"Some people...actually have children?" The maid greeted me at the door with a martini, and I went into the living room. She stripped, and proceeded to give me a backrub.

"Why would they do that?", I asked. She just shrugged her shoulders. Since she was from Panama, I was never sure if she understood me anyway, which forced me to continue the inner dialog.

Maybe they're too stupid to make $2M a year, I thought. So they just squirt out babies to keep them company. Like mom, rest her dear departed soul. Mom had eight of them, every one of them a loser. Except me. I drained the martini, and Fallopia brought me another.

"Fallopia, do you have a mother?", I asked. "Of course, Señor Anderson", she replied, "every person has a mother".

"Yes, Fallopia...of course they do".

bummer

It's not enought that mothers have their own day...we also have to hear about how great they are. When will it end?

Heather, how do you sleep at night?

In our society, yes.

the fast food people are breeding them bigger, cheaper, and meaner every day.

All that GMO corn oil and hormone fed beef is serving a new biological imperative: the perfect couch-bound television viewer.

Something that really helped turn it around was to pick JUST ONE THING...and make a positive change. Like spending $100 less each month. Or never drinking at home, alone.

Once this one thing becomes a habit, you can move on to another.

You will find that your life improves.

Take gangs. They might do better if they banded together against the authorities...but instead they spend their time fighting with each other.

is just an empty shell of the loathing, and self-loathing, that permeates Salon. There was a time, in the recent past of our culture, when mocking the less fortunate was a taboo of the highest order. No longer. Now, "writers" (if you can really call Heather Havrilesky a writer) operate with no morals and no scruples of any kind. They are like rapists or hired killers who would murder you for $750 and a bag of crack. Really, anything goes in this brave new world of blatant teasing and humiliation. The childfree used to be safe from this abuse, as their lower circumstance and abject torpor prevented anyone from crossing this terrible boundary, this Maginot line between animal and human being. A line that has been now been truly breached, forever.

back to the tent city with you!

with his "students" and a net drop.

You know...the Pope, Elvis, Charles Manson.

so I can't see the logic of structuring the lawsuit in such a way that it has to be kept secret.

but I think he's just a beginner troll, because once he gets what he wants, he just retreats.

also a lot more intimate than the later versions...wait for it...the soft-focus Nurse Chapel closeup.

no I didn't read the article.

was insensitive to the Vulcan nerve pinch.

As is, apparently, Chicken Rangoon.

that's where they were before craigslist came along.

I hope they're not helping you compose your posts...

maybe I can get some sort of distance-learning certificate from you.

the not-liberal

I think I'm getting the hang of this.

tell me again how I'm stupid

reallynow is almost as good as the commentary on YouTube!

I don't want to hear about your secretions.

A flamewar is a prolonged exchange of deliberately hostile messages over the Internet.

Flamewar is a female Transformers action figure.

- wikipedia

Weird perceptions...in what way will the ACLU "reign supreme"?

So you're admitting that the Bush Adminstration was incompetent?

I'm thinking that an minimalist environment, without torture, staffed by skilled interrogators might be the way to go.

be sure to keep us updated frequently.

holy shit

Salon should be more supportive.

and Obama may change his position.

"enhanced interrogation" = torture

"enhanced telecommunications" = NSA spying

"enhanced incarceration" = black sites

I wonder what other "enhancements" they had planned...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/apr/30/obama-torture

A Senate panel appeared to lay the groundwork on Wednesday for a possible prosecution of former Bush administration officials for the torture and abuse of detainees in the “war on terror,” despite strong opposition from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Specifically, findings by several testifying witnesses that Bush administration lawyers deliberately distorted the law in drafting legal memoranda that offered legal cover for “enhanced interrogation” policies could support future criminal prosecution.

http://washingtonindependent.com/42873/hearing-lays-groundwork-for-torture-prosecutions

how disappointing.

these days I watch very little of it, not due to superior morals but more as a consequence of a kind of soul-sickness.

"get psychiatric help to sort through your issues".

find people who aren't turned on by violent crap.

spoken like a true Saw II enthusiast.

I'm going to buy a 52" flatscreen, rent a basement, and watch Saw over and over all weekend long.

Spoken like someone who never ventures far from his mom's basement. America as a whole LOVES violence, as do the pro-violence people posting here.

inquiring minds want to know.

Obama banned waterboarding...sorry about that.

you forgot Veganism.

tv and movie violence desensitize people to the real thing.

Night of the Living Dead didn't really raise my consciousness regarding violence and the world political situation.

rather than religion.

you've implied that people might avoid lower rebirth by not eating animals.

so who are you to criticize voodoo?

assure the difficult client that the initial pile of money was not really sufficient anyway, and you certainly deserve another big pile because you are so cool and creative and the difficult client sort of twisted your arm with that first contract anyway which is not good karma you know.

It would almost be worse if he could make it all turn around on a dime...that would be a scary amount of power for one person.

no wonder it's still the same place on the river.