SOB

[madamesilverspurs]

No, this isn't a thread about Cheney; I wouldn't be nearly that nice.

SOB is, in this case, doctor-speak for "shortness of breath". I haz it. It's become particularly exasperating when endeavoring to converse with a teabagger who has memorized the talking points and can spit them out machine gun style. No less irritating is the Marycan-Webister dictionary that provides handy new definitions that serve tea party/republican ambitions by irretrievably confounding the conversation; look up 'liberal' in your own dictionary, then ask a teabagger to define the word (but take a couple of aspirin first, trust me on this). So I'm working on finding ways to continue my participation without passing out on the pavement from lack of air.

Meanwhile, I find myself wondering about the keyboarding counterpart. SOB doesn't apply in cyberspace, but sometimes it sure feels like it does. At some point the thought occurs that repeatedly typing the same response to the same argument/suggestion/opinion, no matter in how many threads, is a waste of time. Much as I might hate to admit it, I can't be in more than one place at a time, and wouldn't my typing time be better used in communicating with those willing to listen at least as much as they lecture? Hmmmmm, there's a concept in there somewhere.

Lesson for me today: Breath and time are both too valuable to waste.

[Cha]

I've learned that lesson, Madame! Seems the older one gets there can be perks if we've learned a thing or two.

Sorry, about your sob..it hasn't affected your writing skills, though.

[NJMaverick]

Easy way to shut down a Tea Bagger- Ask him why he favors big business and billionaires over regular Americans.

[Willinois]

Yes, the talk show hosts redefine words so that it's very difficult for the listener to have a reasonable conversation with a liberal. They've been told what the liberal's worlds really mean in advance. A liberal could say one thing and have no idea that it will be interpreted as something very different by the talk radio listener who has been told that words mean something different than what they mean to everyone else.

They're also programmed to reject all factual information from any source that isn't Fox or talk radio. Any facts that contradict their world view is "liberal bias" which can be disregarded.

It's very much like a religious cult. The tactics are the same. You probably aren't going to deprogram any of them. Find more positive ways to accomplish something.

[Eponine]

On my way to work this morning, some ass in a car next to me at a stoplight started mocking my Obama 2012 bumper sticker, saying "He's the worst president ever!! blah blah blah crap".

I pointed out that Bush had presided over the worst economic crisis in the United States since Herbert Hoover. Then I closed the passenger-side car window. That last sent him a message because his lips stopped flapping.