It's funny that the same Party that thinks we need more Jesus in our schools also thinks we need more guns. Somehow, I don't think Jesus would agree.

Why don't the same people who feel the solution to the gun violence problem is more guns feel the same way about the drug problem?

Why do so many people think that the answer to gun violence is to allow more guns?

Maybe it ought to be a requirement that guns, like automobiles, carry liability insurance.

Do you ever see a car that looks just like yours and imagine that it's you and you're experiencing some sort of temporal anomaly?

I find attention-seeking behavior not only annoying, but exhausting. Shut the fuck up already.

How many millionaires throw away the razor after a single shave?

The power to walk away is useless if you have nowhere to go.

Why can't workers be grateful for their jobs? Why do they feel entitled to a share of the job-creator's profits when all they did was work? Ingrates.

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When someone is selling a company, I'll bet there's a lot less discussion of the personnel than there is discussion about the machinery.

How long before electronic cigarettes are being used to deliver drugs other than nicotine?

There's always one. In 1776 it was John Hancock.

I think the folks who win the big lottery should be taxed at only 15 per cent. After all, they invested a dollar and made a hefty return on that investment.

Here's a silly idea: a law that says next time we have to bail out some company, that company will be automatically nationalized. Period.

Sex is like gun ownership. Thought and care is required or lives are permanently altered.

I'm kind of surprised that the Right hasn't made a run at Labor Day. You can't get much more socialist, holiday-wise.

People need to quit confusing entrepreneurs with investors. Entrepreneurs want to build a business. Investors want to build a fortune.

It just occurred to me that Dan Zanes' song "Linger for a While" is just a city version of the Idyllic Country Life trope from country music. Yep.

Why make real policies when you can get re-elected with knee-jerk reactions?

One advantage of state control over federal: no more one stop shopping for lobbyists

It's a lot easier to lie with words than it is to lie with actions.

I wonder if people in blue states get as excited as folks in red states do about an 8% off sale. Because that's what a tax holiday really is.

Ha! I figured out something about the random file name generator at work: it's 16 bit; 0-9 and then a-f. Woot!

If you want a nation that is well-educated, then you need to make sure that that nation values education (on a level that's higher than merely monetary).

I think we should start calling money "free speech" instead.

If Star Trek were steam punk, Dr. Beverly Crusher would be a man

Instead of photographing fields, I should be painting them. Duh.

The only gold that a woman could dig from me is fool's gold.

If an organization is telling you how many jobs they've created, it probably means there are a lot of reasons why people don't like them.

You can't create a great democracy without idealists. You can't maintain a great democracy without pragmatists.

Leadership will always tend towards corruption. The issue isn't really whether Leadership is corrupt, but rather how much power the Ruled have to curb it.

Obama's failure has not been one of policy, but of leadership. He has failed to make the Republican Party look like the assholes they most certainly have been.

Working hard should not be confused with working harder than you'd like

Aphorisms are to wisdom as stereotypes are to anthropology.

I'm looking forward to the day someone uses "free speech" as a defense in a bribery case.

The ideas that Man has Free Will and that God has a Plan are incompatible. No plan survives the randomness that free will brings.

Many successful people assume that their fortune and power are gifts from God. Why does it not occur to them that it may be a test?

New blog: quoth the daven. Not for the crazy brand, though.

For a lot of guys, the phrase "trying to get into her pants" is probably less accurate than "trying to get her into mine".

Ignorant is when you don't know something. Stupid is when you think you're better off that way.

I wonder if Republicans think morality is also market-driven?

The GOPs mantra of "family values" is nothing more than rebranded Tribalism.

I suspect that, when talking about being a decent human being, it's less important not to do wrong than it is to accept it gracefully when you get caught.

Okay, maybe not.

But still.

Sometimes, the cruelest thing you can do to a person is to let them have what they want.

How many people actually have laughed out loud when they type "lol"? I'm guessing no more than five percent.

The hatched plot severs Royals

thought no. 96

I'm sick and tired of numbering these damn things. I don't care if I am almost to 100.

thought no. 95

The insistence of some Christians that homosexuality is a choice makes me wonder how many of them have made that choice.

thought no. 94

The biggest problem with the internet is that sometimes it's hard to tell who's being satirical and who really means it.

thought no. 93

Note to self: no matter how loud the music in your headphones, everyone else can still hear your farts.

thought no. 92

Have any conservatives or religious types ever thought that their insistence on gender roles might contribute to their children's "deviant" sexual identity?

thought no. 91

If you've watched the Star Trek reboot, you've seen the bit where young James Kirk steals his uncles car. In it, he fires up the radio or whatever and out blasts the Beastie Boys' song "Sabotage". But Star Trek takes place in the 24th century, which make the Beastie Boys the equivalent of Vivaldi. Interesting times ahead? Or music production ignorant of time and its effects on fashion?

thought no. 90

If unions want conservatives to leave them alone, then they need to change their business model. Currently, they are a bunch of uppity workers who are defying their "betters" in management and capital. What they should do is form corporations where each worker holds a share. What will be the business of this corporation, you ask? Human resources!