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wombat_socho ([personal profile] wombat_socho) wrote2008-10-02 08:59 pm

And about damn time, too.

Southwest Airlines to start serving MSP in March 2009. Just in time for Anime Detour!

In other news, reserving most of my paycheck for rent; some of it will probably be sent off to pay for internets, and the rest will no doubt be wasted on gasoline, funny books, and artistic women, e.g. [livejournal.com profile] beatonna, after which I will huddle in the burrow until next payday. Here it is October already; can the dreary rains of winter be far off?

Unrelated: Jonah Goldberg describes the hideous expansion of the original shit sandwich into...well, he's the feelthy pro opinion columnist, and I'm not. Short, but satisfyingly bitter. Over at Don Luskin's place, economist John Seater wants to know WTF the crisis is, and has some pretty reasonable arguments as to why this is just another stampede of the lemmings, spurred on by the media.

Lastly, I'm not wasting my time listening to the debate. I suspect 70% of those who are going to vote in November have already made up their minds and are lying to/evading the pollsters, and the remaining 30% who haven't made up their minds need to get back on their meds and pay a little attention.

[identity profile] haikujaguar.livejournal.com 2008-10-03 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Pardon me, my brain it is fried.

What an interesting slip of the tongue, though...

Anyway, I like the kabuki metaphor. And I agree. My only observation about this debate was that it was far more interesting to listen to than the presidential debate.

[identity profile] wombat-socho.livejournal.com 2008-10-03 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Perfectly understandable. You don't often see the two confused these days, though a lot of conservatives are in fact pro-conservation...just not pro-Green.

My only observation about this debate was that it was far more interesting to listen to than the presidential debate.
It doesn't seem to have been the usual snoozefest, and I may have made a mistake in not watching it - if only for the entertainment value. :)

[identity profile] haikujaguar.livejournal.com 2008-10-03 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I was only listening in a desultory fashion (I decided that I would prefer to spend my birthday evening playing my baby Warcraft mage than watching politics, particularly since I already know who I've voting for), but both candidates were animate and respectful and seemed even to be enjoying themselves... very different from the near-monotone stiltedness of the presidential debate.

[identity profile] wombat-socho.livejournal.com 2008-10-03 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
This sounds like a much more productive use of time than what I was doing during the debate. :D

BTW, welcome to the f-list!

[identity profile] haikujaguar.livejournal.com 2008-10-03 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I liked your comments on [livejournal.com profile] chebutykin's LJ, so... :)

[identity profile] wombat-socho.livejournal.com 2008-10-03 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
#^_^#
Thank you. I thought I might have alienated most of her friends who didn't already know me after the dustup with [livejournal.com profile] psuedomanitou.

[identity profile] haikujaguar.livejournal.com 2008-10-03 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
*chuckle* Well, while I don't know the actual numbers on her friends, sometimes I feel like I'm one of her few conservative fuddy-duddy old-fashioned ones, so... :)

[identity profile] wombat-socho.livejournal.com 2008-10-03 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, so. Yes, I suppose you, [livejournal.com profile] fsf_rapier, [livejournal.com profile] qob and I are probably the token conservatives in that set of people. As a Falangist (http://www.geocities.com/ktrain9003/falangism.htm), I definitely approve of quite a few old-fashioned things. :)
Edited 2012-08-28 03:34 (UTC)