...Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly.  Any GOP candidate or sitting Congressman.  Somebody.  Come on.

Come out in favor of the fire department order to let the house burn in Tennessee.

It's perfect small-government Tea Party thinking.  It's privatization.  It's what you believe in.  Come on.  Say it.  You know you want to.

Come on.

SAY IT.

"Are you shitty?  Vote Republican!"

Girl I went to high school with, who apparently works as a "freelance editor":

"Laundry: stacked up. Dishes: a big 'ole mess. Packing: stuff everywhere. My fingernails: another big 'ole mess."

(Isn't it kind of pathetic to call yourself an "editor" if you don't know how apostrophes work?  I mean, unless what you were shortening was the word "hole ( Read more... )

Or maybe just one foible, from OKCupid, where a girl I almost responded to lists the attributes of The Man She Wants To Meet ( Read more... )

I'm all for people practicing safe sex and all, but I wish we could get past people who don't understand math using scare tactics like "you have to think about everyone YOU slept with, and then everyone all of THEM slept with, and then on and on and on...!"  I mean, if that's how you think it works, then you basically have AIDS now because someone ( Read more... )

Came home early and turned on Olbermann, who led with (of course) the McChrystal story.  While listening to the rundown, I found myself wondering what the response would be from the right to Obama's decision...you know, if he fires the general, he's sabotaging the military effort, but if he doesn't, hmmm...will they say he's weak, will they approve ( Read more... )

• Was listening to "Axis: Bold As Love" in the car the other day -- probably at least ten years since that CD came out -- and realized that Jimi Hendrix just doesn't do anything for me.  Love the first album and tried to follow up like a good boy, but that's about all I need.
• I'm in early these days.  Pretty much this whole year I come in no later ( Read more... )

Someone expressed this in a blog or perhaps a genuine paid article, which unfortunately I forgot to bookmark...

Hypothetical (omnipresent) self-mythologizing personal-life chronicler: do you realize how utterly, utterly uninteresting and heartbreakingly far from "amazing" it is that YOU LOVE YOUR FRIENDS?  How tight you all are?  How they're like ( Read more... )

OKCupid's quizzes are two full letter grades above Facebook's, which means they sometimes have some validity.  Yesterday I came across "How Cliche Is Your Profile", which, while I don't attach any great significance to the score it generates, is a very humorous repository of, well, things that are in way too many profiles (and not just on OKC).  ( Read more... )

...from status updates, user comments, and DEFINITELY actual speech:

"That's so wrong in so many ways / on so many levels."

"Really, [person or institution]?  Really?"

"[Something I like or approve of] FTW!"

"This."

"I just threw up in my mouth [a little]."