Dr_Flash_Amazing

Free childcare at Smith Rock for Eugene-based housewives?

Nice try, Muffy Limbaugh. Those who were manufacturing things for the military will be shifted over to manufacturing things out of the military things they were manufacturing before. Soldiers, etc. will be employed to serve their country as crossing guards, teacher's aides, meals-on-wheels delivery persons, and the like. Or, if the new "Department of Homeland Enhancement" positions don't suit their fancy or are not macho enough, they may move to Texas and shoot stuff. Perfection in action, yes ma'am.

Ah, yes, of course. Because people who either climb hard or want to climb hard have huge egos and are all pricks. The amendment to Sherman's bit was obviously written by someone who has never actually spoken to anyone who boulders harder than V3. Lame.

Wow, Dru, that sure is V-ha-ha-hilarious!

Dr. Flash Amazing for President! Burn this fucker down in '04! The platform: - All gun enthusiasts get a free home and land in Texas, all persons wishing to leave Texas as a result will get a gun-owner's former residence of equal value - All money formerly spent on the military will be shifted to foreign aid, national parks, and education funding, ushering in a generation of well-educated and -recreated citizens and a world where everyone loves America for the benevolent, peace-loving nation they always knew we could be. - Remaining military apparatus and infrastructure will be recycled into schools, art, and hydrogen cars, with a percentage of weaponry and ordnance given to every citizen of Texas for their protection from ... someone. - Libertarians may elect to pay only a nominal infrastructure tax in exchange for no social services, education, etc. All other public places other than roads (such as parks, schools, etc.) may be accessed for a nominal, per-use fee. - SUVs will be widely available as they are now, and will be assessed a small tax somewhere on the order of 6 or 7 thousand percent. - The wars on drugs and terrorism will be re-directed to combat shitty music. Without guns, of course. - Free beer.

[insert quip about UPS guy here]

You've probably already read 'A People's History of the United States' by Howard Zinn, but if you've not done so, you ought.

What? Caveman punched someone? That neanderthal! Did you file a police report?

"Tee-hee! Politics are funny!"

The marijuana calling the blue tea-kettle a black square? Interesting, Iain. Very interesting. Seriously, though, you're a genius.

Bad dog!

Ai, ai ai ai, cinco de mayo! Nice to see that someone else favors the British method of quotation. Makes much more sense, in DFA's opinion. Alas, the Doctor has used up most of what he remembers from highschool Spanish. Lo siento mucho, compadre.

Dude, the moon ROCKS! Hey, moon rocks. Heh heh!

What? Are you suggesting that the sterling citizens of the Portland Trailblazers professional basketball group are anything less than straight edge?

No sabes nada por nada, gringo. Estas loco en la cabeza de fumando mucha mota y escuchande a tus casetes de Thelonius Monk.

Next thing you know, he'll be spending a bunch of money on some bullshit missile defense system or something ...

Psh. What a ripoff! You can buy a tent with all four walls for that much, and brand new to boot! What did you do, cut the other three walls off to save weight?

Sellout. Monk used the American Heritage Collegiate, finding the OED to be frivolously verbose and non-conducive to free thought.

Ha ha. But DFA drifted your thread in one post. Not bad, if the Doctor says so himself, which, of course he does.

Conniving. With an O. You should take some spelling cues from Thelonius Monk, brother.

OK, DFA agrees that SUVs are pretty lame for a number of reasons, but that article was written in an almost unreadably hysterical tone. Settle down and present your side of the story, don't beat the reader over the head with a bunch of crazed rhetoric. But anyway, maybe the author of the article should have read 'Culture of Fear', which totally debunks road rage, making the following paragraph totally meaningless: "But it was not the public-policy fiasco of the SUV that was on my mind that morning so much as the existential fiasco of the SUV. These vehicles have converted driving from a convenience and sometimes a pleasure into a nerve-wracking Darwinian battle. Justified as a response to road rage, SUVs and light pickups are actually the root cause of it. Can it be a coincidence that road rage started to become a national concern in the mid-1990s, just as these pharaonic contraptions began flooding the roads? Can it be a coincidence that road rage gets worse annually, pretty much in sync with the annual rise in the percentage of vehicles that are SUVs or pickups?" Pretty weak argument, really.

Sure, they couldn't give him a nice, sensible hybrid like the Toyota Echo. What an outrage!

Thank you for your concise and informative reply to the Doctor's query. Some other people around here just never take anything seriously, and find that they need to ridicule everything that gets posted, regardless of how serious it is, but it's nice to know that not everyone is a big, dumb jerk. Toodle-oo, Dr. Flash Amazing

Here's some fine ice up at, uh, Lake Chelan. Yep.

You're not exactly boasting record-breaking posts-per-hour yourself, there, Krueger. Get on the stick, son!