All right folks, it’s Sunday night and you need bread and circuses. If we are not carby or creepy enough for you Hollywood has you covered. First (through n) gay joke about me covering the Oscars gets cat buttholed by SugarFree (or not, as is his wont).
The Golden Horde
- Oscar night is upon us. You can stream them here or on the ABC app, or, you know tune in to ABC on your telemajigger. Full list of nominees here.* Huh, I’ve only seen Kubo and the Two Strings. I should probably get at least Moonlight under my belt before the night is through.
- Speaking of entertainment…the grim reaper has come for both Bill Paxton* and Judge Joseph Wapner. OMWC demands I link this
- Mix up an Oscar night party snack of Buffalo chicken dip a recipe from the .in.mb family seat in Western NY. Your friends didn’t want to be svelte and long-lived anyway, did they?
- Some of you might prefer the printed word to the movie, Amazon has you covered with a sale on books that got turned into movies.
*Notes autoplay video after the link. You’ve been warned *looks pointedly at Ted*
First
I think to avoid this sort of claptrap, we should adopt the longstanding old site convention that a true first must reference a link and have content. Just so we don’t encourage pointless “first”ing.
You just said that it was too much work to come here and sarc on your day off, and there you go. I’m not sure what we can do with you at this point.
I haven’t seen Moonlight and don’t know anything about it other than the fact that it provoked this charming little exchange.
Christ what an asshole. The projection is so pronounced it’s amazing anyone can be so lacking in self-awareness.
Since I apparently posted this too late on the morning links – any assistance is appreciated: Looking at getting a personalized plate in VA. Really want a Gadsden flag one – Need a good recommendation for a libertarian themed character set that’s not already taken. Unfortunately LIB * RTY and LIB*RTE are already assigned (not really surprising). Here’s the tool if anyone wants to test it (you have to scroll up to the “Don’t Tread on Me” option in the Special Interest section).
NO FYTW?
Hmmmm…it is available….(F Y * T W). I’m trying to see if Fuck Off Slaver is compatible….but I’m not sure F O S * V E R is recognizable.
BTFSTTG ?
That would work assuming the snake as the S.
I tried a number of combinations, with no luck: LIB/R T, LBR/TY, LBR/TE, LIB/ERT, LBR/TAS. It’s kind of fun, like a game that can never be won, and has no reward for me even if I did. Kind of like life.
Thanks for checking. LIB*TAT is available….I’ll give it some more thought.
LIB*TAT makes me think of “liberal tattoo.”
GLB*RTY is available!
LBR*TYY is available, but is a bit of a stretch.
WDATPDIM? Too long?
Yeah. with this plate you get 3 characters before the snake and 3 after. Trying to think of ones that the snake actually kinda represents or fills in for naturally.
No love for GLB*RTY? *Turns away, disappointed*
FU GOV?
Most DMVs will not allow anything that even suggests profanity. “FU” would probably be rejected.
GOV SKS
Perhaps you could try something that reads in reverse, or upside down.
So will i get a perma-ban if i was to post a link to the genius that is Dalmia’s latest tribute to free speech???
I say ask for forgiveness, not permission. IOW, I’m sure I won’t get banned if you do that, so go for it.
I thought our hosts were trying to create a new space leaving that other place behind?
He didn’t give the source, so I didn’t assume.
I read the comments on that piece. I couldn’ t bring myself to read the piece.
Yeah, it was pretty bad. I knew is was Shitka as soon as I saw the headline.
Funny that on the main page it was labeled as being by the staff.
I get that they wouldnt want link after link after link from there where it looks like a mirror but it does exist and will ocasionally have something of interest to hear. So like any good libertarian i thought the need to ask the wishes of my neighbors.
Here not hear
Or as they say in Maine, “You can’t get their from hear.”
It’s pretty fucking bad. She’s hideously wrong about Gamergate as well, and I know there have been people who have contacted her in a good faith attempt to clear up her misconceptions on that issue. Swallowed a bogus narrative whole, heard at some cocktail party with other bien-pensant journalists, I’d wager.
What’s happened to Reason is honestly depressing.
I’m less concerned that she’s been triggered so hard that her true colors are showing. That is an intended outcome by a lot of people in the meme wars.
I am far more concerned that she speaks for us. That is lasting damage because, like it or not, TSTSNBN is a very public face for what we believe, and a lot more outsider eyes are going to be on them.
What the hell is a meme war?
A sacred conflict that is going on beyond the human perspective even as we speak, in the edges of the noosphere and the realms of the possible. To even look upon the conflict of the meme wars is to despair and be driven mad. Those who get but a glance are forever changed.
Shadilay, my brother!
Praise Kek!
It is a continuation of the Skeleton War against the Fuccbois.
I gave a write-up in this thread (near the top of the comments section) that covers the basics about what has actually been going on.
I was better off knowing nothing about that but thanks anyway
*Follows link. Comes back and starts folding hat out of tinfoil.*
Not sure who this is for, buddy, you or me.
REEEEEEEE NORMIE GET OUT!
I guess I’m the only John Barnes fan here… the meme wars were a time when sentient viruses were able to hop into human minds and reprogram them. They were eventually “won” by One True.
