ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ HAS HAD A SLIGHT CHANGE OF PLANS. AFTER ZARDOZ EXPLAINED TO BRUTAL CO-WORKERS THAT DRAG RACING SEEMED TOO TOUGH, THEY SUGGESTED THE FIGURE 8 RACE. THIS ZARDOZ APPROVES OF.
ZARDOZ’S GRAVITONIC DRIVE WILL ALLOW ZARDOZ TO CLEANSE THE OPPOSITION! BEFORE ZARDOZ TAKES A FEW HOVERS AROUND THE TRACK, HE GRANTS LINKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES.
- THE GUN IS GOOD, THE PENIS IS EVIL AND WINE IS…A BRUTAL PRESERVATIVE?
- LOOK UPON THE BRUTAL NATION OF VENEZUELA AND DESPAIR.
- ZARDOZ IS UNAWARE IF THIS BRUTAL ASKED OTHER BRUTALS TO HOLD HIS FERMENTED GRAIN BEVERAGE.
- CHIEF BRUTAL OF LARGE CITY SHOWS LACK OF SKILLS IN OPTICS.
ZARDOZ MUST CONTEMPLATE HOW TO GET TATTOOS OF “BABY” AND “HEY”, SINCE ZARDOZ HAS NO ARMS.
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And at age 43, the actor shows no signs of slowing down
That’s a pretty un-libertarian use of the noun “actor”
That story sounded like a metaphor about CNN.
*chokes on bourbon, laughing*
Is 43 an age when people typically start to slow down?
I seem to remember having a lot of giddyup at 43. Our work certainly didn’t offer shorter hours for 43 and over, either.
I dunno but I can vouch for 48. Fuck.
No kidding. Same age. I went to bed at 8:30 the other day.
Haha I still stay up late (I am not a morning person*) but one thing I’ve noticed lately is that as soon as I get home from a day of work I feel like a cripple or something. Unless I’m moving around a lot I just lock up.
*Except another fun change is that I cannot sleep for more than six hours. Period.
Exactly what I was thinking this morning. Somehow it’s possible to still be tired and sleepy but not able to sleep past 8 am.
Yeah, I feel the same way after a night of “rest”. I can barely crawl out of bed but more sleep is out of the question.
4 am every morning. I just pop awake, no going back to sleep.
I remember my grandfather at 80 sitting in the bank parking lot at 6 am cussing them for opening so late.
“Well grand daddy, why do you have to get up so early”
“Just wait, you’ll see.”
Now I see.
Oh God I hate mornings. Not looking forward to that at all.
I work 6-2:30, so I’m used to getting up early.
Unless I’m sick, I’m up by 6. The dog makes sure of it.
You’re not fooling anyone, Ted. None of us work.
Yeah, I feel the same way after a night of “rest”. I can barely crawl out of bed but more sleep is out of the question.
Rhyswun, despirte your articulation I can’t help but argue for you…
Damn…and I thought I had something wrong with me….since 50, I cannot go more than 7.5 when utterly exhausted, to 6 on a normal night.
Old Man Swiss Servator has got our problem at 50…but no matter, these units will serve us as any lads did.
“I dunno but I can vouch for 48. ”
I hate your truth. Of course, I’m also a drunk…
*toasts BP with 4th bourbon*
43. *sigh*
When I was 40 I could see down in the pores in my skin. I could see individual smoke particles hanging in the air if the air was still and the light was just right. I could work like hell in the woods all day long in Louisiana summer heat. I could run like a deer. Then I turned 43.
Yeah C. , thats about the peak. Even if you hardly notice you start going downhill from there.
*wipes off reading glasses, rubs sore knee*
You might be right. That was 5 years ago for me and I’ve noticed a dramatic drop in that time. I would say I peaked at 43 or anything but the various little things going “wrong” are definitely piling up.
would NOT say
How old are you in that picture?
Me? 48
I didn’t slow down at 43. Actually I loved 43. I was fit had a great job and head down forward we go. Add 8 years and a different job, different story. I fell from a height that I would have rolled out of and chuckled at when I was 43, but that roll out at 51 ended up breaking a bunch of ribs. Getting old sucks ass. It is mind set regardless of the old frame. I am working on that.
Similar for me. At 43 things were amazing, and newly-met people would guess I was in my early 30s. Even on my 50th birthday I climbed the highest peak in Queenstown, New Zealand. But suddenly at 51, bone marrow cancer hit, and a resulting crushed spine that left me five inches shorter and in constant pain. And now five years later at 56, finally realizing I’m not going to get better ever again, not even well enough to do a simple trail hike.
But you know what? Life is good. There’s a lot to make one happy out there, and life is always finding new ways to make things fun and interesting. Like how I’m sitting by my pool right now on a hot California evening, posting on Glibs on my phone, while my still-hot wife cooks us up steaks on the grill. With that, I can live without some stuff that seemed more important 10 years ago.
I am so sorry that happened to you, but you are right, there is always something to make life worth living.
Dayum….cheers to you. Good attitude you have, sir!
You fucking rock man. Enjoy the hell out of it all.
Nevertheless you prevailed.
I hope I come to terms with age as well as you seem to, that is if I get the chance.
while my still-hot wife cooks us up steaks on the grill.
What’s she wearing? Pics? Is she Thicc?
Kidding. I am sorry to hear that C. Enjoy the pool and steaks!
Well, at 60 I feel in better shape than 43, because I really got serious about regular exercise a about 3 years ago. OTOH, if I skip my stretching and flexibility exercise just one day, I notice
Watched a really good documentary about very old people who were living active lives and they all had deliberately maintained their flexibility.
Damn. I just hit 40, and I’ve already felt myself slowing down and getting random aches and pains. There’s a reason I took up a healthy habit (cycling), and have been working on dropping weight (20 pounds down in 2 months).
I too am 40, and the odd random pains have indeed been most distressing.
I gotta stop reading SF’s stories. Misread that first link. That 100 year old lady was from Bangor, Maine not Bangher Mane. Ugh. Top of the morning.
I bet you can look at an innocent photo like this and think it’s dirty.
Or this.
Newfoundland says ‘hold my beer.’
Y’all keep using the ‘hold my beer’ thing. I thought the proper opening was “Hey y’all, watch this!”
Maybe add ‘here, hold my beer’ onto that.
Halte mein bier. http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/graphics/austria2.jpg
Used to work with a woman whose last name was Schnell. Unfortunately, we never got to the town name (despite both wanting to) b/c she was religious and I’m not. So I was quite “bitte_”. Not GG’s fault, but I’ll blame him anyhow.
How long have they’ve been at it?
Or this
Could you show me where the campus is?
Umm, I don’t even know what the hell is going on around here.
Join the club, mate.
Have a drink! It’ll start to make sense.
Yeah, I’m on my 5th, EG, cheers!
Wait, wot? I thought we were starting around 10 AM. **stumbles around** FUCKERS! Nobody fuckin’ tells me anything… douchebags… Goddamn never hear nothin’…
The captions for the Venezuela link are still praising Chavez for helping the poor. Responsibility never calls.
Chavez gets the Trotsky treatment where everyone gets to pretend he was the ‘good one’ who would have made everything work.
Taken from us too soon.
Yup, he lifted several dozen people out of poverty. And all it took was complete destruction of his country’s economy. 15 percent of the population now survives on eating garbage. A small price to pay for a much more equal country!
I wish this site had upvotes so I could upvote your comment.
It does have em. Check this out:
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+1
*polite applause*
Salon agrees!
“No, Chavez became the bugaboo of American politics because his full-throated advocacy of socialism and redistributionism at once represented a fundamental critique of neoliberal economics, and also delivered some indisputably positive results. Indeed, as shown by some of the most significant indicators, Chavez racked up an economic record that a legacy-obsessed American president could only dream of achieving.”
Fuck that asswipe with a rusty hammer and sickle. That crap ass article was written in 2013, when it was clearly evident to even numbskull leftists that there was some serious shit hitting the fan. He should go spend a few months in his socialist friggin paradise.
