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Tuesday Open Thread

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Who's the freak?

46 comments to Tuesday Open Thread

  • Scott M.

    John Merrick…the real freak tried to buy his skeleton from The Royal College of Surgeons in London

    • JJ

      The Elephant Man…from what I recall, a good, yet kinda depressing movie with Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt I believe.

      Merrick (and absinthe) also makes an appearance in the Jack the Ripper movie “From Hell,” which the dark side of me kinda liked.

      except for Heather Graham…chick can’t act.

  • Stephanie

    This whole stinky pile of stupidity just makes me wanna vomit. The guy is aquited, not found innocent of child molestation and look at the idiots all over the world. Elvis is up in Valhalla with Frank Sinatra and Deano saying I sure am glad he ain’t comin up here.

  • Lileks clipping #321:

    …websites are not immune to audiences falling away or turning elsewhere. There are a few websites I used to visit several times a day I dropped from the bookmark, because the proprietor got a few new hobbyhorses. That’s fine; we all get bees in our bonnets. But one way to blow off traffic is to spend a great deal of time magnifying an issue, confusing “lots of posts about the subject” with an argument, dismissing anyone who doesn’t feel the same about the subject with the identical amount of fervor, and – le straw finale – wading into the comments flailing the ban stick because people do not have the precise amount of outrage you demand they have, or because they express weariness with the constant creak of the hobbyhorse. Monomania is one thing; joylessness is another; joyless monomania is death.

    Most of his commenters think he’s talking about Little Green Footballs.

    • JohnFN

      LGF came to mind about two sentences in, I didn’t even read your comment at the bottom.

      Never been banned from anything on the Internet, not since 1997, when my dad cranked up the 28.8 fax modem. Until myself, a longtime commenter at LGF and chat participant (all under a different nickname), made that ominous assertion of, you know, people who believe in creation actually have rights to speech and the rest. Been banned ever since.

      If you want to know fear, ask a scientist what he would do to solve the worlds problems. I’ve done this twice while in college, once to a geology professor and a biology professor. Both of them scared the class shitless.

  • Scott M.

    The Daily Beast has been pounding away at MJ…he was full of narcotics that are supposed to be for people in the last stages of cancer!How in the F*ck does this happen?The DEA will pounce on a country doctor who wants to ease his cancer patients into the afterlife,yet this freak can get anything he wants.

  • Scott M.

    Don’t imagine Charlie,Katie,or Brian will mention that inconvenient truth…

  • Stephanie

    You mean a country doctor who wants to murder his patients? You don’t put people to sleep like dogs Scott. Thats so immoral I can’t even describe it. As far as MJ is concerned he was MJ..he could do whatever the hell he wanted, including getting cancer drugs and no one had the cajones to say enough is enough, go against the tide of stupid and make him pay for his crimes. I love it when people say he was aquited. Thats not the same as being innocent of all charges. He just wasn’t found guilty. watch some usually leftist nut bomb try to wrap his peasized brain around the semantics of that.

  • Scott M.

    Piss on you,Whako Jacko

  • Scott M.

    No,Stephanie,not at all…my point was that average people die in needless agony everyday,yet people(I use that word loosely)like MJ can get any drug they want to play with.Where was the DEA when these Dr.Feelgoods were pumping him full of narcotics?I was talking about the legitimate control of pain for a dying person,not euthanasia

  • Stephanie

    OK…point taken. Watching Valkyrie. I have an idea now for some writing. Good stuff here.

  • Scott M.

    Death is often a painful agony…a natural death need not always be so:that is what I meant.That is the ease of which I spoke,and what makes me so angry about this worthless buffoon.

  • Stephanie with a hair-trigger reply? Nooooooo. Not too many of those, too. ;-)

  • Stephanie

    To the part where the Major shows up to arrest Goebbels…I was like SHOOT HIM! Even if he did have a Cyanide thingy in his mouth.

  • Stephanie

    FOX has wall to wall MJ coverage. I feel dirty just flipping past it.

  • A little over an hour ago Al Franken took the Senatorial oath of office with his hand on a Bible that had been owned by Paul Wellstone(dec.).

    I’m surprised his hand didn’t catch on fire!

  • Kit

    Al Gore has compared himself to Winston Churchill and his opponents (the people who believe global warming is false) to the Nazis. And he is Super-Serial!

  • Kit, there used to be a rather widely used term that I don’t hear much anymore but it still applies to guys like him. It’s “lunatic fringe.”

  • ROBERT MCNAMARA was the father of the Falcon? I didn’t know that. Of course, I didn’t know anything about him at all until he died and you guys wrote about him. My dad drove a red Falcon. I loved that car, but I was 5.

    Hey what happened to sarcasm guy? I haven’t seen him comment today. I was hoping for some more assumptions.

  • Hey I’ve got a friend who is reading and thinking about commenting, yall be nice to her. And no it’s not a friend like Mike’s friends.

  • Floyd

    We’ll be good Tracy.

    Re June… her blog went to “invite only”. I e-mailed her asking her if we were not invited… she never responded, but she did open the blog back up. Wanks probably has inside scoop. I’m hoping Carl’s home and she’s just “busy”. I’m sure she’s on hiatus — I hope it’s just not Libertas hiatus.

  • I have friends. Just no proof.

  • Stephanie

    Hello Tracys friend!

  • Rufus

    I’m pretty sure Ward was due back in June. Some time ago I remember reading a reference to the amount of time left, doing the math and extrapolating that he would be home in June. I’ve assumed her absence is due to catching up with her husband, and he with her and the kids, but it’s just an assumption.

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