Off to another beautiful week here in America. And also in America, Jr, which according to Alexa, is where 2/3 of our viewership is coming from. Thanks, all you poutine-munchers and VPN users.
Anyway, without further ado, here we go…
Oops. Um, I hate to say it, but can you leave?
Some awards show happened last night. And it didn’t go well for Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. An envelope mixup led to them announcing the wrong winner for Best Picture. A mixup that wasn’t realized until the wrong cast had assembled onstage. Also, before that, there was a loooooooooot of social signaling. Fortunately for me, I missed the circus.
Don’t worry Dems. Perez is going to unite you. At least he says he is.
In a scathing takedown of Obamacare, some uncomfortable truths for its defenders are told.
Dionne, after leaving his Washington Post office for the day.
E.J. Dionne has gone completely off the rails. And I don’t mean a little bit, I mean Casey Jones-style. Without the cocaine. Probably. Maybe. Who knows, its hard to tell anymore how much of his insanity is a drug-fueled fever dream and how much is innate paranoia. Only time will tell.
And finally, Mexicans in Mexico are psychologically traumatized because of Trump. Why? Because they are facing the decision on whether or not to respect our nation’s laws.
Anyhow, have a great day out there, people. Especially all of our Canadian readers. You guys really seem to grasp what this is all aboot.
[Update: Alexa and Dionne links corrected]
Sorry, straffinrun.
I’d like to thank the commenting academy…
What an upset. My money was on Sawdust and Mildew.
Just like last night, the first loser didn’t find out until he had already taken the podium.
I didn’t watch last night. Did Bone Tomahawk win?
And first comment award goes to…
Check your links, sloop. You’ve got the same link for the Ocare and EJ link.
And now I look crazy.
Yeah, what is that milk laced with?
“milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence”
The fact that Fist isn’t on here reinforces the long-held idea that he is a Reason staffer.
He and Crusty were pretty upset.
Well, we need our own conspiracy theory around here and that one is as good as any.
Anyhow, have a great day out there, people. Especially all of our Canadian readers. You guys really seem to grasp what this is all about.
Hmmm, beware the praising American, for he is up to something. The mocking American is generally a better sign.
Get oot, hoser.
So, does not electing Ellison mean they are a little bit serious about trying to be relevant again?
It’s Democrats with pull vs. Democrats with less pull. Ellison was the ‘grassroots’ candidate, pushed by the Bernie Bros and ‘true progressives’ and what-not. Perez is the establishment choice from the party elites who are desperately trying to clean their shit up after the election. Of course, now the narrative of the ‘true progressives’ and what-not is that Perez is the corporate candidate, which helps to further divide the party.
I did learn about something I had not known.
Obama, to much fanfare, “pushed through” a big rule a couple years ago that the DNC would not accept corporate donation. The rule was quietly rescinded for the 2016 cycle, and the Bernie Bros/Ellison supporters were running on a platform to bring it back. The Clinton/Perezs shot that shit down in a hurry.
I guess he figured they wouldn’t need corporate money with their Palestinian debit card drop. The Clinton’s, OTOH, are used to money flowing in their pockets only, so the rule was changed.
Good morning mammals! Here is a bit of free advice if you are drinking micro-brews (specifically IPAs), eat a piece of chocolate before bed along with that big glass of water. It helps deter the inevitable headache.
Pickle juice, you piker.
I second the pickle juice.
So… a big glass of chocolate stout if you want to streamline things. Thanks for the tip!
It’s easier just to drink something other than beer. :-p
Gin and Tonic for me.
I’ve been really enjoying Bombay Dry Gin – not as expensive as Hendrick’s or Liberator – but it has a real snap and works perfectly with a slice of lime.
Have you tried Plymouth? It is, to me, the quintessential London Dry Gin.
New Amsterdam is not bad for an inexpensive gin.
Been enjoying Gin Rickeys with that for the last few months now …
What head-ache?
Day 1 of quitting smoking for like the third time in the past year. Already feel like murdering tiny mammals.
Run, Mr. Lizard, run!!!
Wait, you said mammals, whew, he’s safe.
Has anyone checked on Hamster of Doom?
Good on you. I feel your pain; I quit chewing 111 days ago. It was pretty tough for a while. Hang in there.
Quit dipping on 15 October 1999. Still dream about it. Hardest thing I’ve ever done.
That’s great! Good for you. I don’t have too many dreams (back when I quit smoking I had a lot), but the urge to put in a dip pops up many times a day. Like right now for instance. Ha-ha
What’s your definition of tiny? 1 lb? 10 lbs? 1000 lbs?
I am now changing the answer to mammals who ask me stupid questions.
Oh…. That’s nice.
Good luck.
Good luck. I quit a couple of years back, and remember the pain.
I was a part-time smoker for years ‘n’ years. Some weekends – if partying – I could go through 2-3 packs. And then I could also go for weeks without a cigarette. But once I was around someone who was smoking, the urge would come back.
I finally just quit – age, weight lifting / workout, and the new tobacco rules at work were the deciding factors.
Chew gum, avoid caffeine, try to avoid stressful situations, first few days are roughest. You can do it man.
What he’s saying is that you should steal horse barbiturates and disappear for a week.
If I quit tobacco and caffeine at the same time I might as well just kill myself now, I can’t drop both of my most regular vices.
Helpful quitting tips.
Ya for love of civility do not quit coffee
Quitting caffeine (which I have not been able to successfully do) has proven to be a far more difficult endeavor than tobacco for me. Caffeine withdrawal headaches are a bitch.
