Looks like I am the afternoon designated linker. Yesterday’s theme was fail….today, it is BAD.
- Sometimes being a tourist in NYC is a bad thing to be.
- I suspect this broadcast will be bad.
- Meh, sounds more like a bad spy movie plot.
- Now that was a bad
balloonairship voyage. - Bad karma for Mexico?
So there you go…links o’ bad. Just you feel fortunate I didn’t follow my colleagues’ lead and link to music…Bad by Michael Jackson would probably get me booed off the page.
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248 responses to “Friday Afternoon Links”
Awwwww look who just graduated college
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trayvon-martin-honorary-pilot-degree_us_590b5163e4b0104c734c88ef
Good lord, those comments though.
Any reaction from the White-Hispanic Community?
If that racist judge had allowed the jury to learn about Zimmerman’s future crimes and bad behavior, he would certainly have been convicted.
Oh, God. I’m sure someone on my Facebook will have posted this with some approving comment. So I’ll have that to look forward to when I get off work.
Yeah, I’ve already read too much aggravating shit about that already. Martin gets a degree, Clock Boy gets praise from Zuckerberg and a personal invitation from Obama to the White House… oh, what tangled webs all this fucking virtue signaling weaves.
Bad. Sad. Pad.
Mad?
Rad
Dad?
Egad! I’ve had enough of this stupid fad.
You cad!
Easy lad
Quad.
Doesn’t rhyme, dick-wad.
No rhyme? I’m glad.
a sad dad as a lad as a fad; as alfalfa falls as a flask; a lass; a salad
Almost twenty years later I still remember that exercise from typing class.
now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country
we must be in different generations of typing classes
I signed up for the chicks
how about you ?
“The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy hound.”
– Something from Encylopedia Brown about testing every letter in the alphabet for old typewriters…
A man, a plan, a canal: St. Lawrence Seaway!
SometimesAnytime beinga touristin NYC is a bad thing to be.Let the pointless region war begin.
Wherever Caput is from has no class. Sad!
Caput Lupinum means outlaw. So he has no home.
But it doesn’t mean inlaw so it also means he has no wife
Also true.
I’m from Scranton, there is no insult vile enough that I do not deserve it.
You win.
The most hollow of victories, but I’ll take it.
Dude I gave you an out. You should have just said you were homeless.
Nikki isn’t here, someone needs to be the worst, and that’s just the kind of challenge I can lower myself to.
There was an excellent Daily Show bit during the DNC a few cycles ago where he talked about Democrats with a bunch of money needing to pretend they came from the humblest of beginnings to identify with the everyman. IIRC he goes through rating people and then Joe Biden says he’s from Scranton and Stewart is all “Pack it in, Joe wins.”
You can blame Hillary on Scranton, too.
Not quite as bad as Wilkes-Barre right?
Ha, you aren’t in Philly!
Actually, I moved. To Philly. Basically, I’m a human train wreck.
Thematic
OK, this is just hilarious.
Locals respond
Aw come on, she was literally the first person in history that made Manchester sound cool!
Also, obligatory “Debauchery is one of my favorite pastimes”.
Well compared to Moscow I believe the women in Manchester are a tad on the hefty side
She urged readers to “remain Russian”,
Be drunks, die young, and get botched abortions?
Don’t forget hanging off the sides of buildings and then falling to their death.
As long as it’s on Youtube.
Is there a link im missing?
STEVE SMITH FILL YOU WITH MISSING LINK
…You win the internet today Jesse, congrats.
Fucking. Hilarious.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VEXkks2TmcI
Ohhh, those guys.
There’s also this. The really good ones get repeated every couple weeks.
Also squat as Boris would say
All of Manchester is not hell on earth. Only Old Trafford and the area around it qualifies as hell on earth.
She does make a good point. Please, no more muffintops.
UI don’t know I find a bit of muffin top to be kinda hot, gives you more to grab hold of, as long as it is actually just a muffin top and not a couple loaves of bread hanging off the side
I like athletic girls. I know some women are concerned about being to muscular but as long as they still look like women it’s all good.
