Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Let there be snark.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Infrastructure week. at last.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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I challenge every one of you to do what I just did, and order some bumper stickers supporting gay rights for you car. Sure, in a sense, I guess it is slacktivism, but at the same time, the more of us who do it, the more normal it seems. Granted, this isn’t that much of a bold statement from me, because I live in WV and my car is already a stereotype on wheels because I just do not give a fuck what people think about me- I’ve got two Obama stickers, an Apple sticker, and a West Virginia Public Radio sticker, so these will fit right in. But this is the civil rights fight of our lifetime, and I’m going to proudly display what I am believe in. If the hillbillies with Confederate flag license plates don’t like it, they can just pound salt. I just ordered the following:

And:

And:

So get on it, straight people. Show 1/10000th the amount of courage that any gay man, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender has shown when they come out, and show your support. All you need to do is search for “gay+rights+bumpersticker” and I am sure you can find one that will be perfect for your car.

To sweeten the pot, the first ten people who show me pictures of their car with newly adorned bumperstickers will receive a Tunch apron or comparable apparel from the Balloon Juice store. These are our friends, our neighbors, our co-workers, and our relatives. Let’s flood the zone.

I think we’ll start a new feature where we all send in pictures of our cars with our featured bumperstickers, much like the view from the lazyboy.

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  2. 2.

    clayton

    Not even a competition will get me to put that Hopey sticker on my car. What hope do you have?

    Of course my reason is that I’m too lazy to wash me car.

    Lazy white nongay person here.

    Today was HISTORIC.

    I’ve never been more proud. I’ve never felt so proud of a president. This is HUGE.

    HUGE I tell you.

  3. 3.

    sfinny

    Well I already have my HRC equality sticker and a couple of Obama 2012 stickers on hand. Just waiting for a dry day and a car wash.

  5. 5.

    BGinCHI

    I’m so secure in my masculinity that I’m going to wear my coveted “I’m not gay but my boyfriend is” t-shirt to work tomorrow. I work in a safe zone, so it’s not risky per se.

    Still, though, if you grew up where I did it’s a million fucking miles from that.

    Just goes to show the world changes one whitey at a time.

  6. 6.

    gaz

    @sfinny:

    HRC equality

    HRC has a nasty habit of marginalizing transpeople. They are not cool. They are the Komen of queer political advocacy groups. Just sayin’ Trade it in for a girl scouts logo, and buy some cookies. It goes further

  10. 10.

    sfinny

    @gaz: Agree about HRC, but they sent the sticker to me in a mailer. Figured I might as well use it.

  11. 11.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Sorry but no stickers of any sort on my vehicles. Never had them, never will. While in high school I once did help apply about a hundred bumper stickers to my history teacher’s car.

    On his windows.

  15. 15.

    James E. Powell

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    I’m the same way. I just don’t do it. Nor do I ever wear campaign buttons. I have to find some other way to show support, but I’m just too tight-ass to wear buttons.

  16. 16.

    gaz

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    I’m on it! Soon as I get a car.

    I’m betting you’d get points from JC for wearing one on your forehead =) – just a suggestion. =)

  17. 17.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @James E. Powell:

    Same here, I’m not a billboard nor are my vehicles. While I do enjoy reading entertaining bumper stickers while traveling, I leave it at that.

    I prefer to avoid being the entertainment.

  19. 19.

    specialed

    Those are awesome John. My boyfriend and I are iin Charleston, I drive a rusty 20 year old truck and already have WVPB stickers, Kessler for governor (his gay son is cute…lol) Greenbrier Valley GBV, etc…been meaning to add some gay stuff to what already probably looks a little strange, liberal stickers on a Jed Clampett looking truck. Lol

  20. 20.

    Another Halocene Human

    I miss the classic rainbow stripe that went the length of the bumper. Haven’t seen that one in a while.

    I had a DNC-loving boss (real conservadem–RW Xtian who liked to ride his bicycle to work, and allover weirdo) who once told me that just because my (gay) coworker had a rainbow sticker on her car, it didn’t mean she was a ho-mo-sexual, stated with this inimitable little shoulder bop.

    This was about 2001 in Northern Virginia.

    You see, he knew she was straight because she had a kid. Logic. He haz’d it.

  22. 22.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @gaz:

    I think if I sent in my ugly mug for picture day you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between it and the cars.

