Jimmy Olsen jokes're pretty much gonna be lost on you, huh?

Xander ,'The Killer In Me'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.

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.


Cass - Aug 12, 2022 2:11:13 pm PDT #16841 of 29425
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Disqualified for federal office works for me.


Theodosia - Aug 12, 2022 2:34:12 pm PDT #16842 of 29425
'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"

The Breitbart version doesn't redact a lot of things that it should, like the agent names.


askye - Aug 12, 2022 3:16:24 pm PDT #16843 of 29425
Thrive to spite them

Which puts the agents at risk from extremists.

It's interesting to see who of the GOP has been quiet and who is still trying to defend Trump or make this seem like it's no big deal/political persecution. Although I have seen the spin that since the warrant doesn't say the word "nuclear" that means it wasn't about nuclear weapons. It just says "Information, including communications in any form, regarding the retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defense information or classified material"


Sophia Brooks - Aug 12, 2022 5:17:11 pm PDT #16844 of 29425
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

One of my former professors left Chautauqua 2 hours before Salmon Rushdie was stabbed and then shared the news that one of my other old professors (the one who introduced me to Brecht) passed away today.


Jesse - Aug 12, 2022 5:32:29 pm PDT #16845 of 29425
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It was at Chautauqua? I was literally just trying to describe that to Javachik today. (Due to my current location being "Chautauqua-by-the-sea" [link] )


Sophia Brooks - Aug 12, 2022 5:42:36 pm PDT #16846 of 29425
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Yes- It is ALL OVER the local news here because it was somewhat “local”.

My professor’s family is the kind that used to “summer” and I think they still have a family summer house in Chautauqua. She also went to Mount Holyoke and babysat for John Irving. But there is really no more family money.

Also, I knew there WERE Chautauqua’s everywhere, but I didn’t know they still existed.


Consuela - Aug 12, 2022 6:52:47 pm PDT #16847 of 29425
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The BBC had a report from a freelance reporter who was attending the Rushdie talk. It was pretty horrifying, and they talked a lot about how little security Rushdie seemed to have, given the fact that the fatwa is apparently still in place. It's so sad.


Jesse - Aug 12, 2022 6:53:03 pm PDT #16848 of 29425
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

How awful.


Laura - Aug 13, 2022 3:21:28 am PDT #16849 of 29425
Our wings are not tired.

It really is horrific. I know living sheltered with security must suck, but so does getting stabbed! It sounds like he is in pretty bad shape.

Off to see my SIL in NJ this morning (after the gym). Just overnight to see a play in the park near her then back tomorrow. More excursions more often is my new objective.


-t - Aug 13, 2022 10:13:05 am PDT #16850 of 29425
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I am sort of working. Logged into the work laptop while IT takes it over remotely to update my Citrix receiver. He didn’t have time to do it yesterday and I won’t have time Monday so here we are. And it looks like he dl’d the wrong one yesterday so first we will get another version…