All this time I thought all had to do to get the chicks in my fem-lit class was be really emo and memorize every poem ever and be a shoulder to cry on.

You mean all I had to do was be a good-looking good-for-nothing high-school dropout jerk who's demonstrated his ability to knock a chick up and split. Who's proof of the old saying "Wham! Bamm! Thank you, Ma’am!.

You mean to tell me, all this time, that my MFA is useless in picking up girls?

All those take back the night marches... All the NOW rallies... I even went vegan. For what?

Fuck you, bastards!!!!!

"To be skeptical of climate models and credulous about things like carbon-eating trees and cloudmaking machinery and hoses that shoot sulfur into the sky is to replace a faith in science with a belief in science fiction."

Let me tell you about this amazing new technology which lets you send live text, images and video to anyone in the world at the speed of light. It's a high-speed, interactive medium where anyone with, let's call it a telekeniester, can interact with anyone else and tell everyone what they're up to at every second. Imagine saying the above at IBM in 1950

Sixty years ago cell phones and the internet were also science fiction, and the same people were raging against the evils of "data manipulating behemoths" "We will practically be their slaves by 1982." They said.

I mean if anyone would have known about the Internet and microcomputers in 1950, not only would they have had to be psychic, but also would have been a billionaire or trillionaire even.

So to regurgitate this canard that the only way to cut the levels of carbon is to basically return to a pre-industrial society is outrageous.

And if you knew for a fact what technology there will or won't be fifty years from now you'd be the world's richest man, and probably have your own private army. Since your not, and you don't I assume that you can't predict the future.

There is a tendency on the left to turn everything into a cult: the cult of organic/vegan food the cult of homeschooling/the anti-vaccine cult, etc, etc.

It's somehow fashionable to be against reason and logic the wealthier and more liberal you are. It would be fine if you were a hairy smelly 19 year-old college student, but the ideas coming from an ostensibly professional adult who writes all day should be more cogent, that's all.

I'm pretty sure that this guy was at least in the top 2% of earners, so calling him upper middle-class is not saying enough. Increasingly, being upper middle-class means you don't have to go bankrupt to send your kids to a state school.

This guy is in another league entirely. Let's face it, if you're worried about not being sure if you can afford a second yacht, you're rich, plain and simple.

And increasingly that's what's wrong with America. The profit motive has been perverted by the greed and lust for riches of these monkeys in suits. Seriously? One mansion isn't enough for you? The fact that CEO's basically win the lotto every year, regardless of the performance of their companies, while their employees make $10/hr, if they're lucky, is just evil.

I mean I can understand if they were being offered immortality, or their own planet, or a harem of women or something abstract with lasting benefit. But another house, or a really fast car you can't really drive around in? Is that worth laying off 10 million people, or ruining this country for a generation?

Isn't the whole point of paying insurance is that it's there when you need it. What's the point of paying for insurance if 1) they're going to charge you hundreds of dollars for getting a checkup 2) if You do have something they'll drop you (i.e, you had acne when you were 15) 3) By the time you do get to the doctor whatever treatment they give you is going to cost thousands of dollars.

It defeats the whole point of insurance. It's as if the insurance companies feel entitled to profit from the ill-health of Americans. Heads they win, tails you lose. All of that so the CEO can buy a second yacht. Seriously!?!?

And paying while your healthy makes no sense, because the whole point of insurance is to leverage the fact that most people are healthy most of the time, however most people are sick some of the time, and a minority are sick all of the time.

"To me, she's a healthy, lovely, curvy, desirable woman. Why all the models on runways don't look like her is something I will never, ever understand."

Could it be because most fashion designers are Gay men? And their ideal woman isn't one who has tits and an ass. I'm surprised you don't hear this more often. If a normal straight guy had the opportunity to surround himself with models all day, they wouldn't look like 12yo boys, they would look more like women.

Notice the difference between the Victoria Secrets models, and the models of some couture label. The former look like women who can have children, and the latter look like AIDS stricken heroin addicts. Coincidence?