Doctor Who tonight was…well, classic Steven Moffat writing. No spoilers from me, but definitely the best episode in an awfully long time.
And speaking of cracked realities…
They’ve gone over the cliff, inventing entire realities where Mitt Romney will come back and win. Sure it’s possible, just not very likely. It’s possible Earth will get hit by a deadly meteor next Thursday, too.
When Obama actually wins, these guys will be calling for armed, violent revolution. Count on it.
Baud
Still preferable to a Romney presidency.
gnomedad
Political Stone Angels – get their power from transporting people to 1860.
srv
Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
This election is going to be stolen, I tell ya.
Yutsano
Bout damn time. That fucker’s late.
beltane
On NPR this afternoon they were making it sound like Romney has already lost the election by a landslide, saying that Obama really is well like by Catholics and working class white people after all.
Hal
I sure hope many rank and file Republicans turn on their party leaders after this election, because it is those “leaders” that have led so many Republicans down this path.
They’ve spent so much time portraying Obama as an idiot, that now they simply can’t explain why he’s winning, so they just say he’s cheating. Fox News, Limbaugh, Jennifer Rubin etc, all using massive dishonesty to prop up their ludicrous candidate with lies.
Mark S.
That’s a given. I remember a couple years ago when they were jacking off to the idea of a military coup.
Phil Perspective
So how will they excuse away the fact that Ohio elections are run by a corrupt GOPer jackass? Are they going to claim he’s really a Democratic mole? What about other states, like Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa that GOPers run.
Yutsano
@Mark S.: Unleash the Hoverrounds!!
Seriously, where exactly is this armed resistance going to come from? The Civil War started because the governours of Southern states decided to openly defy the federal government. Now so many of those states have military bases that can pretty much quell any sort of uprising pretty quickly. Not to mention that would take a huge amount of organisation and money, and in the Internet Age that is virtually hard to hide.
Roger Moore
No, these guys will be carefully talking around it. They’ll talk about Second Amendment solutions and need to protect ourselves from jackbooted thugs and States Rights, but they’ll carefully avoid saying anything out loud about armed rebellion. That will be for the less respectable crazies.
Neil
It was good Who. The end was unfortunate, but after the big bang, the only acceptable out I suppose.
Crusty Dem
That’s not the problem. They actually believe he’s ahead right now. And that’s fucking nuts.
BonnyAnne
how did you get your Dr fix so fast? I’m stuck waiting until Amazon lets me watch it tomorrow. *Jealous*
Davis X. Machina
@Yutsano: Thus it has ever been so:
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
(Henry IV, 1)
MikeBoyScout
You’ve forgotten that Willard’s been practicing his zinger schtick for the debate for 2 months.
That’s bound to reverse the dynamics of the race.
MikeJ
@BonnyAnne: Wasn’t it on BBC America tonight?
melior
I’m old enough to remember an October 4 years ago when they were saying, “Just wait til election day and McCain wins, you won’t be laughing then!”
Hal
Oooohhhhh, Romney Zingers…
my fave:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/09/29/the-newest-romney-model-is-coming-pre-loaded-with-zingers
Xecky Gilchrist
@melior: “Just wait til election day and McCain wins, you won’t be laughing then!”
Bookmark it, libs!
mdblanche
@Phil Perspective: Yes. SATSQ
PsiFighter37
@srv: I’m as paranoid as it gets when it comes to the voting stuff, but I really don’t think it’s going to be anywhere close enough to steal it. The President is going to crush R-Money – just watch the polls after the debates.
PF37 +3 (Saturday night’s alright for a drankin’)
dance around in your bones
I recommend psychedelics. They’ll crack yer reality, by Gawd.
But in a good way.
beltane
@MikeBoyScout: Nothing like a stale zinger to get the heart rate going.
TaMara (BHF)
@Baud: Win.
Typing from my new netbook Other than getting used to the keyboard, which hasn’t taken long (my laptop is 17 inches with a number pad), it’s a rockin’ little travel computer. Fast, light, but it could use a little longer battery life.
Lurking Canadian
@Xecky Gilchrist: We will wonder how they were able to call it.
Xecky Gilchrist
@Lurking Canadian: Hee hee
I never get tired of that. I was trying to find the original, and this comment was as close as I’ve gotten. It says the original was posted on 10/28/08 but I haven’t found it yet.
