The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Adam Rice:

I don't know. I just don't know. At the local farmer's market, there's someone selling macaroni pizza. This sounds like a product of the same impulse, to stack starch on top of starch, with some cheese for good measure.

Now that you mention it, why the hell isn't the U.S. military working on a project to blow up the moon? I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOON-HUGGERS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

Someone actually prepared a link-annotated version of the 'long national nightmare' Onion article. I think it was done in '05; I'm sure a few links could be added by now.

1. My road bike. It's a Bob Jackson. My first really nice road bike was a Bob Jackson, and when I visited England in '97, I stopped by the factory in Leeds for a visit. I had them measure me for a custom frame at that time, and two years later, ordered one. It's not quite as high-tech or light as some of the bikes out there these days, but it's a honey.

2. My copy of Generation X. There are many like it, but this book is mine. I read that book in one sitting and it hit me at just the right moment in my life. There are very few books that I appreciate as artefacts, but this is one.

3. My 3-door Stickley bookcase, which once belonged to Ann Richard's mother. When my wife and I remodeled our house, we designed the floor plan around it.

All of this will be lost in the fire, if it ever comes.

Don't any of these people remember George I's "thousand points of light" speech? Or George II's office of faith-based initiatives?

It seems as if Obama was working to fulfill the Republican approach to social services (ie, let other people take care of it). And for that he gets mocked?

Whatever else the President of the US may or may not be, almost by definition he’s one of the best politicians in the world. His talents aren’t in punching people out—they’re in talking people into donating their pants to him. He should, just by talking and turning on his charisma, get the terrorists to offer him a date with their sister.

I believe you have confused our president for Jean Luc Picard.

You know, a robot might not be so bad. I got push-polled for a congressional election a few years ago, and the guy at the other end of the phone was only quasi-literate. He couldn't pronounce the names of the people in the race, other politicians his script mentioned, or other middlin'-long words. I corrected him repeatedly.

Am I the only person who thinks the Brawndo ad is not for an actual product, but a viral-marketing campaign for something else? Everything about the Brawndo site says "parody," right down to the Omni Consumer Products logo at the bottom (remember Robocop?).

"So much for liberals being open-minded."

"Sorry I couldn't look up every little detail [regarding facts that would have undermined my last vituperation]. Some of us have this thing called a life."

I wonder how Mitt enjoyed the movie adaptation.

@BRT: I cannot take any joy in the fact that any human being would cite Battlefield Earth as a favorite book. SF as a genre is diminished by Battlefield Earth's inclusion in it.

All y'all talking about impeachment as a way to remove GW should remember this: Clinton was impeached. Congress didn't just conduct impeachment proceedings, they did in fact vote to impeach him. An impeachment is little more than a very stern finger-wagging, and Clinton came out of it looking pretty good. Congress wound up looking vindictive.

For an impeachment to have the effect of removing GW from office, GW would have to be capable of feeling shame at his mistakes, or that he makes mistakes at all.

Neither could happen.

Seriously, the FBI shouldn't be accurately reporting the number of people they snoop on, because that would be giving The Enemy valuable intelligence in The War On Terror.

I can't believe anyone in the executive branch considers this a problem.

There may be an inverse correlation between the situation's gravity and Chertoff's response time.

D'oh! I see that Christian beat me to it

Obviously these were not nazi raccoons, they were decent, freedom-loving, American raccoons, who went over as part of a covert plan to undo the Third Reich.

You know, sort of like that plan to bomb Japan...with bats.

In the comments, the author writes "the posts here range from a seriousness factor of 100 percent to 0 percent -- and I'll never tell you which is which!"

This is a cowardly way of innoculating himself against attack. If enough people show up and do a thorough enough job demolishing his argument, he can protest "Hey, I was just kidding! (maybe)."

here's mine.

This is the most annoying, most suffocating example of hipster irony I've ever seen. It's half a step away from choreographed nosepicking.

Falsifying numbers wouldn't so much be science-fiction as math-fiction. Of course, mathematics is the handmaiden of science, so it's close.

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