She forgot to mention the rent is too damn high.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had some generally agreed upon definition of that pesky word “Terrorist” so we knew every single time who we were, and perhaps more importantly, who we were NOT talking about.

Merry happy new jesus day year thingie, Boggster, and may you have all the shit nobody wishes upon you…

mikey

In 2010 the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver named [Mona Eltahawy] recipient of the Anvil of Freedom Award.

An Acme cartoon anvil?

Well, THAT was a breath of fresh air. Happy New Year to all of us from Tiny Tim…dead, you know. Well, dead and young and crippled and poor..but then again, Daddy got his New Year’s tax break of $.50 and he’s so damn happy!!

Somebody got into the cooking sherry early.

If it got dropped on her head, judging by the results, probably not.

the Anvil of Freedom Award

…you pound away on it to fashion something useful – sounds about right

Mona lives up to the pronunciation of her name.

On the Dick Clark New Years Eve Show Jenny McCarthy was talking to a Marine. She made reference to the U.S. military “kicking butt out there” this past year. What a lovely country we have to call our own.

Debbie Downer

Who?

Oh, dear…..back from some scouting around, including in Ms Eltahawy’s Twitters. I’d never heard of her, so didn’t know what to think.

It seems she was still reacting to an attack tonight in Alexandria, Egypt, her home country, where a car bomb killed several people at a Christian church during services. She sent several tweets on the subject.

I may have to cut her some slack on this one, in context.
Snark is always more fun, but some of us may have been too quick to snark on this one.

Ditto what Tejana said. She’s from Egypt and just watched some of her countrymen blow up some other of her countrymen. Pretty sickening.

Good catch, Tejana. I don’t think any of us would exactly be the life of the party in such circumstances.

I dunno TBogg, I might take a chance on a date with a woman whose name anagrams out to “O, men, what a lay!”

Looks like some of our knees jerked on this one.

I disagree. It is possible to compartmentalize and maybe not grieve vicariously just to make an open show of how very very serious you are. But then, what do I know? I’m divisive and unfit for human companionship.

Some stuff really ought not to be tweeted. You know? 140 characters doesn’t give you much space for context, and sorry, unless one’s tweet involves “Terrorists! Send help to GPS coordinates XYZ!” one shouldn’t assume that everyone knows what you mean. This is why I think Twitter is dumb except for emergencies or lighthearted joking.

That said: yes, it’s awful and shocking, and I feel bad for her and everyone involved.

Twitter is dumb

That’s really all that needs to be said about Twitter. Ever.

Your pain is real,
but too bad you act the douche.
Enjoy your dinner.