Do you even INDISPUTABLY POSITIVE RESULTS, bro?
Hey, when you nationalize a bunch of foreign owned oil industry stuff and then use the profits to buy crap for “the poor”, things probably are gonna start looking up.
But then when all the crap you stole starts breaking down and nobody will lend you any money and the price of oil goes into the toilet… suddenly you can’t buy any more crap.
So for a few years they had a bunch of positive results to point to.
Lots and lots of negative results that nobody wanted to talk about as well. Like a buddy of mine…. his family owned a hotel/night club and a couple of properties there. All nationalized. So they didn’t have so much in the way of positive. And the properties all got run into the ground, so nobody gets to enjoy the club anymore either. Not like it was anyway.
So his brother tried to make a go of it in the new reality and worked out a semi-crony deal to build housing for the poor. It was going to net him a pretty sweet chunk of cash….. fast forward to the start of construction with a couple of neighborhoods roughed in and the prefab housing under construction….. and they decided they weren’t going to pay for any of it after all. He was just going to give them the land and everything for free. Ooops. Lost a few hundred grand, the banks lost a few million, the suppliers lost a few million. But hey, indisputably positive, right?
So they aren’t the biggest fans of the government, as you might imagine. Anyway, the last of his family left about 3 or four years into Chavez. So you can safely ignore them, since they are capitalist tools who only exploit people.
“Member when Salon used to be an off-beat place to meet with writers? Just before that little black feller won the Presidency? Ah, yes, I “member it well…” Seriously folks, Open Salon used to be great. I had a conversation with Jim Beaver (Deadwood) that lasted for hours. They fell off a cliff in 2008 and are now just a tangled , mewling mess at this point. Sad.
Yeah, I see the standard ‘low oil prices’ excuse in there. I get angry but then I remember that that misery is 100% self inflicted. The stupid fuckers (pinkos) will never learn. You want to keep sticking your dick into a hornet’s nest? Be my guest.
Somehow Norway hasn’t turned into Zimbabwe on the North Sea despite “low oil prices”…
Declining birthrate and ridiculously attractive people. Ask me how I know.
And why has there been so many articles lately about Iowa? I mean, I admit that Iowa is sort of… unique and cool, until it comes a fucking storm that scares the fucking shit out of you.
Don’t forget about the corn. They have the corn.
All of the midwest has corn, dude. I mean there is only so much corn you can see. My best observations about Iowa is that it has maybe the nicest and sort of oddball people on the planet. While at the same time, it has storms that will make you believe that you are in the giant red spot on Jupiter. It’s like nothing you can experience anywhere else.
One of the few states I have no visited.
There’s something very unique about it. Highly suggest you visit and talk to people.
This is what they created.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qqK1FrO3BdM
Yep.
Never personally been there, but they have that first election thing and a shit-ton of government money, so fuck ’em.
If I recall correctly, Children of the Corn was filmed in Illinois because Iowa wasn’t flat enough for the director.
Kinnath: Some of it was filmed in Iowa. My great-grandma and great-aunt’s houses (both in Iowa) were used for the house exterior/interior scenes. It freaks my mom out a lot. I’ve never seen the whole movie—I walked in the room one time and my parents were watching it and having a discussion about the furniture, some of which my parents now own. I was too busy going, “Whoa, there’s the antique desk on the TV,” to pay attention to what was actually happening in the movie.
Uhhhh…you should spend some time on the gulf coast. Late summer through October. Experience a hurricane. It isnt like the red spot on Jupiter. It is the red spot on Jupiter. Those tornadoes you get on the plains? There will be dozens of them at once all while the wind around them is over 100 mph and 10-20 feet of the gulf is going like rapids in the colorado river. The destructive force is hard to process mentally even as you are looking at it.
“World’s shittiest camping trip,” were my thoughts after Ike. I’m told that I need to have the coffee pre-ground before the damned thing comes ashore and screws up power for a week. Given I was chewing beans after the second day, I can see what she meant.
I’m going to have to challenge you on that, Suthen. I’ve lived and experienced storms all over the country. Until you’ve experienced the sudden violence of an Iowa thunderstorm, you have yet to see a storm.
There is no point in back and forth here. Ya’ just have to experience it. I’ll go up there, you come down here. Then we will talk.
I was in a couple of hurricanes…and three tornadoes. Same shit, different scare and duration. Both suck ass and I hope to never be in again.
This. ^ Obviously a hurricane has more power. But the thing that I always point to is that you know a hurricane is coming your way days ahead of time. With a tornado, you can literally be having a pleasant picnic outside on beautiful summer day and 10 minutes later your house is gone.
Oklahoma says “hold my (3.2%) beer and watch this!”
There’s a reason the NSSL was built in OK*
*Probably something to do with pork-barrel politics
How else are we going to get cornholio fuel? Trump is a giant idiot there. He is a cornholioistasian. Pure stupidity. And that is coming from someone who is often economically challenged.
And meth, lots of meth, if my client in Waterloo was right. Supposed to have fantastic beef everywhere too, per some friends who graduated from Ames, and sniffed loudly when I tried to talk up Texas beef.
It is the ancient corn fed vs grass fed debate (I am partial to corn fed).
Zardoz is there for work. I don’t know why the others have been there. Locations scouting for Libertopia perhaps? Maybe we can time share with the state fair.
Zardoz appears to have needed to chill someplace after rehabbing, relapsing, and then spending time in the woods with STEVE SMITH *shudder*… Iowas suited his grain hauling experience, apparently.
I have a relative in Sioux City. Interesting town(s) they boat up and down the Missouri. I was a little nervous about it because here in Kansas City the Missouri river is where they find all the dead hookers.
I spent a couple of winters in northern Iowa. OMFG that’s cold. So cold that you can’t lock your car doors because you won’t be able to unlock them. So cold that you have to put cardboard between your grill and radiator or the heater will just blow cold air. Almost every morning I would have to take the spark plugs inside and heat them over the stove. And it never warms up enough to melt the top layer of snow, so it blows and drifts and you have to shovel the walk even if it didn’t snow the night before.
Do not visit Iowa in the winter.
I grew up in Iowa and most of my family is still there but bs like that in the winter is one thing I do not miss.
I was born in Iowa City – Mom is from Holstein, Dad ended up in Sheldon….and somehow I ended up in Illinois…
How is the waterfall insurance business in those markets?
it doesn’t bring in much but it keeps the Corn on the table and pays for enough ammo to keep the tweakers at bay.
Didn’t you have a block heater? Random trivia: Grand Forks, ND is where they (used to test?) car batteries because of the consistent and sustained cold. I grew up north of there.
Really, where at? I live in the Grafton area.
And yes, Iowa doesn’t have shit on North Dakota when it comes to cold. Of course even ND doesn’t have shit on some of our Canadian friends.
My father-in-law takes his boys ice fishing up in North Dakota every year. They keep trying to get me to join them. They don’t understand why I don’t get all excited at the prospect of spending two weeks in an oversized porta-potty , shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of unbathed grown men who are doing nothing but drinking beer from the moment the wake up until they pass out that night. All of this in weather that features wind chills below -50 degrees. So you can’t even go off into the bushes to take a proper dump.
I will say this, they do know how to provision. They don’t bring a whole lot more than beef jerky, brats and beer. But it is a whole lot of beer. Like, enough to supply a modest pub in Nashville for a week. Or a tiny pub in Sioux Falls for an afternoon. (you great-white-north folks drink a hell of a lot)
Long ago, two friends and I were driving across southern Iowa en route to Lincoln, Nebraska to see Superjoint Ritual when we needed to stop for gas. So we took an exit off the highway into a little town with a sign that read population 500(something). Except, we didn’t see a soul, much less a gas station(I know, check the exit sign to see if there’s a station. We were 23 and high.)
And I mean not a damn soul. No cars driving around, no shops with lights on, no people one the sidewalks or in their front yards, nothing. It was like the whole place was shuttered. This was at around 3-4ish in the afternoon.
