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"Here is a good explanation of how we got here: Economic Disasters and Stupid Evil People.
The mortgage mess is the starting point. If you recall my posts on the mortgage mess, what happened was:
1. People like buying safe investments.
2...." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by shotgunbooty, Dreama, nakedcodemonkey, Ostara, turgid dahlia, the dief, amro, chicainthecity, shirobara, bettershredder, witchstone, Brandon Blatcher
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"No offense, foreigners, but I really do think we Yanks have the whole First Amendment thing right.
I guess nobody else takes that as seriously as we do, but man, I sure don't trust anyone, not even Italian prosecutors, to jail people for..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Brian B.
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"atrios: "Keith Olbermann's expressed "liberalism" is almost entirely limited to a dislike and distrust of the Bush administration, a view shared by 70% of the public, and a concern for civil liberties and executive power abuse. On top..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, alteredcarbon, orthogonality
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It makes libruls look lazy and stupid, keeps said libruls from exercising critical thinking,
The list sucks, and all. But how come the right wing gets to send around lying forward after lying forward (Hillary wouldn't meet with TEH TROOPS, Obama..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
4 weeks ago
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"True hippies are, visibly, living their lives in a radically different way than what's expected. People tend to view the status quo as normal and moral-- witness people's frantic scrambling to justify segregation, laws against interracial or gay..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limon
2 months ago
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""Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." -- Samuel Johnson.
I always thought that advice was a little extreme. Maybe not...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by notashroom, phrontist, mai
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The notion that "jihad" is like the One Ring that unifies all Muslims is a reductionist, childish view from the folks at American Thinker and Blogging for a free world. China's foreign policy is like that of Nixon and Kissinger-- based on..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lukemeister, RedEmma
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Scalia assumes his conclusion. The Second Amendment is naturally divided into two parts: its prefatory clause and its operative clause. The former does not limit the latter grammatically, but rather announces a purpose. The Amendment could be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I happened to see the author on Book TV a few weeks ago. You can watch it here. You won't be able to stop watching. It changes the way I understand Jim Crow, and US history. Thanks for the post...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by wittgenstein, Blazecock Pileon
3 months ago
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"As far as the nuts and bolts of the game, I cannot recommend former Mets and Cards first baseman Keith Hernandez's Pure Baseball highly enough. I was a lifelong fan, but reading that book completely changed the way I watch the game.
There is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by scody
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The ladies on this show were swearing, having sex, and actually HAVING FUN the way people in the real world have fun, without apologizing for it.
Yeah, that's why I expected to like the show when I went to watch it. The ham-fistedness turned me..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jdotglenn
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"WPW, are you thinking of the end of every Sex and the City episode, or Doogie Howser?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dabitch
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Totally unsurprising. Political journalism and sports journalism are both devoid of substance and dedicated entirely to creating arguments." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by winston, finite, weston
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Someone else made this point somewhere recently, don't remember where, so sorry for repeating it if you've seen it.
Yes, Malkin is insane-- terrified of all sorts of imaginary things, filled with hatred for probably at least 40 percent of..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by malaprohibita, Reverend John, cell divide
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Some things that are generally regarded as offensive in certain cultures and contexts aren't regarded as offensive in others." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kryptondog, greytape
4 months ago
MeFi post:
"Orientalism" and its Discontents
favorited 15 times, recently by naoko, Wood, Cassilda, johnasdf, Fin Azvandi, flibbertigibbet, Wilder, Saxon Kane, motty, junebug, bettafish, [expletive deleted], roll truck roll, languagehat, jack_mo
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Wow, that Peggy Noonan column DaShiv linked is blistering and perceptive. Only about 1/10 as great as DaShiv's post, but still well worth reading.
The headline Wednesday on Drudge, from Politico, said, "Republicans Stunned by Loss in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"dawson, it was the astroturfing for himself + astroturf bad-mouthing other charities, + setting up an email account bearing the name of a new employee to do further astroturfing.
konolia commented,: "You know, I think maybe you just need to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"IQ isn't a particularly important number because IQ tests don't measure innate intelligence.
