(scrum and agile, an the other hand, don't exist, not really)

um, check with Vortex - I'm pretty sure her rugby-playing boys indulge in scrums now and then.

It only took a couple quotes for me to feel comfortable saying that Rand Paul is a cretin. [link]

Scrums most definitely exist, and you should tape your ears if you find yourself in one regularly.

Tape your ears, block your ears, whatever it takes.

So, I don't know much about Rand Paul except what I've heard over the past few days, but he's a fuckhead, right?

I think naming someone for Ayn Rand gives them a big start on a career as a fuckhead.

“Physicians should be allowed to make a comfortable living."

Make a comfortable living from payments from the government, which is, for libertarians, only supposed to provide for a common defense and regulate interstate commerce. Where's your entrepreneurial spirit, Dr. Paul? Shouldn't a good capitalist be out there rejecting government payments? Why should the government pay for old people's eye treatment, anyway? If they can't pay, let them go out and make their own white canes. In the snow.

The table behind mac and me at the diner were such tools. Some examples of their discussion.

"well of course it is crap, it's contemporary music." - talking about M.I.A.

"This woman at my work was such a tease. And she had no intention of following though. Such a tease."- guy 1 (Yes, that is what tease means)

"Like what did she do" - guy 2

"Like she'd say, 'you are really quite handsome'. And she'd touch your arm. And then she had gained weight and was getting middle age, so you know, her curves were working" - guy 1

Ugh, I did not turned around and shoot lasers from my eyes, but I did smite them with my brain. I think guy 1 does not understand the difference btw flirty (possibly inappropriate) and a tease.

Ugh, msbelle. Did you encourage mac to "accidentally" spill something on them on your way out?

Then there was other stuff about people on jeapardy being dumb and how all film and videos are just derivitive crap and nothing is good like old stuff.

Rand Paul was such a douche to Rachel he should buy stock in Summer's Eve. Which pretty much guarantees that KO will be up his ass with a toothbrush now, because Keith has a serious Sam thing with her(I mean, if Rachel is Frodo.) Which is making me picture a spunky hobbit saying "But I've got the Ring, dude!" Which makes me laugh.

He doesn't like government spending, except when it benefits doctors like him.

Right. Like I said--I'm in no way saying I support the man, or that his OTHER positions make sense. I'm just saying, the libertarian concept, which he was trying to explain/defend, and Rachel was mocking him for, I can grok. The fact that he doesn't stand behind it fully for a lot of other things that would seemingly be more easy to defend than civil freakin' rights, well...that would be what makes him douchey.