MeTa comment:
"Also, the claims of early graduate dregrees and suchlike reminds me of un owen. Whatever happened to her?
posted by CunningLinguist at 10:30 AM on March 10 [+] [!]
UN Owen is around and posting via her "husband's" account,..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Prof. Jeremy Waldron's take on the "ticking time-bomb" question, both as a policy matter and a rhetorical tactic in the torture debates:
"The question is corrupt for a number of reasons. It is designed to bring the opponent of..." [
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"As much as I enjoy living in a town with different cultures here, I find the "working class Hispanic" subculture stands out as being kind of abrasive and depressing. Some people may be playing on blatant racism, but the culture itself and..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Power looks like preschool teachers forcing defenseless children to play in regimented ways and sucking the joy out of childhood through their pedantry...." [
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MeFi comment:
"Oh mah gaw. I hate Wendy Shalit more than anyone else on this entire planet. She seems to think that by harkening back to 1950's standards of modesty we will purify modern womanhood. She seems to think that virtue is proportionally related to the..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I think the important point in the op-ed is not that torture is ineffective in providing information, but rather that even if torture provided information, it would still be a bad way to run a counter-insurgency. Torture can't be contained to only..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I found the supplemental brief filed by the record companies in this case. The main issue is whether the defendant illegally shared files on Kazaa. But the judge did ask the parties to address whether a ripped mp3 copy by itself is illegal. I'm..." [
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MeFi comment:
"The point is not to get people not to vote for Obama who otherwise would have -- it's to energize the whacko conservative base who would otherwise stay at home and not vote...." [
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MeFi comment:
"Um, wow. I personally think anyone who thinks bicyclists should be required to ride on the [road], rather then the [sidewalk], are idiots. How often to cyclists cause serious injury to pedestrians?
Riding on sidewalks is not a good way to get..." [
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Ask comment:
"And here's another way to think about it: Imagine you get married and have a daughter with the guy. How would you feel about her watching you participate in this "tradition"?..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I fail to see how sitting around in a women's studies department castigating yourself and others for your white privilege really does the world any good...." [
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Ask comment:
"You say you love him - if that is true then you have to forgive him.
Sadly, tjvis, sometimes you can love someone and forgive them for their fuck ups, but still need to leave them...." [
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MeFi comment:
"HRW’s methods come as close as you can get to an unbiased, scientific investigation into what really goes on in war time. [Full disclosure: I used to work there.] Dershowitz’s entire argument seems to be that there are news reports that don’t..." [
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