abb3w: what_now: I meant to comment on the way our society values athletics and looks over brains.

In fact, your post instead may be a commentary on how those values may be somewhat shifting over time.

Maybe. Maybe not. If the athletes have the money and (more importantly) the popularity, then they're going to get the pussy. If brains have the money and (more importantly) the popularity, then they're going to get the pussy instead. It doesn't matter, athletic or brainy, whoever's on top of the status quo gets the goods.

Now, the male version of that: is she hot? then, athletic or brainy, whoever's on top of the hotness quo gets the goods.

/my opinion, your mileage may vary

FTFA: "But historical patterns do not take into account an opponent who says he enjoys firing people."

Look, there's enough dirt on Romney where we don't have to take things that far out of context.

theknuckler_33: No laughing Obama pic yet? Fark, I am disappoint.

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This month's New Yorker works too...

Lord Dimwit: I do feel like we as a country are becoming more and more divided, and to be honest, I'm not sure why. Partisan politics and the absolute lies and misinformation spread by both sides (but more so by the right) is a lot to do with it.

Entities fight hardest when they sense their impending doom. Most people have mixed opinions and are not acceptable to the fringes. Since the fringes mostly make noise, what you are hearing is their death howls.

FishStampede: What I think of when I see him:

Glad I'm not the only one...

natazha: Lord Dimwit: I do feel like we as a country are becoming more and more divided, and to be honest, I'm not sure why. Partisan politics and the absolute lies and misinformation spread by both sides (but more so by the right) is a lot to do with it.

Entities fight hardest when they sense their impending doom. Most people have mixed opinions and are not acceptable to the fringes. Since the fringes mostly make noise, what you are hearing is their death howls.

But I look at how far right-wing the Republican Party has become (and how dishonest and populist they've become) and then realize that they will still get > 40% of the vote in the next Presidential election. That's not a fringe party.

I know people - otherwise intelligent people - who still honestly believe that Obama wasn't born here, and that climate change is somehow a big conspiracy. That sort of thing should be fringe, but it isn't.

gtomako: "While Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are making each other unelectable, the president is singing Al Green, congratulating Super Bowl winners, raising obscene amounts of campaign cash, watching his poll numbers soar and kicking Catholic Church ass."


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That political cartoon looks like a spoof of a political cartoon. I mean, the Constitution is literally in a shredder with the word "SHREDDER" written on it.

FTFA: Conservative blogger Erick Erickson summed upthe disenchantment this week when he said that he would rather have the "sweet meteor of death than any of the candidates left in the race."

/I'm still laughing.

Jackson Herring: James!: what_now: I meant to comment on the way our society values athletics and looks over brains.

If your email is available in your profile now would be the time to remove it.

Incoming dong avalanche

brains (and the valuing thereof) = unsolicited dong?

Something has gone horribly wrong here.

Minus1Kelvin: Is it just my imagination or has there been a palpable lack of the well known, "well opinionated" Fark rightwing trolls today in the Politics tab? Maybe they've finally decided to just take their ball and go home...

They're probably working. You should try it some time.

_{/lunch time}

gtomako: "While Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are making each other unelectable, the president is singing Al Green, congratulating Super Bowl winners, raising obscene amounts of campaign cash, watching his poll numbers soar and kicking Catholic Church ass."


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The best part is that 60% of Catholics support birth control, so this may end up creating a bit of schism in the Church itself, more than anything else...

DeltaPunch: gtomako: "While Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are making each other unelectable, the president is singing Al Green, congratulating Super Bowl winners, raising obscene amounts of campaign cash, watching his poll numbers soar and kicking Catholic Church ass."


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The best part is that 60% of Catholics support birth control, so this may end up creating a bit of schism in the Church itself, more than anything else...

I thought it was more like 98%, or is that just in America?

Feels good man.

gtomako: "While Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are making each other unelectable, the president is singing Al Green, congratulating Super Bowl winners, raising obscene amounts of campaign cash, watching his poll numbers soar and kicking Catholic Church ass."


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I'd be against contraception if I were the Pope: little boys don't get pregnant!

Lord Dimwit: That political cartoon looks like a spoof of a political cartoon. I mean, the Constitution is literally in a shredder with the word "SHREDDER" written on it.

Know your audience.

