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Posted by gromky 2006-03-18 01:25|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Quite a wake-up, wasn't it Ned. You see, investigative, immersion journalism is about finding the truth of a story and then reporting it.

It is not about seeking "proof" of an ill-founded opinion for bucks.

Looks good on her. The only one who learned anything was her.

I learned long ago that the red-neck construction worker types down at my local watering hole are more accepting of this gay old lady and all others - more open to discussion and rational arguement and truly committed to equality of all (no matter how different or strange) - than the howling extreme liberals and socialists that pop by for a pint at the same place.

So, Norah - figured out the asshole is you yet?

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-18 09:59|| 2006-03-18 09:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Just like all those shows with the slim beautiful model types dressing up in fat suits and going into up-scale shops in "trendy" neighborhoods and getting dissed and scorned.

Never see them doing the same in a rural blue state Wal-Mart. If they did, they'd find themselves treated just fine.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-03-18 10:28|| 2006-03-18 10:28|| Front Page Top

#3 re: "Never see them doing the same in a rural blue state Wal-Mart. If they did, they'd find themselves treated just fine."

Steve, you meant to say red-state, yes? Your point is well taken, I just wanted to be sure of the coloring involved. :-)

Posted by eltoroverde 2006-03-18 12:21|| 2006-03-18 12:21|| Front Page Top

#4 So Vincent does a little weightlifting to pad her unusually tall 5'9" frame and glues fine particles of her hair to her face to create the stubble effect.

Ya know, this thread's a lot better without pics.

Posted by Raj 2006-03-18 12:27|| 2006-03-18 12:27|| Front Page Top

#5 "So, Norah - figured out the asshole is you yet?"

Umm, yes, she did, actually. I think that you need to actually read the book. The chapter where she dates women as Ned is hilariously tragic. On one date, she winds up with a resentful "feminist" jargon-spouter and comes yeah close to ripping off her stubble and telling her to stick the Dworkin where the sun don't shine.

"Ya know, this thread's a lot better without pics."

Don't worry Raj, you're eyes would be safe. (G)

Posted by Ernest Brown 2006-03-18 16:56|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2006-03-18 16:56|| Front Page Top

#6 She may have BDS politically, but, when it comes to gender issues, Vincent has more in common with Tammy Bruce than Andrea Dworkin, guys.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2006-03-18 17:02|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2006-03-18 17:02|| Front Page Top

#7 If I were lesbian (deep inside, I am) - Tammy'd be my first shot. Hot. Smart. Confident.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-03-18 17:12|| 2006-03-18 17:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Her "proudly self-confessed trailer-trash" friend warns her, "Just remember that the difference between your people and my people is that my people bowl without irony."

Vincent translates that for us in case we didn't get the point: "Hide your bourgeois flag, or you'll get the smugness beaten out of you long before they find out you're a woman." We're on notice that she's on notice.

She completely missed the point of his comment. Bowling is considered kitsch by the bobos, it's a joke to them; it's a sport for him and his friends, they take it seriously. No doubt she was confused by his correct use of the word "irony".

Most of all, they reward Ned's appalling bowling scores with grace and aplomb, even offering a face-saving joke as he brings down the whole team. This surprises Vincent: "I had expected these guys to be filled with virulent hatred for anyone who wasn't like them."

This is shocking only to people who never leave the bobo enclave, who buy into what they're told by the other people who never leave the bobo enclave.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-03-18 18:13|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-03-18 18:13|| Front Page Top

#9 or who've never seen Big Lebowski, dude?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-03-18 18:41|| 2006-03-18 18:41|| Front Page Top

#10 his correct use of the word "irony".

It's a synonym for "metallic", right?

Listening to this gal on NPR, what made the bowling story even funnier for me was that not only was "she" a terrible bowler, but her teamates figured she was gay and they were *still* nice to her. I guess men are people too, eh?

Posted by SteveS 2006-03-18 20:37|| 2006-03-18 20:37|| Front Page Top

#11 whoda thunk it?

Posted by 2b 2006-03-18 22:33|| 2006-03-18 22:33|| Front Page Top

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