SuperJerk

Tomorrow night I have to chaperone the Junior Prom. Hopefully I'll have some interesting stories to bring back Sunday morning.

One only needs to read the classic Alan Moore tale "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow" to see how good Superman's rogue's gallery really is.

Do you mean actors or viewers? I have the same problem with this show that I had with X-Files. Unless its an episode about the series' overall mythology, I have a hard time caring about anything that happens.

That's why we also push for international anti-pollution treaties. Or, at least, we used to. So...the government shouldn't help homeless people because it might lead down the slippery slope of them one day getting a house with a garage? Alrighty then... How about we just make sure that every has basic shelter, and cross the bridge of "what next" when we actually get there? Let me debunk your "the private sector can do it better" argument right here. The government does a few things to help homeless people. Charities do the rest. So, if charities and government COMBINED haven't solved the homeless problem, then what makes you think private charity BY ITSELF could help all of the homeless people? You say that as if you, yourself, have never personally benefitted from government spending or a government program.

Stuff like "52" is the reason some comic book shops do hold lists.

U.S. historians pick top 10 presidential errors. For the record, Warren Harding is NOT mentioned.

I was told repeatedly by every video retail person I asked that these did not exist. Fuck you, Suncoast and Best Buy clerks of America, you lazy fucking bastard sons of bitches. Fuck you in your stupid asses and damn you to hell.

McCarthy was right about communists in the state department the same way a guy who accidentally gets a bull's eye while playing darts blind-folded has a good aim. There's no reason to believe he ever had any clue there actually were any communists in the state department, and he hurt a lot of innocent people in the process. Its funny how the only people he thought were communists were people he didn't like...you know? Only 5 of the people he named had any ties to communism.

I hope you're not going to try and argue that environmental regulations are unnecessary.

Nothing you're saying isn't anything I haven't heard before. My view is that what you are describing is basically the way things were prior to the Progressive movement in American history. Pragmatically speaking, it didn't work then, and there's no reason to think returning to that level of government involvement in the economy would be beneficial now. There's a reason for government involvement in the economy. An increase in the standard of living over the last 100 years is directly related to the government taking on the burden of enforcing fairness in the economy. Allowing market forces to work unimpeded by government action (regulation for the common good) has already been proven a failure by history.

What? You mean the Republicans only care about certan issues when they're not the one's in charge?!?!!?!? That's just crazy talk.

I don't mind an honest disagreement, as long as it doesn't turn into a flame war.

Okay...I really haven't paid attention to this show since Jonathon died. Is there anything that wasn't in the "previously on" that I need to know?

Sinestro seems to have reduced to "bitch" status during all of this.

