Well, that was a long and pleasant weekend. My daughter came in from college with a friend of hers, and we had a nice visit. Plus we got to celebrate Easter together for the first time in a long time.
I hope yours was just as enjoyable. And I hope these (TAX DAY – observed) links are also pleasant.
I had no idea Louisiana had solved all of their crime problems. What other explanation could there be for when they start arresting people for using one curse word in public? Not ticketed. Not fined. ARRESTED.
VDH (yeah, I’m using a lot of his stuff lately. But it seems to generate good conversation, so I’ll keep at it.) does a good job explaining the new populism and how it contrasts from populism the left would rather go back to.
Everybody loves a story with a happy ending. (No, not that kind of happy ending. But a happy one nonetheless.)
Way to go, WaPo! You’ve sold your vision of the rubes and hicks from flyover country. But you forgot to turn on comments so those rubes and hicks could tell you what they think of your piece. I’m sure it was just an oversight. After all, democracy dies in darkness, right?
Woman is asked what method of payment she’d like to use at grocery store. Sues parent company.
Aw, man they took the tape deck. And the Credence.
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364 responses to “Monday Morning Links”
Well Erdogan has completed the dismantling of the secular Turkish state. How long do you think the geniuses at the State Department continue to pretend that nothing has changed?
I sure hope we are quietly withdrawing our nukes from Turkish basis – then our equipment and troops.
We should just move them all to the Kurdish areas. At least some of those people appreciate us getting them revenge on the asshole that tried to genocide them.
I was thinking of Bulgaria and Macedonia. That’s where Erdogan will try to dump another million “refugees” if the world doesn’t kiss his ass.
Agreed. Time to get real and strongly ally with the Kurds. That might alarm what remains of the secular Turkish army to take action and eradicate Erdogen and his disciples.
WAAAYYY too late for that. The secular army leadership was pretty well purged before the “attempted coup” then the guys who did the purging launched the fake coup. The ensuing purge removed all vestiges of Ataturk’s secular army. This is the new Ottoman Empire.
I agree. The Army is gone. No way to count on them defending Ataturk’s legacy like they used to.
If this is the new Ottoman Empire, do we get to arm the Poles this time?
Armenians, that genocide just pissed them off.
Now all that’s left is for the EU to let them in.
Man, what a shame. Turkey was set on a proper course in the 20th century.
It really was, now? The ghosts of the ottomans are stirring
EU says if they reinstate the death penalty like the new God-King wants, they can forget entrance.
This is still even on the table?
90 days in jail? That’ll learn ’em some respect for he is elders. And some respect for the STEVE SMITH level of love he will receive. Also, did the elderly woman make the complaint? If not her then who?
It’s Louisiana, man. Where a cop can run over somebody on the beach and apparently get away with it even when it is clearly marked.
Damn, I didn’t know how bad it was. Scratches LA off of travel lists.
I mean, New Orleans is fun, but the rest of the state isn’t what you’d call a tourism mecca.
Who wouldn’t love swamps?
Dr Anton Arcane?
Grand Isle is more gulfy than swampy.
My favorite memory of the place was some contractor was placing flexible pipe along the highway. Where it crossed a side street they used a boom lift to hang the pipe over the roadway without any kind of blocking. Because boom lifts are designed to support loads for an indefinite period of time.
Lucky for her he didn’t take the department’s MRAP for patrol that day.
We should just sell it back to the French.
And see here I was thinking that some people have all the luck. Now he’s got a decent case against the state and can swing some decent dough of the tax payer due to some idiotic police officer who thinks he can interpret the law
/crosses arms. Waits for Suthenboy.
Bout time officers started cracking down on these hooligans.
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies.
So I watched some of the Berkeley rugby match, protest march, riot, whatever that was. The extreme leftists have been advocating street violence for a while now. The obvious thing has happened – young men from the other side have been found who also have a taste for street violence and they are far better at it than most progressives.
It sure seems like things are just getting dumber.
Wait. I thought Graeber was an Occutard… Is he actually our kind of anarchist?
I don’t know. He seems like my kind of cynic.
Violence is the inevitable result of all this campus censorship, internet stifling, and political correctness. If you don’t let people use their words, that only leaves violence.
And it’s the people pushing the censorship, stifling and PC that are resorting to violence.
That’s because of the same reason they want to censor: their words are ineffectual gibberish.
For all you geeks out there. Best Science Fiction Shows on TV.
Spoiler – the correct show was rated #1.
Doesn’t anybody proofread at PJ?
Westword? ScyFy?
Obviously not written by a nerd.
Haven’t you heard of Scyence Fyction? It’s set in the english rennaissance with olde tymey overusage of the vowel y
They have the same proofreader as Reason?
Not a very good nerd, perhaps.
He complains that the “slingshot maneuver around earth” in The Martian would have squished the crew because of the G forces.
I don’t remember the exact scene, but slingshot maneuvers in interplanetary space flight use gravitational forces of planets to change the direction of the spacecraft. Therefore, the craft is simply following the curve of space around a large mass. The centripetal force of the lateral acceleration is exactly cancelled out by the normal force of gravity from the planet. In other words, they would experience weightlessness, exactly as astronauts in orbit do.
There are slight tidal forces, though nothing significant at planetary mass.
Beowulf Schaefer would have died around the neutron star.
Even in the exact center of a General Products hull?
Fuck the constant “load more”. Not quite as bad as the slideshow lists, but still obnoxious.
I wasn’t going to go to the effort of turning on javascript for that page to discover the opinion of someone whose name I couldn’t be bothered to read.
They used to have a “show as single page” button that has disappeared.
No kidding. Clickbait bullshit like that pisses me off, and once I know that they are doing it, I am far less likely to click to the story itself.