Swallowed a bogus narrative whole, heard at some cocktail party with other bien-pensant journalists, I’d wager.
I think we can safely say at this point in time that it’s less some grand misunderstanding, and more Dalmia actively lying and being a massive hack.
We’re doing our best to do our own thing over here. Our collective feelings for Dalmia’s recent words condoning violence, or at least excusing it, are well known. I’m not sure we all need a recap of her getting savaged in the comments of her latest attempt to placate those on the left.
But you can read our commenting policy and then do whatever you decide. But I don’t think it’s necessary to post a link to the place most of us used to frequent. Not that you’d get a perma-ban for it or anything.
You may get cat-assed if you go to the well one too many times. But that’d be it.
Boot him! C’mon, who’s with me?
I was saying boo-urns!
+1 Hans Moleman
Yeah, Archie Bunker was an old white racist. Boot his ghost ass!
I like this cat-assed term. A glibertarian original for sure. Thanks, shreek.
So does whoever get the most cat-assed in a month get a Cat Ass Trophy?
Shreek got the first Cat Ass trophy. I don’t think you want one.
what a catastrophe
Fair enough
Cat Ass
Dat Ass?
I called for you earlier in another thread. Dudes were talking about a Donkey Show, and I remembered your favorite book cover
Way better than the previous cat ass you posted.
You have a newsletter?
Publishes every Thursday.
I guess I can wait that long.
Technically, wouldn’t your avatar be more appropriate for SIV? 😉
I have a cockatar because cockatars are classy. I don’t have a cuckatar because those are not classy.
(SIV is the one who’s into cockfighting.)
Ahh…. I thought he was into calling people cucks.
I don’t claim exclusive use of chicken avatars.
Meow
Your post got me curious. I could only make it a few paragraphs before I had to stop. The comment section is pretty bad too. Did Mike Hihn change his name to David Nolan? Because that guy was sure acting like Hihnny in the comments, defending Dalmia.
Yeah, it’s him. I got Hihnned in the Casey Affleck thread. If I’d known it was him I wouldn’t have bothered, hence his now-frequent name changes.
Avatar test.
Is it supposed to be a doodle on a post-it? It works
It’s an ink sketch of a young Josef Stalin as a rabble-rousing youth with less than the full compliment of 10 toes. Toes not hidden.
Toes not shown.
So now now Rob Liefield is posting around here?
He’s a sketch by Hillaire Belloc and I cannot remember which character he is supposed to be.
Why is your avatar my Intro to Chinese History professor?
Does he teach from the streetcorner down the road?
Hey, I am a firm believer in the idea that male university profs should be required to grow obscenely long and unkempt facial hair.
The oldest and wisest of them shall be called the Longbeards.
The bald ones are called Arch Lecturers.
I’ve tried this argument with my wife.
It was unconvincing.
My beard grows out instead of down. I just end up looking like the guy on the right in this Soviet poster.
What about those of us who are not in academia who grow out our beards? What does that make us?
Mountain Men
But I shave my head at this point in my life.
See the Bea Arthur striptease that was cut of of the Star Wars Holiday special because “even *we* have standards.”
At least it wasn’t semi-nude pics of Lena Dunham. Not that I know anyone mean enough to actually do that.
You didn’t see the home yoga series from her yet? Gimme a minute
Nude Lena Duhham? Here ya go!
I am disappointed in your trolling skills, sir. I was expecting a potato or Miss Piggy in the tub or something else that might be funny.
I highly doubted that you’d have the real goods or could produce them on such short notice.
So…you’re saying I got you to click?
No one will click if you actually say it’s going to be Lena nude. Duh!
I am unafraid of the hypothetical existence of an image that would break camera lenses.
No fucking way I’m clicking that.
You can stream them here or on the ABC app, or, you know tune in to ABC on your telemajigger.
I think I will pass.
I am going to hijack the chicken dip recipe though. Nice.
That was no supposed to go there.
Another solid dip recipe. I made this up for a superbowl party, and it was well received.
That is a solid dip recipe. That is heart attack dip. I like it.
I do a smoked fish dip that is a take off from the smoked fish dip from Lands End Raw Bar in Key West. It was published in Tropic Cooking I could live on dips.
The amazing thing is it actually tastes like pepperoni pizza. No matter what you’re dipping into it. Because I hate my body (and everyone by proxy) I made a provolone pepperoni bread as a dipping medium.
Damn you, you want me to break my diet, don’t you?
You mean we want you to eat something with flavor that there is a chance you may appreciate?
I haven’t clicked on a single link because I’m afraid of 55 gallon drums of lube.
Mario?
Luigi?
Let me fix that for you:
I haven’t clicked on a single link because I’m afraid of buying more 55 gallon drums of lube
My only wish is that I’d been linking those drums with an affiliate tag.
Favorite Oscar story
Hoo hah!
“and then I smelled it.”
They cut that part.
I’m rooting for Manchester by the Sea. Cause it’s the only Oscar-nominated I’ve seen. Plus, Cape Ann beats Cape Cod. And I’ve always been a fan of Casey Affleck.
I dated a woman that lived on Cape Ann. It’s a dead zone during the winter.
There once was a man from Cape Ann
Who concocted a quite clever plan
To bend over quick
So he could see his own dick
But his head got stuck in his asshole and jammed.
