STEVE SMITH HAVE NICE LAZY DAY TODAY…SLEEP IN, GO RAPE A COUPLE OF HIKERS, THEN MAKE BRUNCH. FINISH LINKS, THEN GO RAPE A CAMPER OR TWO BEFORE SUPPER TIME. HOPE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE HAVE HAD A NICE, LAZY AND RAPETASTIC DAY TOO.
- THIS STEVE SMITH’S KIND OF CAKE!
- STEVE SMITH POST THIS STORY FOR FRIEND ZARDOZ.
- THIS ONE OF REASONS STEVE SMITH LIVE IN WOODS. NO LIKE CITIES.
- STEVE SMITH COULD GO RAPE ALL EELS TO DEATH, THEN NO PROBLEM, RIGHT?
STEVE SMITH WISH ALL A GOOD NIGHT. AND DON’T LOCK YOUR WINDOWS OR DOORS.
STEVE SMITH COULD GO RAPE ALL EELS TO DEATH,
I like eels,
Except as meals.
And the way they feels.
Haven’t had eels since I was in Central Sulawesi at least 20 years ago. Wouldn’t mind having them again – a little salty and greasy, but a great flavor.
I ate smoked eel in Germany where some consider it a delicacy. I did not like it. Its taste and texture made me think of partially burned inner tubes previously used as whale condoms.
I had eels in Japan last time I was over there. Meh. Not bad; I’d eat it again, but wouldn’t seek it out.
Now whale, on the other hand…
eels.
Hell yeah!
You’re preaching to the conger-gation.
Soul food for my forebears.
I remember visiting a pukka London street market in the 60’s and buying 4 eels from a tank. Chopped up and put in an old fashioned brown paper bag.
Thrashing about wildly for minutes after. My father made me carry the bag.
From “Stories about why I’m broken“, a future self-published blockbuster.
“STEVE SMITH COULD GO RAPE ALL EELS TO DEATH, THEN NO PROBLEM, RIGHT?”
From the link: “The City Club lawsuits were bankrolled by Douglas Durst, a normally civic-minded developer who’s given the city many excellent projects. But this time, he seemed driven in part by bad blood with the Hudson River Park Trust, the organization that manages the four-mile-long park and which forced him out as a board member of its fund-raising arm in 2011.”
I’m starting to think eels had nothing to do with this.
I had lived most of my life addicted to sweets. But when I learned that the elevated insulin levels caused by sugar consumption leads to countless health problems from diabetes to cancer, I decided to make a change. Making this lifestyle change forced to focus on other things in my life that bring me joy; spending time with my friends, learning a new skill, and eating ass for hours on end. I can safely say giving up sugar was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but now, whenever I want to reach for a Twix, I nosh on an ass instead.
Suffice to say, I’ve never felt better! I’ve already started to see some of the benefits of giving up all things sweet: my skin is clear, I don’t crash at 3pm anymore, and I have a newfound vigor to just absolutely stuff my face with butt for hours without any breaks. And now I have more energy (and butts) than ever! My nighttime ritual before my sugar purge was to pour myself a glass of milk, grab a bag of Oreos, and lick the cream filling until I was all full. Now, I still pour myself the glass of milk, but instead Oreos, I call up a Craigslist prostitute (Ladyboy or not, it doesn’t matter), have her drive over to my house, and go straight for the butt. These days, all I need is a handful of almonds and several hours of tedious ass-eating before bed, and I’ll fall fast asleep!
Some people have asked me, “Why not have a sweet treat once in awhile?” To those people, I ask, have you ever heard of science? If you had, you’d know sugar causes a massive dopamine release in the brain, making it highly addictive. It’s not as simple as just eating less candy, it’s about making time for the thing you love most: eating so, so much butt that you don’t even have time to think about cake.
It has also been a huge adjustment in my marriage. I used to bring hot cocoa to bed and we’d curl up and watch an episode of Bar Rescue. Now, I just bring water, because I get really dehydrated when I’m going down on her sweet lil’ bootyhole. On the upside, I’m drinking so much more water now! Now, I’m totally addicted to her butt. She keeps saying, “I have to go wake up our daughter for school!” and “Can we just go walk our dog?” She feels sad that she is unable to fully satisfy me, but understands that this is what I need if I’m going to stay off sugar for the long-term. Like they say, it’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle. Now, a cheat day for me is just like any other day: eating so much butt!
Brought to you by Altoids.
Or hemorrhoids.
Hey-yo!
Love can make a man do hella freaky stuff
I apologize if this was already linked, but this caught my attention yesterday. Definitely sets off my creepy alarms. Hope no glibs went for this, even for the chance of a signed Flacco jersey.
https://m.imgur.com/a/WHc8W
I think it was cancelled.
STEVE SMITH DONATE DNA FOR CHANCE AT STEVE SMITH SR JERSEY
I saw a forensic files where the cops sent DNA to ancestry.com to see if they could get a close relative of a perp since their sample want in codas. Sadly ancestry.Com complied.
I hope Warty is careful when he squats
He would have shattered any plate in the gym.
Reminds me of this (apologies, it’s at Snopes) which I must have seen originally in the late 80’s.
I got to see First They Killed My Father this weekend. And I just feel like I gotta scream from the rooftops, everyone needs to see this movie if they want to learn more about communism.
My girlfriend is Cambodian, and a descendant of refugees, so it was particularly painful for her.
Wow, that sounds, depressing, among other things.
I’m glad that these films are being made but I find it really hard to watch them. I saw The Killing Fields when it first came out and I’ve never been able to convince myself to re-watch it. Haven’t been able to re-read 1984 either.
I watched The Confession, about the Stalinist show trials in Czechoslovakia in the early 50s, a few months ago. Extremely well made but a very difficult watch. And the maddening thing is that people like Arthur London remained Communists after being expelled to the West.
Same experience as you RN right down to The Killing Fields.100%.
That’s why I fill up with rage whenever I see someone in a Che t-shirt or wear the hammer and sickle or praise Castro.
Condemn them all to a gulag and see how they like it then. It astonishes me really.
They’d never be sent to the gulag, that’s only for the kulaks and wreckers.
No wait, I mean gulags aren’t real, but if they were they would just be for the kulaks and wreckers. If any good people got sent to the gulags then that means it’s not real Communism.
One big problem with The Killing Fields was that the asshat protagonist was (or was portrayed as) blaming America when it should have been plainly obvious who the real scum were.
The Sam Waterson character? It’s been a while since I’ve seen it but I wasn’t a fan of the US in those days and I still came out of it thinking the Khmer Rogue were the villains.
Kinda surprised Angelina Jolie made that. I don’t know much about her but on the surface she seems like a George Clooney style lefty.
I think Jolie and Pitt were attached fighting to get Atlas Shrugged made back in the day. I don’t think they’re quite traditionally lefties.
I remember Charlize Theron was. Then she got hammered like the musician Chelsea Wolfe did. Can’t have wrongthink among the artist ranks.
It’s funny, I was just listening to and thinking about Chelsea Wolfe earlier today, and that very same thing–idiots with sixth-hand and totally fantastical perceptions of what Rand believed browbeat her into fucking “recanting.”
I still really like her music but that kind of shit is always massively depressing to see.
She claims to be a libertarian. But then again, so does Soave.
If that’s the case, I’m surprised she doesn’t get more hate for it.
They have some really nice 1911s.
Her 1911 is engraved with “Mama Knows Best”.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2016/01/29/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-guns/#326995977326
I was kind of impressed with Jesse James’ story, there.
The story I heard was that when he was going through all that personal turmoil, he went to go live on a Kibbutz in Israel, where no one could bother him, and he apprenticed under an old school blacksmith–so he could learn how to forge his own guns.
