More news on this tribute flight here.
I took lessons at a flying club founded by a Tuskegee Airman. He has some great stories. The last time I saw him I asked if he attended the presidential inauguration, because I knew the Airmen were invited to some prime seats. Not only did he attend Obama's inauguration, he'd also attended FDR's.
"Charlie's Angels" was one of the most popular shows of its time. . . . Every Wednesday night, people tuned in to the show in search of objective values and romantic passion and they were rewarded accordingly.
Uh . . . right.
It was the worst of times, it was the worser of times, it was the age of intellgence-gathering, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of suspension of disbelief, it was the epoch of complete audience incredulity, it was the season of running around screaming, it was the season of staring into a computer screen, it was the spring of explosions, it was the winter of torture-porn, we had everything running past us in our black SUVs, and everyone was a mole.
This nonsense is not the sort of thing I care to spend time on, but I glanced at the dialectical crapola and loved the idea that he could write knowingly about the show though he had never viewed it. That truly is cutting out the middle Angel to Go Gault.
[Intellivision] also had one of the worst controllers in the history of video games...
Hey, I'll grant you that, but inside it was genius - the circuit "board" was plastic and replacable all in one piece. The Atari's were forever coming in with broken switches or pads or joysticks that required soldering and circuit tracing to fix. With the Intellivisions you'd pop open the case, replace the plastic insides and you were done.
Admittedly we made more money fixing the broken Atari's, but we really admired the engineering behind the Intellivisions.
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This is DEFINITELY the kind of guy you want as a philosophy chair. Seriously. This is a guy who lives the shit.
So Doug, a huge Leafs fan, dies. Because Doug had been a pretty bad guy during his life, he goes to hell. (He made several right turns on a red while on vacation in Montreal) One day while out on his rounds, the Devil notices Doug, who is sitting in a lawn chair looking relaxed.
WTF are you doing? screams the Devil.
It was a mighty wet summer in Toronto this year. It's nice to enjoy a little warmth, says Doug.
So the Devil cranks it up another notch. That will show him he thinks.
The next day, Doug is out having a barbecue. Again, the Devil confronts him.
It was really cold last winter, says Doug. It's nice to finally have some decent weather.
(Note that in truth Doug would have been hiding in the Underground Mall at this point in life, but work with me here).
So the Devil decides that if Doug is liking the heat so much he'll show him what Hell is all about. So he cranks Hell's thermostat to fifty below.
The next day the Devil sees Doug running around like a madman, screaming and yelling, jumping up and down. That's more like it thinks the Devil. But as he gets closer the Devil realizes that Doug is actually screaming with joy, yelling:
"The Leafs won the Cup! The Leafs won the Cup!"
This will end well.
Manipulating the controls does not a pilot make. The Pilot In Command (PIC) is the one who makes the decisions and is responsible for the safety of the flight. The person they're calling the "co-pilot" -- Levi Thornhill -- is the PIC; the 15 year old is a passenger.
When thinking about VY Canis Majoris, consider that if it were where the sun is, it would extend to the orbit of Uranus.
Addicts and alcoholics do all sorts of blame-worthy things aside from actually abusing their drug of choice. I'm fine with not blaming anyone for the underlying condition, but if you're lying to and beating your spouse, falling asleep in committee meetings, attempting suicide in the same house your kid is sleeping in, and generally acting like an ass, there's some blame to share around. I'm willing to admit that Martin had very little control over his actions, but he's going to have to learn some, eventually, and that's what the 4th-step inventory and the 9th-step amends process does. Addicts and alcoholics too frequently fold all that bad behavior into the addiction, and then claim that they can't be blamed for it.
our problem was that we thought we were responsible for everything and then tried to escape in addiction and *then* irresponsible behavior ensued.
That's a different dynamic, but the effect is the same: fictional responsibility for impossible things serves to disguise actual responsibilities. It's the 'right-sized' self metaphor: not a big, megalomaniacal self, not a small, victim self, but a realistic self.
The anxiety relief model that Ameisen works out is certainly tied to this problem: capable agents need a certain amount of anxiety to stay awake and attuned to the world around them, but randomly being overwhelmed with anxiety leads to some pretty dangerous coping mechanisms.
By the way: this guy's a novelist, right? Is there any chance this is a hoax?
It doesn't matter why people have abortions, Malice. That's all there is to it. It doesn't matter why. What the links up at the top are about is women coming to terms with the difficult and often painful fact of having one. As kadin428 says, the idea of a woman who's going around thinking "Oh hell I'll just have an abortion, nothing to it, why in fact I enjoy them, particularly when they are paid for by your tax dollars." is a myth and a crazy right wing myth at that. That's actually addressed in the very first link. And you know what? If there even was a woman like that then her getting abortions continuously is something we should all be devoutly grateful for.
So, look, the use or misuse of birth control, which, as I said above, sometimes works and sometimes doesn't and sometimes, for a whole variety of reasons - primary among them that humans are just not always rational, calm and thinking of long term consequences - isn't even used, is not what this whole thing is about. What it's about, I have gleaned from, you know, reading the links, is whether talking about womens reactions to abortions, which are not really all that uniformly positive, is okay in the face of the movement to stop them at any cost. Should all us pro choice people go on saying, hey, abortion is great, even though as any woman who has had one (I am one of them) will tell you, it is not always so great? Thus to stop the debate? Or are we all old enough now to say, look, it's not a decision anyone ever wants to make but sometimes it happens and yes, it can be really sad and make you grieve but it is of paramount importance that the choice remain, because it is an individual choice, period, full stop.
Former CIA bigwig exposed as dangerous lunatic who would sacrifice millions of Americans to have the right party in power.
NOW can we get a Truth Commission?
Urm.
It's only a model.
Chris Matthew Sciabarra: (Significantly, if one adds 56 to 52, and subtracts 8, one arrives at the number 100, which, divided by 33 and 1/3, equals 3. Three! An unmistakable instantiation of the show's dialectically triadic motif.)
No! No! Charlie has FOUR angels. You are all EDUCATED STUPID.
Why do I need this bunker and stockpile of weapons? So I can protect myself when the government comes for my stockpile of weapons. Why do I need to give up my freedoms and spend all of my money on illegal wars? To protect me from the people who want to attack me because they hate our freedoms and popularity in the world. Circular reasoning. Embrace it. It is our destiny... or it is once we embrace it.
An episode of 24 written by Proust would be 24 hours long in real time.
Birth control doesn't fail if you use two methods
I would feel uncomfortable asking my date to get a vasectomy.
Why are so many celebrities dying recently?
Eh, it's probably just Mary Hart spicing things up for the ratings.
Oops. Did I say "five"? I mean zero.
But I'm a nice guy though. That ought to count for something.
You wouldn't be able to make pussy jokes on a US primetime sitcom, would you? I wonder if that's simply because of US prudery, or if it's because "pussy" almost exclusively refers to female genitalia in the US, whereas in the UK it's still quite widely used to refer to a cat.
Malice, your thoughts seem to stem from an assumption that all women have reasonably convenient access to accurate sex education and high-quality, affordable health care. This is not the case.
Oh god... I had to go and try to prove my googlefu... Regurgitator - Are U Being Served?. It has it's better moments - they're just few and far between...
And if only a commie would burn down the Reichstag...!
9/11 was our fiery Reichstag. We still have illegal surveillance, illegal wars and illegal torture. Nothing much changed, except that we failed to have Nuremberg Trials to hold people (including Scheuer) accountable for giving aid and comfort to Osama bin Laden, and then assisting him after 9/11 with his agenda to destroy civil rights and other laws that the United States used to protect.
Meh. I saw this in LA three years ago. The remixing was so abstract (mirroring images, overlaying what looks like wires on the film, no recutting with a sense of changing the story or plot) that it really meant very little other than "Oh, it's Birth of a Nation but NOT." It was a two second point dragged out for what felt like hours. I'm all for remixing and repurposing but this is something that sounds much better in concept than in actual form.
Not going to derail more than I have by sharing a happy memory [heaven forbid], but frankly, I'm more afraid of the hooligans, and the riot police, I see on YouTube (in a BAFTA-winning documentary). Check out a few matches here in Poland and then tell me a casual fan could bring his kids here for a day out watching a game. I'll pass.
Waldman's is especially strange, given that Lepore's article barely gets around to mentioning the two books purportedly under review.
The numbers in that "Yakko's Universe" song are so wrong, it's hardly enjoyable.
explosion, the guy just arrived at the club and he is one of eleven people at the restaurant. It's a team building thing; a getting-to-know-you exercise.
"After his first training session with the Galaxy, in Washington two days before a nationally televised game against D.C. United, he helped organize a dinner with 10 other players at Morton's steak house.."
Interesting choice of words. Do we think he rang the restaurant or did he get up on a chair and invite everyone or, more likely, the idea came up and he agreed and maybe offered a suggestion about the style of food or whatever? Again, this is petty, petty stuff, but it's being laid out so that Beckham comes off negatively. No doubt if Beckham had paid, he would be criticised for being too regal and above them all or something. If you want to join a team, you want to show that you're just one of the lads by paying your own way and not embarrassing everyone by assuming custody of the costs in my view.
There was a techno remix of AYBS' theme song? Man, I'd love to hear that.
Don't forget the Coil version.
Malice, are you twelve? The world is a bit more complicated than you seem to think. Come back when you've had some adult experiences and we'll talk some more.
I didn't mean to imply that unplanned pregnancies carried to term necessarily lead to unloved, unwanted children. "Surprises" can turn out very well, I know.
Definitely. I'm the main reason my parents got married. That and their strict Catholic parents. But yeah, there wasn't a moment I didn't feel unloved.
Or at least as Canadian as possible under the circumstances.
Apparently you've never witnessed the battles between myself and a certain anti-choice MeFi user. Total abortion rights are an absolute necessity.
I also believe everyone who wants to pop out children should have the right to do so, and I also judge their parenting skills. I believe everyone with a drivers license should be allowed to drive, and I also judge their driving skills. Anyone who wants to eat a grossly unhealthy diet is free to do so, and sure enough, I'm gonna be judgemental.
