Winging It

AITOOW wonders if McDonald's new McNugget blow out pricing is related to their failed Wing experiment? It was a flop and left them with millions of pounds of wings. I wonder if they are using them for McNuggets? The wings weren't terrible. Just mispriced.

I Got No (Self) Respect

AITOOW wonders which is the more pathetic getting dumped jingle - Selena Gomez's Come and Get It or Mylie Cyrus' Wrecking Ball? In one we see the Latin door mat mentality that basically boils love down to "I expect to get screwed over and I'm ok with that" and the other reveals an Anglo brat mentality that says "It was all my fault and now I'm going to throw a self descrutive tantrum until you are guilted into coming back". Who is the bigger loser? It's a hard one.

I Told You This Place Was Segregated

AITOOW doesn't want religion to be a disqualifier for entering Heaven? I want those people to know that they were assholes and that is the reason why they are roasting.

The Great Extender

AITOOW wonders if "professor" Obama was as lenient on his students as he is with politicos? Karzai is the latest to get an extension. I guess it doesn't matter because some idiot penciled it into luau time anyway.

The Coal Truth

AITOOW wonders when anti-traditionalists will come out with a poorly researched, psuedo-scientific study that posits that Christmas scars a child's sensibility? This will be due to the stress about whether they have been naughty or nice. This will be followed by a slue of similar papers citing all holiday's as detrimental to child development because of all the fighting between family members.

The New War On Poverty

AITOOW wonders when the government will force the poor to buy stocks to solve the disparity/inequality in incomes? Just like the "solved" the inequality in health care coverage.

Pee-esta

AITOOW thinks Mexican women look like they really have to go to the bathroom when they dance?

It's Always Darkest Before...The Middle Of The Night

AITOOW thinks optimists are usually people too dumb to see the importance of patterns? *the small cohort of advantaged excepted.

Smiley Face

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Hungry Hungry Hippo-crites

AITOOW has noticed that the new hysteria is a global food shortage? What about man made global warming? Was the new record low in Antarctica the final straw or have they realized that they can't grift the Western world into a guilt tax? Is Al Gore behind this manufactured delusion too? Maybe it's the science community. Claims like these force research projects to rebut the spurious claims. I guess the 12 Jews running the world are the Regents at Harvard. I also love how the two leaders of the wealthiest secular and non-secular entities are caterwaulling about income disparity. How about an asset sale Papi? O you stay in the guest house. How noble. What do/did you (not the government) pay your staff Queen Barry? The guy who really wrote your book? Charitable donations? Could it be that we are just playing with the deinitions of these words? I'm sure there was greater equality in pre-industrial, feudal Europe. The fifties are not the baseline for history. They were a golden age for most metrics and then only in America.

That Thing You Do

AITOOW who thinks they had to make divorce a sin because it may only take one endearing characteristic to bind you to a person while one unappreciated characteristic can alienate you from the same person?

Land of the (Everything Is) Free

AITOOW thinks it's great that not one single discussion about health care so far has burst the myth/sophistry that it is or is becoming another entitlement? And they always ignore the cost of that permutation? There will be no "losers" in the implimentation. That is becoming clear. Every "fix" is just another jenga piece that makes it more net negative. Both sides will chase every segment of the electorate to try and find that margin of difference that will win elections. Democrats had always counted on Republicans to be the adult in the room. The good losers. Now they see it as way to defeat their enemy and the program. How is this going to effect the fiscal landscape in the near term? What happens in the long term if they don't dismantle this (like they never do to any program)? Why are these questions not being asked. It's just an obsession with the political ramifications. Is that what people should be worried about? And how are the executive orders modifying the law not the equivalent of a line item veto. I know they say it's an administrative change. but, that is a reach. I wish we had a Supreme Court just for delegation of powers issues. And it could bring cases on it's own. I hate that the executive can choose not to enforce existing law and administrative agencies can write their own.

Wendy In Doubt

AITOOW wonders why Wendy's charges different prices to make your order a combo? It's the same fries and a drink (upsizing aside). Yet, they charge you more for it if you order a more expensive sandwich/burger. It's almost like they charge on a fixed percent (maybe they do I didn't look that closely into it) of the sandwich. Penalizing you for buying one of their more expensive items seem like a dumb way to get you to do that. I would guess these carry their highest gross margins too, so, I advise you to cherry pick the value menu.

Think It And You Will Be It

AITOOW thinks a woman's "superiority" over man is largely a delusion protracted by their own irrationality? It basically assumes the conclusion/prejudice and then refutes all evidence to the contrary. If you doubt my word, watch any episode of Maury Pauvich. No woman will ever take the lie detector herself to establish her own innocence as a baseline and will never accept it when the lie detector tells her she was wrong. She just digs in her heels or rejects the efficacy of the device. All to validate herself as the "better" sex. Now why these imbeciles fall for most of these rakes (I assume everybody is guilty and I'm not saying men are "better") after it appears they have already been burned or have to have been warned is another issue.

Barracknio

AITOOW finds it funny that the press are trying to make it seem that the "you can keep your insurance" bamboozle was the first case of prevarication from this sociopath? Anybody remember Rev. Wright? Dope smoking denials? Composite characters in his books? The guy was a Manchurian Candidate from the get go. It's ironic that a man who rose to prominence by the sound of his own voice (his only contribution to society) will be brought low by the same. He joins the Mt. Lies-more with Clinton, Nixon and Roosevelt. And I still love that no one has figured out that all he did was give flip the script on who the health care system serves. No longer is it aimed at your "average" American. Once again we side with the least contributive members of society and the neediest (infirm and women). The recipe for any robust society. And I didn't even throw in the "benefits" migrants. You notice how I just described his whole family?

Living While White

AITOOW thinks that if the hub bub that is going on around the Dolphins took place in another segment of society we would be told not to inject our personal prejudices into their construct? We would be branded as insensitive, mean spirited, audacious and bigoted. We would be told that this is a sub-culture whose beliefs we must tolerate. Let's get this straight, I deplore these kinds of humiliating exercises. At the very least the "initiate" should not be deemed "guilty" of whatever it is that they seek to "correct" and should not be fleeced. I'm just pointing out that the "descrying class" has a double standard. And being white and male and established is enough to exclude you from their understanding.

Con-food-shun

AITOOW marvels that you can get a full Marie Callender's TV dinner (non-pasta) for $2 (on sale) when everything else is so expensive? The packaging alone must cost 50 cents.