/Ben Johnson
Is Cape Ann close to Nantucket?
Some people are artists who take bold risks, and other people are critics who carp and cavil.
When they take a risk and fail spectacularly, we who criticize still get to point and laugh.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Teddy Roosevelt
Yes, Ted was long-winded. Your point?
I was not long-winded, thank you very much!
On a more serious response, out of context, Teddy seems to be off the position that the mere fact of taking bold action implies that the actioner is in fact a strong person and should place them above criticism. My supposition is that you can take bold actions and be a complete bell-end deserving of criticism. So when one takes an obviously foolish action, I will point and laugh when the expected outcome slaps them in the face.
I am undoubtedly going to have to expressly state that actual visionaries who take bold action and prove themselves right deserve their pludits. But everyone who takes off-kilter actions sees themselves as stong, bold and visionary. Few actually are.
Back on the old site, I complained bitterly of the hagiolatrous handling of Theodore Roosevelt in The Wind and the Lion. Frankly the more I read about him the more he seems like an asshole.
Eddie of course is in the latter category.
That was a good fake Ben Johnson poem. My Johnson is simply the best.
[pedantic bastardy]
Ben Johnson is the steroid-addled track star who should have claimed he was transitioning from woman to man.
Ben Jonson is the poet. O common Ben Jonson!
[/pedantic bastardy]
Oh, oops, well, again, I was IN THE ARENA. Bully!
A little more than a four hour drive, including time on the ferry.
Yeah, MbtS is the only one I’ve seen, but it was superb. Really well-directed and well-acted drama, with a nice sprinkling of nut punches.
Was that the autistic kid and the weird house in a community of sea red necks?
HOW DARE YOU
Did someone say nutpunch?
How did you even search with those letters on YouTube?!
::ponders if staffinrun is Kempeitai::
I’m a monkey at a keyboard. *Smashes fists* “Now is the winter of our discontent…”
Just garbage.
Weed Can Make Other People Smarter
Well, you would have to assume that sending someone to a college today will actually make them smarter, instead of dumber.
Well, it didn’t necessarily work in my case, but thanks for totally missing MY JOKE.
Great alt-text, Jesse.
No need for false compliments, just a little rum and he’s all yours.
I think [em]The Golden Whored [/em] would be more appropriate.
You know who else collected statues?
Medusa?
Thomas Bruce?
Cynthia Plaster Caster?
Plaster Caster
The White Witch?
Kasper Gutman?
The Vatican?
My aunt?
Ok, maybe they are not statues. They are salt and pepper shakers. Same thing, except a S&P shaker has a use.
Salt and Pepper? That’s pushing it.
You can’t do that without linking to them.
I am going to stop trusting you.
next try
I like to shake Standards and Practices, too.
I was a bit shocked with S&P watching It’s Always Sunny recently, where they said 5 of the 7 words you’re not allowed.
Watching Kaitlin Olson defend ‘cocksucker’ as not an anti-gay slur was kind like of Jack Nicholson’s speech in a few good men. “Half the population likes getting their cocks sucked, and the other half likes sucking cock. Do you really want to complain about all the cocksuckers out there?”
And this was on basic cable.
Eating maple stout bread.
Let me know who wins best tits in an animated short.
I’m not sure I’m fond of these weekend links.
It feels too much like work.
Did you install monocle?
No.
You should do so. Helps with the threading.
It’s not threading, it’s having to come and snark at people on my days off…
Would you call it a compulsion or more like an order coming from your neighbor’s dog?
Harvey, is that you?
You can’t get one of your orphans to do this?
*Notes autoplay video after the link. You’ve been warned *looks pointedly at Ted*
Woohoo! I’ve been referenced in the Links!
Here’s your statue
Also noteworthy: Adblock-blocker
I can think of few things I care less about them the Oscars. I actually just used that Rain Man Wopner reference a few days ego.
You don’t like watching an insulated group of self-congratulatory narcissists reacting like amoebas to hyperbolic and malformed tropes by the media? I do.
Well, yea, but that’s why I come to this site.
Wait, is the White House Correspondents Press Dinner tonight?
I thought the Dem/Rep conventions were last summer?
You’re all a bunch of cards!
Pope okays molesting kids or sonething like that. Or not. I dont know
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4259164/Pope-quietly-trims-sanctions-sex-abusers-seeking-mercy.html
Ah, they caught up with Milo’s old priest.
Okay am I the only who get the occassional “Secure connection failed” error from glibertarians when trying to post? It almost cost me an actually thought out comment. I want to know if it’s just me before I complain to the site.
Infrequently
I got some kind of error message, I forget the exact phrasing. This was about, say, 1/2 hour ago.
I’ve been getting lag all day, but that’s general internet connection lag, not specific to Glibertarians.
Unplug your router and then plug it back in. ?
And if that doesn’t work, unplug the router completely, take to kitchen sink, scrub thoroughly with heavy lathered dishwater, rinse, dry it thoroughly with a hair dryer on the high setting, then give it a go again.
You’re a router salesman aren’t you?
And then throw some salt over your left shoulder, and put a clove of garlic in you right front pocket.