Interesting. When I quit drinking I quadrupled my caffeine intake.
Did you also halve your sleep for the first two weeks?
Did you also halve your sleep for the first
two weeksfortnight?FIFY
Quit drinking?????
Was it your third DUI or something?
Its brutal. Hang in there.
Vape? You might want to try vape and slowly lower the Nicotine content to zero.
I’ve tried cutting down to quit before, doesn’t work. I need to go cold turkey, have a shitty day or two, and then it gets a hell of a lot easier.
appropriate pep talk
Always Be Quitting
I’m 10 years on after quitting cold-turkey. I wouldn’t say it gets easier, as much as you feel less murdery. Pro-tip from someone who quit dozens of times: have something else to do. At the time, I was free to game as much as I wanted, so that’s what I would do to distract from the craving. Doing something fun and distracting is what got me through the rough times.
Also, do not use any replacement therapies, i.e. patches, gum, etc. Cold turkey is the only way to go. Don’t get down on yourself if you regress, just keep going.
Also, stay away from small mammals for a while.
Good luck, John. It’s a difficult and painful thing to do, but so much worth it.
Best of luck, Mr. Titor. Quitting smoking is on my list of New Years’ resolutions, although I haven’t started on that one yet. I can only imagine how much it sucks.
I quit in September. Feel good except for the 10 lbs i put on. Tempted to take up smoking again just to lose the weight.
Same thing happened to me. Put on weight once I quit. Worst thing is, I picked up smoking again 4 months later and never lost the weight.
Good luck. I quit 3 years ago, and I could still smoke a pack right now. Not a craving, exactly, just a little reminder that comes and goes of awesome smoking is.
Also, I had horrible nightmares for about the first 3 weeks. Really really really horrible nightmares.
Other than that, it’s smooth sailing.
Also, I had horrible nightmares for about the first 3 weeks. Really really really horrible nightmares.
You sure that just wasn’t reading too much SugarFree fic?
I said nightmares, not erections
If you can get erections from Sugarfree’s writing, what eldritch fiends visit you in your nightmares, man?
Lovecraft-based slashporn?
I quit about 10 years ago. The cravings went from horrible to bearable in about 3 days. Then they went from bearable to barely noticeable in about 5 or 6 years. I still miss it and I could still smoke a pack right now. I’m not sure that will ever go away.
I’ve quite many times. This last time has stuck for about a year and a half now. I used the patch. It worked like a charm for me. The first few days of adjusting to the patch are difficult. but nothing compared to going cold turkey. Also, I chewed lots of gum (plain gum). One you’re comfortably using a patch every day, just do that. Don’t worry about the stupid schedule on the box. Take your time. After that two week box is done, just keep going with the same dose until you’re feel like you’re ready to step down. Usually takes about 3 boxes. Then it’s kind of lame the first few days of stepping down, but again you get used to it and just keep going with that dose for a few boxes. When you get to the lowest dose, after a while you sometimes forget to put a patch on and then you realize you don’t need it anymore. You’ll probably still want to chew gum often, at least I did. You might end up with most of a box of patches. Fuck it. You’ll feel like stopping so just stop. After a week or so you won’t even want to use the patch and you’ll hate the smell of cigarettes. But then you need to do your best to stay away from other smokers. Anyway, the patch works if you let it.
It’s days like today that make me glad I’ve never smoked.
It sounds really fun. Maybe I should start.
Went from 2 packs a day for 25 years to quitting using vaping 3 years ago. You can do it.
This is blatant sexism and/or uglyism
Man kicked out of shopping centre for wearing shorts that were too short
This is always the worst time of year to go to the beach down here due to the swimsuits being worn by the European tourists. *shudder*
Listen, Adolf, that suit might have looked good on you in Portugal 40 years ago, now, everyone thinks you’re naked from the front because your Dunlap done lapped over your speedo.
I saw a few thongs this week. One was a mother-daughter combo. The mom couldn’t really pull it off.
Are we not doing phrasing?
A “dickdo”. His stomach sticks out further than his dick do.
A thong is considered modest on most Hawaiian beaches for women while board shorts are popular wear for men. Sexual dimorphism on display? Even so topless or naked beach use is illegal and every session of the leg refuses to change the law. Thanks missionaries.
His dangle down, dangled down to far…
Officer Dangle?
Grey ‘blob’ takes seat in Ukraine parliament
We need more grey blobs in Washington.
While glugging down some Faygo:
Wisconsin Juggalo sentenced for amputating woman’s pinky during ritual to honor Insane Clown Posse fan
And the award for worst self-congratulatory circle-jerk goes to….
The Writers on the Other Site?
That’s cold-blooded.
And for those with a worse taste in music.
That will probably be the worst thing I see all day. And I’ve already googled “goatse” for research on an article.
I aim to please.
Here’s a SFW “goatse” the BBC used for an article.
Better than a Florida Tree:
Man found hanging naked, upside down from Mississippi tree
…but officials said he was looking for his dog.
Now that’s a new euphemism.
Obvious joke is…. Wood?
Southern trees bear strange fruit
+1 Holiday
Is Carradine back from the dead and filming the new series “Kung Fu: Southern Comfort”?
Really? Looking for his dog in a tree? So when you’re looking for your dog in a tree, exactly what makes the naked part necessary? Officials, yeah, no one else could say anything that stupid, it takes TOP.MEN to come up with that shit.
In all seriousness, I used to go to feed the goats and sheep in a robe and flip-flops and nothing else. And occasionally just the flip flops. It just happens when your neighbors can’t see your property and its 95 degrees at 6 am.
