We really were planning to just get a couple of new posts up today and then coast on recipes while getting ready for Thanksgiving, but darned if we didn't notice a couple of high-priority, short-shelf-life messages from idiots in the Comments queue.
Give me <i>Lear</i> wandering around the heath with the Fool supplying snark. Better yet, give me Orwell&#039;s amazing essay, &quot;<a href="http:\/\/www.orwell.ru\/library\/essays\/lear\/english\/e_ltf" target="_blank">Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool,</a>&quot; wherein our boy George takes down Tolstoy&#039;s humorless Puritanism with grace and venom.
Yes it&#039;s true: in the middle of the 19th century, the pro-slavery conservatives were in the Democratic party, and the antislavery liberals were in the Republican party. Just the opposite of today. Over the past 150 years the Republican party has moved considerably to the right and the Democratic party has moved to the left. The ideological heirs of the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions are still around, but they they are now in the opposite parties.
Got that? This <i>will</i> be on the final.
Well it *is* boring (except for the author&#039;s preface, which is funny). Why high schools make kids read that thing I will never know. Similarly, for Shakespeare we got Julius Fucking Caesar, when we could have had Macbeth (gore, ghosts) or Midsummer Night&#039;s Dream (sex, sparkly fairies). Like, what was up with that?
For Thanksgiving, I like to reread Titus Andronicus, especially the part about the pie.
<i>If people believe that he made stuff up, they haven&rsquo;t examined the facts</i>
Minor detail: since there is no indictment and will be no trial, there has been no opportunity to examine the facts. Unless by &quot;facts&quot; you mean &quot;the prosecutor&#039;s untested version of events.&quot;
But hey, I&#039;m a nitpicker, what can I say?
&quot;You my friend are precisely what is wrong with this country.&quot;
THINGS WRONG WITH THE USA: 1. Wonket 2. That is pretty much the entire list.
It&#039;s definitely NOT anything like hyper intense partisanship fomented by the one and only 24/7 &quot;News&quot; station where Ben Carson gets to constantly punditize his &quot;thought leadering&quot; so much that someone like TaterBater would declare the free expression of a contrary opinion is actually somehow detrimental to our great Nation of Freeedomland!
You know, you&#039;ve got to hand it to the old TaterTot. He got bounced the first time only to show up in the deleted comments post where he was the object of mostly ridicule. So he comments again, probably knowing that if he&#039;s posted at all it will just mean another round of Bash the Spud. This sir, is a dedicated idiot who is willing to accept any indignity in order to get his message out there. So for this and this alone I tip my hat to potato boy, he is a moron on a mission.
Give me <i>Lear</i> wandering around the heath with the Fool supplying snark. Better yet, give me Orwell&#039;s amazing essay, &quot;<a href="http:\/\/www.orwell.ru\/library\/essays\/lear\/english\/e_ltf" target="_blank">Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool,</a>&quot; wherein our boy George takes down Tolstoy&#039;s humorless Puritanism with grace and venom.
Or the notorious George Washington and his gang of lawbreakers.
My 2d favorite tv line, after &quot;Ward, don&#039;t you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night?&quot;
Just make sure you have a safe-word, like &quot;AppleJack&quot; for instance...
OK, Carpe, let&#039;s go over this once more.
Yes it&#039;s true: in the middle of the 19th century, the pro-slavery conservatives were in the Democratic party, and the antislavery liberals were in the Republican party. Just the opposite of today. Over the past 150 years the Republican party has moved considerably to the right and the Democratic party has moved to the left. The ideological heirs of the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions are still around, but they they are now in the opposite parties.
Got that? This <i>will</i> be on the final.
The ghosts of the Ohio Volunteers and the valiant 1st Ohio Infantry weep.
Damn right. Go hard or go home in the grammar game. Go hard <i>and</i> go home in all others.
Last time &quot;Seize the Spud&quot; showed up, I commented that he might be attempting satire ...
... oh boy was I wrong, whatta dickhead!
Could always put it in a paper bag, then heat it up in some way, real fast. That way it will melt the snow. DING DONG, GOOD DEED DELIVERY
Well it *is* boring (except for the author&#039;s preface, which is funny). Why high schools make kids read that thing I will never know. Similarly, for Shakespeare we got Julius Fucking Caesar, when we could have had Macbeth (gore, ghosts) or Midsummer Night&#039;s Dream (sex, sparkly fairies). Like, what was up with that?
For Thanksgiving, I like to reread Titus Andronicus, especially the part about the pie.
<i>If people believe that he made stuff up, they haven&rsquo;t examined the facts</i>
Minor detail: since there is no indictment and will be no trial, there has been no opportunity to examine the facts. Unless by &quot;facts&quot; you mean &quot;the prosecutor&#039;s untested version of events.&quot;
But hey, I&#039;m a nitpicker, what can I say?
Well, unless you count Ronnie&#039;s actual policies, executive orders, and the like. Then it gets a little sticky ...
&quot;You my friend are precisely what is wrong with this country.&quot;
THINGS WRONG WITH THE USA: 1. Wonket 2. That is pretty much the entire list.
It&#039;s definitely NOT anything like hyper intense partisanship fomented by the one and only 24/7 &quot;News&quot; station where Ben Carson gets to constantly punditize his &quot;thought leadering&quot; so much that someone like TaterBater would declare the free expression of a contrary opinion is actually somehow detrimental to our great Nation of Freeedomland!
* Dr Ruth approved
What prosecutor? All I saw was Wilson&#039;s defense lawyer masquerading as a D.A.
You know, you&#039;ve got to hand it to the old TaterTot. He got bounced the first time only to show up in the deleted comments post where he was the object of mostly ridicule. So he comments again, probably knowing that if he&#039;s posted at all it will just mean another round of Bash the Spud. This sir, is a dedicated idiot who is willing to accept any indignity in order to get his message out there. So for this and this alone I tip my hat to potato boy, he is a moron on a mission.