I’m not even sure that it shouldn’t have been a “?”, where “please” is an abbreviation for in “can you please?“. But it’s probably an abbreviation for “if it pleases you”…..
I seldom feel more alive than when debating punctuational rectitude!
I seldom feel more alive than when debating punctuational rectitude!
April 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I’m not even sure that it shouldn’t have been a “?”, where “please” is an abbreviation for in “can you please?“. But it’s probably an abbreviation for “if it pleases you”…..
I seldom feel more alive than when debating punctuational rectitude!
I seldom feel more alive than when debating punctuational rectitude!
As a boomer (terminally is not an adjective we like to resort to too frequently!)… But at least we don’t have to share a generational epithet with BJ & Bukkakele.
April 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
As a boomer (terminally is not an adjective we like to resort to too frequently!)… But at least we don’t have to share a generational epithet with BJ & Bukkakele.
I’ll be the dead old geezer lying in the middle of the road with an elderly, 105lb golden retriever strapped to his back, trying desperately to find some flesh on the back of my wizened head that it can eat.
April 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I’ll be the dead old geezer lying in the middle of the road with an elderly, 105lb golden retriever strapped to his back, trying desperately to find some flesh on the back of my wizened head that it can eat.
I won’t not ask you!
April 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I won’t not ask you!
How did I manage to get through life without not understanding what “without not knowing” actually means?
April 17, 2025 at 5:59 AM
How did I manage to get through life without not understanding what “without not knowing” actually means?
It would be the most delicious irony if, before whatever, inhuman, populist legislation he pushes through was repealed, the last few places at the “El Salvadorian holiday camp for homegrown felons“ were to be filled by Trump, his family and the disgraceful clique that have enabled them.
April 15, 2025 at 6:56 AM
It would be the most delicious irony if, before whatever, inhuman, populist legislation he pushes through was repealed, the last few places at the “El Salvadorian holiday camp for homegrown felons“ were to be filled by Trump, his family and the disgraceful clique that have enabled them.
I can already hear the sophistic counter argument, “are you comparing immigrants to dogs?“.
The answer to that is, “Of course not. The best that the human race has to offer struggles to hold its own against the qualities displayed by even the most average dog.”
The answer to that is, “Of course not. The best that the human race has to offer struggles to hold its own against the qualities displayed by even the most average dog.”
April 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I can already hear the sophistic counter argument, “are you comparing immigrants to dogs?“.
The answer to that is, “Of course not. The best that the human race has to offer struggles to hold its own against the qualities displayed by even the most average dog.”
The answer to that is, “Of course not. The best that the human race has to offer struggles to hold its own against the qualities displayed by even the most average dog.”
You don’t help children overcome irrational fear of dogs by insisting they have nothing to fear from dogs.
If you do, they will look to more extreme solutions for comfort, and the children and the families/communities they inhabit will eventually forget the many benefits of living alongside dogs.
If you do, they will look to more extreme solutions for comfort, and the children and the families/communities they inhabit will eventually forget the many benefits of living alongside dogs.
April 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
You don’t help children overcome irrational fear of dogs by insisting they have nothing to fear from dogs.
If you do, they will look to more extreme solutions for comfort, and the children and the families/communities they inhabit will eventually forget the many benefits of living alongside dogs.
If you do, they will look to more extreme solutions for comfort, and the children and the families/communities they inhabit will eventually forget the many benefits of living alongside dogs.
I don’t agree with your framing of this.
Democracy is a system of government which responds to an electorate’s concerns (justified or not).
The first job of the Democrats is to convince voters that there is an effective alternative to the fascist nonsense being enacted by Trump‘s lickspittles.
Democracy is a system of government which responds to an electorate’s concerns (justified or not).
The first job of the Democrats is to convince voters that there is an effective alternative to the fascist nonsense being enacted by Trump‘s lickspittles.
April 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I don’t agree with your framing of this.
Democracy is a system of government which responds to an electorate’s concerns (justified or not).
The first job of the Democrats is to convince voters that there is an effective alternative to the fascist nonsense being enacted by Trump‘s lickspittles.
Democracy is a system of government which responds to an electorate’s concerns (justified or not).
The first job of the Democrats is to convince voters that there is an effective alternative to the fascist nonsense being enacted by Trump‘s lickspittles.
