Skip (and not the demon-in-Angel kind, the one that's even less fun than demons) to post that, according to the Buffista Calendar, today is Fone Bone's (Jessica's DH) birthday. Happy birthday! With lots of wishes for a great day and a wonderful year!
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
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.
Nilly - Mar 19, 2006 2:27:12 am PST #4910 of 10001
Swouncing
Laura - Mar 19, 2006 3:16:43 am PST #4911 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
OK, opinions on this: funny, or mildly disturbing?
Interesting. As was the blog link.
Happy Birthday Fone Bone, with Pie!
tommyrot - Mar 19, 2006 4:03:00 am PST #4912 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Our friend Billy West has once again spilled the beans. According to a post he made on his message board, Futurama is going to be renewed for television with 26 episodes. No word as to what station it will be on, who will rejoin the cast, or whether it'll be two seasons that would consist of 13 episodes each or one HUGE season of 26 episodes. Please keep in mind though, all this information is still very unofficial. Nothing is down on paper. No contracts signed. Nada. NOTHING. But, it's still pretty awesome.
I'm this close to selling my show--''Billy Bastard--Amateur Human Being,'' And the other good news is that they're doing 26 new episodes of ''Futurama'' for TV and we're hammering out the deal now. The original plan was to have the DVD's first but that's no longer the case.I'm totaly jammed dude.
Greetings from the year 3000! It still sucks!
Billy
Theodosia - Mar 19, 2006 4:06:17 am PST #4913 of 10001
'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"
Oh wow. I'm crossing all the digits I have, and perhaps mutating a couple more just to be able to cross them.
This reminds me that I have two of the DVD sets and haven't yet listened to the commentary on all of them!
msbelle - Mar 19, 2006 4:39:18 am PST #4914 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
tiny piece on Bossa Nova - Girl from Ipanema and then interview/piece on Anne Rice on this mornings CBS Sunday Morning.
Zenkitty - Mar 19, 2006 5:00:26 am PST #4915 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Laughing babies video was on America's Funniset Home Videos once; as I recall it won. It goes from funny to disturbing to funny to make-it-stop-already! The mom is funny too.
Beverly - Mar 19, 2006 6:12:07 am PST #4916 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Happy Birthday, E!
Hey, ev'body. Just peeking in while hiding from family-houseguests. It's very sunny here, though I seem to be cold.
Sue - Mar 19, 2006 6:17:17 am PST #4917 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Timelies! Happy Birthday Fone Bone!
I have what looks like three flea bites on my arm. I've checked both cats, and I don't see anything. Am I the one with fleas?
Lee - Mar 19, 2006 6:59:50 am PST #4918 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jess, happy DH birthday!
It's sunny and not raining here, for the second day in a row! Yay, especially since I have a pretty, but long, drive down to Santa Cruz to make this morning.
tommyrot - Mar 19, 2006 7:44:06 am PST #4919 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Nice to see this get some mainstream media (AP) coverage:
Bush Using Straw-Man Arguments in Speeches
Bush routinely is criticized for dressing up events with a too-rosy glow. But experts in political speech say the straw man device, in which the president makes himself appear entirely reasonable by contrast to supposed "critics," is just as problematic.
Because the "some" often go unnamed, Bush can argue that his statements are true in an era of blogs and talk radio. Even so, "'some' suggests a number much larger than is actually out there," said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
A specialist in presidential rhetoric, Wayne Fields of Washington University in St. Louis, views it as "a bizarre kind of double talk" that abuses the rules of legitimate discussion.
"It's such a phenomenal hole in the national debate that you can have arguments with nonexistent people," Fields said. "All politicians try to get away with this to a certain extent. What's striking here is how much this administration rests on a foundation of this kind of stuff."
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Last fall, the rhetorical tool became popular with Bush when the debate heated up over when troops would return from Iraq. "Some say perhaps we ought to just pull out of Iraq," he told GOP supporters in October, echoing similar lines from other speeches. "That is foolhardy policy."
Yet even the speediest plan, as advocated by only a few Democrats, suggested not an immediate drawdown, but one over six months. Most Democrats were not even arguing for a specific troop withdrawal timetable.
Recently defending his decision to allow the National Security Agency to monitor without subpoenas the international communications of Americans suspected of terrorist ties, Bush has suggested that those who question the program underestimate the terrorist threat.
"There's some in America who say, 'Well, this can't be true there are still people willing to attack,'" Bush said during a January visit to the NSA.
Wanker.