Lately when I click on a political or social newslink from yahoo I cut to the chase.  I read the title, then read what's in quotation marks to see if it actually agrees with the title, [often not].  Then I scroll to the comments to see free speech in action, and democracy in action since yahoo let's you vote comments up or down to the list ( Read more... )

Noam Chomsky [Talking Head]  came to speak at ASU law Thursday.  He overfilled the Great Hall and one of the classrooms on video where I was.   He didn't tell any lies that I could spot, instead they were half-truths.  Paraphrasing;"Relations between Israel and Syria are strained because Israel set up an illegal blockade in international waters and ( Read more... )

Sanctuary is on cancellation death row.  The season ended with no news on renewal.  The fans on the imdb say silence is not a good portent for another season.  I don't read any of the hardcore fanboys websites so I don't know their opinion ( Read more... )

I've burnt another 'few hours' on 4 and ndnation arguing the stupidity of an SEC rematch.  Oklahoma St ought to have been given the shot and it's really that simple.  I can only assume College Football voters wanted whatever would generate the most publicity and therefore the most ( Read more... )

I think I will stop saying "something has to change" every weekend as I roll out of bed in mid afternoon.

Probably not a change back to hard alcohol although it would get the job done.  I now cannot get drunk off of beer because physically cannot hold more than one bottle per 45 min and that doesn't cut it.

Got this reply on Sanctuary at IMDB: "How ( Read more... )

She apologized so I tried again.  Will try to not try again. At least we got the theory out of the way; I don't care if an author signs a statement saying what the book means, if it isn't in the work then it didn't happen.

Wasting time arguing about Silent Hill started to depress me.  It was interesting to see how other people interpret a story and contrast it with my own methods learned in my English lit MA school.*  It became considereably less interesting once I figured out that I was going to be called "ignorant" for not sharing the other guy's interpretation.

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This week late at night I've been having a round about argument about someone's allegorical interpretation of Silent Hill.  She says the movie presents an inverted trinity that represents the Holy Trinity.

The odd thing is I grant that it's a fair reading but I don't agree where they line up. The funny thing is that she [claimed] will not look at ( Read more... )

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Although it is written from the other side's viewpoint, this videogame website's take on the recent Supreme Court case was interesting, witty, and insightful.  Of course I am posting it to point out where he went wrong.

Some might say Justice Antonin Scalia is conservative to the point of absurdity. Others might say he’s the worst thing to happen ( Read more... )