Here we go, people. Almost at the end of the week. Let’s finish strong. Oh yeah, and it is apparently a holiday for some of you hippies out there. (I keed!)
And now…the links!
Berkeley has cancelled Ann Coulter’s speech to be given next week. They are citing safety concerns. She has vowed to show up and give a speech anyway. (TW: Jezebel. So tread lightly if you’re going into their comments for comedic purposes. Its akin to jumping into a septic tank head-first to find out if farts stink.)
And in other “this is public property but the public is not welcome to use it anymore” news, the Secret Service figures its easier to ban people from somewhere those people own rather than it is to do their damn jobs. I bet if there were hookers out walking in that area they’d keep it open and patrol it vigorously, the dirty little skirt-chasers.
Holy shit! I think I may have found the only non-partisan take on the GA-06 special election. Screencap it, people. Its like a unicorn in the wild.
Why this isn’t all over the news is beyond me. But Venezuela’s government has seized a General Motors plant. I swear, I saw this in an Ayn Rand book. But I’m sure that it’ll work out fine this time. Just ask Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover or Sean Penn.
What are friends for? If not to help each other out along the way.
Hey, if the police officers can have one, shouldn’t the homeless get a Bill Of Rights as well? Ooh, I have a better idea: why don’t we just have one for all of us and apply it equally?
The Beard is too much for Westbrook’s insane night. Seriously, that was a great NBA game. Which is something I rarely say anymore.
Good luck out there. Stay off the roads in the late afternoon. It’ll be full of stoners!
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486 responses to “Thursday Morning Links”
Silly me, I thought automation was supposed to make a task easier than doing it by hand. But then again, I’m just a crazy luddite who doesn’t see the need for an internet-connected kitchen appliance (let alone one less effective than plain muscle power).
The Juicero in action looks a little too much like providing a urine sample.
If your urine is coming out green, seek medical attention.
I may or may not have dosed someone’s Kool-Aid with methylene blue once. The green urine effect can be startling.
Want to see something odd? Get a cake with black icing fit a party. And serve Guinness as well.
Wait 12 hours.
Go #2.
Or eat fake blue tortilla chips. Or Twizzlers black. Or Fruit Loops (today is 4/20, after all)
If you want really dark stool, take lots of ibuprofen on an empty stomach.
Disclaimer: never do this
My son has always loved blueberries. Once, when he was a toddler, we let him eat an entire big bowl of them. He deposited bright blue shit in his diaper, like Smurf blue.
We go blueberry picking routinely and obviously it’s a free for all with the kids eating blueberries. We have had accidents on the way home when they were two and three years old.
Also, Superman ice cream does wonders to the three year old kid’s poop.
Forgot to add black raspberry cremees to the list.
Why the need to knock the Ford Pinto with those other big losers? The Pinto was the victim of a smear campaign. The rest on that list were genuinely garbage.
Zima is coming back, so shouldn’t be on the list either.
Well, it should be on the list, but doesn’t fit anymore.
I saw an ad for “spiked sparkling water” the other day.
I mean, were selling spiked water now?
No wonder ISIS wants us all dead.
Dude have you ever tried mixing vodka with seltzer? That shit is hard!
Yup. Add a lime wedge and you have something nice going on.
The Internet of Things is coming for you, USC. Winter is coming.
Couldn’t the company – you know – just send the juice already squeezed? Does squeezing it yourself – press or not – a better tasting juice*?
*I don’t do fruit juice – if I want sugar I’ll stick with chocolate
e, I thought automation was supposed to make a task easier than doing it by hand. But then again, I’m just a crazy luddite
A friend of mine wrote this in 2000
I’m shamelessly ripping this off.
cool, just FYI its copyrighted by the NYT
(fixed broken link)
Obligatory
So it’s my 25th college reunion this weekend. This should be strange, enjoyable, and depressing all at the same time.
What is the point of such an event?
Opportunity to get together with some old friends and look at a bunch of others and go “I think I know you….”
look at a bunch of others and go “I think I know you….”
Cool!
I thought the point of any reunion (college, high school, whatever) was 2fold…
1) To demonstrate how rich and successful you went on to become to all those who hated you and any of your ex’es that show up
2) To give you a chance to hook up with either one of those ex’es one more time or with the unresolved mutual crush you never got a chance to hook up with the first time around
awesome. I went to an enormous state school. I can’t imagine what a reunion would look like. Come visit with 10,000 people you never met, and 5 people you did meet but forgot about 15 years ago.