Everyone makes judgements every day, all day. It's not a bad thing.
Great read, thanks.
My impression of Landon Donovan just went up several notches. My impression of Beckham remains about the same.
Beckham didn't need to prove shit to anyone in the U.S. in terms of playing ability and worldwide stature. Sure, he's clearly on the back nine of his career, but it's not like he's Dan Marino hanging on a few extras years in search of his first Super Bowl ring. He's been there, done that, got the T-shirt. A World Cup for England would be the only thing, but that's so out of direct control...
What he and his people did, then, was embark on a multimedia project to bring the Beckham Brand to a blue-water audience -- the U.S. It centered on him coming to the team and leading it into the playoffs, and basking in the adulation of millions of NEW fans to the sport, like Gretzky did with the L.A. Kings.
Didn't work out that way, obviously. Beckham was Beckham alone. Gretzky brought more than his own formidable skills -- he also brought other players, too. Which you kind of need to have on a team sport. And even Gretzky didn't get to hoist the Stanley Cup in a Kings jersey. But at least he stuck around for a few good years.
So Team Beckham packed it in and headed back to Europe, to stay relevant and stay on the England team. Maybe that World Cup will finally come around...
Yeah, Malice, except what about the times that birth control fails? What about the many, many women -- especially those who live in rural areas (and, obviously, are often part of a lower economic bracket) who don't have the benefit of a Planned Parenthood clinic around the corner? What about the teenager whose parents have preached abstinence-only, who are terrified of being labeled a slut just because they bought birth-control pills? There a million different reasons why "USE FU#$*@%! PROTECTION" doesn't work, and it sure as hell doesn't contribute a goddamned thing to the conversation at hand.
Seriously. Take the judgmental, hysterical tone here a notch, if you don't mind.
posted by shiu mai baby at 12:15 PM on July 1
Hysterical isn't what I meant to come across as. Just LOUD. Birth control doesn't fail if you use two methods, which is usually recommended.
Oh goddamn you filthy light thief. The Bumblebee tuna song was running through my head for days and just when I think it's gone, there you go putting it right back. I vow to skank on your grave.
Shrug.
Huh. Does the protagonist see "little starbursts" when he meets Josephine? 'Cause she sounds really familiar.
Wait, wait, wait. At the end of the clip, Beck says that because Obama is doing such a lousy job, Osama wants him to carry on doing that lousy job keeping America safe and doesn't want Obama taking the measure that would make America safe, so attacking is the last thing he'll do.
Doesn't that mean America is safe?
So, according to Beck, Obama has left America dangerously unprepared. The only thing that could cause/force the White House to take the measures that would make America safe would be an attack by OBL. But OBL likes the USA being open to attack, dangerously unprepared, etc. So he won't attack. He doesn't want to provoke the measures that would make attack impossible.
So ... under what circumstances does America get attacked?
Beck is clearly a special class of mind.
Bill, yes the Bill with all those friends, the founder of AA, advocated LSD as the cure for alcoholism.
At first i hated this post, but then i couldn't stop clicking the links. These videos have a draw similar to a car crash.
Oh, and crabcore macho man.
Do people actually enjoy this genre as something other than a joke?
"Well, Obama, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the bin Ladins. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist -- and I really believe he is the Antichrist -- I'll disown you. You're no friend of mine -- and I'll have to have you waterboarded until you TALK DAMMIT!!!"
The age of this gentleman of ours was bordering on fifty; he was of a hardy habit, spare, gaunt-featured, a very early riser and a great sportsman. They will have it his surname was Bauer or Bower (for here there is some difference of opinion among the recappers who write on the subject), although from reasonable conjectures it seems plain that he was called Jack.
You must know, then, that the above-named gentleman whenever he was at work (which was mostly all the day round) gave himself up to torturing Moors with such ardour and avidity that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of justice, and even the management of his family; and to such a pitch did his eagerness and infatuation go that he stormed many an acre of abandoned storage facility to find suspects to torture, and brought back as many of them as he could get...
The site is very slow on my already slow connection, but thanks for this. I love old photographs.
I love George Plimpton. I hate that flash interface.
It also had one of the worst controllers in the history of video games.Intellivision Baseball was pretty awesome though.
The controller drove me batty at times also. But it's because of the number pad that intellivision baseball was so awesome, as well as a few other games. Baseball wouldn't have been near as great with the atari 2600 controller.
Today it would suck, but they were trying something different back then, and sometimes, it worked.
I thought it was a fairly shallow piece and if Donovan cooperated (seems likely), it comes off as something of a hatchet job from a wounded ego. It's all petty and banal and trying to drive book sales through insinuation. He's meant to be a crap captain because he doesn't say what Donovan (+/- the author) expects of him in front of the team and because he's not rah-rah American enough in his approach? Riight. The cheapskate shot was nice too.
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Seeing as how my comment was linked from the previous thread in which we debated the various levels of treason, I feel compelled to put in two cents here:
Yeah, taking the bullhorn and saying that the mass murder of America citizens is necessary and crucial to our "progress" should be treason.
I get the counter argument. Yeah, though police and all that. I get it. But, deliberate incitement to violence ain't just thought. It's deliberate incitement to violence. Accessory to murder, and in the context of international warfare and terrorism, treason.
Hard to say, since it depends on exactly how bad 'inconsistent' use is amongst other details, but there's a chance you'd lose that bet:
Fifty-four percent of women who have abortions [in the US] had used a contraceptive method (usually the condom or the pill) during the month they became pregnant. Among those women, 76% of pill users and 49% of condom users report having used their method inconsistently, while 13% of pill users and 14% of condom users report correct use. (source; citation to original source)
posted by jedicus at 2:04 PM on July 1
That is a pretty tough call.
Of about half of the people who got abortions, only 13% and 14% used contraception correctly, however. The rest is really not something we can know without more data. Was it the contraception that failed or was it the way it was used/not used?
Can we get rid of the millennarians? Please?
You know we are really entering some potentially dangerous times. We are hearing media and political figures on our nation's Right who are kinda sorta saying that maybe it would be good if there was a terrorist attack against us because that would make them more electable.
I think maybe we are just so used to right-wing idiocy but that is kind of a fucking scary thing to be hearing, if you think about it.
Okay, the Malice pile-on is silly. As far as I can tell, Malice is entirely pro-choice; (s)he simply feels that abortions should be (say it with me now) safe, legal, and rare, and that a good way to promote the scarcity of abortion is the proper use of birth control. An awful lot of wind would be taken from the sails of anti-choice folks if the number of couldn't-afford-parenthood or wasn't-ready-for-parenthood abortions decreased. Ideally, this number should be reduced to zero; as everyone in the universe has just pointed out in this thread, that's not possible, so of course zero-stipulations abortions must be kept legal and available. That does not mean that Malice is a terrible person for being upset by the carelessness of a few people that leads to avoidable pregnancies and thus inflates the anti-choice crowd's sense of moral indignation.
Gosh, Animaniacs was high-brow kid fare? (Although I am always happy when I hear the Brain Song sung to the tune of Camptown Races.)
Can we compare the size of a human to that thing?
So assuming a grain of sand, made up of silicon dioxide, is approximately .01mm^3, and accounting for the fact that atoms are on the order of a few hundred picometers in diameter, an atom would be approximately the size of, I'd estimate, the city of New York, and I'd say one person would be the size of one proton in the nucleus at most.
Lalex, it was an attempt to explain in shorthand what I have now stated in longhand.
Is this the part of the thread where I get to mention that I don't own a television?
No, wait, I got that wrong. One moment.
Is this the part of the thread where I get to mention that I've got a television but I don't watch any shows other than Charlie's Angels?
That is the 3rd time that was happened in this thread.
I'm starting to get paranoid.
being the center of the universe, my perception of the size of everything around me is all messed up.
What the heck, Ayelet Waldman? That was less a review of your book and more a history of parenting guides in general - why would you want the author to burn in hell for that?
Obviously it's because Lepore didn't satisfy Waldman's raging narcissism by spending half of the review talking about her.
I have indeed witnessed your battles with that user, and that's precisely why I'm confused. I guess what I'm wondering is what, exactly, you base these judgements on.
Anyone who wants to eat a grossly unhealthy diet is free to do so, and sure enough, I'm gonna be judgemental.
Yeah, I also don't really get why you care about this.
I'm in favor of finding and developing native players. If anything, the Beckham experiment proves that the MLS can't simply buy it's way into being a world class league. And while they've been pretty smart in a lot of ways, Beck's tenure in LA wasn't one of them. Hopefully, they won't repeat that mistake.
I'm a Sounders (Sounders 'til I Die!) season ticket holder and although I realize the record crowds probably won't last, there IS a lot of people around here that are hardcore fitba fiends. With Vancouver, Philly and Portland all coming into the MSL soon, this is an exciting time for football in North America...we just have to take the long view.
I look at all this wonderment and I can't understand how people can't (or just refuse to) believe in God. And then they get mad that you bring it up.
Funny. I have precisely the opposite reaction.
@lord_wolf: I know some really bad and overbroad knee-jerk legislation was defeated by the general-aviation lobby back then, but it seems that the compromise legislation did make it onto the books, essentially prohibiting any unlicensed (e.g. underaged) person from "manipulating the controls" if "the individual is attempting to set a record or engage in an aeronautical competition or aeronautical feat, as defined by the Administrator."
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The what?? Is that something I need IE or Opera to see??
I'm using Firefox and can see it fine. The arrows appear on the front page and in the thread, but not in Recent Activity. You may need to enable YouTube pop-ups in your Preferences.
The James can get pretty low there by the Ferry; the pole gives them more ability to manage the crossing. The tubers are a pretty regular sight 7 months of the year; there are several tubing companies just up the river.
The County Supervisors are trying to find a way to save the Ferry with a $8000 appropriation now and plan to solicit locals for funds to help support it going forward. From what I hear tomorrow's appropriation vote is pretty much a slam dunk, after which the VDOT will be able to take action.
