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dhex · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:37 am Post subject:

http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/2008/03/personalpolitical.html

if you go for emotionalism, that's a pretty good track to use.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:57 am Post subject:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/25/war_opponents/index.html

the video is worth watching. the text is greenwald, so i'd say you have better things to do.

edit: the poet professor gets off on his rocker but that's to be expected.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject:

can't take a crack at that ass without a warrant!
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dhex · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:57 am Post subject:

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dhex · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:35 pm Post subject:

http://reason.com/news/show/125716.html

shit michael moynihan wrote something i didn't find completely fucking stupid.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:52 am Post subject:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3222245,00.html

having your kids fingerprinted by the local police isn't that odd. they did it when i was a kid, if i'm remembering correctly.

i think it's the scale that freaks people out more than anything else. the idea of trusting anything on that scale - internationally - at the very least confuses the fucking shit out of people. be it immigration, or trade, or what have you.

on the other hand, europe is the scariest fucking place on earth when it comes to this kind of shit.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

You're telling me.

Still no sign of a referendum.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:41 am Post subject:

stuff on that kind of scale is hard to scale back. i am more convinced each day that's why the ultra-paranoid get even more paranoid. we all have a limit to understandings of scale that, outside of ideological considerations, has a profound impact on how we view the world around us.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/528/lima_swat_shooter_charged_two_misdemeanors_tarika_wilson

the gif is, of course, from a swat website. it's since been removed.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Teehee.

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dhex · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:41 am Post subject:

almost definitely photoshopped. Sad

http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/03/the-psychology.html

this is long, and sort of fascinating.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:51 am Post subject:

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/125778.html

root beer keggers for great justice.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:04 am Post subject:

http://www.sfsmith.com/blog/2008/03/27/i-bought-too-much-house-mind-feeding-my-kids/

sandy's a lot meaner than i would necessarily be, but it's hard to quibble with his analysis.
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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

I don't know about that. He comes off as kind of clueless in his assumption that she should just sell the house to cut her losses. He seems to not be aware of the fact that selling a house takes money to get listed, and get it inspected as liveable and the like, or that people are not really buying houses right now so selling may not be possible or that even if she does sell if she doesn't make enough to cover her balance she's still going to hav to pay off the bank note while finding an apartment with a landlord who doesn't balk at having an unemployed tenent who has to make $2500 house payments every month on top of paying the rent.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject:

i would be more sympathetic if she hadn't tagged herself with an interest-only mortgage.

that's pretty much a fuckin' dealbreaker right there.
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

http://www.juliansanchez.com/2008/03/31/scenes-from-a-bookstore/

And with his redesign he finally has an RSS feed, hurrah!
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dhex · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject:

nothing like it when a stereotype comes to life.

jeeze louise. i swear these people are plants from some kinda weird government agency to make us all lose hope. they're the same group that supplies the commentors at feministing who had no idea that various kinds of vaginal and penile cosmetic surgeries existed for, like, a while.

actually, it reminds me of a bit in the godfather novel that touched on that very subject - not the labial shaping and whatnot but the pelvic muscle pulls they did in the 60s.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject:

ugly and dull! whee!

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dhex · Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject:

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/04/absolut-arrogance-and-the-advertising-agency-behind-the-reconquista-ad/

she is *so* fucking high man. someone said "hey michelle throw some deez up on that bitch" and they took the trolly to stonedoutoftheirgourdsville.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:16 am Post subject:

http://ursulav.deviantart.com/art/The-Taxman-81995802
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dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:54 am Post subject:

http://www.amazon.com/Playmobil-3906-Police-Checkpoint/dp/B0002YM16U/ref=pd_bbs_5?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1205071638&sr=8-5

of course it's european.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:57 pm Post subject:

http://www.cracked.com/article_16054_6-endangered-species-that-arent-endangered-enough.html

man, them slaver ants are something else. yuck.

(maybe they're just afraid of homosexual rape?)
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dhex · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:57 am Post subject:

i'm poking around the phpbb 3.0.1 install i just hooked up and, fuck, man, editing styles sucks it.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:35 am Post subject:

http://www.winecommonsewer.com/the_wine_commonsewer/2008/04/declare-the-p-1.html

aside from some interesting information concerning a dude who was in jethro tull, i find this the most evocative point:

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Speaking of people being high.

http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/04/07/abj/
The comments. Can't wait to see what pops up for this apt response.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:53 am Post subject:

man, i sentence them to read orlando patterson until they puke!

seriously.

them and anyone who uses the term "wage slave" seriously. fuck those assholes. they're right up there with "the sheeple" people.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:00 am Post subject:

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dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:10 am Post subject:

man there's a guy whose life took some really odd turns.

actually, this sort of fits into the african american gnosticism-lite routine i've seen out of a few preachers (creflo dollar being the biggest example) and as it's been filtered by what was left of the garvey splinter groups in new york. at my wife's surprise b-day bash, a friend of mine made a point about the 5 percenters being a manifestation of this as well; i think it makes a lot of sense, even with the odd deification/parochialism towards women that's generally involved in those groups.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:02 am Post subject:

after popping around some feministing threads i'd forgotten how dreary the public version of "debate" about the sciences is. (in this case evo psych, itself in need of some more years stewing in the pot, as it were)

to recap so you don't have to:
"women were meant to work in kitchens and get knocked up" or "everything about humanity is socially created including the parts of it which are shaped pre-natally"

stuff like this makes everyone dumber by osmosis.

someone was telling me recently that one of the pop science mags was running a "things people think they know about evolution but don't" type article that was worth checking out, since i've noticed creationists aren't the only horrendously ignorant people running about and playing kultur war in the guise of policy debate.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:57 am Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject:

this thread is *far* more interesting than the art project it talks about.

plus i learned a cool new term: "forced birthers"
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dhex · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject:

http://reason.tv/video/show/394.html

somewhat fascinating. dunno how selective the editing was.

i totally agree with the woman at 1:15 though, even if further along she comes across as maybe less than totally with it.

