MeFi comment:
"A couple of years ago, I listened to an interview with James Randi, the skeptic who famously exposed faith healer Peter Popoff and who runs the Million Dollar Challenge. This part of the interview, starting at 40:10, made me about as angry as I've..." [
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MeTa comment:
""Median age may be too high?"That's exactly why I like MeFi so much. It feels like this place is full of grown-ups." [
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MeFi comment:
"Also: anyone who thinks that "right" and "wrong" apply to art may need to go back to school, maybe take an art class, do a little water color... I don't know. Something. So, As long as I call it "art," I can do whatever..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Dude, you don't fill this with *lettuce*. You fill it with *mashed potatoes*. And you put cheddar cheese and sour cream on top of it.
Mmmm." [
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MeFi comment:
"I am skeptical.
For starters, this page has the Microsoft Frontpage look to it, which screams "I'm a crackpot." (I do not know why bad web design so often correlates with bad thinking, but it does.)
And, of course, there's the..." [
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MeFi comment:
"konolia: If he would only change his position on abortion, I could see myself voting for him.
I'm in a similar position of liking pretty much everything about Obama but abortion. I'm going to vote for him anyways, because the President doesn't..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I drove around a little, and then drove my car right off the map into the uncharted white expanse of an unloaded map square.
Here be dragons." [
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MeFi comment:
"This is overweight? Seriously? Dang.
No wonder you hear so much about beautiful girls with anorexia. I can't imagine looking like that and still being told that I was overweight...." [
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MeFi comment:
"I've often wondered about that--do you think that the ubiquity of the internet is substantially undermining parents' abilities to create these false realities for their children?Absolutely. That's part of why they're so scared of it. At Bob Jones..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Unscrew America![Insert snide remark about George W. Bush here.]" [
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MeFi comment:
"Bunnytricks: No kidding. I still go back and look up quotes from SMAC. I love the narrators, as well as the playable characters.
In all, it was kind of a disappointment coming from that to Civ 4. You have Leonard Nimoy, who may be a great many..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I actually hope that this is a viral ad for something, because otherwise it's an incredibly mean-spirited character assassination. To dedicate a whole website to the personal and professional failings of your boss is just low. It's one thing to..." [
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MeFi comment:
"pedantic: I love that list of premature obits. My favorite so far:Dick Cheney (US Vice-President) in the CNN.com incident. The draft obituary, which had been based on the Queen Mother's, described Cheney as 'Queen Consort' and the 'UK's favorite..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Obama: Russia's actions are unacceptable.
McCain: Obama doesn't understand that Russia's actions are unacceptable.
Me: AAARGH!" [
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