MeFi comment:
"Snofoam -- I just witnessed a similar thing in PA! I went with a friend to hear Obama in Abington, PA, and on the way back to Philly we stopped to grab a sandwich somewhere. The place was packed, and while we were eating, we heard a collective gasp..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by shitcock, aeschenkarnos, jtron, Lou Stuells, cadge, Senor Cardgage, brain cloud, lord_wolf, DU, cashman, contessa, maryh, gladly
2 days ago
MeFi post:
"Women hold up half the sky"--Chinese proverb
favorited 76 times, recently by needled, mathowie, Kimondo, papafrita, jmdodd, teraflop, bitter-girl.com, pomegranate, Deathalicious, yeti, bluefly, Cassilda, orrnyereg, badrolemodel, ntartifex, spec80, SuperSquirrel, dejah420, skyper, MsElaineous, palindromic, longdaysjourney, palimpsest, liquorice, DreamerFi, motdiem2, bardic, jeffburdges, hellopanda, tickingclock, zarah, msittig, nickyskye, brookedel, Large Marge
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Maybe he's twitching because he just watched that footage of Sarah Palin playing the flute? (Warning: offensive to anyone with ears, a rudimentary sense of pitch, or empathy for talentless beauty pageant talent competitors.)..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by fourcheesemac, EarBucket
9 days ago
Ask comment:
"I agree with the great suggestions up above -- I would only add, as the spouse of someone who started med school at age 30 (he is 40 now and in his second year of being an attending), save up some of these suggestions for your 5th, 6th, or 7th year..." [
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10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"One of my favorite cab stories: Went out with four friends on Valentine's Day in San Francisco in 1993. We caught a cab in the city, and the cab driver was totally fine with cramming five people in the car -- four of us squished in back, one sitting..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by bristolcat, moss, svolix, no1hatchling, MPnonot3, Solon and Thanks, turaho, pinothefrog, nickyskye, Scram, misha, Ustrasana
10 days ago
Ask comment:
"Pema Chodron's book When Things Fall Apart has been recommended lots on MetaFilter -- I also just read/listened to her speaking on the subject of "shenpa" and learning to stay. Basically -- in an enormously simplified nutshell -- she talks..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Rumple, gmarceau
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Live for yourself.
Seize the day.
Leave in 25 minutes, then rinse.
For best results, shake thoroughly.
Call now.
Refrigerate after opening.
Stay tuned.
Don’t let this offer pass you by.
Do not store near heat or flame.
Wet hair. Lather...." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by robcorr, self, yonation, MsElaineous, mandal, GuyZero, martin10bones, captainsohler, nasreddin, hazyjane, bettafish, takeyourmedicine
11 days ago
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"I posted about this more in depth here, but basically the method that works best for me in these situations is: Recognize, Refrain, Relax, Resolve.
An excerpt from Pema Chodron's Getting Unstuck, where she explains this better than I..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by Rumple
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"It seems like McCain's tactic is to lie and condescend -- so if Obama goes after him for that, Obama doesn't get to answer the questions; if Obama answers the questions, he can't smack down all the lyings...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by skyper
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"And, did anybody catch this? I wondered about it last night, but it looks like after Obama's "Spain" smackdown, McCain said "Horseshit!" twice under his breath. Andrew Sullivan links to the video...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by schyler523
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Re: Biden and Palin debate -- my husband's theory is that there will be no debate, because just before the debate happens, her daughter will "lose" the "baby" (because of the terrible sexist liberal media), and Palin will have to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by furtive
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"John Cole at balloon-juice.com had a good counter to the worry that Obama's magnanimous "you're right but..." rhetorical style might have backfired:
At any rate, if you still can not understand this, I propose a test. Gentlemen, the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Nattie
13 days ago
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"This made me think of the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Tonglen ("giving and taking"). Rather than an exercise in forced gratitude at a difficult time, it is a way to be compassionate towards yourself and others -- which is hard when you are..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ottereroticist, tallus
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, I have to say, I'm not even close to the Judith Warner empathy side of things, but this stuff -- this talking to reporters and taking interviews -- is hard, especially when you don't have much experience in having to speak intelligently in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jonp72
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This isn't the first time McCain has suspended his campaign.
Yeah, it's evidently also not the first time he's tried to pull out of a debate when confronted with bad poll numbers:
With new polls showing his campaign dead in the water among..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by LobsterMitten, scody, Nattie
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Just saw this -- McCain was supposed to be on Letterman tonight, but canceled the appearance to go work on the economy. However, during the taping...
Then in the middle of the taping Dave got word that McCain was, in fact just down the..." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by schyler523, ShawnStruck, capnsue, blueberry, AsYouKnow Bob, acro, phatkitten, Nattie, sciatica, pyrex, krix, Mick, headspace, Mrmuhnrmuh, spiderwire, graventy, Artw, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, philip-random, turgid dahlia, kittens for breakfast
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"(inspired by AstroZombie, to the tune of "Yes! We have no bananas!")
