Offering constructive criticism to the social cripples in our midst since early 2005.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
FOR THE SECOND TIME, I AM LIGHTHEARTED!!!!

Not you. The oversensitive, heavyhearted types Spanky despises.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
Not you. The oversensitive, heavyhearted types Spanky despises.

Yeah, like RT, that whiner.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Yeah, like RT, that whiner.

Now, now. Ever been in Texas in July? I'd whine too.

[Spanky]

The only thing I find offensive are people who are easily offended.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
You would prefer "reverse cowgirl"?

TM said something on the FB the other day about people who don't think racism exists anymore. This is a good analogue re: sexism. Wasn't O'Connor offered positions as legal secretary rather than associate after she graduated from law school? How infuriating to read such comments about her on her retirement. I don't care if she refers to herself as an Arizona cowgirl, it's demeaning for Frist and Bush to say that. Maybe it wouldn't be if the makeup were 7 to 2 the other way.

And Hank, the "humble beginnings" thing isn't all there is to those comments. It's just.plain. different. from calling Bush a "simple cowboy." and not just because he's not that at all.

How are "simple cowboy" and "old cowgirl" really so different, especially if O'Connor uses the latter term for herself? (Serious question.)

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Spanky
The only thing I find offensive are people who are easily offended.

What about body odor? Because I have an extraordinarly sensitive sense of smell, so I find it a real hardship to deal with that. I feel almost victimized by it.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
What about body odor? Because I have an extraordinarly sensitive sense of smell, so I find it a real hardship to deal with that. I feel almost victimized by it.

Large facial moles with dark hairs growing out of them. Oh, the humanity!

[SlaveNoMore]

AliHajiSheik
Hello and welcome to the United States of Baby Jebus, home to the top schools of creationist science in all of this flat earth. Try our freedom fries and enjoy our nascar racing. Please leave your pr0nm, stem cells and civil rights at the border.

If we can get a true ideological federalist, this is a big win for everyone and I'm happy as a pig in sh!t provided I can avoid travelling outside of NY, Las Vegas and CA. My money says we're on our way to a Xian theocracy where state's rights are doled out to the extent they don't make baby Jebus cry - e.g., medical marijuana, pr0n, euthanasia, stem cells, etc, and they will upheld any restriction on states rights that makes the hardcore conservative Xians happy. Your children will be learning mandatory intelligent design in their biology classes.

A day late and a dollar short, but welcome back to the cesspool, kid.

Good to see old timers poke in every now and again.

[SlaveNoMore]

Shape Shifter
And too involved in digging dirt on Clinton. Total slimeball.

Yeah, and he has a dead wife too. The fucker.

[SlaveNoMore]

Replaced_Texan
I hate to say it, but I don't think Alberto Gonzales is as bad as a lot of my liberal brethren seem to.

Shocking, since the conservatives - as a whole - hate him.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
How are "simple cowboy" and "old cowgirl" really so different, especially if O'Connor uses the latter term for herself? (Serious question.)

Who are you calling "old" ???

I think the difference is that for an old white man, at least, you can't diminish his accomplishments by calling him something that he clearly is not. He's not coming from a relative disadvantage related to his race or gender. That is to say that diminutive comments would not seem to diminish the accomplishments of an individual who belongs to the group that has always been in power as much as they might someone who doesn't. The same rationale would apply if they said used a similarly diminutive term about a black or hispanic person of high accomplishment.

I also think it's not entirely relevant that someone says something about herself; if I goof up at work and call myself an idiot, that doesn't mean that if someone else calls me that, it's okay. Maybe that's not a good example because idiot is clearly an insult. Or if I refer to myself as something complimentary (like, say, sexpot), it doesn't mean that my Managing Partner should say "that's not a bad business plan coming from a sexpot."

I'm not up in arms about this. I don't think that Frist and Bush think that O'Connor doesn't throw badly, for a girl. I think what renders their comments "ill advised" rather than "offensive" is that they did borrow her own language.

[SlaveNoMore]

sebastian_dangerfield
I ain't scared of no federalism. But to a lot of people, its a dirty word.

I might name my first-born son "Federalism"*


* Pity I'm not having any kids. Maybe a dog, then.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
If Kennedy is so worried about stopping anyone "who would roll back individual rights" why is he and his socialist pals have no respect for or concern for rolling my right to retain my hard earned property (i.e. income and assets)?

The GOP's propensity to spend money like drunken sailors is taking more money out of our pockets than Kennedy could even imagine. The bill will come due sooner or later.

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
* Pity I'm not having any kids. Maybe a dog, then.

A counterweight to the thousands of aborted children of liberal parents.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I might name my first-born son "Federalism"*

What, you can't name your daughter that?

Sexist fuck.