What? No Legion? Walking Dead was dead at least 5 years ago. I don’t know about the rest of those shows. I haven’t seen them. I watched the first season of The Expanse and got bored with it, honestly. Legion is the best sci-fi/fantasy TV show in a while, though.
Juice knows what’s what. And I’m not just saying that because Audrey Plaza scarouses me.
Yes, Legion was amazing.
Yep. Legion should at least be on the damn list somewhere.
I’ve only seen three of these shows. Pleased with #1. I gave up on 12 Monkeys. And Colony is surprisingly good.
Having to click “load more” is total bullshit.
Stranger Things was a bland piece of shit and entirely predictable. The praise it gets from normies…enough to make me want to skull fuck someone.
I’ve been hearing lots about Westworld. People seem to love it or not care for it.
I loved it, but it’s a pretty divisive show.
None of the other HBO heavy hitters have interested me but Westworld is Teh Awesome.
Even Mrs. Hilter, who doesn’t particularly care for Sci Fi, loves it. We’re now on our 4th pass through the series.
I am just finishing it up – two eps to go!
Great show. Well made, and (more rare these days) pretty smart and and well-written. About the only false note is that the heavy hitter from corporate is a hot young woman. Sorry, nobody in their early thirties swings that kind of weight in an established multi-billion dollar corporation. But, she’s easy on the eyes . . . .
I watched the first two episodes and went “meh”. Does it get better or am I just missing something?
I keep hearing all these people rave about The Expanse. Guess I should probably watch it. And The Leftovers too.
Yeah, the list doesn’t have Legion on it, so that’s a failed list. Legion was a great show that took the source material, and made a whole new thing that was much better than the source material, while still being true to the source material.
The NHL Needs to Come to Seattle
They can get a defunct Soviet team and make it their expansion team.
I’ve got a team for them.
Ha, ha!
After last night, they can have the Rangers, too.
FIRE VIGNEAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is that some sort of wine-barrel catapult?
They can have the Hurricanes
Nice alt-text on the home invader.
I saw the front page photo with the cursing kid and wondered if there was a new thing called Young Manly Monday or something.
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’tis not a retreat but a strategic withdrawal (that’s what she said!).
It was a nice strategy though. Go find a bunch of 70 year old dudes in a small, rural town and hold them up as emblematic of the status of racial attitudes in “Trump Country”.
I suspect that if you went to “Maxine Waters Country” and found a bunch of 70-something year old Maxine Waters voters having coffee, you’d be able to put together a pretty good list of pull quotes for your hit piece.
I suspect that if you went to “Maxine Waters Country” and found a bunch of 70-something year old Maxine Waters voters having coffee, you’d be able to put together a pretty good list of pull quotes for your hit piece.
Surprising that we never see something like this in the corporate, right wing media.
IOW: Darkness.
*applause*
They aren’t retreating, they are advancing towards the rear.
These euphemisms are getting militaristic.
The whole thing intersects nicely with the article about taking away the white male vote. It acknowledges that these scum still outnumber us.
Leading from behind!
“Maintaining Strategic Visibility”
At what point are these clowns in the media going to tire themselves out with these stories? There’s been seemingly dozens. What more do these hacks think they’re going to add to their tired narrative about Trump voters?
Until they implode? Their core base of woke readers will keep them afloat for a while but it’s not sustainable
Thanks for reminding me. I got my interest-free loan to the government paid back as soon as I could once I had my numbers.
I hope she gets laughed out of court, hopefully while being required to pay the legal fees of the company.
What an obnoxious twat that woman is.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/14/police-launch-investigation-after-korans-found-in-toilet-at-texas-college.html
Facepalm of the day. I wonder who did that?
Investigation of what crime? Littering? Vandalism of the toilet? Trying to clog the sewer?
Investigate what the cafeteria is serving?
Too much halal food…
What crime? WHAT CRIME?!!11!!
Hate speech is not free speech, shitlord!!
“Given the current political climate and how Muslims are portrayed in the media, it makes certain individuals act in this hateful way,” said Mohammad Syed.
What, you mean on the news? When they’re reporting on things that actually happened? Because I don’t recall too many other portrayals of muslims on tv in sitcoms or dramas for fear of getting a jihad put on the writers when they get something wrong.
Don’t you know, the only portrayal of Muslims should be pro-Islamic propaganda.
Then they should hide the Korans and Hadiths. There is a guy in there named Mohammed who is a complete wack-job.
What, you mean on the news? When they’re reporting on things that actually happened?
Boom.
Read that as Koreans the first time. Was disappointed when I read it correctly.
You were hoping it was Kim Jong-Un’s secret biochemical weapons programme brought to light?
Sowing discord by throwing Korean spies into toilets? Would work in Progressive America.
I read the URL as “Koreans”. WTF?
Somebody was just dumping a load of shit.
Mermen need love too
Good morning!
The map in that Vegas home invasion story is wrong. Their dot is not remotely close to the referenced address. It is, however, very near the the
Triple George Grill. which is a nice place if you are sick of the fucking strip. Good food and service – an especially good place for business dinners.
The the?
Fuck you, Monday.
Are you Infected?
What kind of business are you into Tundra that you have to go all the way to that restaurant from Minnesoda?
My whole career I’ve been stuck traveling to that shithole. There was awhile that I was there 2-3 times a year.
No thanks.
I went there for the first time a year ago. It was interesting for a day or so.
The most interesting thing to watch was my wife be torn between her innate cheapness and her Asian love of gambling.
In the end she lost about $40 playing nickel slots.
There was some dive with tufted leather seats that Bourdain visited a few years back. Forgot the name. I thought it would be cool to hang out there with the old drunks, rather than the young drunks on the Strip.
More crazy shit from Louisiana cops.
you mean you aren’t supposed to use your badge to bang underage girls and then kill anyone who objects? Then what, I ask, is the point in becoming a hero?
While I think the death penalty is a dubious power for the state to have, I can’t say it doesn’t seem warranted in this instance.
