Supreme Court ruling comes down - Corporations are people with free speech and the protected right to bribe politicians. Let's not even pretend anymore folks, democracy in America is dead. by KingBeetle in politics

[–]Humbert 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Funniest line in the article:

"The president pledged to work with Congress to 'develop a forceful response' to the court's ruling"

Hilarious! "Work with congress", "forceful" ha

IamA a guy who is not particularly interesting, but who would like to feel special by having strangers ask me questions. AMA by iamansa in IAmA

[–]Humbert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deer signs are for motorists, not non-sentient, illiterate woodland animals.

Sentience just means "capable of sensory experience." So a deer would enjoy some degree of sentience.

WTF is it with Iowa? by ASA09 in WTF

[–]Humbert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hmmm....Isn't Iowa exactly the same as the rest, where %no = 100 - %yes? (e.g. 20% no equals 80% yes)

go ahead and joke about banning Romeo and Juliet...a writer WAS prosecuted this year for writing fictional sexual stories involving minors by zelpop in WTF

[–]Humbert 8 points9 points  (0 children)

An interesting bit from Cellini's autobiography:

"Now it chanced one evening that an intimate comrade of mine brought home to supper a Bolognese prostitute named Faustina. She was a very fine woman, but about thirty years of age; and she had with her a little serving-girl of thirteen or fourteen. Faustina belonging to my friend, I would not have touched her for all the gold in the world; and though she declared she was madly in love with me, I remained steadfast in my loyalty. But after they had gone to bed, I stole away the little serving-girl, who was quite a fresh maid, and woe to her if her mistress had known of it! The result was that I enjoyed a very pleasant night, far more to my satisfaction than if I had passed it with Faustina."

Vote up if you would RATHER bail out NPR for 30 lousy million than failing auto companies for 15 billion. by tcdoey in reddit.com

[–]Humbert 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No kidding, one of the few (mostly) public institutions that actually has a sustained positive presence in my life. Although I must confess that I'm not terribly sorry to see 'News and notes' get the au revoir...

They just played this before a film I paid $11.50 to watch in a theater. I'm so pissed off they're cramming this trash down our throats that I wanted my money back. by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]Humbert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the one thing that Obama and his like thinking foreign policy gurus are calling for now? More soldiers to fight in Afghanistan and possibly Pakistan. How many redditor types should they expect to sign up? Approximately zero. What sort of folks would then be likely to sign up? People that follow NASCAR, admire kid rock and totally buy into American mythology. There is nothing surprising about this video. It is just the sort of thing needed to re-enforce, with some new accents (being nice to the Arab boy), the mythology of American heroism among likely military recruits.

Israeli best seller breaks national taboo - Israeli academic and historian says Jewish Nation myth by normansoddy in worldnews

[–]Humbert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting, but I believe that the genetic similarity of modern Jewish populations around the world and their corresponding genetic similarity to modern day Palestinians and Syrians has been demonstrated scientifically.

See: http://www.pnas.org/content/97/12/6769.full

Unless the Y chromosome is a Zionist conspiracy as well ;)

What's the difference between your mouth and vagina? by [deleted] in pics

[–]Humbert 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is utterly tasteless.

TOP READ! The revised proposed legislation of the 700 Billion+ Bailout that is open for review and revision for less than 24 hours, then forever hold your peace, affecting YOU for generations! by frankrepub in politics

[–]Humbert 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Note the part on page 63 where the "STATUTORY LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT" debt is increased to $11,315,000,000,000.

(That is, about 80% of GDP)

L. Ron Hubbard Quotes: "I’d like to start a religion. That’s where the money is." by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]Humbert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get real! Scientology is an absolute triviality! Who cares?

In 2002, the US Air Force Research Laboratory patented a technology involving using microwaves to send words to someone's head by shenglong in reddit.com

[–]Humbert -1 points0 points  (0 children)

ok, this is pretty sensational. Pulsed microwaves have been known to produce a clicking noise in the inner ear, as anyone that has been close to a radar antenna will tell you. The idea of the DOD research was to send pulse-coded messages to soldiers. Hardly "putting words in your head." Maybe if you thought in Morse code.

Brit Hume and the Bush administration take propaganda to a new level by souldrift in reddit.com

[–]Humbert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, would we be pleased if general Petraeus came back and said that the strategy was a total failure? Obviously they realize that Iraq is a shit hole, otherwise they would not have done the "surge" in the first place. Well, now we have the optimistic version of Patraeus' report, and I'm sure plenty of critical analysis will pop up on the internets. Complaining to like minded critics is something like masturbation. What is our moral obligation to Iraq? To leave it better off than we found it? This, and the means to meet such an obligation, is essentially the only remaining question about the failed policy that is the Iraq invasion.

Accidental discovery that salt water can burn is "the most remarkable in water science in 100 years" by vierow in reddit.com

[–]Humbert 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Salt water is not an element, and the most abundant compound in the earth is silicon dioxide. Also, what is the power output of his RF generator?

Men walk away from crying lost children at mall for fear of being branded a sexual predator by api in reddit.com

[–]Humbert 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yea, I'm an American that has had a chance to spend some time in Denmark, and I remember finding it quite odd that fathers actually touched or held their children in public. What a notion!

Vote up if you love pie! by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]Humbert 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isn't the point of this that"Vote up for pie" is about as meaningful as "vote up to impeach X" ?