My response to waking up and finding out I did something stupid is not to try to drink away the stupid.

Indeed, alcohol never raised anyone's IQ. "Drinking away the stupid" is like trying to cure a headache by banging your head against the wall.

BTW, I just metamoderated you "insightful".

I'd guess more than a hundred years, read about the Teapot Dome Scandal 90 years ago. Historian Frederick Lewis Allen covered it in Only Yesterday: a An Informal History of the 1920s written in 1931. It's suggested in that tome that Harding's death was either assassination or suicide because of that scandal.

I have the printed book, just finished re-reading it on my phone (there are a few OCR errors). I recommend it, it's a fascinating read. The 1920s were very similar to today, possibly even worse. A housing bubble, runaway stock market, gang wars in Chicago over an illegal drug (alcohol in the '20s). They seemed to have learned a little from History or we'd be in a deep depression now.

All the politicians in Illinois are as crooked as a mountain road. Thompson (not a bad Governor as far as Illinois goes) was the attorney for both of our last two Governors iinm, Blago (Democrat) still in prison.

The Feds busted them both, Ryan (R) and Blago (D).

This is an incredibly corrupt state. When I was a teenager working at a drive-in theater my boss had the Cahokia cops paid off, Sergent Antoff chewed me out for paying a speeding ticket I got in Dupo. The Chief of police, Merle Justice (later St Clair County Sheriff) would have taken care of it, he said.

I wonder if Merle (who died last year) is related to Buford T Justice (Smokey and the Bandit)?

After I was in the USAF one of the cops I knew as a teenager knocked on my door to warn me I was being investigated for selling pot. Luckily, back then all you had to do was move to a different county. I guess I owe Mayhan, I could have gone to prison if he'd not seen me as a friend.

Another Cahokia cop I knew when the boss had them paid off was another cop in there then, he's Sheriff of Christian County now. Pure graft.

This state is as dirty as it gets.

Don't worry, unless 4channers get on the admin staff like they did K5 I'll be around. And my karma is solid, few days go by that I don't get at least one +5, and it isn't the first time I've been modbombed.

If Rusty Foster wonders why I left K5, it was Pete Jongular. It seems I wasn't the only one he ran off, most of the old, good posters left for HuSi before I left, a year later all that was left at K5 was nigga and the other despicable trolls.

Jongular banned me for crapflooding when all the "crap" was voted to front page, when he reinstated my account Rusty told me in an email that that was the first time that had ever happened. Now all that's there is crap.

It would be hard to have a bigger carbon footprint than that hypocrite Al Gore.

The Route 66 cavalcade goes past my house tonight, so I won't be driving; cops block all the side streets and it will be impossible to get in or out of the driveway. It will consume more petroleum tonight than I will in five years.

As to eating bugs, at my age I have nothing to worry about, I'll likely be dead long before that happens. If it does get so that bugs are all the meat there is, I'll be joining you in vegetarianism.

But you don't eat the whole shrimp. Kind of hard to eat land bugs without eating the whole thing, guts and all.

No, snails aren't insects. I still don't want to eat one. I don't want squid, either.

You can get McRibs for eighty nine cents. Just get a barbecue pork TV dinner and put the "meat" on a bun. Funny how McRibs taste nothing like pork, isn't it?

If they grind up the whole lobster; shells, eyeballs, guts, and all, no. Hard to clean a grasshopper like you clean a squirrel or a lobster.

Well, yeah, but they're bugs that have been turned into fish fowl and furries. But come to think of It I'm sure I've eaten a few bugs, I used to ride a motorcycle.

My objection is that you're eating the whole bug. I wouldn't eat a hamburger if they ground up the whole cow, guts, bones, eyeballs, and all. If that's the only way you could get meat I'd be a vegetarian.

Shitty newspaper. They need to fire their retarded web designers. I avoid USA Toady most of the time. It's retards like the ones that make me keep my speakers shut off at work.

If anybody at the Toady is reading this, LEAVE ME A LITTLE SCREEN, OK?

Newspapers have the worst web sites on the internet.

As to Republican Governors, that one is especially bad. The last Republican Governor we had in Illinois just got out of prison.

I'd have ignored it but I'd been in physical pain all day (picked something up wrong the day before and my back hurt), I was in a bad mood, and I was drunk.

I wish more real slashdotters would mod the dumbfucks so much none had any karma at all.