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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
luminesce, yes, blessed are the peacemakers! Happy Thanksgiving to you and weeping and gehgoeson and klytus and Faulkner Jr. and especially Faulkner Jr.'s father. And New York, NY, as well. I don't think anybody's going to change anyone's mind here tonight, so I hope people treat one another with kindness.
salonmarte, thanks for being here, I hope you have a peaceful and calm holiday, and let us know how you are. I'd like to extend your Premium membership as my holiday gift to you. Happy Thanksgiving!
The strictest liberals...
Dominate the comedy circuits.
Nice generalisation though, I am sure it helps you get over voting Bush twice.
this has no use to your point, which in warm, kind spirited and laudable, but it would be nice to have a sitting president who isn't getting his Foster Brooks on right now. I know it wouldn't change much on the ground in mumbai it would just make me feel better.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/bush-drinking-again-downs_n_146453.html
1/20 cannot come fast enough.
One Thanksgiving wish I want to make is to my GoodCelery! He hasn't chimed/rhymed in tonight, but I don't want him to be forgotten. He brings thankful times many days of the year.
Don't take life so seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
Liberals and conservatives
Any staunch doctrinares extrordinare
In their tiny little cramped rooms
Cramped as they are
In their narrow little views
Are people for whom I have no real appreciation
Or use
If a person cannot think or opinionate
Outside the particular box to which they're bound
And boxed in
Klytus cannot call this type person
A very much enlightened hombre or friend
I mean shit
Look what narrow livin' and breathin' and furtively believin'
Got Osama bin Laden
The dude can't see past the hem of his own dishdasha
He fancies himself an Islamic ideolouge
A religio-political top man and hot shit political Pasha
Likes to be the star in all his videos
Like a self made political ham
If ya can't jack yourself out of a box
Then you've probably got a head
That's chock full of rocks
A lie doesn't become truth with repetition - no matter how much you would like it to. Again, the leftwing for the last eight years has dominated in comedy. Al Franken, Colbert, Tina Fey, all very leftwing, all very strong comedians.
The Onion, Something Awful, SNL, all very leftwing, all very strong comedy venues.
The guy behind "Family Guy?" Yeah, he's a lefty.
The nearest thing to a successful political comedy the rightwing has is South Park, and that isn't actually rightwing it is Libertarian.
And somehow I don't think that the liberal side of the fence would dominate Hollywood if we didn't know how to make people laugh.
I am an Obama supporter and made sure to vote early. I blogged to almost insane lengths against the McCain campaign. I'm grateful that Obama will be president soon.
But to in any way say this makes you feel better about Mumbai is just to be another blinkered American that can only see things through that lens.
How arrogant. How dare you. Even if Obama were in office, how could he do anything about this?
This is an Indian tragedy. Obama has no bearing on it, nor do our elections. And you're trivializing it by implying it does.
God, Joan. Write this shit out in longhand before you type it. It might save you some embarrassment.
That people can be pretty precious about shit
Which I think is pretty true and astute
Sometimes people
Are so cute I could puke
But see
As I see it
Humor and Comedy have no official political stripe
If humor must manitorily be "owned" by a particular wing or
party
You're probably just blowin' smoke up your ass
And fillin' it up with too much smug hype
Back in Cairo
Humor is seen as a way for folks to cope
When the fates seem furiously unfriendly
Humor gives you good times, mirth, laughter
And most significantly
Strength and good hope
The thing is: What you are saying basically isn't true.
It is like the claim that atheists can't do art (Because evidently George Eliot never existed) and can't do comedy (Because evidently Douglas Adams never existed either.)
The leftwing tends pragmatic, we see something that doesn't work, we laugh at it (Which is one of the main criticisms behind the "Hater" label, we snark pretty damned effectively) and then we propose a solution to it.
The problem with the leftwing is that the far left voices you hear aren't the super-serious pundits, it is that those voices are generally comedians and entertainers, people whose bread and butter is comedy.
Heck we want Al Franken in the Senate.
We have this fallacy of moderation, which is outright stupid in ways which are both hilarious and problematic, where if you are "Far left" in America (Which essentially means being in favour of much the same policies which are taken for granted in every other first world country) you are somehow accused of being humourless - by the side of the aisle that seems to think of being wished a "happy holiday" as being horrible religious repression.
Because we all know the emperor has no pants but hey, he has a really snazzy shirt.
I mean, remember Chocolate Jesus? A bunch of people who believe that they eat Jesus every Sunday got miffed at Jesus being represented by a food-stuff.
The far right, on most issues, is hillarious. Humourless, but funny as heck. If they weren't, the leftwing, including the far left, wouldn't have survived this long. Tom Tomorrow is an example of a far leftwing webcomic, it is one of the brighest spots of this last eight years.
One can criticise the far left for a lot of things, but a lack of a sense of humour isn't one of them.
You come on as narrow to the marrow...
Maybe I come off a little strong
But its not my fault you are wrong
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
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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