"Isolated incident"!
You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.
Xander ,'Help'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Jesse - Apr 03, 2012 6:58:08 am PDT #29328 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse - Apr 03, 2012 6:58:22 am PDT #29329 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Of course, sumi.
askye - Apr 03, 2012 7:22:20 am PDT #29330 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
It's always an "isolated incident" or a "lone gunman" if it's right wing violence.
sumi - Apr 03, 2012 7:35:39 am PDT #29331 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
meara - Apr 03, 2012 7:45:58 am PDT #29332 of 30001
Cynically, I was actually surprised the whole "shooting at a Christian college" wasn't getting more news, in the "OMG WE ARE PERSECUTED" sort of way. I mean, I'm sure it did, on some sites, but not any of the ones I read.
The Santorum thing I've seen around, amusingly the first time I saw it was on Language Log, and they were trying to parse what he might've been about to say. Several people suggested "negotiations" or "negative" or something--something that would've been a few words or sentences later in the speech. Much as I'd like to believe he's a flat out racist (which, say, I DO believe about Gov Perry), I have to doubt that he uses the N-word commonly enough in speech to make him start to say that.
And the Planned Parenthood "incendiary device" or whatever just drives me nuts.
Burrell - Apr 03, 2012 7:56:28 am PDT #29333 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Cynically, I was actually surprised the whole "shooting at a Christian college" wasn't getting more news, in the "OMG WE ARE PERSECUTED" sort of way. I mean, I'm sure it did, on some sites, but not any of the ones I read.
Wasn't the shooter a student of the college who had recently dropped out? Still a terrible thing, don't get me wrong, but I don't think he was shooting them for being Christian.
tommyrot - Apr 03, 2012 7:59:40 am PDT #29334 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.
Amy - Apr 03, 2012 8:12:58 am PDT #29335 of 30001
Because books.
(Almost) all of the above is why I'm feeling the need for a media embargo soon. You guys will tell me if an asteroid is due to hit earth, right?
I assume if Clovis takes over, I'll get an email.
meara - Apr 03, 2012 8:20:31 am PDT #29336 of 30001
Wasn't the shooter a student of the college who had recently dropped out? Still a terrible thing, don't get me wrong, but I don't think he was shooting them for being Christian.
Yes, but since when do the facts get in the way of the outraged blogosphere?
Of course, I was just off rolling my eyes about Rick Santorum and his "California Universities don't even teach American History, it's EEEVIL!" thing.
smonster - Apr 03, 2012 8:58:53 am PDT #29337 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Smonster, do you have an iPhone? I've been using a free app called"Antimoustique" when I ramble around outside the apartment and haven't been bitten so far.
Huh, I might have to check that out.
Happy birthday, Tom!