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« October 2013 | Main | December 2013 » November 27, 2013I won't be pardoning any tofurkeys this weekend, that's for sure I apologize for my two political posts today. I know it's the wrong time of year for it, like i'm your crazy uncle rambling on at dinner. Sorry, sorry. I was going to end with a post linking to Obama's turkey pardoning and do a dumb parody of myself complaining that, sure the right-wingers don't like that he's pardoning the turkey but in my opinion Obama isn't going far enough. But when i went to look for an article to use, i found this instead. Again, sorry. Anyway, happy thanksgiving! By fnord12 | November 27, 2013, 11:44 AM | My stupid life| Link The Utter Disdain! It's fantastic! And i can't stop watching it. It's been a week. It still cracks me up.
"Human.... don't. I'm serious."
By min | November 27, 2013, 11:37 AM | Cute Things | Comments (1) | Link COINTELPRO returns As the article says: In this case it's Muslim "radicalizers" and even if you think that makes it ok (and you shouldn't), what's to stop them from using it against someone else next. By fnord12 | November 27, 2013, 9:36 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link First step is to stop calling it a blue slip "rule" It's a tradition that smacks of cronyism in the first place and in today's poisoned Senate it should just be ignored at the first sign of abuse. Don't expect that to happen, though: Leahy had to be dragged kicking and screaming to filibuster reform, so expect it to take him a long time before he sees any evidence of blue slip abuse. Blue slips. Such nonsense. Guys, George W. Bush had this right. Just go in front of the camera every day and say "Upperdown vote! Upperdown vote!". All your arcane and weird traditions are garbage. Then there's this: Republicans, however, believe social change should come from anywhere you can get it. Which i don't fault them for. So expect Democrats to keep nominating centrists and Republicans to keep nominating ideologues and we can all wonder together why the Voting Rights act and other laws keep getting struck down. By fnord12 | November 27, 2013, 7:58 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
Roadkill As i was driving, i noticed a horrible mess in the road up ahead. Clearly, some animal had been run over. As i got closer, i realized spattered horse guts covered the street. I knew they were horse guts because the head was miraculously intact. I had to swerve into the oncoming traffic lane to avoid the worst of it. The carrion birds were as tall as the hood of my car and not interested in moving out of the way for anyone. I drove past one dead horse, then another, and another. I felt someone touch me from behind. I turned and grabbed his arm with both of my hands. He smiled. "It's like being held by a hummingbird." I wondered if kicking out his leg would distract him enough to give me a chance to swing my foot up into his groin. By min | November 26, 2013, 1:39 PM | My Dreams| Link
Obamacare works when it's allowed to work Kentucky set up its own exchanges and has allowed the Medicaid expansion. And so we have this report of success stories. It's a good reminder that the law can work when opponents aren't actively denying their constituents access to healthcare to score political points. Stories about people with family history of lung cancer and spots on their lungs that they haven't been able to get checked out because of lack of coverage are heartbreaking. Of course there was a simpler way to do this. As Atrios snarks: By fnord12 | November 24, 2013, 2:20 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link The preliminary Iran agreement I've been a harsh critic of this administration on any number of fronts, including national security and foreign policy where the president has seemed to concentrate all his energies on counter-productive covert warfare. But the two big things they've done in the 2nd term are truly hopeful signs of some real progress in this ugly old world: backing down on Syria and this opening up with Iran. They are both bold decisions taken outside of our normal national security framework and are pretty much begging for hysterical criticism from some of the most powerful American allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel, not to mention the local American lunatics. Unlike Digby, i can't claim that i thought all along that this was one of Obama's main goals for his presidency. But i do recall the repeated "criticism" during the 2008 debates that Obama would agree to meet with Iran without "pre-conditions". And there's no doubt that his willingness to negotiate (along with changes in Iran) are a major factor here. To see this continue, however, the 2016 Democratic primaries are going to be very important. Not all Democrats are happy with this preliminary deal, and i'm not so sure Hillary Clinton would be willing to follow Obama and Kerry's path on this. By fnord12 | November 24, 2013, 2:11 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
