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MeFi post:
Don't Panic
Confucius say, "He who get buried by Great Wall of China should hire a hat man."
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 9:37 PM on March 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
posted by Blazecock Pileon What's even more shocking is that not one of them, not one, is actually guilty of breaking any law. Amazing.
So Lynndie England and Charles Graner were innocent? Amazing!
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 10:32 AM on February 29, 2008
Thank goodness dbiedny is here to set us back on the narrow path to righteousness by admonishing us with his unique style of shrieking, overwrought, and sanctimonious outrage that sounds exactly like the braying honk of a jackass.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 3:00 PM on February 29, 2008
MeFi post:
McCain's extraterritorial birth
This debate is even dumber than the first time Rush Limbaugh brought it up.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 10:11 AM on February 28, 2008
From Wikipedia:
McCain faced two experienced state legislators in the Republican nomination process, and as a newcomer to the state was hit with repeated charges of being a carpetbagger. Finally at a candidates forum he gave a famous refutation to a voter making the charge:
“Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 11:08 AM on February 28, 2008
MeFi post:
It's Official.
Ralph Nader has become the Corvair of American politics.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 11:41 AM on February 24, 2008
posted by BrotherCaine he's morphing into a skull on a stick.
I'm picturing Ralph Nader in a rest home, clattering noisily with his walker toward the podium at dinner hour and announcing he's running for president. He teeters there for a few minutes, saying the Republicans are just like the Democrats and the only way we'll ever have fresh rolls with the beef stew is to elect him, and then two orderlies gently usher him to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 8:47 PM on February 24, 2008
MeFi post:
All the Kirk you can eat
posted by tkchrist I love TOS so much. But one thing I just can't excuse. The fight choreography was terrible. I mean REALLY terrible.
But it has so many wonderful and unexpected surprises, like when Kirk's pants split open during the fight scene in The Savage Curtain!
Also, The Gamesters of Triskelion contains one of the best Kirk lines: "Stop! You're... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 6:25 PM on February 22, 2008
MeFi post:
The Promised Land
posted by Artnchicken In college I got to experience making Polaroid transfers and I'd like to try that again.
Image transfers are one of the reasons I picked up a Polaroid camera--here (self-link) are some of mine. Feel free to drop me a line if you'd like more information.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 10:34 AM on February 7, 2008
posted by tommasz You can still get pack film and many of those old cameras are perfectly usable. The only gotcha on some of them is the oddball batteries they use. You can get them, but they're not cheap and not stocked at Radio Shack.
I had the same complaint, so I soldered in a new battery box and a new set of leads so my Polaroids could use standard, over-the counter batteries.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 10:54 AM on February 7, 2008
MeFi post:
Blog from Iraq by an ex soldier
I'm fairly certain that site was professionally designed and built. Check out the source code--there's a lot of oddly-placed pro-military stuff in there:
One of the reasons I trust General Petraeus is he just comes right out and says what needs to be said. A letter about values which he sent to our forces serving in Iraq is a case in point.
There is great stress in combat, and this particular type of combat can be very... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 5:42 PM on January 25, 2008
Yeah, this is just crappy Pentagon propaganda.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 5:43 PM on January 25, 2008
MeFi post:
"I understand there is also a cannon."
posted by game warden to the events rhino It's hilarious that anyone believes there is some fault with the law. For one thing, it's green belt land, and for another thing, you obviously don't get to take advantage of the four-year non-objection rule if you hide the damn thing in a bunch of hay.
There's no fault with the law; the law is poorly written. If no one objected to the haystack for four years, they've got no reason... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 2:41 PM on January 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Everyblock: local news for everywhere
Whoa, I lived within walking distance of mathowie!
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 2:33 PM on January 23, 2008
If a city could have a Twitter feed, it would look a lot like Everyblock.
What are you doing right now?
11:02am: Who the fuck just spraypainted me in the Western Addition?
12:51pm: Someone just crashed into my wall at 9th & Irving. Goddamn, I'm full of people who cannot drive.
1:34pm: Another set of keys in my sewer? That does it, I'm gonna flood the street.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 3:34 PM on January 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Heath Ledger dies
posted by jonmc it's our duty to cut them down to size.
No, it isn't. People who think so are just deeply insecure and jealous assholes.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 5:25 PM on January 22, 2008
posted by SassHat Can I get a witness
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 5:41 PM on January 22, 2008
posted by ZachsMind So if you're fat, people expect you to die, but if you are pretty... yeah. huh . . . How dare you.
Cool Papa Bell didn't say anything about being fat or pretty, Zach.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 7:06 PM on January 22, 2008
MeFi post:
What would Jesus do?
posted by tkolar Linda Tripp, for example, suffered no legal consequences for betraying Monica Lewinsky's confidence.
Well, not quite. She was indicted, but the charges were dropped--not because she was innocent, but because Monica Lewinsky's testimony against her was, "bathed in impermissable taint."
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 6:24 PM on January 18, 2008
posted by tkolar She was indicted for wiretapping though, not for publicizing a "private" conversation. If she hadn't taped recordings without consent, there would have been no case at all.
Right, but that wasn't my point. I'm simply pointing out that Tripp did indeed face legal consequences, but the case against her was dropped.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 7:21 PM on January 18, 2008
MeFi post:
Your move, Mr Spassky
When the game is over, the king and the pawn go in the same box.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 6:26 AM on January 18, 2008
posted by cortex Picasso was a real son of a bitch too, as I understand it, but he was also Picasso.
Yes, but Pablo Picasso was never called an "asshole".
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 10:03 AM on January 18, 2008
Night takes king.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 10:56 AM on January 18, 2008
MeFi post:
Ballpits as office furniture
posted by Pope Guilty How does this relate to Ron Paul?
Ron Paul would write an essay accusing the green balls of being responsible for more crime and violence in the pit, and then he'd deny writing it, and then he'd insist that ball pits are unconstitutional and that every state should have its own ball.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt
at 7:27 PM on January 16, 2008
