A Study in Loathing.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Not sure any of this would properly be Horrorology, as none of it is outside of our frames of reference.  More like a study in loathing.

On the other hand, I am a cynical bastard, and I expect all this stuff.  It might be utterly new to some.

For example, the "spending cuts" amounted to a whole 1% of the spend, and were exclusively targeted by the social agenda of the lunatic right...IE, the military GAINS $5 Bn, but WIC loses half a billion, Planned Parenthood takes it in the neck, etc.  The basic blueprint is this:  Ensure poor women have loads of kids, then take away all the funding that helps nourish, raise, educate, etc, those kids.

I seem to remember talking about the banality of Evil recently...

Then take said surplus children living in shitty conditions and say "Hey! Want to go to college? Sign up and be a shrapnel sponge'hero in the fight against terror' first!"

Shrapnel sponge. I like it.

Some of them call themselves that.

So much for troop morale. 

We were calling ourselves bullet-sponges back in '90.

It's gallows humor...Um, fuck it, never mind.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The thought of Donald Trump being taken seriously as a presidential candidate makes me want to laugh and scream at the same time. 

We call this "horrormirth", and it can be represented as 

Noted for future reference.

We do quite a bit of that kind of laughing, around here.

[Don Coyote]

Not sure any of this would properly be Horrorology, as none of it is outside of our frames of reference.  More like a study in loathing.

On the other hand, I am a cynical bastard, and I expect all this stuff.  It might be utterly new to some.

For example, the "spending cuts" amounted to a whole 1% of the spend, and were exclusively targeted by the social agenda of the lunatic right...IE, the military GAINS $5 Bn, but WIC loses half a billion, Planned Parenthood takes it in the neck, etc.  The basic blueprint is this:  Ensure poor women have loads of kids, then take away all the funding that helps nourish, raise, educate, etc, those kids.

I seem to remember talking about the banality of Evil recently...

Then take said surplus children living in shitty conditions and say "Hey! Want to go to college? Sign up and be a shrapnel sponge'hero in the fight against terror' first!"

Shrapnel sponge. I like it.

Some of them call themselves that.

So much for troop morale. 

We were calling ourselves bullet-sponges back in '90.

It's gallows humor...Um, fuck it, never mind.

Again requia misses the fucking everything.

[Placid Dingo]

Not sure any of this would properly be Horrorology, as none of it is outside of our frames of reference.  More like a study in loathing.

On the other hand, I am a cynical bastard, and I expect all this stuff.  It might be utterly new to some.

For example, the "spending cuts" amounted to a whole 1% of the spend, and were exclusively targeted by the social agenda of the lunatic right...IE, the military GAINS $5 Bn, but WIC loses half a billion, Planned Parenthood takes it in the neck, etc.  The basic blueprint is this:  Ensure poor women have loads of kids, then take away all the funding that helps nourish, raise, educate, etc, those kids.

I seem to remember talking about the banality of Evil recently...

Then take said surplus children living in shitty conditions and say "Hey! Want to go to college? Sign up and be a shrapnel sponge'hero in the fight against terror' first!"

Shrapnel sponge. I like it.

Some of them call themselves that.

So much for troop morale. 

We were calling ourselves bullet-sponges back in '90.

It's gallows humor...Um, fuck it, never mind.

Again requia misses the fucking everything.

It's ok Req, I still love you.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

My best friend's oldest son is over in Afghanistan right now. Someone in his unit got killed this week. He told the rest of his group that he was still more afraid of his mom (my best friend) than he was the locals. He's a cheerful lad like that. I don't think he considers himself a shrapnel sponge so much as a crazy-shit magnet. And I'm pretty sure he's genuinely having a good time over there. My best friend just breeds 'em that crazy.