MeFi comment:
"[I]t is clear to me that Metafilter is so partisan that it can't really view election issues clearly or with any distance. This was a really smart move for McCain, as long as she doesn't have something in her past that will come back to bite him...." [
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favorited 61 times, recently by flatluigi, thewittyname
Last month
MeTa comment:
"What equipment were you using that night?
Bodies: Canon 5D, DReb XT. Lenses: 16-35/2.8, 24/1.4, 85/1.2. Speedlite 430EX.
Okay, please tell me how to take pictures like that.
This is not a rhetorical compliment. I really want to know how you..." [
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favorited 229 times, recently by Ziggy500, xammerboy, vbfg, tapesonthefloor, RikiTikiTavi, Brainy, Demogorgon, echo target, YoBananaBoy, mai, rewil, Lemurrhea, Doofus Magoo, fizzix, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, dozo, gmarceau, jamaro, itesser, dhartung, bbyboi, buddha9090, Nickel, effigy, Xelf
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
""If I had a choice, I would want to include these distrustful folks in finding solutions. I would prefer it if they understood. I would prefer it if they could see the long sequence of events that is going to address their fears and create the..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by papafrita
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Nothing's been decided yet. The Republicans always close strongly with their famed and well-established 72-hour GOTV operations. Voters may side with Obama by a large margin, but it's still up to Obama's supporters to get them out and turn potential..." [
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favorited 146 times, recently by _dario, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, range, magstheaxe, Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, one teak forest, LobsterMitten, gen, rmm, m0nm0n, ColdChef, Duug, Jaybo, kosher_jenny, lupus_yonderboy, malocchio, Nattie, Rhaomi, RakDaddy, misha, flibbertigibbet, CitrusFreak12, chuckdarwin, urbanwhaleshark, flatluigi, greenskpr, enkiwa, stavrosthewonderchicken, penduluum, mindless progress, cashman, jb, goshling, ocha-no-mizu, fleetmouse, vers, Hutch, blueberry, ramix, weapons-grade pandemonium, Optimus Chyme, yertledaturtle, bumpkin, Caduceus, maggieb, Orrorin, gemmy, jlbartosa, maqsarian, RussHy, Ms. Saint, Kat Allison, ArkhanJG, gamera, lalochezia, Sangermaine, Feisty, gofargogo, Horace Rumpole, clearly, nev, exlotuseater, raztaj, eckeric, Balonious Assault, Locative, shmegegge, gladly, vito90, no1hatchling, heeeraldo, jack_mo, joedan, BozoBurgerBonanza, By The Grace of God, AceRock, olya, padraigin, kittyb, Optamystic, jasper411, Mr. Palomar, Aubergine, wzcx, omegar, tylerfulltilt, six-or-six-thirty, jtron, anagrama, cairnish, rodgerd, turaho, The Bellman, phatkitten, box, desjardins, anthill, funkiwan, rtha, Menomena, ~, GrammarMoses, letourneau, idb, mrzarquon, gingerbeer, like_neon, baphomet, Miko, scody, Brandon Blatcher, lord_wolf, worldswalker, jocelmeow, jokeefe, gruchall, mothershock, bowline, languagehat, garlic, Floydd, KathyK, DevilsAdvocate, ZakDaddy, rory, 40 Watt, Rock Steady, pineapple, Sailormom, chunking express, Haruspex, bardic, chrismear, peachfuzz, snofoam, Jofus, almostmanda, bunnytricks, device55, The Card Cheat, yhbc, shiu mai baby, DU, empyrean, lunit, Happy Dave
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"flarbuse: "Well, it seems to be unfolding now, but there seem to be a large amount of people who are essentially saying that the nominee should be chosen by who received the majority of the delegates, not whether someone was able to reach the..." [
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favorited 43 times, recently by alice ayres, inire
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"Ack, I'm a bad influence!
normy's right on about Pentax/Minolta DSLR's having (relatively) great viewfinders -- the Nikon D70/D70s/D50 and Canon Rebel XT are simply wretched in that department. Having said that, it's not as big of a deal with..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by ambrosia, mippy
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Just as I predicted upthread: Hillary Clinton will be dropping the hammer on Palin:Advisers to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Sunday that Senator John McCain’s selection of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate would lead to a..." [
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favorited 29 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"To answer your question, I shot the meetup with a Pentax K10D and DA 70/2.4.
