It says I know my Canadians, but I’m pretty sure that I just know my dead people.

Worst kind of argument among left-wingers: “I’m more compassionate than you are.” “Nuh-uh. You’re secretly a fascist capitalist sell-out.” I’m pretty sure they are actually on the same side and just can’t see it.

RingosTar is right: I don’t think most reactions to this post really are “those troops are living too luxuriously.” If anything, the soldiers’ need for air conditioning underscores how ridiculous it was to send you all out there for so long. And you live in metal boxes? Who’s bright idea was that? Is it because tents wouldn’t e secure against munitions?

Okay… this list is making me rethink my objection to your objection to lists.

Shall I vet all my future posts with you first? To make sure you didn’t already know about them? If buzz is fed on the internet and Paul T. already knew it, can it still be buzz?

Cookie Monster’s name is not Sid, and I should not believe it even if Jim Henson returned from the grave and told me so.

If people were aggressively mean to them, I don’t like that, but Beck has no right to be treated courteously—civility is a privilege and must be reciprocal.

Educated. For example, the Bachmanns could teach gays some history…

Stay with me, Ross. I clearly jumped from the literal to the figurative. It’s not a big jump. You can do it. C’mon. Perhaps you didn’t make that jump with the idea of a “race card,” either—you know, the things you think African Americans are lucky to get to play. It’s not an actual card, Ross; it’s not like Magic or something. Race Cards: Collect Them All!

“I said something racist while making a larger point that you aren’t addressing. Therefore you are jarringly surprisingly missing my point.”  Please.

“I said something racist while making a larger point that you aren’t addressing. Therefore you are jarringly surprisingly missing my point.” Please.

I think you are forgetting a couple of coups—one at the end of the Second Peloponnesian War (by “The Four Hundred”?) and a counter-coup by Alkibiades. I probably don’t think the Athenian democracy was all bad, but it did serve a much smaller population than most countries have. If the citizens leading the government were acting foolishly, one could walk next door and tell them. Nations with large populations don’t have that luxury (even if it would be much better if we did).

I directly quoted you.

He should bill the police for his time. Dock the cop’s pay. We don’t pay taxes so cops can try to salvage some pride by taking time to think of something to bust folks on.

Blacks can allude to the possibility of racism? Oh, they’ve got it made.

Presidential triumvirates would be wild. A terrible idea, but awesome drama.

Reinstate prohibition? Really? Could you cite that? I’m not saying I don’t believe you, but that is a radical departure from their anti-big government philosophy (not that they are entirely consistent on that… still…).

Let’s make a deal, shall we? I’ll be cool with religious folks in office when religions pay taxes like every other corrupt corporation in America. Okay?

So… like ancient Athens? How’d that work out?