I don’t know how the rest of you guys spent your time in graduate school, but I met some of the most . . . interesting people that one could ever hope to meet.  One of them was my friend Jason Gleckman.  People come and go, and sometimes you find yourself living, due to financial arrangements, suicide, burned-down dwellings, or whatever, with people whom otherwise you’d not have the pleasure

**** Being a Guest Post by BJ****For your delectation****With a glass of port****And some fine Texas Cheese****Unabridged & Unaffected**** In a recent post, Jeff aptly described the dubious practice of Carbon Offsets as a modern form of the old church practice of indulgences, the paying of coin for alleviation of sins for those both living and dead. The practice took to extremes the foundational principle that the Roman Catholic Church,

     Fat man walks into a Subway sandwich shop, armed to the teeth, strapped with body armor, and looking for that “lying Jared asshole.”      “Uh, he’s not here,” says the assistant manager from his crouch behind the sneeze guard. — Then, thinking quickly, he adds, “You might try Quizno’s, though.  And if it were me, I wouldn’t take any chances.  I hear that lying asshole likes to go there in disguise.”

Something I’d missed: @bb: I initially gave Dan Collins and his mto.com address the benefit of the doubt. It’s not unheard of for a government lawyer to consult former colleagues with expertise when drafting regs or statutes. Hell, lobbyists and corporations write most of that stuff anyway. However, he seems to be the same Dan Collins of https://www.proteinwisdom.com/ who blogs and comments all around, a real wingnut idealogue, and there’s

‘Vote for Romney is vote for Satan’ Wow.  I had no idea he’d tap Cheney as his running-mate. Hey, did I mention that John & the Missus are up to speed at Wuzzadem?  That foot injury really messed up his brain for a while.

Durham Wonderland notes that the impenitent 88 continue to make egregious asses of themselves in public.  The absurdist academese in which Professor Grant “Far Out” Farred has to couch his slanderous attack cum self-defense demonstrates the depths of self-delusion to which the egoist is willing to descend in order to justify his hatred.  From K C Johnson: “It is because the law knows that it cannot achieve foreclosure, because it