Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

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

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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I just watched a couple episodes of Our America with Lisa Ling, and was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the work. I was also very disturbed by her episode on the teenage prostitution going on right here in America. Just appalling. The stories that were the worst were the relatives sending kids into prostitution. Sickening.

Also, too, aside from being gorgeous, she has an absolutely perfect and soothing voice. I could listen to her all day long.

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  2. 2.

    David Koch

    This just in: Her Baroness, Lady Ann Romney de Davies still has not worked a single day in her 63 year old life.

  5. 5.

    David Koch

    North Korean missile launch fails.

    Grapevine says Obama successfully ordered covert action to sabotage Little Kim’s rockettes.

  6. 6.

    Cacti

    We’re doomed!

    Fox News has Romney up in its latest presidential poll.

    Stop laughing!

    I’m surprised they beat Rasmussen to it. lol

  7. 7.

    Bnut

    I always thought Connie Chung was hot, though seemed to go too heavy on the makeup at times. They live near my aunt and uncle in NY and I’ve met her and Maury several times. Both amazingly warm people. Maury has a very good sense of humor.

  8. 8.

    Hill Dweller

    So, the media spent the day breathlessly covering something a CNN analyst said, but complete ignored a GOP sugar daddy and future big Romney donor(Foster Friess) saying the President should have a bullet-proof teleprompter.

    Cue Lee Greenwood…

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    @David Koch:
    More likely the North Koreans fucked this one up all by themselves. Theirs is not a country known for having its shit together.

  11. 11.

    Valdivia

    @Hill Dweller:

    Becuase the Village is always listening to the outrage machine. I actually kind of like that Obama and his team are never really into high dungeon about the silly season stuff. Having said that: I read the bullet comment and was disgusted by Foster Friess, hope the secret service pays him a visit.

  13. 13.

    Burnspbesq

    @gex:

    “I wonder how many are gay teens rejected by their parents.”

    Probably fewer than you think, but one would be too many.

  14. 14.

    suzanne

    I am so fucking sick of the “mommy wars” and the fact that this shit got dredged up AGAIN. And it gets away from the real crux of the matter. Whether or not one considers childrearing to be “work”, and I totally and completely agree that parenting can be difficult and tiresome and boring, just like any job for pay, the fact remains that Ann Romney had the choice to pursue that life path because someone else was footing her bills. And most of us don’t, no matter how much they want to call us socialists. Having that choice, that freedom, Is something to celebrate, even if I personally feel that the choice she made has negative consequences for other women. I’m so goddamn tired of this issue. So. Goddamn. Tired.

  16. 16.

    patrick II

    Lisa is also incredibly brave. I remember her going into Afghanistan to report on women’s treatment by the Taliban. She wore a burqa to remain anonymous and if caught would have probably been killed. Her sweet looks disguise nerves of steel.

  18. 18.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Lisa Ling is teh hawt. End of story.

    Any legal beagles want to weigh in on this Federal Appeals Court ruling? I think it’s interesting that the ruling stated “Because [the high-frequency trading system] was not designed to enter or pass in commerce, or to make something that does, Aleynikov’s theft of source code relating to that system was not an offense under the EEA.”

    Opinions?

  19. 19.

    Burnspbesq

    Teenagers who are on their own (whether runaways or tossed out) and have only one marketable skill will do what they have to in order to survive. Sucks, but it’s hardly surprising. Maybe there’s an argument for legalization lurking in there somewhere. Being exploited may be less bad than being exploited and brutalized, albeit not by much.

  20. 20.

    JGabriel

    __
    __
    NYT:

    North Korea defied international warnings of censure and further isolation on Friday, launching a rocket that the United States and its allies called a provocative pretext for developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that might one day carry a nuclear warhead.
    __
    But in what was a major embarrassment to the North and its young new leader, the rocket disintegrated moments after the launching, and American and Japanese officials said its remnants fell harmlessly into the sea.

    __
    This, of course, was followed by Kim Jung-un jumping up and down yelling “Dumbkopf!” at his generals and banging their helmets with a rubber mallet.

    They’re like the Keystone Cops, with warheads.

    .

  21. 21.

    RossInDetroit

    I’m ignoring politics today “lalalalalaican’thearyou!”