Eat Puke Leave

AITOOW is coming to the realization that it isn't poor sanitary conditions that leads to digestive discomfort in many countries? It's the "special sauce" they give us gringos. And this applies to their restaurants in the States. And here I was blaming dirty hands, week old produce and malfunctioning refrigerators.

Mary James

AITOOW thinks Jimmy Kimmel is stoned when he does his talk show? Man those eyes are glassy.

The Sticky (Mal) iki

AITOOW who could see a grin forming on Maliki's lips as Obambi lectured him on sharing power? Also, like that the cabal issued a press release about a fine for J and J for "health care" violations today. Not at all an attempt to show how willing and able government is to manage health care.

9 Will Get You 20

AITOOW caught David Letterman hitting on a nine year old during the halloween segment? Isn't it creepy enough when he does it with the regular guests?

Waste Not, Want Not

AITOOW can't imagine the waste/inefficiency in the public sector after working in the private sector?

Be Careful What You Wish For

AITOOW wonders if people still think Obambi has improved the rest of the world's opinion of the US? Probably would like that Nobel prize back too.

Clinton/Sebelius '16

AITOOW has noticed that Queen Barry has two types of newsmakers doing his bidding - the incompetents and the too competent. The incompetents are all women or minorities or both. Benagazi et al - Clinton and Rice. IRS - The fat lady. Fast and Furious et al - Holder. Health Care - Sebelius and the other woman. NSA Spying - white guys. I thought that things would be put right once the evil white man was mothballed.

You Ain't Got No Alibi

AITOOW loves that Haverty's commercial where the ugly hipstress says her chair can't look at anything ugly? That room is twice as attractive as you Chunky.

Born With The Greasy Spoon In Their Mouth

AITOOW wnats to know why paint is so expensive and growing in cost? It's a waste product. I don't care if it comes from oil. If they didn't "invent" latex then it would just be tossed away. It would cost them to dispose of it. Love how that now turns into commodity that rades along side with oil prices.

Ass-Persia-ational

AITOOW thought that the Iranians wanted unilateral talks for a decade and we were the ones pushing multi-lateral ones? So how is their latest offer anything but what they have always wanted? And our accepting - a capitulation/loss?

Anguish Channel

AITOOW thinks it must be exhausting being the one right minded (no pun) guest on political talk shows/current affair Q and A's? They are so "fixed" to spread a specific manner of dogma or message that it's pointless to respond. The questioner is not interested in the answer and rarely listens to it. The panel is designed to shout you down. It's just pointless. A waste of breath. The people who watch these shows are either too dumb to see the artiface or too closed minded to be swayed by rhetoric. I suggest they just boycot and maybe that action will illustrate their position (it's not objective or balanced) better than any explanation could. It's been nauseating watching Rhino's and DoDo's (Democrats) try to paint the Tea Party as huge losers. Especially since their conjured/falty polling, selective reporting and misinformation campaign is responsible for the environment of fear that forced their hysterical party affiliates to acquiesce to ruinous extensions of the governmanetal slush/pork fund. In other areas of life it would be called gloating and/or marketing. In the media it's called truth. Everytime is so one of these lambs going to slaughter I hope they are just doing it for the free airtime. maybe that's the only way to game the liberals at their own system - use their assets to promote your brand.

Injustice For All

AITOOW wonders why the victims of discrimination are more sensitive to it? You would think that they would be more used to it and not react emotionally as most do to surprises/unexpected frustrators. You would think the non-black athletes (for example)who are discriminated against by the soft bigotry of talent evaluators would be the cry bablies. They have always had doors thrown open to them. Maybe they were prepared by a systemic bigotry that began in the school yard and no one agitated them into opposing?

Next Men

AITOOW wonders what would happen if someday scientists prove some of us have gone through more evolutionay stages than others? And what if groups of people were more evolved than others?

Things I Learned At The Movies This Weekend

AITOOW thinks there needs to be another word besides "actor" for people in entertainment who just play themselves playing somebody else (ie George Clooney). What they do is not acting. It's reciting. And in his case, visible fawning over himself. AITOOW thinks Sandra Bullock looks like Snoopy. Who has ever had a longer face? Can you imagine her without the plactic surgery? Sadly. Probably better. AITOOW wonders if Chris Rock is Somalian? AITOOW wonders if the armed forces ever shoot at first sight. Seems like they always blow the first chance by being irresolute. AITOOW wonders why the crew in Captain Phillips were such whiners if what he said in the beginning of the film about there now being 50 guys for every job was true? Also, how incompetent/cowardly are the other 49 applicants if these guys made the cut? AITOOW wonders if every nurse is rapid fire bitch? Do they all treat every patient like they are two years old? Do they all ask questions they know the answer to and know you know? Do they realize they are Navy nurses because they were too dumb or too trailer park for private practice? Do they realize they are massage therapists with bandaids?

Free for All

AITOOW wants to know why everyone wants you to do their job for them? All I hear is cops, news outlets and other entities pleaing for you to contact them with information. Shouldn't they at least be required to pay a reward?

In The Dark

AITOOW has days where everyone walking down the street looks at you like they've heard something amusing about you? Is there a secret gossip web site/network I don't know about?

... From Peter To Pay Paul

AITOOW sick of zealots giving away their money in the hope of getting into Heaven while simultaneously politicking for tax cuts and tax deductions for charitable contributions? Now I don't agree with any taxation, but, you shouldn't be "buying" your way into Heaven with "reclaimed" assets. And you shouldn't get a tax deduction for it. By that logic, Uncle Sam should get the credit from up above and he is only getting that because he is returning "stolen" property (the tax deduction). I doubt that is what is intended by the Head Overseer. And BTW - If you believe in the Trinity and God impregnated Mary and God is also Jesus then wasn't that incest?

More Look Alikes

AITOOW thinks these people look alike? Jim Norton and Jeremy Renner. Charlie from Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Bobcat Goldthwait. Jonny Goleki and George Burns. Larry David's eyes and Richard Gere's eyes. Richard Gere and Jake from 16 Candles. Jim Gaffigan and Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Buck Showalter.

C Spun

AITOOW wonders if the proliferation of all these political shows is responsible for the climate in Washington? Every green horned hayseed can now get a crash course in subterfuge during a binge watch. It used to be that the old timers, a few bright boys and a few from the political class could set a good bear trap. Now everyone knows how to weave a web or is aware of them.

Guns 'n GI Joes'

AITOOW doesn't understand why the don't put tracking beacons in our military hardware? I'm told that the enemy in a lot of war zones try to steal our stuff and use it against us. Putting a tracking device on them would disuade them from stealing them and/or point us to them when the do. I guess they might then 'park" them in civilian areas or figure out how to disable them, but, at least we would be able to track their progress further than we can now.