BillCo: Minus1Kelvin: Is it just my imagination or has there been a palpable lack of the well known, "well opinionated" Fark rightwing trolls today in the Politics tab? Maybe they've finally decided to just take their ball and go home...

They're probably working. You should try it some time.

/lunch time

You're not getting paid for this? That's kinda sad.

Dubya's_Coke_Dealer: DeltaPunch: gtomako: "While Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are making each other unelectable, the president is singing Al Green, congratulating Super Bowl winners, raising obscene amounts of campaign cash, watching his poll numbers soar and kicking Catholic Church ass."


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The best part is that 60% of Catholics support birth control, so this may end up creating a bit of schism in the Church itself, more than anything else...

I thought it was more like 98%, or is that just in America?

I know so many women (okay, like, three) who are too Catholic to use birth control, but not so Catholic as to avoid premarital sex. All of them ended up having kids as teenagers.

Catholics: Educate your children. If they're going to sin and have premarital sex, have them also sin and use birth control. Seriously.

gtomako: "While Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are making each other unelectable, the president is singing Al Green, congratulating Super Bowl winners, raising obscene amounts of campaign cash, watching his poll numbers soar and kicking Catholic Church ass."

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My favorite thing about that cartoon is how "someone" put the Constitution into the "religious principles" shredder. Ahh, that false equivalence. The thing that annoys me most about Christians in this country.

Religious righties, listen up: The Constitution is not scripture. Jesus was not Caucasian. God loves everyone equally - he's not particularly partial to the U.S. or Americans.

/I feel better already.

Lord Dimwit: Catholics: Educate your children. If they're going to sin and have premarital sex, have them also sin and use birth control. Seriously.

Two wrongs don't make a right... I'm sorry but having sex for fun is just a ticket to hell. Ask Rick Santorum.

Lord Dimwit: Dubya's_Coke_Dealer: DeltaPunch: gtomako: "While Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are making each other unelectable, the president is singing Al Green, congratulating Super Bowl winners, raising obscene amounts of campaign cash, watching his poll numbers soar and kicking Catholic Church ass."


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The best part is that 60% of Catholics support birth control, so this may end up creating a bit of schism in the Church itself, more than anything else...

I thought it was more like 98%, or is that just in America?

I know so many women (okay, like, three) who are too Catholic to use birth control, but not so Catholic as to avoid premarital sex. All of them ended up having kids as teenagers.

Catholics: Educate your children. If they're going to sin and have premarital sex, have them also sin and use birth control. Seriously.

Never understood this either. You are already "crossing the line" so to speak by having sex. Why not just be smart about it and use contraception?

/I am going to rob a bank, but I wont use a mask.....
//Seriously?

Jackson Herring: Minus1Kelvin: Well you're half-right. I do have many of them on ignore but I like to see the comments other people make to them (morbid curiosity)...and I've not seen much of that today.

I've actually noticed the same thing today... weird.

He's travelling.

Weird I was just at CNN.com and I they had a poll "Can Rick Santorum win the Republican nomination for president?" So I decided to click yes, and it didn't register my vote.

Wicked Chinchilla: Lord Dimwit: Dubya's_Coke_Dealer: DeltaPunch: gtomako: "While Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are making each other unelectable, the president is singing Al Green, congratulating Super Bowl winners, raising obscene amounts of campaign cash, watching his poll numbers soar and kicking Catholic Church ass."


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The best part is that 60% of Catholics support birth control, so this may end up creating a bit of schism in the Church itself, more than anything else...

I thought it was more like 98%, or is that just in America?

I know so many women (okay, like, three) who are too Catholic to use birth control, but not so Catholic as to avoid premarital sex. All of them ended up having kids as teenagers.

Catholics: Educate your children. If they're going to sin and have premarital sex, have them also sin and use birth control. Seriously.

Never understood this either. You are already "crossing the line" so to speak by having sex. Why not just be smart about it and use contraception?

/I am going to rob a bank, but I wont use a mask.....
//Seriously?

Well anyone who thinks sex is a "sin" most likely has a room temperature IQ.

valar_morghulis: Obama hasn't been kind to NASA.

By what measure? Certainly not using funding as a measure. NASA, from what I can tell (I don't quite grasp what "nominal dollars" means) is being funded at its highest level ever under Obama.

