Comments on: That’s not self-reliance we can believe in, my friends

By: First Data

First Data — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:14:02 +0000

You are like a writer.

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:13:33 +0000

Here’s my favorite [from K-Lo]:

“With so much fog in the air, bringing clarity and truth to policy debates is needed now more than ever.”"

By: CEOfan1989

CEOfan1989 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:16:23 +0000

If it wasn’t for vets we’d all be speaking Vietnamese today. And we’d have to eat banh mi and pho and spring rolls and crepes!!!1!!

By: actor212

actor212 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:22:49 +0000

No whale is an island.

But many bowls of pansies can be!

By: Kip W

Kip W — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:08:24 +0000

Bush kept us safe until 9/10, and after 9/12. So he had this one bad day!

(Mmmm, Sweet Sir Galahad. I don’t remember how long it was before I associated it with the widow of the writer of Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, a book that totally bummed me out. Great song. When I was about five, I thought Joan Baez was one of my older sister’s friends, because the surname sounded Spanish.)

By: Kip W

Kip W — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:58:15 +0000

These are trying times indeed, if even wingnut welfare is drying up. I thought these guys thrived on adversity. Was that a previous generation?

You know, I once considered a hypothetical solution to cockroaches where we feed them and make homes for them and pamper them until they lose all their innate toughness, and then we take away the benefits and they all die. I wonder: is that what the last eight years have done to the gallant warriors of the Right? How can we find out?

By: eyeball

eyeball — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:08:07 +0000

How about putting out a fucking product people are fucking willing to pay some fucking money for, you fucking welfare queens. fuck you. go get some fucking night jobs like the rest of us you fucking mendicants. and then go fuck off on some fucking cruise and suck some regnery dick and get fucked up the ass and get paid for swallowing some rich conservo-perv’s cum and then use that money to put out you fucking magazine you fucking soft-handed little fuckwits. post some fucking youporn vids of katherine lopez mouth-fucking jonah’s dick and i’ll send you a fucking $1000 right fucking now, or fuck larry craig in the ass with a fucking cucumber for $180 per half hour and make some fucking money that way.

By: Hoosier X

Hoosier X — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:15:43 +0000

One never steps in the same ~~river~~ shit-moat twice.

Fixed.

By: g

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:54:25 +0000

g, you should have told her she could only get back in by singing you a song. ;-)

Well, she did. She just sang it to me and 2999 other people.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:24:01 +0000

I just looked out the window, and there’s about an inch and a half of sparkly new-fallen snow out there.
I fired up Firefox with the intention of saying something snarky about the psychology of trollery, but it wasn’t worth spoiling the mood.

By: Candy

Candy — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:43:18 +0000

We’ll not see 72 here again until late March, although with the way the climate has been warming, I could be wrong. There were wild violets in the grass at the partner’s dad’s house in October. I have lived in Iowa most of my life, and I have never ever seen violets blooming in the fall. It was like seeing a cat walking around on his hind legs or a bird flying upside down. Gave me a funny feeling.

g, you should have told her she could only get back in by singing you a song. ;-)

I need to go to bed. We’re moving the last of the stuff out of the partner’s poor old dad’s house tomorrow, and doing my last loads of laundry there. Then it will be the bastardly laundrymat for me until we can find a house or a duplex and get moved out of this apartment. I know, I know, it could be worse. I could be subsistance farming in New Mexico and worrying about when the crazy home schooling neighbor will snap and come riding over the hill naked, painted red and armed to the teeth, on a crusade to purge the heathens.

I really am tired, I guess. Sorry about that image.

By: g

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:42:12 +0000

No snow here, it’s going to be 72 degrees tomorrow, they say.

JB was going to take a walk, wanted to be sure she knew which door to come to so she could get back in past security.

By: Candy

Candy — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:39:37 +0000

I just looked out the window, and there’s about an inch and a half of sparkly new-fallen snow out there. I love it; it never fails to make me feel cheerful and energized, somehow. I’m always glad to see spring, and I hate it when the snow gets all filthy and slushy, but I love the bright white stuff, deep and crisp and even.

Bright white light, shining through your mind . . .

By: Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist

Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:32:18 +0000

One never steps in the same river twice.

However, one often steps on the same turd, or the same face-slapping rake, many times.

By: Candy

Candy — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:30:02 +0000

I love Joan Baez. Sweet Sir Galahad . . . what a lovely song for a lovely voice.

By: mikey

mikey — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:26:22 +0000

Tell JB I said “hey”, g.

Ask her if she’s up for a set of tennis at the courts in kentfield…

Then a draft beer at a fern bar….

mikey

By: Candy

Candy — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:23:32 +0000

Good luck with the paper, Candy.

Thanks, WereBear. I got most of the paper written, and it won’t take me an hour to finish the rest, so there’s that.

When I went to college the first time, there were no word processors. Made the second time a piece of pie, by comparison.

I know what you mean. The first time I went to college my comp teacher accepted handwritten papers. I did have to rent a typewriter to do my American Lit papers, though. Brings back memories!

“Opposition Poster” (my new favorite phrase!!!!)

I had opposition posters on my walls as a teen. One of them had two geese or ducks, can’t recall which, flying while having sexual congress*. The caption: Fly United.

*Sexual Congress – now there’s a phrase!

By: g

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:17:17 +0000

I just had a conversation with Joan Baez.

No, really.

By: Honus

Honus — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:16:08 +0000

And the NRO, relentless promoter of the free market, personal responsibility and self-reliance isn’t a going concern, instead surviving on donations and some unearned endowment, unlike say, The Nation.

By: Honus

Honus — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:12:42 +0000

I have a little trouble believing that woman surviving on subsistence farming, home schooling her children, and taking care of a disabled husband, also has time to maintain two blogs. All the real farmers I know pretty much work all the time, including before church on sunday.