You can obviously guess where our minds went from there. Wrong state, but still. I’ve spent many a day in rual settings but that place genuinely creeped me the fuck out.
They used their corn sense and left the streets to avoid you degenerates. Don’t underestimate the power of the corn.
Meanwhile, in Civil War burial news
“Dennis Clark of Davidsonville, Maryland said when people speak of a grandfather serving in World War I or II, they think he is joking when he says his grandfather served in the Civil War. He said his Grandfather Clark was older than his grandmother’s father when he married the 18-year-old widow with a young child.
““My grandmother married a man who was older than her own father,” Dennis Clark said. “He was 67 when my dad was born, and 77 when his youngest son, Francis, Gene Clark’s father, was born. I am 72, and Gene is 62, and Gene’s youngest brother is 52, so Sam Clark’s youngest grandchild is 52 years old, and Sam Clark was born in 1845.”
“Present at the rededication ceremony [in Riverview, MI], performed by the Sgt. John S. Cosbey Camp 427 Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War and a Veterans of Foreign Wars Honor Guard from Wyandotte [MI], were Clark’s grandsons Gene S. Clark of Oklahoma City, Dennis Clark of Davidsonville, Maryland, Michigan native James Clark, and granddaughters Barbara Peffer and Mary Daddario of Trenton.”
When I was a kid in the 1960s, World War I vets actually marched in the 4th of July parades, and there were even Spanish-American War vets on floats. But today this is remarkable.
Gene Clark is dead. Unless he is live. Here he is live in 1975 playing “No Other”. https://youtu.be/gJFsuXs8s6k
Several years ago there were still about 35 true sons and daughters of Civil War veterans alive.
John Tyler, whose presidency was in the 1840s, has two living grandsons. They’re in their 90s now, but still – their grandfather was born in the 18th century.
It was not unusual for young women to marry elderly vets for their pensions.
Hey chin-up, it only took 108 years for the Feds to give up the federal phone tax to support Civil War veterans,
I am officially on vacation this whole week.
Woohoo!
DRINK!
Congrats. I go on vacation starting on Tuesday. So I’ll be spending my time in pubs in Dublin instead of paying attention to this site or the news. I hope you all survive my absence.
You are going to Ireland? Don’t spend all your time in Dublin, you need to head out to the country!
I am. The girlfriend and I are planning on a couple of day trips out to some other cities (at present we’re looking at Cork and Galway). The most entertaining part is we have a couple of acquaintances that are coming into Dublin during our time there. It was completely unplanned and uncoordinated, but it should result in a good time.
I’ve been spending the past week trying to introduce the girlfriend to Irish whiskey so she doesn’t start a fight in a pub by accident. So far her favorite is Green Spot, and her least favorite was the Jameson Gold. Still on the tasting list are Jameson 1812 and Midleton’s Very Rare.
Nice! I’m going back there at the end of July to visit the fam in Kerry and spend a week in England for a wedding of the wife’s niece. It’s been nine years for me. Have you been to Ireland before? Have you advised them to bottle enough whisky for your visit! Slainte!
It’s my first time there, and I’m looking forward to it. There have been “discussions” with the girlfriend about how we should spend our time there. She wants to sign up for a bunch of guided tours. My preference is to go to a pub, find the oldest guy there and buy him a pint. Then talk to him, and see what he suggests to do next. I figure that will teach me more about the local culture and customs then any tour can.
The entertaining part is listening to the girlfriend try to complain about my plan to my friends. All of them, to a person, have looked at her and responded with, “That sounds like an awesome day.”
If you start off by buying old guys in the pub a pint then you will be subjected to a whole bunch of very good tales. They might make it difficult to leave. You are in for some fun. Find a good country town and pub and spend a couple nights. If you enjoy traditional Irish music try and catch a seisun in one. Skip the tours, spend at least a few nights in small towns or villages. The west of Ireland is absolutely stunning, hit Galway or Kerry.
KSuellingon, that’s the plan.
Our hotel reservation is in Dublin, so we’ll be returning there nightly.
I love traditional Irish music, and know enough of it to sing along with most of the traditional songs. By coincidence, the Dropkick Murphy’s are playing while we’ll be there, so we’ve got tickets to that show. I’m also enough of a beer geek that I plan on hitting some of the new breweries that have opened in Dublin in the past year to see how their doing.
I hate guided tours. I’d rather just poke around on my own.
Both those towns were fantastic. We had the best time just driving around Ireland and staying a BnB’s wherever the mood struck. The people were great.
Gallway was the site of my famous run-in over Guinness. About 5 rounds of Guinness, and I was feeling a little stuffed. So I asked the barkeep if they had anything lighter, like a lager or a bock. He looked at me like I had two heads, and the guys we were drinking with asked “The fuck’s wrong with you!?!”
“I’m just getting a little full… ”
“Fuck you, ya pansy. Yer havin’ a Guinness. (to the barkeep) “Bring him a Guinness!!”
So I had a Guinness. They love their Guinness. They also insisted that my 6 months pregnant wife have a Guinness. “It’s good fer the baby!”
Really great folks. Super friendly.
I will add this observation: They eat at meal time. Like seriously. You can’t get food just any old time outside of Dublin. Every little town has a pub or two…. and a grocer and butcher…. and not much else. So we thought we’d just pop in to the pub for a bite. Uh, no. They only have food at noon and dinner time. So if you show up at 3… tough. So you gotta plan ahead for meal times, which I wasn’t used to.
Also, the secondary roads are really great. Very scenic and quaint. And really not meant for driving on. 40 mph is breakneck speed in many areas of the countryside.
Me too. I couldn’t be happier. Except we are going to northern Wisconsin which doesn’t seem to interesting. “Wow, a lighthouse”.
I am headed there myself. I’ll be found drinking in Lake Nebagamon. And drinking in Superior. And drinking in Duluth. And drinking on the Brule. And drinking while camping over near Drummond.
Hey, when in Rome….
My wife likes listening to Gavin.
Should I be concerned?
….maybe.
Why? I find him harmless but not informative. When she starts listening to Cenk, you should worry.
I don’t know which one to shoot!
I know there was one infamous major Cenk meltdown but have there been that many that it led to such a parody? And that girl may be an idiot but would…unless she’s considered nuts.
Are you talking about Anna? I’d rather go down on Caitlyn.
I think you’ve had one too many fugu. FUGU! /Homer scream
Ana “I’m better than you!” Kasparian? She’s got teeth down there man.
And? Your point?
Fine, get your dick bitten off by a prog vagina monster and your wife leaves you for McInnes mustache rides, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Rotten to the core.
Yeah, I’m with you. I know she’s on the wrong side of the hot/crazy line, but I don’t care.
Her and Sarsour both.
Yeah, me too on Sarsour. But only with a gag.
I’d hit Sarsour. With a Louisville Slugger.
I’m Sorry
LouieLindaDoes she like listening to him? Or looking at him?
…not….sure….
/narrows gaze worryingly.
How’s your beard game? I have been told by my GF that I am not to ever shave mine. Which is annoying; I had no idea how often the damned thing gets into things like soup, beverages, etc…
It has game but no way I’m doing it.
Not until she tries to make you join the Proud Boys.
Is she hot?
re: the Steve-O setting himself on fire thing….
something i don’t know if people recall… but one of my favorite details about the early form of “Trump Resistance”? was when the “artists collective” which put up the naked statues of Trump in like 2 or 3 cities….
..turned out to be the people who originally created the “Bumfights” series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecline
the wiki post from last year was more detailed. they’ve basically edited out their entire history 2002-2012, and just sort of skip straight from being ‘shitty kids’ to being ‘principled anarchists’. In fact, in the interim they were mostly trying to flog their Bumfights brand into something as lucrative as the Jackass-Series.
or… how the guy – Ryan McPherson – was arrested for trying to ship a dead baby back from Thailand
(sigh) that was a pretty long-winded Gilmore-ing.
