Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Stephanie - Oct 18, 2009 6:14:16 pm PDT #26981 of 30000
Trust my rage

But the way that people will vote and act so entirely against their own interests when they're barely scraping by as is?

Someone told me once that people do this because it makes them feel wealthier/more affluent even if it clearly is against their interest.

My parents have friends, family of four, who currently have NO health insurance. But the are opposed to any health reform. I don't know why but it's 100% aganst their interest. Oh, but they don't mind moving to Canada and using their healthcare. Totally nuts, I think.


Burrell - Oct 18, 2009 6:24:13 pm PDT #26982 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh, but they don't mind moving to Canada and using their healthcare.

!??! So they are OK with Canadian taxes, just not US?


Stephanie - Oct 18, 2009 6:34:05 pm PDT #26983 of 30000
Trust my rage

I know. It made NO sense. I asked my dad the same question but he couldn't answer either.


-t - Oct 18, 2009 6:35:32 pm PDT #26984 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That way they wouldn't destroy the Canadian way of life, which is already a lost cause, anyway?


brenda m - Oct 18, 2009 6:37:03 pm PDT #26985 of 30000
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

Taxes other people pay are not the same thing.


Steph L. - Oct 18, 2009 7:01:12 pm PDT #26986 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

For Teppy.

That's an excellent capper to my weekend! I will toddle off to bed with visions of semi-colons dancing in my head.


Barb - Oct 18, 2009 7:11:23 pm PDT #26987 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

Normally, I hate most beer commercials, but I just saw the best Miller Lite commercial. Totally mocks the eHarmony commercials and does so, so convincingly, I totally bought it up until the end when the guy holds up the beer bottle.


Hil R. - Oct 18, 2009 7:18:54 pm PDT #26988 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'm watching a silly Hallmark Channel movie and the tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold character has a tattoo of a bar code on the back of his neck. I've seen those a few times before. Does it signify something, or is it just something that's popular for no particular reason?


Pix - Oct 18, 2009 7:22:03 pm PDT #26989 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.

Health~ma for DH, Connie.

Hello, all. I slept all day today AGAIN but finally got some work done tonight. I have a lot more to do, but at least I'm not going into work completely unprepared, which was what I had begun to fear.


DCJensen - Oct 18, 2009 8:12:31 pm PDT #26990 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.

From a tatoo site:

The use of the barcode as a tattoo design is meant to be ironical, a warning that if we are not careful as a culture, we are all in danger of becoming products ourselves. A barcode tattoo is also a protest against a culture where it seems that everyone wears the same clothes, listens to the same music and uses the same products. A barcode tattoo is a statement against a culture of commodities and a celebration of diversity and the uniqueness of the individual.