I wonder if the attention to HBatHG will generate enough renewed sales to cover their legal costs.
And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Calli - Feb 28, 2006 10:22:21 am PST #51 of 27942
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
JZ - Feb 28, 2006 10:41:46 am PST #52 of 27942
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
even if there's stuff in DVC that's *only* and provably from HBatHG, you can't copyright an idea, so I'm not sure where the teeth are in the lawsuit
This suit is being brought in the UK, isn't it? I've heard that libel laws are more weighted there in favor of the plaintiff and against the folks who actually write and publish the questionable stuff (as, per example, Hitler apologist David Irving being able to sue Deborah Eisenstadt and her UK publisher for libel -- a case he lost, but which the experts I read said wouldn't even have made it to court in the US), so possibly that's also so for copywright infringement/intellectual property and other writerly legal issues?
t /so very ex cloaca
Connie Neil - Feb 28, 2006 4:04:11 pm PST #53 of 27942
brillig
Back to Mary and Joseph and Catholic tradition and sex, that's why Joseph got changed to an old man who was (I guess) merely looking for someone to take care of him, plus he was so awed by being the Son of God's step-dad that he only ever treated Mary with absolute respect and restraint. In return, Saint Joseph is now patron saint of families and being a good dad.
Connie Neil - Feb 28, 2006 4:34:16 pm PST #54 of 27942
brillig
I've finished my book on the New Testament and am starting "Guns, Germs & Steel" (for the comma-philes, there's a comma after Germs, but I'm a comma heretic and don't like serial commas).
I think I'll wait till I know my new co-workers better before I take "Reclaiming the Gay-Lesbian Past" to work.
Emily - Feb 28, 2006 4:53:49 pm PST #55 of 27942
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
How does Mary staying a virgin after His birth make Jesus any more Jesus-y?
I'd imagine for the same reason Mary's conception got made immaculate -- if she's sin-free enough to bear Jesus, she's sin-free enough to stay that way. In other words, get the sex as far away from Jesus as possible.
brenda m - Feb 28, 2006 4:59:28 pm PST #56 of 27942
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
Don't fuck with the Jesus?
DebetEsse - Feb 28, 2006 5:02:19 pm PST #57 of 27942
Woe to the fucking wicked.
or in the same zip code
Betsy HP - Mar 01, 2006 5:17:29 am PST #58 of 27942
If I only had a brain...
Aren't married folks kind of supposed to go forth and multiply under Catholic doctrine? How does Mary staying a virgin after His birth make Jesus any more Jesus-y?
Actually, married couples deciding to abstain from sex is praiseworthy in Catholicism; I'm pretty sure that a couple of saints were married but abstinent.
ChiKat - Mar 01, 2006 8:42:53 am PST #59 of 27942
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Not saints, but Abelard and Heloise. Of course, Heloise didn't want to be celibate, but Abelard forced it.
Dana - Mar 01, 2006 1:32:10 pm PST #60 of 27942
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Margery Kempe made her husband be celibate for a while too.