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JohnClark posted:Goddamn, he hits nearly all the conservative tropes relating to environmentalism/the left. Smelly hippies, burning flags, "hate freedom" (literally), crying statue of liberty, welfare queens. He missed a couple easy ones though, he should make the car a hybrid or a volt/leaf, and have one of the passengers lighting up a bong. That's the weekly (usually) editorial cartoon from The Onion. That's the style, the crying Statue of Liberty being a particularly repeated image in the cartoons, although she doesn't seem to appear in the last few. edit: The cartoons also have a huge thing for Star Trek, which I just love. This is far from the only Star Trek themed cartoon: 
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Helsing posted:I ask because as a non-American I am literally mystified at the obsession that American conservatives have with the New York Times. I don't think any other industrialized country in the world would consider the New York Times a particularly left wing newspaper, especially not with Thomas Friedman and David Brookes as regular commentators. Mr. Funny Pants posted:The right has spent the last two decades defining, redefining, and perverting what "left wing" means in the U.S. And this redefining has gone so far as to define Friedman as a liberal hero of the american left: Free Republic posted:To: Zeppo Free Republic posted:To: Nachum Free Republic posted:To: Nachum et cetera, et cetera, et cetera
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Benly posted:Massachusetts isn't exactly coyote country. If there's a serious coyote problem in MA, it's pretty hosed up. Not that "kill all the coyotes" is a remotely appropriate solution, but it's not exactly "fuckin' native fauna" - it's indicative of larger problems that do seriously need to be addressed. Coyotes are indigenous to most of North America, not just the plains or the deserts. That being said, they have become a problem here, especially in the last ten to fifteen years. The column actually goes into the larger problem that the traps that are approved for coyotes are ineffectual. To me the answer isn't to start a campaign to shoot them all, however. Alex Beam isn't a humor columnist in the vein of Dave Barry, but he's not exactly a straight columnist either. I wouldn't be surprised if this was some sort of over the top "solution" to the problem that missed its mark. I also wouldn't be terribly surprised if it was totally serious. It just seems sort of off for him. Elim Garak fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Jan 14, 2012 |
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Benly posted:Well, clarifying: Newton isn't exactly coyote country. If friggin' Middlesex is having coyote problems it's probably indicative of poo poo being seriously hosed in the rural/wilder areas. There's been a general resurgence of wildlife over eastern Massachusetts, and the coyotes seem to be one of the species recovering the best. It's not hard to imagine wildlife like that in a lot of Middlesex, IMO, like Concord, Acton, that area. The fact that the they've gotten in as far as the W-burbs and Newton (and honestly, even into Brookline and parts of Boston) is indicative of the fact that there is no management strategy in place really. But the general resurgence of wildlife on the whole is really awesome. I spent the last ten years on Cape Cod and the increase in amount of fox, turkey, possum etc. was really noticeable over that time period.
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Helsing posted:If you remove the last sentence then that seems like reasonable advice. There's no need to be condescending or to imply that drunk women are asking for it but if the original story is accurate its perfectly reasonable to tell her that she needs to do some soul searching and make absolutely sure that this was rape. No, this is some pure-strain MRA bullshit: quote:Since her first version of the story is that she was ashamed of her behavior, and since you have seen her knee-walking drunk on other occasions, it sounds as if she wants to punish the guy at the bar for her own poor choices. Yes, I agree that men should not have sex with drunk women they don't know. But I think cases like the one you are describing here—in the absence of any evidence she was drugged—where someone voluntarily goes home with a stranger in order to have a sexual encounter, makes it that much harder for women who are assaulted to bring charges. Your friend sounds like a lush, she wants to punish the man, one can't be raped if one is not drugged and stories like this only make it harder for the "real" victims. It's pretty loving awful.
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Saint Sputnik posted:I can't tell if Jonah Goldberg is being sarcastic or if he thinks Margaret Atwood is a conservative, or what. He's being ironic. He's saying the Blunt Amendment wasn't that bad, it wouldn't have curtailed the rights of women any further than they were curtailed at the beginning of this year, and invoking a dystopian novel ironically to make the point. He's wrong, of course, the Blunt Amendment would have given ANY employer the ability to strike ANY procedure they were religiously opposed to from their coverage, which would have been a stark rollback of every American's rights.
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Boxman posted:Time really screwed the pooch by not giving bin Laden the title in 2001. Yeah, the choice of Rudy Giuliani over bin Laden is just going to look more and more foolish.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Well I'm told that the Lando Calrissian books in the EU usually have him playing the role of a libeterian conman traveling the galaxy and loving people over for personal gain and liberty. To be fair that's sort of his role in Empire Strikes Back at least. He conned someone out of Cloud City and turned his best friend over to the Empire in order to keep them out of his business.
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Leon Einstein posted:Not really. You can buy in bulk when feeding four people, and it will cost you far less than feeding four people individually. If you have the means to store food long term. I buy for two and we're at about nine dollars a day.
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SlipUp posted:What are you buying that's going bad so quickly? Knowing the right produce to purchase is half the battle. None of my food is going bad, but I certainly don't have the space to buy in bulk. edit: And I'm pretty close to ovo-lacto vegetarian, I only eat meat on the weekends, and the wife is full ovo-lacto veggie.
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How dare you describe someone using their nationality in a nationalistic competition!
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