Gee ... I hope I don't offend Wil Wheaton's pussy ... errr ... I mean posse, but ( Read more... )

X = film, novel, ice cream, car, etc ...

When you say "Best [X] ever!" the rest of us hear "I'm an idiot who confuses opinion with fact and can't conceive of something outside my limited sphere of knowledge being of any worth."

You're welcome.

I know what happened 10 years ago. I don't need to hear the tearful testimonies of the families of persons who died in that tragedy to be be able to feel outrage about the event ( Read more... )

Your political views must conform to the tenets of your religion. If they do not, politics has become your god and you know how He feels about competition ...

A = B and B = C, therefore A = C!

Politicians are idiots. Rick Perry is a politician. Therefore ...

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they ( Read more... )

When you start a review with that increasingly commonplace and rather tiresome expression "I just threw up in my mouth a little"? You have just downgraded your review into a criticism and are teetering on the precipice of ranting. Additionally, you have lost what little credibility you had with me.

Quoted (bad grammar and all) from another source. The words are not mine but the sense of outrage is the same ... The Norwegian bomber was a white Christian, so I guess that means we should have increased security at airports for anyone wearing a crucifix, should treat any Christian-looking person like a potential terrorist, and we should probably ( Read more... )

Things are not as simple as they appear. I just heard a radio talk show host expounded upon a theory there is a massive conspiracy underway because the Norwegian authorities have decreased the official death count from 90-something to 80-something ( Read more... )

A recent conversation with a female friends sheds some light, I believe, on why men can't take women seriously. She was proudly telling me how she had taken her ex-husband to the cleaners in her divorce.  Wow, I replied, was he cheating on you? No. Beating you? No. Was he a poor provider? No. Emotionally absent? No ( Read more... )