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Cruz Releases First Ad, Chelsea Manning Starts Tweeting, France Bans Skinny Models: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 4.3.2015 4:30 PM

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    Sen. Ted Cruz has launched his first campaign ad to try to snag the Republican nomination for president.

  • Anthony Ray Hinton, who spent 30 years on death row in Alabama, has been freed. There were no eyewitnesses to the crimes, two slayings of two restaurant workers, and no physical evidence except for a dubious link between bullets at the crime scene and a gun that belonged to Hinton's mother.
  • Chelsea Manning is now tweeting from prison.
  • France has passed a law banning fashion models who are too thin. Potential fines are involved and even jail time. It even outlaws "condoning" anorexia and requires models to supply certificates showing their BMI scores.
  • Despite the national Boys Scouts' organizational ban on the participation of gay adults, its Greater New York Council approved an openly gay Eagle Scout serving as a summer camp leader.
  • Celebrate Easter with a blood red moon on Saturday due to a lunar eclipse.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Sen. Ted Cruz has launched his first campaign ad to try to snag the Republican nomination for president.

    NEW FRONT RUNNER.

    1. Spencer   10 years ago

      He's got to be way far out there as a frontrunner to avoid the explosive, projectile vomit his ad induced.

    2. Spencer   10 years ago

      He's got to be way far out there as a frontrunner to avoid the explosive, projectile vomit his ad induced.

      1. mr lizard   10 years ago

        Ya, but I bet he doesn't let the sqlrs treat him like a bitch

        1. Spencer   10 years ago

          It's a NAP thing...

          1. mr lizard   10 years ago

            Is that anything like SAP? Cuz then I would be sympathetic

            1. Spencer   10 years ago

              Aggression against the squirrels, even righteous as it might be, is unacceptably. NO TRUESCOTSMAN LIBERTARIAN would allow it to, like, stand, man.

              1. mr lizard   10 years ago

                Get off my branch! Stooooid Sqlrs!

                1. Spencer   10 years ago

                  Ok, officially sent him an email explaining how he should fire his campaign manager and anyone who thought that ad was a good idea. (wolf pup howl meme inserted here.)

                  1. mr lizard   10 years ago

                    Meh I just watched it too. It's very MURICAH! but then what do you expect for team red primary race

      2. MJGreen   10 years ago

        Why do you guys keep saying brother?

        1. Spencer   10 years ago

          cause he ain't heavy.

    3. Los Doyers   10 years ago

      You were conspicuously absent from the French BMI thread. Hmmmm.

      *scratches chin*

      1. mr lizard   10 years ago

        We even called him out and compared him to a certain Bavarian Gentleman.

        1. Spencer   10 years ago

          von Bismark?!

          1. mr lizard   10 years ago

            No damnit, I thought we were talking about John

            1. Florida Man   10 years ago

              John is Bavarian? Can he get me some of those donuts with the cream inside?

              1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                I can actually help you with that. It's a, uh, homemade recipe...

                1. Florida Man   10 years ago

                  *takes donut and pretends not to know what's in it*

        2. Ted S.   10 years ago

          Bastian Schweinsteiger?

          1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

            Ted, don't expect these philistines to know who he is.

      2. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

        THERE WAS A BMI THREAD? WHERE???

        1. hamilton   10 years ago

          I think it was between Soave's gay pizza thread and Shackford's gay pizza thread, but I may be wrong.

        2. Los Doyers   10 years ago

          Well maybe if the fat wasn't preventing your eyes from opening and SEEING IT.

        3. Spencer   10 years ago

          well, here now.

        4. mr lizard   10 years ago

          Yep... And no sign of John. You mammals are reliably disappointing.

          1. Spencer   10 years ago

            who you callin' a mammal, pal?!

            1. mr lizard   10 years ago

              Your cold-blooded superior shall declare you whatever he favors for dinner... Unless you are truly a squid

    4. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Hello.

      Holy crap. 20 minutes late on Good Friday and there are 107 comments?

      1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        Start your fast Rufus. Good thing poutine isn't considered food.

        /runs

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          What's poutine?

          /runs

          1. Obese American   10 years ago

            Hey!

            1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

              I think I passed by your spot in Berkeley a few months ago. Is it by Top Dog?

              1. Obese American   10 years ago

                Yep. Though I don't have that particular location, my territory is SoCal.

                1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                  NOOOOOOOOOO.

                  Well, in my defense, it was January...2nd? So a few days from opening, IIRC.

          2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            Animal Fries.

    5. althamnathaniel   10 years ago

      I've made $64,000 so far this year working online and I'm a full time student. I'm using an online business opportunity I heard about and I've made such great money. It's really user friendly and I'm just so happy that I found out about it. Heres what I've been doing

      http://www.work-mill.com

    6. khudsehoirobro   10 years ago

      I've made $64,000 so far this year working online and I'm a full time student. I'm using an online business opportunity I heard about and I've made such great money. It's really user friendly and I'm just so happy that I found out about it. Heres what I've been doing
      http://www.work-mill.com

  2. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

    Despite the national Boys Scouts' organizational ban on the participation of gay adults, its Greater New York Council approved an openly gay Eagle Scout serving as a summer camp leader.

    Big Gay Al?

    1. Derpetologist   10 years ago

      The founder of the Boy Scouts sounds a lot like Big Gay Al:

      Baden-Powell was keen on amateur theatricals, from Charterhouse public school where among other roles he played female operatic roles. In the army he made a speciality of female roles and would often make his own dresses. His stage specialty was what he called his skirt dance.

      A scout is.. thuper! thanks for athking!

      1. Derpetologist   10 years ago

        I do like his last letter to the scouts:

        I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have a happy life too. I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Happiness does not come from being rich, nor merely being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one. But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best. 'Be Prepared' in this way, to live happy and to die happy ? stick to your Scout Promise always ? even after you have ceased to be a boy ? and God help you to do it.

      2. Rich   10 years ago

        His stage specialty was what he called his skirt dance.

        And his backstage specialty?

        1. Invisible Finger   10 years ago

          Makes me wonder if John Waters was a boy scout.

  3. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Chelsea Manning is now tweeting from prison.

    And yet I'm not allowed to tweet from math class.

    1. Spencer   10 years ago

      well, math class is officially worse than prison.

      1. Root Boy   10 years ago

        But doesn't he/she need a phone or computer to do this? I guess Leavenworth is more of a country club than I thought

        1. Spencer   10 years ago

          She dictates from a prison phone to someone on the "outside."