OT and purely anecdotal and frivolous: I have a friend who I’ve known for about 15 years. He holds an advanced degree in economics, and I have always considered him to be of somewhat above average intelligence. However, he works at the IRS. I’ve always tried not to hold this against him, but I give him plenty of shit for it. Recently, we attended a hockey game together, where he mentioned repeatedly that he was an accountant specializing in estate and trust planning. He bragged about having been promoted twice in the last decade, and how the IRS (i.e., the tax payer) had funded his relocation out of DC and was now allowing him to work remotely on his laptop. After the game we went back to his house where I saw, lying out on the coffee table…a copy of a book called “Estate and Trust Administration for Dummies”. Never in the history of confirmation biases has a bias ever been confirmed so hilariously. And never in the history of that guy’s life has he ever been mocked and ridiculed so mercilessly. I mean, maybe if he had a pubescent boner at the chalkboard in math class or something, but otherwise there is no way he ever got ripped on as viciously as my liquor-drunk, hockey-enraged, state-hating, just-finished-filing-my-ludicrously-high-corporate-tax-forms self laid into him.
Man, it felt great.
Why would you not hold that against him? “Other than working for a thief and violator of privacy, he’s a good guy.”
Eh, it’s a stable, good paying job and he has kids. I don’t like it, but in the economic realities of the world, I can’t too seriously blame anyone for wanting what a government job offers, even to laughably under-qualified or under-performing candidates.
Plus, you know, the private sector demands productive results. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
I get it. I do contract work for the government. We all live in a world of coercion, so it’s high and mighty of me to blame the guy for taking care of his family. But the IR fucking S? That’s a really tough one to swallow.
Agreed. Were it not for the fact that I’ve known him since high school, and that we got into quite a bit of shit together back in those days, it would probably not be possible to tolerate it. But at least now I can take solace in the renewed awareness that he is fucking incompetent at his job.
Ok now i have to kill you for putting this in my brain
It all boils down to whether you had a friend that ended up getting a job for the irs or did you befriend an irs worker.
I had a friend who ended up getting a job at the IRS. In our heyday he was the hash-smokingest, Redman chewingest, deer huntingest sumbitch at our mostly black high school.
I see you changed your avatar….
Richard Spencer and his ilk used Milk to mock the mob for claiming it’s a white nationalist symbol. Now I get to mock the mocking of the mocking. It’s mocks all the way down.
That reminds me of a similar experience…
I work at a women’s prison. One time, an inmate swallowed a battery as some kind of attention-seeking gesture. After the inmate saw the doctor and went on suicide watch, I went and talked to the doctor about some other issue. I couldn’t help but notice that on her screen, there was a Yahoo Answers page that said “what happens if u swallow a battery??”
GO BLACKHAWKS!
Toews is back (wipes away tear of joy)
A Tribute to the Greatness of Bill Paxton
We are all stewed today
And more
$175.00… Chet is cheap even by 1980s dollar standards.
More “Great Moments in Bill“
I’m too lazy/drunk to look for a link, so I’ll just say “Game over, man. Game fucking over.”
Meh, I’d rather have a Pabst.
Remember when the ACLU gave a fuck about real free speech rights like in Skokie? Now it’s all about overturning immigration laws with over two centuries of precendence because of feels and shit.
And don’t even get me started on their abandonment of the fucking Second Amendment.
The ACLU may have been great at one time. They’re an extension of leftist identity politics now. I switched giving my money to IJ a long time ago.
Sometimes organizations lose their focus and embrace ideas that were once anathema to their principles. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
More like 142 years, but who’s counting?
Didn’t they used to just let you in unless you had smallpox or were from Canada? We should go back to that.
No Irish or Malays allowed in!
What is a Pabst?
You’re messing with the wrong fella.
The wrong beer. The right beer.
But were they able to draw 2500 men to a town with no women?
Seriously, have you even drank Leinenkugel’s? That is the worst fucking shit I’ve ever drank. They have all these flavors and the flavors taste like they are just some horrifically awful artificial candy flavors dumped into a bad beer. the 2500 hundred men then committed suicide.
I grew up in Chippewa and lived next to the Leinenkugels. Yes, it’s shitty beer. We call it Squaw Piss.
Mediocre beer getting people to go to a town. But they had women.
I didn’t know they still make Pabst. Seriously. Yuengling…. and people always making fun of me because Heineken is my fav beer.
Last night I was drinking some beer from Poland. I don’t even remember the name now, but it was so hoppy, too hoppy. For me, Heineken is just the right amount of hoppiness. I like Stella Artois too. All of these IPAs are fucking horrible. I can buy 5000 local craft beers that all taste like the same IPA I can make in a 5 gallon bucket at home. Bitter, awful, blech!
Totally agree. I can’t stand all that hoppy shite.
its not ‘hoppiness’*
(that’s what the Chinese call the state of life-fulfillment)
Its “that they’re skunked”
The funny part here is that these 2 beers are considered the “pabst blue ribbon” of Europe/UK respectively.
Don’t feel bad, i like them too, but i prefer Czech pilsners.
Most Czech pilsners are too bitter. Where the fuck does this skunked shit come from? Maybe if you live somewhere were the beer sits on the shelf for months because the yokels only buy bud light. The Heineken and Stella I buy here is absolutely not skunked.
