I don't think I need to add anything other than to say what a wonderful person.

Though I've got to admit I feel a little sorry for Chris Wallace — he was trying to take down the Terminator with a water pistol.

Good that he acknowledged that he'd had his ass handed to him at the end.

That was bloody awesome.

Though I've got to admit I feel a little sorry for Chris Wallace — he was trying to take down the Terminator with a water pistol. Like Olson or not, you've got to do a damn sight better than a handful of context-less pull quotes from…

That was bloody awesome.

Yep. As Craig notes, the knowledge was ninja-like.

Most people define 'Judicial Activism' as Judicial decisions they don't like.

Volumes.

..Ted Olson powning Fox News..

ooh, righteous smackdown!

So society doesn't get to say that marriage should be between a man and a woman, even though society has said that for 1000s of years?

No, you dumb-ass, it doesn't.

Next question.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJwSprkiInE

Neil Gaiman's finance

aah the life of a kept man – is he not making
enough from his books, comics and films?
:- )

It was, and she is.

And she's also Neil Gaiman's finance, which makes her Princess of the Geeks. :)

just in case that wasn't an archly rhetorical question...

It was, and she is.

The album version has guest vocals by Amanda Palmer, whoever she is.

@ Jack the Elder: just in case that wasn't
an archly rhetorical question...
I'd assume this is the Amanda Palmer
in question, a former Dresden Doll...

Ah, Teh Herald.

I hate Unglush. Too many words.

Just call 'em all "them" or "youse" or if you really hate them "bastards"..

Or maybe Unpersons...

Oh sorry, forgot, my name's not Sarkozy.

Is that Sarkasm? Maybe a Sark chasm.

(PS. I actually love that music)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJFAcxnMYlw

The album version has guest vocals by Amanda Palmer, whoever she is. It's a good album: neo-klezmer fun, with lyrics mostly in English.

No linkage, it's too close to lunch.

ETA: Mr Judd. The residents…

Unemployed, immigrant and "Maori or Polynesian" are also popular.

Oooh, don't forget "Asian" – which I totally understand, because you Europeans all look the same to me.

Unemployed, immigrant and "Maori or Polynesian" are also popular.

Ah yes, as in the recent ODT article about the dangerous Maori on the loose. Good of them to let us know so precisely who we should be wary of. Oh, but wait – they included high resolution, frontal and profile…

From the same school of correl singers, banging nang patches has reduced the number of new "gang members" in WHanganui.

Must be time for some more pants.

TV3 news used the word 'escort' four times in one of their items on her. I counted. Are there any other occupations that become the identifier like that?

You're either an escort/stripper or a teacher/nurse. If you're not at either end of the holy scale of morals, you're a woman,…

Are there any other occupations that become the identifier like that?

Unemployed, immigrant and "Maori or Polynesian" are also popular. I am actually collecting these for a post. This is a good example because if she hadn't been an escort, she would have been a mother, and if she hadn't…

Are there any other occupations that become the identifier like that?

Well yes, there are. I, for one, am totally sick of being reminded that John Key is Prime Minister.
And, on a totally unrelated note... Has anyone else noticed how tired Finance Minister Bill English is looking these days?.

between "escort" and "mum".

TV3 news used the word 'escort' four times in one of their items on her. I counted. Are there any other occupations that become the identifier like that?

I could unpick the gorgeous tapestry of bullshit that statement weaves, but life is too short and the people who need to be lobotomised with a brass-tipped awl are never going to read PAS anyway...

Sad but true – I've had the same reaction when hearing various people opine that…

But nothing made me as furious as the teaser TV3 used for the research story, which was "Does something nasty make you gay?" Whoever wrote that and thought it was okay needs to go sit in the corner of Urge and think about what they've done.

No – they need…

What I find wearing is the people saying, "What was he expecting, going to work at a Christian school?" ie he was asking for it, really.

I dunno, the letter this morning complaining that we put up with the public schools and their evolution and abortion for ten year olds…

Whoever wrote that and thought it was okay needs to go sit in the corner of Urge and think about what they've done.

I be likin' that idea.

The Press letters column continues to be polarised on the Middleton Grunge sacking event...

For the last couple of weeks, we've been sporadically having somebody else's Press delivered to our front lawn. So I sort of accidentally read the Letters section.

What I find wearing is the people saying, "What…

Is this it?

The Press letters column continues to be polarised on the Middleton Grunge sacking event...
one can hear…

THANK YOU EMMA

There goes my theory that it was Demi More sitting on Letterman's lap that caused the oil spill. I mean it's all about divine retribution, innit?

Boobs. Earthquakes. Sayin'.

(what was that relation between causation and correlation again?)

Explaining to the hackocracy one more time the distinction between correlation and causation

Sometimes correlation doesn't even mean correlation.

Sarcasm aside, this stuff is quite sinister, when you see how it is being wielded by certain groups. It has lead me to some truly hideous & frightening stuff. What a mixed…

Bring the sarcasm. How else should we respond?

Explaining to the hackocracy one more time the distinction between correlation and causation, and how one does not imply the other? Oh, wait a mo' – that's a complete waste of time. Carry on.

I think the best quote so far from someone on the news was 'just because two things happen at the same time, doesn't mean they're related.' You're kidding me?

You're telling me we can't solve global warming by all becoming pirates? Damn.

Careful Emma, someone could get hurt on that sarcasm

Bring the sarcasm. How else should we respond?

I think the best quote so far from someone on the news was 'just because two things happen at the same time, doesn't mean they're related.' You're kidding me?

There goes my theory…

So, of course, like any right-minded person, I told them off. We have to stamp out that kind of offensive language.