He came back to the U.S. and started forging customized 1911s like the used to customize bikes.
I wish I could do that. I can take my bike completely apart and put it back together, but I can’t forge a gun from scratch.
Those are beautiful
Her son Maddox was adopted from Cambodia.
Pics or GTFO.
G’damn NFL officials, bunch of fucking pussies, this is the NFL, not preschool ballet class. You bunch of fucking cowardly fucking pussies. I’m so close to never watching the NFL again. In case you want to know, watch the NFL replay of the tackle by Bruce Ervin. Spineless fucking feminist cowards, that is NOT unsportsmanlike conduct, it’s a fucking tackle by an NFL linebacker. And then the fucking pussies call an equally stupid fucking penalty on the Jets for an even less unsportsmanlike tackle. You fucking pussy ass pieces of shit, you need replaced by bots, who are not as big of cowards as you are. FUCK.THE.NFL.
I’m getting a sense that you may be a bit upset…?
Honest, this is exactly the way SP sounds when we watch a game she cares about.
So you’re saying you disagree with a call? Just so I’m clear on this.
It’s precisely rage-boners like this that American “football” exacerbates with its toxic masculinity. SMDH
*stadium applause*
Tulip, if you’re around, I baked your mother’s French bread with slight modification to use fed sourdough starter instead of yeast. It turned out beautifully. I’m busily getting fat eating it while I kill time waiting to meet friends for dinner.
link to recipe, por favor?
Since you asked nicely,
*glares at BEAM*
And some basics on substituting in starter for some of the flour and water in the recipe.
Gracias, madre
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Recipe or GTFO.
Forgot to add the ” ?” there, jesse. ?
Glad it worked out for you. I think it is the perfect base recipe for experimenting. I’ve made honey wheat and oatmeal versions. A sourdough version sounds good.
Question: Do you have a problem with your sourdough bread crust “rupturing” in the oven? I make all kinds of breads with regular yeast and it works fine, but when I make sourdough, the crust seems to form too early, then it tears and it results in a big fissure on one side of the loaf.
Whenever I’m making bread – either with yeast from the jar or sourdough – I spray the loaf before it goes in, then three more times at five minute intervals. But it’s only sourdough that does this.
Do you slash the top? Jesse knows much more about sourdough, but for baguette style, you should slash the top, otherwise it ruptures for me when I steam.
Always slash the top. Use a razor if you can — for some weird reason, it seems to work better than a sharp knife.
Maybe deeper or more frequent scores? I generally use a dutch oven that preheats with the oven, then drop it in on parchment and pour water under the parchment for steam. The edges do end up looking like tectonic action has been at work, but I haven’t gotten notable amounts of tearing in the surfaces of the loaf.
Quick re-pimp of my comics vid from yesterday. Underburbs is a great, family-friendly comic book 100% worth supporting if you like indie writers/artists. Links to the artists, etc at my vid. Esp. with Halloween coming up.
Better or worse than underboobs?
Different. Cheat answer.
I’m way behind on the shooting in St. Louis. What’s the catch? Planted gun? Planted outrage? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a group of people in society that we could trust to gather information and present it to us in a relatively unbiased manner?
You’re such a caution!
Seriously, this is the first I’ve even heard of it. Is it a bullshit Michael Brown case or more a Tamir Rice/psycho cop one?
Reporting is poor on this – but based on what I’ve seen so far, it’s at the Tamir Rice end of the spectrum. but then again, it’s hard to tell.
Some dude decided to play Judge Dredd by mowing down a drug dealer with a non-issue AK-47 that he carried in his patrol car.
More the latter. Cop ventilated the perp in an abundance of caution and flying lead.
Looks like the cop shot an unarmed guy at short range and deployed a throwdown piece. The throwdown piece had lots of cop DNA on it and none of the unarmed guy’s.
Based on everything I know about this, I’d say this is highly unlikely, but it also seems (based on less evidence) that the court proceedings were somewhat impolitic, with the judge seemingly waving the whole event away, on the assumption that *of course*, most street pushers are armed, and so the cop’s belief that he needed to deploy a weapon was justified.
The sad reality is that but for the cop, that kid might have lived another couple decades until someone of his own social circle gunned him down. Not that this (seemingly) excuses the cop.
Sounds like a reasonable explanation. Also, sounds like an explanation which would be unacceptable to copsuckers and neo marxists. Therefore, I like it.
You left out the part where they have the cop on dash cam audio during the chase saying something like, ‘I’m going to kill that motherfucker’, then suspected drug dealer crashes his car and then cop shot suspected drug dealer five times as he walked up to the crashed car.
I don’t remember hearing about it back when it happened, 2011 I think, but it is all kind of fishy to me. A jury would have convicted him I would think.
Saw a vid of a pro trump rally where black lives matter guy was on stage. He made some pretty valid points…one being he isn’t anti cop, but rather anti dirty cop and who committed crimes. Got a lot of applause his speech
I don’t see the tolerance and love crowd allowing that
At one point, they were publicly anti cop union. That got pulled back quickly.
There’s no reason why the Redskins couldn’t have played as well last week against the Eagles as they did against the Rams today.
They abandoned the run early against the Eagles–but that was for a reason. They couldn’t run against the Eagles!
They ran for 229 yards today.
I don’t think we’re going anywhere with the WRs we have–give ’em another two years, and then we’ll see how they pan out. But they’re not a pushover team right now.
Last week, I thought they were the Browns. They’re not the Browns bad.
They’re just Redskins bad.
When the Redskins lose, an angel gets his wings.
That’s a terrible thing to say. What are you, a Cowboys fan?
BITE YOUR FUCKING TONGUE!
A BROWNS fan?!
I didn’t mean it like that. I was just sayin’.
The Redskins aren’t as bad as I thought.
Better?
Jesus, you WANT that cat butt.
Vladimir Guerrero at Hooters?
So, some of you may have heard about the linguistics professor who has been accused of “stalking, using his power to have sex with students and creating a hostile environment, [and] host[ing] hot tub parties involving drugs.” I would just like to note that despite our similarities, he specializes in phonosyntactics, whereas I specialize in pragmatics and adult second language acquisition.
I’m trying to picture this with any of my lingustics professors in Buffalo… nope, can’t do it.
…
…
oh dammit LOLOLLOL
ppppst. this is redundant.
I get the feeling that i’m not supposed to hope that she does in fact go to the hospital and the professor isn’t fired, right? I’m doing it wrong?
How exactly can students get ‘harassed’ if they voluntarily go to a hot tub party and do drugs with their professors?
Wouldn’t it be easy to accrue evidence of this? Don’t students carry their phones everywhere and photograph everything? If this is true, surely there’s video.
“…linguistics professor…”
But is he cunning?
For some reason Instapundit linked to this. I read it, and feel only slightly guilty for wanting the writer to get AIDS
https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/sex-diaries-woman-taking-off-her-wedding-ring-before-a-date.html
I made it as far as the BKAM guy.
Well played, Sir. Well played.
I can’t imagine why anyone would have respect for her, so I hope she doesn’t expect any.
Beyoncé lemonade?
That was the first thing I noticed too.
I was wondering the same. Apparently Queen Bey shared her g’mas lemonade recipe on an album called Lemonade.
In case anyone cares, here it is:
Sounds an awful lot like basically every lemonade recipe
Yeah, but since Bey said to do it, they’ll actually do it. She’s like Oprah.
An unstoppable Nubian sorceress?
…?
You know the Top 10 hit, where Beyoncé points to various parts of her body and sings,
“Milk, Milk, Lemonade… Around the Corner Fudge is Made.” And then she drops a deuce on the stage, while the backup singers do jazz hands.
