“Makes me feel old.” Ditto. This woman wrote the soundtrack to my coming out years. Heaven knows indeed.

My last name is Poe, I know from Poe, this woman occupies her own Hilbert space of Poeness. Bless her heart.

Why does Erick…Erick assume that the condoms were bought for use with women? Judging by the Craiglist, Grindr, and Manhunt CPAC related traffic there’s more than one guy there down lower than Rick Perry’s poll numbers.

The first thing I thought of when listening to “Rolling in the Deep” for the first time was “OMG! No autotune!” There are still real voices out there, but don’t count on the “star maker machinery behind the popular song” to find them for you.

Last time I checked, Mr. McConnell was the Minority Leader in the Senate. So if there is any pissing going on between the two houses, it’s between their respective Republican caucuses. As to the Democrats, they’ve done their part to get this bill moving. At this point they’re obeying Napoleon, “when your enemy is destroying himself, shut up and get out of the way.”

She earned a full undergraduate scholarship as a champion debater. Answer your question?

My thought exactly. I’ve seen ‘full pathetic’ before. It usually correlates with ‘feed me now.’

The Knights of Columbus are not employees of the church. They most definitely could have a problem with statutory non-discrimination in public accomodation requirements.

What about RuPaul, Andre Leon Talley, George Wolfe, Bill T. Jones?

a) This “brain fart” is but the latest in a string of incidents beginning with his undergraduate (non)performance that underscore Gov. Perry’s intellectual inadequacy.

b) The Presidency is not a job for morons (see GWB).

The people that wrote the Constitution were not the same people that wrote the Declaration of Independence. And the purpose of the Constitution was to (hopefully) establish a workable system of government, not posit a rationale for political self-determination. The Declaration stands alone, with no need of amendment nor emendment. The Constitution, on the other hand, from its formation to the present day, is an interpretive work-in-progress. If I might close with a premptive rebuttal to those who might presume an application of ‘original intent’ to such interpretation; what faction’s ‘original intent’ in the Contitution’s drafting should take precedence? The document was founded in compromise, not clarity.

Could this guy really be so ignorant of the players in this policy area that he didn’t know who Michaelangelo Signorile is?

As a MA resident, watching Sen. Brown try to tack back to the center as fast as he can is dryly amusing. Methinks somebody’s internal polling on Prof. Warren’s candidacy is giving him serious adgita.

The TaNaKh has elements of:
– classic and paleo hebrew http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Hebrew
– Aramaic

It didn’t acheive canonical form until the Middle Ages in the Mazoretic text http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazoretic_text.

However the Septuagint translation into Koine Greek, for centuries the only version accessible to Gentiles, dates to the second century BCE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint.

The New Testament was written in Koine Greek (of varying degrees of sophistication), a smattering of Aramaic. However “Common Sayings Source” material was also Aramaic in the oral tradition, prior to inscription.

Modern bible translations rely on a variety of source materials in many languages: e.g. Hebrew (paleo, classical, and Mazoretic), Aramaic, Syriac, Greek (Koine and Byzantine, and Coptic.

The idea these days is not to come up with a “definitive” text, but rather a one that best expresses in the current idiom the likely sense of a passage. One tries to careful to note alternatives in source material, and interpretive ambiguities.

Killing the Research Triangle is not a bug to them, but a feature. Don’t you know those pointy-headed intellectual types vote Democrat!

Boehner has to get this through the House first. I’m not certain he can.

I loves me some TBogg as well. However, James Walcott on fire is something to read.

Oh frabjous day! Two of my favorite blogs at one easy url!