If they did, then Dutch army conscripts in 1952 wouldn't score 30 IQ points lower than conscripts in 1982.
Ascribing political results to group IQ is..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by shmegegge, anansi, jammy
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Those of us without greasemonkey skills can always just search for "favori" to see which comments have been favorited. I guess that doesn't work too well in a thread about favorites, but it'd probably work OK in that Charlton Heston thread...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by quonsar
5 months ago
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"I am much the same way, anonymous.
I think that what you are missing out on, if anything, is the possibility that life is as much, or more, about process than it is about outcomes.
So the value of friendships is not in the tangible benefits..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nemutdero, pmdboi
6 months ago
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"Well, these recommendations are a bit idiosyncratic, but I got into him through Stephane Grappelli, who I found out about through fiddler Mark O'Connor, who plays with folks like Bela Fleck and mandolinist Sam Bush and dobro player Jerry Douglas of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by swapspace
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I agree with most of the points on this thread, that it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation for Obama's white supporters, and in a different way, for the candidate himself.
As to your first point, though, pardonyou?,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pinothefrog
6 months ago
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"Obviously this doesn't affect the core issue, which is these pits being put down to prevent future attacks.
Also, seeking monetary damages helps to ensure that dog owners won't let their dogs act like this. This is about the danger these dogs..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My grammar and punctuation seem to be ok and to my eyes and mind, the [¿] doesn't make my posts hard to read at all.
But other people think they do. The point of writing comments on a board is to interact with other human beings.
Given my..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
6 months ago
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"Satan is funny.
Pagan, too.
Steve Heinze wore #57 for Columbus.
If you're just looking for general jokes... um... Loki, #13? Poo, #2? I'm with LobsterMitten, I'm not entirely clear on what we're trying to do...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lizzicide
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
""The feds don't like it when you buck them, but I'll be damned if they break me," Tucker says. "What kind of American would I be if I just kept my mouth shut?"
We could use a few patriots like this in the Senate...." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by rooftop secrets, wires, Blazecock Pileon, M.C. Lo-Carb!, BrotherCaine, Pope Guilty, Benjy, hal9k, SteveTheRed, Mick, Malor
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"It makes the lot of us sound like xenophobes (to a degree). I'm not sure it'd be kosher to mock him based on his religion, sex, sexual orientation, or skin color, either.
OK, OK, we'll always pronounce your name "Az-WEE-pay." Geez...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rtha
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"To what extent can scriptural support be found for this?
The practice of Christianity, like support for a given political party or Grateful Dead fandom, can easily be severed from any underlying principles. It need not happen that way, but it can..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pater Aletheias
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"it doesn't sound like anything but a cop out to me. As a matter of fact, if we as English speakers decide the name Colombia becomes Columbia in English, then that is exactly what it becomes
We have decided no such thing. The word is spelled with..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by flamk, Abiezer
7 months ago
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"I like nebulawindphone's post quite a lot. Especially:
So I just started explaining more: "Hey, it's no problem if you didn't, I'm just curious — did you get groceries today?" "I'm totally up for going out if you still want to, but..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Tracy Flick, all grown up. I'd rather have McCain.
If it's McCain instead of Clinton, that makes affordable health care and a reigning in of the deficit infinitely less likely, and a whole bunch more wars much more likely.
Look, fourcheesemac,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tkchrist
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"As a pro-war person who has come around to the anti-war side (like most of the country), I frankly don't understand why the cost of the invasion and occupation shouldn't be mentioned when discussing large scale policy projects. It's not really that..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by mr. strange, AsYouKnow Bob, panamax
7 months ago
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"Roughly 9/10 homicides in the US are committed by men. School shooters might, in mentality and motivation, be a subset of that." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by astrochimp
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Morris' sleaze was well known long before he hired any prostitutes, Brian B. He was associated with the strategy of "triangulation"-- that is, advocating small-bore policies calculated to tweak Democrats and Republicans. An ok way to keep..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I notice a false dilemma that often comes up in conversations of this kind, and one that Obama actually addresses head on in this speech: that people are either secular or religious.
What's more, secular can describe just the political realm...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Abiezer, Miko
7 months ago
