Quote of the Day, Month and Quite Possibly Year

[drpaisley]

From the amazing John Rogers at Kung Fu Monkey:


"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

If you're not up on the latest bloviation erratically orbiting the looneyspehere, google "Going Galt" and prepare for hours of amusement. And for Ghu's sake, don't even think about looking up "teabagging the White House," or watching the John Stewart Show video you might find if you were to do so.

Comments

tbogg's was good tonight

[parrismcb.livejournal.com]

on the whole 'teabagging' thingy, complete with a comic strip from some wingnut.

Now, I live a (comparatively) quiet life these days, but I've known what the phrase 'teabagging' meant on, er, 'the street', so to speak, for so long I can't remember where I first heard/read it.

and apparently no one who knows what 'teabagging' means in the reality-based world is going to spoil the fun by telling Malkin etc., the modern definition.

So I get to giggle a lot at inappropriate moments while reading/hearing the wingnut rants.

[sf-reader.livejournal.com]

I think I was 15 when I read the Lord of the Rings. Liked it, but it in no way changed my life. I had already been reading books like that for years.

Re: tbogg's was good tonight

[drpaisley.livejournal.com]

Parris! Sweetie! You're alive!

Yeah, somehow TBogg taking on the teabaggers just seems karmically (and comically) appropriate.