Yeah, I was a complete flake in my twenties. And now I hope I am not!
Kaylee: Captain seem a little funny to you at breakfast this morning? Wash: Come on, Kaylee. We all know I'm the funny one.
'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
javachik - May 12, 2011 4:08:12 pm PDT #8033 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Allyson - May 12, 2011 4:19:47 pm PDT #8034 of 30001
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
Allyson, have you seen this?
I did. Confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance.
sarameg - May 12, 2011 4:21:39 pm PDT #8035 of 30001
Jim Lehrer ending his primary role in the NewsHour makes me feel old. I hated the McNeil/Lehrer Newshour as a kid cause it meant the end of my kid shows on PBS. But I grew up with it and came to appreciate it. And those guys will always make me think of my dad (just like Dan Rather always did.)
Anyway, in nostalgic googling, I came across this McNeil/Lehrer's principles of journalism:
- "Do nothing I cannot defend.
- Cover, write, and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me.
- Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.
- Assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am.
- Assume the same about all people on whom I report.
- Assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise.
- Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories, and clearly label everything.
- Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions.
- No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously.
- And finally, I am not in the entertainment business."
DAYUMN.
javachik - May 12, 2011 4:24:31 pm PDT #8036 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
He was the last of the on-air newsmen with a sense of gravitas, Sara.
beekaytee - May 12, 2011 4:26:32 pm PDT #8037 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Seriously. He is the end of a grand legacy.
sarameg - May 12, 2011 4:35:16 pm PDT #8038 of 30001
I have to confess, I haven't watched it in years- timing issue.
ION, got the nicest compliments from my fellow swimmers tonight. One said I made swimming look effortless and beautiful and and another said her goal was my pace and distance.
Strix - May 12, 2011 4:36:31 pm PDT #8039 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
random mathy question from English person: if you increased something from 77 to 150, how much of a percent did you increase it?
le nubian - May 12, 2011 4:39:25 pm PDT #8040 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
94.8%
le nubian - May 12, 2011 4:39:56 pm PDT #8041 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
do I need to show my work?
sarameg - May 12, 2011 4:43:19 pm PDT #8042 of 30001
(150-77)/77=.94805 = 94.8 %
eta: did it for ya in a crosspost!