And this isn't a churn, but I bet if i stir it around long enough, something good will happen.

I've known this for a while. Andrew Breitbart died after angry-tweeting at a friend of mine.

I mean, I guess the question is… if you are left-wing and you do work you believe in but that also makes you well-off in a capitalist society, what are you supposed to do? Property seems like a reasonable investment. Should he give it away and live like a beggar until someone wants to finance another film of his?

1)I would wager that that latter point isn't nearly as true as it used to be, and being a member of the clergy in America can be a fairly comfortable living (and often is)— certainly with the rise of the Prosperity Gospel megachurches and the like
2)I would also wager that a religious worker's ability to create…

I don't disagree. Today's strain of American conservatism, though, seems particularly resistant to facts, change, and perspective outside one's own.

It's one of those things that makes me wish we could talk about these things without being labeled a truther or conspiracy theorist. I mean… this isn't some thing where a bunch of dots are connected from non-evidence to construct a conspiracy theory, this is a group of guys publicly saying "We want to do X, but we…

I do have interest in rational discussion, just not with someone who's so far up his own ass he's convinced his farts smell like roses. If you were really as rational as you thought you were, you'd be discussing the issues, not launching into a bunch of stereotypes of people and attempting to psychoanalyze them from…

And in both cases, the cartoonish show displayed more humanity, because the serious show's creator had blind spots that turned the show into projections of their own issues.

I think it's perfectly logical and reasonable to make fun of anyone who goes around tutting how perfectly logical and reasonable they are and what a bunch of emotionally dysfunctional children with mental problems everyone else is.

Are you done jerking yourself off over what a perfect logic automaton you see yourself as?

"I think Cheney and Rummy and the rest of those conservative lifers started making serious plans somewhere around year six of Clinton's presidency"

H.W. is definitely an intelligent and accomplished man. So accomplished, in fact, that his dipshit kid could coast to a two-term presidency pretty much based on name and connections alone.

Jeb's just as big an asshole as W, though, just a different kind of asshole.

Where's that quote from Russell Brand? "When I was poor and spoke out about inequality, they called me bitter. When I was rich and spoke out about inequality, they called me a hypocrite. I think they just don't want to hear about inequality."

What do you think the correlation is between "people who say they're 'all about logic and reason'" and "emotionally stunted teenage libertarian"?

LMAO, a guy who immediately jumps to "Sean Penn liberal" is sayig "Put the ideology down and step away from the crazy. Embrace logic and reason"

2003: YOU HAVE TO RESPECT THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY, IT'S UN-AMERICAN NOT TO
2013: THE MUSLIM TRAITOR DICTATOR SOCIALIST DO-NOTHING BARRY SOETORO IS ENFORCING SHARIA LAW AND DESTROYING AMERICA

When you add the long lines to the guy whose company owns the voting machines says he's "committed to delivering Ohio to Bush," and the election results for Ohio are much more out of line with exit polling than anywhere else in the country… well, I guess I'm just a tinfoil libtard.

Yeah, my friends and I saw a midnight screening when it premiered.

That's what happens when a bunch of people who launched a think tank in the 90s about how to best secure American hegemony through perpetual war get into the State Department and the Department of Defense.