Hee!
Mal: Hell, this job I would pull for free. Zoe: Can I have your share? Mal: No. Zoe: If you die, can I have your share? Mal: Yes.
'The Train Job'
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.
Jesse - Feb 08, 2012 8:35:57 am PST #20921 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Consuela - Feb 08, 2012 8:39:56 am PST #20922 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Aww, thanks folks. In general, Scalzi's blog is a haven of sensibility--at least he does moderate his comments, but it's not precisely a progressive place.
And I do loathe the whole shell-game that goes on with the anti-marriage equality crowd. If a court requires it, it's "judicial activism"; if a legislature passes it, it's "against the will of the people", despite the fact that we live in a representative democracy. And (generally) the same folks who rant about judicial activists overriding the will of the people are perfectly happy with the Supreme Court striking down gun-control laws...
Lee - Feb 08, 2012 8:40:51 am PST #20923 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
JZ's church is definitely of the awesome, as well as sexy.
JZ - Feb 08, 2012 8:40:54 am PST #20924 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
sexier than The Thorn Birds.
Uhhh... thanks? (I must here confess to a totally irrational hatred for Richard Chamberlain.)
brenda m - Feb 08, 2012 8:41:39 am PST #20925 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Hating Richard Chamberlain is totally rational.
le nubian - Feb 08, 2012 8:42:39 am PST #20926 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
He's been great on "leverage", but that's all I got.
Maria - Feb 08, 2012 8:43:34 am PST #20927 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
And (generally) the same folks who rant about judicial activists overriding the will of the people are perfectly happy with the Supreme Court striking down gun-control laws...
Or deciding the next President of the United States (Gore v. Bush, 2000).
It isn't activism unless you're against the core proposition. If you're for it, then it's reasoned judicial interpretation.
edited for context
Jesse - Feb 08, 2012 8:48:33 am PST #20928 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, I guess the person who always gives my email address for everything is conservative. I just got a fundraising email with the following postscript:
P.S. Funded by a gang of gay billionaires, Obama's base is marching across the country, "occupying" major cities and shredding the historic definition of marriage as one man and one woman. They are everywhere, in every Christian community, from North Carolina to Utah. They already occupy Washington, D.C. Now, the anti-family lobby is salivating at the prospect for Obama's second-term; they are already drawing up plans to complete the deconstruction of our Judeo-Christian values which have formed the cornerstone of civilization.
Good times.
Dana - Feb 08, 2012 8:52:26 am PST #20929 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
A gang of gay billionaires?
Jessica - Feb 08, 2012 8:54:39 am PST #20930 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
A gang of gay billionaires?
They roam around tagging bridge overpasses with rainbow-colored bags of money.