If I think about it too hard I begin to have trouble believing Tony Jaa isn't actively destroying anyone (in the non waif, child, or elephant categories of anyone) I'm not directly looking at.

That's the sad (and somewhat profitable for technical writers) nature of jargon - it only has to mean the right thing for one relevant group.

The name doesn't refer to the concept, "This person is just on the edge of having a personality disorder," so much as "This type of personality disorder has traits from two other better understood personality disorders."

Eh, our parties used to be (and substantially still are) more or less meta-parties with wide ranging and interesting coalitions within them.

Both parties still have strong working class components. They're just embarrassed by them/embrace them in different contexts.

It's seriously a problem for the whole class. Now, as the COLORS teacher I can't TELL you to have them evaluated for ADD, but we are going to spend the next 45 seconds in which I would have told you to do so sitting silently and watching the COLORS prove unable to avoid standing while we stare at them.

*teaches watches @krampus9000:disqus turn the corner, sips coffee, turns to student-teacher*
"Oh, the mug is empty - caffeine does nothing for me anymore - but the sweet, mmm, tang of human misery? It thrills me to my toes. Smile, youngling, today is the first day of the rest of that kid's life - and this morning? He…

I was pretty convinced they were courting it at the time, actually.

The overwhelming fear at the time was that that would never happen again without the mellow sounds of Mr. Taylor impinging on the experience.

One time in college the people on the other side of my wall fell unconscious with James Taylor's Mexico (they were a nigh homeless barfly 40 at 19) stuck on repeat.

Is it that you stop listening to new music or that you spend substantially less time thinking you can 'fix' something like spotify?

Doesn't most of the monster's enculturation come from Milton & Plutarch? He's gonna write a bunch of plays and then get real sad when someone gets him like one more book.

Along with a disturbing amount of Paracelsus.

I've actually seen that a fair amount, but it's certainly more muted among the rest of the kerfluffle.

Usually by supporting more vigorous policing, though.

Local media was covering the protests pretty well before they became labelled as violent. Now they are covering them more but not exactly better. And it's hard exactly to see how people in remote national markets could or should be the best agents for change.

I really gotta disagree here Cookie.
(A) While it's hard to argue that the riots of the 60s also functioned as demonstrations and its possible to argue that they were successful as such they also had significant drawbacks within their communities and it's very hard to argue that the current police state doesn't exist…

Yeah, on the 'the show is graded, at least in part, against itself' a run like that is a sign of quality, but it's more an indication of 'getting itself' in line with that quality than it is perfection.

That's part of it, but there is an at least formal nod to persuasion in it.

I watched for a class on American lit, it was p-great.