::pours beer out for Bobby “The Brain” Heenan::
OK, now we can start the links.
Down to the last two weeks or so of the regular season in MLB and things are settling…a little bit. The Astros are winning again and clinched the AL West. The Dodgers and Nats played a potential NLCS preview and the Dodgers got the better of it. The Cubs are playing well and are close to locking down the NL Central. The Indians finally lost but then immediately started another win streak. And the AL East is just kinda there with the Red Sox not playing too bad but the Yanks matching them and still sitting a few games back. The Twinks are holding a tenuous 2 game lead for the final AL Wild Card spot and on the senior circuit, the Rockies sit 2.5 games above the Brew Crew.
In college football, Clemson took it to Louisville. Tennessee watched Florida Hail Mary Butch Jones to the super-hot seat. (Just kidding. That probably cost him his job.) Texas forgot how to defend the end of a half…twice, and lost to USC in overtime because of it. The Buckeyes righted the ship a little against Army. Oklahoma rolled. UCLA shit the bed. The Cal Golden Bears (hello, Playa Manhattan) beat Ole Miss as they prepare for USC to come to town. And Vandy beat Kansas State, and possibly the nicest coach in college sports. I’d love to give a Florida State update to the Seminoles out there. And I will if they ever decide to play again.
The NFL had a second weekend filled with boring games. Ravens over the woeful Browns. Panthers over the Bills in an offensive shitshow. Cards rally to top the Colts and avoid an 0-2 start. Titans top the Jaguars. The Chefs top the Iggles. The Patriots drilled the Saints, and the AP/NO relationship is not looking healthy. Da Bears got pasted by the Buccaneers. The Dolphins topped the Chargers. The Raiders continue to impress by grounding the Jets. The Cowboys looked like dogshit while getting hammered at Denver. The Seahawks topped the 49ers in a game America could have done without. The STILLERS tore the Vikings a new asshole. As did the Falcons to the Packers.
I’m sure you guys and gals would rather talk about the Emmys, so I’ll end my weekend sports recap and get on with…the links!
Trump has picked someone to sit on the Federal Election Commission that believes people should be able to spend their money on political speech anonymously. Salon shits its pants at the prospect. I guess they prefer the days of a weaponized IRS and a government that leaks donor information to groups from their “team” so people can chill political expression.
Stephen Colbert was so stunning and brave at the Emmys last night. I know its a shock that he dwelled incessantly on Trump, but it happened. Meanwhile, America watched football.
More rioting/protesting in St. Louis over the weekend. Destroying those businesses sure will show those crooked cops and the rigged justice system. ::smdh::
Marijuana legalization movements in Massachusetts are hitting roadblocks at every turn. And here I thought it was yokels in the south that were holding it back.
Georgia Tech police shoot knife-wielding student in bizarre encounter. The student has died after police shot “them.”
Cops dey don arrest another man in London boom-boom attack. Hey, it would almost seem like they had the guys in their sights before the attack. Is it ok to say that?
I don’t know if you’re ready for this. But your kids are gonna love it.
Get a good start too the week, friends. That’s what I’m gonna try to do.
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521 responses to “Monday Morning Links”
66) I’m in a chess arms race with my son (age 12). I’ve always been able to beat him in chess, but last spring he beat me two out of three games. I knew it was time to upgrade my skills! I started playing chess online at chess.com. I prefer the 15-minute rapid game, and settled at a rating in the mid-700s.
But then my son opened his own account there, and started playing online. And when we played, I could tell he was getting better. So I did some research, and found a book called “Chess Logic” was highly recommended by several folks on the interwebs. Chess Logic contains 33 actual historical games, with each and every move explained for a chess beginner—why does Capablanca move the knight and not the bishop? Why does Tarrasch castle now and not later? Etc.
And the book has worked—I feel a lot more in control of my chess game, my rating has risen to the low 900s, and most importantly, my son hasn’t beaten me in months. But now the real problems has arisen—I think I’m addicted to chess. I never considered it anything but an amusing diversion before, but now things are different. When I start playing, I feel a little shaky as the adrenaline starts to flow, and when I lose a game online and my rating falls, I’m upset for the rest of the day. I’ve mostly given up beer with dinner so I’ll have the clearest possible mind when I play in the evening. Worst of all, my playing is even starting to cut into my writing time.
What do people think? Should I give it up as a waste of time? Stop being an asshole and let me son beat me every once in a while? (Ha, never!) Find a nice safe hobby, like heroin? Is my addiction possibly related to my need to number my Thoughts Not Sermons? Do you have the book/technique/whatever recommendation that I really need to improve my game?
I was mostly thinking no big deal, chess is a fine time waster then you mentioned giving up beer. That is crazy talk. You have a problem.
Yes, he’s clearly gone too far. Next he’ll stop masturbating or something.
This might sound crazy, but I’m currently trying to give up drinking and jerkin’ it. Except socially. I’m not a weirdo.
Social masturbation is a fine hobby.
You mean Twitter?
Everyone here knows that!
That’s totally happened to me w/chess. A few times. It comes and goes in ~2-3 year cycles. Just ride it out.
I’ve mostly given up beer with dinner so I’ll have the clearest possible mind when I play in the evening.
Time for an intervention.
Yup
Beer drinker with a chess problem. Sad.
I think you should take up Go instead.
I say if you’re gonna get addicted to a hobby, something like chezs is probably one of the least awdul ones. Very little social stigma, not too expensive, and in your case you get bonding time with your son.
When you get addicted to something like Warhammer 40k or M:tG, then you should start worrying.
HERESY! How dare you lump us in with those card-gaming freaks?
Because both of them have one thing they very much share in common: crack is cheaper.
Hey UCS, I wanted to give you a few dining choices for Greenville SC. First is Grits & Groceries https://yelp.to/qTKq/2hENxz2FuG
It’s a cash/checks only place. When my wife and I went there we didn’t have any cash. We asked where the nearest atm was; fifteen miles back in Greenville. But our server was all Southern hospitality, “That’s alright honey, when y’all get back to California just mail us a check.”
Bacon Brothers. https://yelp.to/qTKq/oJ97C0wFxG
All things pork, righteous cocktails, nice setting.
Just from the name I’m drawn to the place. The Menu makes it even more interesting.
Have you guys ever played Go?
…poorly, yes.
Is JATNAS your screen name on chess.com? I play on FICS, but if you’re up for a game or three I could pop over there one night. My ratings are 1800 at FICS, 1600 in rated tournament play.
I’m also on Chess.com, usually there to get pounded by my kid who loves online chess. If I make it 15 moves, I’ve done well.
A little reverse roll playing?
Well played, Mike.
I played chess off and on as a kid and on into my young adulthood, but I’ve largely given it up. I just don’t have the patience to get good at it. It’s one of those things that I’d like to do because I think it would be a good thing for personal growth, like learning Spanish, or taking up fly tying, but like those things I’m probably never going to actually go through with it.
Take up Spanish fly tying and take up playing chest.
Can you elaborate on ho you play chest? It sounds interesting, unless you tell me I have to end up like the Manning or Jenner dudes
Move-by-move type books are the best bang-for-your-buck chess books. Irving Chernev wrote two good ones, Logical Chess, Move By Move, which I think was the title you referenced, and The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played. A few others written more recently, John Nunn’s Understanding Chess, Move By Move; Neil McDonald’s Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking, and Yasser Seirawan’s Winning Chess Brilliancies.
Another great title is NOT a move-by-move book, but the notes to the games are fantastic in Learn From The Grandmasters. The notes written by Mark Dvoretsky on the game Yusupov – van der Weil are superb.
If you have any questions about chess books, ask away. My library is embarrassingly large. (No, I’m not doing the Chelsea Clinton humblebrag; no one should own this many chess books)
I have several books as well.. currently re-reading “How to Think Ahead in Chess”. I also re-visit “Modern Chess Openings” from time to time – though it’s not so modern anymore.
My family plays it. My mother’s side had six kids and growing up in AZ often means playing inside, so Chess is almost a required skill. I am not particularly good at it, but I know it well enough to have taught others. My uncle is a retired narcotics officer, and was always a tough opponent. While this doesn’t necessarily make him a better player, it does help to know how to plan multiple strategies in the abstract in anticipation of your opponent’s moves.
One day I managed to beat him, and I have not played since.
“The Cubs are playing well and are close to locking down the NC Central”
Durham’s on a hot streak though and Greensboro still has a chance.
How To Improve Your Chances Of Orgasming, According To Science
Interesting about the feet, I’ve heard something like that before. I read one time that some Dutch lab was doing sex research but having a problem because they couldn’t get their female subjects to orgasm, but discovered it was because their feet were too cold.
I dropped out of finishing school.
Oh come on
Eileen?
PROFESSOR STEVE SMITH, REPORTING FOR CLASS.
***Some of these findings are questionable, and others are beyond your control. But sleeping with a funny feminist? Always a good idea.***
thousand-yard stare
Don’t worry, that will never happen, as a funny feminist has yet to be found.
Its like the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, or an intelligent Marxist.. pure fiction.
How about “stop being uptight about it?” That worked for me.
“Brace yourself, Elspeth!”
I hate that this gets harped on all the time.
You know, not every woman appreciates the same stimulus. Some of them like different things! *grumps off*
It’s almost like they’re real humans and aren’t simply interchangeable blobs of flesh!
Unpossible!
I sent the sock quote to the squeeze. So he won’t be turned off next time I wear my totally-not-crazy-pug-lady pug socks in the sack.
Try these:
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipNF6roeS-NqH1yVQ0acj2scWH8Dm8Swe7NhdcHq
Awesome tune Sloop. Here is my favorite band’s version of it.
School Days is one of my top rock songs of all time. Seriously, it’s all the themes flowing through rock music distilled into one song. The way Berry sings “drop the coin right into the slot” just gets me every time.
