Change the subject.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Yes, please.
Sorry no segue…but how long do we have to see that picture of Man on Dog??? His visage could just ruin a woman’s night, ya know.
Thank goodness I have such a handsome husband.
:<)
That’s Senator Man on Dog.
Actually, that’s PA’s bad.
BTW, the hubby just saw the comment. It’s late and he’s gorgeous…think I need his help doing mental dry cleaning of Sen Man on Dog.
:<)
Lion was treated for arthritis by having gold pellets injected into its muscles. The article proved to be a great distraction for a few minutes.
The Dog Armor part was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
that I’m going to steal it. (If you mind – I’ll give it back.)
I googled ‘change the subject‘…hit ‘I’m feeling lucky‘ and here’s
where it came from.
Peace
the words “Open Thread”, they remind me I’ve got too many damn buttons to sew on the spouse’s shirts one of these nights…
Time to sign off and get caught up on “Countdown” viewing…hope things calm down a bit now… 🙂
Puget4’s diet rocks! Gooserock has returned to high school graduation weight and can fit into his wedding dress over long underwear. How many husbands can do that 25 years later?
I can’t help thinking that the Chicago and New York City bagpipers would appreciate this option on St. Patrick’s Day.
Wow!
I don’t even recognize you anymore!
Since I’ve been in the business of casting my 2 cents.. I’d just like to say that in general the notion of getting aggression out or anything of that sort is kind of old-school psychology, I’m sure most behaviorist would just say it is reinforcing behavior and increasing the likelihood the behavior will occur again.
Anyway, goodnight tribbers! Wish me luck on my exam (you don’t actually have to comment, I know you do in spirit! 🙂
I still plan on blaming you tomorrow for my lack-of-sleep due to the latest artistic offering at your blog.
😉
Good luck! Good luck!
Now that’s behavior worth reinforcing.
Temperature has been holding at 27° for the past several hours, but it’s been sort of misting/drizzling since noon, so there’s some ice out there. I’m worried about my winter veggies out in the garden, but not enough to try to cover them. They’ll make it or they won’t. And this was just last Friday. Cold up in Philly, BooMan?
I get the RSS feed from World Wide Words … a truly fun site.
here are a couple recent words of the day:
I’m on A Word A Day’s email list. The words are great, but the quotations are even better. Just changed my sig line to one I found from a couple of days ago, but right after I did, schmendrick landed in my mailbox and I can’t wait to change it again to the one at the bottom of that one. (I’m terribly fickle when it comes to sig lines.)
sun no longer gets
in to the courthouse windows
papers drift and swirl
I didn’t do it
melts away springtime in five months
guilty your honor
unseen waitresses
get tips from neckties that tell
lunch, capital grill
he is a gonif
the elevator goes down
lobby Christmass tree
a new fiscal year
we will be better, something
the sun no longer gets
. . . and I have spent almost no time in courthouses, but I felt like I was there.
That is such a nice thing to say, here’s one for you:
ask how is the way
to begin conversations
that require two chairs
back of the freezer
no memory of four hands
rolling up cabbage
crowd at the bus stop
the people who will get there
ask how is the way
For sharing another with me. That’s the best kind. Each time I read it, another piece fell into place.
this liberal”attack on Christmas” thing that’s worth reading (online)? There’s that book that seemingly started it all—has anyone dissected its specific charges?
Links would be appreciated.
Any BooTribbers attending the State Convention in Orlando this weekend? A special Drinking Liberally session should be held, no?
Just so I’m clear.
You are talking about comments and opinions made on this site right? Because I got tangled up in the thread at dkos that I assume is the cause, or beginning of the mess here. Maybe you haven’t seen it, I don’t know, but obviously the position I took over there would conflict with the “slander” position you take here. I thought I was pretty peripheral to begin with until I got called out for ratings I gave, and since it’d been a while since I’d had a lawyer try to back me into a corner I figured, fuck it, I’m jumpin.
Anyway, it all happened over there. My involvement that is. Does this conflict with my privelages here?
Have you been giving out too many fours again, super? 😉
….or, not enough to the right people ;o)
Heh. Spider’s clique seems a little simpler to belong to, doesn’t it?
Spider has a clique?
Is that why I caught the faint sound of “Oh Canada” being sung in some of the threads around here? ;o)
Gotta go. You have a great day CG
My copy of Undercover Economist arrived today (sadly, they’re out of stock, but I bet you could still order one…). Looks quite fascinating. I might make it my next book, but I have lots of other interesting options…so I can’t decide.
I haven’t seen a “what are you reading” diary in a while. Any intersest?
I have a request: Can you skip to the part that tells me why it’s dangerous to go shopping at Whole Foods? My daughter especially wants to know how it is she walks out of there having spent more than she intended.
Ditto Amazon books!
The “What are you reading” diary sounds great! Do you want to do it, or shall I?
And, dammit it all, I blew it and missed the author’s appearance on BookTV last weekend. Must keep checking. (Booktv.org’s Web site confuses me but their weekend schedule charts are pretty good.)
Now, which is more important, our civil liberties on fire or the flag… hmmmm…
Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold
On the Patriot Act Conference Report
“I will do everything I can, including a filibuster, to stop this Patriot Act conference report, which does not include adequate safeguards to protect our constitutional freedoms. The version of the Patriot Act that was signed today is a major disappointment. I appreciate that it includes four-year sunsets on three controversial provisions, but merely sunsetting bad law is not adequate. We need to make substantive changes to the law, and without those changes I am confident there will be strong, bipartisan opposition here in the Senate.
This isn’t about stopping Patriot Act reauthorization. The President could sign Patriot Act reauthorization legislation into law tomorrow if the House would just take up and pass the compromise Senate bill that was approved unanimously in the Senate earlier this year – a bill that includes important and reasonable privacy protections. The conference committee had the opportunity to fix many of the provisions of the Patriot Act to which Americans across the political spectrum have voiced their opposition over the last four years. Unfortunately, they decided not to listen. This battle is not over.
I forget who first posted this, but I’ve found it useful and fun. If you’re not on the BooMan Tribune Frappr! map, please go add yourself and then post here.
to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of john lennon, we refer you back to the partyparty’s rendition of awol singing “imagine.”
[ed. note: since we last linked you to rx’s wonderful remix of this song, the website, audiostreet.net, has begun requiring registration. however, it’s easy to register, and quite worth it, if only just to hear awol’s own words sing lennon’s thoughts (with some of lou reed thrown in, don’t ask us how or why, but it works).]