While I was watching it last night, I seriously thought he was going to say, "Shut the fuck up," but that wouldn't have been newsman-worthy, I guess.
Inara: You don't have to die alone. Mal: Everybody dies alone.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Kathy A - May 15, 2008 8:12:49 am PDT #6989 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Kristen - May 15, 2008 8:38:29 am PDT #6990 of 10001
The California Supreme Court has finally made its ruling:
Accordingly, in light of the conclusions we reach concerning the constitutional questions brought to us for resolution, we determine that the language of section 300 limiting the designation of marriage to a union "between a man and a woman" is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute, and that the remaining statutory language must be understood as making the designation of marriage available both to opposite-sex and same-sex couples.
Sue - May 15, 2008 8:40:37 am PDT #6991 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Accordingly, in light of the conclusions we reach concerning the constitutional questions brought to us for resolution, we determine that the language of section 300 limiting the designation of marriage to a union "between a man and a woman" is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute, and that the remaining statutory language must be understood as making the designation of marriage available both to opposite-sex and same-sex couples.
Yay!
brenda m - May 15, 2008 8:43:08 am PDT #6992 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
Whoa! And yay! And whoa!
ION please get me out of this meeting before I clock one of these fools.
tommyrot - May 15, 2008 8:47:06 am PDT #6993 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 does this mean that dogs and cats are going to be living together?
Also, Yay!
bon bon - May 15, 2008 8:49:49 am PDT #6994 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Oh, wow, that's great.
§ ita § - May 15, 2008 8:56:23 am PDT #6995 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So does this mean that dogs and cats are going to be living together?
And someone has sex with turtles, if memory serves.
Pix - May 15, 2008 9:06:52 am PDT #6996 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
YAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAY!!!
ETA: Box turtle link, complete with Jon Stewart chart and a correction about when it was actually used: [link]
tommyrot - May 15, 2008 9:15:01 am PDT #6997 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.
Andrew Sullivan sez:
Yes: the court just ruled for it - sixty years after California's court was the first to strike down miscegenation bans. The most populous state now joins much of the rest of the Western world in bringing gay couples into the civic and human family as equals.
Huh. I did not know about California striking down miscegenation bans....
Fred Pete - May 15, 2008 9:16:58 am PDT #6998 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Lawyers only need to hear two words about the CA decision: strict scrutiny. The rest follows from there.
Fred, do you think he should have gone after Cheney and the neocons as well?
More that the indignation at the end seemed geared to something of the level of the Abu Ghraib revelations. "I gave up golf" seemed more worthy of Bushed!, or possibly the lead item in the Special Comment that continues with the even more outrageous statements.
I also got the impression he checked himself and substituted "hell" for something else.