http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:45:15 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:45:15 Hi! It's really neat that you like your own generation. You guys have done some totally awesome stuff! You inherited a world that the previous generation totally fucked up, you all banded together in that social movement thing, and Lord knows you've always done your best to do right by the world. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/20 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:04:35 I do not disagree with anyone who says his excuses as regards the photographs are bullshit, that it represents Obama choosing to side with the concerns of the military over the concerns of transparency, or that his decision to refuse to release is very disappointing.

I do not think it represents ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/19 Thu, 14 May 2009 00:32:51 As I understand it, the torture component of waterboarding is mostly psychological. It is not torture because it is physically unpleasant (though it certainly is, and very much so) but rather because it convinces the victim that he is drowning, which leads to a natural panic reaction. It is not to... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/18 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:17:54 "They own Citgo. It's unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are endangering the strategic interests of the United States. I don't think anybody can find any evidence that that would do so. Even within this imaginative crowd, I thin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/17 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:29:42 Hello! My name is Occam Bandage, and I would first like to say that I greatly admire your passion for defending America from facism, scholiasm, and the incompence of presedent husein. I understand and apreciate that you have had enoungh of taxation with represention. I also appreciate--as I am sure... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/16 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:37:52 It does not mean "someone who apologizes for someone else." Rather, it means "someone who makes formal arguments defending or justifying something else."

It does look an awful lot like the word "apologize." That is because the word "apologize" in English originally meant "to speak in defense of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/15 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:46:53 Did Elvis really exist? This is perhaps one of the most frequently asked (and deeply important) questions today. While most simply take it for granted that the sweet-singing King of Rock 'n' Roll really lived, is this any less a fantasy than a child's equally-firm belief in the reality of Santa? ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/14 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:24:23 GM, like the airlines before it, provides thousands upon thousands of workers with high-paying, desirable jobs. GM, like the airlines before it, is deeply unprofitable. Like the airlines before it, this unprofitability is a combination of factors including mismanagement and an sustained unfavorabl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/13 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:17:35 This is not a criticism. It is simply an observation: anger is what is driving the majority of the conversation here. It is not even anger directed at anything in particular: it is diffuse, it is pervasive, and it has been building for quite some time now. Anger is beginning to have a very real e... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/12 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:45:53 http://www.nypost.com/delonas/2009/02/02182009.jpg
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It seems the dude's deal is:

1. Look at the most bizarre news story on the front page.
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/11 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:47:30 There is only one method of fighting a guerrilla war that has ever been proven to work, and that is a form of expanding benevolent territorial control. Simply put, you start with the most pro-you parts of the country near threatened areas, and you control that so well that you can implement humanit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/10 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:03:41 [div class="excerpt"]MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — NATO warned Tuesday that Pakistan risked creating a safe haven for Islamist extremists after it struck a deal to impose Islamic law and suspend a military offensive in the former tourist haven of Swat.

Criticism of the truce mounted as a hardline cler... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/9 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:53:29 risks being more like Vietnam than Iraq did, though I do not expect the toll of blood or of treasure in Central Asia to remotely approach either of the other two. Iraq was (and to a lesser extent still is) a complex mix of terrorism, insurgency, and civil war, each different problems with different... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/7 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:05:53 [div class="excerpt"]PESHAWAR, Pakistan – The government agreed to impose Islamic law and suspend a military offensive across much of northwest Pakistan on Monday in concessions aimed at pacifying the Taliban insurgency spreading from the border region to the country's interior.

The announcement ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/8 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:50:36 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/87/245782790_bf12ba8df3.jpg

[b]Pros[/b]
1. Fully vetted.
2. Adept at asset valuation.
3. Would be fucking golden.
4. Clearly an expert on mental-health issues.
5. Willingness to play ball.
6. Possesses "testicular virility."
7. Expert on hospital funding issu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/6 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:10:33 Mythological belief does not have anything to do with fact. No fundamentalist Christian cares whether Genesis is historically inaccurate. No alien conspiracy theorist cares whether their evidence of alien-made crop circles has been debunked. No government conspiracy theorist cares whether their ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/5 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:02:38 driven by the geometric acceleration of technological and economic innovation, and with many friction points from World Wars to culture wars.

Before the latter half of the 20th century, the last major fundamentalist upheaval in America was in the middle of the 19th century, as the country convert... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/4 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:43:19 that were on
the DU

and which
were probably planning
on complaining
about something

forgive me
they are annoying
so shrill
and so lame... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/3 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:55:44 you can lose your head when all about you
Are losing theirs, and blaming it on the DLC,
If you can doubt Dems when all men trust them
And make no allowance for their trusting too,
If you can complain and not be tired by complaining,
Or being replied to, deal in hyperbole,
Or being flamed, give... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/1 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:37:52 In order to pass anything through Congress that would not already have the full support of both parties, he must first bring that issue to the public and ensure that the public gets behind the initiative to such an extent that a Congressman voting against the bill would be, to some extent, imperilin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Occam Bandage/2 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:45:41