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In the immortal words of the great sage Gene Frenkle Earl Sweatshirt, "her body is a temple; I don't give a !@#$ I'm atheist."

You sure sound like a recording sometimes, fence-sitter.

Didn't you hear? Jboyst is looking to get married.

Pretty Lights does some great remixes of pop songs, if you're into that sort of thing. Look at it this way, the Mazda Protege is now the Mazda 3.

Pretty Lights is amazing. Slightly related note: I saw Avicii in Rochester last week. Amazing show, even if Avicii's set only lasted an hour or so. DJ Prophet opened, repping the 518 and giving me some nostalgia.

I'm with Crayonz on the NBA. It's all rigged.

Not all of us have to dig through 30 years of cobwebs to get to them, though

!@#$ you guys. Seriously.

He was a die-hard neo-con. Now !@#$ off back to PPP and out of my thread.

The bolded, I suppose, is where we'll have to agree to disagree. I'm with bbb on Maher.

They were both dicks, sure. But the difference was that Hitchens was funny, witty, and intelligent. Maher's a tryhard imbecile. I'll remember Hitch as the writer of "Why Women Aren't Funny" and as ripper of Sean Hannity. When Maher dies, I'll remember him as star of "Religulous" (abysmal) and as a ****ty comedian. See the difference?

Of course not, he loved taking digs at Maher whenever he could So who's burning the candle at both ends with me tonight in memoriam?

Writer Christopher Hitchens died Thursday at age 62 from complications of esophageal cancer. Nice article here: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/christopher-hitchens/graydon-201112 I'll always fondly remember him flipping off Maher's morons, and telling Anderson Cooper of the lovely light given off by his "burning the candle at both ends."

Huh. I haven't been to a Lowe's in quite some time, I guess. Interesting.

For the most part, I do too. Except, of course, for the idiot who said this: What an idiot, everybody knows that every lightsaber is unique to the Jedi or Sith who built it. The red color of the Sith lightsabers comes from the synthesized crystals they use, rather than the natural crystals traditionally used by Jedi (notable exceptions include Luke Skywalker, who was able to build a green synthetic crystal).

There it is.

I'm glad I'm not the only one suddenly in some sort of Christmas spirit. Alright folks, here's the thing: there are very few people who know the urgency of suicidal feelings and those who do know the sheer torment, pushing you closer to the edge with thoughts of escape. There aren't many words that can reach people who feel like this so if someone you know is feeling like this you need to get them professional help. In the meantime, don't leave them and hope against all hope that you can remind them of something to live for, if just for another day so that maybe, just maybe, you can get them help that can relieve their pain. You might just save someone's life (and, most importantly, if you fail it is not your fault. Biggest mistake of my life was blaming myself for a friend's suicide). And if you are feeling suicidal, do anything you can to put off killing yourself for another minute or hour. Call a friend or relative, or call 1-800-SUICIDE or 1-800-273-TALK any hour of the day, any day of the week. What harm can it do? I know it doesn't seem like there's a way out but what harm can it do to just talk to someone for a measly few minutes? And who knows? Maybe you'll find some relief to that awful pain. Not necessarily responding to you personally, but THERE IS NO TYPE The only thing that might distinguish someone you know as suicidal are sudden changes in demeanor or behavior. Which is why if someone tells you they are suicidal, believe them. You can't risk being wrong about it and not believe them.

Benefits of not living in México Norte include: not having to deal with such things.

Always preferred Lowes to Home Despot myself, although the locally-owned hardware store nearby always gets my first visit.

Is she big into moisturizing and all that beauty stuff? I got someone on my gift list one of these Burt's Bees "Head to Toe" kits. Looks like a winner. http://www.burtsbees.com/other/gifts-her/head-to-toe-kit.html

Tell that to Southie and Roxbury. OC is right. It's the culture. No matter what, if that kid is living next door to crackheads and hookers, busing him to a whiter elementary school isn't going to solve the problem. When kids learn a mentality at home, they bring that with them to school. The teachers can change that mentality. BUT busing only does it one or two at a time, so it's not effective on a large scale. However, getting a group of 25 or 30 kids to change the way they think IS effective. Then they go home, play with the other kids, talk to their families, and that mentality rubs off. Suddenly you have a good cycle getting started, instead of a bad cycle repeating itself with a couple of outliers here and there.

Got me there. That's what google is for. We all love a good riot.

So what you're saying is, "better in a normative sense, 3rdnlng."

You better watch out, Mead. JR's after your wife. Luckily you thought of that way before he did.

I didn't know your name was Glen Schlomo Kokostein.