Why Pentax? I'm finding that I don't take my work Canon rig out for personal shooting nearly as much as I'd like to these days. Canon's f/1.2-1.4 L-primes and f/2.8..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by snowleopard, Doofus Magoo, Smart Dalek
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Thanks for the compliments!
how did the pics from Grassroots turn out?
Not at all, really. It was a bad idea to try to start putzing around with the camera sometime past midnight, given all the drinking going on before then.
How do you get..." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by snowleopard, grabbingsand, carbide, keijo, JDHarper
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"What would be a good lens for my girlfriend to replace the EFS 18-55?
What does she prefer -- long reach or wide view? Extended zoom range or extended aperture range? (i.e. larger aperture lenses with the ability to shoot under less light.)
The..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by youarenothere
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
""The figures she quotes tell a grim story. In America today there are 18 million single men over 35 - but 28 million single woman in that age bracket."
On that note, I'm looking for a publisher for my book, Find a Wife After 18 Using..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grobstein
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"For best results, you'll need to rephrase in the question in the form of an actual plan:
1) Email mathowie and allkindsoftime to see which date works best for them and which parts of the city works best within their transportation constraints;
2)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by theora55
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
">> You know, I think there's also a very good case to be made that this may motivate Hillary Clinton to work even harder to elect Barack Obama.
> What the fuck is Hillary Clinton supposed to do at this point, exactly? I'm tired of the..." [
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favorited 73 times, recently by scrump
10 months ago
Ask comment:
"Fuck people... I'm going back into my hole of solitude, and not coming out again.
I've been hiding like this for years and it simply does not work. You will fall in love with a co-worker, the cute barista at your local cafe, a stranger online, a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by coffeechica
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The 50mm POV is a tricky beast to use, a chameleon among lenses. It's boring and hard to make interesting photos with this POV. Most of the time it feels too long to me, while occasionally it feels too short -- and rarely just right. It took me..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by poq
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"bonaldi: It's a pity that the video is going to insulate Canon from the effects of what is really a shitty upgrade to the 5d. The original 5d was an awesome camera, huge pixels, incredible image quality. All it really needed was decent autofocus and..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by krautland, chuckdarwin
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I have the original 5d and it is an amazing camera; ISO 3200 is very usable. ISO 25600 in the new version? No telling what you DaShiv could do with that.
Already salivating, and have been waiting for a long time for Canon's low-light answer to..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last year
MeFi comment:
"onlyconnect: Re: gov'r of Alaska. First of all, Alaska is an incredibly homogeneous state -- overwhelmingly white, mostly male, one-party Republican rule -- and that pushes poll numbers toward the extremes. Thus, her approval ratings have to be taken..." [
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favorited 71 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"The problem with Obama going really, really negative is the unspoken but widespread discomfort when Blacks speak truth to power in America. Martin Luther King, for instance, has been "whitewashed" to the extent to where all people are..." [
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favorited 73 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"The roll call was great, well-executed political theater. The disputed Florida and Michigan delegations were given crucial opportunities to cast their full votes, New Mexico honored the Illinois delegation by yielding the floor to them that allowed..." [
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favorited 131 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Despite the risks, one major McCain reason for picking Palin is becoming increasingly obvious: highest probability of self-inflicted Democratic wounds through various overenthusiastic and overreaching attacks. She's a ready-made target for the loose..." [
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favorited 31 times
Last year
Ask comment:
"At 19, your first priority should be to become a more interesting person, which will expand your social sphere and lead to meeting more women. Trying to become a pick-up artist at 19 is like polishing a turd. Though you may catch some flies.
Spend..." [
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favorited 12 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"You're right, Blazecock, I sounded more glib than I meant to when I said that FISA's finally over. It's not that FISA is an unimportant fight, but rather that it's a doomed fight: months and months of fighting and pushing from progressive quarters..." [
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favorited 8 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Obama's Iraq positioning is a non-story. Those who haven't seen the huge discrepancy between the free ride McCain enjoyed for his "100-years, wait make that just until 2013 and all casualty-free" Iraq fantasy versus the trashing Obama..." [
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favorited 13 times
Last year
MeTa comment:
"OH HAI I'M IN UR MEETUP STEALIN UR C4M3R4Z!!!
So I was just sitting there talking to a few people at one end of the group, quietly mentioning to someone next to me that I was feeling a bit out of sorts that night. Then my fingers get itchy and I..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Kerouac's introduction was the single aspect of The Americans that I despised. His tumbling and gregarious procession of rejoining thoughts and feelings and details encroached upon the austerity of Frank's photos in The Americans from all sides...." [
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favorited 1 time
Last year
MeTa comment:
"The information I have is that she died of a heart problem in her sleep.
