I'm just popping in to say hello from the NCL Jewel. I've got another week out at sea with this ship and then I get to go home to Los Angeles for a week.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[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.
NoiseDesign - Feb 19, 2011 7:35:35 am PST #15823 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
smonster - Feb 19, 2011 8:29:26 am PST #15824 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Then they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
You know, I get this. I do. I believe and try to live it. But I just can't make myself care that those assholes are going to get their site hacked. I'm just going to savor my dish of schadenfreude with a side of mild guilt, and move on.
On a related note, I noted with some bitterness how much more widespread disapproval of the WBC became when they started picketing military funerals. First they came for the fags... (obviously not y'all. talking about the general public here.)
eta Hi ND! Smooth sailing to you!
beekaytee - Feb 19, 2011 8:55:03 am PST #15825 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I'm just going to savor my dish of schadenfreude with a side of mild guilt, and move on.
A choice I totally respect.
Trudy Booth - Feb 19, 2011 9:06:52 am PST #15826 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
Then they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
Yes, but ANONYMOUS aren't an unstopable government dragging WBC to death camps, they're a bunch of kids fucking up their website. Proportion matters, that's why Godwin's Law is so effective.
It's a nonviolent protest. Nonviolent matters in these things. Object away and think they're assholes if you do -- but there is a big difference between this behavior and causing or even risking bodily harm. An enormous difference.
§ ita § - Feb 19, 2011 9:44:04 am PST #15827 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's a nonviolent protest. Nonviolent matters in these things
Would you characterise theft as nonviolent? Defensible against WBC?
Excusing hacking because no one gets hurt in a campaign against people who aren't violent either seems a bit weird. Obviously a lot of damage can be done without physical harm. It's much of the point.
Laura - Feb 19, 2011 10:25:13 am PST #15828 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
waves to Bonny and other DCistas
Wow! It is crazy windy here. The National Christmas tree blew down. We drove through some kind a big wildfire on the way in from BWI. But we are settled in and happy to be visiting DC.
Hi, ND! My SIL wants a group of us to take a cruise together some time this spring. It has been quite a long time since I was on one.
I am having a bit of trouble summoning any sympathy for WBC. I do understand and agree that 2 wrongs don't make a right, and yet not running to defend them.
tommyrot - Feb 19, 2011 10:27:10 am PST #15829 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I am having a bit of trouble summoning any sympathy for WBC. I do understand and agree that 2 wrongs don't make a right, and yet not running to defend them.
Me too.
You know what'd be funny? If a group of gay atheist hackers defended the WBC from Anonymous.
NoiseDesign - Feb 19, 2011 10:39:27 am PST #15830 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Hi, ND! My SIL wants a group of us to take a cruise together some time this spring. It has been quite a long time since I was on one.
Come on the SpongeBob cruise in the Mediterranean this summer. Really, it will be great, trust me.
Ginger - Feb 19, 2011 10:44:21 am PST #15831 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Really, it will be great, trust me.
Will there be a "Beat Spongebob and His Friends into a Pulp" session?
Laura - Feb 19, 2011 10:48:21 am PST #15832 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I think I could even talk my sons into the SpongeBob cruise. Is this the one Pix is joining you on?