What the —! This is a dark horse!
I blame Apo.
Also, is there a third-tier religious college anywhere in the country that the DoJ didn't scour for political appointees? We've seen Liberty, Patrick Henry, now this... Are there any Ave Maria School of Law grads kicking around the White House?
guten morgen
so BPhD didn't tell what she claimed she knows, i feel kinda cheated
my bones hurt and i don't feel my taste buds :{
maybe it's just a common cold, i feel always so cold in summer all these f. aircons can't they keep it a few degrees warmer
This as-told-to (by his wife) article by Robert Kurson about her experiences at Bob Jones University and her slow loss of faith (just like everyone predicted!) has stuck with me for years.
New posters can cause feelings of disorientation and vertigo. Luckily, Google reassures me. Thin, prissy, scholarly, with the look of a Prohibitionist Methodist clergyman, Meekins would eventually command respect.
The happy feature of that article is that the punishment for eye babies, for running into friends at McDonalds, or whatever, is expulsion. Everybody wins!
Also notice that "making eye babies" in the school dialect means staring into the eyes of another student. Optical buttsex, then, would feel like this.
6: Oh I was assuming it is this Frederick Meekins
Frederick's research interests include Worldview Applicaiton, Christian Apologetics, The Implications of Aberrant Theologies & Ideologies, Futurology, Eschatology, Science Fiction, Terrorism Studies, Environmentalism, Education Policy and America's Judeo-Christian Foundations.
Recent writings include:
"Hispanosupremacists Infiltrate Evangelical Movement"
"And Will Obama Save Us From Our Sins?: Adoration Of Candidate Borders On The Fanatically Frightening"
I note without comment that the Meekins surname has historically been concentrated in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US.
The post linked from 7 was a good post.
The nice thing about optical buttsex is you get to take full advantage of your extra optical inch.
And what is this? w-lfs-n announces he's going away for a while, and then this Meekins character shows up. Has anyone ever seen the two of them in the same place at the same time? I call shenanigans.
9: There's a Meekins Shoal off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Blessed are the Meekins, for they shall inherit the blog.
10: Indeed, welcome to the blog, Meekins. Those of us who know your secret identity are excited to have you aboard.
Those of us who don't are eyeing you suspiciously.
Those of us who don't are eyeing you suspiciously in the butt.
I have some guesses, but I want to read more posts by meekins first.
Of course, those guesses won't be posted to the blog.
Meekins is secretly Ben, going "on hiatus" to find an outlet for lowbrow buttsex posts without breaking character.
Those of us who know your secret identity are excited to have you aboard totally rubbing it in the faces of those who don't.
22: Even the ingroup must have an ingroup, mrh.
"Meekins" is the name we put on ensemble efforts written "exquisite corpse"-style. OR IS IT?
23: seriously, it's gotten a bit much lately.
This other Meekins chap I found is proving to be quite amusing (and prescient!). Turns out he is a participant in a favorite speculative activity.
From an essay: "Does Winfrey Ride The Beast?".
Progressives will no doubt ridicule conservatives speculating how close Obama, Winfrey, and their crowd might be to the revelation of the psuedo-messiah foretold in the pages of Scripture.
optical buttsex to prevent "accidents."
Uh oh. Meekins is trying to sandbag you people. Optical buttsex can definitely lead to butt babies.
27: Now that Meekins would make an awesome new poster.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that this Meekins is either (1) an old commenter with a different name, (2) someone one of the current posters knows personally, or (3) a blogger on a blog traditionally intertwined with Unfogged, also under a different name. This place doesn't exactly have a long history of promoting from outside.
stras, that's not going out on a limb, it's making sure all your bases are covered.
This place doesn't exactly have a long history of promoting from outside.
What is this outside that you speak of?
It all starts with an anal wink
A term I learned from reading the comments at Volokh
Meekins is either (1) an old commenter with a different name
Has Unfogged jumped the shark? Probably yes. When did it happen? That's something we should discuss. The fascistic hand of Ogged is sorely missed.
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I just realize that I've never seen a movie with either Natalie Portman or Scarlett Johansson, my two favorite atheists. They are entirely internet phenomena to me.