Come to think of it, the original may have been deleted. As with this blog, Teh Sadly has and had a very troll-tolerant policy, but The Truth would sometimes cross the line and get all its comments on a given thread scrubbed.
Like that time it went off the deep end and started posting comments like ‘LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL’ and ‘WWWWOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAARRRR’
…man, Teh Sadly was gold in them days.
Gravenstone
Get it right. It’s Hot Fudge Sundae, which falls on Tuesdae, next week.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@BonnyAnne: It came on BBC America, but if you really don’t want to wait, go to http://www.combom.co.uk.
SFAW
@Hal:
The
answer to your questionquestion to your answer:מה נשתנה, הלילה הזה
מכל הלילות
LanceThruster
Fact is I was truly hoping for mass revolution when Bush stole the election, particularly because it seemed as if Dem leadership would not be standing up for democracy themselves.
It was too long in the wilderness, and too soon to go back.
If rethug losers want to dance after their puppetmaster plot fails, I say bring it.
TenguPhule
Damn…just damn. That is the most depressing ending to Dr. Who since he became the new Doctor.
dance around in your bones
@TaMara (BHF):
I was gonna make a snarky remark about bragging about the length of yer laptop until I saw it was you, TaMara.
17 inches, haha. That’s like in Boogie Nights territory!
Schlemizel
@Baud:
Win!
Also: I will admit that I really expected the election of a black president would lead to multiple assassination attempts. I sincerely thought this would send the wingnuts over the edge badly. While they certainly have gone further insane they have at least not tried to Kill Obama. The result is I don’t expect his reelection to lead to armed revolt.
I’m certainly not a Pollyanna I expect deeper, louder insanity but even as dark as my opinion is I don’t think we will have more violence that the occasional scattered bullshit we have had in the last 3 years. I hope that will be the case.
TenguPhule
Worse, it only affects their minds.
Roger Moore
@SFAW:
I think that what Fox, Limbaugh, Rubin, et. al. are really thinking is more of
מנא ,מנא, תקל, ופרסין
SFAW
@Schlemizel:
That we know of. There was the plot uncovered a few months ago, but it sounded like it was not exactly of the well-oiled-machine variety. (Disclaimer: I don’t really know the details, so I’m basically talking out of my
asshat.)Gravenstone
@TenguPhule: But entirely consistent with how the characters have developed through the series.
Schlemizel
@melior:
That reminds me of one of the few “Peanuts” cartoons I actually though was funny. I repeated this many time as a Boy Blunder joke.
CB: Someday I’ll be elected President of this country and you’ll all be sorry then!
Lucy: We certainly will be sorry!
clayton
could someone remind me how to get that red and blue on memeorandum? I had it before my computer died. (I know that is rated as a poor excuse these days.)
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
Look, wiseguy, just because I can cut-and-paste doesn’t mean I can actually read what I cut-and-pasted.
Russian, maybe. Chinese, possibly. Hebrew, sorry.
ETA: But if I had to guess, I’d go for Mene mene tekel upharsin.
dance around in your bones
Ok, nobody else is linking to music, so here:
I offer you Saturday Night, by Herman Brood.
‘Cause it’s Saturday night. Right?
Yutsano
@SFAW: The Secret Service has been working overtime because of all the various threats to Obama and his family. It’s been totally meschugnah.
Peter
Does anyone know a good website that lists what states have started early voting? Preferably which can also locate your pollin location as well. I’m just a humble Canuck, but I’d like to post a reminder for my northerly-challenged friends to GOTV.
Roger Moore
@SFAW:
But the great Gizoogle probably can.
Dennis SGMM
@Schlemizel:
No Pollyanna here either. If nothing else, I’m comforted by the fact that the loonies are so categorically fucking stupid that they couldn’t plan a two car funeral, let alone anything more challenging.
Matt McIrvin
@Schlemizel: There have been many, many assassination attempts against Obama. The Secret Service is just pretty good at quashing them.
There are lots against every President, actually, but Obama gets unusually many.
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
Yeah, I took an edumacated guess, amazingly got it right. Didn’t know you could input Yiddish into The Google like that, learn something new every day.
