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  1. Jazz Thread, The

    The thing about jazz for me is that there are a lot of boring, stylistically conservative hard bop albums that all melt together into so much mindless blowing. That, and acoustic bass solos are usually terrible. Here's a big list of good stuff that I recommend. Hard Bop / Post-Bop: Cannonball...
  2. It's Friday

    The other stars on the Ark roster must be cursing fate for denying them their own fifteen minutes of fame now. Or maybe they're grateful? Pay particular attention to the way the rapper svengali pops up for a cameo appearance in almost every song.
  3. Smogon Premier League II - Week 6

    I played like bullshit and lost to Ala. GG.
  4. Smogon Premier League II - Week 3

    Lost to VIL 1-0, continuing a lousy streak...
  5. Smogon Premier League II - Week 2

    Sorry Brits I'm lame... Lost to kael in an edge of the seat 1-0.
  6. Black & White Tournament - [Round 1]

    I lost quite solidly to symphony. Good game.
  7. Media Favorite Albums By Year

    56: Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus 57: Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus 58: Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else 59: Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um 60: Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain 61: John Coltrane - My Favorite Things 62: Dexter Gordon - Go 64: Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch! 65: Bob...
  8. Smogon Premier League II - Player Sign Ups

    Player Name: SSBM roy Tiers Played: BW OU / ADV OU Timezone : GMT -6 (CST)
  9. DADT Repealed

    Actually, no. The problem here was the legislative ban on gays in the military, to which no equivalent existed prohibiting racial integration. My understanding is that President Obama could use an executive order to suspend any discharges of service members, but he can't just overturn that law...
  10. Political Compass

    I'm skeptical of the whole premise of the vertical axis, which seems like a superfluous method to inflate the relevance of a particular notion of libertarianism that's popular in some corners of the internet but barely exists in real world politics. Just looking at the big graph of Smogon users...
  11. Abortions

    I have yet to see a definition of what is called natural law that couldn't be described as begging the question, but I do believe that certain entities should be granted enforceable rights by a system of laws. I believe that a necessary, if not sufficient, condition for an entity to be granted...
  12. Evil means a Christian God cannot exist?

    I assume most people can see quickly what this logic leads to...
  13. Evil means a Christian God cannot exist?

    I would accuse you of projection, but since you managed to respond to one of my posts without mentioning Media Matters out of context I'll give that a pass. If you wish, I can use someone other than yourself as a synecdoche for the conservative lunatic fringe from now on. Still, if you want to...
  14. Evil means a Christian God cannot exist?

    This is, for the most part, the usual historical revisionist boilerplate that Deck Knight has graced us with countless times, but I did a double take when I noticed the inclusion of Iran in that list. Are you seriously suggesting that a country recognized as a theocratic republic, the population...
  15. Evolution vs Intelligent Design

    Although I don't think you intended anything malicious, this is exactly the kind of misconception that benefits creationists by being spread. It may be possible to engage in philosophical masturbation about life being seeded on Earth by extraterrestrials or something of that sort, but in...
  16. How have your past girlfriend/boyfriend relationships been?

    I realize that every homophobe argues based on the erroneous presumption that sexual orientation is mutable, but has anyone else noticed that their arguments always seem to presume that gay sex is so awesome that social convention is the only force keeping heterosexuality in existence?
  17. Affirmative Action is Racist

    Not that along ago there was a thread here whining about the nefarious feminist conspiracy to subjugate men. Now I am informed that black people only have a bad lot in life because they're too lazy to learn anything. Can someone get Deck Knight to pen a screed about the oppression of...
  18. Climatequiddick: The worst scientific scandal of our generation.

    Brain said all that needed to be said here, but the title of this thread amused me enough that I wanted to make a minor comment. If you're not the kind of person who has a Pavlovian reflex activated by the mention of the word Chappaquiddick, you're not in the intended audience for Deck Knight's...
  19. Phantasy Star Zero

    Is anyone else here getting this? For those unfamiliar with the original Phantasy Star Online, it's a hack and slash with a setting that mixes science fiction and fantasy and a large emphasis on grinding and hunting rare items. Obviously, four people can play together online, so I'd like to set...
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