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Where's the praising and extolling of my virtues? Where's the love?
Host ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
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.
esse - Dec 01, 2006 3:42:10 am PST #3919 of 10007
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
DavidS - Dec 01, 2006 4:41:24 am PST #3920 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
but, also, this is not new
No, but I think the Times coverage is relatively new. Back in the 90s the only person I remember talking about this stuff was William Vollman.
Liese S. - Dec 01, 2006 4:49:18 am PST #3921 of 10007
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Whatever traces of cultural relativism I've had are now fully erased and I'm back to inalienable human rights enforced at the point of a gun (if necessary).
Yikes.
DavidS - Dec 01, 2006 5:08:43 am PST #3922 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yikes.
Starting with Rush fans!
No, I just mean that the intervention in Kosovo was motivated in part by humanitarian concerns and I think that was the proper application of military force. Situations like that.
I'm not talking about sending everybody in West Africa to forced re-education camps to stop the practice of clitorectomies.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 01, 2006 5:23:27 am PST #3923 of 10007
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Starting with Rush fans!
Geddy Lee died for your sins!!!
This is SO not a joking matter, but that's where my mind went when I saw "Rush". Whatever you think of their music, I'd rather think about them than that hopped-up, bloviating windbag.
Fred Pete - Dec 01, 2006 5:26:27 am PST #3924 of 10007
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm decidedly not a fan of the band, and I'd still rather think of them than the talk show host.
Theodosia - Dec 01, 2006 5:33:19 am PST #3925 of 10007
'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"
What does it say about me that I went with the Geddy Lee image immediately?
Possibly I am too fixated on Canadian music...
Nutty - Dec 01, 2006 5:33:51 am PST #3926 of 10007
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I just mean that the intervention in Kosovo was motivated in part by humanitarian concerns and I think that was the proper application of military force.
It was pretty appalling, being 16, 17, and seeing on the news about the Chetnik antics in Bosnia. You know, you grow up reading history, you think, "Well, World War II was bad, but we're all grownups now and that sort of thing doesn't happen any more." And then you get forcibly re-educated as to the currency of wanton cruelty, to say nothing of the sorts of things that go on in peacetime.
msbelle - Dec 01, 2006 5:38:35 am PST #3927 of 10007
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
hi all. Africa is fun, if overwhelming.
Connie Neil - Dec 01, 2006 5:40:40 am PST #3928 of 10007
brillig
She escaped and murdered her pursuer.
Ha.
A few more of those wouldn't be a bad thing. Except it's not murder, it's self-defense. Interesting choice of words.