L&T had Christmas decorations for sale and where they were, they were playing Christmas songs. WRONG.
Angel: Connor, this is Spike and Illyria. Guys, this is Connor. Connor: Hi. umm...I like your outfit. Illyria: Your body warms. This one is lusting after me. Connor: Oh...no, I--I--it's just that it's the outfit. I guess I've had a thing for older women. Angel: They were supposed to fix that.
'Origin'
Natter 40: The Nice One
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.
msbelle - Oct 31, 2005 9:55:13 am PST #305 of 10006
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
DavidS - Oct 31, 2005 9:55:20 am PST #306 of 10006
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
San Francisco is pretty sane about keeping its holidays on track. There's some xmas leakage into the Thanksgiving zone, but that's about it. You can't really start anything ahead of Halloween here because Halloween is such a big deal in The City.
Vortex - Oct 31, 2005 9:59:07 am PST #307 of 10006
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
L&T had Christmas decorations for sale and where they were, they were playing Christmas songs. WRONG.
Macy's has had the christmas stuff up for at least a month.
sarameg - Oct 31, 2005 10:05:18 am PST #308 of 10006
If you think I get cranky about the hoopla in the workplace around a holiday I generally find mildly amusing, just you wait until Christmas, where I get to throw in family obligations and in-laws on top of the overexposure and damned invasive people.
bon bon - Oct 31, 2005 10:07:55 am PST #309 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
bon, what do you think of Slate's characterization of Alito? He looks extreme right pro-business, pro-law enforcement, pro-guns, anti-civil rights act, anti-abortion in this rundown to me.
I would suspect such a hysterical commentary by Emily Bazelon (who's a hack), and I'm a little bit surprised that it's from Lithwick. My read of Alito is that he's not an ideologue, and that rundown pretty much confuses the man with his decisions. Moreover, I find it funny that she thinks any decision of his rejected by the Court is automatically a bad one-- it's not like she agrees with most of the Court, anyway.
Take this for example:
and his ruling that broadened police search powers to include the right to strip-search a drug dealer's wife and 10-year-old daughter—although they were not mentioned in the search warrant.
Except, well, this was in dissent, so it didn't broaden much; and his ruling was based on the plain language of the warrant, which was a warrant to search the premises and all occupants therein. The fact that he didn't carve out a judicial exception for 10-year-olds doesn't make him a foaming law-and-order reactionary.
I had more to say but I need to get back to work. Anyway, she's taken a lot of license here in painting him as a total crazy person. All I see is a pretty restrained jurist.
DavidS - Oct 31, 2005 10:09:46 am PST #310 of 10006
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Thanks, bon. That's a helpful perspective.
We need to set you up with a Non Politically Motivated Judicial Scorecard website.
brenda m - Oct 31, 2005 10:13:07 am PST #311 of 10006
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
bon, thanks for sharing your insight. You make me feel a lot better.
msbelle - Oct 31, 2005 10:17:24 am PST #312 of 10006
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
bon bon is the rawkingest.
DebetEsse - Oct 31, 2005 10:18:13 am PST #313 of 10006
Woe to the fucking wicked.
The Canadian Halloween off thing was jusst was I was told by my Canadian roommate. It may even just have been a (her) school thing.
Volans - Oct 31, 2005 10:28:10 am PST #314 of 10006
move out and draw fire
The Christmas stores opened here today. @@
I'm going to play against liberal type, and say that I don't really give a rat's ass what color skin or what genitalia Supreme Court justices possess. They can all be white male Christians or piebald hermaphrodite Loviatarians, as long as they have the brain cells to comprehend the language in the Constitution and are mindful in discharging their duties.
It would be a nice bonus if they all agreed with me, but as long as their minds are their own, and they are not purchased like Congressmen, I'm happy.
ION, the shipping magnate that Paris Hilton was engaged to came into the embassy today.