Posts by Danielle
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Hard News: Crossing the line into idle bigotry, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
I was tremendously happy that we’d exported him to Australia and they were paying for us to not see him being a dick.
+1 billion.
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Hard News: The Righteous Humour, in reply to Russell Brown,
basically a libertarian
Blah.
gives me hope in Americans
Vast swathes of them are perfectly all right. Really.
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I am totally CLAPPITY-CLAPPITY about this exhibition and hope to go more than once. Yay!
(I have a fridge magnet of that Elvis photo.)
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Russell Brown,
It just seemed to me in the end that my guy simply hated Obama.
"I don't want a black guy to be president" isn't really an acceptable response in polite company these days.*
*I'm not saying your guy consciously thinks that. But the irrationality on display in some quarters seems so obviously informed by underlying racist anxieties.
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
the less-insane states
Can I just note that even in the most "insane" states, one of every three people you see is voting for the Democratic Party?
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to Steve Barnes,
it was tolerated and denied
If it was the former I can't work out why it would have been the latter.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Do not disturb, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
I might be finally showing that I'm not really down with the kids, but... why?
You just haven't heard music properly unless it has a bed of tape hiss and occasional tempo irregularity.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Return of the brothers, in reply to JacksonP,
my secret shame
I've basically decided "fuck it" and that there should be no secret shames. The very concept of the secret shame must die!
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Laura Nyro is so wonderful. I love her version of this song (with LaBelle):
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Field Theory: Man Moments, in reply to JacksonP,
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