MeFi comment:
"Helpful hint to aspiring authors: if you are quoting a best-of-craigslist posting as one of your primary strawmen in an article that completely fails to grasp what 'Darwinism' means, you should not be contemplating your own navel in the City Journal;..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chuckdarwin
Almost 3 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"As for calling me a bigot and comparing me to a Jim Crow supporter, I find that utterly disgusting. When liberals deem any difference in opinion to be bigoted hate speech, I can't even imagine what sort of descriptions they leave themselves for real..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by butterstick, chuckdarwin
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Heh. I was gonna suggest that someone who knows what they're doing make a Hypnobama by putting three-pupiled googly-eyes onto a picture of Obama, so that we could chant ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOBAMA.
Yeah, I've had this up on my cube wall since..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Robin Kestrel
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Look at any three women, odds are that by the time they're 45 at least one of them will have had an abortion, and depending on the study it could be as high as 50%.
Wow... I would have guessed the numbers were something like 25% of that. You're..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marsha56
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"One thing I'd like to point out is that almost everyone is a social liberal, its just that a big percentage lie about it.
95% of the US population will have sex before marriage.
98% will use contraception.
Between 33%-50% of women will have an..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marsha56, sondrialiac
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I sure would love to see a movie of The Long Walk.
Ohmygod yes. Actually, any of the four in Bachman Books would translate well to film. The Schwarzenegger-tastic Running Man was horrific, but they weren't even trying to follow the general..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ekstasis23
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Shame on those who are trying to depict her as a wacko. I hope they know they're insulting most Americans by doing so.
Ah yes. The ever-important and enigmatic..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by finite
3 weeks ago
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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favorited 81 times, recently by sephira, Dillonlikescookies, Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, rdn, RussHy, sugarfish, bookwo3107, kosher_jenny, orrnyereg, Sys Rq, schyler523, mmoncur, tiny crocodile, obiwanwasabi, gen, the luke parker fiasco, decagon, bitter-girl.com, chiababe, Rinku, erskelyne, avocet, PareidoliaticBoy, smartyboots, WCityMike, limeonaire, Solon and Thanks, spaltavian, tybeet, kcds, blueberry, Ron Thanagar, quin, porn in the woods, non-kneebiter, cmyk, Artichoke Dance Off!!, Nahum Tate, maqsarian, Mr. Bad Example, nitsuj, padraigin, Dark Messiah, shinynewnick, ekstasis23, Challahtronix, phatkitten, flatluigi, shmegegge, sheila t, maryh, griphus, lalochezia, Help, I can't stop talking!, jonp72, bunnytricks, vac2003, Jonathan Harford, Camofrog, WinnipegDragon, matteo, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, ST!NG, PROD_TPSL, grouse, mygothlaundry, cj_, Balisong, SuperSquirrel, longdaysjourney, Reverend John, cashman, pineapple, contessa, Dormant Gorilla, bitslayer, rtha, Mcable, grubi, gubo, leftcoastbob
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"One question - what would be the solution to a too-formal writing style? Should I throw in some random misspellings or what? Should I purposefully use bad grammar?
Nono. No. God, no. Speaking as a man who is dating someone he met on an online..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
4 weeks ago
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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!!
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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 32 times, recently by merelyglib, indienial, dantodd, special-k, Huw, SeanCier, HopperFan, ekstasis23, The Gooch, firstdrop, 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
Last month
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
Last month
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
2 months 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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Also, it occurrs to me--most of the weirdness in user-agent strings comes from the fact that every competing browser assumed that web servers were serving up content based on a partial string match, and the arms race was over the idea that someone..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by influx
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
6 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
6 months ago
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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favorited 7 times
7 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
7 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
8 months ago
