I suppose I should have said "Putting out fires" And I don't even know what that would look like in the modern era anyway...to get attention a street protest would have to be pretty huge, and even with Occupy, there were still people boiling it down to "Get a job, dirty Hippie,"
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'Objects In Space'
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.
erikaj - Sep 20, 2013 5:58:37 am PDT #5828 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2013 6:00:56 am PDT #5829 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey ita, if you want, there's another angle to be upset about that NBC billboard
Welcome to pretty damned consistent things I'm told that aren't problems because non-white people are invisible in real life too. Billboards aren't a conspiracy, but they're very often comfortable reinforcement of status quos.
Josh Hutcherson and Bradley Whitford made good son and father in 2005. I'm so glad that this 11 year old love story that was way creepy for me was also creepy for the 11 year old girl in it. Her precise words (involving flattery and being 11 and not ready to be loved like that) were much more eloquent than I'd have been (aka running and screaming), but a great way to end a movie there's no way I think I could have tolerated without knowing she dumped him in the end.
Does anyone here dislike elephants? Like, put them on the low end of their wild animal scale? Do elephants make you emotional? I'm a little surprised by the reaction I got to a picture with one in, and a couple of the posts have identical tags which makes me wonder if I stumbled into elephant fandom. (Which would be great--I periodically want to go rescue some, but I'm not sure where is the best place to put them after)
Amy - Sep 20, 2013 6:05:14 am PDT #5830 of 30000
Because books.
makes me wonder if I stumbled into elephant fandom
I think elephants are pretty universally loved. Or they should be anyway. Did you see the pictures of the rescued elephant in SC playing with its buddy, a black lab? They were in the water, and the dog would be on her back and she'd throw a ball for him to catch. ADORABLE.
juliana - Sep 20, 2013 6:21:36 am PDT #5831 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Do elephants make you emotional?
Absolutely. I'm still kind of traumatized by the picture of the baby elephant crying after his mother abandoned him (he got adopted by caretakers, but still).
Tom Scola - Sep 20, 2013 6:28:31 am PDT #5832 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Y'all have seen the "elephants reunited after 22 years video", right? [link]
Jesse - Sep 20, 2013 6:28:37 am PDT #5833 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My Unlikely Animal Friendships calendar this month is a different elephant-dog pair, and I really regretted googling them, because the dog died.
Zenkitty - Sep 20, 2013 6:28:45 am PDT #5834 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Well, this is depressing. Buzzfeed has a list of the lowest-paying jobs that require a bachelors degree. I'm earning comparable to the ones listed, and I have a doctorate.
That was depressing. So was their list of the highest-paying jobs that don't require a degree. I think I got some bad advice in high school.
Matt, at least you got the kitty into your apartment before he disappeared! He'll probably just hide and sleep all day underneath something.
I am pro-elephant. I am strongly anti-shaming people in unfortunate circumstances.
I really truly don't understand how the people who seem to despise the poor and the sick are always the ones loudly proclaiming themselves Christians. Isn't there any cognitive dissonance going on there at all? How do they reconcile the red letters in the gospels with their attitudes?
Amy - Sep 20, 2013 6:33:51 am PDT #5835 of 30000
Because books.
Isn't there any cognitive dissonance going on there at all? How do they reconcile the red letters in the gospels with their attitudes?
That's what I don't get.
Absolutely. I'm still kind of traumatized by the picture of the baby elephant crying after his mother abandoned him (he got adopted by caretakers, but still).
I saw that. For a second I thought it was a video, and I was backclicking like crazy because I did not want to *hear* him crying. Poor baby.
erikaj - Sep 20, 2013 6:37:15 am PDT #5836 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, I think they just convince themselves that *these* poor people are not righteous or something.Or, in the case of the twatwaffle from AFP that Chris Hayes ripped into yesterday, balancing budgets and fighting fraud. I love Chris Hayes...the only problem is sometimes he gets so upset he sputters. Maybe he can borrow some of Olbermann's power from Stephen Colbert. Msbelle, if it wasn't clear before, I totally think you're right. Everyone should be pissed off about that. But there are so many things all the time!
Jesse - Sep 20, 2013 6:41:14 am PDT #5837 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I really truly don't understand how the people who seem to despise the poor and the sick are always the ones loudly proclaiming themselves Christians. Isn't there any cognitive dissonance going on there at all? How do they reconcile the red letters in the gospels with their attitudes?
Two bright spots:
1. That Colbert quote
2. The pope. (I was going to elaborate, but really, just Pope Francis.)