Hh. Good thing you're unlikely to be getting any of us pregnant, Matt! ;)
Police procedure has changed since I was little.
Wash ,'The Message'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Dec 15, 2011 8:12:41 pm PST #11767 of 30001
Burrell - Dec 15, 2011 8:41:03 pm PST #11768 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
gorgeous hat, msbelle
DavidS - Dec 15, 2011 8:45:43 pm PST #11769 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've always hated Hitchens as the ultimate, pompous self-regarding narcissist. Never once did he cover an issue without inserting himself and his mighty outrage at the center of it, so that every political issue was about him. The fact that his politics swung all over the place and was ungrounded by anything other than his peevishness damns his legacy. He literally achieved nothing except being the blowhard in the middle of the cocktail party. He held forth and had a very high opinion of his opinion. That is the sum of him. He amounts to nothing; he stands for nothing except himself.
And now he's gone. And nobody's going to go back and read him to understand his time the way they still read Orwell writing about his era. People will look back and wonder why anybody paid attention to him at all.
Beverly - Dec 15, 2011 8:46:21 pm PST #11770 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Pretty! And the hat is nice, too.
javachik - Dec 15, 2011 8:53:35 pm PST #11771 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
David, ha! You just basically summed up why I hate Vanity Fair. (The magazine, not the book, of course!)
Consuela - Dec 15, 2011 9:02:21 pm PST #11772 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Awesome hat, msbelle!
Zenkitty - Dec 16, 2011 1:53:40 am PST #11773 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I don't even know who Christopher Hitchens is.
Ginger - Dec 16, 2011 2:38:10 am PST #11774 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
He literally achieved nothing except being the blowhard in the middle of the cocktail party.
But he did it on a wider stage and made more money at it than the average blowhard. He also faced a miserable death with panache.
Sue - Dec 16, 2011 3:08:20 am PST #11775 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I felt mostly the way David does about Christopher Hitchens, but instead of Hec's analysis of his writing, I just thought he was kind of a twat. But I did come to feel some respect for him with his writing about his cancer.
Sue - Dec 16, 2011 3:10:03 am PST #11776 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Oh, and this is why I came here originally...Good Stuff fodder for sure.
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