Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.

'Potential'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

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.


tommyrot - Jan 19, 2009 10:28:03 am PST #1953 of 30000
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 Laugh Out Loud Guide to the SAT

The Laugh Out Loud Guide: Ace the SAT Exam without Boring Yourself to Sleep! uses comedy to prepare students for the dreaded SAT. Here are a few sample questions. How would you do?

1. Yo Momma so _______, when you mail her a letter, you need two zip codes.

(A) diaphanous
(B) luminous
(C) ravenous
(D) grisly
(E) corpulent


Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2009 10:29:03 am PST #1954 of 30000
brillig

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PeteSeeger2.jpg

I had no CLUE Pete Seeger was that old! The picture in the link is from 1944, performing for Eleanor Roosevelt as a "noted folk singer"! I thought he was standard issue 60's era folkie, age-wise. IE, radicalized 20-something heir-of-Woody-Guthrie, not fellow-of-Woody-Guthrie.


lisah - Jan 19, 2009 10:32:21 am PST #1955 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

And there is a big part of me that likes Obama very much *specifically* because I LOVE his kick-ass wife.

I swear she was cheered as loudly if not more loudly in Wilmington than he was. And then we all sang her Happy Birthday. It was a beautiful moment.


Emily - Jan 19, 2009 10:32:56 am PST #1956 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Born 1919, it says. Holy cow! Yeah, I always assumed he was much... Bob Seger, that's who I sometimes mix him up with. Even still, though. He was in his 50s in the 60s.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 19, 2009 10:32:57 am PST #1957 of 30000
"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

My favorite Cheney headline wasn't an Onion one, but was in similar vein: Cheney to Join Wolfram & Hart

My impression of Obama's stance on LGBT issues is that he's generally inclusive and will push for things like a repeal of DADT and legally equivalent civil unions where pragmatic fair treatment issues are raised, but that religious hangups about the word "marriage" will keep him silent about DOMA and Proposition 8-style legislation. I'll settle for tangible gains, as him not wanting to admit that a legally equivalent civil union is in fact a marriage in name as well will count for diddly-squat if we actually have all the legal rights associated with marriage.


Emily - Jan 19, 2009 10:36:41 am PST #1958 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I just don't get all this "unchanged for thousands of years" rhetoric about the meaning of marriage. Who's the genius who came up with this piece of bullshit, and why is everyone hopping on board? NOTHING about human culture has been unchanged for thousands of years, including women's role in the family, "personal" relationships with god, and, um, you get the point!

Okay, that was tangential. Sorry. I think Matt's post is well-reasoned and I think I agree with him.


Jessica - Jan 19, 2009 10:37:24 am PST #1959 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

religious hangups about the word "marriage" will keep him silent about DOMA and Proposition 8-style legislation.

He said more than once during the campaign that he opposed Prop 8.


Steph L. - Jan 19, 2009 10:38:28 am PST #1960 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

And I'm of the mind that it's the woman's right to choose all by her damned self.

Me, too.

But at the end of the day, speaking only for myself, I can't fault him for putting it in terms that were more likely to get him elected, nor do I think that choosing to do so was a sneaky way of undermining women's rights or tromping all over the separation of church and state.

YpoliticalinterpretationMV


Jesse - Jan 19, 2009 10:41:47 am PST #1961 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I just don't get all this "unchanged for thousands of years" rhetoric about the meaning of marriage. Who's the genius who came up with this piece of bullshit, and why is everyone hopping on board?

Especially bible-based people! I mean, really.

I can't get into the other stuff.


§ ita § - Jan 19, 2009 10:45:38 am PST #1962 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

He said more than once during the campaign that he opposed Prop 8.

Laga said in Bitches that she was robocalled by his side to vote for it.