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Tears are a stupid trick of god
Watching Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus a few months ago made me very, very glad I grew up in an urban environment on the West coast. The documentary presented a view of the deep South where every adult is missing an eye or an ear or several teeth or maybe just a few fingers or toes and where the main topic of conversation is the gruesome deaths they've seen/heard about. GAH! I really don't know why my rural in-laws fear the city. At least random mutilation through... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wavelet
at 1:13 PM on March 29, 2008
MeFi post:
Avoiding Kids: How Men Cope With Being Cast as Predators
In the area of SF where we used to live, there was a large Chinese-American community living and working in the area. It was common to see kids running around unsupervised being talked to, played with, or disciplined by whatever adult happened to be nearby. Small kids with their parents were subject to being picked up or fed candy on the sly by grandparent aged types. With an entire neighborhood keeping a half eye on the kids, it's hard to see how any child could come to harm, or be abused... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wavelet
at 12:21 PM on September 13, 2007
MeFi post:
Mother Teresa's lengthy, unresolved crisis of faith
Turning millions of dollars over to the Vatican (which then, presumably, used it to pour more pate de fois gras down the wattled throats of degenerate Italian cardinals) rather than feeding the poor? Lined people up in cots and forcibly baptized them? Made them pray the rosary before they received pain medication? Merely fed, clothed, educated, and sheltered the poorerst of the poor, and did not start a revolution which ended poverty globally?!?! For shame.
Seriously,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wavelet
at 9:02 AM on August 24, 2007
MeFi post:
Awesome science tattoos
They blinded me...with science!
The gal with the upper body entomology themed tattoos really rocked. I have no idea how you could top that. Full body slime mold themed tattoos?
posted to MetaFilter by Wavelet
at 12:53 PM on August 8, 2007
