Because it’s Sunday, the Candy household is battening down the hatches and preparing for a football marathon. SP has her cheesehead hat ready, OMWC has his Ravens toque and pillow, and webdominatrix is rolling her eyes and making preparations to spend her day elsewhere. Cooking and drinking to commence shortly. Here’s the ones we’re watching: I’m predicting Ravens over the Browns, 112-0, because apparently you can’t get negative points in a football game. Denver-Dallas is one of those games where I want them both to lose, so it’s an absolute hate-watch. Green Bay-Atlanta ought to be a terrific game if they both show up.
On to today’s news. One of the few things planned by the Trump administration which I could heartily support is the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords (which, in usual political dishonesty, by its name assumes the answer). Then suddenly, it was announced that the US was staying in. Then it was announced the the US is still getting out, “unless we can re-enter on terms more favorable to our country.” If part of the art of the deal is seeming like everything is in total confusion, well, this must be it. And there ARE no favorable terms to a political document that masquerades as science. It just needs to be taken behind the barn and beaten to death with an ax.
In the Equifax brouhaha, two executives announced their “retirements.” The terms of the golden parachutes were not announced, but when they are, OMWC predicts many commas in the numbers. Only the police unions take care of their own as well. One annoying thing about much of the news coverage is the sneering credentialism regarding the Chief Security Officer. “He doesn’t even have a DEGREE in security!” Well, no, but he’s a fuckup because he’s a fuckup, not because of the presence or absence of a piece of paper with a ribbon and seal on it. I always think of the Wizard of Oz at times like this.
California’s foie gras ban is upheld. The reaction of chefs is predictable and more than a little hypocritical.
“Nobody likes to get held from cooking things that they usually love and not only that, but this is something customers love, too,” [chef and Food Network drone Eric] Greenspan said. “Don’t eat it if you don’t want to, but don’t impede on anyone’s rights to do what they want to do. Foie gras is one of those things to me that connects classic food to modern food and it’s been going on for so long and such a part of so many great classic cuisines that it will be missed.
“Let’s ban assault rifles before we ban foie gras if you want to talk about cruelty,” he said.
Headline: Girl Gets Shitfaced, Locks Herself In Freezer, Lawyers Salivate, Community Activists Bloviate. This has been going on for several days, but now there’s not even a pretense that this is about anything beyond a payday.
In boxing news, Floyd Mayweather is now suspected of being a Secret Nazi and Rape Apologist.
OK, more music from my hippie days, easily the best song Deep Purple ever did. A simple I-IV-V 12 bar blues, but jesus they could cook.
Comments
383 responses to “Sunday Morning Holy Day Links”
Ya know, Trump had only a few things he had to do to be better the Obama, Paris was one of those. If he keeps us in that shit show he will lose more votes than he gains.
I think it is clear at this point that if there was ever an anti DC ‘swamp’ part of Trump, it has been fully converted by the tendrils of the deep state.
I think Trump is the sort of fella who thinks every idea that he hears is literally the best idea he’s ever heard in his life. Like a college freshman who changes his mind with every lecture. Whoever’s got his ear at any given moment is liable to have their pitch turned into policy, and then reversed when the next guy walks in the door.
Indeed. Now that all the alt-rightists have been expunged from his administration, don’t expect him to do anything your typical Rockefeller republican wouldn’t do. Maybe immigration? Sounds like he’s going ‘make a deal’ on that too.
“I think Trump is the sort of fella who thinks every idea that he hears is literally the best idea he’s ever heard in his life.”
Right up until it goes wrong and someone gets fired for it.
“Here’s my idea Mr. President, we nail that door shut and plaster right over it.”
I believe you are correct. Bannon was a toolbag, but he was an anti-establishment toolbag, he removal was a minor palace coup. Whodathunk that the swamp is more powerful than a single impulsive man?
Florida Man.
and yes, he’s actually thunks it.
Fair point.
Him getting out of that was a fantastic day. He actually did something right that took guts, and was 90% of the reason I was gonna vote for him in 2020. If any part of this thing remains, that’s not happening.
I didn’t vote for him this time, if he had accomplished certain things then I would have considered voting for him in 2020, but as time passes it seems likelier that I won’t vote, will conditionally vote for the libertarian or vote for the Rock.
I’m not voting for GayJay again.
Damn
Something was actually cut
I won’t either, But if some actual firebrand like MCafee gets the nom I would. Who am I kidding? it’ll be another team red washup or no name.
McAfee would be great. No chance of winning but no one with an L beside their name has a chance.
My thoughts, pretty much. McAfee would rip some people, and generally be entertaining and unafraid of confrontation.
The country’s come a long way the last few years, most people could care less if a woman is attracted to other women.
It’s one of the easiest things for him to do. All he has to do is weather the crying tantrum. Why waver and cave to something so meaningless?
Also first.
Don’t I get at least an honorary First for actually hauling my ass out of bed early on Sunday morning to write this shit?
You are first in war, first in peace, and first in the vacant space where our heart’s should be.
Also first in the candy van.
You’ll always be first with me, OMWC. But I’m out of bed earning dollars.
Oh you get credit OMWC. Ugh I dragged my ass out of bed at 4am as usual but still buzzed from last night. I think I had one or two too many. You are a credit to Glibs sir.
Organ meat is disgusting.
That’s why I don’t eat it.
I don’t give the flyingest fuck what anybody else eats.
I like liverwurst.
Especially the real stuff:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leberwurst
*stuffs leftover fried chicken liver into mouth*
G’ Mornin’ Pat
Gonna be honest, never had Chicken liver, what’s an analogous taste, if applicable
I cant think of anything analogous. It has a unique flavor and is immensely satisfying. Crunchy on the outside, soft and meaty on the inside, very tasty and hot doused with tabasco sauce.
At least once per month wife and I make a meal out of fried chicken livers. Yum. Perfect saturday night finger food while watching movies.
Everything tastes like chicken.
Now that’s livin’. I love fried chicken livers dipped in ketchup with some hot sauce.
^This^
Yep, fried chicken livers done right are the food of the gods.
Yeah, I’m not a huge foie gras fan. Had it a few times, and it doesn’t agree with me.
When you’ve lost Alex Jones…
https://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-punches-trump/
The embedded video is gone so I looked it up on YouTube and I larfed.
Poor Christian Gentner.
There’s video of it on Youtube, for the non-squeamish. Gentner broke his maxilla, nose, and eye socket in the clash.
“Only the quick thinking of VfB Stuttgart’s team doctor rescued captain Christian Gentner, who swallowed his tongue in a horror clash in Saturday’s Bundesliga game against Wolfsburg.”
Terrible sentence structure.
Other than that crazy incident.
Hard to get highlights of the incident. Saw frame b frame photographs though. Ugly.
There’s this one, although I don’t know how long it will be up:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gOSELTP3MDQ
It pisses me off that journalists are such shitty writers. We all know that they’re total dunderheads when it comes to politics, guns, science, culture, or anything else they report on, but if they have those fancy degrees, shouldn’t they be able to assemble a clear, coherent sentence? What the fuck were all those classes they took?
What the fuck were all those classes they took?
How to Be a Marxist 301?
Blacking out and waking up naked in a frat’s basement on a Tuesday 224?
