AdamSmith

Exactly. As is also (slight hijack here, but worth noting over and over) every argument against marriage equality that relies on religious tradition.

Yes, you definitely came out on top in this exchange... ...hope that position is one you favor!

Very good! ...Do you like your trannies to be female up top/male down below, or the other way around?

Having no problems on the iPhone 4S. ...though I have not yet checked what Siri thinks of the change. P.S. My avatar even shows up on mobile with this new environment! Thankee! to the programmers. The new envt is noticeably faster on my phone also.

Our collective restraint in not snickering at his surname is admirable. ...Was.

Try the recipe for Irish chicken soup (old Boston Irish joke on themselves)... Ingredients: - hat - four-poster bed - bottle of Irish whiskey Directions: - hang hat on one of the bedstead footposts - take to bed with the bottle - drink until there are two hats ...funnier when told by an Irishman. Especially when he's wearing two hats.

The Economist, not always big on liberal leftish politicians, consistently expresses fierce admiration for Carter in his post-official capacity. They particularly enjoy reporting whenever he "comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable."

Thank you for this news! Look forward to seeing how he does with it. Bunch more nice stills here... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2117102/Daniel-Radcliffe-channels-inner-geek-new-role-Beat-poet-Allen-Ginsberg.html Wonder who is playing Burroughs? One of my favorite writers. In college, wolfed down Naked Lunch in one sitting.

Impiety: Your irreverence toward my deity. -- Ambrose Bierce. "Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothese-la." -- Pierre-Simon Laplace's classic reply to Napoleon. The great scientist had explained his theory of planetary motion to the emperor, whereupon Napoleon asked, "But where is God in all this?" Laplace: "I had no need of that hypothesis."

Autonomous ground vehicle navigation, i.e., robotic car technology, has gotten a lot of funding from DARPA as well as private industry and contributions by university researchers. The military's interest is in taking ground troops out of harm's way, much as UAVs are already making possible in the skies. But academia and private industry (auto and others) are in it equally if not more so to slash civilian traffic fatalities and injuries. Now Google's backing of such R&D is adding to the momentum as well as awareness. It sounds too Jetsons, I know. But the computing, sensing and positioning technologies needed to enable it are farther along than might be expected, and progressing faster every month. Granted, counter to my own argument here, I do remain convinced that many of Toyota's acceleration problems arose from flawed electronic/"intelligent" on-board systems, not just the floor-mat or sticky-pedal hogwash claimed. Nevertheless, having seen some of the DARPA-backed events and technologies in person, and talked with a number of the key development people, their progress convinces me that we are a lot closer to fixing the car than to fixing the driver.

I'd rather live for one. See also Woody Allen: "I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment."

He is in Porto Alegre! Gloriously. See his reports in the Latin American section of the forum.

"...more brain atrophy," actually; also those with "no religious affiliation." Odd. Intriguing. Not enough details here, but still: http://mobile.philly.com/health/?wss=/philly/health&id=132456883

I still can be. What are you waiting for? Now, between Louis Edmonds and me, as far as who bought whom, let discretion be the better part of valor.

Note the Warner trailer has been re-activated. The more I watch this, the more I love it. Consider me sold.

BTW, in the opening frame of that clip, do we see Roger having OJ for breakfast while Hoffman has what looks to be a glass of whiskey?! This flick may rule. P.S. Just reran vid. Evidently not a breakfast scene, as it includes Barnabas? In any case, Julia's alcoholism is said to be played up much more in the new film than in the original series. But rewatching the clip a couple more times, I more and more suspect Burton and Depp may have gotten their vision right. We'll see.

ROFL What a great tranny motto -- Service & Rebuild!

I don't know ... This slant might just work to draw in today's audiences. I am as die-hard in the DS One True Faith as they come (e.g., steeped in drinking sessions with classically trained Frid, who is quite the lush, musing together for example over how various DS storylines mapped to Northrop Frye's theory in "Anatomy of Criticism" of the 4 Shakespearean genres. With Lara Parker, a former high school EnglIsh teacher, keeping both of us in line. All the while trying to keep our voices down lest John Karlen overhear and wander over to puncture our pomposities). Ahem. Anyway, Depp has been reported saying how the movie is such a mix of many moods and inflections and, yes, genres. Making it difficult to pick out any one note on which to market it. So I feel pretty sanguine that this trailer may just show one of many aspects of the flick. Also I don't object to the wry notes shown. That may be imperative today; Depp has pulled it off before, injecting that subtly self-aware/self-referential/faintly self-mocking note into even such solemn portrayals as in Legend of Sleepy Hollow. At minimum, it will avoid the deadly leaden lugubrious tone that helped sink the 1991 Ben Cross TV revival series. ... Pulse quickens with anticipation!

Even more, Jonathan Capehart in The Washington Post notes that incoming HRC head Chad Griffin and partner Jerome Fallon were seated at the head table. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/same-sex-marriage-the-state-dinner-and-the-presidents-table/2011/03/04/gIQAqyHxES_blog.html Apparently Obama has made it a standard State Dinner practice to include a same-sex couple at his table.

God'll get me for this... ...First you get down on your knees, Fiddle with your rosaries, Bow your heads with great respect And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect! I feel much better now. I really do.

Best caption so far!

'Tis better to receive...?

If you know anything about dogs, you know EXACTLY where they love to stick their face, if they have any say in the matter. A longtime escort friend likes to say, "Men aren't pigs. We're just dogs!"

You have a point. That's more like marriage.

Hint hint: puzzle out MsGuy's observatio above.