Bogus hysterical trend pieces. No one wants to marry "down"! Everyone wants to marry "up"!
Not everyone, just women -- men only marry for looks.
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
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.
Jessica - Jan 04, 2006 6:16:24 am PST #7220 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 6:21:01 am PST #7221 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not everyone, just women -- men only marry for looks.
And I'm pretty sure your "bookish" gals won't be goodlooking enough to snag a high-status man that way....
Nutty - Jan 04, 2006 6:21:36 am PST #7222 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Folks, this is John Tierney. If he can think up a way to bitch about how white men are oppressed, he'll do it, whether it's logical or not. He'll even do it by starting out with an anecdote purporting to make white men look like twerps (e.g., men are uniformly champions at the highest levels of Scrabble competition, "because only men are psychotic enough to memorize letter-combinations for days on end"), but in the end, it's all about conservative social whining.
What's even more annoying is that he's a fricken token conservative whiner, to balance out Krugman's insane liberal rantings. Tierney is not even that interesting (compared, especially, to Safire, who at least sometimes pulled something unconventional or libertarian out of his hindparts). His one salutory trait is that, unlike his conservative colleague David Brooks, he's not the most irritating jovial bloviator on the planet.
Rio - Jan 04, 2006 6:23:41 am PST #7223 of 10002
Are you ready to be strong?
Folks, this is John Tierney. If he can think up a way to bitch about how white men are oppressed, he'll do it, whether it's logical or not
Bingo.
Jessica - Jan 04, 2006 6:29:49 am PST #7224 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
What's even more annoying is that he's a fricken token conservative whiner
Not on this topic -- the NYTimes op-ed section has been on the "women, get back in the kitchen, you know you want to!" train for a while now. Irritates me no end.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 6:30:09 am PST #7225 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ION, Bill O'Reilly was on Letterman last night. [link] I can't get the clip to work on this lame-ass computer, but I bet it's a good time.
Nutty - Jan 04, 2006 6:30:34 am PST #7226 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
RIO! Howdy.
Have a doggie yet?
Me, I am procrastinating on the very necessary step of ridding my office of useless piles of paper. It is perfectly cromulent to sit here, hiding behing giant walls of dead trees, right?
Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 6:30:48 am PST #7227 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not on this topic -- the NYTimes op-ed section has been on the "women, get back in the kitchen, you know you want to!" train for a while now. Irritates me no end.
Not just the op-ed section, either.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 04, 2006 6:36:19 am PST #7228 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
I wonder if men not placing as high a premium on homemaker skills in a mate might have something to do with the sons of working moms actually having to learn how to do housework for themselves rather than be waited on hand and foot by a female relative at all times.
brenda m - Jan 04, 2006 6:40:10 am PST #7229 of 10002
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
Tierney's such a jackass. I can't waste my brain cells reading him, I only have so many. What can I say? It was him or the Budweiser.