Comments on: No matter which language you say it in, “I love George Bush!” is always the right response

By: adriana

adriana — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:41:06 +0000

The problem is those pressure economic groups and also all the people who believe in neoliberalism as the mesure of all correction in life, who doesn´t believe in individual freedom. But not meaning, please, the economic freedom of firing workers, paying a shit, and request flexibility for their economic action that implies our shit of life without a place to live in nor a pure air to breath.
I love Bush!

By: Kyso Kisaen

Kyso Kisaen — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:32:12 +0000

Her adopted country’s rowdy system of government? Has she been paying attention to Ukrainian politics since 1991? Just this week their president had to put his version of the State of the Union online because his most reliable political ally’s party physically blocked him from getting to the podium when he was supposed to read it. They have at least three major parties, and I’m under the impression that members of parliament can switch sides basically whenever they want. Their president is scarred from a poisoning attempt, for christ sake. My guidebook to Ukraine makes public protests sound like a tourist activity (“Don’t be alarmed, hell, join in participating in the rich pageant that is democracy” or something along those lines)

“American’s shout at each other over silly things. They should take their cues on political sophistication from Ukraine” is not really a valid statement, although I also like the Ukrainian system and the spectator-sport feeling it has.

By: peanutbutter

peanutbutter — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:14:44 +0000

Dang, that is one scary picture. Like, remnants of a week long bender?

By: Quin

Quin — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:29:48 +0000

Yep, looks good.

By the way, I think I’m going to put “Skillful Mounter of Semi-coherent Explanations” on my next set of business cards.

By: punkass marc

punkass marc — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:14:26 +0000

Hey Quin-

Yeah, tried a different formatting method to shrink up the blockquote, but didn’t work out so I reverted. Does it look okay now?

By: Lisa KS

Lisa KS — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:24:09 +0000

When I was in Sweden on a business trip, I accidentally stumbled into the middle of an anti-Iraq War demonstration (hey, it was being held smack dab in the main portion of the Stockholm Central train station!). Not that I speak even a single word of Swedish but “USA Morderes” and “Abu Ghraib!” weren’t too hard to figure out. I was keeping a low profile (luckily I am tall and blonde, so they were FOOLED, man!) and snapping some sweet pics when a button-seller guy cornered me and started pressing his wares upon me. Partly because it was getting very rude of me to keep wordlessly shaking my head at him and partly cause I sincerely wanted the “Bush is a Terrorist” button he was hawking, I blew my cover and said in my best flat American-accented English, “I’m sorry, I don’t speak Swedish!” He was horrified and tried to flee, but not before I managed to get him to take a 10-kronor piece and snagged my Bush button. I did manage to subsequently sneak outta there without a single attempt by anyone to kick my American ass.

By: Quin

Quin — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:11:04 +0000

That’s awesome. Evidently even Mother Jones gets concern trolls. On their staff.

By the way, there’s something wrong with this post’s formatting on my computer– there’s no visual difference between the source article and your words, so at first it read like Jekyll was fisking Hyde.