So Dick Cheney joins the board...

And we politely share our opinions with him. Of him. Politely.

We can do that.

And we politely share our opinions with him. Of him. Politely.

Though offering him cheese fries has the potential for misunderstanding.

Hmm do we? It would not be polite to tell Julia Roberts she is a bad actress. (I personally don't think it is true, but that is another issue.) Is there a polite way to tell Dick Cheney he is destroying the American constitution and turning the U.S. into a police state?

I keep thinking about Harold Pinter and his conversation with a Turkish Ambassador, a few blocks from where Turkish prisoners were being tortured. And the Ambassador finally said "well everyone has a right to his opinions." And Pinter replied somethiing along the lines of "Not the guy with an electrode on his genitals." And some people criticized Pinter for rudeness. But really could he have said less? Of course we are using absurd examples. Dick Cheny is not going to show up. If Julia Roberts showed up, the most likely problem would be excessive fanboyishness and fangirlishness, not deliberate rudeness.

Some things just get under your skin. I mean, my own brother votes Republican. My baby brother! So not an evil person! And--hang onto your Region 3 DVDs--Republicans may lurk HERE AMONG US!!

Y'know, I'm the only member of my immediate blood-related family who's not a Republican, and almost the only one of my college friends. I love these people--I'm seriously considering giving half of my liver to one of them, should she require a new one--but their political beliefs mystify me. All of which is to say, I've expressed my contempt for the present administration so strongly in Natter precisely because it's such a relief to feel like I'm mostly among people who agree with me for a change, and because I am so genuinely puzzled and frustrated by the fact that half the country voted for Dubya and even more than that seem to approve of the job he's doing. Girl's gotta vent sometimes. Anyway, I apologize if I've inadvertantly offended anyone with the vehemence of my views, and will try to save my more angry forms of venting for times I know I'm among friends.

Too bad the trustiest fellow Democrat among my RL friends is one of the pastors at our church. I can't swear as much around her, and she'd probably feel obligated to talk me into a more forgiving and less bitter stance even while agreeing with all my views on public policy.

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Polite request that this get taken to Natter. (Also, umm... please no comments about Turkish Ambassadors, because then we get into friend-of-a-friend territory which I'm honestly not especially comfortable about.)

Did we decide on a Music thread title? Are we starting it now, or waiting until tomorrow?

Do we have a slug for it? We also need a slug.

an entire thread full of whitefont.

We could use a thread like this. Maybe billytea's thread for putting trolls on trial. You could page past 10 pages of blank and think, "Whew! Glad I missed that argument." And the White Font Thread would be totally easy to catch up in.

But I wonder why it needs to be a vote. In the past people have asked for new threads to address a particular interest (like TTT or Farscape). If enough people were interested to sustain such a thread it was made. It wasn't a majority vote.

We did put "When come back, bring tape" up for opposition. I argued that it wasn't necessary, but it's worked out just fine.

Trying to Nilly the post in which my spelling and grammar were so fucking atrocious. I know Nilly. I am no Nilly.

[three minutes later]

Allyson, Allyson "Firefly 2: You Can't Take the Sky From Me." Dec 19, 2002 10:05:22 am EST.

Nilly has the power to create links to any bit of web-based information, and the ability to hear cries for help from any thread, any time. She's either an Internet superhero (with a mild-mannered secret identity) or a scary cyborg network creature lulling us into absolute reliance on her memory.

I'm glad I finally know how to pronounce "mieskie," "mie" as in "michael." I'd sometimes said it as "meeskee" and thought it was like an Eskimo word, sometimes "myeh-skyeh." But can I just say... if "DNFtEC" is our policy, we suck at it.

Do we have a slug for it? We also need a slug.

"Does it talk?"