Now that SP has gotten us migrated and secured quicker than a raft made of 55 gallon drums heading from Cuba to Miami, and tomorrow is a day off for all you bankers and civil servants, let’s pop a few corks and look at the crazy shit whirling around us.
One thing you can always count on Team Blue for: Keeping it classy! Sexism and xenophobia worthy of their boogiemen.
Rand Paul makes it personal. “He would bankrupt the nation. We’re very lucky John McCain’s not in charge because I think we’d be in perpetual war,” Paul added.
Yeah, wouldn’t want THAT to happen.
Fevered dreams. Or nightmares. I’m still astonished that some people can remember to breathe.
When you want that pussy hat to be the envy of all who see. Truly the Final Frontier.
And finally, there’s really nothing that politics can’t fuck up. It makes me want to drink. Uh oh.
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Occasionally I start getting cynical on Rand Paul, then he goes off and does something like rhetorically slapping the fossil. Good on him.
Rand Paul is the wutang rep for politics.
Rand is up from the 36 chambers.
Sunday Night Blues *grabs the Fender guitar*
Luckily my boss is on vacation this week and I’m only working a few days before I move my parents to their new sprawling house in the country. After years of them living almost two hours away, they are now going to be only a 15 minutes drive. I’m feeling a sense of dread/responsibility since they are in their mid-70s and are in the “one medical crisis a year” phase of life. And since I’m their closest offspring, it will be up to be to step in whenever they need help.
Funny how I go from the Black Sheep of the family to the responsible one.
Good man, LH. It ain’t easy, but it is responsible of you.
LH, my wife and I joke on a regular basis about selling and moving to a secret location in another state. OK, its not 100% a joke.
“Happiness is having a large, loving family. *pause* “That lives in another state.” – Old George Burns joke.
I live in NorCal (pity me, please) and there used to be a radio program with a local doctor, Dean Edell. When I had to drive to work, oh so long ago, I would sometimes listen to him. One day, he’s talking about near-death experiences. One guy said he was surrounded by his dead relatives and Edell said, (paraphrasing): “So heaven is where you spend eternity with all of your relatives? Doesn’t sound like heaven to me.”
I can relate. When I moved back here ten years ago or so, I bought a lot and put up a metal building for a shop. I then built a small apartment upstairs. My folks liked the area and bought the lot next door and built a house. I left home at 18 for a reason, but what do you do?
A friend of mine was building his ‘man cave’ as an outbuilding. I went over to give him a hand. When I got there he was framing up a small porch but was so angry he couldn’t speak. He calmed down after a while and informed me that it was no longer going to be a man cave. His in-laws found out about it and were going to move in.
Wow. That is stepping on toes there. Did his Mrs invite them?
yeah, the Mrs. told them about the construction and they invited themselves but she wouldn’t uninvited them. It was a bad situation.
Crickey. Be a shame if something happened to it before they moved in (hint, hint).
Luckily my parents are cemented into their current State. They have visited the various places I have lived (except NYC which was beyond the pale) but nothing can move them. I want to return to the northern Rockies which is too cold for them. I respect anybody who cares for their family though. It can be tough sometimes.
Yeah, I hear you. My parents are 600 miles from us. My father is 86 but still pretty damn sparky. Mom is not in good health though. I know if we were close, my wife would be over there helping them out all of the time. But it’s what it is. I am starting to worry about them though and can’t imagine them ever leaving that house they’ve been in all these years for anywhere else.
Both my parents turn 80 this year and so far they are still active. I hunted deer and turkey with my dad a few years and he still hunts each year. He has backed off some on his back country motorcycling but still gets out for regular rides in the desert. The last time I was home and we were hiking he mentioned he hoped that he would die while on a ride out there while pointing at the hills. I gotta respect that.
I was the black sheep of the family too, but ending up jobless after the collapse of 2008 and with Mom having been diagnosed with dementia meant I was the one who wound up helping Dad play caregiver.
You are a good man!
LH: Plan ahead. Medical and financial powers of attorney at a minimum. Get organized while you can.
Humungus.
Gonna be in the same situation here soon.
And like Ted, have been the rambling black sheep of the family.
My parents have spent the last thirty years of their lives taking care of relatives, and their time to be helped is coming soon . So it will be back to Texas soon for me. Considering coastal areas around Freeport or Las Palacios (sp). If anybody knows anything about those areas.
There seems to be a theme here: Libertarians and black sheep…
Another black sheep here, back in Memphis for the same reason. Definitely a pattern.
Please. There’s nothing more frustrating as an ER doc than when an elderly patient with an advanced disease like cancer or dementia that has been there for years comes in with a life threatening condition that would require aggressive therapy to stabilize, but which would ultimately result in more suffering for the patient, and the family has never even thought about what to do in that situation.
Even worse is the family “decision maker” who has to call forty other family members when I’ve got like two minutes to either go all in or let their loved one go. I can understand when it’s a young patient that seemed perfectly healthy two hours ago, in fact, I’m the first to sympathize, but not when it’s some 90 year old nursing home patient that hasn’t been able to feed themselves for two years.
I realize I might sound like I’m without compassion, but trust me, there’s nothing a doctor hates more than doing brutal procedures on someone that isn’t going to benefit from them. I’ve had long talks with my family regarding what to do in the event I’m ever unable to articulate my own desires and I also have legal documentation to that effect, and so do they. If you haven’t, do it. We are required to assume you want balls to the wall treatment otherwise.
About 8-10 years ago my sister came up with the idea to ask my parents what they wanted to do if one died before the other. I’m glad we did because a couple of years later one passed away rather suddenly and we had to move to make things happen. My sister now has to deal with the day to day dealings with the remaining one (she lives closer), while I have to talk to them on the phone whenever I can. When I’m down there I spend most of my time with the remaining one. At the time my sister came up with the idea I thought — and still think — it was a good idea.
My folks, having gone through this process with several relatives, have very clear plans set up. They know what they don’t want. They have even been discussing plans to move to doctor assisted suicide states. They are pretty cool.
The other day I was talking to mom and just for something to talk about told her about the situation with the “other site” and how enjoyable the new place is. She told me that in I guess the mid 80’s she was involved in a school text book battle in Texas. A magazine called Reason sent a writer out to cover the story and had an interview with her. She couldn’t remember his name. I had never heard that story from her before.
SP has a simple plan. “The moment I detect any Alzheimer’s symptoms in you, double tap to the head.”
I sleep with one eye open.
Don’t forget any birthdays or anniversaries, man
There’s many upsides to being married to someone like that.
But it does have its dangers.
Seconded. Speaking from ongoing personal experience.
I absolutely agree with both of you. Make an awful situation easier for everybody by having discussions on “end of life decisions” early and confirmed in writing.
A few years back a friend got a call from the sheriff in Avoyelles parish. They requested he go down and see his mother. There was a problem.
