H/t: OMG blog
ETA: New Absolutely Fabulous. Life is worth living again. Rumours that Patsy Stone and I are sisters are entirely without foundation (and god knows neither of us would ever leave the house without foundation).
by Sarah, Proud and Tall| 83 Comments
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H/t: OMG blog
ETA: New Absolutely Fabulous. Life is worth living again. Rumours that Patsy Stone and I are sisters are entirely without foundation (and god knows neither of us would ever leave the house without foundation).
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Woodrowfan
clever!
BruinKid
So is Greenwald right about the NDAA, or are we freaking out over not much? It seems like it’s codifying what was already happening, though that in itself is troubling to begin with.
Wag
Excellent link!
gaz
neat!
Linda Featheringill
Neato hedgehogs!
MikeJ
@BruinKid: Maddow had a guest on the other day saying it was a freak out over nothing. Video was up on rumproast.
amk
Cool and clever.
Linda Featheringill
@BruinKid:
NDAA:
If this bill just codifies what is actually happening, then I guess we are replaying the drama of Draco, who got into trouble with the ancient Greeks because he put into writing all the crimes they were killing people for.
That doesn’t make this bill morally correct, of course.
Violet
This is a really fun link. I’ve “picked” all three hedgehogs, just to see what they do.
amk
@BruinKid: It’s inevitable that a week from any of gg’s ‘piece’, it would be proved to be a baseless freakout. I don’t get the left’s obsession with him despite his rightist views.
FlipYrWhig
@BruinKid: For another view, see Benen, who relies on Serwer.
clayton
Fan base sez yay.
Others — why did you stomp on kay again?
Is it your job to do that?
Omnes Omnibus
@clayton: Quoi?
Hill Dweller
@BruinKid: Adam Serwer is probably a better person to go to for analysis on the bill. GG’s disdain for Obama tends to cloud his view sometimes.
It doesn’t allow the government to indefinitely detain American Citizens. It doesn’t stop the President from putting foreign terrorists in Article III courts. It does give the military a more prominent role(a role they don’t want).
As an aside, Lindsey Graham is f’n crazy.
BruinKid
@Linda Featheringill: Of course. The only saving grace is that the next Congress can just as easily insert language into next year’s defense appropriations bill that clarifies/repeals/removes this language. Well, as long as we actually elect a Congress that will DO it.
Comrade Mary
@clayton: John stomped on Kay first, FIVE hours before this post went up. Sheesh!
BruinKid
@MikeJ: Found it! Thanks! Here’s the link for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.
FlipYrWhig
@amk: I don’t think Greenwald is in any way a “rightist.” He seems to be a classic civil libertarian, which means he’s extremely skeptical of governmental control over anything, and has a hair trigger about encroachments upon liberty. For that reason he shares some of the rhetoric you might hear from Don’t Tread On Me types, but none of their obsession with the evils of redistribution (to Those People, you know the ones, they don’t work hard and always ask for handouts).
But like you I wish people wouldn’t group him with “the left.” He doesn’t seem to have much in common with the social justice left or the tried-and-true “bleeding heart” stances that my 1970s Berkeley parents tried to instill in us.
dance around in your bones
Too many choices….hedgehogs all same-ish. Oh shut up, I luved it.
Comrade Mary
Are you saying the hedgehogs all look alike to you? HOGGIST!
One’s square, one’s rectangular, one’s round. One’s a clueless nerd, one’s an arrogant git, and one is a drama queen.
I love them all.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary:
Slut.
Litlebritdifrnt
I absolutely adore hedgehogs. That is all.
Comrade Mary
@Omnes Omnibus: I may be covered with pricks, but that doesn’t make me a … oh …
Omnes Omnibus
@Litlebritdifrnt: They always make me think of The Once and Future King.
@Comrade Mary: Well played.
clayton
@Omnes Omnibus: This unfortunate excuse for a front pager. ugh.
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
@Comrade Mary:
If you’re covered in pricks, you might want to rethink your acquaintances, because no matter how you read into it, it doesn’t reflect well on those around you. :P
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: I guess I’m a slut too then.
Omnes Omnibus
@clayton: Dear boy, she could not have stepped on Kay as, if anything, she stepped on herself. If you are upset about something that happened hours or days ago, perhaps you should go have a lie down.
amk
@Comrade Mary: Ouch, ouch. Well played.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): If the stripper boot fits…
dance around in your bones
@Omnes Omnibus:
I am always trying to turn kids on to The Once and Future King…if only for the experience of living for a day as an ant; a fish; a bird.