    Got a request from a publisher to invent something I really wanted to invent and in fact 80% invented already. Right now it’s blasting my ears with The Smiths. because the only other option is thinking about pol***cs and that would make me even sadder than Morrissey does.

    RinD+1

  24. 24.

    David Koch

    Colbert >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Stewart

  27. 27.

    Burnspbesq

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    Seems plausible. Not every crime is a Federal crime, and it’s appropriate to narrowly construe the language of criminal statutes so that people know what they can and can’t do.

    If the US Attorney’s office whiffs, the local DA gets to bat next, and that’s not double jeopardy because the federal and state crimes generally aren’t “the same offense.”

  29. 29.

    BethanyAnne

    @gex: From what I’ve seen, it actually is getting better. I’m in my forties, and lots of us formed intentional families 20 years ago. There were enough cast-off folk that needed families, that it sorta happened. I don’t see that happening so much anymore. I wouldn’t trade my people for anything, but it’s good that the kids aren’t in the same boat. I should say that the only member of my family I lost by coming out was my brother, but I was surrounded by folk that had lost everyone. And it still fucking outrages me, 20 years on.

  33. 33.

    elmo

    So I’m back in my beloved Eastern Sierra, doing some work in Reno before sneaking home to Mammoth for a day (yes, I only lived there for eight years, and left eight years ago, but it’s still home). So what do my mountains do? Welcome me home with 35+mph winds and snow blowing sideways.

    I do NOT miss April snowstorms. They always blow like crazy, never amount to anything, don’t make pretty, and just make everything grim and miserable.

    The year we moved away, everyone in town was calling May “Mayuary,” because it fucking snowed every other day. We took to telling each other that it was the mountains’ way of telling us we made the right decision to leave. But I’ve regretted leaving ever since. Are my mountains trying to tell me something now?

    +3, in case anyone’s curious.

  35. 35.

    elmo

    @BethanyAnne:

    Beth, that’s terrible. I’m in my forties as well, and even my Goldwater-loving, ni-CLANG hating father has never so much as hinted disappointment with me or my partner. He goes out of his way to tell me he’s proud of me.

  36. 36.

    Suffern ACE

    @David Koch: I wouldn’t be surprised. I mean, it is rocket science, and those north Korean missiles have gone astray before, but it had to be tempting to mess with it. They put up pictures of it.. Made a big show of putting it up and loading it with fuel. Next time they should shut up about it or point the damn thing at China or some other country that’s not likely to misinterpret a missile launch as something hostile.

  37. 37.

    BethanyAnne

    @elmo: Yeah, it was fucked up. And still is that way for some – especially trans folk. But it is slowly getting better. I’m just hoping enough GLBT folk stick together for long enough to make more progress.

  39. 39.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Burnspbesq:

    Thanks. It will be interesting to see how the rest of this unfolds. Definitely an interesting ruling.

    @handy:

    That’s the same thing I was thinking though from what I understand the ruling wasn’t so much that this wasn’t against the law but that the wrong laws were applied in pursuing this.

    That’s why I wanted to hear what some legal types might think about it. In other legal news…

    Hacker nailed by EXIF data…lol! Some ‘hacker’.

  40. 40.

    BGinCHI

    @elmo: You could head south and fish for trout in the Owens. I did really well there last time I was there. It was October though.

  41. 41.

    RossInDetroit

    @BGinCHI:

    At Maker Faire a couple of years ago I saw a DIY jet powered merry-go-round. That was pretty awesome/terrifying/loud. Probably as close as you’re likely to get to a jet pack.

    No, I’m designing a hi-fi amp/speaker rig for portable headphone music players (why don’t we have a better name for that?).

  42. 42.

    Mike in NC

    @Amir Khalid:

    North Koreans fucked this one up all by themselves. Theirs is not a country known for having its shit together.

    Yet by the creed of the wingnuts we have to quiver in fear since these NK idiots have spent 50+ years trying to prove how fucking tough they are. Where are McCain and Lieberman tonight?

  43. 43.

    Burnspbesq

    @handy:

    Unclear, but at the risk of trotting out a bad cliche, there’s never been an IP law problem that Congress couldn’t make worse by trying to fix it.

  44. 44.

    BGinCHI

    @RossInDetroit: Holy shit, I want a merry go round. Not sure where it will fit in the condo, but the X man will love it. Right before he pukes.

    You should demo that rig with BJers. I’ll help test it.

