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[derspiess]

Scalia & Kagan have apparently been going on hunting trips together, and Kagan shot a deer last fall

http://thehill.com/video/policy-areas/308885-kagan-scalia-took-me-big-game-hunting

[Valmy]

Scalia & Kagan have apparently been going on hunting trips together, and Kagan shot a deer last fall

http://thehill.com/video/policy-areas/308885-kagan-scalia-took-me-big-game-hunting

Even Supreme Court Justices do team building activities

[CountDeMoney]

Even Supreme Court Justices do team building activities

She'd have a bit of a problem with the "trust fall" with him, though.

[Malthus]

I wanna do Pippa doggy style.

Hell, i woulda done Kate while she was preggers.

Apparently, you still have an opportunity. Go for it. 

[Malthus]

poor kid

Eh he or she is going to grow up in this circus and be socialized to it.  This will be normal.

Doesn't mean they still won't be missing out.

True.  But all of us are born with our circumstances and that will tend to shape our lives in one way or the other...generally not as completely as the circumstances of this kid granted.

I was born without circumstances.

Is garbon: The Man Without Qualities for the 21st century? 

[DGuller]

Scalia & Kagan have apparently been going on hunting trips together, and Kagan shot a deer last fall

http://thehill.com/video/policy-areas/308885-kagan-scalia-took-me-big-game-hunting

She's a good lawyer, she knows that long history of hunting together would make the eventual Cheney more credible. 

[Ideologue]

Not totally ridiculous.  Dali's actual painting technique was realist, or representational I guess, in terms of light and shadow, and giving his subjects realistic weight, which is why, unless another's just not coming to mind, he's the only 20th century painter I genuinely give a shit about.

I always pegged you for a fan of Diego Rivera.

Realism is what Dalí was rebelling against (even as late as the 20s that was being taught at the Spanish Academy.)

He was okay, but I don't care for his painting technique, which is flat and childlike.

Re: realism, yeah, I agree it's the wrong word, but many don't know the term "illusionism."  In fact, I didn't till two minutes ago.   But it turns out that's what I really like in painting.  In this regard, you can compare Dali to, say, Leighton (either) or Raphael, and I think he's closer to their really cool techniques (particularly Leighton) than he is to Rivera's.  Particularly in how objects are sharply delineated from each other and backgrounds, having three-dimensional and discrete appearance.

It's silly to Dali realist, sure, but you might have to if you didn't have hifalutin terminology to bring to bear on him--which I don't, really, because I lack the serious interest in painting that I have in comics or film (I've often suspected you can only choose two media, tops, to really care about).  And I'd imagine most people are even less well-armed than I am in this regard.  So I guess my main point is that it's not inappropriate to cut some slack.

P.S. hey, I forgot about Max Ernst.  I give a shit about him too.  Europe After the Rain is rad.

[Josephus]

The "new" Google Maps sucks major ass balls.

Google seems good at fixing/ruining things that aren't broken.

Like Google Mail.

[MadImmortalMan]

Hopefully it's a boy.

Sorry, Meri.   

[Caliga]

THANK GOD.  The dynasty is safe.

[merithyn]

Hopefully it's a boy.

Sorry, Meri.   

[DGuller]

No thread about Detective Fontana dying?  Is everyone else also getting used to various famous people dropping dead all over the place?

[MadImmortalMan]

No thread about Detective Fontana dying?  Is everyone else also getting used to various famous people dropping dead all over the place?

Helen Thomas...

[Neil]

THANK GOD.  The dynasty is safe.

You know, I shouldn't care.  After all, I'll be long dead by the time the boy takes the throne, but I'm glad it was him and not a girl.

[Admiral Yi]

Breaking story about a Southwest flight from Nashville to LaGuardia with some kind of issue.