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It definitely seems like a scary robopocalypse moment - but trust will be earned over time.>> ^peggedbea:

I'm holding out for teleport.
also, I just imagined my future grandkids being toted around this way and gave me shivers.

wonderful!!! i loooove it! i want it hanging in my space!
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Sylvia Ji's art is where I get most of my avvy pics...every time I see this one, I think of you!

Two words, Hugh Laurie

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two words: annie lennox.

oh god, it was awful. and thursday game was the most stressful thing in the world. sheesh.
next year, next year. the rangers were horrible for 30 years, it's pretty awesome that they even have the chance to lose 2 consecutive world series.

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Just needed one more strike! TWICE!

>> ^peggedbea:

I heard and understood what he said. but i am so upset with him that it all sounds like lip service.
i feel like maybe once, years ago, there was an obama with integrity. one who believed the shit he said. i dont think that's the guy we voted into office though. the guy in the office appears to be some kind of corporatist puppet who gives a really good speech every once in a while. whos really good at pretending that "the opposition" just outsmarted him or are too powerful to be beat.

I guess I give him more credit. He's no FDR, but he's as left-wing of a President as we've had since Jimmy Carter.

I'm not as starry-eyed about him as I once was, but I think people on the left have let the corporate media brainwash them a bit too much with the "Obama = fail" meme.

Every victory he's had gets turned into "it was a failure because it should've been a bigger and better victory". Every real failure gets turned into intentional betrayal of principle.

I always get suspicious about only ever hearing one conclusion from people. I mean, for fuck's sake, liberals occasionally found some reason to applaud even Bush. Not so with Obama. Everything he does is apparently wrong, even when he succeeds in implementing some major policy goal. Now it seems that even an expression of sympathy for the Occupy movement in a high-visibility TV interview ticks people off.

I guess I just don't get it. I see a guy who hasn't been the Knight in Shining Armor we all wanted him to be, but he's made quite a lot of forward progress on things like health care reform, repealing DADT, even pulling out of Iraq.

Like I said, he's no FDR, but he's definitely on our side!

5 as listed above by peggedbea. It takes more people for a revolution and everyone I know still look up to wall street as the people who have the right idea

>> ^peggedbea:

please show me where in this thread someone else discussed how "fuckable" she is (or isn't), excluding of course dft's hypothetical question meant to invalidate qm's own opinion.
i "single" you out because you are the only one who made such a comment.
if you feel "singled" out by "whatever" is "stuck up" my "ass", you should read my comment history and you will realize that i make the same bitchface comments to all the thoughtless, unwise, latently sexist, white, middle class, male, proto facist comments i've ever had the displeasure of reading on this site.
if this is causing some butt hurt on your end, my prescription would be a quiet period of introspection and to reread your comments and wonder how on earth someone could up come with the aforementioned category to fit them into it.
if you can't find the answer, it's hopeless. unclench and the pain will subside.


What horseshit.

The question he was responding to was "Is it just that you want to fuck her?"

Take two more pills.

I'm encouraged by your involvement, peggedbea, and I agree with your assessment. I don't think much will come of the protests, but at the moment, I'm hopeful. I'm especially worried about the coming winter - when the real cold hits in New York, I see it really dissipating.

I'm also worried about the Democrats attempting to proclaim solidarity with the protesters. I hope that the OWS protesters remember that no political party is free of guilt. Neither the democrats nor republicans are on the side of the people. Both are heavily funded by corporations and therefore are both enemies of the people.

With that being said, we have an Occupy Greensboro event here this Saturday and I plan on attending.

you're probably right... i made a longer list initially and realized it was entirely composed of writers. i couldn't decide if it's because those are the people i've paid the most attention to in my life or if its because the nature of success is so incredibly different for a writer than a ceo. >> ^dag:

Maybe it's only the inventors. Da Vinci, Edison and Jobs fit that bill. Deep thinkers and pure artists are pretty different. >> ^peggedbea:
I'm pretty sure kurt vonnegut was at least reasonably kind. He wrote so many books about the value of human kindness.
crispin glover is also unabashedly sensitive and kind and contains all the charm of someone who is not at all charming until they're speaking about something they love. i guess you could argue that he is not a genius, but then i would just tell you to attend a viewing for one of his insane art house films and stick around for the three hour Q&A he'll host when it's finished. genius.
oh i bet neil degrasse tyson is only slightly prickish, and only in the kindest most charming of ways.
>> ^dag:
Just as a thought experiment - can you name one who was well thought of as an all-around nice guy? Edison was an asshole. I've heard that Da Vinci was a real prick.>> ^quantumushroom:
But do geniuses need to be assholes?
No. No they don't.

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Maybe it's only the inventors. Da Vinci, Edison and Jobs fit that bill. Deep thinkers and pure artists are pretty different. >> ^peggedbea:

I'm pretty sure kurt vonnegut was at least reasonably kind. He wrote so many books about the value of human kindness.
crispin glover is also unabashedly sensitive and kind and contains all the charm of someone who is not at all charming until they're speaking about something they love. i guess you could argue that he is not a genius, but then i would just tell you to attend a viewing for one of his insane art house films and stick around for the three hour Q&A he'll host when it's finished. genius.
oh i bet neil degrasse tyson is only slightly prickish, and only in the kindest most charming of ways.
>> ^dag:
Just as a thought experiment - can you name one who was well thought of as an all-around nice guy? Edison was an asshole. I've heard that Da Vinci was a real prick.>> ^quantumushroom:
But do geniuses need to be assholes?
No. No they don't.

>> ^peggedbea:

most of the anarchists i know are vegan. and resent the concept of private property.


Your diet is a very important part of your political leaning.

Yes, single parenthood generally produces kids with more problems than with two parents. But why can't Coulter acknowledge that sometimes it's the father's choice to make the woman a single mother? She doggedly refuses to change her tune from, "Single mothers damage children" (always blame the woman) to "Single parenthood damages children", except when she's citing the statistics on single parenthood which don't share her prejudice.>> ^peggedbea:

>> ^messenger:
It's that she attacks the women, and refuses to hold the baby daddies to any account or even acknowledge their existence, as if it's the women who choose single parenthood.>> ^lantern53:
I don't hear anything that can't be substantiated.
Single mothers and sperm donors result in a big mess, which can be seen everywhere you turn.


sometimes it is. sometimes it's the best decision they can make.

@peggedbea

No, I'm not trolling. I think my general point was that kids are dumb, and they need better education and counseling resources instead of being told to just wait until married. The only reason it might sound like I'm singling out women is because that's what the topic was about in the first place. The women in the audience were talking about going back to school and working, and it made me wonder where the kids were during all that.

Unhappy dysfunctional married couples and their problems with raising kids was not part of this video.
Nor was absentee fathers. I do find it annoying how the audience members can't make their point without first trying to be insulting. And when somebody says they are a good parent, how do they know that?

I probably should have stuck with bashing Ann Coulter instead of thinking about the single mother issue.

@peggedbea, well said, Thank You.

>> ^peggedbea:

i wish! do they make those shirts?
but... i think he was talking about one of my dads. >> ^ChaosEngine:
>> ^peggedbea:
holy shit my nervous voice is annoying.

"someone who appreciates sex as much as you clearly do"
Were you wearing an "I love getting laid" t-shirt or something?



dunno... maybe videosift could start selling them