It’s important for Obama not to offend ANY wife. Rosen’s comment was stupid. Politically, it was indefensible. What the fuck is so difficult to understand about that?

It sure seemed to me that Romney’s quote was politically indefensible. Unless this was another example of his famous sense of humor. To suggest the distaff partner in a $250M personal fortune understands anything about women’s economic issues is beyond tone deaf. If it was wrong for Rosen to mention Mrs. Romney, it was more wrong for Romney to thrust her into the limelight to begin with.

What makes [Santorum] run?

I always figured it was too much oil.

You know it’s easy if even I can do one.

Weird. Not what you said, but synchronicity. Having packed the current and next for the holiday trip, I reread the first chapter of _How To Read Literature Like An English Professor_ while waiting for the washer to finish this morning. The chapter about quests (once you have that figured, it’s all downhill), and he said he always teaches _The Crying of Lot 49_ because it is the greatest quest novel written in the last hundred years. Not easy, but worth it. Me, I haven’t yet gotten much past the alligator hunters in _V_; three or four times.

In other words, “Quick! Run down to Walmart and get that collector’s item now! Buy two: they’re sure to appreciate even faster than ship wreck dubloons!”

And I was wondering why you would sue for $19 million over a $287,500 investment? Who’re the grifters here?

when voter caging, Diebold, Katherine Harris, and Jeb Bush, followed by a right wing Supreme court which delivered a court decision that Alvin Milk Toast Gore and William M. Daley his advisor (Obama’s CoS) rolled over for Every. Step. Of. The. Way.

I’m not sure what the correspondent would have the Gore campaign do. Appeal to a higher court? What, the Pope? Or I suppose he could have begged President Clinton to abdicate, become CinC, order troops to surround the White House and refuse to vacate on Jan. 20. Yeah, that totally would have worked.

I submit that anything beyond quietly accepting the verdict and congratulating the ‘winner’ would have been, rightly, perceived as undignified whining.

The problem with the concept of politics as battlefield is that if one adopts that attitude, how does it ever change? Politics should be about differing philosophies on how best to govern. It shouldn’t be about how can we crush the enemy and emerge victorious, pyric victory or no. How does it change if someone(s) doesn’t stand up and say, fuck it, this is how it should be done?

I’ll jump into my rainbow pony’s saddle and fly on out of here now.

Though I agree with the sentiment of your post, I think there is sort of a misapprehension regarding proving a negative. I can prove that a rational square root for, e.g., 6 does not exist. So it certainly can be done for some classes of negatives. YWYH, IPU, or even U’s in general, probably not, but some negatives can be proved.

That’s a real talent. You know, better than Lesley, how TT impressed her in his stint on TDS? So, can you tell us what she really thought when she saw him? Since you know she doesn’t know what the fuck she’s talking about, in re her impressions?

Football fandom seems to cause a disruption in the cerebellum for some.

It is about the newly passed thing by which HHS (I think) is going to provide free birth control medications to all and sundry.

Sean, you want to kill small brown people. Why do you demand that I pay for that? Why does makeup Barbie insist, free of empirical support, “No it doesn’t?”

Or Al Franken. His replacement. Same state, mostly the same progressive values, and he isn’t beholden to the DLC.

Maybe I’ve led a sheltered life, but they *charge* you to park at the movies? WTF?

Oh! Oh!1! I forgot, when the Big Thread was on (and depressed because there were so many good suggestions I’ve never read, and probably won’t have the time to so I never got to the end and so these were probably mentioned numerous times, but anyway), how about _The Witches of Karres_ by James Schmitz, and a very short, but highlarious _Bill The Galactic Hero_ by Harry Harrison.

It’s a clock. Hands; pendulum. Why it’s where it is I leave as an exercise for the snarkers.

And I’m almost sure she said, re the sifter, this is what my gm used, and I usually do too, but then she demonstrated the Cuisinart method. So which is it?

I sure hope you plan to write the songs for Solid Jaundiced White, ’cause that’s the best meta-metaphor I’ve read all day.

But do, please, write some Spamku.

Hmm…Mara’s a burst of bluebirds singing in a field of lavender sunshine compared to The Execrable Cokie (nee Boggs) Roberts. She makes my skin crawl. And self-serving though it may be, I long ago vowed to not contribute as long as there is a chance that a single penny could find its way from my pocked to hers.