learningcurve

An interesting question? When does the need to avoid insulting or offending the beliefs of others cross over from the decent and right thing to do and move deep into the realm of the crass and stupid?

I suspect it is somewhere long before you get to the point where you are banning mother fucking cartoon pigs because some half-witted twit who just happens to...
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Serenity opens today, which looks like it will be the coolest thing coming or going for movies this fall. But . . . the nearest theater showing it this weekend looks to be 65 miles away, so I'm leaning towards seeing it tomorrow, since I don't really feel like driving an hour after getting off work today. Such are the pleasures of living in the...
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Apnea is no longer active on SG? Shera gone as well? I don't even know what to say, except to note that both departures are dreadful, dreadful, dreadful, and that both women were (and remain, I'm certain) lovely, lovely, lovely.

The idea that neither will be contributing more of themselves to SG does take the fun right out of a day.

So, the masses (such as they were) turned out to protest the War . . . and, er, other things tangential to the War that, you know, people should really know about because, er, when you manage to get like fifteen demonstrators together in one place you'd better make sure everyone knows about Mumia and Palestine and the perils of flourinated water.

I'm all for...
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Task for the day -- ordering a new copy of A White Merc with Fins, a book that should be required reading for anyone who ever felt the least bit of ennui or foreboding in life somewhere between the ages of, say, 20 and 40. Once I have obtained said new copy of White Merc I will then start a clock running to see...
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Long weekend after 6 days a week, 12+ hours a day for the last month. Life is a good thing sometimes . . .

So, there's another Xmas come and gone, and another first day back from Xmas and on to work. "Work" in the loosest sense of the term, with nothing going on and the phones not even ringing. It's enough to drive one to distraction, but at least there is the internet and Eddie Izzard DVDs handy to prevent the sort of mind numbing boredom that might...
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