(except that i'm more of a "fuck everyone who bought more than they could chew on" kinda guy)
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dhex · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:28 am Post subject:

The Soviet Onion · . Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 41

I'd noticed that too about modern hostility to evolutionary theory. It's not just the hicks from bumfuck nowhere - a lot of people who wring their hands about creationists start behaving in exactly the same manner when evolution’s implications start spreading to their patch. However far they are from belief in the supernatural these people's discomfort with evolutionary psychology seems to spring up because they just don't want it to be accurate (and, of course, believe that it will go away if they wish hard enough).

I really, really hope that basic tribal hostility continues to keep post-modern and pre-modern vandalism to science operating separately. God help us if they all start working together.

dhex · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:53 am Post subject:

thankfully i don't think they're capable of that on any extended level. the dworking/mckinnon and fundie axis from the late 80s and early 90s was probably the beginning and end of that.

in happier news:
This story also reminds me of why I hate “guys.” Take a look at the picture of the gentleman who was tased, and think about how many times the word “bro” was used that evening. Think about how, every night in America, groups of guys who look exactly like him go out thinking they’re reinventing the wheel by getting drunk, getting loud and getting in fights.

“Yo, bro, me an’ my boys are goin’ to Vegas, muthafucka! Yo, bro, it’s my boy’s bachelor party, bro! Yo, we got a suite at the Borgata, we got limos, an’ we got VIP passes for the pool party, bro!”

I really fucking hate guys. I hate everything they do. I hate seeing them, hearing them, and having them inflict themselves on the rest of my senses. I hate watching them get the shit kicked out of them after their drunken, drug-addled auras of invincibility put them in situations they’re incapable of handling. I hate how ordering UFC pay-per-views and wearing Affliction shirts makes them think they can beat everyone up. I hate when they say “bro.” I hate the whole fucking guy thing and what they’ve turned it into.

i call them "dudes" but it's the same basic idea.
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

I call them "Baseball Hats"

"too many Baseball Hats at this bar man"
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Man, I fucking hate that guy.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:37 am Post subject:

i had to google affliction shirts, but i must confess i haven't seen a lot of them around. on the other hand, they look sort of like bad metal covers, so maybe i have seen them around and thought "huh, that guido who does a lot of curls and no squats likes shitty metal, how queer."
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dhex · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:57 am Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:10 am Post subject:

oh yeah saw the murakami exhibit at the brooklyn museum last week some was interesting and some was life-sized soul cancer complete with jizz lassos. i've spent 10 bucks in worse ways but i've also done it in better as well.

i know the embedded expensive handbag shop from the people with the annoying logo that's reprinted all the time but whose name escapes me right now vutton? yeah vutton anyway it's whatever, man. it's pretty fucking silly for a fine-arts museum - whose existence relies on expensive donations and 40 dollar t shirts - and whose very mission is to highlight what stamp collecting is like for the megaultra wealthy to be all "oh ho ho this exhibit comments on commercialism" and whatnot.

no, homeslice makes expensive knicknacks and giant murals and the occasional acrylic jizz lasso. there's nothing shameful in that. but pretending that's not what's going on? bah. purity is for puritans and retards.

if i'm making limited edition shirts or figurines or whatever, and i'm selling them at high margins, i'm not "commenting on capitalism and modern life" - i'm actively participating in in a lucrative niche market. that's (an idealized) free market in a nutshell.

(and conclusively demonstrating that the labor theory of value is fucking retarded, but that's another story for another day.)
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dhex · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:37 am Post subject:

i've never cared for dave barry for the most part, but this was genuinely funny.

dhex · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject:

http://gothamist.com/2008/04/24/stephen_a_schwa.php

somewhat related to the whole brooklyn museum thing above.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:57 pm Post subject:

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/126219.html

that's pretty horrifying.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject:

http://suicidefood.blogspot.com/

i'm not entirely sure if the people running this are serious or not, but i have the worst jonesing for bbq right now.

if they are serious, well...ehhh...we are death. the jains understood this and went to lengths you would consider mad, in your secular and safe environment, because they were trying to reconcile the deeper issue involved with humans being the products of death like all living things.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject:

i am going to continue to pretend that the suicide food thing is a joke or a stealth marketing campaign for some veggie line of not-dogs or whatever. (hot dogs made with tofu are called "not dogs" - get it? some are pretty decent.)

because damn - do they really think that a) most meat eaters don't think meat is delicious, and most meat sellers would be meat eaters and whatnot and b) that most meat eaters don't realize that what they're eating is dead animal flesh?

who cries for the lettuce, you smug fucking pieces of shit?
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dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:

http://roskam.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=89751

i wonder if my "senators should be forced to fight each other to the death like in fuckin' highlander" law will make the cut?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Have you heard? Albert Hoffman died yesterday. Sad

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