    Wait, Hitlary and Fauxahontas were behind closed doors with a donkey for what purpose?

    1. Slammer   10 years ago

      Paging HM!

    2. MJGreen   10 years ago

      I don't know what a donkey party is, but it sounds disgusting.

  13. BigT   10 years ago

    Get ready for more cold weather.

    The main driver of all weather and climate, the entity which occupies 99.86% of all of the mass in our solar system, the great ball of fire in the sky ? has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century. For the past 5 days, solar activity has been very low and one measure of solar activity ? its X-ray output ? has basically flatlined in recent days (plot below courtesy NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center). Not since cycle 14 peaked in February 1906 has there been a solar cycle with fewer sunspots. We are currently more than six years into Solar Cycle 24 and today the sun is virtually spotless despite the fact that we are still in what is considered to be its solar maximum phase. Solar cycle 24 began after an unusually deep solar minimum that lasted from 2007 to 2009 which included more spotless days on the sun compared to any minimum in almost a century.

    1. Ted S.   10 years ago

      I blame global warming.

      1. Restoras   10 years ago

        That is the logical basis for their arguments.

        1. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

          Of course. Human activity clearly can have an effect on the sun, are you anti-science or something?

          If we can just get more states to ban plastic grocery bags, we should be able to bring back those sunspots.

    2. The Last American Hero   10 years ago

      Groundhogs have a sunspot sensor?

    3. MJGreen   10 years ago

      For the past 5 days, solar activity has been very low and one measure of solar activity ? its X-ray output ? has basically flatlined in recent days

      Don't die on us, sun!

      Damn it, we're losing him!!

      1. RBS   10 years ago

        Doctor Riviera, Doctor Nick Riviera. Please report to the coroner immediately!

        1. Scarecrow Repair   10 years ago

          Not the corona?

          Not Professor Colonna?

        2. Harold Falcon   10 years ago

          Paging Mr. Herman. Mr. Herman, you have a telephone call at the front desk.

      2. Libertarian   10 years ago

        Dammit, Jim. I'm a doctor -- not an astrophysicist.

    4. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

      I seem to recall reading an article a few years ago where solar observers were concerned we were heading directly for a level of solar activity akin to the Mander Minimum and attendant Little Ice Age.

      1. Drake   10 years ago

        Yep - And the warmists all called it crazy talk.

      2. Catatafish   10 years ago

        Henrik Svensmark wrote a book about the relationship between sunspots, cosmic radiation and cloud formation several years ago and he was pilloried as a "denier." I have no doubt that the anthro climate change shriekers will find some way to posit that this is even greater evidence of man being the singular driver of the barely measurable temperature changes that, if left unchecked, will sneak into our homes at night, slit our throats and make off with our daughters.

        1. BigT   10 years ago

          And the CERN experiment showed a link between cosmic rays and cloud formation, although some interpreted it differently.

          To date the best fit of a model to the Temp from 1850 to present is the unpublished one that takes into account only sunspots and the multidecadal ocean currents. Dan Pangburn. I haven't seen a proper evaluation, but it certainly can't be worse than the other 103 loser models.

        2. Free Society   10 years ago

          if left unchecked, will sneak into our homes at night, slit our throats and make off with our daughters.

          thank you. I haven't laughed all day until that.

      3. gaijin   10 years ago

        damn...looks like I picked the wrong century to move north

        1. Libertarian   10 years ago

          Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

    5. Enough About Palin   10 years ago

      today the sun is virtually spotless and makes loads of suds that last

      1. Libertarian   10 years ago

        OK, boomers, finish THIS jingle:

        Oh Fab, I'm glad
        They put new.......

        1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

          Something borax in you, right? Lemon-freshened? I can't remember.

          1. Libertarian   10 years ago

            "...new lemon borax in you."

            That's according to my feeble memory, anyway.

            1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

              Definitely lemon and borax.

        2. Toom Tabard   10 years ago

          'active-enzyme, lemon-freshened borax'

  14. DEG   10 years ago

    Protect your retirement from the government's whims

    I'm worried that government policies will undermine the value of my retirement savings. I've worked hard for this money and I'm counting on it to keep me comfortable during retirement. What can I do to avoid being robbed by Washington? -- Joyce A.

    "Robbed" is perhaps a little strong, but I understand your trepidation.

    "Robbed" a little bit strong?

    1. Restoras   10 years ago

      You're right.

      It's too late - we've already been robbed.

    2. Brett L   10 years ago

      Sure they gave up on 529 plans this year, but the facts are that raiding 401(k)s and Roth IRAs are the only way to find cash when interest rates finally rise. I recommend assets that can be concealed and smuggled.

      1. Juice   10 years ago

        How are they going to fund government pensions without taxing private retirement plans?

      2. Enough About Palin   10 years ago

        "I recommend assets that can be concealed and smuggled."

        Your father...hid this watch...

        1. Restoras   10 years ago

          +1 uncomfortable hunk of metal

    3. CatoTheElder   10 years ago

      Social Security aside, tax rates are typically the main source of concern.

      Actually, my main concern is about inflation. I don't much care about tax rates if the IRA isn't worth anything.

      So far, so good ... but I'm old enough to remember the Nixon/Carter years.

  15. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    The federal government considers extending the deadline for Obamacare enollment, probably to minimize the inevitable backlash from those slammed by penalties.

    Might as well do away with the penalties at this point.

  16. John   10 years ago

    http://www.washingtonexaminer......le/2560306

    Johnson, who co-wrote the book about the false rape allegation against the Duke lacrosse team, has been trying to bring sanity back to the debate over how college campuses handle sexual assault accusations by explaining repeatedly that accused students should not be convicted based on an allegation, without the ability to defend themselves.

    And that's where the activists disagree.

    Protesters showed up to his lecture with homemade signs and t-shirts that said "rape is real" (no one is saying it isn't) and "sex without consent is always rape" (no one is saying otherwise). They stood up when he was about to speak and blocked the audience's view of Johnson.

    Words fail.

    1. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

      homemade signs and t-shirts that said "rape is real"

      and blocked the audience's view of Johnson.

      Liberal Fascism is real!

      1. tarran   10 years ago

        "It seems very unlikely the activists had read anything I've written before I came ? their questions seemed to operate from the premise that I was going to be arguing something along the lines of rape never occurring or something like that," Johnson wrote.

        Johnson said that overall, the questions from activists and supporters were respectful, and the protesters were "not obstructionist" after they first sat down (with one exception, when students mistook Johnson's comments about minorities being harmed by an erosion of due process to mean the opposite).

        I admit I laughed out loud at the cognitive dissonance on display.

        1. RBS   10 years ago

          It seems very unlikely the activists had read anything I've written before I came

          Let me see if I can find my shocked face.

          1. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

            It seems very unlikely the activists had read anything I've written before I came

            It seems very unlikely the activists had read anything I've written before I came

            Fixed.

        2. Irish   10 years ago

          "(with one exception, when students mistook Johnson's comments about minorities being harmed by an erosion of due process to mean the opposite)."

          These are the dumbest human beings on the planet.

          1. DesigNate   10 years ago

            Kneel before your future leaders.

      2. PapayaSF   10 years ago

        True, dat.

  17. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

    America is in the hands of smart, trusted leadership!

    1. Ted S.   10 years ago

      Not gonna click on a goo.gl link.

      1. PapayaSF   10 years ago

        It's a gif of Obama and Biden dancing.

        1. Sevo   10 years ago

          And Biden isn't pawing Obo!

        2. Scarecrow Repair   10 years ago

          Biden looks like a kid pretending to be an airplane.

          Obama looks like some kid trying to ape how movie chimpanzees knuckle walk.

          1. gaoxiaen   10 years ago

            Politicians should dance like this.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip2z6zbTnZE

  18. Caleb Turberville   10 years ago

    Let's just say that I know of a peer reviewed article that is set to be published sometime soon.

    In the article, a key find is that the success of Alabama schools is positively correlated with local spending.

    However, success is inversely proportional to federal spending (R-value and p-value incredibly significant).

    Are there any ideas for the negative correlation with federal spending. If spending from the local level is correlated with school success, why shouldn't federal spending?

    1. Caleb Turberville   10 years ago

      I'm considering the hypothesis that local spending could have fewer strings attached. This would allow the money to be spent more effectively than federal dollars.

      1. Restoras   10 years ago

        Also, local spending might be more correlated with success because the local spending comes from local taxes and the local taxpayers have a vested interest in the success of the schools...

