If the Presidential lineup for 2008 is any indication, they are losing power. None of the realistic possibilities are going to thrill the ultraconservative religious right. Of course if Hillary is nominated then they are still going to come out in force since they think Hillary eats babies grilled over burning bibles.
Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.
Glory ,'Potential'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
Gudanov - Oct 18, 2007 10:51:33 am PDT #7328 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
askye - Oct 18, 2007 10:52:25 am PDT #7329 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I think it's their ideal. That sex is not for pleasure at all. Only for procreation and that's what it should be. Masterbation is cheating on your current (or future) spouse.
And it's all the people who don't think of sex as evil and bad that have corrupted all the "upstanding" people into cheating/whoring around/etc. It's the ungodly masses fault. But if there's no temptation then everyone will fall in line, so they are are thinking.
It reminds me of what I've read about the Purtains, and how they'd take away more and more things and try and legistlate piety more and more and it all back fired.
Susan W. - Oct 18, 2007 10:53:57 am PDT #7330 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
On a completely different note, Stephen King was spotted reading between innings at an ALCS game: [link]
"King told reporter Chris Myers on-air that he 'could read 18 pages between innings normally. But now that Fox is doing the games, I can read 27 pages between commercial breaks.' Not a bad idea for home viewers."
I sometimes read at the ballpark if I get there before DH and Annabel, but so far I've saved my between-inning reading for home viewing.
tommyrot - Oct 18, 2007 10:54:14 am PDT #7331 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.
I think I read somewhere that more than half of all fundamentalist are in favor of contraceptives - it's just the lunatic fringe who consider them evil. But I could be misremembering....
Then there are those who consider "the pill" to be an abortificant.
askye - Oct 18, 2007 10:56:18 am PDT #7332 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
Of course if Hillary is nominated then they are still going to come out in force since they think Hillary eats babies grilled over burning bibles.
And is pimping out Satan.
That's why I hate that Hillary is running.
tommyrot - Oct 18, 2007 10:57:02 am PDT #7333 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.
Masterbation is cheating on your current (or future) spouse.
My high-school girlfriend considered masturbation to be cheating. i.e. if I masturbated, she would then be justified to sleep with other men, because women can't masturbate.
Yeah, she was a bit... weird.
-t - Oct 18, 2007 10:58:32 am PDT #7334 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I hope she has figured out some of the crucial flaws in her reasoning.
Tom Scola - Oct 18, 2007 10:59:05 am PDT #7335 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
How is it not FRIDAY YET!?!?!
It is if you take Friday off like I am.
I have to work on Friday AND Saturday. And I have to be at work on Saturday at 5:30am.
Gudanov - Oct 18, 2007 11:00:03 am PDT #7336 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I have to work on Friday AND Saturday. And I have to be at work on Saturday at 5:30am.
That sucks
Jesse - Oct 18, 2007 11:01:25 am PDT #7337 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dag, Tom, sounds like you could use a cookie!