School days! My dad used to sing this. Dammit this room is dusty and there’s something in my eye
Is the Mystery of the Abominable Snowman Finally Solved?
These samples were matched against a database named GenBank. IT houses all of the genomes of all the species sequenced thus far.
WORLDSTAR STEVE SMITH. LEAVE SAMPLES EVERYWHERE, MAN
EDIT FAIRY fixed yer tag problem, man.
STEVE SMITH NEED EDIT FAERIE
“STEVE SMITH NEED EDIT FAERIE”
This is some fan fiction I’d really rather not read.
Uh….check the visual.
Awesome
OK, no one ask for the edit fairy again, if that is the picture that comes along with it.
From what I heard, there are many edit faeries out here willing to help. That one has no monopoly on glibs.
We’ll need a chart or something so we know who to summon.
You will just have to try your luck…*winks*
Tinkerbell: would
No kidding. I’d rather see a cat butt.
Not that I am asking for a cat butt…
That can be arranged!
…
Oh. Never mind.
I’m sure not the first time it’s crossed your mind! 😉
More rioting/protesting in St. Louis over the weekend. Destroying those businesses sure will show those crooked cops and the rigged justice system. ::smdh::
They’re pissed at the cops and the courts? So, attack the cops and court. Oh wait…
Well, that was a very cop-centric article. Little information on the protests, the stores, anybody else who might have been hurt or anything like that, but plenty of information that a bicycle cop sprained his ankle, cops were chanting (!?) and in good spirits, etc.
The cops were chanting shit like “Our streets!” like a bunch of fucking gang thugs (which they are, of course)
Make no mistake, this is nothing but a turf war.
Absolutely!
He pointed out that Emmy voters handed out repeated awards to Bryan Cranston for playing drug kingpin Walter White on “Breaking Bad” — and said Trump was “Walter Whiter.”
Domestic Dissident is Colbert’s new writer.
Give Mikey some credit. He would have come up with something far stupider, but slightly more clever.
I thought he was Cheetoh God to these people.
Twitler is the only vaguely funny insult name anyone has managed to come up with.
most importantly, my son hasn’t beaten me in months
BULLY!
(Did I do that right?)
Oh, I’m sure my son would agree. I made him do some yardwork yesterday, and my wife made him recopy his math homework because it was too messy to read easily.
Definite bullying going on in our house.
Not My Wonder Woman: The Zionist Agenda in US Mainstream Feminism
It doesn’t need to be hypothetical anymore. Just tell her to identify as Palestinian, a few “Death to Israel”s should do the trick.
“Would my hypothetical daughter forget all the immense damage Gadot has done in Palestine, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Syria, etc, due to the fact that she is female?”
Now that’s toxic femininity.
No, it’s toxic retardation.
“works and supports the genocide and ethnic cleansing”
The hypothetical daughter hypothetically reads the non- hypothetical charter of Hamas
You fail at SJW.
It’s not genocide and ethnic cleansing if you are not white. And Jew counts as white, unless it is a Jew in conflict with whitey in America. Then Jew counts as people of color.
This is why our government can be run by Zionist Nazis. It’s true. You can google that shit.
JOOOOOOOOOish feminism does not exist, I swear!
So Israeli Jews are white but Palestinian Arabs, who look pretty much identical to most of them, are not. Got it.
They’re racist , so they’re white unlike Palestinians… no, wait….
Also all those Beta Israel Jews somehow aren’t black anymore.
“Would my hypothetical daughter forget all the immense damage Gadot has done in Palestine, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Syria, etc, due to the fact that she is female? ”
Wait, Gal Gadot being female is doing immense damage to several middle eastern countries? I…can actually see that, considering how many man hours must have been squandered due to men admiring Gal Gadot’s…talents.
Given the rate of growth of the Arab population there post-1967, I’d say that (((we))) don’t seem to be doing that genocide thing very well.
You need to bring in some outside consultants, try South America.
Somehow you’ve managed to both dump sterilization chemicals into their water supplies and ensure that Gaza is so overpopulated it will be unsustainable in a decade. Damn you, you clever Jews!
When the internationality of Radical Jihadi Islam, Communism, and Facism comes together, this kind of thinking is the result.
We are Hypothetical Palestinian Daughter and we are here to rock you!
Missouri takes the Broken Windows fallacy a little too far and literal, eh?
“Come on man, let’s drop the knife,” an officer with his gun drawn says in the graphic video.
I’m not your “man”, buddy.
He’s not your buddy, friend.
I am not your friend, Pal.
I’m not your pal, guy.
I’m not your guy, man.
And the circle is complete.
The headline should have been, “Cops Shoot Pat”.
But there was genuine uncertainty as to what Pat was. This person was clearly a dude.
Going on the picture alone, I humbly disagree.
How can you write a “retrospective” about Harry Dean Stanton, and not mention Kelley’s Heroes or The Missouri Breaks? I’m looking at you, NYT film critic.
Eh, all you really need to mention is Repo Man.
+1 Always intense
Ordinary fuckin’ people….I hate ’em.
It pisses me off that we can’t get that on Netflix or Prime.
Repo Man was just on one of the services. but it’s not currently showing as available. I use an app called Just Watch. It will tell you what’s streaming and where you can find it.
I bet you could get “Jaws”!
Somebody should avenge him for that slight.
Avenge me, boys! AVEEEEENGE MEEEEEE!!!!!
Awesome line..
Red Dawn man
Music to remember him by.
Meanwhile, America watched football.
Some of us were in bed at 8pm so as to get out if it at 3am, such that the economy Colbert doesn’t understand can continue to function.
Can someone get me a STEVE SMITH RAPETEACH COLBERT piece, please?
I was off doing other shit and missed The Orville which I’ll have to find on-demand. I had no idea the Emmys were on, please don’t spoil it for me by talking about who won.
I thought that show had been cancelled years ago.
Spoiler: the narcissistic douchebags won.
Nice one.
Yeah, we know. I mentioned them playing the Saints earlier on.
That’s Reigning Superbowl Champion douchebags to you.
Are you in the US?
I am now.
Finished in Australia then? Or just back for a while?
Nah the missus and I are here permanently now.
I would have stayed in Oz but the company I was working for employed a couple of uselessness pricks for managers, and then they were sold on to a much larger group of corporate schmucks from Scotland. Ozzies made it very difficult to transfer my visa to a different outfit, so here we are. Settling in not too far from The In-Laws so the babymaking can begin in earnest.
Well, hope you had a good time down under. Sounds like things are going well.
I assume the managers were English immigrants.*
*Standard Australian hate-mongering.
Mate, not sure if I got your email when we chatted previously on TOS. I can be emailed via my handle at protonmail dot com.
And nah, the managers weren’t English, just insular WA folk who’d been huffing their own jenkem on that side of the sandbox for far too long.
Also, from a friend of mine in Melbourne –
“There’s a reason why there is a Big Fuck Off desert between Perth and the rest of us.”
*also standard Internal Australian Hate mongering.
Opening at Lollapalooza?
Re: the Georgia Tech kid….
I got hot when I read the parents’ statement. Referring to their son as “they” and praising his nonconformity … that shit is what got their son killed. Instead of recognizing that their son was losing touch with reality and talking him down or seeking out treatment, they encouraged his delusions to the point that he totally lost it and tried to take on a cop.
Their progressive liberal values killed their son.
“The officer keeps backing up, moving behind a parking barricade and imploring again: “Nobody wants to hurt you, man.””
“Nobody wants to hurt you, man” was apparently not true. Not saying the kid wasn’t messed up, but he only had a knife. Is the some reason the cops weren’t able to just keep backing up?
You ever been stabbed or slashed with a knife? I feel bad for this dude, but if someone comes at me with a knife and I’ve retreated as far as I think I safely can, they’re getting plugged.
I’m not saying cops should have carte blanche to shoot people. But if you get a “there’s someone with a knife and gun going berserk” call and don’t have a taser handy, what are you supposed to do? Tell the nutcase you’ll be back and run to the station?
If someone is within 10′ of you and continues lunging at you with a knife, they’re close enough to kill you. I’m not so sure I’d use a Billy club in this situation once I retreated as far as I safely could. At some point, responsibility transfers to the knife-wielding and lunging person.
I don’t know if that threshold was met here. But we can read about it knowing the mental illness angle. Not so sure the people who confronted the guy with a knife had that luxury.
Good points sloop. Monday morning quarterbacking is easy to do.
I generally agree. You have a situation in which someone is a clear physical threat, is continuing to approach you with what certainly looks like harmful intent, ignores repeated warnings to disarm, cops are backing away from the knife-wielder who keeps approaching, and on and on. At some point you can’t keep retreating and you shoot. It’s a shame the person died, but, barring new information, this is one situation where I really can’t blame the cops.
Yeah, I’m typically very suspicious of police in situations like this, but it really seems like they handled the situation as well as could reasonably be expected. Knives are no joke, and you don’t have to be Bruce Lee to cause grievous injuries with one. It’s just a shame that this kid didn’t get help in time.
However, the cops would blame you for shooting someone in an identical situation.
Not so sure the people who confronted the guy with a knife had that luxury.
I think the most sensible way to read and evaluate these stories is to replace “officer” with “Joe Schmoe walking down the street”. A lot of times that makes clear to you how insane the police’s argument is. In this case, it provides a pretty strong exoneration. If I read some guy shot somebody going at them with a knife, my response would be to say the shooter was justified.
Bean bag round to the balls? Apparently the kid doesn’t think he needs them.
*narrows gaze*
At what point does that stop, though? There are a lot of bad shoots in the news but I can’t get too worked up about one where the victim keeps advancing with a weapon.
Maybe police cars should have a big net as standard issue equipment to incapacitate people in situations like that.
