South Carolina’a Chris Silva helps his team advance last weekend.
Well, the Duke-less Final Four is set. Perhaps that is even being gracious. But that’s why they call it Madness. And by the way, the Glibs tourney pick-em leaderboard is what one might call a “shitshow.” Which has nothing to do with why I played Madness on the Sunday links. But it is an interesting coincidence now that I think about it. Anyway, I hope you all had a nice weekend. But its over now. And these links signify that its back to the grind for all of us.
Raiders President Mark Davis
John McCain goes all-in on collectivist talking points. I wonder how far through thew speech he started getting hungry from smelling all that toast.
Looks like the Oakland Raiders are all but certain to be headed to Las Vegas. Cultists across the world lament the opening of the fourth seal of the apocalypse and begin preparations for Armageddon. (And I don’t mean a remake of the greatest movie of all time, either.)
Oh, sure. Progressives can talk about the fictitious “rape culture” on college campuses and in corporate America. But they have a hard time talking about very real rape when it clashes with one of their other pet social agendas.
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
I guess Saturday Night Live has somewhat moved on from hating on President Trump. City of Boston hardest hit. I guess there aren’t enough hipsters among the chowderheads for Lorne Michaels tastes.
F.B.I. looking into vandalism on Dakota Access Pipeline. Those people that care for the earth are sure determined to cause a serious ecological disaster. You know, to prove a point or something.
15) Good Lord, the cognitive dissonance required to be a left-winger: Two months out of office, Barack Obama is having a post-presidency like no other
“…keeping things low-key, despite clamoring from Democrats for him to do more…”
He doesn’t want to keep getting involved, he just can’t help it!
“…while other recent ex-presidents have devoted their retirement years to apolitical, do-gooder causes, Obama is gearing up to throw himself into the wonky and highly partisan issue of redistricting…”
What? We just said he was low-key and didn’t want to get involved a few paragraphs above. Which is it?
“…their decision to stay in Washington while their younger daughter finishes high school has also combined with the compulsion of the new Trump administration to keep pulling them back into the spotlight…”
Man, the lack of self-awareness. The president keeps blaming his predecessor for the awful state of affairs! Can you imagine?
“Few believe the Obamas plan to stay in Washington beyond their daughter Sasha’s 2019 graduation from Sidwell Friends School.”
Ha ha ha ha ha! Even aside from the fact that June 2019 is more than two years away and well into the second half of Trump’s term, does anybody believe he won’t find a way to stay in Washington?
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in
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The comments are frightening. Exactly how cults work.
Speaking of comments, I took a look at the comments on the other site while waiting for sloopy’s links. My God, what a shit show.
I consider a shit show to at least have a hundred comments, most of them being John shouting at someone. The Other Site does not have the audience to support shit shows anymore.
John endlessly yelling back and forth with Mary and Tulpa has got to be a fair description of what hell truly is.
Poor John. Really. I wish he would come over here. I liked him. Didn’t always agree, but he was consistent and argued in good faith
argued in good faith
Except for all the shitty attempts at badgering or manipulating you into his position, like endlessly screaming about how stupid you are or how “you used to be so smart, what happened?” John’s in this weird place where he can produce some really thought-provoking arguments that are completely obliterated by the fact that he’s a cunt personality-wise.
Oh, and the constant hyperbolic freakouts that are more of a reflection of the fantasy in John’s head than actual reality.
My lawyer wife – who mostly lurks the boards – said this about John (paraphrased) :
If you were in a criminal case where all the fact were against you, john would be the lawyer you would want. (ie he would rant, rave, distract, and try to argue every point to death).
She also said if you wanted an attorney in one of the higher courts, RC Dean would be her choice since he quickly get to the heart of the argument.
In all honesty, john reminds me of my dad. (who is also name john)
Long winded, quick to insult, smart but often wrong, absolutely sure his position is right and anyone who doesn’t agree has something wrong with them, insightful in some things, and consistent.That’s probably why I like him, I understand him.
RC’s statement that he intended to leave the other place was a pivotal moment for me.
RC Dean. Same with me. I was thinking of leaving but once he pulled the trigger I knew I had to leave too. I always appreciated his insights.
John says some really smart things, and also says some really dumb things, but as JT observes his eternal bitchiness and paranoia makes it really difficult to carry on a debate with him.
John is still better than Frank.
Chalk up another one for the “RC influenced me” when it came to my browsing decisions. I once lurked there, now I lurk here.
Count me, too regarding RC’s influence.
*Blushes*
That’s what the Other Site is basically going to end up as. It’s totally dead on the weekend, and I’d hope the few remaining sane commenters would have the sense to jump ship to here or just drop it entirely rather than dealing with threads that are either John or Mary freakouts. Tulpa, Mary and John arguing with each other for eternity is not a bad deal, keeps them out of everyone else’s hair.
Crusty, Sevo, Citizen and Fist are going down with the ship it looks like.
And I strongly suspect that Crusty and Citizen are in fact one loser who gets his jollies talking to himself.
Haven’t been to the other site for anything besides Stossel’s articles for the past month. It’s been so nice NOT having to deal with all the damn trolls and “My sister made $1500 last week and bought a new Audi” spammers.
What, you don’t appreciate DanO’s insightful rumination?
That comment is proof positive you have been there.
Almost convinced me to look for myself, but I want today to go well…
“Obama is gearing up to throw himself into the wonky and highly partisan issue of redistricting”
The article says he wants to get involved in redistricting in order to help reverse the losses the Democrats suffered under his administration. To affect the presidential lesson, I’m afraid he’s going to have to redraw state lines. Good luck with that obama. I know we mouth breathers in fly over country voted to undo your legacy, but redrawing state lines ain’t gonna happen.
I think the recent Democratic obsession with redistricting is hilarious. They’re the ones who invented and insisted on “majority-minority” districts, as a “civil rights” remedy. The GOP was happy to go along, of course, because it concentrated Democratic voters. And now the Democrats are seeing the downside of this?
I think he will find state-level Repubs harded to roll than DC Repubs.
So, really, the WaPo’s editorial board and typical readership could not conceive of a better outcome than the Lightbringer actually becoming a Washingtonian. And really, if he’d just stay out of politics, it would be fantastic. He’d act as a lightning rod for his lunatic cult of personality and they’d just hang out in Kalorama trying to get a sighting before they got hustled off by police.
It really is shameless and disgusting. The guy is a careerist, and he refuses to do the graceful thing that most of his predecessors have done and just retire, maybe working on a few pet charities or causes. He really can’t stand not being in charge.
Maybe electing presidents that are in their 70’s is a good thing.
What exactly is he going to redistrict in DC? DC votes 99% Democrat in every election.
Anybody else hate the word “wonky” ? It has the flavor of a humble-brag. Seems to say, here’s this subject that most people find tedious and overly-complicated, but hey, I’m such a nerd, I find it fascinating. Plus the word is almost never applied to people who really are good at some arcane, technical subject. Hillary is a health care wonk ? Obama stays up late studying the state level re-districting rules ? It is to laugh
Report: Idaho woman blames hungry Bigfoot for crashing vehicle
STEVE SMITH HAVE TO CHASER DEER WHEN NO HIKERS HANDY!
STEVE SMITH HUNGRY – JUST NOT FOR FOOD.
STEVE SMITH JUST WANTS TO PLOW YOUR POTATO FIELDS.
IDAHO WOMAN USING STEVE SMITH DEFENSE AGAINST POSSIBLE TEXTING WHILE DRIVING VIOLATION.
Ok, I lol’d.
