Here is Yet Another Way In Which I Am Like Sheldon:

On another Web site, someone posted, "Maybe I've been under a rock, but...what's the deal with bacon? I don't get it!"

And I actually replied, "What deal? There's a deal with bacon? It's...a food product made from pig, generally cooked and eaten with breakfast."

I truly had no idea what this person was asking, until Tim told me, "She's probably wondering why people seem to be apeshit about it, why there's t-shirts and bacon salt and baconaise and bacon band-aids and bacon car air fresheners." Honest and for true, I wouldn't have interpreted her post that way.

I should change my tagline to "There's a deal with bacon?"

Why people don't just say what they mean, I will never understand. t /Sheldon

I saw the episode when it aired and man - I hadn't remembered how slashy it was.

I saw the whole arc a few years ago when some cable channel was running it. It struck me as uber-slashy, but it may have been that I was a Buffista by then and could see it.

I do think it's one of those shows that was invented for slash goggles.

There's a deal with bacon?

I love this. It sends my brain to a beautiful "buy 3 slices of bacon, we'll throw in the fried egg for free!" place.

Okay, and at the risk of sounding stupid I have to ask about the passage Kat quoted above:

we cannot allow the hard left to do what it tried to do in 1995 after the Oklahoma City bombing,” he wrote.

What did the hard left do after the bombing? Demonize people who bomb federal buildings? Call McVeigh crazy? My memory doesn't recall the left generating a lot of political capital out of the bombing.

Plei, she commented on my fb a couple of times this afternoon

Thanks, amych. I was concerned when I hadn't seen her pixels that through some unlikely fluke chance, her political involvement had taken her to Tuscon today.

Before I start yelling at people on the internets, have there been political assassinations or national news murders that were thought to be because of politically left tenor at the time. Whether or not the killers were actually motivated by it or not.

Like, was it thought that anti-Reagan liberals has triggered that assassination attempt?

I don't recall any of that sort of thing. I mean, it was far enough away from the 60s/early 70s that I don't think most people lept to that conclusion. In fact, we seemed to forget that we did have homebred terrorists until Oklahoma City.

Before I start yelling at people on the internets, have there been political assassinations or national news murders that were thought to be because of politically left tenor at the time. Whether or not the killers were actually motivated by it or not.

Maybe in Europe. Like Baader Meinhof was left. But be careful anyway, because one friend of this guy says he was actually very liberal.

Weather Underground. SLA. Jonestown, possibly.

Second double post today. Dunno why.