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Wednesday, October 3, 2007 07:14 AM

For a sec, I thought I was going...

...to cyber puke into this thread. The only things that kept the cyber puke from flowing were the 3 comments before mine.

Well said, gents.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 07:10 AM

I agree with bfree4me and finity.

I also agree with George Bush and Karl Rove, who asserted that "freedom is on the march."

It is.

They've marched it out of America.

Bush-voters, repent.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 09:47 AM

Great post, coffeegyrl.

Drama is exciting. Routine can be boring. So, if the routine of office work doesn't suffice, there's always the jazz of drama.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 09:19 AM

4 possibilities:

1. Women often have longer necks too, thus working like a lever.

2. Since roughhousing is often discouraged for young girls, when they're older, they might not know how to fall well and safely.

3. Cats often survive collision by relaxing. One tends to relax when one is familiar with something, including collision. If a teenage girl weren't acclimated to colliding, she might tense at the point of impact, thus losing the shock-absorbing affect of relaxing.

4. As Bob suggested, there might be a thinner skull or less fluid or some other corporeal factor, possibly due to evolution, which didn't oversee the development of a sturdier brain for females because the fellas were out chasing the wooly mammoths and thus were the ones who needed more cerebral padding.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 08:37 AM
Original article: Openly gay in Iran

@ Anon 8:00 a.m.

Why not wish you're gay in America, where you can be fired in so many states and risk being beaten and killed in everyone for being gay? You could also pay full taxes for partial rights and know that fellow citizens, cowering behind pulpits, hang their alleged faith on hating you long and loud. And you win all this if you survive high school and the common consequent depression, as "faggot" sounds in every hallway.

Here's the difference between America and Iran regarding gay people. In Iran, the state hangs gay people. In America, Bush hangs his presidency and morality on being not gay and therefore better than gay.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 07:52 AM
Original article: Openly gay in Iran

Ms. Price wrote,

"...while our president may not think gay people have the same rights as heterosexuals, at least he acknowledges that they exist."

Sorta.

If you hang your presidency on some citizens (straight people) being more equal than others (gay people), that's denying the merit of a person and to a degree, the full presence of a person.

Likewise, believing, as fundies (and likely their president) do, that gay people just choose to be gay to make Jesus weep, denies their sexuality and to a degree, their personhood.

Presidents Ahmadinejad and Bush, ideologically, are cuddle-buddies.

Likewise, there are fundies who secretly rejoiced when Iraq hanged gay citizens and wish(ed) that the U.S. would do the same.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 06:46 AM

Muddled in Massachusetts admits that he has...

..."told them to stop behaving like children" and he wonders why these women won't listen to him. I wouldn't listen to a boss either if (s)he were so belittling.

Monday, October 1, 2007 10:08 AM

I just took my money out of the market.

I've made enough the last couple years and I don't need more than enough to live, since I live so simply. So, if I miss Dow 15,000 or Dow 16,000, that's okay.

Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:01 PM

Regarding marriage,

I wanna marry Cary.

Babies are welcome.

Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:54 AM

I like what nick_r wrote.

The fundies who voted for Bush should be begging to fight because they'll get to cuddle with Jesus that much faster. And Jesus loves this war, since Bush said that Jesus is his fave philosopher and that he consulted with Him before invading Iraq.

So, just like the Iranians were once given keys to Heaven for fighting Iraq, Bush can give keys to all young Republicans who fight, since Jesus wanted this war, as George discerned through his tete a tete with the Big Socrates (Sow-crates).

Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:08 AM

Oh, so she protects the troops by staying far from them?

She might actually keep many troops safe by being there. She'd be a target and in being that target, others wouldn't be targets. Why bother to target a no-name from Iowa when you can target the President's daughter? The key would be keeping other troops far from her.

To be kind, she could be given the Dukes of Hazzard car, the General Lee. With the pedal to the metal, the desert might get her, but the insurgents never will.

Seriously, she's a coward who doesn't believe in her Daddy's "WWIII" anymore than he does.

Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:58 AM
Original article: The happiness gap

@ area woman

Thanks.

And, "Yikes," my hands are looking veiny. I don't want anyone to know I'm mortal, so I'll have to have the backs of my hands plumped with fat from me bum. Then, since big bums are still "in," I'll have to have me bum bumped with silicon. The redecorating never ends, does it?

Now, if I could only decide if I'll be leaving a lovely corpse or if I already look like an out and about corpse, due to my many, many surgeries.

Thursday, September 27, 2007 09:46 AM
Original article: The happiness gap

Say, who are these guys who post the same things in every Broadsheet thread?

I imagine them as 60somethings, who, in this cyber-age have traded skulking behind curtains and hoping for some kid to cross their lawn, so that they can yell, "Get off the grass!" for skulking about Broadsheet, so that they can yell, "Get off my ass!"

Here's what I suggest: Go buy the Bill O'Reilly Loofah (Buy it now and you'll also get the "No Spin Zone" coffee cup at half price!)! The BOR Loofah not only takes the mud off a curMUDgeon, but it might also distract from your dire duty of curmudgeonly bludgeoning, much as it distracts Mr. O'Reilly from time to time.

Thursday, September 27, 2007 09:30 AM
Original article: The happiness gap

@ Anonymous 9:15

It is your sort of offensively simplistic divisive post that drives sane people AWAY from anonymous posters.

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