No, the NSA spying began a lot earlier than GWB. I first heard of it during the Clinton era. No idea how long it had already been going on at that time.

No, son. The OTHER fold. A little further --

Oh, never mind.

Sounds like you don't know how music licensing works. Remember when Heart got all pissy with the Republicans for using their song "Barracuda" at the GOP convention? Yeah, they didn't have a legal leg to stand on. Anybody can play your song in their venue, anywhere, as long as they've paid the license fee.

I ALWAYS go "below the fold!" With my tongue. That's where the most desirable, uh, "feature" is.

I'm retired, you insensitive clod!

Last Tuesday? No, you old-Earth Creationist, His Noodliness created it along with the rest of the Universe five minutes ago.

What, you remember events in your life that happened longer ago than five minutes? Well, He created you with those memories already in your brain!

Go ahead, prove it ain't true meanwhile, I'll have another plate of spaghetti, please.

Yeah. Starting with the fact that it's written at about a sixth-grade reading level.

When I see the phrase "good enough for laymen" on slashdot, I know that /. has gone a LONG way downhill.

I think the word that Timothy was looking for is "feature."

A formation is a layer of sediment that has been compacted into rock. There's more to the formal definition, but that will suffice for now.

The Grand Canyon cuts through dozens of formations, but cannot, itself, be a formation.

So much for "news for nerds."

It seems that Michael Mann spends half of his time suing people for defaming him, and the other half defaming others on Twitter.

h/t Judith Curry

Hmmm. I'm in Colorado. You've just given me an idea!

Then I can use the pizza parlor / weed shop to launder the money I'll be making from my underground drug tunnel that I'm digging under the New Mexico state line.

I remember hearing the same thing about pussy, as a young man

Ah, yes, Comrade! Those of us true to the Collective have always known that the Hooligans and Reactionaries had something wrong in their heads! Probably from a vodka deficiency or something.

I, for one, welcome this! It's time we lock away all the dissidents until they learn to love Big Brother -- er, I mean, Dear Leader.

Next up: Sex robots that drink your pee!

The name Hillary Clinton does not belong in the same sentence with the phrase "sensible adult conversation."