Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

I'm sorry .... but that doesn't mean I am, or that everyone is okay? Can you give me that? Of course I can give you this. In my world, it goes without saying, and perhaps that was my mistake in my response. You are noticing that there's a problem with the way we glorify violence and you are 100% rig...

You were a fortunate child to have parents that cared enough about you to supervise, to watch what you were watching. From my observations it is or was a common practice to park the kid in front of the TV set to keep him from bothering the adults. Actually, Stilltrucking , they didn't do either. Th...

These are all personal choices. What's noteworthy about this group is that we are consciously making them, not simply cottoning to whatever is on or whatever everybody else does. I have these friends who seem to watch TV constantly when at home. Doesn't matter what's on: sports, the news, cooking sh...

Is it barbaric? I think people are barbaric and bloodthirsty, just in general. We've improved over time. If they'd had TV in the days of the Romans, you would have been treated to prolonged torture sessions of the enemy, and most viewers would have considered it good entertainment. I'm surprised tha...

Knip: uhhhh.....ok so that's not a he/she thing? my bad Yes it is a he/she thing. I don't like the convenient, gloss-over generalization of: " Society has just made it a worse word." How do you figure that happened? How/why did society make it a worse word? Sorry I was so violent, and I didn't make ...

Why is it always a he/she thing, cat? Cunt is a more denegrating word than prick because it's associated with a woman's privates? I don't buy that. Society has just made it a worse word. Uh, bullshit. Did I say "bullshit"? BULLSHIT. Someone needs to READ more carefully WHAT I was saying. Read again...

I donno why those words don't carry the same weight as being repulsive as the word cunt does to me. The Answer: Because women have historically been denigrated for their sex, and men have not. You have just internalized the cultural inferiority of the female sex and that is why "cunt" sounds nasty ...

OK, so I know I am very naive about a lot of things going on in the world, but --- skipping through all the back and forths -- I did read the discover.com article about the guy up in Snowmass, and I thank you, Deb. It does give me hope. If I read correctly, the answers are all right there in front o...

Where have you been? This isn't just an issue for public employees. It's an issue for all employees. It seems that our rights to free speech stop when our cars roll into the parking lots of our places of work. It extends beyond them as well. My employer would be well within her/his rights to fire me...

doreen : Words are just words are just words, I know, but there are certain words which get me angry and this word is one of them. Why? Because I'm a woman and to me, the word is demeaning to ALL women! In just the same way "prick" is demeaning to all men? Because if you mean it that way, I can agr...

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I'm cutting and pasting this to a friend who would appreciate it. Hope you don't mind ....

Do I get mad behind the wheel? Yeah, sometimes. But I usually pull to the right when someone behind me thinks I am going too slow. I have been known to flip off people, however. A truck driver cut me off. I flipped him. Some guy behind me was cursing and honking and acting like I was going too SLOW ...

I found the article confusing. Is it about publishing stories based on anonymous sources that no one will reveal to anyone? My understanding of the First Amendment is that it supports the right of the press to publish the TRUTH, even when the truth is damaging to people in public office. But if arti...

No, he doesn't hate gay people. He just needs an issue that he can wrap his mind around. The national debt and the war in Iraq are far too deep and complicated for him to address, so he's concentrating on something simple that he thinks will inspire a major portion of the right. A REAL President wou...

Intermittent explosion #242:

What the hell is this??? Another diagnosis for perfectly NORMAL behavior???