What a shitty tie. Is that a picture from a high school dance?

Gay Panic Defense? 😉

If you’re going to carry a concealed handgun for protection from Grizzlies, be sure to file the front sight off.

That way it won’t hurt as bad when the bear takes it from you and sticks it you-know-where.

Any handgun small enough to carry concealed is most likely just going to piss off a Grizzly.

“Any handgun small enough to carry concealed is most likely just going to piss off a Grizzly.”

I got out of the boat. He mentions that:

And ABC iced the cake, with the cherry-picked Chief of National Park Services Retirees accounting a dubious possible scenario of “somebody hiking and fire(ing) at a bear, wounding it, and therefore making it a greater threat.”

His reply?

Therefore, I can add that if even one of the victims of Yellowstone/Soda Creek Campground grizzly attack had a concealed permit, and had been armed, the outcome early Wednesday morning may have been quite different.

And the anti-second amendment crowd will never admit that.

I’m a little unclear on his reasoning there.

There are people who have killed Grizzlies with handguns, but they were very large, powerful rounds like a .460 Ruger or .454 Casull.

These things make the “Dirty Harry” .44 Magnum look like popgun and are not the sort of thing you can conceal.

They’re also not something the average person can shoot comfortably without a lot of practice.

Here’s the best reason for permitting concealed carry: bear attacks.

What, no pumas?

I think his reasoning is that the outcome could’ve been way worse! One of the injured campers could’ve been killed by a stray bullet instead.

If people would just STEP AWAY from the pic-a-nic baskets, we wouldn’t have this kind of trouble.

No “right to bear arms” jokes?

I’m a little unclear on his reasoning there.

It’s just a clumsy attempt to shoehorn an unusual situation into the “if everyone were armed this wouldn’t have happened” cliché.

I know this is anecdote, not data, but my kid and I spent an amazing week in a bear camp on privately owned land inside Katmai National Park- I’ve been 15 feet away from a mother Kodiak and her cubs. The weathered Alaska born and raised bear guide didn’t carry any form of weapon because, as he said, “I’m not good enough with a rifle to bring down a 1200 pound animal with one shot, and you only get one shot” Everybody in the camp carried highway flares, and I saw them used once. There’s that element of “Me human, have fire” that the bears don’t habituate to, and it allowed us to back off to a safe distance.
I’m shocked that a knee jerk pro-2nd amendment at any cost responder doesn’t know what he’s talking about

Revised Shorter Tim Daniels: Anecdote is TOO the singular of data, you dumb libs!

Well hell, son, I’m all for the right to bear arms, the right to arm bears, and all points in-between but if you ever want to be taken seriously you got to do something about that haircut, that ill-fitting shirt, and that tie you bought off the clearance rack at Wal Mart.

People got killed where they were allowed to have guns. It’s all the libs’ fault those killed weren’t packing heat. Letting people have guns is not enough.

If people would just STEP AWAY from the pic-a-nic baskets, we wouldn’t have this kind of trouble.

Yeah! What is that grizzly had been smarter than the average bear? Even Ranger Smith would have trouble dropping that honker.

I got out of the boat, but the water was really shallow and bears had eaten all the mangoes.

the cherry-picked Chief of National Park Services

Not wanting to be led astray by the expertise of the single most knowledgeable person, I revved up the cherry-picker and went Googling.
In one study by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

since 1992, persons encountering grizzlies and defending themselves with firearms suffer injury about 50% of the time. During the same period, persons defending themselves with pepper spray escaped injury most of the time, and those that were injured experienced shorter duration attacks and less severe injuries.

Canadian bear biologist Dr. Stephen Herrero reached similar conclusions based on his own research — a person’s chance of incurring serious injury from a charging grizzly doubles when bullets are fired versus when bear spray is used.

According to BYU bear biologist Thomas S. Smith,

the spray effectively halted aggressive bear behavior in 92 percent of the cases, whether that behavior was an attack or merely rummaging for food. Of all 175 people involved in the incidents studied, only three were injured by bears, and none required hospitalization. […] Smith’s previous research found that guns were effective about 67 percent of the time.

Because these are all cherry-picked experts, Daniels probably has a much longer list of studies that show the opposite.

Montana sez meh:

To underscore how rare the fatal mauling is, in the last 30 years 12 people have been killed by bears in Montana and Wyoming. And on the Gallatin National Forest, where Soda Creek Campground is located, the last bear-caused fatality was in June 1983, when a camper was dragged from his tent and killed at Rainbow Point Campground near Hebgen Lake.

I wonder if there’s a bridge near the point….

I think we should all be permitted to have our own highly trained “Anti Bear Bears” that would fend off attacks from wild, ungood, bears. Plus if we don’t get to have our own bears, then only criminals will have bears.

the water was really shallow and bears had eaten all the mangoes.
Let the record show that ITTDGYA was more likely to blame.

best way not to get attacked by a bear is to not bother Steve C. when he’s eating. BONO!

My God, people! Haven’t you been paying attention to your Colbert?! Bears are godless killing machines and MUST BE STOPPED!

Wait, you can stop them with pepper spray? Okay, never mind.

Oh dear sweet spreadable jeebus on a matzoh. I live in western Montana, which has the largest grizzly population in the lower 48, and spend a lot of time in the back country. The smallest handgun you want to carry for protection against a grizzly is a .41 magnum and you ain’t carrying that puppy concealed. Also, by the time you draw a concealed weapon, you are already the bear’s lunch. Personally, I take bear spray when I hike in bear country since it is just as effective, weighs less and is less likely to attract other bears. Seems that grizzlies have learned to associate gunfire with hunting season and the possibility of a free meal, so are attracted to the sound of gunshots.

After receiving a bullet to the face, at least we can once and forever confirm that Bear is, in fact, not driving.

What, no pumas?

Pumas are too sneaky and come up behind you without warnig. No fair at all.

Let the record show that ITTDGYA was more likely to blame.

OMG!

I’d totally forgotten. ALL MY FAULT, peoples!

atoning.

btoning.
~

Photoshop improvement suggestion: remove the grizzly and add Pedobear.

And also, few people know this, but it’s rich in irony: the bear who killed and ate “Grizzly Man” is the one he had named “Jeffrey Dahmer.”

Ok, not really.

Liberals love to go down the subjunctive mood route and justify positions within theoretical conditions. But those theoretical positions always fit the progressive mold and worldview.

