I've heard a lot of people who I used to believe were rational, even keeled folks, voicing support for Trump. It is truly terrifying.

Any group of assholes that makes you long for the days of George W Bush or Pat Buchanan….fucked.

Controlled you say?

Sweet weeping Jesus. You must remedy this posthaste.

No whiny townsfolk is worth at least a letter grade.

Good point.

We're getting into some real nature vs. nurture shit here, eh?

I agree with you on that point. The books most certainly play a role. The literal interpretation of religious texts has been the cause of more deaths than Cecil B DeMille.

Fine Christians all no doubt. Genocide is only bad when other people do it.

Unfortunately, more than you think.

They are tied to the religion as it forms the basis of their world view.

I completely agree on the subjecting yourself to unpleasantness. My imagination is vivid and I'm capable of making myself ill from just reading harrowing descriptions.

We are nothing in the eyes of the cosmos. Tiny men going about our tiny days, believing that we mean something. We are nothing.

I made the mistake of watching the Daniel Pearl video. I'll stick to the written word for the rest of my life.

The thing is, when you leave the US for any extended period of time and unplug yourself from the constant media shitpipe, you begin to realize that 99% of the people in this world just want to wake up in the morning, do some work, make some money and spend what time they can enjoying their friends and family. It is…

Calling them savage excuses their actions on the basis that they aren't cognizant of right and wrong. Maybe that is the case.

I hope they had a chance to return under peaceful circumstances.

Hunter knew the score. He usually did. I've missed his commentary over the last decade, but I also understand why he decided to be done with it all.

Jesus, how did I forget the break up of Yugoslavia? That started in 91.

There seemed to be a bit of a lull between the shit storm of the 80s and the mid-90's. That could be selective memory though. Our attention was more on Saddam than anything else.