The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by sennoma:

Although the parent site is a sewer, Ask Metafilter is moderated and often pretty interesting. Though it feels a little like poking a wasp's nest with a stick, I thought I would draw attention here to this question, which begins " SciFiLit: I don't get it. Help me to."

I think this:

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/californiastatecases/s081910.pdf

is the url JvP wanted. Note that it's a (ugh) pdf.

Teresa, even good guys step on toes. I second wren's annoyance.


I come to this blog when I need to get reinvigorated by like minded folks.

Might I suggest that this blog does not exist to satisfy your needs?

Teresa: The only logical explanation I can see is that the people pushing for this change don't anticipate the long-term continuation of the Senate in its current form.

My feeling exactly. There is a faction in the right wing of American politics, though I'm not sure just how powerful it really is, that wants All The Power Forever -- as Randolph puts it, to install an aristocracy. This fills me with a horror I find difficult to articulate.

Digby's point (via Patrick above) is soothing to me, though, as is talk of the "natural-born fighting contrariness of people in general, and Americans in particular".

Erik's analysis, oddly, seems to offer another gleam of hope, when combined with julia's comments about McCain and the fact that the GOP7 have passed a point of no return with their unforgiving party. There appears to be a widening rift between the hardline, largely Christianist, compromise-allergic right wing of the GOP and more moderate Republicans. Could the GOP7 be positioning themselves for a split? Even if it's not a split into separate parties, real conflict between two GOP factions -- say, Jeb vs. McCain in the primaries -- would be good news for thinking people everywhere.

Andy, dammit, I'd have paid money for that if you'd only emailed me first.

The general sense of the phrase is to put something into a gap or hole, like a breach in the enemy's line. Yes?

Yes; like I said, my bad. I wasn't mangling the famous phrase but failing to realise that it would confuse my attempted imagery. If I'd known anything about guns I'd have said "into the magazine" or wherever it is one loads bullets, and then none of this would have happened.

that the confusion of "breach" with "breech"

Does one not, er, crank (or something) bullets into the breech of at least some types of gun? That was the metaphor I was after, Frist firing nutjob judges at the Dems. There is no breach that I can think of into which to crank said nutjobs.

My bad, nonetheless, since my meaning was obviously not clear.

And you're not making me feel better, Patrick. I want to be wrong about this.

I'm with Max. Julia: Frist doesn't care that seven repubs told him to get stuffed; he'll see to it that their careers die horribly (the only lasting positive I can see here) and crank another nutjob into the judicial breech so as to precipitate a second nucular option when the Dems filibuster. Digby: it's not been put off for long, I'll lay odds. Gilliard: huh? Sure, Dobson's scum, but he's not the only thing that matters. Come to that, I'm not convinced he's appreciably "weakened" by losing the support of seven GOP stooges, and he certainly isn't stopped.

All I see is three whackjobs on the bench in exchange for no nukes this time.

I'd love to be convinced I'm wrong, though.

Every fool knows that.

Quite.

As is my wont, all I see here are disadvantages of the kind that Dori points out. If you don't mind me asking, what is it about the merged blog that appeals to you both?

(I have no dog in this what ain't a fight: I'll link and read you both wherever you are. I'm just curious.)

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