          1. Root Boy   10 years ago

            Caught. Yes, I do not click through the links.

            Are the tweets worth reading, or just prog stuff and sex change stuff?

            1. Spencer   10 years ago

              dunno. just started. so far it's "thank you" and "tweeting from prison is hard" stuff.

              1. Sudden   10 years ago

                and "tweeting from prison is hard" stuff.

                Fucking women

            2. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

              Chelsea Manning is prog now? On what basis?

              1. Rich   10 years ago

                It's a trap!

          2. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

            "she"?

            The guy in the cell is PV1 Bradley Manning.

      2. Ted S.   10 years ago

        But still not as bad as Nicole.

        1. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

          Nobody is.

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Things we know about Fist:

      1) He's Asian
      2) He teaches math.
      3) He likes the Penguins.
      4)....

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        He lives in a log cabin.
        He has a burn barrel.

        1. Rich   10 years ago

          He's fairly punctual.

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            Yes. So much so that he quite possibly could be unemployed. An unemployed asian math teacher.

            1. Rich   10 years ago

              unemployed asian math teacher

              Nice band name.

              1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

                No one remembers my BMI?

                1. Old Man With Candy   10 years ago

                  42.

                2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                  That's how I figured out you were this guy, Fist. He has the perfect BMI.

                  1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

                    At his height? That guy's got to be at least overweight. #bmiscience

      2. Spencer   10 years ago

        and I said, well that's the one thing we've got.

      3. Trials and Trippelations   10 years ago

        His only human contact is the FedEx guy

        1. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

          So if delivery services go drone, he won't every see anyone in meatspace?

  4. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

    More on the blood moon:
    http://www.timeanddate.com/ecl.....15-april-4

    I'm waking up my oldest to see it. And, if I can find it, I'm breaking out the telescope.

    1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

      You can actually get decent shots of it with your camera.

    2. Ted S.   10 years ago

      I don't think you'll have any difficulty finding the moon.

      1. Root Boy   10 years ago

        With all that rain over California, Playa will have a hard time seeing the moon.

      2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        Of course not! I have GPS.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          Dane!

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            You get one more for free, and then I'm going to start charging.

            1. Sudden   10 years ago

              Derpetologist did also refer to Doyers' looks as "male model" so I think we can all agree that his aesthetic judgements are somewhat suspect.

              1. Mad Scientist   10 years ago

                When he said Los Doyers was a "male model" I assumed he meant model of christian charity.

              2. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                No seas celoso, guero.

                1. Sudden   10 years ago

                  Don't blame me for crushing your budding male model career. Blame the French and your shitty diet.

                  1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                    Do u even paleo, hitlerjugend?

                    1. Sudden   10 years ago

                      No. Mein fuhrer says meat is evil. And smoking. And Jews.

                      Mein fuhrer is Bo Cara, Esq.Fuhrer

              3. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                It's a 3 pronged problem.

                1) Drunk
                2) Poor eyesight
                3) Questionable taste

                Still, though, I'm holding him responsible.

    3. MJGreen   10 years ago

      Dang, gonna miss it. Good news for Hawaiians, though, who are smack dab in the middle there. I think the only total eclipse I've seen was when I lived there, and it was only at 11pm or so.

    4. Tman   10 years ago

      You got a scope too PM?

      I'm probably going to try and get up early Saturday for it too and get some shots using my new astrocam.

      All depends on how drunk I get tonight, which judging by the day I'm having is very.

      1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

        PM? He's a professional 360 MLG noscoper, m9.

        i hope he rests in pepperoni.

        i cry evertim.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          At least you didn't link to that retard.

      2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        A Galileo and a Celestron refractor. I can't remember where in the hell I put it, though.

        I think the drinking will help, though. Pass out early, wake up to take a leak, and go outside to look at the blood moon.

        1. Tman   10 years ago

          I have a NexStar, originally a C6 but I got a new 8" tube. Having fun with the new ZWO camera.

          The drinking always helps. Always. The problem is the girl will want to stay up late drinking which will rule out early sleeps.

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            You're way ahead of me. I have stuff that's cheap enough for young kids to use.

            I think the last time I got them out was perseid.

            1. Tman   10 years ago

              I have a Galileoscope too which is always fun to break out. That tiny scope is what got me hooked.

              It's my new money pit.

              Astrophotography: A new and exciting way to spend a ridiculous amount of money!

              1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                My new money pit is a phantom drone. Which I barely ever get to use.

          2. Rich   10 years ago

            Hey, Tman, would you *kindly* give me your quick +/- for the NexStar?

            1. Tman   10 years ago

              Mostly +'s for me Rich.

              Pro:
              Very Portable - I took the whole 6" setup on a plane to Colorado from Nashville, carried the OTA on the plane and packed the rest (mount, tripod etc).

              Easy to use, and once you get the alignment down it's a breeze to cruise from object to object.

              Great optics

              Minus-

              Alt-Az mounts cannot hold a pic for more than like 30-45 seconds before shifting so any astrophotography will be limited.

              I recommend going big and get the bundle is you want to buy new, if not you can find tons of used Nexstar stuff online.

              Here's the new bundle-

              http://www.telescopes.com/tele.....ackage.cfm

              You will have to buy a battery pack is you plan on taking it anywhere, and the bundle comes with a nice battery and some quality eyepieces.

              1. Rich   10 years ago

                Thank you very much! 😎

                1. Tman   10 years ago

                  Register over at the Cloudy Nights forum too, their Celestron forum will have the answers to any and all questions you have about the scopes, and also some great tips and tutorials for maximizing it's capabilities.

                  Aside from H&R it's my favorite web forum.

                  http://www.cloudynights.com/fo.....n-nexstar/

        2. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

          My brother has an Orion 8" Dob. Very nice scope.

  5. Rich   10 years ago

    France will ban excessively thin fashion models and expose modeling agents and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and even jail, under a new law passed on Friday.

    Mais oui?

    1. jay_dubya   10 years ago

      Je Suis Fat Chicks

      1. Spencer   10 years ago

        Je suis fat dudes.

  6. BakedPenguin   10 years ago

    Nicky Minaj: "I can cure the sick with my boobs."

    1. mr lizard   10 years ago

      Well it beats single payer healthcare.

    2. Jaybirdmojo   10 years ago

      Something something on fleek.

    3. Root Boy   10 years ago

      Isn't she more famous for her ass like most female hip hop stars?

      She does have a nice rack though, I cannot deny.

