ok, so today - announced layoff of 42,000?!?!? I grewup in a town of about 4,200, so yeah. My college about 9,000 undergraduates (across three schools). The builings on my full block house approx 1100 people (kids included), so like every person in 38 full blocks!?!??! Trying to wrap my head around the numbers.
Ten percent of nothing is -- let me do the math here -- nothing into nothing, carry the --
Jayne ,'Serenity'
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.
msbelle - Jan 26, 2009 8:30:11 am PST #3624 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Trudy Booth - Jan 26, 2009 8:47:11 am PST #3625 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
No, that's true, Trudy, but I do think where he chooses to act and when is illustrative. And while I don't claim to know Benedict's true stance on the Holocaust, they do seem to line up with him on some other fairly odious thinking.
Yes. Oh yes. I do think its telling, I just didn't want to overstate, you know? I feel like hyperbole can be particularly harmful to useful discourse when the response can be "you're being bigoted against _________."
( I don't think you're being bigoted. And I think the notion of "Anti-Catholic bigotry" is almost always absurd when it comes to contemporary America. I just hate to give Bill Donohue and his ilk their soundbites pre-made.)
Pushy Yanks saved themselves on Titanic
Talk about your breaking news stories!
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2009 8:49:33 am PST #3626 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I swear, I'm never going to work again.
I'm killing time in the library while my car gets smogged by doing what? Surfing the web.
Sheesh. Read a book, woman.
Instead of using a browser that parses the URLs and refuses to go to any site that doesn't start with www. Hello. www is so 2001.
Burrell - Jan 26, 2009 9:16:26 am PST #3627 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Happy birthday, Frisco!
erikaj - Jan 26, 2009 9:19:59 am PST #3628 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
JenP, thanks for enjoying my catty gum remark. The posters on a board I used to hang out in did not so much. They took my irreverence for disrespect.
Jessica - Jan 26, 2009 9:29:25 am PST #3629 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
sumi - Jan 26, 2009 10:17:30 am PST #3630 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
What date was the comic?
(Because I was sent to one about being a woman.)
ETA: saw punchline, couldn't find alt text.
Daisy Jane - Jan 26, 2009 10:25:18 am PST #3631 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I was listening to BBC last night and my understanding of the Holocaust denier bishop fiasco is that there was a group of bishops who were ordained (?) without the blessing of the pope, and so they were excommunicated..
This pope is trying to bring all the-I don't know what you call them- renegade sects? back into the fold. So, he wholesale welcomed this particular group back without knowing the holocaust denier's beliefs.
Connie Neil - Jan 26, 2009 10:25:30 am PST #3632 of 30000
brillig
You put your mouse over the comic and get a box with more text. The text today is about the inauguration, but I don't get the connection with being a woman either.
Connie Neil - Jan 26, 2009 10:26:50 am PST #3633 of 30000
brillig
I figure the pope is being more concerned with managing Catholics than worrying about what the rest of the world is thinking.