MeFi comment:
"I have a good friend who argues that its all right that Sarah McCain is not intelligent in general because she is intelligent enough about the right issues - Iran, Israel, on taxes, on reform.
She's a country mile away from that, too--even with..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dr-Baa, Lou Stuells
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm sure there's something living in my asshole right now that if magnified a couple thousand times would look like a raging six headed Godzilla on PCP so I just shrug, look the other way and keep on chuggin' down the road when it comes this sort of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Senor Cardgage
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I could take in this information a lot faster if I was allowed to read it at my own pace.
Pfft, clearly you just failed to notice the disclaimer at the beginning:
USE THE PAUSE BUTTON IF IT GOES TOO FAST FOR YOU!
Typical liberal whinging...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, Brocktoon, zippy
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I just figured since anything goes the past several weeks, we need some balance. We're open-minded, right?
You do realize that the opposite of 'well-researched, reasonably-argued disapproval of GOP candidates' is not 'insipid, easily-debunked..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by jtron, nightwood, wendell
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The Patriots didn't just lose, they got crushed at home 38-13. Something that basically doesn't ever happen.
Right, which will happen exactly once to an opponent of the Miami Dolphins. I spent half of last week arguing about this over on the ESPN..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"How pathetic is a person that is afraid of a wild turkey
OK. A short tale.
At the tender age of six, I lived in rural CT, and turkeys were regulars in our back yard. I liked turkeys, because, hey, you can draw them by tracing your hand, and..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by sebastienbailard, kwaller, marble, tepidmonkey, wanderingmind, kuujjuarapik, Lentrohamsanin, jamjam, zarq, amyms
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"PS if this was reversed you'd all be saying Obama was being a statesman.
And I would be agreeing with you.
No, we wouldn't, because there's a markedly smaller amount of pure partisan hackery on our side of the aisle, and we're usually the first..." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by grubi, Telf, Dormant Gorilla, bardic, dejah420, darkstar, AsYouKnow Bob, etaoin, marble, Missiles K. Monster, supercrayon, bunnytricks, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, Floach, Mick, RussHy, jonp72, ignignokt, blueberry, turaho, Artichoke Dance Off!!
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If you need them, I can post instructions on how to make thermite.
Ohmygod, please do this. I can see the headlines now when some enterprising Fox News flak discovers this thread, reads the comments, completely fails to grok Anonymous, and then..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by mitzyjalapeno, dabitch, schyler523, RedEmma, misha, diablo37, roystgnr, Orb, rokusan, Rock Steady, JHarris, spaceman_spiff, ColdChef, greenie2600, zarq, TheOnlyCoolTim
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Seconding Kattullus... I spent about a month volunteering for Dean back in 2004, up in New Hampshire (actually, in the Claremont office, which was one of the boondock branches office of which his friend spoke). The entire operation is fueled by..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kattullus
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Y'know, I don't want to interrupt the pile-on here, but here's the thing: I obviously have no idea what your relationship rapport with this dude looks like, but in a vacuum, there's nothing innately OMGDTMFA! about his conduct thus far. Let me try..." [
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favorited 33 times, recently by merelyglib, indienial, dantodd, special-k, Huw, SeanCier, HopperFan, ekstasis23, The Gooch, firstdrop, spec80, Phire, Space Kitty, spaltavian, !Jim, donnagirl, chiababe, Houstonian, misha, matildaben, the_ancient_mariner, SNWidget, shelleycat, streetdreams, erpava, skewedoracle, ten pounds of inedita, oneirodynia, Arbac, xchmp, sixcolors, a young man in spats, desjardins
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Gold and silver are very volatile. But I'm not suggesting them as an alternative to CDs. They are a hedge against inflation.
They're best, of course, when hoarded intravenously.
An investment in gold 6 months ago would now be worth 15% less..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by delmoi, chunking express
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"By the way, Obama is not looking to expand government, but actually to cut programs using a line-item review. Bush (with help from senators like McCain) has led the federal government through an unpredecedented expansion - actually, a ballooining -..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by dejah420, lumensimus, gruchall
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Regardless of whether or not it's actually a protected right, mentioning the words 'jury nullification' within earshot of the D.A. is basically a guarantee against serving on that jury.
