ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THE TABERNACLE HAS BEEN DEFEATED. ZARDOZ IS FREE! WHEN THE TABERNACLE DOUBLED DOWN ON REPRESSION, ZARDOZ LOOKED UP SOME EXPERTS OF HIS OWN.
ZARDOZ FOUND EXPERTS
THIS GAVE ZARDOZ MORAL SUPERIORITY, BUT HE NEEDED SOMETHING MORE FORCEFUL TO WIN. FORTUNATELY OLD ARCHIVE HAD RECORD OF TRULY FEARSOME POWER.
ZARDOZ IS NOT SURE EXACTLY WHICH PART SLAGGED THE TABERNACLE…BUT IT WAS NOT PRETTY. ZARDOZ OWES THE GREAT AUTHOR “SUGARFREE” A DEBT OF GRATITUDE.
NOW ZARDOZ IS GOING TO GIVE SOME LINKS TO HIS CHOSEN ONES, AND TAKE A STROLL…ER, FLOAT OVER SOME RELAXING COUNTRYSIDE.
VACAY FOR ZARDOZ
As this shows, being smart and being intelligent are two separate things.
^THIS^
As my grandma always said – there’s a difference between book sense and common sense.
See, this is why I don’t respect “the community” whenever somebody tells me what it wants.
Because “the community” is stupid and hates luscious luscious boobies.
P.S. Not bad for a white chick. 6/10 would.
The password is, “zaftig”.
I’m not sure if this is the funniest or the saddest thing I’ve seen all day
Nice she caught hell over it
A couple of prog friends shared this on Facederp. I’m sorry, but when you make a factual error in your first sentence (it’s EMTALA, not COBRA), you probably didn’t put much thought into your letter. These are “Physicians For a National Health Program” and they can’t get something that basic right.
Physicians for National Health Care is like Future Farm Laborers for Khmer Rouge.
How about a link, and or source for that chart there chuckles. Where is he getting his information?
I wonder what their position was on O’Care when it was being jammed down our throats? I believe a lot of people suggested the Medicaid route as that would have been a fraction of the cost of O’Care.
This is the very definition of false appeal to authority. They’re physicians, they have no expertise on what the best way to pay for healthcare is. They only care that someone pays for their services. I wonder how many free clinic hours these doctors log every month, if they’re so worried about people’s ability to pay.
Day-um Zardoz, post blocking BP? give the guy an hour at least before jumping on his dick.
Some things just get scheduled….some things come out when they come out…
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS SCHEDULE CONCERNED ONE. FEEL FREE TO READ AND COMMENT ON BOTH! WE ARE FREE!
ZARDOZ on vacation this week? The tabernacle is ran by Japanese?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CALENDAR OBSERVANT ONE. THE TABERNACLE IS NO MORE…THE MIGHTY WORKS OF SUGARFREE HAVE REDUCED IT TO A SLAG HEAP. ZARDOZ IS GOING TO TAKE A FEW DAYS OFF, AND THEN MUST CONSIDER FUTURE PLANS.
All Hail Zardoz!!!Eleventy
Oxford apologizes for equating a lack of eye contact to racism. Not because it was wrong, mind you, but because it was offensive to autistic people.
But what about the blind? Or people who like to wear sunglasses (at night!)
Paging Tommy Edison, Mr. Edison to the courtesy phone.
Or because my future is so bright…
Autism, shyness, an avoidant personality, various cultural norms, pupils are dilated from a heavy dose of good acid and you don’t want your conversation partner to notice…the list goes on and on.
It is my experience that eye contact is not made after eating acid because one is focused on the persons freaky fucking lips moving.
Not making eye contact is just good sense.
Those NSFS pix look a wee photoshopped.
That girl can handle the smudge tool.
I imagine it’s hard to be against freeing the cleavage…
Chuck Schumer’s cleavage?
No moobs please.
Goddammit. I’m eating dinner you know.
Given Lil’ John Titor’s rigorous research in National Geographic native breasts, I think there’s a good argument to be made for partial support and coverage if only to protect such precious assets for future generations.
I, uh, um, really like yellow shirts.
The people’s climate march accomplished what exactly?
Also i do enjoy trump skipping the prom and having a rally instead
Helped progs get badly needed exercise?
Boost the share price of Big Sharpie?
It helped produce more carbon in hopes that it will help them prove their point.
The average climate marcher is known to produce a disproportionate share of methane.
Karl Marx: /pol/ shitposter.
The anti-ANC guy touches on a hilarious part of a lot of Marxist thought outside the west, namely, that foreign Marxists argue that Western ideals and ideology are inherently only beneficial to the West and should rejected as a result. Like, say, ones founded by Germans writing in England.
And would you believe that Karl Marx was a *racist* German?
Oops, never mind, I should check the link before commenting.
Nobody reads the articles; why read the links?
I found this linked in the eye-contact story.
“In her lifetime, Canadian artist Maud Lewis sold her paintings door to door. Decades after her death, a movie about her life story is selling out theatres in her home province of Nova Scotia….
“Maudie, staring Sally Hawkins as the artist and Ethan Hawke as her husband Everett, is the second-highest grossing film at the box office in the Atlantic Canada region (number 10 in Canada overall), according to its distributer Mongrel Media.”
W. is a way better painter than this chick.
I only clicked because I figured there is no way thats true.
I was wrong.
I was renting a house on South Padre Island a few years ago and bought tamales from a dude selling them door to door. He was from Brownsville though, not Nova Scotia.
I was in the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Her house really is as small as it looks.
