Bio

  • I once wrote an opera, but have since lost the napkin.
  • For a few years in the late 90's I was the world's most successful merchant of certified, award-winning Combat Hamsters (As Seen on TV!).
  • At least until the lawsuits started.
  • Life Lesson No. 4,360: Sell some militant rodents to one lousy dictator who can't follow simple care instructions and all of a sudden INTERPOL considers you an "Illegal Arms Trafficker".
  • After that I sunk all my hamster money into an open range fur-bearing trout farm.
  • Life Lesson No. 5,186: Wet fur makes trout sink.
  • Next was a 40,000 acre Jackelope Ranch.
  • I'm still trying to figure out what the hell they're good for.
  • I once tried to perform a  frontal lobotomy on myself, but the knife slipped.
  • I've never seen Elvis.
  • I'm still a wanted fugitive in Peru, thanks largely to the combat hamster episode(s).
  • I can read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in the original Sanskrit.
  • I know why we drive on parkways and park on driveways.
  • In hindsight, those hamsters were worth way more than two easy payments of $199.95 each.

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Ajax Telamônios
Name:
Ajax Telamônios
Hometown:
South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands
Joined:
Jan 28, 2011

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Pat Sajak:  This generation is acting as the guinea pig…

Well, if we're going to be forgiving all their college loans then we might as well get something out of them in return.

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Does he still count as a resident of West Virginia if he's a guest of the Federal government in Texas?

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tabula rasa: Isn't it odd that a group--the Tea Party--that simply wants us to read, understand, and apply some of our founding documents is vilified as extremist?

Only die-hard, feeble-brained, backward-looking and -thinking extremists would care about a bunch of dusty non-living documents from the eighteenth century when everybody who's anybody knows that it's the still-have-that-new-political-screed-smell nineteenth century documents that are going to let us progress forward into the glorious future.  Why, they were still writing on parchment in the seventeenth century; just think off all the poor sheep that had to die just to form our government!

Edited on May 6 at 8:54pm
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The Adoration of the Magae
Edited on May 5 at 3:37pm
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Not JMR: Change the title of my post to "The South Should Build a Fence" and replace my arguments with yours.

Anything that keeps the snow birds and damned Quebecois from driving down here would be an unmitigated, unqualified good thing.

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Claire Berlinski, Ed.: In 2006, I published Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis is America's, Too.

This crisis was a barreling freight train complete with deafening sirens and flashing-red, all-hands-on-deck alarms.

You should've just titled it "Locomotive Breath."

Re: Gratitude

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Claire Berlinski, Ed.: I am so glad I am not now in a plane en route to explain that to my wife.

You have a wife?

Edited on Apr 14 at 11:55pm
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Diane Ellis, Ed.: Maybe I'm overlooking something very important in this video, but at the end of the candid two minute clip, I found myself liking Romney just a little bit better.

If you can't see how obviously damaging this video is, then you'll be needing to report to your nearest Indoctrination Center for some re-education therapy, i.e. go back to school, and pay attention this time. 

It's people like you what make Fundamental Change so darned difficult.

Edited on Apr 10 at 4:56pm
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It just totally sucks to be you, doesn't it?

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And yet somehow they have plenty of money to translate and print everything in Spanish.

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Who wouldn't like a tasty treat of mechanically-extruded and artificially-colored corn syrup?

Re: Mr. Blue

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That's the most wonderful and inspiring passages I've read in quite a while.  Thank you, Peter, for making my day that much brighter.

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One wonders if the Greek government has looked into the possibility of suing young Hermans under the EU's defamation laws for his stereotypical caricature of the Greek people as being unhappy, much less as greedy, money-grubbing trolls.

Surely this will make some Greek guy somewhere slightly upset and thus in desperate need of some social justice.

Edited on Apr 3 at 4:47pm
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Tim Groseclose:  

Consider what happened to the remote-parking assistant BMW developed a few years ago for getting into narrow spots. “You push a button and the car goes in and parks itself” while the driver waits outside, says Donald Norman, the Design of Future Things author. When he asked BMW executives why he didn’t see it on the market, Norman says he was told, “The legal team wouldn’t let them go forward.”

Lawyers: Saving us from a better world since time immemorial.

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Dave Carter

Ajax Telamônios: Was that the biggest knife you could find? · 3 minutes ago

Nope · 3 minutes ago

Good.  :o)

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Was that the biggest knife you could find?

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