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moab-versioning 1.4.4
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High performance memcached client for Ruby
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convert codes to mobi file for reading codes on kindle
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Basic mobile device detection for rails applications
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use mobile to auth user
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gem detect mobile device or not, tablet or mobile phone
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Ruby version of a php library of the same name - http://mobiledetect.net/. Intended to ...
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Autoconverted version (from Java to Ruby) of MobileESP library.
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Mobile first bootstrap grid for Rails
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start application via custom scheme
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mobileminer-adapter 0.0.1
Ruby gem to report miner information to MobileMiner.
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mobile_ninja 0.0.2
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I'd call your OB. And then post what they say b/c I'd like to know too! Anytime I bring up fibroid pain to my OB, she just says to drink more water and lay down. That seems to be her solution to everything though...
Always always always call when you're having pain like that. It can be due to contractions and it's up to your MD to figure out what's going on and help you through it. I didn't call early enough during my degeneration and got reamed out by the oncall MD, appropriately so. She told me that it wasn't my job to figure it out, but theirs and to start acting like a mom and do whatever I needed to do to take care of my baby :) Funny how I needed that permission to speak up about the pain - kinda silly now but anyhow, live and learn.
A: 1/16/09, angel: 1/16/10, rainbow S: 4/27/12

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Cheese Souffle
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|Unrefined corn germ oil/Butter
|3 Tablespoon (plus more for greasing dish)
|Whole wheat flour
|3 Tablespoon
|1 Dash
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Sea salt
|1 Teaspoon
|Prepared mustard
|1 Teaspoon
|Sharp cheddar cheese
|1⁄2 Pound, diced
|6 , separated
Melt the butter over low heat.
Stir in the flour.
Cook 1 minute.
Add a little cayenne pepper, salt, and mustard to taste.
Slowly add the milk, stirring constantly.
Cook until smooth and thick.
Add the cheese.
Stir until it is melted.
Remove from the heat.
Beat the egg yolks.
Stir them into the cheese sauce.
Beat until well blended.
Cool until lukewarm or cooler.
Beat the egg whites until stiff.
Mix a large spoonful into the sauce.
Now fold the sauce into the remaining whites.
Pour gently into a buttered 1 1/2 quart souffle dish.
Bake 20 to 25 minutes at 350°.
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The ad for L'Oreal's Feria hair highlighting product sparked outrage when it appeared in the current edition of Elle magazine because the singer, whose father is African American and mother is Creole, looked almost completely white with strawberry blonde hair.
The New York Post said that the ad was shocking in a piece called 'Beyonce the Pale' and that she looked like a "weird, nearly white version of herself".
Celebrity website TMZ claimed the ad had been "severely photoshopped" and set up a poll asking its readers "Is the ad a slap to blacks?"
One of its readers left a comment saying: "Shame on L'Oreal for doing this. I see no excuse for this. If it was uneven skin tone then they just as easily could have made her a tone darker but they did not do that. They made her white."
L'Oreal has denied that the company digitally altered Knowles' complexion. A spokesperson for the cosmetics giant said: "Beyonce Knowles has been a spokesperson for the L'Oreal Paris brand since 2001. We highly value our relationship with Ms Knowles. It is categorically untrue that L'Oreal Paris altered Miss Knowles's features or skin-tone in the campaign for Feria hair colour."
Some fashion experts have said that the ad is a sign of negative attitudes within the fashion industry towards women with darker skin.
The Voice, Britain's best-selling black newspaper, said that it would be "disgusted" if the image had been "whitewashed".
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When Jaycee Dugard was freed from her kidnappers after 18 years, she wondered about the childhood friends she had left behind.
She was just 11 years old when Phillip and Nancy Garrido abducted her on June 10, 1991 as she walked to school from her family's Tahoe, Calif., home. She was a little girl with a big field trip to the water park just days away and plans to learn how to ride a horse that summer, plans that remained frozen in time.
Throughout her nearly two-decade imprisonment in the Garridos' backyard compound, she would write in journals about missing her mom and day dream about her former playmates.
Through the help of police officers, whom she met after she and her daughters were rescued in August 2009, Dugard found her best childhood friends. One of them is named Jessie.
"She's my best friend ever. I don't know what I'd do without her. I went to her wedding. She got married...I got to spend that moment of the lifetime with her," Dugard told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview.
The two reunited at a birthday party for one of Dugard's daughters. Dugard writes about the reunion in her newly released memoir, "A Stolen Life."
Dugard, 31, said she never forgot about Jessie throughout her captivity.
"I am so lonely," Dugard wrote in her book. "Sometimes I dream about my friends that I used to have. Especially my very first friend, Jessie."
They became pals when Dugard was 4 and Jessie was 3 and they met as Dugard was looking for ladybugs, she wrote. "After that we were inseparable… I miss her now more than ever."
When Dugard moved to Tahoe, and away from Jessie, her friend would send her "special things," among them a bear that had a secret spot to hide things.
"I loved that bear and I loved Jessie, too, for not forgetting me," Dugard wrote.
In her conversation with Sawyer, Dugard said, "Some people you just don't forget."
The grace and courage with which Dugard has reemerged after her astonishing ordeal has made her an unforgettable character for many who watched as she told her story to Sawyer.
Oprah Winfrey tweeted, "Don't we love Jaycee's resilience. She is remarkable."
Alyssa Milano of "Who's the Boss" and "Melrose Place" tweeted, "Jaycee...your strength and grace are such an inspiration." Dugard took the name "Alyssa" after the actress when the Garridos forbade her from saying her real name.
Details of Dugard's nightmare continue to emerge and to amaze.
Just nine days after Dugard was kidnapped, her captors paid a visit to Phllip Garrido's parole officer, according to documents obtained by the Sacramento Bee newspaper, through a Freedom of Information Act request, and published in the newspaper today.