The woman had a pitcher in her fridge of this type of Beyoncé Lemonade. So it’s understandable she was upset that the guy mixed Grey Goose into it.
I would pay 200 dollars to see that.
Burger King Assistant Manager?
I win?
Girl, just say ‘shoes.’ This just makes you look sound even sorrier. Materialistic and self-indulgent. Either get with Mr. Big or don’t, but I’m bored of you.
Knowing the sort of person who makes up stories like this, she probably needs to get some ayds.
three words. Fat. Lonely. Cats.
I forgot about that. Just wonderful.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to perfect my pizza recipe. I’m pretty happy with the flavors I’m getting. However, I’m still playing with the bake. I’m not getting an amazing rise (har har) out of the crust, and the top is cooking before the bottom. I’m using the convection setting on the oven at 500*F. I’ve tried using the bake setting, and the crust burns before the top is ready. Essentially, I need to use convection for the first half, and bake the rest of the way. However, that’s a pain in the ass.
what are you cooking on? sheet pan, baking stone or steel, cast iron?
oops
I have a stone. It’s possible that I’m not giving enough time for it to come up to temperature. I turn it on before prepping the pizzas, so I’m probably 20 minutes from preheat to first pizza.
I’ve heard some recommend as much as an hour preheat for stones, but that always seems excessive to me, 20 minutes a bit shy though. Do later pizzas come out better than the first ones?
The first and second came out about the same… a bit blonde and chewy. The third came out ever so slightly under, but I shut off the convection fan, resulting in a longer bake. Perhaps I’ll try giving the stone a bit more time to come up to temp and try leaving the convection fan off.
At least an hour. We give it two. Trust me on this.
I trust you, OMWC!
*selects a piece of candy from bag, looks at it with critical eye, slowly and surreptitiously returns candy to bag*
Is it resting on a pan?
Where is your stone in the oven? I’ve never used a convection oven but with conventional I’ve found you need to put the stone as high as possible.
My stone is on the bottom rack. The convection fan has its own heating element, but the heat is provided 1/2 from the bottom element and 1/2 from the fan. Maybe there’s a relatively cool pocket forming under the stone.
Somedays Glibs is really just like watching the Food Channel.
Needz moar Giada!
Another victory for open borders:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/danish-government-on-muslim-migrant-crime-worst-situation-since-2nd-world-war
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The rule of law is imploding in Denmark as “low-tech jihad” and migrant gangs take over the streets. The Danish government should not be surprised. But it appears to be.
Thousands of incidents involving loosened wheel bolts on cars, large rocks or cinder blocks thrown from highway overpasses, and thin steel wires strung across bicycle paths meant to decapitate unsuspecting cyclists, is spreading a growing sense of horror among the Danes.
In almost all cases, the perpetrators have turned out to be from MENAP countries (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan).
…
Three people already have been shot in what appears to be a savage form of target practice. Since all of the injured were young men — in an attempt to minimize the number of future victims — the Danish police now warns all men between 17 and 25 years of age to avoid public spaces in Copenhagen.
Preben Bang Henriksen, spokesman for Denmark’s majority government party, the Liberal Venstre, is horrified by such a rapid decline in the safety of public spaces for the previously safe and calm kingdom:
“We have not had such warnings from the police since the 2nd World War. It is totally unacceptable,” said Preben Bang Henriksen.
…
For decades, critics of Islam and Muslim immigration have warned about irresponsible liberal policies that encourage accepting migrants or refugees from Islamic countries. Therefore, Danish politicians should not be surprised about the emergence of this despicable violence. But apparently they are.
In an attempt to curtail this rapid deterioration in rule of law — and public safety in general — Denmark’s parliament has agreed to domestically deploy the army.
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But but but Denmark is the happiest country in the world!
They have statues of Patty Hearst all over Scandinavia.
Especially in Stockholm.
There’s a new album by The Dream Syndicate :0 Almost 30 years!
(That’s a band that many here would/ probably do appreciate.)
“Life in a Northern Town” is overrated.
Can’t tell if being droll ¬_¬
*hiss*
I’m glad you share my opinion of “Life in a Northern Town”.
You can’t overrate something that nobody has talked about in 30 years.
A Vacant eyed Army Band played
And Children drunk Korean Kool Aid
And the morning lasted all day,
All day
And through an rigged electoral college came
Like Dear Leader in a younger day,
Flushing the town away
Ah
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a Northern town.
They sat on the stoney ground
And Madonna took out a cigarette out
And everyone else came down
To listen.
She said “In winter 2016
It felt like the world would freeze
With Fox Business Kennedy
And The Trumples.”
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Ah hey ma ma ma
All the work shut down.
The evening had turned to rain
Watch the salty tears roll down the drain,
As we followed him down
To the inauguration
And though he never would wave goodbye,
You could see it written in his eyes
As the train pulled out of sight
Bye-bye
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Dammit. Premature posting.
*bravo*
Heh. I have the 45 to their hit.
Magic Dirt Theory is put to the test:
Austria: 90% of asylum seekers end up on welfare
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Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka is resisting EU efforts to increase his country’s migrant quota, claiming that 90 per cent of asylum seekers in Austria end up on welfare benefits and strain the system.
The Austrian Interior Minister once again railed at attempts by the European Union to send more migrants to Austria, saying that the vast majority end up claiming benefits, Kronen Zeitung reports.Sobotka says “Austria has borne the main load from 2014 to 2017. Our system is simply overwhelmed,”
Sobotka says “Austria has borne the main load from 2014 to 2017,” and “Our system is simply overwhelmed”.
He added: “If you look at the asylum seekers, you can see that 90 percent are migrating to the needs-oriented minimum security system,” and said it was still of great importance to maintain border security.
“We had up to 15,000 refugees per day on some days, today it is an average of 30.
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It was also revealed this week that foreign-born mothers are drastically overrepresented among those who claim child care allowance in Austria, with one-third of all claimants coming from foreign backgrounds.
In the capital of Vienna, foreign-background families account for 55 per cent of claimants, costing taxpayers millions of euros….
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The attempt to suppress info like this is what pushes people into supporting the “right-populist” parties.
Since the late 1990s, the city was on a winning streak over obstructionist campaigns to torpedo worthy projects. Among initiatives that prevailed over determined opposition: Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards, Harlem’s Riverbank State Park and the Museum of Arts & Design at Columbus Circle.
I’m not sure Atlantic Yards is what you want to hold up as an example of a worthy project. Demolishing existing homes and businesses is categorically different than making something out of a derelict pier, and primarily using your own money to do it.
Nothing wrong with that. It’s the eminent domain that was BS.
LOL
Annals of Government Transparency
Hillary is somewhere going, “Why didn’t i think of that?”
btw, its a sign of how ‘government healthcare’ would work. I posted a link a few weeks ago to NY state’s disability-care system, which basically buries/loses/ignores requests regarding their patient data or their system operations.
Abedin’s mom made sure Clinton’s Saudi speech omitted “freedom” and “driving for women”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/abedins-mom-made-sure-clintons-saudi-speech-omitted-freedom-and-driving-for-women
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Huma Abedin’s mother helped to water down a speech then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave at a Saudi women’s college, warning not to mention “political” terms like “freedom” and “driving for women,” new emails show.
Abedin’s mother, Saleha Abedin, is a sociology lecturer at Dar Al Hekma, a women’s college in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where Clinton spoke to students on Feb. 16, 2010.
And according to new emails obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch as part of their Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, a Clinton speechwriter for the event sought advice and guidance from Abedin’s mother in advance.
“Talk to my mom for sure,” Abedin, a top Clinton aide, wrote to speechwriter Case Button on Feb. 12, 2010. “She will have good points for you…”
Abedin’s mother responded with a list of “IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER.”
