Margarita Saturday!
Hello everybody and welcome to Saturday's edition of Margarita Top Comments! Pull up a chair and some salt and a little lime, while our mixologists whip up a batch of them's that good for what ails ya.
As always, guaranteed 100% subjective for your protection.
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It's been an odd day for me as I'm working off of 4 hours of sleep in the last 48, but that's the hell of being a tech geek forced to work late on Friday. I don't need no stinkin' margarita; I'm loopy enough on my own. But I'm more than willing to serve them up and get you home safely, so come on in and get comfortable.
Drunken/sleepy outpouring #1: I love you man!!! Mad props to Ambrosius -- hitting the Rec list lat night with a TC-virgin diary: Top Comments Aug. 4--Virgin Edition. Way to go!
Remember, if you find Top Comment-worthy post, we've got our own email address now: TopComments at gmail dot com. Thanks to everyone who contributed links for tonight's posting.
Let's start with today's contributions:
From dear, sweet noweasels, who bravely forded the early morning posts while I drove home and slept:
From testvet6778, a haunting mini-autobiography on the origin of his user name
From Bexley Lane, the sort of lovin' we'd all like to send to nyceve for her brilliant and heartbreaking diaries on America's healthcare crisis
From kayakbiker, some gorgeous photographs of some gorgeous flowers, organically grown by him and his wife
Elise, on "tipsy blogging" (and the witty responses she inspired)
baba durag on the, uh, unintentional rewriting of the rewriting of history (not that this type of thing happens here or anything)
From J-Love:
This one is litigatormom,
responding to Craig
Burnham's story about the Mexico recount and the courts.
From MuffledDrum:
Commenting on CT-Sen: All Politics Really IS Local by DemFromCT, Pine had this to say -- and in the process illustrated why the term "flip-flop" isn't always a bad thing
In cloverdale's diary entitled GOP Senator Abandons GOP, Ambivalent Mumblings opined on how this works to our advantage even [if OK state Senator Riley isn't true Blue http://www.dailykos.com/...}
nyceve had a very interesting diary entitled Sacred Ground: At the pharmacy with a Donut-Holed senior, wherein [blue jersey mom started an eye-opening thread]. Read the follow-ups for usable info!
And here are my finds for the day:
Ranting Roland provides this handy "Had enough?" graphic, thoughtfully sized for email sigline inclusion
From nyceve's excellent donut hole diary, Sacred Ground: lesliet explains the "logic" that led to the donut hole. And Buzzer comments on how it was allowed to happen in the first place.
bonddad posts another eye-opening diary regarding class warfare. Busted Flat in Baton Rouge makes this comment regarding spending habits, Bob Guyer makes an argument that it's more of an abusive relationship than a war, and DBunn comments on trickle up.
Dood Abides posts yet another superlative diary: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Apocolypse. exmearden has this reaction: ROTFLMAOANCIWFFMFD.D. (noweasels also sent this one in!)
sidnora has this to say about her Kos addiction and a productive method to combat it, from Jerome in Paris' diary. Also included (and not just because it mentions Top Comments!), TrueBlueMajority lists some well thought out site improvement requests.
homogenius has this to say regarding gay integration in the military in the Don't Ask, Don't Tell diary
daulton has this interesting idea for a Dem startup business
DH from MD, the Constitution, and Bush. You decide. :)
blue armadillo shares this happy story in geri's Good News diary
inclusiveheart asks important questions in Carnacki's On the Importance of Hope diary.
Ivan Carter and inclusiveheart have a fascinating discussion regarding Carson, Faux News, and message crafting
Bad Schandau has this to say about the differences between the two parties and how it bodes for the future of democracy
And last, but not least: Ky DEM's snark-o-licious comment from last night's Top Comments diary
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Comments by the numbers:
1 And some recent news... by Jerome a Paris 83
2 Aren't you tired of being trickled on? (n/t) by FWIW 69
3 Oxygen, please. by exmearden 68
4 oh Dood, could you come . . . by nyceve 64
5 May I borrow this diary? by highfive 61
6 Yeah, there have been an unending stream lately. by Hunter 61
7 I was un-intelligently designed...; ) by Dood Abides 59
8 Yes, she and several other women by GN1927 58
9 let me amend that . . . by nyceve 51
10 I am going to be phone banking for Ned Lamont by Irish Patti 50
11 Wash my fucking walls, Kos, and paint my by Frankenoid 50
12 Who you gonna call.... by Fabian 49
13 Daw shucks... by Dood Abides 49
14 Good Morning, Gardeners :) by PhillyGal 46
15 Vote for Joe!!! by Irishkorean 42
16 Well, Patti, here's my FP by edwardssl 41
17 Sorry Patti! by 42 41
18 The entire budget deficit by Smallbottle 41
19 . by melvin 41
20 I knew they were all wearing by decembersue 40
21 Is it hot enough for all of you? by blue jersey mom 40
22 I support Joe!! by Irishkorean 39
23 Sniff. by Marc in KS 39
24 MFP by Keith Moon 39
25 Garden Variety Lamont by Cho 39
26 My FP by hono lulu 38
27 What else am I gonna do? by inclusiveheart 38
28 My FP... by jlove1982 38
29 Try again, I need my coffee by blue jersey mom 38
30 Someone working full time, earning minumum wage by blue jersey mom 38
31 Nature's Garden by Kayakbiker 37
32 'Scarce resources' by cotterperson 37
33 there is more to life than KOS but for some of us by testvet6778 37
34 This goes STRAIGHT by noweasels 37
35 My FP is that I'm stuck working with computers. by fritzrth 36
36 Sometimes they grow like damn weeds... by SomeStones 36
37 Lorenzo Sunflower at the WakeUp Walmart rally by Sprinkles 36
38 I am by mango 35
39 !! by Buffalo Girl 35
40 ! by PhillyGal 35
41 North Fuggin' Carolina! by SensibleShoes 35
42 Addendum by Carnacki 35
43 Personally, I annoyed that by superfly 34
44 MFP=sister-in-law by sobermom 34
45 mini-Hummers! by Fabian 34
46 I second that. by gmb 34
47 I wrote a diary about you. by Marc in KS 33
48 But she was only symptomatic by Marc in KS 33
49 I don't have a FP by Chincoteague 33
50 My FP by saucy monkey 33
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