Also…cops are well aware of “suicide by cop.” Why the hell did none of these guys taser the kid? Or how about all four of you close in on him at the same time and overpower him? Don’t cops carry batons anymore? A broken knife-wielding wrist is a hell of a lot better than dead.
From my understanding (admittedly third-hand), those cops don’t carry Tasers.
Or pepper spray, even?
At Tech 89-93, pepper spray was totally ubiquitous amongst female students.
(Its most common use, though, was evidently spraying under somebody else’s dorm room door.)
Also 87-91.
Although I never heard of the under dorm trick, but some friends of mine decided to test theirs and didnt think to account for wind direction.
This was an interesting conversation point I had with a cop on Saturday. SOP for my town (which is funny, because the town I live in is like fuckin’ Stars Hollow) – is that cops may – and should – counter a threat with the ‘next level’ of aggression.
Given that at the academy, it’s drummed into them that a motivated guy with a knife will be ‘on you’ if he’s within 21 feet before you can draw and aim, so as soon as steel is shown, the guns come out. In our town’s case, to not do so is a disciplinary issue.
As regards closing in and overpowering him, well, who wants to volunteer for a punctured spleen when you can go home that night uninjured, because current protocols dictate that you shouldn’t take risks?
In case y’all forget or didn’t know, I’m no fan of the increased aggression in police tactics, but just because cops know about “suicide by cop”, they’re not mind readers, and just because a guy with a knife has a death wish, doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to take someone else with him.
This is a very sad situation. Sad that the cops didn’t see the situation for what it was and took the quick way. There are times that a cop does recognizes this situation and doesn’t shoot. Sad that Scout had mental problems that were not being properly addressed and led to his death.
Side note; I find it interesting that Scout wanted the pronoun “they” what first came to my mind was Jesus’ dealing with a man with an unclean spirit that’s name was Legion.
Re STL:
Why is criminals in scare quotes?
Probably not the way I’d have framed this…
Goat lives high life in Japan
…
I got nuthin’.
Goat Pr0n?
Another practitioner of goat yoga.
What do people think? Should I give it up as a waste of time?
Turn pro.
Patrick Henry didn’t like the Constitution (signed 230 years ago yesterday). He feared it would created a monstrous central state and an imperial presidency while destroying states’ rights. He might have been on to something.
eh not really.
The Constitution could not prevent a monstrous central state from forming and any other organizational structure for the government would have suffered the same flaw. The only thing preventing the eternal growth in power of the central state was the peoples will to prevent it.
All told I would say the Constitution did a pretty good job of reigning in the power of Washington for about 130 years and it was the people who failed the Constitution with the Progressive Movement in the early 1900’s not the other way around.
Let’s talk: Is it weird to kiss your friends on the lips?
ewww…
“That’s why I don’t kiss ’em on the mouth.”
Yes. Yes it is.
Swiss is safe.
*cracks knuckles*
Stowaway Koala Survives 10-Mile Ride Hidden Behind Car’s Wheel
Drop bear miscalculates death leap?
Nah, if it was a drop bear, the wheel would have been torn off, and the driver shredded.
Someone didn’t do their pre-trip inspection.
“PMCS you idiots! All level 10 checks done, or not one of you swinging dicks is leaving this motor pool!”
/Angry NCO
Level 10, sounds intense. Why not just a level 5.
/Brand new LT
*applause*
Glad to hear that NCOs speak the same language they did 48 years ago.
Some things do not change.
“Hey, it would almost seem like they had the guys in their sights before the attack. Is it ok to say that”
Glad I’m not the only conspiracy but out there.
Replace but with nut damn autocorrect!
Nuts for butts!
I made the choice to avoid this film completely.
Fine. Your work here is done. Move on to your next moral dilemma. And FOR GOD’S SAKE STOP TELLING YOURSELF IT’S SOMETHING I NEED TO HEAR ABOUT.
Damn I had a great weekend of sleep – but last night the insomnia ramped up all over again. Right before I have to go to work. Gee I wonder if it is related.
I haven’t been able to sleep all the way through the night consistently (or comment on these blogs) since I started my new job. I’ve tried taking melatonin to help, and it does help get to sleep, but I feel like I’m waking up right around the time it wears off, if that’s the right terminology. Sucks, doesn’t it?
Sure does. I’m in need of a vacation – didn’t take my normal springtime one this year – but I only have a few days left once I subtract out my November vacay. So I’m struggling through. Same deal with Melatonin.
Tylenol PM works for a night or two… and then it seems to make me hyper, making the lack of sleep worse. Some extra muscle relaxers I had left over also work – but they also bring me down 🙁
Heroin.
Are you still exercising seriously?
I was but now I’m so tired that I don’t push it like before. Also skipped last Thursday.
You might try 5-HTP. It’s OTC. I use it occasionally and works like a charm with no hangover for me. Just don’t mix it with an SSRI.
The most shocking thing from they Emmys was that this won an Emmy.
To which I offer this rejoinder.
Nice virtue signalling though. Who knew that Hollywood wasn’t a big fan of a republican president?
That won an Emmy?! These people really are clinically insane.
She played Hillary, Mike. She played Hillary.
I hate that song. Every damn version of it
I thought Remey’s version was pretty damned spectacular. I used it not only as a repost to some lefty loonies, but as an educational tool for some neocons.
I like the song, I just hate all covers of it. It’s been used as a mawkish tearjerker musical cue for decades.
The entire Emmys this year was an expedition in the “PROG EVEN HARDER!” strategy. They’re not even trying to get an audience anymore, just indulge Hollywood fears.
Who exactly is the audience for these award shows besides themselves anyway? Why does any normal average person care if some actor or film receives an Emmy? Hey, I really like X person’s performance in Y film that I really like. Why should I care if said actor and/or film gets an Emmy? Is that supposed to justify my enjoyment of those things?
Why does any normal average person care if some actor or film receives an Emmy?
Credentialism. Just like a university degree means someone is smart, an award means a show is good. What, you think some award-winning shows are crap and some no-award shows are genius? Next you’ll be telling me that some degree-holders are dumb and some no-degree persons are smart. Madness.
Seems to get more sanctimonious as fewer and fewer shows are shot in/financed through Hollywood.
I didn’t even know the Emmys happened. People watch this stuff still? Why?
Virtue signaling idiots that don’t have anything to do watch that shit.
Apparently this news first broke in August. This is the first I’m hearing of it. WTF?!
Tillerson Considers Closing Embassy in Havana Where Diplomats Mysteriously Got Sick
Yep – Somebody committed an act of war.
If he was a qualified politician, he would leave them there to get killed.
I hear they were watching disturbing videos on youtube and that’s what did it.
HM sent them a bunch of links?
I thought they just lost hearing and had mild brain injury – not full insanity!
Good point. Maybe he just hasn’t unleashed the Cummies yet?
“The victims suffered from hearing loss and, in some cases mild brain damage”
I know the cause, it is well known that exposure to communism can result in permanent brain damage.
it is well known that permanent brain damage can result in communism.
FIFY
I think both ways work, it is a feedback loop.
Very true
“We” should have tried to nation-build in Cuba instead of Afghanistan. If nothing else, the gas bill for the C-130s would be cheaper, plus they actually had a civilisation at one point in the past.
Yeah but then we’d have to deal with Generals June, July, and August again
The Canadians too:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/11/sonic-attack-canadian-diplomat-in-cuba-also-suffered-hearing-damage
When I first heard about this I immediately thought of this. I loved those books as a kid.
Always tip the waitress
I am both aroused, and afraid.
yes – wanted to make a “give he the tip” joke, but not until she’s disarmed.
I mean, I’m torn, because I’d definitely like to buy her a drink and then Netflix and chill for the evening, but I really like having arms…
Please.
::edit ferry approaches to fix link::
::edit ferry capsizes::
WTF!? Not sure what happened.
He had to poop!
Making a late-morning pass as usual, but just wanted to say that I love the edit ferry.
Nice to see Leelee Sobieskie has found a new career.
Hey, if she’s looking for work I’m sure I can come up with a few jobs for her
Why The Word ‘Woke’ Encapsulates An Evil, Self-Defeating Ideology
http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/18/word-woke-encapsulates-evil-self-defeating-ideology/
What did I just read? I think: hey these guys are Marxist is much closer to the point than going on about gnosticism.
Like a graduate student, everything is seen through the lens of the thesis paper. He wrote a book about it a couple years ago, link in the article.
Well-read Christian leaning people (especially ones with degrees in history or theology) tend to try to project gnosticism all over modern social justice ideology, largely as an attempt to delegitimize it (when 80% of the people around them either don’t care or have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about). John Wright does it a lot too.
The Federalist has some really interesting cultural and sociological writing. I don’t think lefties have any idea about gnosticism and such. They operate on pure emtion and don’t give a whole lot of thought to their thinking.
Marxist and pseudo-Marxist bullshit beliefs, based on the principle of envy of others – especially those willing to work harder – being more successful, is what drive them. Always.
Yeah, I see what he’s saying. Like gnostics, progressives think they have some secret knowledge or way of looking at the world that nobody else does. He’s overthinking it, though, and straining to find this connection.
He’s overworking his thesis, but he has a point. This discourse on the similarity of gnosticism and progressivism goes a long way in explaining what it is an utter waste of time to argue or discuss anything of importance with a progressive.
[eyeroll]
“Woke” has zero to do with Gnosticism and Gnosticism is not some dangerous cult. Every time The Federalist gains a little credibility, they have to go full retard on something to reset.
“Woke” is Marxist false consciousness nonsense dressed up in Black Twitter slang. Next they’ll try to connect “Hotep” to Nyarlathotep worship.
This
There is a certain set of pastors that have a hard-on for Gnosticism ever since Aronofsky’s Noah film. They see Gnostics everywhere.
There is a certain set of pastors that have a hard-on for Gnosticism ever since Aronofsky’s Noah film.
