I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Yee-haw!!
Oh fuck you in the ass, haloskank!
great show
aye aye, cap'n!
Lost in the Friedmans.
F.U. = infinity + 1
[shakes fish! again!]
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Sheesh, I could have told you that.
Pussyblogging with ass redux!
Lost in the Friedmans.
Atrios captured a Friedman or two.
But seriously... going off soon to dream of being independently mobile, again. Exciting times.
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Looked it up on Babelfish... FU = manana w/ a ~
Did watertiger chat with him at the fights before or after she kicked his ass?
In honor of the 40th anniversary...
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the movie "Yellow Submarine"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p...h?
v=p8uYtm4r3Tc
"Fact Schmacks,
you cant even prove that anything is even remotely true with facts"
-Homer Simpson
Happy Sgt. Pepper Day!!!
It's depressing how Atrios is always right.
Four Friedman's from then (11/29/06) there will still be 120,000+ US troops in Iraq.
Syntax ... punctuation ... split infinitives (arguably bad) ... someone needs an editor. 
Bush has had his opportunities to withdraw troops or get it right or whatever the fuck he wants to do. He has fucked it up every single time. He isn't capable of doing the right thing.
Someone else is going to have to take charge.
Sinfonian -- How ya doin', man?
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Happy Sgt. Pepper Day!!!
wangdangdoodle | 06.01.07 - 11:26 pm | #
Local radio station played the Elton John/John Lennon version today. Kinda weirded me out.
That's a good bet.
The pooch is really screwed.
Syntax ... punctuation ... split infinitives (arguably bad) ... someone needs an editor.
Sinfonian
and a dangling conversation...
Elton John/John Lennon was a sellout.
If you though hunting pigs with a 50 caliber handgun is a bit much, would you believe hunting a man with a destroyer?
Hibbard: What you need is a good, long rest. I suggest Florida.
Homer: Florida? But that's America's wang!
Hibbard: They prefer, "The Sunshine State."
Four Friedman's from then (11/29/06) there will still be 120,000+ US troops in Iraq.
Syntax ... punctuation ... split infinitives (arguably bad) ... someone needs an editor.
Sinfonian, buried in Barry | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:27 pm | #
Many good things can be said of Atrios, but dude can't write for shit.
Yesterday was Blue Moon Day. They played EVERY VERSION.
He has fucked it up every single time. He isn't capable of doing the right thing.
Not only that, but he's a petulant two year old, standing in his poop and yelling at his parents: "You're not the boss of me!" The more that everyone else, from the Baker Comm'n to Condi to the press to other Republicans to the Dems say, "Pull out!" the more determined than ever he is to stay, trying desperately to prove that "You're not the boss of me!"
What part of 'the surge is starting to produce positive progress' don't you get? Earth to Bush haters:It's working!
Hey, jp ... I'm doing well. I ought to get back to Gnashvegas sometime ... had a great time.
Hope things are going well at my alma mater (well, one of them, anyway) ...
Steve Gilliard predicted this would all wind up like the French in Dien Bien Phu, and I think he was right.
nobody talks as if the Iraqis have anything to say about this, but they will chase us out of their country.
we will be lucky to get out without Blackwater mercs and regular troops shooting over evacuation gear.
and a dangling conversation...
Shut up and read your Emily Dickinson...
How can split infinitives be a concern in a non-inflected language?
Had to coax this out of my garden yesterday.
OT, deadthreaded again--
Atlanta metro local TV news teams have gone even futrther off the deep end than their CNN cousins with the impending plague unleahed by Andrew The Tubercular Tornado
"Are you at risk?" tease the teasers tauntingly. We hear word that Andrew The Fifth Horseman--oh it's too horrible...
...USED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION!!!!
Were you--oh, you poor doomed schmuck--on a bus or light rail with him? How about your co-workers? Your kids? Kids your kids go to school with? We have some speculative maps to scare you at 11
Still don't believe us? We have a suburban woman who found two dead ducks in her yard [Video shows immobile sprawled waterfowl. Not very action-packed, but that's the point]. Could it be related? Dead duck--it's not just a figure of speech!
Please someone--get me to a Baghdad market where it's safe
robert frost, thank you very much
What part of 'the surge is starting to produce positive progress' don't you get? Earth to Bush haters:It's working!
This made me laugh.
"Expensive Shit" by Fela Anikulapo Kuti is a great song. But it does use the word "shit" about 100 times, including the chorus, "cuz their shit does smell."
Elton John/John Lennon was a sellout.
"Whatever Gets You Through The Night" was written about you, IIRC.
What part of 'the surge is starting to produce positive progress' don't you get?
The part where there's progress.
"Whatever Gets You Through The Night" was written about you, IIRC.
Zap Rowsdower
sounds x-rated
Did watertiger chat with him at the fights before or after she kicked his ass?
he seemed to enjoy himself. Told me i was doing "a great job".
[shrugs]
robert frost, thank you very much
Slave to gender roles.
It's depressing how Atrios is always right.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:27 pm
It's pretty amazing, especially given his sheer volume of posts and the overall stress of blogging. The only thing I ever recall getting right that he didn't was that immigrant-baiting would blow up in the GOP's face.
On top of which, he deserves a lifetime achievement award for "Friedman Unit" alone.
we will be lucky to get out without Blackwater mercs and regular troops shooting over evacuation gear.
At this point, I'm afraid that's exactly how it will end.
Shut up and read your Emily Dickinson...
NTodd, CyberQuaker | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:30 pm | #
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Okay, I'm done.
How many #$%$*@ poems do I have to read in one night ?
"Whatever Gets You Through The Night" was written about you, IIRC.
So was Turning Japanese.
So, here's my question. The SCLM has been playing the "Bush is a liberal" card lately. On F**cker Carlson's show tonight, he was speculating with his guest that Bush was, in fact, a centrist, who just played the conservatives for fools. This echos Peggy Nutcase's editorial this week.
