We don't actually have any sort of twilight this time of year in Stockholm, even though the sun does go down for about 5½ hours. It gets dark only if it happens to be cloudy between 2200 and 0330.
Not quite the midnight sun thing you hear about (that's further north), but it still takes some getting used to.
And theology is a tool of fascists.
Which clearly explains the wanton tyranny of the pre-Constantine church, which I mean in the most sarcastic tone possible.
"theological need to preserve free will" == "remain ambiguous in order to maintain free will"
If faith were like a mathematical proof, there would still be deniers (due to human perversity) but the intellectual basis for denial would be removed. So you instead have a situation which all sub-fanatical believers have to admit is not provable, at least here under the sun.
Hopefully the Almighty digs your schtick when you meet Him.
You really need some better reading material.
And you're THE ONLY ONE who can see this... right.
3: "Free" music. I'm sure people are happy that all their favorite bands are downloaded, but there are no new bands to replace them. There will not be a Freddie Mercury or groups like Pink Floyd, Nine Inch Nails, or other items. What you listen to in the mainstream is now dictated word for word, and note by note by corporate drones. The same formula for songs is repeated over and over again. Thanks to piracy, a vibrant, expressive form of art is completely dead, with only predigested stuff available now, or amateur hacks with their ironic beards and acoustic guitars crooning about their cat because everyone else is doing exactly that.
Are you sure you were around 20 years ago? Mainstream/formula music has been around since the dawn of commercial audio recording. Blaming its existence on piracy is silly, and just makes you sound like a **AA shill.
Obama will be part of that ascending curve. Thing about culture and societies, even ideologies - they're trial and error. There's a reason the troglodytes screaming and trying to shame young women outside abortion clinics aren't gaining any traction: Because people mostly, and basically decent, and it's in part the residual of the European Enlightenment that has made them so and keeps them so and keeps them moving in the right direction. Guys like Smitty make the mistake of thinking it's been "Judeo Christian values" and "The Constitution" that have kept us together two and a half centuries, but it's neither. It's a basic desire among Americans to try to find some agreeable way to live together and to know when it's time to bend those hoary old chestnuts to make a decent life possible for more people.
Barack Obama is the Twilight of the Progressive Gawdz.
The warmed-over Marxism, the Policy of Failure, has failed.
What remains to be seen is how close we veer to the French Revolution as the whole Progressive Project, with its used-car sales pitches about "mak[ing] a decent life possible for more people" by just mortgaging the future, simply crashes in its effort to over-rule the laws of Economics.
No, they're reporting that it ran in the NYT, which is exactly what they're supposed to be doing.
I believe you intended to say "HTML isn't as popular a beverage".
I hate it when poor delivery spoils what would have been a good punch line.
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
