StrangeSox

There's no indication that "the administration" had anything to do with this at this point. Starting in 2010 or so, there was a huge influx of 501©(4) groups. 501©(4) groups are tax-exempt, but they cannot engage in politicking and must be educational or for social welfare. Groups filing for this status should be scrutinized to make sure they aren't a political organization. Some lower-level people at the IRS came up with a dumb way to filter them for heightened scrutiny. When more senior IRS officials became aware of it, it was stopped and the policy changed. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013...ot-then-reloads Republicans are absolutely justified in calling for further investigations, but they need to be careful about overplaying their hand because they've been crying "OBAMA'S WATERGATE!!!!" since 2009.

what is arias?

QUOTE (JPN366 @ May 10, 2013 -> 05:33 PM) The Jeremy Irons movie really makes you feel bad for Humbert, even though he's a pederast. The book does that too, he's a subversively sympathetic character. Best first person narrative I've ever read.

They are the liberal version of SOROS!!!! but if iirc they have an explicit agenda to make them partisan outlets similar to murduchs empire

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entr...enghazi?ref=fpb I remain baffled. What the hell is even allegedly being "covered up" here? This is just the Clinton-era never-ending series of faux-scandal after faux-scandal. White Water! Vince Foster! Lewinski! Fast and Furious! BENGHAZZZZZIIIIII!!!

WHY WON'T THE MSM COVER THIS!!!!??? (sorry, just trying to fit in!)

IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups

From Time, 1941:

What the author did "on accident" could be meaningful and say something about the author or the culture/society/times they lived in, though.

OTOH Nabokov included some statements at the end of Lolita, or at least later editions of it, where he lambastes reviewers who take it as an allegory for the US being violated by Old Europe or vice-versa; he's taking a stance that his work means what he says it means and that reading all that extra stuff into it is nonsense.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ May 10, 2013 -> 12:40 PM) I like reading, but I never liked trying to figure out symbolism, etc. I just like reading a book for enjoyment. I sometimes wonder if teachers assign meaning to things that the author never intended. FWIW a high school teacher is going to be falling back on typically a lot of academic literary criticism and not discovering the symbolism for themselves. There's a school of thought that authors say many things without consciously meaning to. edit: the whole "Death of the Author"/postmodern deconstructionist movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_Author No I don't actually understand any of that.

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QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 10, 2013 -> 11:57 AM) Wuthering Heights I hated. Burn all 19th Romantic literature. Expunge it from the face of the Earth. I couldn't get into Joyce in high school, but I've re-read some of his stuff recently and enjoyed it.

Animal Farm was just a pro-Trot allegory for the rise of Lenin and then the Stalin-Trotsky conflicts. I think a lot of people read their own ideas into that story.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 10, 2013 -> 10:03 AM) The articles make it seem like only one company making the printer and a specific software can make the gun. Edit: Well, I guess multiple printers, but a specific software: Still, 3d printers are very new and it's not a product an average american is going to buy. They're industrial machines. They're pretty bad-ass! Wish I had one. I'm sure any of these printers comes with the CAD-CAM software necessary to run the printer with any generic part file.

There's a huge range of companies that offer 3D printers. Since the file's down, I can't check, but I imagine that it's a generic 3D CAD file, a .stl or .stp or .iges or something. Could be opened in any 3D CAD program and interpreted by any 3D printer unless they did something weird so that you could only use one specific type of printer. There's several different types of 3D printing technology and maybe this gun only works with one of them, but there's still multiple manufacturers of the printers.

How would they track that any more than they could track who buys an $8,000 stereo or diamond necklace?

Attorney Who Advised Kiera Be Charged With Felony, Drops Charges In White Teen’s Fatal Case Days Later Small-scale science experiment that harmed no one and nothing? CHARGE HER AS AN ADULT WITH A FELONY! Shoot your brother dead with a BB gun? Tragic accident, so sad.

Enron's Jeff Skilling poised to get 10 years taken off of his sentence

I tried to get my wife to read it but she just couldn't get into it

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 9, 2013 -> 08:46 PM) I always like Midsummer Nights Dream Ugh, but only because I had to read it like 4 years in a row.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 10, 2013 -> 08:27 AM) I didn't see it mentioned, but one I did love was The Most Dangerous Game I always forget the name of that one, but that was another good story and frequently referenced in pop culture.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ May 10, 2013 -> 08:18 AM) Loved: To Kill a Mockingbird Call of the Wild Into the Wild (was one of a number of choices for an independent reading thing my Jr. year of high school) My Antonia (actually had to read it twice. Liked it way better time 2) Hamlet Catch-22 Hiroshima Struggled with: Great Expectations. Seemed long for the sake of being long. Read Catch-22 in high school as one of our "independent study" novels. Read it several times since and probably my favorite book. Still haven't read the sequel Closing Time, though. I read Great Expectations three or four years ago. Agreed that it was a struggle to get through at times. Found the same with Brothers Karamazov, even though I really enjoyed it. If you like Russian lit, Chekhov's The Princess is a great short story, only a few pages long. It's notable for its portrayal of clinical narcissism and all of the diagnostic markers for it years before it was fully understood as a psychological problem.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 9, 2013 -> 05:26 PM) I think the worst one ever was The Scarlet Letter burn all victorian romantic literature

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