Re: a comment on How to make a suicide bomber by Caducus	14-Mar-05/9:46 PM
I'm not saying normal (ie, Western) people don't resort to violence in extreme (or even not very extreme) circumstances. Of course they do; that's not the point. The point is, do you think modern European or American people would become suicide bombers if put into a situation like that of Iraq or Palestine (or anywhere else with suicide bombers)? Do you think the Iraqis, Palestinians, or people wherever disposed to suicide bombing, would stop being disposed to it if they were put into a situation like, I don't know, modern Chelsea? Maybe you mean if our cities were invaded, our worship commandeered (this incidentally isn't true), etc etc etc, we'd become something like the Iraqi insurgents - not suicide bombers. This is probably the case. But personally, I don't think Americans could ever become suicide bombers under any circumstances.
Re: a comment on Poet, Earth mover by INTRANSIT	14-Mar-05/9:34 PM
What notion, exactly, do you have about the word 'hypothetical'?
Re: a comment on Poet, Earth mover by INTRANSIT	14-Mar-05/9:33 PM
Stupid is an adjective. Next question: If your car, assuming you drive one, started making some fucked up grinding sound when you put it in gear, and you took it to an auto mechanic, and he said "I think your transmission's going out", would you say "Your unsupported, the problem's with the dome light" and trump in his face?
Re: a comment on Apostrophetic Loss by Dovina	14-Mar-05/9:27 PM
You've really gone too far this time. What do you mean by "unsupported words"? Do you mean they're not supportable as words? Of course they are. I get them from thesaurus.com, same as you. And nothing on the internet is unsupportable. Do you mean the statement they comprise is unsupportable? Whatever! It's not a statement, you retard, it's a fucking question. Will you bother to answer it if I ask more concisely? Fine, and this is yet another measure of my love for you: If you learned that we weren't unreasonably making fun of you, but were instead all reasonably and on our own initiatives making fun of you for being the silliest person ever, wouldn't you just die?
Re: a comment on Sauvignon by Dovina	14-Mar-05/9:21 PM
Why don't you answer my question?
Re: Enchanted Place by Beyond_Dreams	12-Mar-05/11:22 PM
Your a regular Sam Coleridge, aren't you?
Re: Your New Apartment by jessicazee	12-Mar-05/11:19 PM
Wicked.
Re: The Better Beggar by PodPoet	12-Mar-05/11:18 PM
Does anyone really wonder if beggars are worse than advertisers? Jesus.
Re: Poem Will Come by PodPoet	12-Mar-05/11:15 PM
Is this why you keep reposting that wretched "Pumped Up" poem?
Re: Never Did You by Dreammaker1024	12-Mar-05/11:15 PM
This is simply awful. Can I make a recommendation? Please visit these poetry links: http://www.favoritepoem.org/poems/index.html http://www.slate.com/id/2114499/ http://www.poemranker.com/index.jsp And read until your eyeballs rupture. That's the only way your going to get close to writing a poem worth criticising. I'm not trying to be hard on you, by the way; that's seriously what everybody who wants to write presentable poetry has to do, and it shows in this poem that you haven't done it. Good luck, and let me know how it comes out! -zodiac
Re: Still, With Love by Dreammaker1024	12-Mar-05/11:10 PM
What a sad story... -10-
Re: a comment on Apostrophetic Loss by Dovina	12-Mar-05/11:08 PM
And PS-If you were ever seriously confronted by the possibility that we weren't some roving gange of hooligans unreasonably banded together against you, but instead were sincerely and independently disgusted at the amount of muck illogic, bad grammar, email-forward subphilosophy, cronyism, and simply awful poetry you perpetrate on this site, would you jump screaming into your own uterus? I bet you would.