"Yes! We have no debates!
We have no debates today!
We have pandering and lying, subterfuge and crying
And all kinds of farce and -- say,
We have..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by lupus_yonderboy, ShawnStruck, scody, blueberry, bitter-girl.com, Megami, the dief, ColdChef, DevilsAdvocate
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Hey, if he wants to focus on the economy, maybe he could, I don't know, fire his lobbyist, money-accepting, part-of-the-problem campaign manager?" [
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favorited 13 times, recently by schyler523, orrnyereg, drezdn, hazel, contessa, oaf, tippiedog, blueberry, toastchee, teleri025, cashman, Nattie, nitsuj
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The reporters keep asking leading questions, wanting him to slam McCain, and Obama keeps redirecting them to the point (remember? our free-falling economic death spiral?). Obama is a freaking living masterclass in not biting the hook...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by darkstar, Nattie
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Seriously, is his campaign run by 8-year-olds? It seems like the last two weeks have been non-stop rounds of "I know you are but what am I?" "Mom!!! He got more than me!!!" "I'm rubber and you're glue, it bounces off me and..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by darkstar, AsYouKnow Bob, brain cloud, takeyourmedicine, cj_, Nattie, cashman, fourcheesemac
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"From Politico: McCain suspends his campaign, and asks to postpone Friday's debate, to address the financial crisis. Both candidates have been marginal players; McCain, though, seems to have the potential to make himself a major one, and his move is a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by drezdn, blueberry
2 weeks ago
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"I wrote a comment on this subject a while back along the same lines of what game warden to the events rhino writes above -- realizing that resistance/negativity/fear is part of the process for me, and allowing myself to sit with it, feel the fear,..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by barnone, batmonkey, Forktine, PatoPata, drjimmy11
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"And don't forget Maria Agnesi, who in the 1700s wrote the first surviving book on mathematics by a woman, and whose famous equation went down in history with a mangled and vaguely misogynistic name ("the witch of Agnesi") instead of the one..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bitter-girl.com
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Did you know that the New York Times is "pro-Obama" and "not today by any standard a journalistic organization"? It must be true, because the McCain campaign said so!
From the TPM link above:
The McCain campaign is going on..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, birdherder
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"rleamon, that is absolutely fascinating -- I am struck by the poignancy of what she writes just before that sentence about her son: "My home life is necessarily different from the other officers of the University since all housekeeping cares..." [
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2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"And also, I understand that now the Republican party is the sole arbiter of what is and what is not sexist, but can you imagine, even for a moment, either party making the same request of a debate involving a male candidate? And having that request..." [
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2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Seriously. And disdain? Disdain??? I believe that was what we all saw on display at the RNC. Utter and complete disdain. It was ugly, and it was appalling...." [
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3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, if we're going to trade "I went to a fish fry" stories, my husband went to a barbecue today -- it wasn't full of people clucking over mean old Charlie Gibson or tsking about the nerve of black people holding up signs, but there were a..." [
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3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Lying every single day until the election appears to be working.
Especially when they have their own TV stations to keep replaying them." [
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3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Maybe the UltimateImprov folks can follow up with the McCain campaign headquarters doing "Cats," featuring Karl Rove as The Magical Mister Mistoffeles......" [
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3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"My children , who alternate between playing Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii and Super Mario World on our old NES and are surprisingly invested in the characters/storyline, were sorely disappointed. But it did inspire them to want to write their own..." [
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favorited 1 time
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I really really wish that Obama could do right now for truth-telling what he did for race with his speech in Philadelphia, and have a national press conference to essentially call out McCain & the Republican party for reneging on the concept of..." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"Barack Obama is president of my heart.
Seriously, though, how brilliant that speech was. And how brilliant to have it preceded by those speeches from actual real-life "regular" people -- his appearing after that seemed like the logical..." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"Outrage on behalf of purported children over these sorts of things -- "bad" words, nipple slips, etc. -- is quite rich considering that the bawdy, grotesque, and shocking (at least to our modern ears) is more or less how children have been..." [
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Last month
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"Seconding amro -- this past June we learned that our beloved 14-year-old cat's rather expansive stomach wasn't due to obesity but cancerous tumors.
We had a similar situation in that the kind of rare skin cancer she had didn't affect her ability..." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"Yeah.... as both a writer working from home on fierce deadlines and a parent of two small children, this whole "Stop multi-tasking!" concept seems like a sick joke. A sweet, sweet, delightfully tempting sick joke, but still. The reality of..." [
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Last month
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"Med school is difficult. Internship sucks. The first year of residency sucks. But the second year of residency is better. And the third year of residency (and each successive year) is even better than that. Fellowship, if you do one, can be even..." [
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