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Comment by Josh Hathaway on Verse Chorus Verse: Semisonic - "Closing Time"

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:02:38 +0000

It's a reaction I can understand, Jon, but I have a soft spot for it.

Comment by Jon Sobel on Verse Chorus Verse: Semisonic - "Closing Time"

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:53:30 +0000

Worst. Song. Ever.

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:53:30 +0000

Comment by Mark on It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:51:13 +0000

pg 1 Austrian School of Economics’ Business Cycle Theory. link isn't working

Comment by jessica on Book Review: Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:50:44 +0000

this book was filled with great enjoyment,sadness, laughter, and fun. thanks to my lit teacher who recommended it! it is definetly on of her and i's most favorite books

Comment by El Bicho on Adam Lambert Can Do No Wrong?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:49:37 +0000

It was undeniably over the top for broadcast TV, but I don't understand why anyone was watching this show to begin with. If you are seeing oral sex in the album cover, you may be the one who is f-ing crazy. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:49:37 +0000

Comment by Bob on The Top 100 Guitarists According to Rolling Stone

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:45:09 +0000

Does Rolling Stone set out to make its Top 100 lists completely ridiculous? Do they liked to be mocked for their horrifying lack of musical knowledge despite claiming to be some sort of authority? The lists are always worth nothing but mockery. Musical idiots at Rolling Stone wouldn't know a good guitarist if they heard one.

Comment by quagmire on Family Guy

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:43:33 +0000

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Comment by zingzing on Unnecessary Pap Smears

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:39:46 +0000

symdromes... hmm...

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:39:46 +0000

Comment by zingzing on Unnecessary Pap Smears

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:38:47 +0000

i think it would have to be a split ep with the first side featuring ups' (ha) take on several very dirty prince songs, and the flip featuring ibs' take on his scatological work. side a: unnecessary pap smears 1. come 2. sister side b: irritable bowel symdromes 1. cloreen bacon skin 2. in a large room with no light* *alright, that one isn't about poop... but it's just too damn good.

Comment by Silas Kain on Global Warming Fraud Exposed as Copenhagen Approaches

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:26:32 +0000

Rush Limbaugh giving financial advise. Scary. That's like Bernie Madoff selling Oxycontin. Rush Limbaugh and Massengill have one thing in common. They're both douches.

Comment by ram on Collecting Vintage Synthesizers

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:25:10 +0000

For emulation of analog modular synths it is hard to beat the open source ALSA Modular Synth package. It can even be used to generate control voltages, and receive control voltages from classic analog gear.

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:25:10 +0000

Comment by Silas Kain on Unnecessary Pap Smears

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:23:14 +0000

And the first hit song for The Unnecessary Pap Smears can be "Ragtime Blues". That'll send the far right into convulsions! Anybody got a tampon?

Comment by Silas Kain on Adam Lambert Can Do No Wrong?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:20:48 +0000

Heloise, God gave you two hands. If you don't want to see it, change the channel. All this hype about Adam Lambert and his 'offensive' behavior. There are six million damned channels on television at that hour and everyone is obsessed with this little gay boy. Give me a break. If you don't want to watch, change the channel and watch Pat Robertson on the 700 Club. There's a program that's worthwhile -- for goats.

Comment by zingzing on Unnecessary Pap Smears

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:18:25 +0000

every time someone comments on this, i look at that title and think "i'm going to name my band 'unnecessary pap smears'." then i think the better of it. then i think the better of the better of it.

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:18:25 +0000

Comment by Silas Kain on Sagittarius Men

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:16:29 +0000

Here's a shock for you, Cindy. I'm realizing I am far from gay and more human. I've learned in my evolution that it ain't about gender and more about the person. If labels are necessary then I guess "bi" is the proper one for me. I'm glad you liked Man From Earth. and I am game for a discussion. And, not for nothin', but wasn't the main character an absolute dream? (That did sound 'gay' didn't it?) Thanks for the b-day wishes. Tomorrow I turn 54 (yikes)! I feel like 30 and have the drive of a teenager! Life is good.

