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Posted by emilylhauser on November 21, 2012
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Incompetence or indifference?
Incompetence or indifference?
emilylhauser
- RT @thedailybeast We learned a new Hebrew phrase: leshasot klavim-"to set dogs [on a person]." thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/… (by me) #Israel 5 hours ago
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Captain_Button
/ November 21, 2012That link you twittered with the cease-fire agreement. It talks about opening the border but I couldn’t tell if it meant “back to the way it was last month” or an actual change to the blockade.
Captain_Button
/ November 21, 2012http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i6IjvwjOfhu_riPNH6rWJdtxSYYQ?docId=CNG.c8037ff34342e8e6fd262a5302d9eeba.361
emilylhauser
/ November 21, 2012I can’t tell either, and I’m pretty sure that’s intentional. The other point someone brought up is that there’s nothing there that would suggest that the US will block Palestinian reunification efforts (which would be good) and who knows what this means for Abbas’s planned mini-statehood bid at the UN?
Honestly to FSM, though, if it doesn’t lead to an actual peace accord (which I have zero personal hope that it will), then it’s just a breather until the next round. So what I’m feeling now is not grateful, so much as exhausted.
Paul Wartenberg
/ November 21, 2012The real test is the upcoming election, right?
emilylhauser
/ November 22, 2012Sorry, I thought I’d responded!
And: Wellll – yes and no! The real test will be what happens next on the ground. Netanyahu is bound to get reelected, but the question is will this create pressure to take a new direction or not. Sadly, I really really doubt it.
Kate Cox (@KCoxDC)
/ November 21, 2012I do not have time to explain to this dude how misogyny can be unintentional and is a baseline in certain cultural works, that the audience and the author take for granted without seeing. Someone go do that for me, please. I have cookies to bake.
emilylhauser
/ November 21, 2012I saw your tweet about having been schooled in the unassailable fact that there is no sexism or misogyny in film, literature or gaming, and I must say, it was such a relief to learn it! I had been under the impression that there was a bit of a problem.
/off to bake pies
Kate Cox (@KCoxDC)
/ November 21, 2012Yes, thank deity all these men are here to tell me my perceptions and lived experience are wrong!
Captain_Button
/ November 21, 2012Shucks Ma’am, tweren’t nothing.
Nora Munro
/ November 21, 2012You too? Well, I guess I’m glad to know (maybe) that I’m not the only one who was delusional according to men.
/posting while pumpkin spice cakes are in the oven
watson42
/ November 21, 2012Well we all know a woman’s place is in the kitchen anyway. /sarcasm
It reminds of the time on of my bosses (a rich old New England white guy) told me was shocked I had ever experienced any form of racism in Boston. I want to live in his parallel universe.
efgoldman
/ November 21, 2012I did a couple hit and run posts but I’m not he one with the movie degree.
Captain_Button
/ November 21, 2012I do wonder how people who aren’t snarky tongue-in-cheek perverts talk to each other sometimes.
emilylhauser
/ November 21, 2012Who you callin’ a pervert!
Nora Munro
/ November 21, 2012I don’t know. I doknow that this whole “irony is dead!” thing is seriously cramping my style.
watson42
/ November 21, 2012Emily – I was trying to find the Calvin and Hobbes comic I referenced yesterday, but couldn’t find it. I might have to scan it from my Complete C & H and send it along. Basically it’s Calvin on the ground singing the song as the password to get into the treehouse and Hobbes up in the tree taunting Calvin that he’s not doing the accompanying dance.
My brother will sometimes quote Hobbes in his bratty younger brother voice (“you’re not doing the daaaaaance…”) when I ask him to do something. It always makes me laugh.
anibundel
/ November 21, 2012It is nearly impossible to find C&H on the Internet. Watterson disapproves.
cofax
/ November 21, 2012I can’t give you C&H cartoons, but I can give you this lovely story about Calvin & Susie growing up. And also this one.
There’s also one with a crossover with Foxtrot which is pretty great, and a fascinating unfinished one about an apocalypse…
mythopoeia
/ November 21, 2012Tigers are nimble
And quick on their toes
My REspect for tigers
Continually grows…
(One of my main contributions to humanity is knowing every Calvin and Hobbes and every xkcd ever drawn, and being able to reference them at opportune times.)
caoil
/ November 22, 2012This is not a bad thing.
David L
/ November 21, 2012I had a couple drinks and watched “The Fifth Element” last night. Maybe it’s because I had a habit of joining the movie in progress over the years, but I’m amazed by how much of what I remember is back-loaded into the second half of the script. I had forgotten that.
Darth Thulhu
/ November 21, 2012So you’d never seen the Conveniently-Placed “Thermal Bandages” scene before?
David L
/ November 21, 2012It’s not that I haven’t seen it, but it doesn’t stick in my mind very well.
I’ll put it this way: The entire movie up to the spaceport scene gets about as much detail in my memory as the spaceport itself, even though the former is about 10 times as long as the latter.
anibundel
/ November 21, 2012Waiting Room 2: Return To Boredom.
