Dr. Mrs. F and I agree that this from XKCD is spooky accurate.
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So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.
You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.
A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.
Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.
Accountability, motherfuckers.
People are complicated. Love is not.
Hot air and ill-informed banter
Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.
I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
Infrastructure week. at last.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.
Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.
If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.
Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll
Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.
If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
demimondian
Isn’t she Dr. Mrs. Dr. F? (Doktor Frau Doktor F)
iluvsummr
In other words, scientists are retarded?
(Or they get their PhD students to pull the lever the next time).
demimondian
FDDD (Frau Doktor Doktor Demimodian, BTW) always says that the two most important words you ever hear in a lab are "That’s odd…"
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
Reminds me of a joke I’ve heard.
Seems there were a programmer and an electrical engineer driving along. All of a sudden, one of the tires of their car explodes!
"Quick!" says the EE. "We have to stop, take the entire car apart down to the tiniest nuts and bolts, and carefully study each of them until we find out what went wrong."
"Nah," says the programmer. "Just keep driving and see if it happens again."
A.Political
Wait, isn’t the same premise as the rat/mouse and the electrified cheese? Some how that’s not too flattering.
Perhaps replicating the event with some sort of buffer or stick to to initiate the device would work?
ok, taking off my ‘too literal’ hat now ;)
Rosali
I’m watching PBS Frontline’s show, "The Old Man and the Storm", and I’m so pissed about the federal government’s level of indifference for the people of New Orleans.
Fencedude
When its not being utterly maudlin angsting, xkcd is consistently spot-fucking-on.
Comrade Darkness
The Israelis seem emboldened by the power vacuum in the U.S.
Corona tastes like actual beer when there is sand glued to the condensation on the bottle.
Perhaps both are the result of heat stroke.
Fraud Guy
Is this like the time I arched my foot, causing a painful cramp that lasted about 5 minutes. When my wife asked my why I was wincing in pain, I told her that I just arched my foot like this……..
Justin
If you didn’t know, the alt text for each strip is a further joke. The alt text for this is disturbing:
Brick Oven Bill
Some engineers have a parallel, but slightly different challenge. I’d call it ‘social situational awareness challenges’. I will provide an example.
The military branch I was in rotates its personnel in a pattern between very intense front-line service and potentially very easy staff jobs, one of which I was fortunate enough to land. The place was huge, with umpteen departments. My job, as far as I could tell, was to be a token, to enhance the Flag Officer’s resume. Although I did get to travel and talk, which was fun.
So I did the thing any logical human would do, and got two desks in different parts of the complex. It was a very Yossarian existence. I got my little tasks done and spent the rest of the time with my head low at home, starting up a little business in the garage. My Department Head started to catch on, but he really didn’t seem to care. I got a nice medal on the way out even.
So my stint is coming to an end, and my relief asks about what he has to do. I tell him that there is really nothing to do, and recommended getting two desks.
He decides to spend his days on the golf course. This would have been OK if he did not choose to blather to his unknown golf partners about the nature of his job. It turns out that his fellow putter was the incoming Commanding Officer, the one with three stars. ZAP. Grinding gears. Quivering puddle.
I still feel somewhat bad about that.
Tattoosydney
Meanwhile, it has been revealed that the reason why President Elect Obama and family cannot stay in Blair House prior to the inauguration is that former Australian Prime Minister John Howard (the first sitting Australian Prime Minister to lose his seat at an election since 1929) is staying there.
Howard is to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 13 January, alongside lickspittle Tony Blair and the President of Columbia, assuming that Mr Howard can remove his nose from W.’s bottom long enough for W. to get the medal over Howard’s head.
It’s been a year since we turfed Howard, and he still annoys the hell out of me.
Stooleo
Tattoosydney
It goes further than that. On Rachel Madow’s show it was stated that the Obamas asked for use of the Blair house before John Howard was even scheduled to be there, he was then penciled in to provide the excuse for the refusal.
Stay classy Bush administration.
rawshark
@Justin:
Whadayamean?
My favorite
Cain
I wonder where BJ fits in this map? :-)
cain
Cain
@demimondian:
At least it’s not….
Frau Blücher!!
cain
Bill Arnold
The comic is correct. It is wrong to unnecessarily introduce a variable, like having somebody else pull it next time.