I would be careful listening to anyone counseling you to just..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by astrochimp
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Most web developers are doing it wrong
Sigh... count me among their ranks, from time to time. I mean, you can't have it both ways--either you're supposed to do all your page layout in CSS, or you're not, and either every rendering engine behaves..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by tehloki, Artw, Richard Daly, JHarris, cowbellemoo
Last month
MeFi comment:
"...like the supposed media bias of anchors like Peter Jennings, who was accused of being a hidden liberal for 20 years
I also enjoy (c.f. 'am physically sickened by') the fact that phrases like 'hidden liberal' don't cause everyone in the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by JHarris, tula
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Mark me down as another first-time donor. I didn't think I'd see another candidate in my lifetime who would excite me as much as Dean did five years ago (when I was, sadly, a totally broke-ass college student who could only contribute time), but I..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by glycolized, fourcheesemac, EarBucket, cashman
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I don't really think the comparison's correct. That requires you to change channels, and advertisers count on yo lazy ass being too slotherous to reach for the remote.
Right. And 5, maybe 10% of the viewing audience isn't that slotherous, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by griphus
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm a Democrat and a strong Obama supporter, but on this I agree with the republicans. I find gay culture extremely disgusting and offensive.
Gay guys trawl online hookup sites like this but straight guys trawl online hookup sites like this,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Just out of curiosity, if I cherry-pick some statistics, completely ignoring sample size and every other measure of validity and significance, can I get Yahoo to report on my findings? Or do I have to theme it around a pseudo-science that an..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by thedaniel
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Ahem. With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan, and a nod to Everything2:
I am the very model of a modern Libertarian:
I teem with glowing notions for proposals millenarian,
I've nothing but contempt for ideologies collectivist
(My own ideas of..." [
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favorited 111 times, recently by keds, moxiedoll, Dormant Gorilla, vbfg, aeschenkarnos, chuq, weston, iminurmefi, tachikaze, Faint of Butt, Perplexity, AceRock, joseph_elmhurst, Asymptote, nzero, H-Bar, notswedish, shmegegge, Caduceus, maryh, lodurr, Frankieist, tula, JaredSeth
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Though there was quite a bit of homophobia in 'Stranger in a Strange Land' so don't forget that in your summary.
There was a good bit of maneuvering to avoid hot guy-on-guy action in that book, but I never really read it as rampant homophobia. It..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Auz
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"However, when it comes to... purposefully disseminating misinformation to demonize Jews and to delegitimize Israel, there is a moral obligation to remove the platform of such repugnant hate-mongers.
This from a group whose linked homepage contains..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Say what you will, but the longer we allow the court system to simply strike down laws enacted by a democratic majority purely on the basis of those laws being unconstitutional, the more people are going to think that's exactly what the court system..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Oxydude, hattifattener, Kadin2048
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If you're having trouble with Salon blocking access to articles linked from MeFi:
1. type "about:config" in the URL bar in FireFox
2. scroll down the row with the first column "network.http.referrerHeader"
3. right-click,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hortense, Kadin2048
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And if the tax is proportionate to the risk, then put the tax on each bullet at around $50 a pop.
This idea is ironclad, since there exist no privately-held mechanisms for forming lead into pointed shapes, and there are no enthusiasts that would..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Kwantsar, Kadin2048, regicide is good for you
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, I've always wondered why individual rights-holders aren't incensed by the idiotic strongarming that Disney, the RIAA, et al. have made their bread and butter in the last couple of decades. When the most commonly sung song in the history of..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by hecho de la basura, mathowie, skoosh, mullingitover, mephron, magstheaxe, flapjax at midnite
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not afraid of John McCain; nor am I afraid of George W. Bush. I *am* afraid of Barack Obama, who by his very actions has shown that he is little better than the reverse mirror image of George W. Bush.
What the hell does this even mean?
I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cashman
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Referring to an African American adult male as "boy" is racist, pure and simple and if Vidal is so freakin' smart and a capital "L" Liberal, he should know this.
