Yes, and I certainly don't mean to imply that Twitter is torture porn.
I guess that would depend on who you are subscribed to.
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Apr 20, 2009 11:13:47 am PDT #16044 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
DavidS - Apr 20, 2009 11:13:53 am PDT #16045 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I suspect people think waterboarding is roughly equivalent to being dunked in the pool.
My solution is that everybody that doesn't think waterboarding is torture should have to endure it.
beth b - Apr 20, 2009 11:15:07 am PDT #16046 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I blog for my brain ... It gets too full sometimes, so throwing something out, in a place where things don't get lost , seems to let everything else fall into place. Sometimes there are things that interest people , sometimes not. My family hassles me less about my keeping in touch habits -- even if all that is there is a book review or an lol cat.Bonus. I don't twitter or facebook -- but I will join facebook when I get around to it - just 'cause it is where all my cousins are.
Jesse - Apr 20, 2009 11:16:05 am PDT #16047 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I suspect people think waterboarding is roughly equivalent to being dunked in the pool.
But that's not what it sounds like Burrell's students are saying -- it sounds like they are comparing it to having your fingers cut off one at a time or some shit.
beth b - Apr 20, 2009 11:19:04 am PDT #16048 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
there was a description of waterboarding in Cory Doctorow's Little Brother.
Even before I read it , I had an idea how bad it was. But I have an imagination.
Kathy A - Apr 20, 2009 11:20:20 am PDT #16049 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2009 11:27:27 am PDT #16050 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A&E just repeated the Crossing Jordan where Bug gets arrested by Homeland Security and waterboarded. Bad times, bad times.
Life! I need Life!
Dana - Apr 20, 2009 11:30:49 am PDT #16051 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I read that TV article earlier today. Seriously depressing.
msbelle - Apr 20, 2009 11:40:34 am PDT #16052 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
AHHHH LIFE!!!! Easily my favorite show in the last 2 years.
Barb - Apr 20, 2009 11:43:28 am PDT #16053 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Oh, man good luck with all of that. That sounds a bit like Leif, but right now Leif can sort of coast because 2nd grade is so easy for him.
Nate's a classic gifted kid hiding in the shell of the underachiever (his grades are either A or F). I'm not going to have him tested though, because gifted at his school is just more of the same he's doing as a quote/unquote regular student.
He has processing issues and his handwriting is atrocious, further hampering his processing ability. All of his teachers have noticed if he's isolated in the media center, he can actually get his work done in a more timely fashion.
That's it-- I've come to the conclusion that the child was born in the wrong era-- he needed to be a wealthy Victorian child, educated by governesses or young, pale Divinity graduates from Oxford, looking to earn money until they secured a parish of their own.