^The bulletproof Pope-mobile is proof enough to me that even the Pope doubts the power of God.

The only good monster is one on the receiving end of a chainsaw, wooden stake, or silver bullet.

"No wonder our perception of Jersey is distorted." So wait, there's not hordes of chemically tanned, frizzy headed, Ed Hardy wearing guidos rampaging around the state? But I've seen the videos!

I always knew Morbo was a big softy at heart.

>> ^Fusionaut:
>> ^braindonut:
What a great opportunity to explain two imaginary beings to your child, at once.

Well technically Jesus of Nazareth did exist. It's just his Godhood that's up for debate.

And your evidence for this is?

>> ^Xaielao:
Yea I don't understand the whole 'leave the ashes in a jar on the hearth' thing either.
Me, when I die, throw my body deep in the woods so the natural processes can be had. That or bury me somewhere and plant a tree over the grave.


There's a man who loves all the little critters!

I've asked to be slaughtered and served to my friends and family, but for some reason nobody seems to like that idea. Weird.

Also, if you look, there's very few ashes in that urn, unless "Mom" was a dwarf, there should have been far more ashes.

>> ^Chaucer:
If healthcare companies and insurance companies want to stay in business, they will learn to keep costs affordable. It would also spurn those companies to be more innovative with the technology being used.


Another fool who seems to think that the free market will solve all the world's woes.

Do you want to know how the Free Market really works?

If business A provides a service for 450$, and business B provides the same service for 400$, then as soon as business B learns of this they RAISE THEIR RATES! Welcome to the free market, there's no competition, there's just everyone seeking to make the most money from the least amount of investment.

The Free Market would work the way you think it does if everyone was altruistic and weren't driving by sickening greed. Greed will be the undoing of us all, as long as there are people who say "Why should I have to take care of others", we'll never truly grow as a society. Until we can get over our selfish desires and childish behavior, we're doomed.

While I'm all for legalization of cannabis, doing it to raise revenue isn't the right reason.

Doing it to avoid spending money making criminals out of people whose only crime is toking up is the right reason.

If you want to raise revenue increase the taxes on alcohol and tobacco.

^Rush was appearing on Shatner's show "Raw Nerve".

It is just so delicious to hear right wing blow hards talk about how they want the best for the country. Yet to me, nearly every single tenet of the conservative philosophy is counter to creating a nation where everyone gets the best opportunity to live a fulfilling life.

Wow, sounds like excellent grounds for a wrongful termination lawsuit.

>> ^Xax:
I don't really get disliking Christmas music. Unless your dog died on Christmas when you were 8 or something.


It's not only that we don't like Christmas music, because the vast majority of it is just so terrible, but that you can't escape it. Where I live there are several radio stations that play NOTHING but Christmas music from All Saints Day through New Years Eve. Within the first 40 minutes they've played every even mildly tolerable song. The radio though I don't care so much about because I simply don't listen to it, but you can't go into a single store without being assaulted by Christmas muzak, Salvation Army bell ringers (FUCKING STOP RINGING THAT GODDAMNNED BELL!!!!), and dancing Santas playing a lousy rendition of "Rockin around the Christmas tree" through a tinny shitty little speaker in their base.

BAH! Humbug!

How a morality tale about an indigenous population fighting back against forced relocation and destruction of their ecosystem is considered lefty propaganda is just amazing to me.

Is the world view of conservatives so completely distorted that they can't see how destroying a planet and its population in order to collect some shiny rocks is a BAD thing?

I simply can't upvote this comment enough.

In reply to this comment by poolcleaner:
Would you place the same emphasis on "to Promote the General Welfare". Somehow I don't think so.

OK who else thinks this was a dramatic reenactment of real events in the middle-east some 1900 odd years ago, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent?

So should we start and investigation into Fox News and they're illicit brain alterations on their employees? The way I see it Gretchen and Glenn are two obvious examples of people who were not moronic, bat-shit crazy people prior to getting their jobs with Fox, yet now would have severe difficulties staying within the lines of a Denny's place mat.