Interesting. I didn’t see the movie and haven’t heard of this. Now I’m going to have to see it just to understand how Aronofsky worked an early Christian heresy into a Noah film.
http://drbrianmattson.com/journal/2014/3/31/sympathy-for-the-devil
In response, I have one simple suggestion:
Henceforth, not a single seminary degree is granted unless the student demonstrates that he has read, digested, and understood Irenaeus of Lyon’s Against Heresies.
Hot take. I got yr hot take here.
I don’t like the word “woke” either, but this author seems insane.
Anyone watch the Canelo vs GGG fight? Just watched it. Terrible decision, but that’s boxing. A great sport ruined by judges.
I have always said, if you have to ask a judge who won, then you don’t have a sport. You have an activity.
It works for figure skating, gymnastics, diving, bodybuilding, beauty pageants, and yes, boxing.
And to an extent, college football.
Yup — excellent fight. On my initial watch, I agree with Kellerman in that GGG probably shaded it. Having said that, I think there were enough 50/50 rounds such that scoring it *slightly* in Canelo’s favor isn’t an unreasonable card. 118/110 is a freaking joke, though.
Two great weekends in a row for boxing, as last week’s Chocolatito v Sor Rungvisai (including the undercard) was also extremely entertaining.
A draw? GGG is the champ and if you’re gonna take his belt on decision, it should be much more dominating than that. But after the farce Mayweather fight, it sure was nice to see some real boxers going at it.
*Sorry. Not take his belt, but his perfect record.
I didn’t watch it, knowing it would come out for free at some point this week.
Manic Monday: Unselfaware Stephen King Edition
What’s being referred to by King here? When did Trump laugh about knocking down a woman with a golf ball?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/us/politics/hillary-golfball-trump-tweets.html?mcubz=3
Alright, that’s amusing. Made even funnier by blowhards like King getting up in arms pretending to find it oh so offensive that Trump found it funny.
My girlfriend ran up to me in the bathroom laughing her ass off about it. I thought it was pretty funny too. I told her “I bet heads are exploding in the media right now while average Americans probably just think that the tweet is funny.”
That was my question. And obviously he did it at a golf trip but the tapes are missing.
Trump tweeted an edited .gif of him hitting a golf ball and one of the times Hillary faceplanted getting on a plane.
Ok we’ll anyone who thinks that Hillary deserves any sympathy has a deranged mind.
King has been hard left for a long time. It’s a common failing of writers.
Ever since he had that accident, found Gaia or something, quit the booze and drugs, and started to virtue signal his recovery, he stopped producing anything worth reading and went ultra proggy stupid.
So, he’s spluttering about a gif.
What if I made a gif of Stephen King getting run down by a car? Oh, wait…
I’m guessing he was never a fan of The Three Stooges.
Butat the end of IT, when a group of tween boys fucking a single girl, is not kind of fucked.
That was my immediate thought as well. I’m glad I read down through the comments and found yours.
That scene was even more twisted because it was the pivotal moment of the book. The boys had to come of age and become men by having their virginity taken by this one girl. Then, being bound together through their gang-bang they were able to take on and defeat the monster.
There is a certain literary value to the metaphor, but if you are going to bloviate about a stitched-together gif, I really don’t think that it is too much to point out this scene.
Ah, the equality left. Slapstick is funny, unless it’s to a woman or CNN, then it’s NOT OK. Making fun of the president is funny, unless he’s black, then it’s NOT ok. Making fun of someone’s race, culture, religion, or accent is NOT OK, unless they’re straight white southern male, then it’s absolutely hilarious.
Situational humor? Whatever helps the proggy narrative is cool. Everything else is subject to floggings.
I recall once reading an interview with him where he said that he would find reading a headline about a dead baby being found nailed to a wall hilarious. He’s certainly qualified to judge the moral standards of others.
Yeah, aren’t these the same people who assured us that Shakespeare in the Park fulfilling their snuff fantasies was high art?
Hey King, remember that time you wrote about an underage gang bang? How about the time you wrote a sympathetic account of a school shooter? Want me to go on?
Pretty good. When I hear that term, I think of taking the blue pill and full-acceptance of the Leftist religion. The crazy contradictions, gaps in logic, hypocrisy, and stupidity are embraced with a religious fervor. In the next couple of years, we’ll see if they are willing to die for their religion.
Woops – reply to xenophon’s woke link.
I think this cold thing I got last week is the last straw for me for smoking. My lungs are fucked. up.
Good. A waste of money and does no good.
Kick the habit, KK!
That’s how I quit. Got a real bad chest cold and said enough is enough. You can do it!
I had a hellacious sore throat staring about a month ago, worst I could remember having. Hurt to swallow, neck pain top to bottom, had trouble talking for more than a few seconds, just perpetual pain. My insurance hasn’t kicked in yet since I just started a new gig so I was reluctant to see a doc, so I’ve done a lot of OTC stuff and (here’s an enormous mistake) Googled my symptoms, which of course leads down a hell of a rabbit hole. I quit smoking years ago but get worried from time to time about potential damage already done. Mercifully, the last week and change has been better and I hope to have it fully kicked in a few more days time.
I definitely encourage you to quit. It sucks and will suck for a while. Shit, years later and even though I am totally turned off by the smell now, there are still times I feel like having one. But for 99.9% of the time you’ll feel so much better.
Your skiing at altitude should improve if you quit, KK. A-Basin would be a whole lot more fun if you aren’t sucking wind and wanting to die at the top of the hill.
From what I’ve read from you in the past, I have faith you can quit this if you want to. Good luck.
When I was a teenager and got a cold, I’d switch to menthols for the duration of it. Your idea is probly the better choice.
Bloomberg: London Black cabs are being switched over to electric motors. Aluminum production facility to re-open (Wales, I think), to manufacture aluminum bodywork. Okay. Good for them. It doesn’t really matter what your power source is, weight is your enemy. But then, we get this:
Automakers are turning to aluminum and other lightweight metals to increase driving distances and reduce smog, which causes almost 10,000 early deaths a year in London.
SRSLY? 10,000 per year? I find that a little hard to believe.
“which causes almost 10,000 early deaths ”
It bothers me that the “science” behind most policy is just counterfactuals.
Sounds like a good start although it doesn’t say much for their “free” health system.
I spent about 6 weeks in the UK this year. I kept thinking, if free healthcare is so good and readily available, why don’t they get their teeth fixed?
How else would we know they’re British?
The dentistry is free. Unfortunately, its also free of anesthetic.
I think that has finally changed, but that is the reason for the historical avoidance of the dentist.
Peridontal treatment was not really available, and not really promoted as a thing in the UK (certainly up to the 80’s).
The very idea of going to the dentist when you “didn’t have anything wrong with you” was strange. Of course, a skeptical person might think that this was due to the NHS and UK Gov wanting to keep the cost of treatment low.
Thats aluminium!
*Former member-states of the British Empire rise to applaud*
Manic Monday: Begging the Question Edition
She is a deity from outside time and space and we didn’t appreciate her divinity.
She’s woman Jesus!
+1 Mother Ann Lee
So femplaining is equivalent to raving about nonsense?
Pretty much.
No, there’s nothing disturbing whatsoever about hero worship like this.
Why couldn’t they stick to worshiping dead leaders?
She doesn’t wear the same kind of outfits as that fat NORK Little Kim by accident…
“and certainly anyone younger than 40 who hates her”
Almost everybody under 40 hates her. The only people I’ve met who liked her were women in their 50s-60s. Even those under 40 who voted for her hated her. That’s a whole lot of unique sexism.
She’s a power hungry, corrupt [insert explitive of choice here] and so I guess being against that is a unique form of sexism.
She’s a GODDESS!
IT’S GOING TO MAKE THE FRIGGIN’ FROGS GAY!!!!!
Shub-NIggurath?
If hating Hillary is unique wouldn’t that be because of who she is, as an individual, not as a women?
She won’t be widely-remembered 100 years from now, guaranteed.
There’s always 2020: she’s positioning herself for that you know.
I wouldn’t mind seeing her subject herself to the rigors of the campaign trail again. I could take odds on her first fainting spell or hospitalization.
As I was in the grocery check-out line yesterday, the cashier was trying desperately not to laugh as an old lady on a scooter was repeatedly crashing into everything – people, walls, carts – trying to maneuver out of the store. That’s how I imagine Hillary’s 2020 campaign.
Mr. Muckle! Honey! Please!
Thanks, OMWC, for the W.C. Fields reference.
Also, kumquats.
Funniest movie ever made. Praise Yahweh that someone else here knows.
If Hillary’s in a Hoveround by then, wait until the fawning stories come out:
It’s Kim Il Sung-level sphincter-lapping.
When I read this I see projection all the way down. No, you don’t actully hate Her Majesty because you think she’s corrupt, or because you think she cheated Bernie out of the nomination, or because you think she’s a warmonger, or because you disagree with her philosophically. Nope, the only reason people would judge her is on her vagina, and because you don’t like her it’s because you hate women. Are you a woman? Internalized misogyny, gender traitor. You don’t actually have any agency or independent thought; you’re just here to do and support exactly what we tell you to do and support (Jews need not apply). Because that’s what empowerment looks like.
Or another kind of (sort of) projection: “I can’t think of any reason to vote for Hillary other than that she’s a woman.”
Which didn’t stop them from calling Bachmann batshit insane, or thinking that Fiorina was a flake.
Obviously they were not real women/gender traitors. Only right thinkers are real women, so you an hate wrongthink persons with vaginas without being sexist. In fact, it’s sexist not to hate them.
And they’ll do the same to the next prominent Republican woman. It will be fun to watch if, as I suspect, Nikki Haley runs for the big chair in 2024. From an identity politics perspective she’s such a bundle of contradictions that they’ll step on their own toes trying to criticize her.