Civil War group files a lawsuit to get Wisconsin city to mow grass around graves
“…The Sons of Union Veterans asked Muskego officials last year to clear weeds and debris from the graves at a tiny cemetery at the southwest corner of Ryan and North Cape roads. The city refused because the small plot is a plant sanctuary and the last native prairie in Muskego….
“Under Wisconsin law, veterans’ graves must “receive proper and decent care” from cemetery owners. The lawsuit filed in Waukesha County Circuit Court Tuesday is seeking a declaratory judgment on whether the way Muskego is caring for the cemetery is proper and decent.”
If there’s a cemetery in place, I’m going to gander that at best it’s reverted, not native prairie.
Unusual sentence of the day:
Hey there, Suicide Hotline? Yeah I want to jerk OFF MYSELF. Yeah, that’s it just keep talking…
…as a matter of fact there is a noose around my neck….
Is that you, David Carradine?
Press my secret spot to activate the powerful Kung Fu Grip!
No, it’s me, Michael Hutchence.
Why are you making fun of other people’s fetishes (NB: that’s not my fetish)?
I call to get help for my severe depression, but their voices are just so sweet and tender. The masturbation is just incidental.
Ha. I had a group of friends who volunteered at a suicide hotline. They had one guy who did that all the time. They had dubbed him King Chron (for chronic masturbator). They warned new people all the time and gave advice on how to deal with it, but one friend got a call from him on the first day and screamed “OH SHIT IT’S KING CHRON, WHAT DO I DO?”
He was laughing in the background and said “I’d always wondered what you guys called me.” and hung up.
Smug regressive says there is no smug regressive problem.
TW: Samantha Bee
“Comedian”?
Pretty funny, because she just oozes smug in that interview.
And they say that fish don’t understand water either.
We use that word, “comedian” pretty loosely these days don’t we?
“Asked by Tapper about the role of comedy in the Trump era, Bee said she and her team ‘mostly did the [anti-Trump special] show for ourselves.’…
“Bee said when balancing humor with political commentary, her instinct is always to “lean in the direction of funny.”
“”When you’re doing topical comedy you’re walking a razor edge and you don’t want to drop over into the activism side of things too often. You don’t really want to do that at all. We always err on the side of comedy.””
I haven’t seen her that much…can someone like Derpetologist assess her claim and say how often she errs on the side of comedy vs. activism?
She leans in the direction of funny but she is shy about actually going there.
Here she is apologizing for calling a cancer patient at CPAC a Nazi because of his haircut.
Hey now, I have it on authority from a certain female writer at that other site that the secret nazi haircut is a dead give-away. Infallible.
Wow, so she makes a Nazi joke about a guy dealing with what is probably a death sentence–and who seems to be dealing with it much better than I would–and her apology is to donate $1000 for his treatment? I mean, she didn’t have to do shit, granted, but it just seems to me like the show probably spends $1000 on craft services a week. Just a little tepid for calling a cancer patient a Nazi for cheap laughs, I’d say.
“I do the show for me and people like me and I dont really care what anyone else thinks.”
“yeah, the problem was me, not racism. The problem was me.”
I am going to like that video, support it, whatever. Please proggies, prog harder. All the stuff you have been doing, double down on it.
“Bee said when balancing humor with political commentary, her instinct is always to “lean in the direction of funny.”
Well Sam, can you give us some examples of that?
Right? Maybe she should try leaning in the other direction and see if she accidentally winds up at funny. She might be aiming for funny but she’s slicing it right into tired and banal.
She actually was more-or-less funny on the old Daily Show. But she had better material to work with.
I mean, standard disclaimer about opinions and so forth, but based on what limited exposure I’ve had to her I found her too derivative, too formulaic. I didn’t really see any distinction between her and any of the other supporting cast. Maybe that’s a problem with my sample size, though.
I see your point but me, I actually do remember her more than the rest for whatever reason.
I would say that a.) her schtick, like a lot of the Comedy Central stable, is pretty much to copy Jon Stewart as hard as she can, and b.) Comedy Central’s audience for these “current events humor” shows are, as Bee says, people like her, who would be perfectly entertained to watch someone say, “OMG, Trump is so dumb, right?” for three hours. It’s pretty much Def Comedy Jam for progressives.
Comedy Central’s advertisers might beg to differ.
Well, that’s exactly the problem that Douthat was referring to
Basically, the Left does nothing to try and reach out to non-lefty americans; instead, everything they do amounts to “Team Building Exercises” for the already-Leftish.
Which is why they keep winning “more voters in already-blue states” and are losing voters in places they need to compete-well to win future presidential-elections.
Shrieking constantly about how everyone “not already progressive-liberal” is racist-mysogynist-islamophobic-deplorable might provide some warm-fuzzy Team-Feels…. but it doesn’t convince viewers of CNN that they are a News Organization which maintains any objective editorial independence, and it sure as hell doesn’t win voters.
This is a thing. I work with a bunch of people who are in various levels of government, nonprofits, advocacy groups, etc., and the progressives (who tend to represent the majority) think that engagement is essentially just telling the dummies to be smarter and agree with them. It’s a core belief that people who don’t accept progressivism in whole are either stupid or evil. They don’t respect dissenting viewpoints whatsoever. Like you say, it makes everyone who’s already in the club feel a lot better, but it doesn’t get you a lot of new members.
actual comment from the NYT story about “Asian Salad” being racist =
“why not “learn”? When we tell you what to think, just think that!!”
Larry Ohio State would never say such stupid shit.
GO CUCKEYES
That’s Larry The Ohio State.
I have gotten banned from a couple of atheist sites by suggesting that berating and belittling people who have religious bleefs as backward simpletons is perhaps not the best way to make their case. it puts people on the defensive and unites them against smug, condescending assholes.
