That was my first thought. *Wow, I've never seen anybody jump that high before!*

If Slashdot closed tomorrow, would Dice notice? It's not incompetence, it's apathy. Slashdot is a hollowed out shell that the spammers moved into, and it's only part of a collection of trinkets sitting on Dice's coffee table. Look at their history, nothing but a very fluid series of mergers and acquisitions. It has to be a tax thing.

I don't really know, or even care that much. The voters get what they want. It's just something to talk about, like the weather, or the Cubs. The presidency is ceremonial, like any other political position that answers to the money that fills the seat. In Reagan's case, he was 'discovered', or maybe rediscovered after the Dean Martin Roasts. I was very disappointed when Goldwater lost, I hated Johnson. Evidently, so did Nixon, but for different reasons. But... I'm the 'crazy conspiracy theorist'. I always did find the Official Narrative quite boring, and frankly quite incredible.

Does it make a difference?

Nah, still merely a hypothesis...

:-) Sounds like something you would be very familiar with...

Know how to work a plunger, kid? You're hired!

I suppose that's interesting, but considering the subject matter maybe not so much. Now, if it had been a 60 year old, I would have found it disturbing. Anyway, the kid found a very good excuse to read lots of comics.

Glad there's more choices, and no, I don't feel like I'm throwing my vote away.

No, you are not throwing your vote away, the people who vote republican/democrats are. Actually they are selling their votes, to the glitziest promises. It is the voters who support big money, by voting for big money candidates over and over.

No joke... Scarcity is nothing but the result of a dispute over the price. Or maybe you weren't around in '73 or '79. Or maybe you didn't follow the Enron thing. It's simple manipulation. Why would you doubt such a thing? Because they deny it? And you believe them? Eh, your choice. But you only show that you are the one that's out of touch.

Cthulhu has promised all his cockroaches that the conservatives get devoured first.

It's true. Y'all are dyin' off. And all the new kids will be voting for the Backstreet Boys. But... you gotta admit, Hillary would have been the best republican since Eisenhower, with Cheney as her running mate, a real go-to team. A lot of them will vote for her anyway probably. And another thing, you know it's just too easy to get ol' boy to come and defend his precious democrats. Fish in a barrel, not very sporting, is it? :-)

I do believe you are the one driving the the republican clown car. You're goofier than they are.

I knew it! You're gonna vote for her! It's alright man. It's the rational choice. There's lot of money to be made. But if I've learned anything at all, it's that 'rational' means shit.

It's a generic thing. You wouldn't understand. Dream up what you want.

I wouldn't expect you to understand.