MeFi comment:
"Does that mean everything he writes is covered in blood?
Dude, wtf. Saddam was all GGG but then it got too heavy & he was all like "Safe Word!" But Bush was too into it and blood got all over the place and now the rest of the world..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by From Bklyn, Maias
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Hey, look on the bright side: we'll have the "War Memoir" genre locked up for decades." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by matteo
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"C'mon, plenty of people are low on money, how are we supposed to decide who to support?
Favoring those who know when to use the objective case might be a start...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by orthogonality
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Bummer when your backup plan involves a yank on Cory Doctorow's heartstrings." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by rjt
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"One last thing. Someone on the McCain team has already anticipated the connection between Moses/Joshua and King/Obama. It's what was driving that weird ad from last month. People recognized the creepy messianic overtones and rightly saw it as a..." [
more]
favorited 104 times, recently by painquale, manguero, shelbaroo, RussHy, graventy, russilwvong, krippledkonscious, kosher_jenny, jlbartosa, skoosh, one teak forest, psyche7, jokeefe, TungstenChef, flibbertigibbet, AceRock, Tlogmer, beelzbubba, estherbester, tehloki, FrauMaschine, synaesthetichaze, ersatzkat, empath, emyd, jtron, sarahnade, l33tpolicywonk, kosem, puddleglum, LMGM, MythMaker, aws17576, contessa, notashroom, Kinbote, RikiTikiTavi, Araucaria, shmegegge, kableh, Solon and Thanks, grapefruitmoon, Ms. Saint, Freon, horsewithnoname, cimbrog, scody, JDHarper, teleri025, gamera, No Robots, AbnerDoon
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"America's NIV? What? We make it ours by mechanically copying its words and dressing that up in technological narcissism and wasted gasoline? How quintessentially American.
If Zondervan actually gave a good goddamn about what the text says,..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by jtron, padraigin
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If Obama were smart and ruthless, he'd suggest that the debates go on, but that the economic debate be shifted to Friday and the foreign policy debate be postponed. He could frame it as a "responsibility to speak frankly from our privileged..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by darkstar, Mental Wimp
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"He should have just called her a moron. Or a cretin. Or an imbecile. Or an idiot. Or any other historical term for the mentally infirm that has been successfully integrated into the language as a term of insult...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by merelyglib, five fresh fish
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"You might want to check out the research of Theodore Sasson. "After Birthright Israel" (pdf available on the linked page) in particular should give you a sense for the political and religious implications of participation in a Birthright..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by lalochezia
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Anyone know if Palin has an position on the Treaty of Westphalia?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, yes. Now that you ask.
Fortnightly, I prepare for myself a bowl of water slightly south of scalding, and give my seax a few slaps against the whetstone. While I wait for the water to steam, I apply a hot compress to soften the hair and..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by Asymptote, misha, strangememes, ekstasis23, benzenedream, redfisch, designbot, cac, bardic, liza, notquitemaryann, sebastienbailard, Korou, Divine_Wino, turgid dahlia
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I want to ask for advice about something, to which I need to give sufficient detail, the nature of which is reasonably sensitive.
If you're St*v* Schm*dt, I'll tell you straight up: don't quit your job. Keep dredging the muck. Your boss will..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by redfisch, bardic
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't know what caused the blips either, but my preferred straight-out-of-my ass explanation was that it was Jesus doing Frisbee stunts.
Bullshit.
Jesus is totally a footbag guy...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Marla Singer
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""Senator McCain, where is your VP candidate from?"
"Alaska"
"No, I'm asking YOU the question, Senator."
"Juneau."
"No, I DON'T know—that's why I'm asking!"
"Anchorage...." [
more]
favorited 7 times, recently by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, RussHy, darkstar, ramix, RakDaddy, longdaysjourney, ColdChef
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I've been working on a little theory about why American media culture has become so obsessed with Schadenfreude of late. From the whole Anna Nicole Smith fiasco, to Britney Spears to that poor astronaut woman who lost her shit, it seems like the..." [
more]
favorited 82 times, recently by converge
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Why is everyone assuming she'll do so poorly in the debates? Because she's a pretty woman?