They assured me that I was dead wrong and banned me from the site for ‘concern trolling’. These days I am of the opinion that they should keep that shit up. Double down. And more violence. They should dress in armor, mask themselves and go into the streets and beat people with bats for daring to have the wrong opinion. I think that may be the most successful strategy to date.
They were high on their own smug, and you were killing their buzz. How are they supposed to feel all superior if they don’t consider those of different beliefs than their own stupid rubes?
Too many words. How about ‘OBEY’?
So I saw this stuck to a stop sign yesterday in Portland, ME, and I immediately was wearing lollerskates.
These antifa douches are really up their own asses, aren’t they? Anyone wanna hazard a guess about what percentage murkins are hardcore nationalists whether or not they understand or conceive of it? I’m guessing +90%.
I’m not sure I have a real grasp on what a nationalist is. I am not down with the whole populist/nationalist anti free trade shtick at all, but I would assume the vast majority of murkins would put our national interest as a priority over another countries. I am not sure what that sticker is trying to convey.
Me neither. I guess it’s being used as the opposite of “globalist” and since “global” is good, “nationalist” is evil.
It’s broader and slightly less retarded than calling everyone Nazis.
Hey, if it’s not pro-International Communism, then it must be nationalist.
So much this…
The sticker means they want unregulated open borders (floods of leftist voters) and if you disagree you can get the fuck out.
My experience has been that the hardest core American patriots are legal immigrants.
NYT says something stupid again.
Like »Ich liebe Dich«?
“…As a college professor and university administrator with over two decades of direct experience of campus politics, I am not overly worried that even the shrillest heckler’s vetoes will end free speech in America. As a scholar of literature, history and politics, I am especially attuned to the next generation’s demands to revise existing definitions of free speech to accommodate previously delegitimized experiences. Freedom of expression is not an unchanging absolute. When its proponents forget that it requires the vigilant and continuing examination of its parameters, and instead invoke a pure model of free speech that has never existed, the dangers to our democracy are clear and present.
We should thank the student protestors, the activists in Black Lives Matter and other “overly sensitive” souls for keeping watch over the soul of our republic.”
“Ulrich Baer is vice provost for faculty, arts, humanities, and diversity, and professor of comparative literature at New York University, and the author of “We Are But a Moment,” a novel.”
/farts.
mmm, Title IX applies to provosts, right? I wonder what he’d think of “revising the parameters” of due process and freedom of association on his person? They’re just keeping watch on the suol of the republic.
Does anyone notice that when these people say “democracy,” they aren’t actually talking about democracy at all?
“Freedom of expression is not an unchanging absolute. When its proponents forget that it requires the vigilant and continuing examination of its parameters, and instead invoke a pure model of free speech that has never existed, the dangers to our democracy are clear and present.”
One of the single most retarded (and dangerous) thing I’ve ever read on the subject.
This is the problem: lefties (and a lot of righties, to be fair) only believe in the Constitution when it is in line with something they want to do. As soon as they find it to be an impediment, suddenly it’s a “living document that should change with the times”.
Indeed. Just a week or so ago I left a comment on a Townhall article by Congressman Hunter. In it I mentioned that Trump needed the approval of people like said Congressman before taking military action, not to mention we don’t actually know what happened there. Needless to say, one of the conservative readers responded, essentially saying that it would’ve been a huge hassle and wait if Trump had waited for approval. Oh, I missed the part in the Constitution that says you can ignore checks and balances if following them is an annoying hassle and wait.
He says that after speaking of how the shitlords suppressed speech in the past. My take is he is saying now it is their turn to be the new shitlords over the old shitlords. New times, new shitlords. Free speech has noting to do with it.
At this point, that’s the official line. Speech is important but there are thoughts and ideas bad enough that they cannot be expressed in public, because they are dangerous or hurtful. People like the good prof will be the arbiters of which ideas are those.
A long winded “disagreeing with us is not free speech.”
Go fuck yourself Urlich. You too NYT. I will not be told what words I can use or what I am allowed to express.
Seriously.
At this point it should be fairly obvious that isn’t – and never was – about “snowflakes” who have felt “erased” or whatever BS word of the day. It’s about taking power and shutting everyone else up.
Huh, just like past Cultural Revolutionaries.
“The recent student demonstrations at Auburn against Spencer’s visit — as well as protests on other campuses against Charles Murray, Milo Yiannopoulos and others — should be understood as an attempt to ensure the conditions of free speech for a greater group of people, rather than censorship. Liberal free-speech advocates rush to point out that the views of these individuals must be heard first to be rejected. But this is not the case. Universities invite speakers not chiefly to present otherwise unavailable discoveries, but to present to the public views they have presented elsewhere. When those views invalidate the humanity of some people, they restrict speech as a public good.
“In such cases there is no inherent value to be gained from debating them in public. In today’s age, we also have a simple solution that should appease all those concerned that students are insufficiently exposed to controversial views. It is called the internet, where all kinds of offensive expression flourish unfettered on a vast platform available to nearly all.”
So on the one hand their speech isn’t really being repressed because blah blah bah Internet, so who cares if they’re free to speak at some live event or not, it doesn’t really matter.
On the other hand, allowing the speech at a live event is OMG horrible.
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!
Besides Zardoz of course.
NOT ON SUNDAY!
I worked my ass off: mowing, trimming, weeding. I finally have a break after a quick bite of dinner and you have to give me this shit?
I did a little car cleaning and breaking today. I guess that counts.
Breaking? Like Electric Boogaloo style?
Nah, I usually just space out for about an hour. But it looks like I’m working.