      1. Spencer   10 years ago

        They are both man made.

        1. Root Boy   10 years ago

          So are my wife's and I have no problem admitting I like ballon smugglers.

          1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

            Pics?

            1. Root Boy   10 years ago

              No. All mine.

              1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                Why do you hate science, Root Boy?

    4. Rich   10 years ago

      The smirk on that kid's face is priceless.

  7. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    ...requires models to supply certificates showing their BMI scores.

    FINALLY COMMON SENSE, SCIENCE-BASED LEGISLATION FROM FRANCE.

    1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

      IM ON TO YOU.

      Phrasing?

    2. CE   10 years ago

      You know who else required starving people to show their papers?

  8. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

    Stupid blood moon is at 3am

    Related: someone's predicted a blood-moon related apocalypse!

    1. John Titor   10 years ago

      How do I go about becoming some half-mad mystic prophet that people give money to? Should I just start copying down Agile Cyborg's weekly sermons and randomly quote them at work until I'm declared a guru?

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        This guy is done. You never go public before things happen. That's not how these scams work.

        1. hamilton   10 years ago

          Probably time to break out the castrations and jello pudding, then.

        2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

          Don't be dumb. I've read The Bible Code. It's so full of shit it's eyes are brown, and has a very explicit "shit will go down at this time" but at the end there's the hopeful message that through prayer and fasting and voting the right way and whatnot you can AVERT the apocalypse hard coded into the text of the Torah.

          Guess what, none of the stuff Drosnin has predicted has happened and there's a Bible Code 2 and 3 AND PEOPLE BUY THEM.

          1. Scruffy Nerfherder   10 years ago

            At least it's not anthropogenic

            1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

              But by not buying his book and heeding his spiritual insights, and of course praying and fasting, you would be causing the end of the world. YOU PERSONALLY. YOUR PURCHASE AND PRAYER ARE A KEY COMPONENT IN A 6 THOUSAND YEAR PLAN!

              1. Scruffy Nerfherder   10 years ago

                Where can I buy prayer credits? Have they established a government regulated market for those yet?

                1. Root Boy   10 years ago

                  Based on his posts, Jesse should know. Seems like he is searching for something missing in his soul.

                  1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                    Based on his posts, Jesse should know. Seems like he is searching for something missing in his soul.

                    I have a few family members who consume a TON of this stuff. And I'd try to go over why it's pure chicanery. I find it funny that Jesus explicitly tells his followers not to buy into this stuff and there's still a robust market for it:

                    "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,f but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

                    1. Root Boy   10 years ago

                      Yes, I recall reading some of your comments about family and their speaking in tongues ways. Always interesting reads.

                    2. Marshall Gill   10 years ago

                      JR Church? Prophecy in the News has been going for decades. Strangely, even though they start with the Bible, they use other things as "sources", Numerology and other religions among them. Pretty sure they have been preaching the impending Rapture the entire time.

                      But, to be fair, they were pretty much predicting Christ's impending return a few minutes after his death.

                2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                  I think Martin Luther put the kibosh on those...I think you can get wind-powered autonomous prayer in Tibet though...

                  1. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

                    Wind-powered autonomous, sustainable Tibetan prayer...

          2. Redmanfms   10 years ago

            I don't get it, why would truly devout Christians want to avert the second coming of Christ in their lifetimes? That's just.... bizarre.

            Sure, shit's gonna go down, but if you're saved you're good.

            It shouldn't matter if you are pre or post either.

            1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

              I've never gotten a clear answer, but I think a lot of it has to do with aversion to the suffering that would happen, and wanting to make sure everyone you cared for was saved before things go down.

        3. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

          The website Breaking Israel News reports that Rabbi Amram Vankin predicted years ago that the 44th president of the United States would bring bloodshed to the Jewish people, based on the Hebrew word for blood, "dam," which has the numeric value of 44. Vankin said this before Barack Obama was elected as the 44th American president.

          I can see his point.

      2. Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns   10 years ago

        If you quote every fourth word in every Agile Cyborg post since last November, it is said that with the coming of the blood moon you shall be granted the opportunity to commune with beings who are not of this world.

      3. Mad Scientist   10 years ago

        The way it usually works is you establish your mystic credentials with an accepted religion. Later you form a splinter group, claiming the main line was drifting away from the truth.

      4. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

        I think you have to just take really mundane and easily explained phenomena and tell people that disaster is coming but their own moral rectitude will save them from it (with God's assist because God loves them so very much). Then you tell them if they want to read all about it they're going to have to buy your reasonably priced book so that they too may be let in on the secrets that are only for the in crowd.

        So far I've only been able to get myself tagged a shaman, but I bet you can get to mystic prophet in no time if you're willing to be a horrible human being.

        1. Florida Man   10 years ago

          I'm not seeing a link to subscribe to your news letter, Jesse. Where can I find more information?

          1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

            You'll have to visit my compound ashram.

            Pants are frowned upon there.

            1. Florida Man   10 years ago


              Pants are frowned upon there.

              I had some friends over for drinks and the zombie apocalypse came up. I said the first thing I would do is strip naked because my whole life people have been making me wear pants. So I guess what I'm saying is, what time should I come over.

              1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                I'm surprised you aren't already on your way.

                1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                  Do you still have that 55 gallon drum of lube?

            2. Warty   10 years ago

              NO PANTS?!?!?!?!??!?!?!!

              *rips off pants, runs toward ashram*

              1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                Dear Journal,

                Today I learned the Pavlovian trigger to get Warty to remove his pants. Tomorrow the world will rue the day it crossed jesse.in.mb!

                1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                  I suppose I could assume streetlight duty in the event of a pantsless zombie apocalypse?

                  1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                    The WhiteSnake isn't that big, Los Doyers.

                    1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                      Not big, but amazingly reflective.

                    2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                      What's your albedo, brah?

                    3. Mad Scientist   10 years ago

                      So, when will it tell is if there's going to be six more weeks of winter?

                    4. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                      That depends mostly on daily zinc intake.

  9. Francisco d'Anconia   10 years ago

    France has passed a law banning fashion models who are too thin. Potential fines are involved and even jail time.

    As France goes, so goes the California.

    1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

      Lulz. There's a max BMI limit to living in this state, brah. And at least 75% of your dietary far must be from avocados.

      1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        Fat*

        Fuck you autocorrect. Fuck you with a dry avocado pit.

        1. Ted S.   10 years ago

          At least it didn't auto-correct it as "fag".

