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Calli - Sep 12, 2005 5:39:15 am PDT #6603 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Happy Birthday, billytea!

So maybe the president wasn't "tone deaf," as we've said before, in his first responses to Katrina. Maybe he's created an environment in which the only tones that are played for him are the ones he wants to hear.

So he isn't naturally stupid, he's created an environment that keeps him from getting information. Which leads to stupid responses. I find willfull and deliberate ignorance considerably worse than natural dimness. What's the L&O phrase they bandy about? "Depraved indifference"? I don't know if that's legally accurate, but is sure seems like an appropriate term.


Gudanov - Sep 12, 2005 5:42:30 am PDT #6604 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

I thought this was a good article about how Bush blew it.

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DavidS - Sep 12, 2005 5:43:17 am PDT #6605 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Happy birthday, Billytea!

Wow, lot of birthdays clustered around here.


Jesse - Sep 12, 2005 5:48:44 am PDT #6606 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I had two birthday parties Saturday night, and another this coming Friday, too. People have lots of sex between Thanksgiving and Christmas?

ION, I just read some serious school-related scuttlebutt and I want to spread it far and wide, but I guess I shouldn't. It's killing me, though!


Nora Deirdre - Sep 12, 2005 5:49:24 am PDT #6607 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Wow, lot of birthdays clustered around here

and more to come!

t looks innocent


Nilly - Sep 12, 2005 5:49:49 am PDT #6608 of 10002
Swouncing

I'm pretty sure my mother arrived home from Japan the other day only three hours after she had left

I love the way this kind of stuff makes my head spin.

13 is the representation of ... hai? How do you spell that? in English?

I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean.

Wow, lot of birthdays clustered around here.

The end of August and most of September are rich with Buffistas dates. The Phoenix Board itself was 'born' on Spetember 17.


tommyrot - Sep 12, 2005 5:50:30 am PDT #6609 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.

Um... this is one of the freakiest things I've read about Katrina - a Norwegian paper quotes a New Orleans doctor who says they "killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals."

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Theodosia - Sep 12, 2005 5:51:20 am PDT #6610 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

January was an auspicious month for a lot of parents-of-Buffistas, or so it seems.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 12, 2005 5:53:46 am PDT #6611 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Wow. I can see the rationale, but I'd hate to be the one making that decision. I'd much prefer for any people I might kill to be healthy and richly deserving of the dirt nap.

Happy Birthday, Billytea and Polter-Cow!

In the "who's best to protect me" discussion, remember that should the assailant be a vampire the hockey players are far more likely to have wooden weapons and skates that can be used to decapitate.


Jesse - Sep 12, 2005 5:56:00 am PDT #6612 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean.

I think what I mean is "life" in Hebrew? That people wear charms of around their necks? There's a number connected to that.

Or am I just crazy again?