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For the record: Dane Cook is fucking horrible. Absolutely asshole-sucking awful. He is an unfunny ball-sucking fucktard of a “comedian” who must have sold his soul to the Dark Lord Satan himself to become famous.

The CDC has published a map of trends in the teenage birth rate. I ran it against a political map of the Union and found this: nine of the 10 states with the highest increase in teenage births voted Republican in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. (Eight of them voted for McCain in 2008.) Among them are the Christian conservative heartlands of Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Oklahoma. These are the places in which Bush’s abstinence campaigns were most enthusiastically promoted.

After a week of debilitating strikes at targets across Afghanistan, the Taliban repeated an offer to hand over Osama bin Laden, only to be rejected by President Bush. The offer yesterday from Haji Abdul Kabir, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister, to surrender Mr bin Laden if America would halt its bombing and provide evidence against the Saudi-born dissident was not new but it suggested the Taliban are increasingly weary of the air strikes, which have crippled much of their military and communications assets.

I’m also reminded of Daniel Tosh, who to me is the poster boy for this type of lazy comedy. He has zero timing, terrible delivery, and stands there like a douchey frat boy with a dumb-ass smile on his face, but somehow manages to get laughs because he calls women whores. Ooo, so edgy. Please, dude, go enter a suicide pact with Carlos Mencia and get off my TV.

I wish journalists now wouldn’t come with this faux naivete, as if they had just emerged from the huggiest of kindergartens, where the edgiest joke involved someone having a pizza cut into six pieces, because they couldn’t eat eight of them.

Why aren’t we left-folk screaming about how unpatriotic it is to let your fellow countrymen die of preventable illnesses and suffer financial ruin at the hands of some greedy pricks?

There are whole subclasses of people who deserve to be kicked in the nuts upon waking each morning. Holocaust deniers are near the top of the list.

I think, why women often find AA and the notion of powerlessness and confession and humility deeply problematic. We’ve been told all our lives that we are powerless— and then blamed for it! We don’t need to start “taking responsibility”— our problem was that we thought we were responsible for everything and then tried to escape in addiction and *then* irresponsible behavior ensued.

So I went home and drank and drank and drank. And then it was time for bed, and I lay there with my dog curled up next to me and said the only prayer that I knew how to say, “God - I don’t believe you exist. Prove to me that you do, and please kill me in my sleep. Spare me the tomorrow that we both know is coming. Spare me the parade of horrors that my life has become.

As I heard it described, eating at McDonalds has three stages: 1. Desire 2. Eating 3. Regret

Thus, the McGriddle, from the bottom up, is fat, salt, sugar, fat and salt in the egg, then fat and salt in the cheese, fat and salt in the bacon, finished off with fat, salt and sugar.

While normal mice exhibited an increase in dopamine in response to both fake sugar and real sugar - the reward was the sweet taste - the mutant mice only demonstrated a dopaminergic spike when consuming genuine sugar water. What they enjoyed were the calories.

[S]cientists at Duke came up with a clever paradigm for isolating this more indirect rewarding pathway: they studied mice without a functional TRPM5 channel, which is essential for detecting sweetness. As a result, these mutant mice showed no immediate preference for sugar water.