Wait, he asserts this tu quoque preemptively so he can make up some stupid hypothetical ignoring all the facts of the case and any data whatsoever?

And why would you need to concealed-carry? If bears are smart enough to steer clear unless you conceal, wouldn’t you WANT to display it? Of course, it was the middle of the night when the attack occurred, so his little hypothetical is even stupider.

Purrhaps he meant con-sealed carry, tigris.

Coitanly the bears would be more aggressive if convicts were attempting to transport seals across staid lions.
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Since Glenn Beck has stolen teh crazy high ground, a lotta people gotta start way higher up the scale than they used to have to.
What they are having wet dreams about is, a perfectly aimed and pinpoint accurate fusillade from concealed carry weapons bringing down the 9/11 jets.

Go read No Room for Bears by Frank Dufresne.

Especially if you imagine that carrying some sort of gun will protect you.

Liberals love to go down the subjunctive mood route

It’s a bit longer but it doesn’t actually take any more time, and the scenery is better.

Liberals love to go down

Wait, who’s shoving what down whose throat again?

You know, I don’t really care much about anti-gun control people anymore (gun control being a symptom-based solution to crime anyway), but the people who say everyone should be armed annoy me. I don’t want to carry a gun! If a crazed gunman comes by I’d still be screwed, possibly even more screwed than if I just kept my head down. You can keep your polite society, my purse is full.

It’s the right to bear arms, not the right to arm bears, dammit!

It’s the right to bear arms, not the right to arm bears, dammit!

I think you just figured out the path to victory in Afghanistan.

I cannot imagine how that scenario was supposed to turn out better if the bears were armed. The wingnut mind will forever remain opaque to me.

Where do bears even have where they can conceal a gun? Under the Smokey hat?

BTW, business update: our catalog was printed last week and debuted yesterday at the summer PTA leadership meeting to great acclaim. I was really nervous about some items being priced higher than most school fundraising items (we have boneless hams for $75 which includes tax & direct shipping) but one of the first people who picked up the catalog raved about how great the pricing on the hams is. Anyway, my business partner was really upset to learn about a few schools who already have contracts with other companies, and one in particular who invited 3 other companies to make a pitch in June but not us. But there’s enough out there that isn’t sewed up yet that we can still have a great year, and like I told her, up until February no one had ever HEARD of us, and up until now we’ve just been a couple of people going around telling people that we’re GOING to have this fundraising catalog. Now that we have it, we can probably shake loose even some of the schools that already made contracts with other companies – those contracts aren’t binding until they get the fundraiser started. So I’m still feeling really good about our prospects for fall.

Everywhere I look I see bears. Bears at the mall. Bears going to church. Bears at Starbucks. Bears at the grocery store. Bears window-shopping. Bears in bars. Bears stealing parking spots. Bears at the gun store!

Shoot Grizzlies! What does he have against Sarah Palin, the best-known
American Mama Grizzly?

I cannot imagine how that scenario was supposed to turn out better if the bears were armed.

Well, getting shot by a bear would be a quicker, cleaner death than a mauling.

You don’t really come here for the hunting, now do ya.

After receiving a bullet to the face, at least we can once and forever confirm that Bear is, in fact, not driving.

How can that be?!

A few months ago, a deer bounded out in front of my car and I almost hit it. I think we should have concealed carry so I could shoot out my window at the deer the next time that happens. It’ll be like Ronin or some shit, but with deers.

Jennifer rocks, and getting out of the construction industry will doubtless be a good move.

Yeah, Jennifer is totally kicking ass!

(BTW, we do have concealed carry here. It is Missourah, after all. I just like to pretend we don’t).

What a shitty tie. Is that a picture from a high school dance?

I don’t think that twunt ever made it to a high school dance.

I’m a little unclear on his reasoning there.

There’s reasoning there?

I’m gobstopped at the idiocy and mendaciousness of the whole thing. I mean, he’s whining that the dfhs made it so these poor folks were all bear eaten because if they could have had guns they would have been fine even though the new law says you can have a gun and they were in a National Forest anyway not a National Park so they could have had guns anyway but the hippies always always just use made up hypotheticals so here’s a completely made up hypothetical and SHUT UP THAT’S WHY!

Whew. Damn.

And from the comments, his reply contains this gem,

Totally off topic here but I would love to know your opinion on my right to retain the majority of my earnings as well.

Because clearly, there’s a 51+% tax bracket, and he’s in it.

That’s some fine logisticatin’, Lou.

We can only hope the Daily Cruller is last-legging it. I noticed last wk. that gun, hunting & fishing items were suddenly popping up there. May mean that Bow-Tie Daddy realizes he’s reached every urbanite & suburbanite he’s going to get, & has to expand his reach to the would-be Neanderthals who think animal murder makes them Randian supermen. Or at least will make their willies grow.

May mean that Bow-Tie Daddy realizes he’s reached every urbanite & suburbanite he’s going to get, & has to expand his reach to the would-be Neanderthals who think animal murder makes them Randian supermen.

Of course, these are just the sort of individuals who’d love to smash a bow-tie wearing trust fund snotnose with a 2X4. Good luck, er, Tucker, ya fucker.

thanks, zrm & T&U.

At some point in the next 2 – 3 months, we’ll have our online store up and running – we’re labelling every product that goes out with the web address so people can re-order with a percentage going to the school of their choice. Then you’ll get sick of me pimping products. Though…they really ARE quite nice.

It’s not enough that they have the right to carry guns in national parks, everyone has to agree that it’s a great idea and not think that people might be more threatened by people carrying guns than by bears.

Concealed carry is for effete weaklings. What good is hiding your weapon? How can we guarantee a “polite” society if someone is willing to take a chance you aren’t packing & actually dares to keep their place in line when you want it?

Strap that hog-leg on your manly thigh, as close to the banana wrapped in aluminum foil that you stuff down your pants daily, so the ladeez will “know” you are ready, & so the less “polite” will get out of your way!

Also, how can we dare impugn the grizzly when he so proudly defended the great American tradition of stuffing one’s face with processed pig anus?

What is the wingnut obsession with concealed carry all about? Do they know deep inside that they could never get the drop on someone unless they take them by surprise?

Is there some deeper psychological mechanism going on that I can’t begin to understand? Like how the Israelis refuse to acknowledge the existence of their nuclear weapons, which are supposed to be a deterrent? What kind of a deterrent do you deny the existence of?

