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Maddy, explaining an apparently real game called Kick Me in the Butt: "You don't actually kick the person who has a butt. You kick the butt? And then it falls off."
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He's non-Muslim, used a gun, and it looks like no one died, so this isn't the great Pretext we've been fearing. But it's the nail in ACA's coffin so will cause overdoses, suicides, domestic murders etc. As well as more proto-fascist edging. Way to read the room, asshole. -
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So did Mary Worth ever get to the post office or whatever was going on with her all those years? -
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My take on Julius Caesar, last time I read it, was that Shakespeare's not truly coming out against the assassination of tyrants in principle, but instead (since he has to come out against it for SOME reason or not tell the story at all, what with Elizabeth) does so on the grounds that the two kinds of good person in the world, the ones willing to ( Read more... ) -
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We should stand in solidarity with Reality Winner, since that's some messed up info for the gov't to have been sitting on and since Trump's people will be scapegoating her harshly for distraction value and base-baiting ( Read more... ) -
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So the Season 3 Fargument is that the Trumprussia era was caused by digital technology - e.g. hacks, fake news, emails, Russian-doll shell corporations - that leaves all of us uncertain of what's real. The age of stamps, phone books, libraries, and faucet handles is praised in comparison ( Read more... ) -
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Finding the right metaphor for metaphors requires ... a lot of other metaphors, since who they're used by and for what purpose and to what effect are necessary context, sans which the chosen metaphor-metaphor will fall back into mere vesselhood, thinghood. And all those other elements must also be metaphors, or how else would they plausibly ( Read more... ) -
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Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, - for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us ( Read more... )