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This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?

Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'

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Gudanov - May 05, 2005 1:00:23 pm PDT #1685 of 10001

Coding and Sleeping

The Rapture will not be televised.

Nah, from what I've heard the media will be sticking around. Well, not the 700 Club.

Aims - May 05, 2005 1:00:56 pm PDT #1686 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Bayshit crazy how, ita?

Allyson - May 05, 2005 1:04:40 pm PDT #1687 of 10001

Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I read about Chappelle's Show being taken off the schedule without comment, ita. It's driving me batshit crazy with the curiousity.

Tom Scola - May 05, 2005 1:13:11 pm PDT #1688 of 10001

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Thanks, people.

erikaj - May 05, 2005 1:13:35 pm PDT #1689 of 10001

Always Anti-fascist!

I like sharing my feelings, but sometimes it's not easy.(Although sometimes it is, and those people scare the hell out of me...the ones that make me want to do that.) That is why one of my favorite scenes in the Wire is when two veteran detectives have this exchange:

JIMMY: Know why I respect you, Bunk?(They've both had a few, of course.)

BUNK: No.

J: Because you could've just bent me backwards over a radio car, but you didn't.(You know he's saying "You've taught me so much) You were real gentle.

BUNK: I knew it was your first time. I wanted that shit to be special.(It's no big deal. Happy to do it.)
It's weirdly heartwarming. Real, too, because most times people don't say what's on their minds like on a talk show.

JZ - May 05, 2005 1:13:50 pm PDT #1690 of 10001

See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Tom, you're totally beloved. We belove you.

Susan W. - May 05, 2005 1:23:12 pm PDT #1691 of 10001

Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Tom, you're totally beloved. We belove you.

Wrod. And "belove" should so be a word.

askye - May 05, 2005 1:34:51 pm PDT #1692 of 10001

Thrive to spite them

Chiming in late -- Tom you can totall do this! And it's worth it and I'll just I'll echo what everyone has said here, especially JZ.

Also, don't discount the power of baby steps and small changes.

Gus - May 05, 2005 1:39:15 pm PDT #1693 of 10001

Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

GUD!

Tapes arrived. UPS does not lie. Will review same as soon as I can find and hook up a VCR player to view said tapes.

There is at least one working VCR on the discarded technology heap. I'm sure of it, somewhere under the 16 bit computers, just above the cassette tapes ... If I dig down to the eight tracks, I will be sure I have gone too deep.

dcp - May 05, 2005 1:42:54 pm PDT #1694 of 10001

The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

WTF?

NYT headline: SAT Essay Test Rewards Length and Ignores Errors [link]

Excerpt:

He was also struck by all the factual errors in even the top essays. An essay on the Civil War, given a perfect six, describes the nation being changed forever by the "firing of two shots at Fort Sumter in late 1862." (Actually, it was in early 1861, and, according to "Battle Cry of Freedom" by James M. McPherson, it was "33 hours of bombardment by 4,000 shot and shells.")

Dr. Perelman contacted the College Board and was surprised to learn that on the new SAT essay, students are not penalized for incorrect facts. The official guide for scorers explains: "Writers may make errors in facts or information that do not affect the quality of their essays. For example, a writer may state 'The American Revolution began in 1842' or ' "Anna Karenina," a play by the French author Joseph Conrad, was a very upbeat literary work.' " (Actually, that's 1775; a novel by the Russian Leo Tolstoy; and poor Anna hurls herself under a train.) No matter. "You are scoring the writing, and not the correctness of facts."

and

SAT graders are told to read an essay just once and spend two to three minutes per essay, and Dr. Perelman is now adept at rapid-fire SAT grading. This reporter held up a sample essay far enough away so it could not be read, and he was still able to guess the correct grade by its bulk and shape. "That's a 4," he said. "It looks like a 4."