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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.

i seem to recall a very fine near death experience in the compnay of these dude called nolse 'round then

okay maybe your right - he probably would plop down in front of espn for a couple of hours and watch the williams sistas have at it seriously though, jefferson was an elitist (perhaps not so different from yourself?) - he thought the vast majority of mankind was incapable of intelligent thinking anyhow, unfit to vote or be a part of the political system, and therefore of course he'd expect their idiotbox to do nothing to render them more enlightened or cosmopolitian - intelligent people educate themselves and are free thinkers, and immune to propaganda (i imagine he'd say) - fuck'em if they can't see past the b.s.

the human animal hasn't changed an iota in the past 1000 years - we're still, as a collective group, no more interested in the here and now then what's minimially required to get our next snack and our next lay and yes, bill, i'm quite sure jefferson would be shitting himself if he came back for a brief visit today, though his list of concerns might not put this particuliar issue that high at the top (possibly lower than "holy shit, sally hemming's kids get to come to my fucking party every year!?!")

i'm sure all this shit will get straightened out when the mayan gods come down to party in 2012

Chinatown is a great movie. Sex with a 13-year old can not be consensual - by LAW you dipshit. you're a hard man not to want to make hate-speech at seriously, have you watched the documentary mentioned above, or are you just totally talking out of your ass? i guess i'm the only one who sees murdering a pregant women vs. having sex w/ a teenager as being fundementally different - like i said, i hardly like the guy or his work or am defending his dipshit action - he deserved to have his balls slammed a couple times in a drawer and spend a few years thinking about it in the bad place in the end it's all crocidile tears from our society anyhow - young girls have been so completly turned into sex objects by popular culture its seems hard to comprehend the incredulity folks express when nasty shit like this happens at any rate, i have no to shed for senor polanski

bitching about the purveyors of news is hardly new: "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." -Thomas Jefferson

how about we just trade favors? - i sure would like somebody else to sacrifice their eyeballs in the name of cleaning out silver crow, axe of karma and upper pipeline headwall so i can do'em right after

apples and oranges - is murdering a pregnant lady the same crime as having consensual (though the term is debatable w/ a 13 year old i'll warrant you) sex w/ a teenager? chinatown sucked - rosemary's baby too, how the fuck was that scary? if you're gonna jail him for anything, how about for making shitty movies? oh yeah, and for being french.

exactly - pesonally i coudl give a crap about this guy and the family he got caught up in this w/ were totally creepy too - child rape is too emotional an issue to have a rational conversation about, but the short version is that dude doesn't appear to be a sicko who makes a habit of going after little girls

has he raped any kids in the ensuing 32 years?

i thought about reservoir dogs

the 2nd pitch of GZ which has been eschewed by so many oddballs this summer is now clean and waiting for all - picking the wildflowers and fern fronds out of the cracks to expose the critical nut placements makes getting the fa of the season oh-so-worthwhile

i'm amazed dave and i survived our post-party descent back down to the land of the little people

sure, okay, of course - they're big businesses themselves so of course they're gonna be pro business, but that's been the case for more than a century, and again, the birth of the internet has substantially improved reporting by the little-man - the bottom line is that it's not the governments place to go and destroy mega-news providers - there is competition both amongst themselves and w/ the blogosphere, and theoritically they all improve one another

i'm out the door right now and will be at beacon through sunday if you wanna swing by - i watched ben n' geoff put all their weight on it (backed up w/ a nut) so i'm not worried about it at the moment but yeah, it could use replacment

I stole the idea from several other people before you. I have not done the 2nd pitch yet. Plaidman next time just rap in from grassy ledges - the first pitch is bogus, the 2nd is sublime - i'm gonna fix the first one 2night and enjoy the ledge scene, then finish it up on saturday - think i'm gonna then rap into flight time and do that fucker's 2nd pitch as ben was good enough to clean all the brush out of it last week!

no wonder we hunted these fuckers to the edge of extinction - penis envy on a truly epic scale

abc, cbs, nbc, fox, cnn - all 5 of these news providers are owned by the same company? those are 5 pretty big news providers on the television and 5 ain't a bad # for competition.

Cool. So we get to ignore Fairweather and KKKKK? it would only be fair as i sorta kinda think they already ignore you

what would the nuts and bolts of that idea look like? in a sense, this is already the coolest age for news in human history w/ a near limitless supply of viewpoints and reporting