MeFi comment:
"And here are a couple of sweet, sweet sentences from the hands of James Wolcott of Vanity Fair:...I don't want the Republican Party simply defeated in November, I want to see it smashed beyond all recognition, in such wriggling, writhing, anguished..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by RussHy, madamjujujive
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi post:
Sarah Palin's Poujadist Agenda
favorited 16 times, recently by jamjam, Bron, Man with Lantern, curse, alicesshoe, matteo, limeonaire, caddis, AsYouKnow Bob, madamjujujive, blucevalo, Rhaomi, demon666, pracowity, Haruspex, fleetmouse
Yesterday
MeFi post:
World Mapper
favorited 34 times, recently by arcticwoman, BinGregory, gman, manguero, LobsterMitten, nielm, Jaltcoh, Cassilda, ewagoner, Wilder, generalist, SuperSquirrel, nicolin, leibniz, Elmore, regicide is good for you, donovan, Korou, Slarty Bartfast, pyrex, ZenMasterThis, jtron, carter, ltracey, not_on_display, languagehat, kryptos, meinvt, dawson, Blazecock Pileon, jeffburdges, orrnyereg, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, the_very_hungry_caterpillar
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"On behalf of Canadians everywhere, I say "Thanks, but no thanks!"
Oh, sure, and we know how that goes--you'll keep the money and use it to buy Hawaii...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by billyfleetwood, Artw
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
""view source" is your friend.
A fire by night, a pillar of smoke by day." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by furtive
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I am unfamiliar with the videos of Madness but I did see them in the ballroom at the Hub at UW around the time One Step Beyond came out, which was some time before their MTV career began. And they instantly made the top ten of the best live acts I've..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Slarty Bartfast
Last month
MeFi comment:
"OK, then, I hereby give you permission--no, the obligation--to discuss Mickey Rooney's acting in Breakfast at Tiffanys." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Good and Bad GenocideSuharto's overthrow of the Sukarno government in 1965-66 turned Indonesia from Cold War "neutralism" to fervent anti-Communism, and wiped out the Indonesian Communist Party--exterminating a sizable part of its mass base..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nfg
Last month
MeFi post:
Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America
favorited 12 times, recently by starzero, starbuckzero, doogyrev, jeffburdges, apdato, Large Marge, Blazecock Pileon, madh, badego, ZenMasterThis, russilwvong, thebestsophist
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Georgetown was super hip when the Ontario Tavern, that crazy caqrpeted country 'n western place with the fried chicken and Beanie's were open and they were all gone before the 8o's were over.
Especially Beanie's. It's Stella Pizza now but you..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by safetyfork, Tube, YoBananaBoy
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Synopsis: crunchland develops obsessive-compulsive pileon disease re y2karl FPP experiments and morphs into personal y2karl pastel suited jackal. Will Cross Street To Be Asshole Because He Cares So Much About Site Owner's Original Vision Yeah Right..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cruelfate
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's not the abundance of wine or the roasting of meat that makes the joy of sharing a table in a temple, but the good hope and belief that the god is present in his kindness and graciously accepts what is offered.
Plutarch, MoraliaAnd speaking..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by carsonb
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Thank you for bringing this matter of earth shaking importance to our collective attention." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Zambrano
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Ah, someone takes me to task in a carefully worded, articulate, sensitive and persuasive comment and this just makes your day, doesn't it, y2karl?
As you gleefully hop in any time I am being piled on with your long distance drive by demeaning..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by marble
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ah, but one is quite clearly in part an homage to the other and, also, one Gene Wolfe has written an essay entitled The Living Earth." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by h00py
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"note: Help maintain a healthy, respectful discussion by focusing comments on the
issues, topics, and facts at hand—not at other members of the site.
One could insert 'crackpot comments by' before 'other members' as well when the aforesaid..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jammy
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Regarding Skip James:
Here, from the notes [pdf] for Devil Got My Woman - Blues At Newport 1966, is:Devil Got My Woman opens with the song's composer, a man rarely filmed in his brief return to blues performing towards the end of his life. By the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Haruspex
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Wait, the QFC is gone?
And here is what will replace it. The whole block came down--QFC, Taco Bell, APaprtment building and two houses. It will be a six story 295 unit building to match Brix, whihc was built on the old Safeway site on Mercer and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"During his interview with Bill Moyers, Douglas Blackmon, said something to the effect that at the end of the Reconstuction, whites north and south came to a consensus about the place of blacks in this country. And it was not talked about thereafter..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by languagehat
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Amazing that Johnson was so dedicated to equality and did so many good things domestically, yet was so flawed in other ways.
Had he not been saddled with Viet Nam, his face would be on a coin or dollar bill of one denomination or another...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tachikaze
3 months ago