College reunion? There were thousands of people at my college. I maybe knew 0.5% of them by sight.
There were about 700 in our graduating class, so my percentages will probably be better.
I had 160 in my undergrad and 19 in grad school and still wouldn’t go. I barely talk to my coworkers.
I wouldn’t go to one let alone 25 of them.
Wait are you rich and successful enough to go?
I’m not fat and I still have some hair, so there’s that.
rent an expensive watch
Why? What is the point of trying to impress people you haven’t seen for a quarter of a century, if ever, and will likely never see again?
Well excuse me I though the whole point of living is to impress random people you don’t care about
*Revs Bentley at stop light*
I once watched a guy peg his new Mustang’s tachometer in neutral and hold it there to impress the ladies.
Admittedly it was impressive when one of the rods went thru the hood.
We used to do that when I was in high school. Lots of muscle cars and big engines. I had a 70 T-Bird with a 429 Super Cobra Jet motor and straight pipes that could light it the fuck up.
My Pa has a fancy muscle car. Every time he goes into town, there’s always a crowd of young men standing around it.
I need to visit my Pa more often…
Has the revving the engine thing ever, in the history of the automobile, worked?
I mean, if anything, it’s more likely to arouse the dudes than the chicks. NTTAWWT, except the dudes revving the engine aren’t doing it for the dudes.
Ugh… I stopped wearing watches years ago. I strap a 4G iPad to my forearm now. Totes more versatile.
Get a pocket watch. Gold. TO match your monocle. Also gold. And your top hat. If not solid gold, at least gilded.
I was thinking a pimp cane would be nice
You need to represent for us – top hat, tuxedo, and cane – obviously.
Isn’t that what Homecoming weekends are for? I’d never go to a college reunion. That’s high school stuff, isn’t it?
Same thing in this case. I haven’t been to a college reunion before. The only high school one (20 I think) I went to was a little depressing, but most of my classmates were country club brats.
If you went to a military academy, a reunion is a wonderful thing, but if you went to someplace with 10K students?
Mine is in 2 years, I guess. I still live in the same area. My alma mater can get bent.
For me, it’s not really about the school. It’s about getting an old group of friends together for a few hours during middle age when that’s otherwise unachievable.
My alma mater can get bent.
A fractured penis is nothing to joke about.
Warning: medical grade nudity
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_fracture
Not clicking, even though I don’t have one of those things.
I’m sure somebody would let you borrow one, if you promise not to break it.
A Red Light university sounds awesome.
LOL. Dry campus + almost no frats & sororities + not much of a sports program + Washington, DC + “private liberal arts school” = not a whole lotta layin’ goin’ on.
+1 Humperdink University
Venezuela’s Information Ministry was not immediately available for comment.
That country writes it’s own jokes.
I’m still pulling for the Thunder (mostly because I have enjoyed Westbrook’s double middle finger season so much), and Houston has managed to pair together a pair of offensive floppers whose antics annoy me in Williams and Harden. Not looking bright though.
I’m not saying a 50 point triple double ain’t impressive but ol Russ shot kinda bad … But yes, I also would like OKC to go through, but i really doubt it.
I mean I hope Clevland lose as well in the east, but that ain’t happening so I mostly hope they get a tougher road to the finals
He was doing pretty well but went ice cold in the fourth. It’s actually impressive they kept it so close down the stretch when he couldn’t get anything going.
Good news everyone!
A headline that made my eyes roll actually turned out to be good news.
Minnesota Legislature eyes making student fees optional at state colleges, universities
Uffda. I thought for sure it was some legislature that was going to say that if you made less than $x per year you could go to college for free. Turns out, it was some libertarian-ish legislator saying that the student fees (not tuition) should be optional. (Fees avg $432/semester).
Of course the usual suspects are horrified that they won’t get their money for their pet projects. How dare some greedy kids want to save a months rent for themselves!
As is usual, all the leeches managed to show up to testify against the horror. All the kids who were too busy working their way through school couldn’t make it for some reason.
As some one in a country with a lot of government payed Universities, in my experience this does not help the poor much. In general well off kids have better chances of getting in, passing the exams and whatnot.