        1. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

          A college without Title IX (no Federal monies), hence with so much more administrative freedom, would be an interesting entity in today's America.

          1. The Last American Hero   10 years ago

            So, Hillsdale?

    2. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      Does the federal spending come with conditions that may be detrimental to performance?

      1. Andrew S.   10 years ago

        This is twice I've had my comment stolen by seconds! Twice!

      2. Caleb Turberville   10 years ago

        The more affluent the county, the more money that is spent on public education in the local school system.

        However, there's also the possibility that the affluence could be a confounding factor in terms of the school performance variable(s).

        1. Restoras   10 years ago

          Westchester County, NY has some very successful "public" schools, most notably in the most affluent zip codes.

    3. John   10 years ago

      I would guess, two reasons. First, the federal money comes with strings attached and mandates that are counter productive. Second, if the local community doesn't fund the school, they don't take ownership of it or the quality of its education.

      Also, local funding varies mostly on property values. Higher values equal higher income, higher funding but also better students.

      1. Irish   10 years ago

        ^ Both of these strike me as accurate. Federal money is just the feds hurling cash at a school district with no attempt to run an effective school, whereas local spending is evidence of people taking ownership of the well-being of their own kids.

      2. PapayaSF   10 years ago

        I suspect that federal money is preferentially tossed at the worst school districts. Federal spending may make them worse in some ways, but I'd bet that the causation mostly goes in the other direction: failure attracts federal money.

        1. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

          This is very true. Our little SF suburb's public schools are ranked among the best in the state, which means it gets the lowest amount of state and federal dollars per student of any school in the state (some failing inner-city schools get more than twice as much per pupil).

          This fact is relentlessly hammered to us by the local school board and administrators. So all us parents donate extensively to this so-called public school, and attend charity auctions and many other events. A good chunk of the school's funding thus comes directly from local voluntary sources rather than taxes.

          Still doesn't make any difference to the professional whiners. At least quarterly I read some op-ed diatribe about how the 'rich' communities spend so much more on students than the failing schools, when exactly the opposite is the reality.

    4. MJGreen   10 years ago

      Higher local funding from richer areas? Higher federal funding to poor areas?

      1. Caleb Turberville   10 years ago

        My next question is whether federal education dollars are an incentive for poor performance.

        If federal spending policy is attempting to decrease the funding gap between poor counties and affluent counties, why are federal dollars less effective at funding education.

        I think John probably hit the nail on the head. Local dollars come from local communities. As such, the community has an interest in seeing that those dollars are well spent.

        1. MJGreen   10 years ago

          Perhaps. You have to look at the tangible political steps taken by residents, then. My guess is that parents' interest and involvement in their children's education is the major factor, and wealthier people are more likely to be involved than poorer. The school then benefits from more engaged and motivated students.

          1. MJGreen   10 years ago

            And yes, I meant to include cognitive ability in the above. Cato pretty much said my position, and he has an excellent point about federal money going disproportionally to schools catering special needs students.

        2. Puddin' Stick   10 years ago

          In the same way, states move up the federal ladder for highway funding by neglecting their roads.

          This is the standard rent seeking example and we know that liberals don't believe in Public Choice economics.

          They'll tell you the wealthier school districts are privileged with better nutrition, regular sleep, appropriate clothing, involved parents, blah, blah, blah, and propose programs to provide such to poorer districts.

    5. CatoTheElder   10 years ago

      Here's a hypothesis:

      1) Higher local spending is correlated with local real estate values and income; real estate values and income are correlated with cognitive ability of parents; cognitive ability of parents is correlated with cognitive ability of students; and cognitive ability of students is correlated with educational success.

      2) Higher federal spending is correlated with amounts spent in school feeding programs and special education needs. School feeding program usage and special education needs are correlated with lower cognitive ability of students.

    6. Bill Dalasio   10 years ago

      The local spending probably captures local demographics. Rich people have local schools that spend a lot of money. The rich kids who attend those schools are probably better students for a variety of reasons (parents care, better home life, etc.). The local spending partly serves as a proxy for that.

  19. John   10 years ago

    The famous Milgram experiment turns out to be a fraud.

    http://www.theatlantic.com/hea.....ts/384913/

    1. BigT   10 years ago

      Doesn't the Final Solution provide much better evidence that people will do what they are told - particularly when they are among a group doing so?

      1. John   10 years ago

        No. It provides evidence that people will willingly murder other people. I don't think doing what they were told has much to do with it. They wanted to do what they did.

        1. BigT   10 years ago

          John, you must have a much lower opinion of Germans than I do. I can't imagine that thousands of Germans wanted to kill their fellow citizens without coercion. The biggest difference is that in the Milgram study each person was acting alone, and not being judged or encouraged by his/her compatriots.

          1. John   10 years ago

            They absolutely did. The people who worked in the death camps volunteered to do so. No one forced them to. The worst atrocities were committed by special police battalions that were all volunteers.

            And it wasn't just the Germans. The rest of Europe, sans the Dutch and the Italians, happily collaborated and handed their Jews over to be killed.

            You need to read more history of the holocaust.

            1. BigT   10 years ago

              Not according to the accounts of the Nuremberg trials.

              Q. Now can you tell us whether the majority of the men, no matter where they came from, were volunteers or whether they were drafted?

              A. No one ever volunteered for guard duty at concentration camps. The racial Germans as well as the Reich Germans who were used as guards were assigned there. The members of the Wehrmacht also, as far as I know, did not volunteer for this service but were sent there by order.

              1. John   10 years ago

                That was a lie. The documentary evidence said otherwise. Sure they all claimed they were just following orders, after they lost the war and were about to be hanged.

            2. Restoras   10 years ago

              It certainly is true that in eastern Europe, when the Nazi's arrived, local leaders happily pointed out the Jews.

              I think that part of the issue is that the industrial nature of the holocaust allowed a lot of people to fool themselves into thinking they were just following orders when they were in fact critical cogs, while a very small number were actually pulling triggers or releasing gas.

            3. Bobarian (hyphenated-american)   10 years ago

              Finding psychopaths amongst the general population is a generally easy thing to do; grouping them together and giving them authority leads to a lot of bad outcomes.

              We can point to a lot of police forces, religous orgs, or green committees that would happily turn on the ovens for the 'bad others' who 'deserve' it. How many Jezzy commentators would gladly crush most of us under their booted heel.

              It just takes the right conditions for people to revert to their basest savagery, and we're only about 10 feet away from it at any time.

            4. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

              Some of the worst atrocities were committed by the Kapos, or prisoners basically deputized by the guard (it could have stood for Kamp Polizei). There were the most loathed by the other prisoners (more than the guards were) as their brutality knew no bounds, since if they lost the status the guards had conferred on them their were immediately killed by the other prisoners. Of course, when the camps were liberated, they WERE immediately killed by the other prisoners...

              1. CatoTheElder   10 years ago

                No group was pure in WW II. Some despicable local leaders and Sonderkommando were numbered among the Jews.

                But the worst atrocities were committed by the Nazi and Bolshevik fanatics.

      2. Carl ?s the level   10 years ago

        At the end of the experiment, Burger was left with an obedience rate around the same as the one Milgram had recorded?proving, he said, not only that Milgram's numbers had been accurate, but that his work was as relevant as ever.

        1. John   10 years ago

          One of the most vocal of those critics is Australian author and psychologist Gina Perry, who documented her experience tracking down Milgram's research participants in her 2013 book Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments. Her project began as an effort to write about the experiments from the perspective of the participants?but when she went back through the archives to confirm some of their stories, she said, she found some glaring issues with Milgram's data. Among her accusations: that the supervisors went off script in their prods to the teachers, that some of the volunteers were aware that the setup was a hoax, and that others weren't debriefed on the whole thing until months later. "My main issue is that methodologically, there have been so many problems with Milgram's research that we have to start re-examining the textbook descriptions of the research," she said.

          1. Carl ?s the level   10 years ago

            lern2thred, newfag

    2. Rich   10 years ago

      "People have tried to knock it down, and it always comes up standing."

      You know what else always comes up standing ....

      1. BigT   10 years ago

        The Doomcock of Doom??

      2. gaijin   10 years ago

        an erection lasting more than four hours?

      3. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

        Weebles?

    3. CatoTheElder   10 years ago

      Milgram experiment may not have been fully scientific, but its conclusions were not totally bogus. In fact, they are even more relevant today.

