MeFi comment:
"This is a slight derail, but AppleSeed above at 10:06 PM raised the interesting question:
* Perhaps someone in the military can chime in on what it really means to be an effective "commander in chief", which every candidate has laid..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by orrnyereg, Sys Rq, RussHy, maryh
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"OK, I liked the early Stevenson. And me? I am The Guy For Whom Cryptonomicon Was Written. (That is to say, I don't know of a book that I enjoyed more, "Captain Crunch" digression and all.)
Reading the Baroque Cycle, on the other hand,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by papafrita
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, what Surfurrus linked to at 9:07: not only do abstinence-only programs not work, but the more "liberal" states have lower rates of teen pregnancy, lower rates of abortion, AND they have lower divorce rates, at least partially because..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by sephira, blueberry, brain cloud, scody, clarahamster, agregoli
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The Forbes list makes just about as much sense when read backwards. (Note the cluster of engineering schools at the bottom. I think it's safe to say that engineering students often have unkind things to say about their teachers.)
I mean, really:..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by manguero
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"There's only one metric that matters: the "surge" will be a success when the United States can bring its occupation forces home from Iraq.
Have the troops come home? No? Then the surge is not yet a success.
That is to say, it's still..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Hard working people like... John McCain, who married into a fortune that financed his senate run and bought his eight-to-ten-depending-on-how-you-count luxury homes.
And don't forget: McCain's trophy wife bought him a private jet so that he could..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by MikeKD, cashman, orthogonality
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I don't understand why those Alaska Republican legislators who were interviewed by the New York Times were so open about the fact that Palin was not vetted. Are they trying to destroy her nomination? It would seem that, as Republicans and (presumably)..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by lord_wolf, the dief, skyper, Bookhouse
Last month
MeFi comment:
"the_bone: the Republican Party is not, and never will be, the friend of the working man.
This year's Republican National Convention is designed to showcase their scorn for the working man/woman: they're opening their convention on Labor Day..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jocelmeow
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The one thing I know about Julia Child is that she met her husband in Ceylon while working for the OSS in WWII. (I have no idea how I know this, but I heard about it back when she was still on TV.)
So, I think this is more "confirms"..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Gungho
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Oh. Well, that's OK then.
Besides, my house is at 81 meters above sealevel, so this doesn't affect me." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, Korou
Last month
MeFi comment:
"On the one hand, you have the reporter who broke the stories about both My Lai AND Abu Ghraib.
On the other hand, you have an administration that has lied about absolutely EVERYTHING.
Track records: on the one hand, a reporter who has proven..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rtha
2 months ago
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 months 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
3 months 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
3 months ago
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
4 months ago
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
6 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
7 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
7 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
11 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
11 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
11 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
Two years ago
