MeFi comment:
"yort writes "They let them go with just a warning, but I am tempted to join the non pot-head community doesn't want to live in an experiment to see what happens if & when we fully legalize it."
It has been, for all practical..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
2 ¾ hours ago
MeTa comment:
"Unicorn on the cob writes "Yeah but where is the thread damanding that Quonsar and JonMC have a drinking battle a la Raiders of the Lost Ark inside the Thunderdome?"Apologies are great but do not make for entertaining daydreaming at my..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Unicorn on the cob
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Scarves, home knit hats & mittens, polka dot patterns, BIG glasses, cardigans and bright, warm colors are the basics.
I have to call my mom and let her know that her stuff is back in fashion again!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by papafrita
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"mwhybark writes "I hope Susskind is ready - they are gonna try to Gary Webb him, no doubt about it at all."
I don't know what you're talking about. Gary Webb committed suicide. Like many suicides, he shot himself in the head twice just..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by axon, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, mwhybark, Blazecock Pileon
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"nasreddin writes "The dude has cancer. Don't be a dick."
From his wiki page:
In May 2008, McCain's campaign released his medical records, and he was described as appearing cancer-free, having a strong heart and in general good health...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, horsemuth
Yesterday
Ask comment:
"Don't listen to these people.
Get your passport out, buy a plane ticket, and spend the next few years exploring the world and experiencing shit with strange and interesting cohorts. These are the best days of your life. You listen to these people,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"dunkadunc writes "That said, considering that we (that is, the people who are supposed to be representing us) were the ones who brought about so much destruction in the first place, I have no problem with paying for reconstruction...." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by alejo, cusack, parhamr, snwod, Balisong, Blazecock Pileon
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"dejah420Poster writes "It also says that the laptop has been recovered. Oh, and that it had password protection."
Password protection is no protection if the attacker has physical access to the machine. Likewise, recovery of the laptop..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by liza, roystgnr, Reverend John
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"China probably thinks it's cute that people in the US are so worked up about Darfur, when the body count in Iraq is even higher. Plus China isn't even directly killing innocent people like the US is. Pot, Kettle, get acquainted...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by doctor_negative
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"dirtynumbangelboy writes "No, the difference in this case is that the child is being conceived solely to appease someone's fetish."
A drop in the bucket compared to the numbers of children who are not wanted at all, for any reason, but..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cj_
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Hey, let's have a thread where we make sweeping generalizations about young people! What better way is there to show how old and out of touch we are?" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ifjuly, newdaddy
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"ackptui writes "At least their debt is shrinking, rather than savings, as for those of us who have kept to the black."
Indeed. I'm in permanent forbearance on my student loans, waiting for the day that hyperinflation kicks in and I can..." [
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favorited 26 times, recently by subbes
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Pastabagel writes "It's never easy being a voice of dissent on Metafilter, so let's not make it unpleasant as well."
Dissent is fine. But when you crank out gems like this:
Mastercheddaar writes "Guess what... IN THIS COUNTRY IF..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"So if this is truly a trademark issue, what's to stop scrabulous from changing their name and carrying on as before?
And for the love of god, can we stop parroting the 'IP' line? It's copyright, patent, or trademark. Throwing around 'intellectual..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kadin2048, DevilsAdvocate
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"So what grounds was there for shutting down Scrabulous? The idea for a game is not protected by copyright, certainly not by trademark, and patents would've expired decades ago. There's a lot of talk about 'intellectual property' but there's..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kadin2048, vertigo25
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"three blind mice writes "(A) is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another person, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by aeschenkarnos, ShawnStruck
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"gurple writes "'Jewish-Christian roots'? Whatever. They have no creeds, no dogmas, and a good deal of their membership doesn't even think there's a God. Trying to categorize them is pretty confusing."
Say what you will about the tenets..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kableh, shoebox
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I can't figure out if he'll be murdered in prison for shooting up a church, or celebrated for being such a militant homophobe." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wires
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"gurple writes "I'm a fan of free speech, myself."