Word is that Scarlett is stalking Obama in guise of political support. Either that, or their torrid affair has come to an end. Certainly Obama can't be an O.J. without a hott blonde. Whereas he's immunized him against Monica rumors, because Bill's pproblem was that Monica wasn't hott enough.
Johansson has dual Danish-American citizenship. Someone has to confront her about the Danish aggression at Hans Island.
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30: The new posters could, theoretically, come from blogs that haven't had much interaction with this one, but that the current posters just thought were good.
That's something we should discuss.
YES! Should we have another earnest, nine hundred comment long thread about The Fate Of The Blog, or should we just all drop our handles for the day?
should we just all drop our handles
IYKWIM.
From the thread apo linked to in 33: holy crap.
We haven"t had a switch handle day for a long time. I'll start.
But this time, each person has to pick some other person, and write in their style.
The no-handles day was a total disaster, wasn't it?
The no-handles day was a total disaster, wasn't it?
Why, yes, yes it was.
OK, I'll play. You who live unclean lives of unholy madness are on the path of death.
The article linked in 5 is pretty good.
The no-handles day was a total disaster, wasn't it?
I thought it was kind of awesome, actually.
Will carp take over North Dakota?.
It was both awesome and disastrous, I seem to recall.
Stras likes 7500 comment long meta-threads about the nature of discussion on this blog.
IIRC, we lost at least one favorite commenter because of that thread.
49: The endless meta-thread was dumb. "New Handle Day" had a neat sort of clean slate effect, though, which I enjoyed quite a bit.
I don't know how much confidentiality was involved. One woman was bitterly unhappy with how things worked out.
I don't think it was that thread, John.
She made some confessions and was very upset by the response. Her leaving may have been from a different thread.
As I recall she was quite lewd.
I can understand how a lot of people were pissed off with New Handle Day; I just wasn't one of them. The effect of everyone using new handles was that everyone's status within the commentariat was reset, so no one knew how they were "supposed" to treat a given commenter. This worked to the disadvantage of commenters who were traditionally held in higher regard than other commenters, and to the advantage of commenters who, well, weren't. That this became so apparent so quickly that the usually politely-glossed-over pecking order within Unfogged became fairly noticeable through its absence, which was pretty destructive to the blog's social order. But in the short term I kind of liked it, because people were generally a lot nicer to me under my temporary handle, and being as human as anyone else, I like it when stuff works out like that.
I'm clearly misremembering this thread, because I thought the commenter John's talking about in 55 was still around.
Dude, change your handle if you think it's got too much baggage. It might be discouraged, but no one is stopping you.
60: There's a host of reasons why changing my handle in isolation wouldn't achieve much.
Maybe I'm bitter about new handle day because it was totally obvious who I was.
64: Next time don't go by "Tifu Sweety."
I didn't even try. I'd have had to have changed my actual commenting style.
Tifu Sweety is a much better handle than Beefo Meaty.
66: Becks et al, you still have time to get out of Yglesias's house before the inevitable "accident."
Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to change my handle.
I've already gotten 4 twitters of the form "Woo! Gun shopping this weekend!"
Now you know who to kill first, Becks.
I've already gotten 4 twitters
You know, I've never been an IM kind of guy, but I'm not John McCain about them, either. But this "twitter" shit is just baffling to me - it's the first internet/computer thing that's really made me feel old and out of it.
I was on the Web when there were like 10 public pages, dammit! Respect your elders!
And keep your twittering off my lawn!
I was at an outside office on the no-handles day - I saw that it was happening, but couldn't even spectate, much less participate. Disaster or not, I was bummed to miss it.
Don't feel old, JRoth. Twitter is stupid.
this "twitter" shit is just baffling to me - it's the first internet/computer thing that's really made me feel like the rest of the universe is on the verge of turning into some Cronenbergian man-machine nightmare. Go out and play, assholes!
And keep your twittering off my lawn mountain laurel!
Um, I guess 78 and 79 make me feel better?
Actually, I think the practical reality is that I'm more computer-oriented than most of my IRL friends, so there's no real opportunity for all this social networking BS.
Twitter is, in general, stupid. It only provides value if you have a critical mass of people who live in the same neighborhood and want to know what bar people are hanging out at that night.
42: apo, that was a mean tease.
