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Good Old Neon

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  1. I do, in fact I do - too funny. Oh - and here's an interview with Mr. Hirschfield that may clear things up a bit. http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/MT/96/Jun96/mta1j96.html
  2. With all due respect, I think you're missing the point. Here's the study in its entirety. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/research/AxHamm_Ethno.pdf And for the record, Mark Buchanan was not involved in the study, it was conducted by Axelrod and Hammond.
  3. It would be just as logical for a THREE YEAR OLD to choose the adult based on clothing or weight - what it shows, is that a children as young as three are already attributing significance to skin color, race. Three year olds are a lot of things, logical is not always one of them.
  4. Yes, I am Mark Buchanan. No, no no - that was poorly worded wasn't it - I tend to agree with Mr. Buchanan's take on the inherent nature of prejudice - is what I think I was trying to suggest, not too well.
  5. Here's my admittedly way too long take on the subject of racism - and why we will still be dealing with its negative consequences for a long while yet....and quite a bit longer still if it is simply treated as learned behavior, as it is to this day. March 17, 2007 - newscientist.com Born prejudiced We know ethnic prejudice is wrong, so how come it's still rife, asks Mark Buchanan Mark Buchanan In 1992, during the war between Serbia and Croatia, The Washington Post ran an interview with a Croatian farmer named Adem, who had a horrific story to tell. Over the previous year, Adem said,
  6. Agreed - Cale is the tops in my book. His cover of LCD Soundsystem's - All My Friends - is the rare cover that outdoes the original - imo.
  7. Would there by chance be any sort of stipulation where like, they allow you to take a guy from New Hampshire, his wife and his daughter along as well
  8. McCartney's ex-wife awarded almost $50 million According to my estimates, at $951.29 an hour, Heather Mill
  9. From a USA Today article entitled - "Jump the Shark swims into net age vernacular" "But in cyberspace, where nitpicking has been honed to a fine art, Jump the Shark seems to have transcended its original meaning. "Clarence Thomas jumped the shark watching pornography, and Ken Starr writing it," Maureen Dowd quipped in a recent New York Times column. She goes on to add that Hillary Clinton "transcends mere jumping. She is the shark." Enthused Brian Lund, a writer and analyst for the financial site Motley Fool: "The great thing about 'jump the shark' is that you can apply it to almost anythi
  10. From the urban dictionary: jump the shark 207 up, 17 down The precise moment when you know a program, band, actor, politician, or other public figure has taken a turn for the worse, gone downhill, become irreversibly bad, is unredeemable, etc.; the moment you realize decay has set in. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?...=jump+the+shark
  11. I think maybe you should take your own advice and stop telling people how they should think and/or feel in regards to a particular situation and/or topic. While you are over there discussing the merits of the new Hulk movie
  12. I'll take that bet and raise you a
  13. Good point - but, as they are actively contributing to the dumbing down of this country/culture, I can't help but feel a sense of disgust - sue me.
  14. I was suggesting, half seriously, that maybe they should go back to school and pursue another career, one that doesn
  15. Sometimes, I hate this fucking country - now is one of those times.
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