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Open Thread: War-Against-Xmas Shopping Season Begins!

by Anne Laurie|  October 23, 20096:22 am| 158 Comments

This post is in: Lies, Damned Lies, and Sarah Palin, Open Threads

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An American Nightmare

Via The Mudflats, the blog that did so much to bring attention to Sarah Palin’s less-than-starburstacular career before William ‘Wrong Again’ Kristol cruised Juneau:

To anticipate your next question, no this is not a joke, or some fabulous Photoshop creation by the Mudflats Art Department (flyinureye). It is in fact the real cover and the real title of a real book that will be in bookstores on November 17, also too.

“Going Rouge is compiled by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, two top editors of the left-leaning weekly The Nation, and includes essays by Nation regulars like Katrina vanden Heuvel, Naomi Klein, and Katha Pollitt. It’s the first release from OR Books, a fledgling outfit founded earlier this year by publishing veterans John Oakes and Colin Robinson that “embraces progressive change in politics, culture and the way we do business,” according to its website.”

But wait, there’s more! In addition to those listed above, Mudflatters will be able to enjoy essays by Max Blumenthal, Shannyn Moore, and yes,…. yours truly! I was quite honored to be asked to write a piece for the book.

It is a deep, deep disappointment to me that Amazon not only has failed to make this thrilling tome available for pre-order, but when I typed GOING ROUGE into the search bar, they suggested I “meant” that other book, the unintentional parody. I may be dyslexic, Amazon, but I’m not a godsdamned idiot!

EDIT: Meant to credit Valdivia for bringing this to my attention.

And unfortunately WordPress (FYWP) won’t let me ‘fix’ the link:
http:www.themudflats.net/2009/10/21/going-rogue-vs-going-rouge/

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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 23, 2009 at 6:36 am

    This is one of the bestest stories I’ve heard in a long time. Too funny that Amazon tried to force a correction. What a brilliant thing for the Mudflats folks to do. Will there be a lawsuit over this, do you think? *That* would be some kind of fun! Not that there are any grounds, but when was that ever an obstacle to a determined wingnut? Maybe Oily Titz could take the case.

    In other news, Bitsy has cleared the 5,000 mark! My vote put her at 5,011. GO BITSY!

  2. 2.

    demkat620

    October 23, 2009 at 6:42 am

    Okay I haven’t seen morning Joke in a while but, did it get stupider?

    It is enough to make you cry for humanity.

    And Good Morning Anne Laurie!

  3. 3.

    valdivia

    October 23, 2009 at 6:45 am

    morning all. I’d linked to this yesterday because it seeme like the funniest thing. Just the thought of the Palin people buying this book by mistake–a book with essays by writers from The Nation–just too good for words.

    And–vote Bitsy. She is over 5000! how did that happen???

  4. 4.

    valdivia

    October 23, 2009 at 6:48 am

    of course I said more of less the same thing as Siubhan. Sorry. But do seriously go vote for Bitsy and have everyone vote for her. Rufus is not far behind.

  5. 5.

    Tattoosydney

    October 23, 2009 at 6:58 am

    Your link is broken, Anne Laurie…

  6. 6.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    October 23, 2009 at 7:04 am

    fReichtards compare Sarah Palin to Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman in 5…4…3…

    This is great. Can’t wait for the lawsuit. Especially the one Palin files because the publisher won’t bother.

  7. 7.

    Ash Can

    October 23, 2009 at 7:08 am

    @valdivia: You would think that the “American Nightmare” bit on the cover of the spoof would tip them off. Then again, Palinistas are probably not known for such skills as reading comprehension.

    I’m still cracking up over her endorsement of the Conservative Party candidate in NY-23 over the GOP candidate, and her bitching in the process about the GOP not being wacko enough. (I was just reading about this over at the GOS; not surprisingly Michele Bachmann agrees with her.) I’m honestly looking forward to seeing how this all plays out within the GOP — not because I want to see the GOP destroyed, but because I think sanity will ultimately be restored to the party (or whatever its incarnation works out to be) once all the crazy is burned through. It should make for interesting mid-terms, that’s for sure. (Once in a while I have a small fear that the batshit is peaking a little too soon for the 2012 elections, but then I remind myself that there’s still plenty of crazy to go around. Coupled with the GOP leadership’s formidable powers of denial, it makes me feel that I have no reason to worry.)

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 23, 2009 at 7:09 am

    @demkat620

    I’m not sure how a show can “get stupider” when its starting point is pretty close to Absolute Stupid (is this one of those impossible concepts, like “approaching Peak Wingnut”?). But that said, I had MJ on this morning for perhaps 10 minutes before I couldn’t stand it any longer. No particular story, or line, or sneer — just the overall tone. Joe’s pomposity, Mika’s whining, and Willie’s sophomoricity combined to send me shuddering for the remote.

    Was there something specific today that prompted your comment, or just MJ’s Stupid in General?

  9. 9.

    Sanka

    October 23, 2009 at 7:09 am

    It is in fact the real cover and the real title of a real book that will be in bookstores on November 17

    Supposedly The Nation is comprised of intelligent people who, when given the chance, will always remind us of that fact. Something like this, is not only stupid, but just like the President’s idiotic and childish vendetta against FOX News, is petty and immature.

    The old adage in politics is, when you’re being attacked, it’s because you’re some sort of threat.

    Obviously, Sarah Palin is a serious and considerable threat to the Left. How else to explain this non-sensical behavior, and the simpleton minds of yours.

    Keep at it people, eventually the sheeple wear pretty thin at your pettiness, and act accordingly.

    Keep at it…I implore you.

  10. 10.

    demkat620

    October 23, 2009 at 7:12 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: Yes. The discussion of Kimberly Strassel’s op-ed “The Chicago Way” in the WSJ.

    Dear god, “He’s in trouble on a lot of fronts” Did we just dream the lasy eight years?

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 23, 2009 at 7:18 am

    @demkat620

    Thanks. I think I bolted just as that was starting.

  12. 12.

    Scott

    October 23, 2009 at 7:22 am

    The old adage in politics is, when you’re being attacked, it’s because you’re some sort of threat.

    So that’s why Republicans keep attacking America…

  13. 13.

    dmsilev

    October 23, 2009 at 7:26 am

    @Sanka:

    The old adage in politics is, when you’re being attacked, it’s because you’re some sort of threat.

