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my world is so surreal today. - Andie Feb 19, 13:05 5
- I have a good one, from someone I won't name but not a coworker. - Max Feb 19, 13:15 1
  - that's... something. -- nm - Andie Feb 19, 13:17
- did you start comparing notes? -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 13:07
- even more surreal - ty97 Feb 19, 13:06 1
  - she's 50, it was 22 years ago. :) -- nm - Andie Feb 19, 13:07
NY court will hear suit against Canadian cruz eligibility -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 13:02
Shade -- (link) - ML Feb 19, 12:57 1
- *yawn* -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 13:01
4 SC GOP polls today. Trump down to single digit leads in 3/4. -- nm - ML Feb 19, 12:52 11
- 538's polling average still has him with a significant lead -- (link) - decline Feb 19, 12:57 1
  - 538 doesn't have today's polling in, but yes--he still has one -- nm - ML Feb 19, 12:58
- But somehow his odds to win SC have gone from -1400 to -3300 in the past 24 hours. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 19, 12:54 4
  - "It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning." -- nm - Max Feb 19, 13:00 1
    - and the way SC award its delegates, first place in a given district = all that district's delegates -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 13:04
  - I can see the logic in that. We're now 50% closer to actually voting and he's still ahead. - ty97 Feb 19, 12:57
  - because he's still leading--and the SC primary is tomorrow -- nm - ML Feb 19, 12:56
- Haley effect I presume? -- nm - ty97 Feb 19, 12:53 3
  - Rubio moved ahead of Cruz in 2/4; is MoE with Trump in 1/4. -- nm - ML Feb 19, 12:54 2
    - (it's appearing like another Rubio surge to close) - ML Feb 19, 12:57 1
      - Having the endorsement of the governor can not hurt -- nm - ty97 Feb 19, 12:58
(znu signal). Sometime this year, the W train is coming back. And the second avenue subway is o...o...opening? -- (link) - ty97 Feb 19, 12:48 1
- It's happening. It's *actually* happening. - znufrii Feb 19, 12:50
New Knology problem! -- nm - David Feb 19, 12:47 1
- *sets the Days Since counter back to zero* -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 12:57
my mom just texted me to tell me she's got to her resort in Mexico. She went on a trip with a radio station, for fun. -- (link) - Andie Feb 19, 12:44 8
- cool! -- nm - Diva Feb 19, 12:50 4
  - look at the flyer! does this look like something a 75 year old signs up for? - Andie Feb 19, 12:57 3
    - she got a man. -- nm - Diva Feb 19, 13:09 2
      - booty call!! -- nm - decline Feb 19, 13:13
      - seriously though, Riu resorts are nice. -- nm - Diva Feb 19, 13:10
- Did you think I was just sitting around after we ST divorced? -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:48
- Beautiful! Hope she has a great time! -- nm - mara Feb 19, 12:48
- Mom's gonna party! -- nm - decline Feb 19, 12:47
What the ever loving Louisiana: Albert Woodfox released from jail after *43 years in solitary confinement* -- (link) - ty97 Feb 19, 12:39 3
- "maybe cut off my balls and throw them through the bars the way I’ve seen others do when they couldn’t take any more." um, what? - Max Feb 19, 12:44 1
  - Well when you have three, you can stand to lose one or two. -- nm - Qale Feb 19, 12:55
- I'm sure he's now rehabilitated and well adjusted and will be able to successfully reenter society with no problems -- nm - decline Feb 19, 12:43
Update on the other site, from DL, posted by Tzukai, says The Witch might make 4M for Friday alone. - Facto Feb 19, 12:37 4
- satan wins! -- nm - decline Feb 19, 12:37 3
  - I mean, if you want to tell me you have It all figured out, I'll smile and back away slowly. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 19, 12:39 2
    - Risen seems to be the modern version of the film they were making in Hail Caesar. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 12:44 1
      - I cracked up when we got home and that was pretty much the first commercial we saw *Clooney Face* -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 19, 12:55
Although if something like God exists we're arrogant to think we're not like millions years of evolution away from... - Mel Profit Feb 19, 12:36 1
- Ants are not made by and in the form of a super highway, though. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:37
Trumpism of the day: Boycott Apple -- (link) - decline Feb 19, 12:32
No wonder is seems so bad out. They have been clocking 55mph wind gusts. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:29
Look who volunteers at a library #Office -- (link) - budice Feb 19, 12:24 3
- i need to go to there -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 12:40
- I had to look up who she was -- nm - decline Feb 19, 12:25 1
  - I was not sure until I clicked and saw her pic. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:27
Patton on Witch action. -- (link) - Spawn Feb 19, 12:23 3
- what's ***** stand for ? -- nm - decline Feb 19, 12:24 2
  - shark -- nm - ML Feb 19, 12:25 1
    - sharks are scary -- nm - decline Feb 19, 12:38
Hey Spawn did you roll over to Vintage for that Power Rangers comic? -- nm - Remlik Feb 19, 12:22 6
- You messaged after I had already been there. Have been swamped today so far. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:23 5
  - that's not the answer I need to hear. - Remlik Feb 19, 12:29 4
    - How many you need? - Spawn Feb 19, 12:30 3
      - at least 1. -- nm - Remlik Feb 19, 12:43 2
        