      Trained as they are to do so, today's cops are happy to deliver up to 50,000 volts with their Tasers.

      1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

        That's not because they are trained or being told to do so. It's because they are barely-restrained psychopaths.

    4. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

      Good lord. The Atlantic is a full year behind Cracked.com

      http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-.....s-to-hype/

  20. bassjoe   10 years ago

    Why are we continuing to call them "pro-Russian separatists"? They are RUSSIAN REGULARS; they are led by Russians; they were even seen crossing the damn border. WTF?

    1. Ted S.   10 years ago

      "Pro-Soviet separatists" might be more appropriate.

    2. Bardas Phocas   10 years ago

      Since the US and the NATOites promised Ukraine security, admitting the Russian army is invading the Ukraine will embarrass the Obama and the Eurowennies.

      They might actually have to, either admit that they aren't going to save the Ukraine or get off the pot and deploy tanks and planes and boots to eurasian steppes.

  21. kinnath   10 years ago

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_.....sault.html

    In case the public discussion around campus sexual assault wasn't enough of a circus, now we have the gun people getting involved.

    Marcotte, rape, and guns. What's not to like.

    1. John   10 years ago

      Its like a naked singularity of idiocy. Idiocy reduced to its more dense form.

    2. Brett L   10 years ago

      What are three things about which her opinions have no relationship with reality, Alex?

    3. Hey Nikki!   10 years ago

      But would it actually improve campus safety? No. Most rapes, especially among college students, are acquaintance rapes and defy the burglar-coming-in-the-window fantasy of self defense that gun advocates like to invoke.

      It's well known that it's impossible to shoot someone you know.

      1. Enough About Palin   10 years ago

        "the burglar-coming-in-the-window fantasy"

        Telling...

      2. MJGreen   10 years ago

        Well Marcotte and friends seem to focus wholly on drunk or incapacitated sex, and it's a fair point that in those situations, a gun will likely not be a deterrent.

        1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

          That's true. Guns can't magically go back and un-fuck the guy you regret fucking from last night. Only rape accusations with no due process can do that.

        2. John C. Randolph   10 years ago

          l Marcotte and friends seem to focus wholly on drunk or incapacitated sex,

          That's probably because they need a guy to be three sheets to the wind before he'll make a move on them.

          -jcr

          1. gaoxiaen   10 years ago

            If I drink that much, I get whiskey-dick. Which is probably a good thing.

    4. Hey Nikki!   10 years ago

      There's also a concern that allowing guns on campus would make it easier for rapists to rape: Get a girl to your room, start messing around, and when you want to attack, show her the gun you're now allowed to have on campus.

      Because someone who intends to rape you would never think of breaking another law.

      1. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

        And they certainly wouldn't reconsider raping someone who has the means of killing of them.

        1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

          Every girl should have a leg like that chick from Grindhouse. For safety.

  22. Atanarjuat   10 years ago

    I don't know if you all saw this. Melissa Harris-Perry actually dropped down on her knees and fellated Eric Holder on TV.

    1. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      You are literally worse than Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Warty combined.

  23. bdhr   10 years ago

    I hit the AM links; since the crowds diverge a bit, I will re-announce in here:

    I have uploaded a new version of fascr.

    Please note that I haven't spent as much time testing things as I'd like; however, I wanted to go ahead and get it out there.

    The most significant change is probably support for Firefox for Android, so you can ignore Bo on your phone and tablet. See the homepage for details.

    The two other primary new features are counting the number of characters in comments as you type and the ability to "toggle" threads you're not interested in without blocking the posters. Again, see the homepage for details.

    I also made quite a few under-the-hood "improvements" (read: sources of new bugs), though the code is still a mess. Hotkeys should be more reliable now, though they still fail now and then. Also, the mechanism for removing users from your blocklist has changed yet again; see "Usage notes / tips".

    Please do go ahead and read through the homepage before asking questions; I tried to be thorough.

    1. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

      "so you can ignore Bo on your phone and tablet. See the homepage for details."

      My what dainty flowers some are.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        It's been explained to you several times. Several times this week, in fact.

        1. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

          That some here are dainty flowers?

          The funny thing is that the people who go around talking about ignoring me (how'd that for ironic lack of self awareness in itself?) are often the same people who love to dig up proggie comments and post them here for a twenty-odd post exchange about them.

          1. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

            Bo, it's not that you're wrong. It's just that you're an asshole.

            1. Warty   10 years ago

              Have you noticed how much he's learned to loathe us recently? It's quite a sight to see.

              1. BigT   10 years ago

                Yes, Bo goes to the ad hominems much more readily these days.

                1. Warty   10 years ago

                  Notice how his go-to complaint is that we joke around with each other and lots of us are friends. It's almost...what's the word...Tulpical.

                  1. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

                    "lots of us are friends. "

                    Omg, that's even sadder than your slip about virgins in college. There's a lot of desperation driving those squats I see.

                    1. Restoras   10 years ago

                      Omg, that's even sadder than your slip about virgins in college. There's a lot of desperation driving those squats I see.

                      That's...not even clever. It's the kind of thing that you can only get away with on the internet. It's like...Brian Williams Internet Tough Guy.

                      Lame.

                    2. Warty   10 years ago

                      He desperately wants to be a bully, but he's just...bad...at it. And clearly a virgin.

                    3. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                      "lots of us are friends. "

                      Omg, that's even sadder than your slip about virgins in college. There's a lot of desperation driving those squats I see.

                      *whisper* He means IRL friends, not internet friends. */whisper*

                      There's also a lot of "I'm going to be in your town. Let's grab a drink" going on. If you're ever in LA you should let us know. We have a fairly robust social group here.

                    4. robc   10 years ago

                      I was broken up when JsubD died. I stopped posting for about 6 weeks.

                      Some of you are friends in real life, even though Ive only ever met one of you fuckers.

                    5. grrizzly   10 years ago

                      Wow, Jesse! When everybody abandoned him, you're the only one who could still be nice to Bo.

                    6. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                      Wow, Jesse! When everybody abandoned him, you're the only one who could still be nice to Bo.

                      I'm not really being nice. Commenting here people can end up one dimensional. Always interesting to interact with people who you know from this rarefied form of communication in a more 3D way. I'd be willing to give that shot to most people on here.

                    7. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                      It's a trap

                    8. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                      And if you're one of the lucky ones, you might even get sexually harassed. But only if you're asking for it. We take our rape culture seriously in LA.

                  2. tarran   10 years ago

                    Part of me wants to ask him if watched a lot of Barney the Purple Dinosaur in his formative years (I have a hypothesis that the conflict resolution taught in that show socializes people to be incapable of getting along with people who don't share their views and tastes).

                    Then I remind myself that interacting with some people is even more worthless than engaging in a discussion with Tony.

                2. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

                  Yeah, I'm certainly the epitome of that around here Big T.

                  Are you people that devoid of self awareness?

            2. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

              Again the irony. You're calling me an asshole but I'm the asshole. I've never said anything remotely like that to you.

              The collective groupthink is hilarious. If you went and posted on Huff Post don't you think they'd find you to be an 'asshole' pretty quick, regardless of your manners? Only a blind person can't see that most of the same people that think I'm an 'asshole' here are also the ones that agree with John instead if the Reason writers on the immigration threads and so on.

              1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                I agree with John on nothing. He is also an asshole. But you are by far a bigger asshole.

                It's not even close.

                Oh, and John is only an asshole some of the time. He's moody that way, You, on the other hand, are an asshole every time you get the chance.

                1. Old Man With Candy   10 years ago

                  PM, you need to have better understanding. We all do. Here's a nice fact sheet from NIH:
                  Asperger's

                2. gaoxiaen   10 years ago

                  Just don't mention b___y a___r.

              2. Mad Scientist   10 years ago

                I think you're both assholes. The difference is John is actually a likable guy.

                1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                  Likable like Officer Farva from Super Troopers.

                2. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

                  Also, John would probably readily agree that he can be an asshole at times. Bo, on the other hand, will post 50 comments crying "I am not!!!"

                3. Heedless   10 years ago

                  You know who else was a likeable guy?

                  1. gaoxiaen   10 years ago

                    Gilbert Godfrey?

              3. Restoras   10 years ago

                What does immigration, or disagreeing with the contributors, have to do with anything?

                1. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

                  People love political echo chambers and tend to make dissent personal. Try it out yourself at other sites.

