Harmony: Somebody remembered to pick me up the sweetest unicorn. Guess someone was feeling guilty for standing me up in tenth grade. Brad: What? Had to get her something. She sired me. Peaches: Sire-whipped.

'Beneath You'


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.


Dana - Nov 08, 2006 6:42:06 am PST #8556 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Do you work for the Chicago branch of Vivid Entertainment?

Well, there's sort of a sense in which you do. It just involves llamas instead of porn.


Nutty - Nov 08, 2006 6:43:52 am PST #8557 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Well, there's also the part where, as a party, the republicans chose a tactic of all hanging together, while the democrats did a big-tent crazy-caucus approach.

Plus side of hang-together: the ability to loom like a monolith.
Minus side: failing to disavow the dumb asshole in the back, because he's on your team, makes you complicit in his dumb assholery.

Plus side of crazy-caucus: you're not responsible for the dumb assholes.
Minus side: harder to present a united front.

I tend to prefer crazy-caucus, because I hate dumb assholes and I'm a longview kind of person. But it's been demonstrated that hang-together can be pertty damned effective in the short run.


Amy - Nov 08, 2006 6:44:41 am PST #8558 of 10001
Because books.

The fact that there are ugly Dems you can point to doesn't change the fact that in the predominant liberal community these folks are outliers. In right-wing circles they're thought leaders.

I think what's scariest is that they're obviously popular (if that word applies here) because so many people listen to them. They're tapping into something in this country's consciousness. And it's pretty nasty.


shrift - Nov 08, 2006 6:45:50 am PST #8559 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

It just involves llamas instead of porn.

Actually, there were llamas and gay porn, as I distinctly remember.


Frankenbuddha - Nov 08, 2006 6:48:21 am PST #8560 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I'm trying not to gloat.

I'm just happy to feel relieved. I'm dubious about how much is really going to change, and I fear the rhetorical bile being spewed is going to get worse not better (if craxy right felt oppressed and vindictive when their people were in control of everything, just imagine how they're going act when they're not). But at least I don't feel gloated at this morning.


Liese S. - Nov 08, 2006 6:49:03 am PST #8561 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I quite like Al Franken, as it turns out. But there's Randi Rhodes and Sam Seder with every bit as much vitriol as anything I've ever heard on the right.


megan walker - Nov 08, 2006 6:51:20 am PST #8562 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

From Jess's course link:

I had a mistake in an equation I wrote on the blackboard today, when I wrote an equation for the electric power lost to resistence in a wire. Of course, I said that you don't have to know that equation... But I left out the square on the current. So here is the correct equation, which you still don't need to know...

And, I love this guy's policies!

Cheating:. Two years ago I flunked two students who were talking to each other on the final exam. (They said that they were only discussing how to spell a word.) I consider that very light punishment. In the future, I am determined not to be so lenient.

Half of the homework grade will be based on the quality of the writing. Imagine that you are briefing the U.S. President on an issue that you consider important. Your essay should be a pleasure to read! You will lose credit if you have more than one mispelling, or have any error in grammar (run-on sentence etc.). If English is not your primary language, please state your primary language at the beginning of the email.

A fundamental requirement is that you must come to lectures. Absence will be excused if email is sent to me before the missed lecture, and if it contains a reasonable excuse (e.g. you were killed in a terrorist incident, you have to be away to compete in a sporting event, or your boy/girl friend had to be picked up at the airport). Don't make up excuses; if you do, and I find out, you will get an F in the course.


msbelle - Nov 08, 2006 6:51:51 am PST #8563 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

The fact that Rush and O'Reilly have a large audience is terrifying.


Vortex - Nov 08, 2006 6:52:37 am PST #8564 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I had a fun moment this morning. I was drowsing in bed listening to the radio, and some asshole was talking about the "surprise upset" and I just yelled out "It's not a surprise, people are PISSED". It amused me so, I started laughing and actually got out of bed on time (as opposed to the perpetual hitting of the snooze button, aka The Tool of Satan)


tommyrot - Nov 08, 2006 6:53:28 am PST #8565 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.

The fact that Rush and O'Reilly have a large audience is terrifying.

But at least both of their audiences have declined recently.