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Sablesma: Proof that Lil Wayne was poorly educated

zachfey:
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Only valid if you can establish that being a woman is not a preexisting condition.

Oh totally! But, I think, there are better options: did you know that he once stated that “I’m so motherfucking high I could eat a star?” He did! The education gaps in that lyric are much wider!…

Sablesma gets most of it but there’s also the topic of relevance. Is thirdoption hearing this song for the first time now, almost two years after it came out? Or is he just now noticing this instantly memorable line? He appears to be aware of the RULE-THAT-WE-ALL-LEARN-IN-HIGHER-EDUCATION: lyrics must always be factually and literally true and free association must never ever happen, especially not in an art form that’s valued it since its inception. As educated people we owe it to our egos and society’s well-being to point out such offenses when we see them, even if it takes us nearly two years to get there.

sablesma:

Strange Powers: Stephen Merritt and The Magnetic Fields

WOO

Best songwriter around, give or take

Reblogged from Sablesma.

Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger

The Dangerous Message of Tim Tebow

Craggs at his best. Money quote:

Most everyone yammering about the commercial is asking the wrong questions. The real issue here has nothing to do with whether a famous football player should dive into such heated controversies; nor does it have anything to do with whether the Super Bowl is the proper platform from which to do so. (Please. The Super Bowl isn’t the proper platform for a lot of things, but they kept inviting Up with People back anyway.) Whatever your politics and faith, the question to ask is this: Do a famous football player and his mom have any business telling a national television audience, in coded language or otherwise, that we should ignore science, pray extra hard, and hope that God rolls the point in the great craps game of human existence, simply because He once rolled it for them? It’s wonderful that everything worked out for the Tebows. That it did was also — if the situation was indeed dire enough that doctors recommended terminating the pregnancy (in a deeply Catholic country that criminalizes abortion, no less) — extraordinarily lucky. The moment the family takes that private bit of providence and dangles it on television as a possibility for others — well, that’s the moment the family turns into just another set of TV charlatans. But wait, there’s more! That fetus could win a Heisman! This is dangerous stuff. They’re telling women, even the ones at risk, to gamble with their health. What’s pro-life about that?