Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.

Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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 - Nov 08, 2006 6:16:12 am PST #8531 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.

Jaylin, 4, looked up from the water fountain and said, "I approved this message."

Bwah!


Steph L. - Nov 08, 2006 6:17:05 am PST #8532 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Backing up Nora,

I have read some RIdiculous and easily as vile things on liberal blogs over the past 6 years.

The only reason I think that Freeper comment about "stupid, lazy voters" is funny is because surely some of the people who voted yesterday are the same people who voted in 2004, when the results went the way the Freepers wanted. Right? It's not like all the people who voted yesterday were people who didn't vote in 2004.

Which would mean that people who, it would seem, *weren't* stupid in 2004 -- people who the Freepers would have approved of in 2004 -- have now suddenly become stupid in the eyes of the Freepers.

I just find the lack of logic funny, is all. Not the hate.

(Or am I over-explaining something that nobody else even noticed? I probably am. Sorry.)


shrift - Nov 08, 2006 6:17:27 am PST #8533 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Not inter-occular ingestion, right?

My eyeballs are coffee-free.


Vortex - Nov 08, 2006 6:17:37 am PST #8534 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I actually saw a steele ad that I liked last night. Him and his two sons on the steps of a house, the sons were talking about how they had to let people know about their dad -- he listens to Sinatra and Motown. But he has integrity, blah, blah blah. Then he says I'm Micheal Steele and I approve this message . . . I think. Very cute. But, he's still a lying misdirecting scumbag who refuses to concede. Asshole.


Nora Deirdre - Nov 08, 2006 6:18:51 am PST #8535 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

I just find the lack of logic funny, is all. Not the hate.

I agree


Fred Pete - Nov 08, 2006 6:18:55 am PST #8536 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

What Tom said, about "Isn't tax & spend better than not-tax & spend?"

I like, except I'd change "not-tax & spend" to "borrow & spend."


Jesse - Nov 08, 2006 6:19:57 am PST #8537 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Which would mean that people who, it would seem, *weren't* stupid in 2004 -- people who the Freepers would have approved of in 2004 -- have now suddenly become stupid in the eyes of the Freepers.

I would just like to point out that that's ridiculous, because how could a person become LESS informed over two years? Clearly the people who voted R two years ago have become less stupid and more informed. It's the only explanation.


Topic!Cindy - Nov 08, 2006 6:20:18 am PST #8538 of 10001
What is even happening?

I have read some RIdiculous and easily as vile things on liberal blogs over the past 6 years.

No kidding. Neither republican nor democrat has a monopoly on the crazy. I try not to froth. It's hard sometimes, but really, it's just messy and looks bad on me.

Yes. Me, too.

I would agree, but I'd argue that there's more of the crazy, the hate, on Republican blogs.

Nah. You just don't find it compelling in the same way.

I was physically and psychically unable to cast my vote for Kerry in '06, in part, because of the hate I was seeing from my fellow Democrats. Now, I live in Massachusetts, so I has as much reason to think he'd win Massachusetts and her electoral college votes, as I do to expect the earth to keep turning (which was the only reason I could use my vote as a protest). But liberals are no less vile. And when they're vile, they disappoint me more, just the same way I'm much more upset when my own children act up, than I am when someone else's child acts up. It's a You Ought to Know Better thing, for me. I expect more from my own. If I weren't so inert, I would have changed my voter registration to Independent. I still expect I will someday, when I have to go to Town Hall for something. I just haven't had to go to Town Hall for the past two years.


Steph L. - Nov 08, 2006 6:21:34 am PST #8539 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Which would mean that people who, it would seem, *weren't* stupid in 2004 -- people who the Freepers would have approved of in 2004 -- have now suddenly become stupid in the eyes of the Freepers.

I would just like to point out that that's ridiculous, because how could a person become LESS informed over two years? Clearly the people who voted R two years ago have become less stupid and more informed. It's the only explanation.

Right?


Fred Pete - Nov 08, 2006 6:21:48 am PST #8540 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

the sons were talking about how they had to let people know about their dad -- he listens to Sinatra and Motown

So do I (though not at the moment). But I doubt they'd vote for me for dogcatcher.