Open Thread

a gallon of gas is cheaper than a gallon of organic milk from upstate new york. that’s pretty amazing considering oil comes from very far away.

The sad thing is that the “jackal solution” would only feed into a certain madman’s ravings.

Of course, he would not be around to make those ravings anymore, but still….

I lost what political respect I had for many of my liberal friends in the early 2000’s when they were happy to see a certain dictatorial asshole’s rise in power.

Lech, I got it before CGar – by a solid 3 minutes which is eons in the internet space

m4l, perhaps the frog dish was a sort of trick they played on unsuspecting white tourists. If so Wendy certainly fell for it.

When I lived in Houston, I had a good friend from Taiwan who would occasionally try to gross me out by taking me to Chinese restaurants and ordering off of the “authentic menu” – congealed blood soup, intestines, feet, stuff like that.

I kept explaining to him that I had family in rural south Louisiana, so I had seen it all already.

“http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53693.html”

BG, Paul claims to be a Libertarian and sometimes he actually acts like one. This is one of these times. Actually, on foreign policy, he’s pretty reliable.

Remember, it is a core tenet of Libertarianism that we mind our goddam business. That means staying out of the middle east, which is the same goal our enemies want. Let them have it.