Stay safe, Tom.
My DH will be at OWS this afternoon doing a teach-in on the arms trade treaty.
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
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.
Sparky1 - Nov 08, 2011 6:12:32 am PST #5355 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
le nubian - Nov 08, 2011 6:13:44 am PST #5356 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
The mainstream coverage of OWS is so infuriating to me. Is it so difficult to grasp that people are pissed, feeling powerless, and that this is what they want to do?
What else might you suggest?
Report what people are doing and saying. That would help.
Tom Scola - Nov 08, 2011 6:16:55 am PST #5357 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
All clear.
Amy - Nov 08, 2011 6:18:42 am PST #5358 of 30001
Because books.
Michelle Duggar is pregnant with her 20th child. If she carries to term, she will have been pregnant with all the children combined a total of 15 years. I don't even know what to say to that.
Tom Scola - Nov 08, 2011 6:19:04 am PST #5359 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
sumi - Nov 08, 2011 6:19:25 am PST #5360 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Wow.
That's certainly something.
le nubian - Nov 08, 2011 6:29:29 am PST #5361 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Okay, so I am reading a UK news blog and reading the comments because they routinely make me laugh and laugh. I came across this comment:
I heard that he was caught swan upping in an inappropriate skiff.
And I just about died laughing. I had NO idea what this person was saying, but it sounded like a crazy euphemism for something.
I googled it and for heaven sake, "swan upping" is something real! Damn. Much less funny.
Stephanie - Nov 08, 2011 6:47:20 am PST #5362 of 30001
Trust my rage
I don't know how to adjust the scope of the modifier for truth justice and the Buffista way
This made me laugh.
Jessica - Nov 08, 2011 6:48:59 am PST #5363 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If she carries to term, she will have been pregnant with all the children combined a total of 15 years. I don't even know what to say to that.
The idea of being pregnant for 15 years makes me want to cry. Literally.
Heh.
I think this misses the point as well - protesting "economic injustice" is a fairly meaningless thing to do unless you are also proposing some kind of concrete action. (Which IS happening, to some extent, but every single "The mainstream media doesn't get it!" article I've seen about OWS just puts its foot in its mouth by responding with "What's so hard to understand about this movement? They want JUSTICE!" Saying "The mainstream media is so stupid, they can't even understand this totally vague undefined abstract idea!" is NOT HELPFUL, BLOGS.)
§ ita § - Nov 08, 2011 7:05:22 am PST #5364 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got from skiff to assuming they were legitimate swans, but upping? Hells, that needed googling. And that does not parse as the President's English on first read, nosirree Bob.
Amy, yeah, I'll do it from home. They asked for a picture of me in it, so it's one of my krav profile pics. The one with the pink wraps. Get to know the real me, other Business System Analysts.
Weirdly, I have finished writing the presentation. I got the word that it's supposed to be 20 minutes, not 60, so I'm probably quite over, in fact. Oh. I feel slightly at a loss with myself, because it was supposed to be much of my morning.