He might just have a freeze ray in the attic.

With the Lindbergh baby?

He might just have a freeze ray in the attic.

With the Lindbergh baby?

How else are you going to keep it fresh?

With the Lindbergh baby?

And Jimmy Hoffa.

Judge Crater and Amelia Earhart, too?

I find the far right frustrating because they have such a loud voice that debate gets replaced with spectacle. I don't like taxes and like to see smaller deficits too, but protests with Obama joker faces and Hitler mustaches doesn't really contribute to discourse. I'd like to see ideas about how to get a handle on health care costs and why Obama is dead wrong in his approach. If you want to lower the deficit and consequently taxes, then it's all about health care costs. I don't have a good feeling about the current proposals doing a lot about it, so more ideas would be welcome.

I'm sure there were lefties during the GWB years with similar posters and stuff, but it seems like the righties have a much bigger media platform.

I was listening to the soundtrack to "Judgment Night", and wondered if anyone in the early 90s ever thought we would be nostalgic for gangsta rap some day.

I have that album. Never saw the movie, but definitely enjoy the soundtrack.

Judgement night has the beauty of gangsta rap mixed with metal though. It has double the awesome!

Yup. And, whatever. If they want to, then they're going to. Although I always want to ask them, "Do you like ANYTHING??? AT ALL???" But it's not worth engaging them.

I have a theory I've been playing with. I think the reason some people hate everything is because it's easier and makes them feel like they won't be fooled by crooked politicians. They're too smart to hope for something they've decided will never happen so they don't have to look like foolish dreamers or something. I'm starting to thing cynicism is a cheap and easy way to make yourself feel better than everyone else.

OK - here is another general refutation [link]

Here are some specific refutations by a NASA scientists.

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Note that Willis's data is what is cited by Easterbrook.

I knew the world was a weird place when I looked back on George Herbert Walker Bush and thought, "I miss him."

Really, except for the way he got roped into supporting the Republican party's stand on taxes WRT the deficit (remember how he was the one who coined the term "Voodoo Economics" in the debates before he became Reagan's VP?) I thought President Bush Sr. was eminently respectable. He may have been out of touch with the price of groceries, but I never doubted that he understood his responsibilities to the American people and intended to do his best to fulfil them honorably. Also, perhaps because he served in the Navy during WWII, I got the distinct sense that he regarded the use of military force as a last resort rather than first (or a game to be played with living tin soldiers).

So, some woman just came for my old magazines, and is going to send them to soldiers! I heart that! I know people have bad experiences trying to get rid of stuff on craigslist (and a lot of my stuff just got no bites at all), but I have done surprisingly well, and easily.