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How is it possible that this many politicians and pundits have no conscience whatsoever? They lie so easily, and it doesn't seem to bother them. Wow.

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As is obvious by the gleeful hand rubbing above. I hate being reminded we have conspiracy types and gossip believers (supposedly) on our side.

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Who had the gun?

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Brown shoes don't make it.

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Went to school with Richard "Dick" Hollowpeter.

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He played the dumbest member of the crew. Not much of a dramatic stretch for him.

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I wonder how they're defining 'protest'? Like, if the students don't go into the stands until he's been recognized, or if they all moon him, or...?Look, I know it's Alabama, but I promise not everyone there is an idiot.

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nor is it remotely likely- and by "remotely" i mean "by astronomical distances, parsecs, f'cryin' out loud

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Forget it Morgan, it's bamatown

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Ah, the parsec, a unit I have used in anger many times.

It's a distance, equivalent to 3.26 light years. If you made a ruler the same length as the distance from the earth to the sun, and moved it away until it subtended an angle of 1/3600 of a degree -- one second of arc -- it would be exactly 1 pc away. Astronomers use the earth-sun distance as a baseline for finding the distances to star by the parallax method, so "parsec" is based on "parallax-second".

For a time, measuring accurate parallaxes was a specialty of mine. I gave that up when the Europeans launched the Gaia satellite, which has done the entire sky to far greater accuracy than anyone could from the ground. I wore an onion on my belt, as was the style at the time ...

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Trump treats the American people as stupid fools to be tricked and cheated.

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Frankly, I thought Farscape was a lot more meaningful and exciting than Firefly (even despite the muppet aliens).

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Yeah, but how fast did you do the Kessel run?

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And they should show up why? All these assholes blowing off Congress, they need to fuck all the way off!

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Presumes previous demonstrations of decency not in evidence, your honour.

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Cornyn is actually up next year! I was surprised by how rational (low bar) his answer was generally, and given that in particular.

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