We all thought he would drive it into the ground in a year. We remember the flailing with blue checks and $8 per month. Somehow he's keeping it afloat, though his dreams of making it the next PayPal seem to have died.

That's what I remember from Catholic school. Knew a person once who had been a rough birth, nurse wasn't sure they would make it, so was baptized with orange juice as that was handy.

I remember loving Elite Plus so, so much. I snapped up Elite II and got so frustrated with the installation process that I wrote an angry letter to the company. When I finally got it to work, I bounced off hard because of the "realistic" flight controls. Such a disappointment.

I think that's what "Coin" Harvey was accusing the British of doing. Maybe under the hoods you'd find the royal family.

Wondering if we'll see the same accusations of "fake gamer" and "casual" hurled about the way we did during gamegate.

That seems to be a common argument from the Sovereign Citizen groups. Does Schaffer have a background there?

Love it. Reminds me of old radio, where the creepy announcer for The Inner Sanctum would pause the story to shill laxatives.

It made sense at the time. A lot of people arguing against atheists organizations getting involved with progressive causes because "atheist is just a lack of belief in God." So alright, we want to be more than that, we want to have Atheism Plus.

*shrug* Still better than Brights.

See also the Know Your Enemy podcast's episodes on the paleocon/neocon split that happened after the Reagan victory.

"It's about the right size and weight to be a human head ..."

Thanks, Ebeth, that gives me something to dwell on over the weekend.

If it's like the division between the neocons and the paleocons, then there is nothing you could do until they won. During the campaign they were united against the dems. Now they're squabbling with each other over the limited resources of the administration.

No, we just believe that Canadians would be too polite to resist.