You're Gonna Hear Me Roar

AITOOW thinks cougars don't realize that they are the "sluts" and "fat girls" they used to make fun of in high school? The only reason they get any attention from boys is that they are seen as easy prey (like the aforementioned). Sluts because they will and have put out prodigiously and fat girls because they will pay for everything and have little self-esteem. Or maybe the really think those trips to Dr Frankenstein make them look like they used to. And that no one gossips. Speaking of fat girls. Does anyone do a worse American accent than Rebel Wilson? Thank God she will drop dead of heart disease or diabetes before she becomes unavoidable.

Black Pleezus

AITOOW isn't black enough enough to understand why Jay Z, P Diddley and Kanye West think they are megastars? It certainly isn't because of the music. I call them the 3 2 1 boyz. Because that's how may good songs they've produced/appropriated. Mr Knowles - Hard Knock Life, Can I Get A ..., Empire State of mind. Mr. Smalls - I'll Be Missing You and Come with Me. Mr Kadashian - Jesus Walks With Me. He is that most galling and delusional. He's the king? He's on par with Right Said Fred or any other one hit wonder. He thinks he's an artist? He's vapid. He's like a self-professed spoken word poet. I don't have to say bad or annoying because that is implied. A total product of a second class eductational tract that he thinks is comemsurate with the best "normal" institutions and a pampering single mother. And why do all these bourgeoisie black guys (not Z) have fat faces. They always look like they are on their period. You know the guys at their prep schools held them down and put their heads in the toilet. I think Dewayne Wayne had more swag than Kan Kan and Carlton could force himself on the Poofster.

NC Double Anal

AITOOW can not believe that the NCAA thinks tha the anal rape of young boys (on school property) is less deserving of punishment than allowing a booster to give a kids parents a home rent free? In fact, letting a players parents squat is the most egregious "crime" they have seen in the last ten years (as evidenced by the punishments they have chosen to apply and affirm). How else so you explain the treatment of USC?

USA So Yesterday

AITOOW has read their last issue of printed news? Or at least paid to read it. USA Today doubled their price over night. This, coupled with their slow deterioration (and this is grading on a MC curve for a MC newspaper) as a new organization, was the last straw. I was only buying you for the crossword puzzles anyway and the fact that our local rag did what you are doing years ago. I'll just get my news for free on my tablet now. It wasn't really news anyway - was it? More like "olds". I've been a fool to have been supporting you this long. You never ship enough papers to your retail stores anyway. Operationally, you walk large margins of sales every day. It's a constant game of will they or won't they every day. I guess you are relying on that soon to be discredited consulting maxim - squeeze every penny out of your most dependable customers. You'll find out the hard way. You don't have as many of them as you think you do. Thanks for saving me the $300 a year. I'll use it to buy toner to print out my crossword puzzles.

War Against Terroir-ism

AITOOW thinks it's funny that King Barry will not negotiate with Republicans but will negotiate with terrorists (ie Syria and Iran).

The Ass Is Always Greener

AITOOW wonders if people in mixed couples know that their "mate" is seeking them out because they regard themselves as more like the people that mate usually dates? And they know that "mate" is more attuned to their personality quirks. And the funny thing is, the mate thinks he/she is getting something different. They are just getting the same model in a different paint job. And they will probably not run because they are used to that abhorrent behavior.

Stretching The Truth

AITOOW is amused by the "black don't crack" expression? First - that shit may not be "cracked" but it's broken. Nature just said "why bother adding insult to injury. Second - if it "don't crack' it is only because it continues to be pushed to a breaking point by the ever expanding accretion of fat beneath the skin. Although, the expression does give rise to a new urban legend on why white people are called crackers.

Looking For Some Hot Stuff

AITOOW wonders what the hell the people at Axe Body Spray are smoking? Women are getting hotter? Where? The ones who aren't fat look like Franken-creatures. There is so much bad plastic surgery, injections and ma'am-scaping that alcohol isn't enough anymore. And let's not get into the mongrel options or the ugliness inside. The one way in which they may be hotter is body temperature from all that pulp. Or maybe from the burn in their urine from the VD.

Hot Stuffed

AITOOW wonders if hot peppers are supposed to suppress appetite, why are mexicans and blacks so fat?

Mommy Queerest

AITOOW can spot an uncomfortable relationship between a mother and her male son(s)? All you have to hear is - "buddy". Any mother who calls her son "buddy" didn't want a son - or that son. I'm not sure if it's transference of hate towards the father, a reaction to an unwanted pregnancy or discomfort with the Y chromosome. It just isn't an intimate salutation.

Robin' The Eighties

AITOOW thinks the Blurred Lines video is just a copy of Addicted To Love?

I'll Gladly Play You Tuesday

AITOOW is hearing that college football AD's can't understand why attendance is flagging? How about the fact that you idiots have stopped playing games on the weekend. No one with a job can or wants to go on a week day. It's not wi fi or poor views. It's your scheduling. Not that you aren't also trying to fleece the public for something they can get for free by staying home.

They Call Him Carmelo Yellow

AITOOW can't believe the jams the rock star president gets himself into? I guess it was an apt moniker because he seems about as bright as one. I keep waiting for someone to lampoon John McEnroe and say "You can not beat Syria". Did this guy really think that anyone feared his wrath? Believed a parsing vacillator would spend any of his own political capital on charity? That's the game his mentors perfected. Like he would be drawn in by that kind of bullying. Now it's a War of the Roses chess match between he and the Republicans over every little thing. It's about who can use any issue to embarrass the other side. And the funny part is like any contentious break up, nobody on the outside particularly cares who wins. The whole affair is foul and everyone associated with it seems petty and vulgar. It was stupid for a black president to threaten an arab. They perceive the black as illegitimate. It was twice as bad not to carry through. Any thing less than immediate action in the face of an instigation is perceived as weakness. So now he is seen (probably always was) as a cowardly monkey by the arabs. A two time loser. A thoughtful, measured response will not change that perception. And that is the problem. It's not about mission creep or exit strategies or definable goals. It's about power politics. The unruly kids in the back of class look at the US (add in England) as a substitute teacher again. All the knuckle rapping George Bush administered has gone to waste. We are again Carter weak, Clinton weak in their eyes. The real trouble has just begun.

First Things First

AITOOW finds it odd that people never give the replacement argument the same scrutiny as the the original? Someone can believe in something forever and then be swayed the moment another sensible point is proven. I'm not advocating pigheadedness, but, at least make them work for your allegiance.

As Simple As ABC

AITOOW thinks it's telling that make and man start with M and waste and woman start with W?

