I object to her dental face-baiting. I have a crooked smile; do I not bleed?

The Two Meowers.

I am fully irritated that no one told me to watch this show.

If you like this (and you might not), you might also like Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox: http://www.postmodernjukebox.com and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORIe….

Hamilton Nolan: "The problem with this video is that they aren't doing squats."

This is an observation which deserves to be written up in a longer essay.

It's a timely time to be talking about menstrual products. According to this petition opened last week at WhiteHouse.gov:

Some forms of make-believe can be dangerous.

Since it is of no interest to me to beat further the dead horse that is the observation that Bachmanns departure is good riddance to rubbish, I'll share two interesting things about this aphorism:

Thank you! This comes just in time for me to tell someone I want it for Xmas.

A wonderful piece about the search for the scent of the Nile: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/…

The practice of fraternal dueling is why German cinema villains traditionally have a prominent facial scar. (Which would be not schnitt, pardon my typo above: it's schmitte, or schmisse.)

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Used to be you'd have some young German men so hungry for the honor afforded to anyone bearing a dueling scar or schnitt on their face that they'd make the cut themselves with a razor, and then run ordure or horsehair into the wound so it would heal ragged, like the real thing.

I'm not sure I follow you entirely, but I think I understand better now your view of things. And for my part, committing to an ongoing process of vigilance, for change over time, seems pretty reasonable.

"I don't want gay references to be shoved into a game with no artistic merit."

"Sure, I saw plenty online, and I'm the first to claim it's wrong."

When I moved into a majority black neighborhood, about three miles south of Boston proper, I was impressed on our first Halloween when the kids coordinated using Nextels. "<screech>Yo yo yo, they giving our Baby Ruths in them big houses on Melville Ave<screesquawk>". Good job, youth, I thought.

#morecaffeine #levelup

Ah! You've pinned it down. I wasn't looking for the *valid* reasons that might be given. I hadn't supposed there are any.

Hmm? Perhaps we are misreading.

In the top post, I learned that supporters of #gamergate aren't participating in any real sort of dialogue. I asked if they are giving any kind of reason for the lack of dialogue, which I thought might take the form of (here I'm speculating), "The SJWs don't want dialogue, they want…