Ask comment:
"I didn't vote for Bush, but please bear with me.
I'm more of an old-fashioned Eisenhower limited-government, fiscal-responsibility Republican, I thought the administration did a very poor job of anticipating what would be needed in post-Saddam..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by WCityMike
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"> You do realize that climatologists take thousands of core samples from all over the Arctic
> icecap, providing them with a cutaway view of the various layers of ice/snow deposited
> over many tens of thousands years, yes? It's pretty..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"> 17th time's a charm.
> posted by drjimmy11 at 7:36 PM on September 1
I'm sure I've seen more than 17 Iranfoilhatfilter posts. Actually I think y2karl has put up at least 17 all by himself. Here's a few more:
August 1, 2008: Bomb bomb..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by rokusan, gsteff, davidmsc, bitterpants
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"> I know plenty of women who've had abortions. They've gone in in the morning,
> come out a few hours later, and they've led the rest of their lives with no
> guilt or compunction about it at all. Why don't I ever see this portrayed?
>..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nasreddin, milarepa
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"> it's not that I don't find the falling for all the "hope" talk endearing
You know, even fabio gets tired of posing occasionally." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by msalt, Lentrohamsanin
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Excavated and recycled one more time... (Gracious me, I hope the pre tag does live what it does on preview, otherwise this may look strange)
THE REC.MUSIC.MAKERS.GUITAR NEWSREADER
This is the formal announcement of the RMMG NEWSREADER,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, Spatch, Kronos_to_Earth, shmegegge
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
">> baseball bat for David Brooks.
> Just make sure not to use a maple one, you might get a splinter.
Use an aluminum bat. And bring your sampling mic, you'll love that analog boink...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by A dead Quaker
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"> I think the stone wall we are going to continue to hit is that some people are still arguing
> that the choice to have sex with a woman is not a choice to accept the risk of pregnancy.
Personal responsibility's a pain, ain't it? One..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Miko, oneirodynia, onlyconnect
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> So a former gospel singer flooding the chars with "Ur So Gay" and "I Kissed a Girl" people are bound to get a little cranky.
OTOH the characteristics of "I Kissed a Girl," lyrics and music alike, are exactly..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> If the majority of your friends were blue collar, semi-rural, and were still voting
>? Republican, that means they were voting against their own self-interest. Which
> makes them idiots. Sorry to have to break it to you.
Only monkeys..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by quonsar, orrnyereg
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Is praying for cheap gas prayer? From my p.o.v. it isn't.
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them (Dag Hammarskjöld)
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Deathalicious, agregoli, Tubes
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> How about books that you are embarrassed to have read?
I'm not exactly embarassed to have read it, but I am genuinely sorry I ever read Ethan Frome. It reduced my lifetime pleasure-in-living quotient by half a dozen points that aren't ever..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by you're a kitty!, orrnyereg
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> Ultimately science is about answering interesting questions, but why would the question
> of race and innate genetic intelligence be interesting to people who are not racists?
> posted by delmoi at 1:40 AM on July 24 [4 favorites +] [!]..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Kwantsar, BrotherCaine, TheOnlyCoolTim
Last month
MeFi comment:
">> In a time when "He hurt my tender feelings" is actionable, there's never going to be any difficulty showing loss.
>
> jfuller, I second Blazecock Pileon's request that you back this up with a cite. I think you're..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by humannaire
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> Goodness, that's quite the demonstration of how to weasel with words, given that you
> live in the United States and the setting of the post is the Netherlands, and not the UK.
> But you get an A+ for the try, though. Excellent effort...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kwantsar
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> You live in the U.S. Do you have any U.S. cites to demonstrate that "hurting" someone's "tender feelings is actionable?"
Venue-shopping, eh? But we haven't gone quite as far 'round the bend (about this particular matter)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rockhopper
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If there's anyone who would like to learn the actual math of geodesic domes, there is a very accessible book about it (google books sample) -- accessible, but the math is fully worked out -- by, oddly enough, Hugh Kenner, who was (one would guess..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DU
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> Isn't there a word for the style of government where the police take orders from people rich and/or "important" enough for security details?
Yep. The word you're fishing for is "all...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by bitterpants, jtron, fullerine
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> The assemblage was held together with was.
For a moment that was just a web page mistyping. Then it suddenly gave me an intense moment of time collapse. "You can't change me or undo me. I was, therefore I am...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by teraflop, treepour, Countess Elena
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So I take it we won't be seeing those millions who don't share the mefi late-liberal mindset dismissed as stupid ever again? That's welcome; il ennuyeux.