The questions is this: are conservatives trying to paint Bush as "not one of them" in order to give Republican presidential candidates something to run against? So that, rather than the candidates getting tarred with the Bush brush, they try to shove Bush over into the "liberal" column and pretend that conservatism isn't the problem in the first place?
Anybody?
Both Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson are painfully boring.
In my humble opinion.
Hibbard: What you need is a good, long rest. I suggest Florida.
Homer: Florida? But that's America's wang!
Hibbard: They prefer, "The Sunshine State."
/puts on Comic Book Guy outfit
Helloooooo, that was the power plant psychologist he was talking to...not Hibbard.
Worst. Requote. Ever.
I'm guessing no. Our military will collapse within two FUs. Maybe even see something along the lines of the French Army Mutinies during WWI. Probably not, it'll be more like what happened to discipline in the Vietnam War or the Soviet Army collapse in Afghanistan. Eventually you can't get away with wanton troop abuse.
Many good things can be said of Atrios, but dude can't write for shit.
rorschach, futon djinn | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:29 pm | #
I don't think that's true at all.
What happens if your cat believes in God ?
Slave to gender roles.
NTodd
would you have gotten it if I had quoted lyrics from "laid"?
Told me i was doing "a great job".
Which, of course, you are. And we don't tell you often enough just how great.
Phila - did you get my reply yet? Fucking Fuckfuck From Fuckingfuck?
Wait for it.... D'oh!
Fuck Bush!
Did you catch the other night on CNN where the stupid anchor thought "Miles to go before I sleep" was Robert Frost? We are doomed, you know.
"Whatever Gets You Through The Night" was written about you, IIRC.
So was Turning Japanese.
NTodd, CyberQuaker | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:32 pm | #
Oddly, Devo's "Whip-It" was written about me.
From downstairs:
Sin - as long as you have "kids" and not just "kid" we're not related - but hell yeah - lots of bacward ass country f*cks there! And yet, I love them!
myrna minkoff
Indeed, I have two children, one son and one daughter, and they mean the world to me.
However, were it not for them, I would be overjoyed to never set foot in Brevard County again. I hate hate hate hate hate that place. I've never lived anywhere the people are more closed-minded, judgmental, and batshit crazy right-wing than they are in Brevard.
Did I mention I hate it there?
Yesterday was Blue Moon Day. They played EVERY VERSION.
wangdangdoodle |
Yeah we did them ALL on the Internet juke box yesterday too!
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Sinfonian: Hey, jp ... I'm doing well. I ought to get back to Gnashvegas sometime ... had a great time.
Can't wait!
Hope things are going well at my alma mater (well, one of them, anyway) ...
Surprisingly well, actually... the ostensible supervisor and I have managed to have some "bonding moments," and things are running pretty smoothly. I still feel like I don't have enough to do, but I'm going to stop feeling guilty about that. 
And you?
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Friedmans aside, I think this week it has become painfully obvious that (for the first time I believe) they have publically declared they have no intention of EVER leaving Iraq. The model they have put up as an example is Korea and that is more than fifty years old.
The Lily-pad strategy has been put into the public's consciousness (though it has not been explained or remarked upon by the "media".)
So, Friedmans aside, it is obvious that we will have more than 100,000 troops stationed in Iraq for the next few decades or longer. Apparently their mission will be to secure the oil for the multinationals and to give us a forward staging area to control the rest of the Middle East.
It would be nice if this idea were discussed but that is not the way we do things here in the USA. That would be UnAmerican.
What happens if your cat believes in God ?
Get rid of it and go adopt a new dogma from the local shelter.
Did you catch the other night on CNN where the stupid anchor thought "Miles to go before I sleep" was Robert Frost? We are doomed, you know.
Duh - it was Miles O'Brien!
Are any of you folks Philadelphia Drinking Liberally attendees? What'sa that like?
Phila - did you get my reply yet? Fucking Fuckfuck From Fuckingfuck?
NTodd, CyberQuaker | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:34 pm | #
I didn't get your fucking e-mail, you jizz-guzzling fuck-addled fuck-knob.
Which, of course, you are. And we don't tell you often enough just how great.
thanks, Hecate. I appreciate it.
I don't know how Atrios does it; the past few weeks of news have really done me in. I can't listen to the radio or watch TV anymore.
Did you catch the other night on CNN where the stupid anchor thought "Miles to go before I sleep" was Robert Frost? We are doomed, you know.
catalexis the fatalistic
Maybe she was talking to Miles O'Brien?
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Many good things can be said of Atrios, but dude can't write for shit.
rorschach, futon djinn | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:29 pm | #
I don't think that's true at all.
Phila | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:33 pm | #
Perhaps it's just cursory proofing on his part, but I often find his meaning obscured by usage errors.
I'm not saying this just to be nitpicky; I honestly can't quite get his point because of the writing sometimes.
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
And it's fucking true, too.
Just come out to the Berkshires.
Right about now.
Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, now the Friedman calendar.
Fuck, I'm 106
What happens if your cat believes it's God ?
fyt
Perfectly normal. Nothing to worry about.
I didn't get your fucking e-mail, you jizz-guzzling fuck-addled fuck-knob.
I blame Ted Stevens and simels.
So, here's my question. The SCLM has been playing the "Bush is a liberal" card lately. On F**cker Carlson's show tonight, he was speculating with his guest that Bush was, in fact, a centrist, who just played the conservatives for fools. This echos Peggy Nutcase's editorial this week.
Exactly what has he done that was centrist? He spent money on his mates in the oil industry and on killing people in wars, both firm parts of the wingnut platform. He spent money on the religious fanatics through various abstinence programs. He has done shitall to help the poor. He let New Orleans die. He has done shitall to improve security against terrorism.