  23. 23.

    gaz

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: A friend of mine got material to make bumper stickers, and he manufactured a bunch of anti-SUV slogans like “Got Compensation?”, “Does this SUV make me look fat?” etc…

    He ended up doing midnight runs and plastering the windows of a ton of SUV’s in the seattle area. Particularly the egregiously stupid luxury ones like that monstrosity from Porsche (which there seemed to be a lot of)

    I’m not saying it was right, but it sure made me smile.

  24. 24.

    trollhattan

    Drive a Saab so it would be redundant. I’ll get one for my new Eff-Two-Fiddy. But also, too, soopah fun idea!

  25. 25.

    Another Halocene Human

    You can always volunteer or donate to the local glbtq outreach center. If you don’t know where it is I’m sure somebody in the progressive community in town can tell you. :)

    Even a few hours once a month might make more of a difference to somebody in trouble (just knowing some straight person thinks they’re a human being with dignity and worthy of respect) than seeing another bumper sticker and you might learn something out of the experience too.

  27. 27.

    gaz

    @Another Halocene Human: Definitely.

    Adding, I do think JC has a point about flooding cars with these stickers in order to normalize it. But also, I wholeheartedly agree with you. Both things wouldn’t hurt, of course. =)

  28. 28.

    handsmile

    @sfinny: (#3)

    I recall at the last BJ meet-up in NYC you were considering whether to put the Obama 2012 stickers on your car. You had some concerns about vandalism as I remember. Great to read that you’ve made the decision to flaunt it!

    I’m automobile-free myself. One of the advantages of life in the urban hellhole. Buttons have to suffice. So no Tunch paraphernalia for me I guess.

  29. 29.

    gaz

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: This was years ago, so I was young, as was he – but it’s not a good idea for a person in my position to get arrested. Fairly dangerous for a trans person. meh.

  31. 31.

    Beauzeaux

    Can’t participate (she said smugly), I live in Canada where gay people have been marrying each other since 2003.

    (Sky stll not falling.)

  34. 34.

    Yutsano

    @Beauzeaux: Sigh. If things had turned out slightly different I’d be married to an employee of Mapleflot and a dual citizen. Oh well.

  37. 37.

    sfinny

    @handsmile: Yes I had some concerns, but I finally decided to not give a darn. Even added an Obama family button on to my purse that is carried into the office (of republican bosses and co-workers) each day. So far, so good. :-)

  39. 39.

    Amanda in the South Bay

    I really like this post and applaud JC’s sincerity in being an advocate for us.

  40. 40.

    chris

    I would not recommend this particular strategy if you ever expect to find yourself driving the backroads of East Texas.

    I get enough trouble for my Texans for Obama sticker, and I live in DFW.

    If you live someplace less dangerous than this, though… great idea. We’ll try to drag Texas into the 21st century in a couple hundred years or so, promise.

  44. 44.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @amk:

    Mind = blown, as the kids say on the internets. Lemme try:

    R.O.M.N.E.Y. = Robotic Overlord Makes Numerous Evil, um…Yearnings?

  45. 45.

    Villago Delenda Est

    “EQUALITY Is that so hard to understand?”

    For some people, yes.

    Take, for example, David Koch (not the commenter…the actual one).

    He has stated, on the record, that his problem with Obama is that Obama is “an egalitarian.”

    Now, think about this for just a moment.

    This country was founded on the principle of “all men are created equal”. To be sure, “men” was defined exclusively as whites with dicks back then. But in the intervening two centuries, that’s been expanded.

    Much to the dismay of assholes like David Koch (not the commenter…the actual one).

    Koch has a problem with the guiding principle of the American Revolution. The very thing that led those men to pledge their lives, their fortunes (ZOMG!) and their sacred honor (something that Koch has no familiarity with).

    The notion of a meritocracy is strong, and those who are on top of the heap try to maintain the fiction of a functioning meritocracy, even as utter incompetent spawn such as George W. Bush, Jonah Goldberg, and Luke Russert are installed in prime gigs without having to demonstrate any merit at all, and in the face of things that, in an actual meritocracy, would disqualify them from a prime gig. Deserting from the National Guard, for example.

    I’ll consider ending affirmative action for minorites when legacy admissions are abolished. When there are no longer unpaid internships in places like book and magazine publishers as the key to getting your foot in the door.

    So it appears that a pretty simple concept eludes a great many Americans.

    More work to be done.

  47. 47.

    HE Pennypacker, Wealthy Industrialist

    I’m an atheist saying God Bless You John Cole nonetheless. This is the reason your blog has kept me faithful for years now.

