I Also Prefer Dogs To People

A dog obviously has a Buddha Nature, but what about a cockroach?

Turds In The Punchbowl

Or: why I refrain from commenting ... more often than not.

Reviewing Losers

Hi
xojane is for my tastes the most interesting, well written and topical editorial tour de force I've come across in a long time. So good in fact that I've been seriously obsessing: hoovering 188 posts in the last four days. It's either the commanding headlines, my self diagnosed OCD, or just some horny-old-guy research into chatting up smart (ie: hot) young women with big wits. (W i t s.)

OK, all of the above.

The warmth and generosity, the sensitivity and intelligence of "The Boss Lady" comes through every post. You are very much loved and deservedly so.

Thanks, Jane & Cheers!

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Vanessa-> Reviewing Losers

"Horny old guy research into chatting up smart (i.e. hot) young women with big wits.)" Ew. Really? You had to say that? Read what you like but realise that this isn't your 'research' site and we're not hot young women here for your education. Gross.

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peachgrenade-> Vanessa

And it was such a nice message aside from that. EW is right.

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Reviewing Losers ->  peachgrenade

(&-> Vanessa) You're right. My bad. It was a misguided (and clearly unsuccessful) attempt at "clever honesty." I not only appreciate, but also understand how the comment could be off-putting and inappropriate in this venue ... if I had been completely SERIOUS. The joke's not funny if you have to explain it, so here goes.

Feminist T(s) No. One

http://ocd.xojane.seduction.net Dude-Bro Cycle

I'm not sure if it's a hat tip, an assist, or an exprobation that Ms Filopovic gets here, but ...

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Dude or dude-bro: ten ways to tell by Jill Filipovic [The Guardian]

Best Of The Worst Of Online Dating Pickup Artists In The Wild [buzzfeed]

A(n)nals of Online Dating

I Am Going to Dropkick the Next Dudebro Who Tells Me Coercive Sex is Consensual Sex [xoJane]

Signal To Noise At Home (Box Office)

The nature and structure of belief systems is important from the perspective of an informational theorist because beliefs are thought to provide the cognitive foundation of an attitude. In order to change an attitude, then, it is presumably necessary to modify the information on which that attitude rests. It is generally necessary, therefore, to change a person's beliefs, eliminate old beliefs or introduce new beliefs.

Attitudes And Persuasion - Richard Petty and John Cacioppo

Like the novels it adapts, Game of Thrones has a sprawling ensemble cast, which George R.R. Martin estimated to be the largest on television.^[6] During the production of the third season, 257 cast names were recorded.^[7] The following overview reduces the list of characters in Game of Thrones to those played by the actors credited as part of the main cast.

Sean Bean is Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark, head of the Stark family whose members are involved in most of the series's intertwined plot lines. He and his wife Catelyn (Michelle Fairley) have five children: the eldest, Robb (Richard Madden), the dainty Sansa (Sophie Turner), the tomboy Arya (Maisie Williams), the adventurous Bran (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) and the toddler Rickon (Art Parkinson). The family's outsiders are Ned's bastard son Jon Snow (Kit Harington), and Ned's hostage and ward Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen).

Ned's old friend King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) shares a loveless marriage with Queen Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey). In defiance of her father, the fabulously wealthy Lord Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance), Cersei has taken her twin, the "Kingslayer" Ser Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) as her secret lover. She loathes her younger brother, the clever dwarf Tyrion (Peter Dinklage), who is attended by his mistress Shae (Sibel Kekilli) and the sellsword Bronn (Jerome Flynn). Cersei's oldest child is Prince Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson), who is guarded by the scarfaced warrior Sandor "the Hound" Clegane (Rory McCann). The king's "Small Council" of advisors includes the crafty Lord Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish (Aidan Gillen) and the eunuch spymaster Varys (Conleth Hill).

If I was looking for a reason...

It might be something like this:

It is not fear. It is simple, compelling logic. We have two major political parties. Until that great gettin'-up morning, when purists on both sides of the ideological ditch manage to create workable third parties that look like something more substantial than organized unicorn hunts — which won't happen until we have proportional voting, and I wish you as much luck with that as Lani Guinier had — we always will have two major political parties. One of them is inexcusably timid and tied in inexcusably tight with the big corporate money. The other one is demented.

Political Scientology

(De-)Constructing Monatary Fantasie

See also: Zero Hedge: In A Paper System, All Assets Are Backed by the Treasury Bond

solicitous and naomi$@?*$

Friday, Aug 10, actually in NYC

naomi$@?*$ 02:44	Hi how you doin?,, I'm naomi and im so wet and horny and looking for some fun. Wanna see me naked on my webcam? I just got out of the shower and still have my towel on with no undies <3
solicitous 02:53	well of course i do!
naomi$@?*$ 02:54	cool ..

Chapter IV The Golden Rule And After

It would indeed be an intolerably pedantic performance for a nation to sit still and wait for its scientists to report on their labors. The notion is typical of the pitfalls in the path of any theorist who does not correct his logic by a constant reference to the movement of life. It is true that statecraft must make human nature its basis. It is true that its chief task is the invention of forms and institutions which satisfy the inner needs of mankind. And it is true that our knowledge of those needs and the technique of their satisfaction is hazy, unorganized and blundering.

“Merkozy Sweepstakes” circa 1848

...a body remains constant unless the body is acted upon by an external force...

Hallucinating The (Haiku) Poetry of Charles P. Pierce

... or what I did today instead of work

Pierce was ultimately responsible the last time this happened.

animatronic double

charisma ... grass seed ...
principles ... a moray eel ...
holy-rolling swamp-
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fooled by clumsy
dumbshow ... firmly our elite...
togas ... gibbering

grifters, obvious
charlatans, and transparent
mountebanks. ... ignore
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Well, You Know What They Say About Slugs

"... they always leave slime in their tracks."

This ⇒ this ⊃ this ∋ this.* And we have a WINNER! (And then there's this.)