I really don’t like Bill O’Reilly. He’s a blowhard, a grade-A prick and often seems inordinately proud of being, at best, a mediocre thinker.
But he’s not wrong. That is James Brown’s hair. I don’t know if she stole the wig off his corpse or they just go to the same wigmonger or if there is something even darker, even more sinister behind the resemblance.
Maybe Maxine Waters was James Brown all along and before she could be exposed, she faked “his” death. Maybe James Brown was Maxine Waters the entire time and terminally retired from show business to be one of the leading idiots in Congress. Maybe they both are from the planet Fucktard Salon.
But the one thing I do know is that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed O’Reilly is king, and it’s a sad ass day for all us when we leave it up to him to point out The Emperor’s New Weave.
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142 responses to “Truth is Beauty; Beauty is Truth”
Her resemblance to James Brown is the most positive aspect of her entire being.
Living in America!
I feel good. /Uncivil shrug
It’s a common hair style for those who lived in the 70s. My GFs mother has roughly that hair style.
She persisted
You’re being ‘pithy’ Sugar Free
She’s persisting, resisting, insisting!
“I got a rhyming dictionary for Christmas!”
I can’t take credit for that, SF. It was Hillary’s brilliant words.
I was ironically “quoting” Hillary. Stupid lack of vocal inflection in a written medium. [kicks rock]
Shit, I totally missed that.
“I got elocution lessons from Jesse Jackson for Christmas!”
She’s persisting, resisting, insisting!
And fisting?
And fisting?
Man, I haven’t seen Chasing Amy in a while.
+1 Finger Cuffs
What does Walt Frazier have to do with anything?
She’s fisting, twisting, trysting!
James Brown is waaaaay more articulate.
Can Maxine make it funky?
She’ll break a hip.
“So now ladies and gentlemen it is star time, are you ready for star time? Thank you and thank you very kindly. It is indeed a great pleasure to present to you at this particular time, national and internationally known as the hardest working man in show business, Mr. Dynamite, the amazing star of the show, Maxine Waters and The Famous Flames!!”
Would not. Would.
No…I’m not gay. But it is the Godfather of Soul and he’s not around so I don’t have to do anything and “It’s a Man’s World”.
James Brown’s estate should sue Maxine for brand infringement. She even stole his glasses.
And shirt and jacket.
No…I’m not gay.
You’d be surprised how often I’ve heard that.
+1 fun in a hot tub?
Ugh, I’d managed to suppress most of my Thanksgiving weekend memories.
I am here to make people relive trauma, jesse…
It wasn’t *that* traumatic other than the fact that I declined to bone my lady-friend’s fiance, nearly died of hypothermia and/or drowning after I passed out naked and drunk in a hot tub, which had been turned off and was left to my own devices by said fiance… and was apparently circled by coyotes while passed out face down in a rapidly cooling hot tub.
Ok, it was fairly traumatic.
I thought that was SugarFree’s job. Oh, wait, he actually creates it.
Good lord Jessie that could have been a scene in ‘The Hangover’
You’re killing me Vhyrus. I’ve been told I look like Zach Galifianakis on three continents. Usually with a lot of gesticulation and a “haha, hangover guy!”
Just happened a few days ago in a Tel Aviv sauna. It’s a bit of a sore spot since I’m being compared to his more rotund form.
I never said you looked like him, but I hear bears are in now so more power to you.
Oh, I know you didn’t. It’s just an oddly persistent theme in my life since that movie came out.
I think it actually was a scene in Hot Tub Time Machine.
Did you end up in the 80’s, jesse?
Not that I know of, but I’ve been assuming I’m dead and in purgatory ever since, so I might be.
And at the most surprising times, too!
So I’m fucking this guy in the ass, right? And he turns around and he’s all “Hey can I get a reach around?” And I’m like “What the fuck, faggot! I’M not gay!”
Weirder is the frequency with which they’re the ones looking to get fucked.
Were you filming porn? Cause it’s not gay then because you’re acting, right?
This is why the Plato considered actors to be some of the lowest of the low.
I was just watching Leda and the Swan for the plot.
I was under the impression that it’s not gay if the balls don’t touch.
Hence your 55 gallon drum of lube.
Let’s hope it’s not too hot for her.
I’d be upset for the “N/A in your location” except it’s NBC.
I see where my lunch time is going, watching a bunch of James Brown videos on You Tube.
Since SF couldn’t be bothered with a link.
Hot takes don’t need links. They only slow me down.
Too bad cuz you be missin’ this… “No, I’m not responding to him (O’Reilly)”. And then 2 minutes of her responding to him.
+1 FUCK IT! WE’LL DO IT LIVE!