ABC - Apple Built in China

AITTOW thinks Apple's ad touting "Designed in CA" just reminds people that it is built elsewhere?

Diversion-ity

AITOOW notices that we never have "diversity" casting when it comes to little vignettes about bad, boorish, illegal activity? No. Then it's ok to exclude. Even if, statistically, less plausible.

E Is The New Black

AITOOW now cc's the NSA?

Te-Bowsee

AITOOW thinks that the Christian thing to do was to report Hernandez to the Gainesville police when he saw him in a bar and knew he shouldn't have been? You are supposed to turn a cheek not a blind eye. And it was wrong to interfere in the altercation. Especially wrong since the motivation was to keep a player he could profit from eligible. Not keep the peace. Also wrong. Not reporting the incident to anyone after it happened. I'm not saying my ethics compel such behavior. But, he chose the path he is on. And is the usual hypocrite about it. You don't even get that bringing this stupid incident up shows poorly on you. You think it made you look paternal/mature/concerned.

* A Bowsee (sic) was a retard in my neighborhood. It was an acronym for some program/school the went to.

E-Racer Head

AITOOW thinks the white race is the only race that has ever acted against its own self interest? I'm not saying it only does so or does so frequently. I'm just saying no other race can even contemplate not getting there way - ever. Let alone freely parting with it. See Voting Rights Act/Trayvon Martin hub bub. In a similar vein. An opportunist doesn't respond. He waits. He waits and watches for the angle to play. Remind you of any "contemplative" politician(s) whose angle may be drawing attention away from scandal(s)?

Shovel Ready

AITOOW thinks it's great that Chicago and Detroit are so flush with cash that they can give away hundreds of millions to recreational pursuits (to the benefit of billionaires)?

Operation Dumbo (Eaves) Drop

AITOOWwonders why no cartoonist has combined the Eavesdropper In Chief's formidable ears with a joke about surveillance yet?

Parents Just Don't Understand

AITOOW went to a movie theater that will no longer list the movie showing in a theater outside the theater room or in the entrance area because they had complaints that kids were using them to sneak into R or PG movies? So once again adults have to suffer because parents can't monitor their children's behavior and a limp dick corporation is scared of a lawsuit or a to do by a vocal minority. God forbid Junior should see a boobie or hear a naughty word. How about you take responsibility for your children before we take them from you.

Toil and Trouble

AITOOW wonders if Bernanke is trying deflate the burdgeoning housing bubble or if it is just a casualty of economic engineering? Was he just trying to slow the commodity and equity appreciation he caused by castrating fixed income (zero fed rates =  almost zero fixed income yields =  forced $ out of bonds) and housing got in the undertow? Or was the real fear the appreciation in housing prices? Did he let the stock and commodities markets appreciate so long because he feels the "little guy" doesn't participate in them any longer and could not be harmed directly if it lost value? Is he worried that we were repeating the past with regards to housing and the danger was more real in that area so he wanted higher lending rates to cool it down or was he trying to switch the market's capitalization to more fixed income? The funny thing is now we have the same old game of pick your poison and I say people do what they did in the 90's. They choose real estate again. They eschew the risk of the stocks and equities they were forced into owning over the last 5 years. They flirt with fixed income but it moves too slow and too minimally for most investors per usual. However, they big asset class shift is to real estate. Because they either need the investment itself for practical reasons (escape rising rents) or want it for financial reasons (the others are maxed out or too low yielding). If he was trying to stop a housing hysteria, I hope he didn't cause collateral damage to any of the asset groups unintentionally because I don't think it will stop the groundswell behind it.

Making A Stink About It

AITOOW is worried about the unintended consquences of all these city bike share programs? Offensive body odor to start with.

To Forgive Is Definite

AITTOW thinks we have a huge disconnect when we speak of forgiveness? Even if it is sincere, I think the forgiver only forgives in part while the forgivee believes they have been exonerated completely. The forgivee needs to know that they are probably getting the bare minimum of civility that the forgiver can extend to them. They need to know that they are not in a much different position than where they started. This isn't absolution. The slate isn't clean.

Gonzo Journalism

AITOOW wonders if Jennifer Aniston thought she looked too much like Barbara Striesand before the shnoze job? Is that the real reason Brad Pitt upgraded? He didn't want that beak infecting his Arayan gene pool. I'm overlooking the absence of natural breast tissue and puffy face filler. That usually isn't a big concern for men looking for traits that will be handed down to their offspring or came later. I still don't get why people thought she was so mistreated. She seems like the bigger bitch of the two. She seems like the sort of person whose insecurity manifests itself as irritability. Jolie is off her rocker, but, at least she isn't morose or enhanced (yet). I guess most women gravitate towards the "victim" because they desire the attention she gets. Being superficially enhanced and cranky just makes her all the more relatable.

Queen Barry

AITOOW wonders if our royal highness (there's also a weed joke in there) is using NSA surveillance to save the postal service (and its union)? What better way of getting people to revert to snail mail than to monitor all other types of communication?

I also love what his latest appointments reveal about his meglomania. He's surrounding himself with "yes men" because he knows everything about everything. He just needs some wall paper to give the illusion of consensus. And diversity. This from the guy who never met a committee he didn't like.

Dar-Winner Takes It All

AITOOW thinks you can't believe in evolution and equality?

Snow Job

AITOOW believes an artisan is an euphemism for inefficient manufacturer?

Prints of Tiles

AITOOW thinks that Impressionists weren't influenced by their poor eye sight as much as by micro mosaics? The brush strokes resemble the tiles that artists before them employed for eons.

Pants On The Ground

AITOOW wonders if certain people wear their pants below their ass because they are too large to for the cut? I used to think it was funny that the ones who had the most surface area to hold them up chose to rebel against nature, but, maybe they are just adjusting to a practical necessity.

Bazinga

AITOOW who read the last two days' business articles about Zynga in USA Today and wonders if they purposefully bifurcated the puff piece about their strategic ininitiatives or if the reporter was too dim to put two and two together in the first article? Article one was about doing away with under-performing games. Article two was about hundreds of layoffs. Did they (we need a different slang term for burying the lead if they did this purposefully) stretch or hide the news of the layoffs to mete out the content or were they hoodwinked by Zynga? A side note - any puff piece about a company is the canary in a coal mine. It's proactive flacking. Bad news is imminent. Look over here not over there. Either way, it's disturbing. Either the people they hire are naive/dupes or they are in cahoots or too sympathetic with the people they cover or they are trying to stretch their material. In any event, they look inept. In related news, it's comforting to see that the trick Zynga tried to pull was as recycled as the games they deliver.

