I used to find this song so offensive. Now I find the police offensive.

Murder is used for humans in specific circumstances. It is a defined term in criminal law, and it means certain kinds of "culpable homicide" in the Canadian criminal code ("manslaughter" is another culpable homicide, that is not defined as murder). Of course, that's just the legal use of the word, but people do kill…

I want to see if any actual plowmen eat there

Oooooo, so THAT's why people die so much earlier now than they did in the 1600's.

Amusingly enough, in small rural farming communities that have been known to have good groundwater, Coke likes to move their plants there. What happens over the next few years is fascinating. Basically, the Coke bottling plant begins to use up a huge portion of the groundwater faster than it replenishes, leading to…

I'm pretty sure dothedew was pointing out the hypocrisy in wealthy people complaining about poor and middle class social safety nets, so he agrees with you.

I did once see a workhorse evolved into a jackass.

In Afghanistan they do. We (as in I was part of the US Army doling out money to build bathrooms for schools and Afghan military outposts) built brand new flush toilet bathrooms (despite no real plumbing system anywhere in that shithole country) for Afghans and they rapidly (I mean like in 2 weeks) became unusable. …

So, it turns out prison sex is not too different from my sex life in college. Who woulda thunk? I just wish I knew about those "fifis."