mbg721

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by mbg721 4y ago
It's not just imaginary, though. There are very different visions of how the country should work that can't exist simultaneously. If the culture wars were just a fabrication of the media, that would be easier to solve than what&
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by mbg721 4y ago
The working-class everyman in that era of TV comedy often happens to be a Jewish New-Yorker; I think it's a holdover from the influence of vaudeville.
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by mbg721 4y ago
My wife and I have a standing joke that whenever we go on vacation and stay in a hotel, we can turn on the television at any time of the day or night and there will be a channel with NCIS on.
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by mbg721 4y ago
TV has been a wasteland as long as it's existed, because it's an advertising medium pretending to be an entertainment medium. The S.S. Minnow on Gilligan's Island was even named as a dubious tribute to Newton Minow, an FCC h
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by mbg721 4y ago
I don't think most Ultimate players use "frisbee" in the name anymore either, since it's a trademark of the non-preferred brand of disc...
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by mbg721 4y ago
We're only racist with an eye toward particular races. Allegedly.
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by mbg721 4y ago
It is if we only blow the "Foul!!!" whistle just after we get the precedent that we want, how we got there be damned.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Texas is something of an outlier in US statehood assertiveness. When I go to NM to visit family, if my rental car has TX plates, the locals run me off the road.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The promise has always been that electric cars will get cheaper once we're through the early adopters. I'm a little nervous about long-term battery life, but I guess we'll see.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Maybe I'm zeroing in on a much shorter term; the potholes, winter reflectors, and other various road items are clearly worse than say, five years ago. 30 years, maybe not; expectations in the world of phone booths were way different.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Saying "Half the world doesn't have pavement" is like saying "Eat your broccoli, because some children halfway around the world are starving." It doesn't change the fact that we used to be able to do routine m
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by mbg721 4y ago
RvW wouldn't have been established except as a political goal. 1973 wasn't Eden before Original Sin.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Everybody complains that the potholes are worse than ever. Not sure if it's actually true or they've always had the same complaint, but I've definitely adapted my driving pattern to get around the ones that I know.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Are we trusting the World Economic Forum now? Half the country is convinced they're lizards, but even if not, they have an agenda.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Because when they were mostly poor railroad workers, they were easily manipulated, and now that they're middle-class professionals, they aren't?
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by mbg721 4y ago
Rand certainly isn't Ron, but, like the rest of the country, he's in a situation where voters have to choose between 2+2=4.75 and 2+2=purple.
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by mbg721 4y ago
But he has privilege, and she doesn't.
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by mbg721 4y ago
If a conservative Supreme Court were really drunk with power, don't you think the Ivy League institutions would have changed more than this?
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by mbg721 4y ago
No, you see, some races are okay to discriminate against, and others aren't. Seeing the entire world through the lens of race is morally preferable as long as it leads to the right outcome.
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by mbg721 4y ago
HR is always going to say "don't make waves". They don't care about the source of the waves, and never have. If you worked in Saudi Arabia, they would say eating pork and uncovering female faces was unprofessional. If
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by mbg721 4y ago
Of course not, child pornography is strictly within the domain of public schools, until those pesky parents infiltrate the boards.
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by mbg721 4y ago
> Oodles of stable people spent a lot of time worrying about Trump As opposed to Dubya, or Reagan, or Nixon? Every president with an R next to their name is supposedly the downfall of society, and their voters are all just rubes who wer
533.
by mbg721 4y ago
It needs an "Under Construction" crane, the true mark of a 90s web design professional.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I'm sure having a government department to manage the optimal demographic balance will go well.
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by mbg721 4y ago
It may be true that meritocracy mostly pays off at extremely high levels of merit. The organizations doing affirmative-action hires are hand-wringing about the fairest way to pick from a huge pool of middling candidates. I don't thin
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by mbg721 4y ago
"Not liking" and "having a pathological dislike" are a little different. If it were the Pope or Bill Gates or somebody else that wasn't Trump, the reaction would be regarded as eccentric at least, like Hunter S. Th
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by mbg721 4y ago
One thing that changed is that appliances that used to be simple and worked by using mechanical parts that you could see and replace are now just one more thing with a chip inside. Watching a toaster work with the bimetallic strip that sud
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by mbg721 4y ago
Maybe not all religions are created equal; even if it's all made-up, the idea of a benevolent-if-aloof God who wants us to act in each other's best interest seems a little less toxic than losing 50 pounds in all the right places i
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by mbg721 4y ago
A proper Formula racing vehicle has a button on the steering console for ordering a bloomin' onion on demand.
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by mbg721 4y ago
"Switzerland - it's like Singapore, but with mountains, guns, and lots and lots of cheese!"

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