I heard that 9/11 was an inside job too, probably from the same sources.

Ha ha! Go to a school board meeting and suggest that.

The parents would murder you.

High school in my suburban town starts well before the butt-crack of dawn, for much of the year. The bus picks up kids on my block at 6:30 am, and it's not a long ride.

But then, my Mondays start at 4:00 am, when I get up to drag my ass to Scranton for the first three days of my week, so fuck 'em. :-)

I knew the Iraq war was nonsense when I was listening to Colin Powell lie to the world at the U.N. Don't know whether you realized it at the time or not.

You seem to have (willfully?) missed my point. The nonsense you're spewing about North Korea is more neo-con fantasy, similar to that the Bush administration did for Iraq. Except yours is even farther out in space. Unless I'm missing a troll, you're fruity as a nut cake.

"The Iraq war will pay for itself." Dick Cheney, is that you?

It still gives me a little shock when I see someone express such breathtaking arrogance and ignorance.

You added a new twist, though, I have to hand it to you for suggesting that we levy a tax after "liberating" North Korea, to *literally* pay blood money to families of soldiers who die.

Most of the United States' problems around the world are exacerbated by the enforcer mentality behind much of our foreign policy, and you want to turn the U.S. into an openly mercenary state.

Bravo, sir, bravo. Tell the orderly to stop stealing your meds.

It depends where you insert them.

Yes he is. And I infer from your post I would consider you to be a fetus.

Run, runner!

Wow, that is so... sad.

Many (probably not even most) relationships are supposedly built on love - "Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." Heinlein was pretty sexist and racist, but he sure got that right.

My marriage is older than the grad students you fuck, and every year is better than the last. Don't worry, you still have time. Like Iggy Pop said, "If you're crying for love, well that's okay don't sweat it, if you're crying for love, then there's still a chance you'll get it."

I think you have it half right. I'm over 5 years older, feel great, and I attribute that to being deliriously happily married... and not having any kids. Oh, and lots of exercise.

Ha ha! Speak for yourself!

I'm in my early 50's, and since I moved to a larger house in the suburbs, I put in an exercise room with weight and cardio machines, and I built an addition for an indoor exercise pool. I'm in better shape now than I have been for decades.

I went for a bike ride recently with a friend who is less than half my age, who was on the swim team in high school, but let himself go a bit. I was shocked on the really steep "fun" hill at the end of the ride (my favorite part) to look behind and see him nowhere.

The only concession I've made to aging so far is coloring my graying hair and beard. Age discrimination in business is real.

Certainly not millions. If you include those civilians accidentally or mistakenly killed by the U.S. forces, plus the actual targets they were aiming at, I'm pretty certain it was far less than 200,000.

Still, that's a sickening number of humans to destroy so your defense contractor friends can make a... er, killing, as it were.

Oh yes, I completely agree that you are correct. You have decimated my argument.

Says the person meta-criticizing a /. criticism, and who also apparently cannot tell the difference between the words "exert" and "assert".

This caught my eye. Really? We've decide to kill the hackers? Somehow I don't think the president would sanction killing people who have not physically hurt U.S. citizens as a "proportionate response".

I was writing that last sentence seriously, but then thought, "hey, this is the president who ordered the killing of a U.S. citizen who just made some YouTube rants - of course he'd consider killing them.

But actually, no. The president will not order, or sanction, the killing of the douchebags who hacked Sony.