Source: NASA's Budget

2009 $17,782m
2010 $18,724m
2011 $19,000m
2012 $17,800m

The Shuttle Program might have ended under Obama, but it died a long time ago. The shuttle program was never meant to last forever, and long before Obama ever took office the decision was made not to fund an alternative to take its place. NASA, as whole is doing just fine even though the shuttle has been sunset.

Aarontology: That kid's REAL future.

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Nuh uh! This is his future:

Wicked Chinchilla: /I am going to rob a bank, but I wont use a mask.....
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I love this equivalence and I'm going to bust it out on someone unsuspecting this week. I just haven't decided who... *rubs hands together*

Wicked Chinchilla: Never understood this either. You are already "crossing the line" so to speak by having sex. Why not just be smart about it and use contraception?

It's the exact same conundrum that "abstinence-only education" proponents face. They spend all this time talking about how ineffective contraceptives are...

The result is that kids go "why should I use a contraceptive? It's just going to fail anyway."

Fuggin Bizzy: My favorite thing about that cartoon is how "someone" put the Constitution into the "religious principles" shredder. Ahh, that false equivalence. The thing that annoys me most about Christians in this country.

That cartoon is just full of projection, not only are they equating the Constitution with Religion, but they are claiming that it's Obama who is forcing his will on their Church (when it was only Women employees of Hospitals and Schools, etc - not Churchs - to be allowed to be prescribed contraceptives), all the while portraying themselves as the victimized minority... something they never get tired of doing. All this political fervor over allowing Women to make their own decisions about their uterus makes me wonder if this is the distraction that the GOP was so desperately hoping for, anything to get the spotlight off of them and their plans for the country.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: Car_Ramrod: All these pictures really re-emphasize how good Obama is at connecting with people
Dude. The face he's pulling when firing off the marshmallow gun alone is proof. That is the face of a man that is genuinely enjoying firing puffed sugar at high velocity. You can't fake that.

He should have become a science nerd then, instead of going to Harvard Law School. Harvard Law School--ha! What was he thinking?

what_now: I meant to comment on the way our society values athletics and looks over brains.

But you mentioned boobs on the internet. Where didja think the focus was gonna fall?

/eyes up here!

fifthhorseman: JerseyTim: Don't forget the science fairs.
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I love that pic. Was there a caption contest for that one?

Lou Brown: FTFA: But historical patterns do not take into account an opponent who says he enjoys firing people.

You know, this is the type of disingenuous bullshiat that drives me crazy. Here's what Romney actually said:

"I like being able to fire people who provide services to me... You know, if someone doesn't give me the good service I need, I want to say, 'You know, I'm going to get someone else to provide this service to me.'"

That's a far cry from saying he enjoys firing people. It's something I imagine people would agree with in most cases. For many reasons, health insurance isn't one of those cases, but overall the author is totally misrepresenting what Romney was trying to say.

I have no moral qualms with discrediting a person like him. He would and I'm sure has gladly done it to everyone, including the President. He is a scummy man, and I don't have any issues with being scummy in response.

AmorousRedDragon: All this political fervor over allowing Women to make their own decisions about their uterus makes me wonder if this is the distraction that the GOP was so desperately hoping for, anything to get the spotlight off of them and their plans for the country.

the guy i heard on the radio who was against it claimed that being forced to cover birth control would make the church out to be "hypocritical."

i was like... really? THIS is going to be the straw that breaks that camels back? the sex with kids, collaborating with nazi's, covering the vatican in about 2 feet of gold plated everything while ministering to the desperatly poor, the inquistion, the crusades- all ok. but man, condem in the break room? god is going to be so man!

/its like a bank robber refusing to shoplift a candy bar because people might think he was a thief

minnesotaboy: theknuckler_33: No laughing Obama pic yet? Fark, I am disappoint.

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This month's New Yorker works too...

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I don't know why but i see our President as more of a Cheeze Doodle sort of snacker, as opposed to potato chips...

Wicked Chinchilla: Never understood this either. You are already "crossing the line" so to speak by having sex. Why not just be smart about it and use contraception?

This is why I support Obama's decision. The whole "no birth control" idea is archaic, medieval, and stupid as all hell. If your parishioners are good Catholics, they're not going to be having sex anyways, so why the hell does the Catholic Church even care about birth control?!? It can only be used in situations where a much greater sin is already being committed...