Comments by LaContra

Indeed.
A lone memorable advert in a sea of dross.
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Its not prose or literature
It's advertising.
It panders to the lowest common denominator, a dull witticism or a basic play on words aimed at the average prole trudging along their daily subway commute.

Rue the day that subway advertising becomes sharp, witty, intelligent, and urbane and that we notice or care.
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No I'd say that responsible intelligent political discourse was the first casualty.....with T-Paw, mongo Michelle, and horny Herman just rounding out the list so far

Perhaps you should rebrand yourself as Connect the Dots 2.0...?
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Unless you can suggests a more useful phrase, no?
Me? No.
But then I'm not looking for pithy catchphrase to replace actual analysis.

Connect the Dots...

Is everything and everybody you comment on a 2.0 version of something or someone else?
Time to try a different angle

Kill 'em all, or stop. But if we stop, how 'bout we don't keep making nice?

You might want to give some thought to what the world might look like today had we followed such myopic advice post-1945.

Santorum's poll result is an example of Churchill's quote:
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."

Basically Romney is the eventual choice, probably the right choice, but Americans will only choose the best candidate after having toyed with the other candidates available.

I wonder if 'enhanced' screenings mean that one is given a pat down by a TSA employee to the point of climax?

The underclass?
I think I met one of those once.

Neo-Chartalist

Unfortunate moniker, when I first glanced at it I thought it read
Neo-Charlatan

Because politics, government, and the economy requires polymathic multitasking whereas the politicians, the media, and the electorate are hopelessly nobbled by a pervasive ADD-like inability to focus on more than one thing at a time.

Do people really change their minds, their attitudes and mores?
Or do they just focus on the next big thing and the former issues become, quite quickly, simply less important?

I remember my quite conservative elderly mother railing against gay marriage as the harbinger of the end of western civilisation ....until they started to cut Medicare and her pension subsidies.
Never hear a word about gay marriage anymore and when asked the answer is:
"Oh who cares about that? People should be more worried about the economy!"

I got the same emails here in Ukraine (where I obviously don't have a home delivery subscription)...Though I came across the apology email first and had to then reverse engineer what the hell they were apologising for in the first place.
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I hope you aren't a Ron Paul volunteer in Iowa secretly scribbling your Paulite nonsense on the TE forums!

Because you know the new rules as reported in the NYT!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/us/politics/ron-pauls-young-iowa-volun...

To look, dress, shave, sound and behave in a way that will not jeopardize Mr. Paul’s chances.
To cover up tattoos and that faces should be fresh-shaved or beards neatly trimmed,
Wear only nice clothes that could be described as “business casual.”
No liquor, no drugs and no “fraternizing in the dorms, nothing like that.”

Indeed, if in doubt you apparently should ask yourself...
“What would Ron Paul do?”

(Oh dear!...and they wonder why its branded a CULT)

....And of course the Paulite Volunteer Zombies are under orders not to speak to journalists or make postings on social media sites about their activities in Iowa.

Free speech?
Not if Ron Paul says otherwise kid

So apparently Paul is quite willing to sacrifice liberty and freedom, on the well worn alter of political expediency and his supporters are more than willing to simply 'do as they are told' by a political authority figure.

So much for the winds of political change

Nah it can't be that Martin...you could only edit before actually posting the comment remember?

I miss the edit button too.
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bampbs....did you read the comments section on Cassandra's predictions for 2012?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2012/2011/12/crowded-politics-2012

Inquiring minds want to know.....

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EG....

You should perhaps take a judicious pause before you denounce god's followers doing what is clearly his will on earth.

Why be surprised?
If god works in mysterious ways then, one imagines, so too would his minions....anyway god doesn't do democracy.

You're having a laff...ain't ya?

Players of this calibre cheating and fixing matches is the equivalent of Tiger Woods throwing the lead in a major tournament for a bookie to fix the game. Tom Brady purposely throwing an interception to lose a NFL play off game. Roger Federer tampering with a ball at Wimbledon after his service set to disadvantage his opponent. Or maybe Lewis Hamilton getting paid to run into Sebastian Vettel to stop him winning a race.

You guys are deluded in your defence of cheating and corruption in the game of Cricket....

Can you imagine elite footballers like Ronaldhino or Lionel Messi, tennis greats like Rafael Nadal, golfing prodigies like Rory McIlroy, rugby icons like Johnny Wilkinson,or NFL phenomena such as Aaron Rodgers.....actually outright cheating? Throwing games and fixing matches for bookmakers? Illegally betting on the outcomes of their own games?

You can blindly defend cricket all you like...I have more respect for the game than any of you lot, that's why I can point to the parlous state of the elite game today.

Oh and Omicron states that we should be thankful that cricket is in a comparatively less corrupt state than most things on the sub continent?...
(i)That is setting the threshold for acceptance of corruption very low
(ii)Cheaters like Shane Warne, Steve Waugh, Hansie Cronjie, Mike Atherton, Marcus Trescothik, Stuart Broad, and James Anderson are hardly indicative of cheating issues pursuant only to the sub-continent.

These are examples of a pervasive rot which infects international cricket all the way to the very highest professional levels and call yourself cricket fans? You should all be ashamed of yourselves for making lame excuses in its defence.

Sure, each to his own but lets not gild the lily here

"fact that integrity and honour have indeed been trifled with by a few"......?

We aren't talking some minor fringe players who have tried to earn a few illicit dollars on the side. These aren't some second string, second rate journeymen cricketers or washed up has beens...

No. Cricket, as a truly international game, is almost alone in the depth and breadth of its cheating and corruption.

Mark Waugh AM: One of Australia's greatest Test batsmen Match Fixing & Illegal Betting .
Shane Warne: Arguably the greatest spin bowler ever Match Fixing & Illegal Betting
Sachin Tendulkar: Greatest run and century scorer ever Ball Tampering
Hansie Cronje: Captain of the South African national team Match Fixing & Betting
Waqar Younis: Pakistan's greatest fast bowler & youngest ever Test captain Ball Tampering
Mike Atherton OBE: Captain of the England Ball Tampering

There are plenty of other examples but these men are giants of the game not anonymous reserve grade players.....if the top flight players are proven cheats then what to expect of the average journeyman cricketer?

Cricket stands above all other sports for its integrity, honour...

Ahh yes...

So would that include the Indian bookmaker paying Cronje to throw Test matches?
...and the Australians Shane Warne and Mark Waugh in the pay of yet again another Indian bookie?
...or of course the latest spot-fixing scandal with 3 Pakistani international players sentenced to prison?

Not to mention esteemed Mr Tendulkar himself being suspended for ball tampering during a Test match!

Integrity and honour indeed...

I've often wondered about the obviously rampant cheating in international cricket...Perhaps the players do it so as to be banned thus giving them a legitimate reason to never have to play such a mind-numbingly boring game ever again.
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I said the same thing and I grew up with the damn game.

As George Bernard Shaw said:
The English are not a spiritual people so cricket was invented to give them some idea of eternity.