Congress, don’t allow gun lobby to force deregulation of gun silencers
Ohs Noes, it’ll be just like a James Bond/Jason Bourne movie. Criminals will wield whisper quiet weapons and slaughter millions with legal silencers! Nevermind that a bottle full of steel wool or a pillow can serve a similar and cheaper purpose.
The civil right here is the right to own a suppressor.
Uh oh, the resistance to this is being mobilized. Now let’s watch the brave Republicans fold like a damn lawn chair.
Silencers are magical, just like the internet. If people see how to make a bomb on the internet, you know they’re going to do it. If they can get hold of a silencer, the first thing they’ll do is play sniper in real life.
Of course, given that guns are evil demons, the silencer would immediately enhance the weapons agency, allowing it to seize even greater control of any poor soul who should come across it. Imagine a silence suppressing some poor bastard.
Trannies vs. vaginaed feminists.
The transgender issue is the most sensitive in Britain today
Not terrorism. Not abortion. Not immigration. Not speech restrictions. Not euthanasia. The transgender issue is the most sensitive in Britain today.
Well yeah, someone might get offended!
Not their shitty healthcare.
Not hundreds of children being sexually molested by Muslims.
I love the woman in the red jacket who is beaming, blissfully unaware of the whole scuffle.
I love how I knew before checking out the link that at least one person involved had blue/pink/purple hair.
I wonder why that is.
Is it code for something? Besides “I make bad life decisions”, I mean.
A symbol of their revolt against the natural order of the world?
Actually it can be. At my alma matter the lgbtqia folks kinda wore the hair as a gang color, with shades reflecting faction/orientation. Of course that may have been a trend an was not true across the board.
Like if I’m a gender fluid attack helicopter, I could sculpt my hair in the shape of my true for and dye it rainbow-colored.
Thats awesome. Kind of like getting an ama-gi tattooed on your face.
Well it was a persistent trend, and my school was about 60/40 gay/straight. People wanted to advertise their identity, and feel special, the fact that a hundred other people were doing it was irrelevant.
She would get hired on site by our local Starbucks. Right now only 3 of their 7 employees have pink and green hair. It’s a crisis.
I also love when these leftist idiots turn on each other. Soon enough BLM and antifa will be killing each other off in the streets. I think they’re fighting over who the most specialist snowflakes are.
I think I’d better be making a pilgrimage to Independence Hall before they decide to tear it down as a symbol of hate.
The worst religious was are always fought by those within the same faith.
*wars.
She would get hired on site by our local Starbucks.
I’m still waiting for them to introduce barista telecommuting.
Sight, smartass!
you can make fun of the em tag I fucked up downthread if it helps.
*grumbles about edit feature, takes another drink of coffee*
*Edit Fairy stands to*
Worst adaptation of West Side Story ever.
Is it all downhill from 35?
As a man, it is also typically when you stop gaining strength and start losing it. Women can look forward to osteoporosis.
Just nature’s way of telling you to die.
But luckily for UK residents, they also have the NHS to tell them to die.
WTF? 35 is the perfect age for women to put the soles of their bare feet in my palms.
Damn, I am still drunk from last night. I better go back to bed.
Meh – I’m mid-40s and stronger than I was in my mid-30s. Recovery – hangovers! though are a lot more wicked – which means longer recovery time.
But I will admit that yes, I hate my job with a passion. I’m thinking of Career #2 – something different like “boat mechanic”. Anything to get me out of the office.
Career #2 for me will be in agriculture.
I’m looking at shipyard welder in a few years – I think 40’s a good time to start a second career – and a few years after that will give me my 20 with the reserves.
I’m hoping for the same second career track
It’ll come as no surprise to many of you, but I’d like my career #2 to be somewhat more “hands on” so to speak, in ‘specialist entertainment’.
Oh .. wait .. I’m already on Career #3…..
somewhat more “hands on” so to speak, in ‘specialist entertainment’.
A prostitute with a focus on Army bases?
Nearly. I was thinking interstate trailer stops…
OK, more music from my hippie days
Pushing that organ through a stack of Marshalls makes such a rich, weird sound. I like when he held that lower note, and you could hear the whumpf whumpf whumpf of the organ
Whew, well glad I know now.
https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/11/lessons-white-privilege-poc/
List dubious point, support with anecdotal evidence. Hey, if it pays the bills…
Given the financial state of EF, L’m inclined to doubt it does that much these days.
1. I Have the Privilege of (Generally) Having a Positive Relationship with the Police
Stopped reading there.
I read the whole things, grudgingly. But that’s def BS. I get an adrenaline rush every time I see a cop, I get have-to-smoke-a-cig nervous if one is behind me.
The only people who have a generally positive relationship with the police are people who have never had occasion to deal with them. Which could be thought of as a type of privilege, I suppose, but has entirely to do with wealth, class and culture rather than race.
Yeah, grew up shit poor, dealt with the cops once too often, saw my mom get pulled over for driving an ancient church donated jalopy. I generally never had a positive interaction and learned early on that the uniform was largely a costume for bullies.
They like screwing with poor people. An old jalopy will get pulled over 50:1 compared to a stereotypical black drug dealer ride.
Truth. After my worthless pop bounced, my mom had to drive charity cars from a local church, the cops never ceased tailing us and pulled us over several time for minor infractions that I’ve managed to get away with as an adult driving a nicer car.
The only people who have a generally positive relationship with the police are
people who have never had occasion to deal with themcops.It’s funny. I saw two college friends yesterday and found out that they had become cops. It took some effort to hide my disgust. I used to think, we’ll talk the bad cops are the ones I didn’t know. But as I talk more and more, I realize that their social bubble just reaffirms the attitudes that make police departments toxic. They might be good individuals but the profession is entirely toxic.
You gotta swallow your stash. Then you’ll feel fine.
This is comedy gold.
LOL
Can you imagine being around people who talk like that all of the time?
It’d be hell.
One of my wife’s friends is in a non monogamous relationship. She’s the third in am open marriage between two trans people, NTTAWWT. She always comes away seeming less satisfied with life than even her other gay friends in ‘traditional’ relationships.
Those types of relationships just seem like a recipe for disaster. I’d imagine they don’t all turn out bad but the odds of a crash have to be pretty high.
I’ve always heard that you should only do that if you don’t really give a crap about the relationship anymore and just want to have some fun. Human jealousy eventually kicks in and fucks everything up.
I’ve known 2 couples in my life that had the sort of open marriage thing going. In both instances, one of them wound up running off with someone else. I guess it really works for some people, but I doubt that’s the majority.
I guess it really works for some people
To the same extent that you can always find some creep attracted to some of the most horrifying, humiliating and degenerate stuff.
Open marriages seem to be a combination of the shittiest parts of marriage with the shittiest parts of being single.
That does seem to be true, especially if you’re a man. Your wife is probably not going to be laying you very much since she can get some new cock every weekend, yet you’ll still get ass-raped in divorce court when she decides she wants to marry somebody else.
As usual, I don’t care what consensual sexual arrangements people want to have, but I have the strongest possible disrespect for people who would do the open marriage thing when they still have small children living at home. I know of one couple who did that. Fuck them. If I had ever met these people in real life, I would have told them they are fucking up their kids, then I would shun them so hard for all of eternity.