Not meant as reply.
and here’s the dead-baby link
http://www.tmz.com/2014/11/17/bumfights-creators-infant-body-parts-arrested-thailand/
Yeah… a “prank”.
Sick fucks.
listen man, he’s really deep and has a passion for activism
http://thegrapevine.theroot.com/indecline-founder-speaks-out-about-viral-black-lives-m-1790888187
he’s not just jumping on a political bandwagon to try and make a quick buck. i mean, come on man. don’t be cynical.
I’m not a big fan of guilt by association, but if the right moment presents itself, I’ll pull the trigger in this particular case.
“They fled to Cambodia.”
Where shipping dead baby parts is not a crime.
Re-posting….I think this is YUUUuge progress to keep us out of a ever growing war
*a=an* (fucking grammar)
Hey! Don’t talk about gram-gram that way!
*deletes gram-gram joke* and it was good!
Trigger warning: Reading this article made H. P. Lovecraft pass out
Happy assassin-hanging day! (Well, 3 out of 4 were definitely assassins, the fourth may have been as well)
So…got your own links column going, eh?
It’s my weekend deep-dish/Civil War/religion links routine, I hope that isn’t a problem? I’ve been doing it long enough. Not that there haven’t been complaints.
Plus I can type with the ALL CAPS off. Not that I should criticize a guy who can type without arms.
Eddie my boy, I propose a challenge. Next weekend do a clam chowder/War of 1812/agnosticism links routine.
If I remember, sure.
Wait, did you just call me “boy”?
I said “my boy”. Much like Bing Crosby would address Bob Hope.
Sir, I knew Bing Crosby, we shared a drug dealer,* and you, sir, are no Bing Crosby.
*No, not really
Did he beat the shit out of his children like Bing did?
Wait until he posts like 30 of them in a row.
CHIEF BRUTAL OF LARGE CITY SHOWS LACK OF SKILLS IN OPTICS.
Maybe those are the optics he desired? Douche extraordinaire to some, but super hero to others.
I suspect that his numbers are going to hit a combo of Hillary Clinton’s Honesty/Donald Trump’s Stability/Congresses’ Esteem.
I think he’s not terribly liked but since the GOP doesn’t have a white knight like Giuliani* or Bloomberg* to save us, he will be re-elected in a landlside (if 17% or so of voting age population counts as a “landslide”).
*Yeah, I know. But please consider the alternatives.
I think you under estimate the people who live there. (disregarding the glib commenters hailing from said city)
The problem as always is that the “silent majority” doesn’t vote. We are not 8.5 million progs, believe me on that. When 80% of us can’t be bothered to vote something is broken. I don’t have any answers but the truth is this place is run by a corrupt fucking machine that is impossible to break. And the Stupid Party and its sister party aren’t helping.
The whole who should marry who issue is the one that is the easiest for any small government “conservative/libertarian” to ever answer. I have never understood the issue the way the conservatives explain it. Where in the wide world of sports should the government, local, state, federal ever be getting involved? It should be a non issue, and it never should have been an issue. That is the answer to give.. Mind your own damn business is the follow up.
The ones who don’t say that don’t want a small government. They can fuck the right off.
Every time I see stories about Venezuela I can feel my face getting hot and the hair on the back of my neck standing up.
Whatever happened to that lady from the old site, “rana,” I think it was? Wasn’t she Venezuelan and living there? Or had she moved to the States?
She was a useful counterpoint of “I’ve actually lived this; fuck off.” for every idiot who thought Chavez was peachy.
That was Tulpa.
One of his better socks.
My Tulpa
https://youtu.be/rORXqCoPAn8
Holy fuck, dude. Incredible use of otherwise worthless knowledge. (Also +1 , since the dude later joined the Buzzcocks, who I like)
comment was meant for the Magazine vid…
Atheists are less open-minded than religious people, study claims
“…Religious people are more tolerant of different viewpoints than atheists, according to researchers at a Catholic university.
“A study of 788 people in the UK, France and Spain concluded that atheists and agnostics think of themselves as more open-minded than those with faith, but are are actually less tolerant to differing opinions and ideas.
“Religious believers “seem to better perceive and integrate diverging perspectives”, according to psychology researchers at the private Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium’s largest French-speaking university….
“[Study coauthor Filip Uzarevic] inspected three aspects of mental rigidity in 445 atheists and agnostics, 255 Christians, and a group of 37 Bhuddists, Muslims, and Jews.
“The study claims that non-believers measured lower than religious people in “self-reported dogmatism”, but were higher in “subtly-measured intolerance””
Guess I’m in the minority. I’m in the atheists who don’t give a shit what you believe in group. All three of us meet for coffee on Sundays.
To be fair, it’s Europe.
The paper “states that ‘irreligion has become normative’ in some Western countries.”
Which doesn’t really describe the USA.
When do you meet up? I’m in the group of people that doesn’t feel the need to tell everyone about everything I don’t believe in.
You could include me in that group too. I rarely bring up my beliefs or lack of.
Dittoes
“Hi, I’m an atheist vegan!”
Fuck, I’d run.
Add:
“Who does Crossfit.”
Same here and I love coffee.
Where’s the fun in that? It’s your duty to give your opinion to everyone you can
Wife had Avengers on. She just said someone needs to make a Trump/CNN gif out of the end scene where the Hulk slams Loki onto the floor repeatedly like a rag doll.
Funny shit.
I’ve seen that one actually. How about this one? I’ve made a few, but everytime I do I find out someone has already done it.
I like it. We need a Thai bar girl shooting snatch pong darts at a CNN balloon. I bet that one hasn’t been made.
“Ze Goggles! They do Nothing!”
The best Trump CNN meme is a scene from the Patriot, where a cannonball takes off a soldiers head. Someone put Trump’s face on the cannonball and the CNN logo on the soldiers face.
Hah. I wonder if the CNN’rs even know the level of despise in the real world they have against them. I am not a memer but fuck them. they deserve all the scorn that can be thrown.
It made my day earlier seeing the father of the guy they threatened to dox knock the fuck out of the CNN reporter. Better still when he complained “you punched me in the face!” the old guy said “Yeah, and I am going to do it again if you dont get the fuck out of here.”
I smiled so long my face hurt.
Wat?? I missed that.
Is there a link to that story?
That was a repurposed fake. Discussed earlier today.
Pomp, I saw your comment this morning about npr. I still dabble on the evil npr. I leave morning linx about 8 am gods time. (mst) this was the story She is a lawyer, and she said…….
That is when I yelled, “WHUT?” just outside of GJ.
You yelled “WHUT?” just outside of Gary Johnson?
Grand Junction, the real cradle of civilization
Grand Junction Ted. I yelled WHUT? at Gary Johnson many times but not two days ago.
Oh I knew; I was just teasing.
You want to be inside Gary Johnson so you can get that sweet sweet gay wedding cake.
No.
Uh, no. Tyrone is kind of funny, but no. That is not it. I am disappointed.
You’ve seen the one with the South Vietnamese National Police Chief executing the VC terrorist, right? http://i.imgur.com/QTwkG2P.gif
Daaaaang.
One of my most vivid childhood traumas has now been made into a CNN meme. Fuck everyone involved.
In case you didn’t know, the handcuffed guy was part of a group that targeted the family of South Vietnamese party and military officials. The same group had just killed the shooter’s best friend’s wife and son. (The shooter’s godson.) And the guy got the news about 5 minutes before the video was taken. It wasn’t some routine coldblooded murder authorized by the Vietnamese government, it was a really pissed off guy venting the first appropriate shitstain he came across.
That doesn’t make it an appropriate response, but I doubt most people would be capable of rational thought in a similar situation.
You need to marry that girl.
I am so fucking pissed off right now, I maybe need some advice from my fellow glibs. So wifey and I own 2 homes but don’t live right now in either of them. Instead we are renting near my current clients. Anyway, our flat is on the top (3rd floor) of the building and we have a pretty large (30×10) patio. This is a fairly upscale gated community and we’ve been here for nearly 4 years and all has been cool. We’re into gardening and we have a fairly extensive veggie garden on our patio.
