To make a cup of coffee, you combine three parts hot water with one part extract.
I'd be tempted to chug the extract, especially first thing in the morning.
Then I'd die horribly of the ensuing intestinal complications, since I love coffee but it does not love me back.
Schlesinger was polling less than 10%, prior to Holy Joe losing to Richie Rich; at that point it was 51 Joe, 27 Richie IIRC. Assuming that for once Republican voters won't ignore brazen moral turpitude and Schlesinger won't improve his position, Lamont supporters are counting heavily on the stench of defeat clinging to Joe. It's not clear to me -- much as I hate to agree with Derek Lowe (how's that Iraq war working out for ya, Derek? Still happy with your vote?) -- that losing the primary will swing enough voters away from Joe or towards Lamont. My guess is we have another Independent senator on the way, but unlike Jeffords the Stealth Democrat this one is a Stealth Republican.
Lucky those medieval monks used to read on the bog.
*kicks Kip in the shins*
If the point of that monstrosity was that it's harder than it looks to write verse that rhymes and scans worth a damn, they'd made it thoroughly after about two stanzas. If there was another point in there, something about over-reliance on prescription drugs or something, it pretty much eluded me.
For someone who thinks that "too much is made of respectful demeanour and polite discourse", you have an awfully thin skin Mr Luckett. You also have an unproductive tendency to work yourself into a state of high dudgeon over "insults to all Australians", as though that population somehow needed your defense.
But eh, whatever. Life's too short.
Bill, to call Dave Luckett a Republican is meaningless.
I didn't. I made reference to an underhanded method of dispute at which it seems to me Mr Luckett is as old a hand as any Republican.
[Scene: pretty much any political discussion in the USA]
[Dramatis personae: one Bush League Republican, one normal, sane human being]
Republican: outrageous and/or disgusting statement.
Normal human: that's outrageous and/or disgusting!
R: *clutches pearls* Oh, the incivility!
NH: Huh? What you said was horrible.
R: *clutches pearls harder* See the Leftist hate! I'm being oppressed!
[continue for as many rounds as NH has patience for, with R becoming increasingly oily and oh-so-civil]
NH: Eh, whatever. Life's too short.
R: Yay, I win!
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Is it just me, or is this pattern playing out above ("Retract them and apologise, or the hell with you"... "on condition of your adherence to civilised standards")? And is this Dave the same one who wrote "I cannot help but think that too much is made of respectful demeanour and polite discourse"? (Yes, I went and read the "view all by".)
I don't like walking through my old neighbourhood - Campsie, in Sydney's south-west - and not being able to read the signs on the shops.
That fairly makes me want to puke. I used to live in Sydney, too, in Dulwich Hill. I learned the Greek alphabet (that is, what each letter sounds like) by sounding out the shop signs and asking the shop owners. I got excellent medical care from an Asian doctor whose name I couldn't pronounce to save myself. I ate wonderful Turkish pastries from a shop whose sign I couldn't read.
I like it here, and I like it the way it is
The rallying-cry of xenophobes down the ages; or, what Dan S said.
He may have written about this since I stopped reading him, but I sometimes idly wonder what Derek Lowe thinks of his Bush vote now?
(Which I realise is not a phonetic near-miss; I just had to vent.)
The phrase which always makes me wince is "very unique".
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