As usual, I don’t care what consensual sexual arrangements people want to have, but I have the strongest possible disrespect for people who would do the open marriage thing when they still have small children living at home.
This in its entirety.
I haven’t had very much exposure to folks in open marriages, but the limited exposure I have had left me with the impression that they have a lot invested in the idea that they’re no different from a traditional family. Any suggestion that fidelity within the marriage is a core component to the marriage and to the family tends to set them off on some sort of rant/tirade/lecture reminiscent of a vegan.
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https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/09/did-assault-make-you-queer/
Imma hit you so hard, you’ll turn gay.
I know it isn’t about that kind of assault, but yeah.
“My first rape preceded my interest in romantic relationships or thoughts about my sexual orientation. ”
Just like STEVE SMITH.
What is the acceptable line now? Is “queerness” inborn or is it a reactionary or learned behavior? I just can’t keep up with this stuff.
“My first rape”
Are there any statistics on people who get raped more than once? That’s got to be rare. And I’d imagine that the most common is the situation of a family member sexual about abusing another.
Wich brings me to my point. If true then this person has my sympathies and I can admire how well they have Coped (I mean writing about it on the internet seems terrifying). But the thing is that there are a lot of types who streach the meaning of rape to include things that aren’t. And that drives me crazy because it makes it harder to believe when anyone says that it happened to them.
As most rape is committed by family members, I would imagine the stats are fairly high. Creepy Uncle Joe ain’t settlin’ for a one time thing.
Well then I guess I was wrong.
Where the hell are all of these Tulpas coming from?
Tulpa finally perfected cloning?
The correct pluralization is Tulpae.
Heh, that’s good.
If you’re not drinking Pedialyte to prevent or cure your hangovers, you’re doing it wrong. Miracle elixier that stuff is.
I go for a lot of B12 before, water during and after, B12 after and then a load of greasy food right before bed.
I think B12 and C are the vitamins most depleted during a heavy bout of boozin.
You wusses are doing it wrong. The cure for alcohol induced hangover is alcohol.
I like the cut of your jib, but my lever does protest something awful at the thought.
Yep, OMWC can correct me if I’m wrong, but as I understand it, your body uses b12 to convert alcohol to sugar and depletes it, leaving you not only dehydrated but without a needed vitamin.
Benadryl will cure a hangover, but will also make you drowsy. The dehydration thing is best avoided by not drinking beer.
Isn’t that basically Gatorade for kids?
It has more potassium than Gatorade as well as zinc and some other minerals that you’re pissing out by drinking heavily. It also doesn’t have any sugar. I stopped drinking sports drinks and switched to it after workouts or during hikes or any other dehydrating activities (on top of just plain ol’ water). It’s great stuff.
I’m going to have to give it a shot. I’ve been known to have the occasional hangover several times a week.
Every time I get dehydrated from drinking, the main factor seems to be beer. Hard liquor doesn’t do that so much.
But I bet your liver prefers the beer drunk
It also doesn’t have any sugar.
Re-read that label, Guy. Their products, wet or dry, have always had sugar when I bought them.
If you want to try something that’s a little lighter on the wallet, take a look at Nuun. It’s a tablet that dissolves in water adding mild flavor and mild carbonation. They’ve got flavors that also have caffeine on top of the vitamins and salts. I love it for cycling.
+1 for nuun killing hangovers. It’s still relatively expensive, though.
Take your hangover like a man. Treat your drunk like a woman.
Lord Flasheart: All right men, let’s do-oo-oo it! The first thing to remember is: always treat your kite
[Flashheart taps the picture of the Sopwith Camel with his cane]
Lord Flasheart: like you treat your woman!
[Flashheart whips the air with his cane]
Lieutenant George: How, how do you mean, Sir? Do you mean, do you mean take her home at weekends to meet your mother?
Lord Flasheart: No, I mean get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back.
+1 futile charge over the top for Field Marshal Haig’s latest plan
As a mixer?
2 oz Pedialyte
4 oz Sweet and Sour mix
2 oz Tequila
1 oz Grand Marneir
Juice of one lime
Shaken and served on the rocks with a salted rim.
Was at a music festival last night. Saw someone wearing this t-shirt.
I honestly don’t get what she was trying to accomplish.
Was it a young man? Uhhh, trying to get some? If not then just signalling that virtue like the lighthouse of Alexandria.
Wait. Wait, read the comment with better comprehension. Definitely signalling.
She sounds like a sweet, caring person…certainly better than those who don’t agree with everything on that shirt.
That’s a whole bunch of signaling on one shirt.
1. I agree, but the group that coopted that phrase has set any progress on reigning in police abuse back several decades by making it all about race.
2. Again I agree, but remember that no human has a right to take the fruit of other people’s labors (i.e enslave another human in some way shape or form)
3. Ok. I guess that means we should let everyone break the laws. I don’t mind loosening the immigration requirement, but don’t try to bullshit a phrase that amounts to “it’s ok to break the law”.
4. Yes it is. That is probably the shallowest description of science possible. Congratulations.
5. I’m sorry but very often it is. This is well documented. New business is a business to sell you a story, real studied stories rarely sell as well as not thought out stories. If you think click-bait only recently came about them you need some history. See sinking if the Maine.
6. Yes. Unless they give you consent, then I suppose you could.
7. Thanks for the tautology.
8. I’ve got nothing against kindness, but it’s not everything. Family immediately jumps to mind. I’ll be a huge asshole if it means protecting my family. I think that in a truly free society you would see more kindness. Because coerced behavior is not kindness.
Do you think we could put that on a shirt?
I aksed a friend who does screen printing. He said it would cost you about $120, and he can only do it in 3XL.
Fuck off, slaver
Only tshirt necessary
It wasn’t Farm Aid perchance?
“Shotgun Virtue Signaling”
when i put on my “They Live” glasses, that shirt actually reads, “IN-GROUP SIGNALLING”. its not trying to communicate anything other than, “I’m one of US, not one of THEM”.
“Shotgun Virtue Signalling”
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Ha, ha! I just noticed that a neighbor about ten doors down has that same idiotic list in sign form posted on a window. I live in SF so this is all too typical.
Print off leonadasiv’s list of replies and slip it in their mailbox
I believe that expressing logical thought is considered a hate crime in these parts.
There are several houses in my neighborhood that have lawn signs with that exact saying. ie – Democrats
just trying to touch all bases with that tee shirt
To be fair, I’ve also tried to touch a few bases in a tee shirt
Saw someone wearing this t-shirt.
I honestly don’t get what she was trying to accomplish.
So many messages, so little time.
“Well, no, but he’s a fuckup because he’s a fuckup, not because of the presence or absence of a piece of paper with a ribbon and seal on it. I always think of the Wizard of Oz at times like this.”
Thank you for this. I’ve seen that tossed around a lot and it drives me mad. I don’t have a degree in computer science, my bachelor’s is in economics. However after school (well technically right before I graduated) working as an analyst, I learned to program and is SQL. I now work as a tech support three helping clear up issues in stored procedures/ data errors for clients. I’m qualified, but not credentialed, and setting people freak over credentials drives me crazy.