          1. Rich   10 years ago

            Careful, Ted. We don't want to cause trouble for H&R by using the f-word.

            1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

              Don't be a fag.

              1. Rich   10 years ago

                *** farts in Los Doyers's general direction ***

          2. Free Society   10 years ago

            +1

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Yup. The cat is out of the bag. That law is coming here; or at least some do-gooding asshole like Bloomberg will start pushing for it.

      We're too fat. Too thin. We need to be just right!

      1. Sheriff Bart   10 years ago

        The Goldilocks Act has a nice ring to it.

  10. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

    Mrs. Manhattan asked me to make a brisket for passover tonight, so I have a prime rib in the oven right now.

    /husband of the year

    1. Trials and Trippelations   10 years ago

      Mrs T&T decided to go paleo again so I bought Thin Mint ice cream and nutella this week.

      /Learning to sleep on the couch

      1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        Does she also do cultfit? There can be only one acceptable answer to this question.

        1. Trials and Trippelations   10 years ago

          No?

          1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

            Okay, that's good. So you only have to worry about weaning her off of one cultish belief.

      2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        You don't win friends with salad.

        1. Florida Man   10 years ago

          What about Taco Salad?

          1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

            Tossing salad?

            1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

              That'll certainly make you friends.

            2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

              Doyers, since you're too young to get the reference:
              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq_OhlQ0ZkA

              1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                You have three kids and no money. Don't you wish you had three money and no kids?

                1. AuH20   10 years ago

                  Given my one encounter with playa consisted of him slapping people with no provocation and trying to steal a dog, I think he likes having kids.

                  It makes him look mature by comparison

                  1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                    To be fair, Sudden's dog is adorable, and Los Doyers is naturally slappable.

          2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            Sure. Taco salad, hold the lettuce.

        2. Trials and Trippelations   10 years ago

          That's how i feel

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      I looked over the list for husband of the year.

      I see no Dane.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        You're Canadian drunk, which is the worst kind: sloppy.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          And slurry.

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            I'm going on vacation next week, and I'm going to punch one of your geese in the face. Because of you.

  11. John Titor   10 years ago

    Celebrate Easter with a blood red moon on Saturday due to a lunar eclipse.

    That expansion pack was the shit, back when expansion packs were a thing.

  12. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    ...its Greater New York Council approved an openly gay Eagle Scout serving as a summer camp leader.

    But will they be able to get a cake for the occasion?

    1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

      What if you only bake cakes for neighbors for free? Can you discriminate, or must you bake for anyone who asks you to?

  13. Rich   10 years ago

    The Vatican is offering a course on exorcism?or casting out demons?this April to teach priests and laypeople how to recognize and fight demonic possession.

    Diabolical action, he said, "is favored by magical practices and the use of diviners, who may have a real influence in demonic possession."

    *** glares at Janet Yellen ***

    1. John Titor   10 years ago

      "The devil," the Pope went on, "is a liar, the father of lies."

      See, I'm not a Christian, but the Devil doesn't seem so bad in the context of the modern Bible. Every time he shows up, with the snake thing, or the hanging out with Jesus in the desert thing, really he's just there to tempt people into doing things that mess with God. He's just some weird trickster spirit who likes to fuck with God's plans, he doesn't really come off as evil.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder   10 years ago

        Evil in the Christian tradition (well, in all the Abrahamic religions at least) is explicitly defined as defying God. God says it, it's by definition good, can't be otherwise.

        1. F. Stupidity, Jr.   10 years ago

          God says it, it's by definition good, can't be otherwise.

          "If God said it,
          I believe it,
          and that settles it."

          An actual bumper sticker that people with jobs and families put on their vehicles. They want other people to know that they think this way.

          1. Rich   10 years ago

            Of *course* they do. How else are they going to convert you?

            1. F. Stupidity, Jr.   10 years ago

              Of *course* they do. How else are they going to convert you?

              I guess it's similar to the spammers we get here, jobsfish and the like. I can't imagine that crap working on anyone.

        2. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

          Evil in the Christian tradition (well, in all the Abrahamic religions at least) is explicitly defined as defying God.

          I disagree that that definition of evil holds true for the whole Abrahamic tradition. Abraham actually debates God and talks him down for the number of righteous people required for God to spare Sodom. In Exodus, Moses also disagrees with God on several occasions. Also, as far as Judaism is concerned, Titor's description of Satan (ha-Satan, or "the Accuser/Adversary") is spot on concerning his depiction in the Book of Job. Of course, Satan's identification with the "Lucifer" role is a completely Christian invention that just reeks of Zoroastrianism and/or Mithraism syncretism, imo .

      2. Mad Scientist   10 years ago

        A Christian text describing actual evil would be hitting too close to home.

  14. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

    France has passed a law banning fashion models who are too thin.

    Well, French runway shows during Fashion Week were getting out of hand.

    1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      I was expecting a late night chick fight at Denny's.

      1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        WORLDSTAR HIPHOP

        1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

          BRAZZERS

          1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

            NOT ENUF FURRIEZ

          2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

            2/3 of the straight porn I have is from Brazzers. Danny D did homo porn before he started working with them.

            1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

              Why do you have st...oh, wait, I remember.

              1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                I went hunting for my favorite early aughts pornstar's straight appearances and it was unwatchable, late '90s/early '00s Czech heteroporn was a solid decade behind their homoporn.

                Also, fuck 640x480 video. Fuck it right in the ear.

                1. Warty   10 years ago

                  Early 00s was the peak of American gonzo heteroporn. Cameras were cheap enough to let any hillbilly make porn, but shitty enough to hide the girls' flaws. Plus, Gauge and Aurora Snow.

                  1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                    The early '00s were great for a lot of porn, but straight Czech porn wasn't part of that. I think you've seen screenshots of the lesbian bit, no?

                    1. Warty   10 years ago

                      I seem to remember Czech porn being great 10 years ago. I'll have to investigate.

                    2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                      It's possible. My exposure was quite limited on that front, but I remember not being impressed.

  15. Spencer   10 years ago

    Doesn't France have an obesity problem? " 38.5% of men and 26% of women in France are considered overweight while 60% of men and 43% of women in Germany are considered overweight."

    In the US it's nearly 70%...

    1. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

      Wonder if that has to do with national and regional cuisines.

      Taking my parents to a German restaurant next weekend and the food is quite heavy, especially with bier.

    2. jay_dubya   10 years ago

      HAHA FATTIES!!!

      maybe they were worries that members of the general (ie morbidly obese) public would try to devour a runway model?

