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jazzfishParenting baffles me (LJ): Signal-boosting myself from over the weekend, because I know a bunch of very smart people and y'all should read their comments.
Parking tickets by the truckload: "Eighteen companies have special accounts with the city to pay off parking tickets in bulk." Because it's cheaper to pay the fines than to comply with the law. This is arguably a benign instance of the phenomenon; now imagine it extended to, well, to anything. Workplace safety regulations, truth-in-advertising laws, what have you.
Ice Cubes recipe: "I am publishing this recipe, because I am sure that there are other families who have members who don't know how or have forgotten how to make ice when the ice tray is empty." Hilarity ensues in the recipe reviews.
Chutzpam: "In other words, the estimable businessmen and women at realinsurance.com.au have been paying SEO companies to spam the comment sections of sites around the globe. But now Google’s new search algorithms are making that legacy spam really damaging. So now they’re sending out cease and desist notices to the victims of their earlier spamming demanding that they search their archives and remove their spam."
The Phone Stack: "Whoever picks up their phone is footing the bill." I'm lucky enough (or wise enough) in my choice of acquaintances that this has never been a problem, but if it were I could endorse something like this.
Alignment Chart: Gary Oldman, because Gary Oldman is the single most versatile actor working today.
Two percent.
After Taking Beyond the Relational Paradox of Bringing It Back in Seriously, Revisited: "[W]e are not Taking anything Seriously." Because I enjoy Kieran's deadpan cliche snark, that's why. (Viz. The New Catechism of Cliche.)
Things In My Cabinet: This Land Is My Land: "I stopped being conscious of how I looked. Completely." I have no idea what to say about this, but it is insightful and important.
Parking tickets by the truckload: "Eighteen companies have special accounts with the city to pay off parking tickets in bulk." Because it's cheaper to pay the fines than to comply with the law. This is arguably a benign instance of the phenomenon; now imagine it extended to, well, to anything. Workplace safety regulations, truth-in-advertising laws, what have you.
Ice Cubes recipe: "I am publishing this recipe, because I am sure that there are other families who have members who don't know how or have forgotten how to make ice when the ice tray is empty." Hilarity ensues in the recipe reviews.
Chutzpam: "In other words, the estimable businessmen and women at realinsurance.com.au have been paying SEO companies to spam the comment sections of sites around the globe. But now Google’s new search algorithms are making that legacy spam really damaging. So now they’re sending out cease and desist notices to the victims of their earlier spamming demanding that they search their archives and remove their spam."
The Phone Stack: "Whoever picks up their phone is footing the bill." I'm lucky enough (or wise enough) in my choice of acquaintances that this has never been a problem, but if it were I could endorse something like this.
Alignment Chart: Gary Oldman, because Gary Oldman is the single most versatile actor working today.
Two percent.
After Taking Beyond the Relational Paradox of Bringing It Back in Seriously, Revisited: "[W]e are not Taking anything Seriously." Because I enjoy Kieran's deadpan cliche snark, that's why. (Viz. The New Catechism of Cliche.)
Things In My Cabinet: This Land Is My Land: "I stopped being conscious of how I looked. Completely." I have no idea what to say about this, but it is insightful and important.