When he got there she was ranting and stomping around the house with a K-38. Apparently the neighbor had walked by her house and she thought he was stealing flowers from her yard. She was going to shoot the guy. After some incoherent ranting she said
“And I cant sleep at night! I can hear your daddy all night! He is in the attic with those whores!”
Then she shot four holes in the ceiling.
Good times!
When mom was in the nursing home she’d rant about how Dad must be having an affair with one of the local elected official’s daughters.
It was a relief that she died of a massive heart attack before becoming a vegetable. (Well, that and after little enough time in the nursing home that the LTC insurance should have covered everything no questions.)
“A friend.”
My old man is wily when it comes to money, and with my wife being an attorney, most of this stuff has been sussed out. Minimal tax exposure too!
Jesus, that Other Site is just sad today. The newest article has 28 comments, and half of them are a certain troll screaming for attention.
They had an article? Good on them. Well done, that site.
Hilariously, Virginia Postrel wrote something about Victorian umbrellas that they posted today.
“Where, where are the filthy plebs that used to harass me?!?”
I’m sure she’s a happier and healthier person, in and of herself, without people ruining her life’s work.
Who’s ruining the kidney she donated?
Yeah, I saw that and was…I’m not sure bemused is the right word. Shocked apathy?
To make it sadder, it was actually from the print edition.
Please, someone write Postrel and ask her to contribute an article to this site.
And the Judge. And Stossel.
Dear John Stossel,
I mustache you a question. Will you write for freedom? Will you write for glib?
*Narrow gaze*
(In case Switzy is busy)
What if you knew of a retired judge? What if that judge was of the same political bent as you? What if you asked him to write an article for your start-up website? What if you told him many (some) people would admire him even more if he did? What if he told you to go pound sand?
Everyone involved here needs a paddling.
Paddling the school canoe? Oh, you better believe that’s a paddling.
Let me know when she’s coming by so that I can make some catcalls.
Unfortunately, all of the filthy plebs who mercilessly harassed poor Ginny all of these years, have been replace by dajjal, exclusively, from the last I saw over there.
Yeah, it’s gotten pretty bad. There are a handful of regulars left. But, so much blather from dajjal and his ilk.
It’s time to throw down the banhammer.
Getting reeeeeal close.
wac-a-mole!
I was wondering what would happen when a troll showed up.
Mixed feelings. A good troll can start some lively and informative discussions – been awhile, however, since that’s been the case.
Shit! Just about to write the same thing.
For some reason you’re reminding me of a Morton Downey Jr. Show audience.
Now where are those piranhas?
I think it’s time the lesson that this isn’t HnR begins.
*unzips*
God bless you, you holographic kraken.
Go on…
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Amen.
*laughter*
Is that like Thor’s hammer?
you need to reel yourself in, or its coming down.
Fair warning.
as you wish
Given sloopys wording, I was thinking something with a reel
Bunk, I will be in it.
I think people should be careful mentioning this place there.
not that it matters, i just think its better kept on the DL
Have you done something awful to Conway Twitty, or is that an alien?
No judgment, just need to know where to file it in the fapbook.
I can’t imagine Conway looking more unfortunate than he does…but there it is
Google, “Wayne Cochran”
I’ve explained it in the Sat night links, and the Sunday (earlier) links. not doing it again.
Not a bad idea now that most have joined the migration.
I never mentioned it over there but it was inevitable. If the site is going to grow like it should everyone will know it. It won’t be a safe place forever, and thats ok. This should become what Reason should have been.
Hasn’t that particular troll, who shall not be named aloud lest he may hear, also been seen on these boards ?
Lucy isn’t a he.
Fortunately. I had my H&R spycam on just now.
Editors: You all know why you’re here again.
*silence*
Writer 1: I have the untitled Sunday link ready to go and …
Editors: SILENCE YOU… *unintelligible mumbling* THERE WILL BE NO SUNDAY ARTICLE! LET THEM EAT CAKE!
Writer 1: But sir, we’ve lost 90% of our commentariat as of 900 hours this morning…
Editors: SILENCE! Listen, bring back Dalmia! And that Weigel guy, where is he? We were popular back then…
Writer 3: Sir…
Editors: *screaming* I SAID SHUT UP AND LISTEN! FIND WEIGEL! And Bring back Dalmia And get someone from New Republic and someone from Jezebel.
Writer 1: Sir, our front lines are decimated, the Glibertarians… they’re getting 5 times the comments we’re getting now, no one is left here except for the trolls and a few low quality commenters, and the squirrels…
Writer 3: Sir, the squirrels, no one can post, the squirrels are out of control. We asked for permission to upgrade the server 17 years ago and you still haven’t provided the budget.
Writer 2: But some potential good news, sir, some of the old commenters came back this morning, and they tried to post, but the squirrels, sir we have to upgrade the…
Editors: SHUT UP! THEY CAME TO MOCK US! BAN THEM! AND YOU’RE FIRED! *silence* Robby, you’re in charge now.
Robby: *steps forward, brushes hair back from left side with single flick of wrist, raises cocktail glass with right hand* We will make Cosmotaria great again! I will make these writers here TOW THE COSMO LION! WE WILL CRUSH THESE GLIBERTARIANS! COSMOS SHALL REIGN FOR 1000 YEARS!
to be cont…
/spycam off
“Adam Domby is an assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston, where he teaches the Civil War and Reconstruction….As the Presidential campaign progressed, Domby came to realize that, were Trump to win, he would be tasked with guarding history, especially Southern and race-related history, from the leader of the free world.”
Who do we turn to when the world needs a hero?
Can’t have Larry protecting history, he’s an icky Christian.
(Wait, do cucumbers get like a Limbo deal if they convince kids that Jesus is awesome?)
If this doesn’t make you laugh, it’s a sure sign you’re going to Hell.
This really was an amazing bit of writing/marketing. Here’s hoping the creators are up to their armpits in hookers and blow right now.
I’m disappointed I couldn’t find the finale of Imitation of Life on Youtube. There’s one of the great unintended comedies of all time.
Those “pirates” sound Mexican. Have you checked their papers?
I love the self importance of an assistant history professor thinking he is tasked to do anything.
I think I’m pretty good at what I do, but I’d certainly never have the hubris to think I was ever responsible for safeguarding medicine.
He means guarding fake history
The best thing about boogeymen is that it gives certain people a chance to put on a superman outfit and feel like they aren’t useless anymore. This is why we must have boogeymen.
I think you meant bogeyman
Boogy-person is the enlightened way to say it.
That was something, even at the time.
My grandfather always said ‘boogeyman’ or just ‘booger’ for short.
Because non-progressives are the ones always re-writing history?
Why do wines from the regions not known for quality wine cost so much? $29 for a bottle of wine from Virginia! Really? Sure, it costs more to produce wine where the geography and climate don’t cooperate, but why would people pay more for it?
why would people pay more for it?
because people are idiots?
Maybe out of a “buy local” mentality.
I always buy my really cheap wine from the local liquor store.