Perfect Tommy
Speaking of cracked realities, I’ve been in a political ‘back and forth’ with a FB friend from back home that I haven’t seen in 20 years. This guy is the type of rightie who posts all of the viral pro-Republican, anti-Dem stuff that litters the Internet. He ‘likes’ Bill O., Malkin, Limbaugh, Beck, etc. Tonight I found out that the guy is a Postal worker and his wife is a school teacher. Talk about voting against your own interest…
Duane
Amazingly Ohio doesn’t have party registration, so I guess a drop is pretty impressive. We do however have party affiliation based on which primary you voted in the previous primary. When you have an uncontested primary as Ohio Dems had this spring, people don’t in the primary. Expecting wingnuts to understand this is too much to ask for I guess…. well anything that gets them through the days.
AA+ Bonds
Schlemizel
@SFAW:
Not really talking out your ass. That is a plot that was uncovered but it was not actually executed.
There were, what, 2-3 separate shooting incidents at the White House under Clinton? A Kamikaze attack. Plus a couple of busted plots. I really thought there would be a dozen James Earl Rays lining up for their chance to plug the ni-clang. I seriously worried for his family.
I think those sorts of losers could still appear after November but, as was mentioned above I think the loudest voices will skirt the issue, play right up to the line. They may get some nutbags to do something stupid but they won’t actually to anything stupid themselves, it would spoil the grift.
SFAW
@Perfect Tommy:
You sure he didn’t say he “went Postal”? You might wanna check, just to be sure, since I think there’s a difference.
Roger Moore
@SFAW:
That’s Hebrew, dude, not Yiddish.
Matt McIrvin
I like the idea of Romney listening to the “Zingers From The Hollywood Squares” LP over and over, memorizing all of Paul Lynde’s best lines.
Peter
@efgoldman: Well, Reid’s said he’d sink the filibuster, so…there’s reason to hope there. Got my fingers crossed on the House.
I’d say the circular firing squad has already started up. We got a preview of it with the intraparty warfare in the House.
Mark S.
The founder of Unskewed Polls looks like quite the ladies man.
piratedan
@dance around in your bones: well I’ll play along until LB shows up and starts a poutfest….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxadznkyxjk
burnspbesq
@Phil Perspective:
You mean that Democratic mole?
Doctor
You bringing politics into my life is pathetic! PLEASE DON’T WATCH the show if you plan to use it for political rhetoric!
burnspbesq
Right now, the four words I most want to hear in the same sentence are “House Minority Leader Boehner.”
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
No shit.
If I had instead said “Jewish”, would you have “corrected” me on that, too?
Give me a little credit, OK?
Schlemizel
@efgoldman:
I think we need to more really solid beatings before the nutbags get tossed overboard. The real owners of the party are close to losing the cheap labor, unregulated, tax free environment they want simply because the nutbag wing of the party demands insanity as a qualification for office. If the GOP gets its ass kicked in 14 & 16 by putting up more nutbags the owners are going to have to find a way to take control away from them.
Back in the 20’s & 30’s the owners in Germany were often supporters of the Nazi party because they were strongly anti-communist & gave the owners a lot of what they wanted. They thought the could control the nutbags but it turned out the nutbags ended up owning the owners. That could still happen here but it does not look like it. It looks more like the nutbags can’t steal the government and will drag the owners down in defeat.
piratedan
@burnspbesq: and I sure hell hope we get to hear them this January
Schlemizel
@Matt McIrvin:
See my comment about the WH shoot em ups & the plane attack under Clinton. You may think there have been dozens of prevented attacks but then how do you explain the absence of actual attacks?
This is a lot quieter that I expected
dance around in your bones
@piratedan:
Muy bueno.
Rock and Roll Junkie
BonnyAnne
@MikeJ
@Belafon
Thanks! Don’t have BBC America but I’m glad to know that Dr Who actually plays in a timely manner on the channel (unlike Downton Abbey, cough cough)
Roger Moore
@burnspbesq:
I wouldn’t mind “the late Justice Scalia”.
Yutsano
@efgoldman: Orecchiete. You’re welcome. :)
Xecky Gilchrist
@efgoldman: I wonder if any of these TeaHadi klowns can […] calculate a tip in a restaurant.
Why should they bother? That waitress is probably an Obama supporter.
cckids
@Schlemizel: There must be some serious threats out there, though. Pres. Obama’s coming here to Vegas from Sunday-Weds for debate prep, and the Secret Service has grounded all commercial helicopter flights for the duration. The business owners are furious & being very loud about it. One said he’d lose something like 125-200 thousand dollars by canceling customers. Which sounds suspiciously high to me, I mean, really?