Annndddd…that’s how Trump wins a second term. If they keep this up, there won’t be a Democrat in the White House ever again.
Great. Now how do we bust the Republicans for good?
They seem to do just fine by themselves, really. I’m convinced the only reason the Dems did so well for so long is because the Reps are so enamored with getting in their own way.
Almost anyone who hates Hillary Clinton – and certainly anyone younger than 40 who hates her – hates her because of sexism, plain and simple. But they don’t understand that they do
False consciousness, the rhetorical fount that springs eternal.
aw just when I think my username might become a simple mythology reference, some idiot reminds me that, no, I am mocking these idiots for their incredible, rather sickening worship of one of the worst women on the face of the Earth.
(though I am highly suspicious that “Emily” is actually one of the ‘verrit’ Hillary suck-ups and not some rando on FB in real life. It reads a bit too much like Peter Doau’s Hagiographical crap)
You’re right, it does.
And I want to add, I’m sorry that you feel the need to self-defensively align with the patriarchy and vote against your own interests. Even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re actually doing.
UM Black Student Union: Racial slurs left on door tags
And the odds are…
We had to create the hoax to get a conversation going about the racism on campus. If y’all really cared you would do racist things on your own so we didn’t have to do this.
As long as it starts a conversation that needed to be had it’s all good (except for the right-winger who faked the stabbing-what an asshole).
The Michigan Difference!
I still haven’t heard from my alma mater’s President after some sort of “racial incident” back in the spring. They never even gave a vague description of the “perps”, and that campus has security cameras everywhere. Pretty sure it’s because they discovered it was a false flag.
99.9%
I’m at the stage where I call bull shit up front now.
Does anyone watch Hollywood award shows anymore? Who wants to see a bunch of multi-millionaire holier-than-thous fellate each other and make jokes a retarded circus monkey would find patronizing for four hours?
Not to mention the fact that there are so damned many of them.
Finally, those people receive some much-deserved recognition.
Anymore? Why did anyone want to watch that shit ever? “ZOMG, I really want X person to win an Emmy for their AMAZING AWESOME performance in Y film!” Who fucking cares?!
It’s affirmation of what they already believe. You ever had friends who really liked a movie or book and when they talked about it they just wanted you to agree how awesome it is? Exact same thing, except on a national scale. It’s also why people whine about a movie getting cheated out of an award, and why now the SJWs are driving so hard to make diversity and towing the line the main goals of the awards.
Hillary Clinton is historically unprecedented, and will be historically unfollowed.
I’ve got my fingers crossed.
After all the noise, when sane and sober minds assess her, she’ll just be a forgotten loser.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/17/juggalo-march-washington-gang-fbi-pro-trump-rally
Whoop! Whoop!
In all seriousness, the fbi is fucking retarded. Juggalo are a loose association of losers, not a criminal gang.
It’s Satanic Panic 2.0!
Send in the clowns.
http://loudwire.com/king-of-the-juggalos-funny-juggalo-fails/
Holy shit, no! Send them back!
I get that it’s hard to cough up a column on a regular basis, but-
Normally, the market is assumed to be at the equilibrium point, where supply and demand meet at a specific price and quantity. But what if the economy isn’t at equilibrium? What if companies could make more money by cutting their prices and selling more stuff?
The obvious answer would seem to be “Just look at the demand curve, stupid!” If it’s really steep, lower prices won’t boost sales much. If it’s shallow, cutting prices could increase revenue a lot.
But no one actually knows what the demand curve is. They can make rough guesses as to how much people would buy at a different price, using surveys, demographics, and examples from other markets. But in the end, the only way to know the effect of cutting prices is to just try it and find out.
Maybe he took economics at Harvard (or Berkley). Who knows what they teach there. I’m pretty sure it was made clear, by those free market, public choice crackpots I had at the U of Idaho, that the whole supply/demand curve graphic is merely a visual representation of a framework in which to consider how prices come to be. You don’t go to the Federal Reserve Standard Price Curve to find out how much you should charge for the shoes you made.
As a white man, I am offended at Joe Idaho. Not all men were Germanic Vandals raping and pillaging.
I want a bucket of money.
“Normally, the market is assumed to be at the equilibrium point, where supply and demand meet at a specific price and quantity. But what if the economy isn’t at equilibrium?…But no one actually knows what the demand curve is. They can make rough guesses as to how much people would buy at a different price, using surveys, demographics, and examples from other markets.”
Wait, did Krugman just admit the basis of Austrian business cycle theory had a point?
Normally, the market is assumed to be at the equilibrium point, where supply and demand meet at a specific price and quantity.
We stopped believing that prices are always at an equilibrium a long time ago, back in the 1800s. This rarely ever happens.
Q: Why was the mermaid wearing sea shells?
A: Her boobs were too big for B shells.
http://archive.is/qlYun
14 und 44 ja!
4, 6 ,8, 12, 39
14 wins.
16 close second.
29 to show.
Little late with this so I’ll probably post it later on as well but wanted the peanut gallery’s take on the (alleged) evils of canola oil:
https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/canola-oil/
They should start calling it by its proper name: Rape Oil
Hey now, I do all my raping with Crisco!
My objection to it is its blandness and low smoke point.
If I want to cook something at below 225 F, I’ll just boil it and season it. Highly purified rapeseed has a higher smoke point, but it’s still bland, and to get to something like 300-350, you start to have better alternatives like peanut oil and lard.
Carcinogenic? Well, in California, maybe. Given that it’s in everything even if you don’t do your own frying in it, I don’t think there’s much point in freaking out.
The British have no standing to complain about blandness in food.
For me, rapeseed/canola oil always has a fishiness. I can’t stand the stuff.
Anytime you point out that a food or additive is used as an engine lubricant, you don’t have to read the rest of the article. You know the writer is full of s*** from the jump.
But we really didn’t need to go to the particulars. Anything from that site is almost guaranteed to be nonsense. It is pseudoscience of the first order.
I think this documentary of the same name is by the same folks
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-truth-about-cancer-series-is-untruthful-about-cancer/
“this man died from ingesting too much H2O. this chemical is all over your house.”
It was a mix of Oxidane, Hydrogen Hydroxide and Hydrogen Monoxide.
They told me that if Trump were elected segregation would return and they were right!
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36867/
I grew up in the 70’s and it never occurred to me that we would have colored dorms and dining halls returning to Ivy League Universities.
My alma mater makes an appearance!
There was a drinking fountain available to them outside though.
They have been doing this at least since the early 80s. When I was in school at the University of North Carolina the first black studies Professor there said that any black students living in integrated housing on North Campus was living under apartheid. He demanded that black students have a blacks only dorm on South Campus with a blacks only Student Union.
My roommate (a black dude) stood up at a black student union meeting and asked him if he understood what the definition of apartheid was. Pretty epic.
Awesome.
Words have no meaning, shitlord!
Nelson told The Daily she hopes that the Muslim women’s dinner group will “allow the women to engage in topics such as the intersection of race, Islam and gender fluidity.”
Hope they hired someone to yank the jukebox cord when a dopey white guy accidentally sits down. “How ya doin’, guys?”.
you’re thinking of pulling the needle across the disc, that’s the typical sound-effect for that gag.
Sort of OT: Local news here was a-buzz when an assistant prosecutor got a OWI causing injury last year. Then it came out that cops who pulled him over tried to “help” at the scene, but were caught doing it.
I give kudos to the local news media who FOIA’d the city’s phone records (and went to the court of Appeals when the city denied the FOIA request).
Result: three cops were fired, one is appealing the decision to fire him, the prosecutor lost his job. . . (but I have seen him doing work as a defense attorney, pretty sure). Anyway, story can be found here: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/09/11_key_players_in_grand_rapids.html#incart_2box_news_grand-rapids
Nothing is OT in THE LYNX!!!!
We need that prosecutor in Lapeer County. The school superintendent hit two parked cars after leaving a bar. All on video. Nothing happened. No consequences at the school. No ticket, etc…
Er, not that prosecutor, but one that will do his/her job.
I give kudos to the local news media who FOIA’d the city’s phone records (and went to the court of Appeals when the city denied the FOIA request).
What the hell? Did nobody teach these guys how modern “journalism” is supposed to work?
Field report: I tried taking this as a workout supplement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohimbine
This was without knowing that it actually used to be prescribed as an aphrodisiac. It’s now OTC and primarily marketed as an energy booster. As an energy booster in the gym, I found it to be mostly useless, however I can see why it was originally prescribed as an aphrodisiac. Highly recommended.
… go on …
Well, after discovering this by happy accident, I tested it out alone and with a sparring partner and I can say that it definitely has positive effects on the entire fight; from excitement to get in the ring to a much more intense final round.
Downsides: Go easy on it, too much and you’ll feel jittery and get the chills. Supposed to work on women too, but haven’t tried that yet.
Damn. We used that during hockey season in high school. Was not aware of the other side effects, but really didn’t need much help at that age.
Give it a shot.
https://www.amazon.com/Primaforce-Supplement-Yohimbine-Performance-Enhancement/dp/B00M39RCE8/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1505746031&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=yohimbine+hcl&psc=1
Try one at first, then move to two if you need to.
I’ll start with three and back off if I have too…
Yohimbe extract works.
I had a similar ‘experiment’. we overdid it, but fortunately we were young
Wikipedia seems to indicate it treats erectile dysfunction. Nothing about being an aphrodisiac.
Hello Florida.
See you in a few days.
Love,
Maria
For better of for worse, I think the fact that most models got Irma’s path wrong and that the results weren’t as deadly, mean that Florida will greet this one with more of a “meh”. I feel bad for the people in the islands, though. They are just starting to deal with the major destruction from Irma.
Irma’s going to turn over the eastern or central Bahamas and head north from there. Every model shows it, and the NHC forecast shows it as well.