STEVE SMITH MAKE YOUR OWN PRIVATE IDAHO PUBLIC
IDAHO? WHO DA HO? STEVE SMITH MAKE FUNNY.
Of course, the only time people remember Idaho exists is when something retarded happens here.
Bolshiness is back
The similarities to the world that produced the Russian revolution are too close for comfort, argues Adrian Wooldridge
At least this time it will be a farce. Who doesn’t like a farce?
But the similarities between the collapse of the liberal order in 1917 and today are stark.
Collapse of the liberal order in 1917 huh? So multiple absolute (or at least extremely controlled monarchies) collapse, many of them becoming republics, empires dissolve, creating numerous new states out of oppressed cultures that are also democratic in nature, and that’s a collapse of the liberal order?
I also seem to recall something kind of big happening starting in 1914 that may have led to those things. Some sort of war or something. Other than that, it’s an exact parallel. Because Trump and Brexit!
It’s also funny how they just handwave stuff into an ‘era of liberal triumphalism’. Like British free trade. Uh, they imposed free trade with the barrel of a gun on plenty of nations, so apparently massive wars against China are now an example of liberal triumphalism? Liberal democracy in Britain? While they were executing Indians and sacking cities in response to rebellion?
it was right in the middle of while the yeomanry were riding out, sabres drawn, at St. Peters Field that the era started. Or something.
Fortunately America had a wise President who kept the country out of that war.
Not that they were exactly libertarian, but if I have to have to pick a side, I’ll go with the white revolutionary army. I don’t know what horrors they might have created.
the collapse of the liberal order in 1917,
The tsars were liberal? Huh, I’ll be damned, didn’t know that.
The bolshevicks were leftists, that’s good right?
There was the biggest war in history being fought in 1917. The battles of the Somme, the bloodiest series of battles in human history were ongoing. Trump and Brexit are equivalent to that? Really?
The author is a maroon.
Yeah, I’ll be that guy – the Somme was in 1916.
Your basic point, of course, is accurate.
Damn, you are correct. The final battle.of the Somme was fought in November 1916. The February revolution was 3 months later.
Not for nothing but he’s of the same breed of people who claim that 11/9 was their 9/11.
Maybe I’m not much better for calling it their Waterloo, and I’m not talking about Nelson.
Abba?
I can supply the glue…
The next hot trend is sticking glitter on your bum
New trend? This was a popular activity when I was in kindergarten.
The newest new trend is eating paste.
I just… I can’t…. whatever…..
If someone can make a living doing that, more power to them.
I assume the local strippers have them covered. (Well not literally, but you know what I mean,)
*narrows gaze*
Get a lap dance from a stripper, after installing fiberglass insulation all day long.
Tramp stamp tattoo artists hardest hit.
Count me in, that sounds fun.
I can imagine that there will be house parties for this sort of thing, like the female-only sex toy parties (I have only heard of them, never been invited to one yet.) A whole side-line business is what I imagine. Vagazzling, and bum-glitter, goes well together, right? Get a bunch of ladies slightly tipsy on wine, give them some glitter, and watch the fun.
Pics?
“Paint the Taint” Parties
Meanwhile in Canada…
Too rude for the road — government yanks man’s last name from licence plate
Good thing the city of Bangor isn’t in Canada.
Or Bumpass, VA
I used to drive past Climax North Carolina back in my college days. The exit sign on US 421 was simply the word “Climax” with an arrow pointing up and to the right. That sign went missing quite often.
Mianus, CT.
Can’t avoid muttering “Sadly true” every time I drive home up the I-95.
Intercourse, PA – In the Heart of the Amish Country
You left out the best part about Intercourse; it’s right next to a town called Blue Ball, for all the people that never get all the way to Intercourse.
Exit 69 to Big Beaver road in Troy, MI. There’s also a Climax, MI on the west side of the state.
LOL
Bumpass! I had a friend from Bumpass, although he mostly grew up in Gum Spring. He would get really irritated when people would tease him by calling it Bump-ass.
I see no other pronunciation available.
It is pronounced Bum-PESS, emphasis on the second syllable.
It’s not the pronunciation that bothered me.
Not nearly as fun.
The Bumpass’s dogs ate my Thanksgiving day turkey. Notafinga!
Or Dickinson, ND
I played high school sports against the school in Bald Knob.
I once had a girlfriend from rural eastern Kentucky who pointed out to me that there was a state park in that area called Big Bone Lick. She thought that was hilarious.
Loved that chick. Too bad she was legitimately crazy, as in she was a diagnosed bipolar.
I met a girl who was coming off her meds for bipolar disorder. I thought we could make it work but she was of two minds.
I dated an unmedicated bipolar women who was 15 years older than me for about a year when I was 18. I could write a book about the ups and down of that relationship.
The only time in my life I have ever called the cops was when we broke up. She was calling and texting swearing she has eaten a bottle of hydrocodones and was going to die if I didn’t come back. She has falsely made this claim before, so I begrudgingly sent the police on a wellness check and washed my hands of it.
One day you were banging Lena Dunham the next day Elizabeth Bathory, eh?
I was fucking the brains out of Elizabeth every day and having conversations with Lena in between.
Dated a bipolar girl for 5 years in high school and into college. She was completely nuts, I’m so happy I broke up with her in senior year. To think I could have married her because I didn’t know any better. *shudder*
I’m a little late to the party but I grew up in rural Kentucky near the tri-city* area.
*The tri-cities were named King Bee, Possum Trot and Monkey’s Eyebrow.
I once worked with a woman whose last name was Kuntz, who told me one day that she had managed to get ‘her’ vanity plate. I wasn’t brave enough to ask what ‘her’ vanity plate said, but I did jump to the obvious conclusion.
She was a Margaret Dumont-esqe person, so my imagination created a DMV-themed Marx Brothers sketch when she went to fill out paperwork.
Wait, wut?! There has been peace for the last 70 years? Really?
“Hey you prole just be happy we didn’t start a world war for the fun of it”
Did he forget the time he flew a combat mission, got shot down, was captured by the enemy, and helped his jailers make propaganda movies?
The funny thing about that is given the chance, McCain would take what little remains of world peace and tear it into little pieces.
Man found hanging upside down and pantsed
Good morning. Sorry I did not bring my own links. Busy morning.
That’s ok. You can always stop and look at the ones I provided.
Blasphemy
I looked at the rape one. We need to believe all men when they say they didn’t rape. At least that motto would cause some brain bleeding as the cognitive dissonance sank in.
Nope, no dissonance, because PATRIARCHY!
I’m going as slow as I can, grandpa.
“Looks like the Oakland Raiders are all but certain to be headed to Las Vegas. ”
Let’s pretend like the gambling culture in Las Vegas isn’t an issue here…how is a metro area of Las Vegas’s size going to support an NFL team?
Yes, I know, Green Bay. But Green Bay has nothing else to do. An NFL team in Las Vegas will be in the most entertainment-competitive city in the United States. I have serious doubts they’re going to be able to fill seats.
You do realize there are a shitload of hotel rooms in Vegas and a group of people always ready to leave their cold city for an away game in the gambling mecca at least once a year, right? Not only that, but its a quick and cheap shuttle from LA or the bay area. Selling tickets won’t be a problem at all.
So every game will be like an away game for the Las Vegas team?
They’ll definitely have a larger-than-normal contingent of away fans.
But it’ll look better than a Rams game, where more people are dressed up as empty seats than fans of either team.
It’s also cheap for the fans of other teams to travel there for games. I could easily see the Raiders being the home team in name only at most of their home games.
What percentage of team revenue derives from ticket sales?
