I’ve avoided the NFL like the plague on these (virtual) pages for the last few weeks. But I gotta say that Aaron Rodgers injury is killing my FFL team to death. Oh, and just in case you needed a good, hearty belly laugh this morning… Hey dummy, you can’t voluntarily terminate a contract, badmouth your prior employers and their customers, ask them to bring you back at a salary not commensurate with your skill level relative to the market, and then say they’re conspiring to not hire you when it all blows up in your face. Sorry, chump but it doesn’t work that way.
Go Bucks!
In real football, we had a crazy weekend of action. And it all started on Friday night as Clemson fell to lowly Syracuse. And later in the evening, Playa Manhattan’s mighty Cal bears demolished Clemson’s top 10 brethren WSU Cougars. The score of that was 37-3 in case you still don’t have internet, Playa. Well that was just Friday. Saturday brought more top 10 losses as Auburn, who isn’t really very good anyway and is only ranked that high because of hype, went down to the same LSU team that had just lost to Troy a couple weeks ago. And then late in the evening, Washington went into Tempe and lost a nail-biter to Arizona State. TTUN needed overtime to beat Indiana and Penn State looms large for the Wolverines. I predict these Wolverines will go out more like the Jennifer Grey character than the Lea Thompson character from the movie. Anyway, Alabama rolled, Georgia and TCU looked fine, Wisconsin was adequate, Miama squeaked out a win over Georgia Tech with a circus fourth-down catch and a monsoon that killed the Jackets option game. Oklahoma held on against Texas in the Red River game and Ohio State beat Nebraska so bad they’ll likely fire their coach this week. The loss wasn’t as bad as last year’s beatdown, but it was the worst home conference loss the corn shuckers have ever endured. And going back to last year’s game through the late fourth quarter, Ohio State scored on 18 consecutive possessions. And 15 of the scores were touchdowns. How the mighty corn shuckers have fallen.
And in other parts of the world, Man City looks unstoppable, ManUre is too cowardly to play offense and draws Liverpool. Chelsea fall to Crystal Palace (who saw that coming?), Real won while Athletico drew with Barcelona. And Bayern cruised again. Plus Roger Federer continued his recent dominance of Rafael Nadal in Shanghai with his fifth straight win over the Spaniard.
And then we come to baseball. The Dodgers keep putting the thumbscrews to the Cubs by getting to their bullpen. Meanwhile, Joe Maddon’s boys have no answer for the arms of the Angelenos and find themselves in a two game hole heading back to the Windy City. They better get some hats for bats if they’re gonna get this thing turned around. And the same can be said for the Yankees, who likewise are down a pair against the mighty ASTROS!!! in the ALCS. They resume play tonight in the Bronx and will send CC Sabathia to the hill to face Charlie Morton in what has to be considered a must-win game for the pinstripes. Here’s hoping they don’t get it.
Aaaaaand that’s a wrap for sports. Now back to our regularly scheduled program…the links!
Austria gets younger and more conservative at the top
European globalism gets a swift kick in the nuts. Sorry Brussels, they got tired of paying and paying and paying and having no more control over their national economic and immigration policy. Expect the dominos to keep falling with the Czech elections looming.
Sorry activist judges, maybe Trump knows how the constitutional separation of powers works after all. Let me go fetch my tear bucket. I’m gonna need it.
Just your typical weekend in a very gun-restricted city. But that’s like local news, man. Plus Indiana sells to anybody (untrue)! Plus bump-stocks! Plus greedy manufacturers! Plus capitalism. Plus TRUMPNAZI!!!!!!! Anything but personal responsibility and a complete breakdown in the family structure. Because those are foreign concepts to the progressive shitheads running the place.
The distances some people will go to… For real, dude. That’s cold.
Why bother?
The naïveté from NPR is hilariously sad. Yeah, its sure a surprise when a repressive socialist regime sweeps to an election victory. If you’ve been living in a box for the last 70 years maybe.
Remember when Trump said we should let the Iraqis and (mostly) the Russians and Syrians take care of ISIS and the warmongers from Hillary Clinton to John McCain’s brain tumor to Lindsey Graham said that was insane and stupid? Well, it seems to have worked out pretty freaking well. And yes, we did lose a couple soldiers over there, one of which was a very close friend and groomsman for my nephew. But the losses would have been much greater if we’d have listened to those dumbs hits and now we’d be on the hook for reconstructing that wasteland. As an aside, I suppose all those refugees can start heading back from Europe pretty soon. I’m sure they’ll all be happy to head home so they can rebuild their towns and cities back to the bustling centers of industry they were such a short time ago.
Have a great start to the week, friends.
The NFL predictions on this site are poor. Last week I bet my house on them and lost and had to sleep in the car. This week I bet my car on the winners predicted and lost my car as well. What will I do now?
Another big bet should do the trick. You’ll win back everything this time.
Martingale approved.
You still have two kidneys, right?
You still have two kidneys, right?
…
No.
Should I sell blood plasma?
Sell an eyeball, or a knee cap
Here’s a handy guide
https://gizmodo.com/5904129/heres-how-much-body-parts-cost-on-the-black-market
Then you probably shouldn’t bet your house and then your car. Unless… no… no one on this site should probably sell any portion of their liver.
No one on this site could probably get anything for a portion of their liver.
Except maybe some recognition for the sheer size.
The Giants beating the Broncos probably cost people a lot of money. Same with Miami over Atlanta. Sounds like the Falcons have a little problem holding on to big leads.
I stayed away from the Falcons despite the Dolphins not being that great and, you know, Jay Cutler. Atlanta has earned a reputation for playing three quarters of a game and then coasting to the finish line.
Now you tell me.
As a Broncos fan, I saw the Giants win a-coming. Total trap game and Trevor Siemian is not an NFL QB.
You can live under a bridge. If you don’t have one, I can sell one to you.
“European globalism gets a swift kick in the nuts.” – the extreme right apparently got 25% in Austria, though I am not sure what extreme right means anymore. Lets say what the press considers extreme right.
Am I the only one that thinks he looks like a Sith Lord? Extreme right means he’s a Sith.
Just your typical weekend in a very gun-restricted city. – I blame institutional racism, myself
Awake and bored in eastern Europe?
At work so … yeah
No music? , Man this site is going downhill, cancel my subscription!
Here you go
Also no news of the storm hiring Ireland. You Americans cause hurricanes with global warming and don’t even have the common sense to keep them in America like usual
That’s because nobody hires the Irish, at least not anyone smart.
It’s barely after noon on a Monday. None of those drunken potato-eaters are awake yet to let the world know what happened.
Stupid scheduler. I wasn’t done yet.
Ugh, sorry I asked *searches for ear bleach*
How about eye bleach? You could just mute the sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d7nmyFdo8g
Duran Duran. Hmmm…I think we were better off without the music link.
Haters gonna’ hate. Too bad, as John Taylor is one of the best bassists in all of rock.
And Neil Peart is one of the best drummers in all of rock, but that doesn’t make Rush listenable. Sometimes the parts are greater than the whole.
How did you ever make it to a Libertarian website? I thought liking Rush was something they gave you, along with the first monocle?
I’m a non-conformist. That’s also very libertarian.
There are always oddballs. Lime people who insist smooth peanut butter and Chicago casserole pizza
You know, MikeS’ avatar is green – but there is no need to call him a lime person!!!
Sorry, having a kit the size of Nunavut doesn’t make someone one of the best drummers.
Please. YYZ is impossible for just about everyone not Neil Peart.
You may not like it, or anything else they do—and that’s fine—but pretty much all his fellow drummers acclaim him as one of the best in their craft.
As a pretty good drummer, I must concur. I don’t like Peart at all really. Maybe on a few choice songs.
I know that he’s very technically good, but I just don’t like his style. His style to me always sounds flat, somehow. There isn’t enough space to breathe most of the time.
I don’t care how unpopular this is, the best drummer/my favorite is Carter Beauford from Dave Matthews Band. So tasty and just an absolute prodigy. And DMB songs from their first three albums are all fucking phenomenal live, which is the only way you should listen to them in the first place.
So there.
I think we just found out that Evan is actually a rare female libertarian.
As a non-musician, my favorite drummers from any bands I’ve ever listened to are John Stanier and Dave Lombardo. I have no idea if they’re the best from a technical standpoint, but the way they play has an amazing effect on me. Particularly Stanier’s snare.
I didn’t like DMB, then I listened to them live (got free tickets) and was quite impressed.
You couldn’t even hold Geddy Lee’s suppository that he uses to switch synthesizer sounds MikeS.
/thought of holding Geddy’s suppository
*shudders
/thought of Geddy signing
*shudders
dammit…singing
What the fuck is wrong with Duran Duran? Especially during this phase? They were pretty popular and had a unique sound.
I just never got into them. Even when they were all over the radio I didn’t care for them. Don’t really have a good reason other than “it’s not my bag, baby!”
There is never anything wrong with Duran Duran, ever. 🙂
So, when do we start hearing that Trump as an eminent constitutional scholar?
True constitutional scholars know that the words as written don’t really mean what they say. They understand all the emanations and penumbras and shit that gets them to their desired outcome every time.
From the David Marchant bio: quantifying rates of landscape change through numerical modeling, cosmogenic-nuclide dating, and tephrochronology/repeatedly shoving a woman down a slope and throwing rocks at her when she tried to go to the bathroom in the field.
Dude sounds like a real piece of shit.
I keep reading this as Brad Marchand, and I’m thinking what the hell? I need more coffee.
Sure, if true. Is there a contemporaneous journal, or a statement from someone she told this stuff to? Any corroboration at all?
Because if you ask me about things I may or may not have done twenty years ago to someone, the first question I’m going to ask is, “Who?” Then “What?”
How do you possibly begin to defend yourself from accusations like this?
How do you possibly begin to defend yourself from accusations like this?
Defend? There is no defense against these kinds of action, you oppressive shitlord.
