Comments on: Value Added http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/ America's favorite blog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:44:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23169 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:05:53 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23169 One more, and then I'll stop, but this is an absolute tour de force of quips from the barefoot afflicter: http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0201-24.htm One more, and then I’ll stop, but this is an absolute tour de force of quips from the barefoot afflicter: http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0201-24.htm

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23168 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:44:22 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23168 Do I detect the presence of a Big Apple (You do have big apples, don't you?) lobbyist? Here's Common Dream's link to the Texas Observer piece on Miss Molly (I clicked on to that wonderful picture of Molly from younger days): http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0131-08.htm Do I detect the presence of a Big Apple (You do have big apples, don’t you?) lobbyist?

Here’s Common Dream’s link to the Texas Observer piece on Miss Molly (I clicked on to that wonderful picture of Molly from younger days): http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0131-08.htm

]]> by: Dale http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23166 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:29:17 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23166 Here! Here! (NY, that is). Here! Here! (NY, that is).

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23164 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:16:11 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23164 gillian, that could well be where my friend got it from. Glad you're no longer subject to good old PA barbarism, the flip side of the Quaker influence my dad absorbed from his birth and youth in Philadelphia. It's Pat, if your experience was anything like mine in cow-pasture- and-orange-grove Central Florida, it was quite literal. Where in Nebraska? An uncle of mine taught at Wayne State in the early 50s. Driving across Nebraska for the first time in my life this past fall, all the way to Ogallala to help my dipped-in-shit friend retrieve a small bus, was absolutely fascinating. You gotta stand out there where the Oregon Trail crosses Interstate whichever we were on to begin to grasp those plains and that sky. And Hear! Hear! for the next Felberpalooza. gillian, that could well be where my friend got it from. Glad you’re no longer subject to good old PA barbarism, the flip side of the Quaker influence my dad absorbed from his birth and youth in Philadelphia.

It’s Pat, if your experience was anything like mine in cow-pasture- and-orange-grove Central Florida, it was quite literal. Where in Nebraska? An uncle of mine taught at Wayne State in the early 50s. Driving across Nebraska for the first time in my life this past fall, all the way to Ogallala to help my dipped-in-shit friend retrieve a small bus, was absolutely fascinating. You gotta stand out there where the Oregon Trail crosses Interstate whichever we were on to begin to grasp those plains and that sky.

And Hear! Hear! for the next Felberpalooza.

]]> by: gillian http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23160 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:28:08 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23160 Another reason for another Felberpalooza. Another reason for another Felberpalooza.

]]> by: It's Pat! http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23157 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:50:28 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23157 Gillian and David, we said that in Nebraska too. I believe it had something to do with the cows. I could tell you a very funny story about that, but to do it properly, I should tell it by a campfire. Maybe the next Felberpalooza. Gillian and David,
we said that in Nebraska too. I believe it had something to do with the cows. I could tell you a very funny story about that, but to do it properly, I should tell it by a campfire. Maybe the next Felberpalooza.

]]> by: gillian http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23154 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:47:32 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23154 David, I'm part of the "Trailer Trash Losers" of Hilton Head, SC. We were forced off the island by escalating property values and higher taxes in the early 1980's. Our old trailer park where I grew up is all high-rise condos these days. We briefly lived on Pamlico Sound in eastern NC (Heaven, except for the hurricanes) and then moved to the Carlyle, PA area to find work. I'm currently living in VT with the finest woman on earth. Natives up here think I have the "cutest" accent. They don't say that to me, of course, because they don't talk to outsiders, but my friend from Brooklyn that works at the Co-op tells me that. I also know they're thinking "Dyke!!!", but at least they don't scream it and beat the sh*t out of me like they did in PA. I'm thankful for that kindness. When my older brother moved out, I took over possession of all his Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic books. I think I got that phrase from one of their misadventures. There's nothing like reading to broaden one's horizons, I always say. David, I’m part of the “Trailer Trash Losers” of Hilton Head, SC. We were forced off the island by escalating property values and higher taxes in the early 1980’s. Our old trailer park where I grew up is all high-rise condos these days. We briefly lived on Pamlico Sound in eastern NC (Heaven, except for the hurricanes) and then moved to the Carlyle, PA area to find work. I’m currently living in VT with the finest woman on earth. Natives up here think I have the “cutest” accent. They don’t say that to me, of course, because they don’t talk to outsiders, but my friend from Brooklyn that works at the Co-op tells me that. I also know they’re thinking “Dyke!!!”, but at least they don’t scream it and beat the sh*t out of me like they did in PA. I’m thankful for that kindness.

When my older brother moved out, I took over possession of all his Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic books. I think I got that phrase from one of their misadventures. There’s nothing like reading to broaden one’s horizons, I always say.

]]> by: Just Jay http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23152 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:34:12 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23152 My favorite Bush story of last week, courtesy of Garrison Keillor and Prairie Home Companion, is that Bush flew in Air Force One, a Boeing 747, from Washington D.C. to Wilmington Delaware, a distance of about 97 miles to give a speech about energy conservation. To paraphrase Keillor, satire just gets harder and harder. Jay My favorite Bush story of last week, courtesy of Garrison Keillor and Prairie Home Companion, is that Bush flew in Air Force One, a Boeing 747, from Washington D.C. to Wilmington Delaware, a distance of about 97 miles to give a speech about energy conservation. To paraphrase Keillor, satire just gets harder and harder.

Jay

]]> by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23151 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:25:23 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23151 Yes, the man who has never earned an honest dollar in his misbegotten life thinks that corporate CEO pay packages are too high, and Molly Ivins is no longer around to write something devastating about it. Dee is right. We owe it to Molly; we have to raise hell. We have to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Adam and Chris and the gang do yeoman service, but it needs all of us. At least we still have Tom Toles and Pat Oliphant. Yes, the man who has never earned an honest dollar in his misbegotten life thinks that corporate CEO pay packages are too high, and Molly Ivins is no longer around to write something devastating about it.

Dee is right. We owe it to Molly; we have to raise hell. We have to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Adam and Chris and the gang do yeoman service, but it needs all of us.

At least we still have Tom Toles and Pat Oliphant.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23149 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:12:39 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/31/value-added/#comment-23149 That it does, gillian. Toles strikes again. Where are you from? The person I know who uses the phrase "Well I'll be dipped in sh*t" grew up in Leesburg, Florida. Dirk, I thought they were both bitches. "And we're sending 50,000 more, to help save Baghdad from the Eye-Wrack-ies." It had to at least match the number in that song about Viet Nam, and Bush has to bag at least a million civilians to be a player in the game of imperial warfare, for chrissake. That it does, gillian. Toles strikes again.
Where are you from? The person I know who uses the phrase “Well I’ll be dipped in sh*t” grew up in Leesburg, Florida.

Dirk, I thought they were both bitches.

“And we’re sending 50,000 more, to help save Baghdad from the Eye-Wrack-ies.” It had to at least match the number in that song about Viet Nam, and Bush has to bag at least a million civilians to be a player in the game of imperial warfare, for chrissake.

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