I'm Sister Hand Grenade of Patience but I was already Temperance... but this way, I'm Julia's twin which is good enough for me!
Human Resources departments are Satan. Even the name is offensive (although that's not the reason they're Satan). I am not some corporation's "resource".
I work at So. Calif. Edison and was working there when the crisis happened. I don't know if this is true, but I was told by several people whose opinions I respect that Edison did NOT want deregulation but saw that it was going to happen, so they went along with it trying to get the most they could out of it. I was also told that PG&E was the real culprit, but as everyone I have ever talked to at Edison thinks that PG&E = Satan, I don't know how many grains of salt to take that statement with.
TexAnne posted: Jonathan, I think even Bush realizes that appointing a horse to the Senate would be redundant, seeing as how the majority is already a bunch of horses' asses.
I think Bush himself is Incitatus (the horse) and Dick Cheney is the Caligula who appointed him.
Have been re-reading Tolkien since the day after the election. My husband knew how depressed I was when he came home and found me curled up with Fellowship of the Ring. Since finishing LOTR I've also gone thru Hobbit, Silmarillion, Letters of JRRT, Lays of Beleriand, and am currently in Lost Tales II. Next though I'm going to read Rabbi Paul which I just got from the History Book Club. I keep trying to understand and appreciate Paul even when I hate his misogyny and general attitudes about sex.
Jax's answer to Dave reflects my own view. I don't think the legal system ought to be dealing with questions of "immorality". It ought only to deal with questions of actual harm done to actual people ... in which case the obvious harm done to gays who can't get into hospitals to visit their partners, who can't get health benefits for their children, etc., far outweighs any "harm" done to people who take the Bible literally.
Charlie Stross, John Scalzi, Dan Layman-Kennedy, Jim Gardner, Emma, and many others on this thread have said it for me. Don't despair, don't mourn, organize! I too had a bad night -- too depressed to sleep, too worried about what's going to happen to the environment and Social Security, too angry about the world my new grandson has been born into ...
Dylan Thomas: "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." The light isn't dead yet, just temporarily dimmed.
Arlen posted: Had the Kerry campaign asked to rent the place, they would have gotten the same treatment (and the kids would have been asked to leave the Bush props at home).
Arlen, I'm just curious as to how you back up this assertion. As far as I can tell, the Kerry people haven't asked any Bush supporters to remove buttons, T-shirts, etc., when they show up at meetings -- although some HAVE subsequently been asked to leave when they started being disruptive. On the other hand, the Bushies have been, well, rabid on keeping out anyone who indicates even indecision on whether to vote for Bush or not. I suggest you go over to www.Billmon.org and read his 10-29 post titled "The Future Belongs To Me."
Jon Stewart is the only person I've seen who challenged any of the politicals -- Rethug or Democrat -- on anything they said, when he told Rudy Giuliani to his face, after the Veep debate I think it was, that he was, er, full of it. I'd call Stewart a "journalist" except that unfortunately, in the state of American journalism today, it would be an insult.
I'm so glad I read your blog every day, Patrick, because today's entry and comments are just great. There are serious discussions of real problems here -- not just today, but all the time, and hardly any crapola from trolls. Thanks.
Since I once wrote a book listing what I considered to be the thematic sub-genres of fantasy, and spent a lot of time defining "fantasy" as well, I have to sound off: sure, the Potters are bildungsromans and mysteries and school stories ... but they're fantasy because magic works in them. Period. The fact that they aren't Tolkien ripoffs is not diagnostic. (And an aside: J.K. Rowling's work does have a resemblance to Tolkien's in one respect: the names. Albus Dumbledore could easily be Bilbo Baggins' next-door-neighbor. She really has the touch).
Unlike Patrick, I DO object to their slamming the Democrats, specifically ... because some of this mud could be picked up by Rethuglicans and used in the wider world outside the con. Jon Stewart snarks at both parties; what's NorEasCon's excuse for calling shots on just one?
O.T.: Lenny Bailes, were you at UCLA in the 60s? I knew a guy with the same name who read science fiction and was the roommate of a friend of mine. E-mail me?
I'm just curious - how did you come to the conclusion that Texas doesn't need to be sawed off, etc.? Although I must admit that Kip W's remarks make sense!("If you can come up with a way of just sawing off the really evil bastards nominally in charge of Texas, without taking members of my family with them, I'll be happy to hold the tool chest while it takes place. Similarly, if you can come up with a similar plan in re those nominally in charge of the USA, ditto, in spades.")
Oh, and can I be Minister of Pants?
Xopher posts: And he thinks couples who discover after marriage that they have fertility problems should get annulments?
Sad to say, he probably thinks couples who discover fertility problems after marriage should be forced to get annulments ... thereby leaving out any chance that they might decide to stay married anyway. Right now I don't put a lot of credence into anything Catholic priests say about sex, for obvious reasons. (Assuming he was Catholic -- Julia actually didn't say).
Nobody should be surprised that this is Rumsfeld's attitude, because it's the same attitude all the Bushies have about anything they do. Punish anyone else severely, but if we do something, we had good intentions -- or in even plainer English, the rules we force you to follow don't apply to us. Schmucks.
"I could care less ... [unspoken: but it's hard to see how]". I dunno, somehow it sounds better than "I couldn't care less."
Paula, I couldn't agree with you more about Pres. Chimpy's pride in his anti-intellectualism. I'm constantly reminded of whoever it was who said, "The man who does not read is no better off than the man who cannot read."
Sherman. A man whose aides, one and all, not only respected but loved him. A general who, like General Eric Shinseki over Bushwah II, [almost] ended his career when he told the political authorities the truth about what it was going to take to defeat the Confederacy ... and came back to do it. My only complaint is that Atlanta didn't stay burned to the ground.
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