Based on the numbers in this article, I got 42% from “local sources” for Green Bay in 2013. Whether that is typical of all teams, I’m not sure.
http://www.cnbc.com/2014/09/04/how-the-nfl-makes-the-most-money-of-any-pro-sport.html
Cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas do not deserve football teams. I’m sorry, but everyone knows that the best football fans are found in the Midwest. Give St. Louis the Rams back.
I’m sorry, but STL is a baseball town. When they had a superbowl winning team, the fan base there wasn’t as good as KCs with a 9-7 record.
Um. No. Ohio Valley.
Don’t you want the Cardinals instead?
Cardinals belong in Chicago where they started.
I think the far better question is how the NHL’s newest expansion team is going to survive there. Leave it to Bettman to put a second team in the desert when the first one is barely surviving.
Russia Proves That Democracy Has Little To Do With Liberty
I’d say items 1 thru 4 are true in the USA as well.
Also could be phrased, “Democracy necessary but not sufficient in itself for achieving a modern liberal state.”
“Oh no, the Russian people support reacquiring territory that they fought and bleed for and lost over an administration error, the horror. I know that if the United States lost California, Nevada and Texas to Mexico following a political upheaval we’d never try to reacquire it with military arms, and it certainly wouldn’t be supported by the majority of the population.”
If we lost California, I wouldn’t support an armed invasion to take it back. Let them go.
If we “lost” California, we’d start telling Pollack jokes about the poor dumb bastards who got them.
Are you making a pollack joke?
Don’t joke about him, the man convinced people to buy used drop cloths in frames.
Great article by David.
Athens proved that 2400 years ago. The “democrats” who ruled Athens decided to invade the island of Melos in 416 BC. They got mad when the Melians put up a fight – so they starved them into surrender, killed all the men, and sold the women and children into slavery. Yeah democracy!
that’s how it worked back then. Rome/Carthage another example.
The Spartans never played that way against other Greeks (until Lysander at least). They were adamant that they were fighting against Athens and for freedom. Athens did nothing to prove them wrong.
Weekend thoughts:
I watched the movie Suicide Squad. Takeaways: DC tries to go Marvel with a PG-13 version of Deadpool. Too many characters, too many flashbacks, and it all got a bit muddled. Harley Quinn’s hotpants were the star of the movie.
Another movie: Bleed for This is about the true story of Vinny Pazienza. who managed to recover from a near fatal car accident – broken neck and all – and make a boxing comeback. The movie is hampered by loud, brash Italian stereotypes, a main character who isn’t very likeable and doesn’t seem to learn from his situation, and rather bland side characters. But still I’m a sucker for any boxing movie. Bonus: lots of strippers and boobs in the early part of the film.
I also wired and did the plumbing for a new dishwasher, switched the refrigerator handle/hinges so the door swings the other way, and caught up on my sleep. Also found “the chair” to put in our front mid-century/mod living room.
The Pazmanian Devil!
I was sick as a dog this weekend, so I wasted my time setting up some new speakers and redoing the Man Cave.
My wife was sick as a dog – thank goodness for the spare bedroom!
I’m looking for a new stereo project – maybe an amp rebuild? – but I’ve noticed that even the skanked out SS power amp from the 70s is going for more than I want to pay for. And a Dynaco 70 tube amp – blargh! – costs more than I want to spend. I got my first Dyna in 1989 – including an outboard regulator for the front end! – for $100.
Kinda thinking of a Hafler DH-220 to rebuild so I can sell my McIntosh 2100, which is worth way more than it should be.
The Dyna stuff is nostalgic but over-rated. My boss wants me to build him some 150-200 watt tube monoblocks- how brave are you feeling?
I actively dislike the Dynaco 70 – messed around with them but never got results I was happy with. So many compromises – which was the David Hafler way. As ya know one would be better off doing a fresh DIY build than resto-storing a ’70 (or the IVs, or the Mark IIIs, etc).
150-200Ws? I would probably do something wankerish like banks of 1625s or 807s (or whatever TV tube) in pentode driven by mosfet followers. Love me some inexpensive tubes.
I have a bunch of the “super” 6BG6 (which are just rebottled 6L6GC), which as you noticed would be killer in AB2. But I was thinking more of sweep tubes (inexpensive!) with screen drive. Six or eight 6JN6 per channel should do it.
I would love to rock a screen drive amp on some large electrostats.
Local guy build his own electrostatic speakers, and his tube amps connect directly – no transformers. He’s the “guru” here – I bought my Urei speakers from him – but he’s is such a jerk about money, that I rarely talk to the guy (Funny that someone who comes from family money and is currently rich as hell is willing to rip people off for a few hundred bucks).
A Dynaco 70 was the amp in my first stereo. It sounded great. Although anything that old the selenuim rectifier and the quad filter cap likely need to be replaced. Also the tubes in the input section (7189?) are very difficult to find.
Who doesn’t like the toxic smell of burning selenium?
I completely rebuilt my first ’70 several times. The last version had the SDS power supply board and the Triode Electronics input board using EF86s and a 12AU7 (instead of the rare-ish 7199s)
I think I would have been happier with a beefier power transformer replacement and SS rectification, since the iron and 5AR4 were operating toward their max envelope. There was some noticeable compression at louder / dynamic peaks that drove me crazy.
My favorite vintage amp are Eico HF-60 monoblocks. Had a pair in my system – modified – for a long time.
Yeah, tube rectifiers are great for guitar amps, but the sag in a hifi amp is not a desirable feature. The dumbest thing I’ve seen people do is regulate the bias supply- a sure way to destabilize the idle current.
I’m a heretic: I think the vaunted “warmth” of tube amps is just a midrange distortion that you can duplicate with an equalizer if you want. No need for expensive tube amps. Better to put the money into the speakers.
EQ alters frequency response, not distortion. You CAN duplicate the frequency response changes that occur because of the relatively larger source impedance of tube amps.
Interestingly, back in the day, Gordon Holt used to describe tube amps as “bright.” Most people who use the term “tube sound” have no idea what they’re talking about.
My understanding was that tube “warmth” was essentially a boosted midrange.
I find it interesting that the audiophile subculture of the ’50s-’80s seems to have nearly died. Only old guys seem to care about having a good stereo system, obsess about components, etc.
I scored a Marantz 2245 about 10 years ago at a garage sale. I think I paid $40 for it. Still going strong.
Yeah, I had a similar reaction. Had they focused the entire movie on Harley Quinn they might have had something. She did a pretty good job of playing crazy, and she did look hot in the outfit. It is an interesting character. I’m not sure why they decided that they needed to bring in 20 other characters to muddy things.
But then that’s kinda been DC’s thing. The batman movies often had more than one villain, creating a muddled mess. Only the “Dark Knight” trilogy managed to present a focused story.
Hard to tell why they picked Harley Quinn aside from the fact that she’s hot/crazy. Super powers : um, wait, holding a gun?
Yeah….. hot. Crazy. Pretty much it. That’s always interesting. (see: Real housewives of wherever, Kardashian something, Real World, Road Rules, etc.)
Actually, she can be an interesting character. She’s obsessively in love with her man and will do anything – even murder and worse – for the love of her man. Done as a character study, that could be an interesting movie.
Plus… Hot. And Crazy.
My understanding is that they filmed more of the Joker/Harley interaction stuff but it went to the cutting room. I believe the extended cut brought that back, but have only seen the original.
Daddy issues, short story. Did anything for her man = long story.
And yet, her craziness ultimately saved the day in the final confrontation.
Suicide Squad had a very simple plot, leaving it to be character driven. Which might have worked if they were well-known characters. But they didn’t pick any DC villains the average person would recognize.