“Do not use the political terms such as ‘democracy/ elections/ freedom.’ Do not use the term ‘empowerment of women’ instead say ‘enabling women’ and use other terms such as ‘partnership/participation,’” Saleha Abedin wrote. “Do not even mention driving for women! The last visitor received a torrent of rejoinders from the students who said they have more important challenges to contend with.”
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Wasn’t this an episode of Veep?
They have a women’s college in Saudi Arabia?
I’m trying to guess the curriculum:
You Don’t Need To Drive 101
Finding a Male Relative So You Can Leave the Home
Obedience and Home Cookery
Embroidering the Burka Eye Slit Borders to Express the Inner You
Ululating for Fun and Profit
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is hosting a discussion group to help men “shift the culture of masculinity toward more non-violent norms.”
Vassar College, meanwhile, is hosting a dinner program to “liberate” men from “toxic masculinity” through monthly discussions.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9783
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Participants will be tasked with holding workshops and events about masculinity on campus, such as the Campus Coffee Conversations program, which has previously hosted talks on issues such as masculinity, privilege, microaggressions, and trigger warnings.
At the end of the 10-week program, students are asked to create an individual “follow on” project by becoming a Peer Educator on masculinity, creating a short documentary film, joining a “gender equity” group on campus, or “developing a plan to increase bystander intervention practices.”
The program, offered through the school’s “violence prevention” initiative, ultimately hopes to “promote a healthier, more equitable, and safer campus for all students, faculty, staff, and community members.”
While the UNC Men’s Project seems targeted for men, Jeni Cook, a UNC-Chapel Hill spokeswoman, maintained that the project “is one of the many resources available to all students, male and female, to participate in this effort.”
She noted, however, that UNC’s efforts “are not unique to Carolina” and that other schools have “similar projects that engage men as partners in gender equity and violence prevention efforts.”
Meanwhile, UNC isn’t the only school that attempts to draw a connection between violence and masculinity. The Women’s Center at Vassar College recently launched a new “Men and Masculinity” dinner program to “liberate” men from “toxic masculinity” through monthly discussions.
“We believe that we cannot truly change the experiences of women and queer and trans folx until we liberate the beliefs and behaviors of men,” the Women’s Center says, adding that it is committed to helping men “explore the many ways masculinity influences their lives.”
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[head desk]
Every time I read stuff like this, I feel like I should be investing in cat food.
trans folx
Dafuq?
A bunch of men dressed like John Wayne should show up and beat the snot out of everyone.
Instead of granting or denying their requests, a growing number of school districts, municipalities and state agencies have filed lawsuits against people making the requests
They also attempt to impose ruinous fees for the “information” requested.
yeah, i’ve seen that. they charge ‘by the page’ for requests, and claim it takes like 100 man-hours to print up some records…. when it later is revealed that the documents are already available on their PUBLIC intranet. they basically put up these absurd roadblocks to deny answering any request.
My wife told me about a situation where the government entity claimed a records request would cost millions of dollars and take 285 years (!) to complete. They ended up doing it in a few days at no cost to the requester.
Dallas schools to consider new monikers for buildings named after Franklin, Jefferson, Madison
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36871/
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This past Thursday, the Dallas Independent School District School Board took up the matter of renaming some of its schools, identifying 21 with “some sort of Confederate tie.”
Superintendent Michael Hinojosa noted four schools were “priorities”: William L. Cabell, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Albert Sidney Johnston.
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However, what the NBC-5 report doesn’t mention is the list of recommended schools includes the names of three prominent Founding Fathers — Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin.
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Marshall noted he will not support changing the name of the only school that’s in his district, Ben Franklin Middle School:
“I will not support a name change for Franklin since Benjamin Franklin clearly had many accomplishments that form the basis for why the school was named after him. I don’t believe this school was named after Franklin to send a signal of oppression and control.”
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[face palm]
I remember the good old days… when we used to say “hey, the Lefties are going to go after ‘X’ next”, and it took ten years to be proven right. Now it takes ten days.
This is why we’re stuck with President Trump (my mind still hurts a bit to think that phrase).
Trump = Prog Karma
With the exact same positions, he would have been a left wing Democrat 30 years ago.
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Clash With Police in Jerusalem Over Arrest of Draft Dodgers
Fuck the ultra-Orthodox who want the rest of society to provide for them.
It’s almost as if (((they))) apply the laws uniformly.
School’s controversial slavery lesson causes outrage, gets slammed on social media
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36864/
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A classroom lesson on the American slave trade infuriated an African-American parent and many of those with whom she shared the story on social media.
Shardé Carrington, whose son is in 8th grade at Whitney High School (a grades 7-12 school), thought that the “Unique Learning Experience” noted in a September 5 email to parents was … rather misguided.
According to the Huffington Post, the email noted that in an upcoming lesson, teachers would play the role of “slave ship captains” and students would play slaves.
“Specifically, when class starts,” the email reads, “we will sternly tell them to line up outside the classroom, use masking tape to ‘tie’ their wrists together, make them lay on the ground inside the room (which will be dark) shoulder to shoulder with each other (boys and girls are in separate rows), and then while they lay there, have them watch a clip from ‘Roots.’”
Students would not be made aware of what was going on to add an element of “surprise” to the whole deal.
Carrington’s son had told her he already learned about the lesson from 9th graders who had gone through it the previous year.
“As the mother of a black child, I feared that my son’s participation would lead him to experience trauma, perhaps at the cellular level, and have a visceral reaction of anger and fear during the exercise itself,” Mrs. Carrington said.
***
[head desk]
Cellular?
Perhaps gamma radiation was somehow involved?
Why stop there?
Chromosomal trauma is a thing!
LOL.
How, how do could someone think this was a good idea?
Yes, teaching it is one thing, but making them participate is a little beyond the pale.
I’m sure all the white parents think this is just fine?
he was probably bored at the cellular level
Kid should’ve went Amistad and slaughtered the crew.
In 5th grade my teacher had a group of us draw with chalk a full size plan of a slave ship on the playground. The intent was to show how cramped the conditions were. A pretty interesting lesson. Unfortunately we pimped out the ship with TVs and stereos and maybe even a bar. We got into a little trouble for that.
“We believe that we cannot truly change the experiences of women and queer and trans folx until we liberate the beliefs and behaviors of men,” the Women’s Center says, adding that it is committed to helping men “explore the many ways masculinity influences their lives.”
In order to free yourselves from the patriarchy, you must devote your every waking hour to obsessing about teh maleness.
I’ve explored my maleness extensively.
Story of my life
They’re so freaking tedious. Somebody needs to tell them that nobody cares and no amount of nagging and navel gazing will change that.
Can someone explain the new LBGTQ… habit of ending words with ‘x’ rather than the normal spelling? Does it have any specific meaning, or is it just, “look at this, it’s different and it’s ours”?
It means they’re hxc and sxe. They read comix and post lynx. xoxox
The ‘x’ is a place-holder for ‘o’ or ‘a’. In this case, it’s a shorthand for “folo and fola”.
gender neutral pronouns and preferred pronouns
Use wrong pronoun for transgender senior? California may punish you
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/19/use-wrong-pronoun-for-transgender-senior-california-may-punish.html
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The California state Senate is considering a bill that would punish health care workers up to a year in jail if they “willfully and repeatedly” decline to address a transgender resident with their “preferred name or pronouns.”
The bill, SB 219, proposed by San Francisco’s Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, is aimed at protecting transgender and other LGBT groups in health care sectors such as hospitals, retirement homes and housing institutions.
It establishes a number of provisions that would force such care facilities to accommodate transgender people and their needs, including letting them pick gender-specific restrooms and ensuring care workers use their preferred gender pronouns.
