So… I kind of fucked up saving the links on Friday and fucked off to the pub. Then screwed up fixing the links on my phone. Sorry to Playa Manhattan, Vhyrus, and that bus full of tourists from Nebraska who got an up-close and personal Florida Man experience late Friday night. My shame is great, and I am sorrier than a politician caught sending dick pics.
First up, apparently Bill Weld thought that pro-Clinton statists were under-represented in the Libertarian field in 2016, intends to fix that for 2020. “If he decides to run, Weld may prove to be one of the more qualified candidates looking at the prospects of the Libertarian race in 2020.” No. no he would definitely not be qualified to hold a libertarian jock.
Gangs in Brazilian Favelas becoming legitimate police forces, start blaming shootings of tourists on “accidents”.
Salon needs a sugar daddy. 15 years ago, Salon used to do some interesting long-form stuff that was intended to rival the “better” magazines. I haven’t been back in probably 10, so I have no idea what their business model is — besides failing — now.
Damn, dude. Nobody deserves to be killed for being stupid, but even invertebrates can learn to change their behavior after being wounded 10 previous times.
Moscow to accelerate switch to Euro and away from dollar for settlement payments.
I know that “junk bonds” is a technical slang-term now, but with Tesla it seems apropos. Especially after they collected $1000/head in pre-orders.
I deserve today’s music.
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I wonder what Gary Johnson thinks about this:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/7/bakers-refused-make-pro-trump-birthday-cake-9-year/
What is a Leppo?
Dude Weed LMAO
Ayyyyy
What 9 year old wants a birthday cake like that? Shouldn’t he want Transformers or TMNT or somesuch? That’s really sad to me that a 9 year is that emotionally invested in a politician.
And his spelling ain’t so hot either.
I’m reminded of the little girl who got killed at the Gabby Giffords rally. I wonder if the media will praise this boy for being interested in politics.
All good points. But, I still never pass up an opportunity to mock what a terrible candidate Gay Jay was
I read somewhere that after climbing Everest GJ forgot to put his oxygen mask back on for a couple minutes (?). A friend theorized he suffered permanent brain damage from the oxygen deprivation. No clue if that’s possible in the timespan, but if possible might explain him.
I’m certainly not about the blame the weed, so let’s go with that
Add everyone who has ever played Who Can Hold Their Breath Underwater The Longest to that list I guess.
Bonus points if an older sibling “helped”.
I
madegot my brother to put the electric dog collar on and walk through the fence once.He still brings that up.
THIS is what little brothers are for.
I think I played that once as a child, but never notic-….. ***loses focus and wanders off***
What 9 year old wants a birthday cake like that?
I’d tend to agree, but the story could be in a better light if we had more information. It said he wanted a cake that looked like the MAGA hat, and I could see some kid wanting a hat cake like that if they had a hat like that they wore a lot. If you were a 9-yo and your grandpa/uncle/dad gave you a hat that you liked to wear and then you saw the president wearing the same hat on TV, I could see that being a good reason for asking for a cake like that. But if he asked for that because he likes Trump the politician, that’s a little weird.
After Sugar Free’s stories, I can’t believe Child Welfare wasn’t called when he wrote that he had a cake in the shape of the hat.
I suddenly remember a six-year-old girl who came in with her grandma when I worked as a fabric cutter at JoAnn’s. The grandma was showing everyone in the store the girl’s birthday cake because it had been “so cute.” The girl liked to go hunting with her dad, so she had them make a birthday cake that had a little fondant version of herself standing with a little fondant version of a dead deer with frosting blood coming out of it. I almost threw up right there in the store. Some kids want some weird birthday cakes.
Dave’s not here, man.
Trump, for all his massive faults, is better at this game than an R in living memory. In the words of Marco Rubio, he knows exactly what he is doing.
Moscow to accelerate switch to Euro and away from dollar for settlement payments.
Cool link, bro.
60% of the time, it works every time.
“If he decides to run, Weld may prove to be one of the more qualified candidates looking at the prospects of the Libertarian race in 2020.”
I move that all Libertarian Party Presidential nominations now be decided by martial combat to the death.
It can’t be any less respectable than the last LP primary.
The biggest question is what weapons should they use, and should it be a straight up arena combat or more “Most Dangerous Game”-esque hunt?
Hunger Games. Grab what weapons you can, stalk your enemies until only one remains.
If we do that, you might get someone like STEVE SMITH as the LP nominee. And after typing that out, I now heartily endorse this method.
John McAfee, Six Time Libertimurder Bowl Champion.
No Qhaddaffi-style bodyguards allowed. Although I did see a story that he got attacked by someone wielding a knife at FreedomFest, but I couldn’t substantiate it, so I didn’t link it.
Oh my god please.
Here it is. I couldn’t find a decent link anywhere. Just twitter and rumor.
yes.
I think he could run the shitshow.
I vote aluminum bats in a battle royal.
As long as this is the theme song.
I noticed all you shitlords plan on ignoring the evening gown and swimsuit competition so the trannies come on the libertarian train, and plan on jumping straight into terrordome.
Didn’t GayJay’s 2016’s outreach at the expense of free association teach you anything?
Well obviously the contestants in the terrordome would be oiled up and wearing swimsuits (yes Kristen and Jesse, the men would be too.)
Well I assume it’s gonna be men. After all, there are no female libertarians.
Was there a rash of non-citizen, non-resident, under-35 candidates in the LP?
Irrelevant news from an irrelevant party. Hotelings law is a thing, and if the 2016 presidential elections didn’t cause one of the two parties to dissolve, I don’t think anything will. Better to gain control of an existing party than continue with this sham.
And if Bill Weld isn’t qualified enough, just wait until he names Hillary his running mate.
sorrier than a politician caught sending dick pics
I don’t think Carlos Danger was ever the least bit sorry about that.
I think he was sorry…that he got caught.
I think he liked the humiliation and was too self-centered and delusional to realize the damage he was doing.
I, for one, forgive you, Brett L. Friday, after all, is made for drinking and wenching.
I think it speaks very positively of Brett L’s character that he is taking full responsibility for Vhyrus screwing up.
Who is this Brett L. Friday character?
Salon might go away? But what will all the former libertarians who realized the error of their ways and turned progressive do then?
reason.com
Well done.
bravo, good sir.
Okay, that got a laugh out of me. Good one.
That is only for progressives who claim to still be libertarians.
You win.
Brutal.
Wow, what do you say after that one?
Kudos to you sir! And kudos again!
Back to the article generator that they came from.
…Hitler?
Colin Powell for vice president.
Sorry, but after the way that guy shamed himself for W by going to the UN with dodgy photos in the lead up the Iraq War, I can’t get behind him.
re: Bill Weld
(looks at who published that story)
I would have guessed Evan McMuffin.
They really have a circle don’t they
yeah you don’t really need to do a whole lot of work decoding the libertarian party/media-conspiracy
ROADZ!
I applaud this couple.
Fun facts: Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein are former residents of this street.
Uffda! that is the best story ever.
Too bad Pelosi isn’t still living there. I bet her head would explode if she got slapped with a parking/road use fee.
On the other hand, I’m glad she isn’t there because then this couple would be fucked by the govt and no one in SF would feel bad for them at all.
Nancy Pelosi Drive itself isn’t too far away.
My question for Brett L
Yeaaahhh…. about that….
“apparently Bill Weld thought that pro-Clinton statists were under-represented in the Libertarian field in 2016, intends to fix that for 2020”
Can we just all agree that the Libertarian Party is basically the Reform Party now and that there is nothing ‘libertarian’ about it. Last cycle they hate two senate candidates in two different states calling for nationalized healthcare.
They’re not interested in dismantling the state anymore- they just want to ‘reform’ it. They’re making you’re average conservative look like a radical.
And they’re still the best political party we have.
*sobs quietly*
(dammit, hit post before I meant to. Stupid lack of edit button. Fuck you, admins)
Though some state-level LPs are fine. Florida’s is pretty good (the existence of Augustus Invictus notwithstanding)
Augustus Invictus is the shame of the Libertarian Party. Vermin Supreme must shake his head at how bizarre Augustus Invictus is
THE shame? What about Thong Guy?
A guy who hiked through the desert and then sacrificed a lamb and later changed his name to the “unconquered sun” or something, wins ‘crazy’ in my book.
He’s also a weirdo pagan white nationalist, which makes him both ideologically distant along with being insane.
Exactly.
Very vindictive admin people.
Why not post a Gary Johnson meme, since it is the topic of the conversation?
If I had a picture of Gary Johnson’s anus I wouldn’t need to pretend to work all day.
Good point. You know there has to be Gary Johnson anus pics floating around somewhere. He seems like the kind of guy that would have someone blackmailing him with anus pics
He seems like the kind of guy who would freely give out anus pics, just for the asking.
You’re confusing him and Mcafee.
Why just think of the hundreds of dollars you could make blackmailing Johnson over pics of his naked buns!
I’m sure there is a johnson in anus pic out there. Possibly while rock climbing.
Gary Johnson memes?
My wife is a crazy cat lady. Your cat butts can’t phase me.
And to think I got my cat-butt for only asking for a hat-tip.
At any given time there’s about a 30% chance I’m looking at real live cat butt. Bump that up to 75% if I’m trying to watch a movie; 95% if there’s a chance they can dip their tail into my drink. I’m not sure I’d notice a mere picture of a cat butt.
If I’m sitting down, it’s a 75% chance for me.
How about Reform Libertarian. Kinda like how Reform Judaism reformed it by removing all the judaism.
Jews for Jesus?
Splitter!
We can still keep the weird haircuts and facial hair though, right?
You know who else sought to remove all the Judaism?
Hadrian?
Herod?
Dyke March Organizers?
Farrakhan?
At this point I’m wondering if it might be better to try Fabian libertarianism through the GOP rather than sticking with the squishy, infighting LP. Yeah the GOP is full of some terrible politicians (*cough* McCain *cough*) but with the two party system it’s also our only avenue right now to get more guys like Rand and Amash in to actually do something.
Ah, the Austen Peterson approach. We’ll see if he wins
*crosses fingers*
I hope he wins, but I think that he would be better served by running a House seat first, though the Missouri Senate seat is as juicy as they come. A lot of less-informed people are afraid that he’s too “open borders” for the primary.
don’t worry, McCain is just about out of sand in his hourglass of destruction.
I hope his life is long and comfortable…and led in retirement.
The LP seems more and more like it’s geared towards people who never stopped being snotty teenagers and less like a serious political party interested in governance. Between the in-fighting and the grandstanding, the willingness to die on the stupidest possible hills, and the…let’s call it willingness to be ideologically flexible if it seems like it will poll well with the millennials or win some Progressives over, they’re just a goddamned mess.
Look at Paul, Amash, Massie…those guys have and seem to stand pretty firmly by them, but they also look like serious people who know what they’re doing. Where are those people in the LP? Who are the adults in the room for the LP?
Somebody really wanted Mazi dead badly smh,” Zoey Dollaz wrote on Twitter. “Well I hope that beef is squashed now it’s like damn whatever he did hope it’s forgiven now.”
I like that his friends assumed he had that one coming. I hope my family shares the same sentiment if/when I’m gunned down.
If I die in a hail of gunfire my tombstone better fucking read “You should have seen the other guys!”
…so what’s the worst that can happen if someone’s still holding a grudge against him?
Weekend at Yung Mazi’s Crib?
That’s not a very Florida man story. Tell us what really happened.
My lawyer advised me not to describe or even allude to incidents that may or may not have taken place on or about Friday evening in my immediate vicinity.
And even if it had taken place, they totally deserved it.
I’m told we wait until specific allegations are made before taking that position.
Will you at least admit that you’re BP’s model for Random Drunken Asshole?
He can’t remember, and the embarassing videos haven’t surfaced yet.
It’s Monday, I don’t want to work… dance for me monkeys!
Okay
re: Tesla
if they think they can get a better deal selling debt than shares, they are basically taking equity holders for a ride.
Question: Will Musk turn out to be the next PT Barnum, or Bernie Madoff?
i think he’s in a different category. Barnum fooled people who wanted to be fooled. Madoff sold people who believed the markets were rigged, and people like him were the ones in charge of the rigging.
Musk’s business model relies on the need for rich people to advertise their woke-nes. I don’t think his actual customers will fail him, but i do think the markets will.
Selling HY debt is a sign that the company thinks its “cheaper” to pay 5%+ than it is to flog more equity. which should make any stockholder dump the shit posthaste.
Musk is fooling watermelons who want to be fooled and selling to investors who believe the government has rigged the market with the subsidies.
So maybe a combo?
Musk melons. Mmmmmm.
If Bill Weld gets the nomination, I’m changing my voter registration and never looking back. Fuck him.
I changed mine to Republican a while back because a) the LP never holds primaries in my state, b) I’m still on the losing side (I live in MD), but c) they do occasionally win elections. If I’m gonna sell out, I ought to get something for my trouble.
I can’t register LP in my state. They don’t get that privilege unless they get enough votes in a gubernatorial election.
Ohio?
I remember going back and forth with a Reason troll about that state’s blatant attempts to suppress third parties. The whole thing turned into unintentional self-parody when said troll decided to hold up Ohio’s process as an example of the rule of law.
New York.
Yeah, there are like 16 parties on the registration, but the best I could do was “Other,” which I guess suits me best.
I’ve left my LP because I think it’s why I’m 47 and have still yet to be called for jury duty.
I’ve been called twice in Oregon and once in California since registering LP. My group has always been dismissed before even making it to the courthouse, though.
I mean, I should serve on juries, of course, but now it’s this weird sort of game of chicken between the courts and me.
It seems like it would be pretty easy to get out of jury duty. All you need is some knowledge on jury nullification and let the prosecutor know you know that and you’re out.
Or being too lazy for that, spend $2.50 to buy a copy of Art of the Deal at Half Price Books and be reading it while waiting your turn.
Bring a copy of the Bible (for when the defense is looking you over), Prairie Fire (for the prosecutor), and Starship Troopers (for Judge). You’ll be out of there before lunch.
In all seriousness, I’d love to get sat for a jury, and it’ll never, ever, ever happen.
Am I the only one who sort of wants to be called for jury duty?
1. It’s a day off work,
2. I might get the chance to vote “not guilty” for some stupid drug charge.
I want to. Probably because I haven’t yet.
At the same time, I want to because I believe in nullification, and would be willing to use it.
I doubt I’ll be able to be on a jury with that combo.
My jury found guilty on 2 misdemeanors. His first trial he was found guilty of 3 felonies.
Usually, jury duty means a day hanging around the courthouse, traversing metal detectors, and otherwise doing absolutely nothing. The courthouse may have wifi. Everyone will be using it and the bandwidth will be horrible. Bring a book. You’re going to spend 8 or 9 hours reading it.
For a bookworm like me, that beats the hell out of work!
*grabs copy of Human Action*
“There was time now! It isn’t fair! There was all the time in the world!”
Last time I had jury duty, I thought I would have no chance of being picked. About 2 questions into Voir Dire I looked around the pool and realized there was no way I wasn’t in the top 12.
At least I used my power as foreman to run an efficient process and get us out of there fast. Plus my bachelor party was that night.
How to get out of jury duty.
I’m unaffiliated and was called about a year ago. I brought a book and wore a clean shirt with a collar.
None of the lawyers questioned me or even bothered talking to me at all.
No need to question a man in a dashing top hat.
I switched to GOP in order to vote for Ron Paul in 2008.
1 jury duty before and after.
I’m still unaffiliated myself, but I will register Republican if I can vote for a libertarian-leaning guy in the primaries. I have slowly started identifying with the non-SoCon Tea Party wing, and the establishment needs a few more purges.
So how is the shitshow of YA book twitter handling the Vulture article? WIth dignity and class, I’m sure. lol
oops, should’ve refreshed first!
If you had the wisdom of Minerva, you would have refreshed first. 😉
ZAP!
If anyone’s looking for Ted, he’s now a tree. I’m sure he’ll make good paper for cash register receipts.
Relevant.
good paper for cash register receipts.
Or institutional quality toilet paper.
John Wayne TP — Just like the Duke; Rough and Tough, and Don’t Take Shit From No-one!
I realize I’m a few hours late, but to answer your question: I’ve had two separate authors message me the link and secretly cheer about it. One of them got a mob coming after her earlier this year but she’s a small enough name that it blew over pretty quickly. I haven’t been on Twitter much since I decided to step back for my sanity, but I can imagine that it’s utter screaming meltdown, rebuttal thinkpieces, and lengthy tweet threads, while about 80% of YA authors are silently rejoicing that some attention is finally getting shed on this. I might wade back over there to snoop and see if I can mine any good derp…
Here we go: “It’s not ~censorship~, get over it!”
Since 2007, the company has been dependent on ongoing cash injections from board Chairman John Warnock and William Hambrecht, father of former Salon CEO Elizabeth Hambrecht…. Hambrecht is ///credited as one of the first major investors to recognize the value of technology and biotech companies, helping to take Apple Computer, Genentech and Adobe Systems public in the 1980s with his earlier San Francisco-based company Hambrecht & Quist, which he founded in 1968 and which also backed the IPOs of Netscape, MP3.com, and Amazon.com.
A proverbial brick off of the giant skyscraper, but hugely positive stuff from the Trump administration. No wonder the establishment and bureaucracy on both sides is terrified of him.
So the “drastic measures” undertaken in 2013 were entirely reversed before the end of 2016? Such austerity!
Let’s hope for BASE CLOSURES in the near future.
If he does this, I hope it’s focused on bases in Europe. If only to watch the world shit itself in reaction.
I almost wish he’d keep an official count or tweet out the metric: “Federal Jobs Destroyed”
I’m still waiting for all those fedgov workers who said they would quit under a Trump administration to actually, you know–quit.
A bunch of people I know on facebook have yet to move to Canada. They also stopped talking about it. It’s like they don’t even want to!
Disingenuous progs? I have it on good authority that doesn’t happen.
re: Tesla
This would likely mean they’re trying to do this, and quick, to avoid a going concern modification on their next financial statements. As said, it also means they’re in deep shit, because they’d have to do a stock offering by the end of the year or January or February if they really want to push it, and if Model 3 sales aren’t looking like Tesla says they will (spoiler: they aren’t going to), there’s going to be even more trouble.
Everything I’ve been saying about YA and Book Twitter summed up in one horrifying witch hunt.
In other news, I just finished my contract with one publisher, so I just have two books in another series with a different publisher and then it’s goodbyyyyyye YA. At least my ongoing series is with a publisher that’s not as hideously political as the one I just finished up with. It’s just a question of surviving being around other authors and praying I don’t get a Twitter brigade going after me, basically.
May the odds be ever in your favor.
As an artist, I completely get that.
so I just have two books in another series with a different publisher and then it’s goodbyyyyyye YA.
And then it’s on to competing with Chuck Tingle.
Does ‘YA’ stand for something other than “Young Adult” in this context?
It is young adult. My sentence in the link was kind of unclear—basically, YA Book Twitter is the worst, but all of Book Twitter is experiencing this. It’s even happening to a smaller degree in the romance community. The biggest difference is that adult romance writers don’t really need Twitter to be successful. You can get good sales without a social media presence (apart from maybe Facebook) at all. In YA, you need Twitter if you ever want to get anywhere and it’s an utter cesspool.
I’ve avoided using that genre label – because I have no idea what qualifies. Mostly because I’m that guy who willingly read Melville in high school
I did a book report on one of Ian Fleming’s Bond novels in sixth grade.
I tried to read Fleming, but something about his style made me keep putting the book down and wander off. I never got past the paragraph about some Bulgarian gunman.
You should have stuck with it. The page about the Bulgarian honey pot was more interesting.
On the surface it’s just books with teenage protagonists written for a teenage audience.
In practice, it’s a competition to out-SJW each other.
I blundered in because I’m an idiot who likes kids and thought it would be nice to write some books for them.
The practice sounds dreadful – why would anyone stick around in such a market?
Contracts. The one was contracted as a trilogy plus a novella, so I’m stuck there. The other one was a one-book deal with an option for a second. The publisher actually wound up wanting the second, but I turned it down with some dumb excuse about wanting to focus my creative energy on other projects. (Translation: I hate you all and your mandatory trigger warning policy.)
LOL! So you mean to tell me you did something because you like it AND it because it could help someone else? Without once trying to force others to think exactly like you? Well good luck in hell you capitalist trashpig. Hope literally killing millions of lqbtq+++ POC was worth it just so you could flex your white intellectual privilege
wypipo?!?! amifucgginrite???
It’s even worse—the ongoing series (with the less derpy publisher) has subtle positive references to libertarianism! Probably too subtle, since I haven’t been asked to remove them so far.
Same here. No idea what qualifies as YA. I mostly read non-fiction on my own time. And I thought Catcher in the Rye was the shittiest piece of gutter trash ever printed.
lol that’s how I describe YA fiction. “Think Catcher in the Rye, but it’s even worse”
Taran Wanderer, Tunnel in the Sky, and Iron Sunrise (okay, technically not YA) were all great. At least two of those were explicitly written for the market. Also, the first Hunger Games novel was decent. I’m out on a limb, but I thought it was good.
Taran Wanderer was in the 60’s and Tunnel int the Sky was in the 50’s. (idk Iron Sunrise). Sure there have been lots of great books written for a young adult audience in the past. But the YA genre as it stands today is quite a bit different. It’s basically comprised of sexless romance novels for retards.
Your books are not YA.
It’s also developed as a toxic subculture of fandom and the publishing world, a race to see who can virtue signal harder and louder than the rest.
If they didn’t, they’d have to compete on price or quality!
I’m just waiting for all the terrible, terrible YA dystopian works that will come out in the next four years that are ‘totes about the Trump Presidency’.
I’m pretty sure I could program a bot to write shitty YA dystopian fiction.
It’s going to be so horrible. They are going to Trump up all facets of media for decades.
It’s already happening. One fellow author recently emailed me to ask if I knew whether my publisher would be interested in a biblical (I know, wtf) retelling about Life In The Trump Era. Teens need stories like this to navigate the current political climate, she said.
Oh, I expect it, I’m sure that there was a great deal of people already thinking on November 9th about how they were going to propagandized this to the youths.
Teens should not give a fuck about the political climate and enjoy the mostly carefree existence they have while it lasts. Adults, however, can’t help but project their issues and insecurities onto them.
best of luck!
Do you have a links to any books you’ve written?
Don’t cross the streams, Behold!
*glances to link in own handle*
*realizes Behold! is asking MLW*
*whistles while walking away*
I’m asking her because I already know your link if in your handle and it’s already on my to read list, just as soon as I finish the four other books on my to read list (like Chelsea Clinton, I have a massive reading list. Unlike her, I’m not bragging, because it just means I’m a massive procrastinator and don’t have the time to actually sit down and read them like I want.)
Also, how do you link things in your handle?
Edit your user profile and add something in the website field. That’s it. Make sure you hit the Update Profile button.Um, I mean, a link in your handle can be yours for the low, low price of $1000, payable to SP! Email graft@glibertarians.com today!
nice.
I’ll buy you a drink and a REAL pizza from the proceeds that come pouring in!
Sold. I like pizza without pineapples, too!
click your name in the top right. Website is an option halfway down.
I’m trying not to let my pen name slip on here so as to avoid being assaulted by the mob. The stuff I’ve said on here and the other site would definitely be grounds for burning at the stake. Buy UnCivilServant’s stuff in my honor, haha.
I create much art and writing under various pseudonyms for this reason. Each genre gets its own nom de guerre.
how do you come up with the names?
Saw that you’re a curator. If ceramics is in the list, I will shill for my ladyfriend.
“The Black Witch is the most dangerous, offensive book I have ever read,” she wrote in a nearly 9,000-word review that blasted the novel as an end-to-end mess of unadulterated bigotry.
9,000 word review? I mean, why not wear a sign that says “I’m a lunatic” while storing your urine in jars?
That’s probably 10% of the length of the novel.
Or 20-25%, depends on the publisher’s standard for the genre.
If we’re talking YA, it’s 1/5-1/6 of a novel. They’re usually around 60,000 words.
Pretty sure that’s longer than my senior thesis was in college.
The linked story said it was a 600 page novel, so 150,000 going by the 250w/p rule of thumb.
It’s the first in a trilogy.
The Black Witch
The Blacker Witch
The Blackest Witch
And then in a couple of years, the prequel: The Light Black Witch
Will the sequel story be Mulatto Witch?
Only if it somehow finds thiccer White Witch to hook up with.
Where da white witches at?
I assumed that was the plot of the Blackest Witch – miscegenation with magic!
Maginanation?
Maginanation?
That sounds more like a plot arc from late 60s Spider-Man. “In this issue: Hammerhead becomes the President!”
Quadroon Witch
I was thinking “Witch of Color”
Honestly, there could be so many witches… The Seafoam Witch, The Ecru Witch, The Mauve Witch. And that’s just staying the visible spectrum.
This series is a fucking goldmine!
50 Shades of Witch would sell a ton, I bet!
How much more black could this witch get? And the answer is none more black.
I beg to differ. Vantablack Witch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkGHwrq2Eho
Yeah, it’s easily twice the length of a normal YA book. That’s not only rare, but it’s also usually unheard of for a debut author. Usually the publishers won’t let you ramble on like that unless you’re a proven big seller. (Note how short Harry Potter started out vs. how it wound up.) If she got picked up for a debut that long, odds are good that she’s got connections in the industry. Especially since there was so much early buzz for it. Probably didn’t foresee the mob coming for her, haha.
Sounds good (your news, not the witch hunt news)!
But no, they’re not calling for censorship or anything, they support free speech as long as it’s not hate speech or is insufficiently woke.
Over-under 1 year before they start calling for book burnings of ungoodthinkful books?
Do they really need to have this explained to them? These are the same idiots who have screamed at George Orwell for endorsing Fascism with 1984, or demanded a retraction from Jonathon Swift for his Modest Proposal. On second thought, they actually would have probably praised Swift for bravely suggesting the privileged white Irish reduce their population to make way for
non-whitesBIPOCI understand that there’s this really bad demonic villain in The Lord of the Rings – what’s up with that satanic propaganda?
And I hear there’s a whole genre of books about people getting murdered. I think they’re called mysteries or something. Whatever, I can’t believe they’d advocate murder like this, why doesn’t someone call them out?
That’s nothing compared to the vast amounts of rape-lit out there!
Worst part is, he managed to destroy the one industrialized nation in the setting and ensure a continuation of the caste-bound feudal heirarchy that had prevailed before!
And he had Galadriel reject the ring and retreat to the West, ensuring the Patriarchy would continue for eons.
Thank you for posting that. One of the many jewels of parody which I would never have seen if not for this site.
Good luck! Hopefully you’ll be able to find a genre that’ll allow you to pimp out your books here. I’m sure UCS got twos upon twos of sales from us!
That article, though…
Jesus fuck! I can’t decide if it’s Gamergate flashbacks, or Communist Party flashbacks I’m getting!
Oh, the traditional media are still flogging the Gamergate shit
There must have been another JournoList 2.0/GameJournoPros memo that got send out because a bunch of coordinated hitpieces all struck at the exact same time again. However, they’ve updated to go with the zeitgeist of blaming Russia and other even more lunatic claims that would be impossible without a time machine.
Yeah, no shit. In prison, you can get stabbed if you don’t follow certain prosocial rules. On the internet, no one can sharpen a toothbrush and stick it in your kidney.
I’m sympathetic, to some extent. But, part of me can’t help but wonder if the rush to appeal to SJW sensibilities isn’t what empowers these attacks in the first place. I mean the book in that article sounds like boilerplate hardline progressivism:
On a certain level, isn’t all of that elevating social justice to the overriding standard of literary merit. I can’t imagine what they could damn something published that was unabashedly politically incorrect (“Atlas Shrugged for Young Adults”) that they haven’t already damned the stuff begging for their approval. Unless kids have become utterly brain-rotted, I can’t imagine they uniformly guy into this insanity.
Re: Brazil
So, imma take a pass on carnival.
Cabo is going to shit too.
All thanks to our recent “victory” in the war on drugs.
Looks like next election I’ll be writing in Ron Paul. AGAIN.
racist
It’s true, David Weigel and the executive director at CATO told me so
Mr. Again appreciates your vote.
So I assume that if nominated Bill Weld will endorse the Dem just before election day?
I’m prepared for him to announce that he will accept the nomination as the Dem’s VP candidate.
I guess the LP’s ultimate goal is to be like Macron?
John Kasich licking his wet lips
“Hug a Widow”
– John Kasich
“However, would he be able to overcome the hard radical element of the Libertarian party at the national convention?”
The ‘hard radical element’? I think he means ‘libertarians’
So you support purity tests for party membership?
No. But, I’m not sure who are the ‘hard elements’ that this guy is referring to. I think that people of various stripes within the Libertarian Party hated Weld for numerous valid reasons.
Weld is way better off staying honest with himself and stick to being a deep-blue state Republican. IIRC, I read that he almost took down John Kerry back then. Maybe run to pick off Pocahontas or something.
The same element that chose Johnson over McAfee?
Maybe we could orchestrate a 3 way trade involving the Rock, Kid Rock, Weld and some conditional picks.
Radical:
adj.
1. of or going to the root or origin; fundamental:
The LP becoming a bunch of mealy-mouthed centrists even before they get a chance at winning elections is not a sign that will get any libertarianish reforms done.
We need to appeal to the progressives!
-LP.
…
I don’t regret my decision to unregister to vote. Took me several tries, but eventually it happened.
You mean the Nick Gillespie school of ‘Winning the Libertarian Way’?
Something about a moment.
You want privacy? You’re out of Luqman
Swiss, can I get a ruling here?
Oh, it’s a narrow.
It’ll be tight.
soooooo lazy right now. can’t move. will submit some crazy shit i just read on someone elses link*
it goes on.
*technically this was something from the AM links which i still have not read. i have no idea why i have this idiotic commie’s blog open in my browser. I blame one of you.
now that’s a spicey-a-gilmore’s!
You can’t fool me, that entire article is parody.
*Checks link*
Oh Hextor they’re serious.
Yeah, Tarzie is serious. His callouts of Greenwald are good. The rest… not so much.
I think Greenwald is unquestioningly more good than bad.
In an era where the “prestige media” verges on a criminal conspiracy of lies, someone like greenwald – who consistently and convincingly calls bullshit on them – is absolutely necessary. I won’t say he’s without fault, but he’s the best of a bad lot.
I agree. When he does some gatekeeping, though, or other small questionable things, I appreciate that some random lefty on the internet is willing to go all OCD about it.
Greenwald is honest. That’s why they hate him.
So is Russiagate a legal coup against Trump? Quite a few here and Raimondo think so.
Reminds of how in Imperial Japan the army had a veto over the government.
Anyway this is a tough position. Trump is no libertarian and likely has some skeletons in his closet however neither is the resistance who don’t have clean hands either and they want to keep outsiders out forever.
Could get gridlock yet the results of said gridlock often leads to desire for a strongman
Could discredit POTUS but neither did Watergate. ..
Fuck the -gate suffix.
-gategate!
stride problem?
Need a catchy replacement though. Trump/11? Trumpocalypse? Trump2k?
Trump is the most libertarian thing we have had in office in an extremely long time.
I gotta say, if he refrains from building a giant wall, imposing insanely high tariffs, or starting any more stupid wars, I might actually vote for him next time around.
I think one of the best things he’s done so far is shut down Obama’s arms trafficking program for Syrian “good guy” rebels (a.k.a. future Bin Ladens).
Trump is the least undesirable of the factions in this political tug-of-war which is about the best I can say for him. Anyone who’s hated by the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, and all the other deep state scrunts can’t be all bad.
has there been any proof that it was actually collusion?
They released DNC emails. the dems (like my mom) think they are fake.
The right wasn’t voting for clinton anyway.
Why is more info bad?
When it hurts the wrong people…
Gridlock is usually something I love, but in this case the Gridlock is being caused by the bureaucrats, judges, and GOP establishment essentially revolting against Trump. Say what you will about Trump (I certainly have quite a bit to say) but he is an outsider who was elected in part because he was not a career politician. The fact that the establishment and unelected members of the government are basically in rebellion and trying to stage a coup is a very dangerous precedent, basically ensuring short term gridlock in exchange for no outsiders who might threaten the machine to ever be allowed into positions of power again. As much as I hate Bernie, what the DNC did to him is a very similar situation, albeit on a smaller scale.
Reminds me of when Jesse Ventura took over in Minnesoda. The only thing the DFL and the GOP agreed upon was fucking him over. He got some things done, but he was hamstrung by both parties.
The hacks definitely don’t want people to figure out that just about anyone can run the govt.
Ventura was awesome until he absolutely lost his fucking mind.
I knew someone who worked in Brooklyn Park’s city govt (Jesse was mayor there for a while) who said he was a nut way back when. But he was a good governor.
He did the Trump “No Apologies” thing before Trump. Every time he said something silly, he stood by it. I think my favorite was when he said religion was for the weak minded. When he had his next presser, he stood by the statement but added that his wife was a regular church goer and how do you think his home life was?
The lesson to pols should be that people are pretty forgiving for any position you might take as long as you believe it and stay with it. What urinates normies off is when you constantly talk out of both sides of your mouth. Or cave on an issue because you don’t want to alienate the activists.
I gather that blacklisting Commies was bad but blacklisting non woke is okay. Gee I wonder why?
Also self-censoring movies, video games and comics because of pressure from socons is bad but self-censoring because of sjws is fine.
All I know is that Maryann should have never been held to 3 seconds of cleavage per scene on Gilligan’s Island. That was the beginning of the downfall of western enlightenment.
Anyways you guys should read up on the French Revolution sometime. The terms left and right come from it and everything bad about the left was there from the beginning.
Support for civil liberties…except for opponents, opposition to war…as long as you aread not in power, and support for price controls and other statist economics.
Richman and Long complain about how libertarianism is “right-wing” thanks to the Cold War and bemoan the loss of a “progressive” sensibility that resulted.
However if you actually look up 19th century history and French Revolution you will that the left was never some unified classically liberal proto-libertarian bloc. Modern socialism and communism had their beginnings then. Oh and plenty of support for war when waged for progressive reasons.
Right wing? Hell there are lots of people out there calling libertarianism straight up fascim! And to make it worse there people who actually identify as libertarian fascists. Whatever that possibly means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Canard_enchaîné
Our media has a similar attitude these days.
From the article giving Weld a tongue-bath:
“However, his deviations in the 2016 race from libertarian orthodoxy on some issues riled up critics, and he only secured the vice-presidential nomination narrowly on the second ballot after a heated floor fight.
“Additionally, many were also upset over his comments defending Hillary Clinton against accusations by Donald Trump.”
Yes, indeed, that’s Weld’s problem, he’s so decent and fair-minded and chivalrous, defending that nice lady Hillary Clinton against those mean attacks.
Really, it seems that the public simply doesn’t *deserve* such a high-minded and principled politician as this Leslie Nielsen look-alike.
Don’t you dare sully Nielsen’s good name by comparing him to Weld. Nielsen was far more dignified.
I agree. We don’t deserve him.
And he looks like the love child of Walter Mathau and Leslie Nielsen, not a Nielsen clone.
100%
A lot of my leftist acquaintances scolded me for saying that the Johnson/Weld ticket wasn’t worth a damn and thought I was being ideologically rigid. I finally asked who the fuck were they voting for and they all responded that they were voting for Clinton.
They liked Johnson/Weld enough because they dared challenged the libertarian orthodoxy (semi-endorsing Clinton) but not enough to pull the lever for them.
Principals over principles
They more likely wanted Johnson/Weld because they thought they’d pull votes away from Trump through the NeverTrumps and other groups. There’s a reason third-party voters got shit on immediately after Trump won, before they realized that narrative was stupid and absorbed the Russia narrative instead.
The Libertarian Party spokesmen had a response to that.
After the election, I got a long winded but angry email from an acquaintance who worked for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in DC, saying that people like myself were the reason why Trump won. At first I was angry but then felt bad for the guy because he’s fucking wasting his life getting people elected. You can tell that he was really pissed in his message to me which is odd considering him an I barely interacted.
Nobody ever said “I wish I hadn’t voted my principles” on their deathbed.
I’ve always explained to people that I consider my vote as condoning someone’s actions whether it’s for the better or worst. That may sound pretty rigid and it is but I don’t want to vote for someone who is willing to send people off to war on a whim or take away our rights despite them having a platform I sort of agree with. Even though my vote is significant, I would feel somewhat responsible if I voted for a war monger like Clinton or McCain or a buffoon like Trump.
*Even though my vote is not significant………..
Principles are easy to follow when following them has no consequences for yourself or anyone else.
My personal calculus was different: the more buffoonish Trump is, the happier that I am that I voted for him. I really don’t like the GOP establishment, so the more orange and ridiculous that middle finger was, the more effective it was. Maybe the best “fuck you” candidate ever.
That’s been one of the positives of the Trump Presidency. His ability to neuter and troll the media while pissing off the establishment, has made me respect him a bit more than I did last year.
Note: I’m a cultural Cosmo but a deep political Yokel. Milo is my spirit animal.
One very interesting thing about today is that the left is very concerned about clamping down on hate speech and fake news and Saber rattling against Russia under a Republican President. Usually it is the opposite. Very disturbing. Dropping the mask? Expediency?
Sough for the old ally with the left on war and social issues. How’s Jesse Walker’s anti-Trump popular front working out?
*so much for the old*
DC glibs meetup! We need one! Perhaps in September once it cools down a little?
Fffffuuuuuuu.
I hope you’re going to that pub in Old Town.
Now I’m jealous.
O’Shaughnessey’s?
Yep. Up in the front pool room.
I miss that place.
I’m up for it – if it’s a weekday, I can do NoVA. Weekends, I’ll even venture into DC!
Same for me (IIRC, we work within a mile of one another)
I’ll see if there’s a critical mass of interest, and then we can all haggle on timing and location.
I would be up for NoVa weekdays, and DC weekends as well.
INCOMING GUN DEAL:
As continued penance for my lack of a post last week, here is a AR 10 (that’s an AR chambered in 308) for $700. I paid about $1000 for almost the same gun a few years back. Jump on this.
https://gun.deals/product/psa-gen2-pa10-18-midlength-308-win-ss-lightweight-15-m-lok-acs-l-rifle-69999
Those of you interested in modern military arms should buy this gun for reasons I will make clear on Friday.
If I had $700 to burn…
Don’t you people
workhave credit cards?!I do, but they come with the depressing feature of being due every month.
Yes, but then I’d owe people money. Fuck that.
PSA runs lots of deals. They do a 2 for 1 AK AR deal for $900.
Be wary of their AKs. I have heard they are of varying quality.
Their ARs I have direct experience with and have many more good experiences than bad.
Good to know.
I did not run into the office crush today, except in passing, when he was deep in conversation with someone. I managed an Aspie-introvert-awkward-fatgirl wave/salute hybrid as I passed by.
Feed him. *just sayin’*
Why kind of food do you reckon a health nut would eat if I, say, baked something “for the office”?
IDK, but I’m always partial to a hot plate of vagina.
You have to serve apps first Vhyrus…sheesh.
I think the hot plate would burn it quickly.
Doesn’t sound like a good summer dish. Revenge on the other hand…
Look up some really good recipes for brownies and then add pot.
Just pot? Laaaame.
Paleo is in vogue with the gym rat crowd these days. Find a paleo recipe*.
This will inevitably be some kind of baked mash of banana and some kind of coagulant like coconut flour. I actually feel sorry for people that eat this crap.
Or, meat. Like a big honkin plate of chicken legs.
I don’t mind that part of paleo at all. It’s just that a dinner roll is going to kill you. A dozen of them, maybe, but not a single dinner roll.
*Not. Its not going to kill you.
A dozen dinner rolls won’t kill you either. I’ve tried.
Have you tried a dozen every night for year? It’s for science.
I’m considered a “health nut” * and I would probably eat some kind of oats/honey/fruit concoction.
* I just eat very healthy during the week because on the weekend, I like to cut loose with beer, cocktails, and BBQ.
I think this guy is the same way – he’s just a middle-aged guy who likes to run & bike and who watches his diet. Definitely no gym rat.
Irish Car Bomb cupcakes
Nom
As long as it’s not something ridiculously decadent, I’d imagine he’d eat it. Not many fitness people abstain 100 percent from dessert foods, especially if it’s a home-baked dish that someone is offering them.
from a cute coworker? no brainer.
Tabbouleh
They named a tropical storm after my dog. Hopefully the storm doesn’t do as much damage as the pug.
Search was unconstitutional, but go ahead and use the evidence anyhow.
Fucking judges. Sure the perp was running a kiddie pr0n site, but the cops still should be expected to play by the rules.
An unconstitutional search is not misconduct?
Well of course you’d want kiddie diddlers to go free.
This “good faith” and the “proper procedures” involved the FBI running a kiddie porn site for several months, facilitating the trade (and likely manufacture) of child pornography.
The government’s argument for tough punishment for possession of child porn is that each time the image is viewed, the child is re-victimized. That may or may not be a fair one (might be, but the punishments for possession are outraeous regardless). Yet the government freely distributes child porn in this situation, and the courts go “meh”.
(and then the same government will turn around and make a 16 year old boy a sex offender for life because his 15 year old girlfriend sent him a nude pic)
In these types of cases with known victims, the victims get letters each time a person is arrested and charged with possessing images of that victim. I think it’s an easy argument to make that getting letters several times a week saying, “we caught another pervert doing perverted things while looking at pictures of you being abused” is the worst revictimization of all.
Wait, really? You’re being serious here?
Holy shit. Now *that* is re-victimization.
Please say that the letter references the title of the internet video that the kiddie diddlers were watching.
“Dear Mr. Hanson,
We just wanted to let you know that we recently charged Mr. Olson of 1313 Mockingbird Lane with 2 counts of felonies for downloading and watching “Hot Stuff Toddler in sexy pullups licks ice cream off a dick” (which you were the star actor in).
Hope things are going well.
Preet
US District Attourney”
Today in,
“shit that pops up in my music-feed”
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Murder of the Universe
on a scale of 0-1million, this is rated: “gigantic purple snake choking on a television”
I was listening to Flying Microtonal Banana last week. Fun stuff.
Its awesome in the literal sense of the word. i’m just floored with how good it is.
i think too much music these days is made with sequencers. they have their place, but there’s no anarchy.
Where’s Mr. Lizard when we need him?
today was a banner day for derp
Prof wears body armor to class to protest campus carry
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A San Antonio College professor came to class dressed in body armor as “a statement” that “I don’t feel safe” now that students are legally allowed to carry concealed firearms on campus.
Charles Smith acknowledged that some students likely carried illegally in the past, but fretted that the new law “increases the chances of something happening.”
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http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9554
He appears to be wearing just the plate carrier with no plates, thus making his empty gesture utterly futile.
Paging John to the afternoon Glib links… paging John to the afternoon glib links…
They should pass a law against shooting professors, then he won’t need body armor.
the new law “increases the chances of something happening.”