Nice…
*applause*
The nearest Total Wine is a good 70 miles from here.
Shit, that is the most expensive “cheap wine” you can get.
Ok, ok. Sometimes I get the Mad Dog, or the Boones Farm from the gas station. We don’t have any 7/11’s.
What da word?
I make pretty good wine. Here is how I do it:
I mash a gallon of muscadines in a five gallon bucket. I pour in 4 gallons of distilled water. I pour from the first 5 gal bucket into a second one with cheesecloth over the top of it. I then stir in 8 lbs of sugar. I activate and mix in the yeast. I decant into the empty plastic jugs that the distilled water came in and fit a ballon over the mouth.
Nine weeks later I syphon that into wine bottles (avoiding the yeast that has settled to the bottom- the dregs), cork and rack. It is as good as any wine you can buy at any price. It’s freakin’ wine for god’s sake. It is marketed like diamonds, puffed up with fake value.
Once you get the basics down, it’s surprising how easy it is to make alcohol. At the present, I’ve got ~30 gallons of beer, ~6 gallons of wine, ~5 gallons of mead, and a small amount of applejack sitting in my basement. All home made.
Do you trap muscadines down by the creek, or are they some other thing?
I would think you have muscadines in your area? No?
They are pretty easy to catch if you use the right bait.
You have to watch those muscadines when you take em off the hook, BIG SHARP TEETH! They’re like a cross between a pike and a snakehead!
My great grandfather immigrated from southern Italy and made wine in his basement until he died. My parents received it in gallon jugs which they just called it “dago red” and as a young kid it was my well watered intro to wine. I have never had the guts to try and replicate his good stuff.
I have some old gallon wine bottles. Not sure where all of them are from, but a couple of them are from England, they have the embossed stamp on them, one has the date March 1887. I think all of them are mid-late 1800s. They’re called demijohns.
I bought a big green jug with a straw jacket on it. As I understand it, it’s an Italian wine vessel called a “fiasco”. It’s currently sitting top of my kitchen cabinets as a decoration.
Very cool demijohns. His had partially scratched labels that said “Gallo” if I remember right.
Marketing. Charge too little and no-one takes you seriously. That said, White Hall did very well under their last winemaker.
The more important question is why does any wine cost $29? It’s fermented grape juice.
Oops..Suthenboy beat me to it. What he said
I drink boxed wine made by Bota. It’s stay fresher over time and is surprisingly good too.
I’m not a big wine guy, but I’ll venture into the wine section every now and then. It seems like putting it in a box becoming more and more popular. I understand why. Oxygen and sunlight are two of wine’s biggest enemies. In a bag, inside a cardboard box all but eliminates those two evils.
Also I advise to not discount “screwtop” just by the top. I have several winemaker friends who have switched over to screwtops because quality corks are getting harder to find and the new tops do exactly what MS says above.
A part of me really wonders how much of wine connoisseurship is psychological (ie, people convincing themselves that they’re doing something profound and meaningful when they drink wine, when all they’re doing is telling themselves a really interesting story). I live near one of the world’s best-known Pinot noir regions, and lived in California for 10 years before that, so I feel like I observe enough of these folks to ask the question.
Also: obligatory Netflix recommendation of the documentary “Somm” any time wine drinking is mentioned.
Three years in Monterey wine country myself. The best wine tasting video I ever saw was by John Cleese who summed it up perfectly, “If you taste a wine and you like it, it is good wine.”
It’s TRUMP! It’s classy! That’s why it costs more.
😉
My palate isn’t developed enough to notice the difference between a $8 bottle of wine and a $30 bottle of wine. I usually buy by the grape variety. Unfortunately, the liquor store was out of the lower-priced Shiraz that was my last Shiraz case purchase. And only one of the lower-priced Malbecs is still available.
Some years back an old roommate of mine worked as a bartender at a posh hotel in West Hollywood. He had a guest who came in frequently and spent LOTS of $ on good alcohol. One night he was there when I was hanging out at the bar with some friends when he was there. The subject of wine came up, and one of my friends asked if there’s really a difference between decent $15 – $30 wine and they expensive stuff.
The man was happy to oblige. He had my roommate bring out three different bottles of wine, all priced at $200+ each (I think one bottle was nearly $400). After we got through those, he suggested we check out another local restaurant with a great wine selection. I was elected to drive, and he gave a buddy of mine his credit card, telling him not to lose it, but otherwise to charge everything we ordered to that.
That guy must’ve spent over $5000 on wine and some food that night, sharing it all with four or five guys he just met.
Anyway, I can say from what I tasted that night, some pricey wine is REALLY good. Not sure I’d spend my own money on it. But, I sure am glad this guy was feeling generous enough to educate us.
Dang! I blame the good beer I’m drinking tonight on the repeated “when he was there.”
(cue ominous music)
“From Roosevelt to Trump, Japanese Americans see similarity in executive orders signed 75 years apart
“In 1942, as the federal government began forcibly removing Japanese-American families from their California homes and putting them in camps, some universities across the U.S. offered to admit college students headed for internment.
“Washington University was among them, and one of those 30 students was Gyo Obata, who co-founded Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, now known as HOK, an international architectural firm with its home office in St. Louis.
“Obata said the similarities between the Roosevelt and Trump executive orders could not be overlooked.”
Jesus Christ I hate that these fuckers continually make me defend someone like Trump.
Yep. The more outrageous their shrieking, the more I’m inclined to think Trump’s doing at least some good just pissing off the right people and making them expose themselves for the hysterical, power hungry harpies they are.
My family got imprisoned by that Democrat fuckstick FDR, and these idiotic comparisons piss me off.
Explicitly race-based internment (including that of natural born citizens) is on a whole different planet than banning immigration from seven countries. It’s not like Trump proposed the internment of all Arab-Americans.
I don’t like Trump, but fucking hell, these TDS-afflicted morons make me want to wear a M.A.G.A. hat just to piss them off.
This is the most common comment I’ve heard from never Trumper conservative, libertarians, independents, moderates, and blue dog democrats in the last month. Progressives are digging their own grave.
Can I donate shovels?
It is all projection. How many of them have I heard calling for re-education camps over the last 8 years? How many calls to shoot NRA members? It is all, every bit of it, projection.
I might say the same if there were any of those around here.
That’s because most of the people making the comparisons don’t know anything beyond a cursory glance at the Wikipedia entry of whatever they happen to be writing about.
I fantasize about putting one of those hats on and going to one of the anti Trump protests–please put your hands on me so i can turn you into pulp.
But FDR is still one of the best presidents ever. Right?
From the Newsweek link…
His poll numbers were low when Donald Trump picked him for vice president. Many doubted Pence would have been able to win a second term as governor.I find this to be incredibly unlikely for a variety of reasons.
The fact that Vice President Mike Pence played a major role in pushing Flynn out is a sign that Pence is already asserting himself with Trump, and it seems clear that Pence will not stand by and allow our foreign policy to be damaged, or our national security to be endangered.That’s an interesting take. Wait, I thought Bannon was running the White House? Now it’s Pence?
