This is by the original composer? Why, pray-tell, isn't Valjean singing in a register that causes well trained dogs to come to heal?

The lesson I've always found most powerful from being the outcast kid is, while humans are social creatures and need the approbation of our peers - we get to choose who are peers are, who's opinions matter to us and who is unimportant.

What if the mice get sunburns‽

I agree with you, but (you knew there was a but, right?) I am reminded of Voltaire:

It wasn't so long ago that I read Paglia argue that she remains in touch with the mainstream of American life because she shops at Wal-Mart. When making this argument she seems entirely approving of this mainstream America; she was berating liberals for losing touch with mainstream America because the are too elitist…

Solar wind - it's not just for aurora anymore!

By the same token, my first thought was no one would sincerely say this to a 13 year old girl.

The cheating way is to wiki interrobang, copy and paste.

Unless it's meant to be a card undermining the idea that the most important thing about a woman is her appearance/sexual value to men (and what they will give her for it). Satire ridicules through sarcasm and exaggeration of the contemptuous - that is its essence.

Hmmmm - I have to admit my first response is, "And did you hear, some guy name Swift is actually advocating the eating of babies‽"

I suppose it depends on the substance of the opinion. That substance can range anywhere from constructive to shitting one someone's good time. The latter is pretty selfish.

I think final judgment depends on how you define your terms, i.e. how do you define an egalitarian society, and what constitutes evidence that opinions and biases are changing for better or worse? It's not hard to frame the debate either way.

This feels like an example of, you can't win for losing, but you apparently can lose for winning. It seems to me like behavior crosses into White Knighting about the time the actions go from the right ones to the wrong ones. You can't prosecute intention, and people should feel self satisfaction from making the…

It seems to me that when a word becomes impossible to define we shouldn't be surprised when people don't know if they fit the definition. Being a "man" is now like being "beautiful", a label that we use as if it were a known quantity, know it when we see it, hope it applies to us, but can't fully explain to anyone…

I think you're missing the point I was trying to make. When someone less accomplished is elevated above you because something about their situation makes their lesser accomplishments remarkable, it is natural to feel slighted, as if your greater accomplishments are unremarkable or illegitimate. That is the…

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I think the contention is universities receiving government assistance are giving out aid or granting admissions in an unfair manner. While I think it makes sense for a university to aim to produce a diverse student body, and it does make sense to boost the students who have overcome great hardship to achieve their…

To paraphrase another, if you are an American you already carry the highest rank your nation can bestow - citizen - and no one in this nation outranks you.

From my re-reading of the double standard bit, it seems he's annoyed that she can decide the parameters of their friendship (she can't be more than friends) and he's not expected to slag her to his friends, but when he choses the parameters of their friendship (he can't handle being friends) it seems to feel justified…

In principle the debunker is right, if not for that fact that no one wants to handle tritium if they can help it, it would dirty an ideally neutron free source of nuclear power, and it would be rather costly to store the tritium while waiting for it to decay. Tritium is hydrogen, and hydrogen leaks out of everything,…