Experience is always better than degrees in IT. The last 2 full time jobs I had before going to contracting required a masters. I don’t have one.
This. People in tech come from all kinds of backgrounds. I’d still say that someone with an MFA in music is an even less likely candidate than an autodidact w/o any degree at all that started doing script kiddie stuff in high school, but certainly not someone to rule out if she’s talented and has the hard skills.
Thing is, when you fuck up, people do start questioning your background and credentials. It’s hard to say what her background really is, given that her LinkedIn profile just says ‘Professional’ as her title for her last few jobs. A degree in comp sci/computer engineering would have at least shown that she had some interest in going into/some track record in the field, just leaving competence open to question. Having no degree and no competence really raises the question of why she was there in the first place and whether she was actually a chief security officer, or simply an interchangeable c-suite member.
Happy Constitution Dat, Y’all!
Happy Constitution Day, Y’all!
Sounds racist to me.
Why are we celebrating a document written like 100 years ago by a bunch of white male slave owners?
Meh. We wouldn’t be dealing with all this nonsense if we had just stuck with the Articles of Confederation. I mean, it was the governing system that saw us to victory over the mightiest empire at the time.
… and when we meet asshole cops at traffic stops, we get to claim we’re sovereign citizens!
I concur, the AoC were a sweet deal that we got screwed out of but the constitution has a great deal of good to it as well
Kawaii Metal
Minnesota v. Pittsburgh; Philadelphia v. Kansas City are intriguing games. NE V NO too if anything to see if the Patriots are in trouble as some people have been saying.
The article about foie gras. The comments. My eyes.
GB/Atlanta is a must watch, too
Yeh, included those games in addition to the ones mentioned by OMWC.
I’m hyped for the GB/ATL game. But my God, the radio coverage for these games is 8hrs (2hrs pregame, 3hrs postgame) and win or lose I have to listen to it all. Really sucks some of the excitement out, especially since I can’t even have a beer while watching.
I’ll be watching Jets v. Raiders. Not sure it’s going to be intriguing. I might tune into an early game. Go Philly!
I’ll split screen Filthadelphia and the Queefs, and Steelers/Minny.
Then Raiders.
About 10 years ago when I was single, I had a friend coming over to watch foozball with me. So she shows up at the door in a fucking Chiefs jersey. I went to the door and said ‘Take it off’. She was like ‘what?’. ‘The shirt, take it off, you’re not coming in here with that on’.
The cut of your jib. I like.
Did she comply?
Yes, she took it off, she had a t-shirt on under it. She was just messing with me.
What the hell?
What was the quality of her boobs?
Hello. Spill.
/looks over at CNN with smirk.
Awesome
Go on…
Nothing to tell really, we were just friends. I wasn’t really looking much for GFs at that time, I was going through a large transition period. I wound up having almost exclusively female friends and started being best girlfriend of a few of them. If you’ve ever been there, you know what I mean, they call you up for advice on dating and start asking you if you think their shoes go ok with this outfit or if I look fat in this dress. Sigh… I’m just glad that period didn’t last too long.
MtF?
*ducks*
I was thinking the same thing, Swiss.
Just win baby!
Well, I knew you guys were going to say that. I had just went through a divorce, moved to a state where I didn’t know anyone, and lost a close friend to cancer. Not THAT sort of transition.
At least you know your audience.
Yeah, I’m feeling lazy today, Swiss. I should have wrote ‘not THAT sort of transition’ in the original post.
My viewing is limited to what is carried on local over the air mystery tv waves. Makes choosing easy.
Gonna be at Browns-Ravens today. In the company suite.
I’ll take the under on OMWC’s 112 points but I expect something close to a shutout/blowout.
I would love to be there. At least I’ll be at Lambeau for Ravens-Packers, thanks to the persistence of SP in finding tickets.
In honor of Constitution Day some non derp from TOS
https://reason.com/reasontv/2017/09/17/stossel-the-best-part-of-the-constitutio
Well make up your mind, is it constitution dat, Constitution day or construction day?
I hate auto-correct sometimes. EDIT FAERIE! You are needed, stat!
*Edit Fairy flaps by*
Thanks Edit Faerie!
Hey, Stossel is great, but I don’t think he’s even in the Constitution, let alone being the best part of it.
The bands use amusing catch phrases, perform complex dance choreographies, use the most sophistiacted light and sound techniques, are quite active on social media networks and have clever marketing strategies to sell a multitude of products.
But- CAN THEY SING?
Why would they need to do that?
I’d still say that someone with an MFA in music is an even less likely candidate than an autodidact w/o any degree at all that started doing script kiddie stuff in high school, but certainly not someone to rule out if she’s talented and has the hard skills.
I’m certainly not going to argue, but isn’t there a “school of thought” which claims a cognitive correlation between music and math skills?
What that means in the real world, I cannot say.
lots of it folk have a music background.
most music is simply ‘relationships between intervals’. so, i’d expect a young, trainined musician to probably have a leg up in basic arithmetic. after that… i suppose its just a different “abstract language”, and anything that allows kids to think abstractly in ‘representative functions’ is a healthy thing. But in my personal experience, chinese/japanese classical violinists might be good at math, but your average stoner metal drummer is probably not going to be blessed with similar skills. ymmv
I think there is a belief that the two are connected. In classical liberal education, the quadrivium used to contain music and math.
Denver-Dallas is one of those games where I want them both to lose, so it’s an absolute hate-watch
I get the hate for Dallas, because fuck Dallas, but Denver hate? How can you hate what is pure and good?
*Writes OMWC on the list.
Everyone hates Dallas. Rightly so, because fuck Dallas. But the Raiders fans here will root for Dallas today
Raiders fans are generally mentally ill so that is to be expected.
*Slammer was already on the list
I hate Denver just so I can be on the list.
*Imagines this is like Hihns list*
lol
The Snickers vs The Aggressors. Who wins?
The Bullies versus The Depends.
Why Denver hate? John Elway, Peyton Manning. The team is forever tainted.
*Gasp
Well, I never…
I will agree Manning should have retired a year before he did. He was an ok QB though,
He’s an annoying grade-A asshole. And as persistent as Hillary. Every time yet another commercial with him comes on, SP yells, “It’s time to die already, Peyton, we’re fucking sick of you!”
Ok now, comparing Peyton to Hillary is below the belt.
Hillary may indeed be marginally less annoying.
True, but the work he does with the United Way is wonderful
I always thought Peyton looks like a big dumb oaf. He was a good QB though in his prime. He should have retired before Seattle put that ass whooping on him.
Eli is the grade-A asshole. Peyton’s just a goofball.
The biggest asshole on that team is OBJ
I will agree with that.
Eli didn’t try to get a scoreboard operator fired because he didn’t run it the way Eli wanted.
Eli will forever remain the whiny little bitch who had a little hissy fit because he might be (and was) drafted by the Chargers. Whatever he may have done since, the spoiled little brat should have watched games from the sidelines permanently. Fuck him and his overentitled family.
Yeah, I gotta agree with Gustave on that. And if I remember correctly it is was his old man egging him on, wasn’t it?
+ gay uniforms! (he helpfully chimed in)
I don’t even care why anyone else hates Dungver, I just agree.