Tho the FAA has come up with an alternative take-off place, on the CA border, so people can still fly over Lake Mead & the Canyon. I’m sure people will still be pissed.
Dennis SGMM
@Mark S.:
I just searched on “Dean Chambers.” Nothing in the returns mentioned that he’s anything more than a conservative blogger. No background in math, polling, statistical analysis. Just another fluffer relieving the Republicans of their cash.
jwb
@srv: I feel like if they were planning on stealing it, they would be doing a better job of preparing it.
Yutsano
@Dennis SGMM: Wingnut welfare is a sweet gig if you can get it.
dance around in your bones
Ok, this is long, but coolio.
Dennis SGMM
@Yutsano:
Ever get the feeling that there are numbers of people who feel that Republican = mark?
SFAW
@efgoldman:
Ryan and Cantor wouldn’t do that because they are honorable men. All of them.
Tractarian
A Romney victory in November (16.2% possibility per Nate Silver as I write this) is way more likely than a catastrophic impact event next week, I would think. 16.2% is not nothing. (That said, I’m damn glad my guy is the one with 83.8%…)
piratedan
@dance around in your bones: liked yours too…. wasn’t familiar with him…..
so lets see…. I’ve been a roots rocker/jangle pop mood, so since we’ve had our Raspberries and Rockpile moments, maybe a step here makes sense….
Baby Blue
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
As efgoldman said:
From your keyboard to FSM’s aural appendage…
I’d settle for him stroking out a tad, though. Or even pulling a Chuck Colson. But then who will Clarence go to, to find out how to think?
Bill Arnold
@Schlemizel:
I’ve been suspecting that the Secret Service has been unprecedentedly proactive and vigilant. No evidence though.
Yutsano
@SFAW:
I’m hoping he drops the mic and sez “Fuck all you crackers, I’m gonna go cheat on my white wife!”
jwb
@Tractarian: Nate’s at 83.8% because he has built in uncertainty artificially. Last I checked, his model and Wang’s are actually closer to 98%.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
Well, that was some orthogonal thinking.
@Yutsano:
You can do better than that. I mean, I hate the guy, too, but you’re channeling Rushbo with that line.
Dennis SGMM
Long day, up since 5AM, so I’m in the mood for something a little more cooled-out. Dean Martin doing “Sway”
dance around in your bones
@piratedan:
Here’s Nina Hagen singing about Herman Brood – Herman ist High
kay
Romney has to spend the entire debate attacking Obama or the GOP base will be bitterly disappointed.
Remember, they wanted to nominate the corrupt lobbyist Newt Gingrich based soley on Gingrich’s (alleged) ability to “smack down” Obama in a debate.
There are two groups Romney has to please in that debate; normal people and the GOP base.
That’s probably impossible.
Cacti
I do worry more than a little bit, that after Obama wins a second term, there will be an attempt on the life the POTUS, FLOTUS, or even one of their children.
There has never been a time that the far right wasn’t willing to resort to violence.
I don’t want there to be a song about “Abraham, Martin, John, and Barack”.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
Oh, stop with the “being right” thing, OK? Those of us who are superficial get kind of annoyed by it.
Cacti
@kay:
I fully expect Romney to be nasty, hectoring, and personal throughout.
Or unpresidential in the eyes of everyone but 27-percenters.
dance around in your bones
here’s Lene Lovich singing Lucky Number
These guys all hung out together(Herman Brood, Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich). I listened to them intently back in the day.
Ok, I guess WAY back in the day.
Bruuuuce
@Phil Perspective: Same as it ever was. Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed (and wow, did that disgrace of a poor cheater fail to deliver!)
max
@dance around in your bones: Ok, this is long, but coolio.
I have no idea what the hell that was but seeing ‘Nina Hagen’ made me want to hear 99 Luftballoons (2002 version).
max
[‘Which seems appropriate to our friend Bibi’s audiovisual presentation.’]
Schlemizel
Just found a great handle I want to use
If I can’t be “Frankenstienbeck” (I love that handle) I want to be
Debag Chopra
DIBS!!!
