Comments on: Michele Bachmann’s Youthful Indiscretion

By: Dodgerblue

Dodgerblue — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:31:59 +0000

@Benedick: Similar treatment for Alan Turing, the great logician whose work helped break the German U-Boat code during the war. A grateful nation drove him to suicide for the crime of having a boyfriend.

By: Benedick

Benedick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:56:51 +0000

@nojo: He is making a ton of money and looking cute. And honestly I don't think it's reasonable to expect more of him. Hasn't he given enough? @redmanlaw: I'm not a great enthusiast. My grandfather loathed him as did most of the working class before the war.

By: redmanlaw

redmanlaw — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:49:17 +0000

@Benedick: You have probably read “Man Overboard” by Churchill.

http://www.magick7.com/oe/Horror/stories08/167.htm

@Prommie: Recommendation for brandy? As for Thursday, I saw an article that says tempranillo would go well well with turkey.

By: nojo

nojo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:39:22 +0000

@Benedick: Commercial last night showing Ashton being a naughty "free spirit" at a gallery opening. If he doesn't give a shit about the art, what the fuck is he doing there?

By: Benedick

Benedick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:21:22 +0000

@rptrcub: Quite a few now write about him with a contempt that borders on the comical. Particularly for his writing for which it seems he had a whole staff of ghostwriters, only coming in it at the end to style it up and add the jokes. After the war the country didn't have much choice but institue a welfare state. As the empire collapsed there would have been fighting in the streets if the government didn't pay returning soldiers to keep order. The pity is that what replaced him was so narrow-minded. But when one thinks of Dunkirk, for example, he was quite extraordinary. Without him I doubt the country could have stood so completely alone for as long as it did. Anyone in the mood for a good read might want to check out Atonement which features a long and formidably well imagined account of the collapse of the BEF and the race for the French coast.

By: rptrcub

rptrcub — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:09:37 +0000

@Benedick: And thus, with his downfall, began the evil socialist NHS, which threatens our own great Uhmurrican health system today.

By: Benedick

Benedick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:40:27 +0000

@Capt Howdy: He was much hated in the UK for many reasons. I don't say good reasons. He was as much revered as reviled during the war and when it was over a large part of the country couldn't get rid of him soon enough.

By: Prommie

Prommie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:22:38 +0000

@mellbell: But, weren't most fakirs half naked?

By: Capt Howdy

Capt Howdy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:09:21 +0000

@mellbell: the most interesting part of that film is his complete fall from grace after the war was over and they no longer needed a bulldog.

By: mellbell

mellbell — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:06:31 +0000

@Capt Howdy: Yeah, but he also called Gandhi a "half-naked fakir," so, you know, there's that.