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  • Scotland the Grave

    [Read the article: Scotland the Grave]
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    Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist? Please! He was the original robber-baron, whose workers lived in the most miserable conditions imaginable while making him rich beyond belief. His 'philanthropy' apparently did not extend to the people he so willingly exploited - which makes sense, given that the whole enterprise was his method of simultaneously assuaging his guilt and ensuring his immortality. And btw, I am Scottish born and bred, and grew up 12 miles from his birthplace - he was always held up in school as some kind of role-model, something which even a twelve year-old could see through.

    There are Scots we can and should be proud of - Watt, Bell, Logie-Baird, Fleming, Burns - even Adam Smith. Carnegie is not one of them.

  • You're not the first....

    [Read the article: I'm younger than that now]
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    I've always thought that this summarizes beautifully what you're talking about.....

    Men at Forty

    Men at forty

    Learn to close softly

    The doors to rooms they will not be

    Coming back to.

    At rest on a stair landing,

    They feel it moving

    Beneath them now like the deck of a ship,

    Though the swell is gentle.

    And deep in mirrors

    They rediscover

    The face of the boy as he practises tying

    His father's tie there in secret

    And the face of the father,

    Still warm with the mystery of lather.

    They are more fathers than sons themselves now.

    Something is filling them, something

    That is like the twilight sound

    Of the crickets, immense,

    Filling the woods at the foot of the slope

    Behind their mortgaged houses.

    -- Donald Justice

  • Eliot wrote this when he was.....

    [Read the article: I'm younger than that now]
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    Twenty(not fifty)-three. This article/poem/discussion aren't about age - they're about recognizing mortality - forget the when and who.

    "I should have been a pair of ragged claws

    Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."

    "And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,

    And in short, I was afraid."

    All human, all the time.

  • The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist...

    [Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: Hide-and-seek]
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    I predict an ending along the lines of "The Usual Suspects" - a revelation so unimagined it will blow the top of our collective heads off - but it will all make sense in hindsight.

    You heard it here first.

  • I stand by my prediction

    [Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: Hide-and-seek]
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    and the key word is "unimagined."

    The. Usual. Suspects.

    Reveille.

  • I said hindsight

    [Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: Hide-and-seek]
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    not wacky....

  • All That You Dream

    [Read the article: I Like to Watch]
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    That's the Little Feat song that's playing at the beginning of the final scene. I'm just sayin'....

  • You sing

    [Read the article: The body electric]
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    Firstly -

    love and hope for an eventual happy outcome for your son and for you.

    Secondly - a very informative, moving and beautifully-written account - you're a gifted writer.

  • I think they mean

    [Read the article: New Music: The White Stripes]
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    Ecky-thump. Lost in translation from the old English...

  • Dump Her

    [Read the article: My wife was having an emotional affair for years behind my back]
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    or you'll suffer for ever.

    "Emotional Affair"? - you've got to be kidding me - Wake Up!

  • GTA

    [Read the article: "Grand Theft Auto IV" is a dark urban masterpiece]
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    "Take out" the prostitutes? For a movie, or a meal, maybe? Oh, you mean murder....this has to be the most obscene euphemism ever to pass into common speech.

    Yecch...

  • It's Saturday night - it feels like a Sunday in some ways

    [Read the article: She won't go easy]
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    My god, I agree with Camille Paglia - something's wrong here. Buh-bye, Hill!

    "Young Girl Blues", though, last time I looked, was on "Sunshine Superman" - a truly great album.

  • Sweetie

    [Read the article: Quote of the Day: Barack Obama ]
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    I love this guy - but this was a gaffe, and he's going to take his lumps for it.

    She's a professional reporter - not his wife, or daughter, or a nine-year old girl. It's just not an appropriate or respectful way to address a professional woman. (I'm a guy, btw).

    That's all.

  • Do you know what your "husband's" problem is?

    [Read the article: My husband wants a different form of eroticism ]
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    It's yours, too. People like you throw around the word "avatar" with gay(no pun intended) abandon, and you have no idea wtf these things mean - just like you have no idea about life in general.

    "The incarnation of a Hindu deity, especially Vishnu, in human or animal form." Usually depicted by a Japanimation character, incidentally.

    Now whether or not you subscribe to this world-view, to the best of my knowledge, Vishnu wasn't partial to being @$$-frigged by a strap-on. But I could be wrong. Second life? He needs to get a first one.

    F.A.K.E. - or worthless - does it really matter?

  • The notion of dying for your country

    [Read the article: Playing soldier]
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    wasn't actually invented by the Founding Fathers - it's been going on much longer than that. As the Roman poet Horace said:

    "Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori" (it is a sweet and fitting thing to die for one's country).

    It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now.

    Peace.

  • ShawnWM

    [Read the article: Viva Hillary Clinton!]
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    You really are a twat. Does the WM stand for "White Man"?

    You're done, Troll. You and all your kind.

    Buh-bye!

  • Russian to judgement

    [Read the article: Viva Hillary Clinton!]
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    I'm white. And a man - so racism and misogyny are moot. Nor am I an Obama voter. And I'm not Russian, either. That's so seventies, dude.

    And you're still a twat. And a troll.

  • ShawnWM - I refuse to engage in a battle of wits

    [Read the article: Viva Hillary Clinton!]
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    with an unarmed man.

    And you're still a troll.

    And a twat.

    Do you get paid by the word, or the idea? Hopefully it's the former.

  • Kimbah

    [Read the article: Viva Hillary Clinton!]
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    is that you, ShawnWM? Man, you need some therapy - though I don't know if it would help, in your case.

    Try Googling "apostrophe", btw.

    Peace.

  • Trollapalooza

    [Read the article: Viva Hillary Clinton!]
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    Don't you tragic arses have anything else to do, apart from sniffing around the dying corpse of the right-wing experiment?

    You know who I'm talking to, you paid emissaries of shit-eating.

    You're still all twats, by the way.

  • Salon rains on Obama's parade

    [Read the article: Rezko rains on Obama's parade]
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    Don't you Salon people EVER give up? If there's no illegality, why the transparent attempt to imply guilt by association?

    I never thought the day would come when Yellow Journalism became the Salon standard.

    btw - are you still beating your wife?

  • Sitting Shiva with Hillary

    [Read the article: Sitting shiva with Hillary]
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    Great title, btw.

    Lolcait is ShawnWM, the well-known Salon troll.

    Mazel Tov, Shawnie - and buh-bye.....

  • NBA Finals

    [Read the article: Who needs Lakers-Celtics nostalgia? ]
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    No fans apart from Lakers and Celtics give a crap about this series. They are almost 100% excitement and charisma-free.

    Dull as dishwater.

  • Margaret Thatcher

    [Read the article: Hillary's final curtain ]
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    People keep citing her as if she's some kind of role-model. I lived through her governments and believe me, it was living hell for anyone not on their side - she and her odious cronies made GWB and his crew look like saints. The woman was pure evil.

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