Comments on: Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?

By: Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:12:57 +0000

Attaboy.

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:08:34 +0000

Oh Sheila–the BFM W/O a K comment is one I will keep, thank you. It does seem to fit the daily crossing of the concourse. Thank you. I’m now going to go grade some papers and kill some hopes.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:42:37 +0000

As for meself, let’s just say “butt-fuck me without a kiss” and I’ll finish saying my piece once I am no longer sliding backwards in the parking lot of a big-box mega-store.

Story of my motherfucking life.

By: Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:36:31 +0000

I prefer Italian crackers and a good olive oil, anyway.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:33:09 +0000

FUCK FUCK FUCK! Trying to type and edit while yanking a dicey hand brake in a parking lot.

He’p me, somebody!

Wish it into the cornfield.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:30:27 +0000

‘weet, ‘weet! Time out.

Hope vs. cynicism (and points in between and beyond) — that amounts to one (admittedly broad) topic.

The Nobel Peace Prize — well, that’s up (or down) there with the Academy Awards, the way I see it. Trends and priorities — well, they ebb and flow.

Henry Motherfucking Kissinger, as Daryl remarked.

I find it interesting with respect to what the predominant opinion an influential body of people opts to send to certain other bodies of people

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:47:59 +0000

Lucy– Our talk about the nature of hope and its relation to what does or doesn’t get done reminds me of a similar word I have bad feelings about: Faith. I hear that word all the time, and it’s often propped up by people who hold that objecting to it (in spite of what it actually means) renders one a shit-all & step in it person. People say–you have to have faith–and I’m always inclined to say: why not do something instead of sitting around having faith? Why not ask a question every once in a while? I’m beginning to think that this reaction is similar to the one you have in the presence of the word hope. When I think of “faith” in terms of the way I usually hear it, it means to me that a person has decided that actual evidence is just too hard to come by and too difficult to deal with–so why not just pick a view and fuck-all it’s my Opinion. man. Somebody might argue that we all have “faith” when we drive down a two-lane road and trust oncoming traffic to not swerve over and hit us head on. Maybe it’s faith that lets me make plans for the weekend that may never come. But that’s silly (with apologies to Hume); what the faith mongers mean when they make such arguments is that hoping to wake up in the morning is evidence of god. Hope. Faith. Beauty. All good unless you make a spread of them and then wait for bread to fall from the sky.

Deron: I am the walrus.

By: Aaron Winslow

Aaron Winslow — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:02:47 +0000

Those are good burgers, Dude.

By: Deron Bauman

Deron Bauman — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:48:21 +0000

Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.

By: Aaron Winslow

Aaron Winslow — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:40:23 +0000

I didn’t say anything about hope in my comment. I said what I think or what I thought at the time I heard about the award. And I don’t particularly think that what I said was that implausible. It’s a bullshit award that carries a lot of weight in some of the circles of power that run things. At least they didn’t give it to Brangelina.

I hope Obama hangs brains in John Culberson’s face while issuing a rhyming ultimatum about how Congress is going to pass a bill creating single-payer health care system in the US or what he has in his briefcase will destroy us all.

I hope that Olestra is re-released in lard, goose fat, beef fat, and butter flavors without the anal leakage and cramping.

I hope thatt my student debt falls out of the computers it lives in never to be found again.