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Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'

Natter 62: The 62nd Natter

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Fred Pete - Dec 30, 2008 4:52:40 am PST #8517 of 10002

Ann, that's a ferret.

"Katrina to me was the tipping point," said Matthew Dowd, Bush's pollster and chief strategist for the 2004 presidential campaign. "The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn't matter. P.R.? It didn't matter. Travel? It didn't matter."

I wouldn't call it "breaking a bond," but I agree that Katrina was a tipping point. It wasn't so much a lack of capacity to talk to the American public -- more that, after Katrina, America no longer wanted to hear what he had to say.

Barb - Dec 30, 2008 5:15:45 am PST #8518 of 10002

“Not dead yet!”

Puppy picspam. [link]

This is how they're currently sitting. By my desk. My foot is under there somewhere.

tommyrot - Dec 30, 2008 5:18:25 am PST #8519 of 10002

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Pile o' puppies!

Kat - Dec 30, 2008 5:22:15 am PST #8520 of 10002

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Barb! I was cleaning out my desk and found a packet of letters for you that I never sent. of course, now I can't find your address. Can you please e it to me? msgullo at gmail dot com. Thanks!

Gudanov - Dec 30, 2008 5:24:35 am PST #8521 of 10002

Coding and Sleeping

My uncle just became my friend on Facebook. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

I have too many categories of people in Facebook, I'd like it if FB had group level access control.

Gudanov - Dec 30, 2008 5:30:39 am PST #8522 of 10002

Coding and Sleeping

Sorry to hear about your job Shir.

Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 30, 2008 5:37:05 am PST #8523 of 10002

"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

Dude, Jesus was WAY cool.

I love it that he was exactly the kind of person his most vociferous followers would condemn as a bleeding-heart Dirty Hippie these days.

Whenever my mom gets snotty about people wearing less than Sunday best to church, I fire back with "So Jesus had a dress code for the lepers, beggars, and whores he ministered to, did he?"

tommyrot - Dec 30, 2008 5:54:08 am PST #8524 of 10002

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Hilarious & Crazy Signage, Part 12

My fave is the sign that says "Dog Crossing" with another sign below it that says:

Old Dog
Young Dog
Several Stupid Dogs
Please Drive Slowly

Also the "Please No Defecating on Subway" sign. (The CTA could use such a sign, based on one experience I had.)

Tom Scola - Dec 30, 2008 6:00:06 am PST #8525 of 10002

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

The CTA could use such a sign, based on one experience I had.

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Jesse - Dec 30, 2008 6:03:36 am PST #8526 of 10002

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am in love with "No vague malaise/No epic complaints."

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