Comments on: Like “Kardashians,” but dumber: Gay-hating Evangelical gun nut ‘reality’ TV

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:24:00 +0000

We’re bound by whatever Disqus thinks is appropriate. When I turned on nesting, it didn’t occur to me that it would be this cack-handed.

By: Eric Rucker

Eric Rucker — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:45:00 +0000

@Antinous_Moderator:disqus There is a solution for that, although it’s a bit ugly.

Thread collapsing and expanding once you’re past a certain nest limit. Or, even displaying the reply link, so threading is still there, and use the “in reply to” thing, but display it all linear past that nest limit.

By: snagglepuss

snagglepuss — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:03:00 +0000

Creativity is held in deep suspicion by these goons, unless it’s a new and novel way to humiliate or assault somebody they don’t like. Creativity smacks of THINKIN’ and alla that sinful stuff, and having a thought of your own, different from those of the group, makes them moo and mill around and roll their eyes in mounting terror.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:29:00 +0000

I wish that there was a way around the Reply limit versus One-Word-Wide Comment dilemma.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:58:00 +0000

@Antinous_Moderator:disqus Not fair using your moderator ninja skillz to reply to me directly. ::pouts::

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:56:00 +0000

As a lady, wouldn’t you be a Vandella?

By: Frank Diekman

Frank Diekman — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:19:00 +0000

“We dig our country the way it was originally constituted.”

So, with people owning slaves and women not allowed to vote?

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:17:00 +0000

Is memorizing Fox’s talking points required these days? They don’t seem to have an original thought in their minds, just regurgitating the same adjective+noun verbal vomit everyone else does.

Can’t one of these haters at least be creative in some way? Same old, same old. If we’re going to go the way of Rome, at least I want to go out with a bang, not a whimper.

(I know, I know….they’re hoping for both the bang and the whimper. Read into that what you will.)

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:55:00 +0000

Oooh, ooh! Can I be one of the Vandals?

By: Lisa Santy

Lisa Santy — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:53:00 +0000

and a “wide stance”!

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:41:00 +0000

I watched this other clip of him on youtube where he actually says: “Lord, we really want to put a deep, gaping wound in Satan’s haggard backside.”

I’ll leave that to the subtler Freudians to unpack.

By: cfuse

cfuse — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:48:00 +0000

When discussing the antics of attention whores, there’s really no lower bound on the vulgarities that are possible. It’s all just a matter of creativity.

By: teapot

teapot — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:04:00 +0000

I don’t know if it should be legal for a father to suggest he pumped his daughters full of testosterone.

Also the mother calls her daughters ‘easy’.

By: catherinecc

catherinecc — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:21:00 +0000

Yup.
Great stupidly long podcast series about the fall.
http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive/Show-34—Death-Throes-of-the-Republic-I/%20podcast-Rome-Republican

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:11:00 +0000

You’re a bit late to the scene; how do you think he pitched the treatment?

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 04:22:00 +0000

My friends and acquaintances used to tell me that the USA was Rome all over again… I really am starting to believe them, unfortunately.

By: catherinecc

catherinecc — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 04:11:00 +0000

And when we invade countries, we also end up with a net loss.

By: Rich Keller

Rich Keller — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 03:31:00 +0000

The Romans had their bread and circuses, we have our cheese curds and reality shows.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:42:00 +0000

So this inane crap is broadcasting in the same country where Walker wasn’t recalled because he spent enough money to misinform more voters than the informed voters?

No surprise here.

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:22:00 +0000

America loves a low brow train wreck.

By: jeligula

jeligula — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:58:00 +0000

You think they are something, you should see the Eastern Oregon ranching family that claimed Jim Morrison is alive and well and working on their ranch.

By: eyetropy

eyetropy — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:54:00 +0000

Countdown until he’s caught out on his knees in a public toilet… 5 … 4… 3…

By: mr_subjunctive

mr_subjunctive — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:49:00 +0000

low-brow version of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

I thought Kardashians was lowbrow already. My bad, I guess.