Yeah it’s only fair that the people who claim to be the one legitimate users of violence see it when they abuse their power.
Let’s start a “civilians lives matter” campaign advocating for mandatory minimum- sentencing for killer cops and listen to the outrage form the FOP and Chiefs of Police
*from*. My kingdom for an edit button!!”
“Beauty”
Drug dealer beats thieves and muggers to PRISON beauty contest prize – but she won’t be free to celebrate until 2028
Wouldn’t
She’s got the Maureen Ponderosa dead tooth thing going.
I found this linked from your story.
These English ten year olds look just as pasty and vacant as their mother. What the fuck is wrong with people?
FRESHEN YE DRINK GUVNA?
Not much you can do about the melanin deficiency except to use fake tan, YOU RACISS!
Bitchious Cycle.
::projectile vomits::
That website is terrible. Half the page is covered in cancer, so the only way to read it is scrolling this tiny window.
Looks great – provided you have a script blocker running.
It shouldn’t depend on that.
I bet this woman wished she had a gat to protect what is hers.
So any guesses as what cut of meat that poor burglar thinks he is cooking up?
Why would you keep that?
In case you wanted to return the kid later? You can’t get a full refund if you don’t have the original packing materials.
To eat it, duh.
Your husband needs some sort of release for the six weeks your hoo-ha is putting itself back together.
Freezing it is just kinky, though.
Kinky?
I’m guessing (based on stereotyping women who care about their placentas) that keeping ice cold just makes it feel authentically like her hoo-ha.
My SIL confided in me being relieved that the freezer broke down, because it gave her the excuse to throw out the placenta my brother insisted they keep. I have no idea why he wanted it. I mean, as far as mementos go, the kid is already a huge reminder that they have a kid.
I believe the mom is supposed to eat it. My SIL birthed their baby a few months ago and had my FIL deliver the placenta to a business that dehydrates and makes a powder out of it. Now she can add it to a smoothie.
*note to self, never have a smoothie or anything from their blender.*
I may need to move to a new time zone. It’s 5:30 in the AM and this is the 14th post. Sheesh.
The cashier in Albertsons was racially insensitive but where is the racism. Was the customer denied service?
How was she racially insensitive?
It was just raccoon meat. That shit is infested with parasites, and stay away from my meat fridge.
Shorter WaPo, ‘old white men are all racist farmer who will die soon.’
I started reading the article, and got bored. I have in-laws like that. How was any of that news?
I suppose further in WaPo probably heaped on the flyover state condescension, but again – farmers in a bitty little town mourning the death of a neighbor is news how?
I gave up on it too: tl;dr.
I read the whole thing, it’s a non-story, like real boring gonzo. But full of the right kind of insinuations that the readers will eat up
Hence the closed comments section.
The election may have turned on people like this in a few flyover states, but it’s stupid to pretend that they are the sole reason why Clinton lost. Just over half of voting-age Americans participated in the election; of those, just under half voted for Trump; due to electoral happenstance, Trump won the office. Yes, voters in flyover states may have been the thin edge of the wedge, but it was a huge wedge between Trump voters and those who did not see Trump as a big enough threat to bother showing up to vote against him. So what does a story like this “tell us” about this particular bloc of voters? Well, it tells us this particular bloc of voters voted for what they saw as their interest. You could do the same sob story in Chicago among black voters and contrive a reasonable explanation for their behavior. But if you attempted to explain all of Clinton’s voters as redounding to the interests of Chicago blacks, you’d be an idiot. But that’s exactly what the author is attempting to do with this piece, malign all Trump voters as being racist white throwbacks.
Clinton was a racist white throwback.
Filmmaker learns why she endured airport stops for years
Well that seems related to airport security.
And was clearly probable cause for abrogating her right to travel freely.
/sarc
Not sure on who to believe in this story. She certainly seems like the type to film an ambush on Americans, but the Army concluded that she could not be linked to the incident so it seems like TSA bull to harass her. No proof, no harassment. Proof, criminal indictment.
We did not take kindly to people calling on cell phones or filming while we being shot at. I can understand the LTC’s desire to make those connected to the death of the Soldier pay, but it appears she is not involved in this death.
I never understood how “journalists” think they should get a pass during combat operations. You want to jump in the pool? Then expect to get splashed sometimes and don’t expect me to protect you. Earnie Pyle earned the trust of the soldiers and marines he covered and paid for it by stopping a sniper’s bullet.
Minnesoda apologizes in advance.
Some of the idiots who created Oregon Trail are going to try creating another software package.
I can’t tell you how much I hated that game.
You starved to death after your whole NPC family died to dysintery?
Whaaaaaaaat? Oregon Trail is a life changing consciousness expanding game. After reincarnating again and again to pursue the glorious goal of reaching Oregon, only to litter the landscape of America with the tombstones of my dead kids and wives, I finally managed to reach the destination and felt the most intense feeling…of nothing. Oregon Trail is no game. Oregon Trail is an existential rejection of teleology. We played it as boys, but in that crucible we became soulless husks of men.
So you beat your head against that brick wall until it gave way?
I had to. There was no way out but through. 5th grade computer lab hour was a very dark time for me.
Get this person a beer!
The best part of that game was going hunting. Colour Apple IIe repruhzent.
+1!!
Like when your wagon breaks down after half of your family died of dysentery and the remaining half has cholera so you say fuck it and decide to depopulate the plains of buffalo. You walk away from the miserable remnants of your shattered life with 120 bullets and spend the next 2 hours shooting everything that scampers across the green and black hellscape of your Apple IIe monitor. You shot 114562 lbs of meat. You can only carry 100 lbs back to your wagon. You walk away from the carcass carnage you’ve wrought upon the landscape, leaving the plains as lifeless and desolate as your heart. You take your meager haul back to your family so you can give them a tiny bit of sustenance while they finish shitting themselves to death. When it’s all over you can’t even drive your wagon into the sunset because you picked Banker for the easy startup capitol instead picking Carpenter, and a thief stole your last wagon tongue 3 days ago.
