What’s on your mind? It rained cats and dogs here all weekend. The whole area is waterlogged. I hope to see some sun sometime this week. Any more rain and I’ll have to start building an ark.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Wow, 30 minutes and no one has anything on their mind.
Ok, I’ll start it out.
Would you rather:
Have your grandmother catch you masturbating
-or-
Catch your grandmother masturbating?
Interesting question SN ;o)
If we assume that Grandma is masturbating, then that means she’s probably blind, as the saying goes. So in that case, I would rather her catch me because she couldn’t see it, right?
I can’t believe I’m going to hit the post button on this :o)
Way to flesh that one out, (so to speak) Super!
id rather catch her masturbating than giving someone a blowjob.
Ayup, indeed.
It doesn’t matter either way. Just as long as she doesn’t sit down and join me.
Ya know…..
some things are better left unsaid :o)
you could say the same thing about this entire conversation LOL
What?! You don’t like playing Would You Rather?
It rather depends on the ‘rathers’ ^^
Your choices 1. cringe or 2. cringe
!
That’s kind of the point. It’s no fun if your choices are – would you rather have sex with Angelina Jolie or Ernest Borgnine?
oh. Well, i know 🙂
I know some of you have seen this already, but it is only a couple of days old:
Penguin-Cheney, Riddler(Decider?)-Bush, Catwoman-Rice, Joker-Rummy
Holy GOP, Batman!
I envisioned Rummy the Riddler and Bush the Joker
Bush Misadministration: Bat Villians (w/poll)
I had Rummy as the Riddler at first, too, and Scooter Libby as the Joker. Libby makes a great Joker – he even has the right hair for it. But then I didn’t have Bush in the photo, and since Libby has been taken care of (until Bush pardons him), I went looking for photos that worked for each villain. I just happened to find a Rummy photo that fit for the Joker, and a Bush photo that worked for the Riddler. I’m sure if I Googled some more, I could have made it the other way around.
Too bad there wasn’t a way to include Rove – maybe as Egghead (originally played by Vincent Price).
If you`ve never been caught masturbating, by your grandmother, then your secret location is a good one.
As for the ark you need, How many cubits was that again?
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I am an exceptionally slow learner when it comes to all things technological. But I just recently discovered how easy it is to develop a playlist on itunes and burn a cd.
I know I’ll not get a lot of kudos from all of the music officianados here at BT, but I thought I’d share the playlist I’ve been working on today for my friends birthday next month. Her favorite music would be of the Indigo Girls variety and she’s as dedicated as us froggies to taking our country back from these lunatics:
Dear Mr. President/Pink
Find the Cost of Freedom/Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
What’s Going On/Marvin Gaye
Hole in the World/Eagles
Not Ready to Make Nice/Dixie Chicks
How Long/Sweet Honey in the Rock
The Meek are Getting Ready/Holly Near
Eyes on the Prize/Bruce Springsteen
I Hope/Dixie Chicks
Imagine/Etta James
God Bless the World-Not Just America/Greg Jones
Let There Be Peace on Earth/Boys Choir of Harlem
Anyone have any suggestions for additions?
How can you POSSIBLY do a progressive political playlist and NOT have Pete Seeger on it? Or Buffalo Springfield? Or Joan Baez? Or Peter Paul and Mary?
Or Bob Dylan? Here’s my fave:
When the Ship Comes In
Sorry you’re suffering. Wish I could trade some of your rain for our heat here in So Cal!
Hey – big news here. I got to shake Al Gore’s hand! He winked at me as he was talking to the woman just ahead of me, as we all waited for him to sign our newly purchased copies of “An Inconenient Truth” (the book) at Duttons in Beverly Hills. When it was my turn for a moment, I reached out, shook his hand, and uttered the words I’ve longed to utter. “Mr. President.” I savored that. “I’ve wanted to call you that for so long now,” I said. He smiled and I had to move on. I saw in the paper today that another person who came in long after I had left was Arnold Schwarzenegger.
There are so many reasons I am glad I moved back to Los Angeles. Meeting Al, however briefly, means one more entry on that list.
How exciting RHL!! And congratulations on thinking of the PERFECT thing to say. That’s whats always hard for me when I meet a hero of mine, thinking of something intelligent to say.
Thanks! I went with a friend who pushed me in front of her and said, you go first. You know how to talk, or something like that. But when it was her turn, she said something heartfelt and simple: “I wish you were our President.” Gore responded with such candid, forceful, forthrightness I was really surprised. “I wish I was too!” he said, a righteous anger flashing momentarily. Then he was all smiles again. But wow – it didn’t come off as egotistical at all – it felt more like he was just expressing the same outrage we all feel, and he knows he could have done better. How sad!!!
