Is it just me, or did the NFL draft seem a lot more enjoyable when it wasn’t an absolute shitshow ESPN spectacle? I made it through about two picks before I tuned out and just followed it occasionally on my phone. If you want a quick summary, here goes: The Bears fucked up. The Browns super-fucked up. The Texans probably fucked up. And three Ohio State secondary players were drafted before the Big Ten Defensive POY Jabrill Peppers went hilariously to the Browns. So he can look forward to many more losses in the state of Ohio to add to the two he experienced in his only other trips to the state.
Anyway, here is a quick and dirty takeaway from Round 1 in case any of you are interested.
Which allows us to move on to…the links!
Hypocrite: Part II. (And in case you’re wondering, he “cleverly” managed to get some personal digs in. Because he’s such a classy guy.)
Does this mean I might get to see Ted Williams (sort of) play baseball again? Or does it mean I’m more likely to experience a renaissance of racist Walt Disney cartoons? Either way, the possibilities are hilarious and creepy at the same time. So obviously I’m for it.
Democrat blueprint to win back America: mostly socialist and protectionist claptrap. Also, no mention on how it’ll be funded, but I’m sure they can just take more from “greedy corporations” and “greedy billionaires”.
War has broken out. Don’t tell me this wasn’t expected.
When Rob Schneider is (rightfully) shaming you in public, maybe its time to look in the mirror and reflect on your decisions.
Here is a new song for you to hopefully enjoy.
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23) Came across this website, celebrating the recent decision by the Nebraska State Liquor Control Commission to shut down the four liquor stores in Whiteclay, Nebraska, right across the border from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, which is dry. Apparently, the source of nearly all the alcohol consumed on the reservation is Whiteclay, and as drunkenness and its related social maladies are a huge problem at Pine Ridge, this is seen as a victory. Who could be against this?
But I can’t help wondering:
Are native Americans over 21 not adults? Or are they mentally and emotionally children? What role has a dependence on the federal government played in producing that condition?
Do drunks suddenly become productive citizens when you take away their beer? Will the problem drinkers on the Pine Ridge Reservation have lots of other things to do once their alcohol is gone?
What will the citizens of Whiteclay, NE, do for a living now that their businesses have been shut down? Or is that not important?
Will the roads be safer if determined drinkers have to drive (*checks Google maps*) an extra 37 miles from Pine Ridge to Chadron, Nebraska? Or are Chadron’s liquor stores next on the hit list? Even if those liquor stores currently serve primarily local residents?
How awesome is it that Pine Ridge has a “Fraggle Rock Street?”
They’ll start doing meth and have two communities ruined, everyone is equal then.
Natives haveto protected and nurtured by the white man, or else they will be exploited by the white man. That’s what the Natives making all of the money and leaving the other 99% in third world levels of poverty say, anyway.
I think the government could solve two problems at once (well, two problems to me, not to the government). Sell off all federally owned land, sans National Parks, write a check for equal amounts to all Natives currently on reservations, kill the reservation system, shut down BLM and BIA. God damn I’m a genius
I don’t have the sociological and DNA research to back this up, but I have the impression that large numbers of people of “Native American” descent have been absorbed into the general (i. e. non-reservation) U. S. population and are doing better than the reservation denizens. Which isn’t an argument for closing the reservations when they’re protected by treaties, but rather indicating that maybe the up-and-coming types don’t stick around areas like this. There has to be a reason for the term “leaving the reservation.”
“Hypocrite: Part II. (And in case you’re wondering, he “cleverly” managed to get some personal digs in. Because he’s such a classy guy.)”
I’m amazed at how little credit George W. Bush gets for retiring to his ranch and minding his own business after his presidency.
I wonder how O’s fans are taking this – On That Other Site, Tony is defending this as “the joys of the free market”.
I actually agree with Tony on this one. The speeches will probably be traditional pablum that won’t make a damn bit of difference in anyone’s lives, but if someone wants to give you $400K to talk, then have at it.
I think the objection is that Obama repeatedly questioned whether other people, doing their jobs, “earned” their wealth. For example when he questioned whether windfall profits seen by the oil industry were “connected to management expertise” or, if not, subject to confiscation by the state.
But of course when he is given half a million dollars for a short prepared speech, there is no question in his mind that he has “earned” every penny.
Mostly going away and minding your own business when you left office was somewhat of a tradition for the Presidency, in order to not undermine the current duly-elected administration. Leave it to a classless piece of shit like Obama to violate it, and leave it to the insane left to celebrate it.
Best thing he ever did in my mind.
I mean I get the nba draft 30 teams 60 picks fairly simple. But the nfl is just weird. with pick 457895 team x selects y.
The NFL season is like a war. Teams finish the season playing the replacements for all the casualties – sometimes with replacements for the replacements who started the season on the practice squad.
NFL vs NBA draft comparisons don’t make a lot of sense though. First off, you have a roster that’s five or six times the size on NFL teams. Plus the practice squads. Then you have so many different and specific positions relative to basketball.
The draft is probably the right size in the NFL. If anything though, the NBA should go to three rounds.
The NBA was 3 rounds until 1988.
Not really a point to it though. Most second rounders don’t even make the roster, let alone potential third rounders.
Back in the ’70s it went 7 or 8 rounds
Many NBA teams would just pass rather than draft in the later rounds. But in the 10th (final) round of the 1982 NBA draft the Celtics selected a paralyzed Landon Turner (from Indiana’s 1981 NCAA Champions.) In the 10th round of the 1984 NBA draft, the Bulls selected Carl Lewis (the track & field star.) Think of the virtue-signaling we would see today if the NBA draft went that deep.
MLB draft is also an entirely different beast from those two.
With the overall #1 pick we take an 18 year old who we hope to see play in 2024.
People are reporting extraterrestrials to Trump’s new ‘criminal alien’ hotline
John Bigboote hardest hit
Big Boo-tay! Big Boo-tay!
I’m more of a John Manyjars fan.
John Smallberries
STEVE SMITH SOVEREIGN CITIZEN! NO NEED PUNY PAPERS!
STEVE SMITH RAPE ILLEGALS, MAKE ANCHOR BABIES!
The moral superiority of the left once again on display. Isn’t false reporting of a crime a criminal act? I guess you could find and prosecute one or two of these idiots, to provide an example.
“OMG Secret nazi President suppressing free speech! Only we can do that” /prog
EMAILS REVEAL FBI, JUSTICE PROBE OF BURLINGTON COLLEGE
Imagine if Bernie’s wife was taken down in a case that involved a break-in
I don’t get what’s so difficult. If she lied on the Liam application by overstating the fiscal health of the school, she committed fraud. If so, she should be prosecuted.
This is pretty basic stuff. And junior prosecutor should make it a slam dunk.
Pfft, laws are for the peasants.
Particularly because she “overstated” their pledges by two million dollars. Kind of hard to play that off as a rounding error.
Well, in her defense, socialists don’t math very well.
^This^
Math is not a socialist’s strong suit.
Especially since the ‘overstatement’ was by a factor of 4.5x the actual total.
4.5=1. don’t you even socialist bro?
Hey, she identified as working for a school with stronger financials, who are you to invalidate her lived experience?
Agency officials said they found the school’s records in disarray, in part because of an unsolved burglary.
But mostly due to incompetence, no doubt.
that whole affair sounds shady as hell, and the bit about some people’s eagerness to shred paperwork makes my antennae go up, but it’ll probably evaporate into a nothingburger like most corruption investigations.
As a niners fan, I think I see the first glimmer of hope since Harbaugh left. I mean I guess everyone in Chicago is used to getting mugged, but getting jedi mind fucked into mugging yourself is pretty special
I haven’t really been paying attention (Patriots fan and we don’t have any picks this year thanks to the Ideal Gas Law).