    Then Republicans must be the most threatened group of people on the face of the planet.

    -dms

  14. 14.

    camchuck

    October 23, 2009 at 7:31 am

    Can they get Tina Fey to do a book signing? That would be the cherry on top.

  15. 15.

    Bob (Not B.o.B.)

    October 23, 2009 at 7:32 am

    The old adage in politics is, when you’re being attacked, it’s because you’re some sort of threat.

    Yes a Palin Presidency is a threat to America’s (and the world’s) well-being.

  16. 16.

    Ash Can

    October 23, 2009 at 7:32 am

    @Sanka:

    The old adage in politics is, when you’re being attacked, it’s because you’re some sort of threat.

    We’re pointing and laughing. It’s because Palin is some sort of hilarious.

    Much more important, though, it’s not about what or who Palin is, but what she represents: A GOP leadership so feckless that it will select a Vice Presidential candidate on the basis of looks alone and with no vetting, who goes on to all but personify the main fault line within the GOP. She and the not-insignificant number of people on the right rallying around her all but guarantee disarray within the party for years to come. She’s a threat, all right — to the party itself.

  17. 17.

    jon

    October 23, 2009 at 7:35 am

    The Wingnuttery Goodness folk will just be sure to put a Fox News sticker on the “real” Sarah Palin book. They’re ready for this. Also, price war! They’ll cut the prices like a GOP candidate wants to cut capital gains taxes.

  18. 18.

    MikeJ

    October 23, 2009 at 7:35 am

    What’s funny is Palin picking a side in ny-23. In ’66 Nixon found republican districts that had gone dem on LBJ’s coattails. He campaigned heavily for people who were going to win anyway and then pointed at his involvement as the reason they won. The wingnuts are going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

  19. 19.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 23, 2009 at 7:36 am

    @camchuck

    I would pay very good money to see that! Brilliant idea. You should send it to Mudflats. Srsly.

  20. 20.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 7:46 am

    @Sanka: Just go back to the top of the thread and enjoy your starbursts. I implore you!

  21. 21.

    WereBear

    October 23, 2009 at 7:48 am

    This is a hoot on many levels. But how many of them will buy it, and never know they got the wrong one?

  22. 22.

    Ken G.

    October 23, 2009 at 7:55 am

    I don’t find it funny. I do think Sarah Palin’s an “American Nightmare” but to title the book “going rouge” seems like targeting her for being a woman. It’s petty and mean-spirited, more worthy of Rush than of the Nation.

  23. 23.

    MikeJ

    October 23, 2009 at 8:00 am

    to title the book “going rouge” seems like targeting her for being a woman.

    WTF? It’s targeting people who are bad speelers. I can’t tell you how many people got mad at me when I ran a mmorpg in which you could not play a “rouge”.

  24. 24.

    Napoleon

    October 23, 2009 at 8:01 am

    @Ash Can:

    My opinion is you will not see a serious purging of the crazy from the Republicans until 2016 if they loose the presidential election to the Democrat (and even then assuming a pretty clear victory and Obama was reelected and the Dems do not cough up either chamber in an election). Until that happens they will always have the excuse dejure to lien on (stuff like, of course Obama was going to be re-elected, most presidents are). It will not be until then with the Dems winning the White House 3 times in a row that reality sets in with enough Republicans for a purge to get underway.

    So buckle up for the ride.

  25. 25.

    mai naem

    October 23, 2009 at 8:06 am

    Sarah Palin is small potatoes. I want them to do the same exact thing when Dick Cheney’s book comes out. To screw Dick Cheney out of even one single penny is a good thing. He should never ever be able to make a penny off being Veep.

  26. 26.

    RememberNovember

    October 23, 2009 at 8:09 am

    Wonder how many Palindrones will buy the pastiche instead of Saras book because they can’t spell! Would be a hoot if it pumped the sales of The Nation book.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 23, 2009 at 8:10 am

    @Ken G

    Where did you stand last year during the whole “lipstick on a pig” freakout?

    /rhetorical question

  28. 28.

    Napoleon

    October 23, 2009 at 8:13 am

    @Sanka:

    Something like this, is not only stupid, but just like the President’s idiotic and childish vendetta against FOX News, is petty and immature.

    Are you kidding, that is the best thing he has done since he came to office and when they succeed in educating 60-70% of the population what a fraud Fox is every time someone like you says “I saw on Fox. . . ” most of your audience will tune you out on the assumption you are a one of “those” wackos.

  29. 29.

    satby

    October 23, 2009 at 8:13 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    In other news, Bitsy has cleared the 5,000 mark! My vote put her at 5,011. GO BITSY

    Wolcott put her on his blog too.

  30. 30.

    RememberNovember

    October 23, 2009 at 8:13 am

    @Sanka:

    Dude,( or dudette) switch to real decaf. It’s an obvious play on words, and yes may hint at Palin’s overweaning self-centeredism during the campaign. She painted the big old bull-moose bullseye on herself, so stop projecting that it’s the Left’s fear of her power. She is in truth pathetic and has shown her incompetency and incuriousity every step of the way. She’s the gift that keeps on giving! It is much the same as the mockeries made of Dan Quayle. Quayle, however had the advantage of being Veep to a somewhat capable President.

    Pop quiz. Where is DQ now?

    I thought so.

  31. 31.

    geg6

    October 23, 2009 at 8:14 am

    @Ken G.:

    Well, as a woman, I find it hysterically funny. Why do people think women don’t have a sense of humor about themselves?

  32. 32.

    Morbo

    October 23, 2009 at 8:16 am

    @Sanka:

    Keep at it people, eventually the sheeple wear pretty thin at your pettiness, and act accordingly.
    .
    Keep at it…I implore you.

    David Frum reads Balloon Juice, cool.

  33. 33.

    geg6

    October 23, 2009 at 8:17 am

    @Sanka:

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Yeah, dude. She scares the shit outta me.

  34. 34.

    geg6

    October 23, 2009 at 8:18 am

    By the way, Bitsy is at 5151.

  35. 35.

    Fulcanelli

    October 23, 2009 at 8:33 am

    @Sanka: Dude, if that’s your A game, you’re fucked.

  36. 36.