There’s something going on in these people’s heads that I will never be able to grasp.

In modern English, the subjunctive mood still exists but is regarded in many contexts as optional. Use of the subjunctive tends to convey a more formal tone, but there are few people who would regard its absence as actually wrong. Today, it survives mostly in fixed expressions, as in : be that as it may;: far be it from me;: as it were ;: lest we forget ;: God help you;: perish the thought; and : come what may.

I prefer the indicative mood myself, be that as it may.

everyone has to agree that it’s a great idea and not think that people might be more threatened by people carrying guns than by bears.

One might wonder what the relevant statistics were, re: shooting deaths vs. bears eating peoples faces, in the Yellowstone area.

Or anywhere, really.

No, wait. Let me guess.

There’s something nothing going on in these people’s heads. That I will never be able to grasp.

flxxorr3d

One might wonder what the relevant statistics were, re: shooting deaths vs. bears eating peoples faces, in the Yellowstone area.

Oh you liberals and your hypothetical subjunctivity. The bear didn’t just eat faces, she also gnawed a leg and an arm.

One article I read said about the lady who got her arm chewed on “[t]he bear spray she had with her at all times was out of reach in her tent.” I guess people sleep with their guns closer, though, so wingnut hypothetical = saved!

Video proof of ACORN and New Black Panthers voter intimidation tactics. Very interesting. What say you now libtards.

the subjunctive mood still exists but is regarded in many contexts as optional.

Were I a pedant I would argue with that.

That’s right, Timmy! Concealed guns completely terrify bears.

So do pork chops and applesauce…

Captain Industry said,

Also, how can we dare impugn the grizzly when he so proudly defended the great American tradition of stuffing one’s face with processed pig anus?

That video made me proud to be a human bean, I can tell you that much.
~

Oops, looks like we’re going to need a new Timmy.

You know, the Daily Caller has some really biting commentary.

Maybe the bear was really Sarah Palin?

“Is there some deeper psychological mechanism going on that I can’t begin to understand”, Reverend? If you have a concealed weapon, you are busy protecting your family from bears, homicidal maniacs, and what-not. The actual odds of being attacked by bears, homicidal maniacs, and what-nots matters not. Whether you are actually being vigilant and taking other precautions matters not either. What matters is that you have a gun. By that logic alone, it is YOU- 1 and BEARS-0. You win. You have a gun. The bear doesn’t.

His reasoning is BS. The correct argument goes:

“Concealed carry permits should be legal everywhere in the US because guns.”

What say you now libtards.

Some mates going for a hiking trip in Yellowstone NP.

One might wonder what the relevant statistics were, re: shooting deaths vs. bears eating peoples faces, in the Yellowstone area.

Bears stealing your face right off of your head:
2010

29009

I’m just wondering how you carry a bear in the first place, much less conceal one.

Oh, shit, didn’t know that doofus was “Left Coast RebelDefender of The Status Quo & Quisling To The Establishment.” Barf.

stryx’s first link has a lovely euphemism: “Management Removal.”

“Concealed carry permits should be legal everywhere in the US because guns I am an emasculated asshole and a gun is all that’s left of my shriveled manhood.”

fxe’d

The reason that you’d want to take a gun with you when you go into the woods is because you never know, you might walk through a circle of trees and end up in the Red Room. Save the last bullet for yourself.

Some mates going for a hiking trip in Yellowstone NP.

Your mates seem to have carjacked a Getty Images truck.

Also, how can we dare impugn the grizzly when he so proudly defended the great American tradition of
driving off in Japanese cars and crapping in the back seat.

Your mates seem to have carjacked a Getty Images trucktechnical.

W/ an orb composed of orbs (!) attached.

I keep imagining the bear in the above picture leaning over and snarling in Timmeh’s ear: “See these teeth? These teeth could bite your head clean off. Now, ask yourself this question: Do you feel lucky, punk?”

Dirty Harry Bear.

we have boneless hams

You have my sympathies and/or lustful fantasies.

Also, congrats on the catalog. Also.

Candy – I’d still rather see him being menaced from behind by Pedobear.

Also too, thank you N__B.

Like how the Israelis refuse to acknowledge the existence of their nuclear weapons, which are supposed to be a deterrent? What kind of a deterrent do you deny the existence of?

As you know, the Premier loves surprises.

Wow, what a coincidence: I just descended a few hours ago from a two-day backpacking trip in bear country, and taking a few basic, sensible precautions meant that I felt no more need to be mortally armed than I would in any American city on a night out.

Ah… Well, let me finish, Dmitri… Let me finish, Dmitri… Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?… Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?… Why do you think I’m calling you? Just to say hello?… *Of course* I like to speak to you!… *Of course* I like to say hello!… Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I’m just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened… It’s a *friendly* call. Of course it’s a friendly call… Listen, if it wasn’t friendly… you probably wouldn’t have even got it…

Todays bears are smarter than average so us humans must take this into account.

I’m back from my tour of the Himalayas. Anybody miss me?

Want to weigh in here for no reason: I went to the only place I buy ammunition, Wal-Mart — also the only thing I buy there, because if you’re going to be douchebag enough to own guns, you should have to buy ammo somewhere horrible — and they didn’t have any .380 rounds. Why not? Because every asshole now has a .380 stashed under his driver’s seat, in the glove box, bedside table, toolbox, attic, basement, kitchen drawer, and the back of his pants. If these shitheads start claiming they need to carry guns everywhere because of bears, I think we’re fairly close to them deciding they need to shoot people because they’re similar to bears.

It scares me. I’m switching to a higher caliber.

Cub update from the Scrawler.

Time for a Youtube war biitches!

I like the idea of “bear country”, like it’s a country, and when you get there a bear gives you a mean look and stamps your passport. This is scary but still vastly preferable to bat country.

Time for a Youtube war biitches!

Careful what you ask for.

There’s no way in hell I’m getting off the boat for something called “Tea Party Music Video”, but I will guess that it contains any combination of A) The Obama Joker pic, maybe with some scary CGI flames licking at it, B) an eagle flying in slow motion, and C) A clip of Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin/Paul Ryan speaking, set to a triumphal soundtrack.

like it’s a country, and when you get there a bear gives you a mean look and stamps your passport.

— The nudist beaches? What beaches? We’re in a desert.
— I was misinformed.

