Because I am poor and can’t afford any gadgets, I have Kindle for PC. Works just fine.

Bassets don’t really do JOY! so much, do they?

Thank you, Jenn et al. Yes, I have been stupid in overlooking all that backstory. I do remember the purple heart band-aids.And chickenhawks are a despicable bunch of people.Snark away.

Bummer.No zip code = no can read Romney.The commentariat,however, gave me the gist. France “service” again, huh? Didn’t Mormons get out of the draft as religious Conscientious Objectors, anyway? Look, I don’t like this Romneybot one iota but it was a lousy war and, if we can applaud Bill Clinton for getting out of it, why can’t we just shrug and say Meh about Mitt’s non-service? I mean, surely only fellow weasels/wingnuts (but I am otiose here)should attack him on those specific grounds.Or am I, a mere furriner, missing something?

I suspect La Noonan was part of the focus group that Mitt’s writers tested that deeply “spontaneous” jokette out on.She knows a little too much about its “cross-generational appeal”.Hmm?

Ya know, for all of her insistence that this movie was made for the sole purpose of being mean to Da Souf, the original, which showed people just as bad and violent, was set in rural England.
Possibly she overlooked this.

tejaranusa (sp?). I am a longtime lurker and devourer of the left blogosphere;I just very rarely have anything to contribute. Why, I was loving ol’ TBogg before he made the Great Trek over to these here premises.But I ain’t very articulate, so keep a low profile.

But, surely, Mr Bogg, your esteemed commentariat only really sprang to life (so to say)at your post introducing Shakira’s ass to the masses?Surely this was a seminal (oops) post?

Ah, you have to turn over the ball – OK, lights are starting to glimmer.And no scoring for yards – gotcha.Thanks, Meep.
Hardtoport – The Difference (IMHO) QBs can pass forward – that’s against the rules of rugby. Only backwards allowed.Agreed – the hakea is badass. Intimidates the hell out of opponents. The SAfrican team should be doing a Zulu war dance – also scary as hell.
Re Madiba. His health has been fading for a coupla years now. More or less bedridden and the journo vultures have been circling for a while. But I don’t think it will be that much longer, to be honest, until we hear the echoes of grief throughout the land.I’m sewing my black armband in readiness.
Thanks to y’all for the guidance on this rules-laden “sport”.

Touchdowns and kicking scores make sense to me (that’s like rugby)but all the talk about yards gained makes no sense. Do you score points based on the number of yards the ball travels? Or the player runs?Or what?This is where, scoring-wise, you lose me.
I am a SAfrican, raised in rugby and metric-talking.

I have never watched a game of US football but the little I have caught makes me feel that it’s a really silly misuse of rugby which I know and understand.Thanks entirely to TBogg and you commenters, I have read more about this entirely foolish pursuit in the last.. oh, weeks…than in my entire life to date.So, to summarise, this TT/Jesus guy is lousy at whatever he has to do but a good defensive team allows him to pull off a winner in the last few minutes.Right?
Re “winner” – Touchdowns I get but how do you score so many “yards”?

Merely because I only come here to check out the bassets and b) read some great snark, I hereby add my voice to those above calling poncho a …….

Yet again I am forced to remind you, Mr Bogg,of the global nature of this here enterprise.I am looking at snow-covered mountains and very pretty they are too but my fingers are bloody freezing off.
Western Cape, SAfrica has a Mediterranean climate similar to Southern California, they tell me, and yup, we don’t do extremes.But we suffer through the relative heat and cold just as much as people in Iceland.

D, righteous rant,comrade.(or should I avoid anything sounding like the dreaded soshulism?)
And, as usual, right on the button.Excellent.

Excuuuuse me, Mr Bogg. May I remind you that you have devoted followers scattered to the Farflung Corners of the Globe, not just in the good ol’ US of A.? And not all of us are that convinced that throwing off the Yoke of British Imperialism was such a good thing for the rest of us. After all, Canada didn’t and they are much nicer people (as a country).Happy Canada Day.

Ya know, whoever wrote that is not a total loon.I mean, I think those are almost reasonable for SP.

My biggest problem with the War on Terra has always been – how do you know when you’ve won? When can you say Victory Yay! and go home? Osama dead ? Ain’t gonna do it.What is?

The L&T Casey is a woman, right? So she has to read Sheri S Tepper, right? And of course The Handmaid’s Tale which is rapidly turning from SF to prediction.Not that I am a feminist proselytiser(sp?) , No, No.

One always hesitates to contradict anyone on FDL but that’s Mr Bean, not Fawlty Towers.