This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.

Buffy ,'Potential'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Kathy A - Jan 28, 2010 7:43:08 am PST #4590 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Wow--the Art Institute of Chicago will have free admission the entire month of February!


Kat - Jan 28, 2010 7:45:42 am PST #4591 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Aimee, step away. People are stooopid and the internets magnifies the stoopid.

And I am totally a liberal bigot, mostly because everytime Newt/Rush et al open their mouths I think, "if you were (still) in charge it would be one more step to an idiocracy!"

Ah. I've had a day already. But I got to talk about Camus and the Pantheon and Sarkozy this morning.


smonster - Jan 28, 2010 7:47:14 am PST #4592 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

I'm trying not to respond to someone who insists that, if the statement "Jews have too much power" is antisemitic, then the statement "Whites have too much power" must be racist.

"You have too much access to the internet"

I was arguing with a friend who is deeply disappointed in Obama, but I think I'm coming around to his point of view.


Kathy A - Jan 28, 2010 7:52:18 am PST #4593 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Have any Chicagoans ever watched or participated in the Chitidarod? It's a great idea--teams of five people pull a grocery cart along a route through the city and, at the finish line, have to have at least 40 pounds of food in the cart for food pantries. The rules page is very fun to read:

The Chiditarod is Chicago's very own most important shopping cart race in the universe. The Iditarod is the famous long-distance race in which yelping dogs tow a sled across Alaska. Chiditarod is pretty much the same thing, except that instead of dogs, it's people; instead of sleds, it's shopping carts; and instead of Alaska, it's Chicago. Chiditarod is a one-of-a-kind event dedicated to self-expression, reclaiming our city for freaks of all varieties, food-raising for our city's disadvantaged, and creating copious amounts of epic.


Jessica - Jan 28, 2010 7:58:40 am PST #4594 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

My favorite is the people who keep harping on Obama's use of the teleprompter as the secret to his eloquence.

You mean he plans out what to say in advance????

t innocence crumbles

"You have too much access to the internet"

FTW!


Amy - Jan 28, 2010 7:59:32 am PST #4595 of 30001
Because books.

You mean he plans out what to say in advance????

I have to admit it was weird to see that he had one when he spoke to that sixth-grade class the other day. Do they all do that?


Jesse - Jan 28, 2010 8:02:16 am PST #4596 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Pretty much everyone I've ever worked for wouldn't speak before any size group without a script, and I can see preferring the teleprompter to notecards, if you can get one! Which he can.


Jessica - Jan 28, 2010 8:02:42 am PST #4597 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have to admit it was weird to see that he had one when he spoke to that sixth-grade class the other day.

That was awkward - I think he'd have been better off making the speech in the auditorium to the whole school and maybe having a photo-op Q&A in the classroom afterwards.


Kat - Jan 28, 2010 8:03:39 am PST #4598 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Which he can.

Cause he IS the president.

But 6th graders?

Then again, I can see it now "Is the President smarter than a 6th grader?"


Kat - Jan 28, 2010 8:08:54 am PST #4599 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Also, randomly, since I had black tea today and am wired on caffeine....

I feel really strongly that all of the people 6 years ago who were waving the flag of "you're anti-patriotic" need to be called on the carpet for their b.s. about not supporting Obama. Like it or not, he is the president. Disagree with him sure. But a hitler mustache or a joker make up job is just so....I don't know... disrespectful.

His office should be owed an iota of respect and that just seems to not be happening.

I want someone on the right to be Ainsley Hayes (Haynes?)!