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Duck-Billed Catechist

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  1. That common era format is difficult to explain to chilluns without first explaining the anno domini system. It's an easy mental switch for someone who grew up with the latter, but learned to use the former. If you don't know anything about either of them, though, you have to start with anno domini so far as I can tell. That makes CE somewhat unwieldy and pointless imo.

     

    The preceeding was a tangent and was not meant to support conservapedia or any such nonsense.

  2. Yeah, and he was all like, "we made love." So he was a crazy rapist, in essence. Mackenzie has ruined her life probably a couple times over and she is probably not qualified to run a slurpee machine, so her story might be the only thing she's got to keep the lights turned on. I ain't gonna buy or read her book, but I don't resent her for writing it.

    Well said.

  3. "Hate-mongering" is your term. I find him refreshing. He just spews whatever he's thinking. I have an uncle who just lets things fly politically. And some of it is shocking or mean, perhaps. But it's interesting and provokes thought.

     

    I don't think the average person is a dumbshit. Most people can sort through BS and exaggerations. Listening to Jon Stewart or David Lettermen's left-leaning sarcasm and Michael Savage's right-leaning "hate-mongering" could make most people get a good idea of what actually is going on.

    http://mediamatters.org/research/200405140003

     

    So thought provoking and insightful--I wonder why anyone would call that hate-mongering.

  4. My understanding from discussions on Sound Opinions is that a lot of the artists and venues are getting portions of those various charges--which is why most don't fight it. Some artists also cooperate with Ticketmaster/LiveNation to scalp tickets via their premium/auction services or whatever.

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