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Mr. Dan Kelly Urban Etiquette Discussion #843765

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

I always wonder what the thought process is behind this. Machismo/male privilege? A lack of basic urban etiquette? An inflated sense of one’s size (the dude is big, but, at most, he “needs” two side-by-side seats)? Cultural differences (e.g., “Bah! Women are second-class humans!” or “In Gmöszk, where I am coming from, life is hard […]

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No One Who Ever Goes In… Ever Comes Out the Same Way…

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Fun game catalog found in a Civil War themed game I bought on eBay.

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Cryyyyyyyyying, OOoooooverrrrrr Yooouuuuuuuuu!

Friday, November 9, 2012

The surprise that Obama would choke up (“show emotion,” as ABC’s site refers to it) while thanking his staffers reminds me of the older relatives who think of me as one of those “new fathers”—that is, a guy who’s deeply involved in raising his kids. They mean it admiringly, but it’s funny that in 2012 […]

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Cliff Fiscal (Not Pictured)

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Yeah, I went to school with Cliff Fiscal. Weird kid. He’d turn up out of nowhere at parties he wasn’t invited to, and you could never get him to leave. He’d never bring anything, of course, but he’d constantly wonder aloud if we’d have enough food and drinks to last the night—not that he’d make […]

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“Big Deal! It’s Not Like You Old People Vote Anyway!”

Friday, September 21, 2012

I wonder if the GOP realizes that the crop of candidates they’ve been grooming all these years—the guys and gals who truly believe Ayn Rand was on to something, and think perpetually steamrolling austerity over the middle- and lower-classes is not only a good idea but also a NEW one—are hollow-headed, starry-eyed morons; dare I […]

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I Am Unhappy! What Are YOU Going to Do About It!?!

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

There’s a certain type of leftyish pundit/commenter who strikes me as the sort who hangs out with you only to bitch about how you’ve failed him. He comes over, raids the fridge, and complains that you never stock the kind of beer and food HE likes. Then he strides around and critiques your books, furniture, […]

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AmeriCCCa

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

For a country largely composed of the descendants of individuals unwanted elsewhere, and who, in their native lands, would probably be hip-deep in each others’ blood—yet who have managed to slowly craft this country into a democracy emulated by other nations suffering under or snapping back from centuries of idiotic notions like monarchies, dictatorships, and […]

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