Roger Moore
@jwb:
It’s more than that. Including some uncertainty is probably reasonable; there is always a chance of some kind of late breaking surprise. The bigger thing is that his model also includes some weight to a model based on economic fundamentals rather than polling. The weight is supposed to drop to zero as the election approaches, but it’s something like 1/3 of the total prediction right now.
Yutsano
@efgoldman: I’m trying to not pay attention. If I don’t watch they do better. But last time I peeked they were down by four points at halftime!
Bruuuuce
@Zandar OP: The ep was certainly better than the last couple, but that’s a very low bar. At least there was an apparently happy ending. I just wish Matt Smith could borrow a half-liter of gravitas from Tennant, or any actor who can do serious, as opposed to comedy or action (“Same as always. Run!”) VERY happy to have the other occupant of the TARDIS back, and hope it’s for more than just this ep.
piratedan
shifting gears…..
Long White Cadillac
AA+ Bonds
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9/30/2008:
dance around in your bones
@max: Different person but still a coolio song ;)
SFAW
@Cacti:
Part of me wishes that he had used Scott Brown’s debate coach, and the first thing out of Mittens’s mouth would be some riff on Brown’s Elizabeth-Warren-ain’t-a-Injun-I-can-tell-by-looking-at-her-can’t-you? assholery. (Which he later denied he said. Let’s go to the tape, Scotty!)
Which I guess could dovetail with the ni-CLANG thing.
kay
@Cacti:
They’ve been waiting a long time for this. 4 years.
Anything less than screaming “you lie!” Will be a let-down and a sign of “weakness”.
Remember those primary debates? Ugly. They ate that up.
AA+ Bonds
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.
9/30/2004:
Jibeaux
@Mark S.: Ooh, that collar buttoned at the neck so more fat can squeeze out the top..,rowr.
Schlemizel
@kay:
Those were great debates! Booing an Iraq war vet, cheering for the death of the uninsured, denying science. It would be lovely if Willard could replay a compilation of his greats -s-hits from those heady days.
suzanne
@Hal: Ohhh, yay! I was hoping someone would have a romneyzingers on Twitter.
AA+ Bonds
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9/30/2000:
Triassic Sands
@Baud:
Damn, the deadly meteorite (technically not a meteor when it hits the Earth’s surface) is almost preferable to the mere thought of a Romney presidency.
The American people are a fickle lot. Should they do the unthinkable and elect Romney (as opposed to another SCOTUS presidential installation), it won’t take long for some in the middle and lower-middle class who voted (R) to turn on Romney…when he gives them the shit sandwich he promised all along.
I can see Romney challenging Bush for the Worst President Ever title, but ultimately trumping the smirking chimp by crashing through the mystical 23-27% barrier and achieving an approval rating in the teens. (Maybe I am underestimating the number of completely insane radical conservatives — that 20-something barrier might be both real and unassailable.)
In the event of an Obama victory, calls for violent revolution will likely have to wait for the Republicans’ appeal to the Supreme Court to discover grounds for yet another apocalyptic constitutional crisis the country can’t survive if the rich, white guy isn’t declared the winner. In that event, any calls for revolution might come from the less-well-armed left.
Anne Laurie
@Xecky Gilchrist: …
I miss HTML Mencken. Well, Gavin and Brad, too, but I really miss HTML Mencken’s long posts.
At least I can hope that he will re-emerge in teh blogosphere at some point…
James E. Powell
@burnspbesq:
I think if they lose the house they will dump Boehner for Cantor.
AA+ Bonds
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9/30/1996:
kay
@Schlemizel:
I was thinking about the word “zingers” and then Mitt Romney.
Romney believes holding someone down and cutting their hair is a “prank”. The others who were there didn’t think it was a prank, and in fact were still ashamed, decades later.
I don’t know that we can rely on the ordinary understanding of “zinger”.
Cacti
@James E. Powell:
I think Cantor’s pretty happy where he is. Boehner is his useless figurehead a la Tom Delay and Denny Hastert.
Violet
@piratedan: And shifting again…
Dwight Yoakum, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
Schlemizel
@kay:
Oh yeah! I mean, what would a zinger be for somebody that came out of the process that included those things I mentioned and worse?
My nipples are all hard and crinkly in anticipation! And I’m not given to anticipation.
jwb
FYWP. So indik@tur is another of those mysterious words that the spam detector won’t let through. Properly spelled, of course.