-feminist, male-feminist and/or cuckolded opinion writer
There is no defense, only
ZUULTitle IXWe’ll find out. From her description, others were around and aware. So I imagine there will be some further interviews.
From her description, others were around and aware.
Good. Hopefully they wrote stuff down at the time too.
Laches used to be a doctrine we used, for some pretty good reasons. Trying to marshal a defense twenty years after the fact, is one of them.
Investigator Sloopy: so I was told you witnessed this abuse and harassment, is that right?
Male Researcher: that’s right.
IS: on how many occasions?
MR: several times, actually. It was terrible.
IS: then why didn’t you do something about it, you weak, sniveling little pussy? We’re you too afraid of losing your gravy train job to be a fucking man? Get out of my face, ya bum.
It’s interesting that one of the reasons she waited twenty years to mention this, is that it’s the first time she got tenure.
For the academics here, is twenty years excessive from grad school to a professor’s gaining tenure? It seems really long to me, even in an era of gypsy assistant (or associate—I can never remember which one’s lower on the totem pole) professorships. Moreover, would an associate prof at School B, accusing her grad school adviser of being a complete shithead while she was studying at School A, significantly harm her chances of acquiring tenure?
Not that this kind of behavior is limited to the academic side of universities, right Mike McQueary? Incidentally, did they ever find that kid?
Twenty years is definitely excessive. Typically, it’s about how long you’re allowed to work as a professor without having earned tenure, not how much time do you put in before they grant it to you, and while that varies anywhere from four to ten years seems to be the norm in my experience.
She didn’t wait 20 years – she’s 40 now. She’s spent a maybe 12 years without tenure.
There should be something like a statute of limitations.
Jane Willenbring, 40, now an associate professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, filed a Title IX complaint with BU in October 2016, just a few months after she received tenure.
Convenient.
Theft of 1.2 Million Worth of Fajitas Lands Juvenile Justice Worker in Jail
Hmmmm million dollar fajitas
¡Ay caramba!
800 pounds of institutional fajitas… the man’s colon must look like the mouth of an active volcano.
::reads article::
Oh he was selling them. Nevermind.
“Premature submission? Don’t worry baby, it happens to everyone.”
Even George W Bush said ‘that was some weird sh*t’ afterwards: Hillary Clinton talks Trump, Korea and Weinstein
The former Presidential frontrunner reveals details of her phone call with winner Donald Trump after he won last year’s election – during visit to Cheltenham Literary Festival
At least she’s keeping her level of class intact and isn’t acting like a sore loser.
“Only to stop me from crying.”
EMPOWERING.
Christ, these people are a parody of themselves even when (ostensibly) joking .
OK enough with this gay banter. Lets get down to business, the linkening of the derp
Standing on the Shoulders of Diversocrats
The mania to achieve racial and gender equity in the hard sciences and tech will hurt American competitiveness.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/standing-shoulders-diversocrats-15524.html
The most significant new diversity sinecure has been established at the University of California, Los Angeles, where the engineering school just minted its first associate dean of diversity and inclusion. The purpose of this new position is to encourage engineering faculty to hire more females and underrepresented minorities, reports the Daily Bruin, UCLA’s student newspaper. “One of my jobs,” the new dean, Scott Brandenberg, told the paper, is “to avoid implicit bias in the hiring process.”
The new engineering-diversity deanship supplements the work of UCLA’s lavishly paid, campus-wide Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Jerry Kang, whose 2016 salary was $444,000. Kang, one of the most influential proponents of the “implicit-bias” concept, already exerts enormous pressure throughout the university to hire for “diversity.”
Good work, if you can get it.
Gay
Fucking hell. Implicit Bias? Why don’t they just call it original sin and be done with it.
444,000. Wow. What the fuck does this person do day to day.? Who do I have to blow to get a job like this?
What the fuck does this person do day to day.?
Day-to-day? Makes $1216 before taxes.
Virtue-signal and aggravate people who just want to do their job.
Seriously, I know at least one person with this title for a university. Nice guy, but serious case of imposter syndrome.
“to avoid implicit bias in the hiring process.”
Like affinity for mathematics?
Why would someone do all the work to become an engineer, when they can get a BA in Asian Studies, then get a law degree and make $444K?
Avoid implicit bias by entering explicit bias.
When ‘liberal’ men mistreat women: It’s not just Harvey
I’ve heard it said, either on this site or one of the others I frequent, that a possible reason coastal feminazis are such She-(Wo)Man Man Haters is because so many of the “good guys” they’re surrounded by — liberal men — are serial abusers, sociopaths, sexual deviants, philanderers, players and so on, so the coastal feminist thinks, if the good guys are this abusive and terrible, how much worse must the bad guys be? Thus you get that over the top, irrational hatred of classy Southern/flyover gentlemen like myself.
Almost enough to make me feel sorry for them.
It’s all projection all of the time with these scumbags.
He just had to take his shot at Trump. Plus….
“…or a Trump critic who exploits undocumented immigrants for profit -”
I’m pretty sure rich Democrats lead here too.
The same thing here. Liberals are the most hypocritical.
“then you too are a phony liberal. We don’t need more of those.”
That’s what to get when you put principals over principles.
Meh, I’d say that cognitive dissonance is being charitable; I’d go for run-of-the-mill hypocrisy, myself. Both are pretty standard “liberal” qualities, I’d say, although there are certainly some scare-quote conservatives who can relate, too.
I thought cognitive dissonance was holding believing multiple contradictory things at the same time.
I like the book Dune and Sugarfree writing.
Seriously bro, you need to write a whole book.
I think the term could be used to describe believing one thing and doing another thing, like believing that smoking is bad for you while also smoking yourself.
Cognitive dissonance is not related to hypocrisy. Cognitive dissonance is doublethink.
That’s been my take. Or possibly believing one thing while accepting evidence to the contrary as legitimate.
One of my friends came over to watch the Skins game and said “how about that whole Weinstien thing, the right is freaking out because they FINALLY found a person on the left that is a pervert, since they usually come from the right.”
I eye-rolled pretty hard at that.
The same people who ridiculed Pence as some misogynistic Neanderthal want to pin sex pests on the right. Spare me.
“Finally”. I guess Slick Willy doesn’t count.
Or Ted Kennedy or Cuomo or Weiner or Gus Savage or Mel Reynolds…
If I recall correctly for the right it’s less than they’re perverts and more that they’re closet gays engaging in consensual sex. Why does your friend think gay people are perverts?
in short, if your personal behavior would embarrass you in public, then you too are a phony liberal
You’re all phony liberals, because your entire schtick is illiberal. You’re progressives, and you’re just too stupid to realize how embarrassing that is. Quit sullying liberalism with your Marxist pablum.
The delusion is that your politics must be an outward reflection of your personal morals. It’s why progressives assume that if you advocate for people to do things that you find personally objectionable (hate people for stupid reasons; consume hard drugs; etc, etc) you actually must condone those things.
And because you were dying to kow matt yglesias twittes his unpopular opinions
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/919735375886766080
Yeah, ok…..
In retrospect, Jim Webb was the only Democrat running who could’ve beaten Trump, as he was the only one playing the same game. That any Dem can think otherwise strongly indicates they will continue to struggle electorally until the next economic downturn hits or they revise their thinking.
Numbered tweets?
JATNAS is preparing his lawsuit for trademark infringement as we speak.
Oh you ought to see the JATNAS twitter feed. He’s in the millions!
I’m stunned that how many sensible opinions are mixed in with the usual Yglesias idiocy. There are at least 3 or 4 things he says that are legitimate.
Madrid >>>> Barcelona?
Hmmm…
Agreed. There is some lefty-heretical stuff mixed in with some stupid. Stupid stuff like:
“21. Really basic, ongoing, day-to-day discrimination against black people has become an underrated cause of black disadvantage.”
Yeah hardly anyone ever talks about this. And…
“24. The United States should make alcohol a lot more expensive.”
Like these?
In-and-Out Burger is just okay and California people are weirdly deluded about it.
This. It’s not bad, but I would choose whataburger 10x out of 10 when I had the choice. I lived equidistant between the two, and went to in n out maybe 2 or 3% of the time I got fast food burgers.
In n out was what I got when I wanted a plain, basic burger.
It’s not a bad burger at all, but a burger joint is one of the few business models that you cannot screw up. You just need the right location and need a mildly competent staff. The latter is mostly optional.
There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever
A new movie sets its doomed entrepreneurs amidst 17th-century “tulipmania”—but historians of the phenomenon have their own bubble to burst
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/#KSuB7wVkA2yy1Ed5.99
Tulpa Fever?
Quiet, Tulpa…we know it is you!
That’s what Tulpa would say!
I was thinking this sort of Tuilip Fever
Legit.
I got a fever for Vikander.
And it accurately traces the roots of “Great Wealth = Corruption” to the Calvinist sects of Christianity. My grandma (who grew up Presbyterian, aka Scottish Calvinist) is very much in this mold, and since she took my mom to a Presbyterian church, it took her a very long time to get over that prejudice.
But it did happen…. It’s pretty well fucking documented…
*clicks the link*
Ohhhhh Mackay exaggerated how far down the social strata the mania went in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Yeah. That book, while a delightful read, is not exactly an authoritative source.
What a pointless fucking article.
Well there is a difference between a few people gambling and an economy wide bubble… But yeah there was a bubble
Here ya go, so much for that one sliver of hope that silicon valley had done something sensible…
https://www.theroot.com/apple-s-diversity-chief-apologizes-after-being-called-o-1819485086
Woman apologizes for wrongthink. Racists at the root rejoice.
The simple fact that the following exists is a sign that the battle is lost.
Many big corporations have similar positions now. She (always) is given an important sounding title but kept way far away from any corporate strategy and decision making. She is trotted out for any necessary apologies and appearances at leftist type charity events.
That this simple statement of fact requires an apology is just stunning. Turn off the lights, it’s all over.
No, the fact that a person who disagrees with that statement could be made to agree by changing it to 12 upper-middle class black women from Harvard is a sign that the debate period is pretty much over.