And the birds. I’d feed the birds too, before one of you sick bastards makes a sheep or goat joke.
That’s not how you make foie gras!
I’d feed the birds too
Is that the same as “feeding the geese”, or is there some slightly deviant difference?
If you’re not naked, how are you supposed to lure the dog with the peanut butter on your balls?
Good morning!
So if you pump a girl full of testosterone, she’s going to be a hell of a lot stronger than your average teenage girl. But we still have to let her beat up other girls because gender, er, something…
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/hurst-euless-bedford_news/article134761654.html
You know Sloopy wrote a whole post about this, right? Are you just here to read the comments in the Links!?
We’re changing your avatar to the Cleveland Browns so you can let us down one last time. 😉
Not reading the articles is a time honored tradition among the people here.
In fact, it contributes to the rather rapid successes seen in this fortnight.
Fortnight is a wonderful and underused word. Or, I’m just a big nerd. Maybe both.
I tried to start using fortnight but.the opportunities to use it are pretty rare
Fortnightly: once every two weeks
Biweekly: twice a week.
This is no where near enough links to satisfy my fix. Is there not some campus safe space story you could put up or something? Im jonesin, need a fix fast
That wasnt supposed to be a reply. If only i had EDIT
That was over the weekend! I saw Nothing!
I do note that she wanted to wrestle other boys but the supposed adults wouldn’t let her.
The Canadians are bringing it.
Slap!
I would be interested to know how Alexa gets that information, and what does and does not go into the data set.
Someone sounds jealous.
I thought I sounded congested. I do have a cold to get rid of.
Did Trump win because his name came first in key states?
Hannah Sander doesnt seem to understand how American Presidents are elected.
Height
Could be. I personally voted for Ty Webb.
And is described in the article as ‘one of the world’s leading political scientists’.
I see. This explains a lot.
I just go into the booth and mash a bunch of buttons and hope for the best. Isn’t that how you do it?
I voted for everyone. It’s only fair.
If that’s all it takes, might as well roll back this popular vote scheme and allow legislatures to do everything again. Right?
God there gonna run out of straws to grasp soon, right?
I called it wrong, I thought the Republicans nominated the one person that could have lost to Hillary fucking Clinton. Turns out the Democrats ran the one person that could have lost to Donald fucking Trump.
That is not even a straw. Clinton won the popular election and electors dont vote like that in most states. Not only do they not vote like that but they aren’t ambivalent or uninformed voters. What the fuck is that guy talking about? Thats just insane.
Oh, no, they aren’t going to run out of straws. They have an entire haystack. The thing about them, is that they’ve gone so far over the edge, that anything looks legitimate to them, no matter how insane it looks to most people.
Hi-larious Smithers!
One of the world’s leading political scientists…
According to whom? Are they saying it’s a wide open field, easy to dominate?
Maybe she’s been taking testosterone and is only competing against other girl political scientists.
Yeah, that kind of stuff stands out so blatantly to me. Taking a glance over his Wiki page I also see this:
Now, while I do believe that Obama and the usual identity-politics suspects did indeed worsen the racial divide, I’ve taken a few of these implicit-racism surveys, and I don’t think they mean a god-damned thing except confirming the preconceived biases of the people administering the surveys. Sure, I’ve dated women with darker skin that the previous Oval Office resident, and also Asians, native Americans, hell, even those of Irish and Italian descent, but apparently it’s all part of a racist long con.
Taking a further look it seems he’s lauded for Nate Silver-esque reasons of telling people what they want to hear with a window dressing of supposed scientific objectivity.
The described methodology smells like a Rorschach test. I’m curious as to how they could possibly establish a control. Is this kind of testing just accepted in the field as producing good data?
I thought it was already settled fact that Trump won because Putin hacked our democracy?
During my parent’s move, I found what I think is the old copy of “Inferno” that my oldest brother owned. It’s a disturbing book, and funny too. My wife, who tried to read it a few years ago, couldn’t finish it since the old Catholic memories came flooding back.
The one by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle? I liked that book and the sequel.
yessir – the Niven/Pournelle book.
I used to regularly visit Pournelle’s site – I haven’t been there for a while.
Robert Ryan was quite good in that movie, and Rhonda Fleming’s red hair was stunning.
Seventeen *days*? Hey man, I don’t wanna rain on your parade, but we’re not gonna last seventeen hours! Those things are gonna come in …
Sad day.
RIP, Private Hudson.
yes very sad…and I just noticed that Capt. Apollo died three weeks ago.
Insert Standard Libertarian Disclaimer
If Trump wants to exercise his pen hand this morning, I have a modest proposal. Gitmo has empty cells right? That’s where we should send these fucking assholes who wear sneakers with suits.
I assume you’re not being racist against dot Indians here? Because they don’t always know better if they’re FOTB.
I still see that quite often. It’s a cringe worthy thing.
In re: Perez
![](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WsMlsrMP-9Y/Vsd-z922RnI/AAAAAAAA18g/vfowzK9de-U/s640/bernie+parachute.gif")
Keep your feet and knees together, Airborne.
I’m no BASE jumping expert, but I’ve seen guys jump off much higher structures with their drogue shoot in hand. I don’t think this guy is a PhD physics candidate. Was? I’m assuming those are trees and he might have lived.
He landed on snow for sure… My estimates is he was going nearly 60mph when he hit the ground.
He did live, broken collar bone and some such. It is a famous u-toob and was even on the Science Channel.
Yeah. Back in college we had to calculate (based on an apocryphal WWII story) how big a haystack a person going terminal velocity would have to land in to be survivable. It wasn’t that big. I assume that powdery snow would have similar properties.