Czech beer is good, especially when fresh.
I had beer at the Staropramen Brewery’s bar in Prague. They only serve the beer fresh there. Excellent.
@DEG
Staropramen
That one is good. Czechvar is better, in my opinion, it’s one of my fav beers. Pilsner Urquel is one of the many Czech beers I find too bitter.
My cousin went abroad for a semester and first night out in a London bar ordered a Stella thinking it the fancy choice. Bartender: “One wifebeater coming up”
He found out later the price-point and ABV made it a favorite for people looking to get tanked on the cheap.
(makes sign of cross)
it leaves the factory that way.
Hyperion, Czechvar is sold in the Czech Republic as Budweiser Budvar.
trivia =
Czechvar was the Original Budweiser, and is still called that in Europe
damn your nimble fingers
@Gilmore
“it leaves the factory that way.”
Ok, I want more skunked beer. I wish I knew their secret, because no micro-brewery in North America can make a lager that doesn’t actually taste exactly like every other shitty IPA.
Jesse: In the Cleveland area, there’s usually trouble when Great Lakes releases two of their beers. The Blackout Stout (named after the midwest blackout), and Christmas Ale. Both are favorites of those who usually drink the <3.5% macro beers. Christmas Ale is a 7.5% spiced ale, and Blackout Stout is a 9% beer. You get to hear a lot of complaints from people saying shite like, "I just had three beers, I don't know why I was so fucked up.".
“”Ok, I want more skunked beer. I wish I knew their secret, because no micro-brewery in North America can make a lager that doesn’t actually taste exactly like every other shitty IPA.“”
I really wasn’t kidding when i said that.
Because those beers (Stella and Heiny) both are basically “designed for export” …
(and in the process be exposed to lots of poor-handling like sunlight-exposure and temperature fluctuation)
… they’re basically ‘mildly-pre-skunked’. It makes sure they’ll never “fully spoil”. It gives them a tartness without being overly tart. And lots of people like it that way. As I do, at least more than most American beers. Its just that in Europe people would think you were crazy for drinking it when other ‘quality’ options were right in front of you.
*for clarity=
I’m not claiming they actually go out of their way to spoil their beer in advance. Other people DO claim this, and you’ll find bazillions of people debunking this ‘myth’.
I’m saying the beer is designed with a flavor profile which strongly resists the degrading effects of spoilage.
I must agree. I’ve had IPAs that I thought were decent, but I’ve never had the itch to go buy another one.
Yuengling Black & Tan is my default beer. I think it’s a great intersection between cheap and good.
I used to like Yards’ IPA. I think they changed the recipe and I don’t like it anymore.
I tried Stone’s Tangerine Express IPA not too long ago. It was pretty good.
I think its even won awards for that. It really is the best “cheap” beer you can get. ($10 for a 12pk most places)
i’m sure other regional beers exist that are similar. Is Shiner still pretty cheap (relatively) in Texas?
In Tennessee, they had a regional beer called Gerst which… wasn’t bad. It was an amber lager that drank well, but after about 5 of them you noticed a weird taste in your mouth. I think it was just the local water supply.
Define too hoppy? Was it too bitter, too floral, too many tropical fruit notes? Hops have so many flavors and aroma.
I think this might be the birth of our first “preference as incontrovertible fact” argument. Soon people will make jokes about deep dish lagers.
“….when you are overcome with a feeling of existential ennui and your nostrils are filled with the scent of hot-copper, and you can distinctly feel thousands of butterfly wings simultaneously beating Ravel’s Bolero on your skin, while the voice of a long-dead lover whispers the final score of that CYO basketball game where you accidentally scored the winning basket for the other team…”
Too hoppy: containing any hops whatsoever. Whichever fucktard decided to add that nasty herb to the list of ingredients for making beer and forever ruin the taste needs to be put on a list of people to be retroactively eliminated by the Time Corps.
Wouldn’t beer without hops be gruit by definition?
BuSab: I thought I liked you. I now condemn you to drink at least 4 pints of my homebrew. Your current choices are Pomegranate Lambic, Imperial Stout, Saison Brett, or Irish Red. All of them have hops, with an IBU rating of 5-100.
Nephi. I genuinely hate the taste of hops. It’s like brussel sprouts level nasty to me. I love barley wine and (as Jesse pointed out) some gruits. There’s no magical brewing-fu that can make hops taste good to me.
I am with you on the bitter taste. The trouble started when micro breweries got popular years ago. Nascent beer snobs were searching for the ultimate anti-Budweiser and over-hopping was the cheapest way to make anti-Bud. And when the boutique brewers realized that their customers would pay a premium for anything not like domestic lagers, they noticed that they could get an ale out the door in a few days rather than a few weeks for a lager. And so snobs and economics have flooded the micro brewery industry with bitter ales. And if a small brewery makes what they call a lager, it is guaranteed to be too bitter because, again, bitter is customarily assumed to be automatically better.
Heineken and Stella Artois are very passable drinks, but at the risk of being laughed at, I admit to drinking Trader Joe’s Bohemian Lager as a cheap alternative to those.
Someone elsewhere mentions Pilsner Urquell. I loved the stuff in Prague where it is fresh, and ambrosia comes out of the tap in the Plzen brewery, but the stuff in bottles here so often “skunky” that I don’t risk spending money on it.
The ACLU never “gave a fuck about real free speech rights”.
Here is ACLU founder and former director, Roger Nash Baldwin (1934) –
That’s pretty eye-opening. No wonder Hollywood loves them.
That is some scary retarded shit.
In a certain sense, I think it probably makes sense for them to go as full proggy as they have. Remember, the ACLU lives and dies on who they can get donations from And, over the last twenty years or so, they’ve pretty much blown away any chance of conservative or libertarian donors. So, they go where the remaining money for them is. They’ll be happy to bring up their history to preserve the pretense of principle or sheen of non-partisanship. But, they really can’t afford to be any more principled or non-partisan than the Center for American Progress.
New here, I was a long time lurker at TSTSNBN and today was the last straw.
I don’t plan on commenting much, but I did want to say I appreciate this site and am gladit’s not turning into a Judean People’s Front situation.(yet?)
Hey Ron, sorry to leave you in moderation limbo so long. Just noticed the notification.
“” today was the last straw.””
What exactly was it? more Shikha?
(just nod if you don’t want to go into it, we understand)
Yes it was another Shika article.
I was being patient and for some reason that was just too much.
It wasn’t any dumber than other things she’s written, but enough is enough.
At least i now have a good song-title for future use = “One Shikha Too-Many“
One Shikha Over the line?
Oh, sweet Jesus….
Mark it zero!!!!
Also, more garbage about the alt-right, from people who don’t understand what the alt-right is. I’m done.
Is there a good definition of the altright? I mostly seen it thrown around as the latest bogyeman word.
It’s confusing for two reasons:
1. As you mentioned, it’s thrown around all over the place so it basically means nothing.
2. There’s an ‘old alt-right’ and a ‘new alt-right’ that are largely detached from one another. Old alt-right is Spencer and the race realists, new alt-right is more of general anti-social justice national populism.
The article I’m referring to is ENB’s commentary on CPAC, where she refers to people like Lauren Southern as ‘the notorious alt-right web figure’. Southern, for the record, ran for the Canadian Libertarian Party in the last election, and her only connection to the alt-right that I am aware of is that she twitted an ‘#AltRightMeans’ hashtag in regards to the new alt-right. Her horribly offensive statement? That she shouldn’t be ashamed of her heritage.
So now Reason writers are tarring libertarians who don’t sufficiently tow their idiotic line as the evil alt-right.
Ah so that’s why they’re frantically trying to tar everyone with the Spencer brush.
I’d gotten the impression (possibly falsely) that the new alt-right as you mention them were mostly disaffected republicans who had been more or less conned into identifying as alt-right by the old alt-right soft-pedaling their less savory aspects and then turning around and selling themselves as being a bigger block of the electorate than they really are. It’s a narrative that both improves the position of the old alt-right AND the lefty press desperate to paint everyone as a foaming “race realist”.
There’s certainly an element of that, you can see that on a lot of ‘old alt right’ websites where some of those disaffected people hop on and say “hey, I’m not a huge fan of Islamic immigration, but this racialist and anti-Jew stuff is bullshit, so I’m out”.
I rather liked this article on how they’re advertising themselves. Nicole was tracking them before I’d ever heard the term, and called that they were getting ready to make a play. It’s been interesting to watch it unfold.
I don’t want to focus on that other site, but I still can’t help but wonder, what the hell are they thinking? Donations were down for 2016. A lot of us who even continued to donate warned them that they were going off into a ditch. This site opened (thanks, by the way, to the people who made that happen) and traffic over there, at least judging from comment volumes, has taken a dive. As has the quality of the discussion.
You’d think, someone would step back and say “Wait, if we want to be relevant, we’d better right the ship. We’d better make sure we get our audience back.”. If not for principled libertarianism, just for good old-fashioned marketing sense. They had a distinct niche that I thought could have been the springboard for a lot of growth. And it’s not one with a huge amount of competition. There’s no shortage of lefty sites pushing the same old progressivism and identity politics. And if you want mindless conservative cheerleading, you can always turn to PJ Media or Breitbart. There’s an open market for sensible pro-liberty commentary that neither echo chamber really fulfills. Do they think by abandoning it they’re going to make up the lost audience from the already overcrowded progressive market? Do they have some new, unknown mega-donor that’s demanding editorial changes for their money?
Hey, I saw you over there earlier. Good move, this site’s better anyway and there are actually libertarians here plus none of the truly insane trolls.
Goddammit I just bought a bottle of Frank’s and saw that recipe on it and thought, why not just put real wings and blue cheese sauce in a blender and serve that instead.
Mmmmmmm blue cheese and wingy shake…tasty.
Sometimes I just take some Louisiana, or Franks, or Crystal, put in a bowl with blue cheese and just eat that with celery, I mean if I’m too lazy to cook the wings.
Texas Pete, motherfucker
This dip is a bit crunchy – did you take the bones out before blending?
I first had it at a 4th of July cookout on Conesus Lake a few years ago. I’ve been chasing that salty, spicy, fatty dragon ever since.
A random coworker of my roommate brought it to a party.
“Where in NY are you from?”
“Buffalo, how did you…oh the dip, yeah.”
