Madmen Character Alignments

Sarah And Her Teleprompter

Oh Wiki...

"Groove Is In the Heart" is a funky, cheerful^{[citation needed]} love song that compares the new feelings of infatuation with hearing a good ("groovy") song.

I suppose it's true that "cheerful" is a subjective property: what cheers you might dispirit me. But, a citation won't solve that problem; a citation here just would just substitute somebody else's subjective definition of "cheerful" for the Wiki author's subjective definition. And then where would we be? We'd be nowhere, that's where.

On the other hand:

The depth of hula groove
Moves us to the n^th hoop
We’re going through too
Horten hears a who-o-o
I couldn’t ask for another (I-I-I-I)
No, I couldn’t ask for another

DJ Soul was on a roll
I’ve been told he can’t be sold
He’s not vicious or malicious
Just dee-lovely and delicious
I couldn’t ask for another

Groove is in the hea-a-a-art
Groove is in the hea-a-a-art
Groove is in the hea-a-a-art
Groove is in the hea-a-a-art

Oh yeah, that shit's cheerful. I dare anyone to say different.

The Senate Armed Services Committee prohibits its staff and presidential appointees requiring Senate confirmation from owning stocks or bonds in 48,096 companies that have Defense Department contracts. But the senators who sit on the influential panel are allowed to own any assets they want.

North Carolina.

Eat it, Texas.

In other news, Utah is the nation's "men kissing" capitol. You go, Mormons.

One man's "terrorist" is another man's ...

Red Wine = Good For Teeth

Citizens of the world! We have changed our mind. Contrary to my previous statement, the Americans who will visit you, resplendent in the finest camouflage and armor, may include homosexuals. I repeat: may include homosexuals.

I apologize for any confusion my previous statement may have caused.

Comparing the relative lack of condemnation for communist mass murderers (representing "the left" in this debate) as compared to Nazi mass murderers (representing "the right") , Glenn Reynolds says:

Indeed. Communism’s mass murders have gotten less condemnation precisely because academic Marxists and sympathetic journalists continue to cover for them.

The US and nearly all of Europe fought a long and horrible war against the Nazis. Tens of millions died. Dozens of countries were involved. And the good guys won! Even now, reminders of WWII are everywhere in the country - statues in parks, "war memorial" arenas, etc.. The conflict was the defining event of an entire generation, and many today refer to people from that era as The Greatest Generation. It was kindof a big deal for the US, and definitely a big deal for our European allies. And, likewise, the Nazis remain the greatest enemy we've ever gone to war with, both in terms of military power and the pure evil they brought to the world. They remain in our national consciousness as the horrible black evil that the Greatest Generation faced and defeated. Indeed the greatness of the Nazi's evil is a big part of what makes the generation that defeated them so great - defeating such an enemy requires greatness. Great and Good Us vs Evil and Horrible Them. And We Won! Right? The stories are still part of us. Likewise, "Nazi" remains a powerful insult because everybody understands exactly what they did.

On the other hand, we didn't go to war with Stalin or Mao - Stalin was our ally in WWII, after he'd already killed millions of people. When they killed their millions of victims, the news of their atrocities wasn't tied up with stories of our soldiers and allies bravely trying to defeat them. We simply weren't invested in the situations in the way we were invested in WWII. They killed their millions and we went about our business the same way we are going about our business while Darfur is being slaughtered. They are stories about other people, about things that happened to people in other countries. They weren't stories about the US. So a lot of people just don't know what happened in Russia in the 1930s or China in the 1960s (or in the Sudan, right now). We can all learn the facts about what happened, but Stalin's and Mao's slaughters will always remain things that happened to other people. And things that happen to other people just don't have the resonance of things that happen to us. In other words, we don't use Stalin and Mao as examples of mankind's evil the way we still use Hitler because Stalin and Mao aren't part of our cultural heritage the way Hitler is.

IMO.

Gaining access to a maintenance control room, Lloyd Hudson, 35, from Ilford, Essex, was able to locate the chart and corresponding switches for Harrods’ 10,000 external lights.

Barracading himself in, Hudson disabled the correct lights until he could spell out his feelings to Harrods bosses and Christmas shoppers alike. He was removed by security guards after an hour-long stand-off, then handed over to police.

“He had drunk the best part of two bottles of whisky,” said a spokesperson for the iconic London store, “and it’s that kind of behaviour that got him the sack in the first place.” Hudson has since been released on police bail.

Knightsbridge visitors were stunned.“Honestly, I am disgusted, ” said Irene Rider, 59, from Gary, Indiana. “I was with my grandchildren. We had just gotten off the bus. I said ‘look everybody’ and pointed up to the lights – but you know what the lights said? They said "fuck off". And that is not an appropriate message for a child. At least not at Christmas time.”

Ho ho ho