I've dispatched so many snakes with shovels over the years... Surely nobody holding a shovel in his or her hands need fear a counter-attack from a snake they are in the process of chopping into pieces?
Indeed, my wife is from Thailand. We have been together for twenty years. Several years ago we built a house in the village she grew up in. Just as we live together in Massachusetts and she can call Kingston, Massachusetts "her town," I have earned the right to refer to the village in Thailand where we maintain a second residence as "my village."
What's the issue again, Dave? Is it that I am a leftist or that I haven't posted anything funny about Bill Clinton - the guy who was our president 10 years ago?
Truth be told, I'm working on a series of knee-slapping posts about Harry Truman!
Do you think the Communist Party of the USA will revoke my membership if/when I move ahead with the posts?
I wasn't complicit in the stunt these people in San Francisco are pulling off. I merely repeated it here. That's not editorializing.
Nothing whatsoever that either you or I or the people in San Francisco or the other visitors to this site could ever say or do is capable of changing President Bush's lot in this world.
If anyone is editorializing here, Ted, it is you:But this sort of thing is disrespectful to the office as much as it is to the man. That's a pretty bold declaration for a man accusing *me* of editorializing.
I think that a handful of you are taking this post - and yourselves - far too seriously.
Whether or not one loves or hates George Bush, this story has an element of humor to it. You may be so wrapped up into the "us vs. them" politics that have polarized much of the nation over the past few years, and you may disagree with the sentiment, but come on, folks, trying to name a sewage treatment plant after an unpopular political figure is funny.
If it was Neatorama's goal or my own personal goal to use this blog as a tool to constantly disparage George Bush, it would certainly manifest itself in a far more obvious way than this post. A team of people could sit from dawn until dusk, all day, every day, posting about people, places, events, programs, jokes, books, publications, movies, sound clips, video clips, etc., etc., etc. beating up on Bush - or any other controversial political figure for that matter. This is simply not happening.
I've been posting to Neatorama for more than a year and a half now and out of the SCORES of posts that I have contributed, I think I can count the overtly political ones on one hand.
It's ironic that the same ideologues who decry political correctness seem to assume a quivering lip and call for censorship the moment their hero is criticized or satirized on the internet.
There were 19 posts yesterday, one of which told the [funny] story about a group of eccentric people in San Francisco who are floating the JOKE idea to rename a sewage treatment plant after George Bush - and the reaction here reminds me of a small mob of Yosemite Sams - "hopping mad" at this perceived transgression. Relax. It's a joke. Somehow I think that even Mr. Bush himself isn't losing any sleep over this one.
According to our blogging software, there are more than 15,000 posts published to this blog to date. If your thesis here in this thread is that I have somehow subverted this blog and turned it into a forum for inappropriate presidential criticism, then a quick contemplation of the numbers involved should dissuade you of this particular fantasy. I'd also suggest that some of the accusations leveled against me in this thread and in email to me personally are far more volatile and inappropriate than the JOKE about renaming a sewage treatment plant after Bush.
I do not shower this site with politically oriented posts and I will pledge to continue not to turn this into a political website in the future.
That being said, if some day in the future a dairy farm in Wisconsin that sells its processed manure in bags to garden centers around the country announces that it is going to change the brand name of its manure from "Sunshine Farm Cow Manure" to "Bush Administration Cow Manure," then I reserve the right to post the story. You, in turn, needn't read it.
It's so nice that through his philosophy he really was able to give SO MUCH back to SO MANY.
I deal with most snakes that I encounter by chopping them up with a shovel.
Indeed, my wife is from Thailand. We have been together for twenty years. Several years ago we built a house in the village she grew up in. Just as we live together in Massachusetts and she can call Kingston, Massachusetts "her town," I have earned the right to refer to the village in Thailand where we maintain a second residence as "my village."
Truth be told, I'm working on a series of knee-slapping posts about Harry Truman!
Do you think the Communist Party of the USA will revoke my membership if/when I move ahead with the posts?
I wasn't complicit in the stunt these people in San Francisco are pulling off. I merely repeated it here. That's not editorializing.
Nothing whatsoever that either you or I or the people in San Francisco or the other visitors to this site could ever say or do is capable of changing President Bush's lot in this world.
If anyone is editorializing here, Ted, it is you:But this sort of thing is disrespectful to the office as much as it is to the man.
That's a pretty bold declaration for a man accusing *me* of editorializing.
Thanks for the tip, Ted.
Sorry, gang!
The link is to an hour-long radio program. Did you miss that?
HoolaGirl and Vinnie have the architect correct.
I don't blame you for being homesick, Ali. Boston is one of the world's most special cities! Certainly in the Top 100.
Whether or not one loves or hates George Bush, this story has an element of humor to it. You may be so wrapped up into the "us vs. them" politics that have polarized much of the nation over the past few years, and you may disagree with the sentiment, but come on, folks, trying to name a sewage treatment plant after an unpopular political figure is funny.
If it was Neatorama's goal or my own personal goal to use this blog as a tool to constantly disparage George Bush, it would certainly manifest itself in a far more obvious way than this post. A team of people could sit from dawn until dusk, all day, every day, posting about people, places, events, programs, jokes, books, publications, movies, sound clips, video clips, etc., etc., etc. beating up on Bush - or any other controversial political figure for that matter. This is simply not happening.
I've been posting to Neatorama for more than a year and a half now and out of the SCORES of posts that I have contributed, I think I can count the overtly political ones on one hand.
It's ironic that the same ideologues who decry political correctness seem to assume a quivering lip and call for censorship the moment their hero is criticized or satirized on the internet.
There were 19 posts yesterday, one of which told the [funny] story about a group of eccentric people in San Francisco who are floating the JOKE idea to rename a sewage treatment plant after George Bush - and the reaction here reminds me of a small mob of Yosemite Sams - "hopping mad" at this perceived transgression. Relax. It's a joke. Somehow I think that even Mr. Bush himself isn't losing any sleep over this one.
According to our blogging software, there are more than 15,000 posts published to this blog to date. If your thesis here in this thread is that I have somehow subverted this blog and turned it into a forum for inappropriate presidential criticism, then a quick contemplation of the numbers involved should dissuade you of this particular fantasy. I'd also suggest that some of the accusations leveled against me in this thread and in email to me personally are far more volatile and inappropriate than the JOKE about renaming a sewage treatment plant after Bush.
I do not shower this site with politically oriented posts and I will pledge to continue not to turn this into a political website in the future.
That being said, if some day in the future a dairy farm in Wisconsin that sells its processed manure in bags to garden centers around the country announces that it is going to change the brand name of its manure from "Sunshine Farm Cow Manure" to "Bush Administration Cow Manure," then I reserve the right to post the story. You, in turn, needn't read it.
XOXO
Adam