The Al Realpolitik Institute of Sulfur Mining & Extraction

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The United Methodist Church uses liturgical colors, BRTD.

And the one I linked to has their own app available for iPhones and Androids.

Which is, of course, a more important indicator.

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I still think Nathan calling krazey a "risible, crypto-Francoist scrooge" is the best burn I've ever seen here.

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With a mature mind, start with King Lear. And try reading the plays out loud with friends. We do that in my clan.

King Lear is one of Shakespeare's mightiest achievements, it's my third favorite play of his after Hamlet and Twelfth Night, but it's also one of his more difficult.  

Macbeth is probably the best starting point for young'ns.

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In all fairness, as with anybody who wrote that much (which is why you fairly judge all such people by their best works, and we seem to all agree they're the Tragedies - Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, I'd add Romeo and Juliet), quite a few of Shakespeare's plays actually do suck.

It's probably more accurate to say that Shakespeare's later work tends to be better, which generally means tragedies because he wrote more of them later on.  But I think that most of us can agree that Twelfth Night is in the upper echelon while Titus Andronicus really isn't.

I actually think Romeo and Juliet is among Shakespeare's weaker works, though obviously it's still a fine play, and its influence speaks for itself.  The three parts of Henry VI, otoh, could be lost to history and we woudn't be particularly worse off.

And that's not even getting into the romances.

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FACT: Cold apples taste better than room temperature apples.

Agree.

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Hey Hockeydude I couldn't hear you



could you please



speak up?

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Sort of ironic that this got posted by snowguy in a global warming thread, because this burns.

One thing I've learned after 6 years of posting on Atlas is that you are truly a miserable human being.

Nobody can be as nasty as you are to others without feeling pretty awful about yourself.  And you should.

It belongs in the irony ore mine, not here. 

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Sort of ironic that this got posted by snowguy in a global warming thread, because this burns.

One thing I've learned after 6 years of posting on Atlas is that you are truly a miserable human being.

Nobody can be as nasty as you are to others without feeling pretty awful about yourself.  And you should.

It belongs in the irony ore mine, not here.  

Snowguy is nasty? Where the fck are you getting this idea from?

My interactions with him (and, also, various things he has said to other people, I can dig up links if you really need them).  He has definitely been an at least an order of magnitude more unpleasant towards me than anyone else has on Atlas.

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A beautiful one-two-three punch:

I apologize to my children and grandchildren in advance

Because the healthcare will keep you around longer to torment them?

I apologize to my children and grandchildren in advance

Fortunately they were never going to exist anyway.

I apologize to my children and grandchildren in advance

Better bury more gold in the backyard to help them live through Thunderdome

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I find the hyperfeminist internet virgins to be the most insufferable.

As an insufferable internet sexist and bigot, memphis has no high ground from which to find anybody else insufferable, except maybe somebody like Cory.

While I agree that memphis certainly has a whole bunch of unexamined sexism going on, I'm not sure where "bigot" enters into the equation.

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TNF showing off his True Leftist credentials.

Yeah, because we all know it's crazy to call one's self a left-winger and not support a man who wants to turn public education into nothing more than a parasitic "charter school" system, who continues to push austerity in the face of economic reality, and who's healthcare law requires everyone to buy insurance from the parasitic insurance industry.

http://www.webmd.com/brain/memory-loss

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Context helpful but not really necessary:

And, I apologize, you might not be a troll, you might just be stupid.  I'm sorry for jumping to conclusions.

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There's one item in Nathan's list (but only one) that might apply to my church though it's a pretty subjective standard so in his view none might. Guess which one.

I'll guess "excessively gracious interpretation of the idea of the priesthood of all believers".  Seems pretty easy unless this is a trick question or something.

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Quit the trolling snowstalker. Internet 'debate' on this topic is noxious and obnoxious enough; it does not also need to provide the backdrop for one of your ridiculous onanistic cabarets.

Probably deserves to be put in the GPG and Silver Mine, too.  Multiple times.

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Whatever. I hope your nonexistent country becomes a republic.

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The problem with Obama is that he doesn't want to play the political game. Would closing the border actually do anything to solve the problem? No. But it's the optics that count here. You gotta make the people feel like something is being done, even if it's all theater.

Thank you, Leaf

So you're willing to admit you care more about the theater than actually doing something worthwhile?

Appearances do matter.

Indeed they do. You, for example, do a very convincing job of making yourself appear even more brainless than you probably are.

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No, I'm just educated on basic monetary policy and marcroeconomics, unlike Ron Paul.  And, yes, you're crazy for wanting to bring back the Gold Standard.

You're not "educating" me on anything...you're just calling me names.

Right, I think that was a prudent choice on my part.

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Short but sweet: 

It's just awesome the way I have put Hudson on "the map," now isn't it? 

No.