MeFi comment:
"The funny, via Wonkette: "half-ass semi-comical crimes committed by that beloved Alaskan anger-bear, Sarah Palin"
The serious: When they lie, call them liars
A comment on the second-linked story read:The problem is that calling Palin..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes
2 ½ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"It IS interesting seeing people start asking these questions...particularly since my generation really has been told by feminists that all we need are good jobs and good daycares.
...and equal pay, and protection from harassment, and any number of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by shiu mai baby
6 ½ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"But if my water heater fails, it doesn't get replaced by a mysterious black box that I'm not allowed to ask questions about.
I dunno, cortex, have you checked behind your water heater recently? The black box might be hiding out, like Sarah Palin..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by pyramid termite, NoMich, Artw
7 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Also: whoa. No wonder Alaskans "like" her, I'd like someone handing out big fat checks for nothing. Paging Dire Straits! We've got a theme song job for you over here......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Y'know, being on the youngish side (33), I've successfully blocked a lot of the 1992 election out of my brain, but today I was inspired to look up Admiral Stockdale, and found this quote on his Wikipedia page:
"A liberally educated person..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marble, brain cloud
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Considering that only yesterday at least half of you thought she was gonna get dumped from the ticket any minute....
Please. When Peggy I-Keep-One-Of-Ronald-Reagan's-Fingers-in-a-Shrine-in-My-Bedroom Noonan is taking potshots at the Republican VP..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by blueberry, Space Kitty, schyler523, contessa, shiu mai baby, readery, emelenjr, clarahamster, Pope Guilty, drezdn, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Ok, konolia, I see where you're coming from, but I still don't buy it. No one's trotting out her commercial fishing experience, car wash ownership, or lack of a job for a few years and saying bad things about that. We're judging her based on her..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by blueberry, glycolized, RussHy, jonp72, contessa, Hutch, shiu mai baby
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't feel it was (merely) "creepy". I feel that it was fundamentally based on hatred.
That's the thing -- over in the Wonkette Palin speech liveblog post, someone commented (paraphrased): "What? Is 'community organizer' code word..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by blueberry, agregoli, EarBucket, BrotherCaine
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"psmealey's got it. I was a Hillary supporter. A hardcore, house-divided against my boyfriend (we cancelled each other's primary votes out) Hillary supporter. Someone who once got into a fistfight with her best friend's brother over the Carter/Reagan..." [
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favorited 22 times, recently by blueberry, penduluum, msali, kosher_jenny, Megami, jokeefe, iamkimiam, dejah420, Jimbob, BrotherCaine, docpops, emelenjr, jonp72, lunit, delmoi, AwkwardPause, Bookhouse, homunculus, shiu mai baby, cashman, EarBucket, These Premises Are Alarmed
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Hello friends in Minneapolis. This will be cold comfort but: plan a protest and hope you get arrested like this. The law suit will be lucrative. Take that money and run to the coast as fast as you can.
Unfortunately these lawsuits, which are a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by regicide is good for you
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I agree with you, onlyconnect, re:
Most of the people on this site seem to be Democrats or at least liberal leaning, and for the most part we don't understand how our country could have chosen Bush over Gore in 2000 or Bush over Kerry in 2004...." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by palomar, dejah420, amyms, BrotherCaine, zarah, shiu mai baby, onlyconnect
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"On CNN Wolf Blitzer just anounced that John McCain has cancelled tonight's originally scheduled interview with Larry King because he and his camp are upset over Campbell Brown's interview yesterday with Tucker Bounds.
WHINER.
Awwww, whassamatta..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, scody
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The Campbell Brown smackdown jamstigator was referring to is also here. It wasn't nearly as funny as the James Carville/Stephanie Miller/Michele Bachmann Turner Overdrive smackdown later last night, though...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, madamjujujive
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Actually I see Obama as more global. Think about it.
That's not a slam at him, that's actually a feature, and a strong point. But it doesn't help him relate to Joe Sixpack.
Yes, but konolia, where does it say that "relating to Joe..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
4 days ago
MeFi post:
(Comic) Con Anti-Harassment Project
favorited 15 times, recently by Karmakaze, interiority, palomar, rokabiri, ursus_comiter, nicolin, brujita, Artw, bettafish, jtron, elizardbits, nickyskye, spec80, orrnyereg, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I apologize, as the OP. Perhaps the better link to look at (other than the first one here) is the FAQ at CAHP. It has links to reports of much, much worse behavior, far worse than the ones we're plates-of-beansing. For example:Brushing shoulders with..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ursus_comiter, sondrialiac, Sidhedevil
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"This isn't a perfect analogy though as the dancers automatically have greater credibility being employees rather than some random customer. I'd imagine that even at cons without specific harassment policy grabbing the ass of a organizing committee..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Especially when there are some women who are scantily clad in the room, Phalene! Don't forget it means you should behave like all of them are... snort.
The most appalling thing I read in following up links about this before the CAHP started was a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Suparnova
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"But the facts of the matter are that the organizers of the Con itself feel otherwise, and I assume they know more about the situation than you do.