As this author wrote on January 22 on History News Network, Pence could, even if Trump vehemently opposed it, invoke the 25th Amendment, Section 4 with the approval of a majority of the cabinet, which would make Pence “Acting President.” Some might call it a “palace coup” but Pence could make a convincing case that it is too risky to leave Trump in power.That has exactly 0% chance of happening. And would also require congress, I believe.
Pence faces a great burden, and whether one agrees with his own agenda on domestic and foreign policy, it seems clear that the Vice President would do what he feels compelled to do if the situation further deteriorates.WTFF??? This dude makes the stretch from “lying to Pence got Flynn fired” all the way to “Pence is probably seriously considering trying to kick Trump out of office and take over.” Of all the labels out there, who wants to be “the mouthpiece of the Republican establishment”? I guess Newsweek?
Tag fail. Sorry…
If Pence and the Cabinet wanted to depose Trump under the 25th Amendment, 2/3 of each house of Congress would have to agree with them.
It’s as difficult as impeachment, the usual fantasy of those who oppose a Pres.
Plus the cabinet and VP. It’s practically impossible and the writer implies that Pence is probably considering it right now, so that he can swoop in and save the day when everything *really* goes to shit.
That type of thought process could probably considered a mild case of clinical psychosis.
Can anyone prove Pence isn’t thinking about it?
You didn’t see the Sally Kohn tweet?
Straightforward from here:
1. Impeach Trump & Pence
2. Constitutional crisis
3. Call special election
4. Ryan v Clinton
5. President Clinton
Between the election and the coronation there were endless fantastic dreams of Deus Ex Machina swooping in to save them from a Trump presidency. It failed to happen. Now they fantasize about equally unrealistic scenarios where they take things into their own hands.
They are completely unhinged. They have tossed away the masks. Lo and behold, they really are the lunatic fringe we suspected they were.
But that led to some hilarious tweets making fun of that.
The best were Jonah Goldberg
@ComfortablySmug
And the overall best I’ve seen due to truth, Sonny Bunch
Yeah, those scenarios are going to work just as well as a Jill Stein recall effort. The Trump wine flying off the shelves of Wegmans is a good analogy of what these people are going to achieve.
This x 1000. I don’t like Trump at all, but after seeing the response of the Hillary dead-enders to the election, I’m absolutely relieved she lost.
I like to imagine the relationship between Trump and Pence as the opposite of all the Obama/Biden memes that floated around the internet for the last 8 years.
They’ve relegated themselves to desperately hoping Pence will be Brutus to Orange Julius Caesar.
“Keeping it classy”
Oh please keep it up
What a strange notion.
Placing bets on the Westminster Dog show
I am making a call = Miniature American Shepherd #12 wins it all.
“Sir, at this show, only the dogs have been fixed.”
I just saw that animal strut its stuff. It had the mark of a champion. Also, I think Trump will threaten the judges to ensure an American breed wins.
I just saw that animal strut its stuff.
Did he drop a deuce? Ya know, like at the races.
What’s that you say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxgEHNKfNvw
The technical term is “unloading”
/Dog Track degenerate gambler
Ok, that is good to know. I haven’t been to the dog track since mid to late 80’s. The things I learn here.
Some of my fondest memories of the ~20 months i lived in London were visiting this place
I still have the t shirt i won (*well, it was more like a consolation prize: you got a t shirt for free if you showed receipts for over 100quid in bets in a day).
I’ve been to this place once before the good people of Massachusetts banned it. It was already well past its prime and a bit sad. But watching dogs racing was still fun.
I’ve long found it weird how horse racing is considered so classy but dog racing is horrid trash. Obviously, it’s down to the social class of the people involved in each sport.
I don’t think show dogs are fixed. Ruins their being an exemplar of the breed.
I got big money on thiago santos and cezar ferreria–ufc halifax tonight.
I bet the foreigner wins
Are we actually capable of making Reason rue the day? I feel bad because Reason is the ONE and ONLY site that I freely gave money to and enlightened me to a more libertarian perspective. I feel like I owe them.
Sorry. I lied. I once gave to Le Quebecois Libre but they’ve since unfortunately ceased operation.
Get a subscription to the print edition. It remains very good.
Are we actually capable of making Reason rue the day?
I’ve been keeping an eye on this and it hasn’t even taken into account this place yet. In a couple of weeks, that might look really, really bad.
Someone else has pointed out that the magazine isn’t a huge source of funding for the foundation. Still, the magazine losing its influence (i.e. clicks) will probably cut into the editorial staff eventually.
Their scale seems to be upside down or is there something I am missing?
Yeah, I noticed that. Then I realized that “down is worse”.
That’s what I thought, too. The numbers on the left appear to be the global ranking.
Interesting how it seems to show the steady decline as the TDS went balls to the wall, then it went back up a bit after the election, as if people were hoping the TDS would subside. Then another decline as the TDS continued post-election. Sharp drop right at the end, as it became unbearable.
Got it. The y axis is Ranking not Traffic. Makes sense now.
I would feel bad too…if they hadn’t let go of principle and acted the way they did. I found the proggie speak unbearable and that isnt even taking into account what they did to Sloopy. That was just pure spite. There was an ever present feel of contempt in the air for the commentariat.
I dont hate them but I am deeply, deeply disappointed in them. My money will go here from now on.
Maybe I was out that week but what did they do to Sloopy? I missed that completely.
There was an incident where Sloopy’s mom, a nurse, was roughed up by police for standing up to them (can’t remember the exact details). Reason refused to report on it (something about it being a “local issue”).
That seemed to be the last straw for a lot of people after the change in editorial tone since Trump’s election.
Sloopy’s mother was attending a basketball game. One of the players had a life threatening asthma attack. She is a nurse and began giving medical assistance. Despite the rules governing situations like that the ref refused to stop the game. She became incensed at the ref and began giving him what for (verbally). Cop jumps on her, body slams a nearly 70 y/o woman to the floor, knee in the back, cuffs, and she ended up spending the night in jail.
Reason refused to report on the story because it was ‘too local’ and went to the trouble of sending him a very curt email to that effect, whatever the fuck that means. Instead they ran stories about some guy in Roosterpoot, Canada getting a traffic ticket, some kid in Twiddlefuck, Arkansas getting detention etc, etc.
Wow. I remember seeing some stuff about that incident but didn’t realize that had been Sloopy’s mother. I would also find it hard to believe the story was too local given that at least two stories a day involve some random city agency somewhere or a single policeman or whatever. Exhibit A: horse massage.
My sympathies to Sloop, if he’s reading this, and hopes that his mother wasn’t injured.
Thanks, guys. I appreciate it. She’s doing better, but she said she gets panic attacks every time she goes out in public. I guess there’s been some backlash against that cop from some city leaders raising hell. Especially since in the next town over (where my mom lives but not where it happened), two women went out on the court the next night to complain about bad calls at another game and the cop there casually escorted them out into the hallway and told them thy couldn’t come out on the court and interrupt a game. So now she has panic attacks because she thinks that cop might try to do something to her or have someone else do something to her.
