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Yeah, that I can understand. It also explained why he thought he would be on the In Crowd list.

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You don't want to fuck with the guy who examines your prostate on a semi-annual basis is why, I suppose.

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I do not understand why you held your tongue. If he is a professional, shouldn't he be able to handle the truth?

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I had a counselor for a while (couldn't afford an actual shrink) and that is what I called him. Until he acted like my regular friends and insisted I could afford something that I could not afford. Then I set up the payment plan for what he INSISTED on, and he was pissed at the tiny payments I could afford. Good bye rent a friend, I told you this so fuck off. I still finished paying off that last bill though.

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Thanks.

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A reference to Major League, in which Dennis Haysbert appeared as Carlos Serrano.

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I don't know who you are talking about.

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The workers who still believe their take home went up a little due to the 1% tax cuts will be sadly disappointed come April 15th when they owe more because the corporation they work for were complicit in duping them by failing to withhold a sufficient amount in order to make the repugs look good for the mid-terms (see stock buy-backs!).

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Quantifying the loss of a livable planet may be a challenge.

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Pretty predictable outcome; "firebugs" are sometimes politically radicalized but rarely tied in closely to any organization. It also sounds a little similar to the semi legendary "Bunny Man" affair.

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I lived in the DC area from 2003-005 where there was an arsonist burning down newly constructed apartments and houses. More and more it was reported as some sort of eco-terrorist trying to prevent development, but it turned out it was a guy off his meds. He's burned down something like 45 places.

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Well it is a bit infuriating to buy into the argument that only alternative energy has costs and damage associated with it. We should just consider those costs and damages in isolation, because fossil fuels are damage free? "Oh yes, this'll cost a lot of money and put a lot of people out of work for sure!" What a dumb ass viewpoint, and from a supporter?

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Bah. She could have called it a stupid question. A proper cost benefit requires that we COMPARE the costs of using fossil fuels to the costs of alternatives, not considering the costs of alternatives in isolation. Fossil fuels have medical costs, sharia-law-support costs, environmental damage costs - whole lotta costs that not are included in your electric bill, nor at the pump.

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Why? You're still buying in to the assumption that the comparative costs of reliance on fossil fuels is lower. You lose the argument at step number 1. The proper answer is that it is a stupid question! You either COMPARE the relative costs against each other, or you're a stooge of the fossil fuel interests and their sharia-law compatriots.

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Continuing to rely exclusively on fossil fuels, however - totally collateral-damage-free! No costs, no illnesses, no harm, no side-effects!

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Oh, they just HAD to throw the hairy leg on the woman in, didn't they.

But a crop top, skirt and Birkenstocks would not be my outfit of choice to riot in, especially if petrol and fire are involved. I would recommend long sleeves, long pants (in cotton or wool, because you DO NOT want your synthetic clothes to catch fire and melt onto you), a pair of sturdy boots and a helmet with a chin strap. Birkenstocks are not THE worst footwear imaginable for smashing corporate power, but they're pretty close.

Seriously, the longer you look at this picture, the worse it gets. Something is terribly wrong with the dog's legs. It appears to be walking by moving both legs on the same side, which is not how dogs do things, not to mention their front leg bends FORWARDS. Maybe it's a mutant dog rescued from some lab.

Someone is very, very bad at scaling. Look at the size of the lobster compared to the jerry can. And they've brought a miniture bull, that thing is only the size of the average 3-month calf at best, yet it has a good set of horns. I has a confuse.

WHO THE FUCK BRINGS A LOBSTER TO A FUCKING TORCH-AND-PETROL CAN RIOT?? It's going to do WHAT to help, exactly? In fact, what are ANY of those animals going to do to help the group achieve their objective? They brought a fucking chicken, for crying out loud. The dog might be useful but the rest of those animals are going to shit everywhere, be panicked by the flames and run away making a bunch of noise. They are not going to join the humans in the climactic battle, despite them being drawn with menacing facial expressions. Pigs and bulls aren't physically capable of making faces like that. "Animal Farm" was fiction, arseholes.

The pig is floating. They put a literal flying pig in their bullshit propaganda picture and expect to be taken seriously.

This is a fucking trainwreck.

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