So a couple of weeks ago, they told us they’re going to do some work, and they would let us know more. We didn’t hear anything after that. Then I came home from work one day and my wife told me that they had locked us out of going outside because they’re doing work. So all of my plants are out there and I can’t go outside. So I went downstairs, outside, and saw that they had cut the supports from under the deck structure and poured new concrete downstairs. WTF? So all of my stuff, lots of plants, tables, chairs, grill, are outside and I can’t go out there.
So my wife went down to talk to them today while I was visiting clients, and they are totally unapologetic. They told her that they gave us warning. Which it a total fucking lie. I have the message they sent to me on my phone, the message we got on the door to our flat, all of which came AFTER they locked us out of our own veranda!
So my wife confronted them about this and they FUCKING LIED! Instead they promised, oh, we’re expanding your deck, it’s going to be so much bigger and better! G’fucking damnit, I hate fucking liars!
Now I have to go down there in the morning and jump their fucking shit over this.
How did they lock you off your patio? Get a ladder and bold cutters.
They wrapped cables around the outside of the patio door handles if that’s what you’re asking. I’m sure I can get out there if I want, maybe not safe. I’m so GD pissed off at the moment I can’t think. We don’t want to pay taxes on 3 homes and the real estate here is extremely over inflated. It might just be time to leave, regardless.
Did they damage anything?
Outside of some of my plants are going to die because I can’t water them, I don’t think so.
Check, double check, and triple check that they didn’t give you more notice about dates of construction/scope/access. You should give them hell, but just make ab-so-fucking-lutely sure that you are correct. Make sure there was no certified mail notice, a memo slipped under your door. Or under the garage door. Or taped on the side door, etc. Just make sure you are in the superior position. Then, Hulk out.
I’d love to be able to show you this right now. But yeah, I’m sure. They lied to my wife. What they did was to leave a voicemail on my phone (I was in a meeting with clients). Then they locked us out of our deck. Then they posted a notice on our door, same day, all while I was at work. According to THEM when my wife talked to them today, they notified us before locking us out. The problem with that is that in their notice, which they posted on June 30, they admitted that they had already locked us out of our deck BEFORE they gave us notice that they were going to do so. So, yeah, I’m sure that they are dumbfuck shitheads. At this point, I’m just going to buy another house, fuck it.
They don’t have to notify you of shit. That’s your landlord’s job.
Umm, ok, it’s my landlord’s job to not notify me of shit? I assume you’re being sarcastic?
The management company, which, along with the HOA, is presumably responsible for this project, only has to notify the owner. It’s the owner’s job to notify you.
The problem is most likely your landlord (or the leasing agent go-between) not telling you what they were properly notified of.
These management companies do this professionally, and they know the law. It’s unlikely that the mistake is one their end.
I own in an HOA (also fairly upscale gated), and if there were people working on my place without notifying me, I’d be out on the patio “cleaning my guns”.
Again, I might be misunderstanding this situation, or possibly Maryland law in general, but it seems to me that the problem is probably your landlord, not the contractors and the HOA.
Yes, Playa, the problem is the landlord. Sorry if I somehow made it seem like I don’t understand that, but my quarrel is with them.
I don’t know about the legal issues in your state but in regards to the plants, I would take a ladder and bolt cutter solution to that problem.
I might have misread your double negative. It IS your landlord’s job to notify you of EVERYTHING. The HOA might do it as a courtesy, but they’re not required to.
^^^^This sounds like it is coming from a property owning person^^^^ Muthatfuckas
Cut the door locks grab your plants and move hype.
Yes, this, they are going to get big load of shit tomorrow from someone who does not take shit.
STEVE SMITH origin story?
NO RAPE = NOT STEVE SMITH STORY.
Palin back at the dog whistle.
“USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!”
“Is commie a race? Yeah, I am a racist. Fuck you.” is how I respond these days.
According to the Poles they’re not even human.
I met an old german ex-pat who fled from the nazis to mehico many years ago who, if you mentioned commies his bald head would turn the color of a beet and he would start slamming his fist and spit would fly out of his mouth while he yelled “Socialists! Dere iz onlee one vay to deal viss zem!!” and then he would make his hand in the shape of a pistol and point it at you. I mean, that guy would really lose his shit.
“In 1967, Polish mercenary Rafal Ganowicz was asked what it felt like to take human life, “I wouldn’t know, I’ve only ever killed communists.”
*laughs* I had forgotten that one. I will put it back at the front of the line.
I would highly recommend this book – I can’t recommend the movie because for some reason nobody’s made a movie of it yet.
[summary contains spoilers]
Benjamin Franklin raised his illegitimate son William and brought him to London when Benjamin lived there. This was when Benjamin thought Americans had a golden future in the British Empire. William showed great promise, and he got appointed the royal governor of New Jersey. When the Revolution came, Benjamin of course went with the Patriots but William stuck with the British. When Benjamin went to Paris, he took his grandson, William’s son Temple (also illegitimate).
William stuck to his post in the governor’s mansion in Perth Amboy until he got arrested by the Patriots, and for his defiance he ended up in an unpleasant Connecticut prison (becoming almost as toothless as George Washington and refused permission to see his dying wife). Exchanged for the Patriot governor of Delaware, William came to British-occupied New York City and became a leading Loyalist. He was head of a band of vindictive Loyalist guerrillas who were into looting and sometimes murder.
Father and son drifted apart. After the war, Benjamin cut William out of his will. Benjamin compensated by spoiling his grandson Temple something rotten, and unfortunately Temple ended up kind of messed up.
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in a completely batshit way”
Highlights from the last Glibertarians meetup.
Which one is you?
Which one do you think?
HM: Will you marry me?
Wife: I don’t know. Should I?
HM: You don’t think you should?
Wife: Do you think I should?
HM: What do you think?
Wife: Are you done?
HM: Check this video out. Do you like it?
It is as it was.
The Bull?
Why did I click on that. I was logged in to YouTube. Now I’m going to get furry video recommendations.
For HM, that’s like G-rated.
I’m not sure if that’s better or worse than the time I had Youtube recommend me scenes from shitty Dutch pornography for a couple weeks.
17th century Dutch porn
You should look harder. I have seen woodcuts that would make Linda Lovelace blush.
woodcuts
Why do we need a new word like “Fursuit” when we already have “Hirsuite”?
I don’t remember Ron Jeremy doing Furry porn. Plus, then how would we describe Greek dudes in Speedos? It seems like that would just confuse things, like with the ‘literally’ vs. ‘figuratively’ argument.
Let’s be real, it’s more like this.
That was 2 months ago.
That’s just shameful. If you’re going to choreograph a dance, at least be good at it. That looks like the 4th grade talent show.
At least they don’t have their faces on video.
Not with that dancing.
Oh God, World Order found a way to absorb more people into their Hive Mind.
By the end of next year the entire world will be synchronized pelvic thrusting in suits.
OK, which of you competed in this?
Anybody know a lawyer in Colorado that handles landlord/tenant cases? And can I change my mind after signing a settlement?
Im no lawyer, but i’mma guess “no”.
A lawyer might be able to find some angle to challenge it, but prepare for bad news…that you signed it and have to follow it.
(But you’d have to show him the details to see if there’s a loophole)
I know that Gerry Spence is from Wyoming, maybe he practices in Colorado as well. Of course, his fees may be a tad high.
I mean, it’s got the word “settle” in it!
No takesie backsies?
Man why did you sign if you didn’t like the settlement?
I didn’t have the $100 bucks I needed on the court date to file whatever i needed to file, and didn’t know i needed it before.
But the main reason is that it concerned an apartment me and Ella had rented, and the meeting with the other party’s attorney brought up all these emotions concerning Ella’s death, and I was pretty much crying and just wanted to get the hell out of there.
Damn. You didn’t have counsel present?