      1. Root Boy   10 years ago

        Can't wait for those jokes on the new Daily Show

        1. Jerry on the sea   10 years ago

          South African women show high levels of obesity and overweight.

      2. Spencer   10 years ago

        and I fat man, thoughts of devouring runway models don't mean to me what I think they mean to you.

    3. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      WE. ARE. ALL. OBESE.

      /sips Carlsberg.

      1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        Carlsberg? Jesus. It better be the 9% ABV brew.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          5%. Sorry. I need a light beer (or three) after a long run/bike ride.

          MoMenTS.

          1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

            Next you'll tell me you root for those scouser scum up in Merseyside.

            1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

              Er. You mental?

              AC MILAN.

              But I always liked Liverpool. I was introduced to them back in the late 70s and early 80s.

              1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                FORZA JUVE. They have enough money to pay off the refs AND the mafia.

      2. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        Carlsberg? Jesus. I hope you're drinkinnr the 9% ABV brew.

        1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

          Well now, squirrelz, you've done me in this time. Now I look like a rambling drunk. NTTAWWT.

  16. Dark Lord of the Cis   10 years ago

    France has passed a law banning fashion models who are too thin.

    Sarcasmic hardest hit.

    1. Francisco d'Anconia   10 years ago

      John ecstatic.

  17. mad libertarian guy   10 years ago

    Despite the national Boys Scouts' organizational ban on the participation of gay adults, its Greater New York Council approved an openly gay Eagle Scout serving as a summer camp leader.

    I'm really looking very hard at finding a way to give a shit about meaningless skirmishes in TEH KKKULTUR WARZ, but I'm coming up short.

    Any suggestions?

    1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      Give it time. We all have pizza fatigue.

    2. Warty   10 years ago

      GAYSTAPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

      1. Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns   10 years ago

        GAYGHAZI

        1. Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns   10 years ago

          GAYGAYT

          1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

            HOMOCAUST!

            1. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

              *narrows gaze at the lot of ye*

              1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                *narrows gaze gays at the lot of ye*

                1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                  The gays are always trying to get narrower. Slim-fit shirts look weird otherwise.

  18. Rich   10 years ago

    Robert De Niro: Hillary Clinton Should Be the Next President

    "I think that she's paid her dues. There are going to be no surprises, and she has earned the right to be president and the head of the country at this point. It's that simple. And she's a woman, which is very important because her take on things may be what we need right now."

    Well, he's not talking to *me*.

    1. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

      There are going to be no surprises

      True in the sense that we'll expect corruption and zero accountability and will get exactly that from a Hillary administration.

    2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      she has earned the right to be president

      If only there was a well established way of determining that.

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        Look in the Constitution, Pl?ya. It's twue. It's TWUE!!

      2. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

        Trial by combat?

    3. mad libertarian guy   10 years ago

      and she has earned the right to be president and the head of the country at this point.

      Fuck you, De Niro. Stick to your flicks.

      1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

        Meh, even his flicks haven't been good for a while now. He's not really an actor anymore. More of the world's best De Niro impersonator.

        1. AuH20   10 years ago

          Yeah. Did he and pacino go into some actor talent draining machine?

          Seriously, I think the only peope who stay good actors in old age are stage trained types, because once you hit 60 your finally old enough for juicy roles like King Lear.

          1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

            Then went from being actors to being celebrities. Actors are cast in movies to make us forget they're not the character. Celebrities are cast in movies to make sure we don't forget they're not themselves.

    4. Scruffy Nerfherder   10 years ago

      Completely vapid and devoid of philosophical principles other than identity politics.

      Fuck you, Bob.

    5. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

      Earned the right. Why do people say things like that? Not to mention that it dismisses this incredible pile of baggage she has, which is even more awe-inspiring when you consider how little time she's actually served in public office.

      It's interesting to me that Democrats seem to think there is only one woman capable of running for high office. A corrupt, dishonest, incompetent, old lady. Not to mention that they also seem to think that honesty, competence, and ethics are irrelevant, as are members of the male sex who might be better suited for the job than this harpy.

      1. Dr. Fronkensteen   10 years ago

        She paid her dues? Did she complete the cursus honorum? What would a modern cursus honorum be?

        1. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

          PRESIDENT
          Vice-President
          US Senator OR State Governor (kind of the Patrician/Plebeian split, yes?)
          US Representative
          State Senator or Lieutenant Governor
          State Representative
          Various local hack positions from Alderman to County Board and such

          Like winning a Grass Crown or a Civic Crown, you could be a General and jump in to run for any of the US Rep and up.

          1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

            Pretty much. Although I'd love to have more non-professional politicians, we need some kind of track record to judge these guys by.

            Electing people with no experience, aptitude, etc. is a really bad idea. Let's not forget that that petulant man-woman in the White House right now could decide to suicide the world.

        2. CE   10 years ago

          Serving a third of a term in the Senate seems to be the requirement these days.

    6. F. Stupidity, Jr.   10 years ago

      I think that she's paid her dues

      IT'S HER TURN

      There are going to be no surprises

      I guess he's saying we've seen all the dirt there is to see on HRC. To which I say balderdash.

      and she has earned the right to be president

      IT'S HER TURN

      and the head of the country at this point

      DE PRESADENT IZ OUR LEEDER THERE'S NO UDDER BRANCHS OF GOMMINT

      It's that simple

      #analysis

      And she's a woman

      IT'S HER TURN

      which is very important because her take on things may be what we need right now

      Her "take"?? Jeez. Might as well elect Skip Bayless.

      And by the way, "may be what we need"? You sound real sure there, Bob.

      1. John Titor   10 years ago

        I think that she's paid her dues.

        How?

        and she has earned the right to be president

        How?

        And she's a woman

        Relevance of this is...?

        which is very important because her take on things may be what we need right now

        Why?

        It's almost like you need to actually explain your position rather than devolve into vapid buzzwords.

      2. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

        Her "take"?? Jeez. Might as well elect Skip Bayless.

        Have a take. Do not suck. If you do, you will get run.

        /Jim Rome

        1. F. Stupidity, Jr.   10 years ago

          Rack him.

      3. AuH20   10 years ago

        now i want to see skip and Stephen a compete to be president. It would be delightful

    7. John Titor   10 years ago

      A better question: Why the fuck should Robert De Niro, or any other celebrities', opinion on politicians matter to me? They're just as ignorant as your average person when it comes to politics and have no claim of being 'experts' in regards to it either.