Results of mixing Dayquil with Mello Yello Zero and Sunkist Ten Hour one: Ahhh kaff kaff kaff oh god Hour two: Hey, i'm not feeling too bad. I think i'll read the entire internet cover to cover. Ok that's done. What else? Dishes. Laundry. Work email. Anybody post anything new anywhere on the internet? Hour three: Whoooooooooooooooo! Did the walls always move in and out like that? Are those my ears? How can i hear my own ears? Hour four: Ahhh kaff kaff kaff oh god. Is this better or worse than severe liver damage from taking more Dayquil too soon? In any event, not a good time to try reviewing Tom DeFalco's contribution to the Hobgoblin saga. By fnord12 | November 22, 2013, 12:34 PM | My stupid life | Comments (3) | Link
Too little, too late The Democrats have finally pushed through a sort-of filibuster reform but it really is a case of too little, too late. Too little: ... The "Reid Rule," as supporters are calling it, does not affect the minority party's ability to filibuster Supreme Court nominees or legislation. (Leave it to Democrats to splice things out to this degree. Only for appointments! Oh but not Supreme Court appointments!) Too late: Even if this reform had affected legislation, we're way past the point where Democrats would have benefited from it. The time to do this was in 2008, when Republicans were already telegraphing the fact that they were going to filibuster everything that the Democrats did, and when the Dems had majorities in both houses. Even now, it's been five years of Obama's appointments getting held up. Any idiot could have seen this abuse of the filibuster coming years ago, but it took the Dems this long to do something about it, and even now only partially. Still, let's hope this opens the floodgates. And just to be clear, i'm completely for Republicans not being stymied by abuse of the filibuster either. Their lopsided abuse of the filibuster in recent years is well documented, but i still think when they are elected to govern, they should have the ability to govern. That doesn't mean the Democrats should disarm unilaterally - as long as the filibuster exists they should use it to the fullest extent because you know the Republicans will - but it does mean i accept that there can be negative (from my perspective) consequences of getting rid of it. By fnord12 | November 21, 2013, 1:43 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link Duh! I like Matthew Yglesias but his lack of real world experience sometimes causes him to have revelations that are blindingly obvious to those of us working in offices. Of course you are judged on how much of your vacation you actually used. And everyone knows you have to work an 80 hour week before and after your vacation to make up for the time you are away. And you are expected to take calls and keep up with emails while you are on vacation. Until recently my company had a forced shutdown period at the end of the year and the good thing about that was everyone was theoretically forced to take off so there was no shame in doing so, and there wasn't as much of a build-up while you were out. But even then there were plenty of people who made sure to let everyone know that they would still be working because they just had too much important stuff going on. Add to this the fact that everyone involved has a bullshit job as per the post below, and it's just this really weird game of self-torture that we play. By fnord12 | November 21, 2013, 1:34 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link Non-productive jobs Quoted from an interview with Ian Welsh by Jay Ackroyd. File this under "echo chamber" because i'm not sure Welsh, a pretty radical Scottish politician, is bringing any new data to the discussion, but i agree with his sentiment (as per my previous posts like this and this) that we're doing a poor job of sharing the productivity gains of the modern economy. Full interview is audio-only. Annoyingly inefficient! By fnord12 | November 21, 2013, 1:17 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
Monotremes Monotremes are very adventurous. (not every dream can be about fighting ninjas, y'know.) By min | November 20, 2013, 11:48 PM | My Dreams| Link Baby Showers Suck For so many reasons. I mean, they're boring as hell, for one. You usually only know a handful of people. You have to sit around making small talk (i despise small talk) with strangers (STRANGER DANGER!). And the games. The games!!! Ugh. And how excited can i be watching someone open gifts that won't be a surprise because Baby Gift Registry? Der. But on top of all of that, the worst thing they do is promote gender stereotypes. Most are women-only. Why? With a heterosexual couple, both parents contributed to making the baby. Both parents want the stuff you're gifting them with. Shouldn't both parents attend the shower? The couple prolly also has close guy friends. Why are they excluded (read "let off the hook")? Don't men wish to congratulate the expecting parents? Why is a co-ed shower the exception, not the norm? And don't get me started on the gender-specific gifts/decorations. Especially if it's going to be a girl. The explosion of pink