Um... why is there not more outrage?
Oh, there's outrage. It's just muted because it's been going on for so long.
Let him do his thing, and then you get him out. No messing with him for laughs.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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 - Mar 10, 2006 4:56:03 am PST #3156 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
sumi - Mar 10, 2006 5:01:31 am PST #3157 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I loved the wacky WAT.
HDT and Malone doing Rock, Paper, Scissors (We used to call this jon ken pon) to see who got to talk down Mrs. Reynolds was so funny.
Also, you pockets haters are CRAZY!!
Fred Pete - Mar 10, 2006 5:17:03 am PST #3158 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
is so out of it she doesn't know who James Blunt is
British singer of what, some years ago, would have been called "soft rock." Became a big star worldwide on the strength of "You're Beautiful," which is a great single. (How big? "You're Beautiful" went to #1 in the U.S. Last time anyone from the U.K. did that, it was Elton John mourning Princess Di.)
Too soon to tell whether he's "flavor of the month" or "lasting star." But I can't say I'm as impressed with the other songs I've heard off the CD.
Sean K - Mar 10, 2006 5:17:17 am PST #3159 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm on outrage overload. And with all due respect to Christians here, the Christian Right rather feels like an unstopable juggernaut to me now. Over the last five or six years, they've successfully eroded so much of this governement, and of the ability for any opposition to do anything about them, that I don't know what to do, or how to stop it.
It's soured me on Christianity so bad, I pretty much have to just not talk about it with people I care about, lest it cause too much of a rift in our relationship.
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2006 5:24:18 am PST #3160 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's soured me on Christianity so bad, I pretty much have to just not talk about it with people I care about, lest it cause too much of a rift in our relationship.
It's funny/ironic/sad that I've more than once had the conversation where the person I was talking to swapped "Americans" for "Christianity" in the above sentiment. With the undertone that I was doing something wrong for being among the enemy.
I don't let them not have the conversation though, because it's important to me.
Allyson - Mar 10, 2006 5:25:43 am PST #3161 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I interrupt your outrage for a nephew report.
Yesterday I got him a little people farmhouse with a cow, duck, chicken, horse, pig, and sheep (and he knows what they all say, yes he does. The sheep goes baaaaa).
Also purchased many books on Amazon for his birthday. Including Blueberries for Sal.
This is the last day I get to play with him, I'm going back to LA tomorrow. Heartbroken.
No more, "Auntie! Read book!"
Broken.
Gudanov - Mar 10, 2006 5:27:12 am PST #3162 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
There's a christian left too and lots of christian liberals. However, they are not politically important.
sumi - Mar 10, 2006 5:27:39 am PST #3163 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I like James Blunt -- I saw him on the Today Show and he's cute and snarky.
TomW - Mar 10, 2006 5:30:41 am PST #3164 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
James Blunt (hail to thee, oh Bluntish one; we pledge our fealty to you and your heirs, apparently) gets a namecheck in this blog commentary on the latest set of Dewey subcategory numbers:
Is that sufficiently tortous reasoning for a link post?
Gudanov - Mar 10, 2006 5:32:39 am PST #3165 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
IMO the reason the right is so strong is that there are a lot of one issue voters with one fervent side and one lukewarm side and the democrats are on the lukewarm side of most of them. Abortion, homosexuality, guns, national security, taxes, etc...
There are lots of people who think that the democrats stand for abortion, gun-control, more government regulation, and more taxes. Who the heck wants that?