May 15
Warren Terra commented on Is Ricky Gervais Losing It?.
See also the whole "mong" kerfuffle, in which Gervais was, at best, an utter tool.
May 15
Warren Terra commented on If the Seattle Times Can Afford 7 Editorial Board Members, Surely It Can Afford an Ombudsman.
May 15
Warren Terra commented on If the Seattle Times Can Afford 7 Editorial Board Members, Surely It Can Afford an Ombudsman.
I haven't even looked at your search engine, but a simple Google search finds more than 120 posts containing "Ed Murray", though to be fair there are some flaws in this methodology ("Ed Murray" appearing in the Comments or appearing elsewhere on the page would generate a viable search hit). Even with those caveats, I'm guessing that more than 16 of those 121+ posts feature Ed Murray in the text of the post.
May 14
Warren Terra commented on Which Fox TV Series Looks Worse?.
Now that I've watched the trailers: Sleepy Hollow looks like a bad, dumb show. There are lots of those. Dads looks like it makes me regret the human species.
May 14
Warren Terra commented on Which Fox TV Series Looks Worse?.
You may be cooking the poll a bit, what with only one option being presented.
May 14
Warren Terra commented on Quick, Everyone, Insert the Word "Homeless" into Whatever You're Writing.
So, let me get this straight: Jonathan Martin wrote an editorial in The Seattle Times complaining that people were writing in The Stranger about The Seattle Times when instead they could be covering mental health issues, or homelessness.
Martin's not wrong, I suppose, though it's really none of his business what other people choose to write about. But what bastard forced Martin to betray his own principles? In what unspeakable manner was he compelled to write this editorial about the misplaced priorities of the writers at The Stranger, instead of writing about mental health issues, or about homelessness? Physician, Heal Thyself!
(Also: will he have to pay to read his own editorial in his own paper?)
Martin's not wrong, I suppose, though it's really none of his business what other people choose to write about. But what bastard forced Martin to betray his own principles? In what unspeakable manner was he compelled to write this editorial about the misplaced priorities of the writers at The Stranger, instead of writing about mental health issues, or about homelessness? Physician, Heal Thyself!
(Also: will he have to pay to read his own editorial in his own paper?)
May 13
Warren Terra commented on That's How Come They Got to be Managers at a Movie Theater in Missouri.
I especially like the idiots doing this at a superhero movie, not even a year since the Aurora, CO shooting at a Batman screening.
May 13
Warren Terra commented on They Need More To Do On the International Space Station.
@#39
I agree with you about the importance of space colonization; I'd even take a sort of "Manifest Destiny" line, that even were there no risk to our species by our all remaining on the Earth it is our destiny to colonize our solar system, and to contemplate still greater expanses.
But: sending a bunch of clothed apes to twiddle their thumbs in orbit is not space colonization. It's not even progress towards space colonization. At the very most, it is an advertisement that might cause the smaller-minded of our brethren not to forget a shared vision of eventual space colonization.
If we indeed want space colonization, the place to work on that goal is, for the time being, here on Earth. We currently lack both the technology and the industrial resources to achieve real space colonization, and we're only going to build those down here. Sending a small handful of jet pilots to whirl bootlessly around the planet on the far end of an umbilical cord of consantly replenished airlifted supplies is a cargo-cult parody of space colonization; its only achievements are symbolic.
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I agree with you about the importance of space colonization; I'd even take a sort of "Manifest Destiny" line, that even were there no risk to our species by our all remaining on the Earth it is our destiny to colonize our solar system, and to contemplate still greater expanses.
But: sending a bunch of clothed apes to twiddle their thumbs in orbit is not space colonization. It's not even progress towards space colonization. At the very most, it is an advertisement that might cause the smaller-minded of our brethren not to forget a shared vision of eventual space colonization.
If we indeed want space colonization, the place to work on that goal is, for the time being, here on Earth. We currently lack both the technology and the industrial resources to achieve real space colonization, and we're only going to build those down here. Sending a small handful of jet pilots to whirl bootlessly around the planet on the far end of an umbilical cord of consantly replenished airlifted supplies is a cargo-cult parody of space colonization; its only achievements are symbolic.
May 13
Warren Terra commented on Passenger Ejected from Plane for Singing "I Will Always Love You".
@#10
Logically, in a ideal world people wouldn't be crowding in for the best camera angle, whether their camera is mounted on an eyeglass frame or otherwise; they'd be sharing the views from the cameras already closest to the scene and already having the best angles. It'd be the people without networked cameras and display devices who'd be crowding in for a better view.
Logically, in a ideal world people wouldn't be crowding in for the best camera angle, whether their camera is mounted on an eyeglass frame or otherwise; they'd be sharing the views from the cameras already closest to the scene and already having the best angles. It'd be the people without networked cameras and display devices who'd be crowding in for a better view.
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I suppose it's progress that this fnck harassed Cienna with a furtive whisper and then ducked away, that unlike a generation ago he didn't feel entitled and empowered by society to proudly and openly harass her. But hardly enough progress: he still got the job done, the job being to demean someone so he felt better. Sad.