Keeping it civil instead of returning to our dark ways

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by dtb
Why fringe -- of course dinosaurs are lizards. The word "dinosaur" means "terrible lizard". Dinosaurs are classified into two main categories. Those with lizard hips (as opposed to bird hips) are called saurischian (ornithischian are the bird-hipped).

Is it sad that I didn't even need to google this?

Isn't there a children's song about lizard hips and chicken lips? I'm afraid to google this.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by dtb
Why fringe -- of course dinosaurs are lizards. The word "dinosaur" means "terrible lizard". Dinosaurs are classified into two main categories. Those with lizard hips (as opposed to bird hips) are called saurischian (ornithischian are the bird-hipped).

Is it sad that I didn't even need to google this?

everyone with boys under 7 should know this.

When at big law I run into hateful Junior partner in the kid's section of a Border's. We both have 4 year old sons. His little droll bucket is holding onto a book with a dinosaur, and screaming" dinosaur daddy- dinosaur!"
Pompouspartner starts in on explaining how the little gem has an advance start and is gifted and what not. My little boy walks up- takes the book and says "wow an ankleasaurus!" I had some small vindication but still got fucked at bonus time.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
If you and RP get bored over there with Che Guevera and Lyndon Larouche, we're also hiring

Hmm. Some guy called Chomsky just showed up in this t-shirt, so I may be coming for a visit:

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
we're also hiring

Is there a senior division?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Is there a senior division?

We perfer the term "spinster."

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Hmm. Some guy called Chomsky just showed up in this t-shirt, so I may be coming for a visit:

All of us on our radical social libertarian archipelagos should band together and start up some porn server-farms, offer citizenship to high-net-worth individuals and issue commemerative coins and stamps. (I may also abolish taxes and set up a banking haven, but that's probably not your cup of tea.)

Then we can sail about at our leisure, venturing close to the various socially repressive land masses to our north to laugh at them, like Chinese tourists near the N. Korean border.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
She's on to us, Ty.

I plead the Fifth.

It's still in the Constitution, right?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
All of us on our radical social libertarian archipelagos should band together and start up some porn server-farms, offer citizenship to high-net-worth individuals and issue commemerative coins and stamps. (I may also abolish taxes and set up a banking haven, but that's probably not your cup of tea.)

Then we can sail about at our leisure, venturing close to the various socially repressive land masses to our north to laugh at them, like Chinese tourists near the N. Korean border.

While I was only around a -4 on the libertarian side, I have to say I'm not really hip with excluding people based on their net worth. I'm wondering whether "people with more money deserve better health care" was a r/l divider or an a/l divider.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I'm wondering whether "people with more money deserve better health care" was a r/l divider or an a/l divider.

Huh - good question. I'd assumed (and still think) it was an econ question, but the term "deserved" has definite social/moral overtones.

Goes to the value-laden way a lot of questions were phrased, when they could have been phrased in a value-neutral manner.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Huh - good question. I'd assumed (and still think) it was an econ question, but the term "deserved" has definite social/moral overtones.

Goes to the value-laden way a lot of questions were phrased, when they could have been phrased in a value-neutral manner.

I'm late to the party, but here are my stats:

Economic Left/Right: 5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.31

About equal with my boy Milton

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by sgtclub
I'm late to the party, but here are my stats:

Economic Left/Right: 5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.31

About equal with my boy Milton

Has ANYONE here reported a positive score on the Social Libertarian/Authoritarian axis?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Has ANYONE here reported a positive score on the Social Libertarian/Authoritarian axis?

Not me.

Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.95

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Has ANYONE here reported a positive score on the Social Libertarian/Authoritarian axis?

I'm the closest, -.15

Chicks like that, right?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'm the closest, -.15

Chicks like that, right?

A couple more points north or so and you could get chicks by wearing black leather, etc., but where you are now, you just look unprincipled -- so not hot. Or so I'm told.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
hmmm.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64

If that's where I ended up, I wonder where someone who actually agreed with the astrology question would end up.

I honestly did not think I was such a freak.

Umm, right here, about as far left but not quite as social libertarian as you (what can I say - I'm Catholic).

The question was did astrology explain stuff, not did it get it right. Astrology certain explains stuff, just as a two year often does. And, besides, you never know...