For Ms. Spaulding, 45, who works full time as an IT manager at Duke University Press in Durham, N.C., blogging is her passion, an unpaid hobby she pursues at nights and on weekends.
BORING! let's hear about the IT manager who spends her nights and weekends as a high paid escort.
Feh! Politics. It's all just insane people, debilitated by various memes, playing with their mental blocks.
All I can find is batshit insane ones that are so far to the Left or the Right I need a decoder ring and a specially programmed ENIGMA machine just to figure out what's being said. They make LOLCats read like Plato.
I think the problem is that people who are moderate, or simply don't suffer from the mental illness that is a political ideology, aren't driven to blog about it.
I especially love skeptic blogs. They can be so clear on science versus religion and woo woo issues, but when they turn to politics, you can almost hear their critical thinking skills and ability to reason melting and running out their ears, dissolved by the molecular acid-like effect of ideology.
I was told in a graduate level course that we really needed a certain engineering book, that the professor *would* use that book. I had to wire money to England (flat out not available anywhere in the USA I could find) to get the book (this was pre-World Wide Web), and then we NEVER used it. Not once! I submitted a complaint to the dean, wrote a letter to the university paper, and even one to the Los Angeles Times, but nothing ever happened, of course. I won't mention the university. *cough*USC*cough*
Making them have to suffer with the person they put in office until the next election does teach a lesson that sometimes gets learned.
Yeah, and that lesson may finally sink in sometime around the year 50 billion A.D. I don't think we have that long to dick around with the current broken system. Not to mention those of us who DIDN'T vote for the idiot have to suffer as well.
The real problem is the gerrymandering of districts. They are designed to get nothing but squabbling extremists into office, and to never give a third party even a ghost of a chance. Personally, I'd like to see a trail of approval voting on some small, local level- a mayoral election, perhaps.
*My* solution is to retire overseas in 8 to 10 years. You all have fun.
Sadly, that *is* how a lot of people think. Not only that, but they did a survey years back and found that a huge chunk of people thought Three Mile Island was a near-Chernobyl level disaster with deaths and lots of released radiation, rather than an fine example that even those old safety systems actually worked.
The bulk of the human race is living in a fantasy world where about 5/6 of what they believe is utter bullshit. And it seems pretty constant across the globe. Different areas just have local varieties of bullshit.
Uh, could you somehow spin (regardless of truth) this as related to war and/or military prowess so our administration will mindlessly throw money at it instead of mindlessly ignoring it?
Could you somehow spin (regardless of appropriateness) this story so that it has something to do with Bush and Iraq so we can get back to bashing Bush? Oh, wait, you already did. Thanks!!!!
And if you are using 200 cats in a chemistry experiment, well, forget about it, sport!
Now, if it turns out he was indeed following all local / state laws, then the authorities certainly owe him an apology at least.
An apology?! An apology from a politician is actually worth a *negative* value. They should be removed from office and forced to do *years* of community service. Whoever gave the go command for the warrantless invasion should be indicted.
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My quest to look like David Hasselhoff is nearing fruition!
For Ms. Spaulding, 45, who works full time as an IT manager at Duke University Press in Durham, N.C., blogging is her passion, an unpaid hobby she pursues at nights and on weekends.
BORING! let's hear about the IT manager who spends her nights and weekends as a high paid escort.
Feh! Politics. It's all just insane people, debilitated by various memes, playing with their mental blocks.
All I can find is batshit insane ones that are so far to the Left or the Right I need a decoder ring and a specially programmed ENIGMA machine just to figure out what's being said. They make LOLCats read like Plato.
I think the problem is that people who are moderate, or simply don't suffer from the mental illness that is a political ideology, aren't driven to blog about it.
I especially love skeptic blogs. They can be so clear on science versus religion and woo woo issues, but when they turn to politics, you can almost hear their critical thinking skills and ability to reason melting and running out their ears, dissolved by the molecular acid-like effect of ideology.
but would we be willing to go to war with them in the first place if it was going to cost us New York City or Washington?