        Sold out and reprints were allocated to 20% so none of those, even. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:47 1
        
        thanks. we didn't even get reprints -- nm - Remlik Feb 19, 12:58
Huh. Brian Wilson is going to performing Pet Sounds at the Pitchfork Festival this year. -- nm - pmb Feb 19, 12:14 7
- he's doing the same thing with the Boston Pops this spring. -- nm - Diva Feb 19, 12:29
- Wednesday marked the 5oth anniversary of Beach Boys commencing recording sessions of "Good Vibrations". -- nm - Facto Feb 19, 12:27
- with a bunch of the Beach Boys as well. that's the REAL Beach Boys show. -- nm - Remlik Feb 19, 12:21 4
  - [yawn] -- nm - mud Feb 19, 12:32 1
    - I mean the Peter Gabriel show is the REAL Genesis show right? -- (edited) - Remlik Feb 19, 12:44
  - Yep. -- nm - pmb Feb 19, 12:30
  - *ding* -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:27
Are we watching Love on Netflix? -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:08 1
- you should - decline Feb 19, 12:14
Huh, Oregon just passed an interesting minimum wage increase. - znufrii Feb 19, 12:08
I'm tired of having to come to terms with things -- nm - prayformojo Feb 19, 11:51 11
- You're just... going to have to accept that. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 11:58 10
  - come to grips with it, as it were -- nm - ML Feb 19, 11:59 9
    - Maybe even learn to live with it -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 12:00 8
      - That which cannot be changed, must be endured. -- nm - znufrii Feb 19, 12:02 7
        
        *appears out of nowhere...tackles znu by the face...brings him down with a shriek (mine? his? does it matter?)... - Nekkid Crazy Mel Feb 19, 12:30 1
        
        *endures it* - znufrii Feb 19, 12:44
        
        If life gives you lemons throw them out and get a Coke. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:03 4
        
