And the democratic process means politicians never get away with corruption. Individual malfeasance usually can't be gotten away with, over the long haul, but collective corruption can, easily.

The sound of each minute flipping by, in the dead of night when you can't sleep.

I had one like this as a kid.

"The door is ajar."

Or car alarms that bark orders at you.

Now we have to listen to a lame digital impersonation of one.

(I guess thank goodness there are no mock autowinder sounds.)

That reminds me, I don't think I've heard the sound of curb feelers since the 70's or so.

Probably because before we in the U.S. drove big-ass boats that you sit high in, we used to drive big-ass boats that you sat lower in.

Mentally s/scientists/cops and reread that. Or replace with "journalists" or "politicians". Everything's been corrupted.

When I was 19 there were songs from the Scorpion's Love At First Sting album in the regular hourly or whatever rotation of songs on Top 40 stations then. It's a trip to think about something along the lines of Rock You Like A Hurricane being played there now.

Because
[x] Fox News
[x] the Wall Street Journal
[x] Wealthy interests
[x] Koch Industries
[x] Right-wing elected officials
[x] well-funded
[x] climate change denialism
[x] deniers-for-hire

I don't get it, if you're willing to use Chrome, you don't care about your privacy, yet you want to use SSL.

I HTTP browse Slashdot's D2 discussion system with FF ESR 31.3.0 for Windows these days, and the only problem I've been experiencing is being on an occasional page here where some resource was getting loaded every 5 seconds, like clockwork. And on my iDiot device the non-mobile version of this site doesn't come up at all anymore, just a continuous rapid reloading. There's so much third-party shit on web sites nowadays it's a wonder they function even part of the time.

The Catholic League is not the Vatican. I am not a member of the League (though I am a Knight of Columbus).

Furthermore, what Donohue is saying is Biblical, about trying not to deliberately offend.

The reason for that is, obviously, if they're spitting mad at you they aren't going to listen to the Gospel from you.

That said... I support the right of comedians to offend whoever they want.

I called my congressman (Kenny Marchant) and left a message with a staffer, and send him a tweet asking him to support Gohmert for Speaker.

Sadly, Marchant voted for Boehnerdict The Orange. Oh well, don't blame me -- I voted for Grant Stinchfield in the last primary...

My wife used to be a Protestant, and even joined BSF... when we left the Protestant Church I was attending with her, she went all Sola Scriptura in an attempt to convince me why I was wrong to remain Catholic.

What she found in the intense study of Scripture converted her to Catholicism.

This book reinforced it.

I've every bit as Roman Catholic as St. Peter and St. Paul. ;)

Sounds good. Here's hoping! Go Bucks!!

Right, and outside of Ireland Catholics and Protestants aren't currently slaughtering each other the way the Shia and Sunni groups are.