Uh, is urging legions of audience members to commit murder really a fundamental right?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If I were running Google, I'd occasionally fund a startup, purportedly a search engine which 'OMG TAKES ON GOOGLE!' but actually sucks really bad. The purpose of this would be to influence the public to believe than any would-be competitors were a..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by decagon, nooneyouknow, tippiedog, yort, DU, Artw
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The idea that morality should be founded on anything other than reason is just silly. Arthur C. Clarke nails it:
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wendell
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"All jokes aside, reason is used to keep people out of a living hell (the existence of which is beyond serious debate) quite frequently. It should go without saying, but the claims of a post-mortem,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"konolia writes "We cannot make the text say what we want it to say or we wish it to say. We have to take what it says in context with the Bible as a whole."
Sure you can, and you do. Unless, of course, you only read the scriptures in..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, chuckdarwin
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Uh, yes konolia I'm familiar with the song. I grew up hearing it almost every Saturday, and every freaking day at camp meeting.
The important thing here is that this cat can walk on water. This is like Jesus in the lolcat bible!
25. OK so iz..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oncogenesis
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I wish the internet was as good at producing really cool pants. My clothing collection is heavily skewed toward tshirts these days." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by keevinl
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"konolia writes "By the way at the risk of being pointed at and laughed at even more, I would like to posit that as sin in general is more and more accepted, tolerated and even celebrated in America, our economy is going more and more in the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chuckdarwin
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I love how persecuting homosexual families is done in the name of 'protecting marriage' by religious people who don't make a peep about divorces, because they're too busy getting them...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chuckdarwin
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"marble writes "I foresee assisted suicide becoming legalized and used regularly."
We already have assisted suicide thanks to cheap and freely available firearms. It's just the dignity that's illegal...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nax
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This is why I don't feel obligated to follow the law. Like the telecom companies and the president, I figure at some point my lawbreaking will be pardoned, so there's a reasonable chance that my illegal activities aren't actually illegal, they just..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by axon, tehloki, twine42
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If Mr. Hicks were with us, he'd be mocking our earnest faith and forgiving attitude toward the puppet on the left.
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favorited 11 times, recently by tehloki, khaibit, timetoevolve, liza, CautionToTheWind, limon, nasreddin, skepticbill, nightchrome, dancestoblue, nola
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This whole fiasco is on par with Ted Haggard. Boingboing is the self-appointed church of free expression first and foremost, for them to nuke an author from their site and censor comments about it is the pinnacle of hypocrisy. The further censoring..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by LanTao, liza
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"*Yawn* It's no surprise that someone got kicked out of McCain's event for having a sign that had something loathsome on it.
I must say, you know the republicans are fucked when they will kick you out of an event simply for comparing their..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Dreama, turaho, rusty, zardoz, JHarris, Reverend John, fleetmouse
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Pastabagel writes "Beer was drank."
Well to be honest, that was sizzurp I was drankin." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by milarepa
Last month
MeFi comment:
"orthogonality writes "Actually, some are asking Bush to stay away. "
Bush is now the republican Rosemary Kennedy. They can't exclude him without seeming unkind to the feebleminded, which politically is never good, but by appearing he..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by redfisch, bitter-girl.com
Last month
MeFi comment:
"konolia writes "Some of those abortions were of female children."
Ok, now I'm confused. I thought only fetuses were aborted. If someone is putting children into wombs, then killing them, whoa. That's wrong...." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by Hactar, Phalene, tehloki, lupus_yonderboy, nooneyouknow, Reverend John, mikedouglas, arcticwoman, Knigel, axon, small_ruminant, ao4047, shoesietart, bowline
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I don't know if you were aware of this dnab, but metafilter doesn't have a whole lot of respect for dogmatic assertions. It's abundantly clear at this point that you see things the way that you see them, you won't be convinced by anything that anyone..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spiderwire
Last month
