You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.

Xander ,'Help'


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.


sarameg - Jan 03, 2008 11:20:25 am PST #714 of 10001

YES I CHANGED MY MIND. I'm the boss of this, that's my perogative.

grumble Learning curve, people, learning curve. And no one wrote procedures, so I'm making it up here.


tommyrot - Jan 03, 2008 11:21:24 am PST #715 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.

Ooh. Did we go away for a few minutes?


Kathy A - Jan 03, 2008 11:27:40 am PST #716 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I have issues with Healthy Choice's roast beef coldcuts. It just tastes weird.


Dana - Jan 03, 2008 11:29:11 am PST #717 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Did we go away for a few minutes?

Yes. I was scared.


lisah - Jan 03, 2008 11:30:17 am PST #718 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

How could cold cuts be Healthier? I don't get it! Why would roast beef sliced at some Healthy Choice processing plant be healthier than something sliced at the deli counter?

(I may be extra suspicious because I've been reading Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake this week which is all about genetic modification of food getting Out of Control.)


Jesse - Jan 03, 2008 11:32:16 am PST #719 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Why would roast beef sliced at some Healthy Choice processing plant be healthier than something sliced at the deli counter?

Less salt! Less fat! Chemicals are healthier!!

Unrelatedly, I recently saw a local news story about, "Did you know that roast beef is lower in calories than tuna salad?!?!?!?" Dude. Are you kidding me with that?

Even more unrelatedly, I might kill someone at my 9:30 meeting tomorrow. Just a head's up if I'm not around.


tommyrot - Jan 03, 2008 11:33:00 am PST #720 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.

So some folks at the Daily Kos have been critical of Obama recently. Here someone writes to Andrew Sullivan to explain (last paragraph is the best):

My take is that Kos and folks like him in the netroots, including myself, are what the militant feminists were for the women's movement. We're sick and tired of Republicans in general, this administration in particular, and what passes for liberalism in this country that we've got nothing but contempt for the 'battered-wife', mainstream Vichy Democrats the beltway press, in our view, glorifies. Because Obama has seemingly criticized the partisanship we crave we thus see him as attempting to align himself as a battered-wife, Vichycrat against those who have done the most to organize resistance to this evil, evil administration sitting in Washington. This makes us angry because we see it as both disrespectful and counterproductive.

But, I support Obama despite this because I understand political reality and I love what he represents - a transition away from white baby-boomers bickering over the cultural changes of the 60s and 70s towards a politics that is truly representative of the multi-cultural, polyglot, open society that America is today.

So, while I wish Obama would stand up and rip out Dick Cheney's heart in front the soulless one's family and proceed to eat it raw on live television, I'll just mutter under my breath, hope for the best, and love him for who he is. He's got my vote even if isn't going to douse the Bush's with gasoline and light them on fire. That's the netroots job anyway.

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Susan W. - Jan 03, 2008 11:37:54 am PST #721 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Heh. That pretty much sums up my feelings about Obama.


lisah - Jan 03, 2008 11:38:11 am PST #722 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Jesse! I've been meaning to blame you for me having had the Cranberries song "Linger" stuck in my head for DAYS. It's all due to stupid VH1 Classic Best of the 90s. I never would have been reminded of that song otherwise.


Jesse - Jan 03, 2008 11:40:40 am PST #723 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ha! Maybe I can swap out "Linger" for what's currently in my head -- the Spider-Man theme.