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Doug Stanhope, the comedian, is running for President in 08. He's serious and I'm seriously voting for him since he's not going to waffle or lie if he doesn't yet know what to do about an issue. http://www.dougstanhope.com/ for more info and links to his myspace pages that tell more than I can.

You could ask them just what the hell they mean by "support the troops." The "troops" get free health care, an M-16 and a license to kill - what the hell do they need from you? "Support the troops" is a completely nonsensical bullshit code-phrase which actually means, "if you don't love it when US soldiers go kill little brown people overseas, then you're some kind of terrorist."

Or you could explain how you "support the troops" on an individual basis, in your own way. I can tell you firsthand that some troops are dicks. I fully support them in going to Iraq and getting their limbs blown off. I'm all for it. Send more. As long as you're sending the people who kinda just want to kill other people (cough Pat Tillman cough) off to kill other people who kinda just want to kill people, then you're killing all the right people and opening up better parking spaces for the rest of us [shamelessly ripped off from Doug Stanhope] On the other hand, most troops are decent people, so I support them in remaining in the US with their families, where they can go out for a beer and a hockey game without much chance of getting their limbs blown off.

You could say these things, except anyone who actually uses the phrase "support the troops" is a piece of shit who isn't worth talking to anyway. Ignore them.

Your final point re: dirty/clean - yeah you can be clean. Brian Regan is a brilliant example, but if you've heard him on O&A back in the day, he would get naughty and foul too. Also hilarious.
Seinfeld was the way it was because of the format. And I'd be surprised if a good half dozen episodes wouldn't get put on the air in today's climate. (The Contest springs to mind immediately)
The producers/Tom C are very skittish nowadays and nix a lot of stuff Stern wants to do.
Finally - while you can succeed at being clean, do you really think that's Stern's "voice"? He had a chapter titled Lesbians, Lesbians, Lesbians in his book Private Parts ffs. He's good at what he does but he really is chained nowadays. Meh. I'm defending him way more than he deserves because his show has slid downhill. He's an old man and I never listened to him when I had O&A access. But my point is he has a very large listenership of DEVOTED fans, many of which will move. If enough do, Sirius moves ahead of XM.

He can also change his mind, which is a strength when you'd otherwise be doing the wrong thing.
You mean he's flip-flopping!!!
Waffling!!!!
When you make a decision you should stick with it, not waffle like some spineless wimp.
That's why I think marijuana leads to jazz music and raping white women.

(Apologies to Doug Stanhope for the blatant plagiarism(copyright violation) of his line)

The Mandrake product is run by a group of French faggot satanists, and is named after the faggot nickname for the vibrator. It was also chosen because it is an anagram for dark amen and ram naked, which is what they do.

Actually, civileme (who is [was?] one of the Mandrake developers), got trolled pretty good here.

Here's a picture of me at a wild party last night to annouce the unveiling of OO.o 1.1. Those guys shure know how to party!

Exactly. Comedian Doug Stanhope has a great routine about this. He got a friend who owns a porn shop to give him a bag chock full of the most appalling adult novelties known to man - DVDs, dildos, vibrators, butt plugs (with a little chocolate smearing for good measure), life-sized human fist, you name it - and he used that as his carry-on bag. Ideally, some nimrod security agent would pull it all out on the table and there'd be a little object lesson in privacy vs. security for all the old people, children and families travelling with Doug.

Of course, when he finally did get searched, the security guard took one look inside his bag and immediately snapped it closed and sent Doug on his way. Oh, yeah, these security checks are making us more safe. Note to terrorists: hide your plastic knives in a bag mixed with adult novelties, and skate on through security, who'd rather spend their time digging through old ladies' purses for nail files and sewing needles.

Anyway, Stanhope's a mad genius, and you should see his site. Check out the prank letters with his gorgeous neighbor Leann, and the story where he has her truck painted purple - funny, funny stuff.

Exactly. Comedian Doug Stanhope has a great routine about this. He got a friend who owns a porn shop to give him a bag chock full of the most appalling adult novelties known to man - DVDs, dildos, vibrators, butt plugs (with a little chocolate smearing for good measure), life-sized human fist, you name it - and he used that as his carry-on bag. Ideally, some nimrod security agent would pull it all out on the table and there'd be a little object lesson in privacy vs. security for all the old people, children and families travelling with Doug.

Of course, when he finally did get searched, the security guard took one look inside his bag and immediately snapped it closed and sent Doug on his way. Oh, yeah, these security checks are making us more safe. Note to terrorists: hide your plastic knives in a bag mixed with adult novelties, and skate on through security, who'd rather spend their time digging through old ladies' purses for nail files and sewing needles.

Anyway, Stanhope's a mad genius, and you should see his site. Check out the prank letters with his gorgeous neighbor Leann, and the story where he has her truck painted purple - funny, funny stuff.