Kinda old dunno if it was talked about
Rampage Opinion
Political polarization among college freshmen is at a record high, as is the share identifying as ‘far left
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2017/05/02/political-polarization-among-college-freshmen-is-at-a-record-high-as-is-the-share-identifying-as-far-left/?utm_term=.206e76691695
The thing about going to the Polytechnic University of Bucharest is that there was almost no politics discussed. Not whatsoever with teachers little with other student. I always found it fascinating how much politics matter in US universities.
It wasn’t a big deal at UF or UNF. Then again I was getting an education in a field that demands results, not feelz, so I may have been insulted.
You’re a Floridian hipster, I assume you’re always being insulted.
You win this round!
*slinks into swamp*
It wasn’t that big a deal in the 2000s when I got my degree, and I went to a campus known for its stupid activism. STEM students basically didn’t have to deal with it at all, while the social sciences weren’t as absurdly politicized. Only thing you’d have to worry about was some stupid protest over something dumb on campus once and awhile, and the student government/union being the typical wannabe authoritarian fuckwits that anyone in student government is like.
Usually it was the Palestinian Student Association doing most of the shit disturbing. There were SJW’s but they knew their place and were mostly kept in place by stuff like intellectualism and reality.
Not sure what happened.
Yep, I knew a Jewish guy who ended up suing the student union because they were promoting the pro-Palestine movement and he explicitly didn’t want his dues going to that.
left/right doesn’t mean a damn thing to me anymore.
Except in boxing
Or dancing.
like a butterfly
I was in college during the previous “mad season” of PC-college-craziness. (early-mid 1990s)
My school had nearly zero political nonsense. with a few rare exceptions. It was in the South, which i think accounted for that.
*the one example of ‘controversy’ was when a bunch of black incoming freshmen complained about a few other southern students putting confederate flags in their dorm-room windows. without waiting for a response from the administration, they decided to chain themselves to the dorm entrance in protest. They all got kicked out of school. there was no further controversy.
Kicked them out huh. When Deans had balls I guess.
That’s exactly what they should do today – just purge them right out.
Maybe i made it sound more racist and intolerant than it was. there were “debates” ongoing about the propriety of battle-flag display. I think the campus had a policy of recommending that people do not fly them. but i think federal courts had ruled that it was Not Cool to ban what people do in their dorm rooms, or something like that. what got these kids kicked out was not the subject-matter of their protest, but the manner of it.
Same when I studied in Moscow. And the father of one of my college classmates would have been the second or third person in the Russian government if the Communist candidate had won the Presidency 20 years ago. It never occurred to me to discuss politics with him. [He was in a group of something like 25 students with whom I took most of the classes — not 400 people.]
It wasn’t a big deal at Georgia Tech, but we didn’t have any BA degrees.
Maybe if you want to be treated as something other than a trespasser, choose better phrasing. Are we not doing phrasing?
You were supposed to feel bad you uncaring monster!
•Sometimes being a tourist in NYC is a bad thing to be.
Being a tourist in NYC is almost always bad… but usually not that bad.
I blame Trump myself
Calling Derp to Minnesoda.
We need you to stage an intervention for this guy.
Local pastor writes opinion piece where he admits that mass transit is a big money loser, but it has so many other benefits.
The ole but ‘museums are necessary to keep us civilized ergo we need more funding’ routine. Attaboy.
I had a prog tell me this once. If you don’t give to museums we’ll all lose our heritage and become ignorant or something.
It’s a matter or principle!!!!!
“Chris Read1 year ago
As Humphrey said earlier subsidies should be for what people don’t want but ought to have, what they do want they can pay for it themselves. I think there is a lot of merit to this point, culture and particularly art are valuable because they present ideas and feelings in different ways and can show beauty even in the most horrible situations. It encourages a deeper thinking about things, which is something the general public isn’t fond of and focuses on immediate gratification. They should continue to be subsidised. Humphrey just didn’t make a good point to the PM.”
YOU’RE GONNA PAY FOR IT WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. NICE EAT YOUR ALFALFA SPROUTS DOUSED IN MY CUM.
Spoken by someone who clearly has no experience with public transportation.
That was exactly my thought: if someone makes eye contact on public transport (thinking Bay Area BART) they are a) sizing you up to ask you for money; b) sizing you up to rob you; or c) gay cruising you (NTTAWWT)
expanding outside BART, I’d amend c) to say, ‘about to assume you want to fuck them’
Re BART, you forgot d) about to ask you sign their petition and e) wondering if you’re one of Them.