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        Yeah, right. If you're so smart why aren't you, um, wealthy as a celebrity?

      2. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

        Indeed.

      3. Invisible Finger   10 years ago

        As a contrary indicator?

    8. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Fucking Jimmy Conway.

      1. RAHeinlein   10 years ago

        Little bit...little bit...

    9. Invisible Finger   10 years ago

      I guess one earns the right by doing just enough criminal activity.

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        Well, she IS good with email.

    10. Suthenboy   10 years ago

      "...the right to be president..."

      DeNiro should stick to acting, i.e. mouthing words others tell him to.

  19. Derpetologist   10 years ago

    Spot the Not: Louis Farrakhan

    1. America is in trouble, and I say God is about to wipe this nation from the face of the Earth. I'm not crazy, I'm not drunk, how long do you think a nation can do evil and not face the wrath of god?

    2. You see everybody always talk about Hitler exterminating six million Jews. That's right. But don't nobody ever ask what did they do to Hitler.

    3. The Mother Wheel is a heavily armed spaceship the size of a city, which will rain destruction upon white America but save those who embrace the Nation of Islam.

    4. If somebody told me I only had one hour to live, I'd spend it choking a White man. I'd do it nice and slow.

    5. White people are potential humans ? they haven't evolved yet.

    6. Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

    Fun fact: Farrakhan's name comes from an Arabic word that means "charming".

    1. Dark Lord of the Cis   10 years ago

      1 sounds like Jerry Falwell.

    2. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      Hm. It's either 1 or 3. 3 seems insane, even for him, but... he's really insane. I'll go with 1.

    3. F. Stupidity, Jr.   10 years ago

      1. America is in trouble, and I say God is about to wipe this nation from the face of the Earth. I'm not crazy, I'm not drunk, how long do you think a nation can do evil and not face the wrath of god?

      Jeremiah Wright is much better at that kind of talk.

      Fun fact: Farrakhan's name comes from an Arabic word that means "charming".

      "Louis" means "charming"?

    4. BigT   10 years ago

      4. I've heard that somewhere else - maybe a musician.

    5. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

      5

    6. Derpetologist   10 years ago

      4 is the not. Miles Davis said that.

  20. Derpetologist   10 years ago

    Spot the Not: Michael Savage

    1. Oh, so you're one of those sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig; how's that?

    2. These here are the top of the line. Scientifically engineered and all that crap. Guaranteed by some Sierra Club asshole not to hurt a chipmunk IF you step on it!

    3. Your job is to struggle until you drop dead. That's it. Stop trying to be happy.

    4. When I go to a religious service I want the heavy-duty. I want the heavy duty; I want the tequila of services.

    5. Marijuana was the most destructive element in my life... Marijuana is the most dangerous of all drugs.

    6. I would also make the construction of mosques illegal in America and the speaking of English only in the streets of the United States the law.

    1. Dark Lord of the Cis   10 years ago

      2 was from Falling Down.

    2. Trials and Trippelations   10 years ago

      4?

    3. Root Boy   10 years ago

      2 ?

      Listened to him when nothing else is on. One angry dude, but sometimes entertaining and a crazy way.

    4. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Michael Savage?

      Kevin from 'The Wonder Years'?

    5. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

      2 - unrelated to the other things he talks about?

    6. Derpetologist   10 years ago

      2 is the not. It is a quote from the Nazi guy in the movie Falling Down.

  21. Jerry on the sea   10 years ago

    ...its Greater New York Council approved an openly gay Eagle Scout serving as a summer camp...

    And thin crust pizza will be scrapped from the menu.

  22. Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns   10 years ago

    Guys, Elizabeth Stoker Breunig hasn't posted at TNR in 4 days.

    Given her religious obligations, did they give her half the week off for Easter/Good Friday or something? Regardless, I feel like I'm going through withdrawal.

    1. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      Perhaps she's finally been committed?

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder   10 years ago

      If she gets time off now, how can she get time off for May Day?

    3. Derpetologist   10 years ago

      [ from dark alley]

      Hey buddy...I think I got what your looking for. Here, try a free sample

      [opens trench coat, flings baggie to Irish]

      http://everydayfeminism.com/20.....ist-means/

      1. Derpetologist   10 years ago

        you're, that is

        I may be a derp pusher, but I care about homophones!

      2. John Titor   10 years ago

        ESB is GATEWAY DERP.

        One day you're reading Bruenig, the next you're sucking Democratic Underground commentators to hear their opinions on GMOs.

      3. Idle Hands   10 years ago

        Wow, what would happen if one of those people said they were an egalitarian?

      4. Derpetologist   10 years ago

        My favorite part is where it says colonialism is responsible for most sexism. Suttee, foot binding and female circumcision? Totally the white man's fault, yo!

    4. Hey Nikki!   10 years ago

      It's going to be okay, Irish. We're here for you. You probably feel like you're dying now, but soon you'll be, shall we say, brought back to life, fresh and new and ready to tell all of us how great it is to be in an ESB-free world.

      SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS!

      1. Warty   10 years ago

        Blessed am I, for Irish has read ESB for me.

    5. Dark Lord of the Cis   10 years ago

      Derp addiction is an ugly thing that has destroyed many families. You should wean yourself off by slamming your head in a car door. Slam it several times per day to start, then less and less. If that doesn't work, try slamming the other head.

      1. Derpetologist   10 years ago

        Others, like me, say that derp is a mind-expanding substance that leads to transcendental experiences.

        Now,

        You wanna get high?

        1. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

          That is dangerous, man. Damned few have built up a Derp tolerance like you have.

    6. The Laconic Esq   10 years ago

      Have you tried saying her name three times while starting into a mirror?

    7. AuH20   10 years ago

      Okay, Irish, I know your jonesing real bad, but you can do this. Just lock yourself in a hotel room and shiver in the bath tub

  23. Invisible Finger   10 years ago

    France has passed a law banning fashion models who are too thin.

    Remember when France did the opposite of what England did? The EU is retarding human progress.

  24. Rich   10 years ago

    Nice alt-text. Blasphemous, but nice.

    1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

      Have you seen the Peeps Show?

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        Sweet!

    2. Warty   10 years ago

      Not at all blasphemous. Easter is no more Christian than Christmas, and I mean that with no irony whatsoever. They're entirely pagan holidays that once had a Christian veneer but no longer do.

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        Well, the cross *is* the symbol of the quartering of the Universe into active and passive principles.