No, the wingnuts can't disown him. Will not work.
Catch The Wind was written about der chimpenfuhrer, and not in the good way.
we will be lucky to get out without Blackwater mercs and regular troops shooting over evacuation gear.
Alice
See Xenophon's Anabasis, or the book/movie The Warriors which is based on it.
NTodd's inability to use e-mail is going to cost the Dems the Heartland in '08.
>>:>I didn't get your fucking e-mail, you jizz-guzzling fuck-addled fuck-knob.
Phila | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:35 pm | #
Damn. Seems harsh.
best to use pluto's calendar
Both Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson are painfully boring.
In my humble opinion.
They both wrote a couple of zingers, but not everything they wrote is great. IMHO. However, most poets would settle for a few real zingers.
Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, now the Friedman calendar.
Fuck, I'm 106
I'm my own grandpa!
--Skeezix
best to use pluto's calendar
::matthew
Goofy's would be more appropriate.
I don't know how Atrios does it; the past few weeks of news have really done me in. I can't listen to the radio or watch TV anymore.
watertiger | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:36 pm | #
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He must be made of sterner stuff.
Cardinal Fang ...
Poke him with the soft cushions !!!
What happens if your cat believes in God ?
Zapette and I went to the Cathedral of St. Paul (MN) tonight to partake in the 100th anniversary of the laying of their cornerstone.
Neat place. But being an atheist in a cathedral make me feel...okay.
I was just there for the architecture.
And you?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Ah, can't complain, considering I'm in the middle of a tropical storm ... again. Life's actually going quite well, thanks.
I honestly don't know shit about frost or dickinson, but I do know S&G songs
People who swear are fucking assholes.
"What happens if your cat believes it's God ?"
Strangely enough, we have run out of treat offerings and are feeling the wrath.
Damn. Seems harsh.
Rockford
He meant it in a nice way.
>>I honestly don't know shit about frost or dickinson, but I do know S&G songs
::matthew | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:38 pm | #
*sigh*...and I only know songs by Jay Ferrar.
I'm not saying this just to be nitpicky; I honestly can't quite get his point because of the writing sometimes.
I don't understand.
No, the wingnuts can't disown him. Will not work.
Echidne of the snakes
Sure seems to me like that's the tactic-o-the-week. So much easier that the words "I was wrong about him."
He must be made of sterner stuff.
Terence, this is stupid stuff...
Mithridates, he died old.
I can't listen to the radio or watch TV anymore. watertiger
Try this one.
Well, I really like both Frost and Emily Dickinson. But not everything. I don't think that is expected, you know?
I don't know how Atrios does it; the past few weeks of news have really done me in. I can't listen to the radio or watch TV anymore.
watertiger | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:36 pm | #
It's because you are in the frontline. Too much shit coming every day down the intertubes. It wears one down.
You are doing great stuff, though.
And now we have a tornado watch until 8:00 tomorrow morning.
Always fun to be on the northeast side of a cyclonic storm ... (in the northern hemisphere, that is, for all you pedantic fucks).
I'm not saying this just to be nitpicky; I honestly can't quite get his point because of the writing sometimes.
I don't understand.
NTodd, CyberQuaker | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:39 pm | #
That's because you are a testicle-herding colon-hopper.
Echidne of the snakes | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:36 pm | #
I know. They're calling Bush a "neoliberal" now.
No fucking way. The GOP loves this man. He is their king. They decided a long time ago to do whatever he told them. He is their boy, their king, and their god. Not anyone else's.
I've never lived anywhere the people are more closed-minded, judgmental, and batshit crazy right-wing than they are in Brevard.
Oh my gawd - you hit it! When we were dating and my (future) husband took me to meet the family - I was stunned at the conservativeness! (And I'm from TEXAS!) They're not stupid people, just judgemental (or racist, bigoted, etc.). We've come to a pretty good relationship - we DO NOT discuss politics - though they treat me as though I'm some sort of cute "pet liberal" sometimes.
You know what? I don't care. Phila's dead to me.
Always fun to be on the northeast side of a cyclonic storm ... (in the northern hemisphere, that is, for all you pedantic fucks).
Sinfonian, buried in Barry | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:40 pm | #
That's "pedantiic."
I'm cool to Frost and Dickinson is sounds vaguely NToddish.
Dudes, one word for the wine savvy and value aware:
FRONTERA ( a product of Chile)
I will vouch.
Emily Dickinson did not seek publication of her works. She, in fact, simply stored them in a dresser drawer. Proving that her writer's sense was indeed exceeded by her editorial judgment.
Perhaps it's just cursory proofing on his part, but I often find his meaning obscured by usage errors.
I do think he throws it down and leaves it. But that's fine by me...a skill in itself.
I'm not that fussy, as editors go.
Yeah, there are probably a few sentences I've had to read more than once to get the gist of 'em. But I'd much rather read him than Somerby or Ana Marie Cox or...
Try this one
Ahhhh, thanks. I meant to ask you about that.
Prophetically, Dickinson wrote:
THE MURMURING of bees has ceased;
But murmuring of some
Posterior, prophetic,
Has simultaneous come,—
Sure seems to me like that's the tactic-o-the-week. So much easier that the words "I was wrong about him."
KidRanger, Liberal Elite
Noonan and now Kondracke suggesting Bush got 'bamboozled' by his advisors and fucked up because of them.
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That's because you are a testicle-herding colon-hopper.
Guy's gotta eat.
I'm not saying this just to be nitpicky; I honestly can't quite get his point because of the writing sometimes.
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You need to stop trimming your fingernails before putting them up your ass. The slant rhymes will become apparent.
Emily Dickinson did not seek publication of her works. She, in fact, simply stored them in a dresser drawer.
I knew a libertarian once who refused to read her because he'd heard that she did not want her poems to be published.
