The Longs On Prima Facie Evidence

Back when the rancid visage of George W. Bush first spittled its way into the national consciousness, we were sure he would never be elected. Our reason? "Just look at him!" You could see he was the most transparently unfit being to hold office since Caligula made his horse a Senator.

Megan's Muscle Rumour

I'm told that your body is limited by the amount of neurotransmitter it takes to fire all your muscles at once. Once those are gone, doesn't matter if your muscles are still good to go. I have not looked it up to confirm or deny this.

Lenard On Initiative

The first liar always sets the rules of the game.

-Roger X. Lenard [Ed: Not the Creati0nist of the same name]

Moxy Früvous On Thine Own Self

It's not forbidden to be what you are.

- Boo Time, Moxy Fruuvus.

Vranich On Coping

Illusion of control makes everything tolerable.

-Dr. Belisa Vranich

Suskind Through The Looking Glass

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

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And for those who don't get it? That was explained to me in late 2002 by Mark McKinnon, a longtime senior media adviser to Bush, who now runs his own consulting firm and helps the president. He started by challenging me. ''You think he's an idiot, don't you?'' I said, no, I didn't. ''No, you do, all of you do, up and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered 2 to 1 by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read The New York Times or Washington Post or The L.A. Times. And you know what they like? They like the way he walks and the way he points, the way he exudes confidence. They have faith in him. And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us. Because you know what those folks don't like? They don't like you!'' In this instance, the final ''you,'' of course, meant the entire reality-based community.

Schweber's Prediction

Electoral college: Obama 349. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Missouri. Not North Carolina, Indiana, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, or North Dakota. Which means there's room at the top for an even higher number, because every single one of those states is easily competitive. I have an even higher number in mind, but I'm afraid that if I try to type it my monitor will burst into flames.

strahlungsamt Reponds To The Evils Of Porn

What about ugly guys who can't get laid? What about guys who were rejected by women all their lives because they are broke, jobless, didn't go to college etc.? How do you think they feel about women? Their numbers are greater than you think.

I should know. As a guy with the looks and charm of Joe the Plumber, I spent most of my life struggling to get a woman. Either I walked around like a sad horn-dog trying to get a date, or I jerked off to a big pile of porn.

Believe me, women objectify men just as much as men objectify women. Plenty of times I have had a good job and women all told me I needed a good wife (when I couldn't bag a girlfriend). If I was the kind of Guido or Homeboy who beat his wife and wore bling-bling, I wouldn't need porn. Those guys get porn-star girlfriends all the time (along with credit card debt, repossession and stds).

I don't care for really abusive porn and I don't like seeing women being abused. And watching a woman being penetrated by four dicks is for gay guys on the DL.

Still, porn does it for me. I can jerk-off to porn in the morning and go to work and not think of pinching the secretary's ass or getting a blow-job in the (female) attorney's cubicle. I am not obsessed with mindless dating like the media is telling me to be. Nor do I have any sexual harassment lawsuits pending against me. The best part is: women actually approach me since I am less threatening and have a stable life.

Thank you Internet Porn.

[Ed: Apologies for the racist language]