And yet it is only by virtue of being packed full of shit that he avoids floating off into the ether.

FYI he’s not a country at all, and neither is he a Native American.

We wait for someone to send them back.

The Kevin Love Memorial lineup

Now we’ll never know if the chef slipped some fugu liver in there.

Might as well put sandbags down.

It actually is pretty popular. Letting Republicans dictate the positions Democrats can take is a bad idea for which Democrats have paid a pretty steep price.

Ben Carson has now distanced himself from Ben Carson:

Take the F-35 for instance ...

That may be true; broadcasting has serious overhead, although they do trade out a lot of stuff. I was thinking more of the construction companies, tourism people, bankers, toilet salespersons and the like.

It's a great investment for the people on the private side of the "privatize the profit and socialize the risk" equation, largely because they don't have to invest anything. They make shit-tons of money.

In other words, the ADS may be capable of some pretty abhorrent things if put in the wrong hands.

At some point this will get miniaturized and competely disrupt facial recognition technology, which will be great.

... intricate battle scenarios similar to the ones they may face in the real world.

What a boon for sportsmen!

I was referring to the "(quite possibly nuclear)" warhead of the cruise missiles, but really: I'm talking about huge pods of blue whales armed with cruise missiles, and you're criticising my factuality regarding the weapons with which they're armed?

"that's the same as 65 blue whales."

If 65 blue whales were roaming the oceans armed with cruise missiles, people would be freaking out. The Brits are already up to the equivalent of 195 nuclear-armed blue whales, and nobody gives a shit.

Well, that's okay then.