I think DC has typically been better at coming up with really compelling narratives about individual characters, while Marvel is better with stories about teams, where the focus is more about the interactions and whatever is happening in the world rather than character development. Take Batman as an example of the former and the Avengers as an example of the latter.
I thought the Avengers movies were awful. Although some of the X-Men movies were good.
Iron Man was really good until the introduced the Big Lebowski as the second bad guy in a giant Iron Man suit.
I don’t like the changes to the reply-to method that drops me to the bottom of the page and loses my place.
When perusing a pile of new posts I’ll see one I want to respond to, draft an answer there, but keep scrolling for the highlighted new posts below before submitting. Now I’m getting lost.
Oh I see what happened, stupid piece of crap desktop support people at work changed things.
*changes them back*
Much better.
A little late for the links, no? I FINISHED MY ESPRESSO ONE HOUR AGO.
Also. Mark Davis literally puts a salad bowl over his head for hair cuts.
Jesus he look like the little dim witted kid in resource class with the smelly desk.
looks.
“Resource class”?
He means Special Ed.
Or where American schools put the retards and the lone Canadian transplant.
+1 They think I’m slow but I’m from Canada
You knew ‘Special Ed’ too?
“Tard class”
Think of a school bus that is about a third as long as it should be.
The insane thing is that he travels from Oakland to Palm Desert to get that ridiculous haircut:
They have a bowl that fits *JUST RIGHT*
Just ask for the “Moe”.
Or take in this photo
That was one of the most winning articles I have ever read. We need to get that guy to write for us.
Was it fresh roasted single origin organic fair trade specialty coffee? Well was it?
Huma Abedin ‘working hard’ on marriage with Anthony Weiner
For God’s sake, why?
She does have kids with him. Not saying it’s a good excuse, but it’s an excuse.
There are situations where divorce is probably preferable for the kids.
The guy is a creep.
Anyone who has spent their entire adult life as Hillary’s Eminence Gris is hardly deserving of our sympathy. She’s probably literally participated in conspiracies against the American public.
She made her bed, she can lie in it.
The kids? I dunno if divorce would create a better home environment (it can – it did in my case) – but maybe an orphanage would even be more humane.
Whoops. Freudian slip. In *care*. Not an *orphanage*. Bad optics there.
You really don’t have enough workers?
I’m not sympathizing with her, I’m providing a reason for why you’d stick with your shitty cheating husband, even if he is a shitty cheating husband.
The trick is having one of the parents actually doing a good job of it. If both your parents are bastards, divorce just removes the most conspicuous target.
Because married people can’t be compelled to testify against their spouse?
Naw, they’d have Tony “commit suicide” and it would look more plausible than previous such incidents given the circumstances.
You beat me to it.
More likely
I heard that’s not entirely true, according to the Sopranos
A possible arrangement to keep his mouth shut…/adjusts tin foil MAGA cap.
“For God’s sake, why?”
The funds flowing in from the Clinton foundation are starting to dry up. Staff cuts were made and a girl has to be supported somehow.
as an addendum, it’s just the political class’ version of the prole class’ timeless song.
Woman leaves shitty husband for shiny opportunity. Shiny opportunity doesn’t work out and woman returns to shitty husband. I have seen it a hundred times.
if they are married they can’t be made to testify against each other….
The notion of a henpecked Weiner running off to mom’s place in Brooklyn to escape his harpy wife just SCREAMS sitcom.
If only it was a sitcom
It’s gonna be a reality show, right after the Kardashians.
Fantastic news. They deserve each other.
oooooo…. I got my first “You’re posting comments too quickly” notice
What was it for? My first was when I tried to correct a typo immediately after having seen it.
posting too quickly?
Zing?
If you weren’t a Bot, you wouldn’t have that problem.
Technophobic bigot! What do you have against persons of the electronic persuasion?
Who am I talking to? You all look the same to me.
That’s what all racists say!
Michael Che, along with that Seth Meyers white guy rip-off, are arguably the worst fake news anchors that SNL has ever had. Bring back Norm McDonald
They could go full-bore and get Dan Rather. I understand he’s not doing much at the moment.
And sacrifice their credibility in Fake News?
Didn’t you hear? Dan Rather is totally legitimate now, so says MSNBC where he frequently appears, because he lectured the president on the danger of telling lies. We live in the Era of Irony
Dan Rather and Brian Williams. Comedy gold.
Norm would have to come with a trigger warning tag. Could you imagine him going after the Obamas like he did the Clintons? Go look back at how he pasted that bitch Hillary. It’s a thing of beauty. He had balls.
Norm was great at it. But it wasn’t just him. I remember plenty of comedians making fun of the Clintons. And Bush. What’s sad is that almost all of them stopped after Obama got elected.
I left the tv on last night after the NC/UK game and there was some blather on the 60 Minutes intro about fake news and the requisite pearl clutching.
I didn’t leave the TV on to see if Dan Rather was the special segment host.
I saw that piece where they were criticizing the fake news from both sides…. Only problem was every example they brought up or elaborated on belonged to one side or actually was something legitimate spun to look fake. I think this hit piece on fake news was itself a ton of fake news. Douchebags crying about their legitimacy being questioned and such. You can’t make this shit up man.
Via WSJ: The Postmodern intellectual roots of today’s campus mobs
An insight onto how the campus left thinks:
I read this over the weekend. I wish the author would have been more forceful in her criticism. Postmodernism is the cancer that is consuming the West
Here, a much more furious rant about postmodernism and culture.
Best comment on culture.
Postmodernism in history has some useful contributions, IMHO.
Although often wrong. These are the same people who would have you believe that the Crusades were instigated by the younger children of nobles who were often not bequeathed estates. Because, obviously, everything in history comes down to ‘class conflict’
Not so much in history. In fact, Marxists loathe postmodernists because postmodernists argue against any “arc of history.” That is, there is no unifying narrative. So, while there may be classes, class conflict does not drive the historical narrative because there is no historical narrative. They’ve kind of taken Butterfield’s attack on Whig history and applied it to all narratives.
Insofar as postmodernism is used to re-examine assumptions, it is useful.
Where it is used to push a purely political agenda (critical theory, intersectionality, etc…), it is a blight upon the world.
Agree. The analysis of symbols, etc. is very useful as is the postmodern attack on narrative (see my post above).
Well we know what causes it, how does one fix it?
So, any disagreement at all renders your position invalid, and therefore not worthy of even being heard.
Sounds legit. Although they went a long way around to basically state that “might makes right”.
So is this begging the question or assuming the conclusion?
Yes.
I’ve always gotten confused by “begging the question” and “circular reasoning”
It is painfully clear that the left doesnt give half of a shit about rape. What they care about is destroying western institutions. I wonder what the % of the population is that actually buys their shit.
Seems to be about 50% or so.
All Things Must Pass is a tremendous album. It’s a good example of what happens when you limit a creative, prolific dude to a song or two per album (especially since his were often among the best on those albums).
I’ve got a first pressing of that album, bought at a hippy run store in Ann Arbor.
Speaking of records, I went to the local record sale event on Saturday. Just like I love stereo gear but hate audiophiles: I love collecting records but hate record collectors.
It might as well have been an Aspie convention. Also personal hygiene was not evident with some of the participants. /rant off
Music just does that to people. It’s worse than video games.
I have to give Maher credit – for all his faults, he is one of the few leftists who doesn’t pussyfoot around the problems posed by militant Islam:
And how fucking stupid do these people think we are when their only response to that is “DURRRR TIM MCVEIGH!!1!” A bombing carried out 22 years ago, which had absolutely no basis in religion and was committed by a self-described atheist is supposed to be an example of “Christian terrorism”?
