Nice! Our mayor is marrying same-sex couples on Fountain Square at 4:30 today!
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Jun 26, 2015 8:35:25 am PDT #29714 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Atropa - Jun 26, 2015 9:02:36 am PDT #29715 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
basking in the fantasy of Miss Manners and her clear logic and deceptively sharp tongue handing down legal rulings and responding to Scalia
What a beautiful notion.
You own your opinions and if it makes people think badly of you? So be it.
I have a friend who has political views that are pretty much completely opposite to the rest of our social group, and he has been known to complain that he can't discuss politics with us because "we're all dismissive and mean."
Kat - Jun 26, 2015 9:10:15 am PDT #29716 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
complain that he can't discuss politics with us because "we're all dismissive and mean."
So what's weird is that my students often think that when I disagree with their ideas that it is personal. Disagreement is not a personal attack.
Atropa - Jun 26, 2015 9:13:40 am PDT #29717 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Well, it doesn't help that his defense of his political views boils down to "Because I said so, that's why".
Burrell - Jun 26, 2015 9:23:33 am PDT #29718 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yay SCOTUS!
I feel bad for judging Scalia's opinion based entirely on Kat's quoting from it, but I do.
The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic. It is one thing for separate concurring or dissenting opinions to contain extravagances, even silly extravagances, of thought and expression; it is something else for the official opinion of the Court to do so.
Seriously, this is coming from Scalia? So glad he feels his extravagances are acceptable, not egotistical. Argh!
And Steph, your aunt's complaint sounds like my cousin's. Boo hoo.
Jesse - Jun 26, 2015 9:24:04 am PDT #29719 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, it doesn't help that his defense of his political views boils down to "Because I said so, that's why".
And also "nyah nyah"?
Nice! Our mayor is marrying same-sex couples on Fountain Square at 4:30 today!
Aw! I fucking love how fast folks were on it.
I also love that a senior person here just gave me a really nice compliment about the hardest part of my job! I would love it a little more if he said it to my boss, but still.
Burrell - Jun 26, 2015 9:27:10 am PDT #29720 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I would love it a little more if he said it to my boss, but still.
He probably already has
Jesse - Jun 26, 2015 9:27:51 am PDT #29721 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm not so sure about that, but whatevs.
Jesse - Jun 26, 2015 9:28:19 am PDT #29722 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I mean, whatevs to both of them, not to you, Burrell!
Kat - Jun 26, 2015 9:31:06 am PDT #29723 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Burrell, there's a thoughtful article about Scalia's writing excesses here: [link]
Favorite part:
The truth is something closer to this: Scalia is a crank, and not a particularly original one. If his dissents are fascinating, it’s only because there is something curious and sad about a person who holds such a powerful position gleefully writing such garbage. It’s like hate-watching Sean Hannity, only with the added thrill of realizing that the speaker actually has some power over your life.