The federal parole agent wrote an upbeat report on June 19, 1991. "No major changes…A lot of complex issue (sic) with this case," according to The Bee article. "He talked about the way he met Nancy and their life together. He seems c omitted to their relationship."
It was a pattern of optimistic reports by parole officers that continued for 60 visits over the years.
Not long after Dugard gave birth to the first of her two daughters in 1994, Garrido told his parole agent, "everything is going OK," The Bee reported.
"Still employed…Says work-home going well. Talks a lot about his past and how far he has come," the parole officer wrote.


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William Deming is an ambitious young reporter from Utah. He sees a chance not only to visit the fair, but to make a name for himself by reporting on it. He takes a room in a boarding house close on Lindell Boulevard, close to the Fair itself. What he doesn't count on is meeting Misha—a young and handsome Russian, whose aunt owns the boarding house.
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To bartender Samantha Set, he was just another customer in the out-of-the-way rundown bar located in nowhere-ville in the farm country in southern Ohio. Yet he stood out among the rough tired farmers and truckers who frequented the Four Corners. He came in quietly and took the same dark shadow hidden table to sit back and watch.
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"So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." Dark Helmet
Originally posted by saker
Which is an extremely relevant observation, since this is such a political topic...
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ps4 and Xbox1 both require you to pay each month to play games online; nothing new for Xbox, but it is for playstation.
From the way Sony was talking about the change from free online gaming to requiring a Playstation plus subscription to play online, and all of their PS4 MMO not requiring a subscription fee (they don't want us to have to pay twice to play one of their games online) it sounds very much like PS4 and XB1 gamers will have to pay twice to play ESO.
Unless Sony and Microsoft are both going to forgo the required subscriptions to PSplus and XBlive, ESO is going to have to be one hell of a game to justify spending money on a sub to play a game online on the PS4 or XB1.
I have to agree with the Forbes article, kind of, a subscription model is fine for PC MMO's, but it's asking to much for people who want to play on a PS4 or XB1 when they already have to pay to play online before they even pony up the money for the game box.
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Joined: 6/11/08
I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
Ok. A billion dollars was a silly answer.
Since PP was written sometime around 2003, and doesn't seem to have a lot of high end 3D graphics, or possibly any 3D graphics, a lot less than a 3D MMORPG would cost today. ATiTD is the same answer, except they have 3D graphics. Adding 3D graphics, or using a modern engine would increase the cost significantly.
However, if we could write those games today at a reasonable cost, the number of players served would be pretty small. We'd need something like 5,000 or 10,000 MMORPGs to satisfy the market demand for MMORPGs. This doesn't seem feasible. Beyond that, there would be a lot of issues getting people to play the games without modern game engines. It wouldn't do any good to write a bunch of smaller, targeted games if nobody is interested in playing them. I think this is why there aren't more smaller, targeted MMORPGs now. They're expensive to write, and writing a game that a developer wants people to play, and the people want to play is hard. That doesn't really change just because we scale down the production.
Unless there's a shift away from full on MMORPGs. That makes the production less expensive, and less time consuming. 5,000 of them is a bit much, but it might be easier to serve a larger number of people with games that are geared to serving a smaller number of people at a time rather than everyone at once.
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Joined: 9/22/13
Never in my entire existence would i believe that SWTOR has more than 2 million active players. More like 200-400k. The other games that says 20 millions can not be true either. This is bullshit.
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Joined: 10/02/04
For me at the end of the day if the game is good and it provides entertainment for me then I have no issues at all putting money towards it.
I also dont have an issue paying an up front cost for a game and then a sub... whatever as long as its a good game.
I put about £8 or whatever into world of tanks each month for a premium account.. I am happy to do this because I enjoy playing it.
The main issue with ESO is that I am pretty sure its going to end up being another themepark mmo that we have all seen before... the main issue with that is that WOW has that covered I mean why move away from a well esablished game that millions of people play to a new game that no so many people play.. people will stick with wow..
The big mmo companies need to realise they cant keep turning out themepark clones and expect to make money... SOE has realised this with Everquest Next and I am pretty sure that is going to e really popular when released because it will be something new that people are going to enjoy.
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Joined: 11/01/06
Originally posted by DMKano
Yeah...it's so complicated there arent websites dedicated to small business sellers with multples of 1000's of "microtransactions"....ever hear of Ebay? Then, when you consider NWN....ripped off the store from STO, seems like they even forgot to rename a couple things or some such....not quite so convinced of your....it's complicated....no, the only thing it is, is a scummy way to do business in most cases.
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Joined: 10/06/09
Originally posted by collekt
I never said people preferred micro-transactions, I said they were more comfortable with them. The big issue here is that subscription == commitment, free == FREE! Until you actually get into the game and realize what "free" really means.
I would tend to agree that people say they prefer subscriptions. The reality is, though, that talk is cheap and there are fewer than a handful of games still in existence which survive solely on this model.
The idea that F2P gamers are cheap, though, isn't a new argument, but is also grossly misinformed. There is an article that indicates that core gamers in these "free" games spend, on average, up to $60 per month. You're right, there are casual gamers who play a lot of these free games, but they aren't really the target of anyone, even subscription models, because they're not going to be around long one way or another. So, you see, if anyone is "cheap" it's subscribers. Yup, that was maybe a bit of a dig (I'm a subscriber myself though, and I have friends who are subscribers, so it's ok).
The "problem" when subscription games is that they leave too much money on the table. So unless you maintain a consistently high subscription base, you're dead in the water. With F2P models, your game has to be compelling enough to engage enough people who are actually willing to open their wallets. If not, then you're also dead. I think that's why games like SWTOR, with a hybrid model, are doing well. It still presents the problem of subscriptions "topping" out at $15 a month though. For instance, I subscribed to SWTOR for 6 months while I levelled because of the bonuses I got from doing so. Afterwards I went back down to F2P, but I feel like I could have been hosed more if they didn't have a subscription option. Not that I'm looking for that, but I can see where subs could be a problem for future titles which have larger budgets (beyond a few million).
