I have done this for the last year or so and I have become super more understanding of issues I knew only through news stories. It's been an education, one I didn't know I needed. I think I'm a better human than I was thanks to the twitter machine. I'm also a more stressed out, person because of the twitters and the internets in general, but *shrug*
not at all - I am an excellent historian - I phone up old people and make them tell me how it really was - also, too, I am a magician - I can make it appear as if I've written something and you hallucinate, not only my post, but the entire thread of commentary, which doesn't really exist - and time is not what you think it is - are you not aware of the quantum field where cause and effect does not follow in the ordinary way? well, that's where I do my work, where time and thinking are not at all helpful, but obscure what's real. I'm guessing that you probably own a watch. Such a tool.
I reckon Hickenlooper peaked at Governor because he never came off this dorky in Colorado. He was saving his best stuff for the big Presidential run mayhaps?
Anywho, after we win everything under the sun in 2020, he may get an ambassadorship to Eastern Nowheresville.
Which is what he meant when he said "Of course". He then mused aloud about how no one seems to be asking the similar question of all the many fine female candidates in the race. Which, if you stop to actually think about it for a minute, is indeed a fair and valid question to be asking.
So, has anyone actually answered his question yet, or are we all too busy picking up things to hit him with? While it is indeed to early in the race to even begin to consider VP candidates, simple fairness and equality demands that if we're going to ask such a question of a male candidate, we ask the same question of the female ones.
It's probably more annoying to think that we even need to be asking that question. It's been 35 years since Geraldine Ferraro was the first female VP candidate for a major party.....
As long as we're talking about asking the same question, i.e. "would you select a woman vice presidential candidate to run with?". I could see asking them that, it would only be fair.
I was there in the studio last night and I have to clarify that the man is Uber Nerdy. Like to the MAX. A Wonk, as you would, in the original, George Snuffalopagus definition.I think that he'd make a most excellent VP, if you need someone that'll read every document and give good counsel. Like I used to when I was working on enhancements to cellular telephone networks (billing, customer care & security). He just needs to work on shorter answers. He likes to tell stories, like OHJB. I'm sure that OHJB had to learn a better presentation. Or maybe not because Biden can still stick his foot in his mouth.TL;DR
He likely meant this as a "joke." Perhaps it was even a reference to the fact that Hickenlooper is obviously here to run for vice president anyway, and was hoping that such a comment would nudge whichever woman is nominated to pick him.Yes, like Mike O'Malley (who?) in 2016, he is most definitely running for VP.
Now, I'm hardly repressed, and I have a very cool relationship with my very "Our Bodies, Our Selves" 1970s feminist mom who let me read Anaïs Nin and watch R and NC-17 rated movies so long as they weren't rated that way due to violence and I watched them with her, but I promise you that had this happened to me, I would have run out of the theatre screaming "I have made an error in judgment, this was a poor idea!"This story is in his memoir and so of course, CNN was going to ask him about it. That he did not know how graphic Deep Throat is at that time makes sense IF you understand exactly how nerdy he is/was. At that time, the rating system was new and had been implemented for such classics as The Exorcist. And he explained that he was the youngest kid and his mom didn't like to live alone. She rarely went to the movies, preferring to watch movies on TV, so she wouldn't have known about the content of Deep Throat either.I can also say that I had a similar experience with my mother when I was 15 with Other Side of Midnight. The director pushed the edges of the R-rating. My mom was disturbed but shocked that I wasn't. And then I had a similar situation with my kids, taking them to see The Matrix when the rave scene was too sexy for them.
I didn't read Sci-fi until 1979 when I went to college. The public library that I could walk to in Southwest Atlanta had none that I knew of and none of my friends were Geeks who could have clued me in. So I had to play catch-up in 1979. By the time Cherry and Lackey were writing, I was all over it.
I would like to go on record that I did not see Deep Throat with my mother. I guess I'll also have to go on record that I have never seen Deep Throat at all.
Ms. Gnome assures me that "The Devil In Miss Jones" is a much better movie.
I don't get what you're trying to say. Is this a joke about how Hickenlooper is like brainless or something?
