One of the rare instances in human experience where the answer to everything isn't 42

Ah yes, the Mazda RX-7, well known preferred vehicle of pharmacists everywhere

Happy Nathan Bedford Forrest Day to our countrymen down in Tennessee

Gomer Pyle, USMC, expert on the Armalite series of rifles

You know Armalite, the famous inventors of the AR-7, the .22 Long Rifle semi-automatic survival weapon designed for downed pilots to fend off invading hordes of squirrels at 50 yards.

Assault that, mutherfuckers.

Mayor of Carbon Hill, AL, has the line of the week

“We live in a society where homosexuals lecture us on morals, transvestites lecture us on human biology, baby killers lecture us on human rights and socialists lecture us on economics.”

58% of total increase to employment level since Trump election has gone to minorities, level for whites up just 2.5%

4.2 million jobs for minorities, 3 million for whites, not seasonally adjusted.

Just a reminder that Justin Amash used the newspaper of blackface to announce he was leaving the GOP

And he just voted with the Democrats to hand out green cards like candy.

LOL: Democracy dies in blackface at WaPo

Trump's personnel decisions in a nutshell

Miller, Miller, Miller, get with the program, that's draughts my man, HUNDREDS OF DRAUGHTS

H. Ross Perot June 11, 1992: What might have been

On June 11, a New York Times national poll showed Perot leading with 39 percent to Bush's 31 percent and Clinton's 25 percent. 

Roll Call vote for H R 1044 had just 57 Republicans worth a damn, Amash votes with Democrats

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The Republicans in Congress prove once again that they are the enemy, too

Hot damn I'm proud of Tennessee's Tim Burchett! He was one of the few, the proud, the 65 who voted against HR 1044

Way to go, Congressman Burchett. You are the man.

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Hm, guy born to Jewish parents but raised on a poultry farm notes quadrupling of anti-Christian attacks in France since 2008, where taking census data by race or religion has been against the law since 1872

 

Anti-Christian Attacks in France Quietly Quadrupled. Why?:

Still, the available evidence shows that attacks carried out by Muslims, both in France and elsewhere in Europe, account for a small fraction of anti-Christian crimes. Indeed, one reason alleged “Christianophobia” is being downplayed by the French government is the fear of stoking Islamophobia – the concern that some people would instinctively blame Muslims for the attacks and retaliate (which has not happened).

“For the majority of the attacks, we have no idea of the perpetrator,” Ellen Fantini, a former federal prosecutor in New Hampshire who heads the Observatory on Discrimination and Intolerance in Vienna, said in a telephone interview. But, Fantini continued, “it's safe to say that there are many attacks that have nothing to do with extremist groups.”

 

This has to be Bernie bots trolling What's The Matter With Kansas? as silly season ramps up

Millennial couple in Kansas needs help making ends meet on $500,000 a year:

 

H. Ross Perot is Texas dead, age 89

Ross Perot, self-made billionaire, patriot and philanthropist, dies at 89

TIME Magazine's breakout star of Election 2016 thought Alex Acosta was pretty cool in 2017, in 2019 not so much

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Republicans nationwide (red on the map) set to join Democrats tomorrow handing out 300K green cards to foreigners to take your jobs

Rush The Ridiculous must be reading online again, claims Aristippus of Cyrene was the first to say "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die"

The line quoted here is not actually attributed to Aristippus as a quotation, but rather as a conclusion of his philosophy, which in its turn goes too far. As usual Rush reads the first hit on Al Gore's amazing internet, reads it badly, and believes it.

Skull full of mush much?

Epicurus is traditionally credited with the idea because we have an actual line which is similar, but it is so widespread in antiquity it is difficult to know who first came up with it.

At any rate the ethical hedonism taught by both Aristippus and Epicurus involved self-mastery, not license.   

Not that the licentious sense was unknown in antiquity.

The Greek geographer Strabo (64BC-24AD) knew it, purportedly from an Assyrian inscription on the tomb of Sardanapallus, legendary last king of Assyria, who was legendarily decadent:

Sardanapallus, the son of Anacyndaraxes, built Anchiale and Tarsus in one day. 'Eat, drink, be merry, because all things else are not worth this,' meaning the snapping of the fingers. -- Strabo, Geographica, 14.5.9f.

Isaiah the prophet knew it in the 8th century BC, antedating any Greek knowledge by hundreds of years:

And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. -- Isaiah 22:13.

And of course Paul of Tarsus knew it in the middle of the 1st century AD, which is how most of us in the Christian West know the lines:

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.  -- I Corinthians 15:32.

Here endeth the lesson.