See, now that was just evil.

... and if in addition to your legs you let your pits grow out too, the whole nail thing becomes completely moot. (These are the things I learned from my many years living in Seattle, anyway)

:>

(I'll gently back out of the Women's Room now ...)

Elect a real libertarian in that case. If you elect a faux libertarian, a Christian reconstructionist neo-confederate you are likely to find women with painted toes will be outlawed. Bare feet will be outlawed. The offending toes may be forcibly removed from the feet and you will all be sent to the foot binder.

It is quite easy to show that the net effect of libertarian agitation is to drain supporters from the anti-McCain camp into various quixotic alternative campaigns.

Without commenting as to whether that is true or not -- or that you could "easily" show it is -- that is not the point you made, and to which I replied. You claimed: "all 'Libertarians' are secret McCain supporters." Nary a word about libertarins' voting for "quixotic alternatives" being akin to Naderites.

Yes, it is true that the toes last longer than the fingers. Even for me and I am hard on toes - soccer, gardening etc. Cocktailhag would tell you to wear something with both colors in it. Then you're not clashing, you're coordinating. ;-}

'Didgeridoo' is OPI. Amazing, eh? Wonder how many folks they have doing that and what the going rate for such imagination is?

QS - Even I can't do the pit thing. It's just too hard to braid with one hand... ;-}

Jebbie's mullet wouldn't phase them. They were on a quest for the legendary catfish tonight. Complete with illuminated bobbers. It's the Nessie in the pond, IYKWIM. I've never seen it, only heard about it, which is not surprising when one considers the capacity for aggrandizement that most fishermen worthy of the title bring to the game.

They watched the pretty lights on the bobbers and I recovered from my soccer game by tippling some Crown Royal while communing with the smoke column from the campfire (a lively pas de deux coutesy of the front moving into the area).

Now I need to take my smoky butt off to bed where I'll admire my clashing nails until I drift off to sleep. 'Night all.

but I'd like to read it if it "trickles down"

Burns, Jennifer.

O Libertarian, Where Is Thy Sting?

Journal of Policy History - Volume 19, Number 4, 2007, pp. 452-471

http://www.slu.edu/departments/jph/past_1.html

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_policy_history/v019/19.4burns.html

This is always an inaccurate assumption, but it always good rhetorical strategy to make it, so that when someone like you calls me on it, I can explain : if they were 'rational actors' (which of course in reality they are not, since just like you and me, they are enslaved by emotion, much of it carefully induced by psywar experts, ha, ha), but if they WERE, then one could save oneself time and mental attrition by enquiring solely into the objectively likely effects of their statements.

p.s. I know I'm being horrible this morning (UK time) ; it is a side effect of having had to wade through all the ad hominem stuff, plus a few personal factors, like loneliness, extreme poverty, unemployment, political and personal despair, gathering gloom, incipient world war, and the fact that even the most attractive Israelis - or maybe, especially the most attractive Israelis - seem to be looking forward to it.

p.s. I know I'm being horrible this morning (UK time) ; it is a side effect of having had to wade through all the ad hominem stuff, plus a few personal factors, like loneliness, extreme poverty, unemployment, political and personal despair, gathering gloom, incipient world war, and the fact that even the most attractive Israelis - or maybe, especially the most attractive Israelis - seem to be looking forward to it.

Gosh friend, been there, done that. (Got very sick for more than a bit, and an advanced degree means squat when one truly cannot work.)

Just yesterday my adult son got a terrific promotion -- which will greatly increase his family's income -- and even as I'm congratulating him though his celebratory, beer-facilitated euphoria, he adds that "the world so sucks this happiness will not last long." He really thinks the state of politics is so awful that "the end is near." I did a gentle, motherly smack-down and told him to live in this good moment.

Even if true (and I am sure it is not), one cannot go about daily living under such a burden. If I got help and capitalized on it for what was ailing me, so can anyone, including you.

oh, well, for sure I shall keep going. I immunised myself in advance when I was younger by going through a complete, no holds barred process of destitution, modelled on that described by George Orwell in "Down and Out in Paris and London." I even stayed in the same hostel for the homeless that he stayed in, in Tooley Street, near Waterloo railway station, where everyone is a practicing alcoholic. But I would hate to lose my Internet connection, since it is my only link to humanity.

ABC News asked their staffers and on-air personalities not to wear American flag lapel pins or red, white, and blue ribbons to protect the network's credibility as an objective news source.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/noflags.asp

By ANNE E. KORNBLUT

Published: July 3, 2005

TOM DeLAY, not known for having an eye for accessories, greeted a roomful of reporters in his Capitol offices with a fashion rebuke a few weeks ago.