The question from there is whether it curves out to sea or hits somewhere near the Carolinas.
http://www.ral.ucar.edu/hurricanes/realtime/plots/northatlantic/2017/al152017/track_early/aal15_2017091812_track_early.png
er, Maria’s gonna turn.
I’m still tired, ok?
We need her to peg Jose.
No pegging, but they might dance together.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/16/hurricane-jose-and-tropical-storm-maria-could-dance-the-fujiwara/
Wait, did Krugman just admit the basis of Austrian business cycle theory had a point?
Not Krugabe. He abandoned the economics beat long ago. This is some bozo at Bloomberg.
So I survived North Dakota’s attempt to drown me in a high plains desert. Just got back from a trip to Beach/Medora area to hunt sharptailed grouse.
All summer they have been talking about the drought that has been hitting the area (forgetting that the last 3-4 years have been wetter than normal). I show up and they immediately get more than an inch of rain. Because most of the roads are clay/scoria based, the rain made travel almost impossible. And the birds weren’t moving in that weather anyhow.
Sunday was sunny and we managed to get a few birds, but I’m going to have a long talk with MikeS during his visit next week about why they don’t control their weather better.
* Still a lot of fun hanging out with my father and my son doing manly bonding things, like making the kid drive through super shitty muddy roads while we drink in the car and tell stories.
Bad weather either makes a trip unexpectedly awesome or terrible. Seems like you turned into the skid. Nice.
Hey, it’s not for lack of trying!
CNN is very nice for hiring the mentally handicapped.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/17/opinions/trump-golf-ball-clinton-alaimo/index.html
***
(CNN)On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump retweeted a video that was edited to make it look like he was hitting a golf ball into the back of his 2016 election rival, Hillary Clinton, and knocking her down.
It undoubtedly had the effect he wanted with some twisted sliver of his base: they paid attention and loved it. But it also had another effect he likely did not want: a much broader audience — of his base, and beyond — also paid attention and had a very different takeaway.
Let’s begin with the nastiest, most offensive aspect of this — the knocking-a-woman-to-the-ground aspect. Viewed through the lens of his previous actions and statements — for example, his acknowledgment that “you know, I retweet, I retweet for a reason” — his Sunday retweet reads like this: the President thinks violence against women is funny.
In fact, any man who thinks it’s hilarious to intentionally aim to hit a woman belongs with a psychotherapist, at best, not in the White House. Violence against women, President Trump, is never funny.
And, whether or not this was Trump’s intent, there’s good reason not to promote even “joke” violence. Many studies have found that people who view violence in the media are significantly more likely to commit acts of physical aggression against others. In fact, many researchers say the risk of exposure to violence leading to actual violence is, as some have put it, as great as the risk of exposure to secondhand smoke from cigarettes leading to lung cancer.
So, this morning, the President made the world a bit less safe for women.
***
[face palm]
[head desk]
I wonder how many of these people who are horrified happily voted for Bill Clinton twice?
Well, Bill was just a rapist, it’s not like he said mean things. /retires to fainting couch
That is fucking hilarious. These people are delusional. I always love the “many studies” line, its so easy to call bullshit when I line starts with that.
Slapstick is funny, get over it. They really are just pushing themselves further and further away from average people.
Yeah, they need to keep this pinned to the front page.
Anyone who is genuinely threatened by this legitimately needs therapy.
I know that ever since America’s Funniest Home Videos came on, I have lived in fear. They made it funny to watch poor men get hit in the jewels and get laughed at.
Have any of us been able to sleep soundly since that hateful show came on and spewed its misandry all over our nation?
So, completely overblown and inconsequential?
Unintentional own-goal?
It’s true. On one unforgettable Saturday morning when I was a kid, I drew a picture of an anvil over my sister’s head with a paint brush, and it fell on her. Now she walks around with a permanent accordion noise. Tragic.
The eternal mystery of which way the correlation arrow (forget the causation arrow) points.
Is it “people who view violence in the media are significantly more likely to commit acts of physical aggression against others” or “people who commit acts of physical aggression against others are significantly more likely to view violence in the media”?
Correlation doesn’t have an arrow. Correlation is commutative: corr(X, Y) = corr(Y, X). What you’re getting at is causality, albeit a stochastic rather than deterministic version of it.
“…his Sunday retweet reads like this: the President thinks violence against women is funny.”
No, at worst (best?) it means the president thinks violence against this one particular person who is a woman is funny. A single example is not a trend, you sexist collectivists.
Meanwhile, America watched football.
Every year, Hollywood hire tons of people with MBAs from top programs. You’d think that, somewhere in these folks’ education, the basic lesson of “Don’t alienate half of your potential market.” would have occurred to them. Total television ratings have been in decline for years now. You’d think the folks in the marketing division who deal with advertisers complaining about risking prices for smaller audiences would get through to them. They don’t need to join the Donald Trump fan club. We all know where they stand politically. They’ve made it abundantly clear.
This is all stuff that used to be common knowledge.
They don’t need to join the Donald Trump fan club.
That’s what I don’t get. Why do these TV stations feel like they have to push an agenda? Its not like you need to pick a side, just make entertaining content, that’s all your audience wants. Stop making it about politics all the fucking time. You don’t have some sort of moral obligation to state your preferences because of your visibility. Just because you’re good at doing something that people want to watch doesn’t mean we’re at all interested in your political hang-ups.
I used to think politics is sports for people who don’t care about sports. Now I think politics is something to care about for people who have nothing else to care about.
Hey!
They can’t change; to do so would be to betray their religion. Seriously. That’s the type of thought process. They’d rather sacrifice their career to the god of Progessivism.
I understand what you’re saying. But, you’d think someone in the corporate hierarchy would stop and say “Wait! You know, we could spike our profits relative to peers by getting our performers to leave the politics at home!”. But, this sort of check on stupidity doesn’t seem to show up.
Anyone that says that needs to be fired, obviously.
BLASPHEMER! APOSTATE!
Requires leadership that thinks the goal is to maximize profits. I think in a bunch of these organizations the rot goes all the way to the top. I think a lot of them have convinced themselves that the social platform bullshit IS the real mission of the organization.
Okay, but at some point, equity markets are going to have to instill some sort of discipline. Or has the government so twisted the market for corporate control that, once management is embedded, the shareholders only serve as a rubber stamp for management’s rent seeking?
Good question. I don’t have the boardroom view so I can only speculate, and my speculation is that shareholder control is so diffuse as to be a meaningless and largely ineffective control on executive management. Or, alternative speculation, it’s such a slow-acting control that the rate management can do damage significantly exceeds the rate of the shareholders’ corrective action. By the time the shareholders or board get around to exerting any control, the marketplace has already spoken. Again, admitting that’s all just speculation on my part.
I’m watching the ESPN tailspin with interest.
I don’t exactly have the boardroom view, either. That said, what little I’ve seen tells me shareholders have very little authority over management. Part of this is the nature of the law governing management responsibilities. Literally, all the board has to show in regard to relieving themselves of their oversight duties is that they got briefed on management’s decisions. No decision, no matter how detrimental to shareholders, can be seen as not okay, as long as they can show management briefed them. That was a bit of what I was talking about in my post. Really, the only thing aligning management with shareholder interests is the options package. And boards have been known to reprice even that.
Seems like it’s a compromise to get more state-sanctioned moolah.
Disney lobbyist: We want 150 year copyrights.
Democrat Congressional prostitute: Hire a woman to do football play by play and you’ve got a deal.
What in the fuck is state capitalism?
It’s a term I’ve been hearing lately to hide the fact that Venezuela is not suffering from the ill effects of socialism.
That’s all it is. They don’t want socialism associated with the evils and failures of socialism, so they came up with a nonsense term with the appropriate shibboleth.
I thought socialism without the evils and failures of socialism was called capitalism.
To the re-education camp with you.
It’s a made term to act as a fig leaf for socialism’s miserable failure.
That sounds like the state merely dictates how the private individuals who own the businesses shall produce. Maybe they combine it with some kind of political philosophy that proposes that the people of that state are in some way superior to those who live in neighboring, less pure societies.
There probably is a specific word for that kind of system, but for the life of me, I can’t remember what it might be.
What in the fuck is state capitalism?
State capitalism is the political and economic arrangement that was formerly hailed as proof that socialism is the wave of the future after it has been proven an abject failure.
It’s a term that is the way socialists perceive the behavior predicted by public choice theory manifesting itself in totalitarian systems.
It was coined either by Orwell or Trotsky to describe the Soviet Union. And it’s not, strictly speaking wrong. Socialism being an unrealistic fantasy, attempts to implement it will diverge from the results the utopians expect.
The people running the factories for the benefit of the state won’t behave too differently than they would for absentee owners in a free market. The government officers directing how the managers run the place, will seek to maximize the profit they get out of the factories, but rather than that profit being a function of the factory’s profitability & other non-monetary benefits, it will be a profit based entirely on political considerations.
Thus, all the things socialists hate about capitalism shows up when the state takes over. Often they get worse! So the socialists conclude they’ve still got capitalism.
Socialism being an unrealistic fantasy, attempts to implement it will diverge from the results the utopians expect.
I think what you’re referring to is communism. Socialism means a lot of things such as state owned industry, but as a general ethos, it’s a fundamentalist opposition to private property.
The thing is, once a socialist state comes into power and starts trampling private property, its operators soon learn that you need some sort of incentive system to get people to do the things you want them to do. That incentive system ends up resembling Capitalism to people who don’t know how to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary cooperation. Thus, “State Capitalism”.
Also remember that these people are iconoclasts; the substitution of the word capitalism for socialism is a deliberate effort to create a negative association with capitalism and leave the association with socialism unharmed. They see nothing immoral about deceiving in service of The Revolution; their devotion to the cause is like that of a religious cult.
