• vortex commented on the blog post The Big Droop

    2011-10-19 14:13:39View | Delete

    According to Boardwalk Empire, Lysol.

  • vortex commented on the blog post The Big Droop

    2011-10-19 14:12:33View | Delete

    There was a lot of morality among the poor in Dickens. Also a lot of immorality. Oh, and the rich were often not at all moral, though they were sometimes thrifty.

    Just like real life.

  • vortex commented on the blog post GOP Keeps Letting Their Masks Slip

    2011-09-24 08:47:10View | Delete

    Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
    Stranger: Indeed?
    Cassilda: Indeed, it’s time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
    Stranger: I wear no mask.
    Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!

    – The King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers

  • vortex commented on the diary post Report: Scottdemort Turned Off Florida’s Republican Absentee Voters by Jim White.

    2011-02-02 18:46:20View | Delete

    “I know he’s a thief, but I’ll vote for him anyway,” one of my Republican co-workers (or cow orkers).