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I just meant that it exists today as an independent city-state. I had no idea about any origins as part of a larger federation.

Ah, South Carolina — the state so fucking crazy, it even scares the rest of the South!

Most if us understand what you're saying, Shulkie.

Yeah, in Europe, Where they can't use the swastika, Nazis use the Confederate battle flag.

In any scenario where the South is a separate country, I always imagine New Orleans has seceded from that country to be an independent city-state, a la Singapore, but with lots of vice. Just think what their money would look like!

Hurricane floods city, killing dozens and leaving thousands homeless — people shrug.

I really want Sean Spicer to take back up his holy war against Dippin Dots. I felt a kind of kinship with ol' Spicey over that, because I, too, fucking hate Dippin Dots.

Up-voted for the term "diaper up"!

THIS!

If the show was going to be a savage critique of rich people, they gave themselves ample opportunities to pull the trigger with Logan. It seemed like they were setting him up for a mighty-mighty fall but then Rory just stayed with him, getting more and more enamored with his rich-boy, Dubya-esque ways.

This is totally laughable, innocent kid stuff, and his mother is a saint for tolerating it at it (hopefully) runs its course, and he discovers video games this fall.

Other parents have a weirdo son who's into tap dancing or plate spinning. Hell, I saw a new feature once about a 7- or 8-year-old boy who was a cattle auctioneer. But this poor lady has to grit her teeth and endure a phase like this. I pity her.

Among Democrats, that's a way of establishing dominance.

Ugh. I can't up vote that.

God, the way that scandal unfolded, with Paterno so clearly having known Sandusky was a child-raper and covering up for him, was such a carbon-copy of the way the Catholic child-raping-priests cover-up unfolded that it looks like a cultural pattern to me. It makes me wonder if every Catholic boy born between 1920 and…

How I wish they could have made that into an Aubrey-Maturin series. I know that it was hugely expensive, so they couldn't do all 20 of O'Brian's books, but they could continue to combine two books into one movie. Pick the best 6 or 8 books, and make 3 or 4 movies.

Melania: Donald, what is 'divorce'? Am I sayink it right?

It's nit just reading the articles, but commenting on them, too. It's a real time-suck.

And that'll be enough to get the Mooch on the Donald's shit list. Sean Spicer got on Trump's bad side early on because he was lampooned on SNL by a woman.