You were already on the list as well.
Sounds like it may be easier to keep track of who is not on the list.
A statement like that guarantees you a place on the list too.
Once everybody’s on The List, you can just throw it away.
The games I have covered in my previews have been almost universally more fun than the more hyped games.
I’m nor computer savvy, other than as a button pusher, but I suppose coding requires an ability to think in orderly progression, more than inspiration.
It requires logic and patience, mostly.
And reading Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming cover to cover, then understanding it.
/not really.
Personal opinion: the feeling when I am suddenly struck by an idea for a good riff and when I suddenly know how a particular piece of code should be implemented are pretty much identical, so the ‘inspiration’ piece might be relevant as well. A lot of that probably depends on *what* you’re coding.
That always happens to me at like 2-3am in the morning, then I can’t sleep so I go to my computer and work on it.
I suppose coding requires an ability to think in orderly progression, more than inspiration.
Coding is a very creative art. Sure, there’s some basic technical know how required, but the same is true of being a jazz musician. When you know the basic components (of music or of computer science), stringing them together is more art than science.
NOW schedules march for Yom Kippur. Some Jewish women complain. Other NOW member complains that Jewish people are racist because black people can’t celebrate Yom Kippur.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/tasneemnashrulla/now-black-women-march-dispute
God damn it. That’s some top derp there.
Faster, please.
Inner fighting among women? Unpossible.
I used to work for a company where almost everyone were women. An entire mfg company full of them. The only men were managers or higher, except for maintenance. Patriarchy you know. But almost every week there would be a serious cat fight on the floor. Sometimes they would just be verbally abusing each other with at least one person crying, sometimes it came to blows, and hair pulling of course, and crying.
The Chinese character for “argument” is a simplified picture of 2 women under one roof.
強姦。Goukan. “Strong 3 women”= rape.
The Yanomamo tribe are often cited as the most masculine society on the earth. The word for “marry” basically means “to drag away” and the word for “divorce” means “to throw away”.
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Injuns! Meet the Injuns! They’re a modern Stone Age Fa-mi-ly!
From the …deepest jungle…be appalled by their bru-tal-ity!
Brutal indigenous peoples? That’s unpossible.
Noble savages. I went on a tirade about that very topic here a while back. The Yanomamo engage in perpetual warfare with their neighbors with the goal of killing everyone in the other group, except for some select women who they will capture so everyone in their community can rape them. The primitive mountain tribes in Papua New Guinea are pretty much the same. I’m not sure why we can’t find any of these noble peaceful savages.
Cause whitey killed them all you dummy.
relevant:
liberal fantasies vs reality: can you spot the difference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90SdmjuCAqw
skip to 2:17 for the noble savage critique
I liked this guy from the minute he said asshats.
Now I can’t help but see the character on the left pursuing the one of the right as prey. The left one is in the middle of a really long stride, arms pumping, little action lines streaming behind him, while the right one has cartoon-character spinning-cloud-of-feet going on.
Oh, and the victim-character is about to trip on that rock.
STEVE SMITH WANT HEAR MORE.
That’s great. That’s something we should steal from the Chinese.
“Other NOW member complains that Jewish people are racist because black people can’t celebrate Yom Kippur.”
Other religions need to take a pay out of the Christians book. If you let your holiest of holidays be coopted, they won’t call you racist…err… You know what, nevermind.
“Excelsior! The wolves devour each other.”
Black people can’t be Jewish? Damn those Jews really are racist.
-1 Yaphet Kotto.
-1 the Beta Israel community.
What? I thought all of the evidence pointed to black people being the only real Jews?
WE WUZ JEWS AND SHIET
-1 Lenny Kravitz
I think I forgot the /sarcasm
Sammy Davis Jr. has a sad.
Commentary: The Bay Area — love it or leave it
The Mercury has an ongoing series about Bay Area exodus
After many years living there, I couldn’t get out fast enough. And now, nearly ten years after my exodus, and currently living in a place I greatly dislike, I still have no regrets. Well, two: I miss Berkeley Bowl and Parker Farms tomatoes.
Derpetologist visits San Francisco: a dramatic re-enactment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e6Ffukcsbw
A guy who used to cut my hair went to SanFran and that’s all he’d talk about after that. Every time he’d say ‘I went to San Francisco and you know that’s like a Jew going to Israel for a gay guy, I love it there, I want to move there’. 3 years of that. Iearned a lot about SanFran in that time. I’ve forgotten most of it. Haven’t been there since I was a little kid.
She just had to, didn’t she? Smug alert.
So rent is only Rising by a few percent over a hundred years? Doesn’t sound so bad.
I thought this was worth a re-post:
Trump critiques the Death Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OadmeQK_Z0U
“Sir, Lord Vader was in charge of marketing.”
Trump fires Chewbacca; learns to force choke from Vader
I larfed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deIC2w3KHnk
This is probably too local, but if you’d like a peak into an oil boom town after the boom, this is an interesting (and not too long) read.
After the boom: Community finds calm after frantic years
Isn’t there a way to do this for free now without new legislation? Someone made a comment about it the other day.
oops. The last part is not a quote.
Now it definitely isn’t.
Does “fierce consumer advocate” cover her bottom-feeding opportunism after the housing crash?
Ya, she made out ok then didn’t she. Not being a hypocrite is not required to be a consumer advocate I guess.
I keep my credit history frozen by default. Cost me nothing to do it, but from time to time, you’ll need to unfreeze it, and that does cost money.
This is a less-than-perfect, but somewhat informative page ….
I see. Thanks. I received a letter from the state court administrator some weeks ago stating that they had left my, and others, personnel info in a place on their website that it was searchable and potentially at risk of theft. I think in these cases, the agency, government or private should be liable for any costs a person might accrue due to their negligence. I guess that would require legislation though.
You might think so, but your state and federal panjandrams do not agree.
I have no idea if I’m impacted by the Equifax leak, but it’s hard to imagine that the effects will be worse than the IRS leaks which have plagued me for a number of years, and whom are (naturally) exempt from any possible legal action.
Which is, of course, the response when someone claims that this would never have happened except for capitalism.
How long does this process typically take? I can imagine this being kind of a pain in the ass for someone like me that often acts as personal guarantor for a lot of side business activity, but I wasn’t even aware that one’s credit history could be frozen. That concept in itself is highly attractive for obvious reasons.
That’s a specific problem for people with your needs. I always thaw my ratings by email one or two working days before I know I’m going to have a check done, and I’ve never had a problem reported to me.
Your credit history isn’t being frozen really – all they do is freeze the ability to retrieve it. All your history, including FICA requests are still being logged.
Thanks #6
I’m already sick of hearing “progressives” harping on about how this breach proves that the free market leads to disaster and the government should run everything.
Well, hey…the OPM handled my information (and most of the rest of DoD) just fine….if you don’t count China stealing all of it.
Don’t forget lots of people got fired for that .
With “progressives”, perfection is the standard by which the free market is judged. If the results are flawed in any way, it’s taken as proof positive of a “market failure”. And when you force them to acknowledge that the government has extraordinary fuckups on record as well, they just blame the non-“progressive” politicians for being kulaks and wreckers and insist that it can be fixed if only people wouldn’t vote for the wrong people.
interestingly, its the same “Fallacy of the perfect” sort of thing which is used to defend the record of socialism.
