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  2. lanir says

    It looks like someone understands and appreciates you. That’s a nice thing in ridiculous times like these. :)

  3. imback says

    Surely what’s happening is some spiders have evolved on certain campuses to display pleasing colors so they don’t get whacked.

  8. Silentbob says

    It just occurred to me they’re in trans colors, so maybe they’re trans spiders being visible for TDOV. ;-)

  9. Hemidactylus says

    One thing that I find obnoxious with Coyne is his absolute ignorant arrogance regarding rock music. Losing his nonreligion seems totally ignorant considering the REM song.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_My_Religion

    The title phrase is an expression from the Southern United States that means “losing one’s temper or civility” or “feeling frustrated and desperate”.[11] Stipe said the song was about romantic expression and unrequited love.[12][13]

    Or: https://americansongwriter.com/losing-my-religion-r-e-m-behind-the-song/

    Unlike early R.E.M. songs, “Losing My Religion” features lyrics you can understand. And yet, they were largely misunderstood anyway. Was it sacrilegious? A kiss off to the establishment? Were R.E.M. advocating that you reject the church and stop celebrating Christmas?

    In fact, this was not the case. “Losing my religion” is actually an old southern expression for being at the end of one’s rope, and the moment when politeness gives way to anger. But if you were missing that key detail, you’d think that Stipe’s vague imagery was clearly a comment on the Judeo-Christian tradition.

    Stipe, who comes from a long line of Methodist ministers and is an admirer of Buddhism, was merely giving a little known southern saying a poetic facelift, by building a wall of evocative words around it. The gravity he conjures with his hurt, reedy keen is immense. “I thought that I heard you laughing, I though that I heard you sing.” When he gets to the line “oh no, I’ve said too much,” it sounds devastating.

    But it’s ok for a conservative who thinks he’s liberal blogger who hates rock music after the mid-60s to steal and distort REM’s song title because fuck music he doesn’t give a shit about right? Would he do that to his beloved jackass Clapton?

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