You made the same mistake as I did. This isn’t about free tuition. It is about not being forcibly made to pay an “activity” fee that is then used to fund various student groups.
What monster would rather pay their own bills instead of funding a sexual-assault counseling center?
I’m guessing 90% of that 90% goes to the rec center(s). That shit is expensive to maintain.
So engineering students can pay lab fees, but not student activity fees?
I just looked and they still charge the bullshit MPIRG fee and the U of MN. It’s only like a dollar or something, but it’s still bullshit.
It is bullshit, especially for Naderite political group.
We could opt out of some fees, but you had to do it piecemeal. For instance, the student radio station took $3/semester/student. You could go to the station, show your ID, and get a $3 check. Same for the newspaper, which was like $5 a semester. There were a handful of people that did it, but they were mostly the same poor bastards that were selling their plasma for beer money.
I’m Poppy. *starts gofundme to hire a hitman to take out SugarFree*
I’m Poppy.
No, I’m Poppy.
I’m Poppy and so is my wife.
All of you stop it!
My fucking dyslexia keeps making me read “poopy” instead of “poppy”.
Now I’m stuck thinking of all of you as these guys
This is kinda like that scene out of Spartacus. Only with less crucifixions.
Is that disheveled fellow in the photo Max Gail? Did he not save his Barney Miller and D.C. Cab money?
I believe there was no money associated with D.C. Cab and that everyone involved was compensated by removing one gold-plated chain from Mr. T’s neck.
The sad final days of Wojo
Ewww…
(Not) Coming To America: China’s Best-selling Automaker Fingers Trump for Decision to Avoid U.S.
Oh no, I want an opportunity to buy a car with possibly more quality issues than General Motors cars. 🙁
Venezuela is on it
Then I have some good news for you! They’re building Alfa Romeo dealerships as we speak.
But they partnered with Dodge!
Nothing says “shit” like a Dodge branded Fiat.
Do what?
-Triumph owner
I notice you didn’t say Triumph “driver”.
I saw one in orlando yesterday. I hear they make the perfect 6th car.
Car and Driver likes the Alfa Romeo Giulia – even though:
Review
::lets out giddy chortle::
…ciao…
Don’t forget one that will probably be spying on you as well
We have enough cars made from cheap plastic and lead paint.
I guess fingering Trump is one way to make a decision, but man, those Chinese have some weird customs.
Also on the education front, protesters at Minneapolis school board meeting get teachers unfired.
The protesters were mad because “teachers of color” seem to be fired or not make it through the probationary period successfully. According to the Social Justice Education Movement (blech) teachers of color are punished for advocating too much for the students.
The horror of only getting a cold lunch instead of a hot lunch!
It is also befuddling that on one hand the progs insist that there is a horrible achievement gap between their kids and the rich suburban district and on the other hand, that any teacher who is a minority cannot be fired no matter how incompetent they are. Do you think they ever wonder if maybe they should try to copy the methods of those nasty rich suburban districts?
Nah, better to blame it all on racism.
Hah! Do their lunches Parris Island style with a frozen Jimmy Dean box. There’s nothing quite like having to scrape a layer of ice off your ham before you can eat your sandwich.
+1 “Deck Private, target!”
If those nasty rich suburban districts just played by the right rules, they wouldn’t be so far ahead, and there wouldn’t be an achievement gap.
This fisk of a BBC we need more top article called How western civilisation could collapse amused me
http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=4569
Hey did you hear the one about the Oregon man?
::crowd begins throwing rocks::
…..go on…..
Hurry up and tell me! I’m about to die. Hopefully your story will make my last moments on earth peaceful.
::polishes the claw side of a carpenter’s hammer::
True fact:
Carpenter’s hammers are devastating melee weapons, but are so mundane that most people don’t realize its a weapon. ProTip: TSA doesn’t let you take them as carry-on items.
Oregon man? Yeah, I’ve seen Mr. Brooks, what about it?
Filmed in Louisiana.
Obligatory: you know who else’s birthday is today?
Donald John Trump?
Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who became the first King of Romania
Also according to google Carmen Electra and Miranda Kerr
Dunno, but I’ll cut the cake. *Breaks out the long knives*
I see what you did there.
Tito Puente?
George Takei. Oh my!
My friend Darryl’s daughter-in-law?