    Ming

    October 23, 2009 at 8:35 am

    You know what would be teh awesome? 2012, Palin makes a run to be the Republican candidate and is, after some waffling, rejected. She then “goes rogue” and RUNS AS AN INDEPENDENT, taking with her Rush, Beck, Kristol and all Real Amurrkins, and sucking the final last gasping breaths out of the Republican party (imagine her hovering like a dementor over Dudley, siphoning the soul out of him).

    Would this not be classic La Palin? Does she not possess precisely the hubris, tunnel vision, photogenicity, and rabid supporters required to pull such a stunt?

  37. 37.

    Napoleon

    October 23, 2009 at 8:39 am

    @geg6:

    Her winning the Republican nomination would be an unmitigated disaster for that party. It would take 20-40 years for the stench that will then follow Republicans everywhere to dissipate.

  38. 38.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 8:39 am

    Apropos of nothing. I found my new cat, “Junior”, curled up asleep in the bathroom sink this morning. Is that normal? I thought maybe he was thirsty, but nope.

  39. 39.

    RedKitten

    October 23, 2009 at 8:41 am

    I don’t find it funny. I do think Sarah Palin’s an “American Nightmare” but to title the book “going rouge” seems like targeting her for being a woman

    Um, no. It’s targeting her and her ilk for being a half-literate nimrod.

    Besides…nobody calls blush “rouge” anymore unless they’re at least 80 years old, so the only ones offended by this would be elderly Palin-bots.

    Or Pol Pot aficionados.

  40. 40.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 8:44 am

    @RedKitten: Oooh, nice catch. I wondered if anyone would make the Khmer Rouge connection.

  41. 41.

    mr. whipple

    October 23, 2009 at 8:44 am

    You know what would be teh awesome? 2012, Palin makes a run to be the Republican candidate and is, after some waffling, rejected. She then “goes rogue” and RUNS AS AN INDEPENDENT, taking with her Rush, Beck, Kristol and all Real Amurrkins, and sucking the final last gasping breaths out of the Republican party (imagine her hovering like a dementor over Dudley, siphoning the soul out of him).

    I think I just splooged in my PJ’s.

    Sadly, the baby Jesus doesn’t love me enough for this to happen.

  42. 42.

    Cat Lady

    October 23, 2009 at 8:46 am

    @2th&nayle:

    It wouldn’t be normal if he stayed there when you turned the water on.

  43. 43.

    R-Jud

    October 23, 2009 at 8:48 am

    I’m pretty sure the book is called “Going Rouge” because one of the Fox FemmeBots read it out that way by mistake on the air.

    Bitsy was at 5200 when I voted just now.

  44. 44.

    RedKitten

    October 23, 2009 at 8:48 am

    She then “goes rogue” and RUNS AS AN INDEPENDENT, taking with her Rush, Beck, Kristol and all Real Amurrkins, and sucking the final last gasping breaths out of the Republican party (imagine her hovering like a dementor over Dudley, siphoning the soul out of him).

    That would be awesome. It would either suck all of the crazy out of the Republican Party, or if her sycophants decided to stick with the devil they knew (i.e. the GOP), would marginalize Palin to utter irrelevancy.

  45. 45.

    Nethead Jay

    October 23, 2009 at 8:51 am

    @Ming: Man, that would be EPIC!

  46. 46.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 8:51 am

    @Cat Lady: It is where he likes to drink. Won’t drink from a regular bowl of water. Doesn’t seem too concerned about getting water splattered on him when he’s getting a drink. Never seen a cat do that before.

  47. 47.

    Arguingwithsignposts - ipod touchs

    October 23, 2009 at 8:52 am

    Ot, but Ann coulter was just on gma saying basically that bho is going to bring about armageddon. Oh, and it’s still bush’s world and we’re just living in it. Idiots on parade

  48. 48.

    Demo Woman

    October 23, 2009 at 8:53 am

    It’s unfortunate that some take offense at the new book about Palin. I have to wonder if those are the same people who buy Coulters and Becks books.
    Red Kitten is correct about the rouge statement. Do they even sell rouge anymore?

  49. 49.

    RedKitten

    October 23, 2009 at 8:56 am

    @Demo Woman: They do, but they don’t call it “rouge”. They call it “cream blush” instead.

    “Going Cream Blush” doesn’t have the same ring to it, although it does sound vaguely pr0n-ish, does it not?

  50. 50.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 8:59 am

    @Demo Woman: Jeweler’s rouge.

  51. 51.

    geg6

    October 23, 2009 at 9:05 am

    @Arguingwithsignposts – ipod touchs:

    She’s just pissed that her star is falling. That Rude Pundit post yesterday hadda hurt.

  52. 52.

    The Saff

    October 23, 2009 at 9:06 am

    @2th&nayle: Very normal for one of my cats, especially in the summer. Makes for great pictures. Of course, cats are naturally photogenic anyhow.

  53. 53.

    RedKitten

    October 23, 2009 at 9:10 am

    Completely OT, but then again, this IS an open thread: I tend to have HGTV running in the background, and my goodness, that Carter Oosterhouse is really quite absurdly handsome, isn’t he?

  54. 54.

    Morbo

    October 23, 2009 at 9:11 am

    @2th&nayle: It means he’s so lazy that it’s too much effort to actively curl himself up and instead prefers to let the sink do that work for him. Truly we have much to learn from these creatures.

  55. 55.

    The Saff

    October 23, 2009 at 9:14 am

    @RedKitten: Yes, in a Jon Hamm kind of way. Now he’s one handsome fellow. And a pretty good actor, also too.

  56. 56.

    ellaesther

    October 23, 2009 at 9:19 am

    @R-Jud: 5280!

    Go Bitsy go
    !

  57. 57.

    bob h

    October 23, 2009 at 9:19 am

    Nauseating bit from NYT re WH-FOX skirmishing:

    In a sign of discomfort with the White House stance, Fox’s television news competitors refused to go along with a Treasury Department effort on Tuesday to exclude Fox from a round of interviews with the executive-pay czar Kenneth R. Feinberg that was to be conducted with a “pool” camera crew shared by all the networks. That followed a pointed question at a White House briefing this week by Jake Tapper, anABC News correspondent, about the administration’s treatment of “one of our sister organizations.”

    Get your nose our of Rupert’s ass, Jake.

  58. 58.

    MikeJ

    October 23, 2009 at 9:20 am

    Form politicalwire:

    “Friends and associates are encouraging Roger Ailes — Fox News founder, chairman and CEO — to jump into the political arena for real by running for President in 2012,” Mike Allen reports.