  49. 49.

    eemom

    a couple episodes of

    couple of. Couple of. Couple fucking OF.

    Shit, Cole, I thought we finally agreed on that much at least. You suck. : (

  50. 50.

    elmo

    @BGinCHI:

    When I lived in Mammoth, I used to fish in the Owens and PVR during the winter, and then the lakes and Hot Creek in the summer. Fishing was my real passion – I’m a lousy skier.

  53. 53.

    BGinCHI

    @elmo: We pulled trout out of there like crazy a couple of days. I love that part of the Sierras. Itching to get back for hiking and fishing.

    Bullet train from Chicago to Denver, then from Denver to Reno. Come on Obama.

  54. 54.

    Martin

    @David Koch: Yeah, lots of people know. The paparazzi sees this shit all the time. They cover up the crazy stuff, the drug use, etc and at most will print the scandalous stuff when they’re reasonably sure it won’t end the gravy train. Celebs are fucked up because the press enables them to be. It’s their own little world out there.

  55. 55.

    Suffern ACE

    @Mike in NC: They could care less about north Korea as the bomb is most likely to hit South Korea. It’s on the wrong side of the Eurasian land mass.

  56. 56.

    RossInDetroit

    @Burnspbesq:

    Same idea, but uglier. Or rather, with more character. The prototype’s going in a lacquered cigar box unless they veto that. The last time, I had a perfectly good plastic project box design and they made me engineer this complicated rig out of aluminum angle and plexiglas. Cabinetry takes more time and effort than electronics so I’m going to be stubborn about the cigar box thing. Because laziness, that’s why.

  59. 59.

    BigSouthern

    Yeah, I’ve seen various sources, and almost all put the average age of entry into prostitution between the ages of 13 and 15. And then something like 66 percent were sexually abused or molested as children.

    It’s shit like that that makes me twitch ever time I hear someone call it a “victimless crime.”

  62. 62.

    Nutella

    @Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant):

    Ann Romney had the choice

    Did she? As a Mormon wife, was she required to take the approved non-working housewife route?

    I’m not calling her a stay-at-home mom because all her children are over 30 so she hasn’t been a SAHM for a long time.

  63. 63.

    RossInDetroit

    @BGinCHI:

    It’s based on an integrated circuit. My first build idea was for a Pringles can as an enclosure. Not everyone liked the ‘chip amp’ pun. In fact, nobody but me.
    The cigar box will have pillow stuffing and no tobacco inside.

  64. 64.

    Redshift

    I spent the evening at Yuri’s Night DC, one of the worldwide gatherings of space fans on the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight (and the first space shuttle launch.) Definitely a good time with good people.

    Now I’m spending the night at my wife’s parents because of an ongoing medical situation. Not such a good time, but necessary.

    Redshift +1

  65. 65.

    muddy

    I did cabinetry yesterday and today. I made bookcases that are short enough to fit under the eaves upstairs. Different widths and shelf spacing for different groups of books. I found a really nice trim that has vines/leaves burned into it, I plan to pick out the pattern in gilding after the paint dries. They came out really well, I was pleased. Love the laser line on the circular saw, although I had to take off my glasses, the bifocals made the line look wonky when I was looking from the side.

    Also I found a nice innovation, wood filler in a square container instead of round. Now they need to make a joint compound in that style.

  67. 67.

    BGinCHI

    @eemom: He’s great. 95th percentile in weight (it’s the breast feeding, doc says), all other systems go. Sleeping great at night but daytime naps are suddenly not going well. He’s tired but fights sleep. I think he’s got a stubborn streak. I blame his mother.

    Seriously: cute, laughs a lot, and just an sweet overall kid. Pretty sure we’ll keep him.

    Thanks for asking.

  68. 68.

    RossInDetroit

    @Martin:
    Don’t start. This is cheapo best bang for buck DIY engineering. The audiophiles are over there with their heads hidden in the clouds. We’re the ones with metal chips in our hair and paint under the fingernails.

  69. 69.

    muddy

    @BethanyAnne: I use “couple-few” a lot.

    Once on a road trip, my kid and his cousin (then age 10) argued for nearly 100 miles whether “few” meant 3 or 4. aieee

  74. 74.

    Martin

    @muddy: My chop saw uses a shadow line off of the blade. I like it much better. No calibrating, and it’s accurate enough to distinguish the individual teeth. Might look into it.

