Yeah, but I hear that he acts like Muslims are normal people.
Just because they're Pakistani doesn't mean they stink.
the internet gods created Juan Cole.
the result of prodigious quality offerings of uploaded porn.*
*it has to be quality. Powerline was the result of the uploading of 2girls1cup.
What's really soul-crushing is that no one will protest.
You want something done, Labs, you have to do it yourself. Protest. Orate. Rant. Wave your arms. Weep openly. Fall on your knees.
Alternatively, demand a report on the measurable outcomes to be derived from additional meetings and suggest that it would not be timely to take such a decision with no supporting data.
It's one of those horrible paradoxes. The only way to get the meetings under control is for someone who doesn't enjoy them for their own sake and hates wasting time to be in the position of running the meetings. But people like that tend not to take on administrative tasks.
7: A Cincinnatus of meetings, if you will. Like those people who run for the office of City Prothonotary on a platform of reducing the city budget by eliminating the office of City Prothonotary.
In any case, the scales seem to be falling from their eyes big time
I was not familiar with this phrase. I looked it up and read the story of Saul. I am deeply traumatized by the image of someone's eyes being covered in invisible fish scales for three days which then fall off. If anyone needs me, I'll be huddled in a corner talking to myself.
this thread is actually fun i'm glad i opened it
You all show distinct evidence of being insufficiently leftist, and it makes me angry. GROWL!!!
I like the Amy Winehouse reference near the beginning.
Somebody really has to post on this week's Modern Love. It's got romance, politics, and OBAMA!
Wait, he says that both Musharraf and the religious right lost. That can't be right.
15: Why? There are plenty of other forces in Pakistani politics.
15 was making fun of the Bush Administration's "apres Musharraf, le deluge" policy.
I'm watching television and you know who's kinda freaking me out a little? Cindy McCain. She seems, I don't know, insectoid or something.
19: And taking on Michelle Obama? Please. There's a debate I'd pay good money to watch.
19: I'm torn between asking Apo why he's only now figuring this out, and being impressed that there's one woman in the world he doesn't want to fuck.
I might fuck Cindy McCain. But only if I could be 100% certain she wouldn't bite off my head afterwards.