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This is very disappointing. I haven’t seen the show but I really liked James Surowiecki’s book, which I assume this is based closely on.

This is actually really useful if your password is “HouseInternet,” because a lot of people are going to forget the comma at the end.

Many Protestants believe in consubstantiation, which is an even better deal: instead of drinking wine that’s changed into blood, you’re drinking wine that’s changed into blood while still remaining wine at the same time!

While you’re not wrong, most men don’t exactly respect actual feminists either.

It’s not like there’s a federal law that requires you to bake it before you eat it.

Isn’t the potato salad being full of mayonnaise already white enough?

I briefly moved back to my parents’ house a while ago and they have almost-transparent window blinds. They weren’t about to let me drill holes in the wall, so I got a spring-loaded curtain rod and some plastic wall-saver pads, and presto! Privacy! (Well, as much as one can get living in one’s parents’ house.)

As software engineers, we never had to take an oath or anything, but we did learn certain ethical principles like “don’t kill people” via examples like the Therac 25.

You know what actually is a choice but still gets civil rights protections? Religion. Guess those are being thrown out the window too.

All hail Athe, the god of vaping!

That’s because “people” are stupid.

Yeah, the whole Keystone XL pipeline project is designed to bring oil from the Athabasca tar sands, about the most environmentally damaging source of oil out there, from Canada down to the Gulf.

He’s a fake economist trotted out by the rich to say that tax cuts will solve everything.

Nah, Issa and Rohrbacher would be shitheads anywhere in the country.

Anyone can pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, there’s no discrimination or real obstacles, just excuses.

The names are just the people in the thread of replies; the Twitter web site interface hides them, but they show up here in embedded tweets for whatever reason.

The new president of France married his high-school teacher.

These boobs are made for stomping!

Pedals are for stepping on.