Well, yes, bit of a bummer about Angel getting cancelled, but at least The WB gave enough notice for Joss Whedon & Co. to come up with an actual series ending. Unless you liked that cliffhanger in the final episode of Twin Peaks, in which case, I may have to shoot you, just on G.P.
The series finale should have Joss Dialogue. This is a Good Thing.
Giles: Buffy couldn't kill you, because she's a hero. She's not like us.
Ben: Us?
Even if it sometimes doesn't make sense out of context.
In context, this is why I don't eff with Giles, even if I don't link his main site or his library nearly as often as their quality should warrant.
Yes, this is the pre-coffee syntax. Shut up.
So, I wrote in Michele's comments a few days back:
Since it seems to be the Word of the Day, best response to all this I've read was a comment at Making Light: You are not responsible for your actions in someone else's dream.Which in this context means that if someone wants to accuse you of believing X, thinking Y and hating Z because of how you're planning to vote. . . ain't much you can say to 'em.
And while I'm here, about that little de-linking fracas I started about a year back? That was exceptionally childish of me, and I apologize.
Only, you know, badly edited (is there a term for when you rewrite a phrase or sentence, but fail to remove all the original bits?), and without the links. And I may have been wrong about reading that quote at Making Light -- could'a been Electrolite, or a discussion linked from one of them -- and I think I got the quote wrong to boot.
These are just some of the many, many reasons I usually refrain from posting comments elsewhere.
Luckily, no one there seems to have noticed that X, Y and Z can just as easily be replaced with conservative/right-wing charges against liberals/leftists. And that sort of "putting the other person on the defensive by accusing them of holding views that they never expressed" stuff just bores me to tears at this point. Luckily, don't get that sort of thing here much anymore.
Well, it bores me to tears when people do it to me. Seeing people on the left do it to Michele in her comments. . . no, wait, that bores me too.
Did I mention that, "Grow the fuck up" is me motto for the year?
Well, it bears repeating.
Update: And, as usual, I fail to explain why I'm babbling about the material in the entry. Common failing. I have a degerative brain disease.
Michele pubicly announced her de-linking of. . . someone I'm not going to link, as that rather defeats the entire purpose, for his repeated use of "nigger" or variations thereof in an entry. Oliver, demonstrating the keen insight that keeps me from bothering to read him on a regular basis, touches on the issue in an entry titled "Hate."
Mind you, I can almost understand the reactions, given the provocation:
I am sick and tired of listening to the niggers whine. You've had 300 years to make a go of life in this country, and you've fucked up every chance ever handed to you. Got-Dam! Don't call me a racist. ADMIT THE GODDAM FACTS.I heard a lot of old, racist red-necks say when I was a boy, "You can take the nigger out of the jungle, but you'll never get the jungle out of the nigger."
I hated hearing such talk when I was young. But I believe that they were right, after watching history for the past 40 years of my life. Nobody who ever lived in this world EVER had as much gelt handed to them by the government as "African Americans" have and nobody has EVER pissed away their opportunities so badly. That's a fact.
Besides, how many "African Americans" ever saw Africa in their fucking lives, anyway? You don't like it here? Go back to Africa. Live with no health care, corrupt dictators, rampant AIDS and nothing but a tin roof over your head. Give up your welfare checks, your VCRs and the "racist" society that you live in now. Go back to Africa, thumb your nose at me and tell how much better life is in "the homeland."
And, as I said, I'm not linking the source; Michele and Oliver do, if you're curious.
But I don't think that's hate. Ignance, yes. Not the sort of thing anyone with a dollop of social skills would say publicly, definitely. Then again, I wouldn't expect a Senator to start complaining about how tired Americans are of having homosexuality shoved down their throats, either.
Obviously, I'd rather not deal with ignant folk. But at this point, I'd much rather they be explicit in they ignance than keep it bottled up. No one is that good an actor or actress, though, and the ignance is going to seep out anyway. May as well get it out in the open, so folks with more patience than I can have a go at discussing it, rather than saying one thing and privately believing something else.
Because you're really not fooling anybody.
I have so much respect for you, Aaron.
I did a "public de-linking" last night, which I think was warranted. It wasn't so much a delinking, but a way of distancing myself from someone who I do not want to be associated with.
If that makes me a hypocrite, so be it.
I LOVED the end of Twin Peaks. WE'll ahve to go six ruonds ont hat one some time.
*mwah*
Michele, updated the entry because that's what I was writing about, in my elliptical, brain-diseased fashion. And the respect is mutual.
Garrity, how's Annie?
*shudder*
Gah, that's fucking frightening. I'm going to go hide right now.
Actually, before I hide, I have to say that clearly this Rob guy is...well, scary. However, there is subtle racism all over the blogs on the right, and it gets defended all the time. It's like a minefield. I can understand the conundrum of agreeing with certain party platforms and not others, but if you are going to play with those big boys, I just feel like you should do more than just call out the OBVIOUS bullshit. You know?
Not that that's a very fun position to be in. Or easy. But then, that's probably why I'm hiding instead of jumping into the fray.
Wait...once again I should say that it's not just "the right" that is scary...there's subtle and not-so-subtle racism and all sorts of isms all over the place.
Now that I've succeeded in totally talking in a circle NOW I'm going to go hide.
post title: awesome. reads like a larry david quote...
it's always my contention that people who espouse such "opinions", if they can even be graced with such an appellation, have never had a "real" job in their lives, because if they spent any time out in the work force they would recognize the simple fact that people of color work twice as hard as we pale-skinned-euros for half the money, or even harder for even less. go ahead and damn me for generalizing, but after MY gazillion years out in the real world work force, that is what i have seen. and who whines the loudest? cracka does. 'OMG the pakistanis are stealing my tech job!' yeah right. that's your 'free markets' at work my friend!
when i briefly collected welfare [therein lies a whole other rant], 9 out of 10 of the folks waiting in that line with me were visibly of european descent. which doesn't necessarily prove a damn thing...it's just that people who spew all of this dumbass invective are usually suffering from hallucinations of one sort or another. hope whoever gets elected does something to fix our messed up mental health safety net...