What's your guarantee that the government will do a better job with health care than the private sector? Also, pumping more money into public schools won't make us a more educated society. We'll just have more laptops. No doubt. If you want to improve public schools, make teachers accountable for their students passing. Make districts accountable for how they spend grant money. i think thats what No Child Left Behind is helping to achieve. I live in Chicago, and Chicago spends more money per student than any other place in the state, and their schools for the most part are still horrible. And its not the teacher's pay either. I have a finance degree and my teaching buddies make more money out of college than I do. They start out at like 40,000 a year in Chicago, for a public school teacher. As for the guy complaining about his dad not having enough skills to get a job, well welcome to the club. I've got to compete with people with MBA's, so I pretty much have to go to graduate school to get the job that I want. Thats just how competition is. It makes people better. If everyone was the same, there'd be no incentive to improve your lot in life. I'll never vote for higher taxes. Shit, when I was making 8.50/hr and saw the govt taking 25% (thats just about the lowest tax bracket there is), that just totally turned me off. F that. You expect me to pay even more when I make more money? Hell no. Do I care about the people without medical insurance? No. Do I care about the ultra poor? No. Do I care about poor schools? No Do I care about my pay check, and how the govt affects my life? Yes. The only thing the Govt needs to do is protect me (defense), and provide a basic infrastructure (roads). Thats it. I dont need any special hand outs or programs, and I dont want my personal hard earned dollars going to someone else. Call me selfish, but thats just the way it is. The Govt isnt some charitable organization. And I love charitable organizations, and people that volunteer their own time and effort to helping others are awesome. But I disapprove of being forced to give my money up (in the form of higher taxes), for causes I do not care about. First of all, my condolences to you for getting a finance degree. Apparently you weren't required to take any classes where they taught you about how social problems like education, narrow distribution of wealth, and health care ultimately effect everyone, not just the immediate victims. However, let me assure you that while Chicago may pay starting teachers $40000 a year (which I doubt), your income potential over the course of your entire career will excede theirs by 2-10 times as much. Second, market forces can't fix education. Kids aren't assembly line products. You can't fix a kid by opening a more efficient new factory. A multitude of factors goes into how well they do in school, some of which actually involve the kids and their parents instead of the teachers. Kids and parents get off the hook way to often for poor school performance. Teachers' hands get tied because administrators are pressured by parents to be lenient (its always someone else's kid who is the problem, not theirs). That's not to say that there aren't bad schools, but the number of bad school districts has been exaggerated by the media, and parents and kids themselves have been completely let off the hook for the problems they've caused. I'd love it if I worked at a private school where I was allowed to expel every kid who misbehaved, had a learning disability, or came from a poor home, but public schools don't have that luxury. Third, its a wonderful theory that adversity builds character, and that people can improve their lives just by working harder, but its just that. Its a theory. There's a huge class of working poor in this country who simply don't get the same opportunites everyone else does. Fourth, do you know what would probably happen if all taxes were repealed tomorrow? You'd have more money, but if the same amount of products and services were avaialbe for you to spend your money on, then businesses could charge you more for those products and services. You'd be no better off.

I almost said "pix please" until I actually thought about what the scenario was. That would be disgusting! EDIT: Doesn't mean I haven't had teachers take pictures of girls' chests and put them on CDRs for us. It never ceases to amaze how many things ther people can get away with that I'd never be able to. Hell, when I was in school, I remember girls sitting on teachers' laps. Today? I'm not even allowed to oogle a hot girl with big breasts at a school function. What's the world coming to?

With that kind of money you could start trickling down on people. I have to give you your due for that one. Good job.

Edited for accuracy. Apparently you have to be a bad politician to become Senate Majority leader and manuever Congress into passing the Great Society. Sorry...I'm not buying it. Johnson may have listened to the wrong people when it came to Vietnam, but calling someone as calculating, imposing, and ruthless as LBJ a "bad politician" seems to go against the very realities of the political process. The man knew how to get what he wanted from the Congress, and that's not something a bad politician would be able to do. I suggest you loose your mad-on for high school history textbooks. We've already established that they're not my source. Because you were there, and only you know what REALLY happened? What are you basing this belief on, anyways? Is there a particular text to which you are referring? The old ones that claimed that slaves were happy and Andrew Jackson was only standing up for enforcing America's treaties? Or the "revisionist" ones that say otherwise? Sometimes the revisionists prove to be correct. America's post-war isolationism and trade policy, of which Harding was a proponent, did help create the environment in which World War II could occur. That's as far as I went in blaming him for anything. And yet, all you're apparently doing is parroting what Francis Russell said in his Harding book. Weird.

Moot point, since neither Ralph Wiggum or AJ Styles seem particularly intelligent.

In no way was Kerry the worst candidate since 1968. Hell, Kerry wasn't even the worst major party nominee since 1968. McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis, and Dole were not only worse campaigners, but also did much worse in the general election.

I've already paid my dues trying to argue with Marney. She knows what I think of her.

Suddenly all the wwe.com weirdness is explained.

Okay, so, just 9 days after ordering it from Digital Comics (yes, it took me a while to finally decide which one to order), I got my Uncanny X-Men set. All the comics are in pdf format, and the final issue of the set is Uncanny X-Men #461. There's a few pages where the text is a little hard to read because the ink looks a little faded, but for the most part they look good. Here's a sample of what you'll get (from issue #275, drawn by Jim Lee). edit: According to the coming next section of the disk, 2006 will see the release of not just the Avengers, but Daredevil, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk. uncannyxmen275page14and15.BMP

Damn.