The $8000 gets them through to October, when they normally shut down for the season.
Free Clinics.
Yes, I grew up poor. No, I am not rich, or even middle class. Or lower middle class. Yes, my schools DID teach sexual education, at least a handful of them did, I moved a lot. I've already stated that it was news to me that they now teach abstinence instead of giving out condoms and teaching about birth control.
And yes, I have been to free clinics in many cities. Yes, they give out free condoms and birth control.
I've seen bigger.
With the universe being so big and all, you'd think it would be easy to hide a dead body, but nooo.
I think I've said too much.
Mike and Q considered hundreds of songs for Thriller alone. ... There's got to be a ton of stuff in the vaults.
Here's some of the material unearthed from the "Thriller" vaults:
The Demo of "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
The Demo of "Baby Be Mine"
The Demo of "The Girl Is Mine"
An excerpt from "Starlight" - the original version of "Thriller"
The Demo of "Beat It"
The Demo of "Billie Jean"
The Demo of "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"
The full version of "The Lady in My Life"
And here are some other demo tracks that never made their way onto "Thriller":
"Carousel" (ousted from "Thriller" by the last-minute inclusion of "Human Nature")
"Trouble""Hot Street""Nite Line"
It's all so depressing because it's not even new.
Digby has this nice expose on the rightwing "Medicare == SOCIALISM!" charge.
Second verse, same as the first. Without Medicaid my mom would be ruined financially, yet she tells me how great a President and person St Reagan was. She also voted for Schwarzenegger, and thanks to that has lost her SSP payments of ~$600/yr. Le sigh.
[Let's] hope that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Yum yum Bumble, Bumblebee Tuna
crabcore was bad enough, now we have to put up with albacore?
Favoriting you a million times, emjaybee.
Not to mention all the crazy rumors/urban legends about not getting pregnant the first time, or by douching, or the "pull and pray" method. I never had any sort of comprehensive sex education in school. Our "sex education" was about venereal disease...complete with gross pictures...and about how nothing is 100% effective. (So why bother, amirite?)
-that lots of women don't realize that taking antibiotics will make the Pill ineffective
I was on the Pill for years before anyone told me this. *shudder*
Seriously, I consider myself a fairly smart person, well educated, from a regular middle class family and I am pretty sure the only reason I never got pregnant was luck.
A nice appraisal of her work in the New York Times. It's a shame there are not better, more accessible videos of her work out there - she was such a visual choreographer. I'll not only miss her work, but her dancers dancing her work. Their characters and the personality they projected were such a huge component, I can not begin to imagine what is must be like for them. Like losing your home.
Navelgazer: No, he's just using very clever double-triple-reverse psychology on Bin Laden.
It's going to be one heck of a long "In Memoriam" scroll this New Year's Eve....
Now that is how you Metafilter. Thank you!
If my birth control failed, I would kill somebody else's baby. Just out of sheer frustration.
I'm glad they don't do the crab move in the melodic parts-- that would just be silly.
Every time I look up, another 1970s talk show stalwart is gone. Orson Bean, watch your back!
Alcohol is a great servant but a terrible master.
So it's saying that alcohol is a bit like a Roman emperor?
And I apologized for the derail and was willing to stop, but people kept on, so I responded to them.
... by continuing the assertion that "that isn't a reason to ignore that a lot of it could be avoided with proper birth control methods taken. I am willing to bet most abortions are NOT from faulty birth control".
The point is: who gives a shit why anyone gets an abortion? It doesn't matter, or shouldn't anyway.
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Are You Being Served was my favourite show when I was quite young. I'm genuinely sad that we have now lost Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard and John Inman.
Birth control doesn't fail if you use two methods
I would feel uncomfortable asking my date to get a vasectomy.
posted by Kutsuwamushi at 2:07 PM on July 1
I meant pill/condoms, or spermicidal cream/pills, etc.
Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, I'm not playing at any 'game'. I'm just discussing like everyone else. I haven't said a single thing nasty or rude to any of you.
Wow. Ok, let me try and help you guys at Fox out here a moment; when you are advocating that Osama Bin Laden, the very boogieman you've used for years as a cudgel against the left, that he should detonate a major weapon in the US in order to bring your side back to power?
Yeah, you've lost it. And you've managed to once again cross that line again into the most vulgar of partisanism. You should be ashamed, and more importantly, you should be held up as an example of what is wrong with this country.
The gawker article about Hoffman had a (rare) interesting paragraph:
For all the criticisms that exist about writing on the internet, this situation is a bright, shining example of one of the best things about writing on the internet—After a while it thickens your skin to the point where you're easily able to easily differentiate between valid criticism and hateful venom-spewing. At some point, the hateful venom-spewing fails to even faze you any longer, while the valid criticisms are accepted and processed rationally and learned from. Too bad Alice Hoffman never had a blog to help her overcome her hypersensitive ego. She'd be a better writer because of it.
i'm not sure i agree about "better" but i definitely have experienced this as a writer of net thingys.
He may look a dreamy hunk in his photo shoots but when he is interviewed it is a shocking shift to twink country.
Ali G's first line to Beckham in this interview just slays me.
What's with the circa-1990 playlist?
How about some Metric, Crystal Castles, Arcade Fire, Stars, heck even Buck 65, yeah.
Go listen to some Radio 3 everyone!
"it sought to recast the Civil War and the pains of Reconstruction as being fundamentally caused by African-Americans"
goddamn. people suck. And, like the sight of a train wreck, I must look and see just how much.
WHOOPS I GUESS I HAVE TO KILL MY BABY NOW
Killing babies? I thought we were talking about aborting fetuses.
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 12:23 PM on July 1
Yes, but these women refer to them as 'my baby'. So I did as well.
Jack gets me a job in CTU, after that Jack's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to talk. For 24 hours though, Jack and I were best friends. People are always asking me, did I know about Jack Bauer.
*does finishing twirly move to secret handshake*
Yup, same here. Having an abortion was just as emotional for me as having my wisdom teeth removed: it was a medical decision, and easily made.
It was the same way for me. My partner and I knew we were in no position to have a baby at that point in our lives. I'm not finished with college (he is), not married (although we were heading in that direction) and neither of us felt really ready to bring a child into this world so we made the logical choice and neither of us has regretted it at all.
My body, my life, my choice, end of story.
and just because I needed something to get it out of my head...
There are those who want what is best for America, and there are those that want what is best for their Party.
We have the same problem in Canada. Our current asshole-in-chief is intent on eliminating public funding of minority political powers. His (right-winger) party has no problem raising lots of corporate funding, so its his best means of removing competing parties. It's all about keeping power, and not at all about serving citizens.
I think it is a traitorous ideology.
Uh. What does Jagged Alliance have to do with Canada?
Being Canadian. Made by a small, independent team out of Ottawa, if I'm remembering correctly. Admittedly, I could be confused. Google is unhelpful.
You can play N or Everyday Shooter if you want your Canada Day-related independent video game recreation time to be more confident in its nationality, but it kind of hurts the 'it is 1994 and you live in Sudbury' theme.
When I entered alcohol rehab, the medical staff immediately put me on Serax (oxazepam), an anti-seizure withdrawal medication. They would even wake me every two hours during the night to administer another dose. For the first two days I was there, it was constant injestion of this drug that made me hear the electricity, feel the lights, and walk into walls.
They called the beds in this section of the treatment center "detox." Hell, talk about a misnomer. They detoxify you from alcohol by screwing you up so bad with seizure meds, that you're literally stumbling from place to place. I was never so messed up on any amount of alcohol as I was on mass dose oxazepam.
After two full days of this, it just seemed to me that something wasn't right. I went to this place to get sober, not to get fried. So the next time I got an audience with the psych doc, I told him in no uncertain terms, "You're making me worse than I ever was out in the real world. This isn't why I came here." With that, my recovery began.
They immediately stopped the Serax, and all other medications for that matter. I was able to fully function in the group counseling sessions and I started going out with the group in the evenings to AA. The rest is history. I now have 16 years continuous sobriety. As a recovering alcoholic, I certainly welcome any new medical technology that can make recovery easier and provide more long-term effectiveness for unfortunate alcoholics. The skeptic addict in me, however, still worries about replacing one drug (alcohol) with another.
"I do hope you're not labouring under the misapprehension that I was in the pub boozing, I merely popped in to buy a packet of crisops."
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She was part of my childhood, and I am unanimous in that.
Why are so many celebrities dying recently?
When I was in sixth grade, two girls in my seventh grade class became pregnant. One had an abortion, one carried the baby to term*. The school principal must have figured out that the current sex-ed wasn't working, because my 7th and 8th grade sex ed was a lot more in depth than the previous year's.
And you know what? The talk about birth control probably helped some, but not half as much as having someone speaking to us about shit that really should be common sense-but unfortunately isn't. Like the fact that birth control doesn't always work doesn't mean you shouldn't use it (just use two types, don't try two condoms). Or that if you are going to have sex with someone, you should have a talk about what you're going to do if you do become pregnant (and if you can't have that conversation, don't have sex). And yeah, it covered abortions too-explained as a horribly emotionally messy last resort, but explained.
It kills me that kids can't get the same sort of sex ed nowadays because that would be encouraging them to have sex.
*When I tell this to people, I tend to get two different sorts of reactions: either an uncomfortable admission that yes, it was probably all right for the 12 year-old to have an abortion, or disbelief that the other 12 year-old did not abort. Both are passing judgment on something that really, they don't know anything about. It's the family's choice.
Anyway, I wish that this pro-voice movement will take off-it's wonderful work. I can't help but think of it as a parallel to the gay pride movement-it's harder to demonize women who have had abortions when you realize that you know them.
. . . a parade might be in poor taste, though.
Man, I loved that show when I was a kid.
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This is also a very pretty video that puts the size of the universe in perspective.
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What Rand identified as the Romanticism of the show explains why "Charlie's Angels" was one of the most popular shows of its time.
and all this time I thought it was Farrah's pokies that made the show popular.
