>> ^blankfist:

I hope. I think I may be too cynical to believe this.


liberal bloggers are also pointing out that monthly job growth isn't even keeping up with population growth.


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>> ^JiggaJonson:
*nerdcrush


I hear you. she's cute! and I like that shirt. she gets my upvote.

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>> ^robbersdog49:
We end up with people like d3bas3r going round saying chiropractors are good and what they do works, and others will then believe the wacky stuff.
(This is not a dig at d3bas3r! It's just an observation)


I didn't see anywhere in his statement where he said chiropractors were "good". He said it makes his back feel "less bad". To me, that implies that it works somewhat.

That's exactly how I feel when I leave a chiropractors office. My back feels "less bad". But certainly not completely cured. And the pain always returns within a few days to a week. Which is why I do not keep going back to them every week so they can suck me dry financially, while also trying to sell me special ointments and pillows, etc.

Universal Health Care starts with re-education in the U.S., pardner-All for it too...a nation of healthy, strappin' folks, who know how not to kill themselves with food, being given what they need as far as health care....mind, body, and spirit.-Believe me, It'll be cheap...insurance companies may go out of business, or be OUR bitches instead of we theirs....Get the drift blogger? Health Care starts from inside, not with gimme gimme back what i already gave away tactics or policies.
Fuck Obabma's health care bullshit-he's a fucking prawn!

Pharmaceutical companies can play somewhere in a fucking shallow grave with a bit of lye to keep em all frosty!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alimentarius
ever hear of this NetRunner??...Nazi fucking eugenics shit...plain and simple, in the most pompous legalese imaginable, as for most to be totally clueless

Yeah thats a super lame report on an rather inconclusive study.

On an other note, I'm always so confused at why guys gush over Rebecca Watson. People say well she is cute because shes a science nerd and she is funny. But listening to the skeptic guide, one finds shes not really on the ball as far as science goes, she has about the same level of understanding as someone halfway through first year sciences at university.

Ive seen pictures on their web site of her with a periodic table shower curtain, but I would bet money that she doesn't half of the uses of it ( electronegativity, atomic radius). And as far as funny goes, she provides the most palm to forehead lame jokes than anyone else (not funny lame either). I mean, I know alot of girls who are much smarter and funnier, couldn't the skeptics have found one too?

I don't know, she is a good blogger, maybe I'm being too hard on her. Maybe sooner or later I'll see the light, but for now...

^ That was one of the quotes that stuck out in my mind, too.

I'm not sure I agree with you regarding the Middle East. I don't know if you're familiar with the Iraqi blogger "Riverbend" but during the hot days of the war, the picture that she painted of Iraq was significantly different than the...sound bites we were fed in the U.S.

The Sunni's and Shiites weren't nearly as hostile to each other as we'd been lead to believe, which makes me think that a lot of those car bombings were CIA false flag operations.

If the USA had the desire to bring real cultural or political change to the Middle East, it probably could over the course of ten years. Wouldn't change everything, but we'd see progress. Setting up puppet governments and privatizing every resource that has any value doesn't spell progress to me.

However, helping the Middle East is the last of the war machine's concerns.

I like to look at pictures and artwork...
http://www.flickr.com
http://www.deviantart.com
http://www.projekt30.com

Looking at what I would buy if I could:
http://www.threadless.com
http://www.shirt.woot.com
http://www.etsy.com (you have to sift through a lot of crap)

Metals (boring) stuff...
http://www.riogrande.com
http://www.metalcastingzone.com
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html

Entertainment and Limited Socializing:
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.blogger.com
http://www.pandora.com
http://www.youtube.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.hulu.com (and a few others to watch TV shows)

huffingtonpost.com (Since i never really learned to find the best bloggers (or navigate the blogosphere) I read it 10x a day.)
adultswim.com

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1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Being in a small but livable house somewhere in the prince edward islands surrounded by my books and movies.

2. What is your greatest fear?

Ceaseless physical pain.

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

My intractable need to lie to people.

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Egotism.

5. Which living person do you most admire?

Maybe a journalist. Or an interviewer like Neal Conan from "Talk of the Nation" or a blogger like Andrew Sullivan. But i dont know. Maybe a filmmaker like Takeshi Kitano? Thats tough. Most of the figures I truly truly admire are dead. Lol

6. What is your greatest extravagance?

My smoking. Expecially in NY state. Its like 8 dollars a pack.

7. What is your current state of mind?

Somewhat at peace. Gettin' excited to go out for beers with my new colleagues.

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Confidence--it freezes personalities in place and I am sick of waiting for the ice to thaw.

9. On what occasion do you lie?

On many. Mostly when I want to disguise who I really am, which may be lost altogether.

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?

The grey hairs on my beard.

11. Which living person do you most despise?

Dick Cheney would have to be up there.

12. What is the quality you most like in a man?

Humility, warmth, intelligence, strong and independent.

13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?

Humility, warmth, intelligence, strong and independent.

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

Fuck.

15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?

A woman who no longer causes me emotional pain but whom I still love.

16. When and where were you happiest?

Its hard to remember. I think two winters ago when I was living in Boston and still making and watching movies, and drinking, and with good people.

17. Which talent would you most like to have?

Piano.

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Not be so nervous all the time.

19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Getting into a first rate PhD program.

20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?

Maybe something like a mountain goat.

21. Where would you most like to live?

Iceland or Montreal both sound great to me.

22. What is your most treasured possession?

I'll try and avoid platitudes like "my brain" and just say my laptop.

23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Being in any way helplessly beholden to any one person or group of people. The police, or a shitty relationship, for instance.

24. What is your favorite occupation?

Film programmer.

25. What is your most marked characteristic?

My beard

26. What do you most value in your friends?

Understanding.

27. Who are your favorite writers?

Borges.

28. Who is your hero of fiction?

Werther (from the Goethe novella)

29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Shit. I have no idea.

30. Who are your heroes in real life?

A friend of mine.

31. What are your favorite names?

Cathleen. Huston.

32. What is it that you most dislike?

Uptight, mean fucks.

33. What is your greatest regret?

Drinking nearly a whole year away.

34. How would you like to die?

Suicide. When its rationally 'time'

35. What is your motto?

Don't take me or yourself too seriously.

Fedquip kept linking to it from his AOL blog. I started to stop by and peruse the top 15 videos every other day. After a year or so of lurking and using more and more of the site's features, I finally created an account.

Rachel Ray, Dunkin Donuts, and one terrorist scarf would like to agree.

>> ^NetRunner:
Uhh, Republicans already use the Internet. That's where the last two big right-wing lies started (the "Obama is a Muslim" and "Obama wasn't born in the US" lies, specifically).
If you count Sarah Palin as an unemployed blogger, she's the one who really gave the "death panel" lie wings, just by posting about it on her Facebook page.
The problem Republicans have isn't the media they use to propagate their message, it's what that message is.

Uhh, Republicans already use the Internet. That's where the last two big right-wing lies started (the "Obama is a Muslim" and "Obama wasn't born in the US" lies, specifically).

If you count Sarah Palin as an unemployed blogger, she's the one who really gave the "death panel" lie wings, just by posting about it on her Facebook page.

The problem Republicans have isn't the media they use to propagate their message, it's what that message is.

No, I've don't usually read the New Yorker. These days I feel like Washington Post is my most read dead-tree news outlet, though I tend to stick more with bloggers than anything else.