The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Annalee Flower Horne:

Thank you, Teresa-- funniest comment on this I've seen so far.

Everyone here in NI who's heard of the incident thinks it's ridiculous that it became a big deal. I think a friend of mine from Belfast said it best when she noted that usually, when people blow things up, they hide the explosives instead of covering them with LEDs.

The whole thing's pretty farsical when you look at it from this side of the pond (probably less so when you're getting arrested over it, though). IMO, the best thing for the honorable civil servants of Boston to do would have been to laugh at themselves over it. That was their best chance to save face. I can see why they missed said chance, though: it probably had blinking lights attached to it.

I just want to take a second to thank Uncle Jim and the Nielsen Haydens (and anyone else who posts here that I'm missing-- the lj feed doesn't name the poster) for continuing to keep up with and post about important issues like this.

The bilge that's been spewing out of the whitehouse for the past six years literally makes me ill. I have to keep up with current events because of my major, but even then, there are days that I don't want to touch or discuss the news because of how utterly powerless it makes me feel. That quote about the power of a small, dedicated group of people's capacity to change the world has taken on a terrifying dimension since Bush took office. I'm so sick of being angry and afraid that it's hard to resist the urge to bury my head in the sand and just ignore it all.

Thank you guys for not doing that. Thank you for being willing to say 'hey, this is stupid bull****;' even when you know it's going to mean dealing with idiots, trolls, and trawling idiots. Even if it doesn't seem like blogging about this sort of thing makes a direct difference, it does make an indirect one. It's helped to give at least one person the hope to not give up entirely on this country and leave it to the fundies.

That said: Tax cuts? WTf'nH?

...Yeah, let's tax the middle class in order to pay for health care for other parts of the middle class instead of asking the rich to pick up the tab for the poor. That sounds fair, right? After all, if our dear leader is any indication, the rich always have each other's back. Why shouldn't the middle class follow their example? It'll kill the poor? Feh! If they're going to die, they should go ahead and do it. It will decrease the surplus population.

...Worst. President. Ever.

Ok, that might be an exaggeration. It's possible than Andrew Jackson was worse. I wouldn't put money on it, but it's possible.

Very classy of them.

I'm not really into online gaming in general (nothing against it, mind, just not my cuppa), so I'm only vaguely aware of second life (I seem to recall something about the US Government trying to tax linden dollars or something).

But I agree: very, very classy of them to take the joke as a joke and move on. It's also clearly a good business decision, because it's generating postive press, links, and exposure.

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