Should he win, he's going to have an asterisk by his name for one reason or another.
Has he been caught videotaping Hilary's speeches or something?
t /football joke
Giles, help! He's going to scold me!
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 31, 2008 7:10:25 am PST #6483 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Sophia Brooks - Jan 31, 2008 7:12:34 am PST #6484 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
You know what I don't get... there is a woman in my office who says "I am a Democrat, but I voted for Bush". Um, why?
Tom Scola - Jan 31, 2008 7:13:15 am PST #6485 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
India's pink posse hunts down bad guys
If you're a man in the Banda district of India who beats your wife, demands more dowry, or otherwise mistreats women, you'd better watch out. A posse of vigilante women clad in pink saris may soon come after you, and it's going to be ugly.
The "Gulabi Gang" (Pink Gang) uses sticks (lathis) and cricket bats to "teach erring men a lesson." In one instance, they chased a woman's abusive, alcoholic husband into a sugarcane field and sorely thrashed him. They also go after corrupt government officials. Last year, they stormed a police station after cops refused to register the case of a low-caste man simply because of his social standing.
Cashmere - Jan 31, 2008 7:18:40 am PST #6486 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
That's priceless, Tom.
amych - Jan 31, 2008 7:21:51 am PST #6487 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Is it very wrong of me to want to sent the Gulabi Gang after everyone who forwards stupid political emails?
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2008 7:28:21 am PST #6488 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My parents had a huge roll of paper freely available for us (read: me) to draw on, and it never once occurred to me to draw on the walls.
However, I was also deathly afraid of my parents, and that might not be the parenting direction chosen by Buffistas.
lisah - Jan 31, 2008 7:30:18 am PST #6489 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
(catching up) Hope Noah is doing better this morning, Kat!
Hey, there are some Lulu Eightball fans here, yes? She has another book coming out!
Jesse - Jan 31, 2008 7:33:59 am PST #6490 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That Gulabi Gang kind of makes me feel the way I do when I read about how girls are catching up with boys in represenation in the juvenile justice system here. It's like... yay equality?
Allyson - Jan 31, 2008 7:34:33 am PST #6491 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
I have to take off work and stand in line at the Hollywood Office to pay a city tax/fine for something that I had no idea existed, and apply for an exemption for the same tax I had no idea existed. I need to register with the city as a Creative Artist.
I feel totally swindled. If I had known, I would have taken care of it because I'm responsible like that. But how the hell would I have known?
Dana - Jan 31, 2008 7:35:28 am PST #6492 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
My husband has trained his coworkers well enough that they're starting to ask him about these stupid political e-mails before they forward them to everyone. Then my husband sends them a Snopes link to explain that no, Obama is not a SEKRIT MUSLIM OMG.