They must do mass transit differently in Minnesota. Eye-contact on SEPTA in Philly means someone is about to enact violence.
Never talk to anyone!!!
“Where else in the metro area do a businesswoman, a homeless man, a high school student and a recent immigrant share space, even for just 10 minutes”
Church? I thought this guy was supposed to be a pastor.
I looked to see which denomination and was hoping to snag a Unitarian Universalist–I drove by one of their churches the other week and it was festooned with “REFUGEES AND MUSLIMS WELCOME” and a number of other SJW banners–but it appears that he’s at Judson Memorial Baptist.
This pastor has a blog titled “The Pedaling Pastor” about giving up his car and riding a bike everywhere. His last article for Sojourners (progressive Christian magazine) was titled “Love Is the Primary Energy to Amend Climate Change”. He was one of the signatories of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis.
Looking at their church website, I see all of the tell-tale signs of a church that is primarily focused on the “social gospel”, with quite a bit of content on how progressive, welcoming, and affirming they are.
So definitely seems more in the SJW camp than the SBC camp.
“Love Is the Primary Energy to Amend Climate Change”
What ratio of love to diesel can I use to run my generator?
with quite a bit of content on how progressive, welcoming, and affirming they are.
With declining membership. You can just hear the “please join our church” softly howling out of that.
Sometimes being a tourist in NYC is a bad thing to be.
As long as it wasn’t an illegal immigrant.
In keeping with the badness:
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170505/dunning/sposato-villegas-teacher-appreciation-reception-bijes-grill-and-bar-dunning
Using campaign funds to buy stuff for constituents. I guess that’s legal? You can always say you’re hosting a campaign event I suppose.
Probably to make up for the fact that he left the ‘progressive caucus’ at city hall. Teacher union no like. Tax more. Take more.
“and I personally think they have one of the most underpaid jobs out there”
Maybe get a full time job then.
(investigates)
lol
the city is safer than its ever been in almost anyones lifetimes (since the 1950s, basically). That still doesn’t mean you get to stroll blithely around harlem @ 3am
i’m not condemning anything.
I just think “walking around harlem drunk and alone @ 3am” is to “tourism”-as-“swimming in shark infested waters at night with bloody open-wounds” is to “snorkeling”
Apparently they weren’t kidding when they said the SAT was increasingly racially biased.
He’s throwing a Dalmia at you.
Oh, I agree. Just reprising Shikha Dalmia’s greatest tweet.
i figured. wasn’t sure if there was also some implied ‘victim blaming’
Is “Frederick Douglass Boulevard” anything like MLK BLVD in every city in America?
Couldn’t tell you.
tho it intersects with MLK blvd (@125th street)
it really is absurd how ‘nice’ every square inch of NYC has gotten. you can’t even call it gentrification. Its just there’s nothing all that truly-seedy left on the island. Oh i bet the 140s are probably less shiny. but still.
For the record, I actually click through all the links. Because I’m polite and not a degenerate.
We get it, Rufus, you’re Canadian.
Oh look at me I am more Canadian than others
You live in Montreal, ‘not a degenerate’ is a bit of a stretch.
You both live east of the Manitoba/Ontario border, ‘not a degenerate’ is a lot of a stretch. 😉
Straight click? You mean you don’t right-click and gracefully open them in adjacent background tabs? What kind of knuckle dragging brute are you?
DO YOU EVEN WORK?!?!?
He’s a business owner. Everyone knows business owners don’t work they just profit off the labor of others.
FUCKEN RIGHT!
/clubs orphan for eating crumbs around my feet.
Not a degenerate? What the hell are you doing here then?
not a degenerate.
Citation needed.
Look who thinks he’s better than everyone. Well, some of us can barely read so clicking through links is ‘traumatizing’. You anti-illiterate bigot
Will anyone pay $500 for Lonzo Ball’s basketball shoe?
LiAngelo?
Maybe both, but $500 for one is just stupid.
Heh. I heard a rumor of editing powers, so somebody want to stick an “s” on that “shoe” above?
what’s a sshoe?
