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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Published Letters: 9
They don't know the story yet, but when the wingnut dementalists find out that one of the cowboys get beat to death for being gay, they will be in full support of the movie...wages of sin and all that
Odd how the Reluctant Mommy and Cary and all of the respondents left out the twins.
I hope she will carry the pregnancy to term, deliver and keep the baby. She may or may not try Cary's advice regarding a contract making her husband the primary caregiver for the baby. I hope he will take on as much as possible, as he will be capable of doing more than either he or she may currently believe.
My point about remembering the twins is this: they are part of the current family and will be part of the family of five. They have lived the last eight years - the last two especially - seeing him as Daddy. If they see this child as essentially tying their lives to this loving, giving man in a real genetic sense, then this baby could have three men loving it and willing to help raise it from the start. Assuming they will be around for the next five years, until they leave the nest for good they could help get this kid raised to the point of kindergarten. Along the way there are lots of teachable moments that can help them become better people - more loving men - than their biological father was/is.
Reluctant Mommy needs to think about possible outcomes for all of the people in the family, not just herself. Sorry that fact upsets some people but that's what marriage and parenthood entails.
Let me quickly spell out the worst-case scenario I could forsee: Abort; Daddy resents Mommy for showing him to be a sucker for loving her and helping her to raise another (horrible) man's children; twins see that Daddy is really just a motherfucker not important enough to create a family with; twins grow up to be men like their biofather, with problems squared so Mommy will have four times the heartache and for the rest of her life because you can't divorce your kids; Daddy divorces Mommy sooner or later.
But at least Mommy gets to pursue her dream of being a ballerina dancing for royalty. Or whatever.
As a Northerner (South Dakota) I thought the term Bubba was Southern slang meaning brother. So seeing it applied to an enemy combatant was startling.
Is the Air Force still racially and regionally balanced with regard to its personnel, or has it also slid into a definitely Southern majority?
Did the term Bubba arise from some Southerner who remembered the chanted cant of his Xtian indoctrination "all men are brothers, love one another" and decided that it should apply to even his Islamist enemies?
The water touched the portly man's scrotum, not his testes. Yes the difference matters, a lot.
I'm way more concerned with the other guy who apparently plans to grab hair and BEER-BOARD his innocent victims until they confess
As they sorted and packed, did they discover any missing stuff, like e-mails or evidence of Saddam's WMD?
Seriously, I bet Cheney moved out mountains of evidence under cover of darkness...
Seriously, what ending would you have chosen instead? Waking from his coma to discover that he's really in 2008 with his girlfriend who's not Annie? Continued existance in 1973 with Annie, although he's actually still in a coma in 2008?
The writers gave us the best they could have, considering the shaft that ABC pushed the show into - but unlike the other shows ABC killed this season, at least we viewers got some closure.
The only opportunity the writers missed was to clarify the relationships between the characters in 2035: Imperioli and Murphy are gay life partners; Mol is in a joint marriage with the father and son, Keitel and O'Mara; and finally, President Obama is a real transgender with parts transferred from her/his own XY clone, which was vat-grown without a brain. As such he/she has a female brain in a brawny male body, ideal for intelligent and wise, compassionate but tough leadership that is moving the First Hemisperic Republic forward into space, colonizing the solar system and beyond...
The latest Saving Grace, or the Last? As they were literally rolling on the floor laughing at their audience (from whom they had stolen 30 minutes of life) I said fuck you all and turned off the episode. I don't care how it ended and I may not bother with the next one either.
C*nt writers out of ideas, and actors who can't laugh hysterically, convincingly no matter how many times they loop the sound. Plus I am real tired of pretending that Grace's scrawny body could be sexy to anyone, let alone the parade of characters she's bedded.
When I was in college in the early 70's, I got a free book from the Moonies, plus 2 or 3 visits in my dorm room by a couple of sweet Korean true-believer girls. But we all kept both of our feet on the floor, and that's the extent of my memory. I couldn't tell you what was in the book.
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