                  I get that, but what's fascinating here is a big part of the echo chamber is far to the right of the hosts of the site.

                  1. Restoras   10 years ago

                    Their are left- and right-leaning libertarians.

                    The right-leaners calling out the left-leaners, regardless who they are, shouldn't be a problem.

                    You like to call out SoCons, and rightly so. It isn't ok to call out the lefty equivalent?

              4. Francisco d'Anconia   10 years ago

                Only a blind person can't see that most of the same people that think I'm an 'asshole' here are also the ones that agree with John instead if the Reason writers on the immigration threads and so on.

                No, Bo. It's pretty much everybody.

                Sometime the new guys like you for a while...until they get to know you. Then they understand why everyone else here despises you.

                It's not your beliefs. It's that you are an ASSHOLE!

                1. tarran   10 years ago

                  Only a blind person can't see that most of the same people that think I'm an 'asshole' here are also the ones that agree with John instead if the Reason writers on the immigration threads and so on.

                  This is a very good example of Bo's utter inability to comprehend what people are writing.

                  Bo thinks I, an open borders guy who has had epic arguments with John about letting ISIS guys immigrate into the U.S., is in agreement with John.

                  There is little point in conversing with someone who is this detached from reality. The only useful thing conversing with them provides is an insight into their actions. And if one is utterly uninterested in their actions, if the only interaction is over a message board on a website, then that insight isn't very useful.

                  And lest people think I am making a mountain out of a molehill, it one example of many instances where he just couldn't understand what people were writing to him - ranging from his confusion when people asked him to use formatting to differentiate his commentary from the texts he was quoting (and donkey-like refusal to change) to conceptual gaffes such as misidentifying arguments on behalf of "the rule of law" as being contrived conceptual covers designed obscure people's bloodthirsty motivations.

                  His arrogance is actually not his biggest problem (although it does make him very difficult to tolerate) - it's his inability to comprehend what he is reading.

                  1. Warty   10 years ago

                    On the other hand, tarran, his recent meltdowns have been hilarious. So he's worth something after all.

                    1. tarran   10 years ago

                      If you say so.

                      Personally, I found them irritating. Your tastes are clearly more brutal than mine.

                2. Old Man With Candy   10 years ago

                  It's a condition.

                  Why we need to be more understanding.

          2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            Once again: It is not your ideas.

            It's that you are unwilling or unable to control your behavior, and it gets so god damn obnoxious that nobody wants to listen to a word you say.

            You can live in self denial all you want, but that doesn't make it any less true. There's no way, I repeat, NO WAY that this behavior doesn't impact every facet of your life.

            If you're working on it, then good for you. Work harder.

            1. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

              Serious question Playa: do you ever comment on any other discussion board? If so, have you never seen where when someone is ideologically at odds with a group of posters they will soon start insulting g that guy, regardless of their manner?

              Your hilarious with your 'this must effect other facets of your life!' Come out of your bubble.

              Try it. Go to a site where you find you disagree with a group on politics. Express yourself. How long before you're getting the exact same treatment and speeches?

              You can't really be this insular.

              1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                You're telling me that this ASPY behavior is only on the internet? If that were true, you wouldn't still be a virgin.

            2. JW   10 years ago

              It's that you are unwilling or unable to control your behavior, and it gets so god damn obnoxious that nobody wants to listen to a word you say.

              That's why I blocked it months ago.

              It's a waste of life to deal with it in any way. I urge others to do the same.

              JUST SAY NO BO.

          3. Enough About Palin   10 years ago

            I'm no dainty flower, asshole. You just suck. Your intellect is lacking.

            1. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

              So run and hide from it?

              1. Enough About Palin   10 years ago

                run and hide from it =/= ignore

              2. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

                No confront it and rebut it and mock it. Which is what we do.

    2. bdhr   10 years ago

      N.B. since this morning, I have made two minor changes: in the options, you will now find (1) an option to disable the comment length counter and (2) options to change the colors with which posts are highlighted.

    3. Warty   10 years ago

      so you can ignore Bo on your phone and tablet.

      ZING

      Excellent work, thank you. I'll check this out.

      1. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

        A guy who can squat 1,000 is such a wimp?

        1. Bill Dalasio   10 years ago

          Let me ask you a question, Bo.

          Do you really have no self-awareness? Warty hardly strikes me as a conservative-leaning libertarian. Do you really think he's afraid of your "truth telling"? Has it ever occurred to you that people are making fun of you or are hostile to you not because they're part of a vast right-wing conspiracy, but you've worn out their patience with you?

          1. Warty   10 years ago

            Oh, he hates me because I called him a virgin one time. I don't think he cares at all about my opinions.

            Though he probably also hates me for not being serious enough for his tastes.

            1. Bill Dalasio   10 years ago

              Oh, he hates me because I called him a virgin one time.

              Wow. Even I didn't think he was that bad. What a sad, sad, little man.

            2. Los Doyers   10 years ago

              So, did Bo died?

          2. DesigNate   10 years ago

            Wait, we're not all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy?

            1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

              I'm still waiting for my check. I'll go check the mail.

      2. bdhr   10 years ago

        ZING

        I meant to amend it to so you can ignore Bo on the go for the PM links repost, but forgot in the midst of my hasty copy-and-paste job.

  24. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

    U Penn is private, they should be able to associate with customers on whatever criteria they want. Freedom of association isn't just for evangelical bakers.

    1. John   10 years ago

      Except that they take federal money and agree to do otherwise by doing so. Moreover, they have student handbooks and rules that amount to a contract with their students providing due process.

      More importantly, even if they could legally do it, that wouldn't make it right or make criticism of their actions any less valid or your point any less idiotic.

      1. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

        If they're in violation of contract they should be sued.

        As to the federal funding, do you think Catholic Charities which does too should then have the government say who they can associate with?

        1. John   10 years ago

          If this was a charity rather than a college, it would be analogous.

          Beyond that, yes they should be sued and are being sued. That is the entire point you half wit. Amazingly enough, their right to association doesn't allow them to screw their students or make them immune from criticism.

          You have no point here other than to obscure the criticism you don't like.

          1. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

            "If this was a charity rather than a college, it would be analogous."

            Huh? We have different rules for private organizations association all rights based on mission?

            1. John   10 years ago

              No we have different rules for money we give charities and money we give colleges. Moreover, we have this little thing called the Free Exercise clause with protects the Catholic Church from being forced to act against their beliefs but doesn't protect campus feminists from oppressing men.

              1. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

                Free exercise protects against state action John

    2. Ted S.   10 years ago

      The Department of Education is forcing this shit on private schools, on the grounds that the schools take federally subsidized student loans. Of course, the schools don't have uphold the 1st (or especially the 2nd!) Amendments.

      There's a reason why people refer to you as Botard.

      1. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

        To the extent that's true then that's the problem. But it's not hard to believe that considering the clientele at most colleges this might be something the college thinks they actually want.

    3. Brett L   10 years ago

      On the one hand I agree that students and schools can enter into any contract they like. However, unless they intend to aggressively deny women due process, they're fucked by Title IX

    4. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

      Being private doesn't grant them the right to defame their customers.

  25. Rich   10 years ago

    Penn's procedures are unfair to students accused of sexual violence, who may be subjected to "serious, life-changing sanctions" without getting a real chance to defend themselves.

    SEE?! College *does* prepare one for the real world!!

  26. Warty   10 years ago

    Don't do it, people. For your own sakes.

    Also, OH NOES GENDER ROLES. I've noticed a couple of these articles where sensitive men write about how insensitive this stupid movie is and how they'd never hit a woman, no sir.

    1. John Titor   10 years ago

      So when does the BDSM crowd get to claim special group status for repeatably being stereotyped and treated as horrible people for their voluntary sexual activities?

      1. John   10 years ago

        I always thought they did by virtue of being an alternative lifestyle that the SOCONs hated. Now, I guess not. It goes to show that the knock at the door will eventually come and you will be kicked out of the prog hive at some point.

        1. John Titor   10 years ago

          You'd never be able to square a male-dom female-sub relationship with feminist ideas of patriarchy and oppression. Though some feminists who are into the kink try their damnedest.

          1. Warty   10 years ago

            There are some feminists who believe in fun. Ask ENB.

            1. John Titor   10 years ago

              Yeah I read her article on her personal kinks. I tend to go for Wendy McElroy personally. I'm more referring to the systemic oppression and false consciousness arguments.

