Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.

'Out Of Gas'


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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.


Gudanov - Oct 20, 2008 11:26:56 am PDT #5552 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

The county prosecutor in my (Ohio) county is trying to quarantine (and therefore not count) ~600 ballots cast by people who registered and voted the same day, due to claims of voter fraud.

Interestingly, that county prosecutor? Also happens to be the southwest Ohio regional chairman of the McCain campaign.

I think purges of voter rolls will be a key factor in this election, there are so many close swing states.


flea - Oct 20, 2008 11:28:27 am PDT #5553 of 10001
information libertarian

Actual quote from one high school classmate to another, "You live in a Turkey?"


tommyrot - Oct 20, 2008 11:31:28 am PDT #5554 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 think purges of voter rolls will be a key factor in this election, there are so many close swing states.

Yeah, that's what this country needs - a bitterly contested election.


amych - Oct 20, 2008 11:32:48 am PDT #5555 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Actual quote from one high school classmate to another, "You live in a Turkey?"

I was completely disgusted when I heard that my step-grandmother was going to be in grease for two weeks. But then, I was six at the time.


Fred Pete - Oct 20, 2008 11:33:16 am PDT #5556 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Yeah, that's what this country needs - a bitterly contested election.

Too late -- things are already bitter.


tommyrot - Oct 20, 2008 11:35:38 am PDT #5557 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.

Too late -- things are already bitter.

Yeah, but not bitterly contested. That'll probably wait until after the voting....


sarameg - Oct 20, 2008 11:35:44 am PDT #5558 of 10001

Considering I've run into people in this country who fail to grasp that I am a citizen as I came from New Mexico, I'm a little easier on those who might miss the factuality of Bohemia. Raises an eyebrow, but just warrants a gentle correction.

Hell, with the -stans, half the time my brain goes wait,wait! Now is that a real one or fictional?! And I studied the frmr USSR and was totally obsessed with its splintering. And I used to have them memorized. My brain is holey cheese.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 20, 2008 11:36:38 am PDT #5559 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

To be fair, authors like Agatha Christie kept making up small Eastern European countries. I think.

My cat is yowling! I thought it was because I forgot to feed her this am (I found the food in the microwave), but she is still yowling. Also, I am so absentminded lately. Yesterday I fed her, but put Saran Warp on the dish, instead of the can in the fridge. And last week I (TMI alert,more appropriate in Bitches) although funny)

accidently inserted 2 tampons because

I forgot about the first one!


Jesse - Oct 20, 2008 11:38:27 am PDT #5560 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I was completely disgusted when I heard that my step-grandmother was going to be in grease for two weeks. But then, I was six at the time.

Hahahaha!!!


tommyrot - Oct 20, 2008 11:40:31 am PDT #5561 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.

It's hard to keep track of all the bullshit happening right now. Did ya hear that Fox has hired Judy Miller?

Fox Glibly Excuses Judy Miller's Past Indiscretions

In today's Howard Kurtz column, which teases Fox News' acquisition of Miss Run Amok (aka Judith Miller), Fox's Senior VP John Moody explains away all of that...stuff...from the past. My favorite part is this little bit of gloss on the ol' cost of doin' business:

"She has a very impressive resume...We've all had stories that didn't come out exactly as we had hoped."

Yyyyeah. In other words, no one at Fox can claim that their furtive manipulations of the medium have always generated the partisan outcomes they'd hope to engineer. In this one case, however, Judy Miller did succeed. And Fox is big enough not to blame her for the thousands of potential viewers who are dead because of it.