On May 14, 9:44=A0pm, Iskander <theinfinitiveo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 No blood for oil! No money for houses!
You laugh but the tax and spenders want to underwrite a bunch of
mortgages the market wants to pass the buck on. Life liberty pursuit
of happiness (and 2500 sq ft on a quarter acre lot). Entitlement
inflation. Our grandparents would have been more than satisfied with a
1000 sq ft on a sixteenth.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 I think that is irony, not schadenfreud.
The germans need to think up a new word for this one. Do you like
zitterbewegung? Get help from one of the natives before you try and
pronounce it in conversation.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Dear God. It'd be sorta weirdly comforting if I could
not =
get it up, or
> did not wish to get it up, but NO!
In another 30 or 40 years we are going to find out. The guy who taught
my last ever landmark seminar series told a room with 80 people in it
that viagra works from his personal experience. He did not bear any
resemblance to the statues of Kliobus and Biton. I almost left out the
best part: his wife was there in the room when he was telling us this.
When somebody tells you honesty is im****tant that is probably the
biggest whopper of them all.
> > I
> > wonder what the psychotherapist would say if I told him it bugs me
> > waking up first thing in the morning and this bothersome erection
> > always makes it troublesome to get into my preferred routine.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Priapism!
No. It goes away in a few minutes. Priapism is it doesn't go down. I
had this in a poem and I tried to woo the M.D. I used to date with it
and she was grossed out which is pretty typical for my dating
experiences.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 It's still a weapon of mass destruction.
It's a weapon of mass auto destruction when they send a SWAT team with
body armor, machine guns, tear gas, flamethrowers, and they all got
the gung ho can do attitude.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Somehow, I doubt that; one notes that freedom of
religion =
and an
> anti-government attitude resulted in ... Mormonism. Not quite up there
> with the black mass thing.
My experience with the black mass thing is it's not nearly as good in
real life as it is in the comic books. Sort of like gothic nightclubs.
The reality is pale next to the fantasy when you haven't been in one
yet.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 The thing is, is that the world has never been like
that. =
Rebellions
> tend to fail. Rebellions (or revolutions) are practically batting .000,
> in terms of changing the social mores.
Well we had a pretty good one in 1776 if you were a white guy who
owned a bunch of land already.
> Guerilla war makes it expensive
> to occupy. It rarely totally overhauls the culture, and even when it
> does the effects are usually not that lasting. Note that the Soviets
> failed to wipe out the Orthodox.
Energizer Bunny meme.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Bah. They could draw ratings lots of ways; they are not
re=
quired to be
> stupid and mendacious. That's a failure of imagination, not a method of
> meeting demand.
The guy who was in charge of weapons inspection (I'm drawing a blank
on his name) was on CSPAN-2 and I thought that was great television.
You'd think Barbara Walters whould have had him on in prime time in
between the 2002 state-of-the-union speech and the invade-Iraq
propaganda but apparently she had to interview Anjelina Jolie's
plastic surgeon or somebody. Scott Ridder. That's the guy's name.
What do you call that pleasurable sensation you have when you recall
something without trying to a couple minutes after you try and cannot
recall it?
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 That's the argument of the press: the press can't make
uni=
nteresting
> things interesting. I say the press doesn't know how to make interesting
> topics interesting. They do know how to make things sleazy.
It's a mass-man thing.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 How DO you know you aren't a brain in a vat, anyways?
You can't know in the sense that you know the area of a circle is pi r
squared or the pythogorean theorem, but the notion that we are brains
in vats is very very very very very very far fetched. Therefore we are
pretty sure we are not.
All of us but Anton anyways.
B.
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