The Simple Truths Silver Mine

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

LaVeyan Satanism is just Randian philosophy with Hellfire Club style ritual to annoy Christians.

[Oakvale]

Can we stop with polls about people who are obviously terrible? Is this just some strange reaffirmation exercise?

[courts]

I'm not sure how any adult with an ounce of self-respect can still be a Republican at this point. What an embarrassment.

[SPC]

Isn't this the same DA's office that tried to indict Kay Bailey Hutchison for having her aide pick up lipstick, and the very same that convicted DeLay of those charges of which he was acquitted? Yeah, this seems to be a political hit squad masquerading as a legal authority. For Hutchinson it was because the DA had wanted to be appointed to the senate vacancy she filled. Now it's because this DA refused to quit. It's a personal vendetta, again.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Damn, she needs to move to a state where she can actually get elected.  Those selective edits may very well offend the Real Americans, just as intended, but she talks exactly the way my friends and I do.

[NHLiberal]

(Sarcasm, in the off chance that that needed to be clarified)

As everybody knows, gay men are the only people capable of contracting HIV/AIDS.  What's more, it's just far too expensive and time consuming to test blood and organs for any diseases.

[traininthedistance]

Besides, I'm annoyed by the unstated assumption that "bureaucracy" in itself is some sort of boogeyman. Bureaucracy certainly can degenerate into a very flawed and harmful system, but it has also been a critical agent of development and progress throughout recent history. Modern society can't do without a strong bureaucracy.

[Tender Branson]

I'm a person of strange obsessions. 

You have come to the right place.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

SNL died long before Don Pardo did.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I'm sorry, but being serious here... but Opie seriously freaked me out, especially with his "underage girls" views. I am glad he is gone.

[Mechaman]

The CRA was less the result of conscious action by LBJ than it was action on the streets by activists who risked their lives to see it become a reality. Any person in office who didn't sign off on that risked political suicide, which is something I think LBJ readily understood.

LBJ didn't do all that Civil Rights stuff for only political reasons; his own anti-racism was also a factor.

You would have a point if he hadn't been a huge racist...

[IceSpear]

Thirty years ago, if there was a problem, you had a Democratic solution and a Republican solution.

Today, if there is a problem, you have a Democratic solution and a Republican conspiracy theory denying the problem even exists.

[SWE]

The mall is a pretty fun place to hang out. Also there is an awesome Mexican restaurant called Qdoba or somethin like that.

Qdoba's a national chain.

If Qdoba is the best thing a town has to offer, it sounds like a cruddy town IMO.

[Joe Republic]

Tweed says terrible things but it's OK because he cloaks everything in post-modernist depressive sarcasm.  True Federalist says terrible things but it's OK because he cloaks everything in legalistic pedantry and the tactic of playing dumb.   

[Bacon King]

Thirty years ago, if there was a problem, you had a Democratic solution and a Republican solution.

Today, if there is a problem, you have a Democratic solution and a Republican conspiracy theory denying the problem even exists.

edit- oops already posted

[Lief 🗽]

538's sterile, soulless approach to politics is really kind of off putting. It's like they don't really understand its "soul," yet treat it like this exact science. It's like a bunch of high schoolers writing a report about a topic, but not really having any passion for it but thinking they're experts.

[memphis]

Most things we know and ideas we practice today are the opposite of the beliefs held for 99.999% of human history.

[Antonio the Sixth]

People sometimes express wonder as to why Women don't post here. They amaze me.

[Oakvale]

It's amusing that BRTD thinks he is worthy of having an opinion on Christopher Hitchens, a man way cooler than all this forum combined.

Not that I agreed much with the man on, well, anything really, but that's besides the point.

[SWE]

Am I the only person who's getting sick and tired of the Ice Bucket Challenge?

If you care about ALS, just donate some ing money to ALS research. Sorry to pour cold water on this exciting trend, but pouring cold water on yourself does no good to people with ALS.

[NHLiberal]

Soda. Anyone who calls it pop is a fascist.

[courts]

You have a habit of reading what you want to read into things rather than addressing the actual content of my post. Nowhere did I say that 'white people can have opinions about black people as long as they agree with me,' I said that white people shouldn't condemn black people organizing for their own self-defense or liberation in their own organizations and adopting tactics that they, as an oppressed people, feel are the right ones.

Understanding black poverty in America is not the same as understanding the social relations that make black poverty (and white poverty, Latino poverty, etc) a reality. I can 'understand' the plot details of a book or a movie from a wikipedia article without actually having read it, studied it, looked into it, researched it, lived it, etc. without actually having a real feel of why the book was written or produced, what factors contributed to it being written or produced, and how it was written or produced.

[RogueBeaver]

You're not living in reality if you think Brown is running close to Shaheen.

[Paul Kemp]

All of the blue avatars, of course.

[Simfan34]

Nothing good will come of "armed resistance," whether it's for real or for show. It's an idiotic gesture when suburban NRA members or squatting cultists are behind it, and it's no less stupid or unlikely to help in Saint Louis. HPs.