Back from NH -- on my way to the LL Bean outlet, I found there was an actual Hobby Lobby store, but I wasn't curious enough to stop in to not buy anything.
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Theodosia - Apr 02, 2014 6:39:10 am PDT #24248 of 30000
'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"
Connie Neil - Apr 02, 2014 7:53:00 am PDT #24249 of 30000
brillig
Joy, the security certificate for the bill pay page for the phone company has expired, so I can't pay the bill. Way to go, technology company.
Tom Scola - Apr 02, 2014 8:19:23 am PDT #24250 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Oh, great. SCOTUS just ruled that bribery is protected free speech.
Liese S. - Apr 02, 2014 8:41:43 am PDT #24251 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh no, that was a big one. I believe the entirety of the failure of the system rests on campaign finance reform and this just put all that down the tubes.
We don't have a democracy. We have a feudal system.
Connie Neil - Apr 02, 2014 9:00:48 am PDT #24252 of 30000
brillig
Well, feudalism at least involved a contract that both sides acknowledged. The serfs served the lord, but the lord looked after the serfs. Robber barons, now . . .
Calli - Apr 02, 2014 9:17:45 am PDT #24253 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Oh, great. SCOTUS just ruled that bribery is protected free speech.
Well, damn.
EpicTangent - Apr 02, 2014 9:28:35 am PDT #24254 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Well, yeah. Can't practice my protected First Amendment rights without a congressman or two in my pocket, now can I?
Amy - Apr 02, 2014 9:36:26 am PDT #24255 of 30000
Because books.
I don't even understand how that can be.
msbelle - Apr 02, 2014 9:39:16 am PDT #24256 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I just do not even. how?
this illegal activity is protected free speech. human trafficking can be protected free speech? and if that is too far, I would argue that coercion MUST be protected if bribery is.
Dana - Apr 02, 2014 9:43:31 am PDT #24257 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm trying not to wish bad things on the conservative justices, and just stick to wishing for something that causes one of them to need to retire.