Apropos of @mrdevil_909:disqus — technological development isn't just a matter of how smart people are, or whether they have money, even. For instance, the reason we can ship food all over America and why we have a trucking industry is the fact that we built the railroads and the Interstates after that. Both projects…

Brooklyn isn't the only place like that. I live on the UWS and the change from 1994 (when I arrived) to now is staggering. It's much, much less hipster stuff here, and more in the kind of families that can afford to stay around.

Hm. I remember singles and EPs all the way into the early 90s. I
think sometime around that point was when the EP died tho. I am not sure.

They didn't. That is, the shades of blue available weren't all that
wide; that was true of most colors. Before computer screens became ubiquitous you had a limited palette because you were printing on newsprint and using halftone. That means colors bleed and the paper turns yellow after a while, even after a couple…

You haven't seen Boss, have you?

I wonder about the stories of the chimp on the Today show, since any chimp (adult chimp, anyway) can rip off your face. No, really, that happened:

There's actually some very interesting history with Lego. As it happens the toy company refused (until they started licensing) to make ANY military-themed toys.

Again we have to define respect, though, right? The way you're using it is more like "do I kind'a like this person even if I disagree with him" and in that sense, of course there are people who politically I might agree with who I think are jerks. And I have friends who I don't agree with on every issue.

Speaking as someone who is old enough to have gotten the Power Windows album when it was released… and in fact Moving Pictures…

Sympathy isn't the same as liking someone's politics. I mean I might hate Ann Coulter's politics but if she got groped in a subway I wouldn't be saying it was a good thing and that I had no sympathy for getting assaulted, you know?

There were lots of highly educated people in the South who thought segregation was a fine idea. Harvard PhDs, even. So what? They still chose evil, no matter how you slice it. I don't care how smart you are.

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Define respect. I respect their ability to make life very hard for me and the people I love. I think it's evil, but I know there's power there and I'd better have my wits about me. Is that what you mean?

Not too many leftists I am aware of love DeGaulle. DeGaulle was a conservative who was smart enough to know that selling out to the fascists of his own party was a bad idea. You have to remember that in 1960 French society was falling apart at the seams. The Algerian war sparked riots and one reason was that French…

No.

Yes, this is part of it. We forget just how far to the right the GOP has moved and how Reagan was originally a conservative radical as governor of California — he'd have happily had all the students at Berkeley shot dead on the spot.

you may be describing something generational. Those of us old enough to remember Reagan and actually vote for Dukakis aren't so happy about him.

The problem is that conservative (in the modern sense) is basically a translation for fascism. And yes I am using that term precisely.

It was part of my PT. A scrawny 14-year-old needed it, believe me. Have you ever had PT? They torture you for an hour. They bend and twist all the places that haven't moved. This was June, and my arm had been still since April. And reconstructed. And now they have to break up the cartilage around the joints, and the…

I'd love to know where that piece is. In any case even if he had been emasculated, even that could be interesting. Back in the 80s Teen Titans did an origin series and I remember that one panel where he says "Why didn't you let me die." ANd I think yeah, I'd be feeling like that as a teenager under the circumstances…