"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up." Lily Tomlin

[mountain grammy]

I hear ya, Lily, I hear ya!

As a liberal, I try to be optimistic, after all, conservatives are pissed off enough for all of us, but it's a struggle these days. My hope is there are many out there like me and THIS year they will actually vote!

GOTV 2014

[randys1]

1. Boy do I agree, and the part that frustrates me the most

are the tens of millions of drastically stupid people, i.e. the entire republican party and teaparty.

Not a brain cell among them, at least not an active one.

And their insistence on destroying America so they can blame Obama...

And that we are still talking about what they are doing, and we are not doing anything about it.

I am not sure what we can do, but nothing seems counterproductive.


https://twitter.com/DidTheyLetUVote

follow me and report voting obstruction...

[easychoice]

2. Lily was an optimist,lol.

I believe if women - all the women who can vote - voted a straight Democrat ticket, Government & life would change dramatically for the better within 6 years.
Yep, about 3 election cycles would do it.But how to get them to the polls?

[n2doc]

4. How do you get them to vote straight D?

Even in the last Vieginia Gov race, with as stark a choice as can be, there were still lots of women voting for the nutcase R. Fetus Worship and hussy hatred seem to be the big factors.

[easychoice]

6. Why do they,men and women, keep voting against their own wellbeing.

And don't tell me there isn't a war on women.I am a middle aged white guy that should be right in the middle of republicanism and even comfortable 'ol me can see it.Fact is,I find them totally nauseating.

[n2doc]

7. Of course there is a war on women's rights

The problem as I see it, some women seem to want to have their rights curtailed. Or at least they want to see other women's rights curtailed, which is probably closer to the truth.

I think it is foolish to think that, just because Repubs want to take women's rights away, that this automatically means all women will vote against that.

[easychoice]

8. It all just boggles the mind.

I had to show my own sister why just because she wouldn't do something doesn't mean she should try to stop me.People just don't have radios with 2 nobs on them.

[n2doc]

3. The only one who got ahead of that curve was George Carlin n/t

[Jefferson23]

5. She has a point, these days it can be pretty bad. I saw a clip of her once, where she does the

one ringie dingie thing skit,..she was funny. I guess she is retired?

[Jim Lane]

11. Not retired as of last year, anyway.

According to her Wikipedia bio: "In 2013, Lily Tomlin and wife Jane Wagner worked together on the film An Apology to Elephants, which Jane wrote and Lily narrated."

Speaking of Jane Wagner, she's credited as the sole author of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, from which the quotation in the OP is taken. It was a one-woman show performed by Lily Tomlin. I suppose it's understandable that it would be associated with Tomlin, who's so much better known, but I've always assumed that Wagner wrote the line

[Jefferson23]

12. Interesting, I wish I had talent like that..cool stuff. n/t

[William769]

9. I love me some Lilly Tomlin!

[Jamaal510]

10. Cynicism never solves anything, but taking action does. nt

[DirkGently]

13. Irony's getting hard, too.

We have national figures, some elected semi-legally, who regularly say things that seem like they must be pulling our collective legs, but which they apparently want us to take seriously. Worse still, lots of people do.