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Re: The McCain-Palin Mob
You forget to mention that intellectual complacency and smugness exists on both sides of the party line. Look hard enough and you find it. Some days I wake up and find some kind of hope in the future of America, and some days I wake and find solace in that I'm still young enough to become an expatriot and still make a good living. It could also be that I'm finally of age to take notice of all the uncertainty and stupidity. It is because of this that I find it hard to gauge the seriousness of this election, or if the world has always been hanging in the balance at every election.
By: boyblunders
Re: Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Reads
But people, especially people in politics, have a clear preference for journals and media. To be honest, she should be reading the nitty gritty congressional journals that seriously commentate on the nuts and bolts of what goes on in Washington. She's suspiciously glib at best, repugnantly obtuse and impenetrable at worst.
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Re: Daily Show: Seniors Citizens Watch the Debate
I don't know that I want the elderly to figure out the voting mechanism.
By: boyblunders
Re: Gotcha Journalism & Attacking Pakistan: John McCain and Sarah Palin Interviewed by Katie Couric
When you do stupid things, we will "get you" on it. That's what "gotcha" journalism is. When your lies have become so convoluted that you are barely in agreement with yourself or your presidential running mate, journalists will "get you," as they should.
By: boyblunders
Re: CBS Sarah Palin Interview
Biden being drunk would probably be an advantage as it would disinhibit the pity that would hold him back. Lucky for Sarah Palin would mean an inexplicable car accident resulting in the obliteration of Biden's frontal lobes, which would actually level the playing field for Palin, but is the best she can hope for outside of Biden becoming comatose or deceased.
By: boyblunders
Re: Real Time: Palin is Bush in Drag
Bill Maher is a douche to religious people. He rarely distinguishes the severity with which religion pervades the thought processes of a person's mind as carefully as Sullivan did, he rarely treats them with respect, and therefore he's going to have a hard time making any headway, unless headway to him is a stroking his intellect and creating a bad image of atheists, agnostics, and naturalists everywhere. He quickly qualified his statements and even retracted when Sullivan called him out. I like this Sullivan character.
By: boyblunders
Re: McCain Leaves GM Plant to Chants of Obama 08
This isn't sad! This is America! Fuck yeah!
By: boyblunders
Re: Handicap Dance Competition
Because one can't have a day job and be good at something at the same time? Are you for real? Everyone should have art in their life every single day. There should be a limit, because art is just like science, only art has no tangible end product outside of a few friendly neurotransmitters. But I think it's good and honorable that these two, and anyone else, cripple or not, decides to apply themselves in a challenging endeavor that is not work and is not idolatry like video games or television, while still maintaining their duties as a citizen in a progressing society. Watching these people is positive reinforcement for their good behavior, and inspires other people to one up them. Watching is good, so long as it leads to something else.
By: boyblunders
Re: Armored Core: for Answer
Now prepare for the most awkward control scheme since Mech Warrior.
By: boyblunders
Re: CNN Fact Checks McCain: Verdict He's Not Telling Truth
In the simplest terms, McCain is a bitch. He is a little bitch. We don't want a weaselly shit-talking feeble little bitch ass in the Whitehouse. That's all there is to it.
By: boyblunders
Re: Daily Show: Tony Blair Pt. 2
at least he's willing to talk about it in a way that isn't smug or condescending.
By: boyblunders
Re: Tragic Comedy of the Drug War - Volume 1
Drugs can be good. Drugs can save lives. But the aggressive advertisement of drugs to people who know nothing about their mechanisms or the symptoms of the disorders for which they are prescribed is not irresponsible. It's beyond irresponsible and exists in the same realm as telling a child his nuts will fall off if he doesn't give you his lollipop. It's blackmail. Doctors are the only people who should worrying about diagnoses and prescriptions.
By: boyblunders
I have determined from much observation that the concepts of happiness, pain, death, and the profundity of life are muted in many people. They do it because they think it is normal, that it is OK. Human beings have a powerful emotional system in place that imparts a kind of morality, barring some kind of pathology, but even our nature-given powers of relativity can be conditioned - exaggerated or stunted - based upon what others around us are doing. Our emotional system fails in this respect, because it can be modulated. The benefit of a more intellectual morality is that it can override external input, with a positive outcome that may not be possible otherwise; or a negative outcome. The problem with static systems of morality, and this applies especially to Christianity and Islam, among others, is that much of these moral systems are pre-scientific and pre-humanistic.
Left to social pressures upon our intrinsic moral compulsions, we get things like those seen in this PSA. The next time you're given a chance to do something heroic, just do it. Even if it's giving up a seat to someone on the bus, having a conversation with a homeless person, or just taking your dog for a walk - do it, because you owe it to your evolutionary history to accept the responsibility of having such a complex brain. The world is in too much trouble to take a break. There can be no rest for the humans. We didn't beat out those other sapiens for nothing. Now we just need to take the next step.