Story is here.
The Church prohibits premarital sex. Like all Republican men, this guy talked like a Christian and acted like a satyr in real life.
Nevertheless, both teacher and student were adults. So if they wanted to do the nasty, it is kinda nobody's business except the university's. Fordham apparently didn't feel it was enough of a transgression to fire the guy even though it was at the very least unethical.
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Dear Look-at-Me Generation Women: Please Stop Cheapening the Brand
Story is here.
Part of being taken seriously is not making hysterical assertions such as that the current generation of women are trollops. There are women who do bare a lot of skin on My Space, et al. However,as someone who remembers the 1960's and 1970's very well because I was school age back then and subsequently spent the1980's hanging out in heavy metal clubs, girls showed a lot more skin then than they do now. You know that the bikini was not just recently introduced, right? Halter tops and hip huggers were pretty de riguer back in the 70's, and there was no shortage of tube tops, either. In the 1980's, it was spandex..
Today's young women, by comparison, and maybe it is because girls are fatter than they used to be thanks to our fast food culture, seem almost dowdy. You just about never see anyone wearing mini skirts or micro skirts which were popular in the 1960's.
I would suggest that perhaps you are jealous of the fact that the sexual environment is freer now than it was back even in the 1980's and since you are probably around my age (I'm in my 50's), you regret that you can't flaunt it like you were able to in college or in your middle 20's.
The women you talk about are a small minority. There were strippers, Playboy bunnies and Penthouse models who were members of your generation. So relax and stop being unnecessarily mean to today's women.
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Part of being taken seriously is not making hysterical assertions such as that the current generation of women are trollops. There are women who do bare a lot of skin on My Space, et al. However,as someone who remembers the 1960's and 1970's very well because I was school age back then and subsequently spent the1980's hanging out in heavy metal clubs, girls showed a lot more skin then than they do now. You know that the bikini was not just recently introduced, right? Halter tops and hip huggers were pretty de riguer back in the 70's, and there was no shortage of tube tops, either. In the 1980's, it was spandex..
Today's young women, by comparison, and maybe it is because girls are fatter than they used to be thanks to our fast food culture, seem almost dowdy. You just about never see anyone wearing mini skirts or micro skirts which were popular in the 1960's.
I would suggest that perhaps you are jealous of the fact that the sexual environment is freer now than it was back even in the 1980's and since you are probably around my age (I'm in my 50's), you regret that you can't flaunt it like you were able to in college or in your middle 20's.
The women you talk about are a small minority. There were strippers, Playboy bunnies and Penthouse models who were members of your generation. So relax and stop being unnecessarily mean to today's women.
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Rihanna's Nipple Ring Makes An Appearance In New York (NSFW)
Story is here.
This was advertising masquerading as an inane gossip item.
Have more respect for us than that.
Censored.
This was advertising masquerading as an inane gossip item.
Have more respect for us than that.
Censored.
CNN Anchor Heidi Collins -- Incredible
Story is here.
Harry, no matter how bad Heidi might be, she will never be as hairbrained as former L.A. Eyewitness News anchor Tawny Little. You have to remember her. Snippy former beauty queen who felt she had to issue some asinine, cringeworthy comment on seemingly every story when she rarely knew what she was talking about.
You should come up with a Tawny scale for anchorperson inanity. I would only give Heidi two Tawnies for that remark out of a possible five.
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Harry, no matter how bad Heidi might be, she will never be as hairbrained as former L.A. Eyewitness News anchor Tawny Little. You have to remember her. Snippy former beauty queen who felt she had to issue some asinine, cringeworthy comment on seemingly every story when she rarely knew what she was talking about.
You should come up with a Tawny scale for anchorperson inanity. I would only give Heidi two Tawnies for that remark out of a possible five.
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Kermit Washington's Remarkable Redemption
Story is here.
Kermit Washington was never a goon and Rudy Tomjanovich was perhaps largely to blame for getting cold cocked by Washington. I was listening to the game when this incident occurred and the way Lakers announcer Chick Hearn described it was that Washington was mixed up with another Rockets player and then saw Tomjanovich rushing toward him. Like anybody would, Washington just reacted and drilled Tomjanovich with no thought of trying to do any longterm damage. .
This was just one of those victim of circumstance things on the parts of both Tomjanovich and Washington.
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Kermit Washington was never a goon and Rudy Tomjanovich was perhaps largely to blame for getting cold cocked by Washington. I was listening to the game when this incident occurred and the way Lakers announcer Chick Hearn described it was that Washington was mixed up with another Rockets player and then saw Tomjanovich rushing toward him. Like anybody would, Washington just reacted and drilled Tomjanovich with no thought of trying to do any longterm damage. .
This was just one of those victim of circumstance things on the parts of both Tomjanovich and Washington.
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The Case for Premium (Yes, That's Paid) Content Online
Story is here.