It only provides value if you have a critical mass of people who live in the same neighborhood and want to know what bar people are hanging out at that night.
A function which could not be adequately served by IM, email, or text messages?
78 gets my emotional reaction exactly right; on the other hand, Becks' use of Twitter led to Rah knowing where to find good used books during UnfoggeDCon2. I'm torn.
Fuck it, it's stupid.
Don't feel old, JRoth. Twitter is stupid.
So sayeth Sifu Twitter.
42: apo, that was a mean tease.
But I was writing in his voice!
33 seemed to suggest that we would be given more potential options as to the identity of Meekins. We're waiting ...
I'm wondering if Meekins might be a recently idled blogger who is well-regarded around here. The clincher would have been if Meekins had chosen the pseud "Good Meekins".
BG! I had a dream last night that you got engaged, and for some reason you sent me an email about it.
Meekins is Ogged, come back to us, but too embarrassed to admit it.
Twitter and Facebook are stupid. Myspace is ugly. I am not old, these are simply facts.
Twitter and Facebook are stupid.
To me, Facebook is just a medium for Scrabble.
90: no, it was definitely the gmail interface.
Tofu Sweety?
Now that is something that I might actually buy.
Nah. The Sweety just doesn't overpower the tofu.
Yuck. Does anyone else shudder when the see the "Silk" pouring out in the soy milk commercial?
Ewwww.
Meekins is secretly Ben, going "on hiatus" to find an outlet for lowbrow buttsex posts without breaking character.
I resent the implication of this execrable comment. Staying in character is not limiting -- it is the only authentic freedom.
Ewwww.
it's good for one's bowel movement and if you are concerned, for facial skin
96: Staying in character is just another name for nothing left to lose.
Twitter is awesome, haters, allowing people to maximize our cocoon-related fun as they waste away the day.
it's good for one's bowel movement and if you are concerned, for facial skin
Mouseover text?
well, for men though more estrogens maybe not very good, could couse that, gynecomastia
though just normal cow milk can cause the prostate cancer too, if it's true
it's good for one's bowel movement and if you are concerned, for facial skin
Ewwww.
As if anyone cares my bm's are just fine since I started the "five fruits and vegetables" thing and laid off the opiates.
bm
wow, there is an old joke iirc that even ballerinas have bowel movements
By the way, welcome aboard, Meekins!
Twitter is mostly full of idiots, like most of the internet; but there are some users who have mastered the art of 140-character hilarity. I find the enforced brevity of twitter can make it an interesting experiment.
Also, it's a good timewaster.
89, 90: Not engaged, but I am going to Canada next month to meet the family.
The family? You're going to meet the queen? Goodness.
Isn't it treason to marry a Canadian during wartime?
Isn't it treasonforward thinking to marry a Canadian during Bush's wartime?
Remeber, BG, you could get dragged into the Hans Island business. That hasn't broken yet, but when it goes, it will be a monster.
Not a female Hillary-type monster, but a neuter or male monster.
Oh, I love twitter. I find there's something comforting about knowing what mundane shit my friends are doing. If you have a twitter account, do follow me (username as below) so I can follow you too.
It worked really well last year on a camp, sending out update tweets so people knew exactly when and where things were happening. Texts are much less useful for that kind of mass communication, and IM and email don't work so well in a field (though that's increasingly untrue).
'e' is suspiciously so close to 'r', at least on my keyboard, that I fear I will inadvertently type "merkin" instead of "meekin" at some point.
This could be a clue.
I had a cat named Merkin. There was a 60s band, Colorado I think, called "Merkin Manor". There may be other meanings.
Hi, Meekins. You *have* read the archives in their entirety, right?
Hi, Meekins. You *have* read the archives in their entirety, right?
Hey, kids! Just remember that les Ancien Régime could launch a bloody conservative counter-revolution at any time!
So say yes to show trials and and just say no to fox-hunting bans and dressing down at the opera!
max
['Those aristocrats really dig weird shoes!']
Not engaged, but I am going to Canada next month to meet the family.
Wow, cool, sounds like things are going well. (Talking in the 'next month'!)
Hi, Meekins. You *have* read the archives in their entirety, right?
I thought this site was new?????