Displaying 3,301 To 3,330 Of 3,373 Comments And ferrets!!!! » Posted By whatsthatsound On December 28, 2009 @ 8:05 pm Honour killings? Must join the lexicon of oxymorons alongside “military intelligence” and “Middle East peace process”. » Posted By whatsthatsound On December 18, 2009 @ 3:33 am Phantastic photos! I especially love the one of the guy making the mailbox. » Posted By whatsthatsound On December 14, 2009 @ 2:33 am Good morning, Javaz. Rain? We get plenty of that here in Edo! I generally like it too, but not when it comes down in bucketfuls like it did here a couple days ago. » Posted By whatsthatsound On December 13, 2009 @ 5:10 am Absolutely! » Posted By whatsthatsound On December 13, 2009 @ 4:57 am Kampai! Ferret’s on my lap now, sleeping like she’s got all of life figured out. » Posted By whatsthatsound On December 13, 2009 @ 4:39 am Since we both dwell in Tokyo, let me be the first, and only, one to wish you a “good evening” on your morning blog, Kalima. I’m on my second shochu oyuwari! » Posted By whatsthatsound On December 13, 2009 @ 2:08 am Senate Majority Leader Reid Healthcare Bill Passes Test with Very Good CBO Score Thanks, KQ. There is still a long way to go, but this seems very positive from what I understand about it, and I think the ice has been broken toward full, reasonable coverage for the country’s future. » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 18, 2009 @ 5:57 pm Polling Justice: 6 in 10 Americans Disagree with Adhering to U.S. Rule of Law Identity theft! Monicaangela has stolen AdLib’s avatar! » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 18, 2009 @ 6:53 pm Your Satisfaction is our Greatest Annoyance The “thriving middle class”, which we thought of as the bedrock of American success and economic health, was, we are learning, simply a moveable feast for the profit maximizers at the top. With about a billion middle class Chinese and Indians to cultivate into consumers of their toys, why worry if the U.S. goes south? » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 15, 2009 @ 5:57 pm My hometown is a suburb of Columbus Ohio that only has about eight thousand people. It has, or had, a really nice library. It gets frequent traffic, but we’re still only talking about maybe a few hundred patrons on a good day, considering the population it pools from. Plus, there always seem to be plenty of people working there. So, one time, when I called there, I got: » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 15, 2009 @ 5:38 pm Where are the Progressive and Liberal Voices on Gitmo? The problem is there are so MANY of them! The U.S. has about 320 million people, so if by a conservative estimate you put the yahoo quotient at fifteen percent, that’s the whole population of England! The U.S. is Too Big To Fail (cross cultural sensitivity and international knowledge) but we are at best, C- students in this regard. » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 15, 2009 @ 5:05 pm I tend to think more like you, Mogs. At HP I was called “anti-humanist” for writing similarly on the Buzz Lightyear post (okay, he’s not reeeallly Buzz Lightyear) post that refers to the moon – The Moon! -as, yes, “real estate”. I would like BSM’s vision to be a reality, but I think we must also heed Don Henley’s caution that if you call a place paradise, you can kiss it goodbye. » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 14, 2009 @ 7:30 pm Mogs is in Da House! My latest favorite song, and it’s danceable: Roxy Music » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 15, 2009 @ 3:19 am THE TRUE FACE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY To paraphrase Margaret Mead, never doubt that a small group of people who oughta be committed can change the world. » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 8, 2009 @ 12:36 am Is this the definition of cognitive dissonance? On the other hand, F.Scott Fitzgerald said,’The true mark of intelligence is the ability to hold two apparently opposing ideas in the mind simultaneously.” Maybe these folks are smarter than they seem, and even smarter than US! » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 5, 2009 @ 3:54 am Words Are Our Most Important Product Allow me to indulge in a little bit of satire, since we’re on the subject of words, and we live in this modern world. » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 5, 2009 @ 3:47 am Plouffe Responds to Queen Huffington I don’t imagine he’ll be getting asked back to post again, and who needs him with Bill Maher to parrot what she’s writing? » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 3, 2009 @ 8:41 pm We Can Think That For You Wholesale And if Republicans DO win, Glenn Beck can proclaim that “our long, well, it hasn’t been that long, just a few months actually, national nightmare is over. Democracy has been restored!” And Rush can go all Churchill and caution folks that “this is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end. But it might be the end of the beginning.” » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 3, 2009 @ 1:54 pm Hi Kalima, » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 2, 2009 @ 5:22 pm Respectfully, may I suggest that as the United States did not experience a single attack on civilian areas on native soil throughout the entirety of WWII, we may not be the best ones to judge whether or not Hiroshima was “necessary”. » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 2, 2009 @ 4:51 pm I’m reluctant to go along with a blanket statement like “All people go into the clergy to pimp religion”. I can’t get into peoples’ heads anyway, so perhaps that point is moot? And it’s different in Japan, where you don’t have much in terms of proselytization and you see monks all over the place. On another note, I appreciate your personal story. » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 2, 2009 @ 3:51 pm I agree with you that the majority of scientists go into training with the intention of benefitting peoples’ lives. I also believe that you could probably say the same about the majority of people who enter the clergy. I think you and I agree on so many things. And I too am no fan of organized religion. But I think that the spirituality from which it arose is just as important to human survival as the search for knowledge that led to both amazing scientific progress and environmental destruction and WMD. » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 2, 2009 @ 3:27 pm Agreed. And from the perspective of every other species on the planet other than humans, one could easily assume that if they had any decision in the matter, they would have preferred to keep we humans stuck in our Dark Ages, rather than wrecking the planet. Add that to the fact that the best science training a university education could offer turned out the chemists who produced the napalm used to torture Vietnamese farmer families, and I think all scientific triumphalism must be tempered. » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 2, 2009 @ 3:00 pm Evening, for me. Like Kalima I’m in Tokyo. Oyasuminasai, BigDogMom » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 2, 2009 @ 6:12 am Wow, I leave this place for a short while and it seems this planet has had its very own Cambrian Explosion! Congrats to AdLib, and all who work tirelessly at this! » Posted By whatsthatsound On November 2, 2009 @ 5:52 am His name will live in infamy. » Posted By whatsthatsound On October 28, 2009 @ 2:56 am ROLF MAYO! » Posted By whatsthatsound On October 26, 2009 @ 5:23 pm Thanks, Nellie! » Posted By whatsthatsound On October 17, 2009 @ 4:14 am Methinks not! But we could try, just for the fun of it. » Posted By whatsthatsound On October 17, 2009 @ 4:14 amComments Posted By whatsthatsound
(from the movie “Brazil” for you trivia fans)
“Welcome to the Grandview Library! If you are calling about reserving a book, press one now. If you are calling about late books, press two……blah blah blah”
It was maddening! And those options, which I can understand for something as massive as an airline company (but a local library?), never seem to have quite the option you’re calling about. I always end up wanting to push 3 1/2.
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LOL!
Awesome article, dude!
You rock!
I agree that the more people go and reflect upon the incalculable agony that was, and continues to be, experienced by thousands of people, most of whom had nothing to do with the odious acts of those cruel men who were acting in their name but not for their purposes, the more we will begin to reconsider the “necessity” of ANY war. And the more we think about THAT, the better off we all shall be.
Omedetou gozaimasu!
“You are such a Lieberman!”
“My company totally Liebermaned me!”
“I wouldn’t buy that used car if I were you. It looks like a Lieberman.”
(rolling on linoleum floor, my ass yodels “Okay!”
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