        Put them in the Coke, dummy. -- nm - Max Feb 19, 12:04 3
        
        You meant make it a Lemmy! -- nm - Remlik Feb 19, 12:20
        
        Yuerrk! -- nm - znufrii Feb 19, 12:05
        
        Heathen -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:04
Rams have released James Laurinaitis, Chris Long and Jared Cook. -- nm - ML Feb 19, 11:47 3
- *puppy head tilt* -- nm - spamlet Feb 19, 11:47 2
  - ouch -- (link) - Spawn Feb 19, 11:55
  - "Rams saving $24.525 million in cash and around $23M in cap space" -- nm - ML Feb 19, 11:52
This day and week have been *bonkers*. I might have to celebrate National Drink Wine Day retroactively. -- nm - ty97 Feb 19, 11:37 6
- I might indulge tonight as well, though it will probably end up being beer - znufrii Feb 19, 11:42 1
  - :( -- nm - Diva Feb 19, 11:43
- Day? lol. - Spawn Feb 19, 11:38
- I plan to continue celebrations. Join me! -- nm - Diva Feb 19, 11:38 2
  - woo-hoo! I'll meet you at CQ's place! -- nm - ty97 Feb 19, 11:38 1
    - We'll have to sanctify the ground first. Such wrongness has taken place there. Such, such wrongness... -- nm - Diva Feb 19, 11:39
Messi effortlessly scores from behind end line in training -- (link) - zork Feb 19, 11:36 1
- and there was this a little while ago too ... -- (link) - zork Feb 19, 11:38 [youtube]
Soccer ref shot and killed after showing player red card -- (link) - zork Feb 19, 11:33 1
- But not immediately after. Not like *card* *gun* "Oh sh-" -- nm - Max Feb 19, 11:35
Hateful 8 in our discount theaters. -- nm - budice Feb 19, 11:32
So, uh, what are we supposed to call the building now? -- (link) - spamlet Feb 19, 11:31
whyhasiandesmondnotsignedyet.com -- nm - groiny Feb 19, 11:29 6
- because he costs a draft pick - ML Feb 19, 11:31 4
  - That 105mil offer he turned down is a whoop'sie of epic proportions - Will Hunting Feb 19, 11:35 1
    - yeah, he chose.....poorly -- nm - ML Feb 19, 11:37
  - should be able to get him on the cheap because of the down year. - groiny Feb 19, 11:33 1
    - Should be able to, but that's only if he agrees to take it. - Will Hunting Feb 19, 11:36
- He tried but he missed the paper entirely. -- nm - spamlet Feb 19, 11:31
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I liked: "This should’ve been your biggest indicator that you need to hop the Nope Train to Fuck This Shitville." - Diva Feb 19, 11:27 4
- That was awesome -- nm - Pippy aka Non Drama Llama Feb 19, 11:38
- I caught that train yesterday. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 11:33
- i always miss that train -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 11:32 1
  - now I'm going to start feeling sad again... - Diva Feb 19, 11:34
TE Heath Miller has retired. -- nm - ML Feb 19, 11:18 4
- Awesome. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 19, 11:59 1
  - (since I drafted his heir apparent last season in SCUFFL) -- nm - Strongbad Feb 19, 12:01
- good -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 11:25
- adroitly? -- nm - prayformojo Feb 19, 11:19
Meanwhile, Scalia's legacy being debated somewhat sharply at his alma mater Georgetown -- (link) - prayformojo Feb 19, 11:17 31
- Wait, he's *your* fault? -- nm - David Feb 19, 11:33 6
  - oh god, mojo's a Hoya? - sweet baboo Feb 19, 11:37 5
    - I thought he always took the 2nd half of March off as a vacation...I had no idea it was work-related. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 19, 11:38 4
      - dum -- nm* - ML Feb 19, 11:38 3
        
        Thank you Captain Joke-Stomper. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 19, 11:40 2
        
        I think the Jeb news has him down. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:42
        
        :-/ -- nm - ML Feb 19, 11:41
- I hear a lot about him being considered a sharp legal mind, which seems at odds with his use of "strict Constructionism" as a crutch - TWuG Feb 19, 11:26 23
  - He was highly intelligent and used it well to get a great many people to see things his way. - Krusty Feb 19, 11:36 4
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      - You said it way better than I could. He really had a great way of changing the conversion in a direction that - Krusty Feb 19, 11:47 2
        
        Yes, and what's somewhat frustrating about it is that it has left the less knowledgable (right leaning) public with the impression that they lost the - pmb Feb 19, 12:12 1
        
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    - And didn't he always have one liberal clerk to challenge him? -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:11 2
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        Ah. I guess after 20 years he knew he was always right. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 13:03
    - Abd to be honest, there's nothing wrong with inconsistency per se. People should change their minds as they get better information, learn different - Roger More Feb 19, 11:43 9
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        My post was brought to you by one too many "Obama's position evolved" remarks -- nm* - Roger More Feb 19, 13:02
        
        He always struck me as "here's the result, now how do I justify it" kind of justice. -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 12:01 4
        
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        this was my experience as a clerk on an intermediate state court of appeal - sweet baboo Feb 19, 12:06
        
        Exactly this for me. My former law school professor (Posner) seems to have taken great joy over the last few years in excoriating Scalia for this. -- nm - pmb Feb 19, 12:06 1
        
        i'd give a hundred Scalias for one Posner -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 12:23
      - Sure, but his fiction was that he never changed his mind and his determinations were based solely on the text rather than his judgment and opinions. - pmb Feb 19, 11:46 1
        
        This. "Hey, it's mot *me* saying gays don't have rights, it's the Constitution...." -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 11:47
    - what other judge has opinions with insults towards the mental abilities of disentors, he's an arch trump -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 11:32
    - Right. I described him to someone as very smart but intellectually dishonest. He was the Ted Cruz of the SC. Devout to the original text (except - pmb Feb 19, 11:32
    - From his opponents point of view, who do you think they'd think of as worse: Scalia or Strom Thurmond? - Max Feb 19, 11:31 1
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Suits spoilers -- (edited) - Beaker Feb 19, 11:16 1
- #TheHellDidYouDo - Max Feb 19, 11:18

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