bjorn_skurj

I don't understand how you think your system will possibly work in a society where we don't (usually) let people drop dead because of their apparent inability to be able to pay their hospital bills. For your way to work, people who are poor and sick will have to accept (or be forced to) that that is their tough shit, and their poverty is a fatal disease. (Maybe you can do some PSAs along the lines of, "Can't afford health care? Then you can't afford to live. Please, don't trouble your betters with your agony and sad stories. Find a quiet, out-of-the way place to die!") I don't know what you ca

Yeah.

That is true, but it seems to not be working as of late.

I endorse the Dems, while they still can, doing away with the filibuster and ramming health care reform down our collective throat, because we, taken as a nation, are too dumb to do what's in our own best interest.

Well, sure. Isn't everything on this board an opinion to some extent or another? Now, if you want to criticize him for being apparently unable or at least unwilling to take an objective, dispassionate look at politics, that's fair.

Dude hates Republicans and thinks they are completely full of shit about everything. What is so hard to understand about that?

I am CONVINCED that album holds the key to understanding the universe and the human soul's role in it.

Oh no they won't. Cowboy fans have Yankees-level expectations for their team.

Maybe they can make the fishies into Soylent Green.

Gary, would you please sign in as yourself?

We cool. Sorry to have made an obscene dietary suggestion.

It is possible I may have some leftover hurt feelings. I will have to listen to the concert again to center myself.

Hey, go eat a bowl of candy-coated fuck. I am an award-winning professional journalist with 20 years of experience writing for papers with over 15,000 circulation. I am dead serious about my work. If the band didn't think it was worth their time talking to our publications, that's fine, but I think it was bad form for their PR people, after they promised our publisher an interview, to not follow through. And no, I did not bring VC into it. I agree with you there - it would not have been professional.

USA! USA! USA!

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It would have been tough for any Dem, but Coakley looks like a shitbomb of a candidate.

This belongs in the NFL thread. Did the Jets poop on your picnic yesterday?

Yes - a blasphemy would be something like, "Since some point in the 1970s, Van Morrison stopped being good and became a drunken Irish bellowing machine," or something like that.

Shit! That's what I meant. TY!

Hating Coldplay is not blasphemy, it is righteousness. Sadly, we must make a date for our death-battle, as I prefer to think R.E.M. stopped making albums after "Automatic."

Well, you have just eliminated yourself from the "Who Gets Kicked Out of the Lifeboat" committee.

Need a backbone to post in this thread. As Stalin once observed, "When you chop wood, chips fly." And if you really wanted to sound pompous, you would know the difference between a cannon you shoot with and a canon you take shots at.

And what a spoiled bunch of no-composure wussies the Chargers were. They basically threw a temper tantrum over the course of the game when they realized the Jets weren't going to roll over. Norv Turner ought to be fired for allowing his team to lose focus like that. Shameful.

The promotion company (Higher Ground Music) called us up trying to get us to agree to a trade deal (ads for free tickets). We did not take that deal, but in the ensuing deal (where cash was paid) they said we could have an interview, but no dice. Didn't even get a callback saying "forget about it, boys are too busy talking to Spin." I was actually pretty pissed - we are not accustomed to being blown off by sources - but then I went to show and it kicked so much ass that all was forgiven.

Hey, they blew off my request for an interview for the Woodstock Times and I have 18,000-plus posts here.