Good Old Neon

Those defending Zimmerman's actions are either being willfully obtuse or an asshole.

The commercial is tacky and I hate it. Before they became just another marketing tool, flash mobs were great for introducing spontaneity into everyday life – now, as is the case with just about everything else, the idea has been co-opted and commoditized by marketers. And thus dies yet another form of spontaneous creativity for creativities’ sake – the sort of events that take place just for the hell of it, with no interest in selling you something. As for the decision to sell another song, meh, whatever – I haven’t really listened to (new) Wilco all that much since Sky Blue Sky. At som

That's some good advice. This cat sounds like it would make an excellent companion for a 16 year old bi-polar cutter.

Have it put down.

Well, I guess they could just go rapture themselves.

Album of the year for me here in the month of May.

For me, It’s not really America bashing, my responses are more of a response to the sanctimonious celebrating and USA#1 chest thumping that drives me up a wall – which is not to say that attitude has been displayed in this thread. In reality, the very real evils perpetrated by this country throughout its history exceed, exponentially, what the Taliban, al Qaida, or Bin laden were ever able to accomplish. That’s not America bashing, it’s looking history coldly in the face and acknowledging inconvenient, ugly-assed truths. Unfortunately, most American’s understanding of our history, the shit

Well said.

Eh? From CNN "Osama bin Laden was not armed but did put up resistance when U.S. forces entered the compound he was in and killed him, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday." http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/03/bin.laden.dead/index.html?hpt=T1

For what it’s worth, with Osama dead, the US’s Boogey Man position is now accepting new applicants – which, can only be good news in this economy.

One could argue that, given all the stated reasons for invading Iraq have proven to be false or outright lies, and that our initial incursion into the country was defined as “shock and awe” – which, to these ears, sounds a lot like, terrorize, and that the current civilian casualty rate, though debated, hovers between 100,000 to as many as 650,000 – well, one could argue that our little adventure in Iraq – which, at the end of the day, really has to do with oil and our continued access to it – i.e. our own selfish interests, perpetuating our own standard of living, which, in a way, is not all

When I was probably like, ten or twelve, a group of friends and I were out riding our bikes, suddenly, a hot air balloon appeared above us – this thing was obviously in distress, bouncing off the tree tops and shit. We followed it for as long as we could – well, a short while later, we heard sirens. Turns out, the dude crashed into a tree, tipped his basket and, no shitting here, fell to his death. Anyways, have fun up there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hSSGk_Bp04&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0twYX8_aq0&feature=related

Prepare to be inspired (not quite sure why this is not working as a link) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jYcW1nEsGk&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=MLGxdCwVVULXdGpBa0-ntkCFW48xeQGKV5

If in fact the decision were made "to run government like a business," which particular business would be the best model? Merrill Lynch or Bank of America? How about JPMorgan or Goldman Sachs? Citigroup could be a possibility, and please give some consideration to Wells Fargo, General Motors and Chrysler. Enron? Which business model would Jules choose?

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If I recall correctly, Sparky watched a documentary on Youtube that for him, pretty much blew his mind w/r/t climate change - since then, he's posted links from "scientists" that not only dispute man made global warming, climate change, etc, but also believe in like, chem-trails and other such nonsense.

I took this photo from the Hampton Beach pier this morning.

I'm voting for cryptique

You really don't?

2011 – but obviously at least half of the GOP-ers that responded are useless fucking bitchbags.

As human behavior tends to change very slowly (and one could make the argument that, in general, we’re more tolerant and less like, assholely than we were 50 or 60 years ago), I’ll go out on a pretty sturdy limb here and suggest today’s children behave pretty much the way they always have. If things were so much better “back in my day”, why the hell was there so much paddling taking place in schools – if, after all, children were, according to popular myth, little angels. The truth is, most studies have shown that hitting children is counterproductive, and, quite frequently, simply doesn’t wo

Hitting/spanking/paddling a child, to me, is a sign of an adult’s inability to control themselves and/or a particular situation. I expect children to behave irrationally – as an adult, I feel it is my responsibility to react rationally when a child cannot. Striking a child is, in my opinion, a sign of parental/adult/authority figure/etc failure.