Forgot the link for that.
“#HangNiyazAzami” has been one of the top trending hashtags on Pakistani twitter for days. He’s a 19 year old atheist blogger who dared to criticize militant Islam. And hurt feelings are worth death.
If progressivism is a religion (as I’m informed here), then the tenets of its creed include the following:
1) All religions are equally stupid.
2) Except Christianity, which is worse than the others
3) And Progressivism, which is better than the others.
McVeigh was an atheist. And his bombing literally had nothing to do with religion whatsoever.
Fine, what about the Crusades? That’s always a rich well to draw from, for some reason.
Westboro Baptist has a congregation of 1.6
billion.A bit more than that, but it’s mostly one family, all Democrats. (Including at least one who was a candidate for office.)
Because McVeigh is, in their minds, this cliched example of a militant Christian conservative, i.e. what they think the Republicans are. There’s only two sides of the great American political conflict don’t you know, and there’s no nuance whatsoever between individual viewpoints (and admittedly I’ve seen the same thing happen with libertarians calling the Unabomber a ‘leftist’).
These things are the product of reflexive argumentation. Even though you haven’t done any research, you can have a lineup of arguments to use to combat a standard set of counter points. Even if your argument makes no sense under the slightest inspection (as in the case of McVeigh). I guarantee you that this lady hasn’t learned the slightest about the OKC bombing, but just heard that argument once as a response to this same initial argument (militant Islam) and adopted it as her own reflexive, mucsle memory argument.
Have you ever read his manifesto? For something written by a crazy person who bombed people, it made a number of good points.
There’s a reason that every shitbag on the internet’s manifesto blatantly plagiarizes Industrial Society and Its Future, and that’s because it’s one of the most coherent modern criticisms of the industrial state.
Bill Maher is a stupid asshole–I hesitate to say lush, because that might be a little pot/kettle–but, like the proverbial blind squirrel, now and again he says something that makes sense. Of course the overwhelming majority of Muslims are regular, peace-loving people who aren’t just lining up to bomb people. But if a guy wearing a swastika armband burns down a synagogue while shouting, “Ein volk, ein reich!” it doesn’t matter how many neo-Nazis say that the violence and killing bit was based on old stuff that happened back in the day and nowadays it’s all about white pride and cultural advocacy. Islam doesn’t force people to become terrorists, but that doesn’t mean you should therefore ignore the fact that an awful lot of terrorists seem to draw ideological support from Islam. Now that doesn’t mean you should therefore ban Islam, or shut down mosques, or whatever, but it also doesn’t mean you should deliberately avoid studying what connection, if any, exists for fear of offending Muslims.
If Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, then offending Muslims can’t cause terrorism.
At the root of it seems some multicultural notion that a system of beliefs from another culture cannot be criticized. (Although I would argue that multiculturalism is bullshit, and some cultures are better than other. And I think Maher has said the same thing.)
Sadly, not really an overwhelming majority.
So I took the girls to see “Beauty and the Beast” yesterday. The 4 and 7 year old kids enjoyed it. But they were also frequently bored.
I’d say that the critics are right: Everything the added to the animated feature made the movie worse, not better. Even the small changes to the inflections in the songs were poor choices.
Oh, and Emma Watson. I can’t help but like her on screen. But her singing voice must be really weak and thin. The auto-tune was very distracting when she had the lead. Way too heavy on the auto-tune.
The overall effect of the movie was “this is a pretty good production”. But it was ultimately only OK. Not great. Not terrible. Just OK.
And the “unambiguously gay moment” was a dud. The two dudes end up dancing in a partner swap dance for about a half second. Big whup. But there was a distractingly off-key moment when the wardrobe is fighting the villagers. She dresses three of them in women’s clothes…. and two run away horrified. The third smiles and skips away happily. It was just kinda odd. It might have been funny in another movie, but the character wasn’t one of the characters we knew, so it was just weird to toss that in. It was like calling out “man #2 at bakery” as being a cross dresser.
The only thing that seemed uncomfortable in a sexual orientation way was the way that Le Fou sat on the arm of Gaston’s chair with his arm kinda around Gaston. He did it several times, and it was a very feminine and familiar way to sit. It was so out of place as to be distracting to the content of the scene. They even went so far as to lampshade it and have Le Fou and Gaston talk about it. Some odd choices with that character when they seem to have chosen the perfect actor to play it.
My sister took her kids (all girls) the other day. My wife and I are considering taking our boy (5yo, and has never seen the original)
Do you reckon it would hold his interest?
Yeah. It is big and pretty and has good songs. There are some stretches of dialog though. Kids tend to check right out during that. We went to the dine-in theater and my 4 year old had a blast sitting in her own seat with her own tray for food. So she could play with the menu or the fries or the popcorn whenever she got bored. And we sat in the last row so that I didn’t have to worry about disturbing folks behind us. That was nice when the 4 year old wanted to get up and sit criss-cross-applesauce in the isle a couple of times.
She Loves, loves, loves Belle. And all the princesses, but she has a Belle dress and Belle dolls and Belle’s mirror. But neither of them really talked about the movie when we got home, and nobody pulled out Belle stuff to play with.
They didn’t get scared when the wolves attacked – which I had thought would be pretty intense given the realism-oriented CGI. So a pretty good movie for the little ones, and plenty entertaining for the grownups too.
The worlds fastest cop car
A friggin Bugatti Veyron as a cop car? That’s the most Dubai thing ever.
Fun facts:
An oil change for that car costs $20k
A set of tires (which I think has to be done every 2500 miles or so) costs $30k. And every fourth set you need to change the wheels ($120k)
At top speed, it also runs out of gas in a couple minutes.
That’s okay, in a couple of minutes it will have reached the edge of the UAE anyway.
The wheels only last 10,000 miles…?
I’m conflicted over this. Major highways in the Gulf States are already notable for the very high speed wipeouts by punkass princelings that smear other innocent drivers all over the scenery. Now you have amped-up cops with the ability to get in on the fun too, and possibly exacerbate the problem.
The only upside I see in this is the “fewer punkass princelings”, but an awful lot of downside.
Letters to the Local Rag / These People Vote
In reference to a long overdue interstate expansion
Ahem… The mentally ill get guns executive order was actually able law passed by Congress…
Statically speaking, the mentally Ill are more likely to be targeted by violence than to perpetrate violence. I support the mentally ill being able to arm themselves to protect themselves against violence.
God created men, Sam Colt made them equal.
Fuck you for trying to use the power of the state to disarm the mentally ill so that they can’t defend theirselves against those who would otherwise visit violence against them.
I agree wholeheartedly, I was pointing out that the idiot editorialist claimed that there was an executive order that opened up gun ownership to the mentally ill, and if I remember correctly, it was not an EO but a fairly popular bi-partisan law that was passed…
The fuck you wasn’t aimed at you.
It was aimed at laws and lawmakers that put the restrictions on the mentally ill in the first place.
I assumed so, but just in case.
Worse, these people reproduce.
By “rag” I’m assuming you fished that out of the little tin box next to the toilet.
“Did you think about all these animals and birds and insects that live in those trees? ”
Animals, birds, and insects are selfish as fuck.
Seriously though, the concept of conservation, as it originally ment, is lost on modern America. Everyone thinks that the slightest change to the environment is the next thing to destroy the planet. Who cares that we humans need to love here too.
Live*
No, you had it right the first time. 😉
But the fact is that humans like nature.
America today has more forest, and hence, forest habitats than it has in the last couple hundred years. Humans are making less demands on agricultural acreage, growing food for a larger population on less land*. We’re even giving cities back to nature (see Detroit).
* I have no citation for this, but I remember a conversation with what I considered a credible source.
Increase jobs that will be filled by robots? You mean Trump put out a $15 minimum wage EO?
America confuses and terrifies me, says New Yorker.
Late that night, finally, we reached South Dakota.
It was unfathomably empty. In downtown Rapid City, we idled at empty intersections, block after snowy block, waiting for traffic lights that governed no traffic. Emptiness is, to some degree, South Dakota’s natural condition: It is the 17th-largest state in the country but has only the 46th-largest population — the square mileage of Senegal, the people of Fort Worth. The emptiness reaches a new extreme in winter, when all the tourists scatter and the open spaces take over. The map-boards on the sidewalks, set up to guide pedestrians from shop to shop, were covered in a crust of snow. Our hotel, a grand old lodge built concurrently with Mount Rushmore itself, bragged of hosting six presidents over the decades. But its rooms, in February, were cheap and vacant, and we met no one in the grand lobby except imitation wooden Indians and mounted bison heads.
And everywhere, over everything, hangs the pall of TRUMP.
Don’t forget, kids, Mount Rushmore was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. We’ll never see anything grand or inspiring again, because we elected that simpleminded grifter.
Don’t forget, kids, Mount Rushmore was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. We’ll never see anything grand or inspiring again, because we elected that simpleminded grifter.
“New Yorker cheers annexation and destruction of sacred Indian land.”
It’s always nice and convenient when an author flat-out confesses to being a fucking idiot:
*ahem. Points at avatar*
Dude! And I thought it was a colorized version of the cover to “Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow”
Crude and homemade. Do love me some Stargazer be it Richie or Jack Horkheimer.
I plead mitigation due to very bad eyesight.
It’s probably easier to chisel Jefferson’s face into Putin’s really.
(Also, I kind of want to know what Washington and Jefferson’s response to Rushmore would be. I can’t help but think they’d be at least somewhat disgusted, what with the whole ‘we didn’t want the founding fathers to be worshiped’ thing.
It’s not really chiseled. It’s photo shopped. How’d I do, Unciv?
Terrible, you didn’t even make the faces grayscale so that they might appear to have been carved into the mountain instead of the originals.
/end deliberate obtuseness.
Of course they forget Jefferson.
But who was the fourth? John Adams? Benjamin Franklin? Alexander Hamilton?
Jackson… if you’re nasty.
none of us knew, for sure, which presidents were carved into the mountain. …Benjamin Franklin?
JFC. He appears to not even know that Franklin wasn’t president.
I hate this guy and his entire family. I hate this article. I hate New York. I hate low-T proggies.
I do love me some South Dakota, though. Especially the Black Hills. And the State Game Lodge. And Silent Cal.
I’ve always wanted to visit the Dakotas. Seems like my kind of place.
Bring booze, esp if you’re crammed into the back of a crew cab with three full sized dogs.
I know, it sucks that everywhere isn’t New York City. You should stay there. Seriously. Like don’t ever leave.
Are they surprised the off-season is slow in a small, tourist based town or are they really this this stupid?
They were *expecting* a parade. It’s not often that their moral and intellectual betters come a-visitin’.
That’s somehow worse.
I lived year-round in a town that had a 4 months population explosion and every now and then we’d get some asshole who would arrive in the off-season and get indignant when most things were closed well, asshole, look at the calendar and take a wild guess. Now I do my best to not be a *total* asshole when in touristy places because I know how much everyone hates them.
My home away from home -was- in a normally low population county on the west coast of Lake Michigan. During the summer and even the fall, the roads are hopping with tourists. During the winter months – holy ghost town. Lots of places just shut down for the season and the restaurants are empty. Which is great if you want fast service.
I don’t mind at all and prefer those quiet winter months.
The seasonal people would mostly be gone by early August and we had the rest of the month to enjoy summer with our town back to ourselves. Nothing like sitting on the riverbank with a few cold ones and pretending to fish in absolute silence.
LH, please don’t say you used to hang out in Door county. I fucking hate that place.
Mostly because I used to drive up to Gill’s Rock to salmon fish. It took nearly as long to get from Green Bay up to Gill’s Rock as it did to get from the Twin Cities to Green Bay.
Why? Because all the yuppie tourists would be wandering around in the fucking road blocking traffic. Argh!
The place with the goats on the sod roof of a restaurant was the worse.
So much happier fishing out of Algoma now. Real working port with cool things and none of the touristas.
Did Robby go on another road trip? I hope there were no flat tires this time.
Paging the tag fairy…
Tesla Model 3 Ramp Up Aims to Crush BMW and Mercedes
You do this just to get me going, don’t you?
Motherfucker is using the first purchasers and public roads as a test platform. If anyone else did this, the Feds would drop on them like a ton of bricks.
Just go home, Elon, you’re drunk.
He’s treating car development like software development.
I don’t see that as bad.
Crashing your computer and crashing your car are rather different things.
Was having dinner with one of my wife’s cousins. She and her husband bought a Tesla last year. She was quite open about the fact/s that she opted for it because (a) she wanted to reward creativity and entrepreneurship and (b) because it was good for the environment. In a great show of will power, I chose to not rain on her parade.
How so, it’s a safe place here. Also, those totally sound like justifications for just wanting a “cool newe car”
“How so, it’s a safe place here”
You mean, not raining on her parade? My understanding, based on a number of points made by folks who post here is that the production of the batteries, etc. for a Tesla + their ultimate disposal, ends up being worse for the environment over the life of the vehicle than a regular gasoline car. I also chose to not get into Musk’s use of government subsidies because I think she would probably have supported that.
Yeah that’s what I meant. Interesting, about the Tesla being worse for the environment in the long run. That seems to happen with a lot of different clean technologies that I’ve seen. I think most ‘clean energy’ tech really just shifts the time horizon of the costs. Also it’s hard to beat something as energy dense as fossil fuels unless you go nuclear.
It also shifts immediate perception of the byproducts. Gasoline creates fumes when it burns and leaves an icky smell on your hands when you fill up, while electric vehicles are silent, odorless and utilize power generated hundreds of miles away at a coal fired plant in the middle of some flyover country hick backwater. What’s there for progs not to love?
Look, it’s the same as ‘Cash for Clunkers’. The only way these things ‘succeed’ is when someone (behind the scenes) mitigates the second-order consequences.
If electric cars really were ‘better’, they wouldn’t need government subsidies, Their merit would be self-evident and they’d be economically successful.
/Bastiat Off
God, cash for clunkers still pisses me off. That nonsense caused the used car market to go nuts, to the point that virtually nothing that even runs can be had for less than 3 or 4 grand these days.
At best, a true electric car will be a second car for most people. It just comes down to range – you cannot really take an electric car out of its round-trip range for a day trip. A recharge time of hours just doesn’t work, compared to refueling an IC engine in minutes. This can be mitigated with the current generation of hybrids that have an on-board gas generator that doesn’t actually drive the wheels, but now its getting more complicated and more expensive (and, of course, burns gas to stay on the road).
Electric cars are fine for commuting and running errands in town, but you can’t really take it very far out of town. And for us, given where we live, we couldn’t even use one for a full day of running errands and whatnot, never mind a round trip out of town.
I’m amazed he got 400K deposits of real money, though, so who knows? Maybe they have finally cracked the code for large scale electric car sales.
Or cracked the code for extracting $1000 from 400,000 buffoons.
A couple of my co-workers put money down on these. They are very excited.