Apparently $250 a piece?
All I know I heard him on LeBarard earlier today and he had me in stitches. Man has balls and he ain’t no dummy.
LeBatard.
Why the hell would you listen to LeRetard? Do you really hate yourself that much?
Or $1000 for the signature version?
I feel sorry for the kid. His dad’s fucking insane and is costing him serious $$$ in the long run.
$220 for a pair of slides also. Seems crazy to me, but lots of people make lots of purchasing decisions that I cannot fathom, so who knows?
If his dad got hit by a bus today (and got pregnant because of it), it would be the greatest thing that ever happened to him.
The woman was walking along West 146th Street between Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard – nearby Jackie Robinson Park – at around 2:50 a.m.
Was she wearing an “I HATE NIGGERS” sandwich sign?
No. That was John McClane.
Judging by her location between two streets named after famous black people and adjacent to a park named after a famous black person, this entire experience was a forgone conclusion.
There is something wrong with the thumbs-down-frowny-face picture on the main page.
Yeah, I saw that immediately. The thumb is on the wrong side somehow.
… Hobbit
Spiked Online has an interesting article about Nietzsche and the Enlightenment.
I knew of the first two – especially the first which was treated almost as a given in university. But I thought relativism really fell at the feet of shitty French philosophers starting with existentialists right up to that turd Derrida.
Read the article and find out…
Fine. Already earmarked as part of my reading in the next couple of days.
I think I’ll read this one while eating Dobos cake.
Derrida and the existentialists saw Nietzsche as foundational to what they were doing.
SOME existentialists (i.e. the Frenchies). Kierkegaard was already dead by the time Nietzsche finished grade school.
Fair enough. French existentialists in particular.
It’s worth mentioning in passing that Sartre embraced socialism rather late in life despite being perfectly aware that existentialism had pulled the rug out from under socialism, philosophically speaking. He was clearly responding to social pressures from his peer group, and went nearly insane trying contort his logic around his politics.
Not to mention those of us who damn near went insane trying to read Sartre while he was trying to fit that square peg into that round hole. Needs moar hammerz!
That’s not his problem though.
Very true. I only mention it because I think of those three things, the third is the only one Nietzsche wouldn’t recoil at. He would be disgusted by contemporary academic culture and what has become of “post-modernism,” but I think he be a little proud to have had a hand in existentialism and deconstruction (the actual things, not the politically reconstructed versions).
Thanks for redirecting on Derrida. I already find the background on the link you provided intriguing.
I just realized my impression of him was mostly byway of middlemen who I trusted to provide details without my having to go in and delve into things more thoroughly; which is unlike me.
Oh well.
Just to control the “overselling” angle – it’s not like he comes out against Marxism – he tries like all get out to “save” it. But he does argue that Marxism has been distorted beyond all recognition by modern politics, and takes a firm stance against totalitarianism, arguing that the revolutionary, anti-authoritarian stance is the most important legacy of Marx.
While people have done horrible things with his thinking, I think it’s misguided to cast aspersion on the man himself. I actually got to meet him once – really full of himself, but a pretty affable and accessible guy as far as famous academics go.
Here’s the book on Marxism that got him black-balled from polite academic society – worth checking out.
Fair enough.
Will look at it.
Yes, it is unfair and should keep in mind what others do with one’s work.
Nietzsche’s one of those guys who 90% of people who have a strong negative opinion on him either haven’t read him or don’t understand what they’ve read.
Me it’s Hegel.
Very ‘what the fuck is this guy’ on?
Fuck Hegel. Anyone alive today who claims to have read The Phenomenology of Spirit all the way through is a goddamn liar.
Ugh, they make you read so much goddamn Hegel in university nowadays.
This I do not understand. I can only assume it’s because you need Hegel for Marx and there are certain quarters of Humanities and Social Science that just refuse to put Marx to bed.
Otherwise, I remember being in a critical theory class about 25 years ago with the professor talking about the need to “overcome Hegel” because it was just so hard (for her, apparently) to extract Hegel from the foundations of everything.
