I believe this wins the internets.

If Timmy would just just shut up, show up and go to work somewhere he could probably get a job running down kick returners and running the option on 2-point conversions. The worst — the WORST — thing about Tebow is that he purports to be a humble servant of the Lord but is in fact the most narcissistic, self-aggrandizing self-promoter since Deion Sanders. Who could actually play football.

Medgar Evers was a black man who died trying to advance the cause of BLACK people. It would be stupid not to think of his skin color while thinking of him. I do, in fact, think of Thomas Jefferson’s whiteness when I reflect fully on his life, especially when I think of his status as a slaveowner and when I think of him and Sally Hemmings — and though I am hesitant to admit it now, yes, when I think of Sally Hemmings I do think of a black person and I do think of a woman.

Thanks for the actual quote.

Hey, I don’t LIVE on Fire Dog Lake. I just visit. :)

do you have a citation or does the Bay Area Whatever have a citation for the “traitor” quote? I would be interested in seeing that.

“greasy.” interesting word choice.

Right. And why wouldn’t the word “gay” occur to someone when the name Harvey Milk comes up? He was THE most prominent and courageous gay politician in the country when he was murdered. Or “black” if Medgar Evers’ name comes up? His life and death were defined by his color.

But Ellsberg KNEW WHAT HE HAD when he took it to the news media.

Well conflated.

If you needed Bradley Manning to figure out that crimes were being committed on a high-volume basis then you were not paying attention.

Perhaps I’m missing some salient point, but what about Manning’s act compares to Sister Roma’s wholly courageous activism on behalf of LGBT issues? What does Manning’s sexual orientation have to do with the actions he took?

Yeah, that totally fits the pattern. Tbogg hates Muslims. It’s totally clear. Anyone can see it.

A civil answer to a couple of civil questions, if you don’t mind:
Are you saying that the gay service members who object to Manning’s actions
are all “pro-war crimes,” and “pro torture?” Are you asserting that these service members are part of or are backed by the Log Cabin Republicans?
Citations would be helpful because absent any corroboration, you’re just making aimless charges.

Zillow sez the place is worth about $2 million. So, maybe the deduction is legit and maybe he’s not so much a plucky man of the people but just another fucking Republican fat cat.

I just did a recount: there are still zero indie record stores in my burg. same number in the three adjoining OC burgs. The nearest is half a county away, or, in tbogg equivalent geography, from PB to Jamul.

For the record, I’m not with tbogg on this one. Obama needs to keep his leering to himself. For one day — and one day only — he deserved to get nicked for what he said. It’s over now, he apologized. But tbogg’s link was responsive, in its entirety, no matter your trivializing about Ginsburg being in a shot with the two women he DID appoint. And you don’t do yourself any favors by making female SCOTUS appointees into TWOFERS or by dismissing a panoply of Cabinet heads as somehow not being key positions.
And, by the way, one Secretary of State is worth about 8 other Cabinet heads collectively and, say, 20 other “key positions.” If I weren’t an Obamabot, I’d say it’s too bad Obama caved on the Susan Rice nomination to replace Hillary, but because I am one, apparently, I can’t.

I’m usually with you, tbogg, but the president hosed himself and the rest of us this time. Time to break out the lawnmower parable.

About the rainbow wheel: this may be ridiculously off point, but IF you upgraded to MountainLion and IF you have an HP printer I can almost guarantee that if you turn off the printer your Mac will speed up.

It’s not worse than ever, but it’s much worse than it has been for a long time and it gets worse by the day. Thirteen people got shot up on a single street corner in D.C. in one night. That’s way worse than anything in my six decades and while that’s a high number for a drive-by shoot-out, it’s not isolated or aberrant — or excusable by comparing the behavior to the millions of non-lethal incidents occurring at the same time. This particular madness is a Newtown variant, a consequence of unchecked, rapacious, nihilistic capitalists cynically making sure a bunch of criminals — future clients for the prison industry — have all the weapons they need to get their bloody points across and a passive, bought-out state unwilling to fund mental health care or, shit, a decent attempt to put people to work. The state has become an active partner to a plutocracy that’s blissfully making a buck off the madness.