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In a parliamentary system, all governments end in failure.

Pure. . . what?

That's the spirit! We'll have none of this Librul Commie child safety! They're great for mining and for oiling machine parts as well. Don't even have to shut down the machine!

No! Non! Leave them exactly where they are so old people will have something else to complain about!

Yeah, from Caesar and Cleopatra, written over 100 years ago about events over 2000 years ago. Things don't change much, do they?

How close is too close? "Near British airspace" is selling-airtime-speak for "in international airspace." "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."...

Shaw had an edge to his wisdom. My favorite is "Pardon him, Theodotus, he is a barbarian and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."

Logic is indeed simple. Yet so few understand it, or use it. Makes a body wonder if we're as smart as we like to claim.

Difference between a speaker and a talker.

I'd say it's a sign of getting lucky more. How's that not good?

Pretty much. There's also the fact that most of them have no education or training in quantum theory, or any physics beyond Newton, if even that. Are you claiming that that you didn't need it explained to you?

I live to serve, asswipe.

It remains shocking to me that schools are more interested in teaching who won the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain or how to work a quadratic equation than what to do if your heat is out and the landlord won't do anything about it, or how to get paid by the lube shop that put the wrong oil filter on...

Yeah, the leader of the gang is a murderer if he orders the murder, even if he never goes near a weapon. Been that way for centuries.

No, the old math is racist. The new math is sexist.

Not for me. I had complete control over how much contact I had with assholes. This place fulfilled my recommended daily allowance.

This thread is for stories of heartwrenching trauma and heartwarming healing that leave you thinking "Damn, must be a really slow news day!" We'll start with this account of the hearwrenchin, heartwarming, blah blah blah. . . They lost a piece of girlhood, then reclaimed it in an unlikely...

They're protecting their neighborhood. Like the McMichaels.

I would agree. He ordered them, he's not smart enough to orchestrate them. Of course, that means he still committed crimes.

You do what you know. Politicians know how to talk.