This is Stephen Colbert’s fault, I’m sure of it. We’ve already identified that the wingnuts don’t seem to realize Colbert’s fucking with them, so his panic attacks about bears are clearly being treated as real-life fears of the wingnuttria. And thus it leads to situations like this, wingnut commentary on “oh yeah, what about bears, libs?! Who’ll protect you from bears?!”

This is Stephen Colbert’s fault

Yep, he should shred his rejected scripts so aren’t stolen by Tucker’s dumpster-divers.

Now, wait…maybe it’s because I’ve been a mummy/goddess for a very long time, but it does strike me as very strange that even grammar is now a political statement. Does this mean that these “Tea Festivals” won’t allow you entrance if you use the subjonctive tense? Do they refund your ticket if you are caught saying (for example), “Long live pharoah!” Are you at least allowed to keep the souvenir tea cup?

Modern people are very strange indeed…

like it’s a country, and when you get there a bear gives you a mean look and stamps your passport.

– The nudist beaches? What beaches? We’re in a desert.
– I was misinformed.

Is there anything to say other than “Rule 34”?

An excellent book comes to mind – “Bear Attacks, Their Causes and Avoidance” by Stephen Herrero – the wife and I used to tiptoe (in a liberal fashion) through the woods in the hopes of seeing wildlife. Not after reading this book. Jingly things on the pack, and bear spray.

As I recall, Herrero observes that hunting bears isn’t like hunting other animals so much as it is entering a war zone, since as soon as the bears are aware that you are after them they will be hunting you.

Also, this: “Bear kills militants in Kashmir” – you’d think the wingers would be rooting for the bears.

I was camping at Hetch Hetchy once when a patient from nearby Camarillo State wandered into the campground with a shotgun and let off a few rounds outside of the tent of a stranger. In the ensuing hubbub it turned out that I was the only camper there without a gun. I don’t know what this tool is worrying about, Amerika is very well armed already.

Doesn’t possession of a gun make the likelihood of being shot multiply by 7 or 8?

Doesn’t possession of a gun make the likelihood of being shot multiply by 7 or 8?

Based on the principles of homeopathy, owning an empty water pistol makes you the meanest mother-fucker around.

Doesn’t possession of a gun make the likelihood of being shot multiply by 7 or 8?

Only if your family members hate you.

There is only one interesting element in this post and that is the discussion of the subjunctive tense. My only formal training in grammar was in French, and in French you do not use the subjunctive for hypotheticals. You use the conditional tense (past or present, as required) for hypotheticals: If (past continuous or present) then (past conditional or future conditional).

The subjunctive has other uses.

Is this guy right that the verb tense used in English for hypotheticals is the subjunctive, or is it just one more thing he got wrong?

What is the subjunctive used for, again? Commands? There’s something else, too…I didn’t take French, but I took years of Spanish and have forgotten most of it.

It always shows up following the verb “faloir”, which is only conjugated in third person singular “Il faut que [whatever goes here is subjunctive]” (basically “You must”, where “you” is the generic you); and I think any similar sentence that has “que” (that) will follow it with subjunctive. But this all from memory and Grade Seven was a LONG time ago, for me, too.

For commands, they have the imperative, which is like the present tense, but lacks an explicit subject.

And, yeah, he’s right.

Okay, yeah, I remember now. Of course, hence “imperative.”

I wasn’t smart enough (or didn’t care enough) ever to get imperfect vs. preterite down 100%, so I should probably just STFU.

What is the subjunctive used for, again?

Getting drugs the imperative directly into the bloodstream.

Always. Trust. The. Shorter.™

Hang on…is this unprintably idiotic jackass ACTUALLY suggesting concelead handguns be permitted into Yellowstone because of bear attacks?

A handgun? REALLY??????

The photo brings to mind- ‘Bears vs Twinks- Who Will Win???’ Perhaps the Twink, if he’s got a big enough gun.

Spengler, carry a .45 auto- doesn’t take much more space and works much better at its intended purpose. The .380 is not that good of a cartridge for stopping power unless you stick the piece in the assailant’s eye and cut loose. Just speaking from personal experience, just trying to help a brutha out and all that..

A handgun? REALLY??????

You mean my Ladysmith won’t stop a bar?

If bears are smart enough to steer clear unless you conceal, wouldn’t you WANT to display it?

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to feed me?

You mean my Ladysmith won’t stop a bar?

There’s a hygiene joke in there somewhere.

You mean my Ladysmith won’t stop a bar?

She pulled out a pair of 44s. I wasn’t scared.

They she pulled out a gun. I was scared!

Is this guy right that the verb tense used in English for hypotheticals is the subjunctive, or is it just one more thing he got wrong?

It’s used more for hopes and wishes and commands than conditional clauses.

Da Wiki:

The subjunctive in Modern English is easily distinguished in a great variety of contexts where the sense is past tense, but the form of the subjunctive verb required is the present: “It was required that we go to the back of the line.”

Notice there’s no if/then involved. The requirement to return to the end of the line was precedent to the action. “The cop demanded I produce my license, which I did.”

In other words, in this case it’s more a statement of fact/outcome than a hypothetical.

*sigh*

nymfailure…

Sheesh.

Grizzly bears have incredible tenacity of life. Unless you carry something big enough to send them base over apex (as the late L. Sprague DeCamp would put it), they are likely to live long enough to kill you any way, unless you’re lucky enough to shoot through the eye socket into the brain and disable the autonomic controls.

You know what are scary and probably can be killed with a handgun? Possums.

I say “probably” because I’m quite sure there are mutant possums out there that are indestructible. At least, I’m pretty sure that’s what happens when your diet consists solely of kittens and processed food scraps…

Grizzly bears have incredible tenacity of life.

Why do you think they eat all those omega 3s?

You know what are scary and probably can be killed with a handgun? Possums.

Yes, but then you get zombie possums, which are worse than bears and may actually be your best protection against bears.

Yes, but then you get zombie possums, which are worse than bears and may actually be your best protection against bears.

I’ve never been able to train zombie possums adequately. Better to run them over with your car, I think.

Once, when I was a child, a possum got into our house. We had to lock it in the bathroom until animal control could come the next morning.

*cue Deliverance music*

I read Monster of God* a few years ago. It convincingly argued that an alpha-predator-less world is coming and the implications of this on human psychology will not be good. In short, we will have defeated Leviathon and will be one step closer to defeating God or nature or the creator of your choice.