I don’t know. It’s fucking sad. I hope she gets justice. Through the legal system. That would be best.
I want video of the cop being dragged out of his house as it goes on the auction block to pay the civil judgement. Preferably with the cop’s kids looking on in terror.
It’ll be extra delicious if I get to be that auctioneer.
I hope she gets justice.
That really sucks. Is there a GoFundMe or something for any legal expenses she might be facing?
Seconded. I Starting going to Reason in the early 2000s. It helped me become much more knowledgeable about libertarianism.
I moved from being a somewhat hawkish conservative/semi-Objectivist to a libertarian. Reason got me exposed to Mises, Rothbard, Hayek. Then Mises.org got me hooked on the hardcore stuff. Now, I’m idealogically pretty much an anarcho-capitalist Rothbardian (even if I still have some day to day minarchist leanings).
It’s sad to see what’s happened. Last year I subscribed to the print edition for the first time. Maybe things will turn around.
Still, this place, and some other sites, offer better alternatives.
Our goal is to do something fun and create something we can all be proud of. We’re all doing this for the love of it and without pay. It might be widely read or it might be merely a cathartic and futile means for us to expend pent-up anger at a government and political system that is rapidly moving away from what we envision as an optimal system to live by.
That is from our “About Us”
Let us just not concern ourselves about the Other Site – we will work in our own garden.
*raises glass*
+1 Candide.
^^My thoughts.
*head down, hoeing her own row*
Amen! *raises pint glass of homebrew*
*drops gloves and grabs shovel*
It’s as if I wrote that.
Funny you should mention that….
Agreed Swiss. Forge ahead, dont look back.
This⬆
Did your avatar come with your wallet or the picture frame?
/jealous
You must be a gardener who cared a lot. Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop.
This siteappears to have Reason’s web metrics over the last eight years. When viewed on that time-frame, they look like they are doing pretty well for themselves.
HOWEVER
First, I find it fascinating (and heartening, due to my unabashed Trump support) that despite the days of “rather” completely shredding the usability of the comments section, Reason’s Commentariat hung in there. It’s only when Reason went Prog-lite that people felt it was time to go. I think that’s right and good on many of you. It was Mr. McArdle’s daily tearful screeds that drove me away for good.
Second, even though their traffic is way up, they had to nuke their base to do it. That’s not a lasting solution; it’s a clickbait-driven one.
Finally, fuck those Taboola ads with a rusty hammer. That really dropped my esteem for them.
Regardless, I jined up with the Reason Brigades in the heady days of 2002-2003, when being a libertarian was still wacky and interesting to most people. I stuck with them for 15 years. I went to meet-ups and was a productive member of the “breakaway republic” grylliade (another site that broke my heart, for different reasons). It used to be fun to be there. It is not fun now.
I was hoping to hear more from Nicolas Pell. They need to hire that man. (If you missed his one contribution to Reason, please do go read it: The Case Against Hamilton
Well, our Overlords don’t want us really laboring on the exodus from Reason, but I did need to say a few things as catharsis.
This place is going to be more magical and more interesting than Reason. Believe it.
The picture of that vagina doctor is outstanding.
He does look like he really enjoys his work, doesn’t he?
My first wife worked in a hospital. I used to go have lunch with her regularly. I got to meet nearly everyone who worked there at least once. On one occasion I showed up and there was an old, unassuming looking gentleman already seated at the table with her (I was a little late). My Ex introduced him to me as Dr. Whateverhisnamewas.
He stood up, shook my hand and said “I am a gynecologist. People think it is a glamorous profession. *pause* It’s really not.”
They do that just to see if you’ll smell your hand afterward
When I was but a lad I told a gyno that it must be cool to look at them all day.
He said every one I see is sick , so not really. He said the hard part was not to have work related thought pictures while licking one.
Gil, the guy was a jokester and I smelled it on him before he shook my hand. I figured he was trying to get me to go wash my hands before sitting down to eat.
Years later I heard rumors that he was the most popular gyno in town because he was giving treatments for hysteria on the down low.
Victorian-era hysteria treatments. (Might not be quite safe for work, but this is a Sunday evening as I post.)
+1 Handhabungtheraputik
Like they say, the last thing a donut maker wants to eat when he goes home, is another donut.
Relevant.
Ever hear about the medical student who wanted to be a gynecologist but couldn’t do it because his eyes were bad?
Yep, everything was all fuzzy to him.
(rim shot)
I never understood why some juvenile-minded men thought that gynecology was some awesome, sexy career. I’m sure the money is good. But the problem is that most women probably don’t go to the gynecologist unless something is wrong.
I have to go into the gynecologist’s office at work sometimes to get medical charts (between appointments, of course) and it smells like a damn mushroom cellar.
When you want that pussy hat to be the envy of all who see. Truly the Final Frontier.
What the hell?
Tom Baker is the best Doctor Who.
SHOTS FIRED, SHOTS FIRED!
Come on, is there even any doubt?
I was always partial to David Tennant. Matt Smith grew on me, but this current guy needs to go.
I… can’t even. The current one is so superior to the previous two kid-Doctors.
Couldn’t stand Smith. Stopped watching the show at that point. Tennant took a while, but he did grow on me. Eccleston is my favorite. Something slightly unhinged about his Doctor…
Oh yeah Eccleston. I always forget about him – he was the best of the new lot. Shame he bailed after only 1 season.
Fandom. Internet.
*buckles on helmet, takes cover behind berm*
‘Tis a sad condemnation of the current state of the culture that such a statement even needs to be made 🙁
I know. John Pertwee and Peter Davison had their moments, but Tom Baker is the best.
Check out his voice overs for the show “Little Britain”.
Whoa… that show has potential. Thanks!
But can he bleach my asshole while he’s down there or not?
Does he have the license to?
/AZ board.
+1 changing your ringtone.
to give you the best sex you’ve ever had with more orgasms than you’ve ever dreamed of.
Why do I get the feeling this involves a car battery, jumper cables, a brain surgeon and serotonin drip?
“What the hell?”
Designer pussy. Sorry, artisan pussy.
I’ve just discovered the TV-Commercial Jingle-Song for “Designer Vagina”
Whoa, you are in marketing aren’t you? That would work.
you are in marketing aren’t you
No, but i’ve DJ’d professionally, and i can find a song to humorously fit just about any situation
All Thanks to trshmstr. Got tampemonkey and Monovcle running on Chrome. Amazing. Thank you so much for your effort and sharing it.
Now that SP has gotten us migrated and secured quicker than a raft made of 55 gallon drums heading from Cuba to Miami
Even faster than this
Do 55 gallon drums of lube float?