Freakin’ magical.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@clayton:
Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?
Kay’s post went up almost 6 hours before this one, and four hours before my book thread, and there were posts by Cole and Anne Laurie in the meantime. I would never stomp on a Kay thread because she is the most interesting writer we have here.
If you don’t like what I write, feel free to bitch as much as you want, but at least try to have it make a little bit of sense.
Omnes Omnibus
@dance around in your bones: And Arthur is such a decent man.
ETA: It is on my reread every year or so list.
clayton
this post is stupid and stupider.
Comrade Mary
@clayton: You are Douglas Hofstadter and I claim my 5 pounds.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary: I was going to go with Jim Carrey.
burnspbesq
@BruinKid:
Also, Feinstein and 12 co-sponsors have introduced a standalone bill that will narrow the scope of detention authority.
Linda Featheringill
Samara has mentioned that the Republicans have to win 65% of the white vote in 2012 to win the presidential election.
I looked into that idea and did some research.
Minority voters in California participate in elections at close to the rate that white voters get involved, so I chose not to bother with that variable.
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/jtf/JTF_CAMinorityVotersJTF.pdf
Minorities make up about a third of the population in the US, 35% actually.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/10/minorities-make-up-35-percent-of-u-s-and-over-50-percent-of-fou/
This is not the primary source, which is the census bureau, but the official statistical layout confused me so I used this predigested source.
In 2008, Obama apparently got 43% of the white vote. That would leave 57% for McCain.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2008/11/what_we_didnt_overcome.html
Does all of this make that 65% figure reasonable? I’m not sure. But it might be worth thinking about.
dance around in your bones
@Omnes Omnibus: I was always such a HUGE fan of fairy tales/knights in shining armour/Baba Yaga/ was a voracious reader….
Well, everybody oughta be like me, I think. It gave me such empathy and insight into how other people think/act/do/be.
Comrade Mary
@Omnes Omnibus: That would have worked, too.
Here’s something else.
Also.
(Yes, my theme tonight is tiny, cute transformations. My other theme tonight is hedgehog fucking. I am a Renaissance woman.)
burnspbesq
I’d like the non-bombastic, non-megalomaniac, 2005 model Greenwald back, if possible. Guy’s smart and his heart is mostly in the right place, but he’s become insufferable.
gaz
If anyone was ever curious as to why I can’t type for shit:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6523771231_48bcd9776e.jpg
This is why.
robertdsc-PowerBook
I’m reading Tom Clancy’s latest novel, “Locked On”, and the Jack Ryan I knew from his previous books, a character I liked and respected, has become a grotesque political figure that I have nothing in common with. Sad. Real fucking sad.
Omnes Omnibus
@burnspbesq: I want a 1964 Lancia Flaminia GT 3C 2.8 Touring. In silver with red leather interior.
burnspbesq
@ Omnes:
I’m afraid you’re more likely to get what you want than I am.
Suffern ACE
@burnspbesq: It is absolutely impossible for me to figure out what is going on when half the people in the room are shouting that the sixth and fist amendments were repealed today for all intents and purposes.
Omnes Omnibus
@burnspbesq: Pretty much.
TheOtherWA
I loves me some AbFab! Can’t wait.
Anne Laurie
We are all tiny, battered hedgehogs tonight.
(When I was an sf fan-writer, my ‘tag’ was Questing Tiggy Press.)
Comrade Mary, given the references to Pratchett on the last thread, I should make reference to Nanny Ogg’s favorite song… but we’d shock the children (/Hepburn voice).
gaz
@Suffern ACE: The “fist” amendment? Nevermind. I really do NOT want to know =)
There’s a porn for everything these days.
Comrade Mary
@Anne Laurie: Oh, well. Then I shan’t …
… link to Pratchett telling a dirty joke
or
.. link to the song in question
Omnes Omnibus
@gaz: Rule 34.
gaz
@Omnes Omnibus: heh.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary: That joke will be told on Christmas Eve.
gaz
Aha!
I’ve managed to capture them BOTH. MOAR KITTEHS! MOAR!
I got Maxwell into a pic finally. He’s the maine coon that has thus far eluded all attempts to capture him – until now.
I caught him cleaning himself. Groucho (being the jealous bastard that he is, made a point to insert himself in the snapshot as well).
