abide, v.
(əˈbaɪd)
Pa. tense abode (əˈbəʊd), also abided. Pa. pple. abode, also abided, abidden. Forms: inf. 1 abíd-an, 2–4 abid-en, 4–5 abyden, 3–6 abyde, 3– abide. ind. pres. 3rd sing. 1 abídeð, 1–4 abit, 4– abideth, 6– abides; (north. 3– abydes, -ys -is). pa. tense 1 abád, 2–3 abad (3 abed, abeod), 3–5 abod (abot), 3–6 abood, 5 abode; also 6–7 abidd, abid, 8– abided; (north. 3–6 abade, 5–6 abaid(e); pl. 1 abidon, 2–5 abiden, 5 abydyn, abide, aboden, 5–6 aboode, 5– abode. pa. pple. 1 abiden, 2–7 abiden, 3–6 abyden, 6 abydden, 6–7 abidd, abid, 6– abidden; also 6 aboded, 7 abode, 8 abided.
I.I intr. To wait, stay, remain.
†1.I.1 To remain in expectation, wait. Obs.
Obs. meaning obsolete, as in the entire DFL endorsement process.
†2.I.2 To wait before proceeding further; to pause, delay, stop. Obs.
†b.I.2.b To tarry over a work. Obs.
†3.I.3 To stop (absolutely); to come to a halt. Obs.
†4.I.4 To stay behind, to remain (after others have gone). Obs.
5.I.5 To remain after other things are taken; to remain over, be left. arch.
6.I.6 To remain without going away, to stay.
7.I.7 Of things: To remain, continue (in a place).
8.I.8 To remain in residence; to sojourn, reside, dwell.
9.I.9 To remain or continue in some state or action, to continue to be something.
10.I.10 To abide by: lit. to remain with; hence, to stand firm by, to hold to, remain true to.
11.I.11 To continue in existence, endure, stand firm or sure.
II.II trans. To wait for, await the issue of, endure.
12.II.12 To wait for, await; remain ready for, watch for, expect. (The object was orig. a gen.) a.II.12.a lit. of persons awaiting persons or things. arch.
b.II.12.b fig. of things (as fate, surprise, punishment) awaiting persons. arch.
†13.II.13 To wait till the end of, hear through. Obs.
14.II.14 To await defiantly, to face, to encounter, withstand, or sustain.
15.II.15 To await submissively, await the disposal of, submit to.
†16.II.16 To endure, suffer, bear, undergo, sustain. Obs.
17.II.17 To bear, endure, tolerate, put up with; rarely (now never) in a simple affirmative sentence, but in such as ‘I cannot abide, I can scarcely abide, who can abide?’
b.II.17.b With an infinitive object: To endure, bear.
From the Oxford English Dictionary
See any definitions that stirred you to your very marrow? No? I didn’t think so.
The identity of the victim and the date of death have been known for months. The only real question was the identity of the killer.
Now we know: it was Margaret Anderson Kelliher at the DECC arena with R.T. Rybak’s concession speech in her hip pocket.
The victim? Democracy.
If you weren’t there, you’re not a DFLer. No one speaks for you when the DFL gathers for their biennial endorsement/kiss of death. Why would any delegate, having put in at least 20 hours of convention time to arrive at the final vote, give any consideration to some worthless slug unwilling to waste an entire day of their life (broken into 3-4 separate caucuses/conventions) doing counterproductive intra-party brawling that can only harm the party’s chances this fall?
An endorsement means nothing except more hurled hypocrisy by the defenders of the faith. Endorsements lead to electoral victory as surely as a well-publicized case of teenaged chlamydia leads to the chairmanship of your local PTA.
The endorsement process is so odious it’s rarely fought out to the final punch. Simple human decency forces the losers into conceding, rather than punching it out until the bitter end which, without concessions, would invariably come around 5 a.m. the next day amidst some heartfelt obscenities and upraised fingers if not outright fistfights. (If I were Garrison Keillor and this was the State Fair, yes, I’d be asking you to name the last time someone got clocked at a DFL endorsement convention.)
ReNEW Minnesota had no impact other than to remind outstaters how noxious Twin Citians can be when they lumpenprole themselves into an elite voting bloc within the elite voting bloc.
Me? I’ll probably vote for Kelliher. No power on earth could get me to vote for Mr. Lois Quam of UnitedHealth Group fame and riches, and I would give my life if necessary to keep Susan “I slammed the prison door on Koua Fong Lee” Gaertner from ever again holding elected office. (I think sometimes my sarcasm keeps folks from understanding how thoroughly I detest prosecutors who use their office as a stepping stone to become U.S. Senators or state governors.)
A slightly different take from Brian Lambert.
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Links to make you think:
The consequences of intellectual bankruptcy
Charlieq on enumerating the homeless (a brilliant dissection of modern management by objective strategies)
MN Original had its premiere, proving that public TV can still be relevant
Greenwald on the SCOTUS selection process
For whom the cell tolls
Via Digby, a Fortune magazine cover (not used) that rivals The Gilded Age in its insights (keep magnifying, the subtle details are the whole point)
Why doesn’t the USA have a Nick Clegg?
