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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Irma Thorax
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This is very entertaining. Could have lived without the chick-lit pink, but I understand why you did it. A great addition that I'll be checking regulary.
I'm a little dismayed at the humorlessness of many responses here. I need to laugh amid the bad news--I can't eat oatmeal all day, no matter how good it is for me. According to the formidable standards of some readers, you'd better get rid of that trivial King Kaufman. A sports column? With the world in such turmoil? Besides, you're ghetto-izing men!
Actually, I propose a much better alternative. Start a men's blog, too. Maybe you can call it Talk o' Fellas (sorry). Then we can hear about their catfights--or maybe the better term is dogfights. (You think that only women bicker and snarl over silly things? Ah, the innocence... )
Look--I really appreciate the serious news on Salon. I don't see that being phased out till the fascists declare martial law, so I think we're OK for now. But... variety, people. There's nothing wrong with a little intelligently snarky humor along with the tough stuff. If that's all you want, please go read all the good stuff on the home page today and just ignore Broadsheet.
(Oh, and thanks, designers, for toning down the pink.)
Men may not be necessary, but generally, they're pretty nice to have around. Only when women know their lives don't depend on men will the war between the sexes calm down.
I love that kid! Good god, people, it's funny!!!! No one is at fault—not the dad, not the kid, and certainly not Ms. Traister!
I just don't understand these people who stew in silence for 5 years and then write a letter to an advice columnist. Are you part of this family or not? Why is everyone tiptoeing around this guy? Ask the dude what's wrong, or if that doesn't work, ask the parents, and your fiancé of course. That Cary had to spell this out in a several paragraph reply speaks to the death of common sense.
Well, Bill, how exactly did Clinton getting a blow job affect our lives?
What a strange little coterie we have here. Do you sourpusses lie in wait? Is bitching about first-person stories a nationally recognized sport or something? I'm reminded of a great line about people who go out to dinner looking forward to the possibility of being disappointed.
Or maybe Salon used to run a lot of socialistic, take-your-medicine, strident diatribes against middle-class women, and you're all waiting forlornly for the Che T-shirt brigade to come marching back, not realizing there's a whole big Internet out there ready to give you your oatmeal-colored jollies?
Salon, this is the kind of story I read and actually pay for. Intensely personal, thoughtful, erudite with a twist. Please keep doing what you're doing.
MEC makes the great point that you can't make nice with those who have no niceness in them. I would also like to add that the press corpse can't make nice with those they've been making nice with 99% of the time for the last six years. (It all started even before the Selection, remember?) Their recent, isolated flashes of brilliance can't atone for their usual breathtaking capitulation. Stephen Colbert has picked up the baton from Jon Stewart, and boy, can he run.
How could he be funny, considering the deathly serious and heartbreaking events he was addressing? How could he be funny in the presence of the most maliciously negligent and mendacious administration we've ever had? How could he be funny in front of a sea of sycophants sleepwalking through the most shameful years this country has seen since the Civil War? No, Stephen Colbert had little to make one laugh that night. Yet I found myself howling with joy at what he did.
Oh God, I miss the grown-ups.
http://www.townhall.com/phillysoc/bartlettpaper.htm
Fascinating choices and justifications.
Brilliant, our dear, brave, intrepid, media lamb! In honor of my most highly esteemed fucking televised entertainment, would you please elocute in this manner from now on? Wouldst that I lived in that colorful, gold-dusted time of yore, but such sublimely indecorous and silver-tongued speech is the next best thing.
We just don't know how to measure it yet. That's why the scientific tests aren't finding anything. Science is in its infancy stage when compared to astrology.
I can come up with a list of personal traits and experiences that my chart confirms that someone else's chart never would. And I find it fascinating that while I'm undergoing intensive study of astrology this month, all this stuff is going on with the classification of planets.
Right now, Jupiter is conjunct my natal Sun and square Uranus and Saturn. The immense hard work and exciting developments in my life illustrate this configuration in spades.
Go ahead and laugh. I'll continue to reap the benefits of an open mind.
Those statements are laughably general. If you were to seriously study all the complex variables and relationships between planets, signs and houses for a particular individual, things would get a lot more interesting than your examples.
As for those supposedly foolproof blind tests, once again I'd bet the chart data was too general. Deep astrology has elements of the scientific, but to me, it's more of a skillful art, like good psychotherapy.
I'm not one who insists that astrology be considered a science, because I don't think modern science has all the answers, especially since its practioners are immersed in the same culture we all are, with its blind spots and biases. What science knows how to do, it does beautifully. But until it develops further, its capacity for having the last word is limited.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
