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Comics are just trying to make up for lots and lots of racism , trust me. Princeton Mom is of the, "if you had fought back you wouldn't have been raped" crowd, so to hear her say that it can also be a "learning experience" is not that surprising. Some of the power moves Marissa Mayer made when she went to Yahoo!.

It's as awesome as it sounds .

So some guy saw another guy wearing a pink T-shirt at a Dallas airport, went nuts, and had to be tackled . Apparently, the attacker thought the guy in pink was gay (never mind people have been wearing pink recently in support for breast cancer research). Anyway, some people thought that celebrity Paul Rudd was one of the heroes; sorry, that was a look-alike . No links in this one; just wanted to say that this kind of irrational paranoia (regardless of how you feel about homosexuality, who was that guy in the pink shirt harming?) is what will tear the country down, not terrorism.

via Democratic Underground :

In the comics and the 80's cartoon, G.I.Joe was an American-backed special missions unit made up of the best soldiers in every military outfit, fighting together to stop the terrorist organization known as "COBRA." In the movies, they are made up of the best of the best of soldiers from around the world. The first movie dealt with them stopping the group which would become the cinematic version of COBRA. The sequel made G.I.Joe more American roster-wise, but the fight against COBRA remained. Anyway, now that we seem to be having more terrorism problems in the real world, some pundits have decided that a G.I. Joe-type template would be the key to victory: namely pay random soldiers to fight our wars for us. Some would can these mercenaries because, well that's what mercenaries do. G.I. Joe even has their own mercenary characters; most are COBRA-affiliated , though . But logic and reality doesn't stop someone like Bill O'Reilly. I'm pretty sure whe...

Truer words have never been spoken. I'm certain I've written things that would come to bite me in the butt if I ever became famous, but this is certainly not going to win friends and influence people . PDF version here .

Political Jerks, Dummies & Losers Edition One-time endorsed supporter of Scott Brown has the ex-Senator scrambling . The uber-rich CEO who's threatened to fire his employees over voting Democrat? Guess what happened ... Glenn Beck labels Boston bombing victim as a suspect; victim is proven to be a victim and sues Beck; Beck claims victim has tarnished his image .

OK. So what was your other point about Tea Party misconceptions? My other point was that [Tea Partyers are] not crazy. People want to say that they’re crazy, and they’re really not. They want to maintain their social position, their social prestige; and as Frederick Douglass once said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will.” So it’s rational to want to hold onto your position; it’s completely rational. It’s about the means through which [Tea Partyers] do that — that’s what the problem is. One could say, “Maybe they need to be more educated!” But that’s another fallacy as it pertains to the Tea Party: People think they’re dumb. They’re not dumb. Twenty-six percent of all strong Tea Party identifiers have at least a bachelor’s degree. People think they’re poor, or that they’re working-class. No, they’re not. Twenty percent of all Tea Party households have at least a $100,000 of income. So they’re not dumb, and they’re not working-class...

R.I.P., Casey Kasem . Scientists would like you to stop with these , please. 50 Cent blah-blahs . How desperate is FoxNews to talk bad about Hillary Clinton?