  48. 48.

    cthulhu

    Oh, and my wife and I were gay-married in Canada. We found a officiator who specialized in same-sex marriage ceremonies and used one of her basic scripts. Of course we had to change him/him her/her to her/him but that wasn’t difficult.

    When we tell people about this, they often initially and worriedly ask “Are you sure your marriage is legal in the US?” Of course, it is: IT IS JUST MARRIAGE – THAT’S THE POINT.

  52. 52.

    cthulhu

    @Yutsano: That’s my point. That’s all that’s happening in the US too. We often call it gay marriage but it is far better termed marriage equality.

  56. 56.

    Tim in SF

    @gaz: HRC has a nasty habit of marginalizing transpeople. They are not cool. They are the Komen of queer political advocacy groups. Just sayin’ Trade it in for a girl scouts logo, and buy some cookies. It goes further

    Yeah, HRC is… well… I’m not gonna bring it up now. I’m too happy seeing straight allies having fun showing support to bring HRC into the conversation. It’s too a good a feeling to ruin. :-)

  58. 58.

    amk

    Tintin

    There is one amusing aspect to wingnuts playing HIW,TOL — namely that it often requires them to tread into cultural territory with which they are manifestly unfamiliar, e.g., to become an instant expert on Negro basketballers in March Madness or a connoisseur of jerk sauces or some such. So here we have the spectacle of a guy who manifestly spends his time watching the Time-Life DVDs of old Lawrence Welk shows professing some enthusiasm for hip-hop. Right. Next you’ll see me writing on some arcane aspects of sexual prestidigitation by geisha girls in Japanes bordellos or the finer literary points of Fifty Shades of Grey.

  59. 59.

    David Koch

    Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage is meaningless unless he dumps biden and replaces him with Lady Gaga.

  60. 60.

    kdaug

    Weird – got a buddy, saw him last week, who announced last night on bookface that he’s going to do the full hormone therapy thing, F to M. He’s bailing out on Saturday for Maryland, there’s a send-off beer night Friday and I’ll see him then, but the hardest part will be me remembering the new name and pronoun.

    Did pretty good in this post though.

  63. 63.

    gaz

    meh… can’t sleep. gonna try again in a few, but my hetero wife was wondering if she gets extra credit for being married to a trans. =) heh.

    she’s always looking for an exploitable angle. =)

    just give her a plus 1 or something. it’ll put a smile on her face. =)

  67. 67.

    kdaug

    @Sarah, Proud and Tall:

    Goddamit Cole, if you were any more adorable we could chop you into little pieces and sell the pieces as pets.

    Or kabobs.

    Use the metal skewers, not that flimsy wood shit.

    Slow cook for 1 hour on the grill.

    Nom-nom.

  68. 68.

    Dee Loralei IPhone

    So, I went to bed at 1:30 and woke up at 3:00. My flight to nj is in15. And I think TSA stole 20$ from me

  69. 69.

    MikeJ

    While equality is the topic, didja hear about Colorado? The lege dumped 30 pending bills and called a recess because the republicans didn’t want to allow a vote on civil unions. The Gov has called them back for a special session and told them to do their jobs.

  70. 70.

    Betty Cracker

    Terrific idea, John. Now I just have to decide which one to get. (Limited bumper space; I drive a Beetle.) I currently have an HRC = sign, but I suspect most people don’t know what it means. I’m kinda leaning toward the “They’re the ones who keep having gay babies” sticker…

  73. 73.

    Schlemizel

    @Marcellus Shale, Public Dick:

    Yes! I think this is the tag (label not son) that will best focus the uninformed of Willards failure. A man of no determinant standards. Along with the Marquis Du Mittens we have some good memes to use – of course he makes it too easy

  74. 74.

    Sally Rakowski

    If Obama said that he thinks gays should be able to marry, not that they have a right to, and that he felt it was a state-by-state issue, does this mean he endorses the North Carolina ban on gay marriage as legitimate?

  76. 76.

    NotMax

    But the retrograde brigade cannot believe Obama.

    Because he stated that his beliefs have “evolved.”

    And they reject the concept of evolution.

    Q.E.D.

  79. 79.

    pk

    Well the gay community has my love, support and I’llvote for the guy who believes in equal rights, but I never ever put stickers on my car. I am fearful of getting my car keyed or worse by some wingnut. I am in a community surrounded by republicans so I keep my political views firmly to myself. Cowardly, I admit.

