November 19, 2006
Out For A Week
I promise! Getting ready for weblog awards season, and for visitor number one million. And something to do with travel, family, and holidays. I'm going to use reverse psychology now. Why don't y'all lame it up in the comments like every other time I was gone for more than 12 hours?
Dodd wants to reinstate habeus corpus. I thought my constitutional rights were just lost in the couch.
Posted by: zachjones4 at November 20, 2006 12:04 AMi really miss the 90s sometimes, when the constitution was supposed to be being shredded by the clintons, the atf, and roswell scientists, all in secret. that seemed to upset people. this, the out in the open thing? not so much....
Posted by: dexter at November 20, 2006 09:21 AMWill there be a veto-proof majority willing to re-ratify the constitution? Or are we stuck up shit creek until '09?
Posted by: Montag at November 20, 2006 09:32 AMDear Charlie Rangel: The draft idea is a loser. Please drop it.
Posted by: PSoTD at November 20, 2006 09:58 AMpersonally, i'm hoping that Bush does veto something like a minimum wage increase, lower student loan rates, improvements to Medicare, etc., just to get the hostility to the working class out in the open.
is there a spare Pikachu for the 1,000,000th?
Posted by: paperpusher at November 20, 2006 12:47 PMI'm with you on the Rangel thing.
I get the political intent of the draft proposal, but I'm not thrilled about the idea of swapping "the Democrats want to take our guns!" with "the Democrats are going to give us guns and send us away!" Something in the middle, perhaps?
Posted by: Otto Man at November 20, 2006 12:53 PMLast night I was listening to some punk. Amebix and Discharge are great crust bands. While I think Crass represents the true punk rock spirit 100%, they sound like shit. Could there be a worse rock band? Well, yes. Anyway, I give approval to Amebix and Discharge, and if anyone likes those they should check out Aus-Rotten.
Posted by: ChrisV82 at November 20, 2006 01:53 PMWhy not force the Republicans to vote against the Rangle draft legislation idea? If only so that we can then ask, "Well, OK smart guy, where ARE we gonna get the troops for your precious democracy-implantation experiment?"
Of course, I'm gonna be 51 in December, so what the fuck to I care? BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Posted by: steveE at November 20, 2006 02:26 PMditto that, yo. how about drafting legislation to bring the troops home? and cross-yr-heart promising not to invade iran? wouldn't that kind of preempt the whole sending of troops anyway?
Posted by: dexter at November 20, 2006 08:16 PMWhat ever happened to lederhosen?
Posted by: zachjones4 at November 20, 2006 08:23 PMSo, anybody read any good books lately?
Posted by: Nancy in Detroit at November 21, 2006 09:22 AMI borrowed "A Brief History of the Dead" from the library and forgot to read it. You?
Posted by: ChrisV82 at November 21, 2006 09:28 AMBy the way, I'm not stalking you, I just happened to visit the site 6 minutes after you posted a comment.
Honest.
Posted by: ChrisV82 at November 21, 2006 09:29 AMAll's cool, CV82. And every book I've read so far this year has pretty much been crap. Except for the Harry Potter books (YES I SAID HARRY POTTER) which my nephew turned me on to.
Posted by: Nancy in Detroit at November 21, 2006 10:05 AMHe's gone! Quick, call up Pat O'Brien and get some hookers and coke!
Posted by: Comandante Agi at November 21, 2006 10:09 AManybody read any good books lately?
Ethics -- Alain Badiou, Translated: Peter Hallward
Posted by: Montag at November 21, 2006 10:48 AMI'm unable to comment since I'm still processing the advent of Mrs. Dewey. via Thomas Nephew.
Posted by: eRobin at November 21, 2006 10:52 AMJust finished The Confusion, which, like Quicksilver, is a ripping yarn. Unless you find it totally boring, in which case it isn't. I didn't, though. Find it boring.
Posted by: Tom Hilton at November 21, 2006 12:49 PM