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http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/22/thoughts-on-the-tsarneav-complaint/ I love the WMD statute using interstate commerce to get jurisdiction. That's so cute. Oh federal jurisdiction!Ah, is THAT where all the death penalty talk is coming from? Be…

Comment by Jason April 23 permalink
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The Senate shot down the weakest-ass gun control bill the Dems could muster. I honestly don't even know what we're fucking doing in this country anymore.

Comment by Jason April 17 permalink
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Checked on one of our British podcasting friends visiting Boston. Luckily, he was about 45 minutes outside the city at the time of the explosion.

Comment by Jason April 15 permalink
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I was an asshole when I was an undergrad. I am marginally less an asshole now. When I die, I will likely still be significantly assholey.

Comment by Jason April 4 permalink
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Sadly, we're not terribly different from the Chinese when we want to be. Free speech zones and off-site protest areas exist in the United States.

Comment by Jason March 16 permalink
So...What Are You Playing Now?
After the bad word about SimCity, I bought Cities XL and it's feeding my simulation needs quite well. However, why do all sim games seem to have an overbearing, heavy, ambiguous UI? And why is there always a fog about what actions are beneficia…

Comment by Jason March 10 permalink
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You understand that you'd still have to have that pesky trial thing to determine guilt, right?

Comment by Jason March 5 permalink
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Insofar as the economy is a complex system with too many variables changing too quickly to make specific predictions, you are right that it's dumb to expect bankers to make specific forecasts. However, you can't say that irresponsible poli…

Comment by Jason March 4 permalink
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In lighter news, ONE OF OUR OWN. lol http://www.famousdead.com/john-brascia/

Comment by Jason February 27 permalink
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@furyk: I'll stipulate that neither side is the light or dark side of the Force. But let's not pretend to an equivalency where they are equally balanced. Pure relativism aside, conservatives by definition favor humanistically evil social s…

Comment by Jason February 15 permalink
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@furyk: I'll stipulate that neither side is the light or dark side of the Force. But let's not pretend to an equivalency where they are equally balanced. Pure relativism aside, conservatives by definition favor humanistically evil social s…

Comment by Jason February 15 permalink
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1) Regressive platforms don't win over people with critical thinking skills. 2) Regressives make the case that education is bad. 3) The poorly educated base accepts fuzzy logic. 4) Profit.

Comment by Jason February 15 permalink
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@Paul: "By implication irresponsible?" I don't get that at all. The commercial shows the poser getting his work done. He returns to work three minutes late, not three hours late. I'd call that an acceptable margin of error. Also…

Comment by Jason January 31 permalink
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I'm on the fence. You could call it a verbal kind of blackface, but it's an entirely positive portrayal with zero malice. In fact, the falling action has a stereotyped white old boss man changing for the better by adopting the Wise Jamaica…

Comment by Jason January 31 permalink
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Eh, seems a bit sensationalist.Yeah, let's play down that gunman shooting up innocent people.

Comment by Jason January 30 permalink
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When American lives were on the line, there were publicly tangible costs to our foreign aggression. Now that barrier has been removed, which greatly reduces public interest in how just (or how costly) our wars are. Drones abate our moral investment …

Comment by Jason January 25 permalink
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Motor vehicles sustain the global economy, so I'd say that pretty much outweighs skeet shooting on the apples-to-oranges scale.

Comment by Jason January 20 permalink
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Yes, there were still 58 gun-related homicides in the UK last year, because bad guys still got their hands on guns despite a total ban. That's 58 versus nearly 13,000 in the US, by the way, so you're only about 40 times more likely to be …

Comment by Jason December 2012 permalink
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I don't see them as equals. I just see different types of activities predominating on specific sides.I wasn't saying you in particular, Jon. But it seems that now the election is over, Republicans have jumped on the equivocation bandwagon,…

Comment by Jason December 2012 permalink
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I wish we could stop the false equivalency bullshit. The chances that equal injustices are carried out on both sides of the aisle is pretty stupid, or at the very least statistically improbable.

Comment by Jason December 2012 permalink
Remastered: A podcast in which old people remember cool stuff
So we're doing podcasts in seasons now, and Remastered season one has ended. In the same feed you can now catch Remote Patrol, in which we talk about old TV shows, starting with BUCK ROGERS! Warning: I need to have Joel back as a guest soon on…

Comment by Jason December 2012 permalink
I'm a dad now. This poor kid.
Late to answer, since work has been hell for the past month (after a big promotion, I am In Charge TM). The first year was great, and now she's walking, which is terrifying because she could be anywhere, anytime. Like a shark. But a shark that …

Comment by Jason December 2012 permalink
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Haven't checked this thread in a while, so it might have been addressed, but the "Electoral College is horrible and needs to go" complaints seem to have halted completely on the left side of the aisle and been taken up on the right. J…

Comment by Jason November 2012 permalink
STAH WAHS
As promised to all my peeps: Atomic Trivia War 9000 episode 92: The one with some Star Wars stuff. http://bit.ly/UpxuYo

Comment by Jason November 2012 permalink
STAH WAHS
ATTENTION COOL PEOPLE: Send your Star Wars trivia to atw9k@simplysyndicated.com by 6 p.m. EDT tomorrow (Wednesday) for a special episode of Atomic Trivia War 9000.

Comment by Jason October 2012 permalink
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I would vote for Toby Ziegler.

Comment by Jason October 2012 permalink
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Does it really help their narrative to frame it as, "The drunk guy beat our guy"?

Comment by Jason October 2012 permalink
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Living in a democracy is not a privilege, according to the Declaration of Independence. If we hold truths such as self-determinism, innate equality, and the inalienable rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness to be self-evident, then t…

Comment by Jason October 2012 permalink
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Yeah, we have this electoral college thing to make sure that small states have more of a say in the presidential race than their population might warrant. It seemed like a good idea at the time.It's still a good idea. American political philoso…

Comment by Jason October 2012 permalink
Hey, come get you some Borderlands 2!
There's lots of Tiny Tina hate out there on the World Wide Wubs, but I can't get enough of her.

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