Another thing this just made me think of -- just dropping links left and right this evening; work is slow and shitty as usual -- How Van Halen Explains the U.S. Government, by the ever-interesting Ezra Klein.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IxqdAgNJck this is david lee roth explaining the brown m&ms
Thanks, that was great. If you are at all a fan of David Lee Roth, I posted David Lee Roth Will Not Go Quitely a couple of weeks ago as well as this video of him training herding dogs, both of which I thought were pretty interesting. Dave's a smart fella and he was one hell of a frontman back in the day.
the multitude of republicans commenting ruin it for me
The article that flagamuffin links to is a great example of "You can't judge a book by its cover". It is a thoughtful article that reminds us all to pay close attention, conduct sound research, and only then move forward in informed protest. Your comment is antithetical to the point of the article. Mr Klein is telling us to carefully consider viewpoints and reasoning of others. That includes Republicans. I believe your complaint with the commenters is more about their attack of the writer without participating in intellectual discourse, not about their political position.
This twitter account sums up my feeling on the matter :P
You wouldn't listen to someone named Bonerman26 in real life. Don't read the comments -awesome.
When I read your comment I did go back and read some of them... :/ There's just something about news comment threads that attract very special kinds of nutters. I like the Guardian-style comment generator. The Guardian is a centre-left-wing newspaper, typically aimed at middle class British people (private piano lessons, houmous, etc).
Good read thanks. I was familiar with the Van Halen story and the rationale behind the M&M's, but wouldn't have considered it for this topic. It's perfect, thanks.