AdamSmith

Speaking out of pure ignorance I was thinking the same thing. In particular, that the dynamic content management going on here on the forums would seem to be a different computational burden and code situation than serving up static content on porn sites.

After Casting Key Fifth Vote For Bush, Justice O’Connor Now Regrets Bush v. Gore By Ian Millhiser on Apr 29, 2013 at 9:00 am Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the conservative retired justice who provided the fifth vote to install George W. Bush as president, is now having second thoughts about that decision: Looking back, O’Connor said, she isn’t sure the high court should have taken [Bush v. Gore]. “It took the case and decided it at a time when it was still a big election issue,” O’Connor said during a talk Friday with the Tribune editorial board. “Maybe the court should have said, ‘We’re not going to take it, goodbye.’” The case, she said, “stirred up the public” and “gave the court a less-than-perfect reputation.” “Obviously the court did reach a decision and thought it had to reach a decision,” she said. “It turned out the election authorities in Florida hadn’t done a real good job there and kind of messed it up. And probably the Supreme Court added to the problem at the end of the day.“ If nothing else, Bush v. Gore demonstrates how justices who are determined to reach a certain result are capable of bending both the law and their own prior jurisprudence in order to achieve it. In Bush, the five conservative justices held, in the words of Harvard’s Larry Tribe, that “equal protection of the laws required giving no protection of the laws to the thousands of still uncounted ballots.” The Court’s decision to hand the presidency to Bush stunned many legal observers, some of whom were O’Connor’s fellow justices. Retired Justice John Paul Stevens once recounted a story where he ran into fellow Justice Stephen Breyer at a party while a relatively early phase of the case was pending before the Court. According to Stevens, “[w]e agreed that the application was frivolous.” Indeed, Bush’s own lawyers were skeptical of the legal theory that ultimately made up the basis of the Court’s decision in Bush. As Ben Ginsberg, a top lawyer on Bush’s presidential campaign, explained in 2006, “just like really with the Voting Rights Act, Republicans have some fundamental philosophical difficulties with the whole notion of Equal Protection.” And, yet, O’Connor and four of her fellow Republicans joined together to embrace a particularly aggressive reading of Equal Protection — at least so long as it could put George W. Bush in the White House. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/29/1931821/after-casting-key-fifth-vote-for-bush-justice-oconnor-now-regrets-bush-v-gore/?mobile=nc

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!

So my high school girlfriend had a crush on John Cleese, and said I reminded her of him. Meanwhile I had a crush on her younger brother, so I suppose it all balanced out one way or another.

You know all British males are really gay, right?

My experience over the last few minutes has been the same as FourAces reports just now. Seems to randomly flick from fast to slooooow to fast and back again.

The skit from last night's White House Correspondents Dinner wasn't too bad... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SCk-Z4ekLSc

What do you think? (See also post below. )

Sickos.

A few minutes ago I was clicking in and out of threads with no problem. But just now, clicking on this thread title from the "New Content" thread roster, the site took about 50 seconds to let me into this thread. Likewise, when I clicked the Notification button a few moments ago, it took about 45 seconds to display a new Notification. This is on my Win7/FF laptop.

Yes!! Another nominee -- "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," scripted by of all people Roger Ebert. Best line in that one: "You will drink the black sperm of my vengeance!"

Like hito, I usually get good site performance when using my iPhone 4S/Safari. But on my Win7 laptop using FireFox I have the same site lag/hangup troubles as reported by others above.

SORRY! My mistaken memory. Somebody came out recently but not one of these guys. When I find it I'll post.

Is that the one who recently came out?

Another not-altogether-a-joke...

P.S. That is our local mental hospital here in Raleigh. Get the comparison? In other words, what Suckrates just said.

Right! Instead of there, just save time and go directly to http://www.hollyhillhospital.com. ...Same difference.

Whether you love the NYT's Thomas Friedman or otherwise, this is moderately hilarious... http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/Two+Worlds+Cracking+Up+4ca0fa ...a site that auto-generates a vacuous op-ed in just his style. Scroll to the bottom and click the <Generate New Column> button to generate another, and another, and... Disclosure -- I came across that in this Village Voice piece: Thomas Friedman, Still the Worst By Nick Pinto Wed., Apr. 24 2013 at 3:12 PM Write Comment Categories: New York Times NYTFriedmanForum.com The Oracular Orifice At this point, it is hardly a novel observation that Thomas Friedman, the mustachioed gentleman sitting atop some of the loftiest real estate in all of journalism (and also some pretty swanky residential real estate), is The Worst. We know. We know about his simpering defense of the Iraq invasion, about his comical taxicab journalism, about his techno-triumphalism and snake-oil jargony neologisms and the relentless and vapid celebration of globalized capitalism. We know because of the hilarious work of Belén Fernández, and the dogged antagonism of Hamilton Nolan and Matt Taibbi, and the world-flattening technological triumph that is the Friedman column-generating algorithm. Jesus, it is 2013. Fish. Barrels. We know. And yet ... Did you know that Thomas Friedman is convening a Global Forum for the New York Times called Thomas L. Friedman's The Next New World? Did you watch the promotional video on that page about how we all feel that the plumbing got hyperconnected while we were sleeping but we're not talking about it? Did you watch it all the way to the end? Did you snarf your coffee when Thomas Friedman dropped the knowledge that "If you don't start your day every day by asking this question, 'What world am I living in?', you're going to get yourself in a lot of trouble?" Did you know that agenda items will include such gnomic mysteries as The World We Live in Now Threats or Possibilities What Happened to Power? How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Everything What You Don't Know Is Coming Doing Business in the Next New World What an Education Is Going to Mean What Energy Is Going to Be Did you note approvingly how well the speakers list at this one-day Global Forum matches the demographics of our globe itself, whose human population is composed of 85 percent white guys? Did you know that if you act now, you can attend for the discounted rate of $995, joining 400 other invitees "drawn from the C-suite, from banking and V.C., from government and think tanks?" You can. You could. You should. What world are you living in? http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/04/thomas_friedman.php