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Hey, suggester of the song contest: Would you care to identify yourself, so that if we do use your idea as an Invitational contest we can credit you? This earns you immortality in the Loser Stats and, if you're in town and we can arrange a mutually convenient place and time, a date for ice cream with the Empress.

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I would submit that there have been, undoubtedly, throughout history men who were both "hanged" and "hung"

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So, you’re saying Anthony Scalia died watching porn?

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Per Justice Stewart, you know it when you die from it.

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Originalist Porn.

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Puritans.

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I know who Antonin Scalia is, but who's Anthony Scalia? Does the Justice have a brother?

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My bad…I forget, we’re we married in church or at the courthouse?

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If you're talking about Scalia reviewing his tortured majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller which set off a stomach churning increase in gun deaths since it was handed down in 2008 --- then yes. And those grudging caveats (Gene refers to) he added was to get Kennedy to side with what turned out to be the majority in the 5-4 decision.

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Some people, okay, some GUYS, are hung.

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Why are people being so exclusionary? People other than guys can be hung too.

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No no. The expression is « hung like a horse » not « hung like a person who isn’t a guy. ». So I’ve read, anyway.

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Which reminds me of what a former coworker who had been a nurse told us what she heard from a nurse at what used to be Navyy Medical. The nurse was one of Reagan's nurses when he had that polyp removed. She said that she now knew what Nancy saw in him because he was hung like a horse.

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NOT the voice of experience.

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You’ve got me there.

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Voice of experience?

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Mais oui! Or wee. However you spell it.

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[from your German research article]

"..., i.e. within one standard adjustment."

One standard adjustment usuallys mean I'm in need of purchasing some new tighty-whities.

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Just as interesting (to me, at least) that recent research indicates we can, in fact, see the same colors differently, is that despite these differences in the way we perceive color, the universal emotional responses we have to colors (or wavelengths, to be pedantic) are the same. Shorter wavelengths tend to make us calm, longer more alert.

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Bike laws and policy, I’ve been hit twice, been edged into the curb by a car because I “should have been on the sidewalk.” Bikes are a vehicle and if you blow one away with a sideswipe, laws find no more negligence than side-swiping another car. But if you were to run someone over on the sidewalk with your bike, it’s a vehicle run-down. Towns could close down town squares, school areas, to nothing but bikes, could establish road lanes before/after school etc. But these require a certain amount of highway width by law. Towns have the courage to paint rainbows and make sanctuary cities but not bike lanes.

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I cussedly take a whole lane when I ride in a city. How that works out for me varies by city, however. I personally feel that the densest parts of Washington, DC, should be closed to private passenger cars most of the time.

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"Bleeded" has been used in English. As evidence, I give you the masterful lyrics of Justin Timberlake in "What Goes Around... Comes Around"

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When you cheated, girl

My heart bleeded, girl

So it goes without saying that you left me feeling hurt

Just a classic case scenario

Tale as old as time girl, you got what you deserved

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It’s nonsense that a woman has to be the right type to rape. You’re talking about assigning credibility of taste.. to a rapist…

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Obviously WE all know that. And of course he knows that. His audience to which he made that "explanation" consisted, at least in his view, of ignoramuses.

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I agree. I wasn’t attacking his sensibility, just the nonsense of the concept not being mentioned in news reports, rather they repeat over and over that he got caught “typing” a photo and it turned out to be the plaintiff not his wife. I prefer even more that he is a liar and has lost the right for us to care about anything he says in order to parse out any sense or the truth.

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re: Colors. This is off the top of my head so is probably wrong, but...

Think about how we recognize certain types of color blindness. Someone who is red/green color blind sees those colors as being the same, and both matching a particular shade of grey. So the way that we know everyone (e.g. those without some sort of color vision impairment) sees colors the same way is via shared reference and relationships between different but related shades. Purple lives between red and blue, for example, and green between blue and yellow. The fact that we all identify not just specific colors but also the gradients as one color changes to another is how we know that we all see them the same way.

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We can define colors by wavelength. And we can identify the parts of the eyes that interact with those wavelengths. A fair analogy would be how a hormone and a hormone receptor interact, which is predictable. For me, this is close enough to universal, but yup, leave it to the philosophers to say how the color is experienced in the brain I suppose. But the whole thing is pretty close to sewn up.

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I can prove people do not see colors in the same way. As evidence, people call me "color blind" although I prefer the less offensive term "Daltonian." Specifically, I'm a strong deutan. Someone can hold up samples of what they perceive as two different colors. I will respond they look the same.

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The link to the Louisiana anus is broken.

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Thanks. Will fix.

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Not fixed yet.

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It works for moi.

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Oh, just this second, a news story came in: An anus in Louisiana shot a little girl in the back of the head. She’d been playing hide-and-seek on his lawn.

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solipsistic today, aren't you?

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My opinion of fried green tomatoes is that they are worse, far worse, so bad that there is no modifier bad enough to describe the difference, than Indian curry.

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I wouldn't touch that with three-foot tongs.

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Apart from holding Orange 1 accountable --- the E. Jean Carroll case provided another public service. It exposed (at least for the moment) persistent, but discredited, myths about sexual assault. And primarily the myth that implies that somehow “real” sexual assault can be distinguished from false accusations based on how women responded to the assault. There is also a good deal of evidence which shows that false reports of sexual assault are exceedingly rare.

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The only "type" rapists have is "easily overpowered and alone." Women and children (and young, not-buff male prisoners) not only are the most vulnerable, they probably won't scream or accuse the rapist, because they know they won't be believed (as in Trump's case), or the rapist is a relative, or he is a stranger who is long gone. ONLY a man would ask a woman who was raped why she didn't scream.

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Did you know that the area code for the "space coast" is 321 (as in 3-2-1-blastoff)?

About the color issue - ask everyone you know to draw a rainbow (ROYGBIV). See what you get.

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