I recently read a proposal that I wholeheartedly agree with: Given our disastrous track record over the last 40 or so years (Nixon/Reagan/Bush/Bush II), American voters should be required to answer the same questions that psychiatrists ask their patients.

1) Do you know where you are?
2) Do you know why you’re here?
3) Do you know what day it is?
4) What year?

If you can’t answer at least three of those four questions, then no votey vote for you! That alone would probably knock out around 30% of the less lucid voting public—a good start. There’s nothing in the Constitution about suffrage rights for the insane-oes.

Is Wilford Brimley the guy who took the "the" off of "The bottom line is..." and got everyone to say "Bottom line is..."?

I think it was Wilford Brimley who started that one.

@Gruesome

Whoa. That girl needs to calm down.

Everyone knows the best way to melt ice is to pee on it, or maybe that's for a sea urchin sting... Humm...

Gruesome: Parkland couple shot, bathed in acid.

And the sick part is, when I read the story, my first thought about the killer was, "Dude. She's hot."

I think Wilford Brimley and that Teek creature found out what the "bottom line is" every night, if you catch my drift.

Re Gun toting robots. UAVs are just the beginning of what's in store for miniaturized military weaponry and us. Think nano. Bee-sized flying weapons and reconaissance. And nano "fish-bots" swimming the ocean is large numbers. Interestingly, game planning is already serious conversation for when (in a war scenario) one side's bots kill the other's. From military.com: "But the conundrum remains of how one side in a shooting war will respond if its unmanned combat vehicles are defeated by those of its opponent, while it still maintains the will to resist. Humans will surely then be back in the loop, making decisions in the heat of action and shedding blood. Future nano-combat might serve only as a trip-wire, or a curtain-raiser, to a more conventional war between manned vehicles. Aviation enthusiasts should note that this would seem to apply to aerial combat as much as to undersea combat!"

Yes, the Army killer is smoking hott. This story is going to blow up big; it's got everything. Sexy murderer, weird acid thing, plenty o' salacious three-way suggestiveness in the Myspace pages. The only thing I have to say is, Tim and Randi seemed nice; Ivette and her circle of friends seem like TOTAL MORONS. Evil ones at that.

@ Gruesome: that's almost straight out of a breaking bad episode. But, I worked on the show can promise it wasnt written before that crime was committed....

Is Mudede going to be assigned to cover that murder?

@ Fnarf,

Yeah, remember that Army Ranger, what's-his-nuts, who knocked over a Tacoma bank, claimed he was protesting the Iraq War, fled to Canada, then got caught?

Dumb as a sack of hair, but I'd still bend him over.

That army Killer can bath me in acid whenever she wants!