Uh, yeah, you might want to pick two other cities there to make your point to anyone not living in those cities. ;-)
And one of the fascinating aspects is translating certain rules, laws, customs, etc into space.
The best translation would be to abandon such silly beliefs before leaving the planet.
Jerry who?
Powderly was the inventor of throwies."
Was? You're writing him off already? Geez! And people say *I'm* a pessimist.
Why not a La-Z-Boy or other recliner?
Too much chance of falling asleep at the wheel?
I was told in a graduate level course that we really needed a certain engineering book, that the professor *would* use that book. I had to wire money to England (flat out not available anywhere in the USA I could find) to get the book (this was pre-World Wide Web), and then we NEVER used it. Not once! I submitted a complaint to the dean, wrote a letter to the university paper, and even one to the Los Angeles Times, but nothing ever happened, of course. I won't mention the university. *cough*USC*cough*
Haven't decided yet, but the short list is pretty easy to figure out if you've ever looked into it.
She never did
And thus you utterly FAILED in your training duties. And heaped ridicule upon someone who did you no wrong or harm.
Yeah, I got some "fruit" for it to try and recognize.
Scanner: "*ding* Tea bags."
Wow! It *is* good!
Making them have to suffer with the person they put in office until the next election does teach a lesson that sometimes gets learned.
Yeah, and that lesson may finally sink in sometime around the year 50 billion A.D. I don't think we have that long to dick around with the current broken system. Not to mention those of us who DIDN'T vote for the idiot have to suffer as well.
The real problem is the gerrymandering of districts. They are designed to get nothing but squabbling extremists into office, and to never give a third party even a ghost of a chance. Personally, I'd like to see a trail of approval voting on some small, local level- a mayoral election, perhaps.
*My* solution is to retire overseas in 8 to 10 years. You all have fun.
Sadly, that *is* how a lot of people think. Not only that, but they did a survey years back and found that a huge chunk of people thought Three Mile Island was a near-Chernobyl level disaster with deaths and lots of released radiation, rather than an fine example that even those old safety systems actually worked.
The bulk of the human race is living in a fantasy world where about 5/6 of what they believe is utter bullshit. And it seems pretty constant across the globe. Different areas just have local varieties of bullshit.
Automatically, overnight, they are suddenly nuclear powered.
Yeah, but then you get people randomly popping into the past and the future, and totally subverting the timestream.
You're forgetting people who don't work in an office or in the same place every day.
I *so* wanna hug you!
Nukes! Nukes! Nukes! Nukes!
It's a well known fact that the movie "Star Wars" was based on the game "Space War".
Am I the only non-Republican who found Colbert overrrated? It's a one joke show. I admit I haven't watched in a long time, though. Did it get better?
Uh, could you somehow spin (regardless of truth) this as related to war and/or military prowess so our administration will mindlessly throw money at it instead of mindlessly ignoring it?
Could you somehow spin (regardless of appropriateness) this story so that it has something to do with Bush and Iraq so we can get back to bashing Bush? Oh, wait, you already did. Thanks!!!!
I can't believe I got modded troll. The collective sense of humor of Slashdot has gone below zero. :-(
I knew I should have gone with "I love the smell of biodiesel in the morning."
That's interesting, actually. You have a link?
What did the town idiots^H^H^H^H^H^H politicians fear? People taking off and landing in the streets? ;-)
And if you are using 200 cats in a chemistry experiment, well, forget about it, sport!
Now, if it turns out he was indeed following all local / state laws, then the authorities certainly owe him an apology at least.
An apology?! An apology from a politician is actually worth a *negative* value. They should be removed from office and forced to do *years* of community service. Whoever gave the go command for the warrantless invasion should be indicted.
OK! Galt's Gulch! For real! Who's with me?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
(crickets)
Huh.
Yes. Yes, I do. :-)
OK, maybe not need it, but I *want* it. I loved that show.