WTF? Last time I checked the commodities market, barley was $100/ton and corn was $400/ton.

In my observation, the average grunt cop is intelligent enough, but incredibly narrow-minded. We're the cops, and everyone else are potential perps, to put it in a nutshell. Misuse of intelligence, one might call it.

I'd rephrase this slightly...

"If you want congressmen to take your opinion seriously, you need to speak in the only language they understand... campaign contributions."

I have no idea, but why are they needed at all? Can't the staff at any high school compile a set of basic competency tests entirely from their existing tests? Simplify a set of finals or suchlike??

Which would also mean anyone wanting a GED could simply hie themselves to the nearest HS, take the test, and 'graduate' on the spot.

Exactly my own observation re the 'progressive left'. Only difference seems to be that they've created their own religion, while the right inherited theirs.

climate change -> climate denialism -> conservative politics -> gun policy -> Godwin

'Zac'ly... and last time the OhNoes of polar ice went around, someone pointed out that there was no less ice than before; rather, it had just moved around, as it normally does. So... it depends entirely where you measure it. Measure it where it wasn't last year and is this year, and suddenly you can show a vast increase in the amount of polar ice. Do the reverse and you can show that it's disappearing.

Kinda like measuring the depth of the ocean over a sandbar.

We have always been at war with global warming.

You can make an effective explosive from propane mixed with liquid ammonia. The question is how much you can drag along before someone says, as noted above, "Why are you carrying a bunch of gallon jugs??"

[Some years ago my neighbor's travel trailer turned into a small bomb from both the gas and fridge systems leaking at the same time. Flattened the trailer, the garage, and a row of mature pines. 'Course, that probably involved 10 gallons of propane, a bit much for carry-on luggage.]

When I was in the 6th grade, I made a bow-and-arrow from two ballpoint pen refills, a straight pin, and a rubber band. Imagine my astonishment when I shot it and my improvised "arrow" flew across the whole classroom and embedded itself in the drywall.

Now imagine a whole army of ballpoint-archer terrorists. ;)

Remember when going out to the airport, parking at the end of the runway, and watching the planes was a popular spectator sport? (Well, at least for those of us old enough that commercial airliners were a novelty...)

Now, you'd barely get parked and get your binoculars out, and the SWAT team would descend on you.

That's an interesting distinction, and good to know.

Tho I was thinking more in terms of just barging in and searching the whole business. (Well, if I remember what I meant, ha.)

That sounds good in theory, but in practice, if the cops want to raid someone, they can always find a judge willing to sign a warrant.

And that page spit up this tagline:

QOTD: "I don't think they could put him in a mental hospital. On the other hand, if he were already in, I don't think they'd let him out."

If there's no expectation of privacy, then it shouldn't be illegal to, say, hack into someone's PC.

Do as we say, not as we do!