  59. 59.

    They Live By Night

    October 23, 2009 at 9:22 am

    Seems like a lot of the Hillary-has-balls crowd has been calling sexism on this book. I know nothing screams sexism to me like essays by the likes of Katha Pollit.

  60. 60.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 9:23 am

    @RedKitten: Speaking of ‘absurdly handsome”… how is ‘Son of RedKitten’ doing?

  61. 61.

    Citizen_X

    October 23, 2009 at 9:24 am

    @Sanka:

    The old adage in politics is, when you’re being attacked, it’s because you’re some sort of threat.

    Or, it’s because your enemies realize that it’s easy to get you running around screaming like a bunch of ninnies while they go off to get health care passed.

    Also, Anne, FIX LINK PLEASE! Kthxbai!

  62. 62.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 9:24 am

    @Morbo: Dammit! I thought that was why I got him a futon!

  63. 63.

    Ken G.

    October 23, 2009 at 9:24 am

    @Redkitten

    but no one’s ever accused her of being a bad speller. the joke is weak. this is what gives legitimacy to dangerously crazy people, when we give the impression that the most damning thing about them is mere dottiness/bad spelling/delusions of seeing Russia from the front yard.

    I mean, this woman thinks science is trivial nonsense which should be defunded (because it involves fruit flies in “paris, france” no less). she’s a secessionist, a conspiracy theorist (death panels?) a gun-nut, couldn’t care less about the environment, the economy, or anything other than the right of selfish frontier yahoos to shoot what they want and do what they damn well please. And she came close to being vice-president.

    and, I guess, she wears rouge too. (sorry, as a transsexual performance artist, I wear it, and I call it “rouge” and I’m not 80 years old).

  64. 64.

    Demo Woman

    October 23, 2009 at 9:26 am

    @MikeJ: Wow Roger Ailes, Sarah Palin, Huckabee and Mitt. What an outstanding crew.

  65. 65.

    MikeJ

    October 23, 2009 at 9:28 am

    In a Bitsy update, I checked some of the other dogs who did well last week. Other than Rufus, they all seem to be at less than 2500. Rufus is at 5162, Bitsy 5309.

  66. 66.

    Geeno

    October 23, 2009 at 9:29 am

    @mai naem:
    I can see it now Go Fuck Yourself: the wit and wisdom of Dick Cheney

  67. 67.

    ellaesther

    October 23, 2009 at 9:29 am

    @RedKitten: Holy crow! I had never seen him in my life, and… wow!

    @The Saff: I would say it’s like Jon Hamm got together with Harry Connick, Jr. and had a baby. A very, very handsome baby.

  68. 68.

    Napoleon

    October 23, 2009 at 9:31 am

    @bob h:

    I hope the White House didn’t cave on that. At the end of the day the news organizations will give since some of them will break from the pack.

    Amazing though how they never did anything like that when it was Bush bullying the press.

  69. 69.

    Geeno

    October 23, 2009 at 9:34 am

    @RedKitten: That reminds me of an old Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers exchange.

    “This my killer cambodian weed”
    “Is that what you call your Pol pot?”

    Aaahh – youth.

  70. 70.

    Demo Woman

    October 23, 2009 at 9:36 am

    @ellaesther: Okay, calm down and wipe the drool. Can you tell I’m a tad jealous since I know longer get HGTV. I do enjoy not having a monthly cable bill though.

  71. 71.

    Ash Can

    October 23, 2009 at 9:37 am

    @bob h: The more I see stuff like this, the more I agree with the theory that what these glorified note-takers are afraid of is Rupert Murdoch, and that they’re worried that, at some point down the line, they’ll find themselves working for him. It’s not as though they’re anonymous drones; their names are known and would be remembered by a vengeful boss.

    It’s yet another argument in favor of non-profit news organizations. Eliminate the impetus to make profits and you eliminate the impetus for the Rupert Murdochs of the world to buy up as many cash cows as they can milk. And with that goes the fear reporters would have of working for him. Presumably, then, they’d stop worrying about who might be signing their next pay check and would start paying more attention to their actual jobs as journalists.

  72. 72.

    MikeJ

    October 23, 2009 at 9:42 am

    I mentioned it on the previous thread, but any brits around that have video of Question time? Since I’m back in the USSA I can’t watch on iPlayer.

    For those who don’t keep up with such things, BBC invited the BNP leader on to a show where audience members ask pols questions. Griffin claims the questions weren’t representative of Britain since London has been taken over by immigrants.

  73. 73.

    RedKitten

    October 23, 2009 at 9:42 am

    I mean, this woman thinks science is trivial nonsense which should be defunded (because it involves fruit flies in “paris, france” no less). she’s a secessionist, a conspiracy theorist (death panels?) a gun-nut, couldn’t care less about the environment, the economy, or anything other than the right of selfish frontier yahoos to shoot what they want and do what they damn well please. And she came close to being vice-president.

    True, but “A secessionist, a conspiracy theorist, a gun-nut, couldn’t care less about the environment, the economy, or anything other than the right of selfish frontier yahoos to shoot what they want and do what they damn well please” isn’t a very catchy book title, you know.

    They were obviously trying to parody Palin’s original book, and thus were trying to riff off of the original title, severely limiting what they could do with regards to jokes. I agree that the joke is weak, but they kind of tied their own hands, and so could only do so much with what they had.

  74. 74.

    ellaesther

    October 23, 2009 at 9:44 am

    Hey! The US has demanded Polanski’s extradition!

  75. 75.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 9:45 am

    @RedKitten: Sic ’em, Red!

  76. 76.

    RedKitten

    October 23, 2009 at 9:45 am

    @2th&nayle: Son of RedKitten is doing wonderfully. He’s 10 weeks old today, and is a happy, easygoing, very chubby and adorable baby boy. I settled him last night at 8pm, and he slept until 6 this morning. He loves his bath and splashes around happily.

    Pics of him are at my url.
    @ellaesther: No kidding, huh? He’s pretty much the epitome of “tall, dark and handsome.”

  77. 77.

    RedKitten

    October 23, 2009 at 9:48 am

    @Ken G.:

    this is what gives legitimacy to dangerously crazy people, when we give the impression that the most damning thing about them is mere dottiness/bad spelling/delusions of seeing Russia from the front yard.