  80. 80.

    dan

    “order some bumper stickers supporting gay rights for your car?”
    Sorry. I don’t support gay rights for my car.
    All those a-hole Republicans were right. Except you don’t want to marry your dog, you want to marry your gay car!

  81. 81.

    kay

    @NotMax:

    I just read the transcript and I think Obama’s story sounds credible. That’s real common “my kids persuaded me”
    Blackmun, the judge in Roe v Wade, had an outspoken, smart daughter who used to spar with him. She persuaded him. She changed his mind.
    It’s such a hopeless idea, that people never honestly change their minds. One would never bother talking to anyone at all if that were true.

  82. 82.

    Sally Rakowski

    @amk

    I’d like to ask you what the difference is between a flip-flop and and evolution with any politician, because both Obama and Romney have done both on this issue.

    Because it’s all semantics. Neither one is honest. Neither one could hardly be cited as an example of a profile in courage.

    By praising Obama as being bold when he’s gone back and forth on the issue and now just this week had his hand forced by his Vice President, you’re in effect degrading him, and the cause along with it, and that hardly makes sense.

    You need to man up.

  83. 83.

    dr. bloor

    @kdaug:

    Or kabobs.
    Use the metal skewers, not that flimsy wood shit.
    Slow cook for 1 hour on the grill.
    Nom-nom.

    Feeds 40 awkward white people trying to dance. Or Tunch.

  84. 84.

    Baron Jrod of Keeblershire

    @Sally Rakowski: Calling the President bold? How dare you degrade him like that! You need to sack up and realize the President is a horrible human being!

    Is this a new troll?

  85. 85.

    sb

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: I’m a current teacher. I’ve enjoyed some of your posts; you’ve been here awhile. But unless that guy did something unlawful, you can absolutely go fuck yourself. If you’re not sorry for what you did (seems like you’re not), then make it a double.

    /sensitive issue

  86. 86.

    dr. bloor

    @Sally Rakowski:

    You need to man up.

    If you can’t see the difference between the gradual shifting in Obama’s (public) statements on this issue and Romney’s statements on any and every issue under the sun, including the direction in which said sun rises, then you need to brain up.

  87. 87.

    MikeJ

    @kay: Normal people change their opinions when the facts or their understanding changes. Romney’s opinions change when the audience changes.

  88. 88.

    bob h

    I have Obama 2012 stickers on my car, and am getting that many more glares and horns from assholes in pickups when I don’t accelerate fast enough, flipped middle fingers from truckers driven with rednecks at the wheel, etc., even in liberal NJ. I don’t think I want to push my luck further, and imagine that doing this in WV would take some courage.

  90. 90.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Sally Rakowski: If you really think that Biden went on Dancin’ Dave and improvised those lines then I’ve got some real estate in Florida I want to unload. Give me your number, k?

  94. 94.

    Sally Rakowski

    If you can’t see the difference between the gradual shifting in Obama’s (public) statements on this issue and Romney’s statements …

    @dr. bloor

    I see the difference, but it’s still just a matter of your perspective. One guy you’ll defy all logic along with your principles to defend, the other you’ll do the same to persecute.

    When you’re that hypocritical and inconsistent about it, how do you expect anyone to trust you on any issue?

  95. 95.

    Sally Rakowski

    @Sally Rakowski: If you really think that Biden went on Dancin’ Dave and improvised those lines then I’ve got some real estate in Florida I want to unload. Give me your number, k?

    @ G&T

    Good point there, Ginnie. So they were all being dishonest, sneaky and conspiratorial, huh? Speaks well of them.

    And all their defenders here now, too, I suppose?

    You proud of that?

  96. 96.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Sally Rakowski:
    @Sally Rakowski: A person’s views should never change over time? The importance one attaches to a particular idea should never change even if circumstances change? Political calculation should never enter into politics? Interesting.

  98. 98.

    Pat

    Spotted on the side of some of the busses in London:
    “Some people are gay. Get over it.”
    Pretty cool.

  99. 99.

    Sally Rakowski

    A person’s views should never change over time?

    Do you really think Obama’s views on gay marriage changed back and forth and back again over time? That it was his daughters who convinced him to complete his evolutionary circle, and the fact he became the POTUS having nothing to do with any of it? Interesting.

    If that’s the case, Gin and Tonic and I both might have some Florida real estate we’d like to sell you.

  100. 100.

    Kay

    @Sally Rakowski:

    One guy you’ll defy all logic along with your principles to defend, the other you’ll do the same to persecute.