I’m from Rochester and even here in NYC you can’t get a decent chicken wing. It’s not that hard, people. This deconstructed wing recipe won’t cut it for me.
I just use butter and Louisiana. I know a lot of people use deep fryers, but I just grill the wings.
As long as you toss them in the sauce afterwards, should be good.
Always better the next day. I love getting up at 5am after a night of drinking and eating cold hot wings. I do that with the salsa I make too. Not sure what is up with that craving.
Are you pregnant by any chance?
It’s not likely.
I bake mine with Louisiana, butter ans Cayenne powder
If it’s just me I’ll use cayenne, jalapeño, habenero and thai pepper powder mix
Sounds dry, i.e. wrong.
Not at all, baked with the sauce, the flavor soaks into the meat
Never had any complaints about dryness, but they don’t crunch
Try it sliw cooked in a crock pot. Moist.
::looks at Rhywun, proceeds to order ranch dressing with hot wings::
I’m always surprised how much region-specific food from Canandaigua I can’t find anywhere else. White hots, brownulated sugar, grape pies…
Loganberry drink…
I dunno how common it is elsewhere on the east coast, but it’s nigh on impossible to find not-awful birch beer in CA.
That’s all you had to say. The only things worse to put in your mouth are piss and cream soda.
In that order.
Someone doesn’t like spearmint in their soda.
Cel-Ray or get the fuck out.
Any recommendations? No matter how strange, I live by >a store that sells it all.
Birch Beer is unknown in New England. I ordered Boylan’s from these people and discovered Boylan’s is OK.
Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer is the one I remember from being a kid. It’s been ~20 years since I’ve had it so I can’t speak to it’s quality. Sparky’s Root Beer is heavily spearmint inflected and reminds me a lot of what I think I remember.
What about Genny Cream Ale?
Oooo grape pies! I haven’t made one in quite a while. Next autumn it’s on the list. Someone in another state tried to serve me one made with some weird grape. If it isn’t Concord grapes, it’s not grape pie.
I never had one until I went out for fall a few years back. As a kid I’d only visited over Christmas break or summer break, and my grandparents have a reunion around their 4th of July weekend anniversary.
Every time I mention it to anyone not from the region they seem very unhappy that such a thing exists.
People are so strange. Grapes are fruit.
I also make a fabulous cake from Lidia Bastianich which uses wine and grapes. Everyone thinks it’s too simple or too weird when they first see it, but they always ask for seconds.
Interesting, a coworker brought me a sample of a failed wine cake she’d made which tasted delightful (the failure was it’d fallen apart on turning out). I hadn’t thought of putting wine in cake prior to that.
I typically use a springform pan for just that reason.
I’ll pass that on the cake was so tasty, I’d love to encourage success with it.
This is true. Although there are places in LI and Yonkers/Westchester that are very good. You have to find places that are more “working-class, townie” for the wings to be any good.
I live in a townie part of Brooklyn – could be there’s good wings here but I don’t eat out much at all.
The Salty Dog on Third Ave and Bay Ridge Parkway. It’s the bar that used to be the firehouse.
Wings require a decent BBQ rub mix, a few hours in the smoker, deep fried, then sauced. I rest my case.
“salty, spicy, fatty”
I think you’ve found the combination for a flavor orgasm there.
Calma ai rapaz, tira esses pensamentos vulgares
Oh, you don’t know how calm I am, menino. Beer, the elixir of tranquilidade.
I just know your wife is Brazilian so I’m trying to connect with you since I have a Brazilian girlfriend right now living in Parana.
::scoots closer to Hyperion::
*snickers*
GIRL/BOYFRIEND WHO’S EVEN KEEPING TRACK AT THIS POINT
Regardless of his/her karyotype.
You will still never get the succ.
Whether or not it’s round or flat
Hey, LD, I knew that. That’s in the South, right, near Sao Paulo? I’ve never been there. Probably the closest I’ve been to there is Rio. My wife is from Bahia. We have a place now in Recife. Congrats on the Brazilian GF, they really are the best. Shame what is happening now in Brazil, the left really can ruin anything.
HM just needs to know that I’m completely immune right now from Cat Ass pics, or anything else that is thicc. I’ve been watching Carnaval on Globo for almost a month now.
Property in Recife? Nice. I’d love a spot in Natal. Even though those nordestinos are all a bunch of lazy fucks.
/paranaense
I hear you, Hyp. Carnival starts in Trinidad tomorrow.
Yeah, we’re in Boa Viagem. I mean, we are when we’re there. And for the record, it’s just the Baianas who are lazy. I mean, that’s the way the joke goes in Recife.
Are you living in Brazil right now?
Oh, and yeah, LD, my son-in-law just keeps going on with me about Natal. I guess I have to go there next time I’m there, before I get harassed to death about it.
No, still based on LA. The economic situation in BR is too shitty right now for me to consider a move. But when I do go down there I’m either based out of the favela Mare in Rio or out of Umuarama, PR. Those alone are two different countries in one country. My gf keeps asking if I’ll buy property in BR, and I told her only if I can flush my toilet paper down the goddamned toilet.
Also, LD, just curious. Have you even been to Porto De Galinhas or Praia Dos Carneiros ? Nordeste has the best beaches.
