MeFi comment:
"Well, this has been an interesting discussion.
Maybe I missed it, but nobody has pointed out the sea that this discussion is swimming in: the simple-minded, premodern idea of "Traditional Marriage".
"Tradtionally", when a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by taumeson, Salamandrous
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"And NOBODY is bragging about how they did on the periodic table? (The quiz doesn't even ask you for them in order, they'll accept them in whatever order they come to mind.)
No wonder the 21st century will be China's and India's...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by waitangi
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The campaign has denied it.
But they're Republicans.
By now, you should have learned that they lie all the time, about everything." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pompomtom
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Huh. Both sites seem to show that there are states that are likely to vote Republican this year.
Have people not been paying attention?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by etaoin
Last month
MeFi comment:
"people aren't "evil" merely for the fact of their conservatism
Except that conservatism is an evil ideology, a political philosophy that seeks to maintain or impose class-based heirarchies. People who support modern conservatism are..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Baby_Balrog, thewittyname, melorama, JHarris, Pope Guilty, Blazecock Pileon, Afroblanco, jtron, octothorpe
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Holy crap! Does it matter in the least that she's been a complete fucking DISASTER at her job? Does it matter at all that she's not even any good at her nominal area of expertise?
She's another of the incompetents who have brought us nearly eight..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, interrobang
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Sorry, but as a connoisseur of urban decay, I gotta say that Cleveland - as shown here, anyway - just doesn't make the grade. Not old enough, and not decayed enough. I can show you an 1840's mill with the roof burned off. It's probably be knocked..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I assumed that the number of grains would double with each successive square, until the number exceeded the number of grains in the universe, and the Shah would have me executed out of sheer annoyance.
(Cool link, but after 500 grains or so I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by phyrewerx, Jimbob
9 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I think we're reaching a point where we're beginning to understand just why it is that some people are so deeply obsessed with policing sexual behavior.
Sen. Craig considers himself to be a straight man - yet (if the rumors are true) he finds..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by aws17576, baho, luftmensch, redfisch, scrump, hal9k, Orb, Anything, lupus_yonderboy, melorama, marble, Baby_Balrog, pineapple, amberglow, jayder
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's kinda nice that upon hearing the news of a sex scandal involving a televangelist, we've now reached the point where everybody automatically assumes that the scandal must involve gay sex.
It's now become the expected story.
And as xmutex..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by EarBucket
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The article is sobering for those of us who do collect.
My local State University Library has a "Special Collection" in the area I collect; fully twenty years ago, dropped in on them to check out their holdings - and my eyes widened..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sonny Jim
Last year
MeFi comment:
"When I was in HS, my drama dept. bought me a $5 Goodwill tux for a part in a show. After the run, it wasn't worth getting cleaned, and it wouldn't fit anybody else, either, so they gave it to me. I wore it to two proms and and two senior balls...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Xere, miss lynnster
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I'm so old that I can remember when the National Security Advisor was put in charge of coordinating Defense and State.
How did that ever work out?...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nofundy
Last year
MeFi comment:
"My guess is that it was a high school field trip to a big-city show: they stayed until Daisey crossed some "f-word threshold" in the Paris Hilton joke, and one of the chaperones said, "That's it, we're out of here. Everybody: let's go...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by picaro
Last year
MeFi comment:
"No one is allowed to even mention any environmental issue unless they live a life of Voluntary Simplicity." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, nofundy
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I've never understood all the American griping about "oh, in EUROPE, their taxes are so HIGH!"
Whereas, in reality, the tax rates are quite comparable.
And in Europe - unlike America - citizens actually GET something from their..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by tehloki, eckeric, axon, nofundy, phrenq, Goofyy
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Matt Oneiros: That "TO LET" thing is a Britishism, and yes, it's jarring, but you get used to it after a while.
Thanks for the link. The comments there are good, too.
What's remarkable is that there are people who are entirely..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ColdChef
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Ok, let's look at this rationally.
CDs aren't competing with 1983. They are competing with 2007's entertainment choices. Without even discussing digital downloads that lack an associated physical object, let's look at 2007's entertainment..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Malor
Last year
MeFi comment:
"mr_roboto: To confirm the ID, maybe the folks at Attrition can do a reverse TCP IMAP lookup trace.
An easier way would be to just call Todd and ask him to send a picture of a squirrel on Capitol Hill...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Keane
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Ok, a 900-post thread. Took me a while to work my way here to the end. There have been plenty of occasions where I wanted to jump in. Haven’t much seen the need, until I got to Peeping Thomist’s dazzling remark that I have to say it surprises..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
Last year
MeFi comment:
"When Nixon was busy spying on his 'enemies' and otherwise breaking the law, the question before the Congress became, "What did the President know, and when did he know it?"
Ever since then, the criminals running the GOP have made sure..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by EarBucket
Last year