All Swedes look alike anyways.
So I guess diversity is like kosher or halal. There are very strict rules to get the approval. Is there some mark that I can look for that identifies 100% diversity approval?
‘I’ve been polyamorous for nearly a decade. Here’s how I make it work’
It may actually work for some, but for most it definitely won’t
Xenophon’s take on polyamory: Some people can handle it. Most can’t. For the vast, vast majority of people, the benefits of a single committed partner outweigh the “cost” of having to maintain self-discipline.
Also, in what world is your life partner supposed to meet your every need? That’s a ridiculous fantasy.
We go through this at home occasionally since we’ve moved multiple times in the last few years. It’s a challenge meeting your partner’s every need (from companionship to socialization). That’s why we always seek out a golf club to join with a fairly robust lounge/restaurant and a club room. It helps quickly fill the void of friendship if you can hang out in the club room and have the attendant introduce you to 50 people in the first few weeks, some of which will want an occasional playin partner. It’s always served us well.
Yeah, I’m fairly new to the marriage game but some of the best advice I’ve received is to avoid putting your partner on the end-all be-all pedestal and intentionally build relationships in the wider community. I recently joined a woodworker’s guild and she has her Zumba classes and Bible study gals. Not only does active community participation give us much-needed peer socialization, it also gives us stuff to talk about together — “What did you learn at your Old Man Club?” “How are the Zumba girls doing?” “What did you learn in Bible study this week?” and so on.
It’s unrealistic and frankly selfish to expect one person to be responsible for all of your needs. That’s not an argument in favor of polyamory, it’s an argument in favor of being an adult. Every successful relationship I’ve seen has been between two people who have their own separate identities and interests. They enjoy each others company, typically like to have sex with each other, and are willing to make some sacrifices towards the greater goal of making a long-lasting family, or at least household, together.
This. We’re struggling with that right now. Only been in the new state for 10 months, and 5 of those months have involved caring for an infant. Getting plugged into social groups has been a challenge, and we’re starting to feel the effects of not being plugged in.
Shoot, I “Need” to marry a wealthy heiress who is a 10, but it just isn’t in the cards.
Her father should own a liquor store too.
a wealthy heiress who is a 10,
On first read, I missed the “a”. Thought you were honing in on OMWC’s territory.
Gotta lock that down early.
It may be a ridiculous fantasy but it is a very common one.
Further according to traditional monogamy one person is supposed to fulfill all of your romantic and sexual needs. What happens when they aren’t willing or able to do so?
One of my oldest friends got divorced earlier this year. They had been together for 15 years and hadn’t had sex in 10. He just was’t interested in it. To make matters worse, she has always been someone with a VERY high libido. She did everything she could, lost a lot of weight, got in good shape, tried seducing him, always thinking and internalizing the idea that it was her fault that he wasn’t interested in her when the reality was that he was just not interested at all. Being a good catholic girl she even stayed true through 9 of the 10 sexless years until she started a short fling with a coworker in a similar position that never even got beyond 3rd base which is what finally gave her the impetus to stand up for what she needed and leave him.
Everything else about their relationship wasn’t perfect but it worked well enough that they would have stayed happily married except she couldn’t take the constant rejection and needed to have her sexual needs met.
Sure, polyamory isn’t for everyone but it should be on the table for everyone because there are absolutely times where ditching the concept of sexual exclusivity is what is needed to save an otherwise floundering relationship.
Enjoy…
https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/10/butch-femme-relationships/
Those from that time can remind me of the details, I may be wrong but wasn’t Thomas cleared?
http://www.theroot.com/anita-hill-on-the-weinstein-scandal-this-type-of-shit-1819484276
Thomas. O’Reilly. Cosby. Weinstein. Trump. Letterman. Various failed hit jobs…
I see a pattern and it isnt what the press would have us believe.
Maybe I’m misremembering some of those other cases, but it seems like Harvey is an outlier in that he didn’t really dispute the accusations before beginning the course of self-flagellation. The ink on the original NYT article was barely dry and Harvey was stepping away from The Weinstein Company. Unlike, say, Cosby and Thomas (and Trump?) who didn’t admit anything. Letterman and O’Reilly I didn’t pay attention to, because, you know, Letterman and O’Reilly.
Lol
Remember, to a feminist all men are always guilty so no he was never cleared. the accusation alone makes him guilty
Something something, Merica! FUCK YEAH!
https://splinternews.com/new-jersey-high-school-teacher-tells-students-to-speak-1819485188
Gardener, 62, got so fed up with wife’s nagging he went to live in the WOODS for five years
You’d be lying if you said you never thought of doing the same.
STEVE SMITH LIVES IN WOODS. GETS COLD. GETS LONELY. JUST KEEPING HIKERS WARM.
Between stories like this and stories like the above of guys “needing” to be okay with their wives having sex with men besides themselves, how am I the strange one for not wanting to get married, ever?
The vast majority of women prefer monogamy. Go find yourself a sane, honest conservative girl and get busy. We are trying to take over the world using the Catholic strategy so we can leave everyone alone.
I’ll leave that whole “have a family” thing for someone that actually wants one.
“After leaving, Malcolm camped in ‘thick woodland’ near Kingston, south west London, while working on gardens at a community centre for the elderly.”
This thick woodland doesn’t exactly sound like the Yukon.
I have a buddy who keeps one half of a rental duplex he owns open for himself. I give him shit that he really isn’t married if he has a “Fortress of Solitude” to run to when things get shitty at home.
As I’ve also said here before, we have dogs because at one point some cave man decided that going out and socializing wolves was better than hanging out in the cave with the cave women.
my wife would disagree with you about the dogs
GOP Tax Plan Would Keep the Mortgage Break But Threaten Irrelevancy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-tax-plan-would-keep-the-mortgage-break-but-threaten-irrelevancy-1508146200
My heart is breaking that this poor girl may have to pay an extra $520 a year in taxes. My health premiums went up by about twice this PER MONTH since her ilk enacted Obamacare.
Also, this may not be the world’s greatest tax accountant. Assuming the average home price in the area is $800k, she’s advocating walking away $24,000 in escrow to save $520/year.
The WSJ breaks down the numbers more. I’m not sure how they come up with these, but it seems like the decision to take other itemized deductions, such as charity, would affect this.
Don’t most people with really big mortgages and real estate taxes already hit the AMT – making the deductions irrelevant? How about we get rid of those deductions and the AMT?
Last I saw, the AMT was getting cut too. Don’t know if that’s still on the table.
Unfortunately, they are also cutting the personal exemption/deduction (whatever it’s called) so the actual tax relief for the average American will be negligible.
I think this tax package has positive benefits for businesses with the lower rate and repeal of the estate tax, but it will do virtually nothing to cut our personal taxes as far as I can tell. That may change when they publish what the income levels will be for the different tax ladders.
Residents of high tax states complain that new plan would cut subsidies from low tax states. Imagine that.
Nobody ever wants to see the bubble pop.
I dunno I kinda like Champagne once in a while
It’s quite simple. If you live in a hugely socialist state, you don’t get a state tax, or a mortgage deduction any longer, so you, as a socialist voter, have to decide how important all of those “Vital” state programs are to you. Have Fun!!!!
Except Republicans are already backing down from the state and local tax deduction and looking to add it back in.
Bigfoot Festival sheds light on mystery, nature
It’s not a mystery.
What it is, we’re still trying to figure that out, whether it’s a man or beast, I have no idea.
STEVE SMITH IS RAPESQUATCH. HE UNIQUE!
“I’ve been with different people in different places and heard the yells, seen the tracks, had things happen where we were surrounded in camps at night,” Jackson said. “Different things where you actually didn’t lay eyes on it but another animal just doesn’t do that.”
STEVE SMITH HAVE YOU SURROUNDED. YOU HEAR YELLS ALRIGHT…YOUR OWN!
STEVE SMITH
INTERACTRAPE WITH ALL OF NATURE!A couple of quotes from the SF Gate article:
“…President Trump has lost nearly every round of the court cases challenging his ban on U.S. entry from selected nations with overwhelmingly Muslim populations. But on Monday he may have won the battle, or taken a big step toward winning it, by running out the clock.”
Did mainstream papers ever point out how many times the Obama administration lost at SCOTUS? Just wondering.
“…where the ban is limited to officials of the leftist government and their families — and North Korea, the target of much of Trump’s overseas wrath.”
They make it sound like this is all one-way; that Trump without rhyme or reason began to attacking innocent….North Korea.
The left have really been leveraged into defending the Norks. Trump is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
But that’s just it. Trump won when it mattered.
This is like saying the Yankees won the first eight innings of a baseball game but the Astros put up a 10-spot in the top of the ninth to win the game by a run.
Who gives a fuck about the activist judge in a Hawaii Circuit or the nutty Ninth upholding his ruling on appeal and then en banc. It only mattered when the SC told them to pound sand and that the policy could continue in place as they heard an appeal. Now that appeal is rendered useless.
So by the logic of the SFGate writer, Trump lost two of three rounds in court. But he won the only one that mattered in the grand scheme of things.
Yep, that’s pretty much accurate. But it’s all optics here, so it Appears that trump lost a lot and that’s what matters
I erased them but you should have seen the news alerts from WaPo that were just on my phone. Something about adult day care and the whitehouse and how impetuous Trump is cajoled into doing stuff by manipulative staff and another alert along those lines regarding Republicans that hate Trump.
It isnt just that they are nakedly partisan along party lines, they truly are just inventing a slanderous narrative out of thin air because they hate the man personally. It is embarrassing. I spent my youth pointing and laughing at Pravda for doing the same thing and being proud that the press here at least had a veneer of honesty. Those days are gone. They really have gone over the top now.
The court cases they are talking about are a joke. Those courts ruled against Trump because Trump! and didn’t even bother to hide it. The stupid motherfuckers keep it up and the courts will lose the only thing they have: credibility.
