Top Comments 6-11-08 - Herding Kittens

I spent several hours today with my nieces and their friend. An eight year old, a nine year old, and a six year old, all in a state of heightened excitement at the prospect of a trip to the public library. Oh, my.

They were all in a tizzy, and anxiously inquired whether they needed to bring their purses. They all brought them, of course, but then two decided to leave theirs in the car - asked me, in fact, "Do I have to bring my purse in?".  Uh, no. The neighbor child did bring hers because she was carrying her mom's library card. Works for me.

We had to do the pre-going out litany before we left the house, and again before we walked into the library.

"How do we behave in the library?"
 "Quietly"
"Right. And no burping. No farting. No running. Be polite...."

Does any of this sound familiar to you parental types out there?

Once inside, they beelined for the children's section, and swarmed the shelves in search of books worthy to checkout. What makes the cut in a little girl's mind? Cinderella made it; honeybees didn't. Van Gogh made it (the six year old got that one); puppies didn't. We also ended up bringing home a movie and a CD - princess themed, I believe, as well as a Disney songbook. We were treated to a capella renditions of "A Spoonful of Sugar", "Supercalifragilistic", and "Winnie the Pooh" on our way home.

Comments:

From Land of Enchantment:

OPOL created a wonderful diary entitled Ripples in a Pond - What One Person Can Do in support of the Netroots Nation Scholarship program. shermanesq had a good comment, a reminder to us all that no contribution is too small.

From va dare:

In reference to McCain's explosive temper, fetboy asks, 'What's the opposite of classy?' and Meteor Blades knocks it out of the park.

From Mystery Submitter:

pvmuse picks up on a really great and BAD idea on the McCain Website shop.

This great comment was in the very funny thread after the exceptionally funny diary by InsultComicDog.

From bubbanomics:

JeffLieber put together another hilarious diary today, but the tip jar and response were even funnier to me.  Pretty rare for someone to get the better of JeffLieber, but psilocynic appears to have done it.

diary
Jeff's comment
psilocynic

In a diary I put together on the suicide of Major Lance Waldorf, Inland offered a real vision of heaven...

To nominate a particularly incisive, beautiful, or funny comment for inclusion, please email us at TopComments AT gmail DOT com. If you include your Daily Kos handle, we won't have to refer to you as "Mystery Submitter"!
My picks:

MikeTheLiberal gets off a good one on Fox News.

Downthread from ShawnGBR's tip jar is a foray into Futurama, started by BenderBRodriguez.

Top Mojo is provided by the always heroic sardonyx!

Top Mojo (cskendrick/sardonyx-style) excluding search-identifiable tip jars, first diary comments, and Cheers and Jeers:

  1) He can't run from this one by Muzikal203 — 158
  2) I want to see Bush throw a tantrum about this by shpilk — 155
  3) This needs to be tied to his 100 years comment by discocarp — 148
  4) A McCain tantrum would be nice too :) by LithiumCola — 137
  5) Oh, it's still going on .. by shpilk — 130
  6) Tell this to my son - Stop lossed by Maura Satchell — 122
  7) he was an asshole BEFORE by Jeffersonian Democrat — 118
  8) .. by shpilk — 117
  9) Do not blame it on PTSD. by Anarchofascist — 113
10) Obama needs to keep pounding on issues like this by Jeff Y — 112
11) This one was brilliant by InsultComicDog — 109
12) Just eliminate the first two letters ... by Meteor Blades — 103
13) Yep. This one, for sure by begone — 102
14) this would be my number 1 by Jeffersonian Democrat — 95
15) I found a product that disses McCain by itself by madhaus — 95
16) Imagine... by leftyboy666 — 94
17) Instant Commercials by Steven R — 94
18) Well, I'm 71, just like John McCaim. by LEP — 83
19) The more I think about this, by LithiumCola — 81
20) thank you for this excellent diary by valadon — 80
21) Well you raise an interesting point that I am by bhouston79 — 79
22) To Play us out? by Jimmy Crackcorn — 77
23) Bill Moyers is an American Hero. by Bindle — 72
24) Well. Moyers knew they were going by Muzikal203 — 71
25) Respect bacteria. by kalmoth — 70
26) Tony Campolo (a progressive Baptist pastor) ... by leevank — 68
27) Ah, the humanity. Can you imagine how much pain by ammaloy — 67
28) Oh, and LOL and props to poster who noted by begone — 66
29) I've always felt by nilajean — 64
30) "McCain: A Candidate We Just Cannot Afford." by Blue Waters Run Deep — 64
31) When you are in deep, deep depression... by David Kroning — 64

Top Mojo with No Exclusions:

  1) tip jar here by slinkerwink — 659
  2) Tip Jar by LithiumCola — 528
  3) Tips for insomniacs by InsultComicDog — 508
  4) Tip-jar. Don't thank me, thank C.D! by ShawnGBR — 437
  5) Tips by wils02 — 415
  6) Tips for Kucinich and Wexler and for finally by One Pissed Off Liberal — 371
  7) Tips/Recs for the lovely ladies by dansac — 310
  8) tips for broader outreach by Deoliver47 — 273
  9) Tip jar by Dave G — 213
10) Is John McCain emotionally stable enough by Yosef 52 — 192
11) Tips for John Kerry, Barack Obama and by TomP — 190
12) He can't run from this one by Muzikal203 — 158
13) I want to see Bush throw a tantrum about this by shpilk — 155
14) This needs to be tied to his 100 years comment by discocarp — 148
15) A McCain tantrum would be nice too :) by LithiumCola — 137
16) Oh, it's still going on .. by shpilk — 130
17) Tell this to my son - Stop lossed by Maura Satchell — 122
18) he was an asshole BEFORE by Jeffersonian Democrat — 118
19) .. by shpilk — 117
20) Do not blame it on PTSD. by Anarchofascist — 113
21) Obama needs to keep pounding on issues like this by Jeff Y — 112
22) This one was brilliant by InsultComicDog — 109
23) Just eliminate the first two letters ... by Meteor Blades — 103
24) Yep. This one, for sure by begone — 102
25) I found a product that disses McCain by itself by madhaus — 95
26) this would be my number 1 by Jeffersonian Democrat — 95
27) Imagine... by leftyboy666 — 94
28) Instant Commercials by Steven R — 94
29) if you laughed, please rec by Richieville — 90
30) Tips ... by ratmach — 87