Ummm. Actually, no. They haven't made a peep, which is why the CAHP came about after this year's..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by djfiander, rtha
12 days ago
Ask comment:
"When I sold computers full time (I took a few months off in college to earn money for my internship abroad), I took all kinds of abuse from male customers who didn't think a GIRL could possibly know anything about Big Fancy Electronics. Specifically,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Solomon, herbaliser
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"How about we let students make up their own minds, and not choose which things to "emphasize" in order to try to mold them into our version of "morality"?
As a former history TA, though I'm with you on encouraging students to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by electrasteph, RedEmma
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Much as I admire Long Tom, it has not been established that "Jeffersonian" is identical to "American."
Oh yeah? What about Fake Thomas Jefferson? If anything equates to the Evil League of Evil, it's a "debate" like..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brain cloud
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I was telling my mom about R. Crumb's Kafka book and happened to be talking really fast at the time, so all she heard was "Crumbkafka." "Crumbkafka? What is that? Some kind of cake?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"HuronBob, you DO know that this may be fiction, but that these things happen more frequently than we'd care to admit in real life, right??? See, for example, the sad story of the dachshund in my post.
And it's indicative of a deep level of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"(And on post -- decoherence is reading my mind with secret thoughtwaves or something, particularly "That doesn't mean they're dumb or inferior; just that they're not necessarily cut out for college at that time." -- ditto!)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Huplescat
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In fact, I'd argue that the truly capable students at large public schools are both the beneficiaries (or victims, depending on your perspective) of even more profound grade inflation; because the bar is set so low by their peers, they're able to get..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by transona5
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, Konolia. I tried, but I just can't help myself (a moral failing, I'm sure):
How many of you read that other thread on the front page about the "baby farmers" that took children from unwed mothers ostensibly to care for them but..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim, jb
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I still like the Habsburg Herzgruft (hearts crypt) in Vienna the best. All those wee, dead Habsburg hearts separated from their bodies and preserved in tiny urns. 54 of 'em, to be exact. It's creepy, but also cool in its own way. See here for photos..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by scody
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Fair enough, Forktine. And agreed, even the lowliest adjunct still has agency, but we don't know where Professor X is teaching, and what's happened to those who have spoken up in the past...it's outside the overall scope of the article. Rather than..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"MrVisible: We've allowed our educational system to decline to the point where education is the last of its priorities.
Well, yeah, more on this in a sec.
Forktine: In many ways, the author is displaying the passivity that he or she found..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I enjoy imagining Alan saying this in his Hans Gruber/Severus Snape voice.
I enjoy imagining him saying a LOT of things in that voice. Most of them involve me being pantsless.
As I recall it, at the equivalent stage, before he actually took..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by etaoin, Artw
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Recently in Cleveland there was a show on the local NPR affiliate that talked about his work and how, when he went to art school, there was an expectation he'd become a ceramics artist because he was from a town that's very well known for ceramics...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tellurian
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Speaking as someone who had a empirically measurable difference in the amount my broken, scar-tissue filled elbow was able to move (15 additional degrees of motion almost immediately after beginning the acupuncture and electrical pulse therapy, when..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"everichon: We have also seriously considered "Dracula", and this is another reason we that our union should never be cursed with issue.
Potential childrens' names I have vetoed in our house:
1. Galactus
2. Modok
3. Shaft. ("No,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, litlnemo
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You want bitter?
(And yes, I'll pre-emptively make the "eponysterical" comment about my own username, although it predates it)
How about "the Dean scream"? That has got to be the single most egregious and offensive example..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cass
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Lentrohamsanin -- if you're interested in the Heliand, you might also want to grab a copy of The Saxon Savior (the former as translated and annotated by, and the latter written by) G. Ronald Murphy, SJ. It goes into a lot of the backstory that will..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by LeeJay, trip and a half, mwhybark, ourobouros, weebil, whir, paduasoy
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Stuff nobody likes #101: people who use the same blog template and writing style as a blogger who just got $350K for his stuff white people like blog." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Crabby Appleton
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Reminds me of my fourth grade teacher telling us she'd go up on the roof of the school if the Russians dropped the bomb instead of suffering through radiation poisoning and dying slowly. This was at the height of the Reagan era, and from the sound of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ekstasis23
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Corner the bullies yourself armed with a nine-iron and beat the mother-loving hell out of them.
A version of this worked for my 5-foot-nothing grandmother in the early 1960s when the local redneck bullies were tormenting my uncle. She used the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by vira, Crabby Appleton
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm curious what you mean by "very poor socialization."
And so am I, rusty.
School is mostly about socialization, and human society in general tends to punish those who are different to an unacceptable degree.
No, school is about..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jonp72, roystgnr
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You're kidding, right, elpapacito? How is changing seats to move in next to a sleeping woman and then masturbating to completion -- which, somehow (MAGICALLY, I suppose) ends up in her hair -- not a violation? And since when do you have to have..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by tehloki, lunit, hadjiboy, dabitch, Nattie, Locative, loiseau
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What really irritates me is that at landing, the flight attendants are obsessed with getting you to take out of your iPod earbuds (even if it's not on), put the (usually broken) seat back into some mythic, unattainable position, and generally harass..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by tehloki, notashroom, hadjiboy, dabitch, Nattie, Dreama, bunnytricks
5 months ago
