He was really extremely inconsequential for comedians. I remember Bush jokes were practically a genre of their own. Anyway, as a snooty European I am looking forward to again being able to look down by nose and across the Atlantic. Almost 8 years of President Envy is hard, its about time we return to our natural state of smug superiority.

I sooo envy her joy.

I envy our neighbors to the north.

I found Colbert's question about "unknown knowns" the most interesting, but here's the thing:

Bush was the Commander in Chief. He didn't present their "intelligence evidence" of Iraq's WMDs to the American people because he *had* to. He tells the military what to do, they do it; the people don't get "veto rights". The only reason he presented it to the American people (I still remember watching Colin Powell show satellite photos etc.) was to shore up votes for his re-election. Which is exactly what any politician would do in that situation -- make a decision, and present that decision in the best possible light to the voters.

In other words, when Bush et al. were presenting that stuff to us, they weren't selling the actual invasion itself to us. They were selling us an image of their own legitimacy and competence. Viewed like that, of course they aren't going to inform us of those "unknown knowns"; it would shatter the image of them confidently and capably doing what they knew they had to do -- which was the actual point of it (selling that image to us, I mean).


I was sold, at the time. As were most (but not all) Americans, including many many people much older and wiser than I was (and am). I now agree that the invasion was a colossal mistake and that Bush's presidency in general was rather disastrous. BUT, that being said, I think it is problematic to hold these kinds of decisions against a president beyond a certain point.

FDR decided to drop two atom bombs on Japan rather than continuing with conventional warfare and risking many more American (and Japanese) lives with an invasion. Many people have questioned (and continue to question) that decision. But FDR was there. He was the Commander in Chief, he had some facts and plenty of unverifiable information and suggestions from his cabinet and intelligence sources of the time, and he made the decision.

I don't envy people in power who have to make weighty decisions like that based on incomplete information, only to have people question those decisions by citing information that they didn't have at the time. For the rest of their lives.

Envy is clearly a sin. Satan was envious of God's worship (so you say) and therefore had sin, and so could not have ever been 'perfect' or he would have been without any sin, and indeed would be completely 'sin proof' for eternity....or is your idea of 'god's perfection' the kind of perfection that's far from perfect in many ways?

And I guess you don't understand the word rhetorical...you might look it up on dictionary.com ;-)

He is the consummate showman in my book! I saw him a few years ago and when he first started out [w/ Dr. Demento]. I envy you getting to see this tour

Oh yes, I'm quite aware of the fact that women in the U.S. (and other parts of the world as well) are programmed to be submissive and polite, to a fault. Smiling and saying 'No' is still no in my book, but there are plenty of idiots out there who don't really consider it a 'No' until she's macing you in the face and screaming it at the top of her lungs, anything less than that is still a maybe to them. But that is a problem with the conditioning of men, not women.
And for everyone's sake I hope that the instances of women falsely reporting rape is as rare as you say it is, because when that happens, it hurts everybody. For the record, I had a friend a few years back who was falsely accused by a woman he slept with, it never actually went into the legal system but she accused him personally.
I've heard the story of the woman held in to dorm room as well and it is an utter atrocity. But just as false accusations are probably rare, crimes of this magnitude are probably also the exception rather than the rule. Most rapes probably happen between two people who know each other, and everything happens behind closed doors so it becomes a big game of he said/she said, I don't envy the people who have to try and get to the truth in those situations.
I guess what I am concerned about is that with the weight of all those years of ignoring legitimate rape reports we will start falling all over ourselves to convict every guy at the merest hint of an accusation. And a guy who has been falsely accused/convicted of rape is every bit as much of a victim as a woman who has been raped.

I feel like a lot of you are defending points she isn't disputing?

She says, "Yes, there's plenty of art you could do" and then tries to explain why you didn't and what it means for that artist to have done it or yes, why don't you go do it, it could be fun.

She goes on to say, this type of art might not be for you and that's fine but if you're always going in with the prejudice, you'll never open yourself up to something you might actually come to enjoy. But if you just don't like it flat out, then that's that, it's ok but you don't need to belittle art other people can find meaning in. Just move along and go view some art you like?

There's a difference between dislike and just being a sour puss. You don't need to bring other people down.

I'll throw out a bit of a stretch because why not. To me it feels like people have a really hard time accepting other people's success, we're just walking masses of envy and any time some one does better than us, that's a reason to hate them.

That's stinking cool. I'm green with envy.

I need to get a box of K'nex or an erector set or whatever so I can figure out how to do this kind of awesome thing for my boys.

- In Merkel's defence, she's never been elected for her track record of empathy.

- Your gulag is the envy of the "civilized" world. Out of sight, out of mind. Quite frankly, between letting people rot on godforsaken islands and marauding bands of Nazis setting their shelters on fire, I think our two nations got the entire spectrum of despicable behaviour covered.

- 14k on airfares per person, almost 5k for ground transport -- just what did they travel in? Then again, that picture looks like she's desperatly trying to fit in with the blue blooded elites.

- I don't get Abbott. Steven Harper neither, for that matter. How can a reasonable people float this kind of person to the top? There are plenty of loonies around, but always with a solid base of loonies behind them (eg Berlusconi or Cameron). But not Abbott & Harper...

Olivia: "Guys, for those interested, here's the shit I have to do to get into this damned costume."
Guys: "WOOO!! SEX!!"

I don't envy the gender.

AHEM (Penis Envy)

I know, man. The envy is big.

I know I've seen this before.

Regardless, I envy their relationship, and found that slowly-dawning realization of the brother over the course of the video hilarious.