Word: lames
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Commenters tend to respond with surprise--they're shocked, shocked!--when people call them on being not nice. In their social universe, this kind of rhetorical slap-fighting is just how you do business, and anybody who feels otherwise is thin-skinned and humorless. As lame and self-serving as this excuse is, we can learn something from taking it at face value. Maybe commenters are just on one side of a cultural disconnect between two incompatible ideas of what the social conventions of the Internet should be. One is based on the standards of real-world, off-line politeness...
...house, since Colicchio figures he'll be too tempted to cheat at Craft by stealing from the pantry. He snips some basil from my garden, takes some Parmesan from my fridge and spends half an hour doing what he calls cooking and what I call making me realize how lame I am. I didn't know I am supposed to sharpen my knives every time I use them. Or that I should use so much oil. Or clean as I go along. He made fun of me for wanting to time things and for buying prepeeled garlic. (I also...
...That may change this weekend with the debut of The Love Guru, Myers' first time on screen since 2003. The headlines of early reviews are the sort that give publicists migraines: "Sheer Self-Indulgence," "No Enlightenment, Few Laughs," "Lame Self-Help Romp" and "Guru Is Doo-Doo." About the only encouraging words so far are from Indian and Indian-American journalists, who had been primed to hate the movie from advance reports that its treatment of Hindu and Hindu-esque teacher-preachers - especially of the best-selling, evangelistic, Deepak Chopra variety - would be derisory. Those reviewers are saying, basically, that...
With both programs failing, students are caught between Scylla and Charybdis. Granting incoming freshmen a choice between the lame-duck Core and the skeletal Gen Ed will create even more confusion for students and their academic advisers, who are mostly in the dark about the process. The faculty’s own inability to articulate the new program does not help (it is disheartening to see administrators waffling on standard questions of academic eligibility and curricular options). Gen Ed has simply never been fully explained to students, especially those in the class of 2012, whom it will affect most...
...past year, however, Eisenhower’s national prestige has sunk appreciably due both to his “lame-duck” presidency and to decreased activity since his November stroke. At the same time the Administration has been buffeted by the strongest criticism of its five years over questions of national defense and the current economic recession...