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cliffelam  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
My post is better - I have the bug!




thenewgreen  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Ha. Battle of the bugs: http://hubski.com/pub?id=19763

My votes for cliffelam, sorry greedo he posted first.

How did they both get through mk? Aren't they both from npr?

mk  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Actually, it seems greedo posted 10 hours ago, and cliffelam 6 hours ago.

Also, hey cliffelam, this is an NPR article! How many miles do you have on your volvo? ;P

http://hubski.com/pub?id=19772

cliffelam  ·  4653 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Gawd I had a 1975 245DL wagon. What a disaster.

But good point. I didn't say I didn't use NPR - I pay for it after all - just that I find it pretty predictably left. In Cambridge it probably feels comfortably conservative.

-XC

mk  ·  4653 days ago  ·  link  ·  
LOL. Yes, I have never had a great impression of volvos. I know they are built to crash, but maybe not as well built to run.

I lived in Cambridge a couple of years. Folks referred to it as "The People's Republic of Cambridge", which was somewhat fitting. Now I live in Ann Arbor, which isn't much more to the right. Ann Arbor is sometimes called "21 square miles, surrounded by reality." It's easy to have a socially liberal town when a huge college is pumping cash into the place.

cliffelam  ·  4653 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I used to live in Chapel Hill - same sort of thing.

Funny political story - Chapel Hill and Carrboro are contiguous small towns clustered around UNC-CH. They both are in Orange County. The cities are wealthy, the county is poor. Got that fixed in your head?

At one point Jessie Jackson won Chapel Hill (which was 99% white) and lost Orange County (which was 75% black).

Jessie Helms (not the same thing as Jessie Jackson) once said of the North Carolina Zoo - Why build that, put a fence around Chapel Hill and charge admission.

And, my final favorite came when Carrboro (which is land locked and gets about 75% of its power from the local Nuke) voted to become a nuclear free zone, specifically excluding all nuclear navy vessels.

-XC

mk  ·  4653 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Ha.

Don't get me wrong, I am pretty progressive. But, reality needs to be the foundation for any ideology. Not ideology whenever, wherever.

thenewgreen  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Ha, ha.. I concede my allegiance to greedo.
mk  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·  
No cliffelam linked the image not the same URL as greedo.

EDIT: I think he changed the link. :)