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Via Emptywheel (now at her very own free-standing url, and you should check it out if you haven’t already), because it seemed like the right way to start another morning.
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What else is on the mid-week schedule?
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Joseph Nobles
Found this on the Twitter last night.
http://www.juancole.com/2011/08/historical-question-for-governor-perry.html
Really too short and pithy to quote here. Just go give Juan Cole the traffic. :D
Southern Beale
Good morning, good people. Up early, I couldn’t sleep.
So… could someone smarter than me please tell me what the point of this is?
I think I’ve seen this movie. The version I saw, the post-apocalyptic population worshipped the clock as a deity.
Seriously, why do we need this? So after civilization collapses we can still tell time? I don’t get it.
Ben Cisco
@Southern Beale: Same reason any rich cat does something off the wall: because they can.
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This has been another episode of Snappy Answers to Simple Questions. Stay tuned for your local news.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Thanks for the link to her new site! I’ll have no problem reading her now that I’m not giving FDL any page hits.
Fuck Calamity Jane and her Ass Hamsters of the Apocalypse.
Oh, and good morning all! :)
harlana
I’m recovering from a case of Perryitis. I feel better now that he threatened to whip Bernanke’s ass if he printed more money. At any rate, I am now officially cured.
Oh, and hey Perry, Bernanke is from Dillon, SC – don’t fuck with SC you fucking Texas scum. yeeehaww!
The World is a Tweener
@Southern Beale:
The answer to your question is contained in the link you pointed to. Read past the head:
“Why would anyone build a Clock inside a mountain with the hope that it will ring for 10,000 years? Part of the answer: just so people will ask this question, and having asked it, prompt themselves to conjure with notions of generations and millennia. If you have a Clock ticking for 10,000 years what kinds of generational-scale questions and projects will it suggest? If a Clock can keep going for ten millennia, shouldn’t we make sure our civilization does as well? If the Clock keeps going after we are personally long dead, why not attempt other projects that require future generations to finish? “
harlana
oops, I forgot he’s going to win SC, never mind!
well, yeeehaaww! anyways, let’s have a bar fight
harlana
So Mark Halperin, this morning, says Obama has a credibility issue with teabag party – the teabaggers, apparently, have no credibility issues at all.
Also, Willie Geist is a dumbass – shagging (the dance!) did not go out in the 40’s, people in the SE coastal areas still shag to this day, and it is very big deal to them. I’ll give Bachmann that much, altho I don’t believe they shag up in yankee-land MN.
Ben Cisco
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
That would make one hell of a band name.
geg6
Not a good morning here. The best man I’ve ever known (other than my dad) got a diagnosis of prostate cancer yesterday. I’m beside myself. Am thinking I will ask him to marry me so he can get on my employer HI plan so he can get good treatment and not the eat shit and die already treatment his individual self-employed plan offers. Fuck.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
Ah geg6. I’m so sorry. Your John always sounds like such a good man. I wish him the easiest possible course.
My sister and her husband actually got married in the hospital, for the exact same insurance reasons, hours before her John had bypass surgery. They had been together for years, seeing no need to tie the knot officially, but her plan was a lot better than his. Making it official doesn’t seem to have done any damage to the relationship :-)
Thinking about you and your guy. Hugs.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Ben Cisco:
No shit…lol! It would have to be a death metal band, of course. Imagine Calamity Jane rocking out in a cookie monster voice with the Ass Hamsters of the Apocalypse banging away on their
instrumentsgarbage cans while howling at the moon, providing the backing vocals./wretch
Odie Hugh Manatee
Best thoughts and wishes to both of you, geg6. I’ll hope for the best for the both of you. I have lost several friends and relatives to it and two of them were very young. Our daughter’s best friend just informed her yesterday that her 6 month old baby has a brain tumor and they are in Seattle for evaluation and treatment (if possible).
Cancer sucks.
Ash Can
@geg6: Best wishes to you both, and here’s hoping your John’s treatment goes smoothly and quickly.
Steeplejack
@geg6:
My prayers are with you and your John. I have been grappling with some piddly little skin cancer, and I can imagine how much greater your fears and concerns are.
Lojasmo
@geg6:
Geg:
As far as cancers go, prostate is usually one of the least aggressive. Is john young or old?
At any rate; hopes for a complete recovery.
Jas