This is excellent. Thank you!

Politician taking advantage of Americans’ innumeracy is old hat, though always disturbing; this kind of lying with statistics should be a crime....

Thanks for the Wonkette link. I had heard about it, but never visited before. I am very impressed and am bookmarking it. Thank you most sincerely!

I particularly liked the “anyone can grow up to be president” one!

Oh, please don’t remind me about the NEA. I’m gonna have a rage stroke, and I’ve already survived 81 days....

That would be a tough one for me, but I’d take one for the team....

Oh, of course. and criticizing people’s analogies is a kind of low form of internet commentary, I guess. I was astounded the first time I experienced it, though, because I had been told so many times in my life that you “can’t be half-pregnant.” But it turns out that if you are 37 years old, and at a world-renowned…

It does make sense, though. I think I mostly liked the image, sort of like “RED” for flight attendants!

I was looking for the right terminology, and you found it for me! Yay!

Seconded. If Tsarnaev had received life in prison, I’d be sleeping more soundly tonight. Those Chechens are maniacs, and they have been committing hate crimes since before I was a twinkle in my mother’s eye.

Oh, sadly, you can be half-pregnant. It just doesn’t happen to teenagers, who are the demographic to hear this trope the most often. But it doesn’t happen a lot.

Also, Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, Gene Weingarten was, for many years, Dave Barry’s editor. He can have a Pulitzer just for that in my book!

This GIF is everything, because satire is dead now.

McMansion Hell is my go-to whenever I need cheering up. After reading this, I’ll be making another visit.

This was kidnapping, or at least illegal detention.

It’s a troll. Dismiss!

I understand that. All the other stuff is still valid, though, eh? And the larger point is still the same: United has enough money to never, ever do this. Not to mention that they should have the morals to refrain from doing this.

Um, yes. 1,000 times yes!

But that doesn’t make it right, or even reasonable. “Legal” is a very spongy place to rest your faith these days, amirite?