On Act of Valor: "The film has no politics in it and it’s not a war movie"
I'd just like to know if these active duty servicemembers were actually, y'know, on active duty (i.e. receiving taxpayer dollar$, no Paulo) while filming this movie.
If, say, Kinkos employees filmed a movie about working at Kinkos at the Kinkos they work at while they were on the clock, wouldn't they get fired, unless said movie was actually just 100% pro-Kinkos propaganda?
What I'm saying is that probably everybody involved with this movie should go to prison.
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On Most Nomophobes Secretly Want To Lose Their Phone
"Nomophobia"? What's the derivation? If it's "no"+"mo(bile)"+phobia, I am gonna slap somebody. (If it's fr/the Greek νόμος ('nomos,' law, tradition [in the "Fiddler on the Roof" sense], that wouldn't make much sense either.)
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On Cop Chases Himself
@Amasa Amos Now all we need is for someone to rotoscope the footage
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On Rihanna's "We Found Love" Vs. Friends' "I'm His Girl"
@LondonLee Right? They definitely left "1979-1983" out of the special thanks section in the credits.
OTOH: My fist apt in BK was like 2 blocks from where they shot that video. I have fond memories of buying overpriced produce at Mr Kiwi.
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On America's Disappearing Pay Phones
In related news, rates of ear herpes have dropped drastically.
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On Jon Stewart, Stop Hurting America!
This is part of the reason why I think that Radley Balko's criticism of Rick Perry's death penalty record (http://www.theagitator.com/2011/08/12/rick-perry-poster-boy-for-limited-government/, posted well before the last debate) is the most cogent: we can talk about the proper role of government in everyday life, but you can't say that the State is too dumb to give people health insurance properly but is ALWAYS CORRECT when it comes to "ultimate justice."
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On What I Learned in Two Years at the Tea Party
Thanks for this, Abe. I'm sick and tired of people trying to pretend that the Tea Party is at all concerned with economics or personal freedom in any way. If I have to hear "freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom FROM religion" one more time, I'm gonna vomit.
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On When Exactly Did It Get Cool To Be A Geek?
Can we at least all agree that those "I <3 Geeks" t-shirts are crap?