-that lots of women don't realize that taking antibiotics will make the Pill ineffective
Say hello to my eldest child, unknowingly conceived while his mother was being treated for a dental abscess.
Presently, three of the last five FPPs are obituary posts. This is getting a bit out of hand. (I understand that this post also addresses MS, but it is framed more as an obituary.) No disrespect intended to Mr. Black or poster, but the front page has been looking like a cemetary lately.
Nevertheless, .
RIP Mollie.
But can PBS please stop running AYBS now? Please?? It's not like the BBC stopped making TV shows in the 70's. How about Heartbeat instead? Anything, please. Just no more Are You Being Served. I totally got served, thanks. I'm good now.
The man deserved better than this, yet it's how I remember him.
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double block and bleed, try that black hole over there.
I'm aware that birth control is not 100% effective. I am not against abortion in the slightest. There are many circumstances where it has to happen. In fact, I read on one of the links about a woman who had gotten pregnant while she had cancer and couldn't have the baby or it would kill both of them. I'd say that's a pretty valid reason, I don't know many who would think it wasn't.
But that isn't a reason to ignore that a lot of it could be avoided with proper birth control methods taken. I am willing to bet most abortions are NOT from faulty birth control.
I really have to ask ... you talk about how this lady with cancer had a "pretty valid reason" to have an abortion. Why does it matter what the reason for the abortion is? Does there exist a reason that you think isn't valid enough to be allowed one?
For years, I've said to myself, you know what Birth of a Nation needs? An illbient soundtrack, that's what.
When I saw it, there was no soundtrack, just silence. The prof maintained that the one on the film print was arbitrary at best and had nothing to do with the original music score that was supposed to be played by an orchestra, live in the theater.
Illbience sounds just fine to me.
That was a really interesting, engaging read. Thanks for the post.
This show is to be both an affirmation and a confession, and most of all an adventure, for terrorism is but an adventure for those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a man who, even though he may have moved on from its shells, was birthed by the war.
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fff: unless someone wants to claim to know and understand every facet of this woman's life and her choice, as long as abortion is legal, then no, it's not okay to judge.
Donovan needs to ditch the Galaxy, and, now that his international stature has been raised (particularly after that beautiful second goal against Brazil), he needs to move anywhere but Germany. I think Bianca's show is cancelled, so they've got no real ties. Donovan's too small to go up against teams in Germany or the Netherlands, but speed/finesse-wise, he'd do well for a Spanish club (hell even a club in Mexico, where they may dislike him, but at least respect him).
Also: Ayn Rand's long-term addition to General Hospital and sour-cream Pringles.
Well, it's not funny, but at least it's short.
I don't think this is treasonous by any stretch of the imagination.
I don't know what "treason" means if it doesn't mean "rooting for your countrymen to be killed by the enemy."
I don't understand, have they somehow managed to artificially increase the gravity six times? Can you do that in video post production?
Wow, I just learned about hypergiants, galatic filaments, the Sloan Great Wall, Lyman-alpha blobs, and a bunch of other cool shit by following the links in this post. Favorited!
Every time I think I have some kind of handle on how face-meltingly huge the Universe is, something comes along and says "nope, sorry; it's even bigger than that".
(gah..."famousLY" That's what I get for being in a hurry.)
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(pretended it's dyed lavender like her hair)
Keyboard Cat works really well as an aural palate cleanser after that tripe. CRABCORE4EVA.
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I just would like to spread the good word of using protection and preventing this to start with.
Awesome. So you accomplish this by, what? Yelling at a bunch of fellow MeFites? Who you think.. don't ... know this? Already?
Wow. That's like Mission-Accomplished-circa-2003 levels of moronitude there.
posted by shiu mai baby at 12:40 PM on July 1
I'd hand out condoms to High Schoolers if i thought it wouldn't get me immediately arrested.
In all seriousness, the caps was misconstrued. I wasn't yelling AT any of you. I was capslocking in exasperation.
"Crapcore! That's what I call this kind of music. Crapcore!"
- Old Man, crabby to the core
"Failure rates can be made extremely low if one cares to make the effort. "
As far as I can tell, the places where the abortion rate is the lowest are the places where access to contraception and sexual health education are taken seriously. So, there is a point to that. But the goal isn't really to lower the abortion rate, per se. It's more about treating sex as a health issue rather than a moral issue. Making abortion this big bugaboo - as a toxic, third-rail issue of any health initiative like you seem to want to do - treats it like a moral issue and distracts from what is actually important.
And then the check came.
O mother of all pregnant pauses, will the wealthy Beckham pick up the check? The writer would have us think it's a big deal because he paid only his share... however, that fit with David's goal of trying to be "just one of the guys".
The false drama is sickening, and I don't care if David didn't pick up the check. Not planning on reading this book.
And yes, I have been to free clinics in many cities. Yes, they give out free condoms and birth control.
Guess what? Not everyone lives in a city, hoss.
I grew up in a small town in Mississippi. The nearest "free clinic" was 200 miles away, and going there required braving a cadre of anti-choicers who were there every single day, rain or shine, blazing hot or freezing cold, and would scream the most unimaginable things at the women who would go there, even though they (the protesters) hadn't a goddamned clue why those women were there.
As has been pointed out upthread, not everyone lives in this weird little birth control utopia that you are so certain exists.
Well, between USA/BRA, the Sounders beating the Rapids, and that article, I'm finding this sport rather intensely depressing of late.
Which is why we love it, of course.
Also, is it weird to read an article of this scope about MLS in Sports Illustrated? Regardless, thanks for the post dig_duggler.
One morning, as Jack Bauer was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a terrorist hostage.
you know Attack Attack! shouldn't be confused with Attack! Attack! they're completely different man
those links have loud autoplaying music by the way
Hey, so, the rapture index described in that Moyers link that @troy posted is currently at 165. That means we're in "fasten your seatbelts" territory. The end times should be starting at any moment now.
Wow, this is cool. The only thing I remember him from are the Intellivision commercials. And really, the Intellivision was superior to the Atari in terms of engineering and graphics. They just didn't have the game reach or market share the Atari had.
You have to admit, this really just confirms that lurking bad feeling you got when you heard that Beckham was coming over here in the first place.
There was a techno remix of AYBS' theme song? Man, I'd love to hear that.
Tom Tomorrow, author of This Modern World, rhetorically asks for apologies after people said this comic was out of line for suggesting right-wingers want an attack.
"This is my church!"
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removing myself from the keyboard now, because that shit is stomach turning
Nice post!
I love Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog. And those videos and pictures from the MPIA are stunning.
So glad to see so much love for her here.
At a loss for a quote except for the one that I've wanted to use during sex and I have used when someone has wagged their pointer at me:
"Captain Peacock, I do not respond to any man's finger."
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(imagine mine lime green)
If anything, I think shining a light on the incredibly difficult and often painful emotions a woman goes through before electing to have an abortion is a good thing, as it puts a very real, very human face on the fallacy of the casual-abortion-gettin'-hussy that is one of the tenets of the anti-choice movement.
The alternative viewpoint to this, though, would be that you never truly win a political battle by conceding your opponent's characterization of the terrain. I don't want a world in which abortion is given full legal protection in a spirit of reluctance, with much sighing and beating of chests and endless acknowledging that of course abortion is a bad thing and should be avoided wherever possible and often causes severe emotional trauma. My point is not that these things aren't true, but that rights have nothing to do with what people feel emotionally about abortion as a choice for themselves or others. I might be being idealistic, but I can't help feeling that once you concede that your emotional attitudes towards abortion in any way inform or color your commitment to the legal right to abortion, you've bought into the basic fallacy of conservative morality, which is that my feelings of repulsion or attraction to some given act are somehow relevant to whether it should be allowed.
This is why I can never find anything. We need a smaller, more manageable universe.
Excellent post! I meant to dig into it deeper before commenting, but I'm hung up on the Youtube playlist - I had no idea that Jackson could beatbox!
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insane propaganda that says providing birth control to poor people/youths is just an encouragement for them to run out and have sex.
Or there's the similar, but probably more widespread, idea that if you buy birth control in advance, then OMG YOU'RE PLANNING TO HAVE SEX YOU SLUT! At least if you just sorta get caught up in the moment, without any pre-preparation, then it wasn't pre-meditated and therefore not as "bad".
It's ridiculous, but there's still a pretty strong shame-culture around sex, even in adult women. Super-happy if Malice doesn't have to deal with that, but it's still a significant "morality vs. reality" burden for a lot of people.
(And attention Limeys, it's soccer, ok? Soccer. We already have a game called football. And "soccer" is a term invented by a Brit to begin with, so enough with the whining. OK??)
Attention Seppoes: Realise that when NO-ONE ELSE IN THE WORLD plays your daft game, the name may be re-appropriated by people who understand internationalism in sport.
(Yes Aussies: this counts for you too!)
The links in this post are fantastic, but it is a pain in the ass to read through your sentences. Not trying to be mean. Copy edit next time! Sorry. Okay.
To continue the Winnipeg-bashing: the Winnipeg Whore song [1960s nudity NSFW].
ooh, that coil version + vid was weeeird. but somewhat likeable.
I think this is being blown out of proportion. There's several stupid things about what he says but he pretty clearly means that America won't take necessary defensive measures until after an attack, which he believes is inevitable.
To go on and on about how he "wants" an attack is a fairly self-serving interpretation. I'll grant that he almost asks for it because of how poorly he expressed himself but nonetheless.
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Great read. Thanks.
After reading more about Scheuer in the above links, I'm very confused by his position and what he thinks the US should actually do in the "war" on terror.
At least she was unanimous in her death.
My Mom loved her in AYBS and so did I.
RIP Mrs. Sugden.
Whoops: I didn't mean to imply that unplanned pregnancies carried to term necessarily lead to unloved, unwanted children. "Surprises" can turn out very well, I know.
and stop with the jellybeans! (i am hungry)
by the way, both the original Birth of a Nation and Spooky's remix are available as instant streams on netflix. now I know what I'm doing this weekend. maybe it's fitting for july 4th.
