From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #757 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, October 22 2008 Volume 16 : Number 757 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: just for fun... ["Benjamin Lukoff" ] Re: just for fun ["David Stovall" ] We are Zogg -- no Robyn ["Jeremy Osner" ] Soft Boys petition [bayard ] NY Dolls reunion tour ["Jeremy Osner" ] who? [Caroline Smith ] Re: who? ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: who? [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: who? [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re:just for fun... [James Dignan ] Re: who? [2fs ] Re: who? ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: just for fun... [Carrie Galbraith ] No RH content ["kevin studyvin" ] Heh (NR) [Steve Schiavo ] RE: just for fun... [Michael Sweeney ] Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW! (NR) [Steve] Interesting science article of the day... [Marc Alberts ] Re: just for fun... [Tom Clark ] Re: Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW! (NR) ["] Re: Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW! (NR) ["] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:15:54 -0700 From: "Benjamin Lukoff" Subject: Re: just for fun... > From: 2fs > > given all the political yammering, here's one way to quantify one's > position: > > I scored -5.88 on the economic left/right scale and -6.97 on the social > libertarian/authoritarian scale. (This makes more sense graphically: < > http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.88&soc=-6.97> ) > > Und du? > > http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=0.38&soc=-4.72 There's always this old standby: http://www.theadvocates.org/quizp/index.html (90%, 50%) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:41:55 -0400 From: "David Stovall" Subject: Re: just for fun > From: 2fs > > given all the political yammering, here's one way to quantify one's > position: > > I scored -5.88 on the economic left/right scale and -6.97 on the social > libertarian/authoritarian scale. (This makes more sense graphically: < > http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.88&soc=-6.97> ) > > Und du? Economic Left/Right: -6.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.18 Boy, I sometimes revisit my personal policy of just *never* talking about politics at work. I'm sure some of my colleagues of various conservative stripes who consider themselves libertarian would slam way up against the authoritarian peg in this exercise. I actually expected to come in closer to the middle economically,... d9 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:11:01 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: We are Zogg -- no Robyn Two links (largely unrelated) for the curious/in need of stimulation: "My Little Golden Book About Zogg": http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/zogg/zogg1.html "Terrifying Nixon-era Children's Literature": http://www.sweet-juniper.com/search/label/terrifying%20nixon-era%20children%27s%20books J - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:17:45 -0400 From: bayard Subject: Soft Boys petition Apparently there is some issue with the box set. I've been asked to pass this along. Cheers all, and happy autumn.... http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/TheSoftBoys/ - -- The most effective way to do it, is to do it. Amelia Earhart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:51:18 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: NY Dolls reunion tour Info here: http://www.livedaily.com/news/15086.html New live album, TV appearance on the 28th, shows in LA and NYC. - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:30:43 -0400 From: Caroline Smith Subject: who? Any opinion on whether I should get tix to see The Who? They're in my town tomorrow night... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:48:50 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: who? I'd say yes...all question of the authenticity of the Moonless Who aside, how bad can it be? As long as you don't have to sit through yet another endless Tommy slog, that is. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Caroline Smith wrote: > Any opinion on whether I should get tix to see The Who? They're in my town > tomorrow night... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:51:10 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: who? depends -do you like them ? have you ever seen them ? they still put on a good show and zak starkey is their best drummer since keith moon however, their glory days have passed daltrey's voice is also starting to go i'd say they are not as good as McCartney or The Stones these days but it you go their with the correct attitude ,i think you'd like them my blog is "Yer Blog" _http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/_ (http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/) _http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/_ (http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/) In a message dated 10/21/2008 4:42:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, caroline@redchocolate.ca writes: Any opinion on whether I should get tix to see The Who? They're in my town tomorrow night... **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:51:52 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: who? TOMMY has usually been part of the encore my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 10/21/2008 4:50:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, kstudyvin@gmail.com writes: I'd say yes...all question of the authenticity of the Moonless Who aside, how bad can it be? As long as you don't have to sit through yet another endless Tommy slog, that is. **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:46:00 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re:just for fun... >From: 2fs >I scored -5.88 on the economic left/right scale and -6.97 on the social >libertarian/authoritarian scale. (This makes more sense graphically: < >http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.88&soc=-6.97> ) > >From: "kevin studyvin" >Econ left/right: -6.75; lib/authoritarian, -4.72. From what the chart says, > I'm practically Gandhi. >From: Steve Schiavo >Economic: -4.75 >Social: -6.21 >From: Sebastian Hagedorn > >From: FSThomas >Et moi: http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=4.38&soc=-0.72 >From: "Stewart Russell" >http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-9.12&soc=-7.79 >From: Maximilian Lang >http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.38&soc=-4.36 Mine was Economic: -8.12 Social: -6.31 Would be interesting to see all of these graphed. Currently FS is the outlier, not that that's really that surprising given who's responded - - and even he's below the horizontal boundary over towards Friedman. The whole thing may well reflect our national upbringing as much as our politics, per se... Scotland is generally more left-wing that "Social democratic" Germany and NZ, with the US generally further to the right than that. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:36:47 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: who? On 10/21/08, kevin studyvin wrote: > > I'd say yes...all question of the authenticity of the Moonless Who aside, > how bad can it be? The lack of imagination amongst surviving members of British bands of this era is appalling. Meet The Whotles: Townshend, McCartney, Starr, Daltrey. I mean, one band has a dead drummer and a dead bassist, the other band's two surviving members are its drummist and basser. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:59:41 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: who? On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:36 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 10/21/08, kevin studyvin wrote: >> >> I'd say yes...all question of the authenticity of the Moonless Who aside, >> how bad can it be? > > > The lack of imagination amongst surviving members of British bands of this > era is appalling. > > Meet The Whotles: Townshend, McCartney, Starr, Daltrey. I mean, one band > has a dead drummer and a dead bassist, the other band's two surviving > members are its drummist and basser. > Well yeah, but then Paul'n'Ringo aren't running around besmirching the names of their late colleagues with one misguided spurious reunion event after another though. Townshend & Daltrey still make a great team, they just need to do some re-branding. (But then I'll stick up for pretty much anything Pete wants to do as long as it ain't Tommy, which still sounds as sloppily thrown thogether and badly produced as it did the first time I heard it.) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:03:36 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: just for fun... On Oct 21, 2008, at 3:46 PM, James Dignan wrote: >> From: 2fs >> I scored -5.88 on the economic left/right scale and -6.97 on the >> social >> libertarian/authoritarian scale. (This makes more sense >> graphically: < >> http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.88&soc=-6.97> ) > >> >> From: "kevin studyvin" >> Econ left/right: -6.75; lib/authoritarian, -4.72. From what the >> chart says, >> I'm practically Gandhi. > >> From: Steve Schiavo >> Economic: -4.75 >> Social: -6.21 > >> From: Sebastian Hagedorn >> > >> From: FSThomas >> Et moi: http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph? >> ec=4.38&soc=-0.72 > >> From: "Stewart Russell" >> http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-9.12&soc=-7.79 > >> From: Maximilian Lang >> http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.38&soc=-4.36 > > Mine was > Economic: -8.12 > Social: -6.31 > > Would be interesting to see all of these graphed. Currently FS is > the outlier, not that that's really that surprising given who's > responded - and even he's below the horizontal boundary over > towards Friedman. > > The whole thing may well reflect our national upbringing as much as > our politics, per se... Scotland is generally more left-wing that > "Social democratic" Germany and NZ, with the US generally further > to the right than that. > > James > -- > James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand > -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- > =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. > -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- > .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= I've done this before and I think I came out pretty close to the same: Economic: -7.50 Social: -7.90 They don't call it the Left Coast for nothing! - - c "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. " - - Thomas Jefferson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:37:21 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: No RH content One of Kevin Smith's dozens of sites directed me to this seasonally-appropriate notion: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/halloween_costume_guide/ I'm looking at the Dude, myself...though Nurse Joker looks like fun...and I'm strangely drawn to Richie and Margo from one of my favorite movies ever, The Royal Tenenbaums... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:40:46 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Heh (NR) - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:56:23 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: RE: just for fun... ...As for me: http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.48&soc=-6.67 Michael "No wonder I voted for Kucinich in the '04 primaries..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Want to read Hotmail messages in Outlook? The Wordsmiths show you how. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/wedowindowslive.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns! 20EE04FBC541789!167.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_092008 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:51:37 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW! (NR) - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:55:41 -0400 From: Marc Alberts Subject: Interesting science article of the day... http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/10/california-comp.html Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:23:37 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Interesting science article of the day... On 10/21/08, Marc Alberts wrote: > > http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/10/california-comp.html > > That's not science - that's African witchcraft! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:30:14 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: just for fun... James Dignan wrote: > Would be interesting to see all of these graphed. Currently FS is the > outlier, not that that's really that surprising given who's responded - > and even he's below the horizontal boundary over towards Friedman. > > The whole thing may well reflect our national upbringing as much as our > politics, per se... Scotland is generally more left-wing that "Social > democratic" Germany and NZ, with the US generally further to the right > than that. Ask and ye shall receive: http://ochremedia.com/political_compass_map/fegGraph.html Paste the URL to your compass-thingy and submit it, or skip to go directly to the results map. I've already added the following results listed in the email: Jeffrey, Kevin, Steve, Sebastian, myself, Stewart, Maximilian, and James. Y'all look clumpy to me. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:31:41 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: just for fun... Ok, I'll play. http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.38&soc=-5.54 - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:45:53 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW! (NR) Steve says: > "The occultists are 'weaving lazy 8's around McCain's mind to make him look confused and like an idiot'. " oh brother. those occultists are always taking all the credit. he was that way to start. as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:06:20 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW! (NR) As my boyhood hero Mr. Spock would say, "Fascinating." On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > ?module=message&task=view&MID=CB007FA2&GroupID=2A004N9G&label=&paging=all> > > > > > > - Steve > __________ > I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl > with a scythe. - John > > ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #757 ********************************