it wouldn't even exist in its current form.

more than unimportant it may be the large server load caused by the direct linking to images.

And this is why I don't believe any side has a monopoly on truth... I am willing to accept that I may very well be wrong, and if I am, I will take full responsibility for it no matter who's right in the end. 

isn't this a bit of a contradiction?  if the truth can only be approximated, surely you can't be too much to blame if you get it wrong?

good thread and idea.  I've long advocated for a move towards more 'gonzo' or subjective, narrative style posting as opposed to the dispassionate, objective, even academic style of post that has long been the rage.  this isn't an academic journal!  sorting the idea out in its own right has its place, but what does it mean to you?

Newark would be funny.

do you have to be a VT citizen/resident to take advantage of this?

is the UKIP nothing but a sanitized, de-vulgarized BNP/EDL?

All signs point to this being the second sock of a poster who is yet to be banned.  Once Nym gets on, we'll have more details for the forum.

it remains a state secret 'til then?

why should they be back, it was the most colossal choke of all-time.

should me merged into one 'liberals suck and here's why' thread.

He's a troll. STOP FEEDING HIM.

no harm in allowing him a day or two in the sun.  it would be cool if he stopped taking up half a board with new topics though, perhaps a compromise of sorts is in order.

11 topics started / 25 posts.  giving the immortal JOEBIALEK a run for his money.

an impressive person, which doesn't mean that she is 'good' or that I like her.  I do find interesting the swing in opinion among liberals here from 2008 to now.  her then-inevitable nomination was a scourge, something to be dreaded, but now, after a term under the Savior, all sins forgiven.

I've always wondered, what's to stop me from taking all my empty Mt Dew cans to Iowa to collect the deposit?  Some sort of tax mark like on cigs?

it won't work, the machine can tell somehow.  the receptacle will list all states in which a deposit can be redeemed.

why your fetish for unremarkable senators?

Haley's approvals in SC are in the low 40s at best.  fantasies are cool though.

we're actually somewhat close to getting something passed in NY.  http://fairelectionsny.org/

the big box stores may even help you out.  I bought a suit at K-Mart in 2007 for $70.  not sure if that is professional-looking enough.

fast but halting, in intervals, with pauses.

is it supposed to be automatically clear what a 'social construct' is and isn't?  some of the more vulgar out there would claim biology itself is a social construct.

I see the factually incorrect option is winning by a large margin here.

So who will be the first one to give a biologically strict definition of 'race' which corresponds in any way to the 'folk biological' concepts of race used in forums like this one. Please do inform me of this, because it seems I may have been completely misinformed.

in fairness the OP qualified and thus narrowed the 'no' answer while failing to do so for the 'yes' answer.

one of the top handful of public bourgeois economists, does this make him an FF?  depends on where my moral centre is today and I just woke up.

are we talking an AmazingAtheist, virulently anti-religious atheist or a wiser and more tame, implicit atheist who says a few nice platitudes here and there about religious legacy and spiritualism?  Michael Bennet comes to mind in the last case.

[After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.]

taken from Lenin's 1917 The State and Revolution:



During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

if Dems are in Tucson 200k Hispanic students should be bused in to shut the thing down.