Big as depth or surface area? Because I’d want one the size of France to steer towards. Or a working chute. Or a working plane.
Did anyone here get a chance to see Get Out over the weekend? I haven’t been following any of the threads, so I don’t know if it’s been discussed.
No. I watched One False Move for the first time last night in honor of Bill Paxton. Pretty good flick, still works as very gritty film noir 15 years after it was released. Only reason I’ll go to a movie theater anymore is for a movie that’s supposed to be sensory overload, a la Mad Max or John Wick.
This one is definitely worth a trip to the local cineplex. I don’t want to give any spoilers away, so all I’ll say is that it is masterfully done overall and features some very subtle nods to classic horror.
Also, everyone so far that has claimed that the movie is a commentary on racism have got it horribly, embarrassingly wrong and need to be strapped to a chair and made to view it repeatedly until they figure it out.
All well and good, and I certainly appreciate subtle references to horror that the viewer won’t get unless he/she is familiar with the genre. That said, I just very rarely have the motivation to go see a film in theaters anymore. I’ve been to maybe 6-7 in the past 5 years. I still want to see a decent amount of what comes out but I manage to avoid spoilers until I can watch it in the comfort of my own home for significantly less.
Should be 25 years later Christ, I wish 1992 was 15 years ago.
You would turn the clock back to 2 years before Obumbles took office, have us re-live that train wreck?
Kill yourself immediately.
This time, due to the Butterfly Effect of turning the clock back, McCain’s in charge.
It’s not much better.
I did not think about it that way, perhaps wishing to be ten years younger is a more agreeable way to say it.
The last two movies I have seen are Monster Trucks and Lego Batman…
Are you going to try and convince us that you had to take your kids?
Chicago cop with 90 misconduct complaints promoted to Commander. He also cost the city a $750k for railroading the wrong man into a murder conviction (the man spent 3 years in prison before being exonerated).
Though to be fair, given that this is Chicago, 90 complaints and a $750k settlement might actually be better than the average.
All the complaints about Chicago…the crime, corrupt pols and crooked cops. It’s a chicken/egg question. I see the place as having a dysfunctional society on par with New Orleans. Well, New Orleans actually got cleaned up a bit by Katrina.
Is Faye Dunaway the one with the beard?
There was a cute red head on Walking Dead last night, Elyse Dufour. That’s all I have, but it is a good one.
Wood.
She was indeed cute. Too bad this half season has been about as exciting as a trip to the accountant.
I also haven’t decided if Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan is the worst written character in the history of fiction across all mediums, or just the worst written character in the history of television.
I watched last last Sunday’s episode. I was in a state of non-grippedness. To the point where I reached for my phone to play some AstroNest.
Yeah, coming from someone who has never read the comics, there is just not much more tension that can be wrung out of the situation save for the fates of a dwindling number of long time characters. The current state of TWD is a large reason I think the future of serialized TV is self contained individual seasons a la Fargo, True Detective, AMHS.
They are moving it along waaay to slowly. I guess they thought that after having Glen getting hisbrains mashed, they wanted to build up tension for the inevitable revenge. Didn’t work. Funny when you think about things you know are going to happen in a story, but a great writer makes it interesting anyways. You know Juilus Caesar is going to get killed or Hamlet is going to kill his uncle (400 year old spoiler alert), but the fore knowledge actually builds the suspense.
They are moving it along waaay to slowly.
That’s my gripe with a lot of the new series that come out. I get that you don’t want to blow your wad in ep. 7 of what you hope will be a long running series, but Cthulhu on a cracker, something needs to move the ball in every episode or I am going to wander off.
I think, if it weren’t for all the really stupid tactical decisions they’ve made since wiping out the outpost, it wouldn’t be so bad.
They completely burnt right thru any contact they had with the Saviors until they get in the camper, and then they stop to talk to them at first contact. Every decision since then has been stupid.
The tactical idiocy in most movies and TV shows is one of the hardest things for me to tolerate (unless, of course, whoever is being an idiot is supposed to be an idiot, but that’s rarely the case).
I’m still just waiting for Simon to be shown waking up hungover in nothing but his skivvies and construction boots.
Well, compared to Ezekiel and the garbage dump gang, he seems normal.
What the ever-lovin’ Devil is up with the grammar used by the Garbage-Pail Kids gang? “Show Rick Up, Up, Up.” “We take, we don’t bother.“. How long ago did zombie time occur? Can language devolve so quickly? It felt like that episode of Star Trek where all the kids ran the planet after all the “grups” went “bonk bonk on the head“.
They must have been stuck with a serious apocalyptic affliction, I think it’s called Lazy and Uninspired Writing.
I’m still going with this is all a story told by Carl as an old man.
When NRO was with Disqus you never had FB progs comment on their articles.
“Gavin McDougald · Digital Marketing Strategist at Fairbank Ventures Inc.
I had to click on this link just to see how silly this argument would be, and I was not dissapointed. Of course having health care saves lives. Of course free checkups saves lives. Of course, not having to rely on an emergency room as your health care saves lives. That much is obvious to anyone, without looking at the numbers. But when you do, you do see that in fact the ACA saves thousands of lives a year. What is this post for, other than to assuage conservative guilt over killing a program that is saving lives? Shame on you people.”
Lotsa assumptions but is there enough evidence that proves his point?
Do progs (*virtue signaling*) and, to be fair, most Conservatives(/*virtue signaling*) ever use actual evidence in trying to prove whatever inane point they’re making?