  76. 76.

    BGinCHI

    Who wants to set the over/under at what Cole’s pets are doing right now that will cause them to puke/shit/bark/chase/burn him out of bed at 3 AM?

  77. 77.

    RossInDetroit

    @BGinCHI:

    For grins, here’s a DIY record turntable that a neighbor just finished. He’s a machinist. Tightest tolerances you’ll find anywhere. And yes, he’s a little obsessive.

  81. 81.

    RossInDetroit

    @BGinCHI:

    AC synchronous motor mounted in a collet holder. It’s powered by a small 10W class D switching power amplifier. The amplifier receives a 60 hz input signal from, of all things, an iPod. It’s very accurate, and the speed can be varied by feeding the amp different frequencies of .MP3 files.

    ETA: the ‘base’ for the platter is made up from the end bells off of a 75HP electric motor. The whole rig weighs 120 lbs and breaks down for transport.

  82. 82.

    Suffern ACE

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: Klaus von Bulow said his wife was attacking him, too. Since the lawyers were going all PTSD yesterday, it doesn’t seem they are putting a lot of faith in the “stand your ground” hearing.

  85. 85.

    BGinCHI

    @RossInDetroit: Genius.

    I will wait patiently for the electronics to appear in the BJ store. I have plenty of Tunch coffee mugs.

    Night all. Happy Friday.

  89. 89.

    Yutsano

    Life is torturing me. I can’t have chocolate for another 12 hours but there’s a Dove ad right on my Book of Faces.

  90. 90.

    muddy

    @Martin: Chop saw = compound miter saw? I have one but it was downstairs in the workshop, and I was working on the porch. I have a real weakness for tools. At my local hardware store the owner never asks me what I am looking for, he says I find more and better on my own.

  92. 92.

    Martin

    @Yutsano: Look on the bright side – at least you can’t smell these chocolate chip cookies my daughter just baked for me.

    Hmm. That probably doesn’t help.

  93. 93.

    Martin

    @muddy: Yeah, dual compound miter. Not sliding – that just wrecks the accuracy of the saw.

    I’m not really a tool accumulator. I get one tool for each major project. Took 15 years to get around to something that absolutely required a jigsaw.

  94. 94.

    Steve in DC

    @Ash

    I’d wager Cuomo. Solid corporate Democrat (which is a must to actually get nominate) and very strong on social issues (the only progressive issues most of our party actually cares about now). Unless we have a massive change in leadership to place economic values first, and everything else second, you won’t see Cory at all. Or Warren for that matter.

  96. 96.

    Arm The Homeless

    @RossInDetroit: I own three vinyl albums, one of which is a 7″ from Less Than Jake. But I wouldn’t kick that outta bed.

    Have you ever thought about custom computer cases? Maybe custom console cases? It’s a big market out there for folks to get something special. Although who wants to make 50 copies of a Laura Croft beach volley-ball scene?

  98. 98.

    Steve in DC

    One of my friends builds custom computer cases for high end computers. Overclockers and liquid coolers (usually the same group) will toss 600-1000 on just the case if it’s good enough.

    performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_1000&products_id=31…

    mountainmods.com/computer-cases-ascension-duality-c-21_86.html

    Those are pretty good ones, and those prices are the bare price. Toss in powder coating and the fittings and it spikes massively.

    Last case I got ran over 800 once all was said and done, then a little over 1500 for all the water cooling gear, and that’s before any actual parts went in.

    xtremesystems and hardocp are some of the crazier computer sites for hardcore tech people, I’ve seen builds well over 20grand pop up. there is a market for it, you just really have to know what people want.

  100. 100.

    eemom

    @BGinCHI:

    Splendiforous! I loves me some babies.

    Enjoy — ‘fore ya know it he’ll be a mean-ass teenager like my kids. : (

  102. 102.

    muddy

    @Martin: I inherited my love of hardware stores from my dad. When he died, I got his to add to my own. Actually once he got cancer he said I should take his stuff home, as I was the one doing his stuff for him. I said I thought he ought to keep them. Even if he couldn’t use them then I know he still liked to go in the workshop and fondle his favorites. We used to give each other tools as presents. So now I still get him something for his birthday and father’s day.

