Comments on: Predictions for 2007 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/ America's favorite blog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:11:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: scott http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22614 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:43:18 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22614 ok, I laughed out loud at " Holla for Pudding". That's going right into the Felber sourced lexicon with The Great Lobster. ok, I laughed out loud at ” Holla for Pudding”. That’s going right into the Felber sourced lexicon with The Great Lobster.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22559 Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:39:16 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22559 Tammy, The comic absurdist picture is now complete. Thank you. Tammy,

The comic absurdist picture is now complete. Thank you.

]]> by: SeattleTammy http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22551 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:41:42 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22551 OOO-ooh. <a href="http://roxanne.typepad.com/rantrave/2007/01/the_selfcorreee.html" rel="nofollow">Roxanne</a> has a page of the diary! OOO-ooh. Roxanne has a page of the diary!

]]> by: another Matt http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22518 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:05:22 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22518 GW read the Classics Illustrated version. Mostly the pictures. GW read the Classics Illustrated version.

Mostly the pictures.

]]> by: cooper http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22510 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:33:27 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22510 My son, Adam, is a senior in HS and currently reading The Stranger by Albert Camus. Since the president read the book on summer vacation, perhaps he and Adam can become pen pals, so they can discuss the nuances of French Existentialism and absurdist fiction. Or not. My son, Adam, is a senior in HS and currently reading The Stranger by Albert Camus. Since the president read the book on summer vacation, perhaps he and Adam can become pen pals, so they can discuss the nuances of French Existentialism and absurdist fiction. Or not.

]]> by: tess http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22503 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:15:56 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22503 SeattleDan, It's funny that you mention that your boy is a visual sort of a guy because there're all these great books out there with all sorts of pictures and stuff. I think they're called comic books, and Bush2 will probably have most of them in his presidential library. Something along the lines of "Mallard Fillmore" strips. Not the fancy-schmancy intellectual stuff like "Superman" or "Rose is Rose." Hell, give him "Sandman" graphic novels. At least he'll be read up on most of his obscure mythology by the time he hits college and might take a course on classic mythology. SeattleDan,

It’s funny that you mention that your boy is a visual sort of a guy because there’re all these great books out there with all sorts of pictures and stuff. I think they’re called comic books, and Bush2 will probably have most of them in his presidential library. Something along the lines of “Mallard Fillmore” strips. Not the fancy-schmancy intellectual stuff like “Superman” or “Rose is Rose.”

Hell, give him “Sandman” graphic novels. At least he’ll be read up on most of his obscure mythology by the time he hits college and might take a course on classic mythology.

]]> by: SeattleDan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22499 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:24:50 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22499 Coop, whenever the boy asks for a book, we get it for him. He's not the reader his parents are, though he's getting there. He's a visual kinda guy, and reading for pleasure doesn't come easy to him. The <a href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/02/olbermann-special-comment-on-sacrifice/" rel="nofollow">Olbermann</a> is up at CrooksandLiars and well worth watching. Coop, whenever the boy asks for a book, we get it for him. He’s not the reader his parents are, though he’s getting there. He’s a visual kinda guy, and reading for pleasure doesn’t come easy to him.

The Olbermann is up at CrooksandLiars and well worth watching.

]]> by: cooper http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22495 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:53:14 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22495 SeattleDan, how about a good book? Anybody else watch tonight as Keith Olbermann gave an impassioned plea to the President to not go ahead with the now leaked plan to have a surge of military personnel into Iraq? It may be several hours before his Special Comment makes it onto the internet, but certainly worth your time when it does. SeattleDan, how about a good book?

Anybody else watch tonight as Keith Olbermann gave an impassioned plea to the President to not go ahead with the now leaked plan to have a surge of military personnel into Iraq? It may be several hours before his Special Comment makes it onto the internet, but certainly worth your time when it does.

]]> by: SeattleDan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22490 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:51:35 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22490 As the parent of a teenager who owns a Wii, I appreciate the predictions about the Ronin Strike Force. I will try to divert the young man's attention to something else, once that game is released. But what to divert him with, aye, there's the rub. Any suggestions are welcome. As the parent of a teenager who owns a Wii, I appreciate the predictions about the Ronin Strike Force. I will try to divert the young man’s attention to something else, once that game is released. But what to divert him with, aye, there’s the rub. Any suggestions are welcome.

]]> by: It's Pat! http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22488 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:52:19 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/01/predictions-for-2007/#comment-22488 President Ford did the infamous "cut and run" in 1975, and as a then 19 year-old, I thank him. I don't agree with the current Ford legacy statement that he saved the country from a terrible burden by pardoning Nixon. He saved the Republicans from a burden. The country would have been stronger for allowing the system to work. The system worked in Clinton's impeachment. It should have done so for Nixon. Here's something else to wonder about - what if Reagan would have beaten Ford in the 1976 primary, as he almost did? What if Reagan had won the general election with a solid Democratic majority (which could have happened). Both Bushes would never have won (#2 never would have gotten sober unless Poppy had a chance to be the president). I think it would have caused the shift to so far right to have been moderated. Oh hell, what's the difference. Anyone up for a draft? Not the beer type. President Ford did the infamous “cut and run” in 1975, and as a then 19 year-old, I thank him.
I don’t agree with the current Ford legacy statement that he saved the country from a terrible burden by pardoning Nixon. He saved the Republicans from a burden. The country would have been stronger for allowing the system to work. The system worked in Clinton’s impeachment. It should have done so for Nixon.
Here’s something else to wonder about - what if Reagan would have beaten Ford in the 1976 primary, as he almost did? What if Reagan had won the general election with a solid Democratic majority (which could have happened). Both Bushes would never have won (#2 never would have gotten sober unless Poppy had a chance to be the president). I think it would have caused the shift to so far right to have been moderated.
Oh hell, what’s the difference. Anyone up for a draft? Not the beer type.

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