and frilly things is not for the faint-of-heart. Girls apparently can't like trucks. Or safari animals. Not precious enough. I'm not sure there's a way to solve the problem of the boredom and oddly insufferable chatter of the baby shower. I loved getting the baby stuff when I was pregnant, but it was hard for me to have a shower, because I'm just not a shower person. I think the solution is to make everyone suffer together, or make it more fun for everyone and less hey, look, another onesie. OMG, what the hell is with the collective ooh-ing??? It's always perfectly timed so that everyone is in sync. It both amazes me and makes my teeth itch. It's just another pair of socks, people. Let's keep it together. But back to the gender issues. I enjoyed the sarcasm in this article at the end when discussing how we must change things to "entice" men. What? Women don't want games we'll enjoy? Or food? So, what i'm saying is 1) stop torturing me 2) let's make everyone suffer equally. By min | November 20, 2013, 10:17 AM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (2) | Link
Walmart Running Food Drive for Its Own Employees Stop. Read that again. Walmart pays its employees such shitty wages, it's asking for donations so these people can have Thanksgiving dinner. Do you remember that scene in Mickey's Christmas Carol where the Cratchit's have their Christmas dinner and the goose is miniscule cause it's all they can afford? Walmart is the Scrooge to their employees' Bob Cratchit! Unfortunately, we've gone 'round 180deg, and today's society doesn't view the Scrooges as the obvious villains anymore. Instead, they're "shrewd businesses" that aren't letting "lazy people" take advantage of them whilst nurturing a sense of community amongst their employees. Right. "It is for associates who have had some hardships come up," he said. "Maybe their spouse lost a job. "This is part of the company's culture to rally around associates and take care of them when they face extreme hardships," he said. Cause Walmart sure ain't gonna take care of them. By min | November 19, 2013, 9:09 AM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (1) | Link
SuperMegaSpeed Reviews Captain Marvel #17 - A little heavy on the empowerment message. I still say the best way to show an empowered Carol Danvers is to actually show an empowered Carols Danvers, with classic strong art and Ms/Captain/Whatever Marvel fighting super-villains. Nonetheless, i like Filipe Andrade's art and this issue was fine. And hey, congrats on lasting 17 issues before a reboot. Wolverine #11 - If Alan Davis wants to draw Wolverine fighting super-ninjas, then we should let him. Iron Man #18 - The one thing that bugs me about this is that i'm not quite sure what Tony (and Arno) thinks is the big pressing emergency that requires him to come up with some technological redesign of cities with such urgency. What's the crisis they're working to solve? I also felt like the futureworld intro was a bit of a time waster. Still, i've learned to trust Gillen on this series, and i thought the new anti-Neo-Liberal "Mandarin" at the end could be interesting. So we'll see where this goes. Superior Spider-Man #5 - Awesome awesome awesome. By fnord12 | November 17, 2013, 5:29 PM | Comics | Comments (4) | Link Airplane deregulation led to crappier planes Every time we watch an older movie featuring airplanes (this time it was Die Hard 2) Min wonders why the planes look so spacious. So here's a recent post by Yglesias on that. It's not his first on the subject and this post takes it for granted that his theory is correct and moves on to talk about why that in turn means that airports have gotten "nicer" (in my opinion, more like shopping malls, but i don't know if that really translates to nicer), but he does lay out the basic idea. By fnord12 | November 17, 2013, 10:49 AM | Liberal Outrage & Movies | Comments (1) | Link Just give everybody money By fnord12 | November 17, 2013, 10:45 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
Caption contest needed "Because of changes announced yesterday, more Chinese families will be permitted to have two children" just isn't cutting it. By fnord12 | November 15, 2013, 11:35 AM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (1) | Link
Fun fact If you spell "multiverse" poorly enough, your spellchecker will convert it to "liverwurst". By fnord12 | November 14, 2013, 5:22 PM | Comics & Good Words| Link You Mean They Don't Actually Come to Life? But they still won't play golf!! I'm pretty sure our stuffed animals come to life whenever we're asleep or out of the house. On a side note, i object alot to how much food they wasted just to create these scenarios. I think they could have achieved the same objective without ruining perfectly good food. Do i need to bring up starving children in this very country? By min | November 14, 2013, 3:20 PM | Cute Things| Link What the hell is the difference between quinoa and couscous? Some fluff for you. By fnord12 | November 14, 2013, 1:46 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