Frankly, I don’t see how advocating the destruction of bears is all that different from arguing that Terri Schiavo should be kept “alive” as long as medically possible. We humans have an awfully solipsistic obsession with pursuing our own immortality. I don’t exclude myself from that, but I also don’t think it’s necessarily a beneficial thing.

*I haven’t read the linked review; it’s just for reference on the book.

Hrm, did I have a comment fail? Test?

concelead handguns be permitted into Yellowstone because of bear attacks?

It’s even better than that. His example took place in “Greater Yellowstone” i.e. Gallatin National Forest– no handgun restrictions.

Any handgun small enough to carry concealed is most likely just going to piss off a Grizzly.

Well, that’s the point. When the handguns prove to be ineffective, they can move on to concealed hand grenades and escalate from there.

Eventually, we’ll end up at concealed suicide bombs, which will prove their point about hajji terrorism coming to America, and it will still all be the liberals’ fault.

Motherfuck. I did. Welp, you all can just imagine I said something fantastically brilliant, congratulate me for it, and move on.

Once, when I was a child, a possum got into our house. We had to lock it in the bathroom until animal control could come the next morning.

Did it use the toilet and soil the towels?

We had to lock it in the bathroom until animal control could come the next morning

I take it you had indoor plumbing.

Did it use the toilet and soil the towels?

I don’t remember. You know, I could be recalling incorrectly, but I think my mother had to call my grandfather to help her with wranglin’ it because my dad was too scared.

I think my mother had to call my grandfather to help her with wranglin’ it because my dad was too scared.

I’m not sure whether I’d be more embarrassed if my wife called my father or hers.

I take it you had indoor plumbing.

YES. I may have had to step over a dead rat to go to the bathroom one morning, but at least the bathroom was inside. Or not.

I think my mother had to call my grandfather to help her with wranglin’ it

Getting the saddle cinched tight is the hard part.

Getting the saddle cinched tight is the hard part.

That’s where the picadors come in

I’m not sure whether I’d be more embarrassed if my wife called my father or hers.

She called my dad’s dad, who is kind of a badass. I’m pretty sure my dad was ashamed.

Somehow the internet got me to read this Financial Times story about The crisis of middle-class America and at the end of the article there’s this closing comment

When I asked what the American Dream means to them, Mark looked despondent. “It’s not a dream,” he said. “I would hate to sound like one of those Tea Party people but I really do want my country back. I just don’t feel like that is going to ­happen.” His words reminded me of a famous quip by George Carlin, the late, great American comedian – “It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

Which led me to the video of Carlin setting up that line.

Unfuckingbelieveable.

Ironically, Stryx, I used that same video at my blog this morning, for a slightly different reason.

“He was a hairy bear, he was a scary bear…”

That’s where the picadors come in

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t picaDoors’ nose because Jim Morrison is still alive, man, but he’s in hiding.

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t picaDoors’ nose because Jim Morrison is still alive, man, but he’s in hiding.

He’s hiding in Toreadors.

And from that story in the Billings Gazette:

That’s when they came across another victim, a young man, who’d been bitten in the calf and managed to scare the animal off by punching it in the head.

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t picaDoors’ nose because Jim Morrison is still alive, man, but he’s in hiding.

This is hilariously stupid and/or stupidly hilarious.

That’s when they came across another victim, a young man, who’d been bitten in the calf and managed to scare the animal off by punching it in the head.

In fairness to gun owners, that bear had a glass jaw and lowered his left to throw his right cross.

That’s when they came across another victim, a young man, who’d been bitten in the calf and managed to scare the animal off by punching it in the head.

I have heard that the way to fend off a shark attack is to punch a shark in the face. I wonder how good a shot I’m going to get in if I’m being thrashed around underwater.

This is hilariously stupid and/or stupidly hilarious.

Gotta have the strength of your convictions.

In fairness to gun owners, that bear had a glass jaw and lowered his left to throw his right cross.

We all have our bears to cross.

I have heard that the way to fend off a shark attack is to punch a shark in the face.

It’s possible but the punch should be to the gills, which makes sense: it’s about the only part of the shark’s head that has more soft tissue than bone and cartilage.

I have heard that the way to fend off a shark attack is to punch a shark in the face.

Glad I don’t have to worry about that. I wonder if that would work on cottonmouths, though…

I had always heard that you are supposed to fight a black bear if it attacks but to play dead for a grizzly.

We all have our bears to cross.

I crossed one with a zombie possum.

I wonder if that would work on cottonmouths, though…

Only if I’ve had too much gin the night before.

It’s possible but the punch should be to the gills,

That’s good information, particularly if I make it to the Cape this summer, but it doesn’t assuage my concerns. If anything, it’ll be more difficult to punch the face than the gills, as the face will be the part that’s attached to me.

We all have our bears to cross.

I crossed one with a zombie possum.

What fiendish depths will you not sink to, Dr. Moreau???!

I had always heard that you are supposed to fight a black bear if it attacks but to play dead for a grizzly.

You play dead for a possum. You and the animal just lie there. Whoever plays dead longest wins. You need to call your grandfather over to judge the contest.

What fiendish depths will you not sink to, Dr. Moreau???!

Goats. Can’t abide the critters. In fact, I was hoping to create a chupacabra.

Or maybe I was trying to create the Salmon of Wisdom. Not sure I remember. I had too much gin the night before and woke up all cottonmouth

Goats. Can’t abide the critters. In fact, I was hoping to create a chupacabra.

Anything I say about goats here will be misinterpreted Mickey Kaus-style, so I’m just going to make fun of you for using the word “critters” instead.

“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

A Brit once mentioned “Americans tell us about the American dream and ask us if there’s a European dream and what is the European dream. We don’t need a European dream! We’re awake!”

Well done!

Martini?

Can a shark really be said to have a “face”?

Can a shark really be said to have a “face”?

Sharks, like bears, have whatever they want to have.

I had always heard that you are supposed to fight a black bear if it attacks but to play dead for a grizzly

That’s what the lady who got her arm bitten did.

I had always heard that you are supposed to fight a black bear if it attacks but to play dead for a grizzly

If a grizzly attacks, very little “playing” is required for the “dead” part.

Speaking of unhinged animals out for blood:

The highlight of the event was a paranoid screed from Breitbart, in which he warned of a “media cabal,” and accused liberals of being the true racists. Breitbart explained to reporters that their employers were “in cahoots with black politicians and the Democratic Party.”

…at an event to promote minority support for the teabagging.