– Capitalism is proven a failure because it has clearly not achieved utopia.
– Yet socialism’s nightmare legacy is proof of nothing, because it was never *perfected*-socialism.
QED. Its the perfect example of the fluid, endlessly inverting-itself, progressive reasoning
It’s because they’re operating in the realm of emotion, not reason. Socialism is good because it feels good. Any evidence saying socialism is bad obviously has another root, because a good thing can’t create something bad.
Here’s the ones we’re watching: I’m predicting Ravens over the Browns, 112-0, because apparently you can’t get negative points in a football game.
You know, they should give negative points to the offense for a safety or when the defense scores a TD. That wouldn’t affect the spread, but would play havoc with the over/under.
In other sports news, Ferrari screwed themselves completely in SIngaport.
Nepalese man, 85, dies trying to climb Mt. Everest
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May 6 (UPI) — A Nepalese man attempting to become the oldest person ever to scale Mt. Everest died Friday of undisclosed causes.
Min Bahadur Sherchan, 85, died while at Everest’s base camp, officials confirmed. Gyanendra Shrestha, a government mountaineering official at the base camp, said the cause of death may have been a heart attack.
Sherchan was previously the oldest person to climb Everest, when he did so at the age of 76 in 2008. He was later bested by Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura, who was 80 when he summited the world’s tallest mountain in 2013.
Sherchan tried three times since losing his record to again climb Everest, but was put off once for lack of funds and twice because of deadly avalanches on the mountain that halted activity during the brief climbing season.
Prior to making his most recent attempt, Sherchan said he hoped to use the fame associated with twice holding such a record would help him spread a message of world peace in conflict-torn areas around the globe.
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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/05/06/Nepalese-man-85-dies-trying-to-climb-Mt-Everest/7131494102420/?st_rec=4731505583191
Undisclosed causes? He was scaling Mt. Everest for cripes sake. Despite the variety of ways that one can die there I believe the root cause can all be traced back to being on mountain. Unless of course STEVE SMITH’s Nepali cousin happened to be out and about, then that’s a different story and we probably don’t want the details.
Shit, the man was 85…maybe he just died from that (or hypoxia, probably hypoxia).
“Climbing the world’s highest mountain at the age of 85- could it be hazardous to your health? Channel 5 News investigates. But first, how do you pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel? The answer may surprise you.”
http://www1.theladbible.com/images/content/540eeaa13732c.jpg
“Ancient Himalayan Secret”
STEVE SMITH NOT TALK WITH COUSIN YETI FOR LONG TIME. NOT BE SURPRISED IF HE DEATH RAPE EVEREST CLIMBERS.
Looks like he took that go big or die trying thing a bit far.
Related to MS’s aged sriracha beer review: I tried Mexas Ranger recently, and for what I paid, the obscurity factor didn’t deliver the value for this beer. I suspect the black beans ruined the experience. I susepct there are a fuckload of people that considered it a great/excellent beer simply based on the “ooh la la” whizbang of all the weird shit they put into the brew due to the price they paid.
My viewing is limited to what is carried on local over the air mystery tv waves. Makes choosing easy.
Same here, except it’s made even more of a crapshoot by the random appearance and disappearance of channels. FOX is MIA, right now, and that might could piss me off, later.
I get that with NBC. Atmospheric conditions dictate when that one is available.
Check out 506sports to see their NFL TV coverage maps. It won’t make your selection better but it can be interesting to see what is shown. Hawaii gets many Titans games because Mariota is a local boy and not because anybody cares about the Titans.
Ancient tree exposes cause of hike in Arctic temperature
A 30,000-year-old kauri tree in New Zealand shows atmospheric mechanism that caused the Dansgaard-Oeschger event during last glacial period.
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Sept. 12 (UPI) — Scientists from the University of New South Wales have found an ancient kauri tree in New Zealand that holds the key to the cause of rising Arctic temperatures.
The 30,000-year-old kauri tree in a peat swamp in New Zealand showed a new mechanism that could explain how temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere spiked several degrees centigrade within a few decades during the last global ice age.
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Spoiler: the mechanism is not Rethuglicans who drive SUVs.
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/09/12/Ancient-tree-exposes-cause-of-hike-in-Arctic-temperature/8961505223630/?utm_source=upi&utm_campaign=mp&utm_medium=2
Aww, it isn’t. Aw jeez, who am I going to blame now? Obviously this author is in the pocket of Big Climate Change.
+ 1 research vessel studying rapid melting ice stuck in the rapidly freezing ice.
Um, I’m pretty sure we know Dansgaard-Oeschger caused the Dansgaard-Oeschger event. Why do you think we call it that?
Now all we need to do is go get revenge on Lou Gehrig, the bastard!
I always thought Peyton looks like a big dumb oaf. He was a good QB though in his prime.</em"
Idiot savants.
They walk among us.
The next time someone tries telling you Fascism was “extreme right wing”….
this is probably the most-succinct and most accurate description i’ve seen:
fascism and communism are not even remotely “opposites”; they’re kissing cousins engaged in contest to see who can be the greatest enemy of ‘classical liberalism’, which is the only true opposite of either of them. both are forms of totalitarian control-economies; their rationalizations of *why* might differ, but the means of oppression are nearly identical
It’s a bit of a pet peeve of mine that the violent antifa people are being characterised by some as “fascistic.” By my estimation, not so much.
Yeah, but real communism hasn’t been tried yet though.
I think this is the main reason for progressives being so determined to make a distinction: fascism as a system is evil; communism has just been coopted by evil people.
It’s an intramural conflict.
Society is The Titanic. The fascists and socialists fight over who gets to arrange the deck chairs, and who’s going to be the captain.
A Nepalese man attempting to become the oldest person ever to scale Mt. Everest died Friday of undisclosed causes.
My money’s on “hypoxia”.
that’s just a means to the same end, which is ‘heart attack’.
i think ‘death by hypoxia’-by-itself is pretty rare on mountains.
I know some people here like RLM, so I thought you might enjoy this video of them making terrible plot ideas for what will no doubt be a terrible movie; the stand-alone Han Solo Star Wars. What’s sad is probably at least half of the stupid ideas they come up with will be in the film in some way.
Am I the only one who likes the original trilogy and refuses to acknowledge that any other Star Wars films exist?
No, but as the years pass, I feel more and more like that Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 30 years after the war ended.
+1 Nude (Not a bad album
I seriously doubt it. I’m still surprised they haven’t released the unaltered original trilogy on Blu-Ray/4K Blu-Ray since Disney got the license. They must know that would be the easiest cash-grab ever, right?
Fox has the distribution rights until 2020 for 5 of them and they will always have distribution rights over a new hope. My guess is they will be a Disney or star wars streaming services exclusive. why sell you a Blu Ray when they can charge you $10 a month for the rest of your life.
They could come to some kind of deal like Disney/Marvel and Sony did for Spiderman.
They had leverage with fox. They had to make a deal to allow fox to make xmen related TV shows. As far as I know it hasn’t been publicly stated what Disney got from the deal. Smart move would have been some kind of star wars deal, not sure what else fox had to trade. Fantastic 4 is a liability not an asset.