Yeah, we see what’s going on here. To O’Reilly and SugarFree, ALL THEM WIGS LOOK ALIKE!
Wiggists!
I sense a forthcoming battle between the Wig and the Hair….
And the Hat.
Is The Jacket coming along?
Nah, The Jacket is too worn out to be of any use.
The Jacket is at a cocktail party
Wigger, please!
Dalmia article with HazelMeade over on the Other Site…it’s a glorious shitshow!
You cannot tempt me to look over there anymore. Maybe a verified shriek breakdown and confession he has wasted his life might, however.
But there’s a sad teddy bear and he appears to be injured, obviously by Trump!
I hear people say things like this and I wonder why not. You, for example, no doubt inform yourself using shit tons of sources that are of much poorer quality overall than the other place, only perhaps without the pretense of being libertarian. This site thus far, while producing a lot of high quality stuff, is mostly a complement rather than a substitute in its focus.
I get the print magazine – no need to waste time wallowing through the demised blog.
Not to speak for Swiss, but avoiding reading H&R is a strategy for avoiding commenting at H&R. Conscious disengagement with that community is the point for many of us.
I honestly don’t care if people read and comment on both websites, but not doing so is a choice that many here have made.
I did comment over there for a short while after coming here, but then I realized I just couldn’t deal with the mostly fucktards who are left over there.
It’s like seeing an ex-girlfriend at a party. You didn’t really have that bad of a break-up, just sort of grew apart. But now she’s in bad health, chainsmoking Kools, drinking too much, blotchy skin and three kids by three different randos. You might feel the need to go talk to her just to be a nice guy, but instead, you duck out and go home rather than feel bad reminiscing about the good times with this human trainwreck who you used to love.
That sums it up precisely.
An oddly specific analogy.
There’s also the issue of a critical mass of entertaining content, and that can be a pretty bright line. Once you have no expectation of a narrowed gaze, or an update on STEVE SMITH, or the residual lube level in the 55 gallon drum, it’s easy to just walk away and not look back.
As I noted yesterday, that bright line for me was RC’s retreat from the old place.
The lack of narrowed gazes really made things sad over there.
Then there was the influx of a couple new trolls (or socks of old trolls) that weren’t even entertaining.
But, at the end of the day, everyone could use a narrowed gaze.
Bah, but that’s just the thing! A site with articles and comments is sort of a hybrid creature, a magazine and a message board. The commenting is indeed shit; I have checked in from time to time and it’s just weird and not very fun. (Some have an odd hostility to this site, which again I don’t really understand why.)
But the *magazine* part is what I’m talking about. Even if it’s overwhelmingly crap, is just like damn near every other site where we get our news and analysis. You scan it periodically and pick out what you like. I was just curious about folks who don’t read it at all.
You normally only need read as far as the name of the contributor, That and the title is enough to (usually) tell you all you need to know about the article.
SD; DR.
I can get that on principle. Some people gave their big speeches why they were leaving and it’s understandable to stay away, especially if you don’t want to give Reason your clicks. I stuck around until this site came up so I’m still willing to jump around.
Conscious disengagement with that community is the point for many of us.
Probably count me as one of these. For me, though, it was a question of where to spend my time. This joint delivers much better value per minute.
Roughly two-thirds of the posts are now either John, trolls like Mary, or blithering idiots like Hihn and Hazel. That’s plenty of reason to steer clear.
The problem is, is that Canada was supposed to show what a big ol meanie the US is by taking in every desperate 3rd world person on the planet with open arms. That failed to happen and now the progs are embarrassed once again. So what to do? Blame Canada’s lack of totally open borders on the US, meaning Trump.
Eh, our fascist kid brothers up North.
I don’t have any issues with totally free travel between Mexico, Canada, and the US. It used to sort of be like that. The problem is that once you get into those types of official agreements, then you eventually get the equivalent of the EU with all sorts of extra shit you didn’t sign up for. Like a bunch of unelected bureaucrats making laws. Basically loss of sovereignty.
It’s hard for me to look back at what border crossing was until just a few years ago, and at the little border communities that have lived a casually binational lifestyle all this time, and see them bisected by a big, hard, unfriendly border, and not get a little sad. I feel especially bad for those folks who might have a disqualifying offense way back in their past.
I know times change and the “natural order of things” over the grand stretch of time, as both transportation and enforcement technology become cheaper, is for “harder” borders. But I kind of wish we could work together to strengthen the periphery and move toward a UK-Ireland type arrangement.
Just as recently as the early 90s, I could go to Mexico and not even show any ID, on a plane.
On a plane too! I didn’t know that. (I just know they treated me, a dude who makes Wilmer Valderrama look like Frankie Muniz, when I crossed back into the U.S. on foot in Pete Wilson-era California. I’ve been hassled worse at the border between Brooklyn and Queens.)
