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I love it: NO TIMELINES FOR WITHDRAWAL. TIMELINES ARE FOR LIBERAL SURRENDERING PUSSIES. "Time horizons," though, are strong and manly.

I'm of two minds on the issue of capital punishment - I do believe that there are some crimes (or rather, some criminals) that cannot be forgiven by society, and for which even the pretense of rehabilitation isn't enough. At the same time, though, there are clear problems with our implementation of it, in many cases enough to throw the whole ( Read more... )

I went to the doctor today for the first time in years - and it was an eye doctor, so it's been MANY years. The problem was that I woke up with tremendous discomfort in my left eye: pain, profuse watering, redness, dry feeling, and complete blurriness. Also felt like it was full of sand, although I can't say I really know what an eyeful of sand ( Read more... )

George Carlin is dead. At the age of 71, which given his habits at the beginning of his career, would have been pretty surprising. I'll go on thinking that he's sitting somewhere with Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, and Mark Twain, watching us. We'd better be good.

...it's still fun to expose bullshit arguments.

But ...but....how will Obama win the big states like New York and California?

Apparently, there's controversy in Seattle right now because of two lesbians at a Mariners game recently who were asked by ushers to stop kissing ( Read more... )

Seconds ago, a black man clinched the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. I can't recall the last time I felt this country was going somewhere good, but I sure do now.

We need you on board for this one: poster Kevlar v2.0 on Somethingawful says that a good nickname for Marmol is "White Castle." Why? Because they both have sliders that'll make you shit your pants. I'm on board with that.

It is absolutely INSANE that Major League Baseball still hasn't instituted a limited form of instant replay for determining whether a ball is foul or a damn three-run homer. Ridiculous.