Basically in rounding error territory.
Meanwhile, the Alphas & Betas make up stuff that suits their agenda.
Deltas and Epsilons cheer wildly for something they believe completely, but cannot understand.
Whilst the Gammas re-read the numbers and worry that they have missed something.
Meanwhile, the Alphas & Betas make up stuff that suits their agenda.
Deltas and Epsilons cheer wildly for something they believe completely, but cannot understand.
Whilst the Gammas re-read the numbers and worry that they have missed something.
April 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Basically in rounding error territory.
Meanwhile, the Alphas & Betas make up stuff that suits their agenda.
Deltas and Epsilons cheer wildly for something they believe completely, but cannot understand.
Whilst the Gammas re-read the numbers and worry that they have missed something.
Meanwhile, the Alphas & Betas make up stuff that suits their agenda.
Deltas and Epsilons cheer wildly for something they believe completely, but cannot understand.
Whilst the Gammas re-read the numbers and worry that they have missed something.
Does that mean that the square on the hypotenuse wasn’t equal the sum of the square on the other sides prior to Pythagoras discovering it?
April 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Does that mean that the square on the hypotenuse wasn’t equal the sum of the square on the other sides prior to Pythagoras discovering it?
Strategy without tactics is the slow route the victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
April 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Strategy without tactics is the slow route the victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
I don’t think the term “leftist” is particularly helpful in this context.
“Left-leaning, ideologically authoritarian dickhead” is, I think, the technically correct terminology.
“Left-leaning, ideologically authoritarian dickhead” is, I think, the technically correct terminology.
April 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I don’t think the term “leftist” is particularly helpful in this context.
“Left-leaning, ideologically authoritarian dickhead” is, I think, the technically correct terminology.
“Left-leaning, ideologically authoritarian dickhead” is, I think, the technically correct terminology.
Anyone who would define someone they perceive as being (even fractionally) to the right of them as a neocon.
April 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Anyone who would define someone they perceive as being (even fractionally) to the right of them as a neocon.
And the 2025 “White, bourgeois entitlement award” goes to…….
April 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
And the 2025 “White, bourgeois entitlement award” goes to…….
Anyone else think “Coristine” sounds like the name of an enzyme?
Perhaps an enzyme produced at times of anxiety and low self esteem, which causes an irrational urge to gain power over and inflict suffering upon innocent others, in order to generate the illusion of happiness relative to said others.
Perhaps an enzyme produced at times of anxiety and low self esteem, which causes an irrational urge to gain power over and inflict suffering upon innocent others, in order to generate the illusion of happiness relative to said others.
April 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Anyone else think “Coristine” sounds like the name of an enzyme?
Perhaps an enzyme produced at times of anxiety and low self esteem, which causes an irrational urge to gain power over and inflict suffering upon innocent others, in order to generate the illusion of happiness relative to said others.
Perhaps an enzyme produced at times of anxiety and low self esteem, which causes an irrational urge to gain power over and inflict suffering upon innocent others, in order to generate the illusion of happiness relative to said others.
In medicine it’s called getting a second opinion.
April 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In medicine it’s called getting a second opinion.
I just fed that into ChatGPT and asked her to make it slightly more coherent and rational.
She told me to fuck off !
She told me to fuck off !
April 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I just fed that into ChatGPT and asked her to make it slightly more coherent and rational.
She told me to fuck off !
She told me to fuck off !
By this time, of course the original seed-junkie doesn’t matter. The strategy was that China would control the means of production, and the means of distribution of whatever sparkly crap a world (forged in the needy image of the US) now thought it wanted.
See, I told you it made sense !
See, I told you it made sense !
April 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
By this time, of course the original seed-junkie doesn’t matter. The strategy was that China would control the means of production, and the means of distribution of whatever sparkly crap a world (forged in the needy image of the US) now thought it wanted.
See, I told you it made sense !
See, I told you it made sense !
They knew that eventually the addiction would (potentially fatally) compromise the addict. (As it turns out this manifests itself in debilitating,orange, pustulating lesions on the body politic).
April 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
They knew that eventually the addiction would (potentially fatally) compromise the addict. (As it turns out this manifests itself in debilitating,orange, pustulating lesions on the body politic).