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clevermanka) wrote2008-11-26 09:25 am
clevermanka) wrote2008-11-26 09:25 am
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The left one is the poison one
Dunno how many of you read the online comic Girl Genius, but today's episode has one of the best lines ever. Translated from the original Jager:
"If those idiot princes get a look at her, she's gonna win this thing with a houseplant and a dead mouse."
And now from the editorial corner, a brief comment on the New York Times story about mothers sacrificing this xmas season to buy gifts for their little ones.
Come Christmas, McKenna Hunt, a gregarious little girl from Safety Harbor, Fla., will receive the play kitchen and the Elmo doll she wants. But her mother, Kristen Hunt, will go without the designer jeans she covets this season.
For Ms. Hunt and for millions of mothers across the nation, this holiday season is turning into a time of sacrifice. Weathering the first severe economic downturn of their adult lives, these women are discovering that a practice they once indulged without thinking about it, shopping a bit for themselves at the holidays, has to give way to their children’s wish lists.
“I want her to be able to look back,” Ms. Hunt declared, “and say, ‘Even though they were tough times, my mom was still able to give me stuff.’ ”
OH NOES! Poor little mummy won't be able to purchase herself those hundred dollar jeans? And she can only afford to buy little McKenna a "Grand Walk-in Kitchen" (which comes in two giant boxes), a Doodle Pro ($17.99 at ToysRUs), and four other brand-spanking new items that I have no doubt all cost around $20 apiece? Dear god, what is the world coming to? Somebody fucking give this woman a bailout package, STAT!
I can't even begin to articulate the obscenity of this. Obscene, you ask? Really? HELL YES. Obscene.
I know this is going to cause another shitstorm of people rallying around the precious Future of Our World to say "Oh, Miss Red, you're just coloring everyone with the same paintbrush. The spoiled, pampered, and entitled children are in the minority. You're just old and bitter. Go back to your dark hole of hate and anger and lighten up on little Jimmy (or McKenna, as the case may be). The kids are alright!"
Yeah, well you know what? I don't believe you. And neither does the New York Times. So suck it.
There are a lot of good parents and a lot of good kids out there, yes. I have friends who are good parents who don't indulge in this sick behavior and I am so grateful to you for not adding your kids to the pile of god damned chum dropped into the water as a lure for the corporate commercial sharks. But the majority of the kids today? Are fucked up, people. And who fucked them up? Hmmmmm....
In a staggeringly appropriate chance of fate, please check out today's Sinfest.
Golly, where do you think Ishida got that idea?
And now from the editorial corner, a brief comment on the New York Times story about mothers sacrificing this xmas season to buy gifts for their little ones.
Come Christmas, McKenna Hunt, a gregarious little girl from Safety Harbor, Fla., will receive the play kitchen and the Elmo doll she wants. But her mother, Kristen Hunt, will go without the designer jeans she covets this season.
For Ms. Hunt and for millions of mothers across the nation, this holiday season is turning into a time of sacrifice. Weathering the first severe economic downturn of their adult lives, these women are discovering that a practice they once indulged without thinking about it, shopping a bit for themselves at the holidays, has to give way to their children’s wish lists.
“I want her to be able to look back,” Ms. Hunt declared, “and say, ‘Even though they were tough times, my mom was still able to give me stuff.’ ”
OH NOES! Poor little mummy won't be able to purchase herself those hundred dollar jeans? And she can only afford to buy little McKenna a "Grand Walk-in Kitchen" (which comes in two giant boxes), a Doodle Pro ($17.99 at ToysRUs), and four other brand-spanking new items that I have no doubt all cost around $20 apiece? Dear god, what is the world coming to? Somebody fucking give this woman a bailout package, STAT!
I can't even begin to articulate the obscenity of this. Obscene, you ask? Really? HELL YES. Obscene.
I know this is going to cause another shitstorm of people rallying around the precious Future of Our World to say "Oh, Miss Red, you're just coloring everyone with the same paintbrush. The spoiled, pampered, and entitled children are in the minority. You're just old and bitter. Go back to your dark hole of hate and anger and lighten up on little Jimmy (or McKenna, as the case may be). The kids are alright!"
Yeah, well you know what? I don't believe you. And neither does the New York Times. So suck it.
There are a lot of good parents and a lot of good kids out there, yes. I have friends who are good parents who don't indulge in this sick behavior and I am so grateful to you for not adding your kids to the pile of god damned chum dropped into the water as a lure for the corporate commercial sharks. But the majority of the kids today? Are fucked up, people. And who fucked them up? Hmmmmm....
In a staggeringly appropriate chance of fate, please check out today's Sinfest.
Golly, where do you think Ishida got that idea?
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