ivan

for a dude who looks like buddha, you sure do talk like jesus

first alpine style winter ascent Are you saying Colin and Marko didnt climb the North Ridge in alpine style? If so how do you define alpine style? sans fixed ropes, i believe, not that it makes a bit of difference to me in terms of kewlness of acomplishment

yeah, but: a) it's too fucking cold to do anything but hang inside and read for half the year and b) sure they get free food at school, but it's lute-fisk! and c) hawt finnish chicks only give it up if you can recite the quadratic equation from memory

anyone else watch ken burns national parks documentary on pbs the last few nights?

now why can't i use this in my classrom?

wise sir do not grieve it is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning for every one of us living in this world means waiting for our end let he who can achieve glory before death when a warrior is gone that will be his best and only bulwark and to die is far different than what anyone ever supposed and luckier

alright, well this hardly sounds insane - good luck getting the funding though, as you know pbs makes the conservos insane - i don't see the need to break up fox or any other current news provider however, but taxing mega-corps to help fund your more public channels might work - the current lineup of pbs shows already has a # of snoozers though, so it'd be challenging to find much of quality to fill the time - seems like it'd mostly be wayne's world knock-offs

facebook sure helped them iranians and burmese get rid of their wicked, wicked governments!

i guess what we're saying is that it's sad you think that all we know or can think about is what corporations broadcast - i get essentially zero of my news analysis from the t.v. and the majority of it from conversations w/ other people who's intelligence or experiences i find interesting

i do want to understand your argument - are you just saying you want the goverment to pick up the tab for more cspan/pbs type channels and have some democratic body for determining their content?

the "what would you do if somebody raped your baby" question can't help but remind me of how this guy got spanked

I don't know that I'd give "normals" that much credit either. this is the exact point i tried to make back on page 1 - hello, our society encourages us to be pervs! for christ's sake, when some folks gave me free baby clothes for my little girl, half the shit had writing plastered all over the ass!

And you advocate the same thing, but have a different message (that few care to listen to). Bugger off. indeed - and who the hell gets their tv through the public airwaves these days anyhow?

actually i'd say his fame might actually have worked against him - your average nobody rapist sicko could escape to a country w/o extradition and never be thought of again

sounds like a lower variation to an already existing route and indeed, who cares? getting worked up about anythign climbing related is a Sign of Disturbing Things to Come

i understand that you might not think it enough of a punishment, but he has not gotten off scott-free - he did serve 40-some odd days in jail, pay god know's how much over the years in legal bills, and has had his freedom/security of movement restricted for the past 3 decades a far cry from the cheese-grater/acid treatement for sure, but then i'd rather reserve that for the folks who've displayed a complete inability to control their sick needs - this guy does not appear to have repeated his offense so would appear to have learned his lesson via less draconian methods

i'm sure the authors of the constitution and the bill of rights would agree w/ you understand i'm speaking in general though, not about this bastard, who already plead guilty to having sex w/ a minor and fled after becoming convinced his plea deal would not be honored - the crime i see polanski still needing to answer for in this case is that, his flight - sure, he can say the court was biased against him (and it sure seems like it was), but you don't win that fight by running away from it. the irony is that, if he does come back to stand trial, the whole damn thing will likely be dropped anyway

sure, but in practice, arranging a succesful trial after 40 years is unlikely

i agree w/ jay - it is a fuzzy term - as to your last question, are you suggesting that mr murdoch have his freedom to speak his mind (which for everyone involves their private motives) taken away by the government? it is not the gov's place to determine who can speak, just to ensure that all can speak - it might well be regretable that many large companies can, by virtue of their resources, reach many more ears than my own weak diatribes from the bowels of my spray-cockpit, but i don't think that means murdoch has to be silienced. the public interest in this case is just that everyone should be able to speak, not that everybody else should have to hear.

wow - googling this then reading the result made me a little

if i understand his position, i think he's saying that free speech is not really possible in a world where massive corporations take up most of the bandwidth - in this sense then, he would see himself as a protector and advocate of free speech in calling for the government to silience the deafening roar of the big boys.

i long ago figured it was pointless trying to convince anyone of my take on history - can you think of one person on this board for example who will ever concede a point or change their mind on even the most trifling issue? spraying is da interweb equivalent of fiddling while rome burns can you, for example, admit the slightest bit of intelligence and insight in mrs. huffington? i've heard her talk a bunch of times, and while the greek accent thing is a bit annoying, she's hardly a fool, certainly less full of shit than, say, rush. lao tsu had the only practical answer to dealing w/ the ills of godawful human society - it's a shame we've run out of earth to hide in

no, not a little mistake. but hey, 32 years later, if the victim wants the whole case dropped (which in this case, she does), isn't that a sign that it wasn't the worst mistake ever? i don't think there are too many holocaust survivors who feel that way. Men who rape 13 year old children should have their nuts scraped on a cheese grater followed by an application of 12 Molar nitric acid. but will you have enough left over for the child killers? does this include all them mormons who rape kiddies for jeebus?

nah, i'm plenty elitist meself, plus i went to mr jefferson's university, so it was hardly an insult yeah, jefferson wanted america to be something like gandhi wanted - a big happy self-governing agriculture based commune - whoops, i guess hamilton won afterall

no, not a little mistake. but hey, 32 years later, if the victim wants the whole case dropped (which in this case, she does), isn't that a sign that it wasn't the worst mistake ever? i don't think there are too many holocaust survivors who feel that way.