I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Sep 14, 2010 12:55:14 pm PDT #23857 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The right’s climate denialism is part of something much larger

Consider what the Limbaugh/Morano crowd is saying about climate: not only that that the world's scientists and scientific institutions are systematically wrong, but that they are purposefully perpetrating a deception. Virtually all the world's governments, scientific academies, and media are either in on it or duped by it. The only ones who have pierced the veil and seen the truth are American movement conservatives, the ones who found death panels in the healthcare bill.

It's a species of theater, repeated so often people have become inured, but if you take it seriously it's an extraordinary charge. For one thing, if it's true that the world's scientists are capable of deception and collusion on this scale, a lot more than climate change is in doubt. These same institutions have told us what we know about health and disease, species and ecosystems, energy and biochemistry. If they are corrupt, we have to consider whether any of the knowledge they've generated is trustworthy. We could be operating our medical facilities, economies, and technologies on faulty theories. We might not know anything! Here we are hip-deep in postmodernism and it came from the right, not the left academics they hate.


tommyrot - Sep 14, 2010 1:40:30 pm PDT #23858 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Damn, the Evanston Police still have the same 6 square blocks blocked off. I think they've been there since 7:00 am.


msbelle - Sep 14, 2010 1:42:28 pm PDT #23859 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

The buyer for my co-op was approved by the board!!!!! WHOOT!


Sue - Sep 14, 2010 1:43:11 pm PDT #23860 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Wooo!


brenda m - Sep 14, 2010 1:44:06 pm PDT #23861 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Yay msbelle!

WTF, Tommy. Still?


Tom Scola - Sep 14, 2010 1:44:20 pm PDT #23862 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

YAY!!!!


msbelle - Sep 14, 2010 1:49:31 pm PDT #23863 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

so much happy dance! I just happy danced in my front yard and embarrassed mac. happy happy joy joy. I WANT TO CLOSE IN A WEEK! t / dreamer.


-t - Sep 14, 2010 1:58:11 pm PDT #23864 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yay msbelle!


tommyrot - Sep 14, 2010 1:59:34 pm PDT #23865 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

WTF, Tommy. Still?

Yep. My usual bike ride commute would have taken me a block (or less) away from the scene. They have three North/South streets and two East/West streets blocked off with people there to make sure no one gets through. I don't know if they're letting people who live there through.


flea - Sep 14, 2010 2:00:35 pm PDT #23866 of 30001
information libertarian

Yay!

ION, Casper just asked if I knew that Justin Bieber was gay. Just a lesson, for parents of younger kids, that once your kid is at loose on the world you have very little control over what they pick up. She did know what gay was (which I don't think we've ever discussed explicitly) and didn't seem to think it was anything more than a curiosity. But I don't think Bieber is gay, actually.