Comment by Kathrina on TV Review: House, M.D. - "Teamwork"

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:11:54 +0000

I'm having mixed feeling about this episode and Cameron's leaving like she did it. First of all: Great acting, Jennifer Morrison did a beautiful job here But Cameron showed in the end, that her character had no more chances to develop and stay on the show. She kept her youthful and quite rigid view about 'right' and 'wrong', being 100% confident in the values of her own moral values. House himself might say it hundred times, that he is only 'solving puzzles', it won't become any truer by repeating. He might never get 'all warm and cuddly', but he cares about his patients and risks everything, often enough his health and his medical license, let alone his job, trying to rescue them. Deeds, not words are important in my world. His deeds show clearly in favor of an engaged House. His seldom interactions with his patients show me a deeply engaged, even in his own weird way 'caring' doctor, might he himself deny the fact. He tries to stay as little as possible emotionally involved, because he learned the hard way, that emotion are clouding his own judgment and have a great potential to harm his patients. Like in 'Frozen' or en 'The Softer Side', he almost killed the boy be giving him a contrast MRI and almost failed to save Kate. Cameron thinks House would have almost killed the patient because he used him to play game with his old new to be fellows. Firstly, I'm not 100% sure he was just playing a game. But even if he did, he wouldn't have gone through with destroying the bone marrow of the patient. That much I know. Cameron telling House, he had no regard to human lives, is just out of line. Who killed Ezra? House? Well, if he did, he had very cute long brown hair. House tends to act borderline or totally illegal trying to save lives. Anybody remember DNR? In doubt House always decides to save a human life. House is quite forgiving, when confronted with other doctors deciding to end patient's life: He told Wilson, that he did the right thing, when he helped his patient to kill himself. He respected Cameron for euthanizing Ezra, and he even covers Chase, even if he calls his actions murder. But there is a long way between forgiving and approving, and Cameron should have known that. Why couldn't she? Did House really teach his fellows to disregard human life? Or is it guilt talking, because Cameron might just have just noticed that it was her and Dibala's musing, that planted the seed of Chase's deed. Cameron is projecting her guilt and her disappointment, and because she can't stand the idea of the murder being just Chases of even partly her fault, she is more comfortable with blaming House. Guilt by proxy. Cameron needs a scapegoat, to deflect from her own guilt, from Chase's guilt. What's a better scapegoat than House? Chases Decision was bourn out of his own moral dilemma: It's the classical dilemma of the 'murder of the tyrant'. Chases decision was bourn out of his own moral dilemma, the only thing he might have learned by House is his ability to do the math: One life here against tens of thousands of the Tsatibi People. A parallel to 'Nothing Helps'. House himself is great in human psychology: He recognizes Cameron's dilemma and refuses to accept the blame. That's why he wouldn't accept her accusations, and he surely can't and wouldn't accept her leaving over his alleged guilt. That's why he WAS able to look into her eyes, ad that's why he didn't accept her hand. I saw Houses scheming never as his intent to try and get Chase and Cameron apart. He himself stated: "Four for four". He wanted to win all of them back. But he is a great believer in 'ripping the band aid fast': Either Cameron truly forgave Chase or Chase and she are better of without that marriage. Rather then letting Chase leave PPTH for the wrong reasons and being deluded about the fact that Cameron never truly forgave him, because she only chose to blame the murder on House and hoped to get Chase to show deep remorse for his 'evil deed'. When she noticed that Chase is taking responsibility for his decision and can not see is as completely right or completely wrong, she leaves. House did them both the favor and let them see it as soon as it was possible. The POW was a bit less than he could have been. I also missed Houses interacting: It had so much potential in the chemistry House & Porn Stars, and they did a little with that one. Well, there were a lot of threads to get together. And I absolutely loved the very housian irony of the patient suffering from to much, and not from the lack of hygiene. Thy psychological background of House wanting to win his old teams back: I think it's simply House being House. He is not a big friend of change, and he surely loves some continuity in his life. If it's the old carpet in his room, or winning his old fellows back: It's the illusion of friendship, last but not least, his dedication to 'solving puzzles' (saving lives), which is much better done with a good trained team. In the end, 'playing (calculated) games' with the life of this patient tends to help save future lives. He can do the math.

Comment by Silas Kain on Unnecessary Pap Smears

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:09:34 +0000

A magic number in and of itself! Did you ever think, Cindy, that you're a gay man trapped in a woman's body?

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:09:34 +0000

Comment by Heloise on Global Warming Fraud Exposed as Copenhagen Approaches

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:06:53 +0000

Gene, some bloggers are telling stock holders in green tech to SELL. Rush said it but not sure it's true.

Comment by Josh Hathaway on eBook Review: So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful Of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life by Jacob Slichter

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:06:34 +0000

Kt, thanks for the comment. I agree. Jake comes across as someone who was doing it all for the right reasons and wasn't going to shrivel up and die either way regardless of the anxiety he often experienced while on the rollercoaster ride. As for my bio, I'm technically out of the straight journalism business and took a day job, doing my work here for Blogcritics as a sideline. Thanks for your comment!

Comment by Cindy on Unnecessary Pap Smears

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:04:12 +0000

Having been single for about 10 years, I'd strongly agree. I even wished I were gay. But, I am not single now; my husband is a gem; and he is nearing 69. ;-)

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:04:12 +0000