PartyDoll MEG wrote on Nov 6^th, 2008 at 4:59pm:

Well, who was THAT post about? Since asswipe referred to me & you referred to that post, I made a natural leap. Inane empty-headed AND coy? Trifecta!

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All I can say, is Wow! I'm glad you're done with me. Remember your words, and don't go the way of the two banned women, or I will request if you continue to call me names, that the mods ban you for it. It will be their call.

BTW Thanks to all who refused the attempt to censor me. We rarely see that here & from a self-professed liberal yet! If I did offend anyone with my posts, I am sorry. The anger I feel right now is palpable. For the 1st time in my adult life, I'm ashamed of my country. I know the feeling will go away but it's what I feel now. I can't help it. Having a charlatan & idiot in office does that to a man. Even one called Cinderella.

Pdog wrote on Nov 6^th, 2008 at 5:08pm:

No one gets banned for calling people names. It's continued harassment. You don't have to worry about that from my end. I'm dropping you like a piece of toilet paper with messy shit on it.  Adios bitch.

PS Congrats on a mistake-free post! It is indeed "a brand new day!"

In the spirit of healing, this is for everyone(except those who would censor me!):

http://www.zefrank.com/from52to48withlove/

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you're just a big ole' teddy bear.

Funny stuff but not really meant that way.

NEW YORK – Last winter, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison received a phone call from Sen. Barack Obama, then the underdog to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Obama had contacted Morrison to ask for her support. But before they got into politics, the author and the candidate had a little chat about literature.

"He began to talk to me about one of the books I had written, `Song of Solomon,' and how it had meant a lot to him," Morrison said in a postelection interview from her office at Princeton University, where for years she has taught creative writing.

"And I had read his first book (`Dreams From My Father'). I was astonished by his ability to write, to think, to reflect, to learn and turn a good phrase. I was very impressed. This was not a normal political biography."

For Morrison and others, the election of Obama matters not because he will be the first black president or because the vast majority of writers usually vote for Democrats. Writers welcome Obama as a peer, a thinker, a man of words — his own words.

"When I was watching Obama's acceptance speech (Tuesday night), I was convinced that he had written it himself, and therefore that he was saying things that he actually believed and had considered," says Jane Smiley, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Thousand Acres" and other fiction.

"I find that more convincing in a politician than the usual thing of speaking the words of a raft of hack speechwriters. If he were to lie to us, he would really be betraying his deepest self."

"Until now, my identity as a writer has never overlapped with my identity as an American — in the past eight years, my writing has often felt like an antidote or correction to my Americanism," says "Everything Is Illuminated" novelist Jonathan Safran Foer.

"But finally having a writer-president — and I don't mean a published author, but someone who knows the full value of the carefully chosen word — I suddenly feel, for the first time, not only like a writer who happens to be American, but an American writer."

"Dreams From My Father" and Obama's "The Audacity of Hope" have each sold millions of copies and have been praised as the rare works by politicians that can actually be read for pleasure. Obama's student poetry was even lauded — and compared to the work of Langston Hughes — by the most discerning of critics, Harold Bloom.

Morrison, whose novel "A Mercy" comes out next week, endorsed Obama in January, even though she was a friend and admirer of Hillary Rodham Clinton and had famously labeled Bill Clinton the country's first black president. As if reviewing a new book, Morrison released a statement citing Obama's "intelligence, integrity and rare authenticity," and his "creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom."

Morrison finds herself wondering how some of her late friends would have reacted, like James Baldwin ("How I miss him now," she says), who in the 1960s had scorned as condescending Robert Kennedy's prediction that the United States would have a black president in 40 years. Were "Invisible Man" author Ralph Ellison still alive, he would have renamed his classic novel "Visible Man," Morrison joked.

Ayelet Waldman, whose novels include "Daughter's Keeper," is an Obama fan dating back to when both attended Harvard University. Her husband, novelist Michael Chabon, came to support him through "his writing, the quality of his prose," Waldman says. They in turn persuaded author and former Hillary Clinton supporter Rick Moody.

"I heard an Obama speech on NPR, sometime before the New York primary, and was moved to tears. At that point, I suppose I did start thinking of him as a writer, in the sense that he had, and has, a very good ear for le mot juste," says Moody, whose novels include "The Ice Storm" and "The Diviners."

"But I think the larger issue is cultural. There's a trickle down from the top in the way art exists inside and outside of the culture as a whole. Here in the USA, you could feel in the Bush years how little regard there was for it. People who disliked art, literature, dance, fine arts, they had a lot of cover for this antipathy. There's reason to believe that we are in for a much better period."

pdog, stop posting to me. I'm not reading whatever you just wrote or anything else. If you have anything to say to me, like a fucking apology for trying to censor me, feel free to PM me. Elsewise, you're on ignore.

I sense a thawing.

Man, we need a Van Halen tour!


"You do realize that the Earth is bi-polar, don't you?"
Steven Wright

I just saw Lady Jane wearing this button:

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Translator's note:  This individual lives in Opposite Land, where it's Opposite Day every day.  The election of one of the most brilliant and authentic individuals to ever obtain the presidency would be expressed as "Having a charlatan & idiot in office" in Opposite-Speak.  An occasion which even political rivals describe as a day in which all Americans can feel proud would be described like this:  "For the 1st time in my adult life, I'm ashamed of my country."  Similar semantic reversals should be applied to any statements from this and other Oppositists.

Pdog wrote on Nov 6^th, 2008 at 7:22pm:

Sounds more like a libertarian federalist to me.  But that could be translated into "liberal" in Opposite-Speak. 

Now, as to the death penalty, please ponder these facts:  1) The justice system is a human system; 2) Humans make mistakes; 3) Among those mistakes are wrongful convictions; 4) Individuals have been wrongfully convicted of murder; 5) It is a mathematical certainty that the death penalty will lead, and almost certainly has led, to the execution of innocent persons; and 6) Execution of the innocent puts innocent blood on all of our hands.  If that doesn't convince you, take a look at which countries still have the death penalty and which have abandoned it as barbaric.  Decide whose company you would prefer to keep.