I have done this for the last year or so and I have become super more understanding of issues I knew only through news stories. It's been an education, one I didn't know I needed. I think I'm a better human than I was thanks to the twitter machine. I'm also a more stressed out, person because of the twitters and the internets in general, but *shrug*
More whining about "identity politics"? Really?
not at all - I am an excellent historian - I phone up old people and make them tell me how it really was - also, too, I am a magician - I can make it appear as if I've written something and you hallucinate, not only my post, but the entire thread of commentary, which doesn't really exist - and time is not what you think it is - are you not aware of the quantum field where cause and effect does not follow in the ordinary way? well, that's where I do my work, where time and thinking are not at all helpful, but obscure what's real. I'm guessing that you probably own a watch. Such a tool.
Wow, one of his best shots...like a painting! Lovely and grand kitteh, he is.
I reckon Hickenlooper peaked at Governor because he never came off this dorky in Colorado. He was saving his best stuff for the big Presidential run mayhaps?
Anywho, after we win everything under the sun in 2020, he may get an ambassadorship to Eastern Nowheresville.
Robyn, you have exceeded your very high standard. Again. THANKS!!!
Which is what he meant when he said "Of course". He then mused aloud about how no one seems to be asking the similar question of all the many fine female candidates in the race. Which, if you stop to actually think about it for a minute, is indeed a fair and valid question to be asking.
So, has anyone actually answered his question yet, or are we all too busy picking up things to hit him with? While it is indeed to early in the race to even begin to consider VP candidates, simple fairness and equality demands that if we're going to ask such a question of a male candidate, we ask the same question of the female ones.
It's probably more annoying to think that we even need to be asking that question. It's been 35 years since Geraldine Ferraro was the first female VP candidate for a major party.....
As long as we're talking about asking the same question, i.e. "would you select a woman vice presidential candidate to run with?". I could see asking them that, it would only be fair.
I was there in the studio last night and I have to clarify that the man is Uber Nerdy. Like to the MAX. A Wonk, as you would, in the original, George Snuffalopagus definition.I think that he'd make a most excellent VP, if you need someone that'll read every document and give good counsel. Like I used to when I was working on enhancements to cellular telephone networks (billing, customer care & security). He just needs to work on shorter answers. He likes to tell stories, like OHJB. I'm sure that OHJB had to learn a better presentation. Or maybe not because Biden can still stick his foot in his mouth.TL;DR
He likely meant this as a "joke." Perhaps it was even a reference to the fact that Hickenlooper is obviously here to run for vice president anyway, and was hoping that such a comment would nudge whichever woman is nominated to pick him.Yes, like Mike O'Malley (who?) in 2016, he is most definitely running for VP.
Now, I'm hardly repressed, and I have a very cool relationship with my very "Our Bodies, Our Selves" 1970s feminist mom who let me read Anaïs Nin and watch R and NC-17 rated movies so long as they weren't rated that way due to violence and I watched them with her, but I promise you that had this happened to me, I would have run out of the theatre screaming "I have made an error in judgment, this was a poor idea!"This story is in his memoir and so of course, CNN was going to ask him about it. That he did not know how graphic Deep Throat is at that time makes sense IF you understand exactly how nerdy he is/was. At that time, the rating system was new and had been implemented for such classics as The Exorcist. And he explained that he was the youngest kid and his mom didn't like to live alone. She rarely went to the movies, preferring to watch movies on TV, so she wouldn't have known about the content of Deep Throat either.I can also say that I had a similar experience with my mother when I was 15 with Other Side of Midnight. The director pushed the edges of the R-rating. My mom was disturbed but shocked that I wasn't. And then I had a similar situation with my kids, taking them to see The Matrix when the rave scene was too sexy for them.
Good one.
Thanks. Talia Sensdaughter and Honor Harrington were formative figures in my youth.
I'm not picking a candidate until September/October when shit gets real because the first primary is South Cackalakee in January.
I didn't read Sci-fi until 1979 when I went to college. The public library that I could walk to in Southwest Atlanta had none that I knew of and none of my friends were Geeks who could have clued me in. So I had to play catch-up in 1979. By the time Cherry and Lackey were writing, I was all over it.
I would like to go on record that I did not see Deep Throat with my mother. I guess I'll also have to go on record that I have never seen Deep Throat at all.
Ms. Gnome assures me that "The Devil In Miss Jones" is a much better movie.