I can't believe over 40 Democrats voted for it. Hell, I can't believe anyone voted for it for anything but the most cynical of reasons.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 33 1/3
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Daisy Jane - Mar 21, 2005 7:01:45 am PST #9070 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Almare - Mar 21, 2005 7:15:13 am PST #9071 of 10002
"My drink preference does not indicate my sexual preference. "
The democrats voted for what? Please, do enlighten the less politically aware.
shrift - Mar 21, 2005 7:18:17 am PST #9072 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Uh oh. Lingering morning stupid now joining forces with lunch food coma. Total loss of brain function in T minus 5 seconds.
5, 4, 3, 2, t conk
Daisy Jane - Mar 21, 2005 7:18:41 am PST #9073 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
The bill to scrap everything the lower courts did and to let a federal court decide whether or not there is any such thing as spousal rights anymore.
erikaj - Mar 21, 2005 7:23:49 am PST #9074 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
This would be the part where Schiff tells Jack McCoy he's not supposed to use the law to make new laws, right? He's old, he's fictional, but Adam Schiff, '08.
-t - Mar 21, 2005 7:27:40 am PST #9075 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I t heart erika.
I've been relating to this whole issue almost entirely in L&O terms.
ION, the NYTimes is totally bogarting the on-line crossword puzzle. I need my fix, man.
tommyrot - Mar 21, 2005 7:41:52 am PST #9076 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A not-very-interesting article about people who investigate car fires: [link]
Except for these last two paragraphs:
As Mr. Newell tells it, cocaine traffickers transported drugs across the country in the fuel tank of a Ford Expedition. When they arrived at their destination in suburban Atlanta, the plastic bags that held the contraband, dripping with gasoline, were tossed into a clothes dryer.
"The explosion blew both of these geniuses out the front door," he said.
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2005 7:44:41 am PST #9077 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can just barely see how they mightn't realise that the gasoline in the dryer was a bad idea. Barely. But plastic bags full of drugs in a dryer? How could that be useful?
erikaj - Mar 21, 2005 7:45:10 am PST #9078 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Except in L&O, we'd find out that Michael's judgement *shouldn't* count because he Klaused her. He'd be weeping on Skoda's shoulder already and the state of NY would have bought itself a million-dollar cauliflower.
-t - Mar 21, 2005 7:47:58 am PST #9079 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Doesn't every dryer have a warning printed on it somewhere about not dryng things that may have gasoline on them? I know I've read it on a number of dryers while I was bored waiting for laundry.