I just pray every day that we don't see more aggressive monetization strategies like with mobile games, "Would you like to be placed at the front of the Raid Finder queue? $0.99" or "Would you like to unlock this Raid for another run this week? $1.99". Don't kid yourself, I just gave WoW a billion dollar idea right there :) It's coming.
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Joined: 4/12/06
Originally posted by fantasyfreak112
and you are wrong here
ppl are just lazy or old to move to other games, thats why they stay there
for many of these ppl WoW was thier first mmo
its not like WoW is the best, if it was then the game would gain new players not lose them
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Joined: 12/06/05
I dont think the fact that ESO is sub model will have anything to do with the game, whether it fails or is a hit. Sub models are just fine. Just look at FFXIV the reboot. They are doing pretty well with the sub model, even after the disaster that was 1.0.
I personally think, that you have a massive split of the sub model vs. the f2p. You have one set of players, who would rather pay sub fee's and have no perks what so ever. I am one of these people. No you cant go and buy a potion that helps you level a little bit faster, or move faster, or anything. The only thing a cash shop should add, is strictly cosmetic stuff. Sure you might not see a problem with someone buying a exp potion to help level, because they dont get to play often. I do.
Then you have those who like f2p. They can play the game, dont have to worry about paying for anything at all, Unless they want to. I think this works great for people who dont have alot of time to invest in a game. If you can only play 15 hours a month, then i think that would be a waste of money if you were to sub.
In the case with a game like ESO, i think they are much better off with a sub model. The game looks like a time sink, vs other mmo's. Same with wildstar.
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Joined: 6/14/12
although this is mostly correct I think the numbers are sewed being he under minds the sub+micro a good chunk, If you are willing to pay $15 per month and still buy something off the market then those numbers would look much different.
Pay to win modules only work on people with money for so long because people with money tend to have money because they know how to make it and are often not in the business in losing it. Once the person investing their time and money feel they are over paying they will back off big time and cause a large lose in funds to the game.
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Joined: 7/09/04
ESO will last longer than Wild Star as a subscription based game on the sheer fact of the fan base that surrounds it. Once the hype (or over-hype) of the game settles it will be a B2P title for both console and PC.
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Joined: 12/20/03
Great article!
-Prior story writer for MMORPG.com
Sorry but that list is wrong, not only wrong by misleading. Most of those games have dropped half or more of the subs you listed and are now FTP or FTP with a buy in option that almost no one takes. I know that this website really wants to hype TESO but this entire "article" is misleading to the point of propaganda.
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Joined: 12/18/11
First post back after my epic long ban, lesson learned (keep from posting when drunk)
This is an awesome article. Why ? Economics.
In super short: F2P MMOs are working of the idea that they can Perfectly Price Discriminate as a monopolist. If the subscription MMOs would adopt a more flexible approach to their subscription price (allow the market to determine the sub price) both the consumers and the producers would be at a much more efficient result. In fact some consumers would actually get more than what they are willing to pay for a game experience. As opposed to the F2P monopolist getting all of surplus.
Too bad to get the education you need to understand economics you need to attend post-secondary education. Fail on the part of educators for not teaching more of it earlier.
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Joined: 6/21/12
Subscription is simply a phase, once they exhaust it they swap to f2p.
It's a great way to get a bit of the same apple twice.
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Joined: 3/17/07
"Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." - Mordin Solus
Well he can defend the game all he wants but from the current vibe we are getting ESO isn't even worthy of a subscription.
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Joined: 9/28/12
He can defend the p2p all he want but when people get bored and dont want to play anymore mostly like unsub from the game. that why p2p game are failing right now because they have no one will leave game still sub. when not playing it anymore
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Joined: 10/10/03
It is great to hear a defence of Subs by an article on this site. It is a shame we only get such a defence when an up and coming hyped to the sword hilt MMO is due to come out in a few months.
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I will never play a F2P game. I've tried it over and over, and they're all the same. Instead of spending time and resources on making content, they all seem to spend this on making cosmetic items to have players to spend money on. On a subscription title, all they have to do is make good content.
Edit: I'm also one of those people who will pay more than $15 a month on a "free" game for cosmetic items and boosters lol. If you can't afford $15 a month, get a job :P
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Joined: 10/22/06
If ESO goes F2P, then I wont be playing it, F2P model kills games for me. I dont have that much of extra money in hand, but I gladly pay 15 dollars/13 euros sub in order to get higher quality content that isnt ruined by ingame shops. There isnt a single Dev team out there that I trust to make content for F2P model that isnt ruining the way the game is designed.
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I enjoy trying new things as well as maintaining a balanced and secure life. Although I am known to be spontaneously spontaneous hehe I am a mother before I am anything. My daughter is my life and gives me inspiration & ambition. My finacee gives me courage, support, and strength to get my goals accomplished.I like setting goals no matter how small or silly they may be I think that success is built upon success. If you accomplish even the smallest task you will go further, it's not the task that's completed that matters but the completion of a task that creates self inspiration. I am from a small town in Louisiana that isn't listed on most maps, however, it is a misconception that small town women have small minds! I do enjoy horseback riding, four wheelers, 4x4 trucks covered in mud, camo and also the finer things....nice clothes, restaurants, theater and shoes.. My fiancee is more into sports, but i can talk him into anything :). I have down home, small town values . I am very protective of my loved ones and family, I have learned through life experience to honor your family everyday.. I have a certification for wedding and event arrangements coordinator but find this more of a hobby than career. I am also a licensed phlebotomist, due to economic adversities and personal preference I do not wish to invoke my medical training into our current governmental healthcare system. However I do intend on registering for college courses to obtaining a higher education to adhere to the legal requirements for a grief/substance adolescent councilor and/or life coach. I rear my daughter as a solo parent which requires twice the work but pays in twice the kisses and hugs! I refuse to allow my child to be raised by daycare, babysitters, or family members I do believe it takes a community to raise a child but it takes a mothers love to encourage a child (she does attend daycare program for social and confidence skill building as well as lesson plans as well as the same baby sitter each time needed and also spends time with grandparents but I am her main caregiver) I simply want to find someone who will share some experiences and adventures with me and my fiancee. We are looking for someone to help us remember that life is meant to be lived not just planned. I want to experiment, try new things, and take advantage of the opportunities our world has to offer and I love having my fiancee with me during these life lessons. I found my companion to later reminisce with now i need the experiences and journeys to talk about....