> The real Yale may look ancient
Bertrand Russell on Princeton: "Full of new..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm totally behind putting a stop to animal fighting as an organized activity. Running a dog fighting operation (or getting caught at a dog fight watching and betting)? That's a bust, and rightly so.
I don't, however, like the idea of laws or..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by jonmc, penduluum, ltracey, rtha, Skwirl, vertigo25, roystgnr, confusionball, signalnine, Joey Bagels
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> It's interesting that a lot of the complaints here and on the list seem to be about software that's FREE.
> ...
> Aside from #8 (obv), all of these programs require you to initially install them, don't they?
Technically they do--at..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sotonohito, lukemeister
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Thanks, they're wonderful.
But...all the little images. People out there rip and share rock'n'roll and recent movies until everyone hollers mercy. So when will we have the technology (and the interest! among rippers and file-sharers) to liberate..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dan g.
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> Btw watching that 30 rock episode I really regretted never having seen Amadeus.
Amadeus is for people who like celebrity gossip and don't care beans for music. It begins many, many pieces by W.A.M. and then, just as you settle back to enjoy..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kadin2048, Smart Dalek
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> There are a couple people who are criticizing this on the "once you pay them, you take away the intrinsic reward" thing.
Yes, and that's right up there with supporting abstinence-only sex ed by saying "Kids should want to be..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by klangklangston, showbiz_liz, Pope Guilty
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> My first rule of national security: Grow your own food.
I have tried on more than many occasions over the decades to explain why Japan's rice trade policy (which is basically Import? That would be a No) is not only not regressive and..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by salvia, jamjam, showbiz_liz, Bovine Love, KokuRyu
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> some of the problems have been warned about since at least 1998
I have to say, speaking as someone who has for 30-odd years been getting his futurology from sources most folks here would find sympathetic (e.g. Sierra Club, Friends of the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jamjam, psmealey
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> The fact that a near term problem has arisen does not justify wasting untold billions
> in the form of higher prices and misallocated resource for decades prior.
My house burning down would be a pretty big near-term problem for me too...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marble, Kadin2048
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I for one will seriously miss our French theory overlords. Derrida and Foucault and Lyotard and honorary Frenchman Umberto Eco, prominently carried around in paperback, have figured in so many uncountable thousands of coffeeshop encounters between..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by lalochezia, Kwantsar, pmdboi
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> Is there anything in there which called for him to lose his job and the demonization he
> continues to receive?
Certainly. If you don't just fall all over yourself demonstrating that you're more with us than we are with ourselves, you're..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Scoo
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"235 comments and counting, and nobody's seen fit to mention Heston's single greatest performance--as Long John Silver in Ted Turner's cable-only Treasure Island. It's the finest Silver I've ever seen or ever hope to see, played with complete..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tkchrist, brundlefly, Snyder
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> They just couldn't forsee how incredibly potent modern weaponry, modern "arms" would be. The
> Second Amendment is obsolete.
Yep, that's why the world's small-arms-carrying irregular and guerilla forces, from the Viet Cong to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by showbiz_liz
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> "Welcome to my childhood. He'll survive."
> posted by empath at 3:41 AM on March 24
>
> Eponysterical.
>
> He'll survive as what? As a failure because he can't concentrate at school for his constant
> and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by misanthropicsarah, chimaera
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> I listen to 1000 albums before breakfast, fuckos!
Feast or famine, ain't it? Abraham Lincoln didn't hear a single one of these albums before he died...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spacewaitress
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"> and keep in mind that a very prominent Biblical scholar of the past century wrote that you cannot believe that corpses
> come back to life three days after their death and also turn on your electric reading lamp without contradicting..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Miko, nasreddin, low_horrible_immoral
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> Alien 1: This satellite is a perfect place to stop and rest before we finish our journey to Earth
> and replicate ourselves into an attacking army.
>
> Alien 2: What's that outside?
>
> Alien 1: Oh shit! It's a mis--
Oh..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Tehanu
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> I would go further and say that interactivity is crucial to any social impact at all. Plays were
> taken very seriously in days gone by. The Greeks had a religious reverence for them. The
> middle ages, they were potent forces for..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kittens for breakfast
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> WWI really screwed up europe, and they're still trying to get over it. No wait, Napoleon really
> screwed up Europe and they're trying to... Holy Roman Empire? Ummm, yeah.
We had a real nice little hunter-gatherer-megalith-builder thing..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by tehloki, badrolemodel, litlnemo, nasreddin, verb, UbuRoivas
6 months ago