No, I thought it was over the statute of limitations, and also didn’t remember signing the contract with that management company. I thought they didn’t have a leg to stand on. We rented the apartment 7 years ago. The opposition attorney said they filled before the statute was up, and showed me the contract, with my signature on it.
6 yrs?
I’d bring a copy of your contract to an attorney that deals with those kinds of matters, and get a free consultation like others suggested. Since you signed the agreement, I’m not sure what is in play or the nature of the dispute.
To elaborate, you could bring a separate civil suit for just about anything, it’s just a matter of if a real attorney thinks you will be wasting your time or if it’s worth fronting legal fees. It’s not clear when you executed the settlement either based on your description.
Hot take for math nerds: WAR, what is it good for?
For the many baseball fans here, which I love/many mathematical inclined people who fit this Vinn overlap.
As I understand it, WAR takes the overall average stats in batting(OPS,ect…), baserunning/steals, defensive range/arm/feilding pct, for all players at a given position and sets that as a baseline. Then they take an individual player’s stats and compare it to the average to determine how many more wins your team would win in comparison to having the ‘average’ player at that position.
My question: if that’s the case, isn’t the algorithm used based on an assumption, to come to an unprovable outcome? Especially since it cannot account for outside factors like chemistry with teammates and coaching staff, or if the amount of money needed to retain the player is such a financial strain that it forces the club to downgrade at certain positions in order to stay within the club owner’s required budget?
In essence, is WAR the most over-hyped, useless stat in all off badeball, or am I missing something?
*baseball
And this is where I’m worried that I might have consumed too much alcohol in college. I have no idea.
Wayne Allyn Root?
No. First, all statistics are based in assumptions. Second, it’s not unprovable. You can take a team’s total WAR and test its correlation to the actual number of runs over a season as compared to the league average.
Okay, fair enough. But I’m still struggling with how you can positively prove that having a certain player at a certain position guarantees your team more wins, especially when considering the unquantifiable influences I stated above.
I just find it difficult to believe that sabermetrics can accurately determine a player’s actual worth. I believe there is too many extra things a player can do that are immeasurable(just being a humble, positive, encouraging teammate, for one) from a mathematical perspective.
Yes, it’s based on an assumption. The assumption is validated with data, and with predictions of future performance based on that data. As for chemistry, AIUI, it’s been somewhat shown that chemistry for baseball doesn’t matter much. In that brighter people than me have looked at teams pre-Player X acquisition, during Player X acquisition, and post-player X, and compared that with how Player X did before, during, and while he was there, and showed that it doesn’t make much difference. Things like ballparks do matter, and (allegedly) are taken into account.
As to the financial strain of keeping a good player, you should be able to examine the team’s players’ WARs and determine any decline or gain that way; it shouldn’t show up in the star’s WAR itself.
My own 2 cents, as just a fan who knows what WAR is, and that’s it, is that oWAR is pretty good at distinguishing players. It is poor at evaluating them defensively. As defense isn’t super important in baseball (compared to hitting), the deficiencies aren’t that glaring, IMHO.
I wish fervently that someone will come up with a WAR equivalent for basketball and football. Win shares, whatever it is that Wages of Wins tries to measure beyond rebounds, and DVOA don’t cut it for me. With WAR I can somewhat take a stab at trying to compare, say, 2B from the start of the live ball era to now. Good luck trying to even compare the 80s 49ers or 90s Cowboys to the Patriots of today. Never mind players in the Sammy Baugh era.
‘You can take a team’s total WAR and test its correlation to the actual number of runs over a season as compared to the league average.’
True, but that doesn’t necessarily guarantee success. I’ve read a few articles lately that say according to their preferred algorithm, the Tribe should be running away with the AL Central. But they are barely keeping the Royals at bay for now. Speaking of the Royals, they are a sabermetrics fan’s worst nightmare. According most algorithm based projections over the last four years or so, they should have never been better than .500 at best. Yet they made two WS runs, one title, and are now once again in playoff contention after a horrendous start.
For playoff success, understand that, until very recently, playoff success meant winning one 5 game series, then a 7 game series. Even in the WC era, we’re talking a much smaller size of games (5+7+7) than the 162 games of the regular season. In practice, it means that two hot starting pitchers, and a bullpen that doesn’t completely shit the bed, go a very long way to winning a post season series. While those are great things to have too, they aren’t going to give you a very good regular season record unless you have great hitting and a competent 3-5 set of starters.
For KC, they should have been gone come Game 4 of the ALDS. Then came Tony Sipp. See what I mean about having a bull pen that didn’t shit the bed? Keuchel and McCullers damned near won that series on their own. And hopefully will do the same or better this year.
Pythagorean Records, and 2nd Order and 3rd Order wins are ways of determining how ‘good’ a team should be. Cleveland is an example of a team with an actual record of 46-39, but a pythag record of 49-36. The Yankees are actually probably the most ‘getting screwed’ team currently.
Hit sequencing is a big factor for underperforming teams like Cleveland. They get a good amount of hits, but not at the right times.
See here for how the Yankees should be playing. (I’m an Indians fan)
I saw baseball and math in the first two lines…………………skipped comment.
Voros, we beseech you!
No WAR is good because since it doesn’t take those unmeasurable factors in FOR ANY SINGLE PLAYER it’s still valuable for comparing one player to another player.
Circumcision brings Jews, Muslims together
Just saw the footage from after the TrumPutin meeting.
Is Trump a vampire? Does he have secret super powers or something? Every time I see footage from after his meetings the other guy is always slumping his shoulders and looking at his shoes while Trump is grinning like hell. What is he saying to these people to make them act like that? And Putin? Even Putin? Thats kinda scary.
He is a BULLY!!!111!!
He probably just told Putin about the time he grabbed Ms. Putin’s pussy.
The former Ms. Putina was not bad at all in her early years.
That’s a definite wood! I imagine party apparatchiks got dental benefits whilst the serfs died from bacterial infections?
Oh, if you like her, you’ll love his (former?) mistress, Alina Kabaeva: http://thechive.com/2015/03/16/vladamir-putins-mistress-has-some-moves-22-photos/
Cue Michael Douglas’s line from “The War of the Roses,” “She was a gymnast.”
My usually apolitical good buddy has developed full on TDS for that very reason. Hates bullies and narcissists with a white hot passion and is talking about Trump during lunches like 30% of the time at this point. He never used to talk about political figures before Trump.
Sure Trump is a dick and I pegged him as a joke candidate all during the campaign, but fuck me, if recent past presidents are cool with murder-droning, using the IRS against political opponents, start preemptive wars with questionable evidence, enable massive debt spending, and are cognizant of widespread domestic spying initiatives …. “bully” is really fucking low on the priorities totem especially with the other branches of government firmly in place as a check on power.
Yep. The freakout over Trump has really exposed a lot of people. Namely, they care more about social conformity and ‘politeness’ than they do actual morality. I’ve had people flip out about Trump at me and then I ask them what their response is to the hundreds of children Obama killed.
Basically it comes down to: Trump says bad things, Obama/Hillary do bad things.
Don’t get me wrong, I expect Trump to do some shitty things over the next four years. The actions in Yemen are just a start. But the idiots complaining about how Trump is some unheard of menace to the Oval Office are bloody retarded.
I guess overall it’s be a good thing if they rolled some actual atrocities into the outrage, and draw some attention to it. I’m firmly convinced, however, that type of concern becomes totally unimportant once the next “presidential” wagging dick in a suit assumes the oval office.
Told all you he was British.
Howevs, he’s not wrong. Trump is an asshole, to be sure. How that’s different from ANYONE who ran for President in 2016 eludes me. And anyone who thinks Hill would be doing such a better job is a fucking moron.
Note: not saying he was suggesting this.
Not saying he was suggesting Hill would’ve been better.
I’m just saying he’s British. Because he is. Just like UFO, only not as cool.
Not only that, the incessant Trump obsession is becoming as tiresome as I remember dealing with hardcore 9/11 truthers prattling on about the same bullshit over and over again.