Did Chicago really give away a bunch of picks for a quarterback – even though they have several good QB’s and nobody who can catch a ball? Matt Barkley would have won a couple more games if not for their butter-fingered receivers last year.
The Bears gave away a bunch of mid-round picks for a guy who played like 15 college games. It’s a huge risk with a big upside, I guess.
And they gave all that up to move up ONE FUCKING SPOT to a team that probably wasn’t going to draft that qb anyhow.
Niners must’ve played some Jedi mind tricks there: “Oh yeah! We totally have a team trying to move up to take a QB!” *puts phone on mute, spends 30 seconds laughing “Yes? Yeah? Alright, deal. Bye!” *falls on floor laughing hysterically*
And that kid is gonna be the next Ryan Leaf.
Of course, nobody involved in football thinks he’s ever been or will amount to anything. So nobody will be shocked when he’s still either a backup in 2022 or out of the league sitting on some obscure sports show.
Maybe, but Ryan Leaf wasn’t the next Ryan Leaf when he came out of college. I remember a lot of people around the NFL were mocking the Colts for passing on Leaf in favor of some nobody named Manning.
6 OT game
I was at that game. About OT 4 I stop caring and just wanted the game to end.
Seriously reply fail.
Backup QB for Philadelphia Soul in the Arena league.
So…in Hell, basically?
I liked it when Jared Lorenzen was QB/Owner of some tier 3 Arena league team.
Actually, GM/QB/Commissioner of League
Jared Lorenzen playing for said team
Years ago, my team (arkansas) played a 6 OT game against jared Lorenzen and won. It’s one of my fondest Football memories.
Lighter than his college days!
I attended a bunch of games during his years at UK. A fun game was trying to guess which was the QB and which were the Olinemen when the huddle broke.
Unfortunately he is much fatter in that picture. I always loved watching Lorenzen (he was the QB at my first live UK game), but he has put on over 100 lbs since his days at UK. There is an ESPN story attached that pictures that details all of his eating habits and how that affects his life and whatnot.
It basically caused him to get a divorce because his wife couldn’t stand to see him eat himself to death (and probably was no longer attracted to a 400lb an, you know)
I think hanging Ryan Leaf on him is a bit unfair. Leaf’s problem wasn’t a lack of talent but that he was a complete headcase, he made Manziel look like a sober responsible QB.
Odds are very good that Trubisky will be a bust but I doubt it will be for the same reasons Leaf was. He’s more likely to be the next Jon Kitna or something like that
Seriously? That isn’t a joke?
In earlier years I used to get pissed off when Belichick would trade away a first round pick for a bunch of third and fourth rounders. Now I realize how brilliant that is.
Local talk is the Bears said they got many calls to trade for their #3 pick – so that team could take him. So they jumped in first. At least they didn’t give a 1st round pick like the Chiefs or Texans….sigh.
The joke I’ve been hearing is that it’s a great trade because it left them fewer picks to screw up.
They seem to do fine at the lower end…it is the bust outs at the top that get them killed.
I don’t see the upside if their offensive line sucks, they can’t run, and nobody can catch.
Then he’ll fit right in because he can’t throw.
Ryan Pace is betting his job he can.
not sure i feel hopeful, the yorks are still the owners.
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
So long, shitmonth.
Ok, oldfucks. How do you know when there’s no longer any salvaging your peice of shit job and you’d be better off shoveling horseshit for a living? Or is it one of those things where if you ask the question, it’s a yes? That seems likely.
If you look at your bank account and say, “How the fuck am I going to pay the mortgage this month if I don’t go to my piece of shit job” you should probably keep working, unless you have something else lined up.
That’s all I’ve got.
Fuck. Your answer sucks and I hate it.
According to all those affirmational social media posts, you quit your job and fortune finds you. But I’m guessing there’s some survivor’s bias involved.
@JATNAS: That’s about as good an indicator as any.
I’m officially looking now. I’ve got a pretty decent job that’s done well by me for the past few years, but the combination of not really having much room for growth, not really making enough money, and the cumulative effects of inconsistent management have pushed me to look elsewhere. It sucks, because it’s a university gig, so I’ve got so much paid leave I can’t use it all, great insurance, and a pretty respectable 403b. It’s also so stupid flexible that I can pretty much work remotely whenever I need to, and I’m in walking distance of the office. Really, if the money were better I could self-medicate the frustration, but the wife and I are going to start trying for number 2 here in a bit and we’re gonna need a bigger house soon, so…
I know it’s time when I start paying serious attention to the HNR spambots and their working from home claims.
For me it’s when all those Lincoln Tech commercials start sounding appealing.
Before I changed to my current position – I was glancing, more than once, at “Come out of the Retired Reserve and go to Bosnia for a year as a ‘military observer’ ” that scared me into changing.
I’ve been burned out for years doing this internal support job, but moving to another job, doing the same thing that I do, is also a depressing idea. I’ve been dreaming of the day when I can become a groundskeeper like my grandfather. Or move boxes at a warehouse.
My wife thinks I’m absolutely nuts when we talk about retirement. I want to be a farmer in New Hampshire and spend as little of my waking time indoors as possible.
My old man retired at age 55 – last guy at the company to get pension – and worked at a bank as a teller. Going from an executive position with corporate jets, two personal assistants, and making important decisions to helping customers was no big deal for him. And after that, his hobby was cutting trees for firewood to heat the cabin in the woods. He dresses like a bum – no more suits! – and drives old cars that should have been sold off years ago. Twenty years later he’s still happy mucking around outdoors, running the chainsaw and working around his property.
This is pretty much my dad, except he never went back to work in a traditional sense. He became an inventor. Right now he’s in Italy for 2 weeks with his wife.
Did he invent anything interesting or that we would know of?
Nah…he invented a swim tether that measures the distance you have swum (swam? swimmed?) that sits on the bottom of the pool. That’s obsolete with the invention of the FitBit.
He has a fertilizer dispenser for commercial operators that he sells with a partner, but I think he’s looking to sell the patent for that one.
When I was a kid, I spent a summer shoveling concrete into plastic molds with a friendly crackhead named Roscoe. After every payday, he would disappear for 3-4 days. He had it figured out, you know?
Sounds to me like Lord H’s old man has it figured out.
Definitely. I have daydreams about splitting firewood sometimes. Doing that all day would be all right.
Norwegians cutting firewood with explosives.
Yes, splitting limbs sounds very attractive.
STEVE SMITH SPLIT LIMBS!
Well if you ever want to jump ship and move to North Idaho, our IS manager has standing orders to hire anybody with extensive Progress and QAD experience on the spot. We are a small (200-ish employees) privately owned industrial sensor manufacturer and the work environment is great. I’m planning on being a lifer here.
*Goes back to lurking*
Intended for Lord H.
That’s me alright – but my wife’s would have to take the bar again and I would miss my neighborhood.
Can I work from home? 😉
My guess would be no and most people don’t seem to want to relocate here. Hence the order to hire talent on the spot.
Greater CdA area, I assume. God’s country during the summer and fall. Winter… not so much.
If I knew what those were, I’d move to Idaho in a NY minute!
Progress is a 4GL language with database which QAD, an ERP package, used for the base code. Progress is actually a joy to work with, at least compared to a lot of other languages, and has a lot of built in functionality so you’re not busy writing simple functions or hitting your own custom-made ones.
So I write a lot of custom Progress code for manufacturing and finance purposes. Also some one offs for weird customer specs like “can we send you this flat file with our part requirements?” Add in EDI integration, Unix scripting, awk, and some other random junk – that’s my job in a nutshell.
If you ask, it is a yes.
Find another job and quit. Or open your own shop and do consulting work.
