For anyone interested in the full article it's here: Link (new window)

BurnShrike: What none of you cretins are catching is the genius of the message conveyed to us through subtext and spacing.

Quite literally. The rest of his article is hidden by various javascripting, but can be found by searching through the page source.

CrispFlows: I can't help but think every commenter in that article uses Fark.

BurnShrike: What none of you cretins are catching is the genius of the message conveyed to us through subtext and spacing. It's a social commentary on the idea that the media is used to telling us what to do and think. He's making a statement about the way we receive our information and how we decide on what to act upon.

His thesis is that you should learn to fill in your own scenarios, ideas, and reasoning. Don't be chained by big media you how to live. Break the mold.

But of course, none of you would've seen that. Oh well, someone's got to be the intellectual failure to make my double-cream whipped mocha.

Why not go over there and tell him that?
Or we could all go over and rape his comments board...
Whichever you prefer, of course.

At first I was like

TL;DR

Hypotheticals are all well and good, but we need to live in the real world.

I'm sorry - even if Sartre DID say that, this guy has completely misconstrued him.

Will they say he was a GREAT MAN?fark no! But I'm telling you --he opened my mind! He's the kind of guy who'll grab you by the throat, throw you up against the wall and say "Don't you know that IF is the middle word in LIFE?"

Jesus; I clicked through to read an article, not Moby Dick, Hemmingway. Online writers are so self-indulgent.

CrispFlows: gonzoduke: I understand what he's saying, but what about

Not necessarily since the requirement is dependent on

But I think we have to consider the

Unhip1: Will they say he was a GREAT MAN?fark no! But I'm telling you --he opened my mind! He's the kind of guy who'll grab you by the throat, throw you up against the wall and say "Don't you know that IF is the middle word in LIFE?"

I didn't get that at all.
To me his fine prose described the futility of mankinds eternal struggle for immortality.
Everything fades away,
All that glitters is not gold,
what comes around,
goes around.

ChemOpsFTW: For anyone interested in the full article it's here: Link (new window)

Not a terribly cogent article, I'm afraid. I can't imagine it will get kindly treatment here.

Smirky the Wonder Chimp: tl;dr. Someone sum it up for those of us with incredibly short attention spans, please.

Summary simply doesn't do the genius of his work justice. You really need to read the essay in its entirety. I realize in this click-through link-festooned era attention can be at a premium, but I think you will find giving it the time a careful reading warrants to be well worth it.

That was the article?
It was dumb!
It was obvious!
It was pointless!
It was... short!
... I loved it!

What is this I

You're all missing the point. Let me tell you why.

I like how we made it the most poplar article on the website.

// Hey, Am I the only one out there that clicks on the newsmax links in the "sponored links" at the bottom of every article because it cost them money? I hate those guys.

Can't wait for the movie to come out.

Now, now, maybe the article was supposed to be about Candlej

I don't get it. Maybe noscript is blocking the rest of the article.

mephisto6: MissFeasance: I say we just hand over the Pulitzer and go home

Not so fast...

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Sweet Jeebus man! Have you no decency? This is a family website.

Guidette Frankentits: I don't get it. Maybe noscript is blocking the rest of the article.

No, that's it.

JasonOfOrillia: hackhix: Wait, there's more!

"Let's say that a decade or so ago, someone in your family found a good deal on a burial plot." (new window - scroll down)

My parents bought me a burial plot for my birthday. It's in the same graveyard as their plots and my grandparents. Needless to say it wasn't my best birthday present ever.

I've been pondering this scenario for a while now.

Should I die, my corpse is going to be dead. It will not live, it will not move, it will not think. Now it occurs to me that my corpse will not be so concerned about my condition as my living body is. You could dress up my corpse in the gaudiest of colors, you could pose my corpse in the ridiculoust of positions, you could do anything to my corpse.

Yet I would not care.

You see, at that point I am necessarily dead. If you're calling my body a corpse, then I'm dead. You can throw me in the creek, you can throw me in the fire, you can prostitute me out like a hooker and it's no big deal. I'm dead, I don't care.

You see those hundred-thousand-dollar services for people who died?? Good God! No, post a parody of me on your blog, and then toss my corpse in the woods. I'm not using it anymore, so it would be an insult to me if you paraded me around like some porcelain doll of yours. Shameful business, that.

JoeJitsu: For those of you too lazy to read the article, the state of Alabama's prepaid college tuition program invested all of its money in home mortgage-based hedge funds, Beanie Baby futures and a couple of Amway distributorships and is now flat broke and the people who paid into it want to have it bailed out from the general fund. I can't tell if this guy is for or against the bailout.


Wouldn't that make it good journalism?

AbbeySomeone: mephisto6: MissFeasance: I say we just hand over the Pulitzer and go home

Not so fast...

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Sweet Jeebus man! Have you no decency? This is a family website.

What, too dirty for you?

Guidette Frankentits: I don't get it. Maybe noscript is blocking the rest of the article.

This made me sad.

ultraholland: and from here on out I will torch the dwelling of anybody who uses "just saying"

/does a quick check to make sure insurance is current and covers arson . . .

//JUST SAYIN'
///JUST SAYIN'
////JUST SAYIN'
//JUST SAYIN'
//JUST SAYIN'
//JUST SAYIN'

Once upon a time that paper had editors like Grover Hall, who won a Pulitzer for showing the true nature of the KKK. When newspapers die, it's sad. When they turn into this, it's a tragedy.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: To be fair, a guy who has a column called "Just Saying" probably doesn't have any opinions worth reading any way.

Seriously, were "Know What I Mean" and "Telling It Like It Is" taken??

For sure!

MissFeasance: I say we just hand over the Pulitzer and go home

That reminds me. The Pulitzers are tomorrow!

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: To be fair, a guy who has a column called "Just Saying" probably doesn't have any opinions worth reading any way.

Seriously, were "Know What I Mean" and "Telling It Like It Is" taken??

Well, I can tell you that "Don't go there!", and "Talk to the Hand!" were right out.

I found the article shallow and pedantic

Lady Beryl Ersatz-Wendigo: Now, now, maybe the article was supposed to be about Candlej

You're doing it wrong. You won't invoke Candlejack wi

/obscure?

Al Basura: // Hey, Am I the only one out there that clicks on the newsmax links in the "sponored links" at the bottom of every article because it cost them money? I hate those guys.

It REALLY costs them money??????? :-O

I have no idea what is going on in here, can someone please hold my hand?

When Imgot done with the story, I also found another of their stories amusing

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20120406/NEWS/120406008/ Sh ots-fired-Facebook-fight-Waffle-House (new window)

Did he run by anyone else?

Heron: CrispFlows: gonzoduke: I understand what he's saying, but what about

Not necessarily since the requirement is dependent on

But I think we have to consider the

Don't be ridiculous, without any

Very zen.

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