And I couldn’t help but think, “why? I found nothing in Hegel that was particularly persuasive or that had any significant explanatory power. From a late-20th-century vantage point you can see that it’s poppycock on the fact of it.” The only explanation I could come up with was that her worldview in particular required Hegel to not be full of shit, which was something I couldn’t quite sympathize with.
I misplaced an apostrophe looks like.
^ This x1000.
People hear the “there is glory in war,” but don’t hear the “but there is more glory in being able rise above war.” Nietzsche correctly identified that there is a difference between cowardice and pacifism, and that the one is base and the other is noble. But unsophisticated thinkers who rely on summaries just take away: “Nietzsche is pro-war.”
Same with the ubermensch concept, which has nothing whatsoever to do with race or biology.
I think Nietzsche and Derrida have done important groundwork in overcoming historical meta-narratives like Socialism and Progressivism. Unfortunately, they are not well understood, and both are far out of favor in contemporary academia.
This music video about the making of such Übermenschen got me thinking: to compliment the Paralympic Games, there should be an Uberlympic Games. Likewise with sports leagues, if there are special leagues for disabled people, there should be one for non-normies in the other direction. They just need to disclose whatever they’re doing. Maybe players or teams can be divided into augmentation classes. It’s sort of like the rare auto/bike racing events that have an unlimited class division.
You wanna take steroids or have bionic enhancements or you’re Superman? no problem, you just have to compete in the Unlimilimpics
Badfish?
Am I doing bad links correctly?
Badfinger?
I’ve noticed some patterns around here. Show of hands those who:
are engineers
are alcoholics
have the yellow fever
2 (possibly 3) out of 3 for me. No judgement.
Botched formatting
…do 2D girls count for the last one?
(you said no judgment!)
Sure … 2D, 3D, still life, moving pictures, inflatable … whatever you want to turn your crank.
I’m not an alcoholic. I’m a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings
Yeah, fuck those meetings!
Waste of drinkin’ time, if you ask me . . .
= “prefer asian porn”?
oh jfc, I married an asian. and I drink (though not as much as apparenty the rest o’ ya) , and my technical brain went to law not engineering, but close enough.
it’s true. Lawyers do technically have brains.
…we do? You sure about that?
technically correct is the best kind of correct. Y’all have a mass of grey matter in your skulls. It’s just that law school disconnects the logic and language centers.
I use to drink a couple drinks everyday until my doctor said my pancreas was going to explode, so 1 ish? My wife is latina which is kind of Asian, so maybe 2 ish? I’m not an engineer, but I’m in medical which is part of STEM, so hat trickish?
Gordie Howe hat trick.
Peru is Asia in my book. If your latin food has French fries, it’s Asian.
Finally took the BF to El Pollo Inka. He’d never been.
Wait… pancreas?
Did your doctor go to upstairs medial college?
Not sure if serious, but too much booze can lead to pancreatitis. And yes, we use McDonalds French fries when we make Lomo.
only the first applies to me, but yes, I’ve also noticed lots of STEM types around
1) Math degree which I never use.
2) It’s my first beer of the day.
3) Married to a hot, guilt free Jew.
So, a JAP?
Just the alcoholism.
I dropped out of engineering.
Hmmm…….well, I have never drove a train but I would like to.
That would be pretty fun, especially around here. The scenery!
Especially drunk while surfing Asian porn!!!!
Serious note: I met a dude who used to do the run from Grand Junction to Denver. He said the number of elk they ran over was mind boggling. I guess they stand on the tracks and stare at the single oncoming light until their bones are crushed. Kind of a bummer.
✋
Not an engineer, not an alcoholic (though I do like a good night of drinking). Am engaged to an asian woman, though. Okay, fine, half Japanese half Dutch. Close enough. One of three, then.
I was a senior biomedical engineer and scientist. Which would probably have gotten me in jail in Washington or whatever state you need a license in to call yourself “engineer”.
‘The Simpsons’ Episode Featuring Pokemon Go Won’t Air in Russia Amid Church Criticism
It would be fantastic if this site had a glossary or reference source of the local lore for newcomers. For example, woodchippers, STEVE SMITH, who is Tulpa, etc.
For example, the STEVE SMITH bits are funny, but I don’t know the origin. Maybe even funnier with context? Or, is the fact that it’s part of the local culture that’s not explicitly spelled out that makes it good?