You only live once.
Exactly why I don’t want to go back to being poor or dealing with the bullshit around opening a business. My ineptitude at sales and marketting (even of my own services) will doom me to destitution in however much time it takes to burn through my savings.
That’s why I’ve stayed here at this job I hate – it’s hard to give up the steady income and the benefits. And I’ve been here long enough that my hours are flexible, along with the ability to work from home when there is a family issue. But being on call 24/7, even doing some support when I’m on vacation, has left me a stressed/burned out individual.
For the record, I’ve shoveled horseshit before (well, more cowshit, but the point remains). It’s no fun.
I wouldn’t switch unless the alternative involves a mass-murder spree in your office.
Oh, I’ve shoveled horseshit. It’s not so bad. Or at least so it seems now.
Wait… you can get a job as a spree killer?
It comes with a lifetime benefit of 3 squares and a cot.
The absolute worst is shoveling chicken shit.
If you are seriously asking the question then it is time to take a hard look. Is it the job itself you hate or something else like the hours, coworkers, a supervisor, etc?
Yes.
Hours and general clusterfuckedness and supervisor, in increasing order.
Ok. Here’s the first part of the analysis. Do you hate the work itself? Yes = get serious about making a career change. No = start looking for similar work elsewhere.
Second part. You answered no but know the hours will suck everywhere because they are inherent in the job. Then it’s time for a career change.
If you aren’t sure what other career could work for you I recommend checking out kolbe.com. I took their test about 15 years ago. It was scarily accurate. Everyone I know who has taken it has said the same thing. It was an enormous help to me in figuring out a successful career path.
Time to move on.
Find a company with oldfucks like yourself. I enjoy working with misanthropic assholes.
I’m about to turn 30. I have been in factories since I was 18. I have been buying land and building fences. I plan to do nothing but tend my herd of cattle by the time I am 40. it’s not for everyone, but I have high hopes of it working for me.
Hope it works out for you. Parents love doing it, I… don’t exactly hate it, but it’s not something I’d ever want to spend my life doing. Ties you down too much, I like more mobility.
Again, it’s not for everyone.
But, I relish the idea of staying on my farm, making good money and only interacting with non family members when I choose to.
“Only interacting with non family members when I choose to.”
You mean you don’t have your neighbors always come to chat you up for a half hour every week or so?
I can deal with that. I like my neighbors because I rarely see them.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
I thought I was the only one who said that.
I don’t remember where I first heard it, but it is a universal truth.
Go on…
On a slightly different note, whAT kind of cattle are you planning on raising?
I have 9 heifers right now that produce a calf every year. My heifers are not any type of registered cow. When my heifers birth, I keep the female offspring and castrate the male offspring. I keep the females to breed and grow my herd and sell the castrated males (steer) when they get off the titty.
I share a beefmaster bull with my father that is responsible for breeding my heifers.
Do you just run regular Angus? Curious if that’s the standard where you live, that’s what everyone raises here, including us (except for our novelty Highlands.)
I’m not cut out for it, but that does sound awfully appealing.
“Like so much 21st-century labor, the effort Mae spends establishing a digital footprint isn’t officially work, but it isn’t really optional.”
Came across this phrase on Slate. Not going to link to the article, it’s not really important. I’m just wondering if people really think this way? I mean, do people think FB or whatever is really some kind of social obligation?
I suppose if you work an upper-tier white collar job where this sort of thing is sine qua non for getting work (so I’ve heard, anyway), maybe it’s an issue. But then, so is getting a degree and interning and whatnot.
Never had it, never plan to. I haven’t heard that it’s necessary to get certain types of work, but if so, I’m fucked.
I’ve been networking the old way for about 8 months now – so I’m dealing with guys typically aged 50+ and it’s kinda depressing how many of them move on to talking about social media in general. I’m not, and have never been on any of those platforms, and the inevitable questions arise.
I just confront the whole issue head-on. I tell them that my business is data confidentiality, fin-reg compliance systems etc, and how I see privacy as a two-way street. How can you promote and advocate privacy if you hang your ‘nads out for every passer-by to see. I invite them to go google me, and even run one of those reverse-phone number lookups. You can never attain total privacy nowadays, but when Bloomberg and the likes of Spokeo can barely report my correct phone number, and don’t even get my wife’s first name, surname, former married name and age right (and in some cases, these systems don’t even get my address right) – then I know my “misinformation habit” is working. The only people who know where I am are the people who stole my 2014 Tax Return.
So no, you don’t *need* to Social Platform, but you have to work harder to network, and you need a good reason beyond “I don’t do it because I’m old as dirt”.
“I don’t do it because too many people my age are on there.”
Satisfactory?
Honestly, I don’t use it because I want to control my brand. There is absolutely no benefit to my customers and vendors knowing any more about me than they can see professionally. Networking is hard work. Period. Social media does not necessarily make it easier, except for those who prefer the slog of cold calling.
Build your network carefully but broadly. Throw business to whomever you can. Refer as much as possible. It’s old school but it doesn’t change.
I’ll admit, it can be useful for business promotion, especially if you’ve got family members who are constantly on it and willing to promote it for you. Not sure what the benefit is for personal use though.
Deep
Derp gotta stop posting from my phone
Togo strikes first blow, sinks Russian ship
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-russia-ship-idUSKBN17T1Q1
The Russians are very clever, disguising their spy ships as garbage scows like that.
Still, not clever enough to design it with an adequate turning radius.
http://www.marieclaire.com/health-fitness/a26741/doctors-treat-women-like-men/
When will the man blaming stop?
Women’s fashion magazines have really gone whole hog on the SJW crap. I wonder if it was a business decision or if they were captured by incoming employees.
Just to clarify I don’t spend my time reading women’s magazines. Someone posted this article on Facebook. I swear!… Please don’t look under my bed.
Oh, those halcyon days when the JC Penney panty and bra leaflets would come in the mail.
I only skimmed the article, but it seems to imply that women are biologically different from men. Surely that can’t be right.
Gender is fluid, you cis-hetero-shitlord.
This is a case of medicine not keeping up with reality, not a male vs female thing. Traditionally women didn’t have heart attacks, or least not nearly as often as men. Numerous factors have led to women “catching up” with men in the heart attack department and it is true that doctors, for a variety of reasons, don’t recognize the symptoms of women having heart attacks as readily as they do the symptoms of men. That isn’t because doctors hate women, we’re just different. We tend to have our heart attacks younger than men (I was forty-seven), otherwise appear perfectly healthy and we don’t have chest pains. I’ve never had the flu but from what I had heard from others I felt like I had the worst flu ever. Every bone hurt and I was so sick to my stomach. I was so weak from throwing up and diarrhea that I was barely able to drive to the doctor’s office. He sent me to the hospital where some test were done and I was told that I was severely dehydrated. In the middle of the doctor telling me that everything was fine all the bells and whistles went off on the monitor and they rushed me into an ambulance to send me to another hospital. I had another heart attack in the ambulance, another while my heart was being cathed and another two days later in ICU, I don’t have high blood pressure (I do have an arrhythmia) and my cholesterol is perfect. I’ve always been athletic and not someone that you would look at and think “well, there’s a heart attack waiting to happen”. I don’t blame the doctors for not recognizing my symptoms. If a patient goes in and says, “I’ve got the flu” and they have all the symptoms of the flu, it is perfectly reasonable for the doctor to think that they have the flu.
I had a heart attack at 42. Low blood pressure, excellent cholesterol (as in a few months earlier my Dr actually said ‘well, no problem there’). I knew it was a heart attack because a woman in my walking group went over all the symptoms for women because she had recently lost a friend. Probably saved my life.
Oh, and 1 year later, I ran a half marathon.
