Oh great: Tarnatino has been reading ABSALOM, ABSALOM.
The single most important fact here is that they're all staring into the sun. That would make anyone look grumpy.
"So romantic!" -- David Berkowitz.
Agreed. I love the mom's closer: "The message to kids is there's no American dream." I'd shoot myself if the only dream I could conjure up was slinging bottled lemonade for golf fans while my mother cracks the whip.
D.E.S.P.A.I.R.
The bald guy with glasses is funny, cute (with or without the weight), smart, hardworking, and kind. Yeah, what a terrible catch.
Zuck: Worst kisser ever. He appears to be attempting to suck Chan's eyeteeth straight out of her head while watching himself do it. Or he's mistaken her upper lip for a straw. Even Strachey and Woolf could have done better than that.
hearted.
I think that would get me my "bullshit anecdotal evidence", but not my "statistical evidence," right quick.
Another Tea Party talking point: Undocumented immigrants do not pay tax. Ways undocumented immigrants contribute to the "tax base": sales tax, payroll tax (which they can never recoup), rent (property tax rolled in). In North Carolina, that amounts to nearly $1 billion a year in taxes paid, and about that much in net cost (services received, etc.) This does not take into account the $1 billion Latino immigrants save the NC construction industry in reduced labor cost. (I don't know what to think about that, though my sense it is exploitative and unsustainable; nevertheless, it's a savings accrued that needs to be factored into this discussion.)
So every time one of the southern states comes up with something to deal with problems that are overwhelming their public services and emergency rooms...
This is a fallacy and a Tea Party talking point. Undocumented immigrants are overwhelming neither public services nor emergency rooms. There is absolutely no statistical evidence of this; these services may be overwhelmed, and there are certainly undocumented immigrants availing themselves of these services, but the fact that they are overwhelmed cannot be laid at the feet of the undocumented. If you imagine that undocumented immigrants constitute a besieging horde, a plague of locusts, as the nativists would have you think of them, then yes, it would seem reasonable to assume that they are overwhelming services. But it's not true. And as a Southerner, I don't mind having my people disparaged over this; we should be mercilessly shamed for doing this, given our long and horrifying history with, most recently, Jim Crow. (Laws against issuing drivers licenses and encouraging cops to stop Latino-looking people look a lot like Jim Crow from down here.) I'm ashamed that my North Carolina looks like it's going to be next.
This is a fallacy and a Tea Party talking point. Undocumented immigrants are overwhelming neither public services nor emergency rooms. There is absolutely no statistical evidence of this; these services may be overwhelmed, and there are certainly undocumented immigrants availing themselves of these services, but the fact that they are overwhelmed cannot be laid at the feet of the undocumented. If you imagine that undocumented immigrants constitute a besieging horde, a plague of locusts, as the nativists would have you think of them, then yes, it would seem reasonable to assume that they are overwhelming services. But it's not true. And as a Southerner, I don't mind having my people disparaged over this; we should be mercilessly shamed for doing this, given our long and horrifying history with, most recently, Jim Crow. (Laws against issuing drivers licenses and encouraging cops to stop Latino-looking people look a lot like Jim Crow from down here.) I'm ashamed that my North Carolina looks like it's going to be next.
Shirky Quirky in Basement Lurky. (You have to have seen the movie.)
No doubt. That's a weird twist.
Got to agree with you on this one.
Ian Mackaye and H.R. do not approve.
Yes. Heart.
Prince is not amused.
Yep, not in the Constitution. Also not in the Constitution: any grounds for the lunch ladies to make me feel so uncomfortably Oedipal when they handled my Salisbury steak, BUT THAT DIDN'T STOP THEM, though they knew quite well I was a strict Constitutional erectionist.
I finished second in the voting for Class Mooch. MY PROUDEST MOMENT.