+, Most accurate recounting of Oregon Trail I’ve ever read.
I always preferred the idea of programming my own games in Basic. With line numbers. 🙂
+ 10 GOTO 10
I once wrote a die roller program (with interface) that consisted of a single function whose logic was managed with goto statements and whose messaging was handled entirely by throwing exceptions.
I did it just to try to make the Comp Sci professor apoplectic.
I learned that you could use the decimal numbers to flip 10 virtual coins at once, and wrote a program to do that (Pascal’s triangle and all that).
It was only years later that I learned the word “pseudorandom”.
I created a huge program in 8th grade that was an attempt to create a D & D game. My algebra teacher and I spent a long time trying to figure out how to create a random number generator. We finally came up with something only to discover the rand() function a few weeks later.
Fun times though.
My first foray into that taught me what “pseudorandom” really meant. For a while, we couldn’t figure out why it rolled the same pattern all of the time. We were using a static seed value.
Some of the rand functions back then were awful (thinking Commodore 64 days) – had to seed them with a random number to get good results. Usually had to use the current seconds of time, or something like that.
Back then I would come up with a great idea (in 8-bit land) and inevitably run out of memory. Those teen days of programming still have an effect on the way I code – make it fast as you can with minimal verbosity.
And when challenged, you regurgitate the old monolog about building whole word processors in 48k of RAM? :/
48k? Pfft.
Fucking bloatware, that is.
OK, Mr. 16k ZX Spectrum Guy.
I get annoyed by anyone from the software side who says anything to the effect of “memory is cheap” or “disk is cheap”. That may be because of a similar early experience with resource limitation, and because they constantly whine “everything is slow -throw resources at it” when a few passes at optimization would get it going faster in less time than the teeth-pulling exercise that is procurement.
I am constantly working with both embedded programmers who agonize over every byte of memory (and power consumption) and web/cloud developers who can easily spin up as many virtual instances as they need.
Those two camps have no idea how to talk with each other. The web side has no concept of how much optimization the embedded side does. The embedded guys have no idea why embedding 400 sensor values in a binary encoded value aggravates the web guys.
I’m also laughing at your procurement statement. I once hired a developer from the Minnesoda DNR and he was boggled by the idea of using cloud based microservices and spinning up as many instances as you need based on the load. When he worked for the guvt, they needed 9 months to get a new server purchased, racked and provisioned.
nine months would be lightning quick. The people who control the purstrings are convinced the IT guys are just buying toys, and want to spend it on their own projects. And they’re the first to bitch when everything is running slow.
One of the questions I ask when I’m screening a dev techie is this:
It’s astounding to see how few candidates select a simple list/lookup, because they seem to believe that cost of computation is so slow. It’s doubly disappointing when they try and ‘geeksplain’ the Sieve of Aristophanes.
slow? low.
Why do they think they need to dynamically determine thirty two static values each time?
Why? Usually because they’re thinking algorithms. ‘cos that’s what serious code does.
As an engineer, I always kept a library of reference books on hand. I learned early on that reinventing the wheel is a time-consuming and unnecessary task. Programming is very similar.
A reference library
Yeah, yeah… I’m old.
One of my favorites
I can’t easily put a ‘line’ in the sand, but these people have always existed, and with the enormous growth in the number of programmers out there, there’s not been an apparent growth in the number of pragmatic, thoughtful programmers out there.
It may well be that with the abstraction of hardware and its relative invisibility, and Moore’s Law, programmers really have started to ignore efficiency in code.
Being old school, I still think there’s some benefit in learning a language like FORTH, purely because you’re never far from those constraints, but then again, I have lots of other unacceptable, primitive ideas too.
I’ll usually settle for an algorithmic approach that creates some kind of memcached copy of the primes. Can’t expect too much of people, but I’m always more interested in how they justify their decision to throw all those CPU cycles at a simple task.
6 stared at the women as they hunched over by the stream, gathering water. Now was his chance to mate, it may not come again till next rainy season.
Anybody who uses deterministic methods to obtain random numbers, is, of course, living in a state of sin.
(Attributed to John von Neumann.)
I got our Commodore 64 to play “Michael Row the Boat Ashore”.
Didn’t understand it very well at that age but assembly just seemed so much cooler than basic.
I played around with BASIC back in 6th grade (1999-2000). I made an “AOL Simulator”, which was a mock-up of the AOL browser with typical AOL error messages when you’d try to click on things. At the time, I was very frustrated with my mother’s choice of AOL as our ISP.
get good, scrub
The wife and I watched this documentary on the netflix yesterday. I remember the story when it happened.
But the interviews with the participants was insightful.
He’s an ethics consultant now. Was he contrite in the documentary?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dowd_(NYPD)
I would characterize his demeanor as the exact opposite of contrite. He clearly relished reliving his crimes.
Not that you’ll see this but it makes sense. Ethicists and evil go hand in hand. /wink.
The comments in the curser article are half manners-slaver derp, half reasonable.
I’m torn about this story.
As a taxpayer, I’m urinated off by the idea of paying a bunch of pols to spend time “team building”. It is also bad that they are so easily brushing aside sunshine laws to do that.
On the other hand, having to go to to a team building conference – especially with other sociopathic pols – might be punishment enough.
I don’t know what to think
Nothing appears when I mouse-over the link
Not as torn as I am with you SF’ing the link.
Couldn’t yo find the time
to answer him in rhyme?
Oh no.
I’m far too slow.
Without a working link, I’ll opine anyway: no more tax funded junkets giving jerks the opportunity to lemonparty
Ugh!