Why do you assume that's the only basis on which to doubt her performance in the debates?..." [
more]
favorited 27 times, recently by manguero, thebrokedown, Telf, cirocco, oaf, tarheelcoxn, vivelame, thivaia, blueberry, ValkoSipuliSuola, aparrish, giraffe, shitcock, marble, applemeat, papafrita, synecdoche, showbiz_liz, malpractice, Jeremy, emelenjr, yoga, Nattie, Twicketface, snownoid, kuujjuarapik, nitsuj
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Everyone remembers the "I have a dream" cadence, but it's worth recalling the beautiful words with which Dr. King closed his speech. It's the hope behind these words that Barack Obama drew upon so deeply tonight:And if America is to be a..." [
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favorited 47 times, recently by manguero, graventy, dancinglamb, smich, jtron, non sum qualis eram, Araucaria, Pantengliopoli, contessa, nonmerci, kableh, grapefruitmoon, cmyk, cimbrog, teleri025, No Robots
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Interesting stuff. I think one of the reasons why Obama's rhetoric resonates so strongly in this climate is that he hearkens back to real techniques of persuasive oratory. These entail risk, since they try to forge a bond between speaker and..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, aeschenkarnos, the cydonian
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"In other news, the UN has proposed to begin calculating GDP by integrating data from hotornot.com." [
more]
favorited 6 times, recently by manguero
Last month
Ask comment:
"Patience, kindness and understanding.
If you make a commitment to another person, then you are taking their strengths and their weaknesses. It's okay to hope and even to expect growth and maturity. But if you're imposing your own expectations..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by limeonaire, Wroksie
Last month
MeTa comment:
"If in-kind rewards became standard for good answers, I think I'd spend a lot more time working the human relations category." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
Last month
MeTa comment:
"One really can't do that here, the reaction is pretty hateful, so much so that it's scary. I learned early on that dissent here will get you branded a lunatic and worse. There is almost no open-mindedness with some of the more vocal regulars.
Oh..." [
more]
favorited 10 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, papafrita, LucretiusJones, blueberry, orthogonality, tehloki, cashman, Solon and Thanks, Ugh, doctor_negative
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm finding it extremely hard to muster up sympathy for these people. Josh Olson hates this woman because she's ugly and she's fat and she fucked with his friend's head for a couple years. Thanks to the internet and its built-in anonymity, an..." [
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favorited 35 times, recently by zarah
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Well, torticat, it's a two-edged sword. The McCain campaign is definitely hoping for a bump (though not, mind you, of the "terrorist-fist" variety) because of Palin's good looks and heartwarming choice of life. Vetting these things is..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by longsleeves, bugbread, bookish, snsranch, maxwelton, thewalledcity, kosem
Last month
MeFi comment:
"What did Sarah Palin do? She did NOT go to a local hospital and did NOT have her baby checked on a fetal monitor to make sure it was OK.
What a maverick...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Caduceus
Last month
MeFi comment:
"But where are people's sympathies going to lie when they see an angry old man yelling at the nice, pretty hockey mom who only had a few weeks to get ready before being thrust into the national spotlight?
There is no way he'll yell. He won't..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Nattie, DU
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The more that they feel cornered, the dirtier they will fight.
The difference is that this time we picked a couple of guys who know how to fight back...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by malaprohibita
Last month
MeTa comment:
"You know those magnets they feed to the cow, and it swallows them and so all the metal it eats otherwise gets stuck to that magnet and doesn't hurt the rest of the cow? I feel like that magnet sometimes.
I'm sorry, but this is one of the saddest..." [
more]
favorited 5 times
Last month
MeTa comment:
"felix is latin for "lucky"
be-tachat is hebrew for "in the ass"
I'd always thought about writing a satirical novel with that as a pseudonym, but when signups reopened, it seemed a good name for an alternate identity.
i'm..." [
more]
favorited 2 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Bullshit.
Trying to influence the umpires' perceptions is the core of baseball. Why don't they just paint the strike zone with lasers and do away with the home plate umpire all together.
Better yet, have a pitching machine face off against a..." [
more]
favorited 11 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Changing rules in the middle of a season. What could possibly go wrong?
That's what happens when you make a used car salesman the commissioner.
Call me a purist if you want to. But the element of uncertainty that comes with the umpire's..." [
more]
favorited 5 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Sure, but we're not talking balls and strikes, fair or foul, or anything like that. This is about getting home run calls right. It happens only a handful of times per year, but why not get them right?
If the umpire's perception and judgment are..." [
more]
favorited 3 times
Last month
Ask comment:
"Please keep in mind that the genuine warmth you feel toward some people at the center may not be fully reciprocated. Or, if it is, it's also wrapped up in a whole bunch of techniques developed by the cult to encourage new members to lower their..." [
more]
favorited 2 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Limbaugh link no longer works.
No big loss, though. Trips to the Dominican Republic to bang underaged girls don't really make you an expert on child development anyway...." [
more]
favorited 7 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"It's a shame we're past the trading deadline. The White Sox could really use this kid." [
more]
favorited 3 times
Last month
Ask comment:
"Head a bit further south on the Red Line to 35th and you can watch a baseball team that wins.
See a concert at the new bandshell in Millennium Park.
Eat ribs at the Twin Anchors on Sedgwick.
See a film at the Music Box.
I've been out of..." [
more]
favorited 1 time
Last month