Misty Ok, i couldn't help myself. I had to look up this Meet Misty series. And it turns out that despite being a Star comic, it might even technically sort of be in continuity. Because Misty appears to be the niece of Millie the Model. And as you can see in the image below, she even has her own Chili Storm. You can also see the "Misty's outfit designed by..." stuff that was a trademark of Millie's comic. Also pretty amazingly, the series (not a single issue of which is available at mycomicshop.com!) was written and drawn by Trina Robbins, the underground comix artist and co-creator of Vampirella. Finally, i chose this particular cover because it seems to repurpose an image that was already used twice in Dazzler, first in Dazzler #31... ...and then again in her graphic novel. It's such a weird image it sticks in my head. Maybe it's not a "swipe". Maybe that's a real thing aerobics people did in the 80s and it's just a coincidence. I did some google image searches but felt creepy about it. Anyway, that's what i've learned about Misty. You may now go back about your lives, which are now richer and fuller thanks to this new knowledge. By fnord12 | November 13, 2013, 5:10 PM | Comics| Link Free the Care Bears! I showed this ad to min and told her that i keep seeing it and thinking that Tygra had that Care Bear on a leash, and she looked at it and said "He doesn't?". So i figured i might be on to something. FYI, i had to look up Tygra's name, didn't bother looking up which Care Bear that was, and i have no idea who Misty is. But this ad sure had high hopes in terms of their target audience; i can't imagine many Thundercats fans were also into the Care Bears. Unless they were invading their realm and enslaving them! I'd read that comic. By fnord12 | November 13, 2013, 4:47 PM | Comics| Link
Guys, corn is delicious. You eat it. The latest in why ethanol sucks. By fnord12 | November 12, 2013, 11:17 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link Jubilee Success I mentioned this a while back, and we did donate a little money to it, and now it seems that with about $600,000 in donations they've abolished $14.7 million worth of debt for 2,693 individuals. That seems pretty cool to me. By fnord12 | November 12, 2013, 10:43 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link Richard Cohen strikes again Is he just trolling me? Maybe i shouldn't provide a link: Here's a tip: when you have to "repress a gag reflex" when looking at a biracial couple, that's not "conventional". I think "racist" covers that pretty well. Also? John Cage was avant-garde; being married to someone outside your ethnicity in 2013 is not. Please note this post is about Richard Cohen. I have no idea if Iowa primary voters actually are repressing any gag reflexes about de Blasio. I'm not even really sure what the heck de Blasio has to do with an article comparing Chris Christie with Ted Cruz. And i guess to 72 year old Richard Cohen, a lot of things seem avant-garde. Like the internet, which might have told him that the things he learned in school about slavery 60 years ago might not have been entirely accurate. And this isn't really even about Richard Cohen per se, it's about why the Washington Post continues to allow him to be their prominent "liberal" columnist. Although i guess in the age of the internet, him being in that prominent position wouldn't be all that important if i would stop letting him troll me. By fnord12 | November 12, 2013, 10:24 AM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (2) | Link
The political wisdom of Boomerang I agree with this, but it's probably not to my credit that it's the "Australian and a felon" part that annoys me more than anything. By fnord12 | November 11, 2013, 4:43 PM | Comics & Liberal Outrage | Comments (6) | Link
Slavery was bad, mmmmmkay? I read this and thought surely Richard Cohen's column couldn't be as bad as all that, but it was. By fnord12 | November 7, 2013, 1:39 PM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (3) | Link
Not enough stimulus = Failure WaPo: But its conclusions are chilling. The paper offers a depressing portrait of where the economy stands nearly six years after the onset of recession, and amounts to a damning indictment of U.S. policymakers. Their upshot: The United States's long-term economic potential has been diminished by the fact that policymakers have not done more to put people back to work quickly. Our national economic potential is now a whopping 7 percent below where it was heading at the pre-2007 trajectory, the authors find. As Dave Reifschneider, William Wascher and David Wilcox sum up in their abstract, "The recent financial crisis and ensuing recession appear to have put the productive capacity of the economy on a lower and shallower trajectory than the one that seemed to be in place prior to 2007." What seems to be happening, they argue, is that people who lost their jobs in the recession have now been out of work for years, leading their skills to atrophy and them to become less attached to the workforce. As those workers' productive capacity diminishes, so does the total potential of the U.S. economy. By fnord12 | November 6, 2013, 3:13 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link SuperMegaSpeed Reviews Avengers AI #5-6 - I think it's time to acknowledge that Doombot is the breakout character of this series, cancel this book, and give him a solo title. I also feel robbed that MODOK and HERBIE (and others) were on the cover of issue #6 and not even in this series. In fact, since the Henry Pym/Vision/Victor/Dmitrios parts of this story are so thoroughly uninteresting, how about having Doombot form a new team with those guys? (And why would you send two robots out to try to quell a protest of people whose bank accounts were stolen by robots?) Uncanny X-Force #12-13 - I enjoyed Adrian Alphona's cartoonish art on issue #12, and it's really unfortunate that this series can't seem to hold onto an art team. That and the atrocious pacing have been the series' two major problems. And its depiction of Puck. The three problems with this series are its inconsistent art, its bad pacing, its total rewrite of Puck's personality, and the weird shoe-horning of the Demon Bear into this storyline. Ok, four. The four problems with this series are the art, the pacing, Puck, the inexplicable use of Demon Bear, and bringing back Cassandra Nova for a story that was already a complicated mess. Ok, amongst this series' problems... oh forget it. This comic sucks. Fantastic Four #13 - What?!? FF #13 - Ok, this is at least understandable, and a lot of fun. And the infinite super-apes finally balance out the lack thereof in Brubaker's Winter Soldier Young Avengers #11 - Not sure if i like swapping Young Loki with Teen Loki, but this continues to be a fantastic book. I see from the Sales Chart (link in the post below this one) that you people aren't buying this. Why not? It's awesome! Every issue has great art, amazing twists and turns and plots and schemes (that are nonetheless easy to follow while reading in monthly increments), great characterization, and at least one experimental layout or other innovation each issue (this one has an org chart connecting all of Marvel's teen characters plus a splash panel showing Loki exploding into a deck of cards that show all his past incarnations). Fine, i won't preach. But i'm enjoying it. Daredevil #32 - Since it's difficult to repeat every month how good this comic is, let me just say: all of that plus Legion of Monsters! Nice play on Daredevil's (and our) assumption that all southerners are racists, too. Caleb at Every Day Is Like Wednesday makes the interesting point that in the Marvel universe, with mutants and monsters and everything else to hate (robots, apparently), you might even expect there to be less racism, but i'm sure racists can always find a little more room in their hearts to hate another group, and you can't ruin the "world outside your window" aspect of the MU, anyway. Indestructible Hulk #14 - Bear with me here, because this is going to be difficult to believe. I am not loving this time travel arc generally, but i thought this was a particularly weak issue - and this is the part that is going to be hard to believe - even though the Hulk fights Fin Fang Foom this time. The storyline is just dragging a bit and needs to wrap up. Also the art switch after the first five pages was a little jarring; you'd think the Hulk would get better treatment than Uncanny X-Force in terms of having a consistent art team. Iron Man #17 - Wow. I'm really impressed with this. It's been a long time since i've read a story in realtime where there was a twist that a) i didn't see coming b) i understood and/or was able to keep up with even though i was reading in monthly installments. If you go back and look at my past reviews of this arc, you'll see me thrashing around the idea that Tony Stark was actually genetically programmed for super-intelligence as a baby by a rogue Rigellian Recorder. I really didn't like that idea, and i wouldn't put it past Marvel to do something like that at this point, and as much as i liked aspects of the story, i was really nervous about that becoming canon. At best i was hoping for a "Nah, it wasn't really true." in the last part. This twist is much cooler. Yes, Arno is a character that may potentially be abused by future writer. But the resolution here was a unique revelation that nonetheless doesn't hurt Tony's character. Kieron Gillen's outro says "I hope you feel the need to re-read the run at this point." and yes, i do. One day. In the meantime, looking forward to more, and hoping the art remains Pagulayan and/or Eaglesham and doesn't go back to Greg Land. Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #4 - We only got this because we accidentally got the first part. This one was a little better, i guess, but we could have skipped it. Wolverine #10 - As it's the middle part of a storyline, i don't have a lot to say except that Cornell and Davis are doing nice work. I originally didn't feel like i needed to read a Wolverine solo series and was only getting this for contractual reasons, but now that i'm committed to it i can say that i'm enjoying it. Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #5 - Kept this as a separate entry since it's a totally different creative team and story from issue #4. This is the beginning of the Secret Six plot that's been building for a while now (before the title change) and it was as good as i was hoping it would be. Nice use of the Wrecking Crew. I often feel like they are used as generic punching bags, but this time they were treated well and i liked Dr. Octopus' take on them (my favorite thing about this series has been Octavius' opinions about all the characters he's encountered). I hope everyone knows it was the Norn Queen, and not Loki, that gave the Wrecker his powers, but i guess it's ok if Mysterium doesn't. By fnord12 | November 6, 2013, 8:16 AM | Comics| Link