Não conheço as praias nordestinas, mas claro que eu quero conhecer. Nunca fui pro nordeste 🙁
“My gf keeps asking if I’ll buy property in BR, and I told her only if I can flush my toilet paper down the goddamned toilet.”
Yeah, I’m in the same situation. I love Brazil, but right now is not the right time to invest more.
“Não conheço as praias nordestinas, mas claro que eu quero conhecer. Nunca fui pro nordeste”
Just Google Porto De Galinhas. The pics don’t do it justice, it’s just fantastic beautiful.
@HM, thanks for that link, I enjoyed!
Looks absolutely awesome, que lugar lindo
It is. Another place that I love there, it’s not so much on the map now, but Cabo de Santo Agostinho, some of the vistas there… I really want to buy property there going on 10 years now… If they can just get rid of these commies for good.
I can’t work with you people. There’s the right way, and nobody knows it.
That is so far down the thread I don’t even know the topic. What is this that is not known?
Wings. It’s just so easy.
I posted my take above. A good BBQ rub, smoker for a few hours, deep fry, sauce. Blue cheese for dipping. Only heretics, communists and people who eat canned soup use ranch.
Progresso chicken noodle is perfectly okay when you’re sick!
It isnt canned soup. It is canned base. I have a ton of it in my hurricane/ice storm/ zombie apocalypse emergency stash. I have to eat all of that shit every couple of years to replace with fresh. You just use the ‘soups’ as bases and then dress them up with fresh, good stuff. You can make a pretty good meal with day-old fried chicken (take off crust, debone and chop), canned soup, fresh chopped green onion, supplemental egg noodles, garlic, cayenne, celery…etc.
It’s just a base so when you are finished it is indistinguishable from homemade soup – good stuff.
I find making my own stock much cheaper, easier, and tastier. Plus I don’t have to read the winner for best picture so i can’t fuck it up.
According to a book on ancient Irish law I just finished the Gaelic word for flavor was/is “dip”.
Thus explaining the mighty flavor of Dipset
Oscars? Meh. I’m reading.
And stuff.
What you reading, Rufus? “And stuff” is a euphemism I assume or some Canadian code word.
Sadly, it means he’d checking the comments on this site and wondering why he’s out of beer.
It is always upsetting when you realize all the great song-titles have already been taken
The movie from Iran (whose director couldn’t attend due to the travel ban) just won the Best Foreign Film Oscar, and the woman giving the speech in his absence is using it as a platform to criticize the ban.
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
Sacheen Littlefeather?
Cue the “lowest ratings ever” stories.
Well, given that Drudge had a “Sermon from La La Land / Trump Bashing on the Boulevard” headline before the Oscars even began, something tells me that was going to happen no matter what. So figure they may as well get their shots in while they know they have a friendly audience.
Someone fearless ought to compile a list of the most obnoxious Oscar quotes from tonight. Gael Garcia Bernal just said he’s against “any form of wall” that seeks to separate us.
So I guess it’s cool if we all come crash at his place?
Stone fences don’t count as walls, do they?
Gabriel Garcia Marquez invited us all to an afterparty at his place, but there are like 30 other after parties hosted by him. Fucking magical realism, what can you do?
Why do you think they gave the award to that movie?
I was in hostile territory for the Oscars. Some mealy mouthed motherfucker wearing a hat indoors said something about “we need to, and I think women are better at this than men are, oppose without hating.” I laughed aloud, and the proggy girls in the room were like “what’s funny?”.
The NYT commercial was also hilarious.
Holy shit. Read Zero Sum’s writeup on the gamer gate thing then looked around. Looks like he nailed it.
Made the mistake of looking at TSTSNBN and ENB’s latest looks like she is Zero’s textbook example. She has rise of the alt-right, Pepe the frog, secret nazi haircuts and everything. Getting out of there at the late hour I did makes me feel like I barely dodged a bullet.
Where was this? I missed it.
Asshole calls my all-in with ducks, he only has me covered by a few grand and anything I’m shoving with (9s in this case) has to better than that and his risking being crippled so what the fuck is he thinking? Anyway the flop and turn are great but then duck asshole spikes a deuce on the river and I’m out. Fuck.
Watch his oreo stack.
We lost Bill Paxton, Judge Wopner, and Neil Fingleton all on the same day.
Was it even possible for Hollywood to embarrass itself worse than it did?
You say that like they don’t already have something in the works to do just that.
Did anyone go, “I just want to thank my homie Trayvonn up in heaven, and let him know we’re keeping the struggle alive for him“?
I think that would be probably worse than…
….well, i actually have no idea. What was the worst thing that happened?
Wait wait wait. Jesse is gay?!?
As a 3 dollar bill.
After that flub at the oscars jesse is probably VERY happy. Why do you ask?
Bejeebus, people. It was a joke. *Wanders off, muttering really ride things under his breath
Or rude, whichever
I knew my play on words was too subtle.
He’s as straight as Liberace and Tab Hunter, put together.
Let me see if I can get this right:
You had ONE JOB!
The Russians hacked the Oscars
You have been hit by the Irony Train
Southwest commercial:Wanna get away?
I didn’t watch the Oscars, but it sounds like it was the best one ever—for the end, that is. How deliciously embarrassing.