Re: Girl of my Dreams??? by thepinkbunnyofdoom	12-Mar-05/11:00 PM
Your life is very dramatic. -10-
Re: The sparrow by woodstock20000	12-Mar-05/10:58 PM
"Little sparrow, little sparrow, Precious fragile little thing Little sparrow, little sparrow Flies so high and feels no pain." - Dolly Parton "Who will love a little Sparrow? Who's traveled far and cries for rest? 'Not I,' said the Oak Tree, 'I won't share my branches with no sparrow's nest, And my blanket of leaves won't warm her cold breast.' Who will love a little Sparrow And who will speak a kindly word? 'Not I,' said the Swan, 'The entire idea is utterly absurd, I'd be laughed at and scorned if the other Swans heard.'" - Paul Simon
Re: How I got my Jacket back by luzrheroguy	12-Mar-05/10:50 PM
If you've ever been closer to Amsterdam than Sacramento, I'm a cold cock. What I'm trying to say is, it shows.
Re: Sauvignon by Dovina	12-Mar-05/10:45 PM
Have you ever drunk a bottle of wine costing more than, oh, $10? This is not poetry. It's a bad idea on its last legs.
Re: a comment on an unbiased voice (or the most biased one you'll hear) by i_am_the_popsicle	12-Mar-05/10:43 PM
What do you mean by "here"? Are you in Iraq?
Re: a comment on Apostrophetic Loss by Dovina	12-Mar-05/10:38 PM
1) Would you say you're more, or less, opinionated than other people? 2) Hey, thanks for pointing out that it's biased. I might have gone the rest of my life believing slate.com was a fair and balanced news source. 3) Unfortunately it's biased toward the side you're supposed to be on (pretty moderate liberalism), and it still thinks you're one of them. 4) And Slate writers are about a dozen times smarter than you. 5) I would be horrified at the suggestion (from anyone, really, except you) that I was either a hopeless conservative hick or shared qualities with hopeless conservative hicks. But then, I'm not the one the article's describing. You are. 6) And thanks a lot for demonstrating how bow'ls isn't a real usage, how the "renegade poet comedians" you hate now are somehow different from the stuffy bastions of conservative poetry you hated a few months ago, or anything else to justify anything in this post. You're a total clod when it comes to arguing anything.
Re: Apostrophetic Loss by Dovina	12-Mar-05/4:27 AM
"But Woods' critics on the right belong to what might be called the conservative elite—neoconservatives and libertarians — whereas Hannity, Buchanan, and the radio talk-show hosts are, like their most fervid followers, essentially populist. Whatever jabs they may take at the liberal media or at academia, conservative elites, like their (elite) liberal adversaries (and here I'm generalizing), harbor an underlying respect for the values of higher education, science, reason, and expertise. Conservative populists, on the other hand, more often exhibit scorn for intellectual authority altogether. For a while now, conservative elites have made common cause, sometimes cynically, with populist anti-intellectuals. Once upon a time, the original neoconservatives — the academics and intellectuals around the journal the Public Interest — rested their critiques of liberalism on penetrating social science scholarship and attacked the left for preferring bleeding-heart sentiment to polemical rigor. But now the Public Interest is defunct, and in the Bush years, conservatism has embraced not only the familiar ridicule of the eggheads but a rejection of the very legitimacy of independent, nonpartisan expert authority. The wisdom of legal professionals, such as those in the American Bar Association, is now denied, and, since George Bush took office, no longer used by the White House in evaluating candidates for federal judgeships. Mainstream journalism, such as that in the major newspapers and network news shows, is deemed liberal, slanted, and unreliable. The faith-based belief in creationism, enjoying renewed support of late, is accorded equal (or greater) weight as the scientific theory of evolution." - www.slate.com/id/2114713/
Re: a comment on Snow Sucks by JoyLuck	12-Mar-05/3:58 AM
Christ, that's what I'm supposed to get from looking close? Of course I know what's in this post, but I thought we were talking about whether or not it's a poem. Let me put it another way: If I printed the words, oh I don't know, 'Humbug' and 'Salubrious' (yesterday's dictionary.com word of the day!) in different fonts and jaunty angles on a white canvas, would it be a poem or a picture? If you don't clearly distinguish between the two, aren't you in for a world of shit? I say, Yes, you probably are.