    Besides, there is a school of thought that says that one of the best ways to weaken your political opponent is not to portray them as a danger, but to portray them as a laughable fool, not to be taken seriously in any matters.

    Gotta go…my liege summons.

  78. 78.

    LD50

    October 23, 2009 at 9:50 am

    @Sanka:

    Keep at it people, eventually the sheeple wear pretty thin at your pettiness, and act accordingly.

    If it’s not a parody, this is the first nonironic use of ‘sheeple’ I’ve seen in a very long time.

    Also, it’s the first “IF YOU LIBS KEEP MAKING FUN OF US, YOU’LL START LOOSING ELECTIONS!” post I’ve seen in a couple years. Ah, the classics.

  79. 79.

    Shell

    October 23, 2009 at 9:51 am

    Just read this over at Free Republic, “Fox’s Steven Doocy challenges Al Gore to a debate on Climate Change.”

    Man, oh, man. I’d pay money for that!

  80. 80.

    Jack

    October 23, 2009 at 9:54 am

    @Sanka:

    Sometimes in politics a person gets skewered because she’s an idiot. That is all.

  81. 81.

    Ash Can

    October 23, 2009 at 9:55 am

    @MikeJ:

    “Friends and associates are encouraging Roger Ailes—Fox News founder, chairman and CEO —to jump into the political arena for real by running for President in 2012”

    Whoa, now that would be awesome! Fox “News” would implode from cognitive dissonance. The network would be forced to back Ailes or else, and all other candidates, including Sarah Palin, would go from lauded heroes to non-persons overnight. Those other candidates, especially Palin, would react by trashing Fox, which would make for the most public GOP rifts that could possibly occur. Fox, in the meantime, would be the All-Ailes-All-the-Time Channel, making anyone still claiming them as a legitimate news organization a complete laughingstock.

    Oh yes, please. Run, Roger, run!

  82. 82.

    They Live By Night

    October 23, 2009 at 9:56 am

    @Sanka:
    Obviously Dan Quayle was a serious and considerable threat to the Left.

  83. 83.

    Brick Oven Bill

    October 23, 2009 at 9:58 am

    Re: I was quite honored to be asked to write a piece for the book.

    Sarah Palin probably did not write this book, as she is not bright, although she is a credit to her gender. She has very little power however. And is honest about the ghost-writing. All we can really ask for at this point in democracy is honesty. Personally, I enjoy the looks too.

    Obama’s essay from Columbia.

    Why would a man who was eager to have this bad essay published with its noun-verb mismatches not write a word as the head of the Harvard Law Review? This is a good question.

    One cannot learn to write well. It is a skill that can be honed, but it is largely innate. How did someone who wrote such a crappy paper at Columbia magically write a well-written book after writing nothing at Harvard? This is another good question.

    “Question with boldness.” Glenn tells us. He got that line from Jefferson, the man who identified Talent and Virtue.

  84. 84.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 10:00 am

    @ellaesther: I would not be at all surprised if this drags out long enough for Polanski to make a deal with US authorities for time served. I also would not be surprised if that was the plan all along.

  85. 85.

    Shell

    October 23, 2009 at 10:01 am

    Just voted and Bitzy is zeroing in on 5400!

    (Do we have to keep this up till Thanksgiving?)

  86. 86.

    Tattoosydney

    October 23, 2009 at 10:03 am

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    Personally, I enjoy the looks too.

    Are you still going on about Barney Frank, BoB? I know you think he is the hawtness, but I don’t fancy your chances.

  87. 87.

    They Live By Night

    October 23, 2009 at 10:04 am

    Look, everybody! It’s Brick Oven Bill! And he’s sayin’ stuff!

  88. 88.

    bago

    October 23, 2009 at 10:07 am

    OT: but this is a neat trailer.

  89. 89.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 10:10 am

    @RedKitten: What a smiley-faced boy! Wonderful pics! Except for the “I haz sad” one. That one almost made me tear up.

  90. 90.

    Tattoosydney

    October 23, 2009 at 10:11 am

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    Why would a man who was eager to have this bad essay published with its noun-verb mismatches not write a word as the head of the Harvard Law Review? This is a good question.

    I see what you mean, BoB – that whole thing is almost unreadable.

    But the taste of war – the sounds and chill, the dead bodies – are remote and far removed. We know that wars have occurred, will occur, are occurring, but bringing such experience down into our hearts, and taking continual, tangible steps to prevent war, becomes a difficult task.

    Is that even in English, let alone your noun whatsy mismatches?

  91. 91.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 10:11 am

    @They Live By Night: Define “stuff”.

  92. 92.

    Morbo

    October 23, 2009 at 10:13 am

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    And is honest about the ghost-writing. All we can really ask for at this point in democracy is honesty.
    So why is her name alone on the cover?

  93. 93.

    Brick Oven Bill

    October 23, 2009 at 10:13 am

    I can go on about Barney Frank TattooSydney, although I had some cocktails last night and really do not want to refer back to what I wrote.

    This is likely a parallel of Barney’s last lover, whenever that was, although I, for the life of me, cannot understand how he physically could have performed the act.

    Barney Frank in my opinion is disgusting. This means he interferes with one’s digestion (digest-disgust). Arousal does not compute.

    Flaccid.

  94. 94.

    bellatrys

    October 23, 2009 at 10:14 am

    @2th&nayle:

    So common it has its own website!

  95. 95.

    Tattoosydney

    October 23, 2009 at 10:14 am

    @Morbo:

    So why is her name alone on the cover?

    The other authors name was going to be on there, but after they chose that big font for Sarah’s name, there just wasn’t room.

  96. 96.

    Tattoosydney

    October 23, 2009 at 10:16 am

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    Flaccid.

    I love it when you talk dirty BoB… it gets me all tingly.

  97. 97.

    Comrade Darkness

    October 23, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Gah, all this discussion about computers and I felt compelled to set up another linux server for a *second* server backup, in addition to the HD backup.

    BTW, if you are looking for a dead simple file sync for Mac, Sychronize Pro works pretty well. I tried a few demo versions of others and found them to unwieldy, or worse yet, they would get interrupted (I use only laptops and yeah, interruptions in networking just happen) and the backup would have to start from scratch again. Gah! What I most like about it, it tells you exactly what it is going to do before it does it.

  98. 98.