***
On second thought, let’s not go to California. ‘Tis a silly place.
It’s the eminent domain that was BS.
Yes. I guess I thought that was implied by the reference to “obstructionism” such as the objections on the part of property owners to being swept out of Ratner’s path.
Fair enough. I didn’t like the obfuscation in the article.
Forget the Confederate Statues for a Second, Where Are All the Monuments to America’s Progressive Heroes?
http://www.alternet.org/culture/where-are-all-monuments-progressive-americans
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Not surprisingly, most monuments celebrate political, business and military figures. You can criss-cross the country and find statues, schools, government and university buildings, museums, parks, and streets celebrating presidents, senators, governors, jurists, inventor-entrepeneurs, founders of major corporations, generals and fallen soldiers. But our veneration of them often comes at the expense of recognizing other citizens who had a major role in shaping our nation’s history.
Shouldn’t we also honor the organizers, activists, artists, writers, athletes, judges, and occasional elected officials who fought to make the United States a more humane and inclusive country? What about the pioneers who built movements and gave voice to the struggles for women’s suffrage, protecting the environment and consumers, putting an end to lynching, giving workers the right to form unions, and pushing for a progressive income tax, a federal minimum wage, old-age insurance, the 8-hour workday and government-subsidized health care and housing?
…
The list focuses on people whose influence was primarily during the 20th century — so Tom Paine, Daniel Shays, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, William Monroe Trotter, William Lloyd Garrison, Mother Jones, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry Demarest Lloyd, John Muir, Ida Wells, Terrence Powderly, Thorsten Veblen and Jacob Riis, among other radicals and reformers, are not included.
***
[face palm]
I must’ve just imagined this
Nice… watched North by Northwest last night…
My all time favorite movie. I’ve probably seen it over 100 times. I’d watch it again right now.
I’m not the biggest movie nut but I’ve seen it maybe 10 times? Which is a lot for me. Love it.
I’ve rewatched it a lot and I’m still picking up new things in it.
Same here! I am not one to pay full attention to a movie at home so that happens a lot. But this time I was paying closer attention to her and noted how Hitch got her just right.
ELIZABETH WARREN!
From my NPR / Jemele Hill link at the end of Secret Nazi Prez-
A common refrain from sports fans is that they’d wish the sports people would stick to sports. Hill rejects that idea.
“When you’re under the leadership of a president that refuses to condemn Nazis and racism, how am I supposed to function the rest of the day and pretend as if I give a s*** about Blake Bortles losing his job?” Hill said during a Sports Illustrated media panel. “That’s the conversation I’m having with myself on daily basis. I know there are sports fans looking for me to provide them with an ‘escape,’ but as a woman and person of color, I have no escape from the fact that there are people in charge who seem to be either sickened by my existence or are intent on erasing my dignity in every possible way. So today, my [Twitter] feed is probably a little edgier than it was. It’s reflective of all the emotion and conflict I feel. I think others feel the same way.”
“I’ll decide what my job is, you honkey cracker shitheads.”
But that’s wrong, you fucking dipshit.
Who can argue with the voices in her head?
Only a true Nazi would condemn Nazis.
This made me chuckle.
Oh, honey, you’re doing that on your own.
Quite the ditzy, paranoid, ignoramus this idiot is.
I, also, do not give a shit about Blake Bortles losing his job. Because he was a shit QB.
“When you’re under the leadership of a president that refuses to condemn Nazis and racism, how am I supposed to function the rest of the day and pretend as if I give a s*** about Blake Bortles losing his job?”
Then quit.
Spartans will be Jerks?
What’s the Right Punishment for Tearing Down a Confederate Monument?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/durham-confederate-monument-judicial-system-civil-disobedience/539004/
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The question of how to handle the statue removal operates on two levels. The first is mechanical: Do the charges on which Andrews arrested the suspects fit the crime? The second is more philosophical: What is the appropriate way for the justice system to deal with civil disobedience?
The first question is more directly operative, and perhaps simpler—though not necessarily simple. Under state law, the felony charges require both a riot and property damage of more than $1,500. Scott Holmes, an attorney for those who were arrested, argued that the incident doesn’t reach the bar for either.
“It doesn’t mean the legal definition of a riot,” said Holmes, who was present at the August 14 protest but left before the statue was toppled. “There was no violence, there was no threat of violence, the mood was celebratory.”
***
[head desk]
Celebratory mood
A fad that needs to catch on.
I could definitely get behind that.
You’re right, i would look good in that.
Are you a plumber?
He does lay pipe.
I see enough crack on the subway every commute.
I imagine that could be a bit drafty.
The second is more philosophical: What is the appropriate way for the justice system to deal with civil disobedience?
Freedom medals, with pretty ribbons. Ticker tape parades. Memorial statuary.
I’ve seen a few very polarized takes on the new “mother” flick by Aronofsky. Haven’t yet decided whether it’s worth checking out, but this review is pretty hot. Apparent spoilers(?).
From the fine folks at Current Affairs:
Defining Violence
The counterproductive consequences of calling every bad thing “violence”…
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/09/defining-violence
OK, maybe this won’t be so bad…
***
I am no longer sure what violence is. That’s a problem, because I’m pretty sure violence is a bad thing and needs to be stopped. It would therefore probably be good for me to know what it is.
The first bad sign for my understanding of violence came from Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, who once concluded that “Gandhi was more violent than Hitler.” Žižek explained that what he meant by this appalling statement was that while Hitler simply reinforced the capitalist order and took it to its extreme, Gandhi “effectively endeavored to interrupt the basic functioning of the British colonial state.” For Žižek, the word “violence” meant something like “disruption,” thus whether people were “violent” or not depended on whether they changed the world, and not at all on whether they happened to massacre six million or so of their fellow human beings.
***
OK, everyone turn around right now and don’t look back. This is just the first paragraph. It is only going to get much worse:
[Derpy solemnly trudges into the derp inferno like Spock entering the warp core]
Anyone who takes Zizek seriously needs to be slapped around. Anyone who reference Zizek as an authority on anything deserves to be slapped around.
I think that’s unfair. I thought his movie was great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ch5ZCGi0PQ
Has he published anything groundbreaking or even notable? I don’t understand why he’s referenced so often, other than he’s an entertaining character.
***
But let’s consider the case for “expansive” uses of the term violence. If it’s useful and informative to employ the word to describe many more things than are commonly seen as violence, then nothing should stop us from changing the definition. Since the meanings of words are not some inherent fixed part of the universe, they can be adapted as necessary.
***
[face palm]
***
The right-wing idea of “property destruction as violence” is not worth considering in much depth. First, in order to believe it, you have to think that destroying inanimate objects causes a similar type of harm to the destruction of human beings. Unless we buy the quasi-religious fiction of property as part of a person’s self, these two kinds of destruction are different in an obvious and significant way. Harm inflicted on the bodies of conscious beings, who can feel pain and suffering, does not have the same effects as harm inflicted on a pane of glass or fire hydrant. Calling acts of looting “violence” equates objects and people. Setting fire to a police car may be shocking, but so long as the car is the only one harmed, we have chaos but not violence. And the use of “violence” in this way is often merely just rhetoric deployed to paint “rioters” as morally bankrupt.
***
[head desk]
***
True violence is such a deeply terrible human experience. It leaves people with brain damage, nightmares, disability, and trauma. The destruction of human bodies is a moral horror that simply should not exist in the same category as the breaking of light fixtures, and applying “violence” to property destruction diminishes the term’s power. (It also immediately creates all kinds of contradictions that make it unworkable. What kind of harm to an object comprises violence? Is it a violent act to recreationally shoot a bottle with a BB gun? To take apart an air conditioner? If I eat your nachos while you are not looking, have I done violence to them?)