It thus comes as no surprise that Dawkins turns out to be an old-fashioned Hegelian when it comes to global politics, believing in a zeitgeist (his own term) involving ever increasing progress, with just the occasional ‘reversal’. ‘The whole wave,’ he rhapsodises in the finest Whiggish manner, ‘keeps moving.’ There are, he generously concedes, ‘local and temporary setbacks’ like the present US government – as though that regime were an electoral aberration, rather than the harbinger of a drastic transformation of the world order that we will probably have to live with for as long as we can foresee. Dawkins, by contrast, believes, in his Herbert Spencerish way, that ‘the progressive trend is unmistakable and it will continue.’ So there we are, then: we have it from the mouth of Mr Public Science himself that aside from a few local, temporary hiccups like ecological disasters, famine, ethnic wars and nuclear wastelands, History is perpetually on the up.
From "Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching," Terry Eagleton's review of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion.
God, I love Terry Eagleton.
I don't know how Atrios does it; the past few weeks of news have really done me in. I can't listen to the radio or watch TV anymore.
Sweetheart (if I may call you that),
We vent/mourn/outrage in many different ways. A lot of us felt like recoiling the past few weeks. Others went on the offensive. Different strokes, etc.
But it's weird not having you around here lately. What you have to say and offer is really appreciated and anticipated.
Just sayin'
I like some of Dickinson's poems a lot. She has several very sexual ones.
We've come to a pretty good relationship - we DO NOT discuss politics - though they treat me as though I'm some sort of cute "pet liberal" sometimes.
myrna minkoff
Well, I was nearly fired/un-hired when I started work there because the chairman of the board of the place where I worked discovered I had worked on Howard Dean's campaign prior to moving there.
That pretty much set the tone for my short, unhappy tenure there.
"Simultaneous Come" would be a good name for a band.
Just returned from my son's graduation party. He is now a high school freshman. Damn! I am getting old.
Noonan and now Kondracke suggesting Bush got 'bamboozled' by his advisors and fucked up because of them.
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Agent Orange
And the aforementioned F**ker Carlson saying Bush was never a real conservative in the first place.
It is, at it's heart, an acknowledgement that Bush is a complete and abject failure. Otherwise, why would they all be running away from responsibility for what he's done?
Just for fun - an image of young Emily Dickinson.
http://rogerbourland.com/blog/
wp...y_dickinson.jpg
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Is it totally inappropriate to ask out a girl who is ten years younger than you if you are her boss at work? I think I know the answer, but I have a huge crush on this young woman, and she is very flirtatious. Any help?
Didja enjoy hanging out with GHWB and Jimmy Carter, preznit Clenis?
I meant to ask you about that. watertiger
Then of course there's this. I imagine practice #5 will be rather simple for you and, should you decide to sell tickets, quite the moneymaker (as it were).
I don't know how Atrios does it;
That's the main thing, for me. I couldn't do what he does if I were dosed with meth and paid a million a year. And if I tried, half the stuff I wrote would be gibberish or worse.
Echidne,
I'm really amazed by the people who can cover this stuff day in and day out, post after post each day.
I know I'm tired and run down and everything, but there's been absolutely no resolution, no closure to any of this bullshit.
That's what gets to me. I don't think waiting six years qualifies as "instant gratification".
But I'd much rather read him than Somerby or Ana Marie Cox or...
Phila | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:41 pm | #
Or rorschach, just go on and say it.
But saying Atrios is better than Somerby or Cox is rather damning by faint praise, I gotta insist.
Terence, this is stupid stuff..
I looooove that poem. I just do.
we will be lucky to get out without Blackwater mercs and regular troops shooting over evacuation gear.
There's a book "Enter the Dragon" about the Chinese crossing the Yalu in the Korean War and driving the US way south into the Pusan pocket
Along the retreat the US abandoned millions of tons of materiel. They didn't have enough explosives to blow it all up, so it fell into Chinese hands
The book includes many first person accounts from Chinese veterans. They were initially puzzled by what toilet paper might be used for. Once they found out, it was a source of hilarity, a surefire running joke
And they hated canned chili. So spicy they though it had gone bad until the Hunanese reinforcements ate it and liked it. They still hated it--what do the Hunanese know?
They did, however, enjoy the pornography
Didja enjoy hanging out with GHWB and Jimmy Carter, preznit Clenis?
masculine_monica_nyc
Clinton was his own brother Billy.
I knew a libertarian once who refused to read her because he'd heard that she did not want her poems to be published.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:42 pm | #
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That is retarded, but so librarian. Did she also keep young kids from taking out or reading Emily Dickinson books ?
And if I tried, half the stuff I wrote would be gibberish or worse.
Um...dood?
Now is the hard part. Just about ready for bed, it would be so nice to sit out in the cool air and have a couple of puffs while looking at Hecate's moon. Feel the breeze caress the naked skin as the smoke drifts higher into nothingness.
>>Didja enjoy hanging out with GHWB and Jimmy Carter, preznit Clenis?
masculine_monica_nyc
uh.........whsuh?
Junior was so happy about his party (fillet minon pepper-steak, crab bread, etc). He smiled so much he face began to hurt. He couldn't thank us enough for having a "grown-up" catered party for him.
Oh, me oh my. The NYTimes' political blog found something really, really important to feature: Edwards has money in a hedge fund which financed the treasure hunters which found the recent sunken treasure of coins.
Wow. Think the MCM is out to Gore Edwards?
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.c.../#comment-
95669
Four Friedman's from then (11/29/06) there will still be 120,000+ US troops in Iraq.
Okay, I can live with the tortured syntax, but can we at least lose the apostrophe? Please?
It's like someone spelling "lose" as "loose." Drives me crazy.
Yes, I know I'm picky. So sue me.
I like some of Dickinson's poems a lot. She has several very sexual ones.
Echidne of the snakes | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:42 pm | #
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Ahem ...