Camping , Coffee and conversation , Cooking , Fishing/Hunting , Hobbies and crafts , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Nightclubs/Dancing , Performing arts , Shopping/Antiques , Travel/Sightseeing , Wine tasting
Bowling, Dancing, Swimming, Walking / Hiking
I exercise 1-2 times per week.
I have Dogs, Fish
I like Horses
We bought my daughter a Maltese last yr. I usually prefer medium/large dogs but I owned a Maltese before and found they are great family pets, and she has glo fish equipped with LED lighting (gives off less light than a nightlight/water is calming)
Middle of the Road
Hudson's Pub&Crazy Frogs*I do not enjoy clubs I like fine dining, museums,aquariums,zoos, shopping (not Galleria) I like Memorial City Mall, diners and cafes, pick your own fruit orchards/farms, family fun parks&festivals
San Jacinto College District, Pasadena, TX
I don't watch tv often I prefer to read or play family games, favorite movies center stage and interview with a vampire*hate twilight almost any music genre I enjoy cookingbaking, and how-to classes~byob painting class,cooking/wine,DIY
I enjoy fun time with my fiancee, friends & family,travel when possible,creativity &art,playing OUTSIDE with my 3 yr old daughter((most children today lack any survival skills))festivals,Harley's I am a ppl person but I also enjoy occasional solitude
Will's Bones, very controversial and theoretical based concept of Christian belief of Jesus rising from the grave as well as the impact it has on political standings
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|5'0" (152cms) to 5'7" (170cms)
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|Blue, Brown, Grey, Green, Hazel
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|Black, Light brown, Dark brown, Blonde, Salt and pepper, Dark blonde, Bald
|Occasionally, Daily, Cigar aficionado
|Social Drinker, Moderately
|Self-Employed / Entrepreneur
|No preference
I'm a contractor for customer service departments affiliated with in-bound call centers.This allows me to give my daughter the time & attention she needs but takes self discipline, ambition, & conviction to work from home. My fiancee makes it easier
|$35,001 to $50,000
|$35,001 to $50,000, $50,001 to $75,000, $75,001 to $100,000
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My father's parents were French Cajun and my mother's father was Irish and mother was Chippewa Indian and my beautiful tot is Filipino by her fathers origin. My fiancee is an athletic mix of Irish and Croation.
|Christian / Other
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I think I'm a little more than spiritual because my beliefs are direct however I have studied Christianity in depth and other religions' basics and have formed my own interpretation of Christian living
|Some college
|Some college, Associates degree, Bachelors degree, Graduate degree
Life has been my education and since i'm still here, I must be doing well. My fiancee has degrees in finance and marketing. Show-off ;)


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Critical Essay by Jerome Klinkowitz
SOURCE: "Thomas McGuane: The Novel of Manners Radicalized," in Literary Subversions: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism, Southern Illinois University Press, 1985, pp. 104-115.
In the following essay, Klinkowitz discusses McGuane's fiction as "the new American novel of manners." He maintains that McGuane has the ability to single out the characteristics of an age and know his characters through them.
A tea biscuit crumbles, and in its fragments Henry James can read the fortunes of a social world. "Her voice sounded like money," Nick Carraway says of Daisy Buchanan, and in that manneristic notation we sense the compelling illusion of Gatsby's life. There's even a touch of it in Faulkner: young Thomas Sutpen is turned away by a servant at the rich man's door and forever vows to build himself an equal domain. Despite our relative incivility and egalitarian beliefs, who says there is no novel of manners in America?
But then come the American 1960s. On both social and artistic fronts, the old hierarchies crumble. Down with the establishment, and death to the novel. The politics of Berkeley, Madison, Columbia, and the 1968 Democratic Convention find their match in the communal rites of Woodstock and the anti-illusionistic fiction of Brautigan and Vonnegut. Apparent anarchy dislodges the old truths. The novelist's study of society now takes place in a madhouse, and the decade's most reliable narrator is Ken Kesey's Chief Broom, who in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest warns us, "It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen."
Yet in Chief Broom's words can be found a clue to the new American novel of manners. Why is his narrative the truth, even though it may not have happened? Look back a few lines, as he characterizes his experience in Kesey's asylum. "I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like flood-waters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God…." The truth is in the telling, and for every step within the careful structure of janitors-orderlies-practical nurses-RNs on up to The Big Nurse herself, the Chief has a perfect image. Their manners are, in terms of this novel, a matter of his transforming language, finely tuned to each.
Kesey's novel helped signal a decade's revolution, and there are many writers who follow his example and in some cases even his lifestyle in the previously unwriterly northwest corner of the United States. Richard Brautigan, for example. Jim Harrison. Guys who know their way around a trout stream or high range better than through the pubs of Greenwich Village or midtown bars near their editors.
