The classic Swedish julbord is the highlight of Swedish cuisine, a traditional smörgåsbord starting with bread dipped in the ham broth and continuing with serving the table, a variety of fish (salmon, herring, whitefish and eal), ham, small meatballs, head cheese and sausages, potato, boiled or potato casserole, soft and crisp bread, butter and different cheeses, beetroot salad. cabbage (red, brown or green) and rice pudding and bevereage.

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honor the aig contracts AND the union contracts

than about revolution among the masses

the phrase "flight of capital" come to mind...I certainly don't know how to run a bank, or an insurance company

doom and gloom hang in the air

why exactly do they even need to use men?

do they like the smell?

that'll cheer me up

There is lots of information on the internet about media bias. I'm not sure why you would want that information summarized by the people here, when you can look at it first hand.

You might want to report back and let us know how the research compares to your experience.

was Cheney predicted by Nostradamus? I'm beginning to wonder.

it may or may not be a good product. PBS does this stuff a lot...Suzie Orman comes to mind. apparently they're able to work out some sort of deal that doesn't threaten the non-profit status of PBS. Still, it looks bad when they front for these people selling their books.

What is venereal disease?

there's no review board. you can just do it, if you want to.

This one does not look so good.

watching bugs in a magnifier on the kitchen floor

those guys are out of control

horrible, I tell you!

The same NY millionaires go the the same martini bar, night after night, with the same car-show models between memory erasures.

you can keep playing it the same way...but here you have a perfect opportunity to look at everything differently.

someone has suggested that you might find what you're looking for online...I'm not gay but I found online dating to be sort of depressing compared to my younger, happier in-person escapades.

all fabulous I'm sure

and I don't see why pair-bonded people of ANY orientation should receive a special status from the government.

Should not my casual hook-ups also receive the benefits of "marriage", for as long as the "union" lasts?

Indeed, shouldn't I receive very special benefits simply for being single? Perhaps an exemption from paying taxes for schools?

a single person with a child should have married status.

state-sponsored romance is an anachronism.

I think this is an idea that could catch on.

The real question: is the average person "normal"? You won't say it, but you seem to think not.

everyone has the right to free speech, even if they don't use it. I say marriage rights for all, even single people...they may eventually marry, but why not extend them the full rights from the beginning?

of course you can "opt out" to avoid paying school taxes.

off the coast of Cancun? it's not expensive?

stay at the hostel and walk to North Beach (you'll see a big inflatable Corona bottle). there is a supermarket where they speak english, sort of. you can book it on the internet.

it's possible

however sometimes it's nice to just sit in the backyard under a sprinkler with a six-pack.

any effort spent chasing these people for a reconciliation is a waste of time.

then it's a person.

mine had a leak in the fuel line (that ran through the passenger compartment). kept wondering why I was getting headaches. otherwise it was kind of neat.

Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget

look at the logo

he would be confessing to a felony.

You might want to consider that you and he have conflicting interests in this area.

mom planned, or mom didn't plan...I'm still here.

ok on a phone, not so great on a laptop.

less is more

according to WHO - CDC

so that's pretty skinny

use a cheap one...make sure it's clean

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1348240

ABSTRACT

In–depth interviews with 52 diverse informants about their experience of freedom reveal a devaluation of freedom relative to money and power. The way in which many of these informants conceptualize freedom has a borderline quality to it—a term that refers to borderline personality disorder, but which is conceptualized here as a cultural construct similar to that of the culture of narcissism, as Christopher Lasch called it. The conclusion speculates about why informants see the world in this way.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118837710/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

If I shouldn't have taken your post seriously, forgive me.

I thought the posters here would enjoy making fun of the poor grammar.

Stuart Sutherland

Penguin, 1994.

Sutherland provides a stunning survey of psychological research on irrationality, arguing that irrational behaviour is far more widespread and normal than is generally supposed.

Sutherland discusses obedience to authority, conformity, group behaviour, misplaced consistency, rewards and punishments, drive and emotion, and the handling of evidence. He notes that people tend to seek confirmation of their hypotheses, whereas they should be trying to disconfirm them. Here he is expressing Karl Popper's view of the logic of science: "although it is impossible ever to prove a rule with certainty, a single discrepant observation refutes it".

http://www.nous.org.uk/Sutherland.html

no it is not

who will the volunteers be here? I can't think Salon would put any money into that task.

perhaps this is not logical reasoning so much as natural logic in linguistic theory - the idea that form equals content in some sense.

http://wintermute.linguistics.ucla.edu/prooftheory/Stabler-abs.pdf

perhaps this is not logical reasoning so much as natural logic in linguistic theory - the idea that form equals content in some sense.

that's interesting, John...as a student of Chomsky I wonder if Glenn is aware of the ways in which grammatical construction influences "truthiness".