    Tattoosydney

    October 23, 2009 at 10:18 am

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    I had some cocktails last night and really do not want to refer back to what I wrote.

    There’s no going back into the closet now, BoB. I know you’ve spent most of the night thinking about what I told you about what Barney has in his pants.

  99. 99.

    burnspbesq

    October 23, 2009 at 10:18 am

    @jon:

    They’ll cut the prices like a GOP candidate wants to cut eliminate capital gains taxes.

    Fixed.

  100. 100.

    ellaesther

    October 23, 2009 at 10:18 am

    @2th&nayle: I’m going to keep my fingers crossed…. Aside from anything else, the “time served” (which would be laughable, if it weren’t enraging, if that’s what happens) doesn’t take into consideration the fact that the man compounded his first felony by fleeing the country and adding a second to his rap sheet.

  101. 101.

    Comrade Darkness

    October 23, 2009 at 10:18 am

    @Morbo: I have no problem with ghostwriters, ghostwritten books, etc. Most people can’t write and there are legions of unemployed people who can. They might as well come to a business arrangement that fixes both problems.

    The only people who will believe and be impressed that Sarah wrote her own book think the Bible was originally written in English, ergo, they are hopeless anyway.

  102. 102.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 10:22 am

    @bellatrys: Hahaha! That’s great! I never would have guessed it was so common. Learn sumthin’ new everyday, especially if you get a cat! Somehow knowing that makes me feel better! Thought I might have been doing something wrong. Thx, bell!

  103. 103.

    ellaesther

    October 23, 2009 at 10:24 am

    @Demo Woman: You may enjoy the indescribably juvenile game in which I like to engage on occasion: Take the name of the handsome man over whom you currently drool, make his first name a verb and his last a noun, and insert, as follows, into a standard English-language sentence:

    He can Carter my Oosterhouse any time!

    (Of course I would be happy if anyone wanted to Harry my Connick, or Jon my Hamm, too. Just sayin’).

  104. 104.

    bago

    October 23, 2009 at 10:27 am

    @ellaesther: Does this involve Patricking your Stewart, or Johning your Hodgman?

  105. 105.

    burnspbesq

    October 23, 2009 at 10:29 am

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    One cannot learn to write well. It is a skill that can be honed, but it is largely innate.

    Say what? Your spoof is showing, mon ami – no one with a lick of sense can seriously believe that.

  106. 106.

    Laura W

    October 23, 2009 at 10:31 am

    @Brick Oven Bill: Have I made you happy, Bill?

  107. 107.

    burnspbesq

    October 23, 2009 at 10:33 am

    Oh, and one other thing:

    Do not underestimate the power of the Rally Monkey.

  108. 108.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    October 23, 2009 at 10:34 am

    @Laura W: Is that you in the Bitsy video?

  109. 109.

    RedKitten

    October 23, 2009 at 10:35 am

    @2th&nayle:

    Wonderful pics! Except for the “I haz sad” one. That one almost made me tear up.

    That one actually makes me laugh, because it’s so over-the-top. He only pulls that face when he has to wait for his bottle to heat up, so we distract him by pretending that we’re holding a “Feed the Starving Sam” telethon.

  110. 110.

    Tattoosydney

    October 23, 2009 at 10:36 am

    @bago:

    Asiangrrl will be along soon to talk about who she would want to Alan her Rickman (or is that her Snape?)

  111. 111.

    RedKitten

    October 23, 2009 at 10:37 am

    He can Carter my Oosterhouse any time!

    See, now that actually DOES sound delightfully pervy.

    All we need now is to find a handsome man named Roger, and the jokes will write themselves.

  112. 112.

    Brick Oven Bill

    October 23, 2009 at 10:38 am

    I have large feet LauraW. I cannot sit like this. Yesterday, I tried. I really did.

    But yes LauraW, I enjoy your company, and am currently feeling happy, whatever brought that about.

  113. 113.

    ellaesther

    October 23, 2009 at 10:38 am

    @bago: Why yes! It certainly can! (In fact, I have been known to think that my own Stewart needed a little Patricking!).

  114. 114.

    sylvia

    October 23, 2009 at 10:38 am

    To all of you Juicers – Thank you for voting for Little Bitsy!
    I think all this attention is starting to go to her head!

    I’ve have heard from quite a few people they can’t get registered to vote. I’m thinking Little Bitsy voters have overloaded the site!! I’ve told everyone if they can’t register to email the contest and tell them they want to vote for Little Bitsy. This is sooo close that we need every single vote we can get!
    Rufus is right behind us!! He’s a tough little dog but I think Little Bitsy’s tougher – she has street smarts!!
    Go Bitsy Go!!!

    Again – you guys are the best!
    Sylvia and Little Bitsy

  115. 115.

    Laura W

    October 23, 2009 at 10:39 am

    @Shell:

    Just voted and Bitzy is zeroing in on 5400!

    (Do we have to keep this up till Thanksgiving?)

    NO. You just have to keep it up through tomorrow. ONE more vote is all we need from you!

    Perspective: Yesterday morn Bitsy was 500 votes behind Rufus, who we believe is her main and sole competitor. This morning she has bounced around with as many as 151 votes MORE than him. This is very, very encouraging. She’s picked up a ton of new voters over the last 24 hours due to a massive email campaign and lots of social networking sites jumping in. Not to mention Wolcott, the two diaries on Kos, and all the press Sylvia and Evelyn have been working in our area. And JUICERS.

    All we need now to really seal this doggie deal is for everyone to vote today, and tomorrow, tell a few more new people to vote twice, and for BOB to honor his word and go get the DoucheBecks on board. (Please no multiple votes! We already suspect Rufus will have some tossed out for that reason so Bitsy’s lead could be more than it appears although surely we have a few dupes in there as well.)

  116. 116.

    bago

    October 23, 2009 at 10:39 am

    @Tattoosydney: I’m biting my tongue on the obvious rejoinder.

  117. 117.

    ellaesther

    October 23, 2009 at 10:40 am

    @RedKitten: Sterling!

  118. 118.

    Laura W

    October 23, 2009 at 10:40 am

    @The Grand Panjandrum: No. It is Sylvia (see below), her new Mom, and Evelyn Bridges, the woman who rescued her. She is the soon-to-be-founder of a non-profit rescue group in our area. Amazing woman.

  119. 119.

