Shotgun

He quoted the part of that post that he was responding to. It seemed pretty clear that he was talking about rhys's personal decision to have an abortion.

It is always a bad idea to not see the content of a message and judge it by an irrelevant point. Short sightedness prevents you from seeing the bigger picture. I could open a word documet and change the spelling and grammar, or I could not, I am not here to change any minds just speak my part. If you want to think less of me because I don't get 100 percent in spelling, typing and grammar then that is your choice. Oh, I saw the content of your message. I just think it's a good idea to use proper spelling and grammar if you're going to talk about how un-intelligent someone else is. But that's just me. I don't think less of you as a person because of it; I'm just pointing out the irony.

Yikes! It's always a bad idea to have spelling and grammar mistakes when you're talking about how stupid someone else is.

Well, I'm the one saying that I don't think it's a major infringement. So if it was MY station, then no, it probably wouldn't be major.

I think that most of the people who specifically support her probably think she is the right person for the job. Yeah, but it would be even nicer if we could get away from this two-party thing and have some better choices.

I am being censored. I am not allowed to say absolutely anything I want, at any time of the day, at any place, and over any medium that I choose. For example: I can't get a custom license plate from the DMV that says "FUCK EM" on it, which is somewhat of an infringement on my rights, but I don't see it as a major problem. It's not keeping me from expressing that sentiment through other media.

Nice way to have a discussion. You're just creating a slippery slope. By your rationale, we shouldn't allow the government to make any laws at all, because that could just lead to them making more and more laws until we can't do anything. And I'm not really defending censorship in this case. I'm just saying that I don't see this particular case as a major problem.

That's ridiculous. Under that rationale you could censor damn near every single media outlet, but as long as there was still one national newspaper or TV channel that people could speak freely on, well, then you wouldn't have infringed the first amendment We're talking about broadcast TV stations, not "every single media outlet." The point is that there ARE a lot of other outlets for that sort of thing, and Fox probably has access to some of those other outlets. I'm not saying I agree with the SC's decision. I just don't see it as a major infringement on anyone's rights.

Yep. She has an attention-grabbing personality and appearance. And I think she has a somewhat decent chance of being the Republican nominee and possibly even winning in 2012, especially if she chooses someone as far right as herself for a running mate (hmm, Miss California, perhaps? ). And of course, that would depend on how Obama's doing at that time.

I'd say yes. I don't see how restricting broadcast television and radio achieves anything. OK... I don't really agree or disagree because I haven't given it enough thought, so basically I'm just thinking out loud here... I tend to agree, though it's hard to imagine how a completely unrestricted media system would work. I suppose it might tend to self-regulate in that (for example) if the stations chose to show a lot of pornography and extreme violence then a lot of people just wouldn't watch it. And I guess the stations could inform the public of their own self-determined rules for what they will allow to be shown on their stations so that the public can decide whether they want to watch it (or more importantly, whether they want to let their children watch it). But on the other hand, at this point in time, I don't really see censorship of the broadcast TV stations as being a serious infringement on First Amendment rights. No one is keeping anyone from being able to express themselves. I mean, if Cher wants to say "Fuck 'em" to the world, there are plenty of other media outlets for her to do so. That being said, I can also see that giving the FCC too much power is not a good thing.

Really? I think their online service is great. Some of the movies are poor quality and shouldn't be watched on a big screen, but with many of them I can't tell the difference from a DVD copy (except for no surround sound, but I think that most of the old movies don't have that anyway). We're watching them via a projector, I think it's about 720p, with the picture about 10-ft wide, over a FiOS connection. Looks good to me. Almost like having our own little art movie house.

And what is the solution? No censorship for the broadcast stations?

Do you think that the FCC shouldn't regulate television broadcasts at all? Or do you think that they are just going too far?

For anyone who uses Netflix, I just noticed that Casablanca is available in their "watch instantly" stuff. Looks like a decent copy too, but I only watched it briefly on my computer. I've added it to my queue, but I've got way more stuff in there than I have time to watch.

I don't think so, but I've only seen it once, and that was a long time ago. So I don't even remember much about it, except that I didn't leave the theater thinking it was a great movie. (Maybe I'll try watching it again sometime though.) I think Citizen Kane is one of the best movies I've seen, but I don't really have a favorite.

Well, I'm guessing that most people don't have a big interest in glow-in-the-dark pets or cocks, so they probably don't keep up with that sort of news.

You can already get those: http://www.nightlightcondoms.com/

"The cock wants what the cock wants." (Scientific explanation brought to you by Doug from Weeds. )

I've heard this mentioned several times, but it seems to me that most of the people in the U.S. who are confirmed to have this flu do not fall into that age range. And the one confirmed swine flu death was a child. But I can't seem to find any actual statistics about the age groups that are being affected. I also can't find age stats about the 20 or so confirmed swine flu deaths in Mexico (or any of the suspected cases).

I was just reading that Egypt has ordered the slaughter of all pigs in the country: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_swine_flu That seems like a bit of an overreaction to me. As for the media here, they seem to be reporting about it responsibly (in my opinion). But I've only read news from the Internet; I don't know how the TV stations are covering it.

Check out the mice too: http://www.neonmice.com/ And more info on GFP here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fluorescent_protein (I assume that's what they used for the dog?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GloFish

Don't forget the lycopene. My ketchup bottle says that lycopene is really good for me, and that ketchup contains a lot of it, so that must be true! I always knew you had balls. Didn't realize you also had some of the interior plumbing! Hey, I don't think the ketchup bottle says anything about prostate cancer. It just says "lycopene good - eat lots of it." And you don't question the ketchup bottle, man.

On what do you base that optimism? Now that people are paying $25/bag/way, is baggage handing any better than it used to be? I meant that if you are in a certain weight range, you get a certain size seat. So the larger person would likely have a more comfortable flight by having more room than they otherwise would in a smaller seat. But again, I really don't know if that would work. Weighing people and having different-sized seating in the planes might be a bigger problem than the problem it's meant to solve.

I think that commercial airlines are a little bit different than skydiving or flying small planes. (Somewhat more "necessary" at times.) But yeah, at some point - such as when it becomes a hazard (like not being able to fasten one's seatbelt), there probably should be a size limit on planes whether it is "fair" or not. As for charging by the pound, I think that maybe a weight _range_ seating/pricing thing might work better. But I'm really not sure . . . I guess it might annoy a bigger person that they would have to pay more, but it would also mean that they would likely have a more comfortable flight.