Commander's Palace today for brunch!!! Excited.

Law and Order: Animal Victims Unit

Sullivan on the assertion that both the extreme Right and extreme Left use violent rhetoric:

On Extreme Right And Left"

Here he quotes George Packer:

For the past two years, many conservative leaders, activists, and media figures have made a habit of trying to delegitimize their political opponents. Not just arguing against their opponents, but doing everything possible to turn them into enemies of the country and cast them out beyond the pale. Instead of “soft on defense,” one routinely hears the words “treason” and “traitor.” The President isn't a big-government liberal—he's a socialist who wants to impose tyranny. He's also, according to a minority of Republicans, including elected officials, an impostor. Even the reading of the Constitution on the first day of the 112th Congress was conceived as an assault on the legitimacy of the Democratic Administration and Congress.

This relentlessly hostile rhetoric has become standard issue on the right. (On the left it appears in anonymous comment threads, not congressional speeches and national T.V. programs.)

Okay, follow-up on my "What's the deal with bacon?" misunderstanding of last night. The person who asked that did so because she was at a party where people kept talking about bacon (within a conversation about all kinds of food), and she thought "bacon" was maybe code for some kinky sex act or something.

And I am not even kidding.

I feel so much better about my misunderstanding of her question.

Bacon is bacon, yo. And sometimes god.

But am I wrong in thinking it's way more overtly, consciously slashy than was common at that time?

Hmm. I don't know how far after Starsky and Hutch this was, but that show was also kind of insane. This is based only on the many vids I've seen, but I'm pretty sure shrift will back me up.

I don't know if anyone associated with Wiseguy has ever commented on how deliberate that subtext was.

Ooh, Nora, I bet it will be amazing. Please report back. I need to eat delicous brunch vicariously through you. (Since I have not much brunchy goodness in my kitchen right now.)

I'm pretty sure shrift will back me up.

I'm thinking that Wiseguy storyline was 1987-1988, and I think Starsky & Hutch ran from 1975 to 1979. Starsky & Hutch set a high bar for hurt/comfort and manly clutching (not to mention the cuddling), and they often dressed up as gay stereotypes and once slow-danced with each other in their captain's office, and it ended with a love triangle and Hutch climbing into Starsky's hospital bed, so...

Miami Vice was pretty darn slashy, too, circa 1984.

Bonanza was amazingly slashy.

I just tried on a dress I bought in July and it doesn't so much fit anymore. I am terribly dramatic about this sort of thing, but excuse me while I go leap off a cliff.

Additionally, I need to buy a floor-length formal dress that is also not strapless, and it seems like all the dresses that fit this criteria look like they were designed for people 20 years older than me. I understand that I need to dress conservatively on the ship, but... I also want to look my age.