If you want to get a clear grasp at the whole situation, read Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East; Reflections on Justice and Nationhood; & Failed States: The Abuse of Power and The Assault on Democracy, all by Noam Chomsky. The first two are collections of research essays and interviews, while Fa…

Magical Negro is painful, but for me the worst is Black Dude Dies First. Soooo many movies, so little time. Tvtropes has a good breakdown...

You're very kind, thanks. I'm a little slow on the intertubez front, so would you be so kind as to explain what sporfle stands for? I can't figure it out : )

If there's any time that a cattle prod should be used on our own species, it's on boys who get in girls grills for fucking. Thinly veiled behaviour like that always reminds me of people who walk by pay-phones and press the return button to see if any coins come out. Doing that to another human just to see if they'll…

I think it may be a dialect, though not of males. Perhaps emotionally retarded (yes, in the clinical sense) individuals employ the dialect?

I should point out that I have had a long-standing tendency to respond in just such a fashion (me a male/cauc. primate, btw) owing to doing street-level care work for a while. Seeing someone write it out showed me why a lot of people in my neighbourhood avoid me, hahaha! But one needs to set boundaries in socially…

"Are you lost?" When he said "Uh, no," she cut him off, and said "Then there's no reason for you to ask me anything."

I second the position taken in this article. The situation in Qatar is realistically worse than the headline indicated, especially if the reader is not an American. The headline gave reasonable perspective, while also getting the 'jingoism & patriotism' neural pathways that many Americans rely on to fire, thereby…

Well, for all concerned I truly hope that the 'truth will out', as it were. With any luck no rape occurred, as rape can be a truly horrifying experience.

*Phew*, not a stitch of CFL merchandise!

Thank you

Agreed, BJ's comment sure makes it easy to hate people who reify legal arguments.

Hey GW, is that you? If so, I'd say you have the most proven experience in this chat room. Tell it like it is!

Sensible? I wish I were sensible enough to have caught it the first time I read it!

*blushing*

If you can't see what's wrong with this picture, your entire brain may in fact need glasses.

No, the experience is immediate. Just the way my mind works. I'll admit that my conceptual faculties may have been altered by copious use of lsd-25 for the better part of two decades, but I won't use that to excuse myself from being statistically aberrant. : )

It would be interesting if an international amateur sporting competition were to use aniconism as its mandate. Imagine the curiosity that would be cultivated in global spectators by a large competition with a high level of skill that made a point of shunning, avoiding, or outright banning any form of marketing,…

Pshaw, you're too kind. I've always assumed that I'm not alone in using the aforementioned 'one/two-punch' of HappyJoy to smooth out those moments between blissful, gorgeous sleep