Good for you! I had another heart attack last year but I think it was mainly because my radiation and chemo treatments knocked me on my ass. Otherwise the heart has been doing good for years. I’m seeing a surgeon in a couple weeks and if he can get this radiation enteritis straightened out I plan to start on working out again so I can participate in the marathon that the cancer center puts on each year. I’m pretty sure I’ll be jogging/walking instead of running, though. BTW, a few days before I went to the doctor I read a thing on Instapundit saying that women generally have stomach “issues” leading up to a heart attack but I didn’t think anything of it. It just never occurred to me that it was something I had to worry about.
This was more – ‘wow this is exactly what she was talking about’, pain in my hands, pain in my back, throwing up, and so when I called, I told them I thought I was having a heart attack.
My mom just had her first heart attack last year and it was (comparatively speaking) out of the blue as well. She is a little older – but it seemed to be more of a genetic thing than anything else (her brother and father both had major issues).
I never got watching the draft. Ooh, what a nailbiter!
It would be as bad or worse than watching the oscars.
People are way into the NFL. People watch the Combine, which essentially a cattle show/auction.
My mom who is 70+ years old watches the NFL draft and every minute of the Combine. She’s obsessed with football.
Go on…
Something, something, deflategate.
That’s the extent of my football knowledge.
I am into football, not the NFL. Since I live in an area without a professional team anywhere nearby, the “how did my team draft?” excitement doesn’t exist.
My favorite football team any given week is “whoever is playing the Raiders”. That’s about it. Love watching the actual games though.
Except for 2009, when my daughter was born on draft day, I’ve watched the draft every year as far back as I can remember.
I just like it. I can’t explain why, I just do.
Me too, I guess I just like the idea of being a general manager and the draft is how you see it all play out really quickly.
Also, I’m sad the Eagles took Derek Barnett, was hoping Ravens would get him.
I with TLPB.
The Bears fucked up I think. The Chiefs, too.
I’m actually happy the Chiefs took a gamble on a skill position for once. If it doesn’t work out, oh well most draft picks are a bust.
That’s why all the media leading up to the Draft and the Draft itself are interesting, but useless. It’s a total crap shoot.
At least Mahomes had a cannon. I do think the Chiefs made a bad move but the others are catastrophically retarded in comparison.
We won’t know until the 2018-2019 season if the Bears screwed up. The guy can play – they get the last laugh. He cannot, the GM gets fired.
Same old same old
I’m still scratching my head at how in a draft that was supposed to be light on QB talent, three get picked in the top 10. And three WRs.
Ravens’s choice was interesting- they’re loading up that secondary which, considering how many games got blown in the 4th quarter from opponent passing, may have been a good move.
Congress Asks Trump to Prosecute Clinton Private Server Team for Obstruction
“At the A&E event, Obama, who got a standing ovation when he entered the room, asked about what he missed most about the White House, said it was sitting on the Truman balcony on summer nights and gazing at the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial,”
LOL.
I bet.
/nods head.
I might add. The loooong empty gaze of vacuousness.
“Actually it was having my, uh, own private movie theater where I could watch movies, uh, pre-release. But, uh, looking at Lincoln Memorial was a, uh, definitely a close second.”
Freaky Friday – I’ve Got My Blinders On Edition
Um, sure pal.
“I was a libertarian once…”
But I was saved! Sinner No More!
Did this guy just ignore the obama drone program?
I’m guessing he thinks Obama was a Republican.
Citation needed that republicans receive more from the govt.
So woke *swoon*
LGBTQ+? Didn’t he leave a bunch of letters off of that letter salad?
John Bigboote said all that? Must have been in the next clip.
Add this to the list of-
things that never happened.
I pointed out the other day – Democrats have no organizing principle anymore other than “THE OTHER SIDE IS EVIL”. and this hyperbole about, “How evil? DOUBLE SUPER MEGA EVIL” is just a sign that they’re falling apart. They can see losses in 2018 and 2020 coming and they don’t know what to do to keep the progs and centrists in one camp other than shriek about the GOP Death Squads.
Megan mcardle says the trump tax plan is bad but goes on to say the 3 main things are good
And whining about how much it will cost the federal govt
Doesnt she claim to be libertarian? Alot of complaining about rich people in here
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-27/trump-s-tax-proposal-is-just-a-symptom-of-the-disease
Dont the libs like paying taxes and redistribution to less fortunate?
“The total effect is probably to blast a hole in the budget, somewhat ramp up the taxes on the blue-state professional class, and massively cut taxes for the Trump class.”
I love all the whining about a “cost” to the federal government, as though it’s actually the government’s money, and letting people keep more of their own money is an actual “cost” that needs to be paid for.
This boggles my mind as well.
Yep. Don’t get that logic at all.
There is room for an argument that the bastards need to cut spending. I’m not really looking for a repeat of the Reagan approach to federal budgets.
As long as they can keep running massive deficits, there is no incentive to cut spending.
Yeah. But I can dream, can’t I?
How will Herr Krupp pay his men if we stop purchasing armaments?!?
The “Trump class”? Like all those blue-collar workers we keep hearing about?
“Let’s revisit the personal deduction eliminations, for example. Going to get rid of the deduction for people with high medical expenses? Enjoy the frantic phone calls from patient groups. ”
30% of households itemize their deductions. 19% of returns that itemize claim medical expenses. These people can go fuck themselves.
“How about educational savings accounts? Are they going away?”
Hopefully. Of the people who save for college/higher education (so already a small % of the population) 10% use an ESA and 90% use a 529/UTMA/money under the mattress).
Why is this woman bitching so much about getting rid of distorting deductions?
Alot of complaining about rich people in here
Let me see if I can say something as clearly as possible here. Very few things in life make me want to either punch someone in the face or kick them in the testicles/clitoris than complaining about “tax cuts for the rich”. The truth is tax cuts disproportionately help the rich because rich people pay the overwhelming majority of taxes. Unless you contort yourself into a pretzel, the people paying the most taxes are going to disproportionately benefit from their being cut. And the whole system has gotten worse over the last 20 years. Every time these assholes want to raise taxes, they load it on at the top brackets. And every time they cut taxes they go through contortions to make sure that the people paying the bulk of taxes see the least of the cut.
At this point, I’d almost settle for saying that votes get apportioned based on total taxes paid.
“Rich” people always seem to be anyone who makes at least 10% more than the person talking about rich people. I’m sitting here wearing shorts with holes in them eating cereal for lunch trying to figure out how to pay all the overdue bills and still be able to buy groceries between now and next Friday, and there are people who think I’m rich.
Doesnt she claim to be libertarian?
I thought she was just married to someone who claims to be libertarian?
How did the Vikes do? Unrelated to the draft: looks like Bridgewater is not gonna be a thing this year?
When he got injured there was a lot of chatter that it was a two year injury. Damn shame, because he’d looked so good before that.
Thanks to the Vikings for that first round pick though.
(the Vikings didn’t do anything, because they traded their first round pick to the Eagles for Sammy Sleeves)
Anybody remember Herschel Walker?
What does bobsledding have to do with this? *confused*
The Vikings thought they had acquired a football player, not a bob sledder. Herschel is a nice guy, as far as I know, but something hexed his football career.
In all seriousness, did he feel the pressure of the trade? I was a Vikings fan around that time, but I was quite young. Being the one guy on that side of the trade, with all those other resources going to the other side of the ledger, I’m sure that could mess with certain personality types. I have no clue if Hershel was susceptible to that line of thinking or not.
Teddy is out for this season. There is some speculation that it won’t happen at all.
Well they traded their pick last year to get Sam Bradford, so I think it is fair to say they get an F.
Could have been worse, they could have ended up with Jay Cutler
In 2006, after the draft, I said that Cutler would end up having a better career than then 2 QBs taken before him.
