ivan

never waste a crisis, ivan? i'm an atheist to be sure, but hardly a crusading one as that'd be...uh..retarded. ya'll are free to draw your own conclusions, so long as you leave me out of them

Yup it's always nice to be reminded there is no god, or that, if there is one, that he's a bit of a bastard

never waste a crisis, j-b?

Just thought that the hipster beard and heavy-frame vintage glasses were potent visual signifiers of the transition away from the trade unionists of yore. uh...okay...doesn't look so different from this union guy or these auto union guys or him you seem atypically mean-spirited on this...

he kinda looks a dali painting too when you gonna come up here and climb the n side w/ me larry? shit, i ain't got nothign to do but get real wet this weekend...

fucking madness "i hate the sea, and everythign in it"

sure, but gawdamn that's sure popular...

hard to defend the undefendable - democrats appear unable or unwilling to break the republican childish distaste for anything remotely related to taxation - if reagan and bush 1 could raise taxes, and if clinton era levels of taxation could be compatible w/ the biggest expansion in our history, why would it make the baby jesus cry now to return to the past?

:noway:

Well said. except that now isn't really that much different from 20 or 30 years ago - i don't think reagan really gave a fuck about poor people either, nor did nixon - the last republican who seemed particularily concerned about anythign othe rthan making the rich richer was....uh...maybe eisenhower?

uck.

no one thinks that - there must be a "sweet spot" though where the burger flipper earns enough to keep the ceo's throat from being slit in the middle of the night by hopeless, busted-broke peons

of course having a shit job when you're a teenager is important - that's not what the article was getting at though - it's that there's nowhere to go PAST the shit job

so what would be the negative consequences of getting rid of free trade again?

dude might have lost a car, but on the positive side, he did gain a bag of mountaineering gear

had a similiar experience w/ a handsaw this weekend - slooooooooow cuts!

common whore on a friday night in vegas?

zorka - a true warrior-hero's name, and thus fitting of the words of the oldest english writing, itself about heroes who do impossible things, but must still suffer death: "wise sir, do not grieve it is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning for every one of us living in this world means waiting for our end let (s)he who can achieve glory before death when a warrior is gone that will be (her) best and only bulwark"

fuck 11 trillion bagillion miles away, the space cum-shots of the day are a good bit closer! the iss, w/ discovery docked to it, silhoueted by the sun wee-bit of a zoom-in on the sun, doing its usual fucking awesome job of keeping us well-lit

just watched a documentary on napoleon - sure looks like there's a hell of a lot of good stone in corsica

not "ishtar?"

just the chinese (or the welsh?) probing for weaknesses

"i drank what?" - socrates

on the positive side though, fern, you can always do a fine trip report this month and get 50$ for your troubles might want to ask for it in american dollars though?

DHMO, DHMO everywhere and not a drop to drink...