But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?

Fred ,'Smile Time'


Natter 61*  

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.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 28, 2008 8:05:44 am PDT #1107 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I swear, if I was a woman in high political office in this country, regardless of party, I'd be planning to make Sarah Palin disappear. Some of those women, they know how to dispose of bodies, I'm sure.

While the woman herself is blatantly unqualified, I'd bet that the Secret Service agents assigned to protect her are not. (Hey! There's one government department Bush didn't fill with incompetent cronies! What a coincidence...) Better if they make her disappear in a metaphorical, washed-up-career sense.


Steph L. - Sep 28, 2008 8:29:21 am PDT #1108 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

And yet... so many women in this country "relate to her." And that this is what the rest of the world is seeing-- that this incoherent yahoo is who a major party chooses to potentially be one heartbeat away from the highest office in the land. It makes me want to absolutely weep.

I honestly don't think that Palin, when the votes are tallied, will have have garnered McCain any votes he didn't already have sewn up. I don't think that undecided voters are swinging her way, because she's IGNANT. I don't think that disenchanted Hillary voters are willing to vote for a candidate who has only ONE thing in common with them -- having a factory-installed vagina.

The people who "relate to her" were already going to vote for the creepy old guy anyway. I'm sure of it.


Allyson - Sep 28, 2008 8:30:44 am PDT #1109 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

Steph is me.


Liese S. - Sep 28, 2008 8:36:39 am PDT #1110 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Someone is driving slowly around our neighborhood and just parked on our cul-de-sac for twenty minutes. They're Sunday morning driving around looking at real estate, right? Not crazed stalkers who are casing my house and are going to load up my instruments and dog in their white SUV?

Okay, good.


Barb - Sep 28, 2008 8:38:29 am PDT #1111 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

Remember what we were saying about "end times" yesterday?

Check out Nos. 19 and 23

No, this isn't a basketball poll

I'm not sure we would have ever seen the day when my husband's alma mater was in the football poll and mine wasn't.


Barb - Sep 28, 2008 8:41:22 am PDT #1112 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

The people who "relate to her" were already going to vote for the creepy old guy anyway. I'm sure of it.

Yeah, but it's just disheartening how many there are. That once it became clear how utterly unprepared and basically, useless she was, that instead of backing away and hissing, women were going "Oh, she's just darling-- she'll be fine. They're just trying to trip her up, those media meanies."

Or it could be that I'm depressed because more Old Shit and Twit signs have mushroomed in my neighborhood in the past week.


Cashmere - Sep 28, 2008 9:34:54 am PDT #1113 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Some moron on my local moms message board tried the "Palin has more experience than Obama" line this week, as well as basically saying, "Obama has only voted 'prsent' while in the Senate" so he's not that impressive. I hate feeling like I want to eviscerate someone.

I can't see how someone could logically look at her resume and think that she could do the job. I swear, it's scary.


Sue - Sep 28, 2008 9:37:30 am PDT #1114 of 10001
hip deep in pie

Somehow, my two conflicting social plans both fell thorugh today. I am also exhausted and PMSing today, so all plans requiring me to to put on outdoor pants have been put in the fail! pile. Tonight possible tropical storm. A blah day all around.

Yesterday great however, my friend got married (Christine to the four Buffistas that met her.) and because her caterer fell through a week ago, I ended up helping out with getting the food together. (Just plating and heating up prepared things.) The wedding itself was lovely, at an Old Mill, and with a bluegrass band present. Highlight of the ceremony, as the bride pulled up in the car, the band started playing a bluegrass version of the Imperial theme from Star Wars. At the bride's request. Hysterical!


Jesse - Sep 28, 2008 9:39:49 am PDT #1115 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Christine to the four Buffistas that met her.

Me! Right? Congrats to her!


aurelia - Sep 28, 2008 9:40:48 am PDT #1116 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

No, this isn't a basketball poll

Go Big 12!

Re: the SNL skit referenced above -- what REALLY gets me are the parts that are word-for-word from Palin's actual answers.

I just watched the whole Couric interview. I doubt SNL could have written anything more absurd than Palin's real answers. So why not just quote her directly? And SNL even passed on the dismissive "oh, you know... reporters."