Numbers and/or names ???
I fell so much better now...
MADRID, Spain - The U.S. is not preparing for war against Iran and Vice President Dick Cheney supports that policy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says, taking a swipe at a U.N. official who says he's worried about "crazies" who want to start bombing.
God, I love Terry Eagleton.
common dedominator, on hiatus | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:42 pm | #
That was an excellent review, IMO. It got savaged on Pharyngula, where very few people realized that Eagleton was critiquing Dawkins from his left. It's a shame, 'cause Eagleton's thoughts on religion are a lot more interesting (and legitimately progressive) than Dawkins.
(And I'm from TEXAS!)
myrna minkoff
You say that parenthetically?
Well, I'm gonna fall out of the chair. Tired!
And tomorrow's a big day. I'll have lots of shitty pictures, I assure you!
G'nite, y'all.
♥
OK, the snarky put down of La Belle d'Amherst isn't what I really think of her anyway. But I can't get rid of the earworm of her stuff being sung to the theme from "The Yellow Rose of Texas". I could just kill whoever first told me that.
I looooove that poem. I just do.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:44 pm | #
Yeah, me too.
It's just terribly clever.
there's been absolutely no resolution, no closure to any of this bullshit.
Sweetheart,
There isn't. You can't look for it. You know: What fresh hell is this? It isn't one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over. And yet, it is one damn, unfinished, thing after another. You need a rest and you should take one, even though everyone misses you. But after the rest, you get back up and you get back in the fray. People's lives are at stake, the health of the planet is at stake, it's all at stake. It's all real, it's all metaphor, there's always more. But that doesn't mean that you have to keep fighting when you're too worn out to do anything but wear yourself down even more.
Zap,
I've been lurking, or just turned the computer off altogether. Work's been a frenzy, as well.
He couldn't thank us enough for having a "grown-up" catered party for him.
You've got a good kid there, Monica.
I know I'm tired and run down and everything, but there's been absolutely no resolution, no closure to any of this bullshit.
What genuinely scares me is what happens if there is another terrorist attack in the US no matter how small. Surely the media will go apeshit and take most of the Country with them.
Recall when Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle flew his plane into a Manhatten high rise CNN couldn't let go of the story for hours after it was known it was just a horrible accident.
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Um...dood?
NTodd, CyberQuaker | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:45 pm | #
It's currently at 45%. I checked just this morning.
I knew a libertarian once who refused to read her because he'd heard that she did not want her poems to be published.
I don't wear seatbelts because I heard somewhere they might save your life!
You've got a good kid there, Monica.
Thank you. He wouldn't be half as great without his aunt and uncles from Eschaton. He really wants to meet all of you.
That was an excellent review, IMO. It got savaged on Pharyngula, where very few people realized that Eagleton was critiquing Dawkins from his left. It's a shame, 'cause Eagleton's thoughts on religion are a lot more interesting (and legitimately progressive) than Dawkins.
Phila | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:47 pm | #
Yep. Eagleton is truly brilliant, and a very witty stylist. Rather more Gramscian as opposed to Lukacsian than I'd like, but generally right on the money.
I'm really amazed by the people who can cover this stuff day in and day out, post after post each day.
I know I'm tired and run down and everything, but there's been absolutely no resolution, no closure to any of this bullshit.
That's what gets to me. I don't think waiting six years qualifies as "instant gratification".
It is very hard. One must dance, too, and take time off. If you just ladle stuff out day after day you will run dry or burn out. But I know how you feel, because during my vacation I slept on average around twelve hours a day.
Soros should start sending those checks we supposedly all get.
Hey NTodd, are Quakers atheists ?
Some day, Hecate, I'm taking you out to lunch.
And Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening can be sung to the melody of Hernando's Hideaway . . . .
Watching SW I or is it IV?
Thinking all the time, a Super Soaker and a large supply of PVC weld and you could take out every storm trooper in the place.
Note to kids in high school English: If asked about an Emily Dickinson poem, you can't go wrong with "it's really about death."
Hey NTodd, are Quakers atheists ?
Some are.
>>> I knew a libertarian once who refused to read her because he'd heard that she did not want her poems to be published.
I don't stop at red lights because who the fuck is the govmit to say I have to stop? Where are "red lights" in the constitution?"
Step on it!
Alright - off to see if my liberal sensibilities are offended by supporting a woman's right to have a child with a stoned slacker. Later taters!
And Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening can be sung to the melody of Hernando's Hideaway . . . .
DWD - Dirty Fucking Hippy | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:50 pm | #
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Or an song by England Dan and John Ford Coley
Numbers and/or names ???
Doug, let me get back on that. I have to dig up my Dickinson books which are downstairs. But I remember one which describes an orgasm if you know what to look for and another one on the charms of a man.
But saying Atrios is better than Somerby or Cox is rather damning by faint praise, I gotta insist.
rorschach, futon djinn | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:44 pm | #
Well, OK. Fair enough.
I don't think he's trying to be the blogosphere's greatest prose stylist, though. (He couldn't manage it while Echidne is blogging, in any case.)
Note to kids in high school English: If asked about an Emily Dickinson poem, you can't go wrong with "it's really about death."
Space | 06.01.07 - 11:50 pm | #
And as far as Whitman goes, "It's teh gaiii."
Alright - off to see if my liberal sensibilities are offended by supporting a woman's right to have a child with a stoned slacker. Later taters!
We await your review. Gonna go see 'Pirates' tomorrow night. Some good escapist Johnny Depp.
Some day, Hecate, I'm taking you out to lunch.
I am looking forward to it. You have to take care of yourself. La revolucione, she needs you.
I don't think he's trying to be the blogosphere's greatest prose stylist, though. (He couldn't manage it while Echidne is blogging, in any case.)
Phila | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:52 pm | #
True that, in re Echidne.