***
[face palm]
***
The left-wing expansion of “violence” follows a far more persuasive chain of reasoning. Generally it runs roughly as follows: certain social harms not traditionally labeled violence operate in the same way as violence. You can traumatize a person just as much with verbal abuse as by hitting them, and things like gentrification, privatization, neoliberalism, appropriation, etc. have effects that are just as harmful as physical violence.
***
[head desk]
so to sum up:
setting a car on fire- not violence
a bunch of white guys wearing sombreros at a Cinco de Mayo party- violence
***
vi·o·lence
ˈvī(ə)ləns/
noun
noun: violence
behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
***
Violence
every leftist’s argument first requires dismantling and destroying language so that their supporters are immune to any obvious rebuttals.
that giraffe-man/econ teacher @ John Jay did this in his interview w/ Tucker Carlson. Tucker was like, “do you think you have the right to use violence against people you disagree with”, and Giraffe boy was like, “I would describe it as the right to community-defense”.
Terms that can be used against them have to be neutered and made ‘problematic’.
That guy seriously has issues. I liked when Tucker asked him about any students who held a different view than him, and he said he had no problem with that. I find that hard to believe, that he endorses violence to oppose speech he doesn’t agree with in the streets but not in his own classroom. Bullshit.
Its actually very sensible (and even logical, according to lefty-logic)
if he were violent against someone in his classroom, he’d be acting as an individual, and that’s not ok
if he’s violent in the street, he’s acting as part of a mob, and he’s not individually responsible (*he’s acting to ‘defend’ someone else’s ‘safety’ which was threatened by bad speech), and that’s OK.
Does anyone know the words I’d have to tell this putz in order to put him in the ICU and on life support for the rest of his days?
“Hey, kid, get off your ass. I found you a job. As a steel worker”.
1. Say something that’s controversial because of the common connotations of the words used
2. Redefine the word so that you’ve said something actually-acceptable and thus the counterintuitive, controversial expression appears insightful
…
N. Profit
Orville WHACHAMACALL IT ALERT!
The food replicator on Orville makes cannabis edibles.
That’s probably not a spoiler–that’s the word I was looking for–but I’m just sayin’.
The replicator on Orville makes cannabis edibles.
Also shots of tequila.
Meant to record that. Oops.
Shouldn’t we also honor the organizers, activists, artists, writers, athletes, judges, and occasional elected officials who fought to make the United States a more humane and inclusive country? What about the pioneers who built movements and gave voice to the struggles for women’s suffrage, protecting the environment and consumers, putting an end to lynching, giving workers the right to form unions, and pushing for a progressive income tax, a federal minimum wage, old-age insurance, the 8-hour workday and government-subsidized health care and housing?
Of course, the notion of grateful “progressives” voluntarily pooling their resources in order to erect such statues on their own initiative never occurs the this idiot. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure the overwhelming majority of the statues which these people find so upsetting were erected with private funds.
They* should do something about that!
*Oh, they means Us? Hmm…
Patriot Prayer rally cost SF nearly $1 million, Mayor Lee to seek reimbursement
Here let me fix the headline. Antifa assault on free speech supported by San Francisco officials cost the city nearly $1 million.
Fuck. You. So glad I left that shithole.
We were compelled to counter and riot. We lack agency and autonomy!
Linked without comment.
http://archive.is/gNf8C
52.
It’s not fun flipping between football and ball game.
The only game that mattered is over. I didn’t catch the final score though and my internet is out. How did Denver/Dallas turn out?
*hat tip Playa
Since the meanings of words are not some inherent fixed part of the universe, they can be adapted as necessary.
The obituary of 21st century Western Civilization.
Tariq Nasheed ✔ @tariqnasheed
The
Fact
That
Jemele
Hill
Got
In
Trouble
For
Calling
Out
White
Supremacy
PROVES
The
Problem
With
White
Supremacy
11:03 PM – Sep 12, 2017
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Who.
IS.
THIS
IDIOTO?
8.9 billion people liked that?
-1 comma
If Trump was a white supremacist wouldn’t we have heard SOMETHING in his 30+ years in the public eye as a business mogul?
Can someone really hide this for that long?
That’s, like, half Japan’s population right?
I have no idea. They use some four digit comma placement for numbers. 1,2000,0000 Whatever that is.
Jesus… I hope your job doesn’t involve “money” in any way.
I do contract work for the government. Now you understand.
Look on the bright side. We are witnessing a great moment in history. The left is imploding Trading Places style.
“TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4SRsGn14PI
Someone who knows how to get ahead on social media.
The
Fact
That
Tariq
Nasheed
Gets
Away
With
This
Crap
PROVES
Racism
Is
Profitable
“Given Trump’s own racist rhetoric toward Mexicans, Muslims, and African Americans, the cozy relationship he has enjoyed with Steve Bannon, and the fact that Ku Klux Klan endorsed him for president, one is hard-pressed to find the lie in Hill’s words. But what far too many white Americans hate more than racism itself is being called racist.”
I see intellectualism is in solid hands over at Cosmopolitan. Hill should change job if she cares so much about race.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a12242564/jemele-hill-espn-trump-white-supremacist/
I could eat alphabet soup and shit something more coherent.
They’re entering the gibberish-generating logic machine stage.
There’s a lot of tripping over their own logic and it’s hilarious to read.
Hill screamed affirmative action hire to me.
If you hate being called “racist” more than being “racist”, you must be a racist.
Getting offended at getting called racist PROVES you’re a racist!
We kid, but you’ve basically explained exactly what they believe.
There’s no doubt this is how they think.
So now I’m just in total don’t give a shit and fuck off mode.
Hill, Lee, Kaepernick, BLM etc. – all of them. Fuck off.
I’m sure Jemele hates being called a child molester.
I can see why some people might take offense to his comments about Mexicans and Muslims, but what did he ever say about blacks?
Out loud?
My guess is that he’s a pro-police kind of guy (one of my legitimate libertarian gripes with him) and since the Black Lives Matter types think that police violence only affects black people, that makes him a racist.
They are all welcome to become members of my golf courses if they can afford the dues?
“Look at my African-american over there.” and …….
That’s all I got.
Also, the case against Steve Bannon is essentially this:
1) Bannon was an editor at Breitbart
2) Alt-right elements came to see Breitbart favorably
3) Alt-right contains white supremacists among its numbers
4) Bannon is a white supremacist!
Just like a proof in geometry!
Lemma see if I understand this correctly ….
If I have to listen to more derp tonight, I’m going to have a corollary.
Bannon was more than an editor, he was/is the chairman/president or something. Also he was the host of their radio show and for a while they self-identifies as the voice of the Alt-right. This was early on before the term was widely used and had white-supremacist connotations. I listened to his show often and I can say he never came across as racist, just a big government guy (as long as his side was in control) and he has a hard on for war with China.
Bannon doesn’t really care about whether government is big or small; as long as your campaign is anti-establishment in some way, he’ll have your full support. I think a lot of small-government types could actually benefit from his funding: just say that you’re on board with the “Trump agenda” and the populists and keep the rest of your principles in tact.
Some of the commentariat have observed that one of the biggest issues that the left might be having post-2016 apocalypse is that black voters are not showing up in the same numbers as in the past (probably because of the insanity of leftist identity politics), and that a minority of them might finally start to crossover to the “bigot team”. Well, it might actually be happening, and they may not be the same “useful idiot” bloc that progs have counted on in the past.
Oops, that was supposed to be a main post, not a reply.