Obviously the bears don’t read the same books I do.

Are the cahoots open or closed?

Hey, it’s the beginning of Shark Week.

I can’t believe Discovery Channel is even spamming Sadly, No! with advertising…. you bunch of shameless shills.

Are the cahoots open or closed?

It depends on the state. For instance, in NY, they’re only allowed to be open from noon Sunday until 2AM Saturday night. In New Jersey, they’re alwys closed on Sunday in some counties but not across the state. In Connecticut, they’re called package stores.

I can’t believe Discovery Channel is even spamming Sadly, No! with advertising…. you bunch of shameless shills.

They promised me a date with Kari Byron.

Actor, do you call Coke “pop” too?

Actor, do you call Coke “pop” too?

I call it “Peruvian marching powder” or “breakfast” depending on if I’m holding or buying.

Lessons in wingnut history:

“Twenty years ago today, on August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein ordered his forces into Iraq.”

Oddly, the Gulf of Tonkin incident also took place on this date. I guess we can all have a good fap over the relative significance of these events.

Yeah, pepper spray doesn’t require special permits or training, is immensely likely to work better in moments of pants-shitting terror where pinpoint accuracy is not always feasible, and doesn’t permanently injure the bear while providing some adverse conditioning regarding the hairless apes and their pic-a-nic baskets. But Jeff Gannon Jr. wants you to “indulge” him in his fantasy about going Dirty Harry on Smokey.

*Trufax.

I had always heard that you are supposed to fight a black bear if it attacks but to play dead for a grizzly

I heard you were supposed to climb a tree in either case. If the bear follows you up the tree, it’s a black bear. If it knocks down the tree, it’s a grizzly.

If the bear follows you up the tree, it’s a black bear. If it knocks down the tree, it’s a grizzly.

And if it goes looking for another cub to indulge, you’re probably on the Castro.

Well I got an anecdote!

I was grouse hunting with a loaded shotgun once. I was hiking up a foothill and walked into a sheltered grove of trees where I encountered a black bear (much less dangerous than a grizzly). It felt like the bear was in my face, but in reality it was about 10 feet away from me. It looked up, saw me, we stared at each other for an hour (actually a second or two), and it bolted down the hill.

After assessing the situation and realizing that I needed to start bringing clean underwear with me when hunting, I realized that I never shouldered the shotgun or removed the safety. It had never occured to me to do so. I stood there, stunned, waiting for the bear to make its move. If it had decided to attack me, I would have taken the attack without firing a shot.

Concealed carry of pistols for bears is not a defense. Additionally, most bear attacks are rooted in cause to something incredibly stupid done by the victim of the attack.

I heard you were supposed to climb a tree in either case. If the bear follows you up the tree, it’s a black bear. If it knocks down the tree, it’s a grizzly.

False. Black bear.

Fact: bears eat beets. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

Saddam Hussein ordered his forces into Iraq.

What kind of an asshole would invade Iraq?

…at an event to promote minority support for the teabagging.

What, Michael Steele’s potato salad wasn’t enough of a draw?

“I didn’t realize that any movement everywhere had a minimum daily requirement of black people to be legitimate,” he said.

This made me laugh while being sad and angry. (From Stryx’s link).

Call me crazy, but I would think that not being insane would be a minimum daily requirement for a “movement” to be legitimate. This sort of movement can be assisted with bran and laxatives.

What, Michael Steele’s potato salad wasn’t enough of a draw?

Hell, if he’d mentioned watermelon, too, I would totes be there!

I have heard that the way to fend off a shark attack is to punch a shark in the face.

I usually keep a couple hundred on me to bribe the shark. That’s much more effective than primitive violence.

Krugman is cheery, as usual.

But really, gang, at what point are Americans going to wake up and realize they’re being played? I’m not just talking about conservatives, I’m talking about EVERYONE. Except rich people, of course.

But really, gang, at what point are Americans going to wake up and realize they’re being played?

It’s going to take an act of such sheer cowardice on the part of the plutocracy that it cannot be ignored. What that might be, I can’t figure out. They’ve got us lulled to sleep with this temptation and that carrot dangling from a stick. I would have thought the Bush years…think about it, TWO major market meltdowns in less than eight years…would have done it, but uit hasn’t.

But really, gang, at what point are Americans going to wake up and realize they’re being played?

I dislike the “wake up” metaphor because it implies that a quick change of state is possible. We’re a nation of either morons or people who are willfully and completely ignorant. Either way, changing us to a nation capable of rational decision-making individuals is near impossible.

Real men fight bears in the Octagon, mano a paw.

They’ve got us lulled to sleep with this temptation and that carrot dangling from a stick.

I suppose that facing the fact that the “American Dream” isn’t possible and that we’ve been complicit in our own downfall is too much for most people to bear, as well. And a lot of us are exhausted and numb and just trying to get by…there’s not much time to reflect on why things are that way, or energy to try and change them.

And a lot of us are exhausted and numb and just trying to get by

That’s Carlin’s point, the one that Stryx and I linked to independent of each other.

We’re kept just intelligent enough to do the work that’s needed. We’re kept just rich enough that we don’t file bankruptcy and we can keep spending. We’re kept just healthy enough that we’re not a burden to anyone but our families. And we’re kept just happy enough that we don’t question what’s going on around us.

I dislike the “wake up” metaphor because it implies that a quick change of state is possible. We’re a nation of either morons or people who are willfully and completely ignorant. Either way, changing us to a nation capable of rational decision-making individuals is near impossible.

I know what you mean, and I agree, actually. I was just talking about people realizing, “Oh, hey, I’m getting fucked over left and right by the people who are supposed to be representing me!” I’m not saying we’ll make rational decisions based on that (in fact, people rarely do), but it’d be nice if people would at least understand it.

And we’re not just talking about morons. I see people who are smart and well-informed about politics who seem not to be able to come to terms with the fact that we are well and truly fucked under the current system. I think it’s more emotional than anything else, really.

Real men fight bears in the Octagon, mano a paw.
By this standard, I fail. It was in the ring with Marquis of Queensbury rules.

I was told that the best way to avoid being attacked by a bear was to be able to outrun the people you’re with.

I think it’s more emotional than anything else, really.

There’s a lot of denial, it’s true.

The point I raised at my blog is that there’s just too much opposing us right now that even those who are awake and are alert can do anything to stop it, and by the time the rest of the country wakes up and realizes the game of blaming the blacks/ACORN/Teabaggers/whathaveyou has been successfully played and the real wealth of the nation has been extracted and carted safely away, it will be far too late to do much about it.

