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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
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Published Letters: 17 Editor's Choice: 1
when i want read pointless drivel about movies and culture, i'll pick up a copy of the local college paper. i don't come to salon to read this sort of witless sog. i appreciate that salon might be trying to present a balanced opinion approach, but please do us a favor and accept articles from the more literate reactionaries, preferably an adult.
thanks for the providing a link to that wonderful eight seconds from the middle of the song. i really enjoyed sifting through tvt's ads and links to hear it, too.
chris matthews should be the last guy on earth to knock another person about a wooden performance. matthews reminds me more and more of the washed-up dennis miller. out of step and out of touch, all he knows is the attack.
"All that crappy poststructuralism that poured out of universities for so long pretended to challenge power but was itself just the time-serving piety of a status-conscious new establishment."
go woman, go. welcome back. so glad you didn't forget your clubs...
I think it's important not to forget that Tony was singing the second verse of "Comfortably Numb" last week as he came downstairs to find A.J. depressed and morose on the couch. Carm offers "comfort food."
Tony's dawning in Las Vegas is both his inner achievement (breaking his losing streak by killing Adriane/Christopher) and his confession of the same - "I did it."
Anyone who has to this point doubted that this program is classic literature worthy of comparison to any other classic needs to re-evaluate.
I hate to agree with the right-wing bloggers and their polls, but Ron Paul's camp does a *lot* of spamming. His followers flood Digg.com for days at too regular intervals for the effort to seem random or even viral. It reminds one of the tides.
I don't trust him at all. I don't think a leopard can change his spots and I don't think old reactionaries like Ron Paul can come across as reasonable for very long.
you should really see the slacker teen movie Airborne. pretty close to john from cincinnati plotline...
audiofile was a good idea but there are so many other really fine music sites that have reviews and samples that it has become superfluous.
i think it had been stretched too thin for too long.
so long, no-longer-useful-culture-department-feature!
who ever edits you should be given a pink slip. today.
come on! 'a stack of Chewbacca dolls at a Trekkie convention'?
ho. here we go again. another reviewer who constantly rails against the tried and true railing against a non-formula program because it doesn't follow the tried and true.
the intention of john from cinninati is mise en scene (i'm referring to the andrew sarris definition of the term) first and character-driven plot device second. and it portrays its intent quite well.
the lack of dynamic tension drove me to distraction for the first forty minutes of the first episode.
then i got it.
instead of using a tried and true plot device to ratchet up expectations and deliver laughs, pathos or thrills, milch confronts with the mystical; practically daring us to deny its existence. that makes following the proceedings a little more work and a little less play, yet it is in-the-moment and exhilarating work.
a bit like surfing.
i used to be him. here's a bit of news, mystery.
life is more than survival and replication.
jeez, cary. have cup of coffee or go for a run or something.
you blew this one.
the girl just wants to be herself.
"Self-sacrifice and altruism might be mere byproducts of mirroring and not themselves adaptive in a way selected for by evolution."
Man! Am I tired of reading that altruism and self-sacrifice are either factually non-existent (replaced in the literature with something called reciprocal altruism) or some kind of evolutionary hiccup! It's as if science can't manage to face the proposition that competition as a means of genetic transfer might just be outmoded and could very well be in the process of being replaced.
Why is there so much research being done to prove humans are spirit-less creatures with no better motive to live than to pass on our genes? Is that myopic, or what?
Why isn't there more research being done to better understand the advantages of self-sacrifice and true altruism?
My guess is that altruism means religion to these guys, and as far as they're concerned, religion must be stamped out. No one wants to denigrate scientific advancement, but does everything we understand to be human have to be denied or relegated to mere biological function in order to serve that purpose?
I'm very sure the woman carrying the baby we aborted in 1977 feels loss and sadness and maybe even remorse every April 14th. I know I do. Because that baby was my child, even if I thought of it as nothing more than a mass of cells at the time.
Having aborted a fetus has significantly changed my life and my view of how to live. I won't be easily persuaded from referring to it as my abortion.
It's not a topic for discussion as far as I'm concerned, especially when the topic is sterile sexual politics and not what is means to be human.
i've been crazy about her acting for years. she should have had her own snappy tv show all along.
no, i don't even know her and i'm definitely not on her payroll.
i just know a champion filly when i see one.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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