    But I had to get rid of his collections of rusty bolts and screws etc., there was about 100 pounds of this kind of thing. Depression mentality, I guess. I took them to the scrap metal.

    I have some of my grandfather’s tools as well, they are pretty cool, like clamps with adjusting screws, which are made entirely of wood. Wood screws!

  103. 103.

    Steve in DC

    NK rocket launches are a joke, I was in the area while in the Navy when they screwed one up. The fear mongering over them is nearly comical. Their nuclear bomb, eh, we have conventional bombs bigger than that blast, we use those nukes for mailbox pranks. Their missiles, don’t work at all.

    Now granted, they have enough artillery and rockets to level parts of SK and a few million starving people that would swarm over the border to China, but that’s the only reason they haven’t been glassed, nobody wants to deal with that.

  104. 104.

    Arm The Homeless

    @Steve in DC: Just found out how a brushless dc motor works. The future is kinda neat.

    I want a truly field-grade set of google’s new heads-up glasses. I really can’t wait to see this how this tech flowers.

  105. 105.

    Burnspbesq

    The problem with going to the gym at 9:30 is that it will be close to 1:00 before I unwind enough to sleep.

  106. 106.

    Burnspbesq

    @eemom: @eemom:

    It’s a good thing I didn’t have daughters. I’d make them get all their clothes at Talbot’s and they’d hate me for it. The way our culture sexualizes teenage girls is pretty creepy.

  107. 107.

    Steve in DC

    @Burnspbesq

    We’re talking dual to quad CPUs, each of them being 8-12 cores, massive amounts of RAM, custom liquid cooled, quad video cards, SSD’s, very high end stuff. Granted, it’s not shit apple or dell or any other “toy computer” maker builds, but it’s out there. A lot of these guys are sponsored by hardware companies. Hell my current workstation uses the latest xeons, two of them, at 3k a pop, that’s 6 grand just in CPUs. Granted work bought that, but it’s easy to get up there quick (hell my network card is a grand).

    And even that’s low ball for quality work stations off the shell, but again, aint’ shit you get from Dell or apple, talking IBM AIX or HP UX boxes.

    Highend computers cost more than cars.

    I build liquid cooled computers and sell them as a side job.

    xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?279308-Vega-s-*Heavyweight*-display-and-computer-edition-201…

    That’s the type of shit people do. It’s caked in silicon because he’s sub zero cooling it, people pouring LN2 to cool stuff is also common, as are people digging wells for this.

    Get out of the apple and dell world, there is so much more :)

  108. 108.

    Burnspbesq

    @Steve in DC:

    I don’t doubt it, but a MacBook Pro does everything I need it to do, and I’d rather spend on audio gear and college tuition.

  109. 109.

    Yutsano

    @Martin: @BillinGlendaleCA: You both may feel free to DIAF. At least because of a bunch of medical tests I can overdose on caffeine tomorrow. Cause they’ll mess me up just enough that work ain’t gonna happen. At my boss’s insistence.

    (Nothing hugely major. Just a funky heart rhythm that popped up. Tied with family history and the cardiologist about had a cow.)

  111. 111.

    Steve in DC

    @Burnspbesq

    I love audio gear as well, all klipsh and HI-VI (swans) here. Would touch a mac though, if I want a wannabe unix OS I’ll use the real thing (solaris, aix, ux) and not some bastardized BSD (there is a reason apples server business got laughed to hell and back).

    My gaming computer isn’t that crazy, probably only about 6k, which isn’t all that crazy for a higher end computer. I also ebay shit and upgrade like crazy which gets me out of paying huge lump sums and let’s me recoup most of the cash.

    But yeah, for 99% of crap, my laptop gets me by.

    My point was though, you can sell high end computer cases and people will pay for them. 600+ retail, well over a grand if it’s a custom order for what they want, and they won’t think twice about it.

    My real hobby is arcade machines though, fun stuff.

  112. 112.

    Lojasmo

    @Burnspbesq

    Probably fewer than you think mostly the religious ones, but one would be is too many. It’s okay because of their religious beliefs, though. Gay kids might like it, also, too

    Fxt

  113. 113.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack: I have the 24 hour monitor on now, which will be more critical when I’m sleeping as the episodes happen most often then. It could just be pre-surgery stress honestly, I still have way too much shit to get together before it all happens. But when you lose three relatives to heart attacks on both sides of the genealogy that makes the cardio go a bit overboard.

