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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
mhellman
Published Letters: 320 Editor's Choice: 5
I have seen other prominent comics republished without any disclaimer or notice. "Doonesbury" has done it several times this year.
... I think the current situation in Iraq has more to do with the Harvard Lampoon's famous parody "Bored of the Rings" than the Tolkien epic.
Kevin Federline gets the axe, then Rumsfeld, then Democrats gain control of both houses-- there is a God.
Just because people have been released doesn't mean they received due process-- they were released for reasons every bit as vague and arbitrary as those under which they were captured and detained.
it's hard for that guy to type one-handed...
...that the dual command structure allows our soldiers to be put in harm's way by a leaky, corrupt Iraqi chain of command.
...that certainly clears it up for me, thanks.
Blah blah blah phoned it in blah blah blah.
If the troll doesn't exist, it is necessary to invent him.
Geez, and people said that John Kerry was a flip-flopper! McCain makes Kerry look stubborn by comparison.
The whole 23 shtick was done nearly forty years ago, to much better effect, in the "Illuminatus" trilogy of books by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. Fnord!
...Carol Lay is not male. Otherwise, the librarians might have delivered a good swift kick to the scrotum.
This clearly illustrates the #1 rule that parents everywhere need to understand: children (whether cloned, adopted, or made the old-fashioned way) are not placed on this planet to live up to the expectations of their parents (though there is no harm in a parent telling his/her progeny what he/she is hoping for).
We'll all be a lot happier if we can get this straight...
...are OK with me, but the structure of the article would be a bit easier to deal with if there was some sort of ellipsis between paragraphs so readers will realize that he just switched topics.
The problem I have with guns is this: I read somewhere that if, in a three-act play, a gun is shown to the audience in Act I, you can pretty much guarantee it'll be used in Act III.
I don't think guns or their owners are inherently evil, but as Albert Maslow said, "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." I'm afraid that one day something will happen to me that I will convince myself can only be resolved with this particular trump card... but if I haven't got it, I can't use it.
A gun, to me, is all potential-- and crying out to be used. Making sure it is only used sensibly strikes me as more trouble than it's worth to own it.
...if I don't get a red star for my previous message, I'm going to go out and shoot someone. :)
...might have gone to even more exotic places than he mentioned. Though I'm not by any means a planespotter, I remember in 1991 taking a Garuda (Indonesia) flight from Jakarta to Paris (I *think* it was Paris), by way of Dubai (great duty-free there!) as a refueling stop. The Garuda was a 747-100 that was leased to them by Air Canada (including a Canadian flight crew), but I remember that the seats had the Sabena (Belgium) logo woven into them.
Q: Why can't gay dwarves get married in Middle-earth?
A: For the same reason straight folk can't get married in Middle-earth: it's so hard to find a good ring-bearer! (snicker)
I can recall (and this was years before Southwest became notorious for this sort of thing) hearing an announcement from the pilot that began, "This is your old Captain Bob, talking to you from the pointy end of the airplane..."
I also remember arriving in White Plains after a particularly bumpy trip on a turboprop from Baltimore (they ran out of airsickness bags, that's how bad it was) and hearing the flight attendant announce: "Welcome to Westchester County Airport. Please leave by the front door, where we'll be handing out medals."
...has mentioned gelato?
Gelato (Italian-style ice cream) has all the same basic ingredients as American ice cream, but:
1. it has less fat than ice cream (which must have at least 10% fat by US law; premium ice cream usually *starts* at 18% and goes up from there);
2. it has less 'overrun' (air whipped into the product) than ice cream (a lot of commercial ice cream has an overrun of 100% or more, which means that the stuff doubles in volume inside the machine that makes it... so half of what you are eating is *air*).
All this adds up to a product that is all about the flavor-- and the low overrun means that you get more bang for the buck. Find a gelato shop, try it out, and chances are that you'll never go back to Cold Stone again.
...about why women are such poor judges of distance (holds thumb and forefinger a tiny distance apart): because all their lives, men have been telling them that this is six inches!
...and that is that the reviewers who wrote this article basically suck. No matter how you feel about the question, they really sucked at trying to answer it.
Oop! Ack! Bill the Cat for President!
...I saw years ago in a magazine. A man and woman lie together in bed in a hotel. At the foot of the bed is a suitcase with "Just Married" chalked on it. The two newlyweds are propped up in the bed, covers pulled up to their chins. The woman says, "Well, my mother didn't tell me either. Now what do we do?"
...maybe the ark had only one pair of an entire genus, and once the ark landed each pair EVOLVED into the incredible variety we have now. Cool! An explanation equally unpalatable to both sides of the argument!
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 Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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