It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV... Mrs. Slocombe intercepts Mr. Lucas' letter to Miss Brahms and begins to read...
"Dear Sexy Knickers...
I don't 'alf fancy you."
(Horrified looks on the faces of Mr. Lucas and Mr. Humphries)
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Aw, man. And I just watched The Cincinnati Kid the other night.
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I liked this article. I was uncomfortable with this paragraph, though:
The crucial, and perhaps most helpful, point of agreement between the tragic and possession theories is that in neither account is addiction understood as a moral failing on the part of the alcoholic. While the AA view seems to smuggle moral blame into its account – the process of recovery is characterised as a moral process – the alcoholic’s problem, even when he relapses, should not be understood in moral terms. The one dominant theme of contemporary literature on the problem of addiction is that the alcoholic, the junkie, the crack addict, must not be accused. How they are to be helped is, as we have seen, a tricky business.
I know what he's getting at: it's senseless to 'morally blame' someone for something they have done if they couldn't have done otherwise. That's like blaming a rock for tripping you. This is also why we see abusive childhoods and mental retardation as mitigating circumstances: in a sense, such people have been robbed of agency by forces beyond their control. Like the rock, we see them from more as objects than subjects, and indeed their actions make more sense as a set of chemical reactions than as the choices of a rational and autonomous being: the lack simple predictive capacities and the impulse control that we associate with maturity.
However, I do think a species of 'amoral' blame applies and is helpful for thinking about these issues. Specifically, that nobody else can be held accountable for the alcoholic's addicition, and the only solution is to take this irresponsible and unblameable subject and turn him into a responsible and blameable one. It's not about whether the act was optional, nor about a metaphysical account of freedom and agency. Rather, it's simply a matter of attribution. That's what the 4th through 9th steps do, forcing the addict to think of herself as 'the one who did these things.' The way alcoholics do this is by 'taking responsibility' for their past actions, by willingly submitting themselves to blame even though they couldn't have, in the past, done otherwise. Then, they take this newfound responsibility and apply it to present decisions and future choices. I think of it as an 'educative' rather than 'merit-based' account of praise and blame.
Anyway, I wouldn't have commented except the guy is a philosopher, too, so I know the kinds of tricks he's especially tempted to play on himself and his audience when it comes to self-justification. Maybe I'll look him up at the APA smoker and tell him so in person.
Holy shit, I was just reading about baclofen, as I'm hopefully going to be getting a muscle relaxant for a pinched nerve I've had this past week. Looking to see more details on how they work and what they are.
Carry on!
P.S. Pinched Nerves SUCK! Don't get them.
FWIW: "Puerto Rican" is not a race. West Side Story is about
ethnic and not racial clashes.
I'd never heard of Yellow Magic Orchestra before either. Thanks for the post!
Turns out vitamin D IS a big suspect in multiple sclerosis, but there are other factors too. If we knew what some of the other factors were, we might know why Spokane is such an MS hotspot.
As far as I know Spokane isn't particularly a hotspot except in the sense that every place in a northerly latitude that doesn't get a lot of sun is a hotspot. Northerly latitude + cloud cover means vitamin D deficiency. Seattle, parts of the upper Midwest, parts of Scandinavia, etc.
But you're correct that there are other factors at play. If it were something as simple as a vitamin deficiency we'd almost certainly have nailed it already and every kid above the Mason Dixon line would be taking a Vitamin D supplement daily. But there are clearly genetic factors at work and very likely some sort of infectious disease aspect. Not Lyme, as the internet nutters will usually tell you. But certainly the examples presented by islands like the Shetlands and Orkneys during and after World War 2 are suggestive. It's probably something like a vitamin deficiency in someone with a genetic disposition and set off by a disease trigger.
When Sensible Soccer was released on the Amiga, everyone in Britain just stood in the shops screaming when they saw the title
Of course, the observable universe is big. But there's an unknown amount of unobservable universe past that.
And string theory might predict 10500 other universes. And I've even heard the number ee1077 mentioned. This makes the universe unimaginably tiny in comparison.
fff, I'm going to guess it's because the James River is tidal and the current reverses, and has slack and high tidal variation. I don't know that to be the case, but I know that is a factor on the tidal river where i live that favors some boat designs over others.
That lytton ferry is pretty counterintuitive-looking, though. NEat.
There was an excellent Drum & Bass version I can't find.
hmmm, five fresh fish, I'm not sure if I've fully caught on...please describe the criteria with which you judge the ok-ness of abortions?
*exhibits*
This whole back and forth has given me an interesting idea.
What if a non-profit started a website that you could order free birth control (in it's various formats) that would mail it to your house in (and this is the important part) like fake packaging for some innocuous sounding fictional other product?
Like "here's the free sample of Frootsplosion Botanical Lipgloss you ordered!" or whatever.
That way rural teens, etc could clandestinely get birth control without as much of a hassle.
Plz PM me for my paypal to donate. :p
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I am drinking
I am drinking beer with yellow flowers
in underground sunlight
and you can see that I am a sensitive man
--- So begins the Al Purdy poem, At the Quinte Hotel (video with the voice of Al Purdy)
I'm waiting for the Michael Bay remix.
Gah. It'd be nice if we didn't derail this post and just have an intelligent discussion, but I don't see this happening. Malice lurked here for 9 years, it says, and it knows well how these discussions go. Please don't feed the Malice, people.
posted by heyho at 1:05 PM on July 1
I already apologized for the derail. I am not a troll. ;p
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Was I the only one who followed Mei's lost sandal's link. Saw that it said "#A40040", and put checked out the RGB val to make suuuuure it was Original Red? Ah, definitely reddish, but not sure i'd call it 'original red'.
I don't think that anyone believed Malice to NOT be pro-choice. Just somewhat mis-informed about the fact that access to contraception can vary wildly from one town to another.
I think we all actually agree that abortion shouldn't be a "birth control option" and that protection is a better option. Where the disconnect came in, I think, is in our understanding of a) the actual availability OF said contraception, and b) the actual number of women who actually DO see it as a contraception alternative.
In truth, the actual number of women who do just see it as a contraception alternative is VANISHINGLY small, and the far and away vast majority of women who do have an abortion are truly doing it because either their access to contraception was limited -- either by economic circumstance, bad luck with where she lived, or lack of education -- or because of some other very difficult physical, mental, or emotional circumstances which would make carrying a pregnancy to term a cruelty to either herself or the unborn child.
All that frustrated me is the very little open discussion about protection to prevent this from happening.
It's possible that there was little open discussion because not everyone is living in an area where discussion would help. Knowing about how to prevent pregnancy is all very well and good, but if you're raped by a guy who doesn't use a condom or if you live in Kansas and work in a Burger King 200 miles from the nearest Planned Parenthood and have to walk to work, and the guy running the Wal Mart in your town is one of those guys who refuses to sell condoms, simply knowing about contraception and discussing it as an option with people really isn't gonna help you all too much.
I often say of the conversational situation we're in that "I think we're all on the same page, but we're just on different paragraphs." It's all good.
I used to enjoy his periodic TV specials when I was a kid - one time he tried his hand at being a stand-up comic, another time a trapeze artist. Always very interesting
One recent celebrity death that most likely fell under the U.S. radar was that of Terry Black, who in the early 1960s was Canada's answer to Fabian. Growing up listening to CKLW, I remember Terry Black for "Goin' Down (The Road to L.A.)", recorded with his wife, Laurel Ward. Black had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis just a year ago, and apparently died from complications of the disease.
How many other stars had a usenet fan group devoted to their nose? None, as far as I can tell.
Well, uh, hold on a second.
I mean, first off, I thought this guy was at least nominally on the side of realism, which was a leftist cause under Bush. Hence Imperial Hubris. Second, in reading that "speech for Bin Laden," it looked like he was advocating that Obama follow through on the promises made in Cairo, and pointing out that this gave an avenue for truce with the broader Muslim world. Then in the Beck piece, it seems not like he's rooting for an attack, but rather is saying that the only way for folks to understand the risk that he perceives as real is for there to be another attack—which seems circular, but whatever.
Am I missing something? Otherwise, this seems like a misleading bunch of third-rate political tubthumping and a pretty lame FPP.
Um, Malice, you do realize that
-protection sometimes fails even when you're careful
-that it is not mailed out free by the government here in the States (pills will cost you about 50.00/month if you have no insurance)
-that many women are embedded in families and cultures that will punish them for extramarital sex so that casually buying condoms at the drugstore where you can be recognized is a problem
-that some men will not wear condoms
-that some men will even throw away their partner's birth control as a way to have control over them
-that many women have substance abuse issues, meaning they also have responsibility issues
-that lots of women don't realize that taking antibiotics will make the Pill ineffective
-That some women are in small towns with asshole conscience-clause-loving pharmacists who refuse to fill their birth control prescriptions?
I mean, that's just off the top of my head.
And really that's not even the issue. A woman who recognizes that she can't afford a kid and has an abortion is being responsible. Her reasons for not being responsible in the way you prefer is none of your business.
Okay, if the ultimate beneficiaries of a major terrrorist incident in the U.S. are the Right Wing/GOP/FoxNewsers, then they are absolutely and undeniably PRO-TERRORISM and should be considered the primary suspects if one does occur, no matter who "claims" responsibility. But then the "Tea Partiers" ARE promoting the overthrow of our properly elected government. The Communist Party was outlawed for less.
Well, that's just great.
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I'm so confused. Michael Scheuer hated Bush was completely ostracized by the Bush Administration for being a lefty weenie. What's going on here? Has the world taken crazy pills?
My sense, possibly ill-informed, is that Scheuer is more of an old-time paleo righty-- anti-imperialist, don't tread on me, small small small government, who are all these foreign-looking people and what do they want?, etc.-- of the kind you find in abundance on lewrockwell.com (and to some extent, antiwar.com) .
