Advice Goddess Free Swim
As mentioned above, Gregg and I are in New York for a few days, and I won't have time to blog much until sometime Tuesday afternoon, so you pick the topics. (One link per comment or my spam filter will have its way with you.)
For your mooselimb files:
Sharia Law’s Threat to Free Speech
This article is by Connie Hair, who I know personally. She's a great lady.
mpetrie98 at October 11, 2010 10:47 PM
Perhaps this a topic for the book.
This weekend I attended a family gathering - not a big deal - but some of the people came with really nasty colds. The kids were sent around to give everyone hugs. I am thinking WTF? I really cannot afford to be sick right now.
The Former Banker at October 12, 2010 1:06 AM
There's a guy in LA who always wants to give me a big sloppy kiss on the cheek whenever he sees me. Yuck. I always say when I see him that "I have a little cold." That, or "I might be coming down with something..." are great for keeping people from getting too close.
Amy Alkon at October 12, 2010 3:39 AM
And great column by Connie. If you haven't seen Fitna, which is embedded in the piece (part 4) you should see it. I watched it again.
Amy Alkon at October 12, 2010 3:45 AM
To be fair, kids are snotty about 6 months a year (on average, school kids get 10 colds a year. Figure nearly 2 weeks each....) and you aren't contagious for much but the first day or two. And, it CAN be allergies. Every human in austin right now is all sorts of snotty. October in snot-month here. It's our trees. It's worth it to live here though.
I run my life by the school district rules. Fever-free for 24 hours and we're good to go.
momof4 at October 12, 2010 6:01 AM
Interesting piece by Anne Applebaum: Do Americans resent the upwardly mobile? http://www.slate.com/id/2270739/
Christopher at October 12, 2010 8:21 AM
The United States isn't the only country trying to figure this motherhood thing out.
MonicaP at October 12, 2010 8:24 AM
I run my life by the school district rules. Fever-free for 24 hours and we're good to go.
That's pretty much how we do it here in CT, too. But if my kids are sick enough that they're feverish and dripping from the nose, they get to stay home. No family outings, honies, you're SICK. When you stop sneezing every 5 minutes 3 times in a row, and when you're not coughing when you're done sneezing, yeah, then you can go out. Otherwise, here's the Vick's and a box of tissues, now get back to bed!
Flynne at October 12, 2010 9:20 AM
I want to be a vaginal gymnastics trainer!
Eric at October 12, 2010 9:22 AM
LOL!! Eric you would!!
Flynne at October 12, 2010 9:39 AM
Across town, Ms. de Marsac snapped on a plastic glove, inserted two fingers between Clara Pflug’s legs and told her to think of the wings of a butterfly as she contracted her birth canal muscles. .... Ten sessions of free abdominal exercises follow; Ms. de Marsac promises Ms. Pflug a “washboard tummy.”
My extreme aversion to the words tummy & belly aside. (gag!) EW!! thanks for sharing.
Is this the new version of Lay back & think of England.
Everthing about the French sounds so self-congratulating. The best wine, the best food, the most payed for kids. Aren't we lucky.
MeganNJ at October 12, 2010 11:26 AM
Ayatollah Khomeini's "Blue Book" and its helpful advice on romantic matters (via Mark Steyn):
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/1516/26
"If a man marries a minor who has reached the age of nine and if during the defloration he immediately breaks the hymen, he cannot enjoy her any longer." I'll say. I know it always ruins my evening. Also: "A man who has had sexual relations with an animal, such as a sheep, may not eat its meat. He would commit sin." Indeed. A quiet cigarette afterwards as you listen to your favourite Johnny Mathis LP and then a promise to call her next week and swing by the pasture is by far the best way. It may also be a sin to roast your nine-year-old wife, but the Ayatollah's not clear on that.
biff at October 12, 2010 11:47 AM
There was some Islamic cleric on the news the other day justifying the stoning of a man who had sex with his goat. The problem wasn't so much that it was a goat, but a male goat, and that's homosexuality, which is an abomination deserving of death.
They killed the goat as well.
Eric at October 12, 2010 11:52 AM
If he broke the hymen of a 9-year-old goat immediately, could he still enjoy her?