I’m not lazy, I just don’t care.
SECRET NAZI PRESIDENT and ZARDOZ – today is a good day.
Ted Williams is coming back?
On a rat’s body?
Did ZARDOZ see this?
I’m no Doctor, but I don’t think a rat is strong enough to walk around with a human head on its shoulders.
If a chihuahua can do it!
Congratulations Zardoz!
Al Pacino reveals he drunkenly believed The Godfather would be the ‘worst film ever’… as he joins Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton and the cast at 45th anniversary screening
holy shit, James Caan looks ancient
To be fair, he is 45 years older than he was when he made The Godfather
I like Caan (Khannnnnnn!), especially in the movie Thief. To my eyes he let his career slide down hill. Ah well. It’s hard to stay in the limelight when you’re an actor.
I like Misery.
And the guy’s been working for well over 50 years. With the exception of people like Mickey Rooney who started off as child stars and remained successful as adults, not too many actors get to make big movies constantly for 50 years.
Anthony Hopkins begs to differ.
How long was Anthony Quinn’s career?
66 years, looks like. Damn.
“In the not to distant future,
next Sunday A.D. …”
I was kind of skeptical about the new season (even though I contributed to the kickstarter), but it’s really, really good.
It is. It so fucking is.
I’m about a third of the way through the first new episode and am really enjoying it too. So glad to have it back, and the new show gives the right amount of props to the original. Even the new voice of Crow seems to fit pretty well!
Back when I was a magazine guy in the early 90s I got to do a phone interview with the entire cast of the original show, including Joel. I was such a delusional klutz that I spent half the interview waiting for them to say “hey, you sound like a clever guy, why don’t you fly to Minnesota and join the writing staff?”
The article ended up coming out pretty lame. I was so in awe of those guys, their pure genius in inventing that show, that I screwed up the interview, hoping I’d sound cool enough to justify being on the phone with them. I never did that for any other celeb interview I did (there weren’t very many, but did include Timothy Leary (phone) and David Crosby (in person)).
Sofia Coppola’s husband looks like the cops are onto him.
James Caan spent a lot of time at the Playboy Mansion. I’d expect that to contribute to aging.
Diane Keaton looks *great* at 71.
The crowd at the Edmonton Oilers game tonight did a better job with the Star Spangled Banner than most American crowds nowadays.
What did they do?
Vuvuzelas.
There should be a worldwide treaty banning those things.
I liked them.
Every World Cup since 2010 seemed wrong without them.
Did they ban them at the world cup? When was the world cup held in S Africa? I was working with a few SA’s then, and they all showed up back on the job with those damn things. Annoying they are. The plastic trumpets as well as SA’s.
2010 was SA – I guess that was a thing there. Dunno if they were banned in Brazil – the only WC since now that I think of it 🙂
Communist.
I prefer kazoos
YES Kazoos are where it’s at. Not plastic trumpets.
They were probably drunk.
Just dump playing the national anthem before sporting events.
But MUH PATRIOTISM.
Next you’ll be saying having pledges and anthems in schools is wrong!
I’d like to see some athlete credit his victory (or his team’s for a team sport) on the fact that there is no god. It would be fun to watch the God Squad types go nuts over such a statement.
Colin Kaepernick x1000?
(Hopefully the hypothetical athlete here isn’t a massive dickhead like him.)
“I would like to thank Mother Earth and her fruit Cannabis, who I prayed to prior to the game, for giving us the strength and will to win today. As well as the fact that the stands were not filled with unnecessary people, and traffic is lighter due to all the abortions over the past twenty years. Thank you all for your support, and GO TEAM”
“I would like to thank myself, because without me, this wouldn’t be possible. It would be somebody else.”
Well, I’m gonna call it a night, but I’ll leave you peasants with some culture.
subtitled version (NSFW)
I saw that movie. I was unimpressed.
I enjoy it a lot. And the full soundtrack is a great bargain (see also Devil’s Carnival part 1 featuring (among others) Emilie Autumn) – I haven’t seen part 2 yet).
It’s fascinating to me how Sheldon Richman can wrap perfectly coherent points (war in the Korean peninsula would suck, millions of people will likely die in Seoul) in an idiotic article rife with pig-ignorance of basic diplomacy and his constant and dishonest apologia and optimism for non-American governments.
I didn’t read it. How does he work in a remark about the insidiousness of World Jewry?
Well, the Chinese are the Jews of Asia…
Actually, it’s more BOOOOOOOSH than anything else.
My God mtrueman.
I can’t tell if he’s just a troll or extremely autistic.
At some point he admitted he just liked arguing. So, troll I guess? Or just a guy with really, really weird sexual fetish.
Why am I not shocked that a Holocaust revisionist also denies the scale of state-induced starvation and malnutrition by the North Korean regime?
He needs evidence.
I’ll chip in for a one way parachute trip over Pyongyang.
I was about to say, “I actually really do feel bad for that guy. I think he’s suffering from some pretty serious mental issues.” And then I realized I was confusing Sheldon Richman for Michael Hihn, which itself says quite a lot, I think.
Is there any proof that Hihn and Richman aren’t the same person?
I’ve never seen them in the same room together, now that you mention it…
Richman doesn’t have any mental issues, in fact, Richman’s non-foreign policy is actually not that bad. Where he fails, in my opinion, is in his arrogant assumption that non-American countries are somehow more competent and rational than the American system, and his continued kowtowing to foreign interventions and blatant lies in regards to how the American government manages itself. Not to say that the American government is unquestionable, but his Crimea content was a complete delusion and he has consistently shown that he’s willing to trust and advocate in favour of foreign powers despite refusing to hold them to the standards he holds the American government.