SFAW
@Schlemizel:
Well, I see you quiver with antici … pation.
piratedan
@Violet: right there with you….
Guitar Town
Cmm
Home alone, turn up the volume, and dance around the living room sorta mood…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vzUh_55x2M
mdblanche
@Cacti: I doubt Boehner will be speaker much longer either way. He’s clearly not enjoying being Cantor’s puppet.
Cmm
Hmm see if this works?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vzUh_55x2M&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Violet
@Cmm: Not working. What is it? Just taking me to YouTube’s home page.
dance around in your bones
@piratedan:
piratedan, every time I click one of your links my Web of Trust (on Firefox) thingie tells me the site is “rated untrustworthy”.
Y’all wouldn’t lead me astray, now – wouldja?
(I have no idea why that site is rated that way).
Dennis SGMM
@kay:
This’ll kill you, Ann. I made them build the stage and then I stood on it and fired all of them! You should have seen the looks on their faces.”
Violet
@piratedan: Yep….
Richard Thompson, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning.
piratedan
@dance around in your bones: no idea, they’re just youtube links, then again, maybe You Tube is indeed untrustworthy…. at least you can rest assured I’m not sending you to Redstate or Fapdu :-)
jwb
@Cmm: Is this what you were looking for?
Cmm
That’s it, don’t know why it would not copy for me! Thanks!
(it’s polyphonic Spree’s cover of Lithium, Violet.)
karen
I figure that there will be Romney supporters/Teapublicans yelling the “N” word from the audience. Or if Romney is REALLY desperate, he’ll not only zing Obama, the right will expect him to come as close to NI~Clang as he could, including euphemisms. Anything to rattle Obama. Good luck with that.
jwb
@Cmm: The “x” copied incorrectly. I used the Youtube “share” link and hard pasted into a link to avoid FYWP from “correcting.”
dance around in your bones
@piratedan: I hesitate to think about what Fapdu is all about.
Oh, ok, I prolly get it ;)
burnspbesq
@SFAW:
Cantor would do it. Remains to be seen whether Ryan will be around to participate.
Frankensteinbeck
@Schlemizel:
…thanks?
fuckwit
Keep phonebanking.
Keep donating.
Keep doing voter registration.
Get out there and do voter protection.
Do not get complacent. Do not get paranoidd.
DO NOT LET THE FUCKERS STEAL THIS ONE. Get off your ass and get involved.
J R in WVa
@jwb:
The U of Illinois has a similar gadget, you can select strong lean R, weak lean R, neutral, weak lean Dem, strong lean Dem.
The result is a chart with red for R chances and blue for Dem chances. For the past week it doesn’t matter which lean choice you make, the chart is all blue, all the time, for Obama and for the Senate. Well, a little tie grey color shows up with a strong R lean, but nearly all blue
Link: http://electionanalytics.cs.illinois.edu/
Uncle Cosmo
@Gravenstone: If we were on GOS I’d T&R the Pellucifer’s Whammer reference.
Best line in the book (IMHO a damn fine work up to when the Hammer hits & the authors climb onto their Far-Wrong hobby horses & ride off into the sunset) came when the scientists were asked whether the comet’s impact would mean the end of the world & they replied (paraphrased), Oh, nothing that serious. Only the end of civilization. Poifick!
Randy P
@Schlemizel:
What makes you think it hasn’t? The number of threats the Secret Service deals with has skyrocketed.
I was listening to an interview with a writer who just wrote a long profile of the president for some magazine. There was a moment where he was being shown Obama’s favorite spot in the White House, a private balcony accessible from the residential quarters. And the balcony has a bullet mark from a high-powered rifle, just in the place where he likes to sit.
I think that was from this shooting.
xian
@beltane: it’s only in the south where the white working class breaks strongly against him. (I’d guess in Appalachia too.)
barry
President Obama: Willard, may I call you Willard?
lou
When I read that first headline, my reaction was, well, duh, you Republicans keep trying to block Democrats from registering to vote!
Matt McIrvin
@Schlemizel: General beefing up of security culture post-9/11, I think.
Granted, that crazy period in the first Clinton term was pretty hairy.
Matt McIrvin
@SFAW: Clarence Thomas isn’t Scalia’s puppet, he’s just pure wingnut. As far as I can tell, he’s actually to the right of Scalia.