I only meant that he's articulate compared to the drooling slack-jawed yokel currently in the White House.
OMG, I just realized Shrub isn't the POTUS, he's the CLETUS.
The fact that he's a faux-yokel makes it worse.
Just tryin' a little spicy talk.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
Natter 57 Varieties
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 - Mar 18, 2008 8:56:40 am PDT #5710 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Ginger - Mar 18, 2008 8:57:05 am PDT #5711 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I agree that that crowd seems to yearn for a theocracy in which everything that is not compulsory is forbidden, but they say they're talking about the Constitution. I think it's rather remarkably self-centered to believe that it's going to be your religion that's running the show in a theocracy. In Massachusetts, most of them would be in the stocks.
brenda m - Mar 18, 2008 8:58:44 am PDT #5712 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
Heh. A senior person in the firm just sent out a letter announcing his imminent departure that begins thusly:
Dear Colleagues,
I am sick of you all.
shrift - Mar 18, 2008 8:59:34 am PDT #5713 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
John HOTcock
It's terribly unfair of you to put that in my brain. I'm going to slip and say that at a VERY inopportune moment, I can already tell.
Nutty - Mar 18, 2008 9:00:14 am PDT #5714 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Ironically, the Puritan theocracy had... really high rates of out-of-wedlock childbirth, flogging, and people constantly moving away in a snit to found Providence, RI. Also, for most of the time that it was straight-up theocratic, those people were po'. Like, cornmeal for supper kind of po'. I don't think anybody who's actually thought it through really wants the Puritan theocracy back, unless they have a kooky fetish for short pants and cornmeal.
Allyson - Mar 18, 2008 9:01:52 am PDT #5715 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 had a friend who frequently wished that things would go back to "the way it was 100 years ago."
And I'd say, "you know you'd probably be dead, right?"
Jessica - Mar 18, 2008 9:02:29 am PDT #5716 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
unless they have a kooky fetish for short pants and cornmeal.
Have we checked the fetish map for this?
Frankenbuddha - Mar 18, 2008 9:02:44 am PDT #5717 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
In Massachusetts, most of them would be in the stocks.
How much am I loving watching the JOHN ADAMS series just for all the mentions of Massachusetts in a founding of the UDS context. A whole lot.
I'm waiting for accusations of Democratic propaganda from the wingnuts and ditto-heads. Of course, if Mitt had gotten the nom I suspect we'd hear a different tune (and he wouldn't be slagging off the state quite so prominently as he had been).
msbelle - Mar 18, 2008 9:03:17 am PDT #5718 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
really high rates of ... people constantly moving away in a snit to found Providence, RI.
really more than once this happened?
a kooky fetish for short pants and cornmeal.
and now the countdown until someone here finds that website. THANKS.
Kathy A - Mar 18, 2008 9:03:35 am PDT #5719 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I wish I had HBO, just so I could watch the John Adams miniseries. Rufus Sewell is going to be playing Alexander Hamilton, too, damnit!
For some fun things to look at during lunchtime, I give you Peep Dioramas! I've only gotten up to #125, but my faves so far are #10 (Buffy the Peepire Slayer), #18 (Nighthawks tribute), and #61 (an Edward Gorey-inspired one).
(Edited to fix the link.)