Allyson, here's a suggestion. Give every GOOD fanmail you get a value of 3 points, and every asshat reaction -1 point. Then when you get one of those vile little things, tote up your point total. Sometimes I need to quantify to get perspective, you know?
Angel: Is that what you think you are--a hero? Spike: Saved the world didn't I? Angel: Once. Talk to me after you've done it a couple more times.
'Destiny'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
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.
Theodosia - Jul 20, 2007 5:34:27 am PDT #9048 of 10001
'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"
Allyson - Jul 20, 2007 5:35:05 am PDT #9049 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Oh yeah. I haven't written back yet, I need to get my graciousness back. I think I left it in the shower, I better go look for it...
brenda m - Jul 20, 2007 5:36:52 am PDT #9050 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Shrift, I saw your dead body on the news last night!
Okay, that didn't come out right.
tommyrot - Jul 20, 2007 5:38:10 am PDT #9051 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.
Shrift, I saw your dead body on the news last night!
Did they say what happened to the body to make it dead?
OK, that didn't sound quite right either....
shrift - Jul 20, 2007 5:38:23 am PDT #9052 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I need to get my graciousness back.
I thought I might find mine in the bottom of my coffee cup, but now I'm pretty sure I left it on my pillow. I'm gonna have to write "Don't be an asshole!" on a Post-It and put it on my computer monitor.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 20, 2007 5:41:05 am PDT #9053 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm gonna have to write "Don't be an asshole!" on a Post-It and put it on my computer monitor.
Or put up a sign saying "Do not taunt happy fun shrift" or something.
tommyrot - Jul 20, 2007 5:43:13 am PDT #9054 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.
OK, there are some left-wing folks who think that the Bush administration is planning on installing a dictatorship in the US. Does this belief become more credible when "old-line conservative Paul Craig Roberts -- a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan" says it?
What prompted this paranoia is an odd little Executive Order that "allows the government to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies."
Paul Craig has this to say about it:
When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order] ... there's no check to it. It doesn't have to be ratified by Congress. The people who bear the brunt of these dictatorial police state actions have no recourse to the judiciary. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule. ... The American people don't really understand the danger that they face.
eta: Here is the Executive Order, straight from the whitehouse.gov website: [link]
shrift - Jul 20, 2007 5:43:36 am PDT #9055 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Shrift, I saw your dead body on the news last night!
Seriously?! I haven't seen anything.
Jesse - Jul 20, 2007 5:44:36 am PDT #9056 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yeah. I haven't written back yet, I need to get my graciousness back. I think I left it in the shower, I better go look for it...
Dude. Don't write back to crazy people you know are crazy!!
Amy - Jul 20, 2007 5:48:39 am PDT #9057 of 10001
Because books.
Dude. Don't write back to crazy people you know are crazy!!
So much this.
msbelle, I'm so sorry for all the stress and the possible LD. Ack. You and Mac need some stress-free summer days.