Even the thought of “teamwork building” caused my brain to curl up in a fetal position.
I like my co-workers, but hate spending time with them outside of work. Even the Christmas party eventually turns to people talking about software, or discussing the latest project. Luckily those parties are getting rarer as our manager is only a few years from retirement.
The individuals in the team I’m on is unlikely to take a bullet for someone else. They’re far more likely to empty the mag into each other.
There was a terrific scene in the Pratchett/Gaiman masterpiece Good Omens in which a team building exercise went awry. Live ammo suddenly brought out everyone’s true nature.
This is another reason why it is good to be self-employed.
I got about 5 paragraphs into that WaPo article before I closed the tab. Oikophobia’s good, xenophobia’s bad for the House Journal of the Beltway Establishment.
We haven’t shit our pants enough over N. Korea –
A ‘Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion’ in North Korea
Because our greatest enemy having nuclear missiles primed and ready to go 90 miles from the USA is totally the same as an idiot with no allies (not even China at this point) maybe having a nuclear missile they maybe haven’t tested yet with absolutely no way to get it anywhere close to the US is the same thing?
They want to go back to the garbage era they call “Camelot”.
We’ll never go back to those heady days. Where our drug-addled president and his brother spit-roasted a Hollywood sex symbol. We’ve elected a narcissist, nepotistic rube. We don’t deserve the highly-qualified son of a bootlegger that would make his brother AG.
It is a little unnerving when you live an hour south of Seoul.
I was here for three months when the Cheonan was sunk, killing 47 sailors. That did get my attention but I quickly learned to do as the locals. Absolutely no one here gives a shit. My parents think I’m lying when I tell them that.
Oh, well I tried.
After the Election, a ‘Whole Foods Democrat’ Returns to Church
It’s always refreshing when someone on the left can wholeheartedly and unabashedly ridicule their own. It happens so rarely, you have to savor these precious morsels
I don’t think the author was wholeheartedly and unabashedly ridiculing her own. I think she was trying to be funny, but failed.
I don’t know; maybe I just want to believe that self-ridicule exists in that tribe, but that seems like some legitimate snark
That’s her shtick. It’s like she’s trying to be a modern-day Erma Bombeck for progtard moms.
Democrats welcome Bernie takeover
The guy was bullied out of his pulpet at his own campaign event… You know what, go ahead and go full derp, Dems.
Hehe
I agree. He’s a good Democrat.
Full-speed ahead with the conversion of the Democrats into the commie party. Keep rocketing to the left, it’s been working great so far.
Sanders himself was unavailable for comment, as he was celebrating the spring holiday at his private dacha in the Vermont foothills.
He’s more equal, Sloop.
I’ll be in the same neighborhood as his lakeside dacha in August. Maybe I can get my dog to take a post-road trip shit in his driveway.
Why don’t you plan on arriving at 5:30 in the morning and leave him one yourself?
Because she needs a tablet and the sound of a running bathtub?
CP gets it
Here’s how it works with Bernie. He’s the type who would take a class of boys from school on a ‘character building’ junket into the woods for a couple of days. They’d have to fend for themselves to survive. Meanwhile, he’d be all cozy eating premium steak because he chose a spot near his cabin.
By the way, this was a true story. Happened to my BIL when the Priest at his school did this. They were resourceful enough wondering why he wasn’t with them and found the cabin.
Boy, I’m sure there were lessons to draw from on that day.
Yeah, like who the fuck would entrust their kid to a priest?
The Catholic Boat: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bctivboqvKo
It’s become a truism among Democrats who I know that Sanders would have easily beaten Trump in the general election. Ok, keep telling yourselves that…
9am and I’m late to the party again?
Anyway, tax day is observed tomorrow. I ought to know since I haven’t started mine yet.
Glib posts the morning links at 8am Real time (7 am Texas time)
So the lady is upset because the clerk assumed she was using food stamps. How is her lawsuit not an even bigger slap to those who do actually use food stamps?
I have no problem with a stigma on those who are on the dole.
People used to be ashamed and refuse assistance.
You ever see what happened to that kid who asked for more? Negative role models work.
The cashier was an asshole and she absolutely 100% does not have a case. The bar for IIED is pretty damn high, and it requires actual injury. As in an actual emotional injury (inability to go to work, severe emotional disorder) documented by a psychiatrist.
It’s not “he hurt my feelings”. Cripes.
I’m still trying to figure out how the cashier was an asshole here? Has it been determined that the cashier only asks black people if they want to use food stamps? Was the cashier racially motivated, or was he/she looking to save the customer a little bit of money? Was the cashier white/black/brown/yellow? Does he/she have any history of racism?
Also, I wonder if the story from the comments is true how she filed BK to keep from being evicted and the property owner ended up losing the house because he couldn’t afford the mortgage while she lived there rent-free for over a year.
Seems like the cashier just wanted to know if she should be getting free bags.
She’s not upset about anything. She’s a parasite looking to cash in. I can’t see a racial component to the story unless she stood there and watched the cashier’s interaction with every other person and determined they were only asking that question of black people (and every one of the black people at that) while not asking it if any whites.
California, by the way, does not have a “food stamps” program that I’m aware of. And I never heard it referred to as such in the 8 years I lived there in a relatively poor area of the Central Valley. They have an EBT program where people are given a card that looks like any other debit card. And they use the card swipe machine the same as anybody using their ATM or credit card would.
The only reason I can see someone asking a method of payment would be for them to not charge for the plastic bag fee. And one would thing a chain the size of Albertsons would have that programmed into their computer system to automatically discount the bags when an EBT card is swiped for payment.
This.
She’s a higher class of parasite than the losers on welfare.
the losers on welfare
That even made me wince, Drake.
Isn’t that what her outrage implies?
True. Consider the tables turned.
My dad was (is) a huge Creedence fan. The first song he ever taught me on the guitar was Bad Moon Rising.
