Iselin, New Jersey

You realize this largely depends on whether Thomas enjoys "The Simpsons."

Here's the upshot....

Next up....Thomas goes to Circut City and buys a TV. Stay tuned.

The Consumer Reports 2008 Buying Guide is up on the news-stands now. It is digest-sized so easy to toss in satchel or large pocket.

I do find Spader interesting...have since "Sex, Lies and Videotape."

I do find Spader interesting...have since "Sex, Lies and Videotape."

Are we discussing a loud sister in S,L%V, or in Boston Legal?
What were the earrings like?

Whatever, re anyone's recommendations, is there a need for an inter thread war? If so, I don't get it.

blatham wrote:
The Consumer Reports 2008 Buying Guide is up on the news-stands now. It is digest-sized so easy to toss in satchel or large pocket.

thomas: This Report is torture! It incites a war between my rational, judge-by-the-numbers self, which instructs me to buy a Toyota Camry or Corolla, and my irrational German chauvinist self, which wants to buy a 3-series BMW or a C-class Mercedes. It makes me want to say with the Mythbusters: "I reject your reality and substitute my own."

dlowan wrote:

Are we discussing a loud sister in S,L%V, or in Boston Legal?
What were the earrings like?

In S, L, & V. The earrings, or, more precisely, one of them were the corpus delicti. Andie McDowell finds it while vacuuming her bedroom.

I don't have much regard for any of the news media including both Fox and the self-proclaimed "respectable" ones that so loudly claim virtue for confining the obvious elements of their polemics to pages labelled "opinion" or "analysis". Firstly the device is at best a thin veneer. More importantly the far more pervasive bias they apply is subtly done by omission, emphasis and placement in the paper. The "standard" TV media do the same, none more effectively than NPR. Fox has only the virtue of being open and brazen in its devices. As a result it and its radio counterparts drive the establishment types crazy. Good for them. In the information marketplace the rule is "Let the buyer beware".

So...it's a waste thing.


People ought to be more careful about their belongings, so we would not produce so much CO2.

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blatham wrote:
The Consumer Reports 2008 Buying Guide is up on the news-stands now. It is digest-sized so easy to toss in satchel or large pocket.

thomas: This Report is torture! It incites a war between my rational, judge-by-the-numbers self, which instructs me to buy a Toyota Camry or Corolla, and my irrational German chauvinist self, which wants to buy a 3-series BMW or a C-class Mercedes. It makes me want to say with the Mythbusters: "I reject your reality and substitute my own."

Understood. A fine compromise would be the Acuras. They are rather richer on the interior than the Camry or Corolla and as to handling, they are a very close match to the german sedans.

dlowan wrote:

So...it's a waste thing.


People ought to be more careful about their belongings, so we would not produce so much CO2.

All I know is that Andy McDowal got pissed off when she vacuumed her and her husband's bedroom and found her sister's earrings. You are more familiar with gal psychology than I am. So I'll trust you when you say this is a waste issue.

george wrote

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I don't have much regard for any of the news media including both Fox and the self-proclaimed "respectable" ones that so loudly claim virtue for confining the obvious elements of their polemics to pages labelled "opinion" or "analysis". Firstly the device is at best a thin veneer. More importantly the far more pervasive bias they apply is subtly done by omission, emphasis and placement in the paper. The "standard" TV media do the same, none more effectively than NPR. Fox has only the virtue of being open and brazen in its devices. As a result it and its radio counterparts drive the establishment types crazy. Good for them. In the information marketplace the rule is "Let the buyer beware".

It isn't merely that you don't attend to media analysis. You've just clarified that you don't watch tv and don't read much print news.

How you can write the above, with self-conviction that you actually know what you are talking about, isn't an epistemological question, it is a psychological question.

I've been reading Gary Steyngarth and I think you incomers, Thomas and Bernie, should absolutely read "The Russian Debutant's Handbook".

....And his other book which I read first and gave to my pal Tony to read and I can't remember its name right now but it's very good too.

When I am reading (I haven't finished it yet, and will be sad when I do) "T R D H" I can't help relating the hero's exploits and thoughts to Thomas in NJ. It's a hoot.