MonicaP at October 12, 2010 12:57 PM
In this case, it was both kids and adults. The adults said they were sick and one of the kids. One of the adults said they barely made it out of bed to come to the gathering.
I was just really annoyed by the sending around of all the kids (including the sick one) to give everyone a hug. That did absolutely nothing but increase the chance of germs being spread.
And today I have started sneezing...
I dislike that some many come to work sick (many places like where I used to work basicaly require it unless you are quite sick, not just a cold) and that kids are generally sent to school.
People with colds are most contagious for the first 3 or 4 days after the symptoms appear and may be contagious for up to 3 weeks. --http://kidshealth.org/teen/infections/bacterial_viral/colds.html#
The Former Banker at October 12, 2010 3:35 PM
From Ted Frank: A law firm filed a class action against Classmates.com and they have agreed to a $9.5M settlement. Of that amount, the members of the class will receive... $117,000 total. The lawyers get all the rest.
Cousin Dave at October 12, 2010 5:53 PM
Saw Celldweller at DragonCon this year. Stupefying control of the sound! Frozen is an example of his work. Yes, that's phase-locked sub-20Hz bass with standing waves "on top" of it; in the live show, you can almost see them walk around you.
There are a lot of performers who don't get that the notes don't end 'til you tell 'em, and how you stop a sound is as important is as how you start it. If you get to see Klayton live, GO!
Radwaste at October 12, 2010 6:18 PM
I enjoyed Anne Applebaum's piece, but I'm not sure that she gets why the elites are hated. I think the elites are despised, not necessarily because they are educated, but because they seem to have an affinity for wanting to run our lives.
mpetrie98 at October 12, 2010 8:18 PM
Reading Dan Savage today
Washington Post seems to thinks gay suicide is a two-sided issue
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010130014
Megan at October 13, 2010 12:28 PM
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/10/13/meanwhile-in-michigan
current non-discrimination policy bars discrimination based on "height, weight, religion, sex, color, race, national origin, and marital status,"
school board voted 4-3 against adding "sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression" to that long list.
Megan at October 13, 2010 12:30 PM
Last one ...
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/10/13/the-silence-of-the-lambs
I'm tired of reading letters from buttsore "good" Christians whining to me about the "power and attention" given to the "a small minority" who hate, demonize, and dehumanize gays and lesbians, as if the reach, influence, and impact of conservative Christian bigots were a figment of my imagination.
And if you're upset that all Christians everywhere are increasingly viewed as anti-gay, your beef is with conservative, right-wing, sex-phobic, and homophobic "Christians" who claim to speak for all Christians everywhere, not with me.
Unless blaming the victim has become, along with hating the homos, a defining Christian virtue.
Megan at October 13, 2010 12:32 PM
I agree it would be in poor taste to eat your ovine lovers' meat. Talk about a bad break up!!!
NicoleK at October 13, 2010 12:45 PM
I just caught this story about a journalism student and her email exchange with Steve Jobs.
Her entitled attitude is utterly mind boggling.
http://gawker.com/5641211/steve-jobs-in-email-pissing-match-with-college-journalism-student
Jen Wading at October 14, 2010 1:36 AM
http://laineygossip.com/MPAA_gives_Blue_Valentine_NC_17_rating.aspx
The Human Centipede got an R rating. ... It’s about a mad scientist who kidnaps three people--two of them women--and makes a “human centipede” by sewing their mouths and asses together, joining their gastric systems
Nor has Saw, Hostel or any number of torture porn movies drawn an NC-17 rating. In fact, the despicable I Spit On Your Grave, which is all about a woman being gang-raped and tortured, received an R rating for “pervasive, strong, sadistic, brutal violence, rape and torture, nudity and language”. That movie is so graphically violent that it took the MPAA FOUR adjectives to describe it. Yet it’s still only an R rating
So why is Blue Valentine NC-17? ... This is the product of a weird social conservatism that says violence is okay but don’t swear or be sexy or else we’ll shun you. Seriously, the MPAA rule on swearing is three F-bombs and you’re out.
MeganNJ at October 14, 2010 10:38 AM
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