Links to stink:
We don’t know Potosi about the history of this hemisphere
emptywheel on the torture tapes (and yes, I’ve been skipping these because they are very depressing)
Digby on forced pregnancy laws
War on Drugs continues, Salvadoran foot soldiers keep dying
Funding Kyrgyzstan
Arpaio’s tent city (scroll down to the pictures)
A review of the new Eliot Spitzer bio that’s so anti-Spitzer the WaPo gave it TWO [2] front page links
Mink-lined links:
Frank Rich on Goldman Sachs
“Serious profit”
Barney Frank: dereg, not porn, undermined SEC
CoxSlackers and BushWhackers
Chamber of Commerce walking point for Wall Street
Mick on Massey and Wellpoint
Robert Khuzami, the new enforcer
NBC skips straight to the punchline without retelling the joke (on us)
O’s solutions fatten bankers’ bottom lines
The national debt and a deficit of will
Fillibuttsters
Kink linken:
Nun rapers
Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie
Glenn Beck talks to god
Dixie lickin’ linkin’:
Maddow and Perlstein on the GOoP’s Southern Strategy
Phoenix Woman on Michael Steele’s moment of veritas
We have always summered on Oahu
The folks Limbaugh never mentions
Wes “Stars’n'Bars” Pruden sighting
Downloading yesterday’s movies to dope out tomorrow’s political strategies
Links to dinks:
Liberty University picks commencement speaker
Steve King sighting
Schumer sighting
Gryphen on Palin
Mike Allen: the frottage and the biopsy
Reynaldo Bignone gets 25 years
Andrew Romano
Kitchen sink links:
Greenwald on anthrax, Schumer, Kagan, etc.
The TED presentation TED wouldn’t post a video of (s’OK, YouTube’s got the good parts)
Ann Althouse is afraid of interviewers
Cockburn on pot, booms and busts
Bits 04.22.10
Tom Wolfe on Mark Twain
Belated b’day wishes to John Waters from James Wolcott
Evil clowns for hire
A new $5 Friday (update: $60 in the iPad fund now, send donations to Mark Gisleson, 1080 Raymond 13, St Paul MN 55108)(and yes, the iPad is now approved for use in Israel)
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Cartoonist Molly Norris wants to make May 20th “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.”
I think I’ll go pantless that day and will call it “Look at My Dick Day.” (Not a MN 1CD joke, but it could be.)
Because extremist Muslims issue death threats whenever someone draws Mohammed’s face, asshole cartoonists feel obliged to offend the 99% of non-protesting Muslims with gratuitously offensive images. These same cartoonists never depict priests actually sodomizing altar boys. They respect our boundaries on sex stuff and just imply the dirty deed. They could as easily imply Mohammed’s presence without showing their guesstimate of what his face looked like.
Some cartoonists are being offensive just because they can, not because they should. Using Molly Norris’s approach, I should never mock Dixie without first showing pictures of stepfathers having sex with their step-daughters and sons. No rips on Israel should be published without pictorial accompaniment of dead Gazans. Each time I mention Scientology, I should have an artist’s depiction of L. Ron Hubbard fondling underaged nymphs. Etc.
You can go there without going there. Norris chooses to go there, and wants everyone else to go there too.
Here’s a picture of Molly Norris.
I could easily photoshop her head onto a naked body, but that doesn’t mean I should. The 1st Amendment may give me that right, but common decency says you don’t do that unless you’ve got a point to make about sexual hypocrisy and I’m not aware of Norris being a sexual hypocrite.
Over a billion Muslims believe that it is blasphemy to show the Prophet Mohammed’s face. I personally find their religion to be a part of the triune crock (Judaism-Christianity-Islam), but it’s an easy line not to cross. Just like I don’t go around immersing crucifixes in urine or drawing swastikas on synagogues. Valid points that can be philosophically defended, but overly inflammatory to the point of being totally counterproductive.
Until Molly Norris draws a cartoon of a penis or vagina, I don’t think she has any business crossing a line that doesn’t need to be crossed. What she does in private is her own business, but if this protest goes off as planned any violent repercussions will be on her head.
You don’t bait a bear and then blame the bear for tearing your head off just like you don’t step into a crosswalk in front of a truck simply because you have a legal right to do so. There are nine billion ways to mock god without starting a religious war, or without being a total dick about it like Trey Parker and Matt Stone routinely are.
If you’ve never drawn a penis or vagina in your cartoons, don’t try to tell me this is about freedom of speech. The fact that Muslims regard Mohammed’s face like most of us do our genitalia is enough of a joke without being mean-spirited about it. And if you do draw dicks and clits, just publish your Mohammed cartoons in the same publications (i.e., not your local family newspaper).