They saw Trump on the teevee being less than “diplomatic” to their hopefuls when that stupid show was still airing. To them, that’s “The Donald”. It doesn’t hurt except for the fact that he lost the election by 30 million votes. What kind of country are we living in, now? “I just wish someone would shoot him with a gun thingy and then Hillary will be President.”
Friends like that need a firm grasp on both shoulders, a deep look in their eyes, and at the top of your lungs, yell, “WHERE YOU NOT PAYING ATTENTION THE LAST EIGHT YEARS YOU IGNORANT FUCK!!.
You may as well carry on a deep conversation with your cat. They give you that “Tucker-Look” when you offer the bacon and stuff it into your own maw. They will never understand until they start making mortgage payments and property taxes.
That’s not Trump, Putin always looks like a vampire.
That is a serial killer’s face.
“He’s not your friend, he isn’t anyone’s friend and I want you to stay away from that boy, Donald!”
Here is one theory. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449324/trump-takes-aim-russias-energy-market-share-warsaw-speech. TLDR: OIL!
“Goodbye Assad, or at least, Goodbye Syria,” is how I read those lines from Trump. Unless we’re going to REALLY ramp up our LNG exports. How else and from where else is Europe going to replace Gazprom? Unless there’s some crazy gas field in Morocco/Mauritania that a pipeline cross Gibraltar could feed the EU from.
Every single one of them goes into the meeting thinking he’s a buffoon/he;s old/he’ll be a piece of cake (I’ve been the goddamned president of Russia/wherever for the last fifteen years, I can take this idiot), and they find out for a 71 year old, he’s got twice the energy they do, his brain bounces around like he’s on something even though he’s not so the translators throw up their hands “we give up, sir, this is our best guess” and trying to figure out what he’s saying is so wearying, they forget what they were in there to do. Then, it’s over, and they’re all ‘Shit, I’m exhausted, and I think I might have offered back that fucking uranium in my daze.”
I figure it is something like that.
DESTROY!!!
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/making_the_left_bleed.html
Fresh from the manosphere.
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/will-darwinism-kill-feminism/
To quote a pop-punk song written by Butch Walker and performed by SR-71 “She may not be miss right, she’ll do right now”
“Instead, these men are increasingly dating younger women, not because they’re shallow sexists, but because they don’t want to have children yet.”
So where are all these out-of-wedlock births coming from?
You’d think all this extra enlightenment plus birth control plus abortion would mean the out-of-wedlock birth rate would be less than in the Pleistocene era aka before the 1960s.
95, sunny and humid. This sucks.
Ugh. 30+ degrees here for a few days and I feel like I’m melting from below. Fuck Summer now that I’m old. Winter? I can dress for that and be presentable. Yoga pants on sprightly young tomaters have given way to shorty-shorts so we’ve got that going for us…
Yuck.
Yuck on the heat and humidity or yuck on the rest? Concerned old pervs need to know!
Just on the heat and humidity. I live near a college town. I fully approve of yoga pants, leggings, and short shorts on young pretty things.
It’s like an old dog watching the Nature Channel when they go Serengeti. Barks and loses another tooth.
Another thing that seems to be popular this year is wearing sundresses or skirts while riding a bicycle. Also approve.
Every time I think the left is The Enemy, I happen on some no-shit Nazi proselytizing for “ethno-states,” or some more banal conservative defending “lol you think the Stanford Prison Experiment was bad? let me show you what’s up” actions of the police and their lack of accountability.
Libertarianism is a lonely place to be, and it’s making me depressed…..
Not to mention I happened on r/WatchPeopleDie recently and I’ve realized that that’s how most people view death of people in the abstract: it doesn’t really matter to them. That’s why these state-directed mass-murders can continue to happen.
I don’t know.
There are certain corners of the internet best avoided. Also: yeah people suck. But I’ve found that the good people in general outnumber the bad ones, the bad ones are just louder.
And that Justine Sacco thing… I.e. Even when we’re not talking about Death, groupthink / mobbishness prevails.
Chin-up! Stop chasing the rabbit down the hole because there are plenty of sane, rational sites that will wet your whistle without having you shopping for a brown shirt, matching boots and the polish to keep them. Think for yourself, choose your allies and most importantly think for yourself.
You guys have kept me sort of grounded and somewhat sane, because I see that there are others who ideate as I do.
It’s kind of a paradox, isn’t it? Individualism and anti-collectivism, but we *need* others to validate those philosophies. How do you reconcile it?
I will always, reflexively, defend the individual against the mob. That’s a lonely place to be.
I don’t reconcile it, because there’s a stark difference between forced collectivism and individuals joining a group. Communism alone can work, if it’s just a voluntary group of committed communists. The problems come in to them wanting to force other people to join their group. Libertarianism has one of the tenants being voluntary association, which fits well with that.
I’m sure you’re well aware of all of this, but it’s been a night of drinking and watching Spider-man: Homecoming, so I felt it worth the time to type up.
Neph, look forward to hearing what you thought about Ireland. Enjoy the craic.
It’s called an ethical code. The edges are blurred but for fuck’s sake, just go with your gut instinct. I was raised by immoral parents and swore to never follow that path. I have many personal failings but I do cling to iron-clad rules that I adopted when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I guess that’s why I found this website.
Even individualists need a hug sometimes. The most harsh punishment for a human (besides perhaps death and torture) is solitary confinement. People can’t take that shit. That is pretty amazing that when someone is in a prison full of hardened criminals that almost the worst thing is to be removed and placed alone from those people. People don’t need to be forced to cooperate.
Give me books and I’d happily take solitary but maybe that’s just me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder
That seems like the next big self-diagnosed internet disorder.
Ah, a new name for acting cuntish. Sign me up!
We are individualists butt-head but still members of a social species. We need interaction with others that dont cause us to become enraged after two minutes.
PS: Here are some ladies (assuming that’s your thing) to cheer you up!
http://thechive.com/2017/05/26/by-george-early-morning-squishing-is-afoot-50-photos/
Ok, so about a decade ago I wrote 10 scripts and submitted a pitch to Cartoon Network for a TV. I wrote the Glib editors about a week ago to see if there was any interest in running these scripts as filler stories here, and haven’t heard back. So, just because, I present GRAVITY MAN: THE MOST DENSE MAN IN THE UNIVERSE
Self centered or extremely stupid hero? I’ll tune in.
The most dense man in the universe? A cartoon featuring Paul Krugman?
Did Cartoon Network give you a TV?
(I kid, I kid)
This is the state of the left. God dammit. I was hoping for gridlock. But holy shit, the left is going to get steamrolled.
Summary: 3 friends on my Facebook feed, all with advanced degrees, shared this bullshit.
It involves the leader of Russia, which has the 2nd largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world, and the leader of Germany, which has exactly zero nuclear weapons.
“which has exactly zero nuclear weapons”
In addition to a worsening demographic crisis exacerbated by none other than the eye-roller herself.
Oh God, they miss Michelle. The Queen of thicc eyerolls. I hope she falls under a bus for disadvantaged children whilst swinging a 40 of Colt 45 to christen it.
It is amazing, Putin looks like a Billy Crystal character…oh I was supposed to notice something different?
I think Merkel farted, but I don’t have an advance degree.
The left has the uncanny ability to never die. They’ll be back and this time you’ll love it!
The term mansplaining needs to go into the trash can along with cuck.
Many women need to figure out that men wouldn’t be re-explaining shit to them if they’d fucking shown that they’d understood the concept the first time. For fuck’s sake, guys explain shit to other guys all of the time, and no one needed to come up with a new word to describe it. A simple, “I get it, you fucking bore. I got it the first time. Go pester those people over there, and try paying attention to people, next time,” works. At least it does when I hear it.
That would require women to actually speak up though, rather than sit there and fester on the great indignity they’ve suffered.
Yeah. “I got it, go fuck off” works 100% IME.
But then, I Am Evil.
While way overused of late, cuck does have an actual meaning. Can’t say the same for this “mansplaining” crap.