*Paging Jesse, Jesse to the red courtesy phone please*
From the pen of The RPG Pundit (think crankier Razorfist for pen-and-paper RPGs) comes the best article I read this week
Alan Moore and Grant Morrison’s Occult War in Comics
The reason that Alan Moore is still alive.
That was pretty disturbingly funny.
Holy shit I’d forgotten about that comic!
RPG Pundit? Hmm… I might have a new place to spend all my time.
He’s an odd duck, but the man was battling SJWs in 2004, when they were doing their thing fucking up RPG.net (they fucked it up, BTW). I really should go check out his designs – he wrote an RPG set in mythical India (can’t remember the period off the top of my head, because I know sweet fuck all about Indian mythology) and a Warhamerresque one in Tudor England, both of which sound very, very cool. Plus, he’s a historian by training and an occultist by vocation, which makes me interested in his latest ongoing project, an “authentic” medieval magic system for RPGs.
Plus, he was one of the consultants on 5th Edition D&D and that turned out great.
I’ve heard good things about 5th edition AD&D. I haven’t gotten past 2nd Edition AD&D. I also still have the old D&D rulebooks, which probably saw more use than my AD&D stuff.
Fuck… I didn’t know they renamed AD&D to D&D when they dropped the original D&D. Oh well.
Hah, let me introduce you to the concept of Old School Renaissance.
Whole ton of people used D&D 3.5 System Reference Document (open-source portion of 3rd ed) to replicate the feel of D&D (both Red Box and older stuff). DCC RPG is the one that caught my attention and i’m looking forward to grinding down a mob of 0-level characters so few remaining survivors can be deemed worthy of level 1!
Ahh, thank you!
You know that Bruce Heard is still around and has a blog?
Say what you will about Warren Ellis, but even he thinks Moore and Morrison are drug-addled weirdos.
(Also, the things he posted on his old website basically made me immune to Sugarfree fiction, so thanks for that)
Been lurking here a while (kinda like I did on the other site as well). Liking what I’ve seen thus far, and am glad that y’all allowed me to tag along. I wasn’t a prolific poster there (I posted under the name GÄC), and I can’t promise that I’ll contribute much more than the occasional random thought here.
Nothing is expected of anyone here – read and enjoy!
…squirrels? I posted a comment and it’s not showing even when I reload/load on different browser. Didn’t have more than one link, though it had one link and a block quote. I don’t see it appearing as needing moderation, either. So if it turns up later twice… sorry, haha.
Could you ask a man to help you, sweetie?
Why didn’t you just mansplain, OMWC? There are no gentlemen anymore.
It’s almost as if the site doesn’t WANT me to torture you all with the insipidity of woke anti-capitalist YA authors.
You need to write in a new genre.
Like YA erotica.
Well, they are past the age of consent.
I thought maybe I could try a different genre, but then I saw a rant from a romance author a few weeks ago about IF YOU THINK ROMANCE SHOULD NOT BE POLITICAL, YOU ARE PARTICIPATING IN WRONGTHINK, so the derp appears to be affecting publishing in general.
According to an acquaintance who dabbled in many genres, including YA and romance, “smut sells”. I know, I know, but from what I got, the difference was huge. So may as well branch out!
And yes, DERP has affected publishing, period. That’s what Sad Puppies Hugo kerfuffle was all about (Rabid Puppies was about burning the whole thing down, and hey, SJWs decided to do it to stop them).
YA?
Really!
Oh, ya!
Young Adult.
Daily author derp: People who imply fans of villianous characters are bad or irl oppressors forget that many villains are metaphors for marginalized people.
“We can talk about how sexism and white supremacy conditions us to sympathize with attractive white cis men, be they heroes or villains. BUT I think it’s dishonest to ignore why some of these characters, even the white cis men, resonate with some (marginalized) people. When the world has hated and tried to kill you for your whole life, sometimes deep down you want to hate and kill it right back.”
K.
Envy is the primary driver there. Those people are imagining that the world is mean to them but kind to some others. That there are people that the world is not trying to kill. Couple that with their putting the blame for their own failures on some other entity and you have the making for a bad stew.
The world is trying to kill everyone, and in the end it will succeed. No one accomplishes much of anything except in the face of adversity, in spite of everything and everyone trying to stop them. Suck it up, keep your chin up and push on. It doesnt get any better and in the end the bugs eat you.
Eh…an alternative explanation is that Fu Manchu is just cool.
I have no idea what that means, and the replies in the twitter feed are equally dumbfounding.
The gifs on every single post in the rant make it even more confusing. Like she starts off talking about villains coding for minorities with a gif of Ursula, what’s she going for here? Octopus-mermaids are oppressed and Ursula is just avenging her people?
The Spartacus gif and related tweet made me sad, because they were so on-point they made the rest of the rant look like a mindless recitation of a creed, not something she was putting any thoughts into.
Why do your peers always post manifestos on a platform that is limited to 140 characters? Write a blog post, ffs!
Though, why write a manifesto when the only part she needed was this
Point made, excellent advice for budding writers, fits into a single tweet, does not DERP!
Oh, it appeared! So did it get flagged for moderation and I just couldn’t see it? When I posted my first post, I could see it and it said “pending approval,” so that’s what I was expecting it to do the rest of the time. Duly noted!
So, does this new site mean that when I come through and corpse-rape threads at two in the morning when I’m drunk and high, that someone might actually read my nonsense at some point?
Because I’m not sure how I feel about that.
I suspect someone might just read it… however, corpse-rape threads at your own discretion. We won’t mind too much.
I’ll read it. Probably the majority of my internet reading is the comment sections of various publications- the more outrageous the better. It’s like Jerry Springer with bookmarks.
Then, you’ll love my upcoming series which I announce the results of DNA paternity tests for various Glibertarians on the site.
First up, Warty.
I have been perusing old threads here just for that reason. You aren’t the only one that does that. So, yeah.
It’s the same reason I have a Twitter account.
I would speculate that it’s more possible for that to happen, than it was at the
oldother site. They typically roll up the sidewalks over there at about 10pm most of the time. But I was posting here on Friday night, if I remember correctly, after 12pm and there was still plenty of hangers on posting.Also, I think that drunk and high, or at least one of those, is the preferred state of posting around here.
That’s why I barely ever commented over there. I usually don’t have a chance to get online until evening (Pacific time) and so everyone would be long gone.
Yeah, I’m sort of in the same boat, even though I’m on the east coast, because I often work late. When I finally got a chance to post, I would find that there were only a few stragglers left and most of the action was over by 10 PM EST.
Early signs at least around here are more promising for the late night/early morning posters. I was always calling for Late Nite Links over there. Of course, back in those heady days, we still had this starry eyed naive belief that they gave a rat’s ass about what we thought or wanted.
I am in Hawaii and have very limited internet access at work. Weekends are often the only time I can “contribute” in real time.
Is Ozarko A/C in a moment of clarity?
Wait. Ozarko is AC? AC is from Ohio.
