Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Yeah, if the party is at a club or a bar or something, I can see paying a cover charge. It would be weird (to me) for a party at a house, though.
True story- my friend's (the male half of the newly pregnant couple mentioned earlier) first in-laws threw his and his first wife's reception at a venue with a cover. They (my friend and his then-wife) were mortified.
These are not common? Maybe it's a regional/black/age thing, but I've been aware of them for a while. Never cared to go to one, though. And certainly not this one.
They were pretty common when I was younger, like college age to mid-twenties. I wouldn't raise a brow at it then, but if it was people my age that would different.
As long as we're talking about ignorant bloviators, this came up elsewhere: Glenn Beck is Prothero [link]
OK, I'll shut up about Palin... after this:
She says right-wing violent rhetoric does not incite people to violence. But accusing someone of inciting violence can incite violence.
She saved her harshest words for "media and pundits," whom she said "should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the hatred and violence that they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible."
The term when I was growing up "house party". In Olympia we have something called a "Secret Cafe" which is house party thrown to raise money for a good cause. This being Olympia, it is either an Olympia specific terms, or really old slang Olympia is just picking up now.
So, which is it? Dumbass. (Why am I looking for logic, the only speech that matters to Sarah Palin is about Sarah Palin.)
She says right-wing violent rhetoric does not incite people to violence. But accusing someone of inciting violence can incite violence.
I doubt she even realized that that's what she was saying.
I've heard things like pay parties when I was in university. Usually it was something like, "$10, all the beer you can drink."
"$10, all the beer you can drink."
See, we didn't say that, because we could not legally sell beer. So we sold cups for the beer. And of course, you couldn't bring your own cup.
My guess is that the motivation for the Giffords shooting will not be easily placed into "crazy" or political. It is true that the vast majority of mentally ill people are non-violent. It is also true that a small percentage engage in violence for various reasons. Those who have a mental illness are absolutely influenced by the the culture around them. And we no longer have a mental health system that functions.
Shorter: Was Jared Lougher mentally ill, stupid, or political? Most likely, yes.
Whether or not there is ever definitive proof that Lougher was specifically influenced by Tea Party rhetoric, they sure as shit are playing with fire, and must bear responsibility for their deliberate cultivation of not just a culture of fear, but violent rebellion.
Interesting parallel drawn between the current spate of violent rhetoric and that of the racist South: [link]