Friends don't get to go on strike.
But, I bet, if you hit fandom just right, you could raise funds to take out a smear ad in the Hollywood reporter.
Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.
Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 09, 2005 4:06:25 pm PDT #3664 of 10001
What is even happening?
Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2005 4:08:30 pm PDT #3665 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Damn. That would be cool. Then she could embezzle it and spend it all on... I dunno, something. Help me out here.
Zenkitty - Sep 09, 2005 4:24:59 pm PDT #3666 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
A pony.
sumi - Sep 09, 2005 4:25:50 pm PDT #3667 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Allyson! In a piece about pets that got rescued and were now in Chicago looking for new homes -- I saw a beagle.
Gus - Sep 10, 2005 11:06:12 am PDT #3668 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
And Gus, c'mon. "Moon" is at least a little about libertarian ideas, ain't it?
Dang! Wander off for a month or so to have a depression, and miss a direct-address from The Tim Reaper.
Yes, "Moon" is all about libertarian ideas. It enamored me greatly of that philosophy, in my youth. Later, things occurred to me, though. For example, what would be the libertarian take on the Katrina governmental cluster-fuck?
Government failed. Plus-mark for libertarianism. Individual effort was hampered by lack of resources. Minus-mark for libertarianism.
Heinlein explored this (in Cat Who Walks Through Walls ), in a sequence in which two entrepreneurial Search and Rescue companies climbed all over each other in an effort to be the first surcrease in an emergency. The message being that market forces will bring agile, effective forces to those in need.
It breaks down here: People who cannot offer payment for rescue are fux0red. People who cannot afford to flee the danger are fux0red.
I am forced to think that, until everyone is equally wealthy, libertarianism is a pipe-dream.
Betsy HP - Sep 10, 2005 4:01:13 pm PDT #3669 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Somebody online said "There are no libertarians when the levee breaks". I kind of like that, except that there are already people saying private levees would have been less breakable.
I have no idea how you organize everybody on your street to build a levee. I've seen streets where they did that with fences and all of a sudden there's one house with 10 feet of no fence. I understand this doesn't work well with levees.
Gus - Sep 10, 2005 4:35:35 pm PDT #3670 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
private levees would have been less breakable ...
Bag that. On a really good day, levees would be up to the letter of the agreement. On a real day, the levee would be as they were: insufficient.
Wait. I am agreeing with Betsy, at the top of my lungs.
DXMachina - Sep 10, 2005 5:07:24 pm PDT #3671 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I have no idea how you organize everybody on your street to build a levee.
Given how well most coop and condo boards are run? Best build your house on pilings.
Zenkitty - Sep 10, 2005 5:25:21 pm PDT #3672 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Houseboat.
Gus - Sep 10, 2005 5:28:11 pm PDT #3673 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
There has to be an award for one-word replies. I nominate Zenkitty.