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- What's your biggest grammatical pet peeve?: Americans who "correct" British spelling.
- What piece of art would you steal?: Anything by Calder.
- What is your sweetest taboo?: Ferrero Rochet
3:58 AM
Brooklyn Reader commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
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2:41 PM yesterday
Brooklyn Reader commented on The City of Portland, Oregon Should Run for Washington Lieutenant Governor.
@10 I guess the confusing part for me was the phrase, "City Council." Where I live, the City Council passes local ordinances, and the Mayor signs them into law or vetoes them. There's not usually any direct ratification by the general electorate. Passing an unpopular measure might get councilmembers defeated at the next election, if the voters are still grumpy about it, but repeal generally involves another Council vote.
1:48 PM yesterday
Brooklyn Reader commented on Instant Karma Gonna Getchoo.
@7 I think she was just trying to get her phone back.
1:43 PM yesterday
Brooklyn Reader commented on The City of Portland, Oregon Should Run for Washington Lieutenant Governor.
Sorry. I can be a little over-literal at times. Right now, I'm having trouble parsing the stuff that came before, "Good news for dentists."
You mean that the measure to fluoridate is likely to be defeated by the voters? Or is the City Council authorized to pass the measure itself? In which case, huh?
Fluoridation is bad for dentists, I would think. Their bread and butter is repairing rotting teeth, and fluoridation reduces that. Well, unless you live in a hard-water area with high fluorides, in which case it can actually make teeth brittle.
You mean that the measure to fluoridate is likely to be defeated by the voters? Or is the City Council authorized to pass the measure itself? In which case, huh?
Fluoridation is bad for dentists, I would think. Their bread and butter is repairing rotting teeth, and fluoridation reduces that. Well, unless you live in a hard-water area with high fluorides, in which case it can actually make teeth brittle.
May 19
Brooklyn Reader commented on Slog Bible Study: Revelation 1:9.
Yet, we rejoice because Jinkx is our queen.
May 17
Brooklyn Reader commented on In the UK, Amazon Is a Welfare Queen.
Class warfare. Next question?
May 17
Brooklyn Reader commented on Wedding Crasher.
This is the real Conversion Therapy. With every happy (or fabulous!) gay wedding, several somewhat skeptical straight people get to see for themselves what a perfectly fine thing this is. A hesitant, homophobic society moves to tolerance and acceptance.
Love wins.
Love wins.
May 17
Brooklyn Reader commented on "What would you consider the number one priority in the making of Atlas Shrugged Part III?".
Have they found enough crazy people to even put up money to fund the thing?
Atlas I cost about $4 Mil. and grossed about $4 Mil. That's generally considered a loss, but possible to make up in DVD sales.
Atlas II cost about $10 Mil. and grossed about $3 Mil. That's a little harder to cover. They actually opened on over 1000 screens, but by the third week ticket sales dropped to near nothing.
Franchises and sequels usually need more of an audience than this. Starting with practically none in the first movie and getting even less from the second doesn't present a persuasive business argument for making the third.
Wouldn't making a sequel under such circumstances be inimical to Atlas Shrugged's expressed philosophy?
Atlas I cost about $4 Mil. and grossed about $4 Mil. That's generally considered a loss, but possible to make up in DVD sales.
Atlas II cost about $10 Mil. and grossed about $3 Mil. That's a little harder to cover. They actually opened on over 1000 screens, but by the third week ticket sales dropped to near nothing.
Franchises and sequels usually need more of an audience than this. Starting with practically none in the first movie and getting even less from the second doesn't present a persuasive business argument for making the third.
Wouldn't making a sequel under such circumstances be inimical to Atlas Shrugged's expressed philosophy?
May 17
Brooklyn Reader commented on SL Letter of the Day: Insane Demands.
@88 I would like to nominate you for a Great Achievements In Hyperbole award!
Seriously, that was awesome, creative, and highly readable.
Seriously, that was awesome, creative, and highly readable.
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Looking up my own state, New York, in Wikipedia shows it to be a lot weirder than I thought it would be. It appears, from the way the law reads, that kids below the age of 16 can have all the sex they want with anyone else who's under the age of 16, and anyone 17 or older can have sex with anyone who's 17 or over. Sixteen-year-olds, however, are either criminals, victims, or both if they have any sex with anyone, including touching through clothing. Including with their steady sexually-active girlfriend/boyfriend of the day before their own 16th birthday.
I'm all for protecting kids from predatory adults, but it's a little less than sane to make sex offenders out of ordinary teens being ordinary teens.
What the older girl in Florida would be guilty of in New York, though, because of their age difference, is just a class-B misdemeanor.