Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

The willow is too close to the house.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

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  4. 4.

    Martin

    I doubt I’ll get to, but I do hope my kids have a chance to go into space. How fucking cool is it that we can do that at all?

  5. 5.

    piratedan

    isn’t that part of the problem, liberals and progressives look forward with hope and a thought of “what if” and “wouldn’t it be neat” and Conservatives are busy looking looking back and longing for yesterday and finding comfort “when things were simpler”.

  6. 6.

    Bnut

    I really fucked up tonight. I talked one of my friends into smoking with me and he’s now puking his guts out in the bathroom. I feel so awful right now. He lives a clean lifestyle, drinks, no drugs whatsoever. He’s my second closest friend, and he always had talked about us smoking together, esp. after he came back from Iraq and got discharged. I feel like I pushed him into something he didn’t really want, and did it only to please me. I thought we would stay up all night swapping war stories and watching Sportscenter. I feel like such a tool right now. We both agreed not to tell his wife, and I made him swear because I have no doubt I would catch more heat for this debacle.

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    stuckinred

    Holy shit, can you believe this story from the LA Times?

    “Carmageddon: Tempers flare as 405 Freeway shuts down

    The stoppage prompted honking from drivers in the few vehicles caught on the freeway between Skirball Center and Mulholland Drive. A couple of people exited their cars.”

    I hope they have the national guard standing by, fucking people HONKING their horns!

  8. 8.

    stuckinred

    Bnut

    He hurled from sparkin up a blunt? Damn devil dog, they don’t make em like the used to!

  11. 11.

    stuckinred

    Bnut

    Got it, the twirlybirds. When the room gets to spinning you know what’s next!

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    Cermet

    Nice images- simply amazing that these launches cost over 1.2 billion dollars each when a single use rocket (like a Saturn V) would have been one-third or even less in cost and put up the ENTIRE weight of the shuttle as useful payload! Talk about missing the boat – what you get when trained monkey’s … astronauts … I mean, have input on space vehicle design. Also, worse yet, the selection of the fuel propellant was wrong – should have been room temp kerosene with liquid oxygen but instead they miss-calculated and used liquid hydrogen – unbelievable that NASA and a team of smart people missed that simple fact: would have reduced lift mass by almost 5%!

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    MikeJ

    While the shuttle has a design that’s a mish mosh, it’s really because they had to get funding from DoD, and they insisted on screwing it up. The original shuttle was much smaller, much simpler, and wasn’t meant to be used for 30 years.

    There was nothing wrong with a research project for a shuttle, and could have been a great way to bring down the cost. Instead they had to build a completed system to get any funding at all. It’s as if somebody told the Wright brothers that they would get no funding unless the plane they built could carry 550 passengers 8,000 miles.

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    Poopyman

    @mr. whipple: See here.

    I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. That took a whole half hour? Didn’t seem like it.

    Also too, the intertank cam audio is awesome.

  18. 18.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @Bnut: Here’s a little rhyme I used way back in the past:

    Dope before beer, no fear.
    Beer before dope, no hope.

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    Gregory

    I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. That took a whole half hour? Didn’t seem like it.

    According to the onscreen timer, it too two minutes (!) for the shuttle to get to the altitude to jettison the boosters. It too considerably longer for them to fall back to Earth.

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