Jebus fuckin’ Christ. I am seeing the Oroville dam on tv now. That is a very serious disaster in the making. They let everyone go back home already? No way in hell I would be in that valley. No way. If the dam breaks holy hell is going to descend on those people at 100 mph. No way they can sent out warnings and have people flee out of the way in time.
At least they have a choo choo they can run empty up and down the state. At least all the right people got their beaks wet.
The real shame is that the flood will hit Sacramento but not fast enough to keep the California pols from escaping.
Somewhat relevant
Very interesting. And a decent tune as well. Thanks for sharing
THIS. I looked at a map the other day and thought ‘if this dam was right above Sac, how fast would they move?’
Agreed, that it’s a dangerous situation (I guess. I haven’t really paid much attention). But, “let everyone go back”? No one has the authority to prevent them from returning.
Couldn’t pay me enough. That’s in the land of Fuckthatistan.
No shit. Seeing a catastrophic dam failure will instill terror in a person. Even someone who has only seen one on video should know better than to get anywhere near the drainage basin.
*confession: my father is considered one of the world’s premier experts on earth-fill dams.
Seriously you are correct Suthernboy. For chilling footage watch the footage of the Teton Dam collapse, and that was only a partial collapse.
Another dam to keep you eye on is in Iraq. Mosul, Iraq also has a huge target on its back. The dam above the city has been shit since construction and the US spent many millions trying to mitigate it. The Iraqis even placed some energy into the hazard before ISIS started their offensive. A dam failure won’t need ISIS, just a small tremor and nobody will be fighting over the remaining pile of bricks that was Mosul. The Samarra Dam will probably fail and Baghdad will suffer massive flooding as well.
Yeah. I’m in the People’s Republic of New Jersey now because of a kick ass job. But I’m reconsidering my future after looking into real estate.
Ha. Thought you were talking about CA in general. But my point still stands.
It does indeed, and I concur to the inherent wisdom of it.
Having the authority or not they had roadblocks and armed agents of the state.
Did the levy break yet?
Wait, they let people back? Didn’t they say at one point that they weren’t letting anyone back until the dam was fixed?
I heard the auxiliary spillway was “fix 100% boss” earlier this week.
At least they have a choo choo they can run empty up and down the state. At least all the right people got their beaks wet.
Choo choos are magic. They solve all problems.
Choo choos are magic.
Euphemism?
I keep seeing talk of extensions for Chrome. Is that limited to the desktop version, or is there a way to simplify links and embed tweets/pictures for mobile too?
Finally found my sign for the next woman’s march. Seriously though, what do you think would happen if you walked around with that sign? “I’m being ironic” or “I’m being double ironic” depending on who you talk to.
Orion was always such a dick.
I mean, he *is* Darkseid’s son.
Looks like WW has been doing leg presses.
She should do squats and deadlifts instead.
I don’t know, but I approve of this sign.
I also approve.
Calvados earlier and now time for a beer.
Guinness Extra Stout, Great Lakes Elliot Ness, Magnify Uncharted Territory, Black Box Pinot Noir, and now Laphroaig.
Sorry if I screwed up the link. It’s my first attempt.
Deschutes Obsidian Stout. Magnificent stuff.
That is an excellent beer.
Dude, you’re drunk! NTTAWWT.
What flag is that you have as an avatar? I looked in International Code of Signals (well, wikipedia because I am too lazy to go down stairs and get the book) and I don’t see it.
Probably this
The Swedish AnarkoKapitalistisk flag, per Wikipedia. I’ve seen it used by American anarcho-capitalists too.
Aah, ok. I thought it was a maritime thing. Disregard. Anarko on.
I thought maybe the “O” man overboard flag for people with red/green color blindness. 🙂
Do you think Hinh will start a whole new set of files are just sub-head the current ones?/List™hopeful
*hihn
Potato / powtato.
Is Hinh his Vietnamese alter ego?
Shhhh!
Now that SP has gotten us migrated and secured quicker than a raft made of 55 gallon drums heading from Cuba to Miami…
That’s beautiful, OMWC.
Rand Paul makes it personal. “He would bankrupt the nation. We’re very lucky John McCain’s not in charge because I think we’d be in perpetual war,” Paul added.
——–
We’re not?
I like Rand, but if he will take McCain and Graham and clack their heads together like Moe, I will … ok, I was already going to support him for POTUS if he runs again.
I love your pic. That guy was awesome in Bastards
The Headline: Undocumented transgender woman filing domestic violence claim arrested at El Paso courthouse by ICE, official says
Way at the bottom of the article?
She still has a lot of “guy” in her.
At this point I feel the need to put all news on a 24 hour delay so I can hear the actual story.
It’s a game of find Waldo in almost every story. Waldo being the unpleasant fact that upsets the narrative.
“false imprisonment”?
reading what that means [ “the state of being imprisoned without legal authority = “he sought damages from the police for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment”” ] suggests its something you accuse *police* of, not something an individual citizen is guilty of. Or – when a person does it, its called “Kidnapping”
Not sure what that means re: the Tranny & domestic violence
I’m no legal eagle, but I’ve always assumed it’s a situation where the victim goes there voluntarily, but then is not allowed to leave.
Also, why is it an “alleged criminal history”? Couldn’t they confirm that rather easily? I dunno the legally stuff, though.
You know where else you can enter voluntarily but never leave?
Scientology?
Roach motel?
Barrens chat?
A Chinese finger trap?
Hotel California?
I know this one. The La Brea tar pits.
Hitler?
IANAL but i’m pretty sure any threat of violence effectively makes imprisonment into “kidnapping”
But! Fortunately some lawyers have a website explaining the distinction
Sounds like it all comes down to “intent”. Weird stuff.
It is weird. It seems like you could get by with one or the other, and just have degrees of it. “The Law” is way more complicated than it needs to be.
I read a little more about it and it seems the distinction is actually clearer on the “Why” you’re “imprisoning” someone.
Not ‘intent’ so much the underlying reasons for the person being forcibly prevented from leaving. Kidnapping is when you do it *in aid of some other form of crime*; extortion, blackmail, to get ransom, … etc.
when someone does it because “they want to talk about their feelings”, etc., its not quite the same thing.
Ah, OK. Well, I certainly see the need for a distinction. However it still seems to me that you could call all situations kidnapping, but differentiate intent with 1st degree vs. 3rd degree. Or misdemeanor vs. felony.
Made me think of this:
It’s surprisingly challenging
Yeah, but she was apparently aware of the the fact that if a woman here files a domestic abuse complaint during immigration process or here undocumented, they get automatic asylum status. Yeah, no one is ever going to game that. I remember back when I was closely following immigration cases back in 2010, there was the most outrageous obvious lie case of a woman trying to claim abuse. No one believed her, her story was so absurd that it put the Rolling Stones campus rape story to shame. Not sure what ever happened, but I doubt she pulled it off.
Is there any purpose to the “reasonoids” google-group anymore? I never participated, but someone signed me up.