Logic has come to be understood as a more intersectional discipline. It can’t be considered apart from understanding how it impacts and intersects with the intentional and incidental structural struggles plaguing indigenous cultures and queer bodies, and otherwise contributes to the dominance of patriarchy by means of a ‘shock doctrine’ of bigotry and minority-identity erasure.
Nothing really, the left just loves a caricature. So Trump just can’t dislike Mexicans and Muslims, he has to want to shuffle the gays and blacks into cattle cars.
Here he is with a couple of racists who have made themselves rich by exploiting black people.
So this is just a thing now.
What about all his racist rhetoric toward gays? What about THAT?
Thank you, Cosmo and Teen Vogue, for showing me the righteous path.
Colin Kaepernick ✔ @Kaepernick7
We are with you @jemelehill ✊?
10:32 PM – Sep 12, 2017
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Straffinrun,
I’m going on a big trip with my Dad for his 70th. I want to take him to Japan, but he’s worried about the lack of English among locals. Something to worry about?
That is something to embrace. It makes things more interesting.
Geez. just go to the Poconos.
I don’t have a problem with it, just trying to help him out.
It’s cool you are doing that for him. My sis and I took our folks on trips for their 70’ths. My folks would be freaked by that also where nobody spoke english. They lead pretty sheltered lives though. Very sheltered actually.
Not a problem. Using public transportation can be confusing and most menus in restaurants don’t have English or have nonsensical English words. The people, as you probably know, are extremely polite to furriners, so there really isn’t any danger apart from getting the wrong food or taking the wrong train and ending up in Fukushima. Depends on your Dad, however. Can he roll with the punches or is he a, “Why the hell do they do it like this!?” kind of guy?
A lot of restaurants, at least in the touristy areas, have plastic food displays. Worst case, just take a picture with your cell phone before going in. Lots of English or Romaji and at least in Tokyo, prep for 2020 Olympics and influx of foreign visitors.
Biggest thing I would suggest is make sure you have working cellular data, either roaming (Sprint) or pick up a short term data only SIM for your phone (either at the airport – Narita has vending machines, or shipped to your hotel, or go to a store.
A lot of people like Hyperdia for using public transport but I found Google Maps easier to use and pretty accurate. Pick up an IC card, either Suica or Passmo they’re mostly interoperable at this point, at the airport or at a train/subway station. Depending where you’re going a JR rail pass may save you money or same with day tickets but the IC cards for local travel make life so easy.
Between Google Maps and Translate, both my wife and I have survived (and enjoyed) with almost no Japanese on our first trip.
The Japan forum on Flyertalk has lots of good info for visitors and lots of first timers asking questions that might be of assistance. Or ask here.
And if you learn any one phrase make it “where’s the toilet”.
Where’s the western toliet? if you want to do that. Still lots of squat toilets, especially in unremodeled/smaller train stations. On the other hand, being able to walk into random office buildings and go down to a shopping arcade in B1F and use a washlet with heated seats after freezing out in biting wind is like heaven on earth. All clean and no graffiti.
My favorite memory of China was exiting a squatter inside the big touristy Chinese opera house in Xi’an along with an old German fart and the look on his face was priceless.
oh man, that reminds me. Back in 2012, my MIL took the family to Japan to visit her family, and then promptly lost the entire packet leaving Narita. Sadly it was never found/returned, so that was JR passes and all that down the drain. We still managed. Sticking to the cities is far easier for non-speakers – I’d have had problems on my own in the family town, but Osaka was fine.
Also, Q, if you do decide to make the trip, let me know. I’m sure I could come up with a few things for you guys to do that is family friendly. As for the English, it really isn’t much of a problem. Just get a PASMO card at the station or airport like Gustave mentioned.
Well, time to change your breakfast habits.
I stopped there.
An aside – my browser is loaded up with AdBlock and video auto-play block and FlashBlock & none of it does shit anymore on a growing number of sites. That fucking site just brought my computer to a stop. Fuck you, the internet.
Am I missing something? What’s so terrible about that line?
The redefinition of the word “crime”?
Meh, it’s been used to mean “something most people consider wrong or unethical” for a long time.
Eventually all words become neutralized mush, I guess. It’s incredible and I’m not happy about it.
Then again, you’re the linguist
Enh, not really. Just undergrad.
Well, you’re a linguisht, then. More than I can say. (Though I’ve listened to a few of John McWhorter’s lectures, so I’m kind of an expert.)
PROTIP: Every criticism he has levied against the weak form of Sapir-Worf/linguistic relativism is wrong. So wrong. Mind-numbingly wrong. Wronger than wrong. The wrongest wrong that ever wronged.
I’m more familiar with his punditry, to be honest. And it’s largely pretty good from what I can remember. Unlike that other guy who dabbles in it.
this article is a pretty good run-down:
https://psmag.com/social-justice/dozen-words-misunderstood-language-linguistics-79600
Bascially, McWhorter cites things like tests where speakers with more words for colors cannot distinguish colors significantly faster than speakers of languages with fewer color words.
Language definitely influences the way people think. People whose first language lacks articles have a hard time learning one the does have them and vice versa. Arabic for example, has a definite article but no indefinite article, and most students whose first language is English have a hard time figuring out how to deal with that.
***
Chinese syntax is particularly bare in this regard, and its speakers regularly say sentences of the form “he go store,” without explicit marking of time, evidence, or much else. Yet no one considers Chinese speakers especially lacking in discernment. McWhorter encourages us to see linguistic structures as nothing more than products of “chance,” and to accept that we are all “mentally alike.”
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First off, not true. Chinese uses particles to indicate tense and mood.
le- completed action, change of state
ba- indicates commands and suggestions
zhe- indicates an action in progress
We are all mentally alike? That is the most patently wrong observation about human behavior that could ever be made.
I think the hyperbole is fairly clear there. I’m pretty sure the writer isn’t actually saying giving ice cream to kids for breakfast is a crime.
A ‘Sin’, maybe. Or a pecadillo. But not a crime.
Yeah, I get it. My hackles were raised, though.
uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and a properly hardened version of Chromium seems to have been adequate.
Thanks, I’ll check those out.
OK, the first two plugins aren’t helping on that site.
“Properly hardened version of Chromium” is something I will have explore another day.
Rhywun, ScriptBlocker for Chrome works pretty well, IME. And did so for that site. You have to use Chrome, of course. It’s also pretty laborious determining which of the 18 scripts is preventing you from reading what you want. So it goes.
Alternately, you might want to try Opera as a browser. Opera Mini knocks a lot of website hijinks out (and bollixes a lot of their text layout, so it isn’t perfect. Decent for a tablet where you just want to read, though.)
A food with plenty of carbs and fat to start the day, might possibly be good for kids? Quelle horreur.
“I looked at the ingredients: Eggs!…Wheat!…Milk! That’s nutrition!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL1VfPlVuCE
Only democratic schools will save us
If we want a robust democracy, daily decisions in schools need be left to the people who know local needs best
http://www.salon.com/2017/09/17/only-democratic-schools-will-save-us-2/
Ah, so parents, right?
***
Selling out our public schools in this manner effectively shreds the social contract upon which our democracy depends. As someone who has spent a lifetime struggling against the top-down and impersonal tendencies of our public bureaucracies, I am the first to acknowledge that there is much room for improvement! Nevertheless, it is important to keep in mind that the guiding principles underlying our public institutions—imperfect though they may be—are based on the assumption that we all share interest in a common good. The guiding principles of the free market are profit and individual self-interest.
***
[head desk]
***
Some proponents of the charter and, now, voucher movements truly believe that private-sector values and practices will address educational inequities by cutting through public school bureaucracy to provide poor students with more and better choices; others simply see school privatization as an opportunity to cash in on public dollars. In reality, the closing of our public schools is part of a larger trend toward allowing some cities and towns to become dystopian shells, vulnerable to crumbling or collapsed infrastructure and increasingly toxic living environments for those who have been left behind. At the same time, other cities are becoming unaffordable even for the middle class.
