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12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Derrick Bell in 1994: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I sense on the near horizon another "best speech on race ever given since the MLK Dream speech" speech. Set us all straight.

12 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Alfonzo Rachel Remembe... · 0 replies · +9 points

Good words. Made me misty-eyed, too.

12 years ago @ Big Journalism - Progressives and Conse... · 1 reply · -9 points

This is all a distraction, this Occupy rapes stuff. Good people need to focus on the truly disgusting stuff, the severely misogynistic and sexist stuff, i.e. the Foster Freiss joke.

12 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Who Is Rachel Maddow? · 0 replies · +6 points

If the answer/question was Rachel Maddow, why'd they show the singer from Weezer?

12 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Chris Matthews Has No ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Shocking ignorance on Matthews part, but the video is also telling, in how the MSNBC hosts won't mention the origin of this controversy, as noted in the caption above, P. Schweizer's "Throw Them All Out."
Relatedly, it was also interesting last night to see Senator Scott Brown's interaction with President Obama after the SOTU speech, as Obama was gladhanding his way out, when Brown sternly told him the anti-insider-trading bill was ready to go. Interesting that Brown is out front on this, since one of the most egregrious and blatant insider-trading offenders, according to the Schweizer book, is his fellow Massachusetts senator John Kerry.

12 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Napoleon Dynamite' St... · 1 reply · +2 points

Caffeine isn't why we don't drink coffee, no specific reason in fact has ever been given...

If you're Mormon, you know that the origin of the coffee/caffeine prohibition comes from Joseph's Smith's revelatory Word of Wisdom decree that members should abstain from 'hot or strong drinks.'

Vague terminology, that. But early Church leaders/prophets interpreted it to mean strictly coffee and tea – but excepting the types of coffees and teas that had no caffeine, such as herbal teas or the decaffeinated coffees that came with later modernity, like Sanka. Thus the ban hinged unequivocally on whether a substance contained caffeine.

12 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Napoleon Dynamite' St... · 12 replies · +3 points

Easy to have a "quiet, humble existence" like that ... when you don't drink coffee.
But for what? (jk).
(Btw there's probably more caffeine in those 96oz. Mountain Dews that Mormons pick up on their way to work than there is in the Starbucks Latte talls the rest of us do.)

12 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Top 15 Christmas Momen... · 0 replies · +1 points

Alistair Sim looks like Nicolas Cage.

12 years ago @ Big Peace - Wave of Bombings Acros... · 0 replies · +6 points

“All countries are stable. Why don’t we have security and stability?”
Civilizational progress makes all of us soft, complacent, and forgetful.

12 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Kim Jong Il Loved Holl... · 0 replies · +1 points

I didn't miss your point.

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