Re: Edwards just says no to Fox News.

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OK, this is a blatant bleg, but does anyone have any idea where the 'make' command went in Mac OS X 10.4? It's just not there. And searching for the word 'make' on the internet: well that's just not good.


Posted by: Charlie | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:20 PM
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No idea. Also off topic: where's washerdreyer been? And where the hell is Tripp?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:25 PM
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Is this the off topic thread? If so, I'd just like to note that organizing a conference is a lot of work.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:29 PM
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I like cheeseburgers.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:30 PM
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I saw w/d at a meet-up about month ago. I got the sense that he was really busy.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:32 PM
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^a


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:32 PM
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OK, it was an optional install. You can all stop worrying about it now.


Posted by: Charlie | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:34 PM
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washerdreyer has commented in the last few days. just not as often. guessing busy.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:34 PM
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This book looks interesting.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:38 PM
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Fuck the troops!!!


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:39 PM
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Some of them are awfully cute.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:42 PM
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11:?


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:45 PM
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11 is in response to 4, IDP.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:48 PM
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11 to 10, I assume.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:49 PM
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Any other theories? I'd considered 4 and 10 but neither made much sense.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:52 PM
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What doesn't make sense about 10?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:54 PM
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Was the misdirected X to Y joke invented on this site? I don't think I've seen it anywhere else, and it cracks me up all the time. Did apo do it first, or is he just its most enthusiastic practitioner?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:54 PM
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but neither made much sense.

10 did not make much sense? LizardBreath is not old and worn out like us, IDP, 10 make sense (although I am sure it was meant in a chaste and ladylike way).


Posted by: Idealist | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:55 PM
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16: Women don't have sexual desire for random good-looking men, silly. Or random good-looking women, for that matter.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:56 PM
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OK, so it is to 10, and the soldier/cheesecake calender from a few months ago, yada, yada.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:57 PM
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Too bad we don't believe in authorial intent, or we could just ask LB.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:57 PM
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11 to 2.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 4:59 PM
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Shouldn't you be cleaning your car, B?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:02 PM
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Nope, my husband has it because he's at work. Nag him.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:05 PM
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Or 6 to 2, as Mark Schmitt says.

Nah, I'm not worn out in that way, and I'll bet you're not either. I haven't much use for anonymous images, but as the great 149—should certain comment numbers be retired in honor?—recognizes, I don't need them, because I see attractiveness, sexiness wherever I look.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:05 PM
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should certain comment numbers be retired in honor

This is a fantastic idea.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:06 PM
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19: Or so the mullahs would have you believe.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:07 PM
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Did apo do it first

I don't remember where it started, or even if I can claim credit. I'd look in my back pocket, but I'm not wearing any pants.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:18 PM
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Oh, go ahead and check, Apo. You've had your head up your ass before.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:26 PM
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Still commenting, just less frequently. We lost Tripp long ago, I've never known why.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:40 PM
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He stopped commenting at my site too, but I don't think it was due to any falling out.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:45 PM
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Sorry, I meant to be crass but not confusingly so.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:48 PM
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He's still on the internets, the bastard.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:52 PM
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It was the obvious meaning, I just wondered if there were a more obscure reference. And maybe we should all be more crass more often.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:52 PM
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Shut up, hooker.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:53 PM
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He's still on the internets, the bastard.

Oh man. Commenting on W. Monthly over this place? WTF.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:55 PM
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I can see someone with limited time not wanting to comment here at all for fear of being drawn back in.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:57 PM
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And maybe we should all be more crass more often.

Indeed.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:58 PM
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(and thanks for 18, Ideal. I am, of course, chaste and ladylike at all times.)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 5:58 PM
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I am voting for Edwards because of this, and that is final.

See it is easy to comment here, and not be drawn in. All one needs do is stay on topic.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 6:29 PM
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I am, of course, chaste and ladylike at all times.

