My dad is 83 and has Alzheimer's, and he can quite clearly see the difference between the USSR and Iran. WTF, John McCain, WTF.
Craig has been quite vocally anti-gay-rights.
There are two things that annoy the hell out of me here:
(1) Craig has been much more vocal about denying that he's gay than about denying illegal activity. Which one is he actually charged with? THAT'S RIGHT, ILLEGAL ACTIVITY. Because being gay is NOT ILLEGAL. So I should think that would be the more important part of clearing his name.
(2) Various press outfits have been using terms like "accusations of homosexuality." When was the last time anyone was "accused" of heterosexuality?
And I think Todd Larason has it dead-on. (I wouldn't be surprised if it's related to the well-documented psychological phenomenon among anti-abortion-rights conservative women of "My abortion is okay and necessary, but yours makes you an immoral slut." Regardless of one's attitude towards homosexuality or abortion, those are pretty hypocritical attitudes.)
I figured it had to be satire--if it weren't, it wouldn't be so elegantly written. I tend to assume that people who write like that understand how Daylight Savings works (maybe I'm too optimistic).
It's very good satire.
Gnus can be very dangerous, you know, especially when they stampede!
I shot a gun (replica of an 1860 Colt .44, lead ball and black powder) for the first time recently, and it was a very interesting experience. Granted, modern handguns are considerably easier in many ways--loading doesn't require a great deal of upper arm strength, they often rechamber automatically and don't jam as readily, and they're a lot lighter--but the first post you quote here in particular rings true to me.
If you aren't going to put in serious practice with any weapon (or unarmed self-defense technique), you shouldn't rely on being able to defend yourself with it in an emergency (this goes pretty strongly for people who carry knives for "self-defense," too, because knife fights are very nasty, up-close-and-personal, maiming-likely things). It even goes for commonly taught self-defense techniques like eye-gouging (which most people have a strong block against actually doing).
The thing I find most interesting about that is the assumption that everyone has the God-given RIGHT to buy name brands. From what my mom (who did not grow up during the Depression) says, that kind of penny-pinching was what blue-collar families with 3+ children did, period--and it's what young people and poor-to-lower-middle-class families do today.
And yeah, way to not understand the Social Security system at all and assume all Latinos are "illegal aliens."
I never quite understood the hatred of fruitcake, probably because I've never had a commercial one--but I also haven't found the perfect recipe yet (my perfect fruitcake would be moist and dark, with a rich molasses-spice-rum flavor, and packed with dried fruit and candied orange peel). But what's not to like? Candied/dried fruit, spices, and rum! All good things.
I usually use dried fruit and home-candied orange peel (the stuff you can buy disturbs me). Dried papaya chunks are great in fruitcake--pretty, tasty, and hold their shape well.
This year I'm going to try a variant of Trinidad Black Cake, sans maraschino cherries and with different dried fruit.
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