I’m a paramedic. In our training, epiglottitis is one of the very few things that they’re like: “Shut the fuck up, don’t touch anything, don’t let them move, just GET TO THE HOSPITAL AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE and if anything changes you’re fucked”.

I’m not very good at those. ..maybe:

I get that you’re responding to the whole concept of “Hurr durr fake geek gurls” people, who are shitheads, but to be fair:

Hey I didn’t Actually MAKE a stupid MARINE joke.

I reject the premise and conclusion of this article. The TSA is theater. Bad, offensive theater. But just theater.

Unless you wrote the opinion, that’s just a jackass response, because I certainly didn’t “give” you anything.

Is there some reason you’re being a dick?

I mean. ....fuck anti gay bigots and all, but there is a word for people who like strawberry ice cream. Monsters.

You’re way wrong. We weren’t founded on an idea of even tolerating other races (or, to be specific, black folks)

I still haven’t had time to really read the darn thing yet. Your “in public” line is something that I don’t think I thought of enough, though. I’ll have to read it and cross-reference it with Heller. I was just blown away by that original quote because it seemed...not the best phrasing, I guess, if it turns out I just…

Cliven Bundy didn’t win, though, which is the goal of the folks who think that their guns will save them. The whole klan still lost, because the government has a monopoly on force. The feds were patient, sure, and probably in part because of fears of dealing with the shitshow using force would have gotten them into.…

I feel like you’re mistaken.

I know, and I should read the whole ruling for the reasoning specifically about concealed carry.

I think this country needs to have a real conversation about guns, and what we want to do about them. I doubt it’ll happen, so we’ll just constantly shout at each other about it, but in a perfect world we’d do it. I legitimately question whether the 2nd amendment is essentially outdated—there’s precious little…

I don’t assume everyone’s an asshole. I assume that when someone’s being an asshole, that means that they’ve waived the right to complain if, when they’re being an asshole about something they don’t know anything about, they get a testy reply. Which is what happened here. You were condescending, despite being directly…

Actually, it can!

They do not have a contract. Are you not able to read the article, or are you just trolling?

What the heck? Did the MoU give a date past the Olympics, or did the judge just pull a Reagan (my word for when the government transparently supports business in a labor dispute where it’s very clear management is in the wrong, a la the air traffic controllers that Reagan screwed over, beginning the breaking of…

Huh. Interestin’...I checked too and you’re right.

It seems weird to me to give a sic to “premedidated” rather than just assuming that what was heard as a d was actually a t?