No. They both seem usually oblivious to relevant evidence. Why that is, i dunno.
Considering his whole post is him qualifying his support for Obamacare with nebulous and arbitrary appeals of supposedly self-evident truths, then claiming that conservatives are trying to get rid of their guilt, I’m going to say projection.
The biggest assumption that people have more Access to healthcare than before. Also with that v argument, then this person should be in favor of liberalization of the healthcare industry. That will give the most access for the cheapest cost to more people.
Anyway, having worked with digital marketers fit a big chunk of my job (marketing/market research), I know there is little chance of getting through to that type.
That much is obvious to anyone, without looking at the numbers.
Don’t bother with me facts. I have a narrative to pump. Query: What is Fairbank Ventures and do they take any money from any of the lefty/proggy/DemOp slush funds? Is Mr. McDougald being paid to post this stuff?
Numbers are just toxic masculinity anyway.
Here’s my short, “evidence based” argument for why the ACA is worse for health outcomes =
– the vast majority of ‘newly insured’ were simply thrown onto medicaid rolls
(and while this ‘fact-check’ calls that “half true”, its because they’re disputing whether the *expansion* was what mattered, rather than simply forcing people to sign up)
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jan/15/rand-paul/medicaid-expansion-drove-health-insurance-coverage/
….and….
… having medicaid is either health-neutral or WORSE for outcomes than being uninsured
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/05/02/oregon-study-medicaid-had-no-significant-effect-on-health-outcomes-vs-being-uninsured/#10c5b7af6043
So, basically millions of people are being forced into a system at the point of a gun which will produce worse outcomes than if they’d been left alone. And they would probably be ‘less poor’ had they been left alone, which would help avoid health problems in the first place.
QED
I was so hoping this was referring to Perez Hilton.
66.7% from the U.S. and 33.3% from Canada according to Alexa. I don’t exist?
I’m seeing the exact reverse.
Damn, you’re right and I still don’t exist.
That Other Site ain’t doing so good.
Man, TDS is a hell of a drug.
Looks like they took Shreek’s gold advice.
Wow. That is brutal. I notice a steady drop until the election, which should worry the hell out of anyone running a political website, a post-election bounce, another steady drop almost to the pre-election low, which should concern anyone running a website who wants sticky content and regular readers, and then a crash right around the time this site got stood up.
The big money guys behind Reason are paying, at the end of the day, for eyeballs on content. That is a chart of epic failure. I will be very surprised if there aren’t changes coming soon to Reason.
I’d made a similar comment in yesterday’s thread (early this morning). For the life of me, I don’t know what the hell they’re thinking. The trend has been going on for a while now. And a lot of us warned them about what they’re doing. The under-performance of the pledge drive should have been a wake-up call. Even now, they only seem to be doubling down. Do they really think they’re going to replace their readership from an already crowded progressive market? Do they have some sort of mega-donor demanding a shift in editorial policy?
The lefties they’ve swayed to libertarianism will be there any time now.
The stats below the fold unsurprising, particularly the sex and home/work ones.
I found this interesting:
Similar Websites by Audience Overlap
1. nationalreview.com
2. thefederalist.com
3. washingtonexaminer.com
4. townhall.com
5. dailycaller.com
who links to them is the same feels.
Are the numbers on the Y axis upside down or am I just extra stupid?
It’s a ranking. Down is bad, it means it’s down relative to top sites.
A couple more thoughts:
Their ranking is a 90 day average. Unless they see a strong recovery, and I see no reason to expect trends to reverse unless something else changes, their ranking is going to crash.
Assuming fairly ordinary boardroom involvement, I wonder how aware the big money guys are of the crash in traffic. Sooner or later it will bubble up to the board, and when it does I can’t imagine a competent board not losing its shit. Unless they are paying for something other than eyeballs on content, and I can’t think what that would be.
I assume its the foundation that is the board?
Regardless of how they are structured (the foundation may be a separate corp. with a separate board), the foundation is where the money is, so that’s the board that matters.
It’s a ranking metric, so lower number = better
Here’s info on the Reason Foundation trustees/officers:
http://reason.org/trustees_and_officers/
Not really. He’s just expressing Democratic party policy: a fondness for more regulations & more power concentrated in the hands of unelected bureaucrats. Sure it’s nuts but this is a what a lot of Americans want. *shrug*
Let your freak flag fly, people
Seriously, why does anyone get upset about people liking that sort of thing? Are you bothering anyone who doesn’t want to be involved? No? Then I don’t give a shit.
Are you bothering anyone who doesn’t want to be involved?
I think that’s part of the problem. The people who tend to hate furries the most are the people into media with anthropomorphic animals, because they’re the ones who most regularly hear about people wanting to suck Star Fox’s cock or whatever.
I must confess to having sex dreams about Pixie and Dixie when I was a kid.
Does that make you Furry-curious?
Well, I’ve been curious about Invisible Furry Hand.
She’s an Australian Furry Hand, which means her nails leak a neurotoxin and her quills cause wet gangrene.
This has not decreased my curiosity.
Do people get upset with them? I know many people (myself included) ridicule and laugh at them, but I’ve never heard of anyone getting upset that they are doing it.
Agreed. I don’t begrudge people for what they do in their free time, but 1) my anecdotal experience with furries is that they tend to be messed up folks outside of their sexually proclivities, and 2) I’m inherently skeptical of anybody whose sex life consumes that much of the rest of their lives (whether or not they’re into a fetish).
