I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

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.


Burrell - Aug 13, 2009 2:20:52 pm PDT #3732 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I think so.

It fits anyway.

I think I am going to have my students write on health care reform for their research papers. I did it last fall with the election, had students write research papers on issues taken from the election. My stipulation was they had to be research, not polemics. It went really well.


Hil R. - Aug 13, 2009 2:21:49 pm PDT #3733 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

My mother is pretty wary of health care reform, but it's not because she thinks that it's not needed, but because nothing has yet convinced her that it'll make anything better. She says that every time there's been something done to fix health care, it's just made things worse. Also, she's definitely wary of any kind of change, because change in the system will mean change in which of her medicines and doctors and procedures get paid for, and pretty much every time her insurance coverage has changed, there's been something that was suddenly way too expensive, and the supposedly equivalent replacement ended up reacting with one of her other meds, and started a chain reaction where switching that one med ended up with having to change ten others.


Burrell - Aug 13, 2009 2:22:27 pm PDT #3734 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

What he actually did was use sock puppets to talk down the value of the Wild Oats Co-Op's stock, so Whole Foods could take it over more cheaply.

Oh yeah! I remembered it having something to do with trying to take over Wild Oats.


Polter-Cow - Aug 13, 2009 2:26:16 pm PDT #3735 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

What he actually did was use sock puppets to talk down the value of the Wild Oats Co-Op's stock, so Whole Foods could take it over more cheaply.

Wow. That's both evil and brilliant.


amych - Aug 13, 2009 2:27:56 pm PDT #3736 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

What he actually did was use sock puppets to talk down the value of the Wild Oats Co-Op's stock, so Whole Foods could take it over more cheaply.

Also the same guy who's been a well-known union-buster for a good 20 years. Employees are happier with high-fives, stagnant wages, and being "persuaded" to downgrade their health benefits, dontchaknow.


Sean K - Aug 13, 2009 2:29:57 pm PDT #3737 of 30001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

My mother is pretty wary of health care reform, but it's not because she thinks that it's not needed, but because nothing has yet convinced her that it'll make anything better. She says that every time there's been something done to fix health care, it's just made things worse. Also, she's definitely wary of any kind of change, because change in the system will mean change in which of her medicines and doctors and procedures get paid for, and pretty much every time her insurance coverage has changed, there's been something that was suddenly way too expensive, and the supposedly equivalent replacement ended up reacting with one of her other meds, and started a chain reaction where switching that one med ended up with having to change ten others.

All fairly reasonable, rational and reality-based concerns. I promise not to stab your mother with a rusty pen.


msbelle - Aug 13, 2009 2:40:56 pm PDT #3738 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I have my heat treatment machine and am using it for the first time. am very excited. what I need to be doing is getting my room is some sort of order so that we can actually sleep tonight. I can't manage 2 rooms so mac is just sleeping in my bed tonight.

Right now I can barely walk into the room because all the furniture is pushed into the middle of the room, along with plastic bags full of stuff. It's almost as if we were painting.


Burrell - Aug 13, 2009 2:51:46 pm PDT #3739 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Good luck with the rooms, msbelle. And the sleeping, I hope you get a good night's sleep tonight.

Wow. That's both evil and brilliant.

Well he got caught, so not as brilliant as you might think.


sarameg - Aug 13, 2009 3:39:35 pm PDT #3740 of 30001

Hoping for a good night, msbelle!

Loki is bedeviling Devi. Something funny about both being named after deities. A rumble in Asgard?


Sheryl - Aug 13, 2009 3:52:21 pm PDT #3741 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Came home this evening, and the power was out. (There is a pole down near our complex) G and I went out to dinner , and the power was back when we returned.

This is a good thing in many regards, including the fact that my parents are coming in tomorrow for the weekend, and we hadn't finished cleaning. Now we have.