Jesus. Haploid. Christ.

* driftglass: "Jesus. Haploid. Christ. "
i have NO idea what that means - but i'm pretty sure it is either/both funny &/or clever

* driftglass takes his shiv to Idiot Tom Friedman:

"For 30 years the GOP has been sprinting over the edge of the world, flirting ever louder with totalitarianism and theocracy…and pilot fish like Friedman have made a very comfortable living scurrying along behind them counseling a steady constant strategy of 50% capitulation, swaddled in words like “centerist” and “reasonable”.

And the only thing this tactic has succeeded in doing is encouraging the Right to race even further into darkness, knowing that scuttling appeasers like Friedman -- who have no ideology whatsoever but "divide by two" and no principle except to reflexively damn all sides equally regardless of the facts -- will always follow them in the direction of the abyss...halfway."

for some reason i'm reminded of this valentines day post where i wrote:

and to the she-bloggers i love the most - emptywheel, laura, reddhedd, jane, jeralyn, larisa, maha and whoever else - much bloggy-love

similarly, driftglass and glenn and digby and whoever else i've left off.

i don't wanna play favourites or anything - but if this blog ever has children, i hope there's a healthy dose of driftglass in the genetic mix of the offspring. he makes my blog-heart flutter.

update: oldschool in the comments:

I've already sent off my letter to the Office of Karmic Re-Adjustment, marked both Urgent and Non-Negotiable, that in my next life, I'm comin' back as Driftglass.

and anon in the comments:

Main Entry: hap·loid
Pronunciation: 'ha-"ploid
Function: adjective
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from Greek haploeidEs single, from haploos
: having the gametic number of chromosomes or half the number characteristic of somatic cells -- compare DIPLOID
- haploid noun
- hap·loi·dy /-"ploi-dE/ noun

Dosen't help much.