Heh heh heh. This was in response to Pinky, and I actually wrote badly myself by substituting "righting" for "writing." Now, however, I think I was right in my own writing: Krauthammer gives the right a bad name.

However, there's no excuse for calling him Billy. So I can't take credit for the pun, given that it was due to caffeine deprivation, not wit.

Posted at July 4, 2008 2:08 PM in response to Election Central July 4th Roundup

Ooh, bad righting. I was too busy being disgusted by the content to notice. Perhaps Billy-boy means that O ascribed the idea of an individual right to bear arms to the anti-gun-control groups' misreading of the constition? No, the sentence still makes no sense. Can anyone make sense of what this guy says? It's a lot more interesting than dealing with his het-up drama-queen act.

Posted at July 4, 2008 2:02 PM in response to Election Central July 4th Roundup

I'm more intimately acquainted with Utah culture, and I think kgb999 is correct. It's an unbelievably cloistered and self-involved culture; my perfectly intelligent LDS officemates mostly don't get why it is that a woman would be offended or even concerned if someone jumped in front of her to open a door.

They don't know. By now this couple is quite literally shellshocked and bewildered. Or they're one of a small minority of atypical Utahns who're viciously right wing. That's as true here as anywhere else. Perhaps it's a member of our legislature? Wouldn't surprise me; there's lot of concentrated extremism there.

Posted at June 13, 2008 4:40 PM in response to Obama as A Sock Monkey

LisB, what a moving story. So moving that I'm making an exception and posting. I've been off TPM since sometime last week; people are taking too long to get over the primaries, and it's been too corrosive for my spirit, so I've been off the blogs here and moved over to The Field for more constructive discussions. I just come here to read the news, but I was caught by your headline.

I've never been pregnant; early on, after escaping from an abusive relationship, I decided that I never wanted so much as to live with a man again, and also decided that I was too crazy to raise a child. By the time I gave this a second thought I was well into my 30's and starting a legal career. By the time things settled down and I gave it a third thought I was 38 and had just started taking birth defect-inducing medications that I'll have to take for the rest of my life. If I went off of them to have children I was likely to screw my chances of having the drugs work if I then started them up again.

I'm now a middle-class lawyer and if I were to get pregnant I could pay to travel somewhere to get a safe abortion. But the fact that, if Roe were overturned, a woman my age and with my medical history would have to bring a baby to term is frankly horrifying

Posted at June 8, 2008 7:57 PM in response to Roe V Wade and Obama V McCain and My Choice

Gee, I really liked nice LisB. I'll still like mean LisB, but I prefer the nice one.

Seriously, I find all the attacks, whether perpetrated by me or by other, to be at least as corrosive to the attacker as to the attackee. But I've been hanging out at other sites, where I can have some conversations without all the hatin'/hateful antihatin'/hatefulness. I just miss you guys sometimes.

Posted at June 4, 2008 8:36 PM in response to The distant clacking of anonymous keyboards

I think that's what she thought would happen. I think she was wrong. But that was the plan; she was inevitable, a force of nature. Until she walked off the cliff.

Posted at June 4, 2008 8:24 PM in response to Breaking: Hillary To Suspend Campaign

Hell, I myself don't know if I really want to know what's hiding in the shadows behind Bill.

Posted at June 4, 2008 8:23 PM in response to Breaking: Hillary To Suspend Campaign

Oh so juicy (slurp):

(And no, she can't as some supporters suggest, take a day or two or ten--She's had weeks to come to terms with her primary defeat. When the red phone rings at 3 AM, would she need a day or ten to decide how to respond?)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/my-blog-advocating-an-oba_b_105317.html

I've been saying for ages that her supporters would come around, but I didn't know how far they could be pushed before they did. Apparently a lot of them needed to be tossed awfully near the bus before they'd finally let go of her. The rest will constitute a small frothing-at-the-mouth group of shouters outside the convention.

Posted at June 4, 2008 8:20 PM in response to Breaking: Hillary To Suspend Campaign

Damn, hit enter too soon. I do believe, really I do, I'm just so tired of these teasers that end up being lies. Frankly, if she doesn't bail on Friday, we'll see her abandoned by all but the most insane superdelegates. Hell, some pledged delegates might decide they've had enough, especially in states like, say, California, where Obama now leads Hillary against McCain.

Rangel is right--she's leaving Democratic leaders twisting in the wind while she engages in what she thinks are savvy maneuvers to get some control of the DNC back. The sad thing is that she's already blown it. At this point, she's unlikely to get more than a seat in the back of the room for a long time to come.

Posted at June 4, 2008 8:06 PM in response to Breaking: Hillary To Suspend Campaign

It ain't over until the calorie-challenged lady sings. I think I speak for all calorie-challenged ladies when I say I won't believe it until I hear her in her dressing room warming up the pipes.

Posted at June 4, 2008 8:01 PM in response to Breaking: Hillary To Suspend Campaign