    Oh, bullshit. You’ve swallowed this comparison whole, and it doesn’t fit with reality. Obama has an absolutely stellar record on gay rights. He’s given credibility here because he’s earned it.

    It isn’t liberals that started the “Romney has no core”. It was conservatives. We heard nothing but how Romney wasn’t a “real” conservative for months. They’re comparing his rhetoric now, with his record, then. Go talk to them. Ask them why he barely edged out the weakest GOP field anyone has ever seen. Romney’s problems with credibility and authenticity started in the GOP base electorate, and they probably aren’t going away, because at this point they’re his defining characteristic.

  101. 101.

    Bob2

    Oh for god’s sake, Obama pretended he wasn’t for gay marriage despite being for it in 1996 so he could run for higher office. (Romney was for gay civil unions iirc)
    Supporting gay marriage was a death knell for nomination until recently and anyone with a sense of history knows it.
    This is standard pol stuff.

    But to come out for gay marriage as sitting president while doing as much as he can in the executive branch for gay rights? (He can’t do much about the legislative guys.)

    This is a big deal.

  103. 103.

    Southern Beale

    Jim Hoft is the dumbest man on the internet. He says:

    I don’t have a problem with gay unions. I do have a problem with a president pushing a law on the people with the specific intent of punishing the Church and Christian Americans.

    What law is Obama pushing here? Dumbass.

  104. 104.

    WWStBreitbartD

    Equality Is that so hard to understand?

    No one has explained how the two people who love each other should be able to get married talking point does not apply if they are related or already married to someone else.

    Another case for marriage equality – Couple in love persecuted!
    Courts use the excuse Society is just too bigoted to allow that to happen.

  105. 105.

    Kay

    @Southern Beale:

    I don’t have a problem with gay unions. I do have a problem with a president pushing a law on the people with the specific intent of punishing the Church and Christian Americans.

    That’s just boilerplate, though, in these situations. The speaker, personally, never, ever “has a problem” with it. They’re just concerned about some other, ill-defined, huge group. They’re spokespersons, only! It’s not them. They’re thinking of others.

  108. 108.

    Chyron HR

    @WWStBreitbartD:

    I think even “StBrietbart” wouldn’t “D” something as dumb as equating gay marriage with polygamy in a year when his party is running a member of the Church of Latter Day Polygamists for President.

  110. 110.

    Carnacki

    John Cole, We’re about to elect our first openly gay state delegate to the West Virginia legislature. Stephen Skinner, who founded Fairness West Virginia. In this heavily Democratic district, he’ll be replacing the retiring Del. John Doyle.

  111. 111.

    Bob2

    John Cole is going to have a lot of hairy gay men checking him out from now on though.

  113. 113.

    Kay

    @Bob2:

    Kay, it’s the new “I’m not a racist, but”

    Exactly. I’m getting to that point, with it. That’s how it sounds to me.

    Why are conservatives so insanely impractical on the marriage facts, anyway? Are none of them married? They know there’s a state process and an (optional) religious process, right? I feel as if we’d save a lot of time if they’d start with the basics instead of just swallowing these lofty abstract things whole.

    Maybe a field trip to the courthouse is in order. Walk them through that.

  114. 114.

    WWStBreitbartD

    @Chyron HR:
    Look over there.
    Please refute why two people who love each other should be able to get married does not apply in the case they are related or already married to someone else?

  115. 115.

    Chyron HR

    @WWStBreitbartD:

    Look over there.

    I realize that every political argument the right makes boils down to “look over there”, but I think you’re supposed to be slightly more subtle about it.

    (It’s what “StBrietbart” would “D”.)

  117. 117.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @chris: “…I live in DFW.”

    I’ve driven through DFW (and Texas) and I’ve seen your pain (and a nasty pileup on the freeway turnoff heading east towards LA).

    Purty freeways though, the inmates do a nice job.

  120. 120.

    General Stuck

    @Southern Beale:

    Jim Hoft is the dumbest fucking wingnut on the internets, bar none. If you read him, have a drool cup handy, cause your brain will ooze wasted grey matter from the strain.

    I’m getting ready to order my Veterans For Obama sticker, and may add another along the lines of the ‘equality’ one, or ‘Equal Rights for all’. as an all purpose statement for the disenfranchised of whatever stripe.

  122. 122.

    Triassic Sands

    I’ve got two Obama stickers, an Apple sticker, and a West Virginia Public Radio sticker, so these will fit right in.