"Happy Flag Day! I don't see any flags," Mr. DeLay said, scanning the group for the lapel pin that became de rigueur as a sign of patriotism after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Then Mr. DeLay noticed his own barren lapel. "I don't have one either," he said with a note of amusement. "Maybe I ought to go get one."

That Mr. DeLay, the House majority leader, could banter about his flagless appearance so easily, and that it could then go unremarked upon by a press corps that tracks his every move, speaks volumes about the state of patriotic fashion nearly four years after the terrorist attacks...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/fashion/sundaystyles/03FLAG.html?pagewanted=all

Flag Day is just a month away.

So where is Sean Hannity's flag lapel pin?

Summary: Discussing an interview in which Sen. Barack Obama said he had stopped wearing a flag pin on his lapel during the lead-up to the Iraq war, Sean Hannity said on his radio show: "[W]hy do we wear pins? Because our country was under attack." He continued: "And to politicize once again the war to this extent. Well, who cares about the war? Are you proud of your country?" Yet while criticizing Obama for not wearing a flag pin, Hannity himself has not worn an American flag lapel pin on a number of recent occasions.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200710050012

When Patriotism and Journalism Clash

By WARREN STRUGATCH

October 7, 2001

Mark Preiser, a partner in Walter F. Cameron Advertising in Melville, on Long Island, said he learned about the dispute when a client telephoned to say that he was considering whether to pull his advertisements from News 12, Cablevision's all-news channel on Long Island.

The client, an automobile dealer Mr. Preiser would not identify, told him that someone claiming to be a customer called to complain about News 12's ''no flag'' policy. Cablevision and News 12 employees said that reporters and anchors had been told not to wear American flag lapel pins on the air or in the field.

Patrick Dolan, the senior vice president of the Cablevision Systems Corporation in charge of its News 12 Networks, said the policy was implemented to protect the station's credibility as an impartial news provider in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Cablevision also provides cable service to 900,000 customers in northern and central New Jersey, though the Long Island news is not broadscast in this state.

''We don't want anyone to get the false impression that our patriotic emotions cloud our reporting of the facts,'' Mr. Dolan said on the air on Sept. 19.

But the caller whom Mr. Preiser cited accused News 12 of being unpatriotic, chastised the automobile dealer for advertising on the station and promised to shop elsewhere for cars in the future.

''It's created quite a backlash,'' Mr. Preiser said, referring to the News 12 policy. ''A number of clients are talking about running their ads somewhere else.''

The same scene and variations played out across Long Island as media buyers, advertisers and account executives grappled with their consciences, their loyalties and their quarterly sales goals. The businesses, most of them small, that had advertised without incident on News 12 for years -- local retailers and Main Street law firms, auto dealers and medical practices -- suddenly found themselves perplexed at the imposition of a policy that seemed to defend a journalistic principle few understood in the face of the wave of patriotism that seemed to engulf all of America after Sept. 11. It is difficult to determine how many advertisers, if any, have pulled their ads. News 12 won't comment.

News 12 was not the only outlet wrestling with the issue of balancing human empathy with journalistic objectivity. On the networks, news anchors like Brit Hume on Fox News and Tim Russert on NBC have at times worn flag pins and red, white and blue ribbons on the air.

[...]

At News 12, Mr. Dolan, 50, did not return seven calls seeking comment. The calls were referred to News 12's director of marketing, Deborah Gosselin, who said Mr. Dolan was too busy to discuss the controversy. News 12 and Cablevision indicated that Mr. Dolan's Sept. 19 statement would be his last word on the matter.

''Like everyone else, we feel shock, and pain, and anger,'' the statement said, referring to the Sept. 11 attacks. ''And we want to respond. Our way of responding, as journalists, is to do what the First Amendment of the United States Constitution compels us to do. To report the facts objectively, and to give all sides of a story, without even a hint of bias.''

''There is no ban on the American flag at News 12,'' the statement added. ''You can be sure all of us at News 12 are good Americans.''

[...]

T. Walker Lloyd, the executive secretary of the Long Island Advertising Club, had little patience for Mr. Dolan's reasoning. ''I'm really angry that here's somebody saying we have to be even-handed,'' he said. ''If he said these things after Pearl Harbor, he'd have been lynched.''

As word of the policy spread, it quickly became clear that it faced opposition. Ms. Gosselin, the News 12 spokeswoman, said that Cablevision employees quickly logged about 500 phone calls and an equal number of e-mails from viewers, most of them of the wave-the-flag variety...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE2DB163CF934A35753C1A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print