How this all translates into a new novel of manners, however, falls to Thomas McGuane. In his twenties during the 1960s, McGuane wrote his first published novel in 1968, that year of social and political turmoil which Michael Herr (in Dispatches) described as "so hot that I think it shorted out the whole decade, what followed was mutation." Through the next dozen years, as presidential candidates were assassinated, rock stars OD'ed, and the culture at large underwent a transformation whose sudden thoroughness was unknown in previous American history, McGuane produced four more novels plus a book of essays, while paying off his Montana ranch with oddball Western filmscripts for Rancho Deluxe, The Missouri Breaks, and Tom Horn. His fiction includes the full cast of counterculture characters, from dropouts to heavy dopers and theatrical rock stars. These protagonists both form and are formed by their cultural milieu, of which McGuane is a sharp observer. But it is in their language that they become true agents of fiction, factors in the new American novel of manners.
Although his first novel, The Sporting Club, is almost biblical in its microcosmic annals of a rich men's hunting and fishing lodge, McGuane's sharpest attention to manners comes with his introduction of young protagonists out searching for America and themselves. Nicholas Payne from The Bushwacked Piano, Thomas Skelton of Ninety-Two in the Shade, and Chet Pomeroy who narrates Panama catalogue the manners of McGuane's three residencies since childhood: Michigan, Montana, and the Florida Keys. Payne has an ear for people's speech; a girl who thumbs a ride on his motorcycle out West complains, "I'll take a car any day…. You cain't play the radio own this." Skelton, heavy into drugs, hallucinates while hitching with a silent-majority-type salesman who can nevertheless find common ground and share perceptions: "When Skelton told the hardware salesman that the paint had just lifted off the whole car in a single piece, the hardware salesman agreed with him about how Detroit put things together. This was the epoch of uneasy alliances." But most impressive is McGuane's ability to convey the characteristics of his culture within the words and syntax of his narrator's own speech. Listen to Chet Pomeroy, the burned-out rock star, explain why he owns a pistol:
Something about our republic makes us go armed. I myself am happier having a piece within reach, knowing if some goblin jumps into the path, it's away with him. Here in Key West, we take our guns to parties. My pedal steel player had one on a clip underneath his instrument: it said "Death to Traitors" on the backstrap and was stolen by a fan in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, on New Year's Day.
This paragraph makes its point entirely by its conflux of manneristic references within the verbal rhythm of our era's popular idiom. Before it is a gun, it's "a piece." Adversaries are not individualized beyond a spooky presence, nor are they shot at or killed—they're just swept away by the cadence of the sentence. From here, the notations turn to rock culture: not just any music, but that from a steel guitar. And not just anywhere, but in Muscle Shoals, home of a major recording studio famous for the Southern Blues sound, and stomping grounds of the Allman Brothers Band, two of whose members died on motorcycles. Chet's way of narrating helps define the time in which he writes. Panama is the new American novel of manners.
Florida. "Drugs, alligators, macadam, the sea, sticky sex, laughter, and sudden death"—these are the elements out of which Chet constructs his novel. In his essays collected in An Outside Chance, McGuane explains his own fascination with what another of his protagonists calls "America's Land's End." Both essayist and novelist must be sensitive to the little elements of atmosphere which typify a place, such as "the ground swell of Latinate noise—that first of all things that make Key West another country." The town is "both an outrageous honky-tonk and a momento of another century," and even its biosphere is such that one gets the sense of living on another planet, where at a drive-in movie "the column of light from the projectionist's booth is feverish with tropical insects" blurring the image on its way to the screen, and when "driving home, palmetto bugs and land crabs pop under the tires." That's from McGuane's essay on tarpon hunting for Sports Illustrated. For his fictional protagonists, Key West is a springboard to history and prophecy, but all based in the country's manners which have their toe hold in this extreme piece of land. As Nicholas Payne observes.
He was happy to be in Key West. It was Harry Truman's favorite town and Harry Truman was fine by Payne. He liked Truman's remark about getting out of the kitchen if you couldn't stand the heat. Payne thought that beat anything in Kierkegaard. He also liked Truman's Kansas City suits and essential Calvinized watch-fob insouciance of the pre-Italian racketeer. He enjoyed the whole sense of the First Lady going bald while the daughter wheedled her way onto the Ed Sullivan show to drown the studio audience in an operatic mudbath of her own devising.
In just over one hundred words—quickly enough to leave undisturbed his narrative's progress through Payne's business in south Florida—McGuane evokes thirty years of American popular history. Double-breasted suits, the President's snappish wit, long-suffering Bess, daughter Margaret on Sunday night TV: such is the Americana of Payne's childhood which he rediscovers in such cultural time pockets as the Keys.
Florida yields an apocryphal vision as well. Chet notes that a clip-joint parking lot is dug up to reveal the grave of an ancient Calusa seagoing Indian, who for decades has been "staring up through four inches of blacktop at the whores, junkies, and Southern lawyers." In Ninety-Two in the Shade, Thomas Skelton takes his skiff out during a solar eclipse, glancing upward to see hundreds of birds circling a black hole in the sky, the same vacuity he finds in human relations. Times are bad. "Nobody knows, from sea to shining sea," this novel begins, "why we are having all this trouble with our republic," but McGuane's protagonists are determined to find out why. Their investigations take them to the heart of "hotcakes land," where the streets are lined with "franchized outrages" and "everything is for sale." But they can also locate themselves comfortably within an ambience constructed from the counterculture and uniquely local elements, as the author explains for Skelton:
Intelligent morning: Indian River orange juice, thousand-times-washed Levi's, perfect Cuban guayabera shirt, Eric Clapton on the radio, sunlight swimming the walls, cucarachas running a four-forty in the breadbox, mockingbirds doing an infinitely delicate imitation of mockingbirds. Yes, gentlemen, there is next to nothing; but I'm going to have fun anyway.