The border crossing scene from No Country For Old Men makes me nostalgic as fuck. Kids today can’t believe it actually was like that, both ways. (Actually the entire movie makes me nostalgic as fuck. I actually didn’t care for the story, but fuck if it wasn’t a pitch-perfect capture of the time period. I am in awe. It was fucking chilling. I have never seen remotely anything like it on film.)
I kind of accept that we will never achieve the level of cooperation required nowadays to make the Mexico border crossing chill again until drugs are legal and Mexico’s government achieves at least an upper-tier banana republic level of functionality. Which is to say, the Rapture. But I see no particular reason why Canada’s can’t be.
Yes. When I was stationed in Yuma back in ’04-06, we used to cross the border at Los Algodones all the time for cheap Kaluha and haircuts, Cuban cigars, knockoff purses for the missus, and the cane sugar Coke. Crossing into Mexico, they’d never stop you for any reason and they certainly never checked IDs. Coming back into the US required only a driver’s license, and only a few times did that entail more than a split-second glance.
Well, I think you were supposed to show something, a birth certificate, whatever, but you didn’t need a passport and no one ever asked me for ID. Or if they did, I would just act dumb and say I don’t have it, and in I went.
The current UK-Ireland type arrangement is, on one level, an anomaly.
Historically, while you, as an individual, could move between the two locations with little impediment, there was plenty going on beneath the iceberg. HMG had a keen interest in knowing who was travelling across the Irish sea.
I am a bit skeptical that historically HMG was technologically capable of amassing knowledge of such things that would strike us as very comprehensive by the expectations of our own day. Within 20 years Uncle Sam will probably have higher-quality knowledge of movement across the Hudson River than anything HMG had in the past across the Irish Sea.
Given that the only practicable way to cross the sea was by air and surface vessel, HMG actually had it pretty good. One of the difficulties was personnel crossing via the Isle of Man, which was primarily because the Tynwald (IoM legislative body) is notoriously covetous of its powers, and Westminster often had to find workarounds to their (studied) inefficient policing.
But efficient screening of migration across the Irish Sea – especially in the 70’s-90’s was quite feasible using quite primitive techniques, and the bureaucracy controlling information sharing much simpler in those primitive days.
Another problem with Canada – politicians firing Nazi-era weapons!
Oh, Canada, the humanity!
A Nazi era weapon? So basically, it was made in the 1930-40s? The horror!
It wasn’t even actually that. It looks like a Walther P38 (which is a terrific pistol BTW) but it’s actually the postwar version, the Walther P1.
Confession time: I used to have a Yugoslavian SKS. I am obviously an enemy of the people.
I had a Chinese SKS. I’m surprised they haven’t hauled me before congress.
I still have my norinko sks. pig sticker and all.
I also have a soviet mosin. Hammer and sickle stamp and all. I must be a commie.
That was the first gun I ever purchased, and it took me over 5 years to realize what a god awful piece of shit couldn’t hit the side of a cow jam o matic it was. I sold it about 10 years ago and never looked back. If you want 7.62×39 and you want it to take mags, get an AK or a vz58.
Shit, I have an Arisaka 6.5 mm Japanese WWII infantry rifle. I must be endorsing the Rape of Nanking and the Bataan Death March.
I have one too, but I’d need to sell a kidney to be able to afford the ammo to fire from it.
This is about the cheapest I’ve found.
The sad thing is if the Japanese started building guns today most of the American gun manufacturers would be out of business by the end of the year.
Colt’s future is uncertain, S&W may well be a very different company in 18 months’ time, and Remington look like they’re in a “do or die” phase at the moment. Beretta – if you count them as a US company, are becalmed. And that’s without any Japanese competition at all.
On the other hand, Americans love their ‘old’ weapons. Look at Kimber, their whole business is predicated upon doing brightly colored re-imaginings of a 100 year old design.
But a Japanese introduction of something that fits in the same ecological niche as Glock or S&W’s M&P range, or now, SIG. Oh yeah. We would see some sparks.
One day I wanna get my hands on a knockoff AK made by the tribal people in Darra, Pakistan.
If you were woke you’d recognize that the Nazi era reignited in all its Fuhrious inglory last summer.
*narrows gaze*
I thought the Thousand Year Reich ended on January 20, 2017.
I have an M92 lever-action… Does that mean I endorse the genocide of Native Americans?
These people really are fucking animists, aren’t they.
The Browning Hi Power is a ‘NAZI era gun’ – it was used by both Axis AND Allied troops – maybe that makes it a traitorous NAZI era gun.
You know what makes it worse? It’s a 9mm. That’s a metric measurement.
You know who else supported the metric system? Napoleon, that’s who.
Actually, we’ve been officially on the metric system for a long time; we were one of the first countries to adopt it. We’re just doing a very, VERY “soft” metrication that has been taking nearly a century and a half now. Even at the peak of its push, from 1975 to 1982, progress was extremely chill compared to other countries. I see no particular reason to change this approach.
No reason at all.
I frickin *knew* you’d cite that screwup. :/
But what sort of shirts were they wearing?
Every math teacher I had for the rest of HS referenced that with a “And THIS is why we label our units of measurement. EVERY. TIME.”
Yeah, yeah. Hopefully they did a top to bottom reform of the quality control system that allowed this to happen. Of course you want to minimize the chance for fuckups wherever possible, but I don’t think it’s nearly worth a more aggressive approach on the government’s part. Automotive has switched to metric since then, and aerospace and other industries have made eighteen years of progress in production communication and documentation technology.
Automotive has sort of switched. There are still federal laws mandating SAE bolt sizes for things like seat belt anchors. So you’ll find SAE bolts in Japanese cars.
That’s like some NY Times quality derp right there. What an idiot.
Hilariously, even if she was using only American made firearms, they’d probably accuse of her of not being sufficiently nationalist and ‘buying Canadian’ (so the C7 and C8 rifles).
Lol, ‘Canadian guns’! Good one, John! I bet next you’re gonna tell us about all the cars you make up there, eh?
Canadian firm Inglis built some firearms. She could do worse than get an old Inglis P35.
What’s wrong with being nasty ?
-Nigel Tufnel
Oh my, Hazel is FEISTY today! hahahaha
I just looked – good God, the level of discourse has really deteriorated.
Wanna know what’s really sad? That post represents high quality debate by the current standards of the place, since it’s not littered with Mary screeds or Hihn droppings.
She’s kind of making Hihn look a little more stable.
Funny to me that they aren’t even bothering to critique Shikha’s idiotic article – they just ignored that shot-stew and fought amoungst themselves.
Dalmia article with HazelMeade over on the Other Site…it’s a glorious shitshow!
And yet it is one of the few articles recently that broke a 100 comments over there. Talk about perverse incentives.
(Their commenting software issues notwithstanding.)
The upside of the commenting system is that only the most dedicated, motivated commenters get their content online.
Admittedly I’m part of the problem, because people throwing around the term ‘national socialist’ is one of my buttons.
The absolute best part of that was them doubling down and shrieking “I SAID NATIONAL SOCIALIST, NOT NAZI YOU FUCKING MORON!” over and over at you.
I’M NOT SAYING HE’S HITLER, I’M JUST SAYING HE’S LIKE HITLER AND WON’T HOLD ANYONE TO THE SAME STANDARD.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/so-much-for-donald-mussolini-1490653551?mod=wsj_review_&_outlook
WSJ just had a good editorial mocking the ‘literally Hitler’ people
I guess they interviewed PewDiePie again then?
After hearing about that “Richard Spencer” app that supposedly is a hit now, I want to make millions developing an mobile game where Raoul Wallenberg punches PewDiePie in the face.
Shikha is treating Friedman’s axiom about welfare states and immigration as some kind of revelation, without referencing Friedman.
I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and say that she probably just didn’t know about it.
I just took a peek and only read the headline and subhead. After all these years I finally have to ask – what the fuck is Dalmia’s deal? Is she some sort of self-hating Indian or something? I’m pretty sure she’s not a Muslim herself, but she seems to have quite a bit invested in India’s Muslim minority who by many accounts I’ve read aren’t exactly the type of people you want to have as neighbors.
Entertainment industry promotes itself. News at 11.
Cultural Appropriation!!!!
Also, it’s not cool to make fun of a politician’s hair. I mean, who does that?
Just normal behavior from all parties here. O’Reilly says something ad hominem and mildly juvenile, since he is as much a conservative Jon Stewart as anything else. Maxine Waters, like many prominent public persons who are indeed strong black women, reacts to someone’s criticism of her by declaring, “I am a strong black woman.” And the press, sniffing out an opportunity to pump up a story that has the sexy whiff of RACE, does so and gets the clicks that will help it pay its rent for one more month. Nothing remotely out of the ordinary.
The difference between now and even a decade ago is the entry into adulthood of a new generation that seems apt to react to the usual theater that older folks just take for granted and tune out, and who instead actually take it seriously and greet it with apoplectic alarm. If less were at stake it would be almost charming, like recent transplants to the big city reacting to the crazy shit they see on the streets and subway platforms, versus natives who grew up around that shit.
But the truth can be harsh and disturbing!
The Wig’s got a brand new bag
We’re gonna have a funky good time with this thread.
Needs more ‘To be sure…’