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Van der Leun
Editor and writer for American Digest at http://americandigest.org.
Interests: art, books, photography, poetry, zen, philosophy, politics, and who put the bomp in the bomp-de-bomp....
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Ah yes. Now I see where you're going with this.
Toggle Commented Feb 1, 2013 on The False Majority at Cobb
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Oh it can yield meat and you're first.
Toggle Commented Jan 31, 2013 on The False Majority at Cobb
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I think there's something essential missing here: "Somewhere around whatever we were in the 1950s in breaks and there is the active nation and there is the passive nation. "
Toggle Commented Jan 31, 2013 on The False Majority at Cobb
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Forget the homeopathy. I'm waiting for George's update on his homopathy.
Toggle Commented Dec 1, 2012 on The Science is Throbbing at davidthompson
"ince there has been no public outcry about the Alderman not standing for the pledge. " Well, if it was not reported it is hard to see how the public would know about it one way or the other.
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Speaking for white folks born in LA I'd have to say that it's not race that drives us to suicide in LA. It's parking.
Toggle Commented Apr 10, 2012 on Suicide: Erasing White Privilege Since 1994 at Cobb
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You know, somehow I'm not worried one bit.
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"Play is a natural human expression. When enshrined as a cultural nucleus, such play leads to cultures of competency. " No, it leads to the kind of shitting in the streets play we are currently witnessing in New York courtesy of the "Occupy" children.
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Sorry, I couldn't take more than 5 minutes of clicking around in this jabber. He's a self-parody when he says "But ADHD hadn't been invented," but I don't think he can see that.
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"Perhaps Cornell West has moved politically from being a democratic socialist to a revolutionary socialist." Make that "to a clown socialist" and you've got it right.
Toggle Commented Oct 5, 2011 on Playthell Benjamin's Open Letter at Cobb
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Well, I -- for one -- am not Troy Davis, but then I'm never one to partake of any of those maudlin "I am ___ _____" campaigns. There are only so many bands that will fit on a wrist. However, "I have no opinion on the matter because I haven't bothered to look." Well, I don't blame you because it is a deep and tangled pool. I, however, have looked quite deeply into this case over the past two weeks. I mean Lexis-Nexis trial transcript deep. From that I've got to say that this was a deeply tainted case from the beginning and the execution was, first last and always, wrong. For what it's worth, this execution was a travesty of justice. And I didn't go into my researches with this conclusion in mind.
Toggle Commented Oct 5, 2011 on I Am Not Troy Davis at Cobb
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Well, with Christie out and Palin off riding in the distance, today it looks like the smart play is going to be Romney|Cain 2012 under the rubric "Gettin US Back to Business." Once the current resident is ousted by this ticket it's going to put blathering in argot such as "Boy, you better keep grinnin and shinin if you wanna be a teabagger token negroe!!" back into the distinctly retro category. Best practice thy locution.
Toggle Commented Oct 5, 2011 on Herman Cain from the Kwaku Network at Cobb
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Buckdances? Cher Sub, I am at a loss to account for your continuing sense of shame concerning your stature. Surely it is entirely unwarranted. As an adult it is time you got used to being a midget.
Toggle Commented Oct 2, 2011 on Herman Cain from the Kwaku Network at Cobb
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Oh, overcome thy double difficulty and have a go, CD. I'm sure your unquenchable rage is equal to the heavy task. I await thy thunder!
Toggle Commented Sep 29, 2011 on Black Cow at Cobb
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"I also agree that the application of affirmative action sucked, but that doesn't mean the concept is flawed. " "I also agree that the application of communism in (insert the first 10 examples from history) but that doesn't mean that the concept is flawed." "If discrimination was the cause discrimination can be a large part of the solution." " If human equality is to be forever averted--if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently--then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."
Toggle Commented Sep 28, 2011 on Is That What You Want? at Cobb
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I'd be surprised if "Sub" could remember where s/he parked hiser gum before turning the last trick.
Toggle Commented Sep 27, 2011 on Is That What You Want? at Cobb
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Check out http://www.moviesherlock.com/ and see if that will work for you.
Toggle Commented Sep 27, 2011 on The Couple of the Year at Cobb
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Do you mean to claim that you are actually a person of the negro persuasion? I admit I was fooled. I had you down as a Cherokee.
Toggle Commented Sep 26, 2011 on Is That What You Want? at Cobb
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As a Berkeley alumnus I support this fledgling effort to make race-based retailing the mode of the future. I deeply regret that the diversity dunderheads don't see how "revolutionary" this bake-sale actually is. (I note in passing that if subrealism would change h/er/is login to "The Ward Connerly Franchise" it would do his dull repetition schtick for h/er/im.)
Toggle Commented Sep 26, 2011 on Is That What You Want? at Cobb
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Only subrealists can comfortably wallow in such subignorance.
Toggle Commented Aug 26, 2011 on MLK In Stone at Cobb
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"I don't be taking no mess from whitey! Go hide the white women!" Both here and elsewhere you seem to default rather quickly to this odd and archaic persona and even odder obsession with the color of concubines. Do you have persistent headaches and a swollen feeling in your uterus? There is medication for the former and self-administered therapy for the latter. Dilute!
Toggle Commented Aug 26, 2011 on MLK In Stone at Cobb
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Ditto Detroit.
Toggle Commented Aug 25, 2011 on MLK In Stone at Cobb
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"I am almost rendered speechless." So close and yet so far...
Toggle Commented Aug 25, 2011 on MLK In Stone at Cobb
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"Are you serious? Please explain that one. I am quite curious." You are about as curious as a planeria.
Toggle Commented Aug 25, 2011 on MLK In Stone at Cobb
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There were a few who were granted anonymity because of "special status." Bulbheadmyass was one and I still don't know who she was. There were a few others too. Maybe someone from the Dead. Maybe Mitch Kapor for a bit. I was granted in collusion with Gail a second login, "FredM," for pranking purposes. I immediately used it to gore various oxen and, most tellingly, to have several thermonuclear flame wars with myself. Gail was taken to the woodshed for that one.
Toggle Commented Aug 25, 2011 on The Pseud at Cobb
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