I used to play an MMO in a guild that had a lot of furries in it. Other than their weird fetish, which I was happy they rarely talked about around the normies, most of them were awesome people. They had a screwed up sense of humor that would make them fit in well around here. They also tended to be warm, sensitive, and caring about other people, at least more so than average. Unlike SJWs, despite most of them being leftists, all the ones I knew could take a joke. Several of them were in attendance at that Furcon where someone attacked the hotel with chlorine gas and I knew about it right away because those who were in TeamSpeak heard about it from the others.
But yeah, don’t get ’em talking about the fetish.
Its a furry get him!
In honor of Canada’s bizarre overrepresentation on the website stats:
Our wholly impartial and unbiased state news agency continues to push PM Zoolander as a sex symbol
But politics is for ugly people!!
The US suffered through eight years of this flapdoodle – it’s your turn now.
The light, it burns!
How was everyone’s weekend?
Went to Denver on Saturday, a friend just moved here. Went to the bar to watch thr flyers penguins game.
So sunday was a nothing day till mid afternoon.
Drank some great wine with SP. Made spinach manicotti. Hiked too far and my legs are killing me today. Other than that…
I wish I knew what wine I’d like. I really should go to a tasting.
NOBODY knows more about wine than OMWC.
You’re just trying to weasel your way into my cellar.
OK, successfully. You bring the raclette.
Nursed an infected tooth. Luckily, the warning label on my antibiotics did not specifically prohibit consuming alcohol.
Finished moving the appliances and furniture that we left in the carport for the last month. It was too wet when we first got here to move it all into the basement. Other than that, we’re just staving off boredom. We don’t know anybody within 500 miles, and we’re tight enough on $$ between now and when I start my job that we can’t spend a bunch on entertaining ourselves.
Thats always a hard time. When we got to CO, I had less than 20 bucks when we finished getting groceries.
Got some good reading done though.
Yeah, been there, although not the broke part at least for the last couple-three moves. It was rough, especially for Mrs. Dean, since a job comes with built-in social interaction and networks, and Mrs. Dean doesn’t do jobs (she finally gave up on finding an employer who met her standards).
My roommates just got out of college, I had a few paychecks saved up. It was a move I think everyone has to do once.
Not so great.
My dad came to visit. He’s not in good shape. He’s got a pretty advanced case of aphasia, is almost too weak to walk even with his walker. It was excruciating and heart-rending to see him struggling to do the simplest of tasks.
Otherwise his brain is fine. He continues to work on theoretical physics related to superconductivity and semiconductors.
He wants to maintain his independence and continue living alone in his condo. I fear one day I’m going to get a phone call saying that he fell and died of thirst unable to reach the phone, or plowed his car into something because he was too weak to depress the brake pedal hard.
It *is* his life… but dammit.
Sorry to hear, tarran.
tarran, that is rough. Its a hard conversation to have with a lot of parents, but you need to get financial and medical powers of attorney set up now, and get him to show you where the investment accounts, savings accounts, safe deposit boxes, etc. are. Some parents are easy with this (like Mater and Pater Dean), others are very hard. It always saddens me to see parents who don’t trust their own children, but too often it is justified.
He sounds like the sort who will want to live independently far too long. More and more, there are nice independent living and assisted living facilities out there (here in Tucson, you can get a top shelf two bedroom with a meal plan at a place that has all kinds of amenities – restaurant chef, bar w/happy hour, massage therapy, pets, etc etc. for about $4 – 5K/month, with lots of good options at lower price points). These are not your parent’s nursing homes (they aren’t nursing homes at all), although people from that generation tend not to understand that.
Thanks RC! My brother and I are working the issue and that’s pretty much our checklist. We didn’t think of asking him about safety deposit boxes, though.
And yes there are huge trust issues. It’s a long story with its roots in my horrible witch of a Turkish grandmother who seemed to make it her life mission to emotionally cripple her male children and my dad’s PTSD from the political violence in Turkey (including the assassination attempt foiled by our badass half-beagle guard-dog). He feels incredibly vulnerable physically, and his condo is his safe space.
Given how you describe your father, I’d bet there are safe deposit boxes scattered around with who knows what in them. A lot of elderly people with hard pasts, trust issues, etc. go that route. When Mrs. Dean’s father was declining and died, we kept uncovering safe deposit boxes with thousands of dollars in cash, etc. in them.
I’m sorry to hear. Have you considered broaching one of those medical alert services with him? It won’t help with driving but it could assuage some of your concerns about a fall and seems like an okay compromise for independent living. Or even just one of those “I’m listening to everything you say” devices like Alexa.
Sorry to hear about that. My mother is in a retirement living community. She can not live on her own (falls, can’t drive) but is pretty self sufficient otherwise. Plenty of activities and access to help. Of course you have to find a good one ( and a good one can turn bad rather quickly and vice versa). They are expensive.
Best of luck to your father and the rest of your family figuring out what is best for everybody.
Moved my parents into their new house. Luckily most of the grunt work was done by “professional” movers – who are paid, but not necessarily that good at doing it. The cost was extravagant! If I was a younger man I would have lassoed someone else in and done it myself.
All I did was open boxes and try to put stuff away. And I did a pretty good job, clearing most of the boxes, moving chairs and sofas into place, and getting their TV & stereo up and running too.
There are only a few more items left at the old cottage – chainsaws, tools, a trailer that can’t be driven very fast, and some 2X4s that went under the wood piles which my old man thinks is his duty to dig up and bring to the dump. I would just leave ’em there.
Also: I think I’m pretty fit – I can march for miles and miles without breaking a sweat. I also lift weights 3x a week – but somehow moving boxes and unpacking them really took it out of me. To recover I spent most of Saturday napping and watching TV since I felt just bone-tired. After working out on Sunday my back felt torched all over again.