Pathetic. Wanna take odds that Putin, being who he is, is forcing Merkel to converse in Russian? An eyeroll against a guy that has almost certainly choked people to death with his own hands is supposed to signify what exactly?
How does one get Twitter videos to play on Firefox in Linux?
Random thought – Thicc girls became a thing after November, 2008. I mean, we used to just call them fatties and what-not but now they are the pinnacle of beauty? Fuck that shit.
Or, old is new again.
Thicc is NOT the same thing as fat. In the past they have been known as other things. Curvy, stacked, voluptuous, etc. If you still do not understand this, I would be more than happy to help.
There’s a difference between thicc chicks and chicks who are just thick, though. Thick girls aren’t slim-waisted beauties, they’re just badly proportioned all around. But thicc girls have those meaty asses and thighs we all love.
Thicc girls are familiar with the idea of a squat rack and lunges. Fat chicks aren’t.
Though there’s more a little silicone in a lot of these gals.
Relax, Twiggy and Keira Knightly will be in again, as the great wheel of Fashion grinds us all beneath its tread.
There’s a lot of
ruinroom for silicone in anationgirl.Probably asleep, Playa, but re: LAX to Santa Barbara, time isn’t an issue.
If you’re asking about an easy way to get from LAX to Santa Barbara, they used to have a regularly running, rather luxurious shuttle bus system between the two. My in-laws live in Santa Barbara and we did that one time, I recall it wasn’t bad. It was about 15 years ago, though, so not sure it’s still around or the same.
For your sanity, if you don’t need it, I’d avoid renting a car at LAX. Nightmarish rental experience, and the roads heading north from LAX are some of the world’s most overcrowded (the 405 is especially scary!) At least in the shuttle you can read, nap or play on your phone.
The rental, sadly, is what we’re planning on doing 🙁 the alternative is driving from Albuquerque, which, while not the worst thing imaginable, would put a huge dent in our vacation. I was hitting up Playa for something to divert us on the way.
I love my dad and I relish our time together, but jfc 12 hours in a car together I’d probably throttle him if he hasn’t gotten me already.
I shored up my Dad’s company for the best earning years of my life. He stole the bread from my mouth and as far as I’m concerned he can die alone and ungrieved.
What do you guys like to do, commodious? It’s been aeons since I’ve been to SoCal, but Santa Barbara isn’t that far away from LAX. Though traffic can always screw things up. PCH is really pretty and, unlike the Big Sur segments, not blocked by God’s own mudslide. We liked Zuma for body surfing, though maybe that’s changed? Probably just as good beaches for that in SB anyway; the break at Gaviota looked pretty good when I was there.
I’ve done the ABQ to LA thing. It’s more than a bit long, and there’s a whole lot of nothing out there. If you don’t like NA artifacts (in which case, definitely stop in Gallup) then it’s not a lot of fun. I guess you could see the Grand Canyon/Meteor Crater if you guys haven’t already. Hoover Dam’s neat too.
Putin set a trap and Trump fell into it
Former Obama hack thinks diplomacy is just about media spin and sniffing farts with the rest of the Washington bubble. No wonder the State Dept was the world’s bitch for the past eight years.
Also, would as long as I can wear earplugs.
I thought you meant Jen Psaki, bbut I’m guessing you mean the video?
Shes cute, but her lips look strangely shapeless to me. I go with gag instead of earplugs.
Also, ah, putin ah, and, ah, trump, ah, in my newest book, ah, actually… fuck guy needs speaking lessons.
They can’t get over it. She lost and they don’t believe that it happened. There must be some thunder-strike from God to ensure that this DID NOT HAPPEN! I’ve been giggling like a 13 year-old about a fart joke since November. Fuck them, time to start playing dirty.
Christ, this shit is going to be taught in history books, isn’t it?
Pissgate II?
What’s sad is that even if the accusations against the Russians are true, what did they do that our own media shouldn’t have been doing already? If CNN wasn’t such a fucking joke, they could have been the ones to break the story on how the DNC rigged the primaries.
For nothing in particular: I Wanna Be Sedated.
Huh. Was never a fan. I thought The Ramones were too plastic.
I always think of it as an ETS song.
“Twenty twenty twenty four hours to go- I want to be a civilian!”
Heh. My Wifey thought for forty years that Blitzkreig Bop was “Let’s Drink Pop”. I wish I’d met that shallow lass back in the 70’s…
A friend in junior high thought “Start Me Up” by the Stones was actually “Mario”. He disliked my derisive comments, but I’m (to this day) unsure I was derisive enough…
ETS
Dude, gonna have to explain that one. (If you care) WAY too many possible connotations.
Dude. They forced us to Disco Dance when I was a shaver. The Hustle, the Line Hustle, the Bus-Stop, the Car-Wash. Sweaty excruciating shame. Good Times!
Square dancing was for squares. We were forced into couples and had to forget our Rush and Zeppelin. We became one with the pimply. We BECAME!
Expiration of Term of Service- when you finally become a civilian again.
Fuck you, Haley. How about you get proof first?
Nikki Haley tweets in Japanese?
Anyway, who knows what such sloppy use of the passive voice means. “Will be blamed”? She can blame the Illuminati for all I care, IDGAF. If she means “everyone” will blame all these people, she’s wrong.
When I copy and pasted it was in all English. OS is Japanese so, oh well. As for Haley, “My sandwich disappears from the fridge, you will be blamed.” If she has the guns, I’m gonna worry.
Convoluted bullshit about how to make Congress “more bipartisan”.
Next term the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Wisconsin’s election maps that could lead to a precedent-setting ruling against partisan gerrymandering — the problematic process whereby incumbents draw legislative boundaries to help their fellow partisans. But would politically neutral redistricting in itself yield significantly more competitive and less polarized politics? Would it ensure greater political diversity and increase the legitimacy of Congress?
The answer is no. Regardless of how you slice the map, the vast majority of Americans will live in so-called landslide districts, in which either Republicans or Democrats win by overwhelming margins. Today’s voters rarely split their tickets and are self-sorting such that the median county in the 2016 presidential race was won by more than 40 percentage points — triple the median margins in the 1990s.
Every time I hear the term “bipartisan consensus” my ass begins to hurt.
But it reminded me of an idea I had a while back. Since what we really need is a way to prevent elected representatives from “bringing home the bacon” in order to gain re-election, my proposal is to randomly assign Congressmen to districts following election. Local voters in Florida, say, pick a guy, based on his perceived qualifications. He goes to D C, where he is assigned, by lottery, to represent the people of Montana. Rather than vote based on parochial interests, the incentive would be to send some parsimonious skeptic who would be more resistant to the pleas of the locals for more spending and bigger government. Why send somebody to Washington to shovel out the largesse to a bunch of strangers.
LobbyingPetitioning for redress of grievances of one’s assigned rep would still be the order of the day, of course.I found a recipe for Swiss:
http://68.media.tumblr.com/1edf316d25536a40feda64ece046bd6e/tumblr_osq6nu5oB41tkrtedo1_500.jpg
Carrie Fisher’s favorite breakfast.
Too soon?
*narrows gaze*
No comment necessary.
Germans dressed in black smashing things couldn’t possibly end badly.
Meanwhile, you remember how people made jokes about electing a crackhead mayor? Well, apparently NYC elected an antfag:
http://nypost.com/2017/07/06/de-blasio-races-to-germany-to-protest-g20-summit/
He’s got nothing better to do, right?
Good thing NYC elected DeBlasio over Lhota. Makes perfect sense.
I just heard some comments about that. One commenter complaining about the far left European radicals trashing the city and using violence. The other commenter (a pinko) said “We have seen violent protests from the right too”. Oh? when was that? “Well if you remember there was that guy that one time that…”
What a god damn fucking disgrace. That makes me so angry. Destroying some uninvolved, hapless merchant’s storefront and goods shows time and time again why these violent fucks deserve to be fought at every single opportunity.
MORNING LINKS HAVE BEEN POSTED.