This thing credibility. With whom do you speak? I don’t find any judge credible. SOme if this has to do with practicing in front of a judge that is obviously drunk.
IMHO, the cocksuckers at SCOTUS killed the Republic with Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005).
Did I mention how much I fucking hates judges?
Wait, I love a good rant against moderately obscure decisions. What in Castle Rock do you say gave away the republic?
Theres something rotten in Brittain when it comes to rape and sex offenses
Police allow dozens of men who admitted rape to walk away with caution instead of facing court
Police have defended handing out cautions for rape by saying the majority are given to youths but figures obtained by the Mirror show dozens of adults are walking free
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-allow-dozens-men-who-9927382
There is a solution, though
How the teachings of Islam could help us prevent more sexual abuse scandals
Harvey Weinstein is just another case of a powerful man abusing women because we live in a society that lets him get away with it, but we can change that
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/harvey-weinstein-islam-sexual-assault-rape-womens-rights-a8001521.html
If only liberals would take that y have the culture problem.
Thames Valley Police – which handed nine men cautions for rape – defended the practice saying it is often used when it is not in the best interest of the victim to go to trial.
And who determines that? Most certainly not the woman who will become the rapist’s next victim as he’s walking the streets instead of a prison yard.
In addition, there was the Milan derby which Inter won 3-2 over rivals AC Milan. Icardi’s second goal was a thing of beauty.
Oh yeah. I forgot about the Serie A. Otherwise knows as the WWF of the soccer world.
I think Liga holds that title. Always did.
I had to yell at my son for flopping a bit this weekend on the pitch. I told him he “wasn’t Italian.”
Bah, the batteries in my Eotech 512 leaked quite a lot of black goop and stickiness, and even after trying to clean it out it’s not powering on. I know you shouldn’t store it with them in but I’ve had the thing since like 2004-2005 and this is the first I’ve had issues–reading around for a moment online it seems they’ve improved the battery compartment several times since then. I guess I’m glad I discovered it during maintenance and not during… well, some extraordinary situation that would make me grab an AR over the 870. A sudden large-scale communist insurrection I need to get off my lawn. Something like that.
13 years is a long time to have an anal vibrator. Just buy a new one, dude.
“That’s not your battery leaking”
But all the new ones are ‘smart’ and may get hacked by Warty or some nefarious character.
Anal adventures are no time for timidity.
+ a lot of Santorum
*Proud owner of a Don’t be a quitter, hit ‘er in the shitter T-shirt.*
That sucks. This is also part of the reason I might be the only person that uses iron sights on an M-4gery.
Unfortunately, the EOTech buyback program has ended. They can still probably repair it under warranty though.
Lithium batteries only in electronic optics, henceforth.
“For real, dude. That’s cold.”
Sorry Swisss but if you’re not going to give a narrows gaze I will.
Feel free to help!
Man wounded in shooting during fight in Tombstone saloon
Very authentic, should be good for tourism
I’m your
HuckleberryBail MoneyOne of the re-enactors shot another actor a couple years back when he forgot he packed his “real” gun rather than his “prop” gun. As a fun fact that scene in Tombstone where Virgil Earp tells the town that guns are not allowed in Tombstone? Technically that is still in effect today.
Another fun fact, is Tombstone is a tourist trap and you should definitely spend your hard earned disposable income at whiskey row in Prescott.
We had fun in Tombstone.
And this is why I am proud to be an Arizonan. Do YOU guys still have saloon shoot outs? Checkmate.
Not in the saloon, But I was in my local bar when a guy who had just got shot outside came stumbling in for help. Interesting fact, when you imagine how a bad/ham actor portrays some one who gets shot/is dying, that is exactly how it really looks, the bad/ham actors actually are spot on.
Considering that a fair number of the people who played those roles back in the day had actually served in combat, I’m not surprised.
Is that why John Wayne had so few roles where he was shot?
And that’s where the Christopher Lee SOE story comes in…
Love the John Wayne snark.
Thankfully, 95% of the drunks leave their guns in their car.
Cleveland Beer Week continues… on the docket for tonight, Beerlebrities Read Mean Tweets. Brewers and brewery reps are going to read out their favorite low ratings from some of their most popular beers. With some of those special beers being tapped. So far, the free swag count is up to 7 shaker glasses, of which 3 were given away to other people.
Shaker glasses? I didn’t think there were any Shakers left in Cleveland.
The traditional Conical pint glasses. Lots of the places during Cleveland Beer Week do a buy a pint, take the glass promotion. As this is the 9th year of CBW, I’ve accumulated a lot of glassware over the years.
I was going for some geography humor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Union_Shaker_Site
That’s the heights man… no one wants to go there. And the residents don’t want outsiders coming in either. They keep blocking a freeway extension that would get them access to the Cleveland freeway system (which is one of the things in Cleveland which doesn’t suck).
And you can’t expect us to keep up with all of the religions that still exist here in Cleveland as they migrated West.
Dietary Carbohydrates Impair Healthspan and Promote Mortality
http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(17)30562-4.pdf
TW: pdf
Hey Sloopy, I’m to late to correct your reply in yesterday mornings thread.
That was not a W900, rather, the Mighty T904, built by Kenworth in Melbourne.
Same difference, basically. You guys just put the steering wheel on the wrong side.
HOLD YOUR TONGUE, KNAVE, LEST I REMOVE IT!
Australian built KWs are twice the truck of American models. They have to pull three or more times the weight in worse conditions; thus they have much beefier suspensions, a huge rad, the cab is lifted higher off the frame, and generally use much higher horsepower engines. Not to say Big Cats and Redheads aren’t used here; they’re just overkill.
Judge – please don’t toss out the Kaepernick lawsuit. After the lawyers point out that he terminated his contract, not the 49ers, I want to see witnesses like Bill Belichick testify in detail about how bad Kaepernick sucked.
That would be glorious
Truly. I’m not even that into sports but that would be fantastic, which is why it’ll probably never happen.
Kap is a tire fire. Based on his girlfriend’s Twitter history, I can’t help but wonder how much of this is her pulling his strings. He doesn’t strike me as the brains of the operation, frankly.
It’s Not Just West Point. U.S. Military Academies Have Become Disneyland For Politicians
Not surprising. The need to make the academies conform to political considerations has always been there. As politics and government continue to make valueless metrics the important measurements, one would expect the academies to do the same.
I thought money was the metric? How can you call that valueless?
Diversity is the metric.
Oh god. Fleming again. His main shtick is “The USNA has been going to hell since they let the blacks and women in”.
He’s factually incorrect on a few points, like sexual relations. And admissions. Not the selectivity scam, though.
Fleming is lucky that he’s a tenured federal employee, he wouldn’t make it in “real academia”.
I don’t see that he said that. Where is it?
Which part, the going to hell part? That’s in his previous decade of screeds. Google him and enjoy his endless
Midshipman are not allowed to have relations within the same company of the brigade. Mids can and routinely do change companies to allow for a relationship. Mids are not allowed to have relations within their chain of command, but that shouldn’t be a surprise.
The 20% from the prep school are not solely for educational remediation. It is mandatory for all enlisted candidates, regardless of their transcripts and test scores. Claiming that the 750 or so NAPS attendees are:
…is a slur against the majority of students who are enlisted and required to attend prior to admission. Of course, athletic recruits with shit grades also attend, so there is plenty of remedial effort to get a population of students up to snuff.
That doesn’t match your quote above, which is the only slur I’ve heard so far. The statement can stand on its own as true or false. If 20% don’t achieve the minimum standards he outlined then its true.
(250 or so NAPS students, typo)
The incoming class is 1100-1200 on any given year. 250 ish (20%) are from NAPS. If you can’t bring up the relevant article, the next sentence:
Fills it out for you. NAPS is the prep school. Most of the attendees are required to be there because they are current enlisted.
If Not Even The Boy Scouts Can Celebrate Boys, They’re In Serious Trouble
You know who else had rituals for becoming men?
Countless surgeons in Thailand?
The Jews?
Boys II men?
Dr. Moreau?
The Etoro people of Papua New Guinea?
Geppetto?
The Klingons?
Q’apla!
Whatever that tribe Kunte Kinde was in?
A Day in The Life of a Female Truckie
So that’s what an Australian chain-smoker sounds like.
VICTIM OF STEVE SMITH’S AUSTRALIAN COUSIN
The bumyip?
Noice!
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/14/apple-vp-of-diversity-apologizes-for-suggesting-diversity-of-thought-is-important/“>
Apple VP Of Diversity Apologizes For Suggesting Diversity Of Thought Is Important
“there can be 12 white blue-eyed blonde men in a room and they are going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation.”
Stop the planet I want off.
My bad Rick C missed that you already posted it. Looks like it’s gonna be one of those days…
Eh, it’s all good, the more derp we can concentrate the better, soon it’ll be one big derp singularity.
Fuck Anthony Barr – that’s the same asshole who speared Matt Barkley in the ribs a few years ago – ruining USC’s season and Barkley’s shot at a Heisman and first-round draft pick.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s Barkley the Packers sign.
I don’t know. The hit on Rodgers looked like a clean hit to me. It wasn’t overly late or a cheap shot in anyway.
Screw that. It was a clean football play. He was within a step, he didn’t spear him, he didn’t drive him into the turf.
Rogers is known for his running ability. What is Barr supposed to do, pull up? Let Rogers run around him?
You can accuse me of having my VIkings blinders on, but I am more venting about how defenses are penalized for being hard hitting.
His hit on Berkley was a cheap-shot spear in the back.
Berkely? Was he flagged for unsportsmanlike use of a bike lock?
Damn you spellcheck.
I agree. One of the reasons I no longer care if I miss a game now are the rules changes and flags thrown for hard hits that aren’t meant to be cheap shots. The game has really changed over the past ten or fifteen years. The fact no flag was thrown on Barr should say it all. The fuckers throw flags on just about everything now.
744 262 Yellowstone supervolcano may blow sooner than thought
*crosses fingers*
NOOOOOOO the canadian sci-fi show Van Helsing taught me that yellowstone erupting triggers the vampire apocalypse. I NEED MOAR TIME.
I’m glad to see you are finally taking the vampire apocalypse seriously. You deniers will finally have to admit we all have a stake in this…
*narrows gaze*
SMOD/Yellowstone 2020!
Pain and Suffering!
I tried to read it. Autoplay audio started, something popped up in front of the text. I tried clicking all that stuff off and ended up closing out the window by accident.
WTH? Most websites have made themselves unreadable.
I am guessing the ‘sooner than thought’ is sometime in the next 10K years instead of the next 100k years? I dont understand peoples desire for an apocalypse anymore than I understand their desire for unreadable websites.
NoScript or any other scriptblocker – is the only way I can visit most websites. Stops a lot of autoplay videos, popups, and whatnot.
Of course it takes a little extra work to get your favorite whitelisted sites in place, but once you’re done, only new ones are an issue.
What the Ayatollah said. Script Blocker for Chrome works well for me.
Auto play video—with the volume at maximum, of course—is a web tool that should earn the dev using it a swift kick to the junk.
They don’t care if you read the article, only that the advertisements load and they can count a click from a unique user
Propane Powered Bottle Launcher Captures Gorgeous Chemical Reaction in Slow Mo
http://nerdist.com/propane-soda-bottle-launcher-slow-motion-science/
Then they should have a clip that matches the headline. I’m not going to sit through a 20-minute video.
That thing is cool, but the molten metal squirt gun might be better. And if you wait until the end… Surprise! Flame thrower!
UNC Avoids Athletic Sanctions By Arguing their African-American Studies Dept. Had Staggeringly Low Academic Standards
When will the re-evaluation of their accreditation begin?
The fact that the NCAA isn’t coming down on them like a bag of hammers is making me less and less excited for college basketball. This is square in their wheelhouse (despite their protestations), and they whiffed on it.
“Former Pussycat Doll Kaya Jones says the band was a front for a ‘prostitution ring’”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4692071/pussycat-dolls-kaya-jones-claims-prostitution-ring-abused/
Any word on why most of looked like they were born male?
Lou Pearlman was doing the casting, and couldn’t help himself?
That… makes a lot of sense.
Sarah Silverman has reached peak cringe: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IP81Je7APoQ
SS;DW. Also, no such think as peak cringe.
Somebody actually paid for a camera crew, extras, and editing to film that crap? Why?
The comments are mostly gold
RacconAndMT
Good to see that Trump’s 2020 campaign is off to such a great start with this vid
The Trump 2020 campaign started way before this. Probably during election night 2016, with the Young Turks talking about how “women that voted for Trump are just fucking dumb!”
I think that part of the SJW agenda is to remove moral certainty from anyone not part of an aggrieved group. You see this on full display here. I can’t imagine the mental torment these people have.
Is that the thing where she goes to visit some poor rubes who should be properly impressed and deferential to her Hollywood greatness?
Do you think it would hurt her feelings if, upon meeting Silverman, I said the only piece of art I enjoyed her acting in was “Wreck it Ralph”?
My favorite of hers is “I’m Fucking [Weinstein Apologist] Matt Damon”
I was going to say the one favorable thing that can be said about Sarah Silverman – that she was funny on Mr. Show – but then I remembered that she had very few lines and probably could have been swapped out for some no-name actress, and there would have been no injury to the comedic effect. She is a mediocre actress who was allowed to briefly bask in the radiance of Mr. Show.
I think it’s a … self-aware parody? Especially the end, where she says she’s condescending to you.
Fuck. This sort of nonsense seems to be taking off.
I’m too lazy to go back and find the previous stories, but I swear I have read several “Green renewable energy is creating all sorts of new jobs” stories in the past couple months. They are all the same. Look how many new jobs there are! We’d be fools to not throw more money at this.
I can’t figure out if it is pure PR driven stunt by Excel Energy to get more $$ from the taxpayers. Or if the greenies are behind it.
None of these stories ever ask the question about how much growth would be happening if the government wasn’t shoveling loads of cash into it.
Well whenever there’s government graft sky usually is the limit
But I gotta say that Aaron Rodgers injury is killing my FFL team to death.
I am sad to say, (or not) that that was the first thing that crossed my mind when I heard he was broken. I am sure he headed up many a fantasy roster.
I was expecting this.
That’s the first thought I had, but knew it wasn’t going to be the link.
A Norwegian museum has appealed for Irish help in tracing up to 400 Viking artefacts stolen from its premises.
Some of the artefacts were made in Ireland and were originally stolen by Vikings who took them to west Norway over 1, 000 years ago.
The collection, regarded as one of the most significant from Viking graves, was housed in the University Museum of Bergen.
Among the Irish items in the collection were brooches and buckles of gilt bronze, fashioned from decorative fittings, which have been exhibited several times in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/viking-loot-plundered-irish-help-sought-in-tracing-artefacts-1.3255592
They want the items back so they can return them to Ireland, which is the “rightful” owner right?
It seems to me that a group of grave robbers called the original burglary victims for help in returning property, which was justly stolen by a third-party intermediary, to the grave robbers.
Actually, I think the bigger effect was our starting B-back going out at half time. The backup wasn’t running with the same push even before the monsoon.
I knew we had lost when we punted with 2:30 to go.
New mom becomes quadruple amputee days after giving birth, blames hospital.
Yay government healthcare!
At least she got that nifty new wheelchair for free.
“A Saudi prince has increased his holdings in Twitter, making him the company’s second largest shareholder.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, who in 2011 invested $300 million in the social network, now owns 34.9 million shares of Twitter’s common stock, according to a new regulatory filing (pdf).”
https://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twitter-than-jack-dorsey-does/
ha, good. let it die now.
NOOOOO! then my only source of pithy libertarian sayings will be you motherfuckers.
Also, in what world is your life partner supposed to meet your every need? That’s a ridiculous fantasy.
Somebody should tell my ex-girlfriend. When you’re forty-something years old, you probably shouldn’t be holding out for Prince Charming to carry you off to his fairytale castle on a flying unicorn.
Did anyone link to Krugabe’s total meltdown over the weekend?
They really want to keep the Trump 2020 campaign going, don’t they? Pretty soon there will be a push for repealing the 22nd amendment and keeping Trump in office for life with these reactions.
I dunno. The insurance shit he worked out with Rand is pretty good. Kurgnutz is terrified of the coming drastic drop in premiums.
^This^
And Krugnuts isnt alone. A lot of people are gonna have egg on their face.
So, the NYT is already calling it Trumpcare. They penned an article today named ‘How you can fight Trumpcare’. WTF? Why would we want to fight a chance to get lower premiums?
The across state lines thing is BIG. This is what they should have done instead of Obamacare. This is literally all they had to do.
Rand Paul, man. I had started to sour on that guy, then here he comes, roaring back,
It’s really crazy how the GOP have been talking about this for years, but never did anything with it. And then Trump and Paul do it by themselves just that quickly. John McCain hardest hit.
The Trumpocalypse is nigh. Repent sinners, before it’s too late.
I would just like to point out that the Giants somehow dominated the Broncos in Denver. Don’t know where the hell THAT effort was the first five weeks, but whatever.
Their offensive line played much better.
Wish I knew what happened to Richburg. Two years ago he looked like you could pencil him in as a ten year starter, now he’s awful. Jones has looked much better in the middle, and while Fluker ain’t much of a pass blocker he’s made a massive difference in run blocking.
Get a decent replacement for the appalling John Jerry and they might have something there.
It’s the Giants way. They’re going to be terrible but just not terrible enough in enough games that they’ll end up drafting somewhere between 8-12.
As opposed to the Eagles way of looking awesome in the regular season and then falling flat on their faces in the playoffs.
That’s not true. Since the run in the early 00’s we either (i) collapse and fall on our faces early and make a desperate run for the playoffs only to fall just short, or (ii) collapse by about week 10 and end up with a middling draft pick.
The NFC looks unimpressive now. It probably will be the Eagles and Panthers in the NFC Championship, although either might happily choke.
I didn’t watch because I don’t get NBC sometimes, but I imagine Siemian helped them out a bit. He tends to help an opposing D at times.
Maybe ol’ Odell is a toxic influence on the team.
As a Broncos fan, I saw that one coming. Siemian sucks, and they totally overlooked the G-Men.
Did anyone link to Krugabe’s total meltdown over the weekend?
I missed it. He’s so far gone,, it isn’t even fun to heckle him, anymore.
+1 Hihn
BULLY!
Lord Idiot-umungus *giggle* reveals his fake libertarianism through his outrageous stupidity *snicker*. When will you learn your pseudo-philosophy and moralizing just makes you the BULLY that we all hate?
*files lord humungus lies in between “guide to best tasting cat litters” & “is it poop after it’s been consumed again?” /Hihny
I missed this… What happened?
That NPR headline made my day
Fucking broken collarbones. I hate broken collarbones. In Brett Hundley we trust? I guess it’s better than Seneca Wallace. Fucking collarbones.
Who’s this “we”, kemosabe?
Me and the mouse in my pocket.
I think Geothermal is a neat thing. But sometimes I wonder, how do we know the tipping point of extracting heat from the earth? Sure if the screechers are right AGW could cause some nasty weather. But, what would be the outcome of removing too much heat energy from the subsurface? Will it change plate techtonics? Will it change the way the core works? Could that change the magnetosphere?
I know the current usage is nowhere close to such a tipping point. But do advocates of mass use of this even consider these things?
Sometimes my mind just wanders like that.
This is what will happen
Well, Al Gore said that the interior of the earth is hotter than the sun, so I think it will take a long time.
An actually not terrible article on Austin Petersen’s Senate candidacy in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The actress I had never heard of; Bialik(?) who wrote the op-ed in the NYT the other day about girls in Hollywood is apparently catching a big ration of negative feedback for victim-blaming. One can only express one’s individuality and empowerment by scrupulously towing the lion.
