That’s 5 posts in a row from the Pink Lady.

Is the staff (read: Box Turtle) on strike?

Yeah. And you’re supposed to be the scab.

He’s very talented, but I can’t see him sitting around in pajamas all day. Unless he finds a set of pj’s that will accomodate a badly fitting tie.

We better leave an chair open for him in the bloggers 12 step recovery meeting. He is on his way to hitting bottom for sure.

Re: 4. The Other Guy

I’ve noticed that Lurkette doesn’t come anymore. Think she’s fallen off the wagon?

I’ll see you guys tonight. I hope NOITALL doesn’t burst into tears again.

Re: 1. FledTheAsylum

I’m holding out for domestic partner benefits.

Re: 5. Pink Lady

Yeah, he’s always whining about his childhood. What’s that all about?

It’s embarassing to acknowledge that I’m Al Gore’s bastard child — meaning I’ve been on the Internets since he invested them.

uh, invented them

Re: 5. Pink Lady

Doesn’t come to what? I go the parties i know about - if I’m not there, that’s so totally not my fault.

Re: 10. lurkette

If you’re not there, is it a party? No.

If a martini is poured in the forest, and lurkette isn’t around to drink it…

Burka’s head is shoved so far up the establishment’s ass, he smells Anita Perry’s perfume in the morning.

Faxes his e-mails? I thought that was him faxing all those exciting business opportunities? So you are saying he faxes the spam that he himself receives? Turgid regurgitation?

There is a priceless picture of him asleep in the Senate Chamber. I think it was taken during the three days at the end of the regular session he spends on his contribution to the top ten best and worst (i.e., getting a couple of members and a lobbyist to air their gripes about members).

Re: 11. Shriz-noat

Oh, how you talk.

/blush

Re: 12. JohnCornyn’sBoxTurtle

… pretty sure DMWP would take care of the situation.

/ Move on, people. No koans here.

Yeppers. I’m lurkette’s backup.

And PL, what is this “Sorry, you can only post a comment every 15 — what? — years? Slow down cowboy.” I used to get that every once in awhile for no discernible reason, usually when I clicked on a name for a reference to which to post. Now I get it all the time and have to resubmit a bunch of times. Just got it now, in fact, and I haven’t commented at all. Sometimes I lose the post, too. CALL IT. STAT. Anybody else having this problem?

Re: 18. Don’t Mess w/ Pink

Trying installing a newer version of DOS on your TRS-80.

Worked for me.

Re: 19. NOITALL

if i were a complete nerd i would totally make a DOS-related joke.

Anyone? Anyone?

DMWP - yep. happens all the time now.

I think Paul Burka has infiltrated my blog platform. I’ll have IT get right on it.

/now hiring for good IT person.

Burka sucks, plain and simple. His worst flaw is that he knows better, and doesn’t want to offend his well-heeled TM readership. He’s become an apologist for the go-along, get-along gang that runs the state, and his fawning Bush articles paved his way to DC. Shameful.

You guys can be brutal. I don’t want, in turn, to be an apologist for Burka. But he wrote a great article I keep within reach. (Hence I can cite it — unusual, you see, since my memory sucks. Nothing to do with those martinis. Shut up.) It’s in the January ‘06 issue, and is entitled “Elephants in the Room,” about R intraparty bickering and their inability to govern. And his article on Delay (”Don’t let the Door Hit You” — Great cover!) was not exactly sweetness and light. Delay’s a safe subject for criticism, of course, but Burka hit some others as well. So he does get some licks in — especially regarding the Speaker and especially lately. In fact, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by what seems like TM’s new direction. Harder-hitting. He does seem to lay off Perry, though.

Re: 23. Don’t Mess w/ Pink

I agree. And not just because I’m an Evan Smith ass-kisser.

/evan, call me

Not impressed–to follow on your examples, where was Burka the “insider” on the evolution DeLay’s ethical problems–he simply let others do the heavy lifting. And writing a piece on R intraparty bickering hindering thier governing–c’mon, how can you cover the Capitol and not write that story? I agree that TM has shown some guts–for example, the recent piece on tort “reform” was very impressive, but it’s not Burka who is penning these articles. As an example of his squirrelly ways, he recently wrote a piece on how Texas is getting hosed by the feds on reimbursement of hurricane expenses, but stops short of the obvious–how pathetic it is that we are treated this way with a Texan in the White House. I credit TMs new huevos to Levy and others who can still see their huevos, and who hate to see this state rush to chasing LA and MS for bottom-of-the-barrell status.

Re: 25. slickshusez

I don’t think he’s perfect, but who is? Read the first referenced piece. His writing about the Speaker was such that I’d be surprised if he ever gets another interview with him. I think we should applaud that and encourage additional reporting like it. We’re sounding a little like the R’s complaining about RINO’s. Not pure enough, so be gone.

Re: 26. Don’t Mess w/ Pink

You’re right.

But considering the prissy Speaker won’t talk to either the FWST or the SAEN, he’ll be in good company.