Although you appear to be trying like hell to do just that.

It must suck when you when have to misquote the headline of the article you linked to, in order to make your "point".

It must suck even worse when you have to mischaracterise the article itself. It states that Pelosi is seeking to put limits on corporate political activity. There's nothing there that suggests she's planning to repeal or replace the First Amendment, either of which would require both an act of Congress and approval by a majority of the states.

But then, if you'd not slept through high school civics class, you'd know this stuff, wouldn't you?

Yet no-one has a monopoly on them.

Definitely. He also seems to think he's telepathic.

TFTFY. Happy Holidays and all that. :D

You guys are the ones missing out. :-P

One would think there's a suitable 12-step program...

Let me get this straight. You're saying that the torture depicted by Couture will give sick freaks a hard-on, but the torture depicted in Passion won't, and this is only because Mel Gibson's heart is pure, and Couture's isn't?

Do you think I just fell off a potato truck, or what?

Please don't try to invent slang on the spot; the potential for embarrassing yourself is quite high.

Case in point: I have never before heard anyone use "roid" as slang for anything other than something you use Tux Medicated Pads to relieve and probably do not want to get rope-burnt by attempting to lasso it.

I'm guessing you weren't around at the time, because there were in fact two versions of Netscape 5.0, which you could download and play with (and I did; and I therefore take serious issue with the implication by the Wikipedia article that no binaries were ever built/released).

In any case, you're wrong. NS 5.0 was scrapped because they junked the the old codebase. NS 6.0/Mozilla (the latter of which eventually became Firefox) was a complete rewrite.

Ah yes, PudgeBot. The Dense so hotly and brightly within that one burns.

Nope. Try again.

Google "janjaweed". Then please mod parent Informative.

I had similar experiences as a reporter in the 90s, getting called out numerous times at 2 or 3 AM to cover various fires and accidents.

I was exposed to enough blood and guts and other misery during that time that I learned to appreciate just what difficult and unpleasant jobs first responders and fire/rescue people have, and I have to admit that I don't think I could handle it for very long myself. My compliments to you and your colleagues, Runaway.

The joke works better if the name isn't easy to sound out and doesn't consist mostly of high-frequency letters, the first 15 of those being ETAON RISHD LFCMU.

(BTW, my source for that nugget of info is Herbert S. Zim's Codes and Cryptography, which I read as a kid. Still remember that bit from it, thirty-odd years later. Wow.)