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Commented on New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good
We gotta listen to a reptile do Loo-iss Arm Strong? Talk about ethnic slurs......
Commented on Police officer tasers a 10-year-girl who resisted being taken to a youth center
It's no wonder vampires inhabit our kids' skulls....
Commented on Alien Appearance
Yes, but humanoids have always been politically correct! Haven't you guys ever read John Campbell's rationale for expurgating Bug Eyed Monsters from geek-o-zoid science fiction circa 1940? It's really, really hard to believe in stuff that doesn't have two legs,...
Commented on Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals
Sweet! Could he make Faux Snooze pay-per-view while he's at it? He could get that deeply snide baritone "I'm lying" wingnut voisstaluntjob for the ads on MSNBC and CNN....
Commented on Danish anti-piracy group gives up
It's been mentioned, but, really... Have they ceased siezing, or siezed ceasing?...
Commented on 20-year old Iraqi woman dies; father ran her over for being too Westernized
Maybe the following is apocryphal. It was used as justification for the British Raj, after all. A Hindu man objected to being arrested because his dead brother's wife had "leaped onto the bonfire" -- did she jump or was she...
Commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: World Wide Web grows wider, more worldly
You might think the barriers between cultures are high enough already. This means that EVERYONE is going to need translators, not just armies of occupation and cops in Texas. Say......! Do you suppose this is The Next Big Thing? Of...
Commented on Torture makes you seem guilty
Wow, this could explain those "died of natural causes" interrogation deaths in Iraq, the ones where the interrogator gets madder and madder as the high-value subject of beatings and near-suffocations simply smiles the nearer he gets to martyrdom. We've known...
Commented on Zeitoun Book Giveaway Haiku Contest
when you're hot you're hot -- when you're not you're not -- but not hot and not not hot is a bit of a stretch...
Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
@#254: The hijab wearers aren't shouting....
Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
Bravo for those brave words! Religion remains the only virtually taboo subject on Earth for liberals, even harder to get one's head around when persons who command respect by dint of intellect also happen to be very religious. A liberal...
Commented on Author John Scalzi "On The Asking of Favors From Established Writers"
What could the inconsiderate slob have been thinking, to ask such a favor? Something like, just read the guy's book, invited him inside a human head for a day or two or ten, made him at home like an old...
Commented on If literary classics had been titled today
Then: A Midsummer Night's Dream Now: Bottom's Up - Sex and Aversion in the Wiccan Woods...
Commented on Young adult writers! Detroit teacher of blind kids wants your ebooks for her Braille printer!
Good luck with that. You might scope around Taiwan and other un-American venues for texts. I once stumbled on an English translation of a Chinese translation of Jack Williamson & James E. Gunn's Star Bridge -- the translation was frankly...
Commented on Marxist critique of Crayola Factory Tour
I deprecate your self-depreciating. Amortized does not mean immortal!...
Commented on Guide to N Dimensions
Please. A dimension is simply a vector of possible values. The notion that something has a PLACE, in SPACE, may be as intuitive as orangutans and bananas, but it's not special, just a local case of an abstract class. Wittgenstein...
Commented on Girls Gone Wild scumbag pretends to have brain damage in court
"Lock him down and feed him thorazine..." Ah, good plan, and the best part is, we can keep him in there until he gets better....
Commented on Mariachis covering unlikely songs
Wise latina voices, there. Thanks, Strange Garden, whatever you intended by this....
Commented on Bletchley Park codebreakers recognized by British government
Perpetuating the myth of British invincibility when it comes to reading the world's mail. ENIGMA, which appears to have been considerably more enigmatic than the propaganda would have us believe, will never be used again and, in any case, seems...
Commented on Alan Watts on enjoying the spectacle of self-importance
Alan Watts is the most pompous author on Zen pickup lines ("pat her knee, don't stroke it") I ever read, second only to D. T. Suzuki. He lost me in 1959, but I carried The Way of Zen around from...
Commented on Run a TOR node, help Iranians and others keep their privacy
Running TOR on Ubuntu is problematic for casual users. First, configuring Software Sources to "get Tor." Second, editing /etc/tor/torrc to provide non-default behavior (why? because of ominous warnings about Tor-Abuse). Even if one is able to do the research required...
Commented on Iran: Neda (warning: graphic video)
The Qur'an, Maryam 71-72, warns even Ayatollahs that they may remain in Hell. Probably for this very reason....
Commented on How to Defend Yourself if you are Carrying Only a Small Switch in your Hand are Threatened by a Man with a Very Strong Stick
Baritsu, presumably? Not that it matters, Doyle obviously coined the word however it's spelled....
Commented on Khaan! The Greatest Syllable Ever Told
It's always fun to compare reel good overacting like that to Marlon Brando's mincy little Twyla Tharp-footed Scum Sucking Pig moment. I never knew they made K'Boi Buttes that small....
Commented on Friday Evening NOFX
And the Brooklyn Bridge wants to sell you a mathematician....
Commented on Greed is an Excuse, Not an Instinct
Evolution neither requires Malthusian economic theory nor demands that Nature be red in fang or claw. Evolution requires only a certain genetic plasticity and a complex ecosystem in which that plasticity is expressed. By focusing on the Nouns Imperial, the...
Commented on Virgin America: Now, with Absinthe.
Spokesfairies? Girls Gone Wilde? Sixpack absinthe?...
Commented on Court turns down challenge to jury's use of Bible
The Abe Lincoln quote above deserves a thank you, here tendered: Thx....
Commented on Michael Jackson face appears in Muhammed Ali video: hoax or pareidolia?
Looks like a hoax to me. The image appears naturally in the lower right corner for about a second, but in that view, it is clearly a flare off somebody's eyeglasses, or maybe a stereoscopic camera lens pair. After watching...
Commented on Telepathic advertising
Schizophrenic is ok to laugh at? Just saying....

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Avram / Moderator commented on New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good
Greengestalt, Disney is working on getting a Barsoom movie out for 2012, the 100th anniversary of the magazine publication of the first story. Michael Chabon has confirmed working on the script....
Hiddentass commented on New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good
I almost never comment on typos but the "The Princess on the Frog," on the first sentence makes it sound like Disney is finally returning to the REALLY traditional school of fairy tales some of the above commentators seem to be favoring. Thanks for the great review link, I'm finally looking forward to the film....
gobo commented on New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good
What sort of racism do you see in the movie, demidan? Throwing that word around is pretty touchy, especially when referring to a movie with no visible racism whatsoever except for what you're bringing to the party....
Sekino commented on New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good
I'm probably going to see it as I am pleased to see that is is 2D animation. I love what Pixar and other creators have done with 3D of course but I never saw it as a necessity to 'retire' 2D art. Both formats ought to be exploited as valuable media. However, I am annoyed at the prospect of sitting through yet another 'Broadway musical' style. Disney has been pumping out the loud, vibrato sing-song style since 'The Little Mermaid' (it was relevant then because mermaids are believed to sing). It's all good but does EVERY single feature has to...
misterfricative commented on New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good
Back in the late 70s -- yeah I know, that's like before the dawn of civilization -- when I lived in the UK midlands, the expression 'That's the crack' was used a lot. It meant that's the way to do it; that's the way to solve the problem, that's the right way to proceed. It's pretty much equivalent to how the word 'trick' is used (according to Jones) in the now famous phrase 'Mike's Nature trick', ie as a clever technique to achieve a particular end. FWIW I always assumed this meaning of the noun was derived from the verb:...

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