... show's set at 20th Century Fox Studios in Los Angeles. Hochman's report: "For all House's crankiness and sarcasm, you would expect him to be played by an actor with at least a trace of mean-spiritedness. But Laurie is as gentle and self-effacing as House is a grouch. Each time the issue of his success came up, he looked as if he wanted to hide under a pillow. It embarrasses him to celebrate his ...

...'s main intellectual alternatives (which he takes to be various forms of dictatorship ) have become discredited. Second, there is a philosophical argument examining the influence of thymos (or human spiritedness). Fukuyama argues that the original battles for prestige among the first men of history, and the willingness of some to risk their lives in order to receive recognition from another ...

Admin: Feedback, Complaints, Questions, etc. for TWG Moderators

... of the community are welcomed at all times. We will not hold anything against you, and comments will be kept anonymous if you indict a wish to do so. As mentioned in the rules, fighting and mean-spiritedness will not be tolerated in this community due to the sensitive nature of what we are doing here. We will protect both critiquers and writers, but we also feel it is our duty to ensure that ...

Expectations

... to help Americans to do better. Like it or not, we got the government we deserved with George W. Bush, he was our ID idiot president. He encompassed all the fear and small mindedness and mean spiritedness and arrogance and piggishness that run like black poison through the American character. He's US, he's us too. He took office because the majority of us didn't get our fat asses off the couch ...

Peter Yarrow (co-writer of 'Puff the Magic Dragon') responds ...

...in which common ground and mutual respect characterize the exchanges between our national leaders. I and my co-writer of "Puff," Lenny Lipton, have been eagerly awaiting an end to the mean-spiritedness, outright disrespect and bigotry that was commonplace prior to this last presidential election. What might have been wearily accepted as "the way it was" in the campaign, is now unacceptable. Obama...

Running Away To The Circus: Chapter 1

... they both turned to face him he saw that she might have been beautiful. She had a voluptuous face, highly-arched eyebrows and long straight lashes, and dark eyes that glittered with some spark mean spiritedness. The man she was standing with had hair shaved into a Mohawk, like a cigar-store Native, and Audley could see that his bare scalp was also tattooed with bluish scrolling designs. He was ...

Intermission Rentals in Abaco

... is a great and sweet isle through a happening social register of the year and multiplied place of rest options. It represents every part of that is enchanting round Abaco in its reciprocal action of free-spiritedness and stable increase. Faith Village is eminent because of its red and of a lighthouse and protected cover, and Man-O-War Cay is the boat-building first in importance of the district. ...

Snarking in Davis_Square

I have been increasingly uncomfortable with the presence of snarkers who contribute nothing but mean-spiritedness to the conversation on the regular davis_square community. I'm not talking about people who are actually participating in the conversations and who often do so in snarky ways. I may not personally like it, but I've got no place to claim it doesn't belong. I might comment and tell...

Another survey c/o Lis.

...time. When it comes to the opposite sex, what is your "type"? I've realized I don't have a type, or at least that I've been dating the wrong type a lot. I require a certain level of free-spiritedness. Have you ever told a girl/boyfriend you loved them but didn't mean it? Yes. Do you believe in "no sex before marriage?" No. Sex is awesome. Do not deprive yourself. What do you do for fun? Just about...

Hmmm

... not like this tax, but of course they could avoid it by becoming thinner. In fact, I might go further. Carrots often work even better than sticks, so I propose a skinny subsidy to complement the fat tax. People who maintain trim, firm physiques should be rewarded for their public-spiritedness with large tax credits—funded, of course, by the fat tax." This made me blink several times.