Thank you for not linking Proud Mary.
Would it have made you Run Through the Jungle?
Wellesley News – the only legitimate free speech is left-wing speech.
The article was so poorly written they accused themselves of hate speech. Those students got ripped off hard, that’s a lot of money paid for that kind of learnin’
That sentence hurts my brain.
That’s because you have a working brain. Check your neurological privilege!
I was thinking of that when I read this – A mob of students beat a classmate to death for blasphemy while shouting “Allahu Akbar” at a Pakistani university Thursday.
Seems like a place where the American Left would like to get to. Take students who deny climate change or white privilege out to the quad and execute them in a frenzy.
When you say words are violence, you’re saying that violent self-defense is a proper response to words.
So yes, it’s definitely where they want to go, whether or not they’d admit it.
And to think it was parody to say, “This piece of fish was fit for Jehovah”. Now you truly have antifa people throwing rocks at people at a rally for free speech. The two positions are that far apart.
Make them quote verses from “The Population Bomb” to prove their purity?
So early Saturday morning (about 5:30am), I awoke for my usual visit to the crapper. I sit down with my tablet tuned to the Weather Channel, and get ready to turn on the water in the tub (I like the white noise), when I notice movement in the corner of my eye.
THERE’S A FUCKING MOUSE IN MY FUCKING BATHTUB!!
(I ended up killing it in one of those Victor electric chair traps recommended by LPB)
TMI
or should that be a “go on…”?
Yep. Girls don’t go to the bathroom. Ever.
*phew* I’m glad my dreams are true.
I learned that from Howard Stern.
it was just trying to take a bath. Such an unwelcoming hostess…
Isn’t this precisely why you bought the Judge??
I’m a little disappointed, kid.
And put a hole in the tub too?
*shrug*
Collateral damage, man. I gotta wonder if you’re truly committed…
Birdshot will not penetrate the tub. Nothing to worry about.
*Except the handful of lead pellets whizzing around the bathroom.
Hey man, I paid a pretty penny to have my tub re-done a few years ago! But don’t think I didn’t consider loading Judy up with some .410 and having at that fucking rodent.
Heh. KK’s more of a man than I’ll ever be.
If TV has taught me anything, you ran to the nearest table, jumped up on top of it, and squealed with fear. You must have left that part out of the story.
That’s quite the schedule. Do you read the TV guide and then have lunch at 10? Maybe a little Mahjong with the gals if they’re up for it?
“In routine lies strength”
Got a cat? If not, get a cat.
BIngo. I live in the third floor of a house. We’ve got mice in the basement, on the first floor, on the second floor… on the third? Nope. And why? Because I’ve got three cats, that’s why. (The other three levels are “patrolled” by a single lazy-ass dog.)
Ultimately, nothing works better than snap traps and peanut butter.
Those Nike batting helmets are light, but they work! I took a rock to the top of my head yesterday that probably would have had me out.We also tested it before the saturday with a could of good smacks to the sides and back with both dowels and 1x3s. The impact jerked your head, but it protected against the pain and did a reasonable job of getting the blow to skate along the curves of the helmet.
~~~magic edit fairy~~~
So there’s no long thread about the Girls series finale yesterday?
What will Lena Dunham do next? I’m eagerly anticipating it!
The what? Who? Why?
No chance of a fading into obscurity type scenario?
Ignore it and it might.
Series finale? You mean that thing is only just now coming to an end? I would’ve thought the pilot episode would’ve been the series finale. As for what Lena will do next. Maybe join antifa riots. Do some porn on the side for those with hideous unattractive girl fetishes.
What will Lena Dunham do next?
1) Write/say something “totally shocking”.
2) Do some kind of video/photoshoot that’s totally unflattering, even by her standards
3) Participate in get-out-the-vote videos in 2018
4) Come out of the closet
NB: There’s significant overlap in all four of those
Lena Dunham is the thinking woman’s Miley Cyrus.
That’s an insult to both thinking women and Miley Cyrus.
Miley Cyrus actually has a nice pair of lungs on her. Even if all that grrl power nonsense stops selling records, she can start working at the Grand Old Opry without skipping a step.
Which is a hell of a lot more than can be said about Lena Dunham.
All that singing since childhood has done a number on her speaking voice, though. Most days it’s deeper than mine.
Women singers often have, or often should have, deep speaking voices. I remember something about Cher going to a voice coach and finding out the reason she was straining her singing voice was because she was speaking to high.
I’m not comparing their output, just the fact that, despite coming from enough wealth to live lives of well-deserved obscurity, they both made names for themselves by being unapologetic provocateurs. Dunham may lend her own form of cultural demagoguery an intellectual patina, but in the end she’s just a fat Miley Cyrus.
Except MC has actual talent, and she has never done anything unethical to provoke people. Eccentric outfits and hyper-sexual stage antics are hardly shocking for a singer. Although I guess some people were upset because she once played Disney’s Hannah Montana. But there is no excuse for an actress to make false rape accusations or defend sexually molesting her own sister.
As I understand it, Dunham is a talented actress and writer. I’ve heard Girls given praise by conservatives in the industry who disdain her politics but like the show. And at least one conservative author gave it plaudits for showing the unvarnished truth about third-wave feminism: it’s manufactured a generation of miserable millennial women. Maybe Dunham is wholly unselfaware and that sort of nuance was accidental, but I bet she’s smart enough to recognize the disconnect. She’d blame it on the failure of feminism to find its foothold rather than feminism being a cult of mindless contrarianism, but she seems to have captured it with her show.
Point is, she’d be nowhere as a celebrity except for making herself a locus for right-wing outrage.
MC isn’t a political troll. She’d still be famous even if she provoked no outrage, political or otherwise.
plaudits for showing the unvarnished truth about third-wave feminism: it’s manufactured a generation of miserable millennial women.