We await your review. Gonna go see 'Pirates' tomorrow night. Some good escapist Johnny Depp.
watertiger
you might want to read the cliff's notes ahead of time
Goodnight, sweeties. You are all invited to the next "catered" affair. I don't know what I did to deserve such a great kid. I'm on cloud nine. My little boy is a freshman in high school. Wow, man! Wow!
Hey NTodd, are Quakers atheists ?
Some are.
NTodd, CyberQuaker | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:51 pm | #
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That was informative.
We await your review. Gonna go see 'Pirates' tomorrow night. Some good escapist Johnny Depp.
watertiger
I think Jr. and I are going to see Spiderman 3 tomorrow (his choice), since the weather will be teh suck.
I really want to see "Knocked Up," though ... but obviously not with my son.
I dig Mr Somerby. I don't always agree, but I digg that he has POV and style.
nb NTodd.
These guys need an agent or a publicist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/0...&hp&
oref=slogin
.
He couldn't manage it while Echidne is blogging, in any case
Dancing around naked, eating gateau, yelling deliriously.
That was an excellent review, IMO. It got savaged on Pharyngula, where very few people realized that Eagleton was critiquing Dawkins from his left. It's a shame, 'cause Eagleton's thoughts on religion are a lot more interesting (and legitimately progressive) than Dawkins.
Phila | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:47 pm | #
Yep. Eagleton is truly brilliant, and a very witty stylist. Rather more Gramscian as opposed to Lukacsian than I'd like, but generally right on the money.
rorschach, futon djinn | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:49 pm | #
Good to know there are other Eagleton fans in Eschatonia. His Ideology: An Introduction, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Literary Theory, After Theory, all brilliant. I think Routledge is publishing an academic biography of him.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
I am looking forward to it. You have to take care of yourself. La revolucione, she needs you.
My left arm is very sore from the typhoid and Hep A shots I got this morning for my long overdue trip.
The tetanus shot -- not so much.
I've been lurking, or just turned the computer off altogether. Work's been a frenzy, as well.
We've all been there, WT. We've all had to do that. It's only human.
Just take care of yourself. This nonsense will (hopefully) be over soon enough.
And you can't say that you didn't fight. You've been doing a brazillion times more than any Chickhawk would dare and claim to do. Hold your head up high.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, cont'd
Robert Frost
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there's some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Hey NTodd, are Quakers atheists ?
Some are.
NTodd, CyberQuaker | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:51 pm | #
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That was informative.
Doug Watts, Gay Homo | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:53 pm | #
Yes, it was.
He said "queer."
Heh heh heh.
/chimpy
That was informative.
Doug Watts, Gay Homo | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:53 pm | #
Typically, he neglected to tell you that some aren't.
Puts things in a whole different light, you'll agree.
you might want to read the cliff's notes ahead of time
I want Johnny Depp to read them to me.
Dancing around naked, eating gateau, yelling deliriously.
Speaking of orgasms...
That was informative.
Doug Watts, Gay Homo | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:53 pm | #
Typically, he neglected to tell you that some aren't.
Puts things in a whole different light, you'll agree.
Phila | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:54 pm | #
The booklet I received this morning from the Watch Tower Foundation was right!
My religious freedom is threatened!
Snowy Eve sounds good right now in Philly. It's like ninety degrees at midnight right now.
If we aren't making serious progress on getting the fuck out of there by this November at the direction of President Pelosi, I'm going to be seriously green and hulkish.
I want Johnny Depp to read them to me.
watertiger
dreamy
I dig Mr Somerby. I don't always agree, but I digg that he has POV and style.
Rockford | 06.01.07 - 11:54 pm | #
Who doesn't?
My left arm is very sore from the typhoid and Hep A shots
Try some ice packs. Those shots can ache like a sumuva bitch.
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows - mashup version from the Love album
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y...related&
search=
you might want to read the cliff's notes ahead of time
I want Johnny Depp to read them to me, nekkid.
watertiger | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:55 pm | #
Fixed your typo.
thanks, Zap.
It's taking longer than I thought it would.
But I'll be back in fighting form soon enough.
Just not right now.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, cont'd
Robert Frost
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there's some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
jawbone | 06.01.07 - 11:54 pm | #
Eagleton's latest book (so I hear) is How To Read A Poem. Anybody read it?
Bob Somerby has a terrible crush on himself. I mean he makes Narcissus look like a piker.
Night, all
Good to know there are other Eagleton fans in Eschatonia. His Ideology: An Introduction, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Literary Theory, After Theory, all brilliant. I think Routledge is publishing an academic biography of him.
common dedominator, on hiatus | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:54 pm | #
Holy Terror, as well. As thus.
>>>Who doesn't?
Phila | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:56 pm | #
Some....let's just leave it thrre.....
The Dems had to get a few things through but now they can be relied on to force Bush to stop the war.
Numbers and/or names ???
Doug, let me get back on that. I have to dig up my Dickinson books which are downstairs. But I remember one which describes an orgasm if you know what to look for and another one on the charms of a man.
Echidne of the snakes | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:52 pm | #
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WOO HOO !!! pls. inform.
Seriously. Emily Dickinson is from Massachusetts as I am and I have always been a great admirer of her writing. My dad went to school at Stockbridge, in the same vicinity as where she lived and wrote. At age 20, the big four writers for me were Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Henry Thoreau and Herman Melville. Still are.
It is Frost?
Well, damn. Is my face red or what?
OK, I've made enough of a fool of myself for one evening.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
My favorite Frost:
But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes
Try some ice packs. Those shots can ache like a sumuva bitch.
You talked to my doctor?
Fucker asked, "I assume you're right handed?" and before I could get my answer out, he stabbed me in my left deltoid.
"You're probably want to ice that later," he said afterward.
My religious freedom is threatened!
I'm here to oppress you. But I'm really sleepy, so please get comfortable and assume the position.