It was coined either by Orwell or Trotsky to describe the Soviet Union.
Definitely not Trotsky. I can dig up the quote from The Revolution Betrayed I posted here awhile back but he explicitly says that ‘state capitalism’ is a moronic concept that doesn’t describe the Soviet Union.
Socialism.
It’s like “reverse racism”, a term coined by racists to excuse their flavor of racism. “State capitalism” means socialism that doesn’t work.
It’s when the state plays capitalist. otherwise known as socialism.
The Left makes its first tentative steps into the fields of hard science and engineering.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36804/
Not exactly: she’s the chair of the Department of Engineering Education. She does have an MS in Industrial Engineering but her PhD is in Leadership and Policy Studies.
When I was college, during my senior seminar class, we had a discussion about women in the hard sciences. One of the girls was an engineering major before she switched to economics and complained about how the engineering department wasn’t welcoming towards women and it made her eventually quit the engineering program altogether.
Without thinking, I said that perhaps she quit because she didn’t have the capabilities of finishing the program. I mentioned that women were actually discriminated against in the sciences pre-20th Century because of their sex, but yet still went into the sciences were fairly successful. What was her excuse?
I got a lot of flack for that comment but fuck it.
Nowadays you’d be lucky to not get expelled for that kind of wrongthink.
It’s the sign of the times. I went to college in the early 2000’s and while there were crazy ass progressives, they were a tad bit less authoritarian than the current generation.
Violence against women, President Trump, is never funny.
What is funny, however, is the stern pomposity of these humorless douchebags, including the one who wrote a sanctimonious op-ed in the NYT about how Trump is completely devoid of a sense of humor. Except, of course, when he maliciously laughs at the Most Qualified Candidate Ever, on the campaign trail.
Bummer, Man
From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers. Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons and produced star-making covers that were such coveted real estate they inspired a song.
But the headwinds buffeting the publishing industry, and some costly strategic missteps, have steadily taken a financial toll on Rolling Stone, and a botched story three years ago about an unproven gang rape at the University of Virginia badly bruised the magazine’s journalistic reputation.
And so, after a half-century reign that propelled him into the realm of the rock stars and celebrities who graced his covers, Mr. Wenner is putting his company’s controlling stake in Rolling Stone up for sale, relinquishing his hold on a publication he has led since its founding.
Maybe they can merge with Everyday Feminism.
Well, you’re in a dying industry already, and then you torch your credibility with loads of shitty reporting… doesn’t really take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.
Meh. All this is true. But, was Rolling Stone actually ever a good magazine? Even their grasp of the music scene seemed to always be a little stilted.
And his weird anti-prog rock fetish.
And his
weirdcompletely normal and understandable anti-prog rock fetish.Don’t you mean a blatantly fabricated gang rape at UVA? Its not an “unproven” gang rape, it was a straight up fabrication that ruined lives, stained careers and ruined the reputation of a fraternity. Fuck you, NYT.
I guess once your counterculture becomes the mainstream culture, your mission kind of dries up and you become useless.
Schrödinger’s Rape: As long as you don’t go back in time and open the frat bedroom, the mentally ill girl who has no proof of her accusations is both raped and un-raped at the same time.
To be sure.
+ħ/2
Jackie Coakley did a lot of damage, yet most press outlets still provide her with a cloak of anonymity long after she was proven to be a liar.
I know when I think “counterculture”, I think mainstream politicians, boy bands, and reality TV stars.
Milo made a point that the ‘counterculture’ is right-wing now.
I think he’s right. I also think the amorphous thing that is “Alt-right minus (Richard Spenser/Jared Taylor/every other middle-aged racist)” is actually that
which may confuse people into thinking i think its a good-thing. I think the idea that counter-culture is always to be admired is a silly leftover from the beats/hippies/yippies. Counter-culture is just a reaction to cultural hegemony, and it can have good aspects and it can have parts far worse than the “oppressive” culture.
i think this point needs to be articulated better, and more often. The mass media, in many ways, created the current situation by sucking the air out of american political culture, and turning everything into a “you’re with us or against us” issue. We don’t have a counter culture by design, its a counter-culture by default.
This is why I think generation Z is going to be a lot more conservative. Its reached the tipping point where all political discussion is dominated by the left — so much so that absolutely everyone feels the need to qualify statements that are even slightly off of the mainstream narrative. Young people tend to be defiant in this kind of environment. Its becoming “cool” to say what the left would describe as “outrageous” and “unacceptable.”
The left have become the prudes that they so despised back when they were smoking shitty weed back in the 60s and 70s.
yes.
i don’t just think its generational, its that too many people feel stifled and unrepresented.
I also think its a mistake to think of the pushback as “conservative”; like the gamergaters, most/many of the Alt-right aren’t actually conservative at all. they just embrace things/ideas that the Left despises, *because* they despise them.
i think the term ‘populism’ is insufficient to capture what’s really going on. I think its more something similar to this joke-Nolan Chart; where “normal” (according to the progs) is increasingly defined by a tiny spectrum of ideas, and everything else is characterized as “populist” or “extremism” or some other scare-term. The most-accurate description is probably “Not-prog”
I’m actually surprised that the “botched” rape case reporting got any mention at all. I would have expected them to attribute RS’s declines entirely to the coarsening of culture in Trump’s America.
I watched What Happened to Monday over the weekend. I wasn’t expecting much from it as it is chock full of contemporary sci-fi clichés and plot holes you could drive a truck through, but I ended up pleasantly surprised. The film is set in a Malthusian dystopia that enforces a “one child” policy purportedly sparked by the climate change. I somehow doubt this was intentional, but Glenn Close’s character is a weirdly funny doppelganger of Clinton, right down to a spontaneous fainting spell. I don’t want to give away any spoilers, so just go check it out when you have a chance.
Glenn Close
He was the handsome love interest of Roy Hobbs in “The Natural”, right? A fine actor.
from that play I’ve never seen, Glengarry Glenn Close.
Check out The Girl With All the Gifts. Streaming on Prime right now. Close is in it as well. I was pleasantly surprised by the movie and wonder who still has the villain and hero mixed up
Hey Peter, man, check out Channel 9, it’s the breast exam!
Cards rally to top the Colts and avoid an 0-2 start.
Its okay. You can just say they fucking embarrassed themselves for 48:18 and managed to squeak out a win against a team playing their backup QB.
Carson Palmer has become a total shit show. That interception he through right outside the red zone early on was a disgrace. I swear he’s forgotten what color jerseys he’s supposed to be looking for.
That’s kind of surprising to me. I have this image of Palmer being a pretty reliable QB. Not a rock star by any means but one of the better QBs in the league.
Its really too bad since back in 2015 he played really well, but last year he was terrible, and he seems to be continuing the trend this season too. He wasn’t always bad, and he might turn things around… but so far he’s looking like he’s going to have another bad year.
A couple years back one could argue he was in the top quintile, but he also had a much better team around him. The fear is that his knee will snap like a twig again so he didn’t get too many reps in preseason so he comes out looking like shit.
Ultimately, the Cards are not as strong up the middle without Calais Campbell, but their defense will keep them in games. Without David Johnson, there isn’t much of an offense outside of deep balls and throwing Fitz out as a decoy and hitting somebody down the middle.
Which is a shame, because without a credible NFC West opponent, its gonna be all Russell Wilson all the time.
The process is
the punishmentworking as designed.::blonde edit faerie hopes she gets this right::
If the Edit Ferry has capsized, perhaps Duke basketball star Danny Ferry might come along and fix my post?
Dog Whistle! Racist. I think.
Definitely racist. He’s probably a Nazi.
The edit faerie totally redeemed F.
I like this new edit faerie and would very much appreciate seeing more of her.
Blonde Edit Fairy has my complete and undivided attention.
was Rolling Stone actually ever a good magazine?
Hunter S Thompson
Bingo. It was a product and success based on its time and place. If it had folded when Carter took office it would have the beloved stature of National Lampoon.
PJ O’Rourke used to write for them too.
oh, right. he used to not suck
Very much so. Guess getting old dulled his wit.
Yet more fun on America’s college campuses.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a-campus-conservatives-year-facing-anger-doxing-and-intimidation
College used to be a place to get drunk, get laid and maybe learn a few things. Now it’s a place where you shouldn’t drink and *definitely* shouldn’t get laid because of “rape culture”, you learn nothing of value, propaganda is rampant, all for the low, low price of a typical mortgage worth of debt. Now I wonder why people are deciding not to go?
The righties wouldn’t have a problem if they’d shut up and stop verbally bullying people. Haven’t you heard words are violence now (a belief that sort of gets at the root of the current problem)?
“She shouldn’t have worn that dress, she was asking for it!”
I propose a new hotline #, “611” or something, for when you plan to try ‘suicide by cop’. Or maybe make it different so people don’t get shot because they’re dyslexic
Just bring on the suicide booths a-la Futurama.
“You have elected… slow and horrible”
Suicide booths are 9 years overdue. They were supposed to have been invented in 2008.
You just to think outside the box. All you need is a closet and some rope.
I think they stole that idea from “Welcome to the Monkey House“
“The Repairer of Reputations”, the first story in “The King in Yellow”, talks about suicide booths on street corners in a dystopian future 1920s America.
thanks for that
It’s a good read, especially if you’re into “weird” fiction.
Why not Ethical Suicide Parlors? Go out with a hand job from Nancy McLuhan.
No nap like an office chair nap.
I need to start getting better sleep at night. Feels like I surface way too easily and often.
I was a terrible insomniac all my life until I started taking liquid melatonin an hour before bedtime. It takes about a week to kick in bit it’s worked wonders.
Been meaning to give that a shot.
