This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?

Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'


Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!  

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.


Jessica - May 08, 2008 8:50:12 am PDT #5606 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I've become so deadened to the Clinton campaign's cries of "Well, people who didn't vote for me, um, don't count anyway! Because [ridiculous pander to her Favorite Demographic of The Hour]! Nyah!" that the comment quoted above doesn't even ping me at all.


Allyson - May 08, 2008 8:51:10 am PDT #5607 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'm planning on waiting for my security deposit, and if it's anything less than my money, sending a PDF of my lease and last 6 utility bills, and asking if they'd also like the video of my ceiling caving in and filthy water pouring into my tub.

Ultimate revenge?

Selling new book with whole chapter on their suckitude.


Aims - May 08, 2008 8:55:01 am PDT #5608 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

When did you move out, Allyson. I'm sure you already know, being the smart woman you are, that they have 21 days to send you the list, otherwise you get all of it back, no matter what.

What asscakes they are.


Jesse - May 08, 2008 8:56:27 am PDT #5609 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

What asscakes they are.

Seriously.


brenda m - May 08, 2008 8:58:17 am PDT #5610 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

One more thing on the Clinton thing - her language made it so much worse, but I do strongly object to what I think she was trying to do. Her line is that this white working class group supports her and that that support is growing - okay. But what I think she's trying to do there is put fear in the minds of Democrats everywhere that if you put a black man up there the working class whites are going to fuck you. It's not race baiting, exactly, and it's really more offensive to the working class whites she's talking about when you get right down to it. But it's meant to play on our suspicions of each other, to convince us that the notion of a society - and a politics - that tries to change for the better is some kind of dangerous illusion. And it's this kind of insidious argument that has me so impatient for her to drop the fuck out already.

(Which, I noticed at lunch, is actually the full-page headline of the Sun Times today. Cleaned up a little, anyway.) [link]


Glamcookie - May 08, 2008 9:00:42 am PDT #5611 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I'm trying to convince my SiL to send my smarty pants niece to pre-school (she's 3 and super smart). Can anyone point me to literature to send her way extolling the virtues of pre-school?


Steph L. - May 08, 2008 9:01:41 am PDT #5612 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

But does this sound as bad others as it does to me?

Yes, it does. And for the first time in this campaign, I'm sorry that I voted for her in the primary.

As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again,

So his support is now among the lazy, shiftless, black welfare queens?

I don't believe for a second that she misspoke, just as I don't believe that Obama misspoke back when he made that sexist "periodically when she's feeling down" comment about her.

It's just that....damn, Hillary's comment sounds so much worse than Obama's did, because his comment was only about her, and Hillary's comment is about a vast swath of Americans.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is what ends her campaign.


Steph L. - May 08, 2008 9:03:37 am PDT #5613 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

But what I think she's trying to do there is put fear in the minds of Democrats everywhere that if you put a black man up there the working class whites are going to fuck you. It's not race baiting, exactly

No, I'd call it exactly race-baiting.


Frankenbuddha - May 08, 2008 9:08:39 am PDT #5614 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

No, I'd call it exactly race-baiting.

Or more precisely, race-baiting AND class-baiting in two different directions. Two offenses for the price of one.


Gudanov - May 08, 2008 9:17:50 am PDT #5615 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

I don't see how it isn't over for Clinton, she'd have to pretty much have a really big win in every primary left and that's not going to happen. It's about time for Obama running mate speculation.