And wouldn’t it be great if Mt Everest had a chairlift?
i’m kidding, don’t worry everything makes sense eventually, just don’t rush it.
Waiting is.
check out tom petty over here
Wouldn’t it? I’d for sure go then. Fuck climbing.
probably not. unless you happen to have some particular immunity to -50-90F wind-chill.
Nice try Tulpa. Pretending you don’t know the lingo won’t convince anyone you’re actually new.
Some say STEVE SMITH has always existed, raping throughout history and will continue to rape across the coming millennia.
You meant “across all time and space until the End Of The Universe.” Guy’s no piker.
Roman depiction of STEVE SMITH?
The STEVE SMITH scholars are still in debate about whether he has merely existed forever or has some kind of time travel powers.
And as usual you discount the small but growing minority of scholars who hold the Steve Smith/Dread Pirate Roberts theory.
Are We all STEVE SMITH?
or Poppy? I forgot
The STEVE SMITH thing is one of those inside jokes that’s funnier without context. When you actually hear it explained, it’s anticlimactic.
yes, it was better when I thought the commentariat held very negative views of the Raven’s WR Steve Smith SR and couldn’t understand why
Fair enough. Rapist samsquamtch with a penchant for hikers and campers who speaks in all caps is good enough for me.
I don’t know it gave me a good laugh when i finally looked it up.
You’re TULPA.
No. I’m Poppy.
“Wood chipper” is liability-dodging euphemism for “guillotine”.
STEVE SMITH NOT NEED EXPLANATION BUT NEED HAIRCUT!
Tulpa is everybody here, probably.
If you’re still around at this late hour, I will throw you a bone.
STEVE SMITH: http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/26/the-reason-cruise-and-the-stev
Woodchipper: http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/19/government-stifles-speech
From my years of lurking at the other site, all I got about Tulpa is he was some asshole commenter with a penchant for making sock puppets. I don’t remember all the details about him, though, because my brain kind of merged him with all the other trolls with a million socks. It’s been a running joke that every weird newbie is a Tulpa sock, but I’ve also seen a lot of people accused of being Mary and Hihn and various other trolls based on their posting M.O.s.
As a longtime lurker, I like being able to throw out words and phrases that prove I’ve been around for a number of years. If we go teaching the newbies all of the secret handshakes, how can we prove which are the tiled brethren, and which are not?
(Signed,
Poppy)
I blame Arab refugees
I blame yogis.
mystery ?
the thief wanted a goat.
It’s behind a paywall but an interesting article on the food crisis in Venezuela
Venezuela Is Starving
“The system is created so you can’t win,” said Alberto Cudemus, who heads the national association of pig farmers. “The government thinks its survival is in communism, not in us, not with production. And that’s where they’re wrong.”
also
Nine in 10 homes said they don’t make enough money to buy all their food, according to the poll of living conditions. Nearly a third of Venezuelans, 9.6 million people, eat two or fewer meals a day, up from 12.1% in 2015, the poll found; four of out five in the nation are now poor.
Cesar Augusto Palma, 75 years old, lays out the grim arithmetic of high inflation on a fixed income. His pension is now worth about $10 a month, he said, enough to buy four boxes of milk.
I think I SFed the link.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuela-is-starving-1493995317
If by paywall you mean bad link …
I blame Trump myself
Oooh!! They’re soooooo close to their ultimate goal of 5 out of 5!!!
sinve we most all here are anti socialism should we not start up some sort of fund to help feed the victims of socialism in Venezuela ?
I think it would be cool , the right thing to do, and would bring much warranted attention to this new site.
I would love to be the first donor.
What say you SP?
For a small amount of money we could bring negative attention to socialism and truly help feed some hungry people.
Anyone interested ?
Food aid to a third world country, writ large, is like dumping fertilizer into a farm pound. It induces population growth beyond the carrying capacity of the environment, driving the environment to ruin. Find a particular person or persons you want to feed and do it that way.
*pond
“The government thinks its survival is in communism, not in us, not with production. And that’s where they’re wrong.”
Well, they’re actually right, the government’s survival IS in communism. The people of Venezuela’s survival?….not so much.
More videogame bad.
I have to say, this is a very unique murder defense.