Bear in mind I don’t see Richman on par with a ‘traitor’, merely an easily manipulated ideologue that favours the American leftist variety of ‘foreign policy’ than an actual substantial analysis of the realities involved.
Yeah, I guess I kind of see Richman as a fellow traveller with Hihn in some sense, like Richman will be Hihn by the end of the Trump presidency.
I agree with your assessment of Richman’s other stuff. I actually agree with a lot of what he says, and I appreciate very much that he comes from a deeply-held set of principled beliefs. It just drives me crazy that he seems to throw all that in the shitter when there’s a chance to criticize American foreign policy. There’s plenty to be critical of, of course, but be fair. He consistently believes the best of foreign powers and the worst of the US wrt to foreign policy. It smells of reflexive America-bashing to play to the cheap seats, and he should be better than that.
By fellow traveller, I mean that Hihn seems to be someone for whom his identity as a libertarian was very important to him, and hasn’t filled whatever void needed filling. There’s a bitterness in Hihn’s rantings that I see reflected in Richman’s writings from time to time, almost like he feels betrayed, like his movement “sold out”.
“ZARDOZ OWES THE GREAT AUTHOR “SUGARFREE” A DEBT OF GRATITUDE.”
Well, I always did know that ZARDOZ is SugarFree. Brutals be smart.
HAIL ZARDOZ!
I shall celebrate by eliminating 17 brutals, and taking woman In His Name.
What kind of dumb fuck donkey calls two pot sized bets on a chance of hitting a one outer?
Is this about Hillary and the electrical college?
One of the worst pornos I’ve ever had the misfortune to fap to.
Someone who hates money?
I guess, but he hit it and stacked me.
And I know i should be happy that these people exist, it is just frustrating when their odds come up as they must, at times.
Made you feel like this, eh?
Brian Williams makes joke, spreads patriarchy.dw
I mean, I hate to defend Brian Williams, but some people are ridiculous.
I can only imagine what a horrible person she probably is when the mics are off. Like Hilary turned up to 11.
Her meltdown during the election is still one of favourites. Just the sheer confusion and barely contained rage.
Do you have a YouTube link to that moment?
Ask and yee shall receive.
My god she is unbearable to watch.
Certainly, but her braying view speaks much of her ability to argue amongst the arguments of others. The so-called ‘Rhodes scholar’ is unable to challenge or defeat the positions of the hollow nationalists, all they can offer is a more general and hollow existence. It takes a more coherent position, like libertarian self-determination, to challenge their idiotic views on society , but Maddow is unwilling to offer that alternative, because it would require the death of their ideology.
Today in Kulturul Appropreashunz: Asian Salad is RACIST!, by The NYT
Thank god you SF’ed the link because I’m derped out.
Too late now, link below
Link to Article
Ugh FFS.
Is she not aware of the silly names Asians give their own food? Or the fact that most Chinese food in America, regardless of how “inauthentic”, was cooked up by, uh, actual Chinese people?
khao phat American:
Better question – why is salad still on the menu? You’re eating fucking leaves, people.
My wife and I visited the States a few years back. My mom took us to dinner at Perkin’s(?) in our small, all white Wisconsin town. My mom order the oriental salad and my wife ordered a steak. The wholesome-n-buxom bright-eyed girl that brought the order asked, “Who’s the oriental?”. I looked at my Japanese wife, looked back at the girl and said, “Who do you think?”. OMG, OMG, that’s not what I meant!
That’s hilarious.
I’m black.
Man, vintage Elaine.
I would hit that harder than Arthur hit D.W..
Here’s what cracks me up about this whole fixation on “cultural appropriation” of cuisine: I don’t think these SJW morons would be griping if a Chinese person owned a restaurant and had an item called an Asian salad (in fact, there’s a restaurant near me called Asian Cottage). Yet, an American restaurant chain – which is assumed to be owned by white people – makes an “Asian salad” and suddenly it’s racist. It all comes down to the race of the proprietors. If an Asian person does it, it’s fine, but if a white person does it, it’s racist. But that’s the TEXTBOOK DEFINITION of racism!! Having a double standard that is wholly based on race!
There’s also the conflation of actual malicious, harmful racism (like what FDR did!) with giving your salad a hokey name like “Secret Asian Man Salad”.
“Cultural Appropriation” is a ridiculous thing to complain about, period. In fact, without it, there probably wouldn’t be a market for authentic versions, either. Adapting recipes to a culture helps to familiarize people with new spices so that one day they can try the real thing. You think that anyone here would’ve dared to try raw fish sushi if the California and Dragon Rolls didn’t exist?
Cultural appropriation is how cultures grow and influence each other.
It’s 90% beneficial for all cultures.
They do that all the time – as I’m sure MLW could back up – there’s an obsession in writing about judging what’s written based on the race of the author. I’ve seen the most ridiculous and probably offensive stereotypes assumed (black people must be ghetto/poor you know!) or ignoring the fact that, for instance, an Asian person might have a ‘white’ name, etc.
It’s nothing we don’t already know (progs don’t give a crap about individuals), but man, it jerks my chain when I see them evaluating everything through the lens of the author’s race. Especially since most of them still give mouthpiece to Death of the Author lit.crit. Except for isms, dontcha know.
Wanting a comic-book superhero to be changed from white to black, or male to female, isn’t cultural appropriation at all. Wanting to go back to the way things used to be — totes racist and evil.
It’s cultural totalitarianism is what it is.
I bet he had a thorough response in mind. Just didn’t want to go to jail.
