Marilee @ 40: Q: What's the shortest flight in America?
A: National to the 14th Street Bridge.
Thanks! I'll be here all week! Don't forget to tip your dead baby waitresses!
ajay@16: Aaaah! Curse your sudden but inevitable dance number!
"Dance number"? "Dance number"?!
It's a dream ballet, dammit!
So: Who's Agnes DeMille in this whole mishigas?
shadowsong@45: I can't handle Barrowman, period. nnnnggghhh....
Alan Beatty@88: No, I'm not in the recording industry, but I have been in the past. And many of my friends are still in it. I live in Nashville, the songwriting capital of the world. None of my representatives will ever, ever do anything to loosen up copyright restrictions; that's just a given. And not a particular concern of mine.
But entertainment execs and lawyers have always trended liberal and have always been big contributors to Democratic candidates. Why would Obama be any different?
As to financiers, why wouldn't they want a return to sane(r) economic policy?
And who the hell do you think is contributing to McCain's campaign? Ten thousand nuns & orphans?
What about the fact that he's skirting FEC regulations based on the very law with his own personal name on it?
Look, nobody gets elected president without some major scratch. My point was that a huge chunk of Obama's money is coming from ordinary working stiffs—and lots of 'em, by God!—which is why the whining about his not accepting public financing is horseshit.
Allen Beatty @55: Plus I have to wonder what he has promised to which special interests in order to raise all that money.
The "special interests" of which you speak are schlubs like me. Please do pay attention.
Chris@58: I'm with you. Barr's statement sounds like standard, polite, speak-no-ill-of-the-dead stuff. It's not something I would use to figure out Barr's real beliefs, so I think PNH is off the mark here.
I think libertarianism overall is a crock of shit, but I'm happy to have them on my team when our interests overlap on issues like the ones mentioned above.
Coalitions are go!
Summer Storms@63: It's gotta be. The phrase, "Man's law, not God's," is plucked straight from A Man For All Seasons, where the great martyr St. Thomas More argues in favor of the rule of law.
Or maybe I just watched that flick too much last weekend.
I love the writing style: "...each slice the counterpart of its fellows."
It seems so quaint, yet it wasn't written that long ago.
I guess this explains why I never got into ad copywriting.
#27 heresiarch: You have been misled by right-wing demagogues about the purpose of the Supreme Court.
Inherent rights cannot be subject to majority rule.
That is all.
Josh Jasper@8: Is Kucinich a lawyer? I personally favor AG Edwards, as he had the presence of mind immediately after 9/11 to at least work sunset provisions into the odious PATRIOT Act, when all around him were going nutso.
Golly, you guys! Would anybody like a cigarette?
Y'know what's funny? Martin Luther, who started the whole Big Bang that resulted in the creation of these (heretic) churches, was famously indifferent to what we think of as "traditional" gender roles.
His wife was the breadwinner, but beyond that, I remember a passage from his work where he talks about changing poopy diapers, and the people who would call him a girly-man for doing it.
He told them to piss off, that raising children was the Lord's work and was not to be diminished, no matter who did it.
How beautiful a cat is George Takei?! What faith his parents taught him—in this country, in its Constitution, in its people—that he could come out of an internment camp with such love and such a desire to work for the community.
And now he's all gay-married to his longtime partner! He's like a living illustration of Martin Luther King's idea: the arc of his history has bent toward justice, in a big, big way.
Y'know what's funny to me?
Sen. Cornyn's complexion. I'm a firm believer in the power of sunscreen, but if you're going to pass yourself off as a cowboy, shouldn't you have a little cragginess going on?
He looks like a saggier Pillsbury Doughboy.
The mishigas in the Episcopal Church is not a function of its polity. There are outside forces fomenting strife in order to cause a schism.
The more hierarchical the religious organization, the more complete the suppression, would be my guess.
Actually, no.
A hierarchy serves as a peer review panel. A lectionary forces you to preach all the gospel, not just a few pet passages.
There's more room for mischief in a congregational polity than an episcopal one. The relationship between a pastor and his flock is so ripe for exploitation that it needs limits.
I think that's pretty much assumed in here, isn't it? That we're all speaking for ourselves?
Yeah, but something about Mr. Wisse's phrasing kind of came off like a statement of fact, rather than opinion. But now that I look at it again, I was probably assuming too much.
This is what I would like to hear more about. In what way(s) does it seem ridiculous to you?
Short answer 'cause I gotta run: Because scientific discovery exposes more of God's handiwork.
The problem with that approach is that the more the how is explained, the less room there is for a why....
Speak for yourself. I mean, if your concept of God is that puny, I can see why you have no interest, but remember it is your concept.
The idea that continued scientific progress somehow chips away at God is ridiculous to me.
As I understand it, early Protestants tried to take the line of literal truth as a way of defining what Christianity really is, versus what the [Roman] church had made it over the centuries. It didn't work, which is why there are so many varieties of Protestantism.
Um, no. Literalism is a 19th century invention. The Reformation was about a waxy yellow build-up of dogma and canon law that got so elaborate it conflicted with scripture.
Constance @108
You're right about ol' Br. Marty. He was way ahead of his time when it came to sex and marriage and gender roles. God bless your mama.
I think England has "Peter Pan" under an infinite copyright term.
No, it was willed to the Greater Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London. I remember because I used to get pediatric research papers from them.
But we could be saying the same thing, since England has a national health care system, unlike certain other countries I could name.
It's a sad day. When I first heard they were shutting down, I thought they said they were going to continue on the Web.
That Post article was really good.
In slightly less surreal (and off-topic) news, Clownhall has just introduced its own vanity press! It's a collision of Miss Teresa's fave topics, sleazy publishers and wingnuttery!
I hope she sells the movie rights.
Mmmm...I'm thinkin' sitcom. No, really—cute, blonde soccer mom who's also an International Woman of Mystery? Think Austin Powers meets Bewitched!
It's comedy gold, people!
Our heroine schedules a clandestine meeting with an international arms dealer at the same time as the PTA coffee klatsch, and we're off to the races with zany hijinx galore!
Nosy neighbors are a sitcom staple, but when the nosy neighbor is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, well, look out, free world!
I have to laugh, or else I'd jump off the Shelby Street Bridge.
I seem to recall hearing that that newspaper refused to print cartoons of the same flavor, by the same artist, with Jesus as the subject.
Not the same artist(s). The Jesus cartoons came in over the transom, and were rejected because they might offend. So the editors were concerned about offending Christians; Muslims, not so much, to the point where they solicited cartoons after learning that any depiction of Mohammed is offensive to many Muslims.
I don't know about the Christian associations of the paper. They may not be what we in America would assume. In Europe, Lutherans are called evangelicals, as that's what they called themselves during the Reformation. "Lutheran" was a Catholic epithet meant to insinuate that they worshipped Martin Luther. In Germany, "evangelische" means Lutheran, and "evangelikal" denotes American-style evangelical Christianity. The Church of Denmark is Lutheran, and is still state-sponsored, so 95% or so of the population is technically Lutheran, but very few actually go to church.
At least that's what I've picked up as an American Lutheran. The Europeans in these parts may have corrections/clarifications.
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