    Laura W

    October 23, 2009 at 10:41 am

    @Laura W: I mean ABOVE.

    I know this is the wrong day to bitch, but John, ARE WE EVER GOING TO FUCKING GET EDIT BACK ON FIREFOX? CHRIST. HOW HARD CAN IT BE? IT ONCE EXISTED?

    Sorry.
    Know Hope!

  120. 120.

    geg6

    October 23, 2009 at 10:43 am

    I know this was discussed in some other threads last evening, but it was so awesome that I think everyone should see it:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMOBQZwDMAE

    I only wish they’d both been in the studio. Ron Reagan is gonna kick Gaffney’s ass next time he sees him. I’ve never seen Ron get so pissed.

  121. 121.

    sylvia

    October 23, 2009 at 10:43 am

    Just saw Glenn!

    Actually I called her Little Glenn this morning a few times. She doesn’t seem to mind what I call her as long as she gets treats! Treats are very important…

  122. 122.

    Tattoosydney

    October 23, 2009 at 10:44 am

    @bago:

    I’m biting my tongue on the obvious rejoinder.

    Restraint? On this website? Are you new here?

  123. 123.

    Laura W

    October 23, 2009 at 10:45 am

    @sylvia: uh oh. Now you’ve pretty much compelled me to put up Ann’s first draft ad, which I rejected, because it is very important to me to do exactly what BOB tells me to do, since I am honorable and know how to follow directions.
    ANYTHING FOR THE ANIMALS, BOB!

  124. 124.

    burnspbesq

    October 23, 2009 at 10:46 am

    For whoever it was that was looking for Question Time, Ahn-drew has a clip up. I am trying to summon the courage to click.

  125. 125.

    Svensker

    October 23, 2009 at 10:47 am

    @RedKitten:

    my goodness, that Carter Oosterhouse is really quite absurdly handsome, isn’t he?

    He is, and he seems like a lovely kid. But oddly sexless, at least to me. Plus, I think his design sense is terrible — but he looks so cute and puppy appealing at the reveal.

  126. 126.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 10:53 am

    @ellaesther: Polanski’s despicable behavior notwithstanding, this case was a mess with regard to the supposed actions of the judge reneging on the agreed upon plea bargain. IANAL, but I think that might have had everything to do with the LA authorities pretty much just dropping the ball after Polanski fled. With that judge now deceased, the LA court may just want to clear their books of this one. Time served lets them do that, even considering the fleeing charge. Stranger things have happened.

  127. 127.

    JGabriel

    October 23, 2009 at 10:55 am

    I still think Palin’s memoir should have been titled: Crayons Sold Separately.

    ,

  128. 128.

    sylvia

    October 23, 2009 at 10:57 am

    Bob – You have to vote now!

  129. 129.

    sylvia

    October 23, 2009 at 10:59 am

    Did I say Bob – I meant Bill!!

    All this name changing is getting to me!

  130. 130.

    drillfork

    October 23, 2009 at 11:18 am

    Speaking of Bitsy, what’s the story with these ads featuring Glenn Beck?

    Is this site being hacked?…

  131. 131.

    Joshua Norton

    October 23, 2009 at 11:20 am

    If you read straight across it says “Going Sarah”, which I realized is much more timely and descriptive than their tired hack phrase “Going Galt”.

  132. 132.

    Cassidy

    October 23, 2009 at 11:35 am

    @mr. whipple: Cute kid.

  133. 133.

    Cassidy

    October 23, 2009 at 11:36 am

    Pretty sure I clicked on RedKitten. Oops. Please ignore, Mr. Whipple.

  134. 134.

    ellaesther

    October 23, 2009 at 11:43 am

    @Joshua Norton:

    Disgruntled employee/citizen of these United States: “That’s it, I’m going Sarah!”

    Employer/demanding member of political class: “But why? Why must you gum up the works in this fashion? I had plans!”

    Disgruntled: “Because I’m the cow on the tracks, motherfucker!”

  135. 135.

    Bubblegum Tate

    October 23, 2009 at 11:51 am

    @Ash Can:

    I’m still cracking up over her endorsement of the Conservative Party candidate in NY-23 over the GOP candidate

    But don’t you see that this shows “she understands the political ferment of 2009”? Starbursts, bitches!

    That is it, in a nutshell – a few paragraphs and the entire campaigns of 2010 and 2012 are set in place. This is the lady our opponents ridicule. Have at it, lefties – she’s a lot smarter than you are, and far more savvy about how things are going.

  136. 136.

    trollhattan

    October 23, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    @bOb

    “Question with boldness bonbons.”

    Fxd fur ya.

    p.s. Writing sklz can be taught. Thinkn kaint. Evidence: G. Beck; S. Palin. Main difference: Palin looks considerably better in a skoit and doesn’t blubber in public. Much. Also.

  137. 137.

    trollhattan

    October 23, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    p.s. The count shall 5,634 and 5,634 shall be the count.

  138. 138.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 23, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    Little BITSY is now up to 5717. P.S. sylvia, B.O.B. is an abbreviation of his nickname.

    @Tattoosydney: FH#1, you know me too well. I was thinking about Alan Rickman when RedKitten made her first remark about Carter Oosterhouse. I Googled him and then thought, “He’s no Alan Rickman.”

    @Ken G.: Considering the fact that I made that very same joke the second I heard what the book title really was, and considering the fact that I’m a woman (checks. Yep. Definitely got the hooters), I disagree with your logic. Obviously, it was a play on words, and just as obviously, they did it to match the original.

  139. 139.

    sparky

    October 23, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    BoB’s spoofiness is showing but that’s because s/he is correkt [sic]. writing competency, and perhaps fluency, can be learned, but the capacity to mould English-language prose appears (as of now, at any rate) innate.

  140. 140.

    JG

    October 23, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    Just voted, and Bitsy is up to 5726 and Rufus was a few hundred behind – everyone please vote so she stays ahead!

  141. 141.

    ksmiami

    October 23, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    This is soooo friggin funny; Count down to Republican whining esp. Lowry in 3…2…1….

    omg
    roflmao

  142. 142.

    Sentient Puddle

    October 23, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    @Bubblegum Tate:

    That is it, in a nutshell – a few paragraphs and the entire campaigns of 2010 and 2012 are set in place. This is the lady our opponents ridicule. Have at it, lefties – she’s a lot smarter than you are, and far more savvy about how things are going.

