Clarence Thomas dissenting opinion focused on underwear aspect of case

I read that it was a 8-1 decision and I instantly just knew it had to be him, seriously. He's been voting literally out of spite for, what, almost twenty years now.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 10:26 AM on June 25, 2009

oh, who cares, I know I'm rehearsing my "Obama wins" thread comment. as of now, I'm planning to comment:

USA TO McCAIN/PALIN: "THANKS BUT NO THANKS!"

still working on it, though.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:42 PM on November 3, 2008

and by the way, if, once they call the election for Obama you're seriously thinking of wasting your time drafting a fpp about it, you're automatically lame. the only appropriate response is to get out of the house & run naked in the streets, drunk, with a big ass "O" painted across your chest.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:46 PM on November 3, 2008

A super happy birthday, Matt!
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 10:24 AM on October 10, 2008

Many parents are being coerced to abort by doctors - similarly to how parents were coerced to institutionalize post birth.

"coerce"?

either you repeatedly chose to use the verb "coerce" very, very badly, because you don't really know what it means, and that's OK so please disregard what follows here, or you revealed an amount of bad faith that makes everything else you said here suspect and invalid. all... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 6:45 AM on September 17, 2008

Jung Myung Seok's wikipedia page appears as the third result for your search (and yes, "jung rape" is indeed creepy) the askme thread comes up farther down, so it's not like it's the first result. also, the thread refutes the "rumor" -- it's not a rumor, the asker mistook Jung Myung Seok for Carl Gustav Jung (sad, I know, but those foreigner's names all sound alike if you ask me). so there's no problem there. it's not worthy of a snopes page because it isn't even a rumor,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 2:18 PM on September 14, 2008

Never going through with banning books does not equal "the entire story is a smear fabricated by The Left"

in the real world among rational people, yes, but in electoral politics it does equal exactly that -- it's not a rational business, it's all about boiling things down to very basic, crude terms; did she ban any books? no, she didn't ban any. period. the fact that she may have wanted to doesn't cut it. and attacking someone with a lame... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 10:56 AM on September 6, 2008

I'm waiting for an enterprising reporter to ask Palin straight out "Did you want to ban books in that library, and if so, which books?" And if she says "No", then the followup is, "So why, when you became mayor, did you ask the librarian if she'd be comfortable banning some books?"

if you're really waiting, you'll need a lot of coffee.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 12:06 PM on September 6, 2008

well, unlike the Lord, there is definitive proof that the Republican party does in fact exist -- 7 Presidential elections won in the last 10 contests are there to prove it. one hopes it doesn't take them to go up to 8/11 to make their existence evident to even the densest among us -- like you.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 1:10 PM on September 6, 2008

like, your being gay set a record? of what?
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 2:52 PM on September 5, 2008

This is a pretty good livebloggy snark time, if you want an alternative.

well, the alternative -- since, you know, the users of the website you work for seem to be really, really interested in that topic -- would be to allow another thread to be opened so that it is more usable, instead of attempting -- clumsily -- againg and again to drive them over to another website.

those users are being punished for their interest by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 6:26 AM on September 4, 2008

copy and paste some shit from reddit instead, that'll fly
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 2:25 PM on September 1, 2008

bah
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 10:05 AM on August 29, 2008

I'm sorry that it's not Kaine -- with that lopsided crew cut of his he would have made a worthy opponent of Mitt Romney in the battle of the bad hair politicians

still, if indeed McCain does select Romney, Combover Guy & Shiny Pompadour Guy will make an awesome ticket. country first, barbershop later (if at all).

Biden's almost-mullet is not bad either. his hair color is also pretty suspect.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:02 PM on August 22, 2008

Flav is the one without the combover
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 6:39 AM on August 22, 2008

The Walrus is a Canadian New Yorker/Harpers wannabe that never quite manages to hold my attention

They might use that tagline in their future ad copy
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 3:47 PM on August 15, 2008

also, the little figures in their ad on top of the page look like dildos, not walruses
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 3:49 PM on August 15, 2008

with the intent to pummel its reader with the poster's point of view,

What's the other point of view? Violence against Russian women isn't happening?

nice try. no, the actual other point of view is that posting stuff out of spite of a deletion that just happened is conductive to weak posts. weaker than the usual "stupid YouTube video / 4-day-old newspaper story / stuff recycled from Digg or Reddit"... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 1:42 PM on August 11, 2008

I'm sorry a question you asked there once went badly, but I really don't see this as the case generally.

the guy who worked in all-women office and they were totally taunting him and making him feel uncomfortable? he got buried under an avalanche of "GET OVER IT" while, reverse the genders, everybody would be shitting themselves advising the female asker to sue for harassment and hostile workplace -- I guess the protection of the law only... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 6:22 PM on August 2, 2008

pwnd
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 11:33 AM on July 29, 2008

"poophole" made me laugh
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 10:56 AM on July 12, 2008

your post, and your favorite band, both suck
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 3:35 AM on June 29, 2008

as someone who didn't have to pay a dime to join and who's very, very grateful to Matt for everything he's done, I'd be glad to see ads for Pregnant Suicide Girls Who Chose Not To Have An Abortion. unless Matt starts running ads for Elephant Viagra with erected elephantine dicks entering elephantine Goatses, I'll never complain. that's my tolerance level.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 5:24 PM on June 19, 2008

(ymmv, of course).
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 5:25 PM on June 19, 2008

B
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 2:11 PM on June 18, 2008

Defending the Sacred Principles of Enlightenment with preemptive war, cooked intelligence, torture, kidnapping, and war profiteering since 2001.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:24 PM on May 18, 2008

The Wright story mattered deeply to many people

But not enough to matter.