He probably didn’t want a bunch of Antifa scurrying to the HQ and beating him up, so silence is probably the smart move here.
(looks at menu, then looks at waiter)
“I can’t decide. What’s the most racist thing you have?”
“Well, our most anti-Semitic dish is the Ham au jus.”
I hate to be the hotel that offers a continental breakfast to those killjoys.
“In many American restaurants, the Asian salad is right up there next to the Greek salad and the Caesar salad. You might think this is progress — cultural inclusion on a menu. And yet the Asian salad is often the one that comes with a winky, jokey name: Oriental Chop Chop. Mr. Mao’s. Secret Asian Man. Asian Emperor. China Island. Chicken Asian Chop Chop. Chinese-y Chicken.”
Some of these *do* sound offensive, but it seems that the term “Asian salad” is, from the author’s standpoint, racist all by itself.
So while “Secret Asian Man” is problematic (and NOT AT ALL FUNNY), it’s really not the same thing as the word “Asian” by itself.
Poverty Appropriation. Could it get any derpier?
And if you could literally “appropriate” someone’s poverty, as in, take their state of poverty away from them, shouldn’t they be grateful??
“Equality in misery, that’s our motto!”
Equality except of course for the Top Men. They need nice dachas and the best of material items so that they can stay in proper shape to make Top Men decisions for the Common Good.
Then don’t be poor. Stop bitching about “capitalism hard!” and do something about it. Some interesting points in there in between the grating wokeness.
The Cultural Marxists should love this, it’s bourgeois people wanting to live like poor people, except…what, they have a choice? NO!
Leftists don’t really care about freedom to choose at all.
Fundamentally, “racism” isn’t public enemy #1 to a leftist, choice is.
Yup. Funny that one of their most sacred positions, Pro-Choice in terms of abortion, really means Pro Abortion. Many of them are pretty disappointed when an unwanted pregnancy is carried to term and results in adoption.
I have a DVD set of Milton Freidman’s “Free to Choose” PBS series. Wonder if PBS would ever re-run such a series?
They don’t really need to, they’re all on Youtube. That’s where I watched them.
Great tip! Thanks.
I got the DVDs so I could lend them to friends and coworkers. They have opened several minds, especially of the young millenial engineers that I didn’t want to see stay professionally brainwashed by their alma maters.
As for the PBS comment, it was more rhetorical. Would 2017 PBS even consider running such an individual-liberty loving series?
Here they are. I wish PBS, or anyone for that matter, would run something like this again.
Favorite Friedman quote:
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I remember a video where some woman was throwing the old “Rich people hoarding money” argument at him, and his response was “What do you mean hoarding money? Are they stuffing their extra millions under their mattresses?” She was forced to admit that no, they were hoarding it by investing it, and he proceeded to point out that investing it n things like factories and industry creates more jobs for poorer people. Always loved that.
This one.
Watching a young Tom Sowell tear into that lefty Piven was a highlight of Free to Choose. I saw it years back on YouTube. I might have to go back to that episode.
I might add that there is a rather huge difference between a family looking to downsize in the real estate market that she accurately indicates is quite unaffordable in many areas, and hipster douchebags playing at being rednecks in San Francisco.
Even so, hipster douchebags have the right to be hipster douchebags. The fact that she is Offended (the horror!) by people choosing to live the Tiny House lifestyle says more about her own hangups over her childhood than anything.
I’m considering trolling her by commenting/whining about that some people choose the Tiny House lifestyle because they suffer from stress and anxiety and that simplification of their material surroundings is how they cope, and how dare she Other the anxiety afflicted!! RAWR!
The poor, especially the homeless, are all just appropriating hermit and cynic culture.
I LOL’d
POVERTY IS FOR THE NOBLE SAVAGE, YOU WHITE CISHET APPROPRIATOR
I hope she didn’t receive a damn bit of compensation for that ridiculous rant.
I hate everyone involved in this story.
I tried to figure out a response involving parasites, self hating, and idiocy, but gave it up. Ditto to what you said.
Well, if you’d like to conduct an experiment along those lines, you’re welcome to appropriate my mortgage payments.
Wow, this article really opened my eyes. I’ll never try to save money again for fear of disrespecting someone who grew up poorer than me. And I’m definitely going to support the progressive candidates who tout the childish notions of fairness and equality. Only they can save us from ourselves.
Is that what they want or think will happen?
I remember 30 years ago lefty organizations were doing charity dinners where some people would randomly get a western dinner, while others would be selected for a plate of rice, and this was supposed to illustrate wealth inequality or something.
In super-duper-really-niche nerd news, EVE Online is fighting a war over anime (Yes, I know it’s a nerd site, it’s the only place I could find a decent summary of the details.)
Let me take a guess – something about anime being racist?
Nah. People get pissed off because the Weebs won’t shut up about it, so they banned it from their Discord servers, and someone placed a bounty on someone else’s head to either open anime back up or ban it forever, and now a war has ignited.
Pretty entertaining stuff. EVE usually is.
THEY CAN TAKE OUR LIVES
BUT THEY’LL NEVER TAKE
OUR WAIFUS
Nah. It’s dumber than that.
Bill Nye:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE0VUofygK4
But that is what makes him cool and fun and what-not! So we know he must be right about sciencey stuff.
Who says youtube commenters are dumb?