Pro-tip: the people who are good at relocating elderly folks take pictures of each room before they pack it up, right down to what’s in the drawers, and try to replicate it as closely as possible in the new space. This works best if you have already done the hard work (in every sense) of downsizing what gets moved.
Happy Monday, yall.
Stuffed jalapeños for a snack today. Off to the store.
Stuffed with…?
i was thinking pepper jack.
That can be good. Last time I did them, I used Chihuahua (cheese, not dog).
i will look for that as well.
If the jalapenos are hot, you might try queso fresca, which is mild and delicious.
I assume you are wrapping your peppers in bacon and grilling them? (no euphemism)
Yeah, thats the plan anyway. Ive seen people deep fry, but I haven’t used the bbq in a bit.
That’s a way to trayf them up. Batter and deep fry, it’s the only civilized way. PAN corn meal is great for that.
I’ve had many a grilled popper. I prefer them to fried, but YMMV.
Do not wrap your sausage with jalapenos. It burns worse than the VD you catch in Warty’s basement.
Just a thought here, because I’ve done it with delicious results:
take some ground veal and shallots and saute them up. Let it cool and then combine it with crumbled queso Fresca. Stuff the jalapeños with that combo, wrap with bacon and then cook on the grill until the bacon is properly done.
It’s fucking fantastic.
Woahhh.
can my stomach get an erection?
Now it’s time to beat sloopy’s father.
Ha! I discovered it by accident. I was stuffing it into big calamari tubes 20 years ago and had some leftovers with a bunch of Fresno chiles (which are better for this project than jalapeños by the way). I’ve been making it once every few years when I come across a good deal on ground veal.
The calamaris stuffed with it are pretty fucking good too. I mean they’re fantastic. Just leave a little room for expansion in the tubes so it doesn’t explode. And stay on top of them because it cooks fast.
Sloopy, how do you cook the squid? Do you grill it?
lobot, you can grill it or you can fry it really fast. I prefer frying.
If you decide to grill, you’ll need to make your mixture of meat and cheese while the meat is still warm since the squid cooks so fast on a grill.
(silently weeps for bullet-points)
respect our nation’s laws
Such a libertarian thing to say.
Rachel Dolezal, former NAACP leader who claimed to be black, is on food stamps
Dammit, I left out the money quote:
Might be time to go reality. What, is she too good for that?
I’m afraid we’re stuck with supporting her no matter what. Either she works some fluff job in academia or government, or she’s another welfare sponge. I’d just prefer she stay home unheard from and hopefully does not procreate.
Welfare is probably the least bad solution. Any job she gets (other than sweeping floors) is likely to be as a paid agitator.
I’d just prefer she stay home unheard from and hopefully does not procreate.
Too late for the procreating bit. She has two kids.
She’s been doing hair on the side. Maybe she should go back to being white to get her privilege back or something.
I hope she has a license for her side business. Where does she live, and what’s the contact info for the Cosmetology Board there?
Well, at least she’s trying her hardest to be black. /s
You filthy racist!
It’s neat that she’s sort-of “post racial” but she just can’t make the intellectual leap away from politicizing and pigeonholing everybody anyway.
She has to be utterly unemployable except for maybe a minimum wage job. She is a former professional grievance-monger (strikes 1 – 12 at most companies), and managed to defraud one of the big grievance-mongering shops (pretty solid strikes in the grievance-mongering industry). She has rendered herself economically irrelevant and beyond marginalized.
Which makes me wonder if Eddie isn’t right, and there is a God.
Isn’t minimum wage 15 dollars an hour in Washington? Isn’t that supposed to be a “”living wage””?
A “living wage” is never actually defined, it’s always just more.
I think that’s just Seattle, but I’m not going to bother looking it up.
Yeah same.
Transformation, complete.
Over the weekend I read a good article about her at the Guardian.
It’s a very interesting read.
And I should add, my finding that article is all due to Old Man With Candy and his glorious links. Thanks!
Schmidt gets credit for the assist on that put-out.
Nobody ever reads my links.
/runs off and cries
I do! I promise!
I’m so glad the experts last night were proven wrong again lel.
The alexa site didn’t show page views. Are we going up?
I’m guessing Alexa won’t tell us much until we’ve been up 90 days.
You appear to be correct – they need enough data to start tracking that.
Where do they get the demographic information at the bottom? What is the source they are harvesting to make those claims?
They see all and know all.
NSA hookup?
Are those installs of extensions, or are we talking alexa code infecting 25,000 other applications? Because that either means the data is a tiny sample size, or they have a seriously disturbing network.
I figured the age came from looking at what other sites do they frequent. But that is a pretty weak way to guess age.
I just realized something odd. I’ve been commenting on Libertarian and sympathetic sites for better than a decade and a half, pretty much as long as they have existed…… and just recently I’ve noticed that about 20% of my posts over at Reason are of the “this article is flawed because…” variety. I’m not sure if I have even one post of this variety prior to the 2016 presidential season.
I never had to explain to Balko why he was wrong over at the agitator…. I just expanded on the ideas he opened up. Even back when every 3rd article at Reason was an advertisement for “Declaration of Independents”, there just wasn’t enough to complain about to get me moving in that direction. Ok, I’ve maybe mentioned that Carlos Miller was careening a little close to the edge from time to time….
But something has really changed. I might be getting older and curmudgeonly, but I don’t think that is it. I really think there has been a huge shift – and it isn’t just about Trump. (although if I had a dollar for every post by a Trump hater who begins with “please stop making me have to defend Trump..”) They’ve dropped most of their other beats. Robby is the only active interesting beat – and he does a reasonably good job if he would just lay off of the “those other guys are really the evil ones and i’m totes on your side” signaling.
But there is no police brutality beat any more. There is no regulatory overreach beat any more. There is no economic freedom beat. No gun rights beat. Nobody covering land use rights. Nobody digging in on eminent domain. Just almost nothing of what I want to learn about in more depth. Just politics, politics, politics.
And the political takes are often college-sophomore-in-a-coffee-shop stupid. And it takes a lot to get that level of scorn for you position when I happen to agree with you. (the lucky thing about being libertarian is that it is easy to predict your position on a given politician or political party… in every case: he’s an idiot and they are idiots.)
I guess what I’m saying is that I thought this little protest was mildly nutty when you guys first started mentioning it. Sure, I agreed with the sentiment – the quality was certainly down. But now I get it. It is frustrating because I really enjoyed having an intellectual home for so long. It was frustrating when “the Agitator” went away and died, because that was a tight and smart community. HnR was bigger and as such more troll infested. But it was still an interesting and intellectual home for ideas of liberty.
Now? Now it feels like the trolls are exercising editorial control. It is like Tony got his hands on the magic editor’s pen and is dolling out the assignments. So I’m sorry for doubting you guys. And thanks for trying to keep the community together.
You should start submitting things here: (submit@glibertarians.com) on the issues that matter most to you.
Be a doer, not just an observer.
Link doesn’t work.
Just click the leads/submissions at the top of the page. I guess it doesn’t like the email address I put in that link. Although I’ll go try to fix it anyway.
It’s good to see ya here, Cyto.
Just politics, politics, politics.
“but what if people aren’t aware of how awful trump’s twitter feed is? you want us to find something else to talk about?!”
Just almost nothing of what I want to learn about in more depth. Just politics, politics, politics.
And too much of it is the shallowest kind of politics – hot takes on the social media OUTRAGE of the day. Which inevitably is driven by the narrow bubble of Twitter and/or the DemOp Journolist marching orders.
At least, it was when I left a month ago. Haven’t really looked at the site in a couple-three weeks. Maybe its changed.
Last night ENB called Lauren Southern a notorious member of the alt-right.
Lauren Southern. The Canadian Libertarian Party member and former candidate. Reason writers are now accusing libertarians of being the evil alt-right. They’ve got absolutely insane and I have no idea why.
and half-condoning violence against the alt-right. Do they think they’re safe from being labeled alt right?
Well, she did make fun of “gender identity” issues. So I guess that makes her an evil racist alt-right Nazi and most assuredly notorious.
“And he’s smoking.”
“He did it.”
She did more than “make fun of.” That’s crazy, just get a doctor’s note without any other corroborating evidence that you’ve had your bits snipped or something and change your legal gender identification.
I guess what I’m saying is that I thought this little protest was mildly nutty
What I like about the Glibs is they didn’t do this as a protest. They did it to get the kind of libertarian site they wanted, and which Reason used to provide but doesn’t any more.
We could probably go to Stage 2 now, and start actively promoting the site with other bloggers (assuming we want a bigger audience). Get some libertarian-friendly bigs to give this place a shout-out and some links.
I think that’ll happen naturally.
I wouldn’t count on it. There’s no substitute for active marketing on the internet – its just so big nothing gets noticed unless you make an effort.
Let it be emergant. Let this period be where the bugs are ironed out and methodologies are improved before asking for a torrent of additional people.
Especially with the third “Secure Connection Failed” in as many comments.
Did you guys bring the squirrels with you or something?
It is the Russians. They are in your router.
They should start paying rent.
We would not be opposed to others giving us shout-outs or for some people to offer their work for us to repost.
What stage is compromising your beliefs and selling out in order to not be ostracized by JournoList members at DC/NY cocktail parties?
Stage 26.
That’s the stage immediately before “Profit!”
This new place brought me out of the lurking shadows to participate.
KITLER!
In an interview with The Guardian, Dolezal said the only work she’s been offered is in reality TV and pornography. Although she’s applied for 100 jobs, she told The Guardian that no one will hire her and she’s currently on food stamps and may soon be homeless.
A notorious fraud is having difficulty finding a job?
Inconceivable!
Why did you feel the need to talk about Hillary Clinton after you quoted a piece about Rachel Dolezal?
That word you keep using…
In honor of the oscars- I watched part of a movie the other nigh; “part” because I kept nodding off.
It was called “Stingray Sam” I think. I can’t say it was fabulous, but it was unique and stylistically innovative, which are rare, rare qualities in the modern entertainment world.
Anybody else seen it?
I’m not interested in a Steve Irwin snuff film.
*narrows gaze*
Get some libertarian-friendly bigs to give this place a shout-out and some links.
Maybe I’m behind the curve, on this (hardly surprising), but have you guys reached out to Tuccile? He’s about the only contributor at that other place worth reading.
::cough::Ed Krayewski::cough::
I often enjoy Jesse Walker’s articles as well. Also, although I don’t think he is on staff, Glenn Garvin is a fun television critic.
I’ll accept Krayewski. He has maintained consistency.
Doherty, I think, has some good libertarian things to say, but I find him completely unreadable. It’s like he is incapable of writing a concise declarative sentence.
While we’re throwing out names, I always wondered why Vin Suprynowicz almost never got any mention from Reason.
There’s that guy that posted the brutal takedown of Hamilton. He looks like fun.