Although even labeling him as a paleo might be using the wrong map... because I suspect he's not really looking through a political lens, let alone a traditional left-right lens. His shtick is professional-- Railing Against the Bureaucrats in the intelligence world-- but now he's playing pundit, is commenting on things not really connected to his knowledge, training, and experience, and is therefore out of his depth.
Rather than putting him on a political map, it's probably simpler and more accurate just to remember there are basically three types of Embittered Career Spooks:
Type A: "Hey... the government just screwed me over!"
Type B: "Hey... the government just screwed me over... and we're messing up, because we're not hitting our enemies nearly hard enough!"
Type C: "Hey... the government just screwed me over... and we're messing up, because we're focusing on the wrong enemies and overlooking opportunities for Soft Power!"
Think of Scheuer as an Embittered Career Spook, Type C.
I would like to put this "aboot" nonsense to rest once and for all.
There are 5 vowels - most of you have seen or heard them all by now. The reason we have 5 is that they all sound different when pronounced. If two sounded the same, we'd get rid of one of them. That's why "y" has yet to get official vowel status.
Americans, for some reason, have one vowel - a flat a. The sound you make when the doctor asks you to stick your tongue out so he can examine the back of your throat. aaaaahhhhh. Some lexicographer will no doubt correct me on the proper nomenclature for this sound.
This is the only vowel in the American phonetic lexicon.
"Lats ahl stay abaht tha hase"
"yah baht dasn't flaht"
"Ah dahn't knah what yah talkahn abaht"
ad nauseum.
"about" contains both the vowels "o" and "u". You can use one or both of them. The only "a" is at the beginning of the word.
Americans: 5 vowels. Use them all.
an aside from an old timer: "back then" before abortion became legal, a middle class pregnant woman could go to a therapist, pay the visit cost, and get a note stating that she was not emotionally ready to have a baby. The woman would take the note to a hospital and get a D and C, aborting the fetus....ok for her. But the poor woman, relatively uneducated and without money? She went to the neighborhood hanger person, around the corner and got an abortion. Or got a mess to cope with. So with all the other considerations noted above, there is also the class distinction that was in the past and that will be should abortion right be overturned.
The oral bio that came out last year is definitely worth a read. And, once there are actually enough links about it online, there is a great FPP to be made around his conception of the Dynamite Museum project. I think there might be a little bit about it in the bio, centering around one of the biggest gatherings he ever had at Elaine's where he was trying to court potential investors. Ended up being one of his bigger spectacular flops. This really half-assed Google Books search result gives you a taste at least.
God I love George Plimpton-- thx for the link.
I have begun to worry that invincible ignorance is the quality that really defines success here in America.
and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a jihadist where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
"Space is big - really big - you just won't believe how vastly, hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
And he was a college classmate of Robert F. Kennedy and wrestled Sirhan Sirhan to the ground after he shot RFK.
Damn! I didn't know that.
Just goes to show: You don't fuck with George Plimpton.
I actually just finished reading Paper Lion while on vacation last week. It was a great book, and I highly recommend it if you've never read it.
I mean, who's like, "Hey, I think I want to try to be an NFL quarterback!" and then actually goes and does it?
George motherfucking Plimpton. That's who.
That's a pretty damn kick ass version of "Underwhelmed", right there!
DJ Spooky's Re-Birth of a Nation is also available to stream from Netflix.
It's in my instant queue, but so are 60 other things, and I haven't gotten to it yet.
I found out today that if you take every star in the observable universe and squished them all up together, you'd fill a ball with a radius that's roughly from here to the nearest star. Surprisingly small. Grobstein's right.
Funny Women - Mollie Sugden 1, 2, 3.
Ground floor perfumery,
stationery and leather goods,
wigs and haberdashery
kitchenware and food...going up
First floor telephones,
gents ready-made suits,
shirts, socks, ties, hats,
underwear and shoes...going up
Not many left now...
idb mainly summed up many of my opinions upthread. I do, however think it's foolish to think of the USMNT as world beaters. Having said that, I think it's fair to look at USMNT participation in the Confederations Cup as part of a gradual process that really started around 1990.
To have gone from that 1990 squad, which featured college players to the present squad, which is made up of players playing for premier division squads in the US, Europe/Great Britain, and Mexico is a pretty huge leap in basically a generation. I think the team's international ranking (which was 14, and I think now is 12) is about right (if a little high at present). I see the US ranking in the teens for a while to come.
As for MLS, it's a perverse ugly knot of a system that's slowly improving the quality of its product, getting rid of the more stupid Americanized rules (I see the MLS likely ditching the eastern/western thing, going to a full table, ending the playoffs as they ended the countdown clock) - but I don't see MLS ever engaging in a promotion/relegation system unless it acquires USL (which I don't see happening).
Sure, the Eurosnobs (and Mexisnobs) are likely right, MLS probably ranks on par with second division leagues, with a few moments of seasonal brilliance here or there, and I'd be willing to bet cash money that a squad like Houston could give a squad like Wolverhampton a decent run. I'm not upset about that so much, considering the age of the league, the lack of an association football culture in the US, and the timidity of sponsors/networks/advertisers. I don't expect MLS to be producing AC Milan or Arsenal, but if in ten years, it gave us an Aston Villa, I'd be pretty happy with it.
Oh, and Fire Bob Bradley.
At least add a "football" tag for all of us non-Americans. We don't really do "soccer".
Oh horseshit. Whenever I get dragged into a conversation in English about the Bundesliga, half the time they call it "soccer" since everyone knows it's the word Americans use for the same sport. Pretending it's the wrong word is like pretending people don't know that "cell phone" is another word for "mobile phone" or "elevator" is another word for "lift".
Stan Rogers -- White Collar Holler
Holy shit, a Stan Rogers song not only about coding, but with punchcard references.
"Because no one's going to fold bend or mutilate me."
Just... wow.
What on earth makes you think women have abortions as casually as they eat jelly beans?
Because belief in total abortion rights = casual, la-di-da, just like buying new socks attitude. Duh.
People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.
Oh ...wait.
Not as good as Movin' Outlook.
Thanks for the tip. The zoom in feature is great.
I held out for as long as I could and finally exploded with laughter at "Watch the ads and it's almost like paying." It's collegehumor so I had every inclination to hate it but couldn't.
vibrotronica: "We're all Americans ("we" being the folks engaged in those debates") and we all allegedly want what's best for the country, we just disagree on what that is."
No we don't. People want what they think is best for the country, but it often isn't On the right, they don't want trade protectionism. Well, the result is that America companies cannot compete in the US against better foreign competition. Lowering the trade barriers is worse for America, because we are less efficient and innovation, design, and manufacturing than other places in the world. So people end up working at Walmart, and not machine shops or factories.
On the left, they want environmental regulation and improved labor laws. That's nice, but it ensures that no one builds factories here or hires large labor forces. So America may be less polluted, but it's hard to enjoy it when you can't afford food and rent.
The reality is that the concept of 'nations' is very rapidly approaching the end of its useful life. Why do we need a war on terror to protect the American way of life when the only difference between the American way of life and the British or Swiss way of life are the brands of consumer goods? The way of life in Evansville, Indiana is more different from the way of life in New York than New York's is from London's.
The whole concept is becoming silly, and the fact that political opinions on international issues fall along racial or religious lines reveals that the root of the concept of "nation" lies in those outmoded ideas, and as they increasingly become the province of a culturally conservative minority, the benefits of "what is best for our country" become less and less obvious and turn more on where a particular person makes their money.
Also, does anyone else think it's a little weird for him to be writing an article about it only 90 days into recovery? Talk about pink clouds....
I was prepared for the suck, but it's actually very charming.
Matthew Sciabarra [linked above]: What Rand identified as the Romanticism of the show explains why "Charlie's Angels" was one of the most popular shows of its time. It was, in fact, the number one show of the 1976-1977 season, and the biggest hit for the ABC network. Every Wednesday night, people tuned in to the show in search of objective values and romantic passion and they were rewarded accordingly.
caddis: and all this time I thought it was Farrah's pokies that made the show popular.
What's hilarious is that that statement actually undermines the Randian connection; if such a television program was really popular with the masses, with the halfwit retarded children and the common people at large, how could it appeal to them without stooping to their level?
I mean, the kids I know who watch the most television are halfwits or retarded. Or at least they act like it.
To latex
Heh. Nice Freudian typo.
I think the rooting part is protected speech, but plotting to aid in their demise, directly or indirectly, eg selling state secrets, would constitute. This guy is rooting for carnage on US soil, but he is not, in this case, taking actions to bring it about.
If you're ever in NYC, I highly recommend taking in the Virtual Universe tour at the Hayden Planetarium.
And don't miss the other exhibit's at the AMNH's Rose Center for Earth and Space which houses the Hayden Planetarium.
But can PBS please stop running AYBS now? Please??
Noooooooo!!! (Of course, they've already axed it here...and yet, for some inexplicable reason, Keeping Up Appearances lives on. Huh?)
I so had a crush on his daughter after The Goonies.
posted by Spatch at 8:32 AM on July 1 [+] [!]
Actually no relation.
I was watching several episodes of the Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe serial the other night, saw the Plimtpon name and thought "could it be the man who wrote Paper Lion had a hand in this?". I forgot about that until this thread, checked IMDB and the writers name is George H. Plympton.
He must have got that a lot!
I haven't said a single thing nasty or rude to any of you.
I didn't say you had. But the game you started was making the effectiveness of contraception and whether or not it's even used the central issue, which it isn't. The central issue to abortion is whether or not we have the right to decide what we do with our bodies. It's nobody's fucking business but our own.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 2:25 PM on July 1
And I apologized for the derail and was willing to stop, but people kept on, so I responded to them. There's no fucking game.I really have to ask ... you talk about how this lady with cancer had a "pretty valid reason" to have an abortion. Why does it matter what the reason for the abortion is? Does there exist a reason that you think isn't valid enough to be allowed one?
posted by kafziel at 2:27 PM on July 1
Birth control? I wouldn't change someone's ability to do it (who wants to be born to someone who doesn't want them?) but I'd personally feel that would be a bad reason to do it.
