As I ease back into reading the news part of the news, and the inside parts of books, you’re going to start seeing my inane, forced opinions move toward the realm of near-legitimate subject matter.
Wow, that sentence was awesome.
Here’s one to start things off:
- Watching Roberts hearings.
- Saying “That’s honestly a question?” a number of times.
- Half of the people there just showed up to pay compliments, it seems like.
- This is bad television.
- Wow, those closed-captioning people are sharp.
- I wonder how you get into a job like that. What do you do while you’re typing? I would like to be able to sip from a crazy-straw.
- Hmm. Maybe they don’t have the luxury of being able to do fun stuff while at work. I feel kind of guilty.
- I wonder if you’re especially wary of certain words that could be easily mis-typed into ‘get me fired’ errors. That’s interesting!
- Okay, this confirmation hearing is all softballs. Sad.
And I didn’t even watch this gem:
COBURN: In all 50 states, death is recognized and defined as the irreversible cessation of the brain and heart activity. Do you have any reason to dispute that?
ROBERTS: I don’t know the medical terms or definitions, but no. I mean, if that’s the law in the states, that’s not to say that it has any particular legal significance…
COBURN: Right. I’m not asking you about legal significance. Would you agree that the opposite of being dead is being alive?
ROBERTS: Yes.
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1) I don’t honestly care that much.
2) Oh, come on!
I can’t take credit for grinding through AP releases, simply for being bored enough to read over Wonkette.
I feel particularly stupid for the number of this and this and etc. that keeps showing up here, because it means that in my LJ days, I was just too damn lazy to type out formatting tags.
Just wait until I redo the stylesheet on this thing. We’re gonna have nine different kinds of bold.
I started reading that pink book from book club last night with all the chick lit stories in it. The third one is about a woman who works as a closed-caption writer whose husband tells her he might be gay. She’s so freaked about it that she can’t pay attention at work and considers creating a new storyline about Chandler deciding he wants Ross more than Monica that only deaf people would know about.
That story sounds FUN. Nice.
I’m going to have to admit that I skimmed your comment at first, missed the phrase “closed-caption” somehow, and thought “this comment has nothing to do with the post. THAT IS SO COOL.”