    Huh? How does a bumper sticker for a consumer product manufacturer fit in with a political bumper sticker or one for public radio? That seems to me like a really weird statement.

  124. 124.

    General Stuck

    Though for the life of me, I don’t know why anyone would want to get married. Gay or straight. Marriage is the number one cause of divorce. Dontcha KNow

  125. 125.

    Michele C.

    @Spaghetti Lee: That’s what I was thinking! I’ve never been much for t-shirts with words on them either, but maybe that’ll be the way I’ll do this. My cousin, who is straight married and lives in Idaho, has been using Facebook to continue to emphasize his support for all marriage.

  127. 127.

    gbear

    @Bob2: Bears will be bears.

    May I recommend the classic ‘Hate is not a family value’ bumper sticker. It’s kind of subtle, but makes a point that pisses off extreme conservatives. I got yelled at for it one time by a lady who asked ‘Is that a GAAAY thang?’ and then went on to rant a bunch of biblical bullshit.

    I took a rainbow flag bumpersticker and cut it into a bunch of mini-versions of the rainbow strip. Easy to put on the back window of the car without blocking the view.

    I do need to get an Obama 2012 sticker soon.

  128. 128.

    beergoggles

    I can see Cole’s next post now: Why are all these chubby hairy guys chasing me?

    I keed.. but not really. Just don’t get yourself a Bear Whistle.

  129. 129.

    schrodinger's cat

    How about we put the stickers on Tunch. Like the Good year dirigible but smaller. Better have the emergency room # handy.

  131. 131.

    gaz

    @Triassic Sands:

    Huh? How does a bumper sticker for a consumer product manufacturer fit in with a political bumper sticker or one for public radio? That seems to me like a really weird statement.

    About 20 snarky things went through my head about Apple when I read this, but they are pretty juvenile so I’m keeping them to myself ;)

  132. 132.

    ADS

    One of my favorite bumper stickers of all time (from a NYC street vendor):

    Ban Republican Marriage

    Because hatred is unnatural and disgusting

  133. 133.

    Another Halocene Human

    @Corbin Dallas Multipass: There are issues with their research and how it was designed and it appears they haven’t made any attempt to compare it to crash or incident data.

    So here’s my anecdata: the only time I’ve been a passenger in a car where the driver had road rage, it was my mother. (To be fair, she is nuts.) She never puts stickers on any of her cars because that would impact resale value.

    The most stickered-up person I know is my wife. Actually, she’s not so bad now, but in college she put stickers everywhere, including in an awkward place on the rear window. She was, at least back then, a terrible driver (hit road barriers and other fixed objects all the time) but not by any means an aggressive one. Actually, she was too timid and would end up stopped in the lane that was about to end and stuff like that. (Her real problem was that she’d never done driver’s ed AND would drive distracted. Her perception of danger was completely fucked. Changing lanes (when appropriate): too scary. Actually fucking paying attention: eh, it’s all good. She is a much better driver now, thank ****.)

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    Clime Acts

    @kay:

    Obama stated in the 90s that he supported gay marriage then.

    It is so awesome how he UNEVOLVED backwards just before his first presidential campaign, then EVOLVED forward again by talking to his daughters in the last three years.

    All this evolving must be hard work.

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    Clime Acts

    @Sally Rakowski:

    f Obama said that he thinks gays should be able to marry, not that they have a right to, and that he felt it was a state-by-state issue, does this mean he endorses the North Carolina ban on gay marriage as legitimate?

    Of course it does. Which is why amk responded with her usual “fuck off.” :D

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    @eemom:

    eemom, I WISH.

    But Sally is much better “spoken” than am I. I bow to her skills.

    Plus, I am too dim to know how to post under two names from the same IP address. Is that doable?

    Cool…I will work on it. :D

  138. 138.

    Ruckus

    Not off topic in as it’s about bumper stickers.
    Saw this morning one I’d never seen before.

    Chenny
    Satan 08

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    Mike Lamb

    @WWStBreitbartD: In my opinion, there are two secular reasons for not allowing incest and polygamy:

    1) Re: incest–health issues.
    2) Re: polygamy–it would completely fuck up all current intestacy laws.

    Now, I will admit that my reasoning behind point no. 2 can be cleared up with solid legislative draftsmanship and if it were, I’d have no problem with consenting adults engaging in polygamy.

    There are absolutely no secular arguments for banning same sex marriages.

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    LanceThruster

    I like the cut of your jib, John. It really is a great time to show this kind of support.

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