Marvel Sales By fnord12 | November 5, 2013, 2:24 PM | Comics| Link Jehovah's Witnesses warn of zombie apocalypse We found this tucked into our doorjamb yesterday. I would have said "No", but the pamphlet tells me otherwise, because the Bible says it'll happen. And how do we know that the Bible is true? Because the Bible says so. Here's the back panel. That may seem photoshopped but c'mon, who would be so lazy to do such a poor job? By fnord12 | November 5, 2013, 10:34 AM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (3) | Link
Streusel-Topped Pumpkin Muffins Ingredients Ingredients
In a very large bowl, combine the sugar and oil. Whisk the egg replacer and 1/2 cup of water together. Stir into sugar mixture. Add the pumpkin purée. Mix well. In a regularly large bowl, whisk together the flours, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add half of the dry mix to the sugar pumpkin mix. Stir until just combined. Add the 2/3 cup water. Gently incorporate. Pour in the remaining dry mix and again stir until just combined. Preheat the oven to 425degF. Divide the batter evenly into the muffin tins, filling each cup nearly to the top. In a small bowl, combine all of the streusel ingredients except the butter and nuts. Cut the butter into the mixture, forming pea-sized balls. Add the pecans. Sprinkle the streusel topping onto each muffin. Bake for 6 minutes (or 3 for minis), then lower the temperature to 350deg F for an additional 14 min (or 8 for minis). The initial high temp is what causes the muffins to dome. Cool for 10 minutes. Run a thin knife around the edges to unstick the muffins. Remove to a rack to completely cool. By min | November 4, 2013, 8:23 PM | Vegan Vittles| Link Many will do nothing TPM: But that's not what she found. Instead, she'd be paying an additional $300 a month for coverage. The letter made no mention of the health insurance marketplace that would soon open in Washington, where she could shop for competitive plans, and only an oblique reference to financial help that she might qualify for, if she made the effort to call and find out. ... Fast forward a month, and Donna was able to log onto Washington's marketplace and shop for insurance. And what did she find? Options. A LifeWise plan with the same deductible they offered her outside the exchange was a little cheaper. Plans with a lower deductible had the same or lower premiums as the LifeWise plan. What she ended up buying was a plan through Community Health Plan of Washington with a $250 deductible. And crucially, she also discovered she would qualify for a federal tax subsidy that would knock her monthly premium to $80. Her daughter could enroll in Medicaid, at no cost to the family. So here's the bottom line: If Donna had taken the default option that LifeWise offered outside of the marketplace, she would have paid nearly $1,000 more per month for a worse plan than she was able to obtain on the marketplace. It's nice that this lady was able to get on the exchange and find a better deal and that she qualified for subsidies. But many people won't know to do this or how to do it, or will try and fail (even after the technical website problems are fixed). It's complicated. People are busy. Not everyone knows how to navigate websites. Some people aren't sophisticated or technically savvy. Some are mentally impaired. TPM frames this story as "insurance companies are cheating people" and they've also been pushing the "media stories are misleading" angle. And that's all true. But the real problem is that the system is overly complicated. We shouldn't be relying on individual 57 years olds (or 20 year olds) to figure out if they are picking the right stuff. This is why we should have just expanded Medicare or at a minimum had a Public Option ("figure it out for me; i'll have what everyone else is having"). By fnord12 | November 4, 2013, 1:02 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
If Wes Anderson Made a Horror Movie Heh. By min | November 2, 2013, 1:29 PM | Movies| Link
Respectability rewards Answering the question "Why do poor people 'waste' money on iPads?". By fnord12 | November 1, 2013, 1:36 PM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (1) | Link Recap 55 Weren't You Supposed to be Rescuing Some People or Something? By min | November 1, 2013, 7:56 AM | D&D| Link |
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