Literally Hitler
My grandmother
Russia denies Reuters report think tank drew up plan to sway U.S. election
The media isn’t going to let this one die.
So what is the reason for Russia preferring Trump? Less likely to start a war with Russia? Is that really what Hillary wants out there? “Hey guys, I would have a shooting war with those commies and make it look like they started it!”
Stop it. She’s a tough lady.
Tough AND chewy.
Beef curtains or areolae?
*holds out plate*
How bout a lil’ of both.
*nom nom nom*
Russia obviously wanted Trump because Trump would loosen the restrictions on domestic oil production, thereby lowering the global price of the oil that Russia’s economy depends on and,…oh, wait…
The only motivation they have is to cause chaos and undermine confidence in the government and election process. While Fedgov does plenty of that on their own, I would say Russia has succeeded remarkably in undermining confidence in the elections – aided and abetted by the Dem supporting media and a bunch of sore losers.
aided and abetted by the Dem supporting media and a bunch of sore losers.
Also known as “useful idiots”.
Meanwhile, Obama told British voters that “Yes” would move them to the back of the queue.
What’s the fucking difference?
“It’s okay when our side does it!”
I told a woman I knew who was convinced Russian interference gave oue election to Trump that we meddle in the affairs of other countries all the time, so why are we acting so horrified when Russia does it to us? She responded that it’s ok because we’re meddling in non-democracies. Ignoring the insane rationale behind that, I asked why it was ok then when we meddled in Israel’s election or spied on Merkel (didn’t ask about Brexit though. That one slipped my mind.) Her response was a combination of “It’s ok when we do it,” and “I trusted Obama.”
She also said she now likes me less for getting irritated at the media’s TDS. And their TDS us totally normal for new presidents and they did the exact same thing to Obama his first term.
That’s why I don’t even bother anymore. At this point, anyone demonstrating TDS as opposed to just legitimate skepticism of government officials may as well be confined to a safe place without sharp objects until they calm down. Attempting to force a resolution of the conflicting beliefs they hold is just gonna make them go full psycho.
Why would Putin want Trump? He has 30,000 emails he could blackmail Hillary with – and probably videos of Bill’s frequent trips to Epstein’s island.
Because Putin and Trump are both evil men so will try to help each other out? That seems to be what the left has settled on.
what U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded was an intensive effort by Russia to interfere with the Nov. 8 election.
So, even if we believe what they’re peddling, the best they could do with this supposed “intensive effort” was some junior grade phishing attacks, and the release of some emails showing that the DNC rigged their own primaries. That would be great news, if it was true.
Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit
Well I lucked out. I didn’t drop hundreds of dollars on their hardware becuase I couldn’t find a pair that was wired. (I do not want to have the hassle of recharging/replacing batteries)
Exactly! I don’t get this push for wireless headphones I already have to deal with charging my phone, tablet and laptop. I don’t need another thing to plug in.
Try living with teenagers sometime. Any pair of headphones with a cord has an average lifespan of approximately 3 weeks in my house and then I have to deal with the inevitable shrieking over who broke whose headphones and who owns the one working pair left in the house
Go to monoprice and get $6 wired phones with mic that perform better than any Beats junk.
The best earbuds I’ve found that aren’t $150 are $10 Sony ones. Lots of clear bass. Sounds just like Bose. Pretty much anyway.
I only listen to music on my trusted Phonograph. That jazz these kids listen to these days is the work of the devil
Bah, the sound is too scratchy and inconsistant. I do not miss analogue players.
*hides his 1000 strong LP collection*
The brass megaphone on my Victor Talking Machine does not spy on anyone.
How did I ever live without this product?
Now you can have jizz in a bottle, whenever, wherever you need it.
Modern convenience is amazing. To think of all the time I have had to spend hand cranking out jizz instead of being able to use bottled stuff.
The only thing better is if it would also come in a 55 gallon drum.
And now that’s in my Amazon browsing history dammit.
Get into the habit of “open in incognito”. You’re welcome.
Why stop now?
Check out the most popular sex toy for Montanans that Amazon sells! (note: only in east Montana according to Riven)
Very NSFW by the way
I thought Montanans preferred their eye sockets still attached to the sheep?
hahahahahah! It’s true. What do you expect when there’s nothing but wind-chapped female faces and rolling prairie as far as the eye can see?
