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Here We Go Again
Nov. 28th, 2024 07:57 amFemale athlete born with too much testosterone when everyone knows they shouldn't have any
National folly
Nov. 9th, 2021 05:25 amIn 2016 America put Trump on the ballot, and Great Britain put Brexit on the ballot, both on the cynical assumption that they were too obviously stupid to win. Charlie Stross tells us how theirs is going.
Thanx to Charlie's Diary
Thanx to Charlie's Diary
Garfield wept
Nov. 25th, 2019 06:32 amGender reveal lasagna. At least this one hasn’t killed anyone yet. [PinkNews]
As H.L. Mencken said,
Oct. 24th, 2019 06:00 amNo one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain peopleHomeopathy
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NRA person says the way to deal with someone who has a backpack full of explosives is to shoot him before he does any harm. Also blames “gender-bending.”
For years we heard that Paul Ryan was one of the smart Republicans. He would present some complex economic plan, and the Very Serious People would praise it, except for a few spoilsports like Paul Krugman who would actually read it and demonstrate that it made no sense.
Now, as Charles Pierce and many others have pointed out, Ryan has proclaimed that insurance cannot work if healthy people have to pay more to subsidize the sick, which is the way insurance always works.
He is nowhere near alone. Many, many people who get one vote each used it to rid themselves of the scourge of Obamacare only to discover to their shock that doing so would coincidentally remove the ACA that is keeping them alive. (It’s international: “Let’s vote ourselves out of the European Union. OK, now let’s find out what the European Union is.”)
I really don’t want them to lose their health care. Nature punishes stupidity, but the purpose of society is to be less unforgiving than nature. In fact, I’d like all of us to have a real national health system like the first world does, and the worst that would befall the Trump trusters is the galling realization that the colored and the queers have it too.
Now, as Charles Pierce and many others have pointed out, Ryan has proclaimed that insurance cannot work if healthy people have to pay more to subsidize the sick, which is the way insurance always works.
He is nowhere near alone. Many, many people who get one vote each used it to rid themselves of the scourge of Obamacare only to discover to their shock that doing so would coincidentally remove the ACA that is keeping them alive. (It’s international: “Let’s vote ourselves out of the European Union. OK, now let’s find out what the European Union is.”)
I really don’t want them to lose their health care. Nature punishes stupidity, but the purpose of society is to be less unforgiving than nature. In fact, I’d like all of us to have a real national health system like the first world does, and the worst that would befall the Trump trusters is the galling realization that the colored and the queers have it too.
Trying to out-Trump Trump
Jun. 17th, 2016 06:36 amIn an effort to do something stupider than his choice of running mate, John McCain announced that President Obama was “entirely responsible” for the Orlando shootings. He has since walked it back somewhat, explaining the Obama created Daesh by pulling our troops out of Iraq. What our troops were doing in Iraq is presumably an enigma lost in the mists of history and thus not worth discussing.
One of my favorite things about being a liberal is that I don’t have to consider people my equals to want them to be treated decently. One example I’ve given is that we should have a single-payer medical system so that no one is financially ruined by illness, even people who’d much rather make sure that queers don’t marry each other. The Rude Pundit makes the same point in his own inimitable sewer-mouthed fashion.
Negative-tolerance policy
Mar. 29th, 2015 08:07 amStudent suspended for possession of a leaf that looked like marijuana.
"Rag head"
Dec. 24th, 2014 07:45 amAmericans react to a representative of the nonwhite Islamofascist terrorist cult that wants to take our freedoms (Sikh branch).
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andrewducker
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andrewduckerTo protect his child's innocence
Oct. 30th, 2014 06:26 amParent threatens "shit storm" if his child's World History class mentions *sl*m
ETA: "My kids may not be as stupid as I am, but by God they're going to be every bit as ignorant if I have anything to say about it."
ETA: "My kids may not be as stupid as I am, but by God they're going to be every bit as ignorant if I have anything to say about it."
Big scary word
Aug. 1st, 2014 05:21 amUtah teacher fired for talking about homophones. Reminds me of the time a woman assigned to set up a corporate training program had to explain to the bigwigs and HR that “pedagogical” does not mean sex with children.
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novapsyche