We’ll be Rome under the Visigoths.

We’re kept just rich enough that we don’t file bankruptcy and we can keep spending.

Up until recently, it was more like, “We’re given access to enough easy credit and cheaply-made goods that we’re able to feel like we’re rich enough, even when we aren’t.”

“We’re given access to enough easy credit and cheaply-made goods that we’re able to feel like we’re rich enough, even when we aren’t.”

We’re rich enough to make minimum payments. Same diff.

It’s going to take an act of such sheer cowardice on the part of the plutocracy that it cannot be ignored. What that might be, I can’t figure out.

People appear to have an extremely high tolerance for bullshit, or at least conservative bullshit. Great Depression begets New Deal, but it’s kind of shocking that it really took that long for the New Deal to happen, given the conditions people were living in.

The only difference is that during the Gilded Age, you had a progressive movement that built up slowly but surely over the years starting with Bryan in 1896. I don’t see that kind of movement forming today – heck, the strongest “populist” movement around is still the teabaggers.

The point I raised at my blog is that there’s just too much opposing us right now that even those who are awake and are alert can do anything to stop it

Yes, which is why I get pissy with people who supposedly on my “side” who just don’t fucking get it. *I’m* not the magical pony-wisher here, assholes, *you* are.

Also, this (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/opinion/30krugman.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss) was another good Krugman post from a few days ago. Pretty well sums up the anger of the Democratic base towards Obama.

the strongest “populist” movement around is still the teabaggers

Which may or may not morph into a progressive populist movement. It could, but I doubt it will. It’s already too deeply embedded into the corporatocracy.

It may splinter, which might be how we get a truly populist movement.

Which may or may not morph into a progressive populist movement. It could, but I doubt it will. It’s already too deeply embedded into the corporatocracy.
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I strongly doubt it…in fact, I see them as a baby fascist movement more than anything. An ineffective one, but definitely thoroughly rightwing.

I think anything that does happen will come from the Left and from classic libertarians, believe it or not.

We’re kept just intelligent enough to do the work that’s needed. We’re kept just rich enough that we don’t file bankruptcy and we can keep spending. We’re kept just healthy enough that we’re not a burden to anyone but our families. And we’re kept just happy enough that we don’t question what’s going on around us.

and for anyone who exceeds any of these minimums, there’s the internets.

If you read the original Teabagger philosophy, there’s a lot there it shares with radical leftist doctrine.

I don’t think the two sides are as far apart as we think.

Which may or may not morph into a progressive populist movement. It could, but I doubt it will. It’s already too deeply embedded into the corporatocracy.

I’m almost certain it won’t. First, because it’s completely created by the pundits and the big money behind them (unless you actually believe that after thirty years of “deficits don’t matter” they suddenly woke up and had a change of heart).

Second, because it’s “populism” in the fascist vein rather than the socialist one. “Things suck, I blame the Jews black people, immigrants and dune coons” is very different from “Things suck, so let’s change the system.”

Hey, has anybody got a link to the “shithouse troll” animation?

AFAF

If you read the original Teabagger philosophy, there’s a lot there it shares with radical leftist doctrine.

I don’t think the two sides are as far apart as we think.

I agree, but I think it’s too late now…the Tea Party was actually a grassroots movement, though, with some potential. I know my cousin (who is actually a liberal, whether he wants to fucking admit it or not) was PISSED at what he believed to be the rightwing hijacking of his movement.

This is also why I’m always amused/annoyed at Democrats who accuse Jane Hamsher and Glen Greenwald of being “closet libertarians.” So what? Libertarians didn’t vote to authorize the war in Iraq; libertarians didn’t stand by as (or actively support) the Constitution was ripped to shreds…I have a hell of a lot of problems with their economic viewpoints, but at least they’re not superstitious godbags and warmongers.

If you read the original Teabagger philosophy, there’s a lot there it shares with radical leftist doctrine.

Yes, just like the NSDAP originally had a lot in common with socialism (including a stinging critique of capitalism and the Depression). But the core holding it together was identity politics, not demands for justice, which made it very unlike the socialists and very like the teabaggers.

Hitler jettisoned his populist base (the SA) after only a year in office, mostly ignored economic reform, and gave the German people a system in which the capitalists were even more in control of the economy than ever. Still most of his supporters cheered him on to the very end, because ultimately, it was never about economics for them.

Well, there and libertarians and there are “Libertarians”. Unfortunately, the “Paul” style ones are just authoritarians who hate government. Anti-choice? Not a “small-l” libertarian.

If you read the original Teabagger philosophy, there’s a lot there it shares with radical leftist doctrine.

WTF? Link?

the Tea Party was actually a grassroots movement

Listen to her liberals. Totally grass roots and not astroturfed at all.

Second, because it’s “populism” in the fascist vein rather than the socialist one. “Things suck, I blame the Jews black people, immigrants and dune coons” is very different from “Things suck, so let’s change the system.”

I actually was posting something like that and then lost it…

I suppose we could be optimistic and say that maybe people who are on the edge of rightwing populism could be convinced that “getting things back to the way they were” would include shedding blame of anyone who was equally/less powerless (weird construction, but wev) and the adoption of leftwing ideas, but I don’t know.

I think a lot of so-called libertarians don’t go much beyond “Don’t tax me!!!!!”

Listen to her liberals. Totally grass roots and not astroturfed at all.

The original movement? Totally was. It was co-opted by corporate interests, just like everything else in this country.

What original movement?

I actually was posting something like that and then lost it…

FYWP?

Yeah, I think we’re posting more or less the same train of thought…

A few months ago, a deer bounded out in front of my car and I almost hit it. I think we should have concealed carry so I could shoot out my window at the deer the next time that happens. It’ll be like Ronin or some shit, but with deers.

Holy shit! You’ve just justified the need for concealed tactical missiles on vehicles! Like the founders intended!

The original movement? Totally was. It was co-opted by corporate interests, just like everything else in this country.

Is it really?

TEA = Taxed Enough Already? Doesn’t seem much different from standard rhetoric against “tax and spend liberals.”

I think a lot of so-called libertarians don’t go much beyond “Don’t tax me!!!!!”

