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I'm certain we can find an alternate timeline that gets Werner von Braun his material and funding. After all, it was his project stuck out in Peenemunde and he wanted to go to the Moon, not flatten England.Rocket mail! Just think of it: a little pricey, to be sure, but if it must get there ahead of the mail Zeppelin, well- it's true what they say. "Tomorrow, the Whole World."

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Realy? U ned spelzchik.

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Hardly fearless. They are a giant combined amygdala.

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Lazy OR stupid? Why not both?

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"my balls are always bouncing, my rooms are always full..."

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tell us how you really feel!

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remindz me of one of the visual aids for the "sex talk" to the "coming of age" group at the UU Church: The teacher showed a cartoon of a guy finding his wife in bed with another woman and the caption is "It's not what you hoped!"

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John Boehner: "The question is who is going to jail".

Answer: Nobody.

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The word you're both looking for is, I think, "hypocrite".If anything defines why I moved away from the ideal (or ideology) of social libertarianism, it was my strange bedfellows who would talk about the innate freedom of the individual to be free to do whatever they wanted.... unless of course you happened to be a woman who found herself pregnant, then all bets were suddenly off; the dose of fiscal conservative libertarian who would literally tell an ill or old poor person to hurry up and die, but had no problem with the 'reality' of spending billions upon billions every year on boondoggles like the F35 fighter jet, or unjust wars in Iraq; the kind of family values nut who would screech about the sanctity of marriage but would eventually be caught in a work colleague, a dead girl or a live boy; who would vigorously protect the right to bear arms, yet not the right of innocent people to not get shot by a poorly-regulated militia; and similarly, that somehow a marketplace full of literally sociopathic corporations would "correct itself".. .well, 2008 gave us all a real-life example of how well that turns out.It just showed me the sad truth that, although I personally could (and still do want to) be left with minimal 'nightwatchman' government interference with just enough taxation to pay for infrastructure and leaving the lights on - there are millions in each nation who simply can't, including society as a whole. Those of us with a shred of empathy understand the reality of living in a civilised society.All of us on the Left (be it socially and/or financially) have to work together to find compromise. And we can. But screeching and acting like rabid fucknuts - either amongst ourselves or with the conservative dreamers on the right will not achieve this. Those on the Right (socially/financially) who cannot act like decent human beings should be shunned and mocked openly (and as an example this place does a grand job of that!) but those who can 'play nice' should be invited to the table.Ridicule these hypocritical fuckwits for sure (viz Joe Biden vs Paul Ryan), push back when they demonise rightwing centrists like Hillary, and encourage them over to the 'adult table' when they cross the floor (like Lincoln Chafee, and even Jim Webb) but playing by their insane rules is insanity.Flinging their own poo back at them, tho, is fair game, for sure.Apologies, tl:dr that turned into a bit of a manifesto/agitprop. Peace out. :)

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feral cat at three in the morning libels!!!!!!!yowl!!!!!!!!!

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Hmmm... it's a risky move.. but you know, it might just work!Well, not in the House of Representatives, but I like your thinking nonetheless!

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I would happily hold hands with her! In public!

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It would be irresponsible to doubt the veracity of that story.

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Josh 'Dr Fingers' Duggar?

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Wait now, let's not be too hasty, tell me more about this dog that barks bees...

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Howler Monkey LIBELZ! Even the loudest one have bigger balls than than any Reb yodeler in Congress.

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