Netzapper, sorry about your divorce and everything, but just to be clear: you're comparing the kind of discomfort you feel when someone says "husband" or "wife" to the kind of discomfort the OP feels when someone says rape victims... [
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And yet, he's still head of the Canadian government, despite several elections. What the hell is going up there?! *pounds broomstick on ceiling*
We had to turn him way up to drown you guys out during the Bush years, and now everyone's... [
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Also, paper-thin flakes of gold for Tony Clement's morning cereal. [
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The trick is to take the feeling you get when you see the Earth from space, and have it from the ground. [
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Also hard to imagine someone who talks that slow, using words that big, having a talk show these days.
Maybe in general. But watch his Noam Chomsky interview if you want to see Buckley shouting somebody down with flagrant sophistry and... [
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I want to think of myself as being above finding things "WTF", but you can't always get what you want. [
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For the ultimate in jealousy, look no further than Elvis Costello - I Want You.
(Re: your criteria, there is another person involved, though it's not clearly a breakup or affair song.)... [
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You're all flops. I am the Earth Mother, and you are all flops.
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And on the one day a year I didn't have "Slippery People" stuck in my head. [
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I'm pretty sure you just defined anglophone Canadians as "Americans." And in my experience that's...unwise.
Touques rustled ominously.... [
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pshaw, another attempt at viral marketing for chili pizzas [
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I liked Peter Marshall's Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism for the grand narrative. Because it tries to cover everything that might conceivably be called anarchism, you won't be satisfied by any one chapter, but it's great for... [
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Not to cast aspersions, but this is precisely the kind of thing we should have been expecting. [
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The four quadrants themselves are apt, but the placing of Vampire's Kiss on the Rubbish half is rubbish. [
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I feel like there should be something I can do, but what is there? Write my congressman? Bitch Obama out? And as for voting, you vote and you get an Obama, which isn't working out the way we wanted, but not voting or voting for the other guy/a... [
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Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert. [
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♫ Det är dags att spela musiken
♪♩Det är dags att tända ljus
♬ Det är dags att möta Mupparna på The Muppet Show ikväll. [
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: foreplay till you fall asleep. [
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Somehow, this thread : flameout :: real fire : the fire log channel. [
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I always feel happier about my own fuck-ups (in film and elsewhere) when I see a boom mic bobbing in the corner of the frame, in something that actually had a budget and professional crew. So far:
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Just imagine the attention a Videodrome statue in downtown Toronto would attract.
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You're getting good advice. The Inner Light and Chain of Command are beyond reproach. Here's an outlier: All Good Things.... [
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Also, I was hoping that for "The Red Wheelbarrow" it would just say "chickens." [
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Well, this will do wonders for my students' essays. But fair is fair, since I use Microsoft Word Auto-Summary when I grade them. [
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I find that reading history helps. You might think that it's only good for
informing you that, in fact, the same patterns repeat themselves over and over again, and that this isn't any the same as giving you grounds to
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Michael Haneke: just a 90 minute shot of the empty field before the game. [
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If she pronounces it ZOE-EE then why in the name of all that's sane, balanced and non-wanky does she spell it ZOO-EE.
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If there's more triumphal music than TPIR's winner's theme, I haven't heard it.
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Emanuel is taking it hard.
Double birds to the motherfucking world. TO THE MOTHERFUCKING WORLD. [
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I'll watch anything with Melissa Leo and John Goodman. And at least Red State is unlikely to feature a whiny drug-addicted busker. Wait. [
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When we first meet the mysterious mother/love interest, the shot is angled so that her face is obstructed by a plant and then a post, we have been waiting the whole movie to see her. If I was filming this I would at least try to move the camera... [
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That room already needs its own MeTa equivalent. [
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why not, for once in your scathing little vat of molten bitchiness, assume FIRST that it is what it appears to be, and save the snark for later, if it turns out otherwise?
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I'm trying to think of something that seems like a worse idea than this. I am failing.
Porn parody of the Critique of Pure Reason. [
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And on my glowing blue window, I can compose snarky responses to articles intended to gin up a sensation that the present is an eerie DeLillotopia. [
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2003 was the year I worked in the Strand's Rare Book Room and the Strokes came in and our unbearably obnoxious 19 year-old employee whose parents actually bought her a flat in the East Village came over to me and and hissed "THOSE ARE THE... [
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MetaFilter: reluctantly butt-scooting down the stairs but then they totally get into it later. [
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After which they will pledge allegiance to the swag. [
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