Life Extension brand on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Extension-Melatonin-Natural-Citrus-Vanilla/dp/B00DBYI7F2/ref=sr_1_4_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1505750157&sr=8-4&keywords=life+extension+melatonin
I hold it under my tongue for a minute and it lays me out like I took an Ambien except I’m not feeling lobotomized the next day. It’s good stuff.
Ordered. Thanks!
moral vegans (as opposed to health-driven vegans) suck the air right out of the room. it’s the real life version of that Debbie Downer skit from SNL a decade ago. if i get one more animal snuff vid in my inbox i’ll snap and go debeak the pigeons out in the courtyard.
the health vegans are just funny…
“i was diagnosed schizo + manic depressive but i’ve changed my diet to vegan for only two weeks now and i’m already off all my meds! i haven’t even bothered to consult with my doctor about it.”
Vegetarianism is something I can understand at least in theory, veganism is just BPD morphed into a diet.
I make an exception if one is Buddhist or Hindu. Otherwise Veganism is just a self imposed protein deficiency.
I never eat anything with a face. I get the butcher to remove it first.
How does he type in that straitjacket? He must have a stenographer.
I haven’t yet read Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened,” but it seems pretty clear to me what did, in fact, happen in 2016.
These days, America starts from a baseline of extreme tribalism: 47 or 48 percent of the electorate will vote for any Republican, no matter how terrible, and against any Democrat, no matter how good. This means, in turn, that small things — journalists acting like mean kids in high school, ganging up on candidates they consider uncool, events that suggest fresh scandal even when there’s nothing there — can tip the balance in favor of even the worst candidate imaginable.
Democrats, however, are thoughtful, rational openminded thinkers to whom “tribalism” is just a weird anachronism. Something that happens in the jungles of the Amazon. Or Waco, Texas.
Guessing NYT without hovering over link… yep NYT.
Jesus fucking Christ, are they claiming she got screwed by the medie? They kissed her ass like I’ve never seen before, Obama’s runs included.
Oh yes, progressives are in general ALL OVER the fact that the media was totally in the tank for Trump. It’s high up on the list of 50-reasons-Herself-lost-the-election-none-of-which-were-her-own-fault.
It’s fucking Bizzaro-world.
It’s wonderful they’ve learned so little; means they’ll continue to make the same mistakes.
They may have a slim point in that the press did give Trump a fair bit of favorable (or neutral at least) coverage during the nomination process but that was only because they thought he was the most beatable. During the actual election process they were absolutely brutal, unfairly brutal even, to him.
^This. The press didn’t take him at all seriously, even after he won the nomination. It wasn’t until he started to look like he might have a shot against Clinton that the press started in on him, and then they went for the throat.
The only favorable to neutral press that Trump got was back before he started looking like the actual nominee and was useful to the DemOp Media as a spoiler/stick to beat Republicans with.
To believe that the media was anything other than extraordinarily protective, at a minimum, of Hillary, is pure delusion.
But they kept reporting on the emails which *DIDNT MEAN ANYTHING AND NEVER WILL LALALALLA*
Seriously, that’s the talking point underlying their unshakable belief that the media was totes against her.
Exactly…
IIRC, there were some DNC memos (wikileaks podesta e-mails?) that clearly outlined using Trump in a “pied piper” strategy.
Of course, you won’t read about that in “What Happened?”
Obama had the runs… and the media was kissing his ass.
heh heh
Hah I knew this was krugabe
Journos are overwhelmingly on team blue’s side
And if comey ran a serious investigation she would be screwed
Mitt has a sad face.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Independent/status/909386202910007296
Hah the nice thing about twitter is the blue check liberals have exposed themselves as dumbasses and are getting slaughtered in the comments
Another was gizmodo the other day praising next Lego movie tackling gender issues
At least in my imagination, they float that stuff out there expecting a round of pats on the back from the cadre of other Right-Thinkers. I imagine they’re aghast at the backlash, although I’m sure they’re quick to mentally insulate themselves from it.
I’d be willing to bet they dismiss their critics as inbred retards. If they took the criticism seriously they’d learn from it.
The backlash probably just confirms their suspicions that there’s a small band of racist Twitter trolls who spend all their time posting nasty things online. It’s a feedback loop: they cry “Islamophobia” and people rightly criticize them for it, which they subsequently interpret as Islamophobia.
“What a load of arseflutery.” Nice.
“Gymgoer has to call firefighters to slice up dumbbell weight he had managed to get his PENIS stuck in while training in Germany”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4892552/Man-freed-firefighters-sticking-penis-weight.html
I always refer to mine in all caps as well.
I lift things up and put them down
I got to see a load of other daily fail articles after. Gouge my eyes out.
WORDS– HUH!- What are they good for? Absolutely nuthin’!
Of course, being accused of sexual assault hurts. And there are things that we can and should do to help accused students — namely, providing them with psychological counsel. But accused men’s pain does not excuse rape, and men shouldn’t be the ones defining it. Most rapists, even those who have been criminally convicted, will never label themselves as such. More broadly, there is a tendency on the part of college-age men to define sexual assault according to their own standards, not according to campus guidelines.
New talking point, off the port bow. “Psychological counsel” sounds like “re-education”, which showed up in that Atlantic thing I linked to the other day. And, of course, only a Nazi misogynist would quibble about the actual meaning of an amorphous catch-all term like rape.
We’re all rapists, now. Get woke, and confess your sins.
Miriam Gleckman-Krut and Nicole Bedera are both witches who should be tied to a stake and burned alive. Now, I’m sure that both of them would insist that none of their behavior is consistent with actual witchcraft. But accused witch’s pain does not excuse witchcraft, and witches shouldn’t be the ones defining it. Most witches, even those who have been burned at the stake, will never label themselves as such. More broadly, there is a tendency on the part of witches to define witchcraft according to their own standards, not according to campus guidelines.
Well played, sir.
Telling that they’re more concerned with applying the label than the fact that they’ve been convicted for the crime.
Just like how Stalin never executed a good communist; they were all Enemies of the People.
These people are obsessed with optics.
I’m surprised that the NYT commenters have their heads on straight about this. The most-liked comments are actually reasonable.
The best long-form piece I’ve personally seen carefully deconstructing the campus rape bullshit circus was written by Emily Yoffe of all people (former Dear Prudence prior to the current model). Go figure.
Being unfairly accused of sexual assault hurts, it’s devastating actually, which is why the highest standard of due process is needed. Fuck that starchamber council of students and administrators bullshit.
So, only men rape and only women can be raped, denying an accusation of rape is just the sort of suspicious behavior you’d expect from a rapist, and the only valid definition of sexual assault is that found in the student handbook. Got it.
Like it or not, the terms “rape” and “sexual assault” have specific legal meanings. If you want to turn this into a discussion of campus guidelines then stop framing this as a quasi-legal proceeding and start referring to the accused as alleged social policy violators.
But the authors don’t want that of course. They want a shadow legal system that operates under their batshit insane principals of “believing the accuser”.
Well, fuck them.
We’ve frequently lamented how culture publications are just infested with TDS. I’ve mentioned the Avclub as being one of the worst offenders. They’re reviewing a memoir by Obama speechwriter David Litt, which got an A-. This made me cringe:
That didn’t happen did it? I just can’t. It’s just too much.
It’s funny, because her cervical cancer went into spontaneous remission, and her herpes disappeared too.
OHIO Man
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man has been charged after chasing his 6-year-old daughter around a neighborhood while wearing a clown mask and another man is charged for firing a gun.
Police say the girl first jumped into a stranger’s car and then ran into a stranger’s apartment while screaming that a clown was chasing her in Boardman Township on Saturday night.
Police say a man in the apartment building came outside and fired a gunshot into the ground.
The father told police he chased his daughter to discipline her for behavioral issues instead of spanking her. He’s been charged with child endangering and inducing panic.
Police say the man who fired the gunshot has been charged with using weapons while intoxicated.
LOL
reminds me of the guy arrested for pepper spraying his stepson when he wouldn’t get out of bed and get to school.
i completely understand these dads and would acquit if on the jury.
No, you as a parent do have the right to abuse your kids. That is what both of those accounts are, abuse. One physical and one mental. Pepper spray is meant to stop someone from attacking you in a non-lethal way, not prodding someone to get them to do something.
crap, typed to quick. parents do not have the right to abuse their kids.
Yeah. As a parent, despite however much you may want to go berserk on your kid, the moment you go nuts you lose. The biggest, most important thing you do as a parent, the thing that gives you the moral authority to tell your children how to behave and punish them when they misbehave, is to not lose your temper at your child.
Everything else is easy compared to not choking your kid when he or she has been acting like a spoiled brat all day and you’re running on three hours of sleep and suffering from low blood sugar.
didn’t say i condone it. i understand it and feel their pain.
right, jumped ahead a little there. I just get upset with parents treating their kids like garbage.
I would have thought using pepper spray would be counterproductive. It’s hard to get on a school bus if you’re blinded and nauseous.
meh. i was sprayed in CS class in high school. sucked but manageable.
Are we gonna have another clown panic this Halloween?
OOPS
Trollolol
The notorious provocateur, though, has returned to public light in recent weeks, granting interviews with local media and sending off media releases promoting his speaking events.
But it’s unclear if Yiannopoulos’ latest crusade in the Bay Area has any foothold or is rather an elaborate ruse to the school, the Berkeley community and the media.
That’s pretty disingenuous, but what can you expect.
But I uphold what I said here a few days ago. Berkeley would be foolish to underestimate their opposition here. Milo, Inc. seems to have some significant funding behind it, and this whole project has a long, public, detailed paper trail, which look like perfect primary evidence in an expensive and very public civil lawsuit.
Berkeley is clearly a cut above such lumpenplaces as Missou and Evergreen State, so it really won’t have to worry that much about declining admissions amid lousy publicity.
I guess one bit of useful citizen journalism would be to discover which of the speakers booked their airline tickets as non-refundables.