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Courtney was really doing it for me with her neck, though admittedly in a kind of androgynous way with the sloping trapeziuses like you usually see on men.

Not actually that different from Congressional Republicans' health care plans for the last 6 years.

That's exactly the girl who was in the video my teacher had us watch. It was some sort of documentary about the runup to those 2 wars. I'm sure there were civilian casualties, you can't invade a country without some collateral damage, and Saddam was not shy about committing war crimes. But if the cause was righteous,…

Yeah, definitely. I was only a couple years old at the time, but I'm actually reading The Looming Tower , which has quite a bit about Saudi Arabia's military and security situation. That book says Iraq had about 1 million soldiers just on active duty, many of them veterans from the Iran/Iraq War, many more in the…

I looked around the internet a little and it seems inconclusive. There's a Boston Globe article that's a dead link, but that was excerpted into a Snopes forum post from 2002 that says only some Arabic experts think that the pronunciation changes the meaning. Other people seem to agree that it's an attempt to make his…

I did not go to a very good school.

I had a HS history teacher who showed the class a video detailing George HW Bush and his underlings making the case for the first Gulf War with a sustained PR campaign, testimony from Kuwaitis who weren't in Kuwait at the time about the first-hand horrors of the Iraqi invasion, and intentionally pronouncing Saddam to…

I wish we could all heroically ignore lipsyncing, wherever it occurs, in our nation's streets or on our dead format late night shows. I believe in an America where this is possible! Help me make it a reality! End GJI!

No, probably not. I wonder if it will ever get weird enough that Ryan and friends grow some balls and actually disavow this guy.

Are there even mechanisms to remove him from being the candidate, aside from him resigning?

I had gazpacho as a 14 year old with a not very adventurous palate and developed a reflexive fear of it until I made a recipe last year, and it was really good. All of the usual gazpacho ingredients, but with olive oil blended in, so the soup had body, a serrano chile for some heat, and some of the vegetables left…

Yeah, the grilling, over charcoal, actually adds a lot of flavor, and the crust has a ton of olive oil in it, but without being greasy, so it was good. Two things though: you stretch out the crust in olive oil, then move it to the grill. I didn't have a plan to clean off my hands, so I got a fine film of olive oil all…

Still working on The Looming Tower . Past the US embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, and the US's ham-handed response to them. $750M worth of cruise missiles expended to destroy some buildings in the desert in Afghanistan and 1/2 of Sudan's domestic medicine production based on a weird, un-replicated piece of…

Made grilled pizza on Sunday. First time making it. It's kind of a production, but the end result was good, very crisp crust (at least where I managed not to stretch holes in the dough), simple tomato-oregano sauce, and mozzarella and parmesan cheese. Supposed to put basil on the top, but local groceries were…

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It wasn't a random screw-up in Bush's favor, though, it was deliberate tampering.

The Jill Stein avatar definitely adds to the Poe's law effect.

Didn't know there was a sequel, interesting. It's like the ground has shifted, and all of the public thinks that corporations exist for shareholders' profits, and the workers don't even believe they have a right to collective action. Unions weren't (and aren't) unequivocally good, but they definitely made life better…

I mean, I suspect as much, but I wanted to leave it open for the very, very few people who don't seem to be making the argument in bad faith and asking for all minorities to please shut up and go.