LOL, the Rapture is coming tomorrow. Tee-hee.

When you consider who it's coming from though, it's par for the course.

Knebby wasn't talking about the image Jafin posted, she was referring to something from earlier in the thread.

I believe you mean "off-putting" not "off pudding".

Speaking of, I was at this restaurant not long ago and they had a bacon-wrapped chicken cordon bleu on the menu. It sounded delicious.

The Cleveland Browns do not reference Native Americans. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Browns#cite_note-4]

Blaming Americans for everything is what a lot of people around the world do best.

You know, just because a football team uses the word doesn't mean it's okay. Native American groups have been petitioning them to change their name for years. They only recently got the Braves and the Indians (MLB) to get rid of their cartoonish caricatures of Indians as mascots.....and both of those teams have been around a lot longer than the Redskins have been in the NFL. It's anachronistic, and while maybe many people at large might not find the word "redskin" racist, Native Americans do.

Well hell, if he's going to use the term "redskin" to refer to Native Americans, he should just go all out and call black people "colored", Asians "Orientals", and Jews "Hebes". I mean, if you're going to do it, go for the gold. When was the last time you cracked open a history book?

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Tea For One, and for me it's not even close.

You know as sure as there is oxygen in your lungs, that as much as it would be painful to see Robert, Jimmy, and JPJ limp around on stage the way The Who (or what's left of them anyway) are, nearly half the people here would shit their pants to make it happen anyway. On one hand, they're your favorite band and you want to see them, on the other they're your favorite band and you don't want them to embarrass themselves and then suffer the negative press that it would attract.

I forgot just how good this song was until it popped up in my iTunes. Then I remembered how much I loved it, and also how much I played it to death when it came out.

Please be kidding.

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Just out of curiosity, how does not believing in God equal believing in nothing? Is your God everything, and thus if you don't believe in it, there's nothing left?

There's nothing wrong with being an atheist. Just like there's nothing wrong with being a Christian, or a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist, or a Zoroastrian, or whatever other denomination you choose to follow. The non-belief in a God/Gods is just as valid a course of life as a belief in a God/Gods. Life would suck if everyone was the same. My atheism doesn't make me less of a person than someone who has some kind of religious faith, and people who have faith are not less of a person to me. So I'm not sure what your point was.

Why don't they have more fans? *sigh* I guess they got a "frat rap" reputation in the late 80s and for some people it never quite wore off. It's a little disheartening, because even if rap music isn't really your forte (and I'm one of those people), they are really solid musicians and you can hear a lot of live instrumentation in their work, so it's not just the three of them rapping over half a dozen samples and someone scratching a turntable. Ah well, that's their loss.

Well, there's racists everywhere (not just here in the South), but not all of them are "out" about it, at least not like it used to be 60 years ago. You're likely to see more passive racism anymore than anything else. I live in a smaller town between Winston-Salem and Greensboro, but because it's sandwiched between two big cities, it's not as "small town" as places a bit more rural further west and south in the state. Also, there's a lot of transplanted northerners here, especially from the Midwest and Northeast, so these areas are influenced by that. I've been to Alabama, I've been to Mississippi, I've been to South Carolina......you wanna talk about racism. Holy sh!t. I've seen more blatant and obvious racism in those states than I ever have anywhere else, and I've lived in Georgia besides. However, just so that it doesn't appear that I am bagging on the South and making it sound like the only people who live here wear hoods, one of the most passively racist cities I've ever been in is my own hometown of Chicago. The kind of racism that existed up north was de facto, rather than de jure. Meaning, it wasn't legislated, people just chose to live in communities with people from their own neck of the woods, and the city still is very, very segregated. The North side of the city is predominately white and rather well-off, like middle to upper-middle class, whereas the South and Southwest sides of the city are predominately minorities and poor. Part of that is because back in the day, the heavy industry of Chicago was in that area, and the wealthier people (read: white) could afford to move into areas that didn't have the stink of steel mills and the Union Stock Yards. The people who couldn't afford to move were the blacks and Irish who then settled in and lived in those communities. Our outgoing mayor is from Bridgeport, which is on the Southwest side, and is almost 100% Irish, even to this day. And yes, the Irish were considered minorities just like the African-Americans who came up from the South. In the early 20th century, you did not want to be Irish and immigrate to the United States. That's not something I'm proud of, it's my hometown, but it demonstrates how racism is still very predominant in American society, even in parts of the country where you wouldn't outwardly think it exists.

I live in North Carolina, and there's a lot of misconceptions about the South. I'm not Southern by birth, I'm from Chicago, but I would say that a vast majority of the people I encounter in my day-to-day life here are the exact opposite of whatever stereotypes people have about Southerners or people who live here. I would preface that by that saying the stereotypes exist for a reason. My family and I drove out to Asheville last fall to see Biltmore house and all the great foliage in the mountains, and when you head that far west into the state......you're going to encounter clusters of communities who think the Civil War is still being fought a few miles outside town. When we stopped at a local diner to grab a bite to eat, the waitress who took our order had a pin on her shirt that had a KKK insignia on it. My dad told the woman we still needed a few minutes to decide what to order and when she walked away from the table, we got up and left. I'd rather go hungry than patronize a place that would hire someone like that. Like I said though, that's not the majority of people you're going to find around here. There's a lot of people, both natives and transplants alike, who look at that woman as an example of why the South needs to radically reshape its image.

While I don't always agree with Bill Maher, I think the overall point that he made in that monologue was pretty damn accurate -- there's a lot of people in this country who profess to be Christians, that are about as far from Christ-like as a person can get. I don't think there's anything wrong with being happy that someone like Osama Bin Laden caught it, but there is something rather hypocritical about people who follow the teachings of a man who said love your neighbor and turn the other cheek, having parties when someone dies, regardless of who that someone is. Just own the hypocrisy, rather than pretending it doesn't exist. In a way, I'm glad I'm an atheist and I don't need to worry about what a book of ancient Hebrew fairy tales suggests I do or don't do. I can just do what is right for but hurts no one else, and be done with it.

Paul's Boutique is awesome (and not just because they sampled Pink Floyd ) because it was really sh!t on when it came out, and was never really appreciated completely unti decades later. My fave B-Boy is Ad-Rock. He's one hell of a guitarist, too.

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