Matt the Bruins fan:

What gets me is that I don't feel robbed by this - it's not some shadowy conspiracy of Republican thugs sneaking around and fixing the elections (well, except maybe in Florida). It's that previously unsuspected millions of my fellow Americans popped up to say that they think the most incompetent, short-sighted, willfully manipulative and divisive President of my lifetime is doing a peachy job destroying everything that made this country great and they want 4 more years of the same.

It's not pleasant to wake up and realize that your best bet to see positive change from your government is for the Rapture to occur within the next few years.

Consuela:

I have to admit, it's amazing to me that this Democratic party, which is so middle-of-the-road as to be toothless, is considered such a threat by the conservatives in the middle of the country. Kerry won't come out for gay marriage, hasn't proposed anything close to universal health care, and basically has taken stands to the right of Clinton, who wasn't exactly Eugene Debs either.

It's not Kerry the conservatives are afraid of: it's us. The wacko quasi-socialist gay-friendly porn-writing computer-using international-friendly hyperliterate folks on the coasts.

It amazes me that a 39-year-old single professional woman with a dog, a very small house, and too many books, is such a threat to so many people.

DavidS , in Natter:

Scenario: Tip O'Neill's hanging out at the gates of heaven, having a smoke. Satan walks by and says, "Tip, how'd you like to see the Red Sox win the World Series. I can pull a few strings."

Tip gives him the stinkeye. "...And?"

Satan, "Bush gets four more years."

"Awww, fuck that. Get out of here before I call St. Michael on ya."

"Hear me out. They come back from three down against the Yankees in the playoffs. Then they totally humiliate them."

"No w-....Hmmm. Three down you say?"

Anne W, Lost:

"Do you know what's in this cocoon?"

"Uh, an anvil?"

NovaChild in Bitches on politics:

I can hear the slogans now:

My daddy ran the Country,
My brother ran it too,
Vote for me in 2008
And I'll fight a war for you!

In Bitches, some literary humor to start the morning:

Betsy HP:

There's a lot of that going on. "An Irish Air-man Foreseese His Death" (which I've always loved) is about Lady Gregory's son, who, whoops, died. (I forget if he died first then poem or poem first, then died. One likes to think the first or Lady Gregory would have had a right to be miffed. At Yeats, not the son.

Burrell:

Betsy, the young man died first. The poem was meant as a tribute to him.

Betsy HP:

It's a fabulous poem. If you're going to lose your only son, it's a good thing to have Yeats around.

Jen:

Hell, if you're only going to the bathroom, it's a good thing to have Yeats around.

Betsy HP:

Back off! Do not pee on the Irish poet laureate!

Polter-Cow:

Things fall apart, the bladder cannot hold.

Jim in Natter:

have this sneaking feeling that had Kerry looked even 10% less like a cross between Frankenstein and an Ent, he'd be president now

Thanks for the chuckle, Jim! It was much needed this morning.

on Allegory

Gudanov: You just have to be subtle.

Heratio was urging the horses drawing his wagon to as much haste as possible, when he turned a curve in the road and ran over some woman with long blonde hair who was too busy yelling insults to see the wagon coming.

jstroix:

I just came back from walking my dog and she reminded my that as long as the party in power supports long walks, regular meals and chewy toys, things will be ok.

Maybe that should be the Dems new platform?

Nora Deirdre:

Hey, I didn't make the rumor, I just reported it irresponsibly from dubious sources.