Almost all smart internet sites and portals are moving away from premium content, with the exception of internet porn, and going to an advertising supported model. The kind of thinking exhibited in this article is yesterday's news and doomed to failure.
Premium sites are also inherently elitist since it keeps the poorest Americans from being able to access information, one reason why the market penetration of broadband is so bad in this country and overpriced to boot compared to Japan and Korea. And the proliferation of cable stations (iirc, about 15-20% of households have no satellite or cable because they can't afford it) has only meant more trash tv, with even the History Channel and the Discovery Channel often being dumbed down with stuff like the Search for Bigfoot, etc. So being premium is no gaurantee of quality.
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Almost all smart internet sites and portals are moving away from premium content, with the exception of internet porn, and going to an advertising supported model. The kind of thinking exhibited in this article is yesterday's news and doomed to failure.
Premium sites are also inherently elitist since it keeps the poorest Americans from being able to access information, one reason why the market penetration of broadband is so bad in this country and overpriced to boot compared to Japan and Korea. And the proliferation of cable stations (iirc, about 15-20% of households have no satellite or cable because they can't afford it) has only meant more trash tv, with even the History Channel and the Discovery Channel often being dumbed down with stuff like the Search for Bigfoot, etc. So being premium is no gaurantee of quality.
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CNN Anchor Slams Impeachment as "Kabuki Theatre"
Story is here.
CNN is just painful to watch. It is so in the tank for the Republican establishment that it has basically become Fox Lite. In fact, I think that's what I will start calling it now.
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CNN is just painful to watch. It is so in the tank for the Republican establishment that it has basically become Fox Lite. In fact, I think that's what I will start calling it now.
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MoveOn's New Ad: "Gimmick" (About Pushing for Offshore Drilling)
Story is here.
The problem, of course, is that investing in more drilling is investing in a literally dinosaur technology that isn't going to help us solve the greenhouse gas emission conundrum.
Not to mention that our refineries are already running at full capacity and thus none of this oil is going to help at the pump for years to come.
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The problem, of course, is that investing in more drilling is investing in a literally dinosaur technology that isn't going to help us solve the greenhouse gas emission conundrum.
Not to mention that our refineries are already running at full capacity and thus none of this oil is going to help at the pump for years to come.
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Internet Addiction Growing: Study
Story is here.
This article is worthless. There are no concrete figures cited, just numbers that Young has pulled out of thin air. She is also defining things people do for fun as evidence of addictive behavior, which is, to say the least, misguided. Would she rather people be passively sitting on the couch watching sitcoms all night or actually engaged with other people on gaming and social sites online?
Is the fact that I use the net for my job and then also peruse it for news and entertainment a sign of addiction or is it using a tool technological progress has blessed us with?
I admit to being addicted to stuff that interests me, including books, baseball, playing with my dogs and riffing away on my Strat and politics. I guess I better call Dr. Drew.
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This article is worthless. There are no concrete figures cited, just numbers that Young has pulled out of thin air. She is also defining things people do for fun as evidence of addictive behavior, which is, to say the least, misguided. Would she rather people be passively sitting on the couch watching sitcoms all night or actually engaged with other people on gaming and social sites online?
Is the fact that I use the net for my job and then also peruse it for news and entertainment a sign of addiction or is it using a tool technological progress has blessed us with?
I admit to being addicted to stuff that interests me, including books, baseball, playing with my dogs and riffing away on my Strat and politics. I guess I better call Dr. Drew.
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AP: McCain Has Trouble With Details Because Of "Breezy Nature"
Story is here.
We've already had eight years of a breezy approach to dealing with national issues. "Breezy" is just a euphemism for "lazy," just like how McCain didn't want to read flight manuals for multimillion dollar military jets financed by taxpayers. Result: worst pilot turned pol since Bob Dornan. And he would do the same thing to this country what he did with those planes.
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We've already had eight years of a breezy approach to dealing with national issues. "Breezy" is just a euphemism for "lazy," just like how McCain didn't want to read flight manuals for multimillion dollar military jets financed by taxpayers. Result: worst pilot turned pol since Bob Dornan. And he would do the same thing to this country what he did with those planes.
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Rush Limbaugh Hints He Might Want to Biuy the St. Louis Rams
Story is here.
My Post:
It's hard for me to believe that the black players on the Rams wouldn't object. And with Commissioner Roger Goodell on a mission to clean up the league's image, that drug matter Limbaugh was involved in plus his getting fired by ABC over the black quarterback remarks would seem to doom any chance he has of being involved with the club.
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My Post:
It's hard for me to believe that the black players on the Rams wouldn't object. And with Commissioner Roger Goodell on a mission to clean up the league's image, that drug matter Limbaugh was involved in plus his getting fired by ABC over the black quarterback remarks would seem to doom any chance he has of being involved with the club.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The Purpose of This Blog
The Huffington Post has positioned itself as a kind of progressive online newspaper and is operated by former Newt Gingrich groupie Arianna Huffington, who was also once married to empty suit California Republican pol Michael Huffington, who, and this is going to sound familiar to anyone who has been following the GOP, turned out to be a closeted gay. Arianna has since seen the light and has been largely a positive addition to the liberal media lineup.