    Indeed, she’s so smart that she understands the only way to win in 2010 and 2012 is to self-sabotage your party’s campaigns!

  143. 143.

    eemom

    October 23, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    This is the best damn news I’ve heard in like, FOREVAH.

    I do think there will be wingnuts who will buy the Rouge book by mistake. It’s not like they’re the sharpest tacks on the bulletin board, ya know.

    Delicious. Just delicious. That is all. Also too.

  144. 144.

    ruemara

    October 23, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    @Sanka:

    The only problem with your “thought” is she’s not being attacked, she’s being mocked. Profoundly.
    And, although my polling sample are the few conservatives I will speak to, the eye-rolling when her name is mentioned does not bode well for the awe inspiring Sarah-ness voting base increase with mildly wingnutty conservatives that this book will bring about.

    But please, do, do, do run Mme. Palin for President. And VP Bachglenbaugh, unholy genetic trinity currently gestating at a secret GOP base somewhere in South Carolina.

  145. 145.

    Tattoosydney

    October 23, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    @eemom:

    there will be wingnuts who will buy the Rouge book by mistake.

    Amazon politely tells me it doesn’t presently stock “Going Rouge”, but that I can “submit product requests online. At the bottom of the product detail page of most items on our web site, you should see a blue Feedback or Suggestion Box where you can submit your request for the specific product you want.” So I think I will.

  146. 146.

    RedKitten

    October 23, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    @asiangrrlMN:

    @Tattoosydney: FH#1, you know me too well. I was thinking about Alan Rickman when RedKitten made her first remark about Carter Oosterhouse. I Googled him and then thought, “He’s no Alan Rickman.”

    It’s apples and oranges. Carter is beautiful, while Alan is sexy.

    Having sex with someone as aesthetically perfect as Carter would probably make one a bit self-conscious (I’d soldier on, though, ’cause that’s the kind of self-sacrificing person I am). But would I want to spend a few lifetimes watching him showering (and inviting my friends to witness the miracle)? Ohmygoodness yes, pls and kthxbai. He’s sexy, but he’s more beautiful than he is sexy.

    With Alan Rickman, now, it’s not so much that he’s beautiful. But, he has that indefinable appeal, and it’s easy to get one’s knickers in a knot imagining the delightful, unspeakably dirty things that he might want to do in the sack. He’s beautiful, but he’s more sexy than he is beautiful.

    You really couldn’t go wrong with either of them, IMHO. :)

  147. 147.

    tammanycall

    October 23, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    @Tattoosydney:

    Amazon politely tells me it doesn’t presently stock “Going Rouge”, but that I can “submit product requests online. At the bottom of the product detail page of most items on our web site, you should see a blue Feedback or Suggestion Box where you can submit your request for the specific product you want.” So I think I will.

    I think we should all do that.

  148. 148.

    tammanycall

    October 23, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    @RedKitten:

    Rickman’s voice! Soo sexy…

  149. 149.

    Ed Drone

    October 23, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    “Question with boldness.” Glenn tells us. He got that line from Jefferson, the man who identified Talent and Virtue.

    No, B.O.o.B, it’s “personified talent and virtue.” Beck can identify it — hell, even you can do that — but Jefferson personified it.

    So the next time you natter on about Obama’s subject-verb problems (or any other grammatical or usage “blunder”) we’ll just note in passing that you “identify” right-whinger FAIL.

    Ed

  150. 150.

    Randy P

    October 23, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    You can always give your money to Not Amazon.

    I think this is the publisher’s page.

    http://orbooks.com/

  151. 151.

    Original Lee

    October 23, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    @RedKitten: Now I’m not sure if it’s menopause or this thread that is making it so amazingly warm in here. Thanks a lot, ladies.

  152. 152.

    Calouste

    October 23, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    @2th&nayle:

    Do you have the water bowl next to the food bowl? Some cats don’t like that (ours is one of them) and show that by drinking from other sources like dripping taps and your glass of water. We moved the water bowl to a different room and she’s fine now.

  153. 153.

    WereBear

    October 23, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    Cats like running water. Cats don’t like water bowls next to their food bowls (and would we? Instead of a glass, imagine a bowl of water next to the steak you are sawing on) and so, cats love sinks. Go to the source.

    Personally, I think Going Rouge is delightfully indicative of what is truly the base of Palin’s appeal; the beauty contestant thang.

    If she looked like a tire which had backed over a beer bottle, would any of this have happened?

    (And a certain someone can Viggo my Mortensen anytime.)

  154. 154.

    Sentient Puddle

    October 23, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    @WereBear: My sister’s cat has quite often attempted to drink out of her glasses. I don’t know what, if anything, that says…maybe I should suggest to her that she turn on the faucet and place the guy next to it. See if he drinks out of it. Or takes a shower.

  155. 155.

    Vince

    October 23, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    Sure enough, I’m going to my local bookseller on Nov. 17th and making sure Going Rouge is given the same prominent placement it deserves next to Caribou Barbie’s.

    Can you imagine how funny it would be to have a bunch of folks stealthily placing copies of this text where Mooselini’s books should appear?

  156. 156.

    2th&nayle

    October 23, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    @Calouste: Well, I tried putting the water next to his food bowl, but nope. I even tried putting a bowl of water on top on the bathroom sink to see if he would drink it then. Nope. He just likes drinking from the sink. When he’s not curled up in it.

    @Sentient Puddle: Oh, Junior wants to know what’s in my glass as well. So far he’s never drank any of it, but he definitely wants to know what’s in there. Hell, he wants to know what’s in EVERYTHING! Me and the spray bottle finally broke him of getting on the kitchen counter. At least, when I’m in the room. haha! He’s a good cat though. I like him.

  157. 157.

    Wile E. Quixote

    October 23, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    @Brick Oven Bill

    I can go on about Barney Frank TattooSydney, although I had some cocktails last night and really do not want to refer back to what I wrote.

    Oh, so did you get all drunk and stupid and build another fugly oven in your backyard? I’ve seen the pictures of that thing and am wondering if you should change your name to from “Brick Oven Bill” to “Ugly, Concrete-Turd Bill”.

  158. 158.

    Little Macayla's Friend

    October 23, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    @MikeJ:
    More links and local politics about Nick Griffin on Question Time here:
    http://leninology.blogspot.com/

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