Re: a comment on The Right to Life by Retaliate	27-Oct-03/4:58 PM
unfortunately I cannot claim these thoughts as my own, merely the words: I think the 'bewildered herd' phrase is Noam Chomsky(?) critiquing the way those in power view the public. As for the comparison btw health care and 'that woman in Florida', that came from a law professor on CSPAN
Re: a comment on The Right to Life by Retaliate	27-Oct-03/4:54 PM
Willie G. is worth the yearly GDP of Kuwait. He may have dropped out from Harvard, but he certainly graduated from Crazy Go Nuts.
Re: a comment on A Choice Offense by Retaliate	2-Sep-03/12:36 AM
That's not funny, I was the prison bitch of a guy named Horse. And nothing about Horse 'tickled'.
Re: Restraint by Retaliate	2-Sep-03/12:32 AM
Slower and leSS SalaciouS careSS... umm yummy
Re: Pressing Matters in the White House by cleverdevice	26-Aug-03/5:27 PM
Shizzolate that mofo.
Re: a comment on Myopic Labotomized Hubris by Retaliate	11-Aug-03/10:52 AM
Isn't there something poetic about an overly articulate political rant? (Otherwise this 'Retaliate' thing may not be such a good idea after all)
Re: Pina Colada Belle by Don-Quixote	10-Aug-03/3:13 AM
Slightly disappointed DQ (not the poem but the footnote) Don Quixote would never apologize, too immersed in what he is to be anything but brave. Sometimes we are what we are, expectant filter be damned. A 0 until you remove the apology. :)
Re: a comment on Musings: Willow Sculpture by SupremeDreamer	10-Aug-03/3:04 AM
the second connotation more relevant and powerful than the first. It is up to the reader, and I failed this simple test
Re: a comment on 1967 Ford Carmine Jalopy by SupremeDreamer	10-Aug-03/2:55 AM
I'm more agony than reality, DQ, and less funny than peculiar. (more hairy than mulberry fairy) and certainly less scary than any of the above.
Re: a comment on Yellow Cake for Everyone by Retaliate	9-Aug-03/9:31 AM
Yeah you got me on that. I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately I'm blanking on how to fix this one.
Re: a comment on Yellow Cake for Everyone by Retaliate	9-Aug-03/9:26 AM
There is also an army scientists who believes that UFOs have a secret base inside his brain, so just because one person believes something doesn't make it true. That doesn't mean I'm defending the use of depleted uranium necessarily I'm just saying that the Army has studied depleted uranium for 50 years, and either they are telling us the truth that depleted uranium holds no real hazards or there has been a systematic subversion of science for 50 years. If the latter is true then something fundamentally has gone wrong with how our nation conducts research. You cannot lead the world in science if you are making it up. Nature does not lie to other countries and will not tell you the truth if you do not seek it. The Army is not a single individual but it is a single concept that I think has fair use here. If Bush says something, people say, "America this morning said...". If Bush can speak for America then certainly the head of the Army speaks for the Army.
Re: a comment on Myopic Labotomized Hubris by Retaliate	8-Aug-03/9:21 PM
I like your mentor's subtlety. A simultaneous compliment and critique if I read it right. Do you think any of these words are ill chosen for their purpose? The last sentence is basically a list of all things left in the room: a carcass, a head, and all the meningial fluid. Apparently there is enough bilgewater in the head to drown us and the head it is contained by.
Re: a comment on Myopic Labotomized Hubris by Retaliate	8-Aug-03/9:16 PM
thanks supreme
Re: a comment on Myopic Labotomized Hubris by Retaliate	8-Aug-03/9:04 PM
I think the dicionaries are incomplete on this matter (oh the arrogance). It is true that a bilge is the part of a boat. This bilge collects water that can become foul and repulsive, leading to the insult of calling someones opinion or words 'bilge' - short for 'bilgewater'. The bilge pump is a pump that removes water from the bilge, and the manual process of bailing water when this pump breaks is sometimes called bilging (although you are correct that no dictionary I can find uses this definition).
Re: a comment on Yellow Cake for Everyone by Retaliate	8-Aug-03/4:49 PM
the army obviously doesn't care about depleted uranium because they have published reports claiming it has no effect on the health of the soldiers. Now don't go telling me this is why science is bad. Bad science doesn't make science bad.
Re: a comment on Speaking my mind. Brilliant Idea! by thepinkbunnyofdoom	8-Aug-03/3:22 PM
Canonized these martyrs make with subtle delicate haste to absolve their mental kindred men of those sins for which there is no end
Re: a comment on Myopic Labotomized Hubris by Retaliate	8-Aug-03/3:07 PM
Any better supreme? I like bilging better than braking anyway. Braking is easy, bilging is dirty business. Since when is ignorant fundamentalist nepotism the hallmark of a solid education? (Blair is at least articulate). Our president wouldn't know Dido from a dildo if she rammed her fist up his ass.
Re: a comment on blue lilac and I (edit) by richa	7-Aug-03/8:25 PM
I disagree. He heard the trombone. Why change what happened to suit our narrow predispositions? The trombone can be stately and somber if it so chooses.
Re: blue lilac and I (edit) by richa	7-Aug-03/8:23 PM
Very nice richa. E-minor is a chord, by the way, which would take multiple instruments to hear. This is unfortunate because the poem really enjoys having a solitary instrument, but also benefits from recognizing specifically an e-minor feel. Perhaps: 'and picking from the still air a dorian scent of trombone' (Dorian is a mode that has a minoresque feel to it and can be played with a series of notes on a single instrument.)
Re: a comment on Myopic Labotomized Hubris by Retaliate	7-Aug-03/8:10 PM
If you hit us, the you deserve it for tailgating down the one lane highway to oblivion. :)