Really Iowa?

[Josh]

But the fact that an actress that's been beheaded comes back as different characters made me think that it would be funny for her to be beheaded over and over again.  After every beheading, the head could be put in an ornate cake box and at the end of the play there could be this great pyramid of boxes with heads in them.  They could all be made of marzipan and then actors dressed as gigantic mice could creep out and eat them.  The heads could be filled with miniature marshmallows, which the mice would throw into the audience.  That's theatre I'd pay to see!

This sounds like Run Lola Run meets I'm Not There...but with way more beheadings. Someone call Trent L. Strauss!

[Gilly]

I don't know if I'd ever want to read a cookbook by Barth...

[buffcoat]

Dohhooont encohrrrrage yourrrr motherrrr.

[Gilly]

Dohhooont encohrrrrage yourrrr motherrrr.

Duuh.....Iiiiii heard dat!

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Jane, I'm reading some commentary on the beheading of women there.

Wow, this sounds so professor-like.  It's taking me back.  Geez, tone that shit down - It's making me all flustered and excited and stuff.
Yeah, no, I'm no Andrea Dworkin, here.  I know you're not a misogynist - I've seen the Margaret Atwood on your bookshelf. 
I was just posting off the cuff shit trying to calm my nerves while waiting for some people to pick me up (who were late).  I shouldn't have been commenting on your play - a work I haven't seen.
But the fact that an actress that's been beheaded comes back as different characters made me think that it would be funny for her to be beheaded over and over again.  After every beheading, the head could be put in an ornate cake box and at the end of the play there could be this great pyramid of boxes with heads in them.  They could all be made of marzipan and then actors dressed as gigantic mice could creep out and eat them.  The heads could be filled with miniature marshmallows, which the mice would throw into the audience.  That's theatre I'd pay to see!
 

No worries, Jane - I knew, putting it in there, that it would provoke.  In fact, I was afraid to show it to the 12 people in my little theater group when I first wrote it, and am amazed that I haven't gotten more grief for it.  But yeah, that would be a good gag, sort of like that being that Arthur Dent keeps accidentally murdering in Hitchhiker's Guide. 

[Laurie]

I'm going to do the early voting thing for the Florida primaries. I kind of want to get exit polled, though. I'll be missing out on that. I won't miss standing in line for hours, I can tell you that much.

[Jason]

Ummmm?

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[TL]

Ummmm?

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-phew!- 
Thank god!!
For a minute there, I thought he was gonna up-end 25 years of hard-won racial stereotypes by suggesting that HE took the crack and OBAMA used the powder...

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

We should all do videos exactly like this but for each of the candidates.  I call Fred Thompson.

[Beth]

I want Hilary Clinton. I could perpetuate all those "power lesbian" stereotypes.

[Sarah]

In the past while, as I've been foolish enough to watch more news, I have come to fall completely in line with Jason's view of this election.  The contempt with which the media treats Hillary Clinton makes it very clear that a woman has less chance of becoming president of this country than would a mildly talented (male) iguana.  Even the most committed racist is more likely to vote for a black man--especially a pale one who doesn't "sound black"--than a woman of any stripe. 

It is very, very depressing.

[senorcorazon]

Ummmm?

[youtube]sVeFVtcdSYY&eurl[/youtube]

I challenge HIM to reveal what is on his baseball cap -- Nascar logo? Waffle House give-away? (Excuse my yankee stereotypes of the South).

[A.M. Thomas]

In the past while, as I've been foolish enough to watch more news, I have come to fall completely in line with Jason's view of this election.  The contempt with which the media treats Hillary Clinton makes it very clear that a woman has less chance of becoming president of this country than would a mildly talented (male) iguana.  Even the most committed racist is more likely to vote for a black man--especially a pale one who doesn't "sound black"--than a woman of any stripe. 

It is very, very depressing.

Eh, I don't deny that sexism plays a role in the media's contempt for Hillary, but I think it also has a lot to do with her being a Clinton rather than her being a female.

I really dislike her because she is the candidate of entitlement and position.  She's just way more slimy than Barrack.  Also, not to be a one-issue voter, but Obama's plan for the environment is much better developed than any other candidate's, especially Hillary's.

"I think America is ready for a woman president, but does it have to be that woman?" -Chris Rock on Hillary*


*I hope this doesn't negate all of what I said.

[Sarah]

Regardless of whether their dislike for her has to do with her surname, their expressions of it take distinctly petty, sexist turns:  using shrill, fish-wife tones when mimicking her, likening her delivery to that of a wife nagging a husband to take out the trash, scolding her for her cleavage then turning around and scolding her for her sexless garb, etc.  There's a tone of disrespect that is never aimed at the male candidates, even the most idiotic.  It has seriously shocked me, since I prefer sometimes to pretend that the world is better than that.  More fool me, without a doubt.

[A.M. Thomas]

Regardless of whether their dislike for her has to do with her surname, their expressions of it take distinctly petty, sexist turns:  using shrill, fish-wife tones when mimicking her, likening her delivery to that of a wife nagging a husband to take out the trash, scolding her for her cleavage then turning around and scolding her for her sexless garb, etc.  There's a tone of disrespect that is never aimed at the male candidates, even the most idiotic.  It has seriously shocked me, since I prefer sometimes to pretend that the world is better than that.  More fool me, without a doubt.

Do you watch Fox News or something?  I haven't seen anything that severe, but I'm sure it's out there.  If you're looking for a replacement for that kind of stuff, try reddit.com.  I'm a fan.

Either way, people are still voting for Hillary.  A lot of people.