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Re: “Snake charmers in the Everglades”
I am SO glad someone else shares my point on this bogus witch hunt to slaughter snakes--and actually had the balls to publish it.
Re: “What’s the matter with Milo?”
I cannot sympathize with you enough Scott! I understand completely what it means to be willing to shell out an inordinate amount of money on what is “just a dog”. I’ve done it twice. The first time, I ended up having to put him down, but I found solace in the fact that I at least tried to get him better. This time around, I am still unsure of how it’s going to end. Since April, my Basset Hound Murray has had a number of health issues, including eye irritation, Horner’s syndrome, numerous ear infections, facial nerve paralysis, dry eyes and nose, etc. Here-in lays the issue: as of the last “specialist” visit, they found that his right ear drum is bulging. They said there could be any number of reasons for this. I am taking him back for a “deep ear exam” to find out what the cause is. After months of vet visits, I am so ready for some answers and treatment options! And I would like to do it without utterly and completely going broke. I feel your pain, in a multitude of ways. I wish you and Milo the best of luck with his recovery!
Re: “What’s the matter with Milo?”
After reading this, I cannot sympathize with you enough Scott! This article tugged at my heart, because I understand completely what it means to be willing to shell out an inordinate amount of money on what is “just a dog”. I’ve done it twice. The first time, I ended up having to put him down, but I found solace in the fact that I at least tried to get him better. This time around, I am still unsure of how it’s going to end. Since April, my Basset Hound Murray has had a number of health issues, including eye irritation, Horner’s syndrome, yeast, bacterial, and middle ear infections, facial nerve paralysis, dry eyes and nose, etc. Here-in lays the issue: as of the last “specialist” visit, I was told that his right ear drum is bulging. They said there could be any number of reasons for this. I am taking him back next week for a “deep ear exam” to find out what the cause is. After months of vet visits, I am so ready for some answers and treatment options! And I would like to do it without utterly and completely going broke. I feel your pain, in a multitude of ways. I wish you and Milo the best of luck with his recovery!
Re: “What’s the matter with Milo?”
Great article and very good to hear he's on the road to recovery. Milo will live to terrorize another day!
Re: “Scientists find God?”
originally it was dubbed the "god damned particle" but the editors/publishers of the scientific paper made him revise it. Not every one can work for a rag as cool as the Creative Loafing.
Re: “Genitology 101”
Thank you, Scott. I loved this article so much, I'm officially moving my naughtybits to "Portugal" :-D
Re: “Genitology 101”
As it happens, my marbles WERE named Tango & Cash, but in a misguided attempt to stay hip, I had the names changed to Eastbound & Down.
Re: “Constant comments”
Between this, another article I came across by a guy named Brandon K something about sexism in gaming, and Cracked's feminist leanings, this warms my heart as an outspoken feminist male.
Re: “Constant comments”
Not hard to build at all. Lemme know.
Re: “Constant comments”
"Mallet of Loving Correction." is my favorite BANHAMMER colloquialism ever.
Re: “Constant comments”
"It should ask a randomly generated common-knowledge question, or even one related to the site’s theme ..." I fucking LOVE this idea. Somebody build it ... now. Oh, and Kenny Rogers.
Re: “The worst traffic in the world”
try london england if you want WORLD traffic to compare
Re: “Change is a pain in the ass”
Your comments are definitely noted. Sometimes, though, I think it's easier to demonize conservatives for their famous resistance to change (it's right there in the title, after all), than to ask progressives why they're always talking about the possible future where everything is different, as opposed to applying that energy to going ahead and making the small, doable tweaks to the future that got here while I was typing this comment. I know some are doing just that, and we see them in the pages of this newspaper. I'd like to see more of that "look what we're actually doing - it may not be sustainable 100--foot wind farms, but it's something" approach to making the unsexy changes in the "mainstream left" [CABLE NEWS BUZZ TERM COINAGE ALERT!]. - Scott
Re: “Change is a pain in the ass”
I'm not sure I agree with this.
A large number of the changes which factual study tells us would be good to make aren't made because "they're agin' God's Will".
"No, no; let's not try new things" is the slogan of the Conservative movement, and as we all know, it's much easier to rev people up with accusations of scurrilousness than it is with mercy and goodness and sweetness and light, by inspection. And it's pretty easy to scare people from on top, and that makes them lean towards the conservative side as well.
This doesn't apply to all of the types of changes you note, of course, but I think it's true of a working majority.
I predict this comment will garner seven or more reply comments from conservatives, one of which will be written in both cases, and spelled and punctuated properly.
And you know me: if I'm getting this stridently partisan, things have gotten pretty bad.
(PS: The "birth" reference may be to the speech Adam Selene makes after the Lunar revolution in Heinlein's _The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress_; "birth means blood and pain; there has been some"...)
Re: “The worst traffic in the world”
LA.
Much, much worse.
20 lane parking lot.
Traffic in Brandon is why I moved north. . .
Re: “The worst traffic in the world”
I think the implication by the author is that it would be the aggressive driver using coarse, offensive language such as "bitchfag," not that the author was using that word to describe said aggressive drivers...
Re: “The worst traffic in the world”
I stopped reading at 'bitchfag'
Re: “The worst traffic in the world”
I agree, but do visit this area occasionally for that wonderful huge shopping center than contains Green Island/MD Oriental/Saigon Cafe.
Re: “Seminole Heights Scavenger hunt”
I saw some shows at the Dogtrack parking lot off of Bird Street. I believe it was put on by the Cephias kids.