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
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MeFi comment:
"How about smug, prejudiced, classist? This is why Democrats can't win national elections.
So, your contention is that we should... what, exactly? The most woefully unqualified candidate in living memory, a caricature of everything that half the..." [
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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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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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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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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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MeTa comment:
"My girlfriend and I made a pretty rockin' Bob Ross and Happy Little Tree.
Credit to np312 on this one" [
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MeFi comment:
"My grandfather used to do this, and had such great deadpan delivery that we all bought into it until a much later age than we had any right doing so. I'm an excellent whistler, because on car trips the windows would only roll up and down if you..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I worksed at McDonaldsback in high school, and the best off-menu concoctions came at the crossover between breakfast and the rest of the menu. My personal favorite was an english muffin double cheeseburger with a fried egg, and hot fudge sundae..." [
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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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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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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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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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MeFi comment:
""I just wasn't fast enough," said Nguyen, a 23-year-old engineer from Pennsylvania. Asked how it felt to take second place, he was clearly disappointed: "I just got beaten by a teenage girl, but you know."
That was actually the..." [
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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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MeFi comment:
"There are days when I begin to suspect that my countless hours of playing SimCity may not have adequately modeled several real-world issues.
Great article; thanks!..." [
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MeFi comment:
"The extent to which authoritarian/ theocratic/ rightist/ corporatist ideological positions have made inroads in our republic is significant enough that I fear it has become brittle, and will fracture at the next significant shock. We're not there yet,..." [
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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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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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