I watched two episodes of it when it was first mentioned and I thought it was some self-aware commentary on how spoiled, incapable and fundamentally unhappy Millennials were. It was only afterwards did I realize that Dunham is more representative of that than criticizing it.
If she came out in a couple years and said her entire persona was some huge art project and parody I’d believe it.
Slate has gone dark in mourning.
Probably beg her mom to adopt a prepubescent girl so she can sexually assault her and come up with new material?
Or she can go back and work on a post-grad, wrongfully accuse a guy of sexual assault and then try to make it about society in general when he calls her out?
I’m just spitballing here. She may have something else up her sleeve (besides her flabby, pasty arm).
My dad admitted to watching and liking Girls, but he also watches Survivor so who knows.
Is he a chubby chaser? Maybe he just likes seeing Ms. Dunham in the buff. 😉
Anyone under forty is a sexpot to him.
So just like my dad.
I remember driving out west to hunt with my dad and his buddies. I was still in high school and when I met them they were raving about some waitress in a cafe somewhere. For two days I heard about how good looking she was.
When we finally went there, the waitress turned out to be some 40-something who had aged very well. She was good looking, but definitely not a complete bombshell to my 17-year old eyes. I kept trying to look behind the waitress figuring there was some total hottie behind her. Then I realized to their geezer eyes, any older gal who hadn’t porked up was a looker.
Sadly in my geezerhood, I am guilty of the same sin.
I don’t know if porn has desensitized me to beautiful women, but the girls who get my heart beating anymore are a little goofy-looking. Plain, mousy, big toothy smiles, slight or healthily curvy, dressed unfashionably, that sort of thing. Hot women who know they’re hot do nothing for me. Maybe I’m just aware of my limits.
Sexpot.
The De-Professionalization of the Academy
Somehow claims of a “glut of highly qualified Ph.Ds. entering the job market” are not convincing to me, I find some phds kinda easy to get these days. That being said, I am not necessarily a fan of credentialism, which the author seems to be.
Ph. D. means “don’t hire, too disconnected from reality”.
From the article where that idiot is suing the company for assuming she was on food stamps saw this comment:
“This lady rented a house from a friend of mine. She stopped paying rent, then filed for bankruptcy so she couldn’t get evicted. Long story short, she lived in the house for free until the homeowner fell so far behind on the mortgage that she lost the house. Maybe the author of this article can do a little investigative journalism and see what other tricks this “respectable” citizen has been up to.”
Please tell me the laws regarding rental property in California isn’t this retarded.
They’re worse.
People can more or less steal your home while you’re on vacation just by breaking in and living there.
That could only work somewhere with draconian gun control laws.
I love the way that article starts. Huge picture her at the top and the first 4 words are, “An African American woman”. Just gotta have full throated racism from the get go.
‘Parasitic Deadbeat’ lacks alliteration.
Bloodsucking Black Bemoans Bigotry?
Expect a job offer from the OC Register within the hour.
Wouldn’t want to lie to you.
I’m not gonna lie to you, Marge.
So long!
As far as I’ve heard, it’s actually more retarded than that.
Even if you have just cause (like they’re not paying their rent) it’s nearly impossible in California to evict somebody. And bankruptcy can stay an eviction, especially where the landlord can’t afford counsel of their own and doesn’t know enough to go to the bankruptcy court and request leave to continue the eviction.
Here in the wilds of Michigan, my wife represented (pro bono) a disabled vet who was renting to a woman who was behind for months on her rent.
It turns out this tenant is a serial rent abuser. She will move to a place – have the first two months rent ready – and then after a while will just stop paying until she is kicked out (which can take a long time to happen). The landlord has to go to court, and even then, depending on the judge, it can be months before anyone is evicted.
Wouldn’t a credit check find that sort of past?
Some landlords – especially in the -not so rich parts of town – don’t do credit checks. Which is a mistake.
It sounds like huge mistake. I would figure they would know better.
So, serious question. If you just put all their stuff on the street and change the locks what remedy do they actually have?
A rent abuser will typically have changed the locks first. I wouldn’t be surprised if they got you for breaking and entering if you hired a locksmith to get you into their residence on your property.
Interesting. In markets where this is common rents must have enormous risk premiums built into them.
Bingo. They are also often places where new construction is discouraged. And then everybody complains the rents are too high because of greedy landlords.
Yes. There are a ton of protections for renters. For greedy capitalist pigs, er, landlords, not so much. To lawmakers, every landlord is Scrooge on Christmas Eve, heartlessly evicting deadbeat tenants.
I had to go to eviction court a few months back because juvenile traffic court was closed that day and the judge sitting said he’d hear my son’s traffic case since he had to go back to California the next week.
He was very dispassionate. He said “I do not want t I hear your stories. I may sympathize with you, but the law is the law. And if you have not paid your rent, you are subject to eviction, even if the landlord has violated the lease as well, since you have remedies in those leases that do not include breaking different terms of it yourself. And if that was going to be your defense, you can leave now and we will find fornthe plaintiff in your absence. You can still seek remedy for terms they have violated, but it will have no impact on my decision here.”
About half of the people got up and just left. And this was three days before Christmas.
Sloopy…you’re a stinkin’ Brit??
I do t have any idea what you’re talking about.
Also, my phone sometimes does that when I’m typing fast and hit a word rather than key on the top line.
Many British call mathematics “maths”.
Oh, I know. I was just making the “I don’t know what you’re talking about” joke because I edited the fuckup out of my comment.
I was half-expecting an abuse of power joke for doing so.
In a lot of states (I assume including California) they will sue your ass, and likely win more than it would have cost to evict them legally. Not to mention the fines and penalties the state will impose. Remember, the tenant can make all kinds of outrageous claims about valuables that were in the house when you forcibly kicked them out, and they are likely to be accepted. So you’ll be paying them to replace their “stolen” 70 inch TV, sound system, laptop, etc., plus penalties.