I still don’t understand how you’d never heard of her.
Who? (checks)
jesus, “Blossom”? The jewiest teen on 80s TV? I could forgive someone for allowing that information to be eliminated from their brain-matrix.
To be fair, Dr. Bialik had a few options not available to most aspiring Hollywood starlets, even if she later decided the life of a research postdoc wasn’t for her.
Not hard to see that, e.g., ‘Susan Bradley, ex-waitress from Cedar Rapids, IA,’ trying out for the spunky sidekick to the female lead, isn’t going to have Bialik’s leverage to resist any coercion a producer or casting head could apply to her.
80’s? It debuted in 1990.
It was still the 80s until mid-1992.
you people are the worst.
you’re fact checking references to Blossom…
…and yet no one else seems to have noted that the above link about ‘ISIS’ actually leads to a story about the breakout of civil-war in Iraq
while the US is playing the role of Kevin Bacon @ the end of Animal House.
The last update of that first article seems to say there was one blue on blue fire incident. They might be downplaying it…but it doesn’t look like the start of a civil war. Believe it or not, IA command and control (and throwing in all the weird militias doesn’t help) isn’t all that good.
As far as sticking a flag up over government offices, and the bluster from some of the Peshmerga…I guess we will have to see. I mean, Kirkuk was a sore point back when I was there in 2008. Nothing new, unfortunately. Saddam pushed a bunch of colonists in there to fuck with the Kurds.
on the question of “Civil War/Not-Civil-War”, it seems to be more a measure of ‘degree’ rather than ‘kind’. journalists characterize the normal state of affairs in Iraq as a de-facto civil war.
I agree the current situation is probably ‘less hot’ than Kurdish sources are reporting it is, but on the scale of ‘SNAFU’ to ‘extremely dangerous’, this seems to be about as bad as its ever been.
If it blows up, I will have plenty to post…
I think you mean to say when it blows up.
This has been baked in from the beginning.
Also, “Big Band Theory”, which is one of the biggest shows on network television today.
Bang, dammit.
Although Big Band Theory sounds interesting too.
Period piece, set in the Depression, of a scrappy musician trying to put together an ensemble for the new “swing” craze. Can’t miss – cool daddy-os, awesome clothes and cars, musical/dance numbers, looming global catastrophe in background, social turmoil at home.
I think Geothermal is a neat thing. But sometimes I wonder, how do we know the tipping point of extracting heat from the earth?
Just because fracking causes earthquakes, that doesn’t mean you should believe there might be an unintended effect of venting/capturing geothermal energy.
What are you, some kind of Nazi?
OMG bonus airplane show!!! Covering “Ex Hurruh-cun” Ophelia.
“Rick and Morty mania: how toxic fans turned a hit cartoon into a hate movement ”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/on-demand/0/rick-morty-mania-toxic-fans-made-hit-cartoon-hate-movement/
Rick and Morty is a hate movement? Huh, learn something everyday.
I’ve never even seen it. This is going to be one of those cultural phenomena that comes and goes before I even notice it’s there. I guess that’s what happens when you start to get old.
So now it’s hate speech, and it will be banned soon.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. ?
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid ?
10/10 copypasta
““Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons”
I’ve read Fathers and Sons, and I don’t get it. Granted, I read it about 20-25 years ago.
Lol fantastic
I lol every time I see “nothin personnel kid”
That article is the essence of internet-journalism.
its literally turning “a few guys on reddit” and “some dudes who wanted Spicy Yellow Mayonnaise”(aka McD’s Sezzyuan Sauce) into a claim of “Burgeoning Hate Movement”
there is an actual infographic headlined “Rick & Morty Szechuan Sauce timeline” (grasps skull in pain)
“Fix the problem with ‘fans’…”???
YOU HAVENT IDENTIFIED ANY FUCKING PROBLEM. You’re just some media schmuck going OMG ALT RIGHT ALERT!! and wetting your pants in public.
The more I hear about this show, the less likely I am to watch it.
I’ve never seen Harry Potter because of my visceral contrarian reaction to all the screaming about it.
The first couple of books aren’t half bad. Overgrown kids’ stories, but that’s OK, so was, “The Hobbit.” Unlike Tolkien, it’s not the most meticulously plotted and consistent world.
Weirdly, I like the 6th movie much better than I do the 6th book.
Saw the first LOTR movie and hated it. I prayed for the sweet release of death.
*Staggers, reaches for fainting couch, misses, falls, fractures skull*
I thought, once, that we could be friends.
I’ll grant you there was a solid lack of Tom Bombadil, but come on KK!
If they had done 6 movies to match the 6 books, we could have had Tom Bombadil.
Thing is, and you may be referring to that and I’m just not getting it, there are 6 movies in the Jackson’s LOTR world. (aren’t there three Hobbit flicks? I bailed on The Hobbit after “molten gold covered Smaug and the battle in the metal foundry.”
I was, clumsily, talking about the 6th Harry Potter movie.
KK, if you didn’t like the first LOTR movie, you’re not going to like any of them. I don’t get it, but that’s why they make chocolate and vanilla.
that’s why they make
chocolate and vanillasmooth and crunchy peanut butter.Too soon?
Sean Bean was in it. But not enough to make me stop saying “When the fuck is this going to end?”
I’m pretty sure I shut it off before it was over.
I was watching with a couple of friends who were Tolkein fanbois/girls. They couldn’t wait for me to see the movie – the greatest movie ever made! So, anyway, I could neither shut it off nor walk away.
The last one kinda drug on at the end, no question.
I kind of like Rowling openly saying “yep, a gun could totally kill a wizard though”. It’s nice to just keep your fantasy world internalized throw out those dumb arguments before they even start.
The show is amazing, KK.
Agreed. Don’t let some douchebag fans ruin it for you, it’s really funny and creative.
I concur. It’s worth watching
You really should watch it. People act like idiots about all sorts of things, that shouldn’t deter you.
It’s not people acting like idiots about the show, it’s just that I see the name of the fucking show every fucking where. It kicks in my contrarian nature and makes me dig in my heels.
I have a friend that loves to hate everything that most people enjoy. Annoys the crap outta me. Especially when its obvious that he’s just saying he doesn’t like it so he can piss people off. That shit works, too.
I don’t do it to piss people off. I just have this gut reaction to keep myself out of the zeitgeist. Like, my whole life.
Hah! Sounds like your friend and I would get along famously.
Don’t get me wrong – it’s not a shtick, i truly do hate many things. I just take particular delight in hating things other people love.
Armored Skeptic did a piece debunking this whole thing but in regards to the new Star Trek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_UVhGe7M4U
Basically journo-list need a bogeyman to pin any new properties possible failure on. With R&M it’s less about preemptive damage control and more about singling out idiots in an increasingly grow fanbase to shit on.
I follow a couple of FB shitposting pages that revolve around R&M and it’s filled with the same sort of troll that would find a place any where and in any fanbase. R&M just happens to have a nihilistic/existentialists edge to it that may aggravate the fools more than usual
Happy Monday, boobs will rescue it from irrelevance.
http://archive.is/9A19z
21, 34, 40
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error message – Not found yet?
Hang on, Potato. They are still polishing the boobs.
Are they hiring polishers? I can bring my own chamois.
Try it now!
2 wins with a thunderous display. I almost couldn’t get past her. I’m not sure I could design something hotter than that.
23 shows in an impressive face/hair combo. Among other things.
36 places with a very subdued actual-girl quality.
5 gets an honorable mention, but a bit too much makeup for my liking.
I still don’t understand how you’d never heard of her.
I live a sheltered life. I also have an unshakeable aversion to teevee shows with laugh tracks, which has served me well throughout the years.
A laugh track is a sure sign of bad television. I mean, if you have to tell your audience when something funny happened, it didn’t.
The link there goes to a story about the outbreak of fighting between Iraqi and Kurdish forces. IOW, the outbreak of a shia / Kurdish Iraqi civil war. The link itself suggests “kurds say lots of casualties”
It doesn’t seem to be about the success of some anti-ISIS coalition. Was that in error, or is there some point there i missed?
I just skimmed the article, but the Kurds rousted ISIS from Kirkuk in 2014? (I don’t remember) I guess that could be called a success. It was just a matter of time before the Iraqi’s ran the Kurds out of there after they took the city. I think they should have told them to fuck off. Their troops ran when ISIS showed up and the Kurds had to go in and fight. I am not 100% sure of the history, because I got it all from biased sources, (Kurds) but Kirkuk used to be mostly inhabited by the Kurds until Sadaam rolled in with tanks and ejected them from their homes and gave their houses to Iraqis from the south. They have been squabbling over that city for a long time.
I’m sure someone with more-intimate experience in Iraq can correct / add more detail, but if i recall, the Kurds had de-facto control over Kirkuk since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
the central govt has never recognized any independent kurdish authority in the city,but effectively let the issue slide.
Contrarily, Baghdad has always said says Kurdistan (in whole) is part of Iraq, and that includes Kirkuk. Whether or not they have actual govt-forces stationed in the city, they themselves claim theoretical jurisdiction.
what happened in 2014 is that there was a claimed “security vacuum”, where ISIS threat in the north was real, but Baghdad was not providing forces to protect Kurdish interests.
Pesh forces simply stepped in and declare nominal control of the city. ever since then, who ‘controlled’ the city was an open dispute, which is pretty much how its always been, but just louder and more aggressive. It was basically a precursor to the recent declaration of wider, full-Kurdistan-independence. It was saying, “Kirkuk is ours (kurds), not shared”
I was working outside of Kirkuk in 2007’ish and we were not allowed to go into the city. We skirted the outer neighborhoods as quickly as possible when traveling through there. When I was there the Pesh did not have control of Kirkuk as far as I knew. I could be wrong though as I never went into the city. It was coalition forces in the city and the Pesh were on the outskirts where they had their checkpoints in Kurdistan proper. I think they did claim some oil fields to the West of the city but that gets into a big grey area going back many years. The company I worked for at the time did a job in one of those patches. We had a couple machines blown up over a contract fight. Seems we did not contract with the right peeps if you know what I mean.
i think the idea was that the US-coalition insisted that no military forces (other than their own) assert official control over the city else it prompt a batshit reaction from various camps (including the Turks, who were adamant that the Kurds not use the protection of US forces to declare independence, which would destabilize their own eastern flanks). Which is why that assertion of military control in 2014 was significant.
when i said, ‘de facto kurdish control’, it was more that the absence of any Iraqi govt power meant that, politically, the city would be independent. the arab minority in the city got concessions from those kurdish political groups (under pressure by the US) that they wouldn’t be ousted in any reprisals.
again, i could be mixing some of this up. its always been an intentionally muddy state of quasi-independence (even going back to the 1990s), and it was always US power that has maintained that bubble. It seems to be popping.
I think you’re confusing Kirkuk with Mosul. ISIS did attack Kirkuk but never took any territory there. They held most of Mosul for over a year, though.
Mosul was definitely more in the news. I don’t really remember hearing anything about Kirkuk, but seems the Iraqis fled there too.
The other night, I watched a movie I had not seen in decades: The Ruling Class, with Peter O’Toole.
It has withstood the ravages of time quite well, I thought.
What in the actual fuck?
tl;dr: 2 year old boy with rare birth defect (born without kidneys). Father in and out of prison, but is also a perfect match. Father was recently arrested on a probation violation and then released. So the hospital’s gone full derp.
Bureaucracy versus Bureacracy
Shoot, if I’m that guy’s low paid public defender, I work out a deal where all of his child support is fulfilled by donating a kidney.
Since I know there are a number of academics here, please indulge me in a question. Are people in the higher education industry really as petty and abusive as they seem from all these stories? I mean, I work in finance, which has its own reputation for viciousness. And I’m pretty sure none of the crap on either side of the Antarctic expedition story would get tolerated. Even from a star performer. And none of the people in that story sound like star performers.
Are we just getting snippets that don’t tell what mostly happens? Or is there just some wildly dysfunctional culture in the industry?
I can’t say overall if there is more or less pettiness in academia than elsewhere. I think, to some extent, it depends on the school: at schools with relatively high teaching loads, there isn’t much time for prima donnas. That said, I’m currently dealing with someone who is a complete control freak and will use any underhanded tactic they can think of to advance their agenda (which they perceive as being good for the whole department): rumor, innuendo, expressing their agenda in phrases such as, “I’m not opposed to person X, I’m worried about the department as a whole.” And, they tend to use people to advance their own agenda.
Dealing with this has led me to some conclusions: academics in my field tend to work alone. Absent the need to be part of a team, there is no incentive for people to change their behavior or thinking which means you end up with a lot of academics who are emotionally still teenagers. You can see this when comparing academics who spent at least 5 or 6 years doing something else with their lives vs. those who’ve never really left school.
Finally, I think a lot of academics suffer from prog thinking squared: they really believe everyone should listen to them and, when people don’t, they channel their frustration into kingdom-building.
And, of course, all this is anecdotal and subjective.
a complete control freak and will use any underhanded tactic
Ah, a passive aggressive asshole.
P-A: “I’m not opposed to person X, I’m worried about the department as a whole.”
Me: “Excellent, then we can make person X an offer. What’s next on the agenda?”
The basic passive aggressive move is to grant you what you say, then try to undermine it. I usually just take their “concession” at face value and move on.
True: except the person X they’re usually referring to is me (behind my back). Fortunately, one of the people they confide in is on my side and so I get to hear most of the rumor-mongering soon after it happens. As someone else said to me, “for a control freak, they’re not very good at it.”
Academia is a really weird place. At times it’s like an ugly people version of Gossip Girl. At other times it’s the complete opposite where you might as well not exist as far as anyone cares about you. It’s a land of introverted autistic weirdos who rise to become petty tyrants of obscure niches. My experience and that of my wife and friends is that academia is nearly as much of a crapshoot as moving to Hollywood to become an actor. If you meet the right people, and work for the right supervisor all can be great. Otherwise…..
Otherwise…..
You get to watch Harvey wash his crack?
“Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.”
Murderer/Police Officer tries to get grand jury indictment thrown out because other people were in the courtroom at the time, loses
“Dammit, I thought we were the only ones allowed to pack a courtroom to intimidate the jury into doing what we want!”
The best part of the whole thing is this:
Now, those are salty, salty ham tears.
Well this is super awesome.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/wpa2-security-flaw-lets-hackers-attack-almost-any-wifi-device/
Reading some of the tech sites, it shouldn’t cause any problems as long as you are using https:// protocol in sites you visit.
I somehow missed this back in March, but Remy is still the best
Revenge of the SoCons!
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452683/sex-consent-morality-culture-ruined-sexual-revolution
There was no sexual harassment back when the churches were running everything.
Islam is the only answer.
I catbutt you. I catbutt you. I catbutt you.
Thrice spoken once fulfilled!
Wait…
Shit.
I don’t have any catbutt power.
Yeah. SJWs are the modern puritans.
The entire left. I typically visualize them running around in hooded robes. Puritans meet the Inquisition.
The absolute state of Keith Olbermann: http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1508162006001.jpg
i’m very supportive of the idea of speaking-vulgarities-to-power…
…but just imagine the way the collective media-establishment would have reacted to a so-called “respected” journalist tweeting at Obama like that? Its absurd.
Everyone on the left seems to think this sort of thing is perfectly good sauce for the gander, yet the same people spent 8 years denouncing any critics of Obama as crypto-racists.
Huge plus of having a republican prez is the lack of gov ass sucking by the media and pop culture.
He’s completely unhinged. He keeps repeating the same tweets over and over. He’ll make a video rant, then tweet about it dozens of times.
He is actually losing his mind.
Do-it-yourself lobotomy.
I think he’s going to have some company.
Hillary losing it
She’s trying to kill the messenger before the message gets delivered, because she knows what’s in it.
She’s apparently terrified of a deal between Trump and Assange.
He’s freakin’ out man!
I am begining to think the Trump presidency is the greatest thing that has happened in my lifetime.
Are people in the higher education industry really as petty and abusive as they seem from all these stories?
I’m not an academic, but there’s that old saying about, “The lower the stakes, the more vicious the battle.”
Very true.
This is why old lady administrative assistants and HR harridans are fucking tyrants worse than Stalin.
By honest debate, they mean shut up and do what we say.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9964
The author looks almost exactly as you would expect.
Who’s wiser than a college freshman?
That’s just a picture of Dwight Schrute.
Born goes on to contend that “if conservative arguments were strong, they would be convincing, and if they were convincing, they would not meet political opposition,” and conservatives would consequently not need to rely on appeals to free speech.
“If the only justification conservatives can offer for their ideas is that they merely exist, then let me say as Trotsky did: ‘You are miserable bankrupts, your role is played out; go where you ought to go—into the dustbin of history!'” he declares.
classic.
lol
Notably, an editor’s working comments were accidentally left in the print edition of The Princetonian, showing that even the paper’s allegedly left-leaning editors were uneasy with the argument.
“I don’t think this makes sense,” the editor wrote next to Born’s comments, asking that he add “in my belief” to the sentence.
Which one of you is that on the cover photo for this post?
Also, the absolute state of GQ: http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1508151604581.png
I do love that the mask is off of a lot of these publications. For years, they leaned left. They would claim to be neutral or apolitical, but they would subtly push leftist views and try to pull unsuspecting normies in their direction. Since Trump was elected, most of dropped all semblance of neutrality and have gone full prog-tard. And now there’s no going back.
What’s a normie?
Reddit speak for someone who isn’t that interested in politics.
I thought it was Reddit speak for non-InCels and non-Chads.
i knew the Penguins were caught up in that Russia quagmire.
“No one is monitoring San Diego’s surface water for hepatitis A, even amid a deadly, human waste-fueled outbreak of the disease that can spread through area waterways.
That’s according to a letter from federal officials to U.S. Rep. Scott Peters, who last month asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take “the immediate steps necessary” to address potential waterborne transmission of the viral liver infection that has killed 18 people and sickened nearly 500 others since November.
The infection is spread when someone ingests even a tiny particle of feces, raising the possibility that it could spread from homeless encampments along city waterways toward the bays and inlets.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/hepatitis-crisis/sd-me-hepatitis-epa-20171013-story.html
People who drink beer and liquor only are completely safe! YAY US!
When I was surfing in San Diego, I was constantly sick. Once I quit, my illnesses disappeared.
Glad I got to visit before it all went to shit
I’m going to San Diego in three weeks. As always, I’m going to try to not ingest feces.
OK, on this BU professor I see a couple of problems with the story…
So 20 years ago the dude is at the bottom of the college totem pole gunning for the first position that offers any real power, tenure and she actually believed that he had any power to ruin her career? In fact his getting a tenured position was at least somewhat dependent on her writing a positive recommendation for him so it seems to me that she is the one who had the power to ruin HIS career. Had she come forward with the accusations back then and had any corroborating evidence whatsoever she could have excoriated him in her recommendation and included that evidence that is very likely what the outcome would have been.
None of that dismisses the possibility that this guy is guilty of all that is alleged and if so he is a complete slime-ball but I am getting sick and tired of these victims claiming they were too scared to come forward when the truth of their claims could be ascertained with some degree of certainty only to then come out with them decades later when they can safely destroy the reputation of the accused and face little to no possibility that it could backfire on them while if their allegations are actually true the pieces of shit who are mistreating them get to go on doing the same thing to person after person and if they are not actually true (or more likely only partially true with a heavy slant in the reporting of them) there is no real way for the accused to ever prove their innocence in the court of public opinion.
We as a society need to start holding people accountable for this shit, you get raped and fail to report it, you should be treated as an accessory to rape for every subsequent rape that perp commits.
This is exactly their game. A rape that happened years ago is not provable nor is it disprovable. They know this, but what they want is for rape to be a special crime where you’re guilty until proven innocent.
There definitely needs to be a punishment for false rape accusations. These histrionic liars are ruining the lives of innocent men and wasting time and money of the justice system.
What they really want is a perpetual indulgence granted due to their special victimhood. “MY (serial) rape was so bad I couldn’t even bring myself to take it to the police.”
^this^
This is the natural result when you make victimhood a highly coveted prize.
The problem is, is that this victimhood thing has become so popular, that everyone wants their day in the spotlight. I’m not really sure what gets someone in one of these environments more acclaim than claiming to be a ‘survivor’. like they survived Nazi death camps or something. And if someone claims something like this happened 20 years ago, it makes it much more difficult to either prove or disprove the claims. So nothing happens but the accuser gets to run around with a big victim medal pinned to them.
I was trying to get through Jane Meyer’s longwinded article about Pence in the New Yorker, but it’s unlikely I’ll make it. I think her main point is that if Trump gets the hook, either via impeachment or Amendment XXV, we will have a President Pence who is nothing but a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries. This, of course, is worse than having Zombie Clone Hitler in the White House.
MUH HA HA HA HA HA!
Pence is Trump’s insurance policy
Tesla’s recall is clearly just another sign of their incredible engineering genius:
“or else we can not be responsible for any explosions”
I can’t wait until Tesla comes out with the electric plane.
Couger spotted in Mississippi. Stay safe, folks.
Even planned, that’s pretty funny.
Snort! That was awesome.
“The brainchild of Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow, 45, the brand has brought us cupping, infrared saunas, earthing (walking barefoot), consulting shamans and intravenous infusions since its launch in 2008,
And who could forget sex dust, vaginal steaming and jade eggs to insert into our ‘yoni’ to improve our orgasms.
These controversial claims have now earned the company the first ever ‘Rusty Razor’ award as the ‘best’ promoter of the ‘worst pseudoscience of the year’.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4984790/Gwyneth-Paltrow-s-Goop-wins-worst-pseudoscience-award.html
Gwyneth Paltrow invented walking barefoot? I hope there aren’t any royalties involved.
I took the red-eye last night from Miami and I’m back at work this morning following a week long Caribbean Cruise. I quit drinking Rockstar a month ago and let’s just say I dove head first off that wagon this morning.
Why would you do that to yourself?
I’m Catholic. Self imposed punishment for gluttony is part of the game, brah.
fair enough.
So you hate your thyroid?
I roll Sugarfree, cowboy.
That’s not even a euphemism. Sicko.
Unless you flew to Europe, how did you fly a redeye from Miami?
I know its not the traditional definition but I’ve been up since 0630 eastern, yesterday. On a positive note, everybody at work noticed and none of them wants to talk to me.
As if there weren’t enough detached from reality goofballs in Congress already.
Space Ship Girl for Congress!
The article is wonderfully droll.
“▪ The Coral Castle, a limestone tourist attraction South Miami-Dade, is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid.”
Well, that’s certainly interesting. Not the craziest thing I have ever heard from a congresscritter though.
Did they store grain in it, like the Egyptians?
Oh. I figured you meant this nutjob.
The moon is the most tactically valuable piece of land on earth. Rocks thrown the moon have the power of 100’s of nuclear warheads.
Alan Shepard is humanity’s biggest almost-terrorist.
Nah, it’s all a ho-
*get hit in the head by a molten golf ball *
Gotta be weary of those astronauts.
Um, she isn’t wrong
I suppose one could argue with the colloquialism in her use of the word “dropped” rather than thrown and the histrionic claim of having the power of 100’s of nukes but these are no worse than The Federalists claim that it is easier to destroy the earth with weapons launched from LEO because it isn’t.
Sure, IF you wanted to destroy the earth with nukes launched from LEO or even GEO that would be easier than building a lunar base with a rail gun launcher to fire projectiles at the earth, however IF you wanted to use Nukes you could just launch them from their existing launchers. Attempting to “destroy the earth” using Kinetic Energy weapons launched into LEO would literally require thousands of satellites whereas the lunar mine with kinetic launched could easily be accomplished with only a few hundred launches.
Look, Briana Wu is a moron and a scam artist of the highest order but trying to claim she is in any meaningful way wrong in this post makes you look just as braindead as Wu actually is.
Mr. Lizard hardest hit.
Actually she’s meaningfully wrong in the sense that she’s flipping out about how those evil ‘capitalists’ like Musk are actually secret Bond supervillains.
The tragic consequences of individual freedom, or, “Why won’t people do what we want them to?”
The bulk of the evidence so far shows that these services don’t inherently make transportation more efficient at the level of an entire city, even if they have the potential to. They may make your travel more efficient, because you don’t have to hunt for a parking spot or wait for the bus. But when you aggregate the behavior of many people, transportation becomes less efficient when transit riders switch to cars, when new car services entice people onto trips they wouldn’t otherwise have taken, or when people who give up their cars wind up traveling even more in someone else’s.
It’s equally not preordained that these apps will make traffic worse, or that they must come at the expense of public transit. If more people left their solo cars for car-pooled ride-hailing, rather than leaving public buses for solo Uber rides, that would reduce the number of cars on the road and the miles they travel. If transit agencies partnered with these companies, as some have begun to try doing, ride-hailing could fill niches that trains and buses don’t handle well, like late-night journeys, transit for riders with disabilities, and suburban service.
“There’s this potential opportunity for policy makers, city planners and these firms themselves to find solutions where we’re steering toward that future,” Ms. Clewlow said. It’s unlikely we’ll get there by chance, though.
What’s the point of being a *planner* if the goddam peons won’t follow the plan?
You, as an individual, may find these alternatives make your life easier and more efficient, but fuck you. You’re not looking at the Big Picture. That’s why we need Top Men.
It’s unlikely we’ll get there by chance, though.
Of course, people making individual decisions about what works best for them isn’t “chance”, so there’s that.
transportation becomes less efficient when transit riders switch to cars, when new car services entice people onto trips they wouldn’t otherwise have taken, or when people who give up their cars wind up traveling even more in someone else’s.
So, the objection is to people getting any happiness or usefulness out of the ride-sharing. The funny thing is, the person writing this probably thought they were going out on a limb in support of personal liberty. These people suck. Utterly and completely.
What. The. Fuck.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2017/10/texas-sheriff-calls-cps-foster-dad-took-180-girls-accused-sex-abuse/
Look, those girls come from problematic homes where they might have been abused. At least this way CPS can know for certain they’re being abused.
Yikes.
They should go after Mormon & Catholic families…lots of $$$ in there!
“Whenever we get a little whisper about something like that, we’re going to turn every rock and go down every trail there is to prove or disprove it.”
That’s refreshing to hear a law enforcement officer at least entertain the idea that there is a possibility that a crime may not have been committed and an investigation is necessary.
Aaaand, the commenters never fail to impress.
graham Hodges hamilton new york 46 minutes ago
The data in this article suggests that what is needed is careful transportation planning done by impartial governments, not by profit-seeking and often reckless and law-skirting companies such as Uber. Sadly it appears that city governments are going in the opposite direction to allow profit minded companies to plan and provide needed transportation
It seems as if everywhere I turn I see a variant of this profits-are-evil argument.
I can only assume the blame lies with the goddam government schools.
” profit-seeking”
This is a slur used by communists to slander people who provide goods and services people want.
You left out “at a price they can afford”. If you’re not moving any units, you’re not making a profit.
I like to point out to these people that a ton of government employees fall under one of the various public sector unions, which are enterprises that make money based on how many government employees there are. So, by putting the government in charge, you’re not taking away the profit motive at all; you’re just concentrating the profits into the hands of two organizations (the government and the unions).
Worse yet, this setup doesn’t allow consumers to take their dollars elsewhere if they don’t like the service you get. If a local supermarket unionizes and it leads to price increases and shitty service, you can go shop at another supermarket. Don’t like your police department or corrections department? Tough shit. And it’s odd that lefties are so supportive of unionized government monopolies since, last I heard, they have a lot of problems with law enforcement officers in this country.
They talk a lot of manure about police, but they know who butters their bread. They’re perfectly aware that dismantling one PSU would lead to inconvenient questions about others.
I once did a phone survey that was clearly commissioned by Dominion Power. Some of the questions showed a negative bias toward “profit”. I told them their questions were flawed, because profit is a good thing for a business to have.
So, as awful as the original piece was, its audience is more awful still.
I suspect it doesn’t even occur to this imbecile that state managed transportation is wildly impractical for wide swaths of the population – those who live in the suburbs or exurbs and don’t commute downtown, anyone in a rural area. If he does, he’s an arrogant enough turd that he’d rather force people to live their lives around his aesthetic preferences. In short, I can’t really decide whether his operating principle here is evil or ignorant (he may be both, but only one can be guiding his argument here).
Remember when former presidents would just take up hobbies like normal people after leaving office?
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20171016/grand-crossing/president-barack-obama-surprise-visit-gary-comer-youth-centr-organizing-class-foundation-presidential-center-library-jackson-park
Obama is a hard left ideologue. Those people never go away, they’re like an incurable STD.
George W. Bush may have been a statist warmonger just like any other politician, but he’s probably the best ex-president I will ever see in my lifetime.
I agree
Governor Moonbeam says same stuff about Title IX as Betsy DeVos. Now let’s sit back and watch the reaction from the left…
*crickets*
Moonbeam’s intentions are pure. DeVos wants women to be raped.
Some will argue that. Quite a few will argue that this is an example of white cis-hetero male privilege. It’s not like Brown has any chance of being replaced by a Republican or anything.
They won’t say anything, and they won’t recognize their own cognitive dissonance.
+1 Weinstein
principals over principles is pretty obvious with her as a test case.
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Damnit, mine broke too.
we don’t have HM’s power.
You having a stroke?
Probably.
My friend likes to send them to me. I don’t know if she writes them or just finds them…
Something sure as hell is getting stroked.