Jeannie was very willful and perceptive, and more often than not her words bore that incisive wit of hers. The first time we met I was very much struck by her, and even more..." [
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favorited 14 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"What Ebert means by making the "high art" distinction is interesting. Wikipedia redirects me to high culture, which it defines as "the set of cultural products — mainly in the arts — held in highest esteem by a culture, and the culture..." [
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favorited 4 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"delmoi: If she had been running the campaign she's been running lately after super Tuesday, she'd probably be the winner now
No. The math: Super Tuesday decided the race. The video fails to give the proper context that the race has been over for..." [
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favorited 68 times
Last year
MeTa comment:
"wemayfreeze: "It's about time Obama stops dipping into the fray. Wouldn't it be great if his campaign released an official statement saying, "I'm sure she didn't mean anything by it"? When he tries to capitalize on her gaffes he admits..." [
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favorited 186 times
Last year
MeTa comment:
"When Chuck Norris was a boy, DaShiv taught him the roundhouse kick.
Thanks everyone. It's a bit surreal to me that my perverse interest in the arcana of the nomination process would find an audience at all, but that's yet another odd wrinkle in..." [
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favorited 7 times
Last year
MeTa comment:
"citron: "I just read the Frank Rich thread and it's like a different planet in which.. an underlying assumption seems to be that the American electorate is as smitten with Obama as MeFi, or will soon be? Not quite. His prospects of winning vs..." [
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favorited 59 times
Last year
MeTa comment:
"She was "date-stamping" June with respect to the historical length of the nominating process. Perhaps you missed the part where I quoted her when I cited the two sentences immediately preceding her RFK reference: "People have short..." [
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favorited 14 times
Last year
MeTa comment:
"On the other hand, sometimes questions raise sub-questions and related material, which I also love. Within a thread, the original ask-er may find answers to questions s/he didn't even know s/he had. I wouldn't want to see the expansive nature of the..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last year
MeFi comment:
"creasyboy: "From my viewpoint these fixed demographic voting blocs he's talking about were established very late and were a surprise to everyone. I'm a college-educated white and I voted for Obama, but the fact that I was apparently..." [
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favorited 19 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"First of all, these guys are genuinely funny at many moments, and it's hard to fault funny.
That said, many of these issues (blocked entrances, clipping through floors, etc) boil down to one factor: shoddy map design. For example, the demoman's..." [
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favorited 5 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"onlyconnect: I would like to see the person with the largest amount of popular votes carry the day.
So would I, because it would make the outcome unambiguous. But the Clinton campaign, being behind as they are right now, has been deliberately..." [
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favorited 20 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Obama Offers a Progressive Vision of Patriotism: He began to build a progressive narrative that Democrats, and the progressive movement more broadly, have had difficulty developing. He offered a progressive vision of patriotism, integrating a more..." [
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favorited 3 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"onlyconnect: The fact that they may not be able to work something out here really sucks. It seems to me like both candidates are basing their positions on the bottom line here, and I'm disappointed in both of them.
Let's not forget that with all..." [
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favorited 2 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"onlyconnect: Alot has been said here about MetaMan and all he has done to turn you all off of Clinton. I am a Democrat who voted for Obama in the primaries, and alot of the anti-Clinton rhetoric in this thread is having some of the same effect of..." [
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favorited 7 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I forgot to mention this earlier, but those who haven't seen Reverend Wright's remarks in their original context should take a look for themselves. His "America's chickens have come home to roost" line fell squarely in the middle of an..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last year
MeFi comment:
"As commentators at The Field noted:Another suprising defender of Obama this morning on MSNBC — Gov. Mike Huckabee:
He was impressed by the speech and how Obama is handling the race issue. He brought up Jerry Falwell, and said that Falwell said..." [
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favorited 10 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Sir BoBoMonkey: To bring this to the issue of the current candidates and previous recent presidents, I'm thinking that with Obama's oratory skills he would make for a good figure head, potentially capable of being a good/great leader, depending on..." [
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favorited 9 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Where Morgan says:
It was the women’s movement that quipped, “We are becoming the men we wanted to marry.” She heard us, and she has.
She agrees with me that her generation of leaders had to adopt the political attitudes and strategies of the..." [
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favorited 3 times
Last year
