It's ridiculous that liberal has somehow become an invective. (And I realize it's been this way since the 2004 presidential campaign, at least.
I think that started in the '88 presidential campaign.
Lee Atwater - the proto-Rove....
And boys -- let's watch the swearing.
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Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
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.
tommyrot - Oct 03, 2006 4:10:32 pm PDT #1941 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.
amych - Oct 03, 2006 4:12:51 pm PDT #1942 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think that started in the '88 presidential campaign.
It solidified in '88, but I'd say it started with the Reagan campaigns.
sarameg - Oct 03, 2006 4:15:24 pm PDT #1943 of 10001
My public defender friend just sent me a picture of her desk and office. It involves a phone covered in postit debris, no computer (!) piles and piles in disarray of case files, an exploding bulletin board,rolodex, a plaque proclaiming "Suck it up", a lovely photo she took when interning at Ketchikan, Alaska and... a taxidermied 2 point buck head. Named Floyd. Wearing a bow tie. On loan from a friend who shares an office with someone opposed to "anti-preserved American."
Maybe you have to know her, but I spent 5 minutes laughing hysterically.
tommyrot - Oct 03, 2006 4:17:49 pm PDT #1944 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.
It solidified in '88, but I'd say it started with the Reagan campaigns.
Maybe what I'm thinking is that Dukakis denied the acusation of being a liberal - which also was a turning point....
erikaj - Oct 03, 2006 4:29:46 pm PDT #1945 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, I thought possibly that AS wrote that stuff too because then I would say that somebody who can write witty banter might not write good sketches...different skill and all that. But I can't comment on the actual sketches...haven't seen the latest yet. Lee Atwater...died screaming of bone cancer...couldn't happen to a nicer fella. What? When I hold a grudge it stays held. What can I say?
amych - Oct 03, 2006 4:34:54 pm PDT #1946 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Maybe what I'm thinking is that Dukakis denied the acusation of being a liberal - which also was a turning point....
Nah, you're right that the word itself got to be almost an expletive with the Dukakis campaign -- I was just thinking of the way it was prefigured by the attack on what had been widely assumed-to-be-good social goods and social programs in both Reagan/Carter and then Reagan/Mondale and... god I'm dating myself, aren't I?
tommyrot - Oct 03, 2006 4:35:48 pm PDT #1947 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.
WTF? Check out this ad on the "Answers in Genesis" webpage:
So... if you don't believe in God, you'll get shot? The theory of evolution makes people shoot people?
Jesse - Oct 03, 2006 4:53:11 pm PDT #1948 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dude, did you see the thing from the CBS News? The father of a kid who got killed in Columbine, talking about how the shooting yesterday was because of evolution being taught, and abortion, and godlessness in general. Yeah, in Amish country.
tommyrot - Oct 03, 2006 4:55:04 pm PDT #1949 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.
I heard about it.
OK, are there any evils that the theory of evolution doesn't cause?
Jesse - Oct 03, 2006 4:58:18 pm PDT #1950 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.