One last thing. Someone on the McCain team has already anticipated the connection between Moses/Joshua and King/Obama. It's what was driving that weird ad from last month. People recognized the creepy messianic overtones and rightly saw it as a dogwhistle to the evangelical right. The use of Charlton Heston as Moses crossing the Red Sea was meant to inoculate evangelicals against recognizing in Obama the realization of Dr. King's legacy. Irresponsibly, the McCain campaign raised the imagery... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by felix betachat at 12:27 AM on August 29, 2008

He's a boy so sex should generally be an inevitability if you are around him long enough.

Please don't gender stereotype. This one is old, tired and lame. Not all men are hounding for sex 24/7 and the idea that sex is something women should be able to have from any party merely for the asking isn't particularly productive either.

No reason to just give it away, make him earn it, which he will likely do if he tried... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by DarlingBri at 7:48 PM on August 25, 2008

Any advice to...prevent this type of thinking on my part?

• Recognize that you can remain friends with people who have wildly different incomes and social statuses from you. Concomitantly: recognize that most of the messages we receive about this tell us that this is wrong. I make $8000 a year teaching English abroad; my friends make upwards of $150,000 as lawyers. We still hang out a lot when I'm home. They realize that for me, going out and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mdonley at 12:46 PM on August 18, 2008

Yes, the 'real disaster' is how it affects Americans. Of course.
posted to MetaFilter by pompomtom at 11:07 PM on August 4, 2008

Coheed & Cambria. Check out their album cover.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 12:27 PM on July 31, 2008

The greatest RA I ever had stayed out of my business that did not affect other students, was engaged and outgoing as just another student, was aware of students rejecting planned community 'activities' when those activities were stupid and pointless, never forced or pressured students to partake in the aforementioned activities, realized that most rules set up by the school were BS attempts at controlling young adults and therefore ignored them, and realized that by subtly... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Science! at 3:50 PM on July 31, 2008

BÖC is better than BoC.

Discuss.

Discuss? There is no discussion.

Considering I'm probably one of the few people here who has repeatedly listened to nearly everything by both bands...

...you're so fucking wrong it's depressingly pathetic, and I really feel deeply sorry for you that you live so far in the past that you can't wrap your mind around the present.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 12:02 PM on November 25, 2007

Let me say up front, I am a road cyclist. I obey laws and behave as traffic.

I have had multiple arguments with CM types, and they will not or cannot see the inherent contradiction in
their "corking" activities. Pedestrians also may cross when there is a red. By running this red the CM cyclists are stepping on the rights of Pedestrians, just as they claim cars do to the cyclist. Protest by screwing another altogether innocent group the way you are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jester69 at 5:15 PM on October 30, 2004