At least this one is germ infested spawn free.
Paul Wartenberg
/ November 21, 2012Hope you feel better for the holidays and for all time!
watson42
/ November 21, 2012I hope the surgery goes well. I am sending good thoughts your way!
JHarper2
/ November 21, 2012All good thoughts coming your way.
Darth Thulhu
/ November 21, 2012Prayers for safe surgery and swift recovery
emilylhauser
/ November 21, 2012Fingers crossed for good news.
anibundel
/ November 21, 2012UPDATE: Rob is going to have surgery next month. It’s not concerning enough for them to feel the need to do anything right this minute, which is good news. In fact the dentist said if he had to wait until January because we’d used up his deductible it would be ok. Breathing much easier.
emilylhauser
/ November 21, 2012Phew! That really is good news. Thank you for letting us know. Thanksgiving in the -bundel home!
JHarper2
/ November 21, 2012So happy for good news.
Paul Wartenberg
/ November 21, 2012To everyone preparing for the annual Turkey Pagan Sacrifice Day, I salute you with these words: “As God Is My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly.”
watson42
/ November 21, 2012Dude, you owe me a new keyboard. That is a classic.
efgoldman
/ November 21, 2012Didn’t I post that yesterday?
Paul Wartenberg
/ November 21, 2012It needs to be posted every day.
efgoldman
/ November 21, 2012It loses something on July 4.
anibundel
/ November 21, 2012Oh there’s a voice recap on my blog, plus some other stuff.
And there will be three posts a day for the holidays. So if you need an escape and a laugh, you know where to go.
I can’t post links from my phone, so just use the one on the side of Emily’s blog.
emilylhauser
/ November 21, 2012http://anibundel.wordpress.com/ Ta-daa!
anibundel
/ November 21, 2012You, as always, rock my socks.
watson42
/ November 21, 2012@Jordan if you’re around: a while back you mentioned you were awaiting analysis results to see if your compounds had activity. I don’t think I ever saw an update. What’s the news??
emilylhauser
/ November 21, 2012Now that there’s a ceasefire in Israel/Palestine, I’m at war with the store that gave me not one but two wonky mobile phones, the manager of which began to treat me like a recalcitrant child the moment I sounded peeved.
It’s not going well, mostly for me.
efgoldman
/ November 21, 2012Perhaps they don’t realize that an angry customer has outlets to communicate with, I dunno’, a jillion bazillion other potential customers via these newfangled toobz.
Also too, I was just wondering what you were doing around this late, and d’oh, I realized no isn’t Friday, not even in Chicago.
emilylhauser
/ November 21, 2012The end result was that I spoke with the single most comically helpful rep ever imagined and he was so sweet and wanted nothing more than to make me feel very well cared more, and things are now much better, thank you!
efgoldman
/ November 21, 2012An obituary to die for!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/us/john-fairfax-who-rowed-across-oceans-dies-at-74.html?pagewanted=all
Tenar Darell
/ November 21, 2012Dear Horde,
Can you source me some safe conversational topics?
Otherwise, tomorrow will be like this:
I will not bring up politics tomorrow at dinner, I will not bring up politics tomorrow at dinner, I will not bring up politics tomorrow at dinner….
I will not answer anymore questions about my father is doing, or respond to earnest requests from my aunt about why he drove himself (Gosh knows I tried to make alternative arrangements, but she doesn’t need that story as ammo).
I will not ask my cousin if she’s still going to Israel in January….oh for heaven’s sake there are freaking minefields everywhere. Help!
emilylhauser
/ November 21, 2012Why, the traditional subjects, of course!
1) How hysterical that classic WKRP episode is (“As God is my witness, I thought that turkeys could fly”)
2) What a fabulous actor Daniel Day-Lewis is (“I can’t wait to see Lincoln!/ “Wasn’t Lincoln awesome?!”)
3) What everyone thinks about the new iPhone (bonus points if people in your family worshiped Steve Jobs).
Tenar Darell
/ November 22, 2012Thank you! (I can even explain why I am trying out the Galaxy S3 and that as soon as I can I’m going to switch it for an iPhone 5).
emilylhauser
/ November 22, 2012(Course, that could lead to a fight, too, but you know. It’ll be a better fight!)
Christian Rene Friborg
/ November 22, 2012You guys are funny!
emilylhauser
/ November 22, 2012We’re not bad! ; )
caoil
/ November 22, 2012I hope everyone’s Turkey Day is relaxing!
efgoldman
/ November 22, 2012Is it any kind of holiday in Canadia? [/ignorant arrogant American]
caoil
/ November 22, 2012Nope! We’re all hustle-bustle, business as usual. I know someone at my train station today is getting tomorrow off because her job involves something something that relates to the stock markets, and your markets will be closed so it’ll be dead quiet. But for the rest of us, we just chug along.
I should try to get potatoes today and have a mini second Thanksgiving dinner.