Sentential Links (Page 17)

Linkage…. :: Generally, the annual lice letter goes something like this: Dear Parents, This letter is to inform you that you a student in your child’s class has lice. Please check your child’s head frequently and be alert blah blah blah etc… HOWEVER, it does not matter what is actually said in the lice letter, EVERY parent reads it like this: Dear Parent, Panic. Panic loudly and any language is appropriate. Flail your arms around a little. Yeah, that’s the way. Good. Your child has lice. :: Yes, it’s probably blasphemy to put the Claremont/Byrne era of the X-Men thisDown the rabbit hole….

Onward and Upward with the Linkage! :: On the subject of Gingrich, here’s one thing I don’t understand. John Edwards’ philandering has made him a public pariah, understandably so. But Gingrich’s marital behavior was probably even more disgusting. He cheated on his first wife and told her he wanted a divorce while she was recovering from surgery for cancer. He subsequently cheated on his second wife with a much younger aide. It’s fairly amazing how Gingrich has managed to avoid any stigma from this. He’s just a conservative “ideas guy.” (The rule is very simple: It’s OK if you’re aDown the rabbit hole….

Woo-hoo! Two hundred Sentential Links posts! Yay! Huzzah!! And something like that. :: Sometimes I look up from what I am doing and I see Hope across the room staring at me, and there is a look of such coiled contempt in her eyes that I want to run fleeing into the night. (How well I remember that look from cats! Our current crop of feline friends don’t give us that look, though; they basically stare at us with a few different expressions, most of which can be loosely grouped under “Is the dish full?” or “Pet me.” They’re actuallyDown the rabbit hole….

One more to 200! Woo-hoo! :: In the end, that’s the real problem with reboots; not only do they not really give the title a fresh start, they don’t really make it any more accessible. Within a year or two, the new continuity has its own backstory to wade through, and a few years after that, it’s just as convoluted and messy as the old one. (This is about comic book reboots and not cinematic ones, which I’m more well-versed about, but the concerns are still real.) :: Today marks the Vernal Equinox, the date in which the amount ofDown the rabbit hole….

Closing in on the milestone #200! :: Once healthcare reform is passed, everyone will breathe a sigh of relief and move on to other issues. Republicans will huff and puff, but they don’t have the votes to overturn it and they know it. (Why do you think they’re resisting it so rabidly? They know perfectly well that entitlement programs practically never go away once they’ve been passed.) Then, down the road, future congresses will start to make changes. Maybe a Medicare buy-in. Maybe bigger subsidies. Maybe a public option outside of Medicare. It won’t happen overnight, but within 20 orDown the rabbit hole….

Linkage. Closing in on 200 of these posts, wow! (As an added bonus for this week, no politics! I’m a bit burned out on reading about Republicans right now.) :: I am seriously in love with this game right now. (Super Mario Bros. was one of the initial games we got for our Wii, in addition to Wii Play, which I got more because it came with an extra Wiimote than anything else. I’m starting to look into other games, but it’s a testament to how good Super Mario Bros. is that it’s taken this long for us to startDown the rabbit hole….

Linkage time: :: We’re in for some hard times. We need to pull in our belts, pay more taxes, demand more value for our taxes, and say no to an ideology that requires converting our health money into corporate profits. We should to raise the lowest wages, and lower the highest ones. We have to return to the saying my father quoted to me a hundred times: “A fair day’s work for fair day’s pay.” No, I don’t think everyone should be paid the same wage. If you earn a lot of money, you have a right to a lotDown the rabbit hole….

Weekly linkage! Beware! :: If torture were really as effective as the Thiessen/Cheney wing of the conservative movement thinks, they’d hardly risk resorting to such obvious lies to defend it. They’d have so much good evidence in favor of it that they wouldn’t need to bother. But apparently they don’t. :: Nobody knows what his views are on domestic policy, but it seems impossible at this point to imagine a Republican nominee who believes in the rule of law and humane treatment of detainees. And that, in turn, is obviously a sad state of affairs. :: The Democrats may notDown the rabbit hole….

Linkage: :: The Law is a blunt instrument. It’s not a scalpel. It’s a club. If there is something you consider indefensible, and there is something you consider defensible, and the same laws can take them both out, you are going to find yourself defending the indefensible. (An essential post.) :: The truth may sound rude, but in general, Tea Party activists have no idea what they’re talking about. Their sincerity notwithstanding, this is a confused group of misled people. :: It really is quite amazing what you can do with a group of people who are completely uninterested inDown the rabbit hole….

Linkage! Slightly delayed, but linkage nonetheless: :: For the past two nights my characters have dominated my dreams. Well, two of them so far. :: Thirdly, I have owned it for YEARS, so it’s one of those “perpetually unread” books on my shelves that end up kind of haunting me, looking at me like, “So. You ever gonna deal with me or what?” (Wow…I’m the same way, with the exact same book. Well, that’s ending. I love Helprin anyway, so why haven’t I read Winter’s Tale yet? I have no idea. As soon as I’m done with GGK, I’m readingDown the rabbit hole….