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In a bold move compassionately advocated by Twain scholar Dr. Alan Gribben and embraced by NewSouth, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn also replaces two hurtful epithets that appear hundreds of times in the texts with less offensive words, this intended to counter the “preemptive censorship” that Dr. Gribben observes has caused these important works of literature to fall off curriculum lists nationwide.

Dianne Sawyer praised her savior after realizing it was an attack? ... maybe she's one of THEM! LETS GET 'ER!!

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I just watched it. I'm a bit irked. What about the hatch?! Seriously?! It felt like another X-Files season finale to me, but I expected that. If you remember, the show creators promised us it wasn't purgatory or the crew wasn't dead. They. Lied.
If you liked it, I think you may be justifying it like the girls who are sexually abused by daddy yet still think he loves them.


What about the hatch? I don't think there was anything about the hatch that was left completely ambiguous -- that seems to be one of the few elements on the show that didn't really leave any lingering questions. Am I forgetting something?

As for the show creators lying about it not being purgatory, they weren't. I'm not sure if you're making this mistake, but a lot of people seem to be making the incorrect assumption that the entire show was some kind of afterlife for these characters, which isn't the case. Just the flashsideways.

Look, I can completely understand the complaints from the "not enough answers!" people. But I was mostly satisfied with the amount of answers we got. It probably helps that I've only watched every episode once, when they originally aired. Plus I have a terrible memory. So I don't even remember a lot of the specific questions that were left unanswered.

I don't know, I just thought there was something really satisfying about a conclusion that gave all of our characters such a happy ending, especially on a show that didn't seem to lend itself to such a happy ending for its characters. There was something kind of nice about seeing, say, the Sayid/Shannon reunion. Or the Sawyer/Juliet reunion. I also liked the final moments, with Vincent lying down next to Jack, to be with him as he dies. And of course the last shot of Jack's eye closing. Good stuff, man. I don't care what anyone says.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Sawyer, Nicknames, Lost' to 'Sawyer, Nicknames, Lost, josh holloway' - edited by burdturgler

LIES LIES LIES.
The public option means both private AND socialized health. Win Win. Both systems. Both. Two. At once. A duo of sorts.
It's not like he's ending private insurance companies.
The poor will have the public option of not eating shit and the rest of the boys can still play free market.
Kind of like in France. (tee-hee)
And Diane Sawyer is still an idiot, fuck her.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Rush-Tom-Sawyer-on-Expert-on-Rock-Band-drums

hey! where's the rush??

@ziggystardust That interview has been sifted (grated) here before. Any way to change link to my embed?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Pornstar-Belladonna-is-interviewed-by-Diane-Sawyer

Lost doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of a satisfying ending for a viewer with even modest intelligence and decent memory. I'm watching it for one reason only. Sawyer :::drool:::

The trouble with television writers is that they are inspired to come up w/ a great idea, but they do not fully create a story from start to finish. They're only good at developing characters and keep a show going.

In part 2, she seems to struggle with trying to tell Diane Sawyer how much she really likes being a whore... She thinks it's fun and rewarding and pleasurable and lucrative..

And a big name like Diane Sawyer wouldn't believe that from her.. Even from a star as big as Bella Donna.

Hard to pick just five:

1. Hyperion and the rest of the Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons
   
2. Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge (though everything else he's written could easily have taken this spot)
   
3. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (and any other Takeshi Kovacs novel)
   
4. Footfall by Larry Niven -- IMO the best he ever wrote
   
5. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
   

• The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Accelerando by Charles Stross
  
• Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
  
• Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross
  
• Virtually anything by Robert J. Sawyer (particularly the "Neanderthal Parallax" trilogy)
  
• Snow Crash and Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, though I'm with dag, everything that's followed has been disappointing
  
• Domesday Book by Connie Willis
  
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
  
• The Golden Age Trilogy by John C. Wright
  
• Any short story by Michael Swanwick (particularly "The Radiant Doors" -- dft, there's another dystopia to be found in that one)
  

I watch this painfully drawn out series for one reason: Sawyer :::drool:::

So she's ready to lead the nation, but not ready to face Bob Schefer on Face the Nation. Ready to sit down with world leaders, but not ready to talk to Stephenopolous. Ready to make critical life / death decisions with the nation's military, but not ready to have a chat with Diane Sawyer.

Makes perfect sense.

oops, I knew that.

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Fuckin' *Canadaians can't even play their own goddamn Canadian music. Guess we need to invade them next.

Where's Sawyer's audition tape?

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