Scrappy, I'm going to the BAFTA/Press night of that show. I can't wait!!

Saturday morning, I'm hosting a play date for the kids.

Saturday night, I'm participating in an unplugged trivia contest. No google, no computers, cell phones or pdas of any kind. Just a bunch of people at a table with their brains.

Huh.

Andrew Sullivan wonders what the hell gay marriage has to do with socialism: The Latest Insanity

So a reader points out that the far-right has been linking socialism/communism to all sorts of stuff for a long time: The Latest Insanity, Ctd

Note the 50 year old photo of a bunch of white protesters holding signs linking "race mixing" to communism.

The reader says:

Of course they are screaming 'socialism'. They've been doing that since the 50s at least. They're not talking about economic redistribution of wealth - they never have been. They've been talking about redistribution of privilege this whole time. They called MLK a communist because he wanted blacks to have the same rights as whites, and to them that was a redistribution of the privilege that whites had 'earned'.

eta:

This picture shows they were pushing the same buttons half a century ago that they are today. Anti-christ, communism - it's all the same as it is today and is well known code. It's why the protesters will decry socialism today but wouldn't have under Bush - it's all tied to race and other social objectives and has nothing really to do with taxation, deficits, and big government. You probably missed it when you came to the US, but this is pretty old game - particularly to guys like Carter that grew up around it.

Now we just need a photo of Dean Winchester eating one.

Would it be with or without olive spread (and/or cilantro).

Definitely with olive spread, as I see being able to refer to it as a muffaletta being a crucual component in getting Dean to try a vegetarian sandwich in the first place.

Definitely with olive spread, as I see being able to refer to it as a muffaletta being a crucual component in getting Dean to try a vegetarian sandwich in the first place.

Wait, I thought a muffaletta had some kind of cold cuts on it?

THUS the outrage over a vegan one.

And it is not an "olive spread" is it? it's an "olive salad", right?

Last heir to the Ottoman Empire dies, age 97.

Apparently he lived in a 2-br walk-up on the UES with his twelve dogs. I had no idea the heir to the Ottoman Empire was less than 30 blocks from my office!

[eta: Wow, rent-controlled too! And he'd lived there since 1945 - I wonder what his rent would have been.]

I have never eaten a muffaletta. I probably never will. Thus, I have no opinions about muffalettas. Does this mean I can't be a Buffista anymore?

Oh wait, I do! To wit: "That looks gross. I'm not eating it."

Love this idea:

I want every uninsured man and woman who comes down with swine flu to go sit in the waiting rooms of their elected representatives.

That's it. Just sit there - coughing. Throwing your used Kleenex in their trash receptacles. If they want us to suffer, they should have to look at at the logical consequences of their inaction. Tell them you're going to keep coming back until they manage to pass something that's actually going to help people instead of lining the pockets of the insurance companies.

If the weather gets cold, set up a tent in the parking lot, put a sign on it that says "Waiting Room: Waiting for Affordable Health Care." Set up your lawn chairs and invite everyone who passes to sit there with you. Be sure to call your local media.