I think it's more prudent to wait until November to pass judgement on how much Wright really mattered in this race. I'm -- by US standards, which isn't saying much frankly -- as liberal as one can be, and even I find Wright's videos a little unbecoming. I fear your average elusive "centrist" US voter might not be crazy about them either, and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:35 AM on May 17, 2008

Poor Teddy.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 12:08 PM on May 17, 2008

but it is not a high enough number to (thankfully) to prevent him from winning.

says who?
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:17 AM on May 18, 2008

I appreciate the dude being scared and all, who's been sexually active for a while and hasn't had some sort of a OMFG IS SHE PREGNANT NOW scare raise their hands. But still, and I appreciate jessamyn's doubts, the question was a textbook example of unanswerable question leading to all-out chatfilter. "What are the chances she's pregnant" is unanswerable, nobody knows -- it'd be unanswerable even if we had more data (like, is the dude even fertile, because maybe he isn't, was the girl... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 9:46 AM on May 16, 2008

no, he just has a thing for men in fancy dresses

not if they're Muslims
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 3:41 PM on April 18, 2008

Hell's Mefites?

Then you'd have to stab somebody to death at the Apple store.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:42 AM on April 16, 2008

and another friend who works for NPR says that they ALWAYS get viewer mail about hosts who use "incorrect" grammar on the air, regular as clockwork

you don't say.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 6:41 AM on April 15, 2008

Give him some time to chill, and then I believe there's a gun that needs some prying.
posted by Schlimmbesserung at 6:54 AM on April 6 [154 favorites -] [!]


I so thought about saying that, but decided it wasn't appropriate for an obit post, even in this case.
posted by cerebus19 at 6:56 AM on April 6 [2 favorites +] [!]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 6:34 PM on April 6, 2008

speaking of prying, rigor mortis essentially disappears less than 24 hours after death, so someone's clearly need to hurry.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 6:37 PM on April 6, 2008

those who can't do, teach, as they say.

they also say those who can't do, blog
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 1:42 AM on April 2, 2008

......you mean.... in the basement?

In chains. And when we're unruly, she deletes our food and water.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 10:03 AM on March 31, 2008

As Augustine wrote, Satiavit autem illos phantasma eorum non veritas tua quam repellendo resiliunt et in suam vanitatem cadunt.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 9:59 AM on March 26, 2008

It's an empirical fact that despite large numbers of political posts, no mefi backed candidate has ever won anything.
Therefore, the backing of mefites seems to me to be some sort of poisoned chalice,

you forgot Paul Wellstone -- people fucking loved him here. and look what happened.

I am mildly amused at the amount of vitriol being spewed here -- and elsewhere on the Internet -- between the Obama and Clinton... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 6:20 AM on March 19, 2008

maybe "phenobamenon"?
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:33 AM on March 19, 2008

My least favorite thing about this administration currently

INSERT 3,347 BULLET POINTS HERE
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:33 AM on March 19, 2008

who or what is the Ministry Of Type?
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:56 AM on March 12, 2008

who cares when they left?
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:13 PM on March 3, 2008

people just move on, it's OK.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 11:06 AM on February 29, 2008

religion, unfortunately, does not exist only in the realm of the spiritual, in people's hearts, and in places of worship: religion exists in the world, and it influences and often even drives policy, government policy. do not expect to be able to separate personal belief from this very painful reality, because people blow themselves up on buses, vote in droves to prohibit gays to enjoy full citizenship rights, vote to add religious narratives to science curricula in school, vote to severely... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 5:23 PM on February 28, 2008

and you can also turn on your electric reading lamp without contradicting yourself
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 5:26 PM on February 28, 2008

"Sure, not every Muslim is extreme as Al Qaeda, but the religion itself has a core of hatred and nastiness that is reflected in its every manifestation". That's the argument there, and that's the argument here with regard to Christianity.

no, no, it's not, and provably so. those right wing sites don't simply argue that Islam has a hateful core (a fact that's quite evident to any reader, judaism and christianity have a hateful core, too,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:15 AM on February 18, 2008

We are not going to solve the question that is as old as mankind itself about whether there is a divine creator or not and, if so, what is the nature of the creator

Shape Of The Earth, Views Differ.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:18 AM on February 18, 2008

no?
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:41 AM on February 18, 2008

you only need enough users (I don't know, 20 or 30 on a user's base of more than 50,000) to flag something because it offends their delicate sensibilities, and *poof* the post's gone.

it's called working the refs, and it works, it always does. it's essentially rule by mob, which means that what remains on the page instead, can be happily lame, milquetoasty, inoffensive, uninteresting. say, collections of youtube links of bands/films mostly everyone has already heard of.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 1:52 PM on February 15, 2008