But yeah, there wasn't a moment I didn't feel un loved.
FTFM. Whoops!
Back during the run-up to and immediate aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, I was regularly called a traitor by right-wingers during online debates. Nothing makes me more angry, and nothing exposed the total intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the pro-war right than the McCarthyism they engaged in while selling lies that led to war. We're all Americans ("we" being the folks engaged in those debates") and we all allegedly want what's best for the country, we just disagree on what that is. But when you call someone a traitor or accuse them of treason, that changes the level of the debate and borders on a call for political violence, because that's what you do to traitors: you hang them.
Schuer's stated wish that bin Laden would nuke an American city is not treason, and I fully support his right to say whatever he wants. In fact, I'm glad I know that he wishes for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, because now I know that he's a fucking idiot who shouldn't be trusted to run a goddamned lemonade stand. That's how free speech works. Give the moron and assholes enough rope and they'll hang themselves.
William Carlos Williams + 24 = comedy gold!
I always find these abortiion threads bewildering. its just a non-issue in Australia except for the total nutjobs.
there is no stigma, there is no 'debate', there are family planning clinics all over and its just not a big deal.
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(I loved that show, for reasons I cannot even comprehend.)
Dammit, seekerofsplendor, you ruin a perfectly good post about the universe by wangling about various people's imaginary friends. This is an unfortunately common phenomenon - people not being able to imagine the sheer size of the universe and its complexity so they make it easier on their flaccid brains by saying 'oh, well, [imaginary entity] did it' instead of actually investigating the facts.
This has a formal name - an appeal to emotion or complexity or something such as that - but I can't remember the name for it at the moment.
Please brush up on your logical fallacies and then rejoin the conversation.
This is classic sleaze "journalism."
Beckham didn't pick up the check. He put in enough to cover his share and passed it along. That would be standard operating procedure at meals throughout the season. "None of us care," said Kelly Gray, one of Beckham's frequent dining companions. "It's just nice to go out to dinner."
Donovan didn't call Beckham out at Morton's after all, but he could never get over Beckham's alligator arms when the bill arrived. Nobody would have believed it, he thought: David Beckham is a cheapskate.
To support the claim the team was upset over Beckham's not paying, he has one sourced quote- which states exactly the opposite of his contention. Then he tops that off with what is most likely pure, unsourced conjecture over how Donovan could "could never get over [it]"
You can walk/drive/bike to your local free clinic
Where are these "free clinics" of which you speak? Are there free clinics for anything in the US? Seriously, you don't know what you're talking about. Have you ever lived in a rural area? A conservative area? Been poor? Where I grew up, the nearest Planned Parenthood is two hour drive away. And according to their website, condoms "Cost about $1 each, but are sometimes available for free." Other forms of bc cost more, if you can even get there.
Do schools not teach you how to use protection anymore?
Where have you been the last eight years, when the gov't was pouring millions of dollars into abstinence education? I graduated from HS in 1992 and was never taught to use protection (see above re: rural, conservative, etc.).
Really, get a small clue before you start ranting with the all-caps and the utterly false statements.
mdonley: that sounds like a fucking awful match day.
do you ever go to league games in europe, or are you too afraid of the hooligans you read about in the tabloids?
seriously:
we'd seen a fight and a free concert by an internationally-known celebrity, purchased an El Salvador hat, and eaten free Krispy Kremes
and then
Just soccer.
Get the FUCK away from football please, you are killing it. Holy shit.
Oh man, going through these more thoroughly, there are some really good neologisms. And the pictures are wonderful accompaniment. Totally a +fave.
Is Posh Spice a proper sleb in Yankieland yet?
But Romaticism was deliberately, and even meticulously, a rejection of and reaction to the scientific rationalism of the Age of Reason.
Romanticism was, among other things, a reaction to the scientific rationalism of the Age of Reason, yes, but to characterize it as a "deliberate" and "meticulous" "rejection" of that scientific rationalism would be extremely misleading. Everyone remembers Wordsworth saying, in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads that "all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"; nobody remembers that he goes on to say "and though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply."
Romanticism certainly saw itself as grounding the scientific rationalism of the C18th in a new and more holistic (their word would be "organic") context. But none of the major figures of either German or English Romanticism (French Romanticism is something rather different) saw themselves as simplistically rejecting rational scientific inquiry. Indeed, among the younger English Romantics you find a figure like Percy Shelley, for whom Hume (alongside even more trenchant critics of revealed religion, such as the Baron d'Holbach) was a major and much-admired influence.
fff, you must be thinking of the lytton ferry. it's a hoot!
And that video of At the Quinte Hotel stars the Hip's Gord Downie.
Being Canadian. Made by a small, independent team out of Ottawa, if I'm remembering correctly. Admittedly, I could be confused. Google is unhelpful.
I was going to object that Sir-Tech was an American company and it wasn't until later, for example with Wizardry 8, that Sir-Tech had been pared down to Sir-Tech Canada but then it occured to me that perhaps Sir-Tech only published Jagged Alliance. And, lo, JA was actually developed by MadLab software. So I declare: CANADIAN.
Plimpton was great. I think everyone should have A Talk With George. One of my all time favorites.
Jack Bauer's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-gray eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale grown hair grew down -- from high flat temples -- to a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan. He said to Chloe O'Brian: "Yes, sweetheart?"
Linking to tweets? You know you can just quote them and you'll be giving us the same information, right?
When I post information, I like to include a source.
Also, I felt it was more polite. Post text shows up in rss feeds, and some people might not appreciate profanity while they're reading a feed at work.
Why don't you just link every word in your FPP to its dictionary definition?
Thanks, but my posts are link-filled enough. There were 17 in this post.
She likes Aristotle because he was a defender and advocate of reason, and yet she likes Charlie's Angels because it was the lone eaxmple of the Romantic tradition at the time of the show's taping?
But Romaticism was deliberately, and even meticulously, a rejection of and reaction to the scientific rationalism of the Age of Reason. Additionally, the dominant theme of Romaticism isn't the exceptional individual doing things that are impossible to the common mortal, which Rand seems to believe. In fact, Romantic literature is too varied to ascribe one single theme to it, although I'd say a lot of it deals with the experience of humanity encountering the fantastic or extraordinary, rather than being fantastic or extraodinary.
Of course, I'm just an armchair academic, whereas Ayn Rand was a highly respected philsopher, so far be it for me to suggest that Rand might be contradicting herself, or have a shallow or self-serving definition of Romaticism that she uses to justify the fact that she enjoys what was, by any standard, a pretty terrible television show.
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and I'm an INTP sort, so it must be that pesky J vs P divide that's getting in the way
I saw Spooky perform the soundtrack to this live some years ago in Providence. The music was interesting, but Spooky's DJ skills are not.
*looks at trailer*
Wait a minute, that doesn't resemble what I saw at all. Huh?
Derive the Hamiltonian: It's "millennarianism".
Appears to be a pole-assisted cable ferry to me rather than vice-versa.
I agree with Malice: if more people used protection correctly, and took the risk of pregnancy more seriously, it would be A Good Thing. The goal should not ever be to ban abortion, but to reduce reliance upon it.
The proper starting point for such action is education. Sadly, this is something that is very much lacking in the North American education system.
The Birth of a Nation at Google Video, sadly a horrible transfer but good enough if you postage-stamp the size down enough.
I watch this every time it's on Turner Classic Movies, which is to say not very often at all. It's so wonderful and awful at the same time. The willingness to watch and think about this film critically (at last) makes me long for Riefenstahl's work to be more widely available.
I'm interested indeed in the DJ Spooky work. Meta works fascinate me. I hope he's done as well by it as his reputation and the material require. It's a shame I have to pay money to see a remix of a 100-year-old film. I guess I'll pony up. I can always give the DVD away once I've watched it if it isn't repeat-watch-worthy. Thank goodness it's only $10 through Amazon.
Donovan couldn't and won't adapt to any play style other than CONCACAF. European soccer is too fast and too rough for him, and the fans are brutal. I imagine the transition is difficult for most of the Americans playing overseas. He decided not to even really try, and it's a shame. Beckham should be team captain; he has oodles more charisma.
Never has there been a more appropriate time for "Do you know who I am?"
Have you heard Beckham? He sounds like his balls still haven't dropped. He may look a dreamy hunk in his photo shoots but when he is interviewed it is a shocking shift to twink country.
My initial snarky comment aside (and thank you, ericb, for that polite and informative response to my snark - it was more than I deserved!), having now visitied the assorted links in the post, I really like this. I had never listened to Yellow Magic Orchestra before and am glad I did. Furthermore, I'd love to hear Michael Jackson's cover of this song.
In fact, I don't know why I was being so snarky because I actually love this lost song business - even when I don't actually love the lost songs themselves. I'm glad that Jackson's fans have a few releases of unheard material to look forward to.
And I'm very glad to have finally heard Yellow Magic Orchestra, so thank you Obvious for that. I'll try not to snark before reading in the future.
See, that's funny, because what I tuned in for was the titties.
Rich Lowry should be forbidden for life from uttering or writing the name of Proust.
Albacore!
Making abortion this big bugaboo - as a toxic, third-rail issue of any health initiative like you seem to want to do
Whu? Sorry, but that is to claim it as a "big bugaboo" or "toxic issue" is waaaay beyond any measure I'd make. It's a long way from my "least preferable" option to what you are describing.
...there's usually a damn good reason that they were never released.
Not necessarily so in Jackson's case.
"Michael Jackson left his three children a £60million secret treasure chest of unpublished songs to save them from financial ruin, it emerged last night.
In his final weeks, the pop superstar arranged to bequeath them a hoard of original music – said to be up to 200 songs – as the threat of bankruptcy loomed.
The legacy, a rare act of shrewdness from a star legendary for his disastrous finances, means the songs cannot be touched by the many creditors lining up to reclaim their debts from his estate.
It ensures that Prince Michael, 12, Paris Katherine, 11, and Prince Michael II, seven, will be well taken care of following his sudden death at the age of 50 last week.
