tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146760989517276292.post6544519744731066344..comments2024-01-03T19:05:32.641-05:00Comments on Kiarian Lunch: Wowsers are ever with usHector Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09464231766299961050noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146760989517276292.post-23637804970154285282008-08-23T03:48:00.000-05:002008-08-23T03:48:00.000-05:00My nose has full veto power over everything that m...My nose has full veto power over everything that my mouth wants to entertain.<BR/><BR/>Make of that what you will.<BR/><BR/>I usually do read sidebars which is why the Jefferson surprised me. Though just because I read it doesn't mean I remember reading it.blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146760989517276292.post-84500457363108005562008-08-23T03:14:00.000-05:002008-08-23T03:14:00.000-05:00You're not supposed to smell it!The Jefferson has ...You're not supposed to <I>smell</I> it!<BR/><BR/>The Jefferson has been up for ages. (Internet ages. Over a year is an eon.) Almost as long as the not-exactly Trotsky. Which I thought was something that Aragorn or maybe Gandalf said to the hobbits. But then I Googled it, and found that I hadn't remembered it quite right, and that it was <A HREF="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/you_may_not_be_interested_in_strategy-but/340121.html" REL="nofollow">Trotsky</A> (who said "strategy" not "war") and not Tolkien, and so I put it up as I had remembered it, and left it unattributed. Sometimes <A HREF="http://hectorowen.blogspot.com/2008/05/states-of-consciousness.html" REL="nofollow">memory plays tricks</A>. Who reads sidebars, anyway?Hector Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09464231766299961050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146760989517276292.post-85447538336614086752008-08-23T02:48:00.000-05:002008-08-23T02:48:00.000-05:00Oh, my sister did the same thing. She'd go around ...Oh, my sister did the same thing. She'd go around after a party and drink the dregs.<BR/><BR/>Not me, though. That was some foul smelling stuff.<BR/><BR/>Jefferson quote new? On the site, I mean. I'm not suggesting you engaged in necromancy. Don't recall seeing it before.blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146760989517276292.post-60254508052344708842008-08-23T02:34:00.000-05:002008-08-23T02:34:00.000-05:00blake at 2:17:Yes. The drinking age is a remnant o...blake at 2:17:<BR/><BR/>Yes. The drinking age is a remnant of Prohibition, an intrusion of state power into the private realm. Both my parents are dead, now, so it's safe <I>for them</I> for me to say that I tasted my first liquor when my age was still in single digits, while helping to clean up after the grownups' parties. That the state should be interested in such things seems like a misapplication of state power, which should be reserved for things that are more important, such as actual crimes, murder, rape, robbery, that kind of thing. And see the Jefferson quote on the sidebar.Hector Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09464231766299961050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146760989517276292.post-12073549817774273172008-08-23T02:18:00.000-05:002008-08-23T02:18:00.000-05:00Yeah, the city cares if you're armed, but they hav...Yeah, the city cares if you're armed, but they have an uncanny ability to detect education and stamp it out of existence.blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146760989517276292.post-89100641938474924502008-08-23T02:17:00.000-05:002008-08-23T02:17:00.000-05:00I like the idea of no drinking age.When under age,...I like the idea of no drinking age.<BR/><BR/>When under age, it's up to the parents. When adult, it's nobody's business.blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146760989517276292.post-60240159145506689522008-08-23T01:00:00.000-05:002008-08-23T01:00:00.000-05:00Sorry, blake, it's smitten all the way, unless you...Sorry, blake, it's <A HREF="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/smite" REL="nofollow">smitten</A> all the way, unless you want to be deliberately archaic and say "smit," which sounds <I>really</I> wrong to me. I have seen "smited," but the dictionaries don't like it, though it has an appropriate forcefulness, especially when proclaimed aloud.<BR/><BR/>The first thing I saw in the paper after returning from nine days or so away from papers, Internet, TV, and such things, was a story about the "Amethyst Initiative," but of course <A HREF="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/08/lower-drinking-age-to-18.html" REL="nofollow">Althouse</A> and <A HREF="http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/023243.php" REL="nofollow">Reynolds</A> got there first. Reynolds's reader <A HREF="http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/023228.php" REL="nofollow">Cheryl Drury</A> even sooner, with a comment that is worthy of some expatiation. I have only a few hours here in between bouts of frantic AFK activity, so there's no telling if I will get a round tuit.<BR/><BR/>The city fights education harder than weaponry? I've heard some things about the L.A. schools, but I think that went right over my head. Or right by me, or something.Hector Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09464231766299961050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146760989517276292.post-20839303683535344772008-08-21T12:49:00.000-05:002008-08-21T12:49:00.000-05:00Smitten?Is that the correct past tense of "smite"....Smitten?<BR/><BR/>Is that the correct past tense of "smite". <BR/><BR/>Smoten? Smited? <BR/><BR/>Smitten sounds like we're in love.<BR/><BR/>I don't have any idea how to stop this stuff. Well, I do, but it either takes a long time and a lot of education or a short time and a lot of weaponry. And the city fights the former a lot harder than the latter.blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.com