Somehow, groucho does not look cross-eyed in this pic. He looks almost sane. How odd.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6523928361_27474ae63b.jpg
kindness
My better half has been watching Ellen’s show this week. Ellen is doing a 12 days of Xmas giveaway kind of like Oprah used to do. Well the audience reaction to all the stuff reminded me of the Saturday Night Live of Oprah’s 50th Birthday Giveaway.
Seriously, Ellen’s audience wasn’t too far removed from the SNL skit (hillarious btw).
burnspbesq
@SuffernACE:
Its the family-size bucket of Chicken Little.
Suffern ACE
@gaz: Be careful what you wish for.
gaz
@Comrade Mary: That performance of the truman show song is sick. just sick.
Thanks for that link.
I’m not ashamed to say I’m a fan of Philip Glass either, even though so much of his work is soundtracking. He’s great at it.
gaz
@Suffern ACE: heh.
FTR, I did not wish for teh pr0n.
But thanks for the link. Robots iz so hawt!
heh
Comrade Mary
@gaz: Don’t worry, I love Glass, too.
The kittehs! The kittehs! Man, I need a cat in my life again.
gaz
@Comrade Mary: Catch me when I’m nearing a deadline, and groucho refuses to leave my lap and let me type. I just might bubblewrap and ship him to you.
heh.
nah, but seriously, I love my kitteh’s to death. Even if groucho is an extreme lap slut.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary: @gaz: I am allergic as hell to the fuckers. They know it too. They go for my lap and demand to be petted.
Comrade Mary
@Omnes Omnibus: Good thing you don’t do yoga. Or have long hair.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary: The bathroom one is hilarious, and, after being in John’s thread, that is wonderful.
Edited to fix a remarkably stupid spelling error.
Comrade Mary
The bathroom one makes me happy every time. Both girl and cat are simply adorable.
DanielX
Fuck me sideways, I had gone a WHOLE DAY without seeing or hearing the name Kardashian, which made it a good day. Now I can’t get those vacuous trollops out of my head…
Omnes Omnibus
@DanielX: You say vacuous trollop like it is bad thing. Why?
burnspbesq
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well, there is that moment when you wake up to find your pillows covered with makeup and realize that in a few minutes you’re going to have to make polite conversation.
Omnes Omnibus
@burnspbesq: Go to her/his place. Good lord, don’t you know that?
burnspbesq
@Omnes Omnibus:
Doesn’t always work that way. If you live off-campus and she lives in a four-person suite in the dorms, you’re ending up at your place.
Omnes Omnibus
@burnspbesq: Aha. I can live with that.
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: Well he did say THOSE, so there was some specificity there. That helps. I think. Also. Too.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: Fair enough. But still….
burnspbesq
Bangladesh is in a world of hurt. After 19 overs they are 54-4. Pakistan is bowling all off-tempo spin, they’re on target, and they have two fielders within five feet of the batsman on the off side to grab anything careless. It is just brutal.
SRW1
@Comrade Mary:
Here’s the cursing hedgehoge for you then, comrade.
Suffern ACE
I didn’t even notice that Bonds got 2 years probation and house arrest. I’m satisfied with that. Why do I get the feeling that Clemens gets in the Hall, but Bonds will be boxed out?
Comrade Mary
@SRW1: Ha! Potty-mouthed Finnish hedgehogs — love it!
(‘Night all!)
ruemara
Love the AbFab. It’s like I died and went to Bond Street with Richard Branson’s black AmEx.
YellowJournalism
Of course you’re not Patsy Stone’s sister, you old whore! You’re probably her mother.
And I mean “old whore” with all the sincerest love, admiration, and affection. I hope I’m half the old whore you are some day, you dear lady. Now will someone please bring Sarah another lover?
Also, someone kindly let me know if tonight’s AbFab is wonderful.
DanielX
@Omnes Omnibus: Nothing against trollops, I’m very fond of trollops in general. It’s the vacuous part that gets to me. When you see a headline at the top of a magazine in the grocery checkout line that goes like this: “K(whatever) says: I’ll Do Anything For A Baby”…my first thought was, hey, it’s not all that difficult, you know? All it takes is two people, and sometimes it even happens by accident. Does this woman need a diagram or what?
dance around in your bones
@Comrade Mary:
Perfecto…laughing/crying watching your links. I learn so much here on BJ.
Also, have never read Terry Pratchett but from the paeans to him here on BJ obviously must rectify that situation.
bemused
@Violet:
I watched the other Bird Box videos. I really enjoyed “Sketchy Duel”, very Monty Pythonish.