Feelin’ pretty jealous right about now! Left LA in ’88 because –
well, it was love. (Too bad it didn’t work out. {:-( )
But I didn’t know how much I hated LA ’til I’d lived in Chicago for a year. So, while there are some things to recommend LA (Getty Museum, Zucky’s, etc) there’s a lot to dislike (brown air, wall-to-wall concrete & asphalt, etc).
Is All coming up north? I’d brave a trip into SF.
I don’t know. The man needs a Web site to help promote appearances. You can check the site for his film – might be appearance info there…
http://www.climatecrisis.net/blog/
Chicago is a truly great place. I love that city, the architecture, the history, and especially the warm, genuine people.
But it doesn’t have dolphins! 😉
I left LA in the late nineties and was happy to go. But after six years away, I really missed it. And now, no matter the heat, the smog, I know this is the place for me. There’s just too much going on, and a lot of times, it’s free.
I saw this amazing documentary this morning, free, as part of the LA Film Festival. It was called Maquillapolis – about women fighting the corporations in Maquilladoraville in Tijuana. What’s cool is the women in the film were co-creators in it – it wasn’t just the director’s vision, but a shared one. It was astonishingly cinematic, and heartbreaking – everything you think you know – it’s so much worse. But the film was also heartening too – it showed these five women with no power scaring the pants off the major corporations, and ultimately capitulating to their demand for legitimately owed pay when the company moved to even cheaper labor in Indonesia. HIGHLY recommended. It will air on PBS on Sept. 26. Don’t miss it!
In most big cities, it’s Gay Pride Day. Smaller cities often have their Pride Day a different Sunday in the summer, so revelers can head to LA, NYC, SF for the big parades. We got rained on and damped out here in New York City, but a grand time was had by all anyway.
Gay Pride Day recognizes the Stonewall riot of June 1969 when the lesbians, transgenders and gay men revolted to police pressure in the West Village in New York City, thus igniting a massive societial closet door opening that summer which put gay politics on the map and gay sex on everyone’s tongue and in their ears for what seemed like the first time ever. The downtrodden term homosexual was abandoned for the terms gay and lesbian.
We celebrate each summer because it’s our national holiday we want to share with everyone.
both in Seattle and in SF — and since we were in transition from Point A to Point B, the spouse and I missed both.
A local radio station, KFOG, has a show at 10am weekdays (repeated at 10pm) called “10 @ 10”. It usually features 10 songs from one single year, with occasional special shows (the “One Hit Wonders” is usually a kick, and can’t miss “Hits from Hell” on Friday the 13ths). The Friday before Pride Weekend, the host, Dave Morey, does a Pride Set. This year’s features:
1. The Mulkiteo Fairies – Queer Enough For You
2. Billie Burke Estate – Gay
3. Jill Sobule – I Kissed a Girl
4. Melissa Etheridge – Yes I Am
5. Sylvester – You Make Me Feel Mighty Real
6. Tim Finn – Hit the Gound Running
7. Elton John – The Simple Life
8. Timbuk 3 – Legalize Our Love
9. Tom Robinson – Glad to Be Gay (BEST OF SET!!)
10. Joe Jackson – Real Men
Unfortunately the spouse and I missed this year’s set. 🙁
(BTW, it’s good to be home…but now I need a vacation to recover from my vacation…)
Thanks to everyone who helped out over the past couple of weeks. Here’s an update from elRanchero
More info on the fundraising/mission of the Border Action Coalition can be found here [/commercial]
Our bit of rainfall came Thursday – got some severe weather in our corner of the OK panhandle, including 75 mph straightline winds, and apparently 90 mph gusts in spots. My son was convinced that he saw some funnel clouds trying to form – I don’t doubt him, especially given that broadcasts from a friend’s police radio were suggesting potential tornadic activity.
Made for an interesting ending to my son’s baseball game, and for an interesting drive home.
Any more rain and I’ll have to start building an ark.
I wouldn’t bother, since you would put in an incredible amount of work only to have Rumsfeld commandeer your ark and use it as a delivery system against Iran.
On the positive side, at least then the christian archeologists scouring the mountains there would actually have an ark to discover, so I guess the choice is yours.
Our part of the world (southern Rockies & sw in general) is parched and in the midst of a devastating drought.