Comments on: Why yes. I have always had a stick up my butt. Why do you ask?

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:01:20 +0000

If it was sent, no doubt it will soon be on sale at Sotheby’s–or on eBay.

By: NoOneYouKnow

NoOneYouKnow — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:44:51 +0000

Okay, that made me laugh.

By: lllphd

lllphd — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:11:18 +0000

soooo, question: did roberts’ opinion win the day? did the letter get trashed or sent?

By: VonZeppelin

VonZeppelin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:20:37 +0000

dr2chase: clamantis is the genitive singular of the present participle clamans. As you suggest, the verb is clamo, “call out” or “cry out.” So clamantis is “one crying out.” Thus the Dartmouth College motto, and the quotation from Isaiah, is “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness.”

Personally, I always liked the more informal translation, “The voice of a clam in the desert.”

And Roberts is stll a dick.

By: lifewithbill

lifewithbill — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:44:01 +0000

In Robert’s defense, I doubt he indulges in anything that doesn’t resemble wearing barbed wire under his crisp starched white shirt and putting glass in his Johnston Murphy shoes, even if it is just metaphorically. He is pretty much a Hazel Motes (from Flannery O’Conner’s novel ‘Wise Blood.’) with an advanced education.

By: PaminBB

PaminBB — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:26:49 +0000

While agreeing with your interpretation, I am also struck by the notion of a 29-year old getting his current musical information from the WashPo. As opposed to, say, listening to the radio. It’s kind of pathetic.

By: DennisSGMM

DennisSGMM — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:53:24 +0000

It was said of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Caligula) that there was never a better slave or a worse master. Roberts seems to be the same way.

By: ChrisVosburg

ChrisVosburg — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:31:43 +0000

Otto the Autopilot writes: In today’s Post there were already reports that some youngsters were turning away from Mr. Jackson in favor of a newcomer who goes by the name “Prince,” and is apparently planning a Washington concert. Will he receive a Presidential letter? How will we decide which performers do and which do not?

Give one negro a Presidential letter, then you’ll have to give one to all the negroes, he seems to be saying, and this is besides the implication that Jackson and Prince are simply interchangeable parts in the jukebox, because they’re both negroes, you see, and play negro music, a novelty capable of supporting only a single practitioner at any given time.

By: jexter

jexter — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:32:49 +0000

I’m certain he meant vox clamato, “voice of the tasty clam beverage”.

By: EvilDrPuma

EvilDrPuma — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:03:54 +0000

How about two wet suits and two dildos? That way we’ve covered all the bases.