I was over there last night about 2:30pm EST. I got an email from a couple members of the group asking me to join. I joined it, but I’m not really sure how active it is. There is definitely some amount of activity going on.
Private e-mail list vs. public web page. That’s the difference. Participate where you like.
It’s a yuuuggge fucking difference! That shit takes me back almost to the beginning of the intertoobz.
I still remember…
I think it was 1990. A compsci prof that I knew invited me and some other of his former students over to his house because he had this intertoobz thing going. It was a chatroom, only text. We were mesmerized. And here’s the kicker. There were trolls back then, and I was about to encounter my first one. So the guy logged in and he introduces himself ‘Hey everyone, it’s Prof here’. And he’s chatting away and all of the sudden someone types ‘IT’S THE PROPHET MAN!’. And our friend says ‘Oh no, that guy, damnit, how do I block again…’ And the troll says ‘Prophet Man, what do you prophecy today?’. And my friend, much agitated types ‘It’s Prof, as in professor, not Prophet!’. So the troll, well, he says ‘I know Prophet man, can you predict my future’? Heh.
I remember those days. I may have done a little trolling myself. It was too easy. That was when I first learned how naive and thin skinned people could be.
Yeah, I and a few of my friends may have been guilty of some of that also. Seeing how easy it was for that ‘prophet man’ troll to totally unhinge my friend was just too hilarious to resist.
Some people don’t like participating in public. And it was a great place for me to explain that this site is NOT a “by invitation” deal.
Let a thousand flowers bloom.
There used to be one community. Now there are two and I like each better. Not really seeing a downside here.
Let a thousand glowers bloom
And then crackdown later right?
😉
Fuck, I’m starting to feel bad for H&R. The latest article over there is about how privacy in on it’s deathbed in Britain and it’s a pretty damn good post. There’s 45 comments and half of them, at least, are shreek’s retard sock, dajjal. But fuck, you can’t even post there, unless you have a lot of patience, which I ran out of. I tried twice today and I just got errors and nothing would post.
I don’t feel sorry for H&R. But I feel sorry for the commenters. I disagree with Sevo on a lot, but I think he was largely libertarian at heart, and he’s all alone in those comments.
They have fallen down the proggie rabbit hole…at least some of them have. It seems to be mostly the younger ones but I get a strong whiff from Nick between his occasional fits of rational writing. It seems that one of the requirements of being a proggie is being dead fucking certain that you are right. If people dont agree with you or criticize you its because you didn’t get your message out clear enough or there is something wrong with those people. This is why we see the Dem left doubling down on the strategies that have turned their party into a regional party, a joke compared to what t once was and why we see Reason suffering now. They were warned over and over and over that they were taking a bad road. I got the feeling they just sneered at us. The last Robby article I saw read like something out of Vox or Salon.
I dont intend to look back. I will forge ahead here and hope this place becomes what Reason should have become.
Does anyone know of any other sites anywhere that are primarily user created, where the readers produce most of the content and everyone is free to pick it apart? I think this presents a lot of possibilities. I cant say enough how glad I am to be part of it in my small way and how very much I appreciate the efforts of the architects.
I think Nick is the real deal but some of the newer writers are definitely slumming it.
Didn’t The Jacket abandon Nick and he became a Vegan? I think I also remember him kinda/kinda not endorsing second amendment rights. He does his share of signaling. There are a few solid writers there but you shouldn’t count them on your fingers in polite company.
As far as I know, H&R is the only blog where the writers actually, sometimes, read the comments and communicate with the commentariat. Until now. But that was happening less and less. Ron is maybe the only one left who occasionally does that. I pissed off Welch once, over something very innocuous that I said, and although he had often responded to me in comments before that, he never did again after that. I think that was about the time that they started to really decide they should appease the left and jump on the ‘everyone right of this are deplorables’ train. I don’t even know what they are thinking believing that appeasing the left is a good idea. Throw you lot in with vipers and you’re going to get bit. The left are the mortal enemies of libertarians, for fuck sake.
Shackford and ENB would sometimes wade into the commentariat.
Oh, yeah, thanks DEG. And really, thanks for the email group invite. Almost forgot, where are my manners? Anyway, ENB, yes. She’s one of the best writers over there and she does still occasionally consort with the peasants. I just posted something over at the group, interesting conversation about food myths.
You’re welcome!
I will admit I was a bit pissed when ENB a) misspelled Luzerne County and b) said NE PA was in the Midwest. I have relatives that grew up in that area, and if they were still alive they’d be pissed to hear that they grew up in the Midwest.
I see ENB fixed the article, so I can’t be mad anymore.
PA is in the midwest? WTF, was she mixing up NFL conferences with geography or what?
So your relatives are Heynas, then?
Dey go up de Eynon and have a couple two tree beers, heyna er no?
@Francisco d’Anconia
Fuck the what? Pennsyltucky. You ever been downey ocean, hon? Fucking landlubbers.
Er…were…sorry
Heynas speak a different language.
I grew up “over da mountain” 30 miles NE of Scranton.
That video is fucking hilarious.
How bout them Oryuls, hon?
LOL
That’s a good one too.
@Hyp, I hope you’ve seen this one. SP tells me I sound just like that when I’m tired or have been drinking.
Francisco d’Anconia, yep, I have Heyna relatives. The ones I know (and are now dead) lived long enough in the Philly area that they started adopting a bit of the Philly area accent.
Man, this fucking weather, it’s… God bless global warming. Sitting here with my patio doors wide open, no heat on for going on 3 days now, all the windows and doors in the house open, 73 F right now inside. I know it can’t hold out. Can someone please fire up their giant SUV and let it run all night, contribute to the good cause?
It was a sunny, sweaty,near- 70 degrees at 2.2-3k AMSL hiking off the extreme North end of the Blue Ridge Parkway today. Thankfully, the only pack I carried was one of Marlboros.
on it!
Ok. First: you guys are still at it! Great job well done!
Things I’d like: not having to scroll to the bottom to comment. I understand you have things with higher priority. When you get a minute.
Just checking in with the dank web, how you all doing?
Tonight’s rant: what kinda dumbass decides that rush hour is the ideal time for him to play the lottery?
Scene: buncha people trying to get a cup of joe and a breakfast bar before work. (This was yesterday, not today Sunday). Line is moving good, everybody is in a hurry.
Then, Joe Limpdick Dumbass gets to the front of the line:
“Well, little lady, these two are winners. But I’m old, can you run these other 10 to make sure?
Oh, they aren’t winners? … Ok… Lets… Uh… I’ll take two of these, paid for by thise two winners, and then,… Uh… I’ll take three of….”
At this point, I actually start vocalizing what the line (now numbering over a baker’s dozen) is thinking:
” Hey! Dumbass! Why are you playing the lottery during rush hour!?!”
The asshole ignores me, like you know, I was muttering under my breath and he wasn’t sure he heard me. I was not muttering under my breath.
Manager runs in, opens other cash register. The end.
That’s why God invented the end key.
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