Yes, let me go through the months’ long process of procuring a CCW license just so I can go intimidate my professor.
Transgender camp offers programs for children as young as 4
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/07/transgender-camp-offers-programs-for-children-as-young-as-4.html
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Living in the liberal-minded Bay Area made it easier. The Maxwells found a transgender play group, sought specialists, and at 4 years old, let Gracie grow her hair, dress as a girl and eventually change her name.
“I see her now, compared to before. I watch her strut around and dance and sing and the way she talks about herself. If she was forced to be someone else,” the mother trails off, “I don’t even want to think about that.”
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The Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, started a decade ago with about 40 patients. Now it has over 900 people, ages 3 to 25, enrolled in its program, with 150 on its waiting list, said Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the clinic’s medical director.
“I just think there’s a lot more openness to the understanding that trans adults start as trans kids,” Olson-Kennedy said. “When people say, ‘Isn’t this too young?’ my question back to them is, ‘Too young for what? How young do people know their gender?’ The answer to that is some people know it at 3, and some people know it at 30.”
Diane Ehrensaft, director of mental health at the University of California, San Francisco’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center, says enrollment there has tripled over the past few years with a “sea change” in the number of little kids showing up with their families.
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[head desk]
The Maxwells found a transgender play group, sought specialists, and at 4 years old, let Gracie grow her hair, dress as a girl and eventually change her name.
“I see her now, compared to before. I watch her strut around and dance and sing and the way she talks about herself. If she was forced to be someone else,” the mother trails off, “I don’t even want to think about that.”
Poor kid is probably destined to OD on meth in his 20s. Child abuse victims often turn to drugs.
Chelsea Handler slammed for tweet calling for laws against ‘people who think racism is funny’
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/08/07/chelsea-handler-slammed-for-tweet-calling-for-laws-against-people-who-think-racism-is-funny.html
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Not everyone thinks Chelsea Handler is funny.
The comedian suggested in a recent tweet that there should be laws against “people who think racism is funny.”
“2 Chinese guys were arrested in Berlin for making nazi salutes,” Handler tweeted Sunday. “Wouldn’t it be nice 2 have laws here for people who think racism is funny?”
Many took to Twitter to slam the comedian for her tweet, calling her hypocritical as she has advocated for free speech. Some Twitter users pointed out Handler has made racist jokes in the past.
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[face palm]
Proof Chelsea Handler is Hitler.
Sara Silverman, David Cross, and Mel Brooks all think Nazis and racism is funny (when they do it). A new law banning racist jokes would make them criminals. They are all Jewish. Ergo Chelsea Handler wants to imprison Jews. Just like…
Two police officers steal marijuana from an evidence locker and conspire with another man to sell it, splitting the profits. Anyone wanna guess what kind of sentence they got from the judge?
(ponders)
he had a closed-court-review session, and emerged in a cloud of smoke, declaring a mistrial and insisting that they should all go get ice cream, but like, he didn’t want to drive, and fuck dude wouldn’t it be cool if they had delivery-ice-cream? so instead ordered a pizza and played x-box
promotion?
can judges give promotions?
Jesus Christ. Does this judge have kneepads on under his robe? This is actually odious.
If I were a defense attorney, I’d use this as precedent.
They got a paid vacation?
I see he also gets to keep the kids something the serfs are not allowed when selling drugs
Trump takes a call at 3 am…LINK
Study: Female brain is more active than the male brain
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/08/07/Study-Female-brain-is-more-active-than-the-male-brain/3591502120573/?utm_source=fp&utm_campaign=ls&utm_medium=4
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The results of the record-breaking survey showed female brains are especially active in the prefrontal cortex and limbic system. The prefrontal cortex is responsible for focus and impulse control, while the limbic system controls motivation, behavior and emotions, like mood and anxiety.
The parts of the brain linked with vision and coordination were more active among men.
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“We also noticed greater activity in female brains in the regions linked sandwich-making and shoe-buying,” the scientist added before being bludgeoned by a rolling pin.
Japanese company introduces cute enema mascot
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/08/07/Japanese-company-introduces-cute-enema-mascot/2011502120412/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=4
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Aug. 7 (UPI) — A Japanese pharmaceutical company has introduced a large, pink, penguin-like character as a mascot for its enemas.
Tokyo-based Ichijiku Pharmaceutical Co. introduced its new mascot Kan-chan, that resembles a giant home enema kit with blushing cheeks, yellow feet and a smiling beak.
“I’m planning to go to many places in the future,” Kan-chan said in the introductory tweet.
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Your move, Sugarfree.
yay! new derp from NJR!
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/08/teaching-climate-change
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One paradoxical aspect of climate education is that you’re trying to get people to be less skeptical of received wisdom, even though being skeptical of received wisdom is a good thing. It’s important to recognize that when we ask someone to believe in the reality of climate change, we are generally not making appeals to facts, but appeals to authority: the authority of the scientific community, who are the only ones in a position to fully understand the facts.
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The best way to persuade people on climate change is to encourage a debate about the facts, because it’s on the facts that we win. It’s more important than ever to mobilize political will for tackling the problem, which means it’s more important than ever to enter dialogue with doubters. Otherwise, we may find ourselves commuting by gondola with ever-increasing frequency.
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Some non-derp in the middle, but still a derp sandwich.
Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ meets with cool reception, placing 15th at box office
Critic says film was ‘sabotaged’ by Paramount Pictures’ slow release strategy
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/7/al-gores-inconvenient-sequel-meets-cool-reception/
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Mr. Gore has promoted the movie relentlessly with numerous television appearances and a trip to Australia, but he also drew ridicule last week after a report said his Nashville mansion consumes 21 times more electricity than the average U.S. home.
“Clearly, Gore is unwilling to practice what he preaches,” said David A. Ridenour, president of the conservative National Center for Public Policy Research, which conducted the study.
The former vice president continued to plug the movie over the weekend on social media with help from friends like actress Helen Hunt, who gave the film a thumbs-up.
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[Nelson laugh]
And not because everyone knows ol Al’s house could power over 30 small family homes.
I assume he has more than one home.
Sig P320 fails drop test
*sigh*
My wife is rewatching West Wing again. She is a libertarian. She’s not hate watching. She likes the characters. I do not make fun of it anymore, but damn my ears are bleeding and my brain is bleeding from the derp
I see Chris Hansen is going after Nigerian scammers these days.