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pastorlenny in talk_politics

This is a test

Oct 14, 2011 12:55

Many self-appointed defenders of capitalism seem to be embracing an ethical philosophy of finger-pointing. With one of these fingers, they point to a government that overspends, over-regulates and under-delivers. With another, they point to the supposed failure of large numbers of individual citizens to demonstrate adequate drive or to ( Read more... )

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telemann October 14 2011, 17:03:13 UTC

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fizzyland October 14 2011, 17:09:59 UTC

I thought I recognized that guy... does he work at the local Jiffy Lube?

telemann October 14 2011, 17:11:37 UTC

lol

pastorlenny October 14 2011, 17:19:59 UTC

Never imagined I would ever get such an emphatic thumbs-up from such a natty dresser.

telemann October 14 2011, 17:21:47 UTC

70s, yo. Yo, 70s.

sealwhiskers October 14 2011, 17:41:01 UTC

I used to watch reruns of his program when I was a kid (I only know the Swedish name of the show, but it was about cosmos and science and shit..)

and he was always a slick dresser, sort of transgressing time. I totally had a puppy crush on him as a kid. I still have a thing for academics dressed in certain ways.

telemann October 14 2011, 17:44:08 UTC

Yeah, I agree. He was sharp dresser for an academic and researcher. Especially when he appeared on Johnny Carson (which was frequently, since Carson loved Sagan)

millions and billions of hits... rick_day October 14 2011, 19:42:59 UTC

you know he was a stoner, right? Well documented, he and his wife Ann Druyan would get stoned on top shelf weed, and spend time in the shower together while he wrote formulas in the steam and soap film on the shower walls.

He has always been a stereotype buster... and a personal hero.

Re: millions and billions of hits... sealwhiskers October 14 2011, 20:56:23 UTC

hehe, I didn't know that! I guess my childhood crush merely lead to me reading some of his books in my teens, I never researched the man on the web, which now seems like an overlook.

Re: millions and billions of hits... telemann October 14 2011, 22:33:26 UTC

Yeah, I was surprised myself when I first found this out.

Re: millions and billions of hits... op_tech_glitch October 15 2011, 05:03:38 UTC

I can't wait till Hawking dies* and we finally get to find out what he was smoking.

* Note: not really.

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