Wonkette claims they may give a prize to the person who has the closest guess as to when Haggard checks himself in for treatment.
It'll have to be a full news cycle before Tuesday.
Book: Captain, you mind if I say grace? Mal: Only if you say it out loud.
'Serenity'
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.
aurelia - Nov 03, 2006 6:23:11 am PST #7090 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Allyson - Nov 03, 2006 6:25:01 am PST #7091 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
Isn't there a line in Corinthians about false apostles? Do these folks read their own book? Holy butt, I'm not even a Christian and I know bazillion dollar preachers are whack.
Jesse - Nov 03, 2006 6:26:56 am PST #7092 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
He mishandled money, promised to pay back money that he took for personal use and didn't pay back the whole thing, refuses to leave the race and no one will endorse his opponent.
Well, sure. Until a couple of weeks ago, the opponent was just some name on the other line of the ballot, you know? It's not like he was a serious candidate in any way.
beekaytee - Nov 03, 2006 6:30:35 am PST #7093 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I'm a firm believer that anyone who vehemently tells others what NOT to do is often secretly engaged in whatever behavior outrages them the most.
This is so often, very true. See, Jimmy Swaggert, et.al.
Ginger - Nov 03, 2006 6:31:17 am PST #7094 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Has it always been the case that winning politics hinges on mudslinging and scandal?
The Connecticut Courant warned that if Thomas Jefferson were elected, "murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be openly taught and practiced." Federalist campaign literature described Jefferson as "a mean spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father...raised wholly on hoe-cake made of coarse-ground Southern corn, bacon and hominy, with an occasional...fricasseed bull-frog."
megan walker - Nov 03, 2006 6:32:03 am PST #7095 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
We had a milkman. My mother stopped using the milk delivery service when they abandoned glass bottles. We also had an egg lady.
I get farm eggs delivered to my door every weekend. I love it.
Amy - Nov 03, 2006 6:32:19 am PST #7096 of 10001
Because books.
"a mean spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father...raised wholly on hoe-cake made of coarse-ground Southern corn, bacon and hominy, with an occasional...fricasseed bull-frog."
I think that qualifies as mud-slinging, yeah.
sarameg - Nov 03, 2006 6:36:01 am PST #7097 of 10001
I don't recall where I saw or heard it, but there was a fabulous piece (pieces?) on the down and dirty campaigning pre-radio and tv. It was fabulously creative, slanderific and crude as is evidenced above.
Allyson - Nov 03, 2006 6:38:56 am PST #7098 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'd hate to see what woud happen if anyone ran against msbelle for the title of The Nicest.
Jessica - Nov 03, 2006 6:41:03 am PST #7099 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
He's like, "I did something stupid. I'm sorry. But it was one stupid thing against my whole record. Really, I was stupid. And I'm sorry. Vote for me!"
That's kind of great, actually.