"Classy," like "mandate," ceased to mean much long ago.
Christ, that's the ugliest thing I have read in years (not your annotations, Jim).
One mouse-click and the problem is solved.
"Solved" seems a bit of an overstatement, given the length and tone of these complaining-about-moderation discussions.
61: Something tells me we'll never know.
I am inclined to support Strasmangelo. "That's not what we're talking about" is a traditional response to points that the chair would prefer not to recognize, particularly comments about morality, but somebody used to say something about the worth of the unexamined something.
Maybe the market's security staff are just big fans of Cory, don't produce anything in the way of art or literature that he'd find interesting but hope to be the subject of a BoingBoing post someday?
Hillary doesn't talk like a woman who will be both shield and sword against the worst enthusiasms of the American right wing. To me she sounds like a distaff version of Bob Dole: frayed, thwarted, too exhausted by the burden of wanting something to remember why other people might want her to have it. Obama at least talks like the inspirer that some people take him for, suggesting that his supporters see and hear their candidate more clearly.
Wolcott's Vanity Fair (yes, I know) essays on Michael Mann's "Heat," and actors "going ballistic," in particular, are well worth seeking out.
I like his criticism better than his attacks on the latest person to offend his sensibilities, which tend to run together a bit for me, reminding me of his description of Anthony Burgess "running his roll of syncopated erudition through the player piano one mo' time."
For what may one criticize Cory Doctorow, if not what he writes, publishes, blogs, enthuses about?
There was a very fractious debate about The Kingdom over at Matt Zoller Seitz's The House Next Door a few days ago, complete with new commenters throwing around hackneyed right-wing talking points like "moral equivalence" and "anti-Americanism" and, I think, a link to the old "Flamer Bingo" thread here:
http://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/2007/09/they-do-it-with-love-kingdom.html
110: To be fair, nobody wants to hear a sarcastic answer when they ask "friend or foe?"
107: Those were jokes. I thought that the tone, although mildly ironic, would come through a bit more clearly as one of both relief (that my family and friends have not caused me immeasurable hurt and alienation for the sake of a misguided faith in Fox News) and regret (that I have not had occasion, and lack the inclination, to mount a personal campaign against the warmongering infomercial). To avoid future misunderstandings, is there an HTML tag for this?
Things like this remind me that I am lucky enough that my friends and family are all, with the exception of one genuine Texas plutocrat of the self-professed libertarian genus, the church-going sort of New England liberals that punk-rockin' blogtastic progressives hate slightly more than they hate Bill O'Reilly. The words "bourgeois" and "heteronormative" wouldn't be inapposite.
I don't except myself; I can never summon much enthusiasm for the "these are the buildings we have to burn; these are people we have to kill" part of the conversation. In fact, I wonder whether these circumstances have robbed me of the converting passion that one needs to be able to make an impression on devoted Fox News watchers. I certainly don't think I've made much headway just asking people what it is that makes them think Jesus wants to watch us kill each other.
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