Vince Young #3, Matt Leinart #10, Jay Cutler #11.
Got that one.
13 QBs total taken that year. Sadly, Cutler was the best of the bunch.
How do you know when there’s no longer any salvaging your peice of shit job and you’d be better off shoveling horseshit for a living?
Do you find yourself yelling angrily in the shower, and/or while driving?
It’s time.
Ah, shit.
Brush up resume, hit LinkedIn and headhunters.
While I’m okay with killing headhunters and knocking websites offline, I’m not sure what they have to do with each other or with the resume.
Also, use different bullet points on your Linkedin Profile than on your Tinder Profile.
“Sir, while I’m sure you really are a, quote, ‘generous lover’, that’s not really a quality we need in a UI Developer…”
Crap, me too.
Modern Day Feminism Is Trapped In Theory
We tell ourselves we are doing things right this time, and have nothing to worry about. We’re wrong.
No, the problem is what passes for feminism these days is in denial of the fact that they won. The activists and agitators want to be fighting a fight and their livelihood depends on it. So they must pretend they are somehow oppressed victims when all facts say otherwise.
^This. Also applies to civil rights movement and gay rights movement. Once you’ve won, and you keep attacking, you are just inviting a backlash.
Please add to that list the MADD people.
Yeah, another organization that shambles on wreaking havoc long after their original stated goal has been achieved.
God damn, man, you both just said a whole lotta right, right there.
Yep. Things are generally going pretty well, but there will always be people that need something to bitch about, so they make shit up. Then they proceed to make every little thing life-or-death so they can feel good about taking to the streets and screaming. Sorry, but a white girl in dreadlocks is not life-or-death.
The only domestic issue I see that is very, very pressing right now is the cops. But progressives have taken over that movement and do not want to include libertarians or conservatives that share their concerns.
The battle for equal rights is a noble struggle that has been won.
The battle for equality is a pointless and destructive struggle that can never be won.
This must be the comedic incarnation.
“Modern Day Feminism Is Trapped In Theory”
If she means, modern-day feminists are oblivious to reality because of their ideological agenda, she’s on to something. But I don’t think that’s what she means.
Feminism isn’t really feminism anymore. It’s cultural Marxism, critical theory, whatever you want to call it.
When was it something else?
When it was about actual equality before the law. First wave, for the lack of a better term.
I have my doubts. After 1919 they immediately set about banning booze then helping FDR expand government beyond anything ever imagined.
Yeah, Karen Straughan goes into how not even first wave feminism was good. She has some very good videos on this. Feminism was always radical BS.
Second this. Straughan has some good videos. I watched a bunch last night.
Yep Scruffy. Same with all of the lefty causes. When they all finish flapping their fucking gums the practical outcome of what they are pushing always ends up looking like Cuba, Venezuela, NK, the USSR etc. complete with mass graves and internment camps.
“Julie Bindel, a prominent English feminist, has repeatedly compared bisexuality to bestiality.”
And what’s wrong with bestiality, you cis-species zoophobic bigot?!? Check your privilege!
April showers? Ha! We’re still getting snow. C’mon, global warming!
I have already picked my first round of peppers and have tomatoes on the way.
Suthen privilege. My buddy’s got a bunch of Datils, Habaneros, & Scotch Bonnet sproutlings.
It’s been hot and wet here in Arkansas. I’m looking at getting my first cutting of hay in 3 to 4 weeks.
Weather keeps changing here in CO from nice and springtime sunny to raining and snowing.
So you’re part of the Cleveland Browns management?
But Peppers went back to the Panthers.
Growing up in Louisiana I’d hear stuff like “April showers bring May flowers” and I’d think, “But flowers come out in March.” Now that I live “up north” I get it. It’ll be cold until May. So it’s basically cold (to a southerner) from November to May. Fuck that shit.
Yeah, it kinda sucks. If you’re on the east coast, that seems to hold true pretty much from NYC down to maybe mid-Georgia. Where I am on the Chesapeake Bay we get to add oppressive humidity to that as well.
Andrew Sullivan: Maybe America Wasn’t Crazy to Elect Donald Trump
Andrew Sullivan is still alive?
And apparently still has little acquaintance with reality.
Is he setting up another heel-turn?
BY GAWD!
Yes, like Chevy Chase, he’s alive, but his career isn’t.
Libs hate trump care which was obamacare lite but love obamacare
Not sure about his immigration point.
Media has been fact checkers? Lol they are dem boot lickers and have been hysterical, full of innuendo and hearsay and hyperbole
I love it that they just cant quit slinging this same horseshit. It really is entertaining watching them dig.
“Obama also told the crowd that in his three months out of office he has not yet been behind the wheel of a car and he’s learning how to use the coffee machine in the Obamas’ new home in Washington DC.”
Ah yes all the faux-folksy vapidity we’ve come to know and love. 400k thank you very much!
He’s so real and so like the rest of us! Because it takes several months to learn to use a coffee machine. I wouldn’t let him near my Pavoni espresso machine if he’s that slow.
“Man of the people” makes as much for two speeches as I make in 11 years.
Dude, he gets paid for each “uhhhmmm” more than I make in a month!
The age of the common man, I suppose.
Who’s excited for Samantha Bee’s “Not the White House Correspondent’s Dinner” special tomorrow?
Let’s list all the things I’d rather do than watch that:
1. Root canal, sans anesthesia
2. Bamboo spikes under fingernails
3. Gouge own eyes out with rusty spoon
etc.
Who?
But look at all the other A-List Stars who will be there!
I recognized two names of people going to be there – a D-List actor and an evil sexist raised by a crazy mother.
I know who Keegan-Michael Key is. Kal Penn was in Dude Where’s My Car and then worked for Obama for some reason. Rachel Bloom I think is the crazy woman in the sex song from Bill Nye’s show. Damon Lindelof creates TV shows with shitty endings. And you know who Gloria Steinem is.
Key might be B-list, everyone else is D-list at best.
Oh man, GLORIA STEINEM is gonna be there??? Can’t miss television right there.
Gloria Steinem’s still alive?
Holy shit! Steinem’s brand of feminism is practically right-wing compared to today’s sandy panties. Can’t wait to see how that goes.
Luckily, I can’t. Trump’s skipping that event makes me think he’s not all bad*, from a libertarian pov. And apparently he’s trimming some parts of the Leviathan. I really think at the end of a Hillary administration we couldn’t point to a single thing that could be called pro-liberty.
*Not saying he’s good. Just finding the silver lining.
Let’s list all the things I’d rather do than watch that:
4. Threesome with Trigglypuff and STEVE SMITH
*projectile vomits, crawls away from computer screen weeping*
STEVE SMITH REALLY QUITE GENTLE LOVER!
Sleep in a box full of mice
Or rates.
/Winston
If they took me to Room 101 and put that on the telescreen I’d be accusing anyone they wanted me to accuse and confessing anything they wanted me to confess.
Even as a U.S. military veteran who served my country honorably, and as much as I could use the money, you could NOT pay me any amount of money to vote for ANY Republican.
Yeah, okay. Whatever.
$10 it was some REMF in a supply depot who did 2 years Stateside and out.
What are the odds on “Obama-era special category snowflake soldier” or “Never served once”?
I’d say pretty damn high.
REMF?
I’m not a soldier but my brother is.
Rear Echelon Mother Fucker?
That’s the best I can come up with.
Bingo!
“you could NOT pay me any amount of money to vote for ANY Republican.”
This is a very Democratic way of looking at voting.
The actual equation is, “how much would it take to make me okay with living my life somewhere else if the worst happens, plus whatever it costs to escape if I’m a bit late in seeing it?”
