Secrets of the City

Sorry for nothing but newspaper links. I’ll find more in the morning.

Slacker! Back to the mines!

Off with his head. New guys. Seesh.

1,000 protest gay marriage

In other news, 1,000 need to go to bed without supper. Go to your room and think about what you’ve done!

Assholes.

That’s the same thing I told my wife the last time I was in Vegas: We were just playing dice honey! Snake eyes. Gets you every time.

You called your wife a slacker and ordered her back to the mines?

Well that too.

Maybe you could be a sweetheart and let her take that new iPod nano down there to keep her company. It seems to be the husbandly thing to do.

Kevin, I can only assume you’re suggesting I send the iPod with “down there” in the mines. I was commenting on Daunte’s claim that he was playing dice, not getting a lapdance. Although I might like to send my wife down there I don’t know how that would go over.

Hipmn,

Should I pile on now.

You seem to be against the proposed ban on gay marriage. So am I.

Dan Savage makes the point that we need to fight the culture wars now, when the conservatives are attacking gays & other minorities, because after this, the conservatives will come after the straight, non-Christians who are sitting on their asses while the gays get roasted.

Back to the smoking ban, can’t you see how your support of legislation restricting a behavior that is legal, but rapidly losing social acceptance, sets a precedent for future political majorities to restrict alcohol use, gay clubs, abortion, porn, etc.?

Wow, I had never thought of using an iPod in that way. A cell phone I could see. Put it on vibrate, send it down there and call over and over and over again. Interesting idea.

I do, however, enjoy when girls at the gym store their iPod in their cleavage.

Oh, to be that white wire…

I do, however, enjoy when girls at the gym store their iPod in their cleavage.

I must be going to the wrong gym…

Russ, we straight white non-Xians have known for 20 years that our time in the USA was drawing short. This country is quickly becoming a theocracy run by mullahs, and it’s not long before the right turns into the Taliban. I’m just hoping we don’t skip right from fascist theocracy to “put them on trains and gas them.” I’d at least to get that “wear the yellow star and escape over the border” time before I have to leave the land I love.

“the speakers were largely religious leaders who led the crowd in prayer over the issue and said that it is God’s will that marriage is only between heterosexuals.”

Wasn’t it also God’s will to fly those planes into those buildings?

And to protest at those military funerals?

God sounds like a real dick.

god is almost as big a dick as superman.

If God had a name, what would it be
And would you call it to his face
If you were faced with him in all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question

Top or bottom?

because after this, the conservatives will come after the straight, non-Christians

OPEN YOUR EYES RUSS

the conservatives are attacking heterosexual non christitans as we speak. as straight non-christian woman with no plans to have children i worried about my “reproductive rights” going down the toiliet. It’s already begun———-south dakota abortion law, some states are banning state funded agencies to disburse birth control, pharmacists are denying the disbursement of birth control based on moral grounds, not to mention that fact the uber conservative groups like th american family whatever are trying to stop the disbursement of counter emergency contraceptives AND 100% effective hpv vaccine. WTF?!

Jesus, does every f*cking thread on MNSpeak 2.0 have to turn into a political debate?

There is a link up there about the gay marriage/get out the vote protest. People can comment. There will be more threads about shopping or the new restaurant or hipster bar.

I regret my poorly worded comment. I didn’t mean to spark anti-God remarks. I guess my point was: people ought to be careful when they suggest that this or that is “god’s will” because most of the time, that means people are about to get hurt.

I have no problem with God, but I think we might do well to focus on the good things that are also it’s will.

And I agree with alexis. I used to enjoy MnSpeak a lot more than I do now. The political rants are tiring.

I too agree with Alexis. I don’t mind a little politics now and then– but it seems that every single thread goes down political lane. No offense to Matt… but maybe you need to be more selective in including political links in the miscellanous links.

Perhaps it’s partially our own fault– for not posting enough pop culture, art, music, food things. But I used to read and enjoy almost all the posts/comments. Now I find myself scanning through a lot of it. There’s room for political discussion here. But that’s not what maks this a destination for me, anyway.

for alexis’ sake, threads should enable her to pimp her services, discuss her favorite ne hangouts, talk about cool people she knows and let’s not forget baked goods.

More cupcakes, less gay marriage.

(I think I have a new motto.)

That food post seems to be pretty open. Let’s move over there.

There’s a lot of political news out there right now so there shouldn’t be anything wrong with linking to it. It should be up to the commenters to not say stupid shit.

I agree with Kevin. These are current events happening in the Twin Cities. It should be noticed, too, that half of those links were non-political. It just turns out that, while interesting, there’s not much to say about stories like the case of the purple house.

“I like purple!”

“Boo! I propose a ban on purple!”

“Prince rocks, huh guys?”

I always wanted to paint the house I grew up in purple, but my grandma told me she would never visit if I did that. She’s dead now, so maybe I’ll go ahead and do it.

Max likes purple. (Sorry, inside joke)

Death to the fascist thought police…defend liberty in all its forms, for you could be next…

First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

- Martin Niemoeller

Kevin- you’ve convinced me. And commenters should take a little responsibility. Rex originally compared this to a dinner party… where you share strong opinions, but you’re respectful of others, because you see them in front of you.

I don’t know, jderusha, is the concern that things to easily become a political issue, as alexis said, or that people say “stupid shit” as Kevin said?

Of course we could cover both those perspectives if we are referring to people that say stupid political shit.

Stupid political shit. Name calling, personal attacks, other useless garbage like that. Conversations about politics can take place without calling each other “facist thought police” and other ungentlmenaly things.

Jason, when is that story on peak oil going to air?

Spaceman: it’s a little of each. I think our society is such that things that aren’t political become political. Many filter everything through a partisan perspective. It’s annoying.

Here, it’s the “stupid shit” that ruins it for me. If I ran the site– I’d be mixed. The political stuff generates a lot of comments. But to me, it’s a short term bonus. Eventually, people will drift away, if that’s the bulk of what happense here.

And the oil stuff is a huge project we’re working on– I’m not sure of the exact air date. I’ll post it here though… a pimp… but a good pimp.

Thanks, I’m interested to here what you all have dug up.

Then they came for the politicians…which might not be a bad idea.

While I definitely chime in on the political threads from time to time, I don’t think that sites like MNspeak are very good forums for constructive political discussions. Reasons include but are not limited to (1) It’s hard to type comments in a little box taht hs no speellchecking; (2) It’s hard to respond to specific comments in an unthreaded format; (3) People can respond while you’re formulating a response, which will then make no sense; (4) People tend to act like jagoffs on the interweb; and (5) Anonymous commenting doesn’t help. Also, people who disagree with me are stupid.

Ok, time for my two cents. 1) You all are right, I am posting too many political links. I’ll try to find other interesting stuff. 2) I agree with Mike s that the fact that all these threads are turning political might be an argument for threaded comments because it’s easier to change the subject. 3) If you don’t like the topic in a thread, don’t just bitch about it, talk about something else. 4) Anybody can post anything they want on this site, so if you have something better, send it to me or post it yourself.

How did this board make it through yesterday without linking to CJ’s column? (http://www.startribune.com/464/story/319774.html)

She wrote a piece about a great little local broadcasting discussion site (www.redandnater.com) that has now been found to be so distracting by the Clear Channel overloards that it has been blocked from ALL Clear Channel computers nationwide.

What the hell was Clear Channel thinking? The best way to give a detractor site credibility is to admit their existence.