My first impulse is to say that the matter of valuables being removed from the house should be addressed in the lease, but it sounds like there are vast swathes of the country where leases are essentially worthless. I can’t imagine trying to do business where signed contracts were basically meaningless and non-binding.
Hi – serious answer: some states (Michigan is one) have an anti-lockout statute. So if a landlord gets the tenant’s personal property, places it somewhere outside the property, and changes the locks, then the tenant can sue for additional damages. This is also referred to as “self-help,” meaning the landlord didn’t wait for the court’s help (an eviction order) and helped him or herself to evicting the tenant.
Depending on the State quite a bit actually including the possibility that doing so would incurr significant damage awards that are written into the state laws and the possibility of jail time for Breaking and Entering since the landlord has no actual right to enter the property except under very specific circumstances and they can even eliminate those by getting a restraining order against you
A cautionary tale: The Crazy Story of the Professor Who Came to Stay—and Wouldn’t Leave
The subtitle LOL.
Abel was stunned. Not only had a tenured professor who lists “social contract theory” among his research interests exploited her trust, but now he was digging in and dragging things out. How much time, effort, and money would it take to get back into the home where she’d raised her son, written a couple of books, and lived for the better part of her adult life?
Sounds like he understands what the social contract is really about just fine to me.
I’m just amused they wrote 3,000 words saying the exact opposite of the summary that was no doubt added by some editor to assuage their readership.
Professors, especially in the liberal arts, are often just people who want to stay in school their entire life because it’s easy and familiar.
Mr. Lizard, tell me you and your colleagues aren’t going to just take this shit lying down!
Oh, I’m sure Ms. Harris experiences those subtle currents at least once a day. Something tells me by the way she responded–“What exactly did you say?”–she walks around cocked and locked whenever she interacts with people of a certain hue, shall we say.
Now if this happened where I live and I was standing behind this lady, I would’ve grimaced as soon as “EBT” came out of the clerk’s mouth. But I also live in a place where a white person referring to a black man of any age and in any context as “boy” will start a fight. That’s the fun of living in a place with a ongoing racial cold war. People are oversensitive, and they assume the worst of strangers.
It doesn’t mean this lady’s right, and it certainly doesn’t mean she’s owed any money for it.
I’m wondering if it started like this? Starers freak me the fuck out.
I picture the conversation going like this.
The whole Albertsons story reeks of bullshit. First, the entire piece is basically a press release from her legal team. Second, there’s no context whatsoever or anything to corroborate her story or find out what Albertsons policy is for when they ask people what method of payment they’re planning to use. How many times has she shopped there? Has she been asked before?
This lady is a fucking grifter. I have no doubt about that whatsoever. She’s a grifter an sister she’s trying to capitalize on the color of her skin to bilk shareholders of a company with zero racism in its past out of their rightfully earned profits.
She’s finally released some photographic evidence of racism.
That link has too many urls to possibly be safe.
I have no idea where that link is going. It’s an adventure.
I get a picture of Alton Brown and while I don’t know Japanese I think he’s trying to get me to sign up to Pinterest?
To drunk to navigate that. Simply wanted to do a cheap edit and scrawl “Fat” across an Albertson’s plastic bag.
What’s Japanese for “Sugarfreed”?
I berry, berry sorry.
When I was in Okinawa way back when the Marines used “gomen na sai” as the equivalent of “you’re fucked”. When I took my first Japanese class, I was shocked to find out that it meant “I’m sorry”.
Slate unironically points out how that “[t]he violent protests in Berkeley were a sharp contrast to the peaceful protests that took place across the country to demand that Trump release his tax returns.”
LA Times did that as well when reporting on Berkeley.
“Can we eat it?”
/DRRK inmates
That’s one of my favorite accounts on twitter, especially given how many big-name news organizations have fallen for it.
Lol
Parody Twitter account aping that Syrian girl who gained so much notoriety last year:
Although I’m sure that is not all of them.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/30/here-are-all-the-hate-crime-hoaxes-that-have-plagued-the-country-since-trumps-election/
Nope, not all of them by a long shot.
“Susan Sarandon: Angry Hillary Clinton supporters forced me to change my phone number”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/13/susan-sarandon-angry-hillary-clinton-supporters-fo/
And this is the world’s smallest violin…
She’s a loon, but an honest loon.
I actually respect her a little more for admitting Clinton’s corruption. That’s more than you’ll get from the DNC ass kissers at SNL.
ditto
There’s a really important question here, but its being ignored. That being – Susan Sarandon – still would?
Sure
The world is filled with less crazy MILFs.
Yeah, I get the sense I’d have to commit myself to la revolucion
NICS down 15%. Still 3rd highest on record yet S&W first to offer rebates. Production surplus in anticipation of HRC administration and subsequent sales run?
I understood about 20% of that.
Gunz r cheap these days?
not yet cheap across the board. but big manufacturer offering 20% rebate on handguns. surely more producers to follow.
$75 back on $350 will drive some business.
I’m not loving Alec Baldwin’s Trump impersonation. Maybe because no one will equal Darrell Hammond’s Clinton or Will Ferrell’s Bush II Electric Boogaloo.
I am enjoying Melissa McCarthy’s “Spicey”, though.
Dude, on top of that, the Trump impression is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Yeah, it shouldn’t be that hard. My issue with Baldwin’s is that it’s too physically exaggerated, especially in the mouthal area.
If I had to choose between the masturbatory Trump impressions and the Baldwin temper tantrums, I guess I would prefer the impressions. The temper tantrums are funny though.
Alex Jones doesn’t care for it either.
That, and visually it’s too mean, like he’s trying to portray Trump as Mr. Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life. Trump’s look should be barely restrained smug.
his impression is forced unfunny crap.