Mr. Kinsley

I've got two little snifflers/hackers as we speak. This is happening at naptime after lunch! Thanks!

Ooh, Uncle Wiiiiilcooooo!

What makes this so funny to me is that because of your avatar, I'm always picturing the guy from The Office saying everything you type. I've only seen the show a couple of times, but that sounds like something he'd say.

You're... you're still here? Why is this thread still going? Go. Go home. Go on.* *I realize that I've done this bit on several occasions, but this thread reeeeeally needed it.

Hillary 70% Obama 58% Edwards 52% Kucinich 48% McCain 35% Gravel 33% Hunter 30% I don't know about this quiz. I can guarantee that I don't agree with Duncan Hunter 30% of the time. Nor do I with Hillary 70%. Some of the questions seemed too simplistic while others gave you too many choices that said nearly the same thing.

And this is all Jessica Simpson's fault. Or at least this thread's fault.

Is this the new RTT?

Point taken, but isn't that where most negative body issues really start to take root? Not saying that as a statement of fact, but more of a question from someone who is interested in this since in a few years I'll be dealing with a HS-aged daughter. And yes, most of us here on VC are mature and well-adjusted.

I hate to say it, but I really don't think all of you are mature and well-adjusted. Especially in high school. You and M Chris and company around here are, but...

Can I send you a copy of Dianetics? You'll feel much better about yourself.

The really scary thing about this, is that in the NBA, he'd be relatively undersized. I saw Derrick Fisher of the Lakers in a Circuit City a few years back looking for a new phone, just like I was. For those who don't know, he plays guard and is the "little" guy on the court. I wanted to see how much taller than him I was, so I sauntered over to check out the phones next to him without bugging him and realized... he's the same height as me! I'm 6'2" and that looks like a little shrimp on the court!

Would it also be fair to say that one of the main culprits in oppressing women about how they look (especially among teens) are other women? Isn't there a serious amount of looking down one's nose at another girl's dress size? Not to say that dudes on Madison Ave. aren't doing their fair share, but it isn't just a guy thing.

I heard a bit of him on the stream a while back, and I really did like it, but I'm a bit surprised at the overwhelmingly gushing response here. It seems way too mellow for this amount of anticipation. Not a dig, just a thought. Maybe some who've heard more can put your feelings on this release into words and let me in on what it is about this album that has drawn you to it with such force.

I'm guessing it's the whole body-image issue. Unattainable and idealized archetypes of beauty meant to keep the women folk down by causing them anguish over not looking that way and eating disorders trying to get that way. The pendulum will swing its big ass around one day and JLH will once again rule the known universe. And people will complain that the media is causing binge eating in teenage girls who are trying to look Rubenesque.

So far, Jorge is shaping up to be the center on the VC basketball team.

This is the other way that people get into it. They hear about all the crazy shit that $ci believes in, but figure that couldn't possibly be true. It's also probably why so many end up leaving. They get to the higher levels and find out all that crazy shit was actually part of the religion after all. Here's a link to Operation Clambake, a site devoted to debunking Scientology. Take it with whatever sized grain of salt you wish.

In researching $ci since my wife's cousin joined (yeah, I know, I sound like Cruise - "do the research") I've found that not only have people died in their facility in Clearwater, FL due to lack of medical attention (they try to treat nearly everything with vitamins), but the contract you sign when you go there for classes and training pretty much absolves them of any responsibility. If you are there and decide you don't want to do it anymore, or voice concerns about the goings on around you, they can essentially hold you in solitary confinement until you see the error of your ways. Public hum

Part of the problem is that $cientology actually has some good components to it: take multi-vitamins and drink a lot of water because it's good for you; detoxify your body of toxins (a little weird, but I see the benefits); they run the Narcanon, Alanon and Criminon programs to help people with drug and alcohol problems, as well as help criminals turn their lives around. One could very well argue that going from those situations into $ci is a frying pan to fire scenario, but they are trying to help. People are also seduced by the whole 'tapping the power of your mind' aspect. It's always comfo

Seeing as they believe that Scientologists who have reached the higher levels of their religion can move objects with their mind, I'm not surprised by that statement. My wife's cousin has gotten really heavy into it. We wondered why for the last couple of years she seemed like an imitation of a human. Now we know. It is definitely the scariest cult going, mainly because it's being more and more accepted in the mainstream as a real religion. Anything that won't tell you the whole story of the religion until you've gone through all the classes and such (which will cost you over $200K to reach a

6'2" I'm on, what I like to call, the short end of tall. EDIT: I got in before your edits. I am a man. My records are buried in a closet somewhere due to lack of phonographic availability. Billy Idol's Rebel Yell is one of them. My record collection is not cool.

How on earth did I miss out on a big swinging ass gif? And for the extra-junior senator from Illinois - yeah, I'd vote for you. That's not to be confused with "hittin' it" however.

None really. But it seems that if anyone wraps themselves in the flag of the south (No, I don't mean the confed flag, if they just tout their 'southern-ness') they will pick up votes from that entire area - especially if the foe is a northerner - with almost no hesitation. I know, not everyone there thinks the same way, but enough do to make the difference in an election. It's an admittedly weak example, but look at American Idol. Has a non-southerner ever won?

For me it isn't so much that I don't find her attractive, I'd just rather focus my attention elsewhere. And even if Mrs. Kinsley gave me a free pass, I still wouldn't have half a shot in hell at her. None of us here would. Let's face it folks, if you're posting on a rock band message board, you have extremely diminished chances for sex. Unless you're flying to Memphis for the weekend.

I hear both of you, and the reasons you give for him not winning are the exact reasons I think he will, plus these: -Evangelical -Southern -Governor (we seem to be rather enamored with Gov.'s) -White -He's not Hillary (The Clinton Political machine will kick into high gear and pull out all the stops to beat Obama, thus "mobilizing the base" on the right.)