Comments on: Shorter The Anchoress

By: actor212

actor212 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:39:48 +0000

Chris St.James said,

January 31, 2008 at 3:14

You lefty turds keep on mocking President Bush and all of us who appreciate his leadership.

We don’t really need your permission, but thanks.

By: BlueHerald 2.0 - News You Can Abuse!

BlueHerald 2.0 - News You Can Abuse! — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:35:35 +0000

[...] he thinks she’s Saddam Hussein (or Ozymandius) or [...]

By: RobW

RobW — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:34:03 +0000

LARP: Live Action Role Playing. Like taking D&D to the streets, instead of geeking out in the basement.

By: MYOB

MYOB — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:52:59 +0000

Clearly this ‘anchoress’ is a top candidate for membership in ‘The Masses.’
It is astounding what fear will do to a people.
Fear and the appearance of a guy who is an asshole of the worst kind.
Women don’t like nice guys. Bush isn’t a nice guy. The bigger the asshole with arrogance to back it up the dumber the broads who dig a wuss like that.

MYOB’
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By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:08:06 +0000

What’s an anchoress? Is it anything like an anchor baby?

An anchoress was a kind of local cloistered woman in medieval times.

Wikipedia has a nice description:

“Anchorite (male)/anchoress (female), (adj. anchoritic; from the Greek ???????? anach?re?, signifying “to withdraw”, “to depart into the rural countryside”), denotes someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society so as to be able to lead an intensely prayer-oriented, ascetic and, circumstances permitting, Eucharist-focused life. As a result, anchorites are usually considered to be a type of religious hermit,[1] although there are distinctions in their historical development and theology.

The anchoritic life is one of the earliest forms of Christian monastic living and originated before the religious life in community. Popularly it is perhaps best-known from the surviving archeological and literary evidence of its existence in medieval England.

In the Roman Catholic Church today it is one of the “Other Forms of Consecrated Life” and governed by the same norms as the consecrated eremitic life (The Code of Canon Law 1983, canon 603).[2]”

One of the most famous was Julian of Norwich.

The blogger, OTOH, is almost certainly NOT an actual anchoress. Likely she is a suburbanite with a pope fixation.

By: DAS

DAS — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:27:40 +0000

A little OT, but I think Shelley made a mistake by sticking with the strict sonnet form and not ending Ozymandias with the quote but including those last three lines. I think it makes the point better just to set up the irony between what the situation is and the writing of the king and then leave it hanging.

But maybe my sensabilities are just too modern?

By: kiki

kiki — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:31:57 +0000

Of course, the real question is:

After 111 posts, why the hell has nobody used the word ‘Wankeress’?

It rhymes and everything.

By: SomeNYGuy

SomeNYGuy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:28:58 +0000

An anchoress is a female anchor. Both are best tossed over the side of a boat in deep water.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:24:30 +0000

Wow, the Anchoress sure suffers from a big case of BVS (Bush Veneration Syndrome).

By: commie atheist

commie atheist — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:03:06 +0000

What’s an anchoress? Is it anything like an anchor baby?

By: millsapian87

millsapian87 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:45:43 +0000

Far be it from me to respond to a troll–it’s a bit like teaching that proverbial pig to sing, don’t cha know–but I can’t let this go:

The same racist democrats who supported segregation and opposed the civil rights act of 1964!

Those racist Democrats are all Republicans now. That’s what the Southern Strategy is all about.

Now fark off and get off your mom’s computer. She’d be very disappointed to learn what you’ve been doing down in the basement all this time. Well, that and the compusive masturbation.

By: (Lex) Skink Tyree (Azagthoth)

(Lex) Skink Tyree (Azagthoth) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:19:06 +0000

Jake, oh yes, RenFest at the least, but pray tell, what is LARP? Pardon my ignorance….

By: Susan of Texas

Susan of Texas — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:15:08 +0000

I thought Anchoresses were supposed to wall themselves up in a church and spend their time in fasting, prayer, and dispensing wisdom. Not watching tv, caressing action figures, and babbling on the internet.

By: Rob C

Rob C — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:10:34 +0000

That video of Bush’s rescue of his SS man was positively the most heroic and courageous act I have ever been privileged to witness. One day there’ll be statues of Bush even more impressive than Ozymandias’.

By: White Male, Jew of Liberal Fascism

White Male, Jew of Liberal Fascism — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:04:20 +0000

At long last, Faux News John Gibson, have you no decency?

“You know, there is new news coming out right now that apparently Heath Ledger was suicidal, and his friends saw it coming. I think he watched the Clinton-Obama debate last night. I think he was an Edwards guy, ’cause he saw his Edwards guy was just completely irrelevant — good looking, wears a suit well — but should just leave the stage.”

By: Meghan

Meghan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:02:49 +0000

I guarantee you she’s got a Bush action figure somewhere in her house.

Taping a face onto her Rabbit isn’t quite the same as an action figure but I think poetic license allows for it.

By: Gary Ruppert

Gary Ruppert — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:59:22 +0000

… and when they came for those-who-fart-in-the-bathtub-and-then-try-to bite-the-bubble, there was no one left to stand up for me.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:55:59 +0000

I hate her partisan bad faith more than anything else.

If this had been a Democratic president, she would be a rabid Salome calling for his head on a plate, not some “Anchoress” singing a paean to a moron.

By: OB-GYN Kenobi

OB-GYN Kenobi — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:47:10 +0000

Nothing beside remains.

By: Nuff Ced MacGreavey

Nuff Ced MacGreavey — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:25:17 +0000

Want a definition of true Bush Derangement Syndrome? Read this article.

I say get the Anchoress institutionalized and under sedation immediately, she’s making Britney look sane.