  25. Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns   10 years ago

    Fuck it, here's Breunig babbling incoherently about how we should get rid of property rights.

    On the other hand, property theories that view property as an instrument for the communal good militate against this 'buffered identity' by contextualizing individual actions and procedures (such as property transactions) in the impact on the community at large. It's pretty hard in set-ups like these to think to yourself, 'doesn't matter if I wind up with 500 million times the wealth of everyone else in my county due to this transaction, because I did it fair and square, and it's my right.' Instead you think, 'so long as there are a lot of people without much who aren't able to live good lives because I've got all this money to myself, I'm not actually entitled to all of it.'

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      You know...

      Even when drunk she makes no fucking sense.

    2. Hey Nikki!   10 years ago

      I really just want to say to her, "Dude, you know some people just completely don't give a fuck about the 'community,' right?" Because sometimes I feel like she actually doesn't know that.

      1. Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns   10 years ago

        I just want to tell her 'dude, since people in a multicultural society form their own communities based on their cultural identity, trying to artificially construct on overarching community for the entire country is not only a futile endeavor, but will invariably result in oppressing minority communities by forcing them to adhere to moral strictures that the majority places upon them.'

        I'd then go on to explain how the most successful 'socialist' governments are all small, homogenous countries like Sweden, whereas the only truly successful gigantic, multicultural nation on Earth is the historically libertarian United States. Once she figures out why that is, she will have obtained enlightenment.

        1. Hey Nikki!   10 years ago

          I was thinking something more along the lines of, "Did it come out of my vagina? No? Then I'm not motherfucking responsible."

          1. MJGreen   10 years ago

            All you C-section babies are on notice.

        2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          /Knocks on Irish's window.

          Ahem. Canada has done pretty well on that front too.

          1. John Titor   10 years ago

            Get back to me in twenty years when the French nationalism kicks up again and you're living in the People's Republic of Quebec.:P

          2. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

            America Junior? Do they really get full credit?

          3. Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns   10 years ago

            How can you knock on my window when you're all the way up in Canada?

            1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

              Canadian drone strike, using a cyborg moose.

              1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

                Motherfuckers.

                All of YOUZ!

                1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

                  At least we don't pray to a queen or whatever sick rituals you perform before your goddess.

          4. Suthenboy   10 years ago

            "Canada has done pretty well on that front too."

            Who?

            1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

              Now you're just being mean for its own sake.

        3. Invisible Finger   10 years ago

          Kinda hard to to call Sweden a success. You could have at least said Norway.

        4. Redmanfms   10 years ago

          I'd then go on to explain how the most successful 'socialist' governments are all small, homogenous countries like Sweden

          Sweden is not even "successful." Unless you consider a country poorer than the poorest US state "successful."

          Norway is quite successful at playing socialist, but it has a population smaller than several American cities and is sitting atop (well, next to really) an ocean of oil. When the oil runs out it's going to simultaneously get much poorer and retreat from its socialism, just like Sweden and Denmark have been doing for the last 30 years.

      2. John Titor   10 years ago

        Depending on your sources, around 0.5% to 10% of any given population have clinical sociopathic tendencies. In modern national populations, that's millions of people who openly see the concept of 'community' at best as a joke and at worse as something to easily exploit.

        This is why I find all those people talking about 'restorative justice' where the accused has to listen to how their actions affected the victim and their families so hilarious. There's a large percentage of the population that Just. Does. Not. Care.

        1. Hey Nikki!   10 years ago

          [waves]

          1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

            Oh, that's why you're so hot! You're a sociopathic serial killing black widow!

            1. Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns   10 years ago

              THIS IS WHY THERE ARE NO NICOLE LIBERTARIANS

              1. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

                She murdered them all?!

            2. Sudden   10 years ago

              So that's why she always flirting with me?!?!

        2. Invisible Finger   10 years ago

          I would argue that SJW's are sociopaths since they want one big homogenous community, which is somewhat sociopathic towards all smaller communities. One can denounce a community as "not for me" and go move to another community more to one's liking; no need to seek revenge on the one you don't want to be in.

      3. GILMORE   10 years ago

        "Dude, you know some people just completely don't give a fuck about the 'community,' right?"

        Forget that = she doesn't even seem to have a working definition of 'Community'

        its all one big self-referential mush to read a foregone conclusion.

    3. Root Boy   10 years ago

      Awesome zero sum theory of capitalism if I read it correctly. By awesome I mean stupid.

      1. Hey Nikki!   10 years ago

        You read it correctly.

    4. John Titor   10 years ago

      And as usual we jump right into the insane utopian delusions where everyone would just magically share if no one owned anything. Because the Tragedy of the Commons just doesn't exist.

    5. MJGreen   10 years ago

      You have a problem. Beyond being a Mick.

      1. MJGreen   10 years ago

        Aaaand I clicked anyway. Damn it.

        A property rights approach, in which property ownership is an intrinsic good, that is, a good unto itself, because each person (or some persons, as it usually goes) has a discrete right to property ownership.

        Yep, that's right. Liberal property rights theories "usually" only grant some persons the right to own property. Yes indeedy.

        A social function approach, in which property ownership is an extrinsic good, which means that it is good only insofar as it affects goods outside itself.

        Of course, she doesn't realize what a clusterfuck this would be if taken seriously.

    6. The Laconic Esq   10 years ago

      Bruenig isn't very interesting to me, because I deny all of her premises. There isn't anything to argue about.

    7. AuH20   10 years ago

      DAMNIT IRISH! You were almost clean!

  26. Warty   10 years ago

    Diagram her sentences sometime for fun. "Contextualizing actions in the impact."

    1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

      What language is that? I'm not familiar with it. Indo-European?

      1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

        In my professional opinion, I am forced to suggest that Ms. Stoker B. suffers from aphasia.

        1. Warty   10 years ago

          Do you think the infection from her dead tooth has reached her brain?

          1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

            *nods sadly* It's terminal, I fear.

        2. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

          Stoker B? I'm trying to decide if that invokes a hint of Stroker Ace or a scent of Bram Stoker.

    2. Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns   10 years ago

      That's nothing. Try this paragraph:

      Property based ethics

      "Since it was announced that Michael Brown's murder will earn no response from the justice system, there have been protests/riots. In the course of those protests/riots, which, mind you ? are enacting the response the justice system totally refused to ? there has been property damage and looting. People are very upset about this property damage."

