Harken: You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war? Zoe: Fought with a lot of people in the war. Harken: And your husband? Zoe: Fight with him sometimes, too.

'Bushwhacked'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

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.


Gudanov - Apr 18, 2005 6:58:19 am PDT #6572 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

James Dobson

Scary guy with the ear of the president and lots of followers. At least so far it doesn't seem like the crusade against Judges has caught on beyond the far right.


tommyrot - Apr 18, 2005 6:59:17 am PDT #6573 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

James Dobson, building a bridge to the 18th century.

Huh.

So someone wrote a book called James Dobson's War on America. Which isn't surprising that someone would write such a book, but what is surprising is the author: "former Focus [on the Family] vice-president Alexander-Moegerle."

From Amazon (which got it from Publishers Weekly ):

It's no secret that Dobson, as Alexander-Moegerle writes, advocates "smaller government, larger defense, the elimination of the Department of Education and the NEA, and the barring of women and homosexuals from military service." Alexander-Moegerle relies on his more than 15 years of close contact with Dobson to paint a portrait of Dobson as an autocratic manager hungry for political power and recognition. According to the author, Dobson's Nazarene belief that he is sinless and morally perfect results in Dobson's stance that he is morally superior to others, even his employees. Such a stance, combined with Dobson's apparent sexism, racism and homophobia, and his ability to lobby Capitol Hill with "500,000 to 1 million phone calls and letters within hours," according to Alexander-Moegerle, seem to make Dobson a tremendous political threat to the pluralism and diversity of political views in America.


beekaytee - Apr 18, 2005 7:18:52 am PDT #6574 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

Happy Birthday Beth, my Aries cusp sistah!

Thanks so much for the good wishes all...and for that lovely blessing Laura. What's that in my eye?

It is a glorious day. Ellis Paul is serenading me and Bartleby and I are about to set off for my surrogate parent's house for a long-overdue visit.

Then? Firefly viewing party!!!

Mwah to the world.


Cashmere - Apr 18, 2005 7:20:21 am PDT #6575 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Birthday Happies for beth and beej!!


Nutty - Apr 18, 2005 7:26:49 am PDT #6576 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Goodness, that Dobson person can foam at the mouth at length, can't he? The trouble is, every lawyer I have ever talked to really really likes the idea of precedent and is not interested in throwing that kind of thing out. Which Dobson would, like, know, if he ever talked to anybody who didn't already agree with him in the first place.

Hermetically sealed universes: bad idea!


Susan W. - Apr 18, 2005 7:28:08 am PDT #6577 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Goodness, that Dobson person can foam at the mouth at length, can't he? The trouble is, every lawyer I have ever talked to really really likes the idea of precedent and is not interested in throwing that kind of thing out. Which Dobson would, like, know, if he ever talked to anybody who didn't already agree with him in the first place.

I can't help wondering what he would've said and done had he been around during the civil rights movement, as irate as he is about judges foiling majority will.


Daisy Jane - Apr 18, 2005 7:34:30 am PDT #6578 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Happy birthday Beej and beth. I'm mostly caught up so, yay tickybox! (((vw)))! Congratulations on your party Allison. I hope Calli's mom gets better. And yeah, Dobson's a butthead.

I am at work with 24 oz. of dark roasted Ethiopian Harrar goodness and a passed out puppy on my lap.


§ ita § - Apr 18, 2005 7:38:09 am PDT #6579 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Calli, I hope everything lines up just right for your mother. Much strength to you.


Betsy HP - Apr 18, 2005 7:38:32 am PDT #6580 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

a decorative style using pictures of monkeys, often wearing clothes or indulging in other anthropomorphic behavior.

Some chimps in hard hats, some chimps who love cats...


Stephanie - Apr 18, 2005 7:41:52 am PDT #6581 of 10001
Trust my rage

Goodness, that Dobson person can foam at the mouth at length, can't he?

I looked at his website last week. His anti-judicial review postion just exposes him as a loon. Not even Scalia or Rehnquist would agree with him (I assume, based on past decisions.)