However, part of being a progressive is having respect for the opinions of others and allowing all reasoned submissions on a discussion site to be aired, as it were.
Unfortunately, the sad truth is that HuffPo, as I will refer to it from here on in, is full of snippy limousine liberal moderators who engage in censorship when you either challenge the ideas propounded in a given article and do real damage to the author's thesis, or really go after one of its sacred media cows such as thankfully departed fatass Dick Cheney dupe Tim Russert. Like me, you might be on the shitlist of a moderator or two, who will then delete anything you submit, no matter how relevant or thoughtful it is.
An example of said behavior was when they ran an article about King of the Media assholes Robert Novak and his brain tumor (must be a pretty small lump) and didn't allow any reader input on it because the HuffPo vanguard knew that a slew of missives would have ensued eviscerating the Machiavellian conservative mouthpiece. Maybe Arianna has some kind of friendship with Novak, who really is a scumbag and who should have been jailed for treason for helping to out a covert operative, and didn't want to see him subjected to the inevitable storm of torridly negative reaction that he would have engendered. May Novak's death be slow and very, very painful.
In any event, as much as HuffPo is a private enterprise and can thus do whatever it wants, it's supposed posting standards are little more than an empty gesture since the moderators don't follow the guidelines and instead filter posters according to their own personal taste and agenda.
Okay, that being said, here is how this site will work:
I will re-post all my HuffPo submissions here and then reveal whether or not they have been posted on the site. I will also highlight messages that are just flat out inane or violate the printed criteria and were shown anyway.
In addition, I would like you to make copies of your posts and if one doesn't get through, send it to me and I will post it here with an end note about whether, if I was a moderator, I would have allowed it in. Please make sure you include a URL to the article you wanted to comment on. Your submissions to me must conform the HuffPo posting regulations since that is the point of this site: highlighting thoughtful dialogue that is being unfairly excised by supposed progressives.
As far as raw language goes, I don't care about that. If your post is viciously satirical and as long as it actually says something interesting and just isn't the same old "liberals/conservatives suck (which is often even seen on, as it turns out, HuffPo, such is their inconsistency)" etc that you see elsewhere, then I will run it.
Keep in mind, though, I am not interested in what you think about my posts. If you want to respond to them, go ahead, but that isn't the intent of this exercise.
However, part of being a progressive is having respect for the opinions of others and allowing all reasoned submissions on a discussion site to be aired, as it were.
Unfortunately, the sad truth is that HuffPo, as I will refer to it from here on in, is full of snippy limousine liberal moderators who engage in censorship when you either challenge the ideas propounded in a given article and do real damage to the author's thesis, or really go after one of its sacred media cows such as thankfully departed fatass Dick Cheney dupe Tim Russert. Like me, you might be on the shitlist of a moderator or two, who will then delete anything you submit, no matter how relevant or thoughtful it is.
An example of said behavior was when they ran an article about King of the Media assholes Robert Novak and his brain tumor (must be a pretty small lump) and didn't allow any reader input on it because the HuffPo vanguard knew that a slew of missives would have ensued eviscerating the Machiavellian conservative mouthpiece. Maybe Arianna has some kind of friendship with Novak, who really is a scumbag and who should have been jailed for treason for helping to out a covert operative, and didn't want to see him subjected to the inevitable storm of torridly negative reaction that he would have engendered. May Novak's death be slow and very, very painful.
In any event, as much as HuffPo is a private enterprise and can thus do whatever it wants, it's supposed posting standards are little more than an empty gesture since the moderators don't follow the guidelines and instead filter posters according to their own personal taste and agenda.
Okay, that being said, here is how this site will work:
I will re-post all my HuffPo submissions here and then reveal whether or not they have been posted on the site. I will also highlight messages that are just flat out inane or violate the printed criteria and were shown anyway.
In addition, I would like you to make copies of your posts and if one doesn't get through, send it to me and I will post it here with an end note about whether, if I was a moderator, I would have allowed it in. Please make sure you include a URL to the article you wanted to comment on. Your submissions to me must conform the HuffPo posting regulations since that is the point of this site: highlighting thoughtful dialogue that is being unfairly excised by supposed progressives.
As far as raw language goes, I don't care about that. If your post is viciously satirical and as long as it actually says something interesting and just isn't the same old "liberals/conservatives suck (which is often even seen on, as it turns out, HuffPo, such is their inconsistency)" etc that you see elsewhere, then I will run it.
Keep in mind, though, I am not interested in what you think about my posts. If you want to respond to them, go ahead, but that isn't the intent of this exercise.
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