More DOJ attorney firing scandal.
"Schlozman Under Fire From Senate Over Effort To Squash Voter Suppression Probe
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reported that former Minnesota U.S. Attorney Thomas Heffelfinger may have been targeted for removal by the Justice Department because of his role in protecting the rights of Native American voters. Heffelfinger, who resigned last year for personal reasons, had raised concerns that an effort by the Republican Secretary of State, Mary Kiffmeyer, to bar certain uses of Tribal IDs for voter identification would result in electoral discrimination against Indian voters. Heffelfinger’s efforts to dig deeper into the issue were blocked by two controversial political appointees in the Department, Bradley Schlozman and Hans von Spakovsky, who used bureaucratic measures to prevent an internal department investigation:
//
Schlozman, who is suspected of politicizing the hiring of non-political jobs in the DoJ’s Civil Rights Division, will testify on Tuesday, June 5."
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06...hlozman-letter/
Night, all
It's taking longer than I thought it would.
You can't schedule it, sadly. But you will feel better soon. Smooches.
Literary Eschaton:
Any McCarthy Fans here (Cormac)?
I knew Daniel Cabrera couldn't hold a lead! Dammit!
(Angels 3, Orioles 2, bottom 7th)
If we aren't making serious progress on getting the fuck out of there by this November at the direction of President Pelosi, I'm going to be seriously green and hulkish.
Why wait that long?
peace out, DWD.
I'm here to oppress you. But I'm really sleepy, so please get comfortable and assume the position.
masculine_monica_nyc | 06.01.07 - 11:59 pm | #
Yes, sleepy Mistress.
Just not right now.
Take your time. You know where your biggest fans will be.
With that, I'm off to look at houses on the online with Zapette.
Peace, folks!
I'm a big fan of Mary McCarthey.
You can't schedule it, sadly. But you will feel better soon. Smooches.
yup. Smooches back.
I'm a big fan of Mary McCarthey.
gin
Ah, a mutual admiration society!
Wow.
I just realized tomorrow (June 2) would have been my 17th anniversary, were I still married to spouse #1.
But, as I like to say, now the count on me is 0-and-2, and I'm just fouling off pitches to stay alive ...
If we aren't making serious progress on getting the fuck out of there by this November at the direction of President Pelosi, I'm going to be seriously green and hulkish.
bo | 06.01.07 - 11:56 pm | #
I hear ya. If we kill ten or twenty thousand more Iraqis, this administration is going to get a piece of my mind.
Dancing around naked, eating gateau, yelling deliriously.
The first and last items I understand and approve of, but what is gateau?
what is gateau?
French cake.
Those planter's peanuts are an excellent source of protein. But peanuts are too expensive for the poor mans budget, as are most vitamins.
If we kill ten or twenty thousand more Iraqis, this administration is going to get a piece of my mind.
Don't be hasty.
The first and last items I understand and approve of, but what is gateau?
Doug | 06.02.07 - 12:03 am | #
It's Spanish for "cat."
Hang in there, wt.
You're such an inspiration to so many of us.
If you haven't read it, maybe you'd be interested in my story from a year ago. I'm not saying or assuming that your situation is similar at all, but I wrote it hoping it would help people who were feeling, well, not themselves, y'know?
Anyway, it's there ... and so are we, for you and for each other.
Holy Terror, as well. As thus.
Phila | Homepage | 06.01.07 - 11:58 pm | #
Muchas gracias, Phila.
One good link deserves another. Party Politics, Eagleton's review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Dancing in the Streets.
Damn, gotta lotta readin' to do this summer. I'll finish Dissenting Figures first. It's been a blast!
Don't you think the government should provide vitamins for the poor?
I know I'm late on this stuff, but I noted yesterday that Mr. N. Todd Pritzsky of Fletcher, Vermont and of as yet to be disclosed atheistic bent has now been re-accorded the Order of the Linkhood at this fairly decrepit intellectual gin mill with parmesan cheese on the floor.
[golf clap]
Hang in there, wt.
You're such an inspiration to so many of us.
Seconded, if not three-thousandthed.
I don't wear seatbelts because I heard somewhere they might save your life!
myrna minkoff
I knew someone who cut all the seatbelts out of his car because he didn't want anyone to be trapped in a fiery wreck. I guess he thought that was more likely than any other possible fate in a car crash (this was in pre-airbag days). He was a shitty driver to boot.
We need to drain the swamp of Iraq. If that means killing the entire population, let it be.
A 'Schwarzwald' gateau
http://www.handlebarclub.co.uk/0...uk/
05gateau.jpg
.
How that DWD has gone, it's safe to post my Dickenson/Beatle mashup:
Oblahdee, oblahda
Life goes on
I forget just why.
I noted yesterday that Mr. N. Todd Pritzsky of Fletcher, Vermont and of as yet to be disclosed atheistic bent has now been re-accorded the Order of the Linkhood at this fairly decrepit intellectual gin mill with parmesan cheese on the floor.
It's only because Mrs A was out of town and he got so shitfaced on gin with the cats that he did something rather rash and foolish. He'll probably most regret the money he sent to John McCain, though.
golf clap]
Doug Watts, Gay Homo | Homepage | 06.02.07 - 12:06 am | #
That's pretty good! He should really start a blog to go with it.
Phila | Homepage | 06.02.07 - 12:05 am | #
That's "gato", Spanish for cat.
We need to drain the swamp of Iraq. If that means killing the entire population, let it be.
I guess Saddam was right! Huh?
.
We need to drain the swamp of Iraq. If that means killing the entire population, let it be.
maximus | 06.02.07 - 12:07 am | #
Trying too hard.
That's "gato", Spanish for cat.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 06.02.07 - 12:08 am | #
A joke, dear.
If you haven't read it, maybe you'd be interested in my story from a year ago.