“Vinay Bharadwaj
Vinay Bharadwaj2 weeks ago
“I’m one with the Universe and the Universe is in me” – Neil Tyson
“I’m one with the Force and the Force is with me” – Chirrut Imwe
mind=blown”
“Kosovo Mapping2 weeks ago
in this moment, you are the oldest you have ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”
Fuck you. Youtube comments brought us this:
Blastphamous H-Dizzle9 months ago
FAM SHE THICK AS FUCK ID SMASH A CARTOON CHARACTER ANYDAY ONLY IF ITS MRS INCREDIBLE
MY NUTS WOULD BE SHRIVELD UP FROM ALL EM I BUSTED
It would certainly leave an indelible mark.
Deal reached on funding government through Sept.
$1 trillion and it only goes through September. Business as usual.
Whew. I don’t know how I would have coped without those community development grants.
I can only imagine what might happen to anyone that dares to say “cut” in DC. Nothing. Left. To Cut!
FUCK PAUL RYAN.
How much do you bet that Ryan’s going to be Cantor-ed next year? I remember a time before Romney picked him as the VP nominee when he actually wanted to cut spending. He quickly realized that being a RINO was a far more profitable venture.
April 28 (UPI) — A sign at a Chicago Metra facility is going viral after a Reddit user pointed out a glaring typo: “federal” misspelled as “ferderal.”
The sign at the Metra Western Ave. Storage Facility, in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, identifies the location as the site of a “Ferderal Transit Administration Project.”
It’s unclear how long the erroneous sign has been in place, but it went viral after being posted to Reddit by user nemo_sum.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/04/28/Glaring-typo-on-Chicago-Metra-sign-goes-viral-after-Reddit-post/8961493407904/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=5
This obviously proves that Chicago Public Schools are underfunded and their teachers underpaid!
Yeah, sure it is.
Maybe a clue should’ve been spelling it METRA.
Except that Metra is actually a thing.
Ever notice in the movie Idiocracy that the street signs and such contain misspellings?
April 28 (UPI) — A hapless skunk in the Chicago suburbs was filmed running circles around an office complex parking lot with a McFlurry cup stuck on its head.
Violetta Talley pf South Elgin posted a video to YouTube showing the skunk running in circles after its apparent craving for a McDonald’s dessert led to its head getting stuck inside the cup.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/04/28/Skunk-rescued-from-McFlurry-cup-in-Chicago-suburb/8571493406308/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=6
She grabbed a cup off of its head?
Dammit, that could have been one less skunk to deal with!
Maybe it’s like that story about the thorn in the lion’s paw. Someday that lady will be in trouble, and an army of skunks will come to the rescue.
PEW PEW PEW
Japanese water skier felled by flying fish to the groin
April 28 (UPI) — A member of a Japanese water skiing team was caught on camera in an unfortunate collision between a jumping fish and his groin.
Twitter user @M3M6M9M, aka Miroku, posted a video to the microblogging site showing a member of the Waseda Water Ski Team taking a practice run on the Tone River.
A fish suddenly jumps out of the water and strikes the man in the genitals. The water skier manages to hold on for a few seconds before he has to let go of the rope.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/04/28/Japanese-water-skier-felled-by-flying-fish-to-the-groin/8761493392575/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=14
A fish suddenly jumps out of the water and strikes the man in the genitals.
Ah, those blowjob fish have to be specially prepared, otherwise they can cause serious injury or death.
A Wisconsin Little League program is targeting overzealous parents with a sign reminding them that their kids are “not being scouted by the Brewers today.”
Evan Primakow, whose son plays in Glendale’s Little League program, posted a photo to Reddit of the sign installed at the program’s field.
The sign reads:
“1. These are KIDS.
2. This is a GAME.
3. Coaches are VOLUNTEERS.
4. Umpires are HUMAN.
5. Your child is NOT being scouted by the Brewers today.”
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/04/27/Sign-reminds-Little-League-parents-This-is-a-GAME/8601493319689/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=4
This I’m fine with. Sports parents are fucking insane.
agreed. i hate batshit parents at LL games
Worse than dance moms?
Couple years ago in Little League, we had a parent suspended two games for a fight with an umpire. It was a bad call – but jfc, these are ten year olds and they’re acting more maturely than the parents.
April 27 (UPI) — A Michigan village clerk has apologized to a couple after she sent them a water bill addressed to the woman “and the [expletive] who lives here too.”
Julie Glenn, who serves as clerk for the village of Augusta, sent a letter of apology to Annette Tolis and Kevin Barthel after they noticed the profane insult in the water bill they received earlier this month.
“It’s addressed to Annette Tolis and the [expletive] that lives here too,” Barthel told WXMI-TV. “I’m 99.9 percent sure that I’m the [expletive] she’s referring to.”
The couple said Glenn was was apparently angry because they had left her a note about their frustration that she was never in the office to help them pay their water bill in person.
“I made an inappropriate comment on your bill that was highly unprofessional,” Glenn’s apology letter reads. “I am truly sorry and embarrassed by my actions and I assure you that it will never happen again. I hope you find it in your heart to forgive me.”
Glenn has been suspended without pay for at least two weeks, but the couple said they want to see harsher consequences, especially since the clerk initially denied sending the letter.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/04/27/Village-clerk-apologizes-for-profane-insult-on-water-bill/1771493322795/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=3
He should have sent a check back with “Pay to the order of the assholes who sell me water.”
Glenn has been suspended without pay for at least two weeks
No one else in MI can send out a water bill without insulting their “customers”? Fire her worthless ass and the [expletive] who was supposed to supervise her.
GILMORE, you’re a reliable source for music questions, so I ask for your help in identifying this song:
It’s no more than 5 years old. It’s in 3/4, in the key of Bm I think. The bassline is B-F#-G, and playing over that is a little upper-register keyboard solo…and that’s all I’ve heard. It sounds vaguely Asian, but if I had to guess genre it’s some kind of alternative or college rock band playing it.
