Posts by Deborah
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Yes... I like her dependence on the constitution.
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This was the comment Danielle took exception to, not Steve's follow-up.
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Because it's not real misogyny to reduce a woman to something fuckable?
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1987, sort of, when I was writing an Honours dissertation in Accounting and Finance (I used to be an accountant, which accounts for the somewhat tense looking cat), and one of the somewhat nerdy but nevertheless interesting men in the class was able to access the computer at home via telephone lines from the computers at the University. OMG! Z'amazing.
But I really hooked into it in 1994. It was a sad time for us; we were struggling with infertility, not yet sure about what to do, not even really comprehending what had happened to us. That was the year that I discovered that the shower is a good place to cry, because the tear marks don't show so badly.
It was also the year that I discovered Usenet, and the infertility support groups there. I'm not what you would call an exuberant and open person in the flesh, being a good introvert and all, so the last thing I wanted to do was to talk to a group of strangers, or even close friends really, about how I was feeling. But those people at the other ends of the computer, from all over the world, were a life-line. I knew that I wasn't alone, that other people understood how I felt, that I could articulate and understand how I was feeling through what other people on those groups were writing.
A few years later, I moved on from those groups to an Australasian mailing list, and another list that was specific to our version of infertility. And those people, all of whom were living in hope and anguish themselves, were so delighted when I was able to announce that at last, we had a baby on the way.
I left the lists shortly after that - they're not the kind of place where you stay when your basic reason for being there is gone - 'tho I sent a birth notice via people who were still there. But, like Danielle's fine story, which although completely different is the same, it was an amazing demonstration of the power of even the infant internet to enable people to connect.
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Where you living Peter, South Australia?
Steady on, Paul!
But it's a good question to ask, all the same. Just where are you living, Peter? My feeling is that Helen Clark gets a fair amount of respect here, when they bother to notice NZ at all.
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i think you actually mean it's argot
Pendant.
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it's still an americanism.
and should be purged from the public consciousness.
Except that it's a fantastically useful shorthand for describing the group of people who are likely to be interested in political issues, daily, indeed fascinated by them, and eager to spend time talking and analysing politics.
What's wrong with 'Americanisms' anyway?
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Anyone know if it is possible to view old party political broadcasts somewhere on the net?
That's just so sad....
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Yes, Hilary Clinton's supporters can rightly think that it's not the same as having a woman running for the White House in her own right, but they might console themselves that there has never been a prospective First Lady like this one.
Actually, no, it doesn't console me. It's no consolation that we get a fantastic person in the White House in virtue of her being married to the President.
It's also fucking annoying when we get comments about Hillary being on P (FFS!) when she has the grace and style to go out there and deliver a whole hearted endorsement of the person who has the position she wanted to have herself, a position that she came very, very close to occupying herself.
If there's one thing worse than a sore loser, then it's a nasty winner.
Having said all that, and as I said months and months ago, even though my preference was for Hillary Clinton, if she didn't get the nomination, then damned straight, I would like to see Obama take the White House. And yes, I think Michelle Obama will be a force to reckon with.
And absolutely, won't it be fantastic to see a black family living in a place that until now, has been reserved for whites.