-Resembles the look, feel, and scent of authentic semen
-It is white, creamy, and musky
I thought having the consistency of horseradish was the norm. Guess I’m a freak.
Mine is the color of blood. Is that right? (no, not really)
Yes. As long as it isn’t your blood.
The fine gentlemen over at Fort Troff have you covered. (NSFW, seriously, very NSFW)
It’s a great refreshment after playing Sarcastaball.
I haven’t seen anyone post this yet.
You got me. I need to be less trusting.
Man dies ‘peacefully’ after ex-wife lies to him about Trump being impeached
His ‘best friend’ then fed his still living body feet first into a woodchipper.
*attempts a Swizzy narrowing of the eyes*
*uses sharpie to draw squinted eyes on hockey mask*
There you go bud.
How did this not make it in the links? This is awesome.
Too local.
News you can use
You know, if we stop mentioning it, maybe they’ll get that the joke is no longer funny and stop posting it?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Lighten up, Francis.
Your handle is very appropriate
Will the NCAA ban championship games until Colorado passes a homeless BOR? I mean if we can’t trust the NCAA to take a princilped stand on human digity like they did for HB2 who can we trust?
::Shits on sidewalk::
::Applauds T&T::
Trump supporter collapses, protestors provide care
Meh. But this line caught my eye.
“At the end of the day, he’s God’s child
HTML fail
Surprising and heart warming.
I liked the story, we need more of this kind of stuff.
A Planned Parenthood supporter who refers to someone as “God’s child”? I guess God takes title when the umbilical cord is cut, and not before?
QUOTE from the past: “Ted Turner (Atlanta Journal Constitution, Wed. Dec. 2, 1998) in an address to the Society of Environmental Journalists in Chattanooga – blamed Christianity for overpopulation and environmental degradation, and argued that the people who disagree with him are “dummies.” He stated in part, “The Judeo-Christian religion says man was given dominion over everything, and his salvation was that he was to go out and increase and multiply. Well, we have done that … to the point where in Calcutta, it’s a hellhole. So it’s not an environmentally friendly religion.”
Rich and intelligent don’t necessarily overlap.
Ted Turner ∩ intelligence = {ø}
Fancy font work there.
So Christianity is responsible for over population in a Hindu country?ok.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SmypHQ5AUxQ
Well if Trump’s rhetoric can be responsible for Hindus in India attacking Muslims, then why not?
Ted Turner is smart. Overpopulation is the one idea that has never been disproved, ever.
Malthus and Paul Ehrlich were unavailable for comment.
*Checks Google*
Odd that he blames Calcutta on “Judeo-Christianity” when there are practically no Jews there and Christians are a small minority.
Being dickish, New York decided that its ez-pass toll rates only applied to people who’d aquired said passes from New York State, and not other customers of the system. Since I’m planning out a road trip through multiple states across areas where the simplest routing includes tolls, I’m trying to figure out what my toll load is going to be. Does anyone know if the same sort of policy applies in other states? (I can’t find any information one way or another on the individual websites)
Dammit, now I have to actually look at my Ez-pass statement. I’ve never noticed an out-of-state charge for the PA turnpike, Tappen Zee Bridge, Mass Pike, and the Jersey toll roads.
What road are you talking about? I can’t imagine anything run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey giving favorable rates only to New Yorkers. I have not been on the NY Turnpike in a long time so that is possible.
The New York Thruway has two toll rates the “Cash” rate and the “EZ-Pass” rate, but they state outright that only people who got their EZ-Pass from Ny will get the NY EZ-Pass rate. On the statement it would not have a separate out of state fee, just shot up as a toll a the higher Cash rate.
Is that a recent thing? My last drive up to NY was September and I don’t remember seeing different rates posted for out of state EZ Passes.
It’s not a posted thing, it’s a “not quite fine print caveat” that they only give the ez-pass toll rate to in-state passes.
If you Pick a trip on their toll calculator, the disclaimer appears at the bottom of the calculated toll.
Or, I can save you the effort and go right to the disclaimer page
From what I could find Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York all offer “discounts” for EZ passes issued from their state.
So when I get down past Delmarva I’ll be fine?
If you consider being in MD or NoVA ‘fine’?
I’m visiting relatives who, unfortunately, live in Delmarva. I’m them going on a road trip whose next destination is in southern North Carolina.
If ya come down the outer banks I will buy ya a beer in ocracoke.
