Thank you for being a reasonable human being.

I’m only continuing to engage with you after a stroll through your discussions has convinced me you aren’t a troll.

Either you’ve severely misunderstood the central thesis of my original comment, or you’re a troll; Patti.

*sigh* And I suppose if I said I thought it was a cheap trick to sing Hava Nagilah at a talent show in Israel, that would make me an anti-Semite?

I was going to make essentially this joke, but I thought i’d stroll down to the greys to see if someone worded it better than I was about to.

Fair enough!

Nothing at all is wrong with a gospel hymn. I actually like quite a few. I’m objecting to when people take something of great significance and seriousness and incorporate it into their art just in order to distract people from their lack of talent. I saw one guy sing the anthem at a talent contest and he did way…

As the holocaust (and its survivors) pass out of living memory for most of the world’s population, we will unfortunately be seeing more of this jackassery. To these people, it’s just a convenient source of gravitas they can use to smear onto their artistic endeavours. They probably think it hides how little talent…

That app sounds awesome. I always hated that aspect of academic papers.

I’m just grateful for an article that isn’t about the election. I’m not sure they care about the regular readership. If they can attract more clicks by pandering to a rabid jackal-pack who like to tear down anyone who stands taller than they do, you can bet they’ll do it.

Because most people are dumb as ditch posts, and questions like that don’t really make it across the vast, arid savannah between their ears.

The author knows that already. And now that he has our clicks.

It’s purposely crafted that way in order to generate controversy. The outrage spawns clicks. The author shows no nuanced thinking with one hand, and plenty of balanced, cogent thought with the other. He’s basically setting up the bowling pins for us to knock down.

Snark generates outrage clicks.

That doesn’t bother me as much as when people play “Born in the USA” as if it were a patriotic song.

I am always filled with a lambent, roseate glow whenever someone runs Doom on some screen it wasn’t made for. I had a lot of fun playing that game in my early teens when it first came out. Back then, we had a CGA monitor, so I had to play it at a friend’s house. (Oooh, let’s see if they can get it to run on THAT…

Alas, with gawker being purged, all record of florid Friday has been erased. I made damned sure to save them on my computer, though.

I was going to leave a pissed off comment about how pathetic it is that nobody appreciated this song until after Cohen died, but that’s really not true. This song found its way into a lot of media and has been covered by a lot of artists. I’ve even heard a radio show a few years back that devoted a 20 minute segment…

That writing is gross at worst, and just fucking lazy at best. When virtually all encounters with women focus on their boobs, you know the author is either horny and lazy, or horny and compensating. Writing like that has no business being in a modern game. WTF are they thinking??

These words come hard to my mouth, but that native girl is probably the only nazi I’ve ever felt sorry for.