Re: Vice Magazine is a reputable journalistic outlet

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I ran across one they did about water bears in space that was really interesting.


Posted by: AWB | Link to this comment | 09-25-12 8:52 PM
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YouTube is blocked at work. Can someone summarize the link?

I'm assuming the post title is sarcastic for now, though, because the last time Vice magazine came up in conversation for me, it was a freelance writer I know complaining that they had mangled an article of hers so badly that she talked to a lawyer about whether she could keep them from publishing it. Their edits were allegedly both more sensational and pretty racist. In the end, I think it was published under a pseudonym rather than her own name, and they might have toned down the objectionable parts a bit, but you can still see the difference between the Vice version and the version that was published under her own name elsewhere.


Posted by: Cyrus | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 5:48 AM
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It is actually very interesting, and arguably—arguably!—of more moment than tardigraves.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 7:49 AM
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3: Tardigrades


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 8:14 AM
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They're of so little moment that I can't be bothered to get their name right.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 8:17 AM
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5. But they'll probably have the last laugh on us mere chordates.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 8:19 AM
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I only watched the first installment and a bit of the second before work today, but it seems that some of the Mormon settlements George Romney left are still around, two happy little enclaves in Chihuahua, and are defending themselves in force against the cartels. Maybe something seamier about them comes up later, I don't know. (From Wikipedia they seem to have LDS-built temples, so they may have abandoned the polygamy that was the reason for their establishment.)


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 9:05 AM
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Yes, in the later ones he spends a lot more time with the LeBarons, and in the last two with one of Romney's cousins.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 9:21 AM
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When I was a boy, your mom called your name, not your cell phone.

We played outside, not online.

And we poured alcohol in our mouths, not up our butts

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Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 9:37 AM
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Speaking of documentaries, uh, did any other swing state Unfoggedteers get a DVD called "Dreams From My Real Father" in the mail?


Posted by: L. | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 9:39 AM
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10: Really? You got the "Obama's father is not really Obama, but some secret Communist?" DVD out of the blue?


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 1:22 PM
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That DVD?! Sort of like the AOL coasters.

I didn't get that, but VA mailed me my Voter ID Card. VA does require voter identification. DOJ didn't challenge it. This card does not have a photo. Most Voter IDs that are acceptable in VA are photo IDs. A Concealed-Handgun Permit is an acceptable form of voter identification in VA.

(There is one thing on the card that is sure to send Teahadis into a tizzy. It has a Language Preference field.)


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 5:14 PM
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Yes! I and everyone who lives in my house, so it's not like I'm just on some weirdo list. I wonder how widespread this is.


Posted by: L. | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 5:15 PM
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That is super weird.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 09-26-12 7:31 PM
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The only random nutjob DVD I've ever got in the mail was the one the Scientologists sent out to seemingly every journalist in Britain after the John Sweeney documentary.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 4:59 AM
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L, that happened to my friends who live in the same city you do.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 5:57 AM
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13: I haven't gotten one yet! I'm feeling a little hurt. I have gotten robocalls inviting me to attend local Romey-Ryan events.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 6:13 AM
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it's not like I'm just on some weirdo list.

Present company excepted, I'm sure.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 6:16 AM
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17: That means they think that you are not a swing voter who needs to hear the TRUTH about Obama's real father, Joseph Stalin.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 6:18 AM
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19: Stalin was black?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 6:23 AM
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Where it counts.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 6:37 AM
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20: Angela Davis was Obama's real mother.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 6:39 AM
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No white man could be a Communist.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 6:43 AM
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In Pennsylvania all I ever see are Obama ads. No ads for senate or congress either.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 6:46 AM
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Round here there are a lot of ads for congress. The phone boxes are full of them.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 6:50 AM
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In Pennsylvania, all I ever see are ads for Mark Critz and the guy who is running against Mark Critz.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 6:52 AM
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I also saw a dead deer, but that wasn't on TV. It was just on the road.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 6:53 AM
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In Ohio, I see trees and flowers and street signs and dogs and buildings and birds and commercials for Obama, and commercials for Romney, and commercials for Sherrod Brown, and commercials for Josh Mandel, and cats and people and clouds.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 6:59 AM
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And I say to myself, "What a wonderful world."


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 7:02 AM
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There were two deer I kept seeing in the park by my house. Now there's only one.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 7:05 AM
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30: Saddest comment ever. I weep.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 7:10 AM
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To be fair, there could be a whole ton of different deer in there or this deer could have been an assassin sent from the future to kill the two deer I'm used to seeing.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 7:16 AM
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32: Thanks for trying to cheer me up. I appreciate it.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 7:22 AM
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Vice videos are actually terrific. I saw one on visiting North Korea (the state-sponsored musical number at the end is amazing), and hanging out with the ex-General Butt Naked in Liberia (he is now a born-again Christian, ostensibly at least). They were fantastic. There's a lack of pomposity and a cheerful willingness to just get the cameras out there and see what they see that I really like.


Posted by: PGD | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 10:56 AM
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Also, I've been pretty surprised at the lack of attention that Romney's bizarre background is getting. Obama's background is highly unusual even if you ignore being the first black President -- grows up in Indonesia and Hawaii, absentee father who is a high-ranking official from a distant foreign country. But Romney's background is positively science fiction. I think Mormonism is a genuinely all-American form of bizarre science fiction though, it is the only (semi-major) world religion original to the U.S. and is in certain ways characteristically American, so that may have something to do with it.


Posted by: PGD | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 10:59 AM
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Only Nixon can mock Democrats for having non-mainstream backgrounds and create an entire birther movement dedicated to harassing the president of the United States of America on a racist, fictional technicality.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 09-27-12 11:07 AM
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