In Md I think the Toll discounts for Md ezpasses only apply to some of the bridges, I don’t think they apply to any of the toll roads. Also most of the bridges are only toll bridges in one direction.
Also, if you are just passing through Md from north to south or vice versa it is probably a better idea to to use 301 and the bay bridge than to stay on 95. You’ll save yourself a bunch on tolls and it will likely be faster unless you are heading north on Thursday/Friday evening or south on Sunday evening in the summer as you’d have to deal with beach traffic.
Most online mapping systems (Waze, google maps, etc.) won’t take you this way because it means getting off the highway but 301 is a good road that you can average 50 – 55mph down and it keeps you out of the Washington – Baltimore corridor and mostly off the Beltway
+10000000…..301 is a godsend. A car salesman tipped us off to that one when we found a deal online worth driving up from Richmond to Alexandria for. Probably saved us close to an hour of sitting in traffic.
Both 95 and 301 are way out of my way. I’m visiting relatives on the pennensula and then continuing south. I’m likely to be crossing the chesapeake in Virginia.
The Peninsula, as in Gloucester area? Is going down the Eastern Shore and then across the bridge-tunnel really faster for that?
As in Salisbury Maryland. Just south of Delaware.
Aha
Where are you going south?
From Salisbury to the Bridge/Tunnel is about a half hour and it is about an hours drive back up to the Bay Bridge so the important question is where are you going after Salisbury? because the Bridge/Tunnel kind of drops you off in the middle of nowhere in Norfolk and if for example you were heading to the Carolinas or points south it might be faster to spend the extra 30 minutes to come back up to the bay bridge than it will be to take 56 over to 95 once you’ve crossed the bay
Next stop is Wilmington NC.
With the number of yellow flags and “incidents” that pop up comparing those two routes, backtracking to go around the north side of the bay just to get to 95 sooner looks like it would take longer than the additional 45 minutes google claims that it would take than heading south and taking the norfolk route.
Waze frequently wants me to take US 50 to I-97 when I’m heading north. I’ve never listened to it and just stick with 95 or the Parkway. Maybe one of these days I’ll take Waze up on its suggestion.
depending on time of day that might actually be faster depending on where you are going to and how bad 95 is backed up. I’ve almost never seen 50 be a problem except crossing the Severn river bridge during rush hour or at the Bridge tolls during construction and on beach travel days. 97 however can get pretty backed up at times so it just depends.
For me it is never an issue because I live on Kent Island just on the eastern side of the Bay Bridge and work in Annapolis so I only have to deal with DC traffic once every couple of weeks when I have to go to our Reston office which is a little piece of hell.
Oh jeezus – Kent Island to Reston? You poor bastard.
I just tell them I already paid the toll with my tax dollars and they go along with it.
Shared this on my Facederp timeline. The message escaped the unionists and anti-school-choicers.
I have a feeling the only thing they’ll take away is that Pakistan needs stronger child labor laws.
I didn’t know there was anything left for the Bolivarian Socialists to steal in Venezuela. Huh.
“Maduro has used his Socialist government’s institutions to pursue political opponents.” <–Stay classy American democrats. I guess I have to take back all the times I called them third world, tin-pot thugs and scum. And all of the times I called Obama a pinko POS (just found out John Brennan supported the communist party of america, voted for them, and colluded with foreign spies to spy on Trump for Obama)
"The company is confident that justice will eventually be served, and looks forward to continue leading the Venezuelan market." Are they now? Well, I wish them good luck with that.
It seems the worse things get there the less the press here reports on Venezuela. Maybe the NYT could sent Walter Durante down there.
From the Jezebel comments:
“They can’t stop me,” she said. “I’m an American. I have constitutional rights.”
And Berkeley has the right to tell you that you can’t come and speak on their property.
Face. Palm.
I saw that too. They don’t think corporations should have rights, but believe government institutions should.
Because government is just the rights we violate together. Corporations, on the other hand, are evil profit driven institutions that will kill/poison/screw their customers just to make a buck!!$!$3121531@!$!%$ So they don’t get rights!
Progs consistently fail to understand that killing/poisoning/screwing your customers won’t actually keep the bucks rolling in.
Another Big Foot ‘sighting’
FLASE SIGHTING. EVERYONE KNOWS STEVE SMITH PREFERