Having faceplanted on the originality part of links yesterday afternoon, I am getting back on the hoverboard and trying not to crash or incinerate or such. Enjoy these Friday Afternoon links that contain little to no substance!
- A Daily Fail Womyn!
- Best I could do for a Daily Fail Man.
- Euro race car stuff.
- Hmmmm. Not sure what to think of this.
- Should we care one way or the other?
That is it – hopefully you are able to relax and knock out a couple of pithy comments here. Enjoy!
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319 responses to “Friday Afternoon Links”
I’m Pithy
Citrus?
Only when I’m also feeling zesty
You’re not lime to me, are you?
Hey, whatever helps out with the daily rind.
You’re just plum out of energy, aren’t you?
don’t make me pomelo you. This is strictly a citrus thread
Is that true, or is it pulp fiction?
that pun was Ugli
Do I have to mandarinsplain things to you?
talk to the (buddha’s) hand
(((Buddha)))?!
Of the tribe of (((dah)))
*narrows gaze at the collective lot of ye*
I’m scared from my head tomatoes.
MAKE WAY FOR GRAPEFRUIT, GOOOOOOO GRAPEFRUIT!
this thread is vegi interesting
I’m Hoppy……said the IPA
You should see a speech therapist for that lisp.
Seattle is letting its workers take the day off for May Day!
HOW DARE THOSE CAPITALIST SCUM ONLY ALLOW THE DAY OFF FOR THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD IT! PEOPLE SHOULD BE PAID TO PROTEST! DOUBLE PAID! TRIPLE PAID!!!!!
Has Trump actually enacted policies intended to curtail the rights of minorities? Because if so, that should actually inspire outrage, no?
Or is this just prog bluster?
I like watching a city derp harder than mine.
Berkeley and Seattle City Council seem to be having a Derp-a-thon right now. Arreguin is quickly moving up the ranks as my favorite moonbat in CA, right up there with Maxine. He’s even got some BAMN Facebook creds, to boot. Super-talented at the prog game.
What I want is a holiday in early April. With a firm nod to Douglas Adams, I call the time between Prezznit’s Day and Memorial Day “The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul”.
That’s what Easter Monday should be for.
And some of us don’t get Presidents’ Day off.
“A Daily Fail Womyn!”
Fake
http://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/wake-up-with-nikki-blades-3/
Better
Also, first
Rather, third, I suppose
I’m Poppler!
I’m popular?
Oh goodness I haven’t thought about that song in years.
Slide number one: The Larch.
I’ve always wanted to know what Popplers taste like. I’m guessing some mix of chicken nuggets and deep fried scrimp.
I have this one weird tick I want to show you.
Hmmmm….I’m not sure I feel comfortable clicking that link. Something tells me a talking sea vagina doesn’t have my best interests at heart.
How do you feel about an insect that looks like a rabbit-type vibrator?
unsettled?
Oh God, that caused me to choke on my Pepsi. Well done.
That’s very closed minded of you.
I wonder if I could sell this to the types of circuit-preachers who run around saying we know God made the earth for man because bananas fit in our hands so well…
Should I be pleased or ashamed that I don’t know what a rabbit-type vibrator is?
You’d probably recognize one if you saw it. It’s an insertable dong, usually with a beaded rotating shaft and a protrusion that tickles the clit when the dong part is inserted. It’s a standard form now that was cutting edge in the late ’90s/early ’00s.
It’s where the phrase “beaten by a hare” comes from.
I’m fairly certain this will never come up in conversation again in my lifetime. But if it does….
Stolen.
Holly Hagan… now that’s the kind of in-depth, hard-hitting news I can appreciate.
Is she some sort of celebrity? Looks like she’s in a really cheap hotel room.
Best I could do for a Daily Fail Man.
I like that he gives back by supporting the Special Olympics.
Can you see it?
Gilmored?
No, works for me.
The link works, but it’s not in the “orange” thread.
ESPN anchor says something vague and unhelpful about recent round of layoffs
Well, that shed a fuckton of light on the situation. I felt like I was in the corporate offices in Bristol, CT as I read it.
And I quoted the most interesting part of the whole thing. Oh, how desperately the 24-hour news cycle aches for content. It doesn’t have to inform or entertain. In the present case, it doesn’t have to even say anything. Just get us some fresh content, people!
I’d rather watch russian competitive slap fighting on the Ocho than any one of their talk shows. They need to bring back zero cost actual sports and just play whatever than can fill time with.
And actually cover the sports. I hate hate hate how they only fellate a few stars with their tennis coverage. And swoop in for the late rounds after Tennis Channel has done a good job covering the early rounds.
Most of the layoffs were from the cis-gendered white male hard sports reporter-types. They clearly are taking the MSNBC approach of “more derp, the better” w/o their self-awareness. Sad.
Exactly. Jemele Hill still *writes* for them.
The other day I heard LeBatard interviewing an author (I never caught the name) and both said they didn’t know who Mike Rowe was during their discussion.
Wtf?
And they think ESPN can shed insights on politics? Mind you, LeBatard has interesting perspectives – obviously – about Castro and Cuba but whenever he delves into politics he leaves much to be desired. I’m surprised he doesn’t have Bill Nye on.
He had Rachel Dolezal on last week
He has before. Dan is clearly uneducated about politics and takes the “nuance” is the end goal approach to everything, but his insights on athletes and athlete culture are great, plus the show is funny as hell. He, Bomani, and Bob Ley are the only people on the network capable of talking complicated, non-sports issues.
Every thing else should be sports and sports analysis. Not that hard.
Yes but he takes the nuance thing too far to the point it becomes vapid nonsense. Doing it for its own sake is just painful to listen to.
Absolutely agree about the irreverent approach. It allows for great sports radio.
O yeah, was absolutely agreeing about the nuance approach. Drives me nuts. Greg Cote, now that man could host 24 hours of content and I’d be on board
Shapiro had a theory about this that he talked about on his podcast yesterday. I think he nailed it:
If ESPN thinks the majority of black NBA and NFL fans are interested in queer intersectional feminist politics or whatever, they’re going to be in for a bit of a surprise.
Well, why not? Sports commentary, in general, is just as pointless.
Tuning in to Saturday afternoon AM radio here in Ohio, this is the day the talk stations talk about the latest Ohio State happenings. They just repeat themselves over and over with platitudes like “team X next week is not a pushover” or “they need to give 100%” and I can’t fathom how they get ratings enough to stay afloat. It’s the closest thing to beating a dead horse short of beating a dead horse, every Saturday starting at noon.
True, many blacks are socially conservative, even though they still vote Democrat.
And there’s the irony of it all. Talking race with ‘white devil’ as the starting point is all too common. Try and say blacks are not exactly friendly to gay marriage or other social issues whites are far more progressive on and you’ll get fired.
The coalitions the left manages to form is nothing short of amazing. They’re getting socially conservative blacks and Latinos to vote for candidates that are obsessed with “gay rights” and they even get Muslims on-board to vote for the most socially leftoid candidates and policies imaginable. It’s almost as though the only prerequisite to allying with the left is a shared-hatred of some other particular group of people that will remain unnamed.
Mimes?
FreeSociety The left’s minority coalitions are far more fragile than they want to admit, especially without a charismatic leader to bring them all together. There’s a reason why Bernie and Warren are all of the sudden defending Coulter now, because they know that you need those bigoted (ahem, “reasonable”), pro-life Democrats to have any sustainable voting base.
True, many blacks are socially conservative, even though they still vote Democrat.
And so are Hispanics. If this is really ESPN’s strategy (and I don’t think it is) it’s absolutely moronic.
Fatty Bolger ESPN thinks that they are marketing to the younger, more diverse demographic when they do this. Of course, the leftist writers that they hire, almost all of them from the big cities and the “right schools”, has a very narrow-minded and patronizing idea of what minorities should support and watch.
Yes, aren’t almost all Latinos Catholic?
Oh, how desperately the 24-hour news cycle aches for content. It doesn’t have to inform or entertain. In the present case, it doesn’t have to even say anything. Just get us some fresh content, people!
This! As long as some idiot is on screen yapping about something nobody cares about, the execs are happy. Of course, the viewer would rather be watching reruns of sports matches and/or more obscure sports, but the execs don’t want that for some reason.
I’m frankly more interested in Fox News dismantling itself, personally. They have a complete niche that they are fucking up because Murdoch’s sons are a bunch of progressive yuppies who live in a bubble. They will sit there and try to sell it as a smart move to get a younger audience that will never materialize while alienating their base and ignoring the younger stars that the right has produced over the last 4-8 years. ESPN can at least fall back on their rights to live sporting events.
Just posted the link up, hilarious stuff. It’s as if the sons don’t get that some other conservative channel will happily eat up their vacuum in a heartbeat if they appease the progs. Who’s going to stop Breitbart from making an MSNBC-style Trumpist channel and give the FOX crowd all Trump all of the time? Stupid, just stupid.
There is The Blaze as well. It used to be on my cable, but they dropped it.
The Blaze is making themselves irrelevant by picking a fight with Tomi Lahren for flip-flopping on abortion. She’s as annoying and obnoxious as they come, but she was the only face on that channel that every single person on FB knew about, and her videos had more views on FB than Beck’s channel ratings combined. Definition of shooting yourself in the foot in the name of purity.
I never liked her. She isn’t that good looking. She isn’t that bright. And she said everything in an annoying monotone. The only thing she had going for her was her age.
Yeah, she’s obnoxious and not my taste, but my point still stands. When you’re a fledgling channel you need to keep the ones that are growing your popularity rather than alienate them.
You know the old saying, “Nature abhors a vacuum”? Well, since FOX is rapidly losing its identity (and surely lose viewers by the truckload), which network is going to fill that void? The Blaze? CRTV? Newsmax TV?
Ailes and O’Reilly could easily set up their own channel if they wanted to with all of their old FOX money. I’m sure that the Trump-lovers at Breitbart would love to have their own channel, too. Very easy to replace.
Do they realize that only Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson are left to differentiate their channel? And the SJW are attacking Hannity with fake allegations now.
It would be ridiculously simple to build a conservative channel. Just buy CRTV (bring Steyn back), hire a few news readers and put it on cable.
Once this all shakes out, my money is on ESPN.
there was a Drudge headline today about money men and some teevee muckyitty mucks meeting about launching a new socon vhannel if the fox brothers shift to the left
They will sit there and try to sell it as a smart move to get a younger audience that will never materialize while alienating their base and ignoring the younger stars that the right has produced over the last 4-8 years.
But enough about Reason Magazine.
The funny part of that is that Old Man Murdoch wasn’t conservative anyway – he was just smart enough to see that there was a void waiting to be exploited. His dolt sons are going to piss that away and see their network become just another cable channel.
There is that old saying, “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations”, so his sons are just playing to type. It does seem to be a rare thing for a family to have three successive successful generations.
His dolt sons probably got tired of being “othered” by their proggy friends and youtube commenters. Cocktail parties strike again.
Yeah I stopped watching ESPN TV a couple of years ago and mostly listen to ESPN Radio now, Russilio and Kanell were ok, a bit too much dudebro for me but mostly non political and tolerable but between the two of them I liked Kanell better (and thank god SVP is gone, his ego got too big) so that has me down to just listening to Mike and Mike in the morning and fortunately those guys have been able to resist the push to make the show political.
Once they are gone, ESPN will be fully dead to me
Once they are gone,
I have some bad news.
Euro race car stuff.
It’s good to see Ferrari get some sort of traction again.
I’m curious how Alonso will do at the 500. Other former F1 types have come over and done well (Mansell, JPM), but some have stunk it up (Sato, Barrichello).
Ferrari is unique in auto racing. It’s the only team where the car is more important than the driver to the fans.
I always cheer for Mazda, no matter who’s driving.
I used to have a friend who did that with Lancia rally racing.
There’s a joke in there, somewhere, about how Wankel pronounces zoom-zoom. /ducks
Yeah, but once you drive for Ferarri, the Tifosi will love you forever.
True.
+1 Gilles Villeneuve.
Sato was always garbage though, how he got a ride in F1 I still don’t understand
I think he will do better than the qualify 5 spots higher then he has any right to, watch Lance Stroll and his glorious eyebrows drive by him because his car sucks than retire with engine failure with 5 laps to go while getting his soul get crushed just a bit more like he would in Monaco.
I’m excited to see him try it.
I may actually watch the 500, for once.
Allow me to predict the race: left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left and so on and so forth.
I don’t follow F1 much at all, but worked with a Brit (McLaren disciple) who referred to Ferrari as, “The red shit boxes”. His morning rants about racing where something to behold. He had good rants on F1 vs Nascar as well. “Go lighter go faster. Horsepower is for ignorant pussys” he claimed. Engineers got themselves some opinions.
Enzo Ferrari once said that aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines. He lived long enough to choke on those words.
Colin Chapman had the same philosophy as your friend in the 60’s designing Lotus F1 cars. That paid off with domination of the sport, but also at the expense the drivers who were often injured or killed in these lightweight designs.
So, your colleague is an idiot.
Not an idiot, just an engineer. You would be shocked how many engineers design things that look perfect on paper but have absolutely no accommodations for manufacturing, assembly, use… you know, all those pesky human interactions.
/is an engineer
Oh, I get that. I have great respect for engineers and always wished I had the skills to be one, but you see the myopia of engineers very often, in terms of economics, practicality, utility, etc.
“But, it’s a great design!”
Someone in racing was getting killed about once a month in the late 50s/early 60s. It had very little to do with Chapman’s desire to save weight. Lighter is unquestionably faster. It takes less energy to accelerate. There is less inertia to stop or turn. A lighter car is more responsive and easier to drive on the limit, which means the driver is less fatigued as well.
Sure. Power-to-weight ratio is king in racing. But, safety features come at a cost of increased mass.
The technological developments were coming so fast that the safety tech couldn’t keep up. That, and the culture was much more accepting of life-threatening risk. Race car drivers were a half-step below astronauts on the badass scale.
A few related books recommendations from the indycar side of things:
Black Noon The story of Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald.
(stripping out the links of the other two so I don’t go afoul of the link monster)
https://www.amazon.com/Beast-Jade-Gurss/dp/1937747336/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=R4M9R4XPXAH0VT6SYM9N
Beast The last true speed-seeking technological innovation at the Indy 500.
https://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Response-Inside-Racing-Life-Saver/dp/0857331124/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493420953&sr=1-2&keywords=rapid+response
Rapid Response The story of Alex Zanardi, along with other stories about saving and attempting to save lives after horrific racing accidents.
Watch “Grand Prix” in HD – that’s a whole new ballgame. (Frankenheimer FTW)
Not Steve McQueen in Le Mans? After all, he actually raced cars.
Um, both?
‘1’ is terrific documentary about the early F1 years and safety. it probably makes Bernie look much better than he should, but whatevs.
So did James Garner.
Also, Senna
Took Mrs Trshmnstr to see that on our first date.
Race car drivers were a half-step below astronauts on the badass scale.
No argument there.
So, your colleague is an idiot.
He was far from an idiot. He was an engineer who actually got his hands dirty and built things with them. He was working in the offshore oil and gas exploration field when I met him. Pretty sharp guy in spite of him being British.
I think if one is going to be a race car driver, one might expect to die. We all make our own choices don’t we?
He was far from an idiot.
Of course he’s not a literal idiot; that was hyperbole. It’s just his opinion in this case that is.
(To be fair, a great deal of the increase in safety in racing is a combination of driver training, impact energy dissipation in car design and track design. SAFER barriers have very likely saved many lives. Seeing some of the multi-car crashes in recent years, that drivers have literally walked away from, is jaw dropping.)
I think if one is going to be a race car driver, one might expect to die.
Hell, I expect to die when I get on I-95 and the DC Beltway. I’m honestly surprised that I’m still completely unscathed, considering how much time and mileage I spend on them doing 70-85 MPH.
Great, now I jinxed it.
How the hell do you go 70-85 on those roads? I’ve only gone on them a few times, but I was lucky to do 40.
I drive the roads around DC and Bal’mer at all times of the day, but I have a reverse commute. So, I can typically go 75 in the mornings. Afternoons aren’t as good.
OUTTA MY WAY!
Driving home the other night on 95, there was a pack of about 8-10 cars that I was in and we were all doing 85 for about 4 or 5 miles. It was a beautiful thing. Then we came up on some Corollas. Sigh….
SAFER barriers have very likely saved many lives.
That stuff is worth its weight in gold.
Almost the same crash as this one happened in the era before SAFER barriers. Gordon Smiley essentially ceased to exist. Safety has come a long way from the late 80s/early 90s
Said colleague sounds like one of the Brits who think the way Brits do things is the best way, and dammit, where’s my beefsteak when I travel abroad?
Read Tim Worstall’s blog if you want to run into a bunch of the type.
Meh, geographical and/or sports partisanship is just as tedious as political partisanship.
What does it say if I can’t tell whether or not this is satire?
Apparently there’s an anarchist/socialist group planning to “March on Amazon” on Monday and deliver four demands to Jeff Bezos:
Looters gotta loot.
*gets out a napkin and a pencil*
Let’s do some math. Let’s assume that Amazon nets on the order of $1B/year. Let’s further assume that there are on the order of 1M people in King County. Congrats, you need to start liquidating Amazon after a month, and that doesn’t even address the 3 “demands” before the UBI.
Amazon nets slightly less than 2.5B/yr, so you might even make it through the summer.
Unfortunately there are just over 2 million people in King County, so were back to a month.
Math is a bourgeois construct, man
We know the math doesn’t work but the things we are demanding are just too important for us to be held back by mere numbers.
Maybe the organizers have been reading this site and realize they can’t rely on the gov, and are going to the private sector?
A) Who gets to decide who “needs” the housing units?
B) I’ve always wondered how much a non-unionized “free” (at least for residents; they can charge tourists a modest fee to defray a bit of the cost) mass tranist system would cost. Of course the non-unionized part is never going to happen, and not having government-sector unions is the only way to keep the cost down.
C) making a King County community college education worthless.
D) You can meet your basic needs for $1K a month? I wish I could. And again, who gets to define “need”?
They’ll start at $1K a month and then demand more and more and more….
I only make 3k a month after taxes and I have a masters degree. Either I am getting paid too little or these are some greedy oblivious fucks right here. Probably a little from columns A and B.
Depends on where you live and what you want to do.
D) You can meet your basic needs for $1K a month?
Lets see food ($5/day) $155 ,rent $400 (round these parts), Gas/’lectric/water give or take $150 a month, Basic needs $705 with about 3 Benjamins for clothes and beer*
*yeah it’s not nearly enough for beer but he did say basic.
Rent!? That’s already covered with “20,000 fully subsidized and perpetually free public housing units.” Now you can afford more Natty Light.
Natty Light? what kind of barbarian do you think I am, I drink Stroh’s, like my father and his father before him.
*applause*
Now that Jeff Bezos and Amazon have extracted billions of dollars from across the world, they are poised to become the new techno-libertarian overlords of a redundant surplus population.
Man, sometimes I wish the crazy bullshit these people come up with was true.
Oof. Whenever somebody breaks out the “extracted resources” nonsense I quit talking to them about this stuff. If a person just can’t wrap their head around the concept of value creation it’s not really useful to even bother.
Did a human actually write this or was it simply a random number generator hooked to a speadsheet of buzzwords?
JB’s on the mark that it might be satire. On the other hand I knew socialists legitimately stupid enough to believe things like “If everyone stood up at once and withheld their labor from the capitalists, there would be no more capitalism” in the ol’ days.
Honestly, the underpants gnomes have better plans.
The theory:
Step 1: Workers of the world unite!
Step 2: ?
Step 3: No more capitalism!
The reality:
Step 1: Everybody stops working
Step 2: People start starving, getting sick, and dying
Step 3: A strongman takes over and forces the survivors back to work
Step 2 for anarcho-socialists is they form their syndicalist/anarchist communes that magically distribute everyone’s goods equally and correctly, no one ever disagrees or attempts to take advantage of the system and/or their fellow human beings and a hierarchy never emerges. Somehow.
It’s a bad sign when communism seems more logical than your ideas.
“anarchist/socialist”= We’ll abolish the government! And since stealing people’s productive capacity is so vital to my world view, we’ll replace the government with some sort of entity that will have the power to tax and a monopoly of producing and distributing certain goods and services and a monopoly of dispute resolution even in disputes involving itself. We’ll call this revolutionary entity “like totally not a state and stuff”.
Nice avatar pic.
I wish I could claim it was me in the photo. I just can’t pull off the banana hammock…. My dick is way to big and it gets all tangled up.
The anarcho-communist or anarcho-socialist angle always seemed weird to me (for the reasons you’ve just given).
What’s even weirder is that if you even mention the term anarcho-capitalism to the average person, they’ll look at you like you have three heads and ask how it’s even possible. I guess I can’t chide them too much given that mainstream media and government schools work hard to reinforce the idea that the less regulated capitalism is, the more the corporations will control you and that an absence of government control means that evil corporations will “fill the power vacuum” and just end up ruling you with an even heavier hand.
Amazon.com: Provides people with the biggest selection of products that has ever been available to any human being in history (much of the products being from small American businesses).
“Progressive” Response: “Waaaah! Waaah! Not fair! He has more of the pie than he needs!!! Boohoo! Record profits!! NOT FAIR!!!”
Good afternoon, Glibs! It’s time for another round of Vhyrus’s afternoon music links. The weekend is almost upon us, we just have a few more hours to go. Don’t give up, stay focused, and just keep trucking along like a buffalo soldier. We’ll make it together.
Btw I don’t have headphones at work so I hope that was the right link. I’m flying blind, er deaf here.
Looking to be stupidly beautiful weather this weekend. Have to find some way to enjoy it before the 100s crank up.
Zombie Jamboree – not reggae, but fun, and a good Halloween staple.
I used to randomly bellow out “Buffalo Soldier” at the bar. No I was not escorted out but I should’ve been.
It doesn’t count unless you did it with a Jamaican accent.
Every time I see “Buffalo Soldier,” I just hear it in Randy Marsh’s voice.
You’re not the only one.
That’s a weekly reference in the Regicide apartment.
“Just gonna get a little cancer, Stan.”
That tune brings back some hazy memories. I think.
FOX leadership needs more wimmxnz!
Ann Coulter isn’t terribly busy right now.
I’m sure they’d prefer Chelsea Clinton or someone from “their” set.
I’m reminded very much of McInnes describing just how not conservative Fox News really is. It’s a media company based out of NYC. Much of the on-air talent isn’t conservative.The suits almost certainly aren’t. And they live in the same media bubble as everyone else. They don’t get what the hell is going on in the rest of the country any better than the NYT’s.
You can kind of tell that based on how easily their female reporters are running off to MSNBC with a whiff of controversy. Greta Van Susteren, Megyn Kelly, Gretchen Carlson, etc.
So right out the gate we know the decision won’t be based on merit. I guess that’s RIP Fox.
FOX
They should hire that hot, young blonde thing that Glenn Beck fired not too long ago. I don’t watch Fox News, but she’s pretty damn easy on the eyes
Tomi Lahren? Meh.
Tomi Lahren is attractive, but so is Lauren Southern and Southern is a lot more authentic and thoughtful.
I like Lauren quite a bit, but her fan base is too controversial for FOX, a lot of alt-righters and 4channers on her videos that Tomi didn’t attract. She’s also kind of going in a PJW style, independent commentator approach now.
Rand Paul to teach course in Dystopian Literature at GWU. Jezebel catches wind of that, publishes predictably pissy piece repeats false claim that he’s not a real doctor.
That sounds like a class I’d go to.
I’m pretty sure I’d listen to Rand Paul read the label off a soup can.
I watched all ~14 hours of Rands famous fillibuster. Over several nights… put me to sleep very quickly but he is a legendary politician in my eyes and my role model.
He’s not a strong orator but I like most of what he has to say.
Jezebel is still around??
Is that back??
Never left, the Gawkersphere just got bought by someone who will probably keep them churning, but on a tighter leash.
Apparently so. I don’t follow them but that article popped up on my derpbook feed from a prog acquaintance.
Let me guess, it has to do with him founding his own opthomology board.
Oddly, every time someone brings this up, besides failing to mention that he was certified by the mainstream board before he started his own, is an examination of the standards they had. The implication is “ha, ha, he couldn’t hack it!” but there’s no proof whatsoever offered.
From the link in the link:
What a prick.
Just had a Weyerbacher Quad on draft. Quite delish.
Another british great black boxing hope?
Who currently holds the heavyweight title?
This guy has the WBC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontay_Wilder
and this guy used to have the rest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyson_Fury
he’s scheduled to fight Klitschko, who was basically the guy’s mentor. something tells me its not going to be 100% clean. there seems to be too much of a payday involved in helping the yungun become more of a celebrity. I’m not sure how much i really trust boxing these days.
Klitschko
Damn. He’s still around?
“So you’re going to be one of these popular champions,” Jack says to him.
From “Fifty Grand” by Earnest Hemingway
mfing spell corrector
these days ?
did you just wake up ?
that is my southerner-side “these days”, which means, “the last few decades”
Sort of like how, “The Other day” can mean either ‘yesterday’, or ’10 years ago’.
My point was i think this fight with Klitschko is a setup to hand the new-shiny-celebrity-kid a title so that Boxing can get better ratings.
No. But i think its a good indicator of how willing the mainstream press is to bend the truth. If they lie about petty shit, they surely lie about important shit.
CNN and the NYT’s still make vague, breathless references to the Piss-Gate dossier while pretending everything else around said story is credible.
I think the “Trump mocks retarded person” is a good example of how far people will willingly misrepresent a 2second video clip
And liberal feminists want to pretend that rape trees along the Mexican aren’t a thing. The Mexicans were bringing drugs, their rapists, and some very good people. But saying that is “racist”.
Why not? They won’t even say “genital mutilation” because it’s racist to point out how barbaric some people are.
That doesn’t make much sense either. Islam is almost the opposite of feminism.
Also, I meant “along the Mexican border”.
But it has a lot in common with communism – which seems to be the real philosophy of the feminists.
It’s ‘funny’ to me how my feminist friends will reblog post after post about being in solidarity with black women, that all women’s suffering is their cnocern, but then… nothing. They allow that Palestinian terrorist to be part of the Women’s March, and things like that. It’s gone beyond stupid into vile. If anyone’s going to bring about the Handmaid’s Tale it’s going to be those morons, merrily skipping us all into the hijab like Linda Sarsour.
(sorry, pet peeve, I was just reading about how some school invited Donna Hylton to speak. Donna Hylton, who tortured and murdered someone. And there are idiot children protesting Coulter. It boggles my mind.)
So Coutler can’t speak at Berkeley, but Linda Sarsour – one of the most despicable women in the world – will be giving the commencement address at CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. I’m all for free speech, but would never attend even my own graduation with somebody that awful speaking.
It’s CUNY that we’re talking about, though. Want to bet how many of the audience members went to the Womxn’s March and think she’s “so brave”?
Not many woke Manhattan types attend CUNY. Think more Alameda County Community College, less Berkeley. The professors and administrators, yeah – this is all to stroke their egos.
Careful there Drake. You may be spreading fake news here.
Yeah she’s a real cunt.
““The program has not changed,” said Ayman A.E. El-Mohandes, dean of CUNY’s School of Public Health. The school told CBS that former President Barack Obama named Sarsour a “champion of change,” and said that she supported efforts by Muslims in St. Louis to raise funds for a Jewish cemetery that was recently vandalized there.”
Now it’s courageous to be against vandalizing a cemetery? Maybe in the kind of circles El-Mohandes hangs out in.
Sarsour loves dead Jews.
I’m pretty sure that’s how she prefers em.
It’s like the media with Republicans.
Drake wins
PS – I hate* to harp on this, but I don’t think there’s a free-expression issue in an institution choosing its commencement speaker based on politics/ideology/religion/whatever, or censoring a putative speaker for such reasons. The free speech at issue is the free speech of the institution, so if an institution simply changes its mind about having a speaker, that wouldn’t be a violation of free expression any more than a magazine deciding not to run an article (assuming contractual issues are settled).
*Well, not so much “hate” as “enjoy.”
“Children should learn queer theory in elementary science class, argues science professor”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32152/
Anybody wanna guess whether this “science professor” happens to believe that homeschooling should be banned? I’ve got all my money on “yes.”
Let’s just take a bunch of things that aren’t science and call them science. It’ll do wonders for credibility.
I’d wager that professor FUCKING LOVES SCIENCE.
This professor think that queerness is just theoretical? That can’t sit well.
“Queering science education means exploding binary gender and sexuality constructions, collapsing heteronormativity, and opening spaces within science education for the marginalized identities”
I think I’ve heard something like that before
I have a feeling Monty Python are going to be deeply problematical for awhile.
*raises hand*
WTF is “queer theory”?
It doesn’t have a fixed definition, you oppressor, it means whatever we want!
WTF is “queer theory”?
You know, strings with a quantum state swish.
Heisenberg gender-uncertainty principle?
I couldn’t decide.
“Brava, Maestro!”
“Shut the fuck up!”
https://youtu.be/vHLJfxfXHBg?t=1m36s
No, they should learn it from their Little League coach and “Uncle Tickles” just like we did back in the three-channel years. Snowflakes, I just don’t know anymore…
The Thomas Jefferson Center has given out ironic “awards” to people and institutions who have allegedly violated either the First Amendment or its spirit.
Is the award 10,000 spoons?
Totally tubular.
Perhaps a deathrow pardon, two minutes too late?
Oh, I’m sorry, I thought you were talking about “gag me with a spoon.” Instead you were referencing Alanis what’s-her-name.
Yes or no: Striped tie with Houndstooth or (Prince of Wales) Glen check patterns.
Go.
Yes and no.
I think you should just wear a Chroma-Key green suit and tie.
Oooo-kay.
Oh for two.
Sometimes you swing and miss.
Look, I’m sure the right answer is contained in my response.
I prefer solid or spotted ties with a patterned suit
I was afraid of that. It definitely looks better with solid/spotted from the ties I looked at today. But I had a nice Oxford striped tie and I didn’t feel like going out to spend on a tie. I’m trying to fit a circle in a square. My tailor told me this morning (I needed a pair of pants), ‘don’t put a stripe tie! You’re father is a tailor! Che cazzo!’
I don’t think its a flagrant-foul. I think it depends on the color of the tie/stripes.
Well, it’s a traditional navy Oxford with alternating silver and red stripes. The pattern is basically brown/green/dark brown. I thought it oddly matched nicely with a light blue or white or cream shirt. Obviously, and my gut tells me it’s better to go get yellow/orange/brown/green motifs. Which I already own but they don’t have quite the right tones/patterns I reckon. My trousers will be dark brown or deep olive green.
I just don’t want to break rules, man.
I don’t have this problem with the Italian side of my collection. Lots more room to mess around with I find. It seems it invites you to challenge it.
English stuff is so ultra-conservative you can hear the old masters demanding you treat it with respect – especially those Scotsmen.
I’d agree with Gilmore. One can be busy, the other should be solid. While Glen check isn’t off the charts wild, it has enough variegation where I wouldn’t wear anything but a plain tie with it.
That said, I often used to wear my pinstriped suit with this tie.
Best advice: put on the outfit beforehand and then get the GF/wife/female friend you trust to tell you if you should wear it.
Yeh but the wife sometimes thinks it all looks good so I can’t trust it.
Sharp!
Put on a bow-tie instead.
Is that fashion?
Skinny black tie with a roach clip 3 inches from the collar and a pair of Ray-Bans. Doesn’t matter what the jacket is.
Either that or a pounded silver bolo and Ray-Bans.
This is it.
Followup to my musings the other day:
I pulled the clip off my Kydex holster for my M&P 9 Shield, and tried it out as a pocket carry. IMO, it’s a bit bulky for pocket carry with the way I wear my jeans. Also, it prints, and not in a discreet way. Anybody who happened to glance at my pocket would know I was carrying.
Say, is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just happy to…nope, definitely a pistol.
I carry my M&P 9 Shield in this. Highly recommend.
I was hoping for CC bra, but that isn’t far off.
Very nice. I carry my Webley in a nice vintage Gladstone.
Just get a Remora and be done with it. $20.
I second this. The Shield is a little big for me to carry in my jeans pocket regularly, but for shorts or slacks with deeper pockets, my Remora and Shield make a nice combination.
Ivanka Trump is our first lady.
I don’t blame Melania for not making herself available for public scorn.
Melania had all the makings of a Marie Antoinette: foreign, wealthy, fashionable–sort of like a cross between Paris Hilton and Leona Helmsley.
They discharged you already?
Obama Climate Regulation Halted By Court
If anyone else wants to clarify = from what i gather, if the law is never put into effect, then Congress never has to repeal it; Trump’s EPA can just revoke the law on advice of counsel, or something like that?
From what i gather, if its postponed, Trump’s EPA
File Under = Republicans Don’t Give a Sh*t About People
I think that counts as a “Double-Gilmore”
Gilception.
“A dream within a dream”
You’re a nightmare within a nightmare wrapped in a Uwe Boll movie.
I’m not sure what that means, but it sure doesn’t sound nice.
“further eroded public confidence in Chicago public officials”
I don’t think that’s likely.
Or possible.
Look, you have to hit rock bottom before you can bounce back.
No, that’s when you throw them a pick-axe and maybe if you’re flush with cash a diamond drill. There is no “rock-bottom” when you are mining for tax dollars, Citizen.
The important thing is she persisted.
That’s hard to believe, considering she had held top education jobs in such jewels of civilization as Cleveland and Detroit.
She was Rahm Emmanuel’s handpicked chief
http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/12/for_former_cleveland_schools_l.html
he brought her in from Cleveland in 2012. Within 5 years she funneled tens of millions and got investigated/prosecuted. Basically, she started the ripoff on day 1.
Of course, her career originated in the NYC school-system
She brought value…into her bank account.
I wonder how much she ripped off from those other cities.
Shazam!
There were allegations of corruption Cleveland as well
Is this what you’re looking for?
(autoplay)
LOL I wonder why
You know what’s fucking crazy about these people?
She’s head of a huge school system that is designed to LEGALLY allow people like her to rob the public blind.
Hell, in 2-3 years she’d be retiring with a 300,000 a year pension. She’s been racking up overpaid jobs in corrupt cities for decades.
What she was doing was basically “robbing the robbers”. You dont steal from the mob! You don’t NEED to. You were getting rich and fat just sitting around and pretending to try and solve Chicago’s shitty-school crisis.
The only way you can explain the behavior is if it had gotten to the point where she didn’t even recognize what she was doing was even ‘abnormal’. That getting kickbacks for textbook contracts etc. was just part of the game. C’est normale.
I wonder if the NYT even covered the story.
answer =
NYT ran one story a year ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/us/us-investigates-possible-misconduct-in-chicago-public-schools.html
they printed the verdict today, but just ran the AP piece.
The NYT seems to have covered the investigation.
And they profiledBarbara Byrd-Bennett in 2002:
“Imagine a job that requires an Army officer’s leadership skills, a C.E.O.’s management expertise, a lawyer’s negotiating talents and an educator’s understanding of how to teach children. That’s what it takes to be a school superintendent in the 21st century.
“It may be the toughest job in America….
“Ms. BYRD-BENNETT is not a typical bureaucrat. She punctuates conversations about proficiency standards with ”Cool!” Her signature is a pair of dangly earrings — usually American Indian designs in silver and malachite. She calls Cleveland’s 76,000 schoolchildren ”my kids” and visits them unannounced, not just when news cameras are on the premises. ”I want to know and be connected to the kids,” she says. ”I need to tie the data on academic achievement to the faces, blood and skin of real children.”
“For her attempts to revitalize the decaying schools of Cleveland, she was named top urban school leader last year by the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization of about 60 large school systems. ”She has been able to turn a critical corner in Cleveland that has not been turned before,” says Michael Casserly, the council’s executive director.”
“Cleveland is among a growing number of cities, including Chicago, Boston and Detroit, where mayors have taken over the public schools, arguing that centralization provides better integration of services and a single point of electoral accountability. In 1998, the Ohio Legislature removed responsibility for Cleveland’s schools from an elected school board mired in charges of incompetence and corruption and gave it to the mayor, who appointed Ms. Byrd-Bennett. A voter referendum in November will determine whether the system will revert to control by an elected board, a move that Ms. Byrd-Bennett says would lead to her resignation. ”Given the history in this town and what I have seen happen, most elected boards believe they are responsible to their constituencies, not to the children.”
“Ms. Byrd-Bennett’s district has also been at the heart of the voucher battle, and she remains opposed to the use of government funds for private-school tuition on the grounds that it siphons resources from public schools….”
quelle horreur!
Look, if you let those other entities siphon public school funds away, there will be fewer funds for Ms. Byrd-Bennett to embezzle. And we can’t have that.
Not if you don’t have a soul
So she just swans about in her “dangly earrings”, disrupting classrooms and frightening children. Sounds more like an avocation rather than a real job. Sweet gig!
Since I’m sure she didn’t just start doing this in Chicago, I hope they’er scrutinizing her books in Detroit and Cleveland, too.
There’s gotta be even more in Chicago (I mean, yes, obviously) but specifically because Lynch closed the DOJ investigation in Chicago verrry abruptly after the election with a definite “nothing more to see here, nope, byebye” rapidity.
If only Trump hadn’t “restarted” the war after Obama ended it in 2014!!
US Troops Killed in Afghanistan: Likely Friendly Fire Incident
I’ve just been reading this:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/fyrefest
I had a nice laugh over that yesterday. Poor lifestyle bloggers and influencers.
I spent some time at lunch reading through some of that. Gawd, what a hilarious clusterfuck.
I may die from the amount of schadenfreude I got from reading that. Anyone know what the lethal dose is?
I’ve been exposed to massive doses since November and I’m still alive.
“schadenfreude”
Against millennials?
This…. surprises you?
Not the existence of schadenfreude against millennials, but the intensity, yes.
It’s not so much all millennials, but the particular variety of rich vapid cunts that would pay a car’s worth of money to take selfies with the kardashians in the Bahamas that this sort of event attracts make it particularly delicious.
OK, a subset, all right then.
Guys, I think we just solved all of our millennial problems. All we need to do is raise enough money to charter a plane, then we hack a celebrity’s facebook account and advertise a massive party at a remote island. We collect 5 grand each from the victims, load them on a plane, drop them on some deserted island in the pacific, and never come back. We can repeat as many times as necessary.
Lord of the Fyre Flies: Ja Rule’s Revenge!
https://twitter.com/JEREMYBURKE/status/857855898521411584
RC Cola chimes in
https://twitter.com/OfficialRCCola/status/857979850887442432
Kendal Jenner hardest hit.
THere’s a trustworthy face if I ever saw one.
NEXT YEAR?!
Anyone that gives this guy money again deserves to get stranded on a desert island.
“Next year, we will definitely start earlier”
Yeah, dude, I’m sure you’ll get a ton of repeat business.
No mice in the traps for over 48 hours! Though I did hear scratching last night, so I think they’re still sending in scouts.
These are Apache mice?
They’re some kind of guerilla force, for sure
My elderly thirty pound cat puts all the others to shame. That fat feller is the George Patton of vermin reduction.
My dearly departed cat was a useless mouser
THIRTY?! Is he a fucking bobcat?
A ghetto/rez rescue. His Mom was teensy so I can’t imagine how huge the tom must have been. Plus he’s fat.
I’m not going to post a link, because it’s much better if you Google #fyrefestival yourself right now. It really made my day.
#fyrefest is the new Oregon Man?
Oh, fucking hell. Curse you, Count Potato!
It will be the flavor-o-the-week until something even derpier comes along. It’s like high School – spotlessly clean Nike All Courts were de jure until one of the cool kids spilled ink all over his and then everyone had grubby shoes.
Barbara Byrd-Bennett Headed To ‘America’s Cushiest Prison’
““They had a music room where you could take guitar lessons, a card-making class with paper and glitter, ceramics and leatherworking,” Vicki Webb, who spent 18 months at Alderson, told Forbes. “I taught crochet for a while. … If you’re smart, you’ll realize how lucky you are to be at Alderson.”…
“According to Business Insider, inmates can use e-mail for five cents a minute. The women start out living in buildings with 125 inmates, but get moved to “cottages” with half as many if they behave.”
Is Barbara Bennett the new Oregon Man?
Are you talking about this guy? Because it’s the first thing that came up when I Googled “Oregon man.”
Relevant story below that one on how “poor” the Chicago School District is. *head-desk*
So basically “fat camp” for convicted felons sans shaming? I want to go to there!
Holy Mother of God. It has a hammer!
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/04/jeremy-s/new-springfield-armory-xd-e-hammer-reinvented/
They are few years late on getting something like this to market though, in my opinion. Walther came out with the PPS about ten years ago and perfected it about a year ago with the M2 when Glock came out with the 42/43. Suddenly everyone is doing the single stack 9. Not everyone goes for the DAO trigger and other than the micro 1911s that are notoriously unreliable, that’s been a pretty slim market if you wanted a single stack.
Of course when I say they’re a bit late, I already checked that box with my PPS .40 so I am unlikely to buy.
Meh… an XD-s with a hammer. Just what I always wanted! -said no one ever. On top of that Springfield apparently pulled some legal fuckery in exchange for a carve out in a new Illinois gun control law. Fuck them.
Yeah, I wasn’t too tickled about that either but I sold my XD to anther Vet at work a couple years back, so whatever. The way they were flooding my inbox for the last week one would think they were coming out with Excalibur.
I think they’ll sell them though. Shooters are a fickle, individualistic bunch. For example I like 1911s, and I like my triggers flat, you may not. The only single stack DA/SA that comes to mind is the Sig P239, which is in another league. They won’t however, be selling it to me,
Now if Kahr ever starts selling the P45 with a steel frame, I just might make my way to my local death merchant.
Taiwanese Animated News does what it does best: taking the piss out of China, specifically the “launch” of their nonoperational aircraft carrier.
TAIWAN NUMBA 1!
Looking longingly at the Copper Mountain webcams as I sweat my tits off
Not the tits, Moe! Think of the tits!
I was laid off today. Along with my entire team.
What bums me out more than being unemployed is having everything I worked on for the past two years destroyed when the hard drives get wiped. Some stuff I dumped on another team’s network drive, but none of my customers will know where to go when they need something. Tools we had published will be dead in a few months without anyone to nag the developer maintaining it.
I just really hope the CEO is able to connect the dots when the events we supported fall apart, and he rips my ex VP’s arms off and beats him to death with them.
Damn, dude. Sorry to hear that.
My condolences.
I keep wondering how much longer I’m going to have my current job. The bosses seem to be intent on doing everything they can to piss off enough people into quitting, trying to push massive amounts of overtime on us, and then moving the jobs to a facility in a lower-wage state (fuck you Andrew Cuomo).
There are days I want to tell my boss she can bitch about my terrible production and uptime in the monthly “motivational” meeting. (In fact I’ve got good production and uptime, and the bosses know this.) I can take a lot of shit, having been caregiver to a mother with dementia and likely undiagnosed bipolar disorder. But the bosses are testing my patience.
Shit – been there twice. It’s like the mourning cycle – get past shock and denial this weekend and on to the next thing. Fuck ’em when the roof caves in.
I can’t imagine wanting to work with Roseanne once, let alone again.