Swiss Miff

AITOOW finds it distasteful that a country that has never cared for anyone but itself is now trying to solicite the world to help it maintain its source of power and water? The Swiss believe man has warmed the planet and subseequently caused their glaciers to recede. Now they want help to make it stop. They rely on the runoff for hydroelectric power and potable water. Sorry chumps. What comes around - goes around. Now if you want us to hide some of your criminally aquired wealth - we can talk.

Plastic Explosives

AITOOW wonders if that Soda Stream commercial is misleading (or at least exaggerated)? I thought most soda bottles were made from recycled plastic. So are you really helping the planet if you use Soda Stream? Perhaps tangentally if you can only recycle so many times or if you count CO2 emissions saved by not transporting the bottles to stores.

White Shadow

AITOOW thinks they remember The Roots having a white guy when they started on Jimmy Fallon? What happened to him? Did the suits finally withdraw their color conscious demand for diversity to appease the white audience and let them be The Roots?

Have A Coke And A Trial

AITOOW can't understand why Coke, in a pathetic attempt to appear hip, is not facing criticism for its latest ad? Instead the go after JC Penney for a Hitler teapot. In the new ad (featuring the song "...Give a little bit..."), they laud grafitti cowards as "peaceful warriors". Get Guiliani on them. Grafitti is crime. Grafitti is ugly. Grafitti is misppropriation of property. Grafitti is trespass. If Coke loves it so much then I request that grafitti artists tag and obscure the unwanted marketing impliments that Coke leases and leave the rest of the landscape alone.

Cock Is It!

AITOOW is aware that there is a town in southern Spain called Peniscola? I wonder if the tight asses in Florida renamed their version because they were ashamed of the original spelling?

Ball Players

AITOOW isn't shocked that a soccer player admitted to being gay? I thought they all were. And in response to Jason Collins coming out. Interesting that he comes out when his career is almost over. It's almost as if he is using his sexual orientation as leverage against his team. Now if he gets cut it's because they are homophobes. Not because he is a hundred and limited in skill. And I'd like to remind the nano-termed public that a professional basketball player came out nearly a decade ago. His name was John Amechi. Remember him? Or was that too long ago for your goldfish brains?

DJ Barry O

AITOOW loves the way he spins?

Know What I'm Saying?

AITOOW wonders if black people are self-conscious about there abilty to communicate effectively?

Progressive Thinking

AITOOW thinks you can not persuasively argue that something is theoretically possible? If it can't be realistically applied or proved then there must be an error in the formula or in a definition within the formula.

Garbage In. Garbage Out.

AITOOW thinks it is marvelous that we are all the accumulation of every inter-personal (and I suppose inter-environmental) contact we have been subjected to? So the hysterical rant "you made me this way" may be on the mark.

Nothing To Hide

AITOOW thinks that people who share a loose morality (ie Liberals) need to think that anyone with a stricter moral sensibility (Conservatives) HAVE to be hypocrites? No one could actually harness their lower impulses or be devoid of them to begin with.

Bully Pulpit

AITOOW thinks teachers are just losers that adults ignore? The only ones they have the ability to influence/intimidate are the weakest of our society and they need the sanctioning/support of the community to accomplish that. A bunch of paper tigers. Sanctimonious paper tigers. Next in line in the "pick on somebody your own size" sub division - stay at home parents.

Serial Killer

AITOOW who sees televised entertainment following the pattern of the novel? In the hey day of serialized written entertainment, the publishers could make the largest profit by parceling out stories to the public in a pay as you go model and then collating the story into a compendium (novel) for additional profits. Television executives emulated that business model. Recently selling the collected episodes in DVD form. And like the history of written form in the 20th century, now people prefer to have their content aggregated and available for one mass consumption. You will see less serialized programming and more mini-series like programming. They will all be streamed to you en masse and you will view them at your own pace. Just like books. It's not that difficult to predict.

I need to add that content will not be king for long (if people think it is now). Lower audience pooling, shrinking attention spans/fickleness and shrinking profit margins will lead to shrinking outlays to content producers. By producers I mean those who create content. Plus, like now, desperate producers will give away their content for free in an attempt to distribute through an established construct or inability to get the consumer to pay them directly. Plus, all the increased competition from generations of people who feel the acme of life is to express themselves through media, will increase supply.

Old News

AITOOW finds anchormen pathetic? Except Ron Burgandy. They read the same news story over and over again every year at the same time and are constantly shocked. I just saw Lisper Dolt bewildered that the rivers are flooding again. In the Spring! In areas right next to a FLOOD PLAIN! Who could have seen that coming. That a once in a lifetime event. And this jack ass reports on it every year. It's not like he's been out of the loop.

I also want to give the opposite of a shout out to that botoxed, Chris Sarandon with Bruce Jenner's nose job looking, liberal male Behar, editor of the Jew Norker for forgiving his ass buddies at CNN for mistaken reporting while vilifying the Post. One is a liberal cesspool and the other is a conservative publication Guess which is which. He also tried to use the Boston massacre to promote the gun control bill. Shameless. If it did anything, it showed us why we need them.

Great Balls Of Furor

AITOOW wonders why women get boob implants if they want to look younger? The smaller your boobs, the younger you look. Big, swollen boobs are very maternal. They make you think of pregnant women. I can maybe see it if you get "slinkys" after kids, but, it makes no sense for teens or young women to get them. Yet they do. Another example of clear thinking by the XX collective. Is vaginal stretching the next procedure?

What's In A Name

AITOOW doesn't understand why no one has picked up on the following red flag about the older Boston Bomber? It struck me right away. Is his name a regional spelling of Tamburlaine? Read the following if you don't know who that was -

"Tamberlaine (timur bin Taraghay Barlas, literally "the limper") is remembered as one of the most bloody conquerors of all time.. Born in 1336 at Kesh, today Shar-i-Sahz, founder of the Timurid dynasty, from which the Mogol dynasty in India is descended, with his army of Tartars and Mongals Tamberlaine managed to conquer a territory extending from China to the heart of Asia Minor. The building of his empire started when, having assasinated his cousin and ally on early military campaigns, Husain, he was proclaimed Grand Emir of the realm of Transoxiana, which surrendered to him 10th April 1370. Among his first conquests was the kingdom of Corasmia, then Mogholistan. The invasion of Persia was protracted until 1380. Tamberlaine levied men and, taking advantage of the current social conflicts dividing the country, decimated the population and besieged the cities of Mesopotamia , Armenia, and Georgia. It is legendary how he constructed watch-towers at the entrance to conquered cities with the heads of those who attempted to resist him. Tamberlaine's ferocity is exceeded only by that of Gengis Khan from whom he claimed to be descended. Meanwhile with the richest booty he beautified Samakand, his city. At the same time, he embarked on a pitiless war against the Khan dell'Orda of gold, Tuqtamish, leading to the conquest of Khwarizm, of Azerbaijan, the Crimea and Ciscaucasia. In the first half of the Fourteenth century it was the turn of India and Syria of the Mamelukes. Thousands of artisans were deported in chains from their cities to Samakand. Bagdad in Mesopotamia was reduced to ruins in 1404."