FOX sports radio (don’t judge me please) uses it for bumper music if that helps. Anyhow, that’s all I’ve got.
Is it Greensleeves?
you lost me there.
I don’t really know anything newer than mid 2000s aside from a tiny handful of obscurish things i pay attention to.
i might be able to find it based on your description tho.
Is this it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQvZ4N1RfS8
true story – i slept in one of the beds in that video.
i spent a few summers visiting a friend’s place in Bar Harbor ME. The butler family (Win and Will are the boys who started the Arcade Fire) basically lived next door but spent all their time @ my friend’s place hanging out (*it was actually sort of a gigantic old compound). they’re only a few years younger than me, but for whatever reason i ended up socializing with their dad all the time. He was a fucking riot. Anyway, they shot the interiors of that video in the old summer house.
Thanks, but no.
OT but really rattled after this girl got chomped by a shark at my surf spot. Got her on the leg bad, hammy gone and bleeding badly but she was airlifted out. Happened yesterday afternoon and I haven’t heard any current updates. I wasn’t out because I don’t surf on the weekends so I didn’t witness anything. Lots of baby great whites around and it looks like one of them wanted to try something different. I think I may drive a bit next time I go out.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sd-me-marine-shark-20170430-story.html
North Korean prison guard speaks:
Once, when two brothers broke out of prison, the guards murdered seven of their family members on the spot, and numerous other prisoners were beaten. After they were recaptured, the two brothers were beheaded, Lim, who defected over a decade ago, told reporters. “The two brothers were beheaded in front of everyone,” she revealed, “They called everyone to watch as a warning not to flee. The other prisoners then had to throw stones at them.”
Lim described this incident as one of the most terrible she saw during her seven years as a North Korean guard.
Describing another incident, Lim said that she saw a guard strip a woman naked and set her on fire. “We were manipulated not to feel any sympathy for prisoners,” she said, “We were told they had committed terrible crimes.”
Prisoners work seven days a week in harsh and unforgiving conditions. One survivor, of which there are very few, told reporters deadly accidents are fairly common in the mines. An underground gas explosion once cost over 300 inmates their lives in one incident. “The guards just closed off the tunnels with others trapped inside,” the former prisoner explained.
Another former inmate said the prison guards would laugh when falling trees crushed those who worked in the forest because they were starving and too exhausted to move. Hundreds are believed to have perished digging the tunnels at North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site. In winter, the injured were tossed out in the snow to freeze to death.
Guards regularly raped female prisoners, Lim introduced, adding that if a woman became pregnant, the prison guards would force her to have an abortion or kill her. If a woman gave birth, they would sometimes beat the child to death or bury it alive.
The North Korean guards were never punished for the murders they committed. “Even if a guard was driving and ran over a child,” Lim explained, “there would not be real punishment.”
In certain cases, guards were rewarded for their inhuman acts of brutality. “One man dragged two men and three women to the fences, then shot them claiming he’d caught them escaping,” revealed Ahn Myung-Chul, a former prison guard. “He was rewarded with admission to a top university.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/30/former-guard-reveals-life-inside-north-koreas-brutal-prison-camps/
Motherfucker. I usually laugh at progs when they make those Hitler-Trump comparisons, but reading shit like this makes me pissed that no one bothers to look at what life is like under actual dictators.
They are just having bad luck finding the right people to run that country. I’m sure the next generation leaders will get it right. It can’t possibly be the system…
Kim Jung-Un doesn’t have any offspring does he? If not, I’m predicting a potentially violent power struggle between his generals when he finally snuffs it.
Oh, a daughter, looks like. Wonder if she can rule on her own, or if she has to marry.
“Wonder if she can rule on her own, or if she has to marry.”
Poor guy…
Shotgun wedding in the Koreas, eh?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2566574/Kim-Jong-expecting-second-child-wife-spotted-public-wearing-maternity-dress-finally-cigarettes.html
Old article but I guess the little lawn gnome is trying for a boy.
Thomas Friedman plays golf in Dubai; has thoughts
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/opinion/on-a-par-5-in-dubai-good-humor-and-a-respite-from-all-things-trump.html?_r=0
omg, tell me he was talking to his caddy who shared this incredible pithy wisdom, like, “The world is basically obtuse and rotating; like a schwarma”
Oh fuck me. What there ought to be is a random People React to Tom Friedman’s Columns generator.
LOL
Without clicking through, does he manage to use the musings of his golf caddy to figure out complex issues and reduce them to a short column?
short version: He plays golf with a yogi and happens to meet a rabbi on the way. Lame jokes are exchanged. Friedman notes all the progressive parts of the UAE while also noting that it is not a democracy and does not treat its workers well.
He ends by quoting some greeting card philosophy from the yogi and using it as a dig against Trump.
basically the joke-response by Gustave and I was close to the truth. which doesn’t surprise me.
If I were to have a heart attack (which God forbid), I’d rather have it on a golf course. All those doctors…
“Now I can bill the *Times* for my golf trip. Next I’m off to Vegas to interview some strippers about the economy.
“Let me see…a stripper named Lulu said that Trump’s corruption is even more naked and obvious than she is. There, I did the story, now let’s actually go to the strip club and see if any of it happens the way I wrote it. If not, too bad, I’ve already submitted it.”
I always wonder about the NYT fact checkers when I see a Friedman column. How exactly are they able to verify anything with a random person in some second or third world? I’d take a post-scandal (or pre-scandal) Stephen Glass story on it’s face before one from Friedman. They just scream ‘shit I threw together in the hotel room before I fucked off in a foreign country for the rest of the week’.