Posts by underscore_b
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Brilliant. Just brilliant.
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Hur? I assumed that the website was deliberately designed to look like it came out of the 80s, you know, as part of the astroturfing.
No doubt, but look at the actual functionality. The colour scheme is the only thing retro about it.
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William makes an excellent point. It's one of those times when you have to answer a question with another question.
"Should creationism be taught in schools?"
"Well, how do you plan on marking it?"
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Aw, everyone knows only dykes are pro golfers. But seriously, yes. :)
I guess what I mean is, would there be the same outbursts of "family man" rhetoric or is it more likely they'd vanish him into obscurity? The great man undone by hubris is an easy narrative; the acknowledged great athlete and masculine role model who enjoys sex with men is significantly more problematic.
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But I'm not finding Keith's own righteous indignation about Woods' fate in the popular media very compelling either. I'm just not outraged, as such, about any of it.
Oh, neither do I. But on the other hand I can understand their contempt when as you can see here, there was more coverage of Tiger Woods' affairs in 2009 than, y'know, Israel.
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And, to be fair, whose lyrical fag-bashing isn't exactly outside the mainstream in Uganda But my point is that if anyone is "tainting" the Pepsi family of beverage brands, Tiger Woods is slipping down the list fairly quickly.
Craig, you're forgetting the secondary meaning of "family values" in the US...
While we're on the subject though, do you think there'd be the same grave pronouncements about betraying his family/reputation/fans if he'd been perfectly chaste, but filed for divorce and come out of the closet?
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I'd agree with Craig and Keith that the righteous indignation is utterly ridiculous and seems to emanate from the same quarter that believes in keeping politics out of sport.
That said, if I recall correctly Rand's rejection of conventional morality was about getting rich and bugger the proles, not puritanical hand-wringing. Anyone want to correct me?
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Tim summed up very succinctly everything that I was about to post, so I'll just say welcome back.
Welcome back Keith!
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Thanks for all the advice, Keith. You'll be sorely missed. Do you think your new position as a Snivelling Communistic Toadying Bureaucrat will still allow you to take part in the ASPA Awards?