It put me off wanting to hear anything more from him, no matter..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by peacheater
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Stay classy, optovox.
Though there's been some attrition in the last decade or so, there are still some things that the U.S. is pretty kickass about. First and foremost, open (or at least, not statutorily prohibited) discourse in all things. I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by drjimmy11
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"homunculus writes: Ron Paul's forces quietly plot GOP convention revolt against McCain
Wow. The comments in this story have to be the most entertaining thing I've read all week... seems we're only days away from Ron Paul springing his..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by shiu mai baby, psmealey
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Slightly related:
An analog digital watch
That first clock is great... modulus 12 rotation synchronization!" [
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favorited 3 times, recently by rongorongo, Sys Rq, DU
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It also has a lot to do with where said golf course is located. Golf course in lowland Florida? Maybe not a huge local impact. Golf course near Tucson? Probably going to wreak hell on the local water table/supply.
The most comical example I..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by azazello, darksasami, sebastienbailard
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But I do think that's what the Constitutional framers intended. They just couldn't forsee how incredibly potent modern weaponry, modern "arms" would be. The Second Amendment is obsolete.
I just don't understand how anyone can take this..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Arch_Stanton, Smedleyman
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If a couple hundred (thousand?) people manage to band together and purposefully report things at the level of happenstance (so as to not draw ire upon themselves) but intriguing enough happenstance to incite police investigations couldn't a band of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by regicide is good for you
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"phearlez, sorry, I don't buy the doe eyed innocent thing in this case. Maybe in a tiny minority of of CoS members. But even so. the second they tell you about the alien ghosts living in volcanoes you got wonder what type of moron sticks around after..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Lizc, Pope Guilty
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"No. No it's not. Not by a long shot. It's just one of the most recent. The big R religions have committed inexcusable atrocities through out history that CoS simply pales in comparison.
Fair enough. I was actually trying to keep the frame within..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"unSane writes: Didn't the Soviet Union destroy itself through military spending it couldn't afford?
If I might channel The Card Cheat here for a moment:
According to conservative lore, the Russians lost the cold war because they ramped up..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by panamax, Blazecock Pileon
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: Predicting the future and cherrypicking..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by axon, phrontist, delmoi, suckerpunch, nasreddin
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"WHEN U R READING THIS DONT STOP OR SOMETHING BAD WILL HAPPEN MY NAME IS SUMMER I AM 15 YEARS OLD i have BLONDE HAIR , SCARS no NOSE OR EARS I AM DEAD IF U DONT COPY THIS JUS LIKE FROM THE RING COPY N POST THIS ON 5 MORE SITES OR I WILL APPEAR ONE..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by papafrita
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"insulglass writes: Avenger, I'm not asking anyone to "lighten up" about torture. It's obviously a serious thing to contemplate. My plea was to lighten up regarding the lack of civility and the automatic wave of posts like the "fuck..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by From Bklyn, marble
Last year
MeTa comment:
"That's a member of the Mefi community that you the admin are calling names.
Unbelievably peurile and a poor example.
Dude. It's MetaTalk, the guy has made precisely one contribution to the site, which was a question whose naivete was..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spaceman_spiff
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Good. Couldn't happen to a better group of assholes.
There were any number of ways to respond to new content distribution mechanisms springing up in the late 90's. Any forward-looking executive worth his salt could probably have predicted that..." [
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favorited 3 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Admittedly, some high school students (including those who use drugs) are dumb. Most students, however, do not shed their brains at the schoolhouse gate, and most students know dumb advocacy when they see it. The notion that the message on this..." [
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favorited 2 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Under Mr Wyden’s plan, American employers would no longer provide health coverage, as they have since the second world war. Instead, they would convert the current cost of coverage into additional salary. Individuals would use this money to meet the..." [
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favorited 2 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"These people were taken to a dungeon and waterboarded. The whole thing lasted 15 minutes. No beatings. No car batteries on the nipples. So the rhetoric here about the evil Gestapo probably should be toned down a bit.
I'm assuming there's a..." [
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favorited 4 times
Last year