Skelton's trick is to "look askance and it all shines on." His two closest studies are the fishing guides Faron Carter and Nichol Dance. Carter is the less distinguished, known best for his pink wedding cake of a wife Jeannie, a former baton-twirler whose titillating half-time act has been a monument to "a whole civilization up shit creek in a cement canoe without a dream of a paddle." Dance is more original, at home in Key West as America's terminal man who has fled a murder rap up North to see his car, smoking from a jammed brake drum, ignite and explode on the town's main street—"Nothing to do but stand back and watch her go."
Skelton measures the distance between these two guides and their methods, computing an average of manners for the Key. But in the end, he favors Dance's extreme and becomes himself America's terminal man, burned out by the 1960s and murdered off Barracuda Key.
Nicholas Payne of The Bushwacked Piano is a more comprehensive hero, touching base with all three of McGuane's favorite regions. For him, Michigan is a place to escape: upper-middle-class parents who would suck him into the "Waring blender" of their homogenized lives, future in-laws who'd keep him out of their family unless he finishes law school, a rival boyfriend who's a perfect dud of a junior GM exec but who can dress like a department store mannequin, and so forth.
When Payne takes off, it is to experience things: a paragraph in which he drives his motorcycle along the California coast matches image-for-image a description McGuane included in his Sports Illustrated essay on riding the Matchless 500. His girlfriend and her family have taken off for their Montana vacation home; crossing its entryway, Payne feels compelled to mimic Ernest Hemingway's shotgun suicide. But as always McGuane has a sharp eye for manners and is an artist at summing up a character, even when with the girlfriend Ann Fitzgerald it's making the decision simply to inventory her room:
Protractors, lenses, field guides, United States Geodetic Survey topographical maps, cores of half-eaten apples, every photograph of Dorothea Lange's ever reproduced, tennis shorts, panties, a killing jar, a mounting board, fatuous novel, a book about theosophy, a bust of Ouspensky, a wad of cheap Piranesi prints, her diplomas and brassieres, her antique mousetraps, her dexamyl and librium tablets, her G-string, firecrackers, bocci balls and flagons, her Finnish wooden toothbrush, her Vitabath, her target pistol, parasol, moccasins, Pucci scarves, headstone rubbings, buffalo horns, elastic bandages, mushroom keys, sanitary napkins, monogram die for stationery, Elmer Fudd mask, exploding cigars, Skira art books, the stuffed burrowing owl, the stuffed, rough-legged hawk, the stuffed tanager, the stuffed penguin, the stuffed chicken, the plastic pomegranate, the plaster rattlesnake ashtray, the pictures of Payne sailing, shooting, drinking, laughing, reading comics, the pictures of George smiling gently in a barrera seat at the Valencia Plaza de Toros, an annotated Story of O, the series of telephoto shots of her mother and father duking it out beside the old barge canal in Washington, D.C., Payne's prep school varsity jacket, an English saddle, a lid of Panama Green, Charlie Chaplin's unsuccessful autobiography, dolls, a poster from the movie Purple Noon, a menu from the Gallatoire restaurant, one from the Columbia in Tampa, one from Joe's Stone Crab in Miami and one from Joe Muer's in Detroit, and one rolled skin from a reticulated python curled around the base of a stainless steel orbiting lamp from Sweden—in short, a lot of stuff lay wall to wall in a vast mess, upon which she threw herself with energy born of her separation from Nicholas Payne.
Why is this important? Not for tour de force writing, though it takes that talent to get the job done. Structurally there's the narrative need for an explanation—why won't Ann simply move in with Payne?—which that laborious inventory now makes clear. "Ann didn't want to pair off," we're told. "She wanted to play in her room with all that junk for a few more years."
Sharp-eyed and sharp-eared Nicholas adapts to Montana, jawboning it with a backcountry mechanic and studying the rodeo riders' techniques until he's figured out how to stay on a bronc for fifty seconds, winning Ann's esteem. But there's still more of America that he needs to immerse himself in before a true sense of himself can be found. Therefore it's on the road—less of a Kerouac tradition than an homage to Huck Finn, whose shore-bound troubles become things of the past once he's back in flow with the river. Highway AlA to Key West, a river of concrete which like Huck's Mississippi takes you to the extreme terminus before it all vanishes into nothing.
McGuane's facility with manners is evident once more in his ability to use them for parody. The Bushwacked Piano's narrative follows parallel paths as Payne celebrates these cultural idiosyncracies while Ann mocks them. She writes poetry, shoots arty photographs, and reads D.H. Lawrence seeking to be "at one" with things; with Payne as her guide, she finds the best chances for identification in the "simple national archetypes like floozies, bowlers, and rotarians." In Ninety-Two in the Shade, McGuane himself is partial to such caricatured types, notably Faron Carter's baton-twirler wife: "Twirling, dropping to one knee for the catches, then prancing downfield in a mindlessness now growing culturally impossible, she was a simple pink cake with a slot." Jeannie Carter is a natural at this, but the effect is heightened when Ann adopts it as a role. As with McGuane's protagonists, her motives are fiendish: "In an epoch in which it was silly to be a druid or red Indian, there was a certain zero-hour solace in being something large enough to attract contempt." And so Ann looks forward to being a floozy "as another girl might have anticipated her freshman year at Vassar. With almost Germanic intentness, she had set her sights on being cheap and available and not in the least fussy." Pulling out the peroxide, hair spray, and heavy makeup, she faces the mirror. "Call me Sherri," she squeaks.
