Heh. Ezra Klien starts sounding kind of Buffistish in this post on health care:
Moreover, Megan's claim that every liberal is for single-payer, but not Britain's NHS, is a bit misleading. Most people use single-payer incorrectly, so it's largely a misunderstanding, and they are in fact for nationalized health care, but not what's considered a bad example of it. A lot of us who aren't for the NHS are for the VA -- and both are single-payer systems, one's just better than the other. It's sort of like how I can be for Cakelove, against those gross Safeway cupcakes, and broadly in favor of delicious baked goods all at the same time!
My mother decided she wanted to be a Buffista today after she was talking about the word column in the Globe, and I knew the information ('gotten' as archaic in the UK, 'spelt' used there), and blamed you people.
The column, which is mostly the old prescriptivist/descriptivist deal, is here: [link]
What's wrong with Safeway cupcakes?
FYI, looks like TAR is delayed -- 60 Minutes is still on.
Does anyone know how long TAR is delayed?
Okay, over at TWOP they're saying that TAR is about 45 minutes delayed.
Watching Space:1999 DVDs. I do like their episode 1 uniforms--mock turtlenecks with a zipper down one side of the neck and all the way to the cuff of the sleeve. The beige is boring, but the cut...cool.Spare. Nice and spare. The shiny wide belts are an interesting design decision.
Why was the future analogue in 1975? It's all oscilloscopes all the time.
Obviously the science that turns the moon into a huge spaceship is wrong, but I couldn't help wondering what happens to us if the moon were to suddenly disappear? Bodies of water would average out with no high and low tides, but what else?
There was a documentary on Discovery, I think, about what if we didn't have a moon. I recall they said that the earth's rotational axis would shift erratically, making the seasons unpredictable and severe.
Werewolves would find their lives easier?
But seriously, the moon stabilizes the Earth's rotation. Apparently the North and South poles would end up pointing in all sorts of directions - even directly at the Sun. And tons of creatures rely on tides as part of their life cycles.
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