              1. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

                ENB wrote about her kinks?

                1. Certified Public Asskicker   10 years ago

                  Yes

                2. tarran   10 years ago

                  What do you care? You going to cheat on your wife, Eddie?

                  1. Bobarian (hyphenated-american)   10 years ago

                    No he was just going to commit a venial sin... in his bunk.

                    1. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

                      She doesn't do it for me, sorry, but I must say that is a whole lot of lovers she's had. Where does she store them all?

                      Here's a sentence which leaped out at me:

                      "There was the amiable real estate agent and local kickball star obsessed with face-fucking, enemas, faux-incest, and someday having a submissive housewife."

                      I mean, omg, a submissive housewife? Just go down to precinct and register as a sex offender!

                3. John Titor   10 years ago

                  Be careful Eddie, it's on a horrible marriage destroying ex-call girl's site, you may have to take a trip to confession after this one.

                  1. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

                    Which is marriage-destroying, the call girl or her site?

                    Because whenever Reason links to some article by an ex call girl or prostitutes' rights activist, it's totally the reverse of erotic.

        2. Coeus   10 years ago

          I always thought they did by virtue of being an alternative lifestyle that the SOCONs hated. Now, I guess not. It goes to show that the knock at the door will eventually come and you will be kicked out of the prog hive at some point.

          I resent the implication that I was part of the prog hive.

    2. Carl ?s the level   10 years ago

      That reminds me of this excruciating comment:

      Well, [The Lego Movie] could of been [the best animated film of 2014], if it wasn't for Wyldstyle/Lucy being another victim of the "Trinity Syndrome". Named after the character from The Matrix, the experienced Trinity is a badass, yet somehow isn't "the One", stupid Neo is. She's quits being amazing and goes along with the story.

      Similarly, Wyldstyle should be "the Special" in the Lego Movie, but for some reason it is the ridiculous and untrained Emmett. If the filmmakers hadn't chosen to parody The Matrix and continued to let Wyldstyle be her wonderful self, man she of been something really special versus relying on past tropes.

      Through Lucy, the message is that girls need to hold back, conceal their skills, be lesser, remove them awesome selves from the spotlight to let HIM be the hero (yet again).

      Refreshingly, The Lego Movie did have the fantastic Princess Unikitty to counter the unfortunate Lucy. At least. She was, without a contest, my favorite character from that film. She's the same level of coolness from her first appearance until the film concludes. Not to mention, she's instrumental in the final battle too.

      1. Warty   10 years ago

        Doug: [wearing a T-shirt that says "Genius at Work"] Hi. A question for Miss Bellamy. In episode 2F09 when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
        June Bellamy: Uh, well...
        Homer: I'll field this one.
        Homer: [to Doug] Let me ask you a question. Why would a man whose shirt says "Genius at Work" spend all of his time watching a children's cartoon show?
        [pause]
        Doug: I withdraw my question.
        [takes a bite from a bar of chocolate]

        Also, Comic Book Guy is named Doug???

        1. Doghouse Riley Jr.   10 years ago

          No, CBG's name is Jeff Albertson. Doug is a different, more minor character.

      2. Certified Public Asskicker   10 years ago

        Through Lucy, the message is that girls need to hold back, conceal their skills, be lesser, remove them awesome selves from the spotlight to let HIM be the hero (yet again).

        And fuck Batman?

        1. Carl ?s the level   10 years ago

          DARK-NESS
          NO PARENTS
          ...
          CONTINUED DARKNESS

      3. MJGreen   10 years ago

        Similarly, Wyldstyle should be "the Special" in the Lego Movie, but for some reason it is the ridiculous and untrained Emmett. If the filmmakers hadn't chosen to parody The Matrix and continued to let Wyldstyle be her wonderful self, man she of been something really special versus relying on past tropes.

        Bro/Sis, did you even watch the movie?

        And Edge of Tomorrow is now on HBO / HBOGo. Watch that if you want to see a beautiful woman kick ass from beginning to end.

        1. Carl ?s the level   10 years ago

          Yeah, he missed the point of the movie to a comical extent.

    3. tarran   10 years ago

      I have to admit I have no interest in 50 shades of grey because I don't really care for the relationship as described in reviews of both the book and the movie.

      It's aesthetically unappealing, like the mealworm cupcakes an acquaintance crowed about consuming in London on a recent face-book post.

      1. John   10 years ago

        Read Dave Berry's review of the book. I have never read a more brutally effective take down of a book in my life. It is like most things Berry writes, also really funny.

        1. tarran   10 years ago

          John, I read it just now, and I was almost peeing my pants in laughter.

          Why was this book so incredibly popular? When so many women get so emotionally involved in a badly written, comically unrealistic porno yarn, what does this tell us? That women are basically insane? Yes.

          I mean no! No. Of course it does not tell us that. What it tells us is this: Women are interested in sex.

          1. John   10 years ago

            Its hysterical. his description of the book and the idiocy of the writing and plot is spot on.

            1. tarran   10 years ago

              Oh you and your matter-of-fact musings.

          2. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

            How about a link to the Dave Barry review?

        2. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

          Totally agree John.

          Here's a link

          http://time.com/3030375/dave-b.....s-of-grey/

          1. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

            damn, posted too fast

            1. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

              C'mon, just because this thread is about a smut book there is no excuse for bringing your personal sex life into it.

              1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

                Nice.

          2. Migrant Log Picker   10 years ago

            Good to see Barry still has some chops...used to like his stuff.

    4. Brett L   10 years ago

      This is just group signing to each other. "Soccer moms are flocking to this movie. We are better than them."

      1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

        They, like, live in suburbs and drive SUV's and stuff.

      2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        Soccer moms? Where?

    5. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

      He clearly states in the movie that he was some woman's sub for seven years.

      Shut up, we went to hate watch it and I almost fell asleep. I hate you all.

      Incidentally the only time I've been open-hand slapped was when I was drinking with a liberal lady friend and she said "My boyfriend doesn't hit me enough" and I responded "Oh really, Ayn Rand?"

      So tiny, but she got some good speed on it.

      1. Brett L   10 years ago

        This one was flirting with you, too. Just because they know you're gay doesn't mean they won't try. See: dudes chatting up lesbians. I have first-hand experience that sometimes it works.

        1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

          That...doesn't surprise me. She'd wanted to hit on me freshman year of college, realized I was gay and went for my roommate instead, who she dated for two years.

          Jeez, we've been friends for 14 years now. I feel old.

          See: dudes chatting up lesbians.

          Yeah, I chat up straight dudes all the time, although some of that is my relatively weak gaydar and that I'm in primarily straight bars with friends when I'm out.

      2. Coeus   10 years ago

        He clearly states in the movie that he was some woman's sub for seven years.

        I was told by a sub recently that that is usually the way doms start out. I had no idea.

        1. paranoid android   10 years ago

          Huh, that's interesting. Admittedly, my experience is limited to non-existant, but I always just figured either one got off on being the dominator or on being the dominatee, but put that way it sounds more like some kind of apprenticeship.

          1. Coeus   10 years ago

            My experience is definitely not limited, and until she told me that, I thought the same way you did.

          2. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

            They have guilds and everything!

  27. Calidissident   10 years ago

    Oklahoma legislative committee votes to cut AP US History classes.

    http://nymag.com/daily/intelli.....story.html

    1. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

      It annoys me to no end that lawmakers have to muck around with education. End government schooling already.

    2. Irish   10 years ago

      BOOOO!

      Although my own experience with AP US History tells me they won't be missing much. My teacher taught us out of Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States and seemed to seriously believe this was an accurate representation of American history.

      1. Calidissident   10 years ago

        I would agree that the value of the course would be pretty dependent on the teacher and what and how they teach (I fulfilled my US History requirement in HS by taking a community college course over the summer). AP classes and exams do look good when applying to college so I think it's hurting students in that regard.

        Left-wing bias in curriculum isn't good, but neither is right-wing bias that whitewashes history (not accusing you of saying that, just talking generally about the situation).

      2. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

        Really? I don't think I could've passed the AP exam with the shit in Zinn's book. How did it work out for you?

        1. Irish   10 years ago

          I did fine because I know a lot about history anyway. I got a five on the test largely based on prior knowledge since I learned nothing in the class (except that I'm a colonialist oppressor who destroys the poor through my capitalist greed).

