Comments on: That’s some catch, that Catch 22

By: Agasaya

Agasaya — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:47:46 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/opinion/06mon4.html?th&emc=th

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The “feminism Google Alert” blogaround! « Gender Goggles — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:45:51 +0000

[...] the post itself, because otherwise I’m not sure I could have survived all the concentrated assholamine. (Check that link out too, by the way; it goes to I Blame the Patriarchy, an excellent antidote to [...]

By: Twisty

Twisty — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:55:44 +0000

ivyleaves, I've been transfixed with this Jack London dealio. It reminds me a little of Orwell's down'n'out in Paris memoir. Thanks.

By: veganrampage

veganrampage — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:21:00 +0000

From the dewdly advice-

“Write towards the women; the men mostly won’t care anyway.”

The men don’t care? Who woulda thunk it? I learn so much on this site. Thanks for that incisive insight. After 50 years living in a patriarchy I was just beginning to sense that.

By: LCforevah

LCforevah — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:08:25 +0000

You know, Twisty, the dude is an engineer. It could just be Asperger’s Syndrome.

By: ivyleaves

ivyleaves — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:54:04 +0000

Jack London's non-fiction account of his "undercover" time as a street person in London at the turn-of-the-century is an eye-opener on the crime of being poor. Free text with tiny photos The People of the Abyss

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:43:09 +0000

His concern! So touching. Touching MY ENTIRE MONKEY BUTT! Gaw haw!

MONKEY BUTT!!!!111!!11!ELEVENTY!11!!

By: Azundris

Azundris — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:18:39 +0000

At the risk of explaining hero’s mirth …
“Goebel” is German for puke.
http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/puke.html

(When needing to write umlauts on computers or typewriters that don’t have them, the diacritic may be substituted with an e, so ö becomes oe. “Goebeln” is the verb, to puke, and “Goebel” — or more commonly, “Kotze” —, the result.)

By: Twisty

Twisty — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:34:39 +0000

Gaw! I have just read the gasbag dudely advice to the scary yet naive yet hysterical yet irate yet inarticulate little feminists on how to write a letter to the editor, and I'm crackin the fuck UP! Fuckin A, I ain't seen a howler like this since the Mandos era. It's fuckin textbook! Long and insulting! Awesome! Hah! He's sorry, and it sucks, but dang it, he just has to help us! He cares too much to let us go off half-cocked into the big, bad, confusing world of writing to newspapers without understanding what we're up against! His concern! So touching. Touching MY ENTIRE MONKEY BUTT! Gaw haw! But he MEANS WELL! Gawhawhah! Remember, ladies, "don't just call them assholes"! Gaw! "Have an objective"! Gaw haw! Anyway, sayonara, astonishingly patronizing concern-dude. You're an asshole! Guess what my objective is! Gawhohohohaw! Gawhawhawhooooo!

By: Agasaya

Agasaya — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:05:05 +0000

Risking the wrath due me for over-posting on this thread, it is important to address Lindsay’s question, tho it t’were made tongue-in-cheek:

“Does that mean if you legally declare bancrupcy and pursue a life as a homeless wanderer you are immune from being put in jail because it isn’t profitable?”

It happens to be against the law to be homeless. Well, you are allowed not to have a home as long as you don’t try to ‘be’ someplace else. You can be arrested under any number of statutes such as

-vagrancy (You’d better have a couple hundred on you and hope you don’t get mugged.)

-loitering (You have to keep moving and not stand in place no matter how tired you may be.)

-trespass (What do you mean, you’re going to sleep there!)

-use of car as residence (It is illegal to sleep in your car, even on your own property or with permission of a property owner in most states.)

Then there’s my favorite statute from which the others were born – “I don’t want to have to look out of my window and see you there or pass you on the street. It is just SO upsetting.”

Yep, against the law to be homeless. And they can cart you off to jail for it.