Hi,
 
Seems like this is the perfect example of the US Congress and the fact that they do nothing for no one!
 
Instead of let'em eat cake, it's let'em eat words that don't mean a thing!
 
You might as well stare at Picasso's Guernica, and maybe you will now understadn/see what he was seeing out his window during the Spanish Civil War ... which is not too different than any of that. Unless we're expecting to see it first hand at the movies!
 
I'm sick! Stuff like this makes me sicker!
 
As Bela Lugosi once said in a movie ... "... far worse things await men ... than death. "

As Bauhaus once said in a song ..."... Bela Lugosi's dead."

Rain, if you like that one you should check out doubtfulnews.com and skepticality.com. The latter's podcast is my favorite companion for my daily walks.

craigb
You mean weird stuff like THIS? 

I was thinking more like this.

Can you consider the CH itself "weird" if it's already your baseline?
 
Perhaps the archaic definition ("wyrde" in Old English) fits: "concerned with controlling fate or destiny", or "the fateful intervention of supernatural influences in human affairs". As in "my dead grandfather told me in a dream to buy that VSL sample library".

Rain
I once saw a guy being sentenced to death and decapitated, back in Montreal. True Story.
It wasn't pretty.
 
But he came back on stage a few minutes later all dressed in white singing School's Out.

I worked the door at that show in Baton Rouge, early 70s.
 
I went backstage and the roadies  chased me away, didn't want me seeing the trick stuff...

bitflipper
Can you consider the CH itself "weird" if it's already your baseline?

It takes one to know one? That's what my little brother always told me, anyway.

The guillotine was the first attempt at democratic execution.
 
Prior to its invention, if you were poor you would languish for days under all sorts of bizarre tortures until you were finally drawn and quartered.  If you were rich you got beheaded (a relatively better exit)
 
Dr Guillotine invention was proposed so that all would be executed in the same quick manner, rich and poor.  I do not think he ever imagined the assembly line use of it in the French revolution.  
 
Today of course things are much better, if you are poor you get executed and if you are rich and can afford the legal team you get life (or even acquittal...!)
 
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
 
JR

I heard this joke on Prairie Home Companion last week...this is a somewhat abbreviated version.
 
Guy is led to the guillotine, but the mechanism fails, the blade doesn't drop. He is let go. Another guy's turn, same thing happens and he's let go. Third guy is an engineer. Lays down on the machine, looks up and says "hey, I think I see your problem".
 
 

bitflipper
I heard this joke on Prairie Home Companion last week...this is a somewhat abbreviated version.
 
Guy is led to the guillotine, but the mechanism fails, the blade doesn't drop. He is let go. Another guy's turn, same thing happens and he's let go. Third guy is an engineer. Lays down on the machine, looks up and says "hey, I think I see your problem".
 
 

I wish someone could figure out what the problem is with the FSF and fix it