    3. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      AFAIK, the idiot legislator behind this is also the idiot legislator who's behind Oklahoma trying to sue Colorado for their pot laws.

      1. Bo Cara Esq.   10 years ago

        He actually came out more reasonable on this in today's npr interview than I would have first guessed. He's just asked the class be reviewed at this point at which point funding/approval could follow.

    4. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

      Krieger complained that the framework portrays the Founding Fathers as "bigots" and suggests that Manifest Destiny was "built on a belief in white racial superiority and a sense of American cultural superiority," rather than "the belief that America had a mission to spread democracy and new technology across the continent," as he put it.

      Yes, because when I think of Native Americans, it's how well known they are for their political integration and their mastery of advanced technology.

    5. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

      Krieger complained that the framework portrays the Founding Fathers as "bigots"

      Here is the framework in question:

      AP United States History Course and Exam Description Including the Curriculum Framework

      Please point out to me something in the document that qualifies Krieger's accusation as anything but an outright lie.

  28. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

    Are Perceptions of Hotness Contagious?

    File this under obvious: what is attractive is at least partially tied to what it is socially acceptable to be attracted to.

    Sometimes, after rating a photo, participants saw how other people had rated that photo, and sometimes they didn't. The researchers found that when people saw ratings after making their own judgement, in subsequent judgments they got closer and closer to other people's overall average rating of that photo. In other words ? and I'm making up the specific numbers ? if on the first photo they ranked they were off by 2 points on a 10-point scale as compared to the average, by the 20th photo they were off by, on average, 1.25 points.

    The researchers interpret this as meaning that as people rated photos, they were influenced by other people's standards of beauty and internalized these standards without even knowing it.

    An ex once commented that his tastes had matured and he'd gone from liking hairless twinks when he was younger to beefier more rugged guys now (hence us dating). I pointed out that that lined up perfectly with metrosexuals being the new hotness through the rejection of that and an adoption of burlier standards of male beauty.

    1. Warty   10 years ago

      Shut up and look at that dick pic I sent you.

      1. Irish   10 years ago

        It's hard to tell which is your penis because of all the tentacles and viscous fluids currently unknown to human science.

        1. John Titor   10 years ago

          Artist's interpretation of Warty's genitalia in its true form.

        2. Warty   10 years ago

          WELL THEN LOOK AT MY ABZ YOU RETARD

      2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

        Shut up and look at that dick pic I sent you.

        *checks inbox*

        You're really too cruel, Warty Louise Hugeman

  29. Slammer   10 years ago

    Here's what Sports Illustrated swimsuit models look like in real life!!!!!!!!

    Uh, just as hot?

    1. Old Man With Candy   10 years ago

      Hotter, actually.

      1. Free Society   10 years ago

        Hotter, actually.

        Correct. Women, unless disfigured, are hotter without makeup. If I wanted to fuck a clown I'd move in with John Wayne Gacy.

    2. Rich   10 years ago

      I'm not sure that stuff qualifies as "in real life" -- but yes, pretty much.

    3. Certified Public Asskicker   10 years ago

      Real life is holding up photos of yourself in a bikini?

    4. Warty   10 years ago

      I like how many of them are conspicuously eating in their instagram shots. "Lol, I totally, like, eat ice cream all the time! And I don't even throw it up afterward, honest! LOL!"

      1. Slammer   10 years ago

        Metal: check it Warty.

        1. Warty   10 years ago

          Fuck yeah. This is fun.

    5. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

      You're all wrong. In the first "natural" picture, Teigen is the one on the left.

  30. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

    10 truly bizarre Tea Party bills: From nipples to militias to religious zealotry

    http://www.salon.com/2015/02/1....._zealotry/

    GIT YER FILTHY GOVERNMENT HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE!

    1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      You missed my question from yesterday. Which of the big 4 do you work for?

    2. Juice   10 years ago

      tax free ammo production doesn't seem so bad

  31. Xajow   10 years ago

    Salon has an interview with David Boaz with a strange headline. http://tinyurl.com/nhz7axb

    And comments like this: "What is the Libertarian answer for technology driven decline in labor demand? Starving peasants ought to understand the immorality of redistribution?" What is the old saying... none are so blind as those who will not see.

    1. Xajow   10 years ago

      Heh. I meant the interview had a strange headline, not David Boaz.

    2. Irish   10 years ago

      "What is the Libertarian answer for technology driven decline in labor demand? Starving peasants ought to understand the immorality of redistribution?"

      It doesn't exist for the same reason that buggies becoming obsolete didn't result in high unemployment forever.

      Why not ask what the libertarian response to dragons would be? They're equally nonexistent.

      1. John Titor   10 years ago

        Libertarian response to dragons is that if they're earned their hoard fairly, through employment such as a fair ride or mobile artillery platform, they are the owners and allowed to sleep on it for the ages. If they've stolen it from others however, libertarian policy is to hire a single young hero who's village was destroyed by said dragon to slay it.

        1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

          I thought libertarians would lean more toward GOT than LOTR.

      2. Xajow   10 years ago

        I agree. It is as if these folks never learned the lesson of the industrial revolution. Technology changes the way work gets done, and then people learn to do other things.

        Though I think the response of many libertarians to dragons might be, "Cool! Where can I get one?" You know, 'cause they're dragons.

        1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

          You can't just "get" a dragon! You have to negotiate a contract to procure our services in exchange for virgins.

          1. Unreconstructed   10 years ago

            If I could acquire virgins, would I really have time for a dragon?

          2. Xajow   10 years ago

            Well, that is certainly reasonable. I have heard rumors that orphans get discount rates. Is that true?

            1. Free Society   10 years ago

              But where can you find a virgin orphan?

    3. Wicked Skin   10 years ago

      I thought we'd all agreed that soylent green takes care of this problem.

    4. MJGreen   10 years ago

      What is the Libertarian answer for technology driven decline in labor demand?

      "Get a job"?

      1. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

        Robots that can love, toil, cajole, create, and build should jolt the fuckbeans out of any goddamn political philosophy, dear.

        1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

          Where could I, uh, maybe go to, er, purchase one of these sexbots? Asking for a friend, of course.

    5. Free Society   10 years ago

      "What is the Libertarian answer for technology driven decline in labor demand? Starving peasants ought to understand the immorality of redistribution?"

      By this logic they never should have invented the labor saving farm implements that enabled the industrial revolution to happen.

      1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

        "Plows?! WHY DO YOU HATE THOSE POOR PEASANTS?! GIVE THEM BACK THEIR HOES RIGHT NOW, OR THEY MIGHT RUN OUT OF WORK TO DO!"

        Salon, circa 6,000 BC

        1. Free Society   10 years ago

          Back when Salon was produced by legions of socialist monks, but in typical hypocritical fashion when the printing press was invented they tossed the monks down a well and immediately made use of labor saving technology.

          1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

            I hope they at least kept the chartreuse.

        2. S. Quincy   10 years ago

          Hoes? Luxury! We had sticks, and we were lucky!

    6. Mock-star   10 years ago

      Why did I read the comments? I should know better.....

  32. Coeus   10 years ago

    Professor who teaches conflict resolution to NYPD cops accused of beating partner as he slept

    A college professor who teaches New York City police officers and firefighters how to peacefully resolve conflicts has been charged with assaulting her longtime partner on Valentine's Day.

    Joann Baney, a Columbia University faculty member, was arrested Saturday night at her Upper West Side apartment and charged with misdemeanor assault, reported the New York Daily News.

    The victim, a 46-year-old retired New York police sergeant, said the 54-year-old Baney slugged him as he slept at her apartment shortly before 11 p.m.

    He suffered cuts to his left ear and the right side of his neck.

    The arrest report shows Baney told police that she hit him because he had cheated on her.

    The newspaper describes her as "a staunch defender of women's rights and an outspoken critic against domestic violence."

    Baney teaches at Columbia's executive education program, which offers professional degrees to New York City police officers and firefighters who are considered to be future leaders.

    1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

      As the saying goes: those who can't do, teach.

    2. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

      Meh. Lovers spat. He's a pussy for having her arrested. Of course she gets no points for dating a cop either.

  33. Auric Demonocles   10 years ago

    Pro Lib, I approve of your naming skills (as usual). AIM it is!

    1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

      Asteroid Interception Mutual or maybe Asteroid Intersection Mutual?

  34. Coeus   10 years ago

    An article in the Harvard Law Review about title 9 enforcement.