To hell with Star Wars. I’m still holding out hope for a live-action Space Ghost movie, preferably with Patrick Warburton in the title role.
They just need to do Indiana Jones in space, no need to overthink this fellas.
Oh, they’re going to massively overthink it. There will be tons of unneeded references to the original trilogy, just like in Rogue One. Just so you can say “ZOMG, I remember that from New Hope/Empire/Jedi!”
“They just need to do Indiana Jones in space, no need to overthink this fellas.”
No, Mr. Solo, you belong in a museum!
*Freezes in carbonite*
No, Dr. Jones, I expect you to die!
*fires Death Star Superlaser at crotch*
I want a “dungeons and dragons” movie where the characters go into an actual dungeon (searching for treasure) and treat with dragons (doing everything they can to avoid actual conflict, though).
No “save the world from the Forces of Evil” nonsense; just murder-hobos who are down on their luck and shunned by society searching for and finding treasure, and returning to town to flaunt their wealth in the faces of those that scorned them.
A sword and sandals version of Kelly’s Heroes? I’m sold. Have your people call my people. Let’s do lunch.
basically a better version of Suicide Squad then?
Except the “outcasts” are normal, bourgeois family-types that are living in a society captured by SJWs.
Scene 1 goes through each character being blackballed by his trade guild/excommunicated from the church/stripped of his titles/etc. Because they think the increase in recent goblin raids is a “bad thing” instead of recognizing that the goblins are oppressed minorities who have suffered from unmerited discrimination for years.
They meet in a tavern, members of different levels of society, and one,of them happens to have an old map, supposedly leading to an ancient treasure.
“The Usual Sacrifices” ?
Also, one character is a min-max munchkin.
So basically, you want the ending to The Hobbit turned into a full-length movie.
Eh. Even the Hobbit (the movie) had too much “save the world” stuff in it.
Also, the dwarves weren’t just trying to get treasure, they were reclaiming their homeland.
You, know, like those (((other people))).
Thomas DiLorenzo explains how Cultural Marxism corrupts education:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSdB9Sr1BxQ
My fav part: When he first started as a professor, the colleges used to start each year by bragging about the SAT scores of the incoming class. That slowly morphed into bragging about the diversity of the incoming class.
Ah; the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Relevant.
Text version:
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Marcuse also taught that science and the scientific method is “the enemy” for it “denies the reality of utopia,” by which he meant communism. In today’s world, we see this same idea expressed by the watermelon socialists when they use the quintessentially unscientific language of “settled science” in reference to the global warming hoax. Science is never “settled.” If it were, it would still be “settled science” that the world is flat. Settled science watermelons like Al Gore are the new flat earthers.
Marcuse also opposed freedom of speech, which he said was a tool of “the oppressors” since it was responsible for too many criticisms of communism. “There is no need for logic, debate and free exchange of ideas,” he said, for communism supposedly “provides all the answers.” Certainly libertarian or conservative views should not be permitted on campuses since they support “the status quo.”
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/10/thomas-dilorenzo/the-infantilization-of-college-students/
[head desk]
At least that Marcuse asshat is honest.
Derrida, Foucault etc were all pretty open about their means and objectives, provided you could tolerate the tortured writings, with Adorno not far behind. The real surprise to naive me, in the 80’s and 90’s was that people would – could – swallow this horseshit without gagging or laughing.
meh. I read both, and i don’t recall Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish” or “History of Sexuality” being anything remotely like the sort of out-in-the-open marxist cultural subversion of Adorno and Horkheimer. He even had spurts of quasi-libertarian thinking in his later years:
As for Derrida… i don’t think anyone understood what the fuck he was saying enough to actually glean any political/social ideas from it. I think the Frankfurt school deserves more credit for the very-bad-stuff than the french post-structuralists, even if they were nominally commies too.
OMG dog whistle racist word!!!
/prog
Speaking of Equifax
But that is not going to end the real problem, which is that, to paraphrase the Lily Tomlin spoof of the old AT&T monopoly: they don’t care because they don’t have to. At a minimum, the government needs to create incentives that would reward the companies for accuracy, customer service, and ironclad data security.
And if that doesn’t do the trick, there is a solution that is both radical and sensible: treat the companies like public utilities. Levitin recently wrote a blog post proposing such a plan. The credit bureaus, he wrote, have no natural right to the data the collect; they only have it because the law tolerates it. Thus, he says, “It’s quite reasonable to qualify that right with a regulatory system.”
As public utilities, they would still be publicly-traded companies, but they would be overseen by a government body, just as utilities around the country are overseen by state utility boards. The regulator would set performance standards for accuracy, data security and the like, and could restrict dividends and executive compensation if they weren’t met.
Put the government in charge. That’ll fix it.
‘And if that doesn’t do the trick, there is a solution that is both radical and sensible’
Am I crazy for hoping it would say getting their government granted oligopoly removed.
Also there are so many reasons I don’t want the government running credit. It’s not like they don’t have the power to freeze somebody ability to borrow already, but less police state is better.
You mean, public companies, run by private citizens, but operated like organs of the state? A kind of state-run capitalism ….
Oh, I’m sure there’s a name for that kind of politico-economic scenario, but for the life of me, I can’t think what it might be.
I don’t know, but a motto that invokes strength in unity. Perhaps a symbol of a bunch of sticks tied together.
Needs moar axe.
Faggot.
They just need to do Indiana Jones in space, no need to overthink this fellas.
“Space lizards. Why did it have to be space lizards?”
Listen to me! I’m a serious person.
I am part of a text chain of several incredible women — comedians, writers and actresses — that was formed after Election Day last year. We needed a space to vent, to cry, to dream about starting a commune with Hillary Clinton and anthropomorphizing Tom Hardy into a dreamy horse we could ride into the sunset. We needed a space to give one another supportive, strong advice.
Yeah, okay. I’m convinced. Whatever you say, I believe it.
“anthropomorphizing Tom Hardy”
Toxic femeninity.
“to dream about starting a commune with Hillary Clinton”
Part of me wishes they could just so they see what a send absorbed [insert explitive of choice here] Hillary is.
“We needed a space to vent, to cry, to dream about starting a commune with Hillary Clinton”
These people are non-stop entertainment.
I have been afraid of speaking out or asking things of men in positions of power for years. What I have experienced as an actress working in a business whose business is to objectify women is frightening
And yet… you remain. I cannot fathom why.
Is this the same woman who was anthropomorphising Tom Hardy?
Well, her other choice is to stay home with an analrapist.
OT:
Nature is pretty fucking gross sometimes. A few days ago, I saw a small praying mantis (about 2.5 inches long) land on a bench on my back patio. I went about my business and forgot about it. I walked out there just now and saw that the mantis was still there, but it looked dead. I poked it with a twig, and it moved a little bit. When I flipped it over onto its back, I saw that its abdomen section was brown and swollen, and there was actually some kind of movement inside. Sure enough, seven or eight fat nasty maggots came squirming out. It looked like all of the organs had been eaten out by the little fuckers and they were just living inside the almost-dead mantis.
I gave the infested host a mercy killing.
I am prepping up football food here, and that story did not help.
Yeah, he didn’t give a recipe.
*gags, then applauds*
Would maggots be within your vegetarian guidelines? Perhaps fried with garlic and cilantro?
Thank you for putting my lunch off for about an hour more.
My baby mantis sighting of the season
You sure that’s a real memory?
I hope I’m not going to be too pissed at the sequel.
Inequality is bad, children. Mmmmmkaaay?
But there is a different, and far more stubborn, risk that our country faces — and which, arguably, led to the TV star turned president in the first place. Our Constitution was not built for a country with so much wealth concentrated at the very top nor for the threats that invariably accompany it: oligarchs and populist demagogues.
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For all its resilience and longevity, our Constitution doesn’t have structural checks built into it to prevent oligarchy or populist demagogues. It was written on the assumption that America would remain relatively equal economically. Even the father of the Constitution understood this. Toward the end of his life, Madison worried that the number of Americans who had only the “bare necessities of life” would one day increase. When it did, he concluded, the institutions and laws of the country would need to be adapted, and that task would require “all the wisdom of the wisest patriots.”
With economic inequality rising and the middle class collapsing, the deep question we must ask today is whether our generation has wise patriots who, like the progressives a century ago, will adapt the institutions and laws of our country — and save our republic.
Maybe we should try a system in which all wealth is pooled, and placed under the benevolent oversight of the central government, to be equitably apportioned to all citizens. And the government could create more wealth by controlling and directing all industry and other economic activity.
I bet that would work, if only somebody would give it a try.
Who is it again that cheers at the collapse of the middle class?
That theory sounds great! I’m sure it would work fine. We just have to make sure to get the right people in charge.
Man, I am *really* digging the new Creepshow album. (not nearly the best song on the album but the first vid they’ve released for it). I started listening to them after Hellcat had already left and when I heard Sarah Sin had left, I was a little disappointed too, but Kenda “Twisted” Legaspi is really rocking it. (First time I’ve seen a super tatted Filipino-Canadian gal – but she’s amazing!)
Kenda Twisted – previous album – “Devil’s Son”
Sarah Sin – “Sleep Tight”
Hellcat – “The Garden” – definitely one of their best even if it’s the first album.
Check this dude out. Is this for real? The feather is just fucking epic!
Me heap big chief of bullshit tribe
i had the sound off. I spit coffee.
Did the girl trapped in the freezer eat her own foot?
Elizabeth Warren is a disgusting, hypocritical opportunist.
And a politician. But I repeat myself.
In case there was any confusion about President Trump’s position on the Paris climate agreement, before yesterday, the Trump administration’s position was that we were pulling out of the Paris climate agreement and we would not seek to renegotiate it. However, they would work to see if they could get an agreement that was pro-U.S.
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran a report stating that the Trump administration had decided to stay in the Paris climate agreement, as confirmed by numerous officials at the UN.
Today, however, the Trump administration responded by saying that wasn’t true. The Trump administration will pull out of the Paris climate agreement unless they can renegotiate something better for the United States.
So, that should be clear to everyone now–the Trump administration either will or won’t pull out of the Paris climate agreement, and they either will or won’t negotiate better terms for the U.S. And if you don’t understand what that means, then you should have studied Leo Strauss, Wittgenstein, and Rene Guenon, you stupid hillbilly.
Just, you know, if it offends your preexisting sensibilities, then denounce it as fake news. And if you start thinking maybe things aren’t going right, then just look at this picture of Ivanka:
http://cdn2-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/2012/09/man_file_1041878_ivanka-trump-hot-10.jpg
Now that is not fake news.
And let’s not forget Tiffany Trump
It was supposed to be an in-joke about how Trump fans losing their religion might make themselves feel better about the dream fading.
Not an actual exercise in nose pinching self-hypnotism!
Irony is supposed to be default setting, homeboy!
Er . . . maybe that like a Gen X thing.
Still, pictures of hot chicks, more is always better–no doubt.
Oh. Yeah. I knew that!
Hey look, football is on!
A nuthouse with typewriters.
In sustainable new suburbs, house and lot sizes are smaller — in part because driveways and garages are eliminated — paving is reduced up to 50 percent and landscapes are more flexible. The plant-to-pavement ratio of today’s suburb is much higher than that of cities, but the next generation of suburbs can be even better at absorbing water.
House and open community spaces are set among teardrop-shaped one-way roads, which encourage predictable, safe separation of pedestrians and moving vehicles. New suburban developments will utilize technology like autonomous electric cars (parked at solar-powered remote lots) and smart street lighting, which minimize energy use and harmful environmental impact.
Communities will share neighborhood amenities like public access areas, drone ports for deliveries, car pull overs (a wider shoulder in the road for pickup and drop-off) rather than private driveways and open common spaces.
Another World of Tomorrow fantasist. Maybe he’s been trapped in his bomb shelter for the past 65 years. Or maybe the NYT thawed out Walt Disney’s head.
Those design guidelines probably wouldn’t fly anywhere in California. I bet they conform to no one’s municipal code.
Want those design guidelines? You might need to educated an entire new generation of urban planners–and teach those urban planning majors to all fire themselves.
I think that was joe’s problem, by the way. There was a short period of time, there, when he could almost have become like a cosmotarian–but he was an urban planner and what’s the point of being an urban planner once you decide that urban planning is horseshit?
He had to look in the mirror everyday and say, “I’m the problem. How can I be the problem?”
But conformity of thought is apparently a given. Let me guess – Gitwokeville will have no fences either. Hope you like your neighbors.
I’ve never understood these attempts to citify suburbs – you just a half-assed and dysfunctional implementation of each.
Tragedy strikes
Diller Island just became Shuttered Island, and that’s a shame.
This was an ambitious plan to build a floating park on the Hudson River off West 13th Street. Pier 55, its official name, was to have stood on pilings in the river, an undulating platform lushly landscaped and dotted with stages for music, dance and theater. It came to be nicknamed Diller Island because the costs — most recently put at an eye-popping $250 million — were to be underwritten by the media billionaire Barry Diller and his wife, the fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg.
All that is now a dream deferred. Mr. Diller said this week that he was shutting it down because he’d had enough of fast-rising costs and of court fights that lasted several years and seemed destined to continue. A “tiny group” of opponents, he said, had “used the legal system to essentially drive us crazy and drive us out.”
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There is a familiar dynamic in New York when the well-heeled put their money behind a new idea: an assumption that something untoward is afoot, including a creeping privatization that must be resisted. Sometimes that is indeed the case. But there’s no evidence it was so this time.
Those dastardly privatizers, trying to steal that derelict eyesore from the little people.
Brooks, need i remind you that Sunday Times is when the normally-retarded NYT goes full-blown ‘batshit suburban liberal housewife’-retarded?
Let’s talk gay wedding cakes
I got about 2 minutes in before the equivocation started grating on me. He may be a great libertarian, but that style of argumentation drives me nuts.
“Well, I don’t like the way it feels, and I know you don’t either, but I guess I have to side with Professor Crotchitch on this one and say that you can use your feet to vote.”
Say what you mean, think about what you say, and defend what you’ve said.
By the way, the “if you don’t like it, you can move” argument is awful.
(Sorry, i don’t mean to shit on your link)