For us, an electric car would probably actually “fit”. I very rarely drive more than 50 or 60 miles a day, and Mrs. Dean and I both have (separate) long-mileage days maybe once or twice a year. But that once or twice a year would mean we would have to rent a car, which isn’t necessarily a terrible economic decision (saving miles on our car v paying the rental), but it just doesn’t sit right.
I think your criterion means that an electric car is a good first car for most families. With a mini-van as the second car for day trips.
Unless, of course, your primary use of transportation is day trips out of town.
You should drive a Tesla some time. I haven’t driven the Model S or Model X, but I took a roadster for a quick run. The torque and instant-on power is shocking. It makes them really, really fun to drive, particularly around town. And the regenerative braking is…. bracing.
If I’m going for a track day I’m taking a 911 turbo S or a hopped up Evo, as budget dictates. But electrics are really fun to drive.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Someone posted a link here recently to a story that said Tesla has said they basically aren’t going to do any QA testing with the Model 3 at all. That’s nuts, and it’s not as if their reliability has been unimpeachable so far with other models. The difference is that the kind of people who can afford a $120K Roadster can easily just use one of their other cars, or rent a replacement, while their Tesla is on the fritz. People who spend $35K on a Model 3 as their main means of transportation will not be so lucky. It’s much easier to virtue signal with your vehicles when you have the scratch to own a bunch of cars.
Yes, you are spot on. Not just Tesla, though. Every high-end luxury ride has some stupidly complex technology that will require a great deal of attention. It’s why you can buy older S-class Mercedes for almost nothing. God help you, though, when you have to fix them. While they are under warranty, though, the owners just drive the Porsche that day while the dealership fixes the other one. No biggie.
Some northern counties in Minnesoda are about to take it up the ass (sideways).
A company that operates pipelines looks likely to win a challenge to the amount of property tax that Minnesoda collected from it.
That means that some small counties may actually have to refund millions that they overcollected. Of course they already spent that money and are now whining about the burden repaying those taxes would put on the residents.
Don’t worry, the state legislature is already coming up with a rescue plan.
The state of Alaska and other cities along the pipeline are/were perpetually in court over the valuation of the pipeline. You’d think that the cities, and to a lesser degree the state, would budget accordingly, but nope.
“Did you think about all these animals and birds and insects that live in those trees? ”
Look, if you chop down a tree, all the birds who have ever perched in it will die. Everybody knows that.
Try sciencing, for a change.
Well, it will kill any nestlings in those trees. It does no good for anyone to deny that there are some negative consequences. But it also does no good to insist that progress is without cost.
BIRDS?
WINDMILLS KILL BALD EAGLES YOU IGNORANT FUCKING FAUX ENVIROMENTALISTS!!!
/screaming mode off.
Not to mention California condors, which are killed by the dozens every year by wind farms in CA.
Good morning, everyone. Just wanted to shout out to everyone about the awesomeness of the links – both frequency and quality.
Also, The Adventures of Secret Nazi President continue to be awesome. Belated shoutout for the homeless guy in the previous episode.
Regarding O-care: I think the administration telegraphed their strategy this morning, and it’s brilliant – let O-care collapse on its own. Anything they do in advance of that and they’ll get blamed for killing the bright promise of O-care. The people want O-care? Let them have it good and hard.
There’s already a “they’re going to sabotage Obamacare” narrative.
From the annals of “Shit JB’s prog friends say”
Yep, Trump’s been tossed the live grenade that is Obamacare, and they’ll do their damnest to make him own it. “Obamacare failed because of Trump’s meddling” will be the line for decades if he tries to ‘correct’ it. I think full repeal and Paul’s plan is a better option.
Agreed.
Jim Himes. Connecticut’s other poison pill to the people of America, behind Blumenthal.
We really do have the absolute Nikki-est public servants up here.
That’s phony “Vietnam vet” Dick Blumenthal, for those who don’t know, because running around in dress blues collecting for Toys for Tots in the US as a reservist is totally the same as humping the hills in Vietnam.
Yep, not “Vicious” Sid Blumenthal, Hillary’s “Foreign Policy” Freelancer.
Yeah, but the emotional lust to do something – anything – to prove their worth is probably going to fuck them up, and they’ll decide to ‘fix’ something.
They all have careers predicated upon “making things better”, and personalities predisposed to that impulse, so I don’t hold out much faith.
They should have proposed something to run in parallel to o-care and let the public choose. I’m reluctant to identify *specifically* what that parallel system should be, because I don’t relish being torn to shreds by the policy specialists here.
Salon is already on this.
http://www.salon.com/2017/03/22/how-republicans-quietly-sabotaged-obamacare-long-before-trump-came-into-office_partner/
Not going to waste my time, but I am curious how they figure a bill which was entirely the brainchild of Democrats, from conception to execution to post-execution finnagling to keep the worst aspects off the books while Obama was in office, can possibly be blamed on Republicans.
It’s easy when they completely ignoring pesky, irrelevant things, such as facts and reason.
That’s a strange turnabout considering Obamacare was designed from the start, and implemented in all its glory, to sabotage the American healthcare system, all so the left could then tell the people affected by this disaster they obviously would blame on others, that the only option left to us all was the government owned and controlled single payer system they felt was needed so they could better control the rebellious plebes….
I found this to be entertaining.
The recognition that management theory is a sadly neglected subdiscipline of philosophy began with an experience of déjà vu. As I plowed through my shelfload of bad management books, I beheld a discipline that consists mainly of unverifiable propositions and cryptic anecdotes, is rarely if ever held accountable, and produces an inordinate number of catastrophically bad writers. It was all too familiar. There are, however, at least two crucial differences between philosophers and their wayward cousins. The first and most important is that philosophers are much better at knowing what they don’t know. The second is money. In a sense, management theory is what happens to philosophers when you pay them too much.
Not about politics, at all. Trump rears not his vile misshapen visage.
tl;dr- It’s a scam.
Good stuff. The author should have thrown in how Zamyatin used Taylorism in We.
I find most business authors to be completely inane and therefore unfalsifiable, or guilty of optimizing one part of the system.
Goldratt is one of the few I find useful, because he focuses on results.
“Rape stories, when they can be used to vault social-justice issues into the nation’s psyche, get exhaustive coverage and opining by the mainstream media, regardless of whether they’re even true.”
It’s not regardless of whether they are true. Rape stories, unless they involve famous people, rarely get exhaustive coverage in the media unless they are untrue. If a rape story is true, everyone quietly agrees that it was awful, and the guilty should be punished. There is no controversy. So there is little political or financial gain in publicizing rapes that actually happened.
But if an accusation in untrue, then there are two sides. On one side you have people pointing out the facts of the case (that a rape did not occur). On the other side, you have people complaining that it is an example how victims are not believed and supported (even though there was no victim), and how people won’t do anything about what happened is an example of rape culture (even though a rape didn’t happen). There are all these blogposts, reblogs, tweets, retweets, and articles filled with comment sections of people yelling at each other. Political points are made. Ad revenues skyrocket.
Just look at the most widely publicized stories in recent history where rape was the issue, eg. Tawana Brawley, Adam Lack, Duke lacrosse, Hofstra, elevator gate, dickwolves, Hot Coffee, Ben Roethlisberger, Lizzy Seeburg, DSK, Matress Girl, Rolling Stone, etc. No one was raped in any of them.
So who was in Germany?
Tramp stamp devalued.
So this guy rears his head again
“page not found”
Try this
Yeah, good luck selling that, all Canadian Mint gold has a material fingerprint (i.e. a deliberately designed and testable impurity). Would need quite the operation to ‘correct’ that.