Other elements of satire abound. The American entrepreneur is caricatured in C. J. Clovis, who sells multi-storied bat towers for ridding areas of their mosquito problems. The folks on Mente Chica Key who buy one are in turn satirized as the typical country bumpkins eager to be chiseled by this gentle grafter from up North. Proof of the parody is that none of these cameo shots is held in focus for long. Clovis vanishes like the fly-by-night he is, the gulled townsfolk fade away into the sunset of their gumbo manners, while Ann picks up and leaves Nicholas Payne for the finer styles of her GM junior executive, pausing only to stop at Neiman-Marcus first for a quick change back from floozy-hood. George meets her at the Detroit airport, she in an Oscar de la Renta ensemble complemented with sandals by Dior, he in jacket by J. Press, Pucci cravat, and seamless cordovans from Church of London. "See them" the narrative section concludes, "running thus toward one another, perfect monads of nullity."
With Panama, McGuane comes to the point where he can trust his protagonist with the narration. Chet Pomeroy is a rock performer, adept at theatricalizing his culture's dark desires, "paid to sum up civilization or to act it out in a glimmer." On stage he's done this with his music; in Panama the effect is verbal, where Chet is no less a singer of his country's songs. Sometimes the quotations are direct, as when he's mourning the loss of his girlfriend and acknowledges that he's got heartaches by the million, or listening to another girl explain that "bad luck and trouble is getting to be my middle name." If I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all, and happiness is a thing named Joe. Watch the words, his girlfriend cautions him, and Chet appreciates how "the occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too." In terms of manners, Chet has become a communal catalyst, having "poured blood from my head so that strangers could form a circle."
In the tropical atmosphere and shabby economics of Key West, Chet finds it easy to be the poet of decay. Everything's for sale and nothing's worth buying. What good there's been is swept away by dubious progress, reminding Chet of the manners of his time: "Today an old family jewelry store had become a moped rental drop; a small bookstore was a taco stand; and where Hart Crane and Stephen Crane had momentarily coexisted on a mildewed shelf was now an electric griddle warming a stack of pre-fab tortillas." Nature itself seems ready to rebel, and the air reeks decadence. Chet's narrative eye is on present manners and their long-term consequence, a vision both timely and millenial—here, with its lyric language, is another key to the new American novel of manners. "When they build a shopping center over an old salt marsh," Chet approvingly observes, "the seabirds sometimes circle the same place for a year or more, coming back to check daily, to see if there isn't some little chance those department stores and pharmacies and cinemas won't go as quickly as they'd come."
Self-consciously the artist, and so ingratiated in the reader's mind, Chet can introduce lines of poetic imagery without disrupting his ongoing sense of story. Offbeat characters can be introduced with a savor for their individuality, and examples of extreme behavior blend easily with Chet's manner of storytelling. Take Marcelline, his girlfriend's girlfriend, distinguished by her scandalous habits and kinky sexuality. She robs graves, blackmails sugar daddy lovers, and is as ready to jump into bed with Chet's girlfriend as with him. A perfect counterculture extra who herself doubts she's a survivor: "I might be gone in the next reel." How does the new American novelist sum this all up? In the perfectly concise sentence capped with a image unique to Marcelline's innocently charming idiosyncracy, as "a leggy, otherwordly beauty, trailing her dubious dreams and pastel whoredom like a pretty kite."
Above all, Thomas McGuane is a novelist of manners because of his ability to single out the characteristics of an age and to know his characters through them. Coupled with his narrative ability to blend these details into a convincing pitch, such aptness of notation helps create the spirit of the times and of his protagonists. Listen to Chet complain, with a style and vision which give us a feeling of his woes:
For some reason, scarcely anything seems to bespeak my era so much as herpes simplex. Oddly, it appears as—what?—a teensy blister. Then a sore, not much, goes away, a little irritant. It's infectious. When your girl gets it, from you, it is not at all the same thing. For instance, she screams when she pisses. She won't put out. She demands to know, "Where did you get this one?" The answer is: From the age.
From the cultural conflux, Chet has drawn inward to the most intimate physical details and then suddenly reached outwards again, just when his girlfriend asks for a specific explanation. The specific is explained by the general when each is closely realized; in his ability to modulate the two within a convincing narrative, McGuane becomes the surprising heir to Fitzgerald and James.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Research by Professors Henry Hu and Bernard Black of The University of Texas School of Law on what they call "the new vote buying" was featured in the June 26 issue of Investment News and the June 26 issue of The Daily Telegraph (London).
The Investment News story profiles Hu and includes a 1,500-word interview in which Hu discusses a new article he co-authored with Black. The Daily Telegraph story states that "Henry Hu and Bernard Black are among a small group of academics to have researched the influence hedge funds have on takeovers."
Hu and Black's research represents the first systematic attempt to address "the new vote buying" and its corporate governance implications. This phenomenon, often involving hedge funds, is beginning to affect corporate governance throughout the world.
The vote is the core source of shareholder power. And corporate law generally makes voting power proportional to economic ownership: one share, one vote. Hu and Black analyze how the derivatives revolution and other capital market developments now allow both outside investors and insiders to readily "decouple" economic ownership of shares from voting rights.
This phenomenon can lead to such situations as a person with no economic interest
whatsoever in the company—or, indeed, a person with a negative economic
interest in the company--nevertheless having voting rights.
But, as the Daily Telegraph noted, "Hu and Black point out that the entire legal and regulatory framework governing corporations is premised on the assumption that the economic benefit of owning shares and the votes that come with those shares are coupled." The two professors set out the functional elements of decoupling and a taxonomy, propose a near-term disclosure-based response, and outline a menu of longer-term regulatory choices. See Sara Hansard, "One on One With Henry Hu of the University of Texas School of Law," Investment News, June 26, 2006, at 47; Iaian Dey, "The power brokers," The Daily Telegraph (London), June 26, 2006 at 7; and Henry T. C. Hu & Bernard Black, "The New Vote Buying: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership," 79 Southern California Law Review 811-908 (2006).