Jesus, Sinf! I'm speechless.
thank god for your kids.
He'll probably most regret the money he sent to John McCain, though.
NTodd, CyberQuaker | Homepage | 06.02.07 - 12:08 am | #
!!!
I'll never forgive this, you tit-shanking ear-humper!
http://images.salon.com/mwt/col/...other/
story.jpg
just because...
A joke, dear.
How ironic: 'gateau' means 'joke' in French!
We need to drain the swamp of Iraq. If that means killing the entire population, let it be.
Kind of puts to rest that whole "liberation" meme, don't it?
Now 'mout.
Barbara Ehrenreich's Dancing in the Streets.
I'm reading this every day at lunch It's good so far.
I wouldn't swear to it, but I think my hit counter is flipping me off.
I'll never forgive this, you tit-shanking ear-humper!
I need not your forgiveness. I have Jesus'.
How ironic: 'gateau' means 'joke' in French!
NTodd
was there a black fly in it or something?
We need to drain the swamp of Iraq. If that means killing the entire population, let it be.
maximus | 06.02.07 - 12:07 am | #
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Err ... it's a desert. You cannot remove water from a place that only receives 1 inch of rain per year.
[yes i know about southern iraq and the marshes, it's all for the sake of the joke]
Jesus, Sinf! I'm speechless.
thank god for your kids.
watertiger
Indeed. I'm grateful every single day.
just because...
::matthew
Oh that someone would have fired a Stinger missile up their asses.
.
Hey - goodnight everyone.
I'm not around much - but I read about every day and love you all like family.
Sinfonian - I will smile at every child in Melbourne (and everywhere else!) like they are yours. You are a lucky man.
God bless us - every one.
We need to drain the swamp of Iraq. If that means killing the entire population, let it be.
Would we still be expecting them to thank us for freeing them from a brutal dictator who might have otherwise killed them if we had not saved them?
[yes i know about southern iraq and the marshes, it's all for the sake of the joke]
Did we refill them?
How ironic: 'gateau' means 'joke' in French!
NTodd, CyberQuaker | Homepage | 06.02.07 - 12:09 am | #
I learn so much from you blagueurs.
Phila | Homepage | 06.02.07 - 12:09 am | #
I figured. Still, I like to correct people from time to time.
Did we refill them?
With corpses.
I learn so much from you blagueurs.
Phila
I wish Plum were here to see this.
Barbara Ehrenreich's Dancing in the Streets.
I'm reading this every day at lunch It's good so far.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 06.02.07 - 12:10 am | #
I've got to get back to Ehrenreich. She's been on fire since Nickel and Dimed. I just devoured Steven King's Dark Tower series, then Insomnia, so non-fiction is quite refreshing again.
How ironic: 'gateau' means 'joke' in French!
NTodd, CyberQuaker | Homepage | 06.02.07 - 12:09 am | #
I learn so much from you blagueurs.
Phila | Homepage | 06.02.07 - 12:12 am | #
I'm more of a flaneur, myself. Just wandering through the tubes.
Did we refill them?
With corpses.
Careful now, or hobbits go down to join the dead ones and light little candles of their own.
watertiger | Homepage | 06.02.07 - 12:09 am | #
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Ms. Watertiger,
Your analysis of the White House photo shoots is incredible. Nobody is doing this except you. The photos are telling a story in and of themselves.
Just wanted to say that.
I'm still annoyed by the extraneous apostrophe.
I need help.
Did we refill them?
Weren't you supposed to do that?
Doug Watts, and yes, Watertiger is one of the very few that gets it right
Thank you, Monsieur Watts.
jeopardy man,
will I get to see Barry up close and personal? my grass is looking like desert camo
Did we refill them?
That was the plan in 2005, but it's hard to say if any progress has been made as Iraq turns into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
The first civilization in the history of the world followed the draining of the Mesopotamian swamp.
Ms. Watertiger,
Your analysis of the White House photo shoots is incredible. Nobody is doing this except you. The photos are telling a story in and of themselves.
Just wanted to say that.
Doug Watts |
Hey, I pimped wt's image of Joe Lieberman buying those cool shades at the Baghdad market. That had to be good for a zillion hits.
.
There's thunder. Sweet Mother, send the rain with it.
Late-night doctor sheets.
Don't say you weren't warned ...
I'm still annoyed by the extraneous apostrophe.
I need help.
Sinfonian, buried in Barry | Homepage | 06.02.07 - 12:14 am | #
Indeed. I'm still recovering from the proofreading gig.
I still read things sometimes in that style. Your post would be: "I pos m still annoyed by the extraneous apostrophe point I need help point Sinfonian com buried in Barry"
It's a mental illness.
jeopardy man,
will I get to see Barry up close and personal? my grass is looking like desert camo
::matthew
Maybe a little, but I think you're going to be on the drier (west) side of this one. We're getting hammered, though, here in Teh Glans™.
I'm still annoyed by the extraneous apostrophe.
I need help. - Sinfonian
Trade it with ya for the itty-bitty moth enamored of my computer screen that I can never catch.
Upstairs, y'all.
watertiger | Homepage | 06.02.07 - 12:15 am | #
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To take it the next step. Any photo released by the White House or on the AP/UPI wire is depicting a very carefully set and choreographed set play which is designed to send one and only one message to Mr. and Mrs. Reader and Viewer at home.
In a real sense, you are doing the job of a true photojournalist (ie. a documenter rather than an participant) with your selection of photos and juxtaposition of captions. When access to the President becomes as controlled and regimented as it is today, in effect, what you are doing is the closest thing we have to accurate photojournalism today.
Plus it's funny as hell.
Haloscam dead.
Doubling Down....
The number of troops in Iraq constitutes a finite number -- which is fast approaching its critical mass -- whereas, the Friedman Unit is an infinite number -- and an imaginary number, too.
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