December 17, 2010
My boyfriend wants me to prove my honesty with a lie detector test
Dear Prudence,
My boyfriend of two years says that he will not ask me to marry him unless I take a lie detector test to pinpoint the truth about certain things that have gone on in our relationship. I have been faithful and honest to him throughout the time we have been dating, with the exception of getting caught in some white lies about things that occurred before we were together. He says that if I have lied about little things, then I could lie about big things, and he needs to know he can trust me. I've always been of the mind-set that what happened before you were with your partner is not really their business and doesn't affect the relationship. I refuse under any circumstances to take the test. I've made sacrifices and compromises to keep him happy, but his request is completely unreasonable, isn't it? Is it a sign of overall problems? What should I do?
—Am I Crazy?
Dear Crazy,
Your boyfriend is onto something. Before committing to marriage, I think everyone should have their sphincter activity monitored in response to important questions. That way, you establish a baseline of trust. So surely your boyfriend would be willing to be hooked up to a lie detector and asked the following: "Are you a pathologically controlling sicko?" "Do you think of yourself as more of a boyfriend or parole officer?" "In your best judgment, would marriage to you be a living hell?" I'm going to assume that you got caught in some "white lies" because your boyfriend was prying about previous lovers and you knew from experience that if you gave him any names, you would be mercilessly grilled. You should have just told him, "This is none of your business." But as you've discovered, the longer you stay with a crazy, manipulative person, the more you lose touch with normal behavior and begin to doubt your own sanity. Your boyfriend has done you a great favor by insisting on the lie detector. This has revealed to you that the most important question to be asked is the one you put to yourself, which is "What did I ever see in this lunatic?"
Your boyfriend is onto something. Before committing to marriage, I think everyone should have their sphincter activity monitored in response to important questions. That way, you establish a baseline of trust. So surely your boyfriend would be willing to be hooked up to a lie detector and asked the following: "Are you a pathologically controlling sicko?" "Do you think of yourself as more of a boyfriend or parole officer?" "In your best judgment, would marriage to you be a living hell?" I'm going to assume that you got caught in some "white lies" because your boyfriend was prying about previous lovers and you knew from experience that if you gave him any names, you would be mercilessly grilled. You should have just told him, "This is none of your business." But as you've discovered, the longer you stay with a crazy, manipulative person, the more you lose touch with normal behavior and begin to doubt your own sanity. Your boyfriend has done you a great favor by insisting on the lie detector. This has revealed to you that the most important question to be asked is the one you put to yourself, which is "What did I ever see in this lunatic?"
—Prudie
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Day Fourteen: Zappadan
We're Only in it For the Money. Part 2.
1. Bow Tie Daddy
2. Harry You're a Beast
3. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body
4. Absolutely Free
5. Flower Punk
6. Hot Poop
1. Bow Tie Daddy
2. Harry You're a Beast
3. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body
4. Absolutely Free
5. Flower Punk
6. Hot Poop
The world mourns the death of Captain Beefheart
R.I.P. Captain Beefheart. 1/15/1941-12/17/2010
Don Van Vliet, better know to Rock & Rollers as Captain Beefheart, passed away today at the age of 69 after a battle with multiple sclerosis. Van Vliet's management confirmed his death to Rolling Stone.
Not Krugman AGAIN...
Better grab the bottle Wild Turkey before digging in here. This bastard can ruin your day in a fast minute.
When the financial crisis struck, many people — myself included — considered it a teachable moment. Above all, we expected the crisis to remind everyone why banks need to be effectively regulated.
How naïve we were. We should have realized that the modern Republican Party is utterly dedicated to the Reaganite slogan that government is always the problem, never the solution. And, therefore, we should have realized that party loyalists, confronted with facts that don’t fit the slogan, would adjust the facts.
Faux News viewers the most uninformed people on the planet
Science has finally proven it: People who get their news from Fox News are the most stupid fucking idiots to ever exist. These dumbshits have not clue number one wtf is going on - with anything. Evah.
Say like believing that Republicans opposed TARP. Christ Jesus...it was a Big Business Republican program created by the Big Business Republican administration of George W. Bush. A Republican. Shit like that. Fox News viewers are dangerous because these loons don't just quietly meditate on all the wrong shit they know — they have to talk about it, to everyone. Which explains why you have had to endlessly tell complete strangers who stop you on the street every day to shut the hell up about Barack Obama being an African Soviet or whatever.
Science proves that Fox News viewers believe completely wrong-ass-twisted-around junk about the stimulus, the economy, taxes, health care, the automobile industry bailout, unemployment, science, math and weather. Fox News viewers also have terrible taste in clothing, houses/trailers, music and religion. But that part got left out of the report.
<via TPM>
Day Thirteen: Zappadan
From the album We're Only In It For the Money. 1968. Part 1. Part two on day 15
1. Are You Hung Up?
2. Who Needs the Peace Corps
3. Concentration Moon
4. Mom and Dad
1. Are You Hung Up?
2. Who Needs the Peace Corps
3. Concentration Moon
4. Mom and Dad
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