It does raise the question of how much the Democrats are paying, doesn’t it?
Thor looks at meat.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTCJ8WYgq93/
I think he needs to consume around 10,000 calories a day just to maintain his mass. The guy is superhuman.
*squeaky voice* but I benched 260 pounds yesterday! And ate an entire pot roast.
I think Thor curls that. The guy is a beast.
Thor benches, too.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTUtAlOAkI0/
Back when life was fun and had meaning, I could bench 405, which was fun.
My plan this summer is to bench 300 pounds. I’m on the lanky side, genetically more thigh and calf than upper body, so I’ll be happy if I can hit that target. Of course it doesn’t help that my wife is my training partner! I’m also running out of room on the bar – I need to go out any buy some heavier plates. The most I can fit on their with my current odd collection of plates is 270 pounds (which I’ve benched).
You mean, you can’t do this?
mouthpiece while lifting? interesting.
Is he like Norm from Cheers? Do the guys behind the counter shout “THOR!” when he walks in?
And smile, because they know they will make sales target for the month!
Hello!!!!
Doesnt she claim to be libertarian?
And her little
doghusband, too!While I’m okay with killing headhunters and knocking websites offline, I’m not sure what they have to do with each other or with the resume.
“See what I am capable of? You want me on your team. SERIOUSLY.”
it’s hard to imagine a time when it would transcend the limitations of the biases of any given time.
Ah. There’s your trouble. You gots a serious case of the gibberish.
What does that even mean?
Fucking Texans. Way to get the guy whose arm was underpowered in college. At least Osweiller can rest knowing that his interception records will be broken in a year or two. Jesus. They need to fire their GM.
He throws slower than my 13 year old.
The sportswriters for Houston are talking about “oh, he just needs some mechanical adjustments and he’ll be great”. I have never seen a QB fundamentally change his form between college and the pros. Its not like pitching where you move an inch here or lean a little there. He’s gonna get pasted.
I bought my lift tix for Copper Mountain for next year. $42/day!! I haven’t see a price like that since the 80’s!
Woohoo! The kid is looking at college in CO. I’ve got my fingers crossed!
Awwwww yeah!
Megan McArdle, TOP MAN LIBERTARIAN:
This conveys the impression that the administration cares a lot about cutting taxes for very wealthy people and corporations, and considers the other elements of the plan to be filler, to be sketched in brief if at all. Unfortunately, you can’t run policy that way, because policy is detail. It’s not saying “markets should be free” or “we need more economic growth.” Tell hundreds of thousands of government employees that they need to make a more business-friendly environment, and you’ll rapidly discover the terrifyingly myriad ways in which such a directive can be interpreted by individual minds. No, what you actually have to do is create rules to follow, all of them spelled out in mind-numbing minutiae.
What this country needs is a good dose of iron-fisted central planning. And all your money.
Or you could just eliminate their jobs.
Where does she think jobs come from? They just fall out of the sky like manna? Fuck.
… So get rid of the fucking bureaucrats, moron.
It sounds like she’s saying that if you give bureaucrats open-ended directives, they’re liable to interpret them in ways that are unanticipated and undesirable, like evil genies.
And this from the dumb cunt McArdle-
The first thing to note about this plan is that it would be really, really expensive. According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, it would cost trillions over a single decade — though no one can say exactly how many trillions, because it’s too darn vague. Call it a half a trillion dollars every year drained from federal coffers, or more than twice the cost of Obamacare.
NO, FUCK YOU. CUT SPENDING
I remember the days of Reagan when tax cuts were going to “starve the beast”.
Now the bleat is: the beast is so large that we can’t do tax cuts! (It would be irresponsible to let people have more money). The debt is too high!
Methinks that was the left’s plan all along – boost government spending so much that tax cuts are always off the table.
Taxes are a means to an end. The actual goal is power.
Tax cuts coupled with simplifying the code can actually increase taxes collected.
Love HoJo. Nice choice, Sloop.
Another good one.
Obama spoke at an A&E event? The A&E that was involved in the murder of Aiyana Stanley Jones? The same A&E that had a producer was convicted of obstruction because of the aforementioned murder? The murder of a 7-year-old where no cops went to jail?
The kid is looking at college in CO. I’ve got my fingers crossed!
Western State?
There are worse places to end up.
Mines.
Aren’t only orphans at risk of entering those?
Someone has to be in charge.
You guys need to read the comments on the Rob Schneider story. They’re fucking sad.
First you want us to follow the links, now you want us to read the comments?
Just do what you’re told and quit your bitchin’.
People were shitting on Norm McDonald too. I always thought he was hilarious, but just misunderstood. I don’t think people get his style.
He seems to have become an enemy of the left ever since he made Paella in a non-Spanish fashion, and failed to apologize for doing so.
WHAT AN ASSHOLE
Methinks that was the left’s plan all along – boost government spending so much that tax cuts are always off the table.
That, and Quantitative Easing- to Infinity, and BEYOND!
We, noble band of crackpots, all know what will happen to the budget when (not if) interest rates return to “normal”- there won’t be room for anything but debt service, without a serious bout of currency manipulation and nationalized industry.
Winner
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39735904
Is this the new “Oregon man”?
No other bodies were damaged in the fire, he said.
Thank goodness for that. Because it would be terrible to cremate a body that had been burned a bit.
Funeral homes also prepare people for burial who will not be cremated.
do you really want to have to tell someone planning an open casket that “Your plans have to change unless grandma was a big Harvey Dent fan.”?
Yeah, but this place is specifically a crematory.
Not an Ice Crematory?
Wife Bragging: So not only did SP set up this site, she proved again last weekend that she’s the Greatest Wife In The World. I got home from a trip to Kansas (I lead a glamorous life) and there’s an envelope on my computer. Two tickets to Lambeau, Packers/Ravens, 50 yard line, Row 10, behind the Ravens’s bench.
Fuck Art Modell.
You’re wife is awesome
Your
Look for us on TV. I’ll be wearing the Ravens gear, she’ll have on her cheesehead.
We’ll be the ones yelling at each other.
Whaddaya gonna do when the kiss cam comes on you, then? Hate-makeout?
It will be much like this classic.
That’s hilarious.
I had never seen that before. That may be the best YouTube video ever.
Poppy disagrees.
It can’t be any better then this beauty.
damn. My wife did the dishes and gave me a BJ. You’re a lucky man OMWC.
I’m trying to figure out how to get a sneak BJ at Lambeau. Problem there is cold and consequential shrinkage.
I’m having flashbacks to a bar parking lot in January. “Damn girl, you’ve got cold hands!”
Suck me, beautiful…
If It is played on the video board at Lambeau, I wouldn’t worry about the shrinkage. The pride you would take in getting a BJ broadcast to tens of thousands would outweigh the shame you would feel at everyone thinking your pecker is short.
You’re not a Bills fan. Stay classy.
Okay so the remnants of the Reason commentariat are just not worth the hassle of commentarianizing with them anymore. Aside from literally three or four other people, all that remains of the regulars there are the Robby Defense League and some trolls that have formed a little dogpile clique with them. I’m sorry I didn’t migrate here sooner.
Man, but ain’t that Robby guy just the greatest, fairest, most un-biased blogger you’ve ever seen?
And god damn anyone who says different!
to be sure
Is ‘John’ still there? The last few times I went there, I didn’t see him, and he’d been around since 2003 at least. He could often be a tool, but at least he had some insight.
CATO and H&R have decided to take the Blue Pill. The dead tree edition still isn’t bad.
He is known to go dark for some periods of time, but I don’t think he’s coming back this time. There’s really nothing worth coming back to. That they decided to take the Blue Pill is a good way to put it.
Damn, no John? Who’s going to balance out DanO now?
