Inara: Who's winning? Simon: I can't tell. They don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.

'Bushwhacked'


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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.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 07, 2008 5:40:34 am PST #9912 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Gee, Cash, way to make me WEEP. It was a touching and interesting story and I was tearing, but man, what a wallop in the end!


Steph L. - Nov 07, 2008 5:41:52 am PST #9913 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Gee, Cash, way to make me WEEP. It was a touching and interesting story and I was tearing, but man, what a wallop in the end!

I *just* finished reading it and was coming here to post the same thing. Damn.


Cashmere - Nov 07, 2008 5:42:48 am PST #9914 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Sorry, Sophia! But it came with a cry warning!

DH is taking his direct reports to an off-site team meeting. At the local brewery. They're taking the tour.


sumi - Nov 07, 2008 5:44:44 am PST #9915 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Fred Pete, that is my own criterion based on what is generally considered to be the main boomer experiences - and one is being born after WWII when your daddy comes back from the war.

Also - being in HS and college in the 60s - early 70s.

My parents were b. during the Great Depression and were kids during WWII and were in traditional college students in the mid-to-late 50s. They were tweeners and so am I.


JZ - Nov 07, 2008 5:50:32 am PST #9916 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Gee, Cash, way to make me WEEP. It was a touching and interesting story and I was tearing, but man, what a wallop in the end!

I couldn't get in. Does buffistas have a login at the Post?


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 07, 2008 5:53:32 am PST #9917 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

If McCain had campaigned the way Obama did, it would have been a close race.

Up until the economic downturn, it was a close race. I really think being linked to the mortgage/Wall Street crisis did him a lot more damage than picking Palin as a running mate, since she seems to have drawn nearly as many people out from under rocks and bridgesof revivals and survivalist compounds as she drove leftwards of the middle.


tommyrot - Nov 07, 2008 6:00:37 am PST #9918 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.

Up until the economic downturn, it was a close race. I really think being linked to the mortgage/Wall Street crisis did him a lot more damage than picking Palin as a running mate

A somewhat contrary view: Did Lehman Kill McCain?

That's the partisan Republican spin on the dreadful McCain campaign. Krauthammer makes the case this morning:

The patient was fatally stricken on Sept. 15 -- caught in the rubble when the roof fell in (at Lehman Brothers, according to the police report) -- although he did linger until his final, rather quiet demise on Nov. 4. In the excitement and decisiveness of Barack Obama's victory, we forget that in the first weeks of September, John McCain was actually ahead. Then Lehman collapsed, and the financial system went off a cliff.

The data do not support this thesis. McCain was behind for almost all of the campaign, apart from a brief post-convention bump. Here's the Pollster graph for the period in question:

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You will note that McCain's slide began September 7, a week before Krauthammer claims; and Obama's re-surge began September 9. Pollster's polls are smoothed out, but the turning point was well before Lehman, and correlates with the disastrous Couric Gibson-Palin interview.

All along, the clear line for McCain was always down, and only the convention period - when people were still under the temporary illusion that Sarah Palin was a credible, rather than a farcical, candidate - gave McCain any hope.


brenda m - Nov 07, 2008 6:02:56 am PST #9919 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

You guys, he's here again. All this fascinating stuff with the transition and the cabinet picks and the glavin, it's going down right here.

The only question is how many excuses I can come up with to wander through the lobby before someone (like, say, secret service) notices.


Jesse - Nov 07, 2008 6:05:03 am PST #9920 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You guys, he's here again. All this fascinating stuff with the transition and the cabinet picks and the glavin, it's going down right here.

Oh man.


Gudanov - Nov 07, 2008 6:05:24 am PST #9921 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Can you feel the extra hope in the building?