If he was named after this guy then it says something about his upbringing. Was he trying to emulate his namesake? Just asking. It could mean something.

Also, if he was interviewed by the FBI, why was his father so adamant that he was innocent and shocked about it? Why did the uncle not mention this in his initial new conference? It has come out that he knew about it and had arguments with his nephew about it. Fishy. And lastly, another shout out to that religion of peace - Islam. Do they even know that one of the initial transcribers of Mohammed's words (Koran) quit when Mohammed told him to "just make up" sections the treatise.

Color Me Bad

AITOOW thinks that racism isn't as indefensible as it is made out to be? For it to carry the universal stigma it carries, it would have to be wrong in all cases. It would always have to be unpredictive. As it is, it may be statistically useful. What percentage of the time must it (racism) give good data for it to be rational/acceptable? 100%? That seems to be the standard. The "I would rather let all criminals go rather than imprison one innocent man" argument. What other forecasting methods provide that level or accuracy? None. So something less than 100% has to be the standard. That alone gives racism a place at the table. It can't be whole handedly disavowed.

If you are trying to "profile" any suspect group (or any collection of data) then lowering the risk component is good. And to make it more rational than not, it would have to eliminate over 50% of the variables. Now considering our country is split about 50-50 over most issues, can we conclude that most should be suspicious of conflicting/competing agendas? That means we should predict that half the people we meet are a threat to our existence (or the way we choose to exist). A rational person (playing the odds) would therefore see all people (races) as a statistically relevant threat. Or at least as much of a threat as not (which seems very relevant) . If we assume there is an equal distribution among the races, then suspicion/prejudice is the already the smarter policy (to naivete). And given that it is probable that equal distribution is indeed NOT a constant (different groups probably think much differently), the odds of a different group being aligned with your values are probably lower still. Much lower. So from a purely rational/statistical perspective, racism is not only not a bad thing it is a very good thing. The fact that it is so easily visible makes it even more so. I'm not sure how close it gets us to being 100% sure in the opposite direction, but, it it makes it better than a coin flip. All the treatises on statistics say that that is what you need to look for. Racism is mathematically justifiable.

2 4 6 8. Who Do We Emasculate?

AITOOW thinks cheerleaders are superfluous and discouraging? What man wants a woman nagging to him to "come on" while he's in the middle of work? It's sanctioned cuckolding. It's not inspirational. Save that brow beating for your husband.

Isn't it also great that ABC doesn't air the football championship game on free tv, yet, CBS can air the basketball championship game?

Analyzing All USA Basketball Team

AITOOW loves that we are so interested (in earnest) to some of the dimmest/least evolved people in our society? The following is courtesy of five high school basketball players deemed worthy by USA Today to have a whole page unto themselves. Let's do a little dime store psycho-analysis and see what assumptions we can make about their current and future development from their responses.

Andrew Wiggins. Favorite Song - "...that song that Cityphil made about ME." Red Flag. Favorite Teacher - the ART teacher and the GYM teacher. Sounds like Dean's list. Most used app - INSTAGRAM. Self absorption. Good Read - a book in which the character "gets back into REGULAR time" (from the future). Sounds like that prep school was demanding. I predict he is and will become a bigger head case. Too dumb and self obsessed to reach his potential.

Julius Randle - Underrated Virtue - "...RESPECT. ... You would be SURPRISED how that impresses people." No we wouldn't. Only a person brought up poorly would. Plus it sounds like you've figured out that you can manipulate people by pretending to be polite. Insincere/duplicitous. Best Advice - "To USE basketball and NOT let basketball use ME". It's probably sensible, but in a system in which the employers try and grind out of much as possible from the help, it's a red flag (for them). You have to be too dumb to realize this or too insecure and need to push yourself towards greatness to gain acceptance to become an achiever. I say he is too smart for his own good to become a success. He will always be trying to give the least amount to his overlords. He will win this battle, but, never win the battle against himself (to find out how good he can be). The result is he will good but not great at anything he does. And he will probably always feel underappreciated. expect 15 and 10 maxs and contract hold outs and long contract discussions in the papers and fake injuries and drama.

Aaron Harrison - Favorite Teacher - "...English. ...She really CARES to help me understand things. she...understand the subject and NOT JUST make sure they're brainwashed". Cares to help me? Not just make sure? This is his favorite subject. Not too much between the ears. May have a chance. Too little info.

Jalil Okafor - Over Rated - "... no days OFF is overrated". He may be right, but, it could indicate a laziness or hard headedness that may not bode well in his chosen field. Working on - "Being more dominant on the DEFENSIVE end." Now you can make this claim about almost all ball players now, but, it does indicate a potential unwillingness to work for advancement and a ceiling to his growth. Then again, it is an admission that denotes honesty and an ability to see himself objectively and critically. His other answers suggest he has the right emotional and mental make up. Plus he's only a junior. Let's see if he picks a good school like Southern Cal or Duke.

Jabari Parker - Vs dad in hoops - "...last time we played was in SECOND grade." Daddy issue? Not an uncommon one. Did daddy split? Need more info to see if it manifests as a source of rage (hates authority) or a motivator (need to win his love). Daddy was a player so the psychological damage could have a multiplier effect. Winning state - "....excitement and RELIEF..." Sounds like he finds basketball (and the expectations) to be stressful. He might not be a killer. His other answers were pretty satisfying. I predict success. Probably not an a-hole like Kobe or MJ, but, could reach LeBron-type degree of mental toughness. A little shaky for some of his career (front and back ends), but, solid enough in the prime years or in a situation that coddles him.