Oh, I totally agree. But I can’t completely scorn the ones who want to legalize pot and hate torture and wars…at least they’re trying to be consistent. Then again, I think I’m a bit more radical than most liberals

I suppose we could be optimistic and say that maybe people who are on the edge of rightwing populism could be convinced that “getting things back to the way they were” would include shedding blame of anyone who was equally/less powerless (weird construction, but wev) and the adoption of leftwing ideas, but I don’t know.

All it would take for the movement to dissolve would be a drop in the unemployment rate. A demonstration of the validity of progressive policies (were it to happen *sigh*) would get them to shut up and hopefully stay home on election day, but wouldn’t get them on board- they’d still cling to their bigotry and “macho” culture.

TEA = Taxed Enough Already? Doesn’t seem much different from standard rhetoric against “tax and spend liberals.”

Oh, I’m not saying they’re not jerkoffs, either…it’s just more complicated than we think.

Oh, I’m not saying they’re not jerkoffs, either…it’s just more complicated than we think.

True, I suppose. Probably partly because they themselves aren’t entirely sure what they stand for.

As you’ll remember from your liberal mindwashing lessons:

PLAYBOY: How close was the country to revolution during the Depression?

ALINSKY: A lot closer than some people think. It was really Roosevelt’s reforms that saved the system from itself and averted total catastrophe. You’ve got to remember, it wasn’t only people’s money that went down the drain in 1929; it was also their whole traditional system of values. Americans had learned to celebrate their society as an earthly way station to paradise, with all the cherished virtues of hard work and thrift as their tickets to security, success and happiness. Then suddenly, in just a few days, those tickets were canceled and apparently unredeemable, and the bottom fell out of everything. The American dream became a nightmare overnight for the overwhelming majority of citizens, and the pleasant, open-ended world they knew suddenly began to close in on them as their savings disappeared behind the locked doors of insolvent banks, their jobs vanished in closed factories and their homes and farms were lost to foreclosed mortgages and forcible eviction. Suddenly the smokestacks were cold and lifeless, the machinery ground to a halt and a chill seemed to hang over the whole country.

People tried to delude themselves and say, “None of this is real, we’ll just sleep through it all and wake up back in the sunlight of the Twenties, back in our homes and jobs, with a chicken in every pot, two cars in every garage.” But they opened their eyes to the reality of poverty and hopelessness, something they had never thought possible for themselves, not for people who worked hard and long and saved their money and went to church every Sunday. Oh, sure, poverty might exist, far off in the dim shadowy corners of society, among blacks and sharecroppers and people with funny names who couldn’t speak English yet, but it couldn’t happen to them, not to God’s people. But not only did the darkness fail to pass away, it grew worse. At first people surrendered to a numbing despair, but then slowly they began to look around at the new and frightening world in which they found themselves and began to rethink their values and priorities.

Still time for things to happen.

Please don’t shoot the Bears!

So I’m sure the thread’s long dead, what with new meat upstairs, but something that several of you sorta danced around without stating it explicitly (or enough so for me, who doesn’t do subtle, really) is that the Teatards are in fact vaguely aware that something’s wrong in these here Yew-Nited States. They can’t put their finger on it, their “analysis” is all wrong, and they’re much too willing to let their corporate masters whisper “It’s the n*gger’s fault!” in their ears. Still, they know something isn’t quite right.

I don’t know if they’re trainable or if they could be turned; it’s the tendency of these sorts of people to, when what they’re doing isn’t working, double down and do it more and harder. What I think it shows, though, is that we’re not the only ones who see a problem.

I suspect, as others have pointed out, that things will have to get much worse before the torches and pitchforks come out.

TEA = Taxed Enough Already? Doesn’t seem much different from standard rhetoric against “tax and spend liberals.”

I’m thinking more along the lines of opposition to the bank bailouts. I didn’t say they were completely coherent, but if you recall, the first big Tea event was the Boston rally against “porkulus”. But by then it was already too late, since Rish Limbaugh had co-opted the movement and gave it energy.

There’s a real shill for the corporatocracy. If only he’d used that megaphone to really channel American anger where it belongs.

Porkulus was our nickname for the stimulus bill. It had nothing to do with the bank bailouts. Pundits like Greenwald and Hamsher like to pretend that you liberals and the tea party patriots have a lot of goals in common but even I don’t understand why. And Limbaugh didn’t co-opt our movement. He just became a prominent mouthpiece for it.

Everything you need to know about bear attacks.

This monster will not be stopped by pepper spray or gunshots. Be warned!

A particularly illustrative story from the “Bear Attacks” book concerned an experienced hunting guide who had his face ripped off because his gun jammed when he tried to chamber a round into an already loaded gun.

But really, gang, at what point are Americans going to wake up and realize they’re being played?

I imagine that when the kleptocrats collectively change citizenship and move en masse to habitable enclaves that they have purchased elsewhere in the world, leaving the rest of you with a dying ecology and a collapsing infrastructure, then there will be a mixed reaction, with some people waking up and others looking for scapegoats (probably the waking-up people).

…leaving the rest of you with a dying ecology…

Excuse me, “the rest of you?”

We’re taking you with us, bucko. This isn’t like nuclear winter where you might have an antipodean’s chance in hell of surviving.

We’re taking you with us, bucko.

He’s right, Clyde. If there’s one thing Americans excell at, it’s exporting our problems.

Hell, it’s the practically only export we have left.

I can’t see Clan Bush-Cheney and the rest of the plutocrats leaving you with functioning warheads when they evacuate America. They’ll have shipped them out in advance.
What we’ll have to worry about is the influx of boat-people refugees on Plas-Tiki rafts

…well, that and the billions of metric tons of CO2 we’ve been pumping into the atmosphere for decades.

It’s worth noting that the Ross Ice Shelf, down in your neighborhood, was one of the most dramatic (alleged, heh) results of AGW to come along.

Nukes? They’re sooo last century.

Oh yeah, the first Plas-Tiki of bears coming down here looking for pic a nic baskets will get met by the full fury of a strongly disapproving letter from our Prime Minister. Unless they bring cash, in which case,”Here’s the keys, no need to clean up when you go”

I just realized who Tim Daniels reminds me of.

Round-headed buffoon Carl Pilkington, made famous by Ricky Gervais.

Lesley, you are right, twins separated at birth!!

How does the subjunctive mood work in LOLcat?

How does the subjunctive mood work in LOLcat?

“I can haz cheezburger”

Fucking subjunctive, how does it work?

I could haz cheezburger.

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