      Got that? Rioting and randomly destroying property is 'enacting the response the justice system totally refused to.'

      Apparently the justice system should have randomly destroyed a bunch of shops in Ferguson for no fucking reason because it would make Elizabeth Stoker Breunig happy that something had been done.

      What a vile, depraved, vicious human being she is. She couches her love of violence in Christianity so she can pretend she'll ascend to heaven after she's done righteously fucking over the poor people who get their lives ruined by these kinds of riots.

      1. Derpetologist   10 years ago

        Word salad may describe a symptom of neurological or psychological conditions in which a person attempts to communicate an idea, but words and phrases that may appear to be random and unrelated come out in an incoherent sequence instead. Often, the person is unaware that he or she did not make sense. It appears in people with dementia and schizophrenia,[2] as well as after anoxic brain injury.

        Whenever I read prog blogs, I feel like bored Victorian paying a tuppence to gawk at the loonies.

        1. Rich   10 years ago

          And don't forget this.

      2. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

        What a vile, depraved, vicious human being she is. She couches her love of violence in Christianity so she can pretend she'll ascend to heaven after she's done righteously fucking over the poor people who get their lives ruined by these kinds of riots.

        Had she been born 6,000 miles East or West of her birthplace, Elizabeth would now be happily slitting throats to shouts of "Allahu akbar!"

      3. Hey Nikki!   10 years ago

        Sounds more like a "we have to pay taxes or else the mob will come kill us" thing. "See, you didn't respond in the system, so you reap riots."

        1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

          Fuck the mob. What have they done for me lately?

        2. MJGreen   10 years ago

          I think Irish's read is correct, given her collectivizing nature. Society killed Brown, justice requires that society be punished in some way, the riots are punishing society.

          Or she's really terrible at writing, and she meant what you said. So it could be either interpretation.

  27. Sevo   10 years ago

    "France has passed a law banning fashion models who are too thin."

    I'm not going to check the entire thread; did someone already point out that this is the French Model Employment Act?

  28. GILMORE   10 years ago

    As predicted =

    Shiite "Liberators" of Tikrit Loot & Burn City, Murder Suspected Sunni ISIS Supporters

    "Since its recapture two days ago, the Sunni city of Tikrit has been the scene of violence and looting.... Reuters correspondents also saw a convoy of Shi'ite paramilitary fighters ? the government's partners in liberating the city ? drag a corpse through the streets behind their car.

    ...Two security officers, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Friday that dozens of homes had been torched in the city. They added that they had witnessed the looting of stores by Shi'ite militiamen...head of the Salahuddin Provincial Council, told Reuters that mobs had burned down "hundreds of houses" and looted shops over the past two days. Government security forces, he said, were afraid to confront the mobs. Kraim said he left the city late Friday afternoon because the situation was spinning out of control."

    1. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

      Shooting collaborators is pretty standard during conflicts such as these.

      1. GILMORE   10 years ago

        Yeah, I know

        in this case, anyone who still tries to occupy property they own is probably a "collaborator"

        Tikrit is the birthplace of Saddam, and the tribes in the region have traditionally supplied the core of the Sunni iraqi leadership

        With the ouster of Maliki, the US has been trying to force a political reconciliation between the new shiite power base, and these older sunni groups, and get them to work together politically.

        This appeared to be making progress... until it became clear that these shiite militias were acting completely independently and ignored the Iraqi Army leadership

        they're not interested in 'reconciliation'. they want to attack former sunni strongholds, drive them out, and burn their fucking homes to the ground.

        Basically, the prediction was that this wasn't a "war against ISIS" so much as an opportunity to expand Iraqi Shiiastan into traditionally sunni areas, and drive out the locals. It appears to be going that way.

    2. Invisible Finger   10 years ago

      Pretty sure Mohammed got punked by Allah.

  29. Warty   10 years ago

    RIP lonely shepherd

    Rodolfo Moure, a spokesman for the prosecutor, said: "I initially thought there were two bodies but then I realised one was a scarecrow wearing lipstick and a long-haired wig.

    "It was lying next to the deceased and had a six-inch strap-on penis.

    1. Rich   10 years ago

      RIP, indeed. That is sad.

    2. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

      But did it scare the crows?

      1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

        No need to be racist, Fist.

    3. Sudden   10 years ago

      Argentinian authorities speaking through a translator stated: "We haven't seen a man fuck with strawmen like this since an American tourist named Bo Cara visited us last year"

      1. Suthenboy   10 years ago

        I am too late to declare you the winner, but.....you win. This should have ended the thread.

        Bravo.

        1. Sudden   10 years ago

          I appreciate the declaration, late though it may be.

  30. BigT   10 years ago

    Memories Pizza just crossed $800k

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      That's incredible. So. How will the left spin this?

      1. Sudden   10 years ago

        So many backasswards christfags!

      2. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

        Hate reigns supreme, and we need laws for public accommodation and great social justice right now. This is a result, of course, of not taxing rich people enough and voting Republican.

        Did I miss anything?

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          Someone at Daily Kos DID say the government should intervene in third party places like GoFundMe and take away money from people who don't deserve it.

          All for having a different opinion.

      3. GILMORE   10 years ago

        "How will the left spin this?"

        How do they always? Get government to intervene and take someone's money away. Because Justice.

        1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

          There's no better justice than justice for a few than results in injustice for the many.

          1. Zeb   10 years ago

            Isn't that what it's really all about?

      4. DK   10 years ago

        How will the left spin this?

        Why, of course, that money should be donated to all those people that lost business by boycotting Indiana.

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      It's a wonderful life!

  31. Warty   10 years ago

    Fucking Romanians

    1. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

      Before I click - Romanian pr0n?

      1. Swiss Servator... Switzy!   10 years ago

        OK, 54 seconds in...I could only determine "that is weird".

      2. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        jesse.in.mb might be able to help you on that front. Tell him WhiteSnake sent you.

    2. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

      My favorite Romanian

      Because it is Easter: her before the breast reduction

      1. Trials and Trippelations   10 years ago

        I can see why she would fault her boobs for preventing her from playing at her peak performance

  32. Zeb   10 years ago

    As someone who is naturally very thin, I feel offended and othered by the new French law.

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Same here.

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  34. adolphowisner   10 years ago

    My friend's step-aunt makes $70 every hour on the computer . She has been out of a job for seven months but last month her pay was $17651 just working on the computer for a few hours. website link.
    ? ? ? ? LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY ? ? ? ? ?

    ??????? http://www.jobsfish.com

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