Bone To Pick

AITOOW thinks KFC is only bringing out boneless chicken because it wants you to eat more corn based, chicken flavored spam? It's not about convenience. They just don't want to be the last people purchasing/serving real (even if roided up and pathetic) chickens. In a similar vein, Boston Market's ribs were disgusting. The must salt brine them to extend the shelf life. They were really salty and chewy and luke warm. Plus they are an insult at $11 for three ribs and their sides. Real barbeque places charge that much for a half slab and that's like paying prime retail. A total swing and miss. It's like the sushi the sell you at the supermarket that costs as much as at a restaurant. Idiotic. BM. You are closer to a BM than you are to a real restaurant. The only thing you could ever do was chicken and I'd rather get a whole bird at the supermarket for what you charge for a quarter. BM = IBS.

O-bomber

AITOOW wonders if the president will redact his pejorative comments on the Patriot's Day bombing if he finds out it was planted by The Weather Underground or was detonated to advance the civil rights agenda? Has anyone asked his good friend Bill Ayer's what he thinks of the action? When will the calls for background checks and limits on pipes and nails begin?

Other things I was reminded of while watching the coverage - Money spent on prevention is a palliative. Cops have no clue (blow up dropped back packs), jump to conclusions (arrest a poor Saudi kid), only succeed if the public hands them evidence (cell phone video) or the criminal gives up or they experience dumb luck or arrest a patsy. Broadcast networks will milk this for all it's worth. They will also create some goofy graphic and theme song to market it. Newscasters will act like the cops they get their info from. Experts will speculate that every possibility is plausible because they don't (and couldn't) have any information at all. Politicians will use the opportunity to push forward their agenda items. People will accuse the most familiar perpetrators with crime because they don't know of many/any others.

It was a little weird that no one talked up the tax angle. It was one of two or three (hatred of US by outsiders, copy cat crime, hatred of paying taxes/hatred of US by insiders) plausible story lines. See if they involve the Iranians in it. Then we know it was a ploy to bomb them.

Ask And You Shall Receive

AITOOW think men stop asking questions when they receive the answer that satisfies them while women don't stop asking questions until they receive an answer they don't like? I believe the explanation may have to do with how we punish children. If a man is punished, the punishment sticks. If he takes any action to extricate himself from his punishment he is ignored or punished further. When a woman is punished, she plays on peoples sympathies and the punishment is either reduced or eliminated. Her actions allow her to associate attention, love, acceptance, gifts with (initially) negative events. She begins to seek out misery. Add to that that it also serves as an eye for an eye guilt ameliorant. Any bad acts she has committed or anticipates committing on the cross examinee can now be forgiven (in her own mind) if she uncovers a bad act committed against her. A guy (probably also encouraged by ego and a desire for peace and happiness) will just accept any answer that doesn't punish him (cause him discomfort).

Getting Into The Family Business

AITOOW thinks you can't marry a person with a mommy or daddy complex if yours is not dead? No matter how much older you are than them (even if you started out as the parental replacement figure), your mommy or daddy become that missing parent they desire and you are disintermediated. The misplaced attention (and respect possibly love/lust) is rerouted to the patriarch/matriarch. You become a sibling. One whom they are trying to supersede in the hierarchy of parental approval. There must be some crazy sexual/political dynamics going on when you insert one of these psychologically needy people into a household of one those cultures where the family all lives together.

Too Few Cooks In The Kitchen

AITOOW doesn't understand why cooks on these competitive cooking shows never use a thermometer for meats? They always over or under cook something. Why leave it to chance?

Because I Said So

AITOOW thinks that if you insert "because" in place of "if" you have the appropriate response to all those sorts of arguments? IE - If A does X then why should we do Y. BECAUSE A does X we should do Y. Real world example from a response in USA Today about Plan B - "Teens are having sex without parental consent, so WHY shouldn't they buy the pill without it? Because Teens (Y) are having sex (X) without parental consent AND SHOULDN'T (matter of opinion), they shouldn't be able to buy the pill without it too. I'm not saying I agree with the counter argument, but, it is a nice rhetorical trick.

Incest Is Best

AITOOW wants to know why - if love scenes are only "acting" and there is no "attraction" associated with the action - there have been no love scenes cast between actors who are related? If it is merely part of the "craft" and not a free pass to cheat, why won't they participate in these roles with family members?

Obanics

AITOOW longs for the days when black people just wanted to turn their gibberish (inability to master proper English vocabulary and grammar) into their own language (ebonics). Now they (actually at the behest of their white liberal overlords) are purposefully trying to redefine the language so words have no meaning. After already eroding the definition of unemployment by eliminating most of the cohort (long term unemployed) from the definition, they are now trying redefine unemployment as retirement. Not to say that some small percentage of the newly jobless did not "voluntarily" retire, but, I wager it was/is a de minimus number. The reality is that there has been little to no real change in the unemployment numbers since the '08 depression and no amount of sophistry will change that. I'm not even blaming that on Bambi, but, I am blaming him for misrepresenting the facts (to his benefit).

Weather is Here, Wish You Were Fine

AITOOW who is disappointed (but not surprised) that the next generation prefers social media sites that predominantly allow them to taunt? It's a culture of non-stop self-aggrandizement. Where are all the bitter Irish townies nowadays? They would have slapped down these superficial boasters for big timing. Not to say that many of their elders aren't guilty of the same mindless braggadocio. But, at least they... Aww hell they're just as pretentious. Maybe we need a site that ranks people like a tennis ladder. You put in what you are doing and it ranks who is winning at life.

Lazy Fare

AITOOW thinks the laissez-faire attitude of most Millennias is a reflection of their lackadaisical attitude rather than a surplus of tolerance? They just refuse to to be bothered with choosing let alone defending a position. They have never had to fight for anything in their lives and just can't conceive of why you would want to.

Lead Us Not

AITOOW thinks it is illegitimate to condemn someone for giving into a temptation that society has concluded they are too irrelevant to participate in? How many owe their high moral authority to such obscurity?

On The Take

AITOOW wonders how accurate the "shrinkage" numbers that retailers proclaim are? Is it just a ploy to excuse higher pricing? How much is really retailers just taking the max allowance from the manufacturer as a business strategy? How much is a manager giving away mispriced items or items that are not ringing up properly? How much is employee theft? I think the number cited is erroneous and makes it seem like we live in a society of shoplifters.

Washington Math

AITOOW can't believe no one has defended the sequester cuts with arguments about the Hurricane Sandy spend and the billions in pork projects that the government instituted in the fiscal cliff agreement? Those more than offset the infinitesimal "cuts".

The Bottom Line

AITOOW thinks the CEO of Yahoo banned tele-commuting as a ploy to get workers to self-terminate? Especially those who have less flexible work schedules (ie older) or use more benefits (ie older). I'll bet they make more money on average too.

Shooting Fish In A Container

AITOOW thinks that either two bites or two shots at the apple makes sense? I originally thought some addled brained sports bloviator was wrong when he mouthed "two shots" at the apple, but maybe it works. Two shots ala William Tell.

