I’m to the left of Fidel and I thought it was hilarious.

If all vaccines were oral we would not see these reactions. The anti-vaxer movement is primarily conflation of the legitimate squeamishness parents feel at seeing their infant and toddler children stuck with a needle with a something larger. Read the rhetoric that anti-vaxers post online. They all focus on the needle…

I think you’ll agree that it’s the one area of proficiency you want to cede to dudes.

No, it’s because women can’t shovel worth a damn.

For some people of a certain age, this is like the Kennedy assassination. I can remember exactly where I was, who I was with and what we were doing at the moment I learned Bush had puked in a guy’s lap at dinner.

You just squandered an idea that almost certainly could have garnered hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding on a very funny blog post.

The warming and CO2 content of the atmosphere we currently see have not been present for millennia.

It is December 12. I live in the Northeast and spent the day playing in the park with my son and nephew. We all wore t-shirts. The lilacs in my yard are blooming because they think it is spring. Global temperature records show this year to be the warmest on record, after a long run of record warm years. I know this is…

No, you’ll just have to make your own gasoline.

Uh huh.

I’m gonna bet that you’ll be dead of complications from type 2 diabetes by then, so you can relax cowboy.

Don’t flirt with me. I’m having an idiotic internet argument.

If I can dead lift 275, it’s pretty easy for a dude. I am a total fucking doughy suburban Dad. By comparison, my wife is a gorgeous athlete and the strongest woman I personally know. She cannot DL more than 225.

Yes. Lotsa ladies in the infantry doing house sweeps and whatnot. Happens all the time.

No, the whole big announcement is a PR scam. “Congratulations little ladies, you too can be Special-Ops and kill people the world over with your bare hands!” Which is such a gross exaggeration that it’s a lie. You can be happy about it if you want. I may be the greatest advancement since universal suffrage. What do I…

It’s a PR scam. That is what I am saying. It is a condescending PR scam from the pentagon.

No, my logic is that men are much stronger and faster than women. If a woman could meet the fitness standards of the special forces I think she should be welcome to join. But there will be effectively no women who meet those standards. The pentagon will trot out one or two women who qualify for SEALs or Delta Force or…

“They”?

You need to compare apples to apples. Pretty much any man in good health can dead lift 250 in a jam. Any healthy man can casually train himself to lift 400lb.

I’ll give it to you. A highly disciplined and committed woman can do what almost any 19 year old boy can do on the first try.