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Remind me again who’s been running these cities?
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Corporate reformers have used the notion of failure as a cudgel to justify dismantling our public schools and turning everything into a business proposition. Educators who enter the profession because they are passionate about helping children are now held hostage to bottom lines, higher test scores, greater efficiency, and so forth to prove that they are not contributing to school failure. In all too many instances, however, the failure of public schools to meet the needs of their poor and minority students should rightly be attributed to a lack of human and material resources that schools serving wealthy communities provide, a problem that DeVos’s proposed 2018 education budget would assuredly magnify.
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[face palm]
It’s already a business proposition, motivated by profit and self-interest. It’s just that there’s little need/incentive to cater directly to customers (i.e. students and parents), so they get chaff. They don’t profit, i.e. with a good education for the money, while those bureaucrats and boondogglers who provide nothing do.
Grrr.
“Allowing”. Hm. I’m sure the fact that infrastructure costs in, say NYC, are 10x those in similar European cities has nothing to do with that whatsoever.
Derpetologist, I wasn’t going to say anything, but I’ve been very concerned about you. Your head desk and face palms have been increasing in both frequency and severity recently. Blunt trauma to the head can cause a significant loss of brain cells over time. Please think about installing some foam padding on your desk and wearing a boxing glove on your facepalming hand. If not for yourself, do it for us.
I’m going off the grid for a few weeks starting Tuesday, so I’m working overtime.
I think he’s going to go nuts like Nietzsche did and start writing us all insane letters.
Someone needs to take up Agile Cyborg’s mantle
I think Festus is doing that in a way.
I’m going all out- news clippings, red yarn, walls covered in scrawled gibberish, Polaroids of strangers, chalkboards with equations- the whole shebang!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5pD5L5BUEw
Unsportsmanlike Conduct on Green Bay Head Coach.
Lol.
NBC was coming in too fuzzy for me tonight so I gave up on football watching. What did he do?
Arguing with the refs, apparently. ATL had a good pick and that pissed GB off, and he was unhappy with a call. Dude looked like he was gonna have a grabber
Why do I get the picture you’re watching the game in a lighthouse on a TV with rabbit ears as you sip hootch?
Also, fuck NBC. It’s a tie between NBC and ESPN for the network that roots against sent Atlanta team
Sent=any. I’m all thumbs on this phone
If I had a dollar for every time these NBC announcers accused a Falcon of faking an injury, I could, well, probably buy a beer but you get my meaning
During Colts/Cards, Colts fans were booing a pretty silly roughing the passer call and continued to do so after a long pass and touchdown.
One of the commentators said, live on air “They can boo as much as they want, the ball would still be inside the 15.”
1) That’s probably not true
2) Sneering at fans is a bad look
Lena Dunham and Rap. It’s a winning combination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H51HuNX41Fg
Hillary Clinton and pop music. It’s a winning combination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YttscNOoAjA
Some of the commentariat have observed that one of the biggest issues that the left might be having post-2016 apocalypse is that black voters are not showing up in the same numbers as in the past (probably because of the insane post-Obama demagoguery), and that a minority of them might finally start to crossover to the “bigot team”. Well, it might actually be happening, and they may not be the same “useful idiot” bloc that progs have counted on in the past.
i believe the post-trump-election screeching from the media about how it was “White Working Class” that made trump president was really a way of twisting away from ever talking about the fact that black voters just didn’t show up at all in many counties.
there were a few articles that touched on it generally, like this
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/08/low_black_turnout_may_have_cost_clinton_the_election.html
but there were some that looked at specific counties in michigan, and it was stark: fewer showed up to vote than at any time since … ever.
and these same places had clinton polling well. it wasn’t that they didn’t like her. it was that they didn’t give a fuck.
I also think the whole constant screeching about ‘white supremecy’ is entirely about this. the left is absolutely shitting themselves in panic that they might be turning off their most important demographic.
and the worse part is that some even realize that they can’t say, “But look at all we’ve done for you!”. the only game they’ve got is “make the other-guy look worse”
you can’t spell underperforming without derp!
OK, that’s TWO lines I’m stealing from you, the first being ‘I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and shit out something more coherent.’
Maybe you should be doing MORE facepalming and headdesking….
In case you were still wondering why voter turnout in NYC is so low.
Wtf. If you were that rich, wouldn’t you just pay the extra freaking $1,100/mo to avoid having that political liability? Or are they just doing it purely to fuck over taxpayers out of spite? I really don’t see another option.
There is no political liability when the machine has your back.
Hell look at the Clintons. They could have made millions just doing the speaking circuit, but they had to also also have their foundation on the side. Now even if everything with the foundation was on the up and up, it still created the appearance of impropriety. They just thought everybody worth mattering about wouldn’t care.
Gratuitous link, My Latest, Sphere
B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptg5I5UCb4Q&t=23s
So I see the awful Handmaid’s Tale did really well at the Emmys, often eclipsing Westworld… ugh. Not that I actually give a shit about award shows, but I view all the totally undeserving praise heaped upon it as yet another disturbing sign of the times.
But at least we can rest easy knowing that there are no real places ruled by violent religious fanatics where women live as second class citizens and various minorities are brutalized.
Apart from Trump’s Amerikkka, you mean?
If I’d done predictions for every category based purely on “hollywood politics” I’d have done well — not just Handmaid’s Tale, but SNL, John Oliver and jfc, Samantha Bee for “writing” (gag). all won something. Also Veep, which is at least a more equal-opportunity basher. But I didn’t watch the Emmys show, since Colbert is an insufferable panderer and I’d rather play freaking Candy Crush than watch that.
This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwoS_7j9B9Y guy fucking gets it.
I’m still awake for some reason, and rewatching Mr. Plinkett’s Revenge of the Sith video for some reason when yet another fix to the Prequels pops into my head.
During the speech where scarred Palpatine announces the new Galactic Empire, seeing it this time made me wonder: why did Padme not just lose her shit right then and there? That’s her old colleague from Naboo taking a massive dump on her beloved democracy. She could have made a big stink about it, gotten hauled off, then brought before Palaptine in his secret quarters where he gives her a classic bad guy speech, the kind where he gloats about all of his evil plans coming together. And of course, his walls are festooned with evil-looking Sith relics – including the Darth Vader suit. In the midst of that speech he reveals that Anakin has just become his new apprentice and he’s doing all sorts of evil things too. Naturally, she doesn’t believe it. Go, he says, see for yourself. He lets her go; she’s no threat whatsoever to him.
Then later, when Obi-Wan confronts her with the truth about Anakin, her denial is much more weighty. For the sake of her state of mind, this can’t be true: she’s got twins on the way, the Republic is crumbling, and now two people have told her that her husband is an evil homicidal maniac. To have a good guy like Obi-Wan confirm something that the evil Palpatine said would really send her a lot closer to the edge – and would give more credence to her losing the will to live at the end. Also, that little scene would show, without having to put a fine point on it, why Palpatine just so happens to have a Vader suit ready to go when Anakin gets burned on Lavaworld.
Not bad.
I don’t like how Palpatine gained his appearance by being ‘scarred’ in a fight. It always seemed to me that it was the effects of the Dark Side, like some kind of super-alcoholism, that gradually turned him into a walking ghoul. That would make the DS seem much more pernicious, I would think.
I think one of the zillion SW books from the 90’s explained his appearance in just that way. I wish they’d gone that route in the movie – he could have simply deteriorated throughout the prequels, where he doesn’t look like his ROTJ self at the end of Ep. 3 but it’s clear he’s going to.