The Investment News story is available at:
The Daily Telegraph (London) story is available at:
The Southern California Law Review article is downloadable at:
Henry T. C. Hu holds the Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance at The University of Texas School of Law and is interested in, among other things, the law and economics of corporate governance and corporate and international finance. Hu was chair of the Association of American Law Schools' Business Associations section in 1996. During 1997-98, he taught at Harvard Law School as the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor. In 2000, he was appointed to the National Association of Securities Dealers' Legal Advisory Board, in 2001, to NASD Regulation's e-Brokerage Committee, and in 2006, to NASD's Market Regulation Committee. He is a member of the American Law Institute.
Bernard S. Black holds the Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence at The University of Texas School of Law, is professor of finance at UT's McCombs School of Business, and managing director of the Legal Scholarship Network. Before coming to Texas, he was professor at Stanford Law School (1998-2004) and Columbia Law School (1988-1998). He has been an advisor on company law, securities law, and corporate governance in Armenia, Brazil, Indonesia, Korea, Mongolia, Russia, Ukraine, and Vietnam.
Related Links:
About Professor Hu: http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/huht/
About Professor Black: http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/bsb345/
Hedge Fund Voting Paper by Professors Henry Hu and Bernard Black Discussed in Corporate Control Alert: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2006/031706_governance.html


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All right, parents, it's time for a change. Childhood obesity is a very real problem, and I've seen plenty of examples among my patients.
March is Nutrition Month, and each year, Dietitians of Canada encourages Canadians to focus on a different aspect of our eating habits, our food system, or the way we think about food
Amid declining consumption, the world's biggest beverage maker's public relations stragegy includes sponsored content promoting consumption of Coca-Cola products
What were the top nutrition trends of 2014, and what can we expect to see more of in 2015? Here's a look back, and a peek ahead
Every year right after the holidays, people swear they will start eating less in the new year. But it turns out that is when they actually eat the most
Has nutrition science gone so far beyond being complex that it's finally simple? Could eating well be as simple as eating slower, thinking more about what we buy, and being conscious of food?
Are we teaching our kids to eat right? And not just to be healthy, but also to eat well — what I mean is enjoying a variety of foods, not fearing new things, and being respectful at meal time?
Why do we overeat? There are many answers, some obvious, some hidden from us. We have access to too much food, much of which is low in nutrients, but still high in salt and/or sugar
Are low carbohydrate diets finally ready for prime time? Maybe, but there are a variety of reasons why we shouldn't expect everyone to go on one of these many diets and be successful
We are heading into the peak produce season, and from apricots to zucchinis, strawberries to scallions, you can find every colour of the rainbow around the corner, much of it from local farmers


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heavy wet snow in Worcester right now...snowing heavier then yesterday...
Posted 12/17/2013 03:45:49 EST
Is he seriously considering New Orleans in this conversation?...the same team that just got manhandled by the all-powerful St. Louis Rams? They won't even win their own division...this week they play more »
Posted 10/09/2012 11:02:49 EDT
Haven't seen Houston much this year but I also wasn't impressed. Except for Watts and Foster what impressed anyone? Their secondary looked weak and Schaub and that offense looked pedestrian at best. more »
Posted 08/03/2012 09:27:25 EDT
He should have had a Snickers Peanut butter square before he went in the water, he would have tasted better. more »
Posted 07/04/2012 09:31:02 EDT
watch out ex-mrs. Payton - there will be a bounty on you soon too. more »
Posted 03/23/2012 04:20:27 EDT
jim501 Thanks for clearing that up. "Muddy II" doesn't believe us, but I've seen the movie a bunch of times and that's exactly what he says, not that he actually came from exercise. more »
Posted 03/22/2012 04:47:24 EDT
In "Pumping Iron," the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger said that he did, indeed, achieve orgasms while working out. Watch the film and see / hear for your self. I think you need to watch that movie more »
Posted 03/04/2012 01:53:21 EST
I can't see them giving up what, a first and third?, then a big contract, for Wallace. I've heard Bill loves him but I think that's a pretty steep price when there are others available unrestricted, more »
Posted 03/04/2012 01:49:46 EST
Nice shot at Brady on the way out...2 hands on the ball = dropped pass, period. more »
Posted 12/20/2011 12:01:08 EST
I got news for you Mark...your already limited. more »
Posted 03/14/2011 11:24:04 EDT
Chernobyl cannot happen in this case because Chernobyl had no containment building at all. No current nuclear plants running today lack a containment building. more »
Posted 03/14/2011 11:06:04 EDT
funny how stories like this never appear after natural gas plants explode, which have killed far more people over time. Again, just the globe's (and most media outlets) bias against nuclear energy, th more »
Posted 02/25/2010 01:26:04 EST
IvarBiggunOk perhaps I was a little harsh...my apologies.So what is your suggestion? more »
Posted 02/25/2010 12:34:23 EST
IvarBiggun Do you also count the cost to cleanup the pollution that coal costs, or the healthcare problems? How bout the amount of carbon put into the air yearly from one coal plant? Not to mention th more »
Posted 02/25/2010 10:45:28 EST
Go ahead you idiots from Vermont - shut down Vermont Yankee. When it gets replaced by a coal-burning plant, you can deal with the soot, acid rain, coal sludge, increased health care costs, and every o more »
Posted 02/10/2010 07:23:58 EST
guess he was an old CRT manufacturer. more »
Posted 02/08/2010 04:52:24 EST
BradyfanmanThe 70's Steelers were the biggest steroid abusers of all time. I guess that doesn't count in your book as 'cheating' more »
Posted 01/31/2010 10:31:38 EST
Wow, the fossil fuel industry must be behind this article, as usual. Why don't we talk about the fact that a typical coal fired power plant emits 10 times the radiation that a nuclear plant does. If a more »
Posted 01/30/2010 11:00:39 EST
GWulinyou go ahead and buy a Ford...when it falls apart before your loan is paid off, you'll be right back buying a Toyota again. more »
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