Cugalabanza

I used to work at a group home for adults with disabilities. People used to shout out cruel things at the residents sometimes when we went on outings. The time a guy came right up in a woman's face and called her a "retard fat !@#$," I guess that was pretty cool. Probably what I should have done, instead of getting upset, was to congratulate him on so precisely identifying the circumstances to the betterment of our collective understanding. It's true, she was in fact overweight. And her measurable intelligence was far inferior to that of the gentlemen who sought to clarify the discrepancy.

Haiti is a place of abject poverty and it's been devastated by natural disasters. But I think it's a huge mistake by the pres to call it a shithole. Same goes for the other countries he was referring to. These are people's HOMES. By the same logic, the PM of Norway could easily refer to the U.S. as a shithole. Would you be ok with that? Would Trump be ok with that? And look again at which kinds of people Trump is targeting. And who he immediately holds up as a counterexample. I'm sure most here will disagree, but Trump's behavior clearly says RACIST.

It's clear to me that he is. Hugely embarrassing.

Damn, I woulda got it eventually. I don’t think she was naked though.

I know I can figure this out. If she was in movies in the 80’s/90’s and naked a lot, there’s no way I don’t know who it is. Naked women and movies are my two favorite things and that was the period of time that I was the most…attentive. I know it's probably not Moira Kelly, but I'll give it a shot...

Could it be... Jane Adams?

I kind of want to figure this out. Was it Linda Fiorentino? (is that still too major?)

Probably too young, but is it possibly Jena Malone?

That's a good one. A definite Maeby!

Ok, let's recalibrate

It's a difficult thing when you have so much love to share with the world and the world just doesn't understand.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't me who said that about Coulter. As much as I hate her as a person, I have to admit I find her kind of attractive. One of the originals for me:

Happy Birthball Beerday!

When my daughter was a baby, she used to sometimes scratch her face in her sleep. One morning she had a bad scab on her nose. My wife washed it, kissed it and put some neosporin on it. Later that day when we picked up my daughter from daycare, the scab had magically healed (turned out it had just been a gross booger). Now, years later, I still mess with my wife about it, call her booger kisser, etc... If she tries to give me the business about something, I can always say, at least I didn’t kiss a booger.

Yeah, me neither, but I’ve heard people say so.

She did look pretty hot painted gold in playboy many years ago, I remember

No, that's not what snowflake means. That's being a snowflake

Yeah, that’s no snowflake. A hard working person who loves life and helps people? I don’t get the OP’s complaint at all.

What, in your opinion, is a good source of mainstream news? Is there one? (or is "good mainstream news" an oxymoron?) Also, I enjoyed how you got creative with a word you had no idea how to spell.

I'm with ya there too. I would qualify as liberal on most social issues (especially among those around here). However, I've been spending a lot of breath lately speaking with liberal minded people, trying to stick up for Freedom of Speech (that's the big one). I agree with many people on this forum that a lot of liberals have been overreacting and making fools of themselves. Some examples: - Don't be the person who sees a fan dressed as bacon and starts tweeting that it's blatant anti-Semitism. That's ridiculous. - When a pitcher in baseball gets his third strikeout of the game and fans are holding up three K's, that doesn't mean that there is a racist conspiracy happening through network broadcasts of major league baseball--it's just three strikeouts. That's ridiculous. - If you are a student or faculty member at a university, if someone is scheduled to speak that you don't like (or even find repulsive), it's not your duty as a citizen to prevent that, at all costs, from happening. Quite the opposite.

Well said. I can’t find the quote now, but I think it was Camus who said something to the effect that politics is essentially the task of making moral issues which are really quite simple seem extremely complicated in order to divide people and make them feel confused and scared, to the advantage of those politicians who make lucrative careers out of professionally politicizing everything. (please forgive the clumsy paraphrasing) I mean, it’s not exactly a controversial idea. I think it’s well understood across the board. But it’s beneficial to say it out loud as often as possible… The vast majority of regular people of this world want reasonable things for themselves and their families. The hotheads and ideologues have forever been sucking all the oxygen out of the room. This phenomenon has always existed but has become significantly worse with the advent of the internet and social media and junk news for profit on a grand scale.

That was a nasty head injury. All the news mentions are just speculation about whether he’ll be back next season, etc.. I hope he’s ok and we can hear/see a positive update soon.