TCM remedies: Yin Chao, Bi Yan Pian, Honey Loquat Cough Syrup, African Sea Coconut cough syrup

Essential oils: Oil of oregano on the soles of the feet

NA herbals: Thayers Slippery Elm Lozenges

Fresh juices &c: pineapple juice, lemon juice in water, blended fresh cranberries in water

Wasn’t his girlfriend killed in a kiln explosion?

Comrade-General, it appears that the other side has broken your code of not-using-exclamation-points in your tweets and has identified you as not-one-of-them. We can only hope this has delayed the addition of the Galt-Rock and Rearden-Metal wing to the Rock and Roll Hall of fame.

When your home has so many rooms, furnished with such expensive taste, supervising the servants who look after it for you becomes a daunting task. Compound that with multiple homes, and it’s clear that being a stay-at-home mom is a fearsome responsibility. Don’t get me started on selecting a Cadillac to match her shoes.

What’s the likely outcome of a police crackdown of an Occupy site where one or more of the occupiers have concealed carry permits and are strapped?

Was her major in History (Revisionist)?

In my ignorance of the Constitution, I looked for the part that specifies lifetime appointment for the Justices. I was surprised to see instead that they serve “in good behavior”. It’s kinda hard to connect that with either of those two cases, or with truthiness in confirmation hearings.

Greater civility is apparently needed when declining an invitation to play Glock, paper, skittles.

Concern – check.

Troll – check.

What does it mean by “people like you”?

Just as her life began with climbing the ladder of opportunity provided by her mother’s slutty and prostitudinal act, by stepping on the rungs of the heads of the other, less deserving microscopic tadpoles, Ayn’s beloved writing started with a title that eschewed Christianity’s naive superstition about a Sky Father in favor of the much more reasonable tale of a large guy holding a curiously round world in a less than comfortable position.

We’ll probably never know why a book of proper maps of the clearly flat earth bears his name to this day. Perhaps someone asked him this, eliciting a shrug. More enlightened scholars maintain that the shrug was not a shrug at all, but an attempt to keep the grease, that had soaked through the thin waxed paper his Tommy’s burger was presented in and was dripping from his elbows, from staining his Members Only jacket, er, toga.

There are others who insist that the shrug was merely the first wave of a shudder at the inconceivable use of his relationship with the world as a metaphor for ratfucking it. Fortunately for Atlas, a fellow member of Worldholders Local #1 was there to lend a steadying hand and keep the world from falling to whatever plane they were standing on. This why from that time we are all known as second handers. This shining principle of socializing risk for those least in need is alive and well and what truly makes the world go ’round.

What is it the supernatural force that is animating the collagen in that trout pout? Cue Keanu Reaves “Whoa”. These lips were made for twitching, that’s just what they’ll do, one of these days these lips will . . .

That video conclusively shows the Prez didn’t know what to do with his hands when speechifying when he was a younger man.

In a bold move Queen Lindsey pulls the troops out so that they can be deployed to Iran on the first day of a Newt Gingrich administration.

Contraception and abortion 50 to 90 years ago are the reasons why the Reptilicans aren’t able to field better candidates. Morning After in American ain’t coming when the microscopic swimmer who would have been St. Ronnie’s heir abhorent ends up in a latex coffin or cetera.

Who was it that picked up the tab for a previous administration’s private time viewing of torture videos?

Since by socializing risk, insurance is the very essence of socialism, it should be anathema to the true conservative. Insurance cost = whatever the market will bear. Insurance benefits = the least the industry can get away with providing. Cost of services provided to cost consumer pays for coverage = a small number. Most of the cost Mr. O’ complains about is advertising, overhead, and profit.

The wetsuit and dildo crowd still want their insurance to pay to have faloofahs and other foreign objects removed when their private time activities get carried away.

Dana should make up her mind whether she’s for or against taking the piss.

If they baptize someone who lived earlier than John the Baptist, doesn’t that make him merely John, a somewhat popular baptist?

Is there anything in their actions motivated by “non-political” agenda that would endanger their non-profit status?

If clusterfucking resulted in unwanted pregnancies, they’d be among PP’s biggest customers.

Why would anyone who used “short shrift” twice in a ‘graph want to/think she could write for a living. Me love you long shrift.

The Sankey Diagram might be a good vehicle to represent the flow of cash in the housing bubble fiasco, assuming the data could be collected.

Seems like I attended a lecture of Feynman’s while attending Caltech in the mid 70′s, but I have no idea what the subject might have been.

I do recall an early lecture in Soph physics, which used Feynman’s v.2 and v.3 as texts, in which the prof, another Nobel laureate, trotted out one of Robert Millikan’s lab notebooks from the archives. He read a couple of notes from the margins. The first was sort of grumbling about poor results. The second said something to the effect of Beauty! Publish!.

You go to war with the constitution you have, not the constitution you might want or wish to have at a later time.

+1 on Stross, Gibson & Stephenson. Missed the original post, sorry.

Gwyneth Jones’ series about rock stars governing post-collapse England, titled after Hendrix songs is very cool. Kate Cadigan’s stuff is very entertaining. Kim Stanley Robinson’s recent series feat. eco-disaster a good read. Rudy Rucker’s stuff is nuts. Robert J. Sawyer’s work is worth a look. If vampire themes qualify, Charlie Huston’s novels are tasty, as are his crime-fic. efforts.

I thought Ayn Rand’s work was sci-fi when I read it. Apparently some people took it literally.