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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2006-12-15 10:37 am

Link round-up

The great Comics Curmudgeon took notice of me! That totally made my day. (Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] springheel_jack for pointing it out; I read CC frequently but not regularly and I might have otherwise missed it.) Does this mean that Josh reads [livejournal.com profile] mf_roasted?

Also via [livejournal.com profile] springheel_jack: Michael Crichton is a dick who can't write and can't take criticism. I heard he also has a tiny penis.

Via [livejournal.com profile] threeliesforone: UK unions join the War on Christmas. Solidarity forever and mad props to these folks.

News of the awesome: World's tallest man saves two dolphins. (Hat tip: [livejournal.com profile] see_my_glock.) (Much sadder dolphin news.)

Company building a fence to keep undocumented immigrants out gets fined for hiring undocumented immigrants. (Hat tip: [livejournal.com profile] seanmonster.)

[identity profile] theoldanarchist.livejournal.com 2006-12-15 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)

Yeah, ain't that Michael Crichton a peach? "Oh yeah, criticize me, will ya? Well, I'll just create a character who's a child murderer and name him after you!" You can almost imagine him sticking out his tongue and waving it in Michael Crowley's direction as he was writing.

[identity profile] theoldanarchist.livejournal.com 2006-12-16 12:10 am (UTC)(link)

Hmmm... I typed a long response to this earlier, and I guess it did not go through before the computer lost its fucking mind.

I can't remember exactly what I said, other than that Michael Crowley is one of the most mild-mannered of all the talking heads that appear regularly on the evening chat shows on MSNBC. He is certainly not an attack dog, and not deserving of being maligned in such a manner. That said, I have almost no use whatsoever for the New Republic.

[identity profile] jvmatucha.livejournal.com 2006-12-15 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Crichton is a global warming opponent?!? Holy crap! What a horrendous dork!

Seriousy, I'm quite surprised. Not like I ever admired him or thought he was a particularly good writer, but that's still a surprise to me!

[identity profile] terry-terrible.livejournal.com 2006-12-15 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
That reminds me of watching Jay Leno once and when they were building another fence on the border and he joked about undocumented worker building the fence.

The news these day is seriously reaching Onion porportions, you can't really tell what is fake and what's real anymore.

[identity profile] terry-terrible.livejournal.com 2006-12-15 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
They employed Palestinians to build that wall?

*sighs*

[identity profile] lopukhov.livejournal.com 2006-12-16 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure those who commissioned the building of the wall thought the irony was delicious, like braised liver tips in butter sauce.

It seems that wallsfences are a popular way of keeping people out these days. There's a wall in D-town that separates an 88% black neighbourhood from a 91.5% white suburban neighbourhood that came out of the race riots in the 1960s, and none of the suburbanites seemed interested in breaking down the wall. My class mate reports, "One person from GPP (the suburb) commented, 'Instead of having a wall, we should have a piggy bank where we put in all the money for the beautification of both our neighbourhoods. But you know, someone is bound to break into it and steal all of the money from our collective efforts.'"

[identity profile] lopukhov.livejournal.com 2006-12-16 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
What's wrong with them? Are they some kind of communist?

[identity profile] lopukhov.livejournal.com 2006-12-17 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Those communists! They always want to take away our freedom to listen to jolly good kid-friendly music!

[identity profile] lovableatheist.livejournal.com 2006-12-16 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
That story about x-mas music...FUCK YEAH! I'm so fuckng tired of listening to 20 versions of jingle bells. The song sucks and will always suck, no matter how many versions of it are recorded.

[identity profile] princessrugger.livejournal.com 2006-12-18 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
both carlos mencia and george lopez have bits to the effect of "you want to build a fence between the US and mexico? who do you think is gonna build it?"