  114. 114.

    Burnspbesq

    @Lojasmo:

    No, not fixed. You’re talking to the devoutly Catholic parent of an unconditionally loved gay kid, so with all due respect, shove it.

  116. 116.

    Jeffraham Prestonian

    Hello, Loony Baloonies! Long time, no type (well, a week or so, anyway).

    BIG NEWS: I now have a job! Yes, after 45 months of “retirement,” I am now working for Severn Trent Environmental Services, which is a pretty awesome company. I start 4/23 or sooner, depending on paperwork. Not that this matters, as most of you know me not from Adam, but dammit, I’m happy as a pig in slop, so I’m sharin’. :)
    .

  118. 118.

    Steeplejack

    @Jeffraham Prestonian:

    Congratulations on the new job. I hope that, after four years out, you remember your office etiquette and protocols, e.g., no sitting at the computer in just your boxers.

  120. 120.

    Jeffraham Prestonian

    @Bnut: Y’ever see the swan song clip of her short-lived late night show, where she’s drunk and rolling around on top of a grand piano, singing a bastardized version of “Thanks For The Memories”? OMFG. PRICELESS.
    .

  122. 122.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Yutsano: Good luck with the tests, and it’s better safe than sorry when it comes to the ticker. Especially with a family history. I think I’d better moderate the chocolate almonds and the baked snappeas, my blood pressure was up. But the snappeas are so good with some hot sauce.

  124. 124.

    ruemara

    Lisa Ling is incredible, one of the last journalists out there. Makes me wish could watch more of her stuff. Balls as big as monoliths, I say.

  125. 125.

    kdaug

    @BGinCHI:

    Is it a jetpack, because I’m getting really tired of waiting for that invention.

    Yes. It’s a jetpack that plays The Smiths.

  126. 126.

    kdaug

    @Amir Khalid:

    More likely the North Koreans fucked this one up all by themselves. Theirs is not a country known for having its shit together.

    No shit. Did you see that rocket? It was filthy.

    Seriously, don’t you have a million or so non-starving people who could give that thing a paint job?

    I’m thinking the dirt/grime brought the fucker down.

    Jesus, NK, get your shit together.

  128. 128.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Steve in DC:

    Ahem… SILICONE. Now it may get hot enough to pour sand in and fuse it into a solid chunk of “silicon”, but…

    :p

    I’m [H]ard too. ;)

  129. 129.

    Linda

    @suzanne:

    Everybody is sick of them. In marketing terms, it’s good for generating website clicks, but not even book sales. At this stage, it’s good for flinging poo and obscuring real outrages, like new abortion laws and attempts at curtailing contraception. When everybody has matching outrages, even if half of them are fake, everybody turns away in digust, and the Republicans win that round.

    Re: teenage prostitution. Human trafficking is a real issue here in the Toledo area, and a lot of activity has taken place here, simply because it’s the crossroads to everyplace. There are some sad and hair-raising stories that have appeared in the Blade in the last several years, and a local professor, Celia Williamson, who has done a lot of work researching that issue.

  130. 130.

    Starfish

    @suzanne: What is going on with Ann Romney is far removed from the mommy wars no matter what people would like to pretend. NO ONE has asked if she had an army of nannies doing the actual work part of being a stay at home mom. Really wealthy women often have this option.

  131. 131.

    Starfish

    @suzanne: What is going on with Ann Romney is far removed from the mommy wars no matter what people would like to pretend. NO ONE has asked if she had an army of nannies doing the actual work part of being a stay at home mom. Really wealthy women often have this option.

  134. 134.

    gogol's wife

    @eemom:

    I WAS a big fan of Richard Russo, until I read his latest novel, which was chock-full of the expression “a couple X” instead of “a couple of X.” It hit me that his smooth style may have been the product of a good editor, and now that publishing houses don’t seem to feel the need to pay professional editors any more, he’s on his own, and he can’t write!

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    KXB

    What is interesting about Lisa Ling is that her career started out as just another talking head on The View – she seemed to be heading towards the pop culture, anyone with an opinion route. Instead, she left The View, dropped off the red carpet scene, and threw herself into serious journalism. Impressive.

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    Ab_Normal

    @Redshift: Rocked my Yuri’s Night t-shirt yesterday… completely by accident. Or the programming’s just gone in really deep.

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