#73 -- Yes, yes it was him. Timestamp 9:03
Please take this youtube link and use it in the fight against evil.
Green Lantern is making a pathetic showing. We really need a GL movie.
I tried 6 livejournal posts. It guessed 3 female, 3 male.
Then (because some people I know are getting different results from their livejournal than from their less personal blog) I tried 6 posts from my comics blog. Again, it guessed 3 female, 3 male.
#102 American society is addicted to the idea that punishment is essential to social order, and to learning, in the face of every piece of empirical evidence against.
This sounds like a job for education reform. So much could be fixed if we actually taught kids to think instead of just memorizing and regurgitating what they're told.
There are "Kool Kids" online? That's crushing. I thought this was Nerdland, dammit!
I'm going back to the comics community. All geek, all the time.
Marvel makes a lot more sense if its accepted that Professor X is evil.
Batman, on the other hand, is mentally ill but the mental health system in Gotham City is inadequate, so he roams the city and fights the other mentally ill persons that Arkham was inadequately funded to treat. If Bruce Wayne stopped spending money on neat gadgets to fight the criminals, and instead focused that money on renovating Arkham Asylum's staff and facilities, there wouldn't be nearly as much trouble in Gotham City. Its a very depressing parallel to American Society, and that may be why I stick to Green Lantern, where the heroes, conveniently, are the police.
And has anyone ever tried telling one of these people who think that rape is part of the punishment in prison that the way we have things set up creates a class of people who are not punished, and are actually encouraged to act exactly as they want to despite all of the far worse things that they have done, and that a well-controlled and regulated prison system would be much more fair.
I haven't, but it'd be interesting to hear their reaction.
Define "sexually explicit."
I'm no fan of porn, but JAIL? Not even for child pornography. For unlabeled "sexually explicit" material.
Given the wide range of what I've seen described as "sexually explicit" I find THIS the most disturbing aspect.
I don't remember the details, but during one of those interviews I remember that the show host said the same thing word for word to one of the officials and was brought up short: seems that Clinton had looked over some executive orders that had been made in the past and decided that one in particular was much too invasive and repealed it.
Umm.. I don't know the details but you just made me want to vote for his wife.
#73 -- the exact same point I tried to make, only better and shorter.
My first spring in Oklahoma was a bad one for Tornados. We had a warning every week in May, and it scared the crap out of me. I didn't leave the house or drive when there was a watch, and I got every piece of the Tornado kit. But those crazy Oklahomans just went about their business during a watch, and during a warning some of them would go OUTSIDE to try and see the thing. After the storms, they get the power back within a few hours and rebuild any destroyed buildings pretty quickly.
This winter, we had two big ice storms, the kind that wouldn't bother me too much but no one in Oklahoma could drive on ice, and they didn't have enough resources to clear the roads. The storm was on Friday. We're still iced over, and only now have the main streets cleared. A lot of people don't have power still. I have a supply of food and aren't worried if the heat goes out, that happened at the time at home. My neighbors who are so nonchalant about Tornados, though, are really freaked at this.
One man's disaster, I guess.
Okay, legal experts, help me out: Instead of pulling funding, why can't Congress just rescind the Iraq War Resolution? Can the 110th introduce a resolution withdrawing the approval? This would at least give all of the people who voted for it before a chance to reposition themselves as against the war.
I know, from personal experience, that I used to be a conservative and I've been reacting to the current Republican party by becoming more and more liberal in the past six years.
Also, while Casey's pro-life (with exceptions for rape, incest, and endangered life of the mother) and pro-gun, he's also pro-gay marriage and pro-gay civil rights, and considers Plan B contraception. He's a centrist.
The other "conservative Democrats" still seem to have at least single issue on which they're progressive, like Web's populist economics or Tester's pro-choice stance, and from what I've seen of their campaigns their conservative views are tempered by perspective and reasonable flexibility. Reason hasn't been applied to social conservatism in a while, but it's not quite as scary as it sounds coming from the Repundits.
I think really the big thing everyone in the Party has in common is antiwar, pro-Checks and Balances stance.
joann -- Oh, then what do you call it when you can't judge distance?
Mechanical aptitude naively involveds spatial ability--if someone has a lousy spatial relationship grasp, the person is going to have a lot of difficulty envisioning how parts fit together for assemblying mechanical multipart items, for coming up with concepting of making and implementing mechanical stuff, for taking apart and fixing things mechanical, even for relatively "simple" tasks involving apply a hammer to a nail, using a screwdriver, using a chisel, using plans, saws.
"I'll buy this relationship, but the converse is not necessarily true. I inherited great spatial skills from my father, and love tools, but my tool-using ability is nowhere near as good. In a word, I'm clumsy, and my husband winces every time he sees me using a broom."
It's not true, I can't judge distance for crap but the best work I can do at my job is the stuff that involves mechanical skill.
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