Some cheaper gold and a big iron pot should do the trick.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure the local jeweler can test that when a guy throws 5 one pound blanks at you.
Standard practice to have gold assayed.
Especially when not in ingots, (assuming you live in a place where you’re allowed to own bullion).
For Musk to hit all of his targets, Tesla would need to build about 430,000 Model 3s by the end of next year.
SRSLY?
Atlanta, Georgia. Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), importer and distributor of Porsche 911, Boxster, and Cayman sports cars, Macan and Cayenne SUVs, and the Panamera four-door sports sedan line-up in the United States, today announced an all-time monthly record with 5,513 vehicle sales in November. This represents a 23.9 percent increase over November 2015.
Year-to-date retail sales stand at 50,265 vehicles, a 5.1 percent increase over last year. “Congratulations to our team for achieving yet another stellar month of sales. Year-over-year, we continue to outpace ourselves and I am certain this year will close no differently,” said Klaus Zellmer, President and Chief Executive Officer, PCNA.
I don’t think the market for the automobile as lifestyle accessory / social signalling is quite as large as Musk prtends.
If he’s wrong no biggie just get more subsidies
Yeah, I don’t see him increasing output by 800% in one year. Who, exactly, is going to build 400K Model 3s?
A couple days old, but… Migrant hunter buys himself an armed helicopter to round up ‘potential jihadis’ after ‘being given immunity by Bulgarian government’. *Maybe linked already, but I’m BUSY*
A Slav squatting in a tracksuit on top of an APC.
Stereotypes exists for a reason.
Squatting slavs in tracksuits is a great fbook page
He looks like he should be chasing Owen Wilson.
What is it with tracksuits and Slavs? My in-laws in Pennsylvania have Bosnian neighbors, and I’ve never seen the husband wearing anything other than one of two tracksuits.
Too young to remember when SNL was funny, and the Festrunk Brothers?
Not really – I mean, those came out when I was a baby but saw them all when Comedy Central used to show ’70s SNL episodes. Still, those aren’t tracksuits.
Well, they were dressed up *fancy* for that Art show.
SNL was never funny. They would occasionally have a funny bit.
Wow its like I am looking at the facebook feed of one of my former female Slovak students
God Bless the Right-Wing Social Justice Warriors
I freakin’ knew that was McInnes before I even checked the link.
Yeah, maybe we can get a McGinnis spot the not sometime.
Great article, but don’t read the comments.
Taki’s Mag often is a legitimate hive of scum and villainy.
Of course, being Taki-mag, the comments are entirely about the holocaust being faked.
He is not describing SJWism. He is just describing being thuggish. He is confusing goals with tactics.
The SJW’s of the left used terrible tactics to at least try to achieve a well-intentioned goal, i.e., eliminating racism and bigotry.
What is the goal that the Gavin McInnes SJW’s of the alt-right are fighting for? To “Make America Great Again”? That is not a goal, that is a slogan. Basically he wants to adopt the tactics of the SJW left to satisfy his emotional desire to “destroy the left”. Which is juvenile at best, and brown-shirt thuggish at worst.
The SJW’s of the left used terrible tactics to at least try to achieve a well-intentioned goal, i.e., eliminating racism and bigotry.
And this is why you’re charitably seen as naive and uninformed, or in a more negative sense, a left-wing concern troll.
Basically he wants to adopt the tactics of the SJW left to satisfy his emotional desire to “destroy the left”.
Assumes destroying the left is a bad idea.
Or, maybe he believes that he and his are being targeted by destruction by the SJWs, and desires to (a) put up a fight (b) on a level playing field.
Its all well and good to take the high road. Unless its a dead end. I think more people are seeing the SJW types actually winning battles, and concluding that not adopting their tactics amounts to unilateral disarmament guaranteeing more SJW victories in the future. I wish nobody would act like the SJWs do, but given a choice between seeing them succeed and seeing others push back effectively, I’ll go with the latter.
Aaaand, here it comes
Here is the big problem. What if the election was effectively stolen? Under the current presidential succession structure, if Donald Trump were impeached and removed from office, Mike Pence would replace him. But if the election had been stolen, Pence’s place as president would be no more legitimate than that of Trump. After Pence—Paul Ryan, the speaker, followed by Orrin Hatch, the president pro tem, followed by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. If voters’ collective desires were subverted by foreign interference and a party’s collusion, none would have a legitimate claim—especially since the control of the Senate, at least, would have been affected by the Russian role..
“Where’s the reset button, Dude?”
Muh Amurrica done been stoled away from me, boo hoo boo!
Stealing the election equals letting the American people know that the DNC and media were trying to steal the election.
So much this… and pointing this out is also fake news!
The derp with these people is ridiculous.
Oh look, it’s Norm Ornstein, AEI’s house socialist
Well, Hollywood are doing lots of re-makes nowadays. No reason they couldn’t do a remake of “King Ralph”
“What if the election was effectively stolen?”
It wasn’t. And there isn’t a shred of evidence that it was. Hillary was a terrible person who ran a terrible campaign.
I don’t see how Hatch is tainted as he was not elected last November… Oh right he’s a republican.
BTW I can’t stand Hatch as my senator, he’s a senile old man that has to go.
Until just now I didn’t even know there were Bayeux tapestry memes.
Rule #34 guarantees there is Bayeaux Tapestry Porn.
Yep, I’ve been seeing things like this for several weeks, at least. They desperately want a do-over.
A do-over or a civil war?
The left would be so fucked in a civil war. An army of priuses and effeminate men armed with dildos and righteous indignation against the Good Old Boys of middle America and their rifles and 4x4s. It wouldn’t even be sporting.
A left wing “militia” showed up and marched, with guns, in Phoenix recently. Not sure what their point was (other, of course, than the point of every (left-wing?) protest – to intimidate.
my point would be that leftists are new to this whole gun thing. They have been decrying the evils of gun ownership for decades. They voluntarily disarmed under Obama, Bush,and clinton. The right (and libertarians) never disarmed.
It takes time to be proficient at anything, guns included.
And they we’re very polite about it, as we’re the gun toting Trumpers they were opposing, because an armed society is a polite society. Good trigger discipline, good muzzle discipline. And they wore red bandannas and brown shirts, because it wasn’t already easy enough to visualize them as actual nazis.
I love Arizona.
They expect people to embrace the self-evident truth of their narrative, Tundra.
These snowflakes were promised a Marie Antoinette, I mean Hillary Clinton, victory, and instead they got this guy! Don’t the plebes know that the left always needs to get its way?
What if the election was effectively stolen?
Stolen from whom? Has the owner asked for it back?
You get a do over in four years. Start getting ready instead of whining about the past.
I’m thinking more and more that some of these people are confused that we don’t have a Parliamentary system. They seem to be under the impression that if they can force Trump to resign that the rest of the “ruling party” has to go with him and we get new elections.
Good morning everyone. Thanks for the relaxing song after all those nutpunching links Sloopy.
I hope we can all have a nice day and hopefully a nice week also!
Hillary was a terrible person who ran a terrible campaign.
But if the Russians had not hacked the campaign, nobody would have found out.
Every time I see Mark Davis, I think of that Cheech and Chong line ‘Hey, man, who cut your hair?’.
I am not happy that they are leaving Oakland on many fronts. Fuck the NFL and fuck Oakland and fuck bullshit tax money giveaways. I was at a Dubs game a week or so back and just marveling at the massively valuable land that could very well be used for condos, businesses, bars and restaurants and a stadium, all done privately if the city would sell it. The NFL and the Raiders are taking the quick public buck (750 million of them) and running. It’s a massive pile of shit come in on the autumn breeze.