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Oct. 16th, 2007 12:06 amHurray this icon is relevant again!
( Sylar makes Trinity go 'splode. )
Pink Raygun review up tomorrow!
( Sylar makes Trinity go 'splode. )
Pink Raygun review up tomorrow!
Oct. 16th, 2007
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Oct. 16th, 2007 01:31 amThis. This is what this man does to me.
GAH. Must. Resist. Urge. To. Lick. Eyebrows.
Or the crotch of his really rather fugly pants. Dig the sweater, though.
GAH. Must. Resist. Urge. To. Lick. Eyebrows.
Or the crotch of his really rather fugly pants. Dig the sweater, though.
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Oct. 16th, 2007 12:55 pmPink Raygun review for Heroes last night is up.
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It's like this, folks: SCHIP is not about politics unless you make it. You can bandy back and forth about this and pretend it's all about manuevering, but in the end it comes back to kids. Kids need health care. Period. The political gain spread out on less than a thousand people in the federal government is nowhere near as much a coup as it would be to the parents and fucking humane human beings who recognize the fact that kids don't have health care is a crisis that cannot be solved by a cut-throat, merciless private-owner market.
If you firmly believe that children deserve to be punished for their parents' inability to afford healthcare on a salary that disqualifies them for health care through medicaid/medicare, fine. You're a scumbag, but fine. At least it's not a weak excuse to throw the suffering of children onto the fire of "politics." Admit it to the following: "I am perfectly comfortable enjoying a negligible amount extra money to spend on myself that would otherwise have gone towards insuring the health of future generations of America," and be done with it.
To everyone else--those people who still have something resembling humanity and a heart in their chest: this is what those selfish bastards don't care about (warning: the pictures are graphic and made me cry).
Conservative blowhards are now accusing the Frosts of unseemliness and bad form for bringing out these photos to show what their children suffered. Right, because it's so low to actually reveal the truth these days. Nothing like that high-mindedness of attacking a family that nearly lost their children in an accident. No sir. I see that little boy in the first photo and I see what the conservative nuts don't get: I see them looming over the kid's bed trying to disconnect each separate line that is keeping him alive. Because he doesn't have the supposed right-to-life that he might have enjoyed if he were a bunch of cells parasitizing his mother.
Would you want this to be how the Frosts saw their kids last? All because we couldn't invest a little in making sure that, in an emergency, they wouldn't have to make that decision? Gross me out.
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It's like this, folks: SCHIP is not about politics unless you make it. You can bandy back and forth about this and pretend it's all about manuevering, but in the end it comes back to kids. Kids need health care. Period. The political gain spread out on less than a thousand people in the federal government is nowhere near as much a coup as it would be to the parents and fucking humane human beings who recognize the fact that kids don't have health care is a crisis that cannot be solved by a cut-throat, merciless private-owner market.
If you firmly believe that children deserve to be punished for their parents' inability to afford healthcare on a salary that disqualifies them for health care through medicaid/medicare, fine. You're a scumbag, but fine. At least it's not a weak excuse to throw the suffering of children onto the fire of "politics." Admit it to the following: "I am perfectly comfortable enjoying a negligible amount extra money to spend on myself that would otherwise have gone towards insuring the health of future generations of America," and be done with it.
To everyone else--those people who still have something resembling humanity and a heart in their chest: this is what those selfish bastards don't care about (warning: the pictures are graphic and made me cry).
Conservative blowhards are now accusing the Frosts of unseemliness and bad form for bringing out these photos to show what their children suffered. Right, because it's so low to actually reveal the truth these days. Nothing like that high-mindedness of attacking a family that nearly lost their children in an accident. No sir. I see that little boy in the first photo and I see what the conservative nuts don't get: I see them looming over the kid's bed trying to disconnect each separate line that is keeping him alive. Because he doesn't have the supposed right-to-life that he might have enjoyed if he were a bunch of cells parasitizing his mother.
Would you want this to be how the Frosts saw their kids last? All because we couldn't invest a little in making sure that, in an emergency, they wouldn't have to make that decision? Gross me out.
Heeeee. Points to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
viridian for pointing this out to me:
Someone farts in the general direction of my Pink Raygun review of Heroes. (scroll down for the comment from 'Corellian')
Again, thanks toviridian for defending me as well, but in all honesty, I'm so excited by this prospect I'm bouncing in my chair at work. Because I love the fact that some douchebag thinks snark is somehow inappropriate and disrespectful. I'd love to see his reaction to my reviews of Smallville because if he thinks the vitriol dripped from my review of Heroes, he'd probably pass out with one whiff of a Smallville review.
viridian is a smart cookie, and kinder than I. She's got it exactly right: I don't snark all over a show because I hate it. When I hate it, I TURN IT OFF! Whoa! NOVEL CONCEPT. I spend hours on these reviews, agonizing over every little change (because they're most free-form essay style which is harder to make discreet editorial changes to), so clearly I don't mind rewinding the show I've taped or dwelling/speculating on plot developments. If I had to do this for, say, the drivel that the one roommate watches? I'd--no joke--blow my brains out first.
Still! I have an enemy! A foil! A person with an opinion other than mine with which to duel! Hurrah! I'm crazy! I love this! Well, I do now. If this commenter continues on trying to tell me how to be funny and/or snarky, I'll have to kick his ass across more than a few parsecs, but still! Heee!
viridian for pointing this out to me:Someone farts in the general direction of my Pink Raygun review of Heroes. (scroll down for the comment from 'Corellian')
Again, thanks to
viridian for defending me as well, but in all honesty, I'm so excited by this prospect I'm bouncing in my chair at work. Because I love the fact that some douchebag thinks snark is somehow inappropriate and disrespectful. I'd love to see his reaction to my reviews of Smallville because if he thinks the vitriol dripped from my review of Heroes, he'd probably pass out with one whiff of a Smallville review.viridian is a smart cookie, and kinder than I. She's got it exactly right: I don't snark all over a show because I hate it. When I hate it, I TURN IT OFF! Whoa! NOVEL CONCEPT. I spend hours on these reviews, agonizing over every little change (because they're most free-form essay style which is harder to make discreet editorial changes to), so clearly I don't mind rewinding the show I've taped or dwelling/speculating on plot developments. If I had to do this for, say, the drivel that the one roommate watches? I'd--no joke--blow my brains out first.Still! I have an enemy! A foil! A person with an opinion other than mine with which to duel! Hurrah! I'm crazy! I love this! Well, I do now. If this commenter continues on trying to tell me how to be funny and/or snarky, I'll have to kick his ass across more than a few parsecs, but still! Heee!