    I recently assisted a young man who was subjected by administrators at his small liberal arts university in Oregon to a month-long investigation into all his campus relationships, seeking information about his possible sexual misconduct in them (an immense invasion of his and his friends' privacy), and who was ordered to stay away from a fellow student (cutting him off from his housing, his campus job, and educational opportunity) ? all because he reminded her of the man who had raped her months before and thousands of miles away. He was found to be completely innocent of any sexual misconduct and was informed of the basis of the complaint against him only by accident and off-hand. But the stay-away order remained in place, and was so broadly drawn up that he was at constant risk of violating it and coming under discipline for that.

    1. Coeus   10 years ago

      When the duty to prevent a "sexually hostile environment" is interpreted this expansively, it is affirmatively indifferent to the restrained person's complete and total innocence of any misconduct whatsoever.

      In a related development, OCR increasingly implies that the only adequate "interim measure" that can protect a complainant in the Title IX process is the exclusion of the accused person from campus pending resolution of the complaint. To be sure, in these cases the accused may eventually be found to be responsible for violations, sometimes very serious ones. But advocates and the OCR are arguing that all complainants are trauma victims subject to continuing trauma if the persons they accuse continue in school: merely "seeing" the harasser is deemed traumatic.24?
      24. DCL, supra note 8, at 13 n.33.

      These cases are becoming increasingly easy. Interim measures and environmental security provisions are justified as "merely administrative," the equivalent of determining that more lights should be installed on campus walkways or that food safety certificates should be required for all vending machines.

    2. John   10 years ago

      I saw that. That is the most unbelievable story I have ever heard on this subject. These people have gone foaming at the mouth barking mad.

      1. Slammer   10 years ago

        How could you ever teach history credibly with the fear of people being traumatized? What happens if you show a photo of Klan members at a lynching? Or a photo of Nazi Germany death camps?

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          Dude, when I was in the History program in university, a student went apeshit on the professor for quoting (I forget the exact quote) Burke's take on Africa.

          Student was black and he felt it was racist. The professor was clearly stunned and explained to the student he was merely reading Burke. But the student was so blinded by his own stupidity he wasn't listening.

          1. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

            Wait, you mean Delta Burke is a racist?

          2. Free Society   10 years ago

            "Hey professa, stop right der ann let me axe you somtin..."

    3. Loki   10 years ago

      all because he reminded her of the man who had raped her months before and thousands of miles away.

      WTF? So now dude's can have their lives ruined simply by resembling another dude who was a rapist. Jesus titty-fucking Christ... Just how similar does one have to look to the rapist? I suspect that merely being a male is enough for some femi-nazis.

    4. lap83   10 years ago

      "all because he reminded her of the man who had raped her months before and thousands of miles away."

      With stories like this, I can't imagine that Gen Y is going to be holding college as sacred as previous generations when they're the ones making hiring decisions. Now there's a lot of talk about "do we need college?" But it's just talk because they still remember college fondly. When the decision makers remember college as a living hell, things might actually change.

  35. Loki   10 years ago

    The beltway media notices, at long last, that Vice President Joe Biden may be a little...off.

    Would be cynical of me to think they're just trying to discredit him because they see him as the biggest threat to challenge Shillary in the Dem primaries?

    1. John   10 years ago

      No. It is the same reason why Elizabeth Warren isn't going to run. She has a ton of dirty laundry the media has dutifully ignored and will continue to do so as long as she doesn't challenge the Hildebeast.

  36. Wicked Skin   10 years ago

    http://www.salon.com/2015/02/1.....ingenuity/

    Can bacon save the horror that is deep dish pizza?

    1. GILMORE   10 years ago

      Anything Salon approves is wrong, and also = that's not Pizza.

      1. GILMORE   10 years ago

        Though...

        ....mmmm..
        .... bacon...

        1. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

          Too often when things get wrapped with bacon and cooked, the bacon ends up underdone with no crispness. Take out pizza already has an issue with crispiness anyways. You're probably better off precooking lardons and adding them on top.

        2. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

          fuck bacon... it's little fatty mouth isn't big enough to suck my cock...

      2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        I'm eating deep dish right now.

        It was on sale at Costco.

        I ain't gonna apologize.

        1. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

          Deep dish what? Fetuses on foreskin?

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            I can't be sure what the sausage was made of, but it was very tender.

      3. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

        Well its not pizza because its deep dish And its also not pizza because its Little Ceasars.

        1. Wicked Skin   10 years ago

          Of course it's not pizza, it's pizza pizza. duh.

          1. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

            my daughter worked there for a while and would bring home extras. I wouldn't eat them and I love pizza. They are just horrible.

            1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

              They have one next to the Mexican grocery store I frequent. I got a Caesars pep a few months ago, and it was inedible.

              1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

                Do you know how Mexicans cut their pizza into slices?

                With Little Caesars.

                1. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

                  took me a second:)

    2. Wicked Skin   10 years ago

      If only the bacon on the top was arranged into a picture of Muhammad...

  37. Coeus   10 years ago

    Offence and free speech.

    I find it incredibly worrying that we no longer need to hear the actual content of the thing we're told to be offended by. We hear of people being arrested for tweets without the tweet being reported; comics are blasted for routines that aren't printed; newspapers hire lip-readers to find something to get offended by at the tennis and then print the resulting fuckfest as asterisks. And who decides whether we should be outraged at something we haven't seen or heard? The press. Our seething collective Id. None of us would trust a journalist to hold our pint while we went to the bathroom, yet we allow them to be ethical arbiters for the entire culture.

    1. PapayaSF   10 years ago

      Pretty good piece.

    2. Drake   10 years ago

      Do you not understand how witch-hunts work? Only pussies need proof. What kind of wuss sits around reading and listening to shit when he could be burning a witch?

    3. GILMORE   10 years ago

      Its not the same without the Scottish accent

  38. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

    Jessica Williams tweets that she doesn't want the Daily Show job because she doesn't want to spend all her time dealing with politics and that she doesn't yet have the experience to run a show that big.

    SJW decides to play armchair psychologist and accuses her of betraying women and minorities.

    Jessica Williams responds with epic rant.

    1. John   10 years ago

      Good for her.

    2. GILMORE   10 years ago

      Who? What? Daily Show?

      What the fuck is 'lean in'?

      I glanced at that, and all i see = "liberal pissing match"

      1. The Last American Hero   10 years ago

        I generally pay more attention when they lean in. The view is better.

    3. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

      She is not funny to us non-conservatives. Neither is the other new guy Jordan Klepper. CC has a real problem on their hands.

    4. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

      Yeah, that was sweet.

    5. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

      How dare she not let white people decide what her career obligations are? Who does she think she is, an individual?

      But really, TDS' audience is overwhelmingly white. They and a few black culture critics make a big fuss about making TV more diverse so TDS hires her.

      That's not to say she isn't talented or deserving, but that must stick in her craw somewhat to see her career be treated as affirmative action rather than recognition of her merits as a comedian.

      1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

        I kind of got the impression that her concern isn't the comedy and performance aspects of the job so much that the host of the show is also the producer of the show and she probably doesn't think that two years experience has given her enough experience with how the TV business works to know what the management part of the job involves yet.

    6. Juice   10 years ago

      i would

      1. lap83   10 years ago

        ..hire her for the Daily Show position?

        1. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

          ...roll her labia into two pink burritos jammed with vodka-laced marmalade and then suck that sweet pulp down with the same dollar bill you just did a long line of blow with?

          1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

            GOD DAMN!! Thought we were gonna try and keep it clean for the children...

            1. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

              Well... now... unless the children like cake I cannot shake for the fukin cake, 1950 Crisco... fuking bro mama oven.

  39. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

    While he still can

    http://www.nbc4i.com/story/281.....atal-wreck

  40. Enough About Palin   10 years ago

    The Miracle of Minneapolis
    No other place mixes affordability, opportunity, and wealth so well. What's its secret?

    http://m.theatlantic.com/magaz.....ource=SFFB

    1. Drake   10 years ago

      All the bums froze to death or moved to Santa Monica?

      1. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

        We still have bums. But they are tough fucking bums.

        1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

          What about Hotdish?

        2. lap83   10 years ago

          Minneapolis is very liberal for the midwest, but it isn't cosmopolitan enough to attract the really dedicated city planners and limousine liberals who make it truly impossible for anyone poorer than them to live in or near a city.

          1. lap83   10 years ago

            Also, no tax on food and clothing is awesome. I really miss that.

          2. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

            What?!?!!

            We have a fucking bike-ped coordinator we pay $68K to. http://www.startribune.com/loc.....60141.html

            The coordinator supervises a staff of three who work on bike and pedestrian planning and safe routes to schools.

            I think the main reason we remain somewhat affordable is that there is no natural boundary to the city's growth. If you want a cheap house you can move way the fuck out in the country and commute in.

            1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

              I think all of the people from the Minnesota hinterlands play a role in that, too. You know, the ones who all sound like they were in the movie Fargo.

            2. lap83   10 years ago

              That is pretty stupid, but Minneapolis still doesn't have rent control, right? I don't know about now, but when I was going to MCTC there in the mid '00s I paid less than $650 for my one bedroom apartment that was within walking distance of downtown. Compared to any of the other major cities in the US that's a huge bargain.

    2. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

      Is it stadiums? I bet it is all the wonderful stadiums we built for the Gophers, the Vikings and the Twins. Fuck yeah! Everyone knows that stadiums are crucial to the economic health of any city.

  41. BigT   10 years ago

    Canuckia getting tough with the greenies:

    The RCMP has labelled the "anti-petroleum" movement as a growing and violent threat to Canada's security, raising fears among environmentalists that they face increased surveillance, and possibly worse, under the Harper government's new terrorism legislation.

    In highly charged language that reflects the government's hostility toward environmental activists, an RCMP intelligence assessment warns that foreign-funded groups are bent on blocking oil sands expansion and pipeline construction, and that the extremists in the movement are willing to resort to violence.

    1. SusanM   10 years ago

      Wonderful. What's next if "TEH TURRURISTS!!11!1!" doesn't work? Blasphemy?

  42. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

    Vanilla Ice arrested on residential burglary, grand theft charges

    http://www.ajc.com/news/entert.....and/nkDgN/

    1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

      So he finally got indicted for stealing Queen's "Pressure" bassline?

      1. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

        Game, set, match. Stormy wins the Internet.

    2. GILMORE   10 years ago

      the actual charges are funny

      he robbed his neighbor's foreclosed house. for the pool heater.

      Even if he's white = that's some proper ghetto shit.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        Smart that he lives in FL. Homestead clause

      2. John   10 years ago

        There is nothing that says white people can't be ghetto fabulous

        1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

          "Livin ghetto-fabulous, so mad, you just can't take it
          But nigga if you hatin I
          then you wait while I get yo' bitch butt-naked, just break it"

          Shit just got real.

  43. Rich   10 years ago

    some people may not realize they face a penalty for not having coverage until they file their tax returns in coming weeks. HHS will decide within the next two weeks whether to allow another special enrollment period for consumers.

    With all due respect, what makes HHS think, um, some people will realize it *this* time?

    1. Juice   10 years ago

      All I had to do was check "I couldn't afford it" and bam, no penalty. I can't imagine they'll come after me either.

      1. Hyperion   10 years ago

        That really sounds like a serious problem with them enforcing this if all you have to do is check a box that you can't afford it.

        I mean a lot of people are really dumb, but I'm sure that a vast majority will figure that out soon enough.

        Although Hillarys ButtPlug has already assured everyone that the law doesn't need the penaltax.

  44. userve32   10 years ago

    Those guys do not seem to have a clue man. Wow.

    http://www.AnonWeb.cf

  45. Sanjuro Tsubaki   10 years ago

    Western civilization is f***ed.

    1. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

      The Mayans fucked civilization. So did the fucking Romans. And the fucking Greeks. And the fucking Egyptians. And fucking Constantinople. And those fucking hideous goddamn Catholics... And finally it seems the fucking communists, Republicans, socialists, and fucking horrid Islam is fucking civilization in recent times...

      Civilization seems to be a long-term beehive of fuckedupedness.

      1. Hyperion   10 years ago

        The Mayans fucked civilization

        Yeah, but they had wireless technology.

      2. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

        So Planet of the Apes wasn't really dystopian.

        1. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

          Some people luv that chacha monkee babe

      3. Free Society   10 years ago

        Those were all states you described, civilization is something separate from a state and persisted after the fall of various states.

  46. Libertarian   10 years ago

    Regarding the picture, I had no idea Imelda Marcos was still alive.

    But seriously, I've seen more pics of Biden talking to someone who is not looking at him..... what's up with that?

    1. GILMORE   10 years ago

      "'ve seen more pics of Biden talking to someone who is not looking at him...."

      Would You?

      It just encourages him.

  47. bassjoe   10 years ago

    So I just saw that the NH and IA 2016 presidential primaries will be in JANUARY... anybody else find that ridiculous?

    1. Winston   10 years ago

      Been that way since 2004.

  48. Winston   10 years ago

    Jack Lew has been telling Greece to make a deal. Shouldn't this upset the non-interventionists?

  49. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

    There's also a lot of "I'm going to be in your town. Let's grab a drink" going on. If you're ever in LA you should let us know. We have a fairly robust social group here.

    Is there a SE PA group?

    1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

      That sounds like an AM Links kind of question.

    2. Mock-star   10 years ago

      Well, Im fairly sure there is no S by SW (officially known as Yinzer Territory) PA group.

  50. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

    Whiskey is good and is the medicine for those who choose to fucking break out of parallel verses.

    1. S. Quincy   10 years ago

      Johnny Walker's greatest coup was settling on a name the rest of the world could pronounce.

      1. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

        Quincy is the one more pour dear.

  51. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

    Is vodka vicious as that? Maybe people think and drink and swink into the aft obtuse... and the more they walk and talk that what becomes swhy and swhere and o fuckin jesus... you fuckin whore dude....

    Roads stretch into a sleepless blight of exposed mind rays...

  52. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

    Can these envelopes on the great web understand that recent world does not match old worlds and the odd world in the musty pasty past is creaky and hard to understand but those plural acts in the tunnels into the old and dead genius is oft far fucking more improved over these new transitions- so bad bad whiskey is a hearken unto the old gems of dead dancing...

  53. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

    my neuros transmit and yet yield to reality but nothing is like a loneliness on a planet in the present future....

    Roll her home tonight but no one can... well cuz I got drunk and cheated on my girl on that planet I canno name... dear darling swarm

    Maybe there is a bus that rolls from plano to plano cuz this sun is frunk enough to roll with some shit that ain't an inch from my baby and the vortex they say to new york from that fuckin planet is about 50 buks....

  54. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

    So the trumpet spaceshop learns into the groove...

  55. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

    Dont sit around and get old and gray like e.t.... have a real real good time where that swinky bitch e.t. finally learns to get hard and get drunk and fuk old e.t. bitches.... lets have an e.t. time and watch e.t. fuck somefuking extual alien vag...

  56. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

    Dont sit around and get old and gray like e.t.... have a real real good time where that swinky bitch e.t. finally learns to get hard and get drunk and fuk old e.t. bitches.... lets have an e.t. time and watch e.t. fuck somefuking extual alien vag...

  57. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

    Dont sit around and get old and gray like e.t.... have a real real good time where that swinky bitch e.t. finally learns to get hard and get drunk and fuk old e.t. bitches.... lets have an e.t. time and watch e.t. fuck somefuking extual alien vag...

  58. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

    Dont sit around and get old and gray like e.t.... have a real real good time where that swinky bitch e.t. finally learns to get hard and get drunk and fuk old e.t. bitches.... lets have an e.t. time and watch e.t. fuck somefuking extual alien vag...

  59. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

    Dont sit around and get old and gray like e.t.... have a real real good time where that swinky bitch e.t. finally learns to get hard and get drunk and fuk old e.t. bitches.... lets have an e.t. time and watch e.t. fuck somefuking extual alien vag...

  60. Agile Cyborg   10 years ago

    Dont sit around and get old and gray like e.t.... have a real real good time where that swinky bitch e.t. finally learns to get hard and get drunk and fuk old e.t. bitches.... lets have an e.t. time and watch e.t. fuck somefuking extual alien vag...

  61. Migrant Log Picker   10 years ago

    Take a quallude and chill, bro.

  62. Iris_KDressler   10 years ago

    Six months ago I lost my job and after that I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a great website which literally saved me. I started working for them online and in a short time after I've started averaging 15k a month... The best thing was that cause I am not that computer savvy all I needed was some basic typing skills and internet access to start...
    This is where to start???.

    ?????????? http://www.netpay20.com

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