And it means that tens of millions of Jackson fans around the world can look forward to hearing more of their hero’s music."
There's a market for these songs. A shrewd move on his part to provide for his children after his death -- whether it were to have happened when it did or later.
This is the first celeb death in a long time that's actually made me sad.
Thanks for all the laughs, Moll.
I will forever love our neighbors to the north for giving the world degrassi. Yours truly, a fan of Canadian melodrama and girls who say aboot.
As mentioned on NBC Nightly News tonight, he and his wife celebrated their 70th anniversary this past winter. That itself is amazing.
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Wait a minute ... is Birth of a Nation off copyright yet?
Also, MeFites that participated in my last business venture (Bobby's Bits/Ass Ticklers Faggots Fanclub) plz PM me: the first of the checks are in. :p
Sometimes I think we are hardwired to believe there is a terminus out there. It may have to do with that God thing. But like the God thing, there is a pronounced lack of evidence.
Or you're a troll. Either or. :P
posted by davejay at 1:00 PM on July 1
I'm too cheap to pay $5 to troll.
As for your question, Free Clinics usually service those on low incomes who cannot ordinarily afford their own medical care/birth control. They do service those who do not qualify for medicaid though. If you can't find one in the phone book (they aren't usually listed under 'free clinic' obviously) sometimes it helps to call around and actually ask where a free clinic is to other doctor's offices. That's how I found them in the bigger cities. My ex-husband's brother never paid for condoms. He'd go there about once a month and come back with a huge brown bag of them.
You make good points, but most of the points people are making are on the assumption that everyone who is getting abortions is a young teenager with a lack of education. It didn't seem that way in the links.
My god, I thought Bill Plympton was dead for a moment there.
No we don't. People want what they think is best for the country, but it often isn't.
Right. Everybody thinks their ideas are what's best for the country. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. That's what open debate in a democracy is for: to help voters figure out who is right. When you call someone a traitor, you're not saying that they're wrong in their sincerely held beliefs, you're saying they're an enemy who should be destroyed. Do you think the environmentalists and free traders you cited are people who are wrongheaded and should be shown the error of their ways, or do you think they are traitors who should be hung?
Take your Vitamin D people.
If they're reading this, it's mostly too late. Unless we have a lot of kids and teenagers present.
One thing most folks forget about unreleased songs is that there's usually a damn good reason that they were never released.
Listening to the demo version of "PYT" . . . uhhh . . . NO.
You cannot give me a single good reason why they didn't release that version. I dare say I MUCH, MUCH prefer this one over what actually ended up on Thriller. He could've released this last week, in exactly the raw form we're hearing it in this clip, just before he passed, and I would've completely fallen for this as a brand new track. Not only that, but upon hearing that this was his "latest" release, I would've been thrilled to hear that he'd gotten his old magic back.
/i am not a musician
Sure, I watched Full House and Family Matters like everyone else...
Don't lump me in.
Freddie Mercury's birthplace is, I think, just left of centre in this shot.
Then again, I could be wrong. Stone Town is by far the most confusing medina I've ever visited...once got lost for an hour trying to take a shortcut on the five-minute walk back to the guesthouse...
From an obituary:His reputation, especially as a writer, is based almost entirely on an Everyman appeal, itself derived from his highly original development of a literary strand he labelled "participatory journalism", in which he temporarily assumed a role - professional baseball or football player, golfer, boxer, lion tamer, trapeze artist, ice hockey goalie - which most people only ever dream of playing.
This quote leaves out actor, chess player, bullfighter, and orchestra conductor, among others.
I'm so damn jealous. I've only tried five of those things.
One thing most folks forget about unreleased songs is that there's usually a damn good reason that they were never released.
Sounds great... then I watched the trailer. Does anyone know if the film is like the trailer, mixing contemporary footage with voice over with BoaN images or is it just made up strictly of images from the film?
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"I look at all this wonderment and I can't understand how people can't (or just refuse to) believe in God. And then they get mad that you bring it up."
While astronomers and physicists show slightly higher belief in God than most scientists we're still a highly atheistic population compared to non-scientists. Make of that what you will.
That's two today.
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Christ, what an asshole.
we just have to take the long view.
True 'dat.
And yes, btw, I'm surprised at the number of people who watched AYBS as children. I think it's probably because there just wasn't anything else on PBS Sunday afternoon besides New Yankee Workshop.
Rest in Peace, Mollie
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But by talking about women's emotions around abortion, aren't you actually feeding that ["abortion hurts [most] women"] strategy [of] the right?
If anything, I think shining a light on the incredibly difficult and often painful emotions a woman goes through before electing to have an abortion is a good thing, as it puts a very real, very human face on the fallacy of the casual-abortion-gettin'-hussy that is one of the tenets of the anti-choice movement.
I mean, seriously, how does someone come up with a logic tangle like that? Just trying to figure it out made me feel like I had taken the crazy juice. Beck's brain must generate enough cognitive dissonance to burn out cellphones at the 50metre radius.
What is this, the Rapture or something?
At least add a "football" tag for all of us non-Americans. We don't really do "soccer".
Not one mention of Brett Favre in the entire article. Fascinating.
I am willing to bet most abortions are NOT from faulty birth control.
Hard to say, since it depends on exactly how bad 'inconsistent' use is amongst other details, but there's a chance you'd lose that bet:
Fifty-four percent of women who have abortions [in the US] had used a contraceptive method (usually the condom or the pill) during the month they became pregnant. Among those women, 76% of pill users and 49% of condom users report having used their method inconsistently, while 13% of pill users and 14% of condom users report correct use. (source; citation to original source)
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Oh for gods' sake. Condoms break. Pills fail. Diaphragms don't work from the underwear drawer across the room where you've forgotten about them in the heat of the moment. People are designed to get pregnant and thwarting that very basic biological imperative is not always as easy as JUST USE BIRTH CONTROL DUH. Wouldn't it be a lovely boring world if everyone was completely organized and rational at all times and used birth control absolutely correctly and therefore only the roughly ten percent of them who had a completely unavoidable birth control failure would have to get abortions? Yes, yes it would and it would bear no resemblance to the planet most of us are currently living on. Unplanned pregnancies happen; they have always happened; and until some way is devised to make infertile everyone's default state that has to be actively changed with forethought they will continue to happen. When they do, let's all thank everything in the universe that it is, at this moment in time, in the country where I am writing this, possible to stop that pregnancy from continuing and allow that particular woman a chance to continue her life, make her own decision about her own body and decide to have children if and when it is the right time for her to be a mother and only then. And let's all continue to do our best to make sure that does not change so that perhaps, someday, every child will be wanted and every child will be planned.
Also: Ayn Rand's long-term addition to General Hospital and sour-cream Pringles.
Actually, that was Frank Lloyd Wright, not Ayn Rand. And he ate nothing but Taco Bell for breakfast, primarily because he liked the color of the packets of Mild Sauce.
May she never have to deal with obstropulous people again.
With Wendy Richards' departure in February, the Ladies' Department is now unattended.
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I'm glad I followed crunchland's advice to, effectively, go away after hitting "post". I'd have been badly tempted to wade in, all "The links are interesting, and promising for advancing the debate, really!"
Two pdfs that I didn't end up putting in the post:
Abortion as Stigma: Cognitive and Emotional Implications of ConcealmentPsychological Responses of Women After First Trimester Abortion
And an excerpt of an article by Laurie Shrage that I found really thought-provoking for talking about how the right has become synonymous in the (often sympathetic) public mind with powerful fetal imagery, whereas visuals from the left have had much less desired impact. In a section that was initially accessible when i first found the link but doesn't seem to be there now, Schrage talks about pro-choice calls (Kissling, Taft) for putting the fetus and emotions back into pro-choice discourse, and reactions from right ("Vindication!") and left ("Not helpful to talk about this") and her own conclusion that it would be more helpful than not.
Why are so many celebrities dying recently?
Age, disease, over medication. The usual.
Oh, Karl - you leave a body of work that is so enviable and a character actor's face that was so memorable. You will be missed.
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Streetcar is without a doubt the best black & white movie I've ever seen. Maybe the best, period. It's awesome that he got an Oscar for that role -- he deserved it. Damn, I love me some Tennessee Williams.
And of course, I watched the Streets of San Francisco when I was a kid, in San Francisco. How could I not?
97, huh? Sounds like he had a good ride.
There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode (software), and high-speed terrorist interrogations.
so anyway, this is pretty neat. the whole point of this post is for me to remember how awesome animaniacs was, right?
anotherpanacea: By the way: this guy's a novelist, right? Is there any chance this is a hoax?
Even worse,
But by talking about women's emotions around abortion, aren't you actually feeding that ["abortion hurts [most] women"] strategy [of] the right? American Psychiatric Association (APA): We must distinguish illnesses from feelings. Spiritual and Emotional Health: [A woman] needs to know there are friends, family, and/or clergy who do not judge her, who will listen to her feelings without interpreting them, and who will give her encouragement to plan her future. I know I/we made the right choice in having an abortion, [but] is there something that I or we can do to acknowledge that this would have been a child? Nonjudgmental Resources in the US: Pregnancy Options Workbook: The people who put together this book support you no matter what you choose. We have tried to give you a realistic picture of all the choices you can make--abortion, adoption, and being a parent. You will find exercises to help you make the best decision for you [including spiritual and religious concerns about abortion, and post-abortion healing rituals]. Before and after an abortion Backline: Offers unbiased and medically-accurate information to our callers, and our Talk Line Advocates remain politically neutral when speaking with callers. After an abortion Read, write, or send messages from your heart to another heart about your abortion experience at Heartssite.com. Exhale Talkline: We believe that after an abortion, whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, you deserve to have your own unique experience seen and heard, and to get what you need for your long-term emotional well-being. This is the"pro-voice" message. Previously 1, 2, 3.
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unloved. FTFM. Whoops!Yours truly,
a fan of Canadian melodrama and girls who say aboot.