One hopes Darwinism begins to come into play, and the most rabid loony tunes will remove themselves from the field.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Connie Neil - Jul 16, 2013 7:33:13 am PDT #29360 of 30001
brillig
Trudy Booth - Jul 16, 2013 7:36:04 am PDT #29361 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I wonder what will happen when two people claim Stand Your Ground on each other? Or does somebody have to call dibs on the ground?
The living one has dibs.
Gudanov - Jul 16, 2013 7:42:51 am PDT #29362 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
It'll be interesting to see what happens with the trial of Micheal Dunn, also in Florida, also for killing a 17-year old unarmed Black teenager. I'm sure SYG will end up being the defense.
Gudanov - Jul 16, 2013 7:44:06 am PDT #29363 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Maybe "interesting" isn't the best word to use when we're talking about kids being shot and killed.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 16, 2013 8:03:20 am PDT #29364 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
That's basically happened - there was at least one shoot out (i.e., dozens of bullets flying) and one person killed where noone could be charged at all because both sides claimed SD/SYG and it couldn't be proven who fired first. In Florida, natch.
Note to self: If I should travel to Florida again, add "buy bulletproof vest" to pre-trip checklist along with getting base tan and having oil changed.
erikaj - Jul 16, 2013 8:10:59 am PDT #29365 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
One of the million things I love about David Simon is how he is the total BOSS of his blog. He throws elbows for a while then says the arguments are getting stupid and he's over it.And he is so famous that even trolls back down. I would send him black, sparkly hearts for that, if he would accept.
le nubian - Jul 16, 2013 9:12:13 am PDT #29366 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jesse - Jul 16, 2013 9:47:57 am PDT #29367 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Honestly, if that's only happened once, I think their record is pretty good, given people.
Theodosia - Jul 16, 2013 12:05:27 pm PDT #29368 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Somebody arguing on Bruce Coville's Facebook page tried to pull the "have you ever been mugged?" card on me. So I got to pull out my "I HAVE been mugged and it hasn't made me fearful" card, which is a card I'll use when provoked.
I've also pointed out that I'd feel safer with 10 Trayvon Martins walking around my neighborhood than one George Zimmerman.
Sheryl - Jul 16, 2013 12:18:32 pm PDT #29369 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Too freakin' hot. ugh.