The stork brought Sally and Newt.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 6:31 PM
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41: No, LB is just very fond of England.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 6:43 PM
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37: Holy shit, that's true. Since I started trying to even half-keep-up, I find that I lose only slightly more time on the Internets than I did before, but I hate myself for it slightly less.


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 6:51 PM
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41, 42: It is possible that the definition of ladylike chastity I work with is broader than some others might be.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 6:53 PM
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Perhaps it's far too late to try an on-topic comment at this point, but what the hell:

The thing I don't understand about this Fox news/Democratic debate business is why people keep saying shit like, "well, Democrats need to appeal to Fox viewers too," etc. Fer president, maybe, but given that it's a PRIMARY, why the hell do we need to have a debate that's for democratic voters, on a channel that's for republican viewers? Am I gonna watch the Republican primaries? Hells no.


Posted by: cerebrocrat | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 6:56 PM
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Generally I agree with you -- as a media outlet they're dishonest scum who we shouldn't be giving any credibility to -- but maybe the idea is to appeal to people who have bought into the idea that Fox is "fair and balanced" but are nonetheless possible Democrat pickups?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:09 PM
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Apparently the NYT is also happy to run with somebody's opposition research dump.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:14 PM
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Yeah, doubleyouteeeff? The Times is giving him a hard time about losing money on stocks held in a blind trust? What is wrong with them???


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:16 PM
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47/48:Actually, I thought it made him look very good.


Posted by: Ile | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:31 PM
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There must be a Venn diagram available to illustrate the groups:

A. People who habitually watch Fox
B. People willing to sit through a Democratic primary debate if it came on
C. People willing to change the channel to watch a Democratic primary debate
D. People who are actually interested in voting Democratic.
E. People who would watch a Democratic primary debate simply to mock it.

I'm guessing that the intersection of A, B, and D is very small. And that's the demographic that would be lost by refusing to participate in Fox's debate.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:33 PM
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49: That's because you pay attention and have an above room temperature IQ. You're not the target audience.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:36 PM
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11 to 46?


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in." (9) | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:55 PM
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people who have bought into the idea that Fox is "fair and balanced" but are nonetheless possible Democrat pickups?

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Do you think there really are such people?


Posted by: cerebrocrat | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 8:20 PM
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You know what someone needs to do? Send Frank Miller to Iraq to produce a graphic novel of this war. Wouldn't that be awesome in a manly sort of way?

Good for Edwards. I cannot imagine why anyone who isn't directly connected to the Republican Machine wants anything to do with FOX News. Lately, they seem to have become even more hysterical than usual. Hell, Imus or Stern is a better place than FOX for a candidate who wants to appeal to right-leaning voters who might still listen to a Democrat.

(OT--having been given a bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin, I should really try to not drink it all in one evening.)


Posted by: Paul | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 9:07 PM
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And then in the following evening, you can try to drink it all.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 9:11 PM
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Anyway, at this rate, I'll never make it last until the summer, which is when I like gin best of all.


Posted by: Paul | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 9:15 PM
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But is it important that the gin you drink in the summer come from this particular bottle? Surely other bottles containing very similar spirits are available.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 9:17 PM
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"the summer" s/b "breakfast"


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 9:18 PM
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58->56.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 9:18 PM
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Gin: fungible.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 9:19 PM
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"breakfast" s/b "sunrise"

There's a great Chesterton poem about gin, which goes something like "Gin on the ceiling, gin on the walls; gin on the something something something." But Google doesn't turn it up and I don't have a copy of the Oxford Book of Light Verse that I think it's in.

#57. True. But I usually don't buy bottles of expensive gin. I'm cheap that way.


Posted by: Paul | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 9:29 PM
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It's way cheaper than IVF treatment, Paul. Priorities!


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 9:40 PM
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¿Qué? But I don't want to play with Delta children.


Posted by: Paul | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 10:06 PM
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By the way, here's how Fox handled the last Democratic debate they ran, in case anybody still thinks agreeing to let them host a Democratic debate is anything other than a terrible idea.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 10:50 PM
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