The divide now spans between the likes of DanO and Hail Rataxes.
John was extremely well-read and insightful, as long as you scroll past anything he replies to more than once.
I miss John
Yes and no. He could be witty and insightful but, once his argumentative engine got going, a total ass. He and I never locked horns (euphemism alert!) but once he did with another commentator, my mouse got a workout as I started to quickly scroll through.
You can’t fault the guy for persistence. I swear he’d just keep swinging at you until you got bored/exhausted and left, every single time.
Yep. Totally agree. Still miss him
He can get wordy and obstinate about holding his ground at all costs, but I’m not sure about total ass. I reserve that distinction for other commenters who seem incapable of even making an argument that isn’t both preceded and followed by some variant of “you’re total fucking retard go die”.
John could resort to name-calling, which I consider bad form when arguing.
I’m sure Swizzy would be busy cat-butting him if John did come over here.
No doubt. But I don’t think it was ever his crutch or his main play.
I should add that I’ve called trolls all sorts of terrible things – but don’t (I hope!) try to grossly offend any of the regulars.
True that, FS. I just saw it a few times but it always irked me. You could tell John was getting frustrated.
He was always a bit too Team Red for my tastes, but he was never that bad to converse with.
On the upside, Michael Hihn posts a lot more often. Both the real and the parody versions.
awwww no embedded images. my apologies.
That really is sad. They had a very devoted commentariat for over a decade. I wonder whose brilliant idea it was to shit on that. Worse, most of the commenters were smarter and better educated with more insight than the staff. I think the fact that most of the staff were left leaning unlibertarians has a lot to do with their contempt for us.
I hope they get to enjoy the cocktail circuit before Trump’s cannibal rape gangs burn the country down.
I hate to say it, but I suspect the ideological persuasion of certain billionaire donors have played a roll in the ideological bedshitting of the staff.
no.
no one that rich cares about micromanaging Reason magazine. Its not influential enough that it even *matters*. its possible there are people @ the Reason foundation who continue to think the objective of the rag is to “appeal to youth” and this is someone’s retarded way they think one goes about that…. but its not like the Kochs give a flying toss what Reason has to say. They spend 10X the budget of reason on 1-shot political mobilization efforts. If they thought the mag were at all influential, they’d first invest more in it. Its not, so they dont, and i assure you no one with lots of power worries about the spin of their content.
One of our more distinguished commenters recounted being at a Reason meet and greet. He said the minute they found out he was a regular commenter they instantly lost interest in speaking with him and then couldn’t get away from him fast enough.
to be fair, it could also have been 100 other reasons
i’ve met a bunch of the staff of Reason over the years (always individually). They were always perfectly open to chat and didn’t seem at all dismissive. When i introduced myself (~12 years ago now) to Nick, he knew who i was and even remembered a few comments i’d made on some things. Its possible he was being superficially generous because i think he was with some donors, but i never got any vibe that they “didn’t like their own readers” at all.
Now, now. I only had one interaction like that with the reason staff.
And in his defense, Welch only wanted to get away from me because I was a drunken lout that night.
Seriously, I’ve been to several reason functions in LA. The staff were always gracious and so were the guests I met. They all seemed genuinely engaged in whatever interaction they had with me, from David Nott on down. The only real negative experiences I had were when I’d drop in on the DC office just to say hi and introduce my kids.
Agreed. The Kochs donate to so many charities, orgs and causes that I couldn’t imagine they would be that focused on what I would think is one of their smaller recipients of their funding. I would guess it is an editiorial staff decision. A bad one at that.
What is a drop in the bucket for the Kochs, is a huge proportion of the budget for the magazine. But maybe it is just a coincidence that Reason is markedly more CATO institute than they are Mises Institute with their libertarianism. I can’t say I know for sure one way or the other. But a point in your favor is that it seems like Reason has changed in the last few years whereas Koch funding has been ongoing for some time before that. I can’t blame Gillespie for Shikha because she is shoe-horned in from the foundation as I recall, but Robby for example, I think he’s presence can be attributed to Gillespie’s Captain Ahab-like quest for the millennial libertarian moment.
around 2012-2013 or so the mag made a conscious decision (probably based on the Rupe-poll of their readers) that they were skewing way “too old”, and needed to make more of a conscious attempt to engage young people. A lot of the changes that have happened started then.
this is what magazines do, and its not something that requires any undue influence from ‘major donors’. I presume it had some input from the people on the board of the Reason foundation and it was a collective decision.
i think its silly to point fingers at “billionaires” when its probably far more likely people involved with the magazine itself making those decisions. People with philanthropic interests as diverse as the Kochs don’t waste their time worrying about how equivocal-Robby’s spin on college-kerfuffles are.
I’m not pulling a Bernie Sanders claiming that some nefarious billionaires ate my lunch. I based my suspicion on my knowledge of those particular billionaire’s ideological leanings and the old saying that “he who pays the piper…”. For a for-profit mag, the readership are paying the piper, for a non-profit it’s primarily the donors, whomever they may be. That’s not to say that “calling the tune” necessarily implies micromanagement. A conversation involving “we would like it if you do X, Y and Z” can be enough to set the tone of the magazine going forward. And again, I’m not claiming this is a certainty or some deep knowledge that no one else has access to, I just don’t think it’s out of the realm of reasonable possibility.
The attempted appeal to the Millennial demographic is hardly what drove me from that place (and the mag in general). My biggest annoyance was Shikha’s stupid rantings, and the final nail was their dismissive treatment of what happened to Sloop’s mom. I try not to give them a single click of traffic anymore, and it’ll be an icy day in hell when I donate or subscribe ever again.
That makes sense, but it’s disappointing that they seem to feel the way to reach the youths is to become Tiger Beat. One of the reasons (hah!) I went to the site so often was that the commenters typically had more intelligent and interesting things to say. Also one of the reasons I started to drop it in favor of FEE.org, which has a tighter focus on the “technical” stuff like economics and libertarian ethics.
Another possibility could be that they’re moving in a direction they think will impress donors. In other words, no pressure coming from the money, but the Reason editorial staff might decide to run piece A over piece B because it’s more in line with donors they want to keep interested.
@Michael: Yeah, that shit with sloopy’s mom was fucked. Here’s a perfect example of police malfeasance that happened to someone “in the family” so to speak and they’re not interested. It would take up valuable virtue-signalling space, I suppose.
@Naptown Bill: What’s especially galling was the “local story” justification they supposedly offered for their decision, especially in light of the fact that they have a special feature (Brickbats) that seems to be geared to exactly that kind of thing.
it was on the webz that Bezos made a sixeable donation right about the time when TDS set in over there
if so I assume it came with strings
Who is kizone kaprow? Why is that familiar?
Nutcase with no ife.
Mary.
I saw the handle on MLB’s Yankee game comments
Is she back at the other place??
Anti-Libertarian Troll, most probably Mary Stack.
She/It/He posts videos, and is all over the place spouting anti-libertarian stuff. But hey, Dalmia will retweet her stuff.
KK has even left comments on my audio blog so I had to lock down comments. Which was probably a good thing based on the average audiophile mentality.
Yes, KK will follow you to other blogs. I had to lock down the comments of a lot of stuff. Fucking psycho.
I ain’t no goddamn troll (most of the time)!
Do you ever feel like pointing out your progressive friends’ lapses in right think? Because a super prog friend just posted a video of her toddler daughter on Facederp with the caption “she’s so weird”. I want so badly to point and yell “ABLEIST!!”
When you’re feeling that, it’s best to just shut Facederp off for the day.
I remember when my boy was less than 2 years old, My godfather called him “ambulatory challenged.”
-nobody was offended.