Pretty high on the “Ewwwwww, gross!” factor, too. “I choked my lover to death with my penis, and didn’t even notice until it was too late.” Yeah, suuuure, buddy. You wanna cookie?
Speaking of the Libertarian Capital of the Planet….
Navy SEAL Killed in Somalia
Obama actually ramped up activity in Somalia in the last 2 years; there’s a NYT story about it which got very little attention by the rest of the media during the election year….
The NYT story
i recall reading it last year. I don’t recall them ever really trying to explain why Somalia was a US strategic interest beyond simply “wasting Al-Q affiliates”. The term “fixing” the country is used below. Why anyone would suggest the US needs to “Fix” places like Somalia is also left unstated.
Its a strange subject. The story headline points out that these are effectively “Secret wars”. But never is it explained why we need to downplay it, particularly since we do similar things in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. Why Somalia gets the ‘secret’ treatment is weird.
Always that thought myself and always forget to ask people around here about it. There must be something we’re missing?
Other people have asked the question
If no one in the “bigger media” ever pushes too hard its because they know the answer, and its not something that helps their narratives.
the answer that jumps to mind is because it threatens major oil-shipping routes, and people were fed up with the pirate activity. But why downplay that? It wouldn’t need to be secret if those were our limited goals. It could also be that we’re very interested in the horn for other longer-term strategic reasons, and want to ensure we have some hand there.
Interesting spin there. It was fully the Clinton administration that ordered the increase of (SF) forces that were involved in the whole Black Hawk Down episode.
I don’t think it has anything to do with piracy. Obama’s increase in forces had to do with his love of being able to tell more SF guys to go kill people. I think he got off on that.
Piracy could be stopped overnight if they wanted to. Nobody is getting on a container ship if the right people are on board. That happens with some shipping companies, but it is expensive. They should shoot them. Kill enough pirates and that shit stops.
They’re unaware that water cannons barely deter hippie protesters, let alone pirates.
The assualt occurred as “The woman was walking along West 146th Street between Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard – nearby Jackie Robinson Park”
The woman is German, so she was probably unfamiliar with the work of Chris Rock.
Why can’t u give us a little summary of each link like Mr Suave does??? You’d be my hero if you did
Have you started juicing?
Half assed. I haven’t gone the self hating way. Whole fat yogurt with a bunch of fruit was good. Protein powder seems to have helped the last couple days but it could be placebo affect
You might be just as happy with yogurt and granola or cut up fresh fruit and yogurt. There’s nothing inherently healthy about smoothies unless you’re worried about the health of Jamba Juice’s profits.
I’m planning to integrate veggies into it. Work up to the “healthy but smells and look like the contents of a dirty diaper”. Any suggestions
Kale?
I dunno. At that point I’d rather cut up some tomatoes, red onions and cucumber, season it lightly and put a big scoop of labneh on it, or drown it all in kefir. I usually go for smoothies as a way to work more fiber into my diet (hence the self-hating fiber mix-ins options) than as a way to work more fruit and veg in.
FWIW, I do sorta agree here. I end up hovering the links to try to determine what the story is actually about.
There are differences of opinion between various link curators as to the optimal amount of explanation that should be provided for the links. I think the strategy here is you’d actually have to click through to see why they fit in the theme, and then theoretically be better able to comment on them down here.
OR BULLET POINTS
(glares accusingly in no direction in particular)
Your work is appreciated. But it’d be that much more appreciated with clearer link explanations. But that’s just my critique, not that it was asked for
Because you are so busy you can’t read a news story? Some I read through some I don’t. I am not seeing it as a big hassle. But then again I quite working a few hours ago.
Yes, I’m that busy. I don’t even have time to wipe.
Just wanted to drop a quick thanks in here to the folks who all worked tirelessly to find the word I couldn’t find earlier: Hammercorps, Gilmore, Commodious Spittoon, AlexinCT, Tundra, Pan Zagloba, and CZmacure. I didn’t get a chance today to go back in and play in those comments, but your efforts did not go unnoticed
Tits or GTFO
What was the word???? Tell me you found it?
Was it, “bird”?
No Grease
Oh for the sake of all the good that is left in this world, do NOT thank these shitlords! They’re shitlords!