Ooh, he "palled around with anarchists", right?
Populists.
Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven't.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Steph L. - Oct 17, 2008 11:29:25 am PDT #5147 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Toddson - Oct 17, 2008 11:30:11 am PDT #5148 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Loved the zoo baby pictures. I think - unusually enough - that the grown-up red pandas are cuter than the babies ... at least until they have their eyes open. And awwwww.
Tom Scola - Oct 17, 2008 11:32:57 am PDT #5149 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
William Jennings Bryan prosecuted the Scopes Monkey Trial, shortly before he passed away.
tommyrot - Oct 17, 2008 11:33:40 am PDT #5150 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.
For the first time ever, the Chicago Tribune endorses a Democrat for president: [link]
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This endorsement makes some history for the Chicago Tribune. This is the first time the newspaper has endorsed the Democratic Party's nominee for president.
The Tribune in its earliest days took up the abolition of slavery and linked itself to a powerful force for that cause--the Republican Party. The Tribune's first great leader, Joseph Medill, was a founder of the GOP. The editorial page has been a proponent of conservative principles. It believes that government has to serve people honestly and efficiently.
With that in mind, in 1872 we endorsed Horace Greeley, who ran as an independent against the corrupt administration of Republican President Ulysses S. Grant. (Greeley was later endorsed by the Democrats.) In 1912 we endorsed Theodore Roosevelt, who ran as the Progressive Party candidate against Republican President William Howard Taft.
The Tribune's decisions then were driven by outrage at inept and corrupt business and political leaders.
We see parallels today.
Aims - Oct 17, 2008 11:33:42 am PDT #5151 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Goddamn that Evolution.
Dana - Oct 17, 2008 11:35:15 am PDT #5152 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Czolgosz, who was more a wanna-be anarchist who just happened to be able to get close enough to McKinley to shoot him.
Czolgosz, working man, born in the middle of Michigan, woke with a thought and away he ran to the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo!
tommyrot - Oct 17, 2008 11:37:02 am PDT #5153 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.
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night
Kathy A - Oct 17, 2008 11:39:50 am PDT #5154 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I got this really great gun. No, it's really great. Wait! Anyway, it's just a .38, but, it's a gun. Even when you fail, it tells them who you are, where you stand...this one was on sale! It, no not the shoe, well, actually, the shoe was, too.
tommyrot - Oct 17, 2008 11:42:28 am PDT #5155 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.
The workers said to Casey, 'Won't you help us win this strike?'
But Casey said, 'Let me alone, you'd better take a hike!'
Then someone threw a bunch of railroad ties across the track
And Casey hit the river with and awful smack
tommyrot - Oct 17, 2008 11:55:09 am PDT #5156 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.
I just had a random thought - that I should take violin lessons. I've had this random thought before.
Hmmm.... where can one rent a violin, and for how much?
eta: Ooh. On eBay they have cheap "student" violins for $49....
eta²: Oh, student ones are smaller. But there are regular ones that are cheap too...