I do it all the time, not just to friends, but family and pollsters as well. My family tends towards the right, while the family my sister married into tends towards the left. Sometimes it’s fun to just stir the shit and walk away.
+1 grenade toss.
Nation of pussies Part lost count
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/28/guess-minnesota-sports-teams-photo-almost-didnt-make-high-school-year-book/
I’m surprised there were no comments on this particularly line in the article: “After all, you don’t want some aspiring gang banger submitting a picture of himself sitting in his garage flashing gang signs and waving around an unlicensed Glock and have it wind up in the yearbook.”
Absolutely perfect for a trap shooting team to be having a fundraiser at a Pizza Ranch.
I like Pizza Ranch to.
I ate pizza ranch while I was out in Marshalltown, IA… it was, without any exaggeration, the worst “pizza” I’d ever had.
How did it compare to English Muffin “Pizza”?
You should have been eating at a Made Rite.
Composing tweet; suddenly think of a specific PvP map from the original Halo. I haven’t played Halo in fifteen years. I didn’t even own it, I played it at a friend’s. And not all that often.
Memory is weird.
Commodious right now.
Well not a cigarette ad jingle… but one we made fun of a lot was for “New York Telephone”. They had a regional monopoly on local phone service, yet felt the need to advertize. So to the children of the age their jingle became “We’re all Disconnected…”
…hang em high?
It’s blood gulch isn’t it. The ONLY Halo map anyone remembers
Definitely wasn’t Blood Gulch, although I have some fond memories of playing that map in computer animation when the teacher hooked up his Xbox to the overhead.
I think it was a junkyard setting.
9. Social issues. The government doesn’t belong in our bodies, our bedrooms, or our churches. So long as our choices don’t require taxpayer resources, it’s no one’s business but our own.
Right on, we will soon see Dem led bills that call for the legalization of recreational drugs, the ending of the FDA regulating drug effectiveness before coming to market, legalization of prostitution, and the end of requiring religious groups to fund contraception and abortions.
I sense a libertarian moment coming.
*laughs a bit, but then starts crying*
Ha! Imagine if the Dems actually believed that.
Oh. So in the case of nationalized healthcare, where our choices about our bodies “require taxpayer resources” then the government, uh.. does.. belong in our bodies?
interesting hubbub going on in Illinois right now involving the state’s two big gun manufacturers Springfield and Rock River. both manufacturers have dropped opposition to SB-1657 in exchange for a special exemption/carve-out from the proposed legislation which creates an onerous state licensing scheme for FFLs.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/04/john-boch/springfield-armory-rock-river-arms-trade-opposition-to-illinois-ffl-licensing-scheme-for-carve-out/
and Springfield’s CEO released a statement the same time his company did a big PR push for their new single-stack sub-compact. sales are gonna soar!
Booooo Springfield!!!! (I’m still probably going to buy the XDe)
A carve out.
Gun manufacturers rent seeking.
I’m not surprised.
Also, Colt deserves everything it’s getting.
Colt sought rent and found bankruptcy.
lots of examples of rent-seeking biting companies in the arse. not sure why this lesson is not clear to Springfield.
Rock River supplies DEA, FBI, Marshalls. so that company probably doesn’t give a shit about individual market.
Might just be a basic survival strategy like a prisoner accepting a plea bargain to avoid an unfair trial. Winds in that state blow leftwards after all.
Since when have you been here?
Since today basically. If you scroll up, I half-ass apologized for not joining up sooner. H&R is a fucking crater and there are very few people worth talking to over there now. People that I could only characterize as trolls are the new regulars.
Well, good on you. Not worth making yourself crazy.
Exactly.
In highly regulated industries, often the strategic play that companies use is to “accept new regulation with promises of exclusion from FUTURE regulation”
because the future is always expected to be worse than the past. If they can get “long-term protections” now in exchange for minor inconveniences they think are probably inevitable, they’ll do so.
NRO: Bill Nye, Scientism Guy
I mean, sure, engineering the New Soviet Man is messy work, but only because it affects people other than icky whites.
Tags are messy work, too.
A while back, I was talking to a committed leftist at a dinner party hoping to just find some common ground to chit-chat about, to maybe lessen the agony. I suggested that pot will be legal once there are a few more funerals, basically implying that the younger generation will see it legalized as they come into their own. Her response was “Yeah, there are too many white people. They need to die.”
She herself is a white person, whose family is white, whose lesbian wife is white, whose colleagues at her law firm are all white and was talking to a white person when she said it in a country whose white population by-and-large saw fit to tolerate (and celebrate) the existence of married lesbian lawyers that can legally say whatever dumb shit they want. And she said it like her statement was the most natural position in the world, with no sense that I might react in some way other than taking that opinion for granted. This is the world view of the rapidly mainstreaming far-left.
I’d suggest to her that perhaps she would be a good place to start thinning the herd. What a bitch.
Reminds me of the time I posted on a discussion board, just after VT legalized gay marriage, that if I ever moved to VT, any of my gay friends is welcome to hold their wedding on my property.
Commie guy chimes in: “Private property is theft!”
Yeah I’ve found that any common ground between libertarians and leftists is rife with landmines and quicksand planted there by the left.
“Oh, can I have your stuff when you off yourself then?”
Pretty damn good Ben Shapiro impression
Okay, which of you guys lives in Joplin, Missouri?
http://www.grubstreet.com/2017/04/tax-protester-leaves-server-personal-gift-instead-of-tip.html
That’s awesome. But of course a lefty has to weigh in:
I really hate proggies.
Whenever people say that, I always wish I’d thought to reply, “Yeah, and thank God for slavery, because without slaves I just cannot imagine how the hell anyone would’ve picked cotton or cut sugar cane.”
I do that pretty consistently, but never in Missouri. I even have business cards printed up with an abbreviated version of the Reddit posting they cite.
There’s a couple of eateries around here where the wait staff treat me very well. Not *that* well yet though.
Fuck yeah!
Agreed. I’m sick as a dog today, but that lifted my spirits.
Damn, here’s hoping you feel better soon.
As an added bonus, one of the comments on Reddit points out that the tip left amounts to at least 28% assuming the bills under the five are ones.
I don’t mind being sick as long as it isn’t terminal. And 28%? Nice. If it would’ve been less than 15%, they would’ve skewered him.
Oh, it certainly isn’t stopping some of them from skewering him (or her?). That tip could be 1000% and there’d still be people screaming about how awful the message is for running counter to collective goodthink.
Sorry doesn’t work.
–“Engaging in a “sham transaction.” You can’t reduce or avoid income tax liability simply by labeling a transaction as something it is not. For example, if payments by a corporation to its stockholders are in fact dividends, calling them “interest” or otherwise attempting to disguise the payments as interest will not entitle the corporation to an interest deduction. As discussed below, it is the substance, not the form, of the transaction that determines its taxability.”–
While it is highly unlikely to be noticed any more than the ~40% of tips that go unreported already attempting to bypass the income tax this way is going to fall under the ‘Sham Transaction” law and the IRS would consider it a crime to try and evade the income tax on that tip by artificially labeling it a gift.
The fact that you would almost certainly get away with it and the server could avoid paying taxes on that money doesn’t change the fact that labling it a gift does not make it so and if it ever came into a tax court the fact that the tax advantaged treatment of gifts over tips was specifically mentioned would serve as proof that it was in fact an explicit attempt to evade the income taxes due.
If I have the cash, I tend to leave tips in cash instead of on my credit card, because the credit card tips are automatically reported and cash tips can be hidden.
Yeah, it’s technically tax avoidance, but unless you really draw attention to it (I dunno, like posting it on the goddamn internet) it’s not too difficult to hide, y’know?
After all, there’s not a single arrow in the party’s quiver that we haven’t slung at the Trump administration.
Points for honesty.