Rupert Murdoch can go burn in hell.
On the plus side: one less nine year old on Botox in San Francisco.
Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - May 19, 2011 7:17:42 am PDT #8805 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Consuela - May 19, 2011 7:21:57 am PDT #8806 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
On the plus side: one less nine year old on Botox in San Francisco.
Indeed. A friend of mine had a short story published in which she posited a modeling/acting school in which all the girls started botox at, like, 14. It's nice to know that's still fiction.
Kathy A - May 19, 2011 7:23:03 am PDT #8807 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Speaking of babies, a baby white-cheeked gibbon at the Lincoln Park Zoo takes his first wobbly steps.
erikaj - May 19, 2011 7:23:44 am PDT #8808 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
So sad about Jeff Conaway. Rupert Murdoch is, like, Hell's CFO.
tommyrot - May 19, 2011 7:50:35 am PDT #8809 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Legal rebuttal: "vade et caca in pilleum et ipse traheatur super aures tuo"
Eric Tukewitz, a New York lawblogger, was one of many, many people who wrote about a badly managed legal defense from an inexperienced lawyer representing an accused murderer. The defense was handled very badly, and resulted in a mistrial, and then observers remarked in depth on the website of Joseph Rakofsky, the inexperienced lawyer in question, and on the erroneous impression of vast experience that the website created.
Rakofsky has responded by suing everyone involved, from the Washington Post, who covered the story (in which they quote the judge in the case, remarking unfavorably on Rakofsky's legal prowess), to the American Bar Association, to the large number of lawbloggers who wrote about him.
Tukewitz is just one of the lawbloggers in question, but he's come up with a legal rebuttal to Rakofsky's suit, which he considers baseless: "vade et caca in pilleum et ipse traheatur super aures tuo," which, loosely translated, means "Go shit in a hat and pull it down over your ears" (lit., "go shit in a [knit] hat & let that same hat itself be pulled over your ears.").
amych - May 19, 2011 8:02:02 am PDT #8810 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Is gmail being fuckdiddly for anyone else today?
tommyrot - May 19, 2011 8:03:45 am PDT #8811 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It's OK for me.
Amy - May 19, 2011 8:04:48 am PDT #8812 of 30001
Because books.
It was weird for me the other day, but today seems fine so far.
amyth - May 19, 2011 8:07:10 am PDT #8813 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Fine for me so far today.
Kathy A - May 19, 2011 8:10:34 am PDT #8814 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Ooooh, the new library at the University of Chicago, designed by Helmut Jahn and really cool-looking.