Spoiled Sport

AITOOW thinks that a rich person (family money) is more used to getting than giving? And a rich person is used to getting more than a poor person and giving less than a poor person. As a result, an interaction with a rich person will probably involve more give than take if you do nothing to change the paradigm . The exception to the rule is the "guilty conscience" rich person and the "world owes me something" poor person.

Toe Tapping

AITOOW wonders if your thumb was cut off and they replaced it with your big toe, would you do better with women? Assuming the toe was bigger than the thumb and you didn't have exceedingly large thumbs to begin with. You would think the deformity would gross them out, but, are they that wanton (I'm sure they would present it as "understanding")?

D Unionizing

AITOOW thinks that the demise of the unions is a pointless development? The government has taken the role they used to serve. Wages, health care, retirement, etc are all being provided by the progressive tax structure. Why bother with dues when you can use the power of the polls to negotiate all the perks you desire.

Hunter or the Hunted

AITOOW wonders when you hook up with someone, did your ploys succeed or did you just fall into someone else's trap?

Bad Girls Club

AITOOW thinks, although they seem on the surface to be cool, that women who belittle sensitive men are really just bitches who want the freedom of overreacting and the shield of pity all to themselves? They don't want men to play on an equal playing field. They want to be the coddled. And don't get me started on women who refer to men as boys. Talk about marginalizing.

The Real Body Language

AITOOW thinks that you can quickly size up a person as fake based on their fake things (tits, hair, nose, lips, clothes, jewelry, bags, nails)? And the more fake things, the faker the person.

Past Gas

AITOOW thinks that when people say "if I hadn't gone through what I have gone through, it never would have led me to you" what they are really saying is that "you are no where near my first choice". They are saying "if I hadn't degraded myself like I have (lowered my value in the marketplace), I would totally choose someone more worthy of me. But, since I am such a loser now, you are all I think I can get and you should be happy with my abasement, fellow loser".

All Hat No Cattle

AITOOW thinks things surrounded by greater pomp have less legitimacy? IE Governmental buildings. Civic/military costumes/uniforms. Religion

Typeface and Paper

AITOOW who thinks that any survey that has the byline "the worst...." could be retitled "the area with the most blacks"?  It would always correlate.

Senseless Death

AITOOW wonders, if Jesus died for our (mythical Eve's) sins, why are we not back in Eden then? Has our vindictive God only withdrawn one stage of punishment (eternal damnation to a fresh start) for the two (loss of paradise and eternal damnation) he inflicted in his initial hissy fit? This is the story people believe? Why would you even want to be associated with such a child even if it was true? Get God some Zoloft (or bipolar meds). Tell Jesus thanks for (next to) nothing.

Aunt Sam

AITOOW is bored with the predictability of humans as a group? Take the women in combat issue. I wager it will mimic the pattern of racial equality. Some self serving demagogues (Douglas/NOW) will complain about it as violative of real or imagined civil/natural liberties. Some monomaniacal official will find it expedient to use it as a political tool (Lincoln/Obama). The old guard (non-abolitionists/armed forces) will try and slow or stop implementation. This already happening with a "separate but equal" agenda by lower ranking armed forces officials (non-mixed sex units and adherence to current qualification requirements). Race had this with schools and John Crow laws. The courts will decide against any arguments supporting separate units and uphold any decisions to lower the qualifying standards based on heightened scrutiny standards. Additionally, law makers and/or leaders in the armed forces will enact affirmative action policies (college admission policies, etc) to ensure a critical mass of "non-compliant" applicants are accepted. The courts will uphold those policies for decades as remedial measures. Can't we just get to the societally damaging conclusion without the prologue. Just give Miss Piggy a gun and let her finally pull her share of the weight even if she can't pull her own (let alone another GI's) around the obstacle course. The funny thing is that by the time they work this out we will have robotic aids that will make the physical argument moot.

Unbelieva-bowl

AITOOW who isn't surprised that New Orleans screwed up the Super bowl? What a toilet of incompetency. Maybe this is Bush's fault too? I also like all the diversity in the halftime show. If there were no women in the show what kind of innuendos would be flying around by now.

Patient Heal Thyself

AITOOW thinks that less ice should mean more plants which in turn means more carbon dioxide is absorbed?

I For A Them

AITOOW thinks some of the gun violence culpability should be borne by the anti-bullying lobby? Who do you think gave these geeks the idea it was right to fight back? And do you notice how every local gun story now winds up on the national news so you think there is an epidemic? I also like how the gays have co-opted the bullying agenda.

Totally Venal

AITOOW doesn't understand the fascination (among media elites and at least a half a dozen million of their friends) with the characters depicted on most cable and some broadcast networks? Doesn't it depress you that people like this exist? Or are you so castrated by your own lives that you envy their devil may care attitudes? And I watch Maury.

BTW - here are some more look a likes - Sandy Hook Elementary School Killer's Mom and Chloe something Moritz, Sly Stallone/David Arquette and Ryan Gosling, Seth Rogen and Blake Griffin (who kind of looks like an actual Griffin).

Loan Rangers

AITOOW wonders why they never mention the home owners who refinanced their mortgages when they discuss the sub-prime issue? Many of those people were not "duped" (if anyone was) into action. They merely wanted to free up cash to waste on things they did need and couldn't otherwise afford. Then they walked away from a home that they no longer had equity in. The funny thing is that many used the money for home improvements.

That's What She Said

AITOOW thinks most of what was the publishing industry is now is the republishing industry?

The Rule Truth

AITOOW thinks rules are just window dressing (just for show)? Everybody just follows the ones they agree with and hopes that they don't get caught violating the ones they find oppressive. Anyone who thinks that a system of rules will change behavior doesn't understand human nature. They just ascribe cause and effect to the wrong cause. The cause of rules efficaciousness is conformity with instinctual norms or ignorance by the assessor to violations of the rules. Possibly. Just Possibly. A ridiculously disproportionate penalty may influence behavior. But, the individual whom it may sway would probably not be too uncomfortable with the behavior required by the rule or disproportionately fearful of the consequences.

Buster Hyman

AITOOW wonders what is required to be a biblical virgin? If the Virgin Mary (let's wink and say she was impregnated without penetration) used a tampon-like device or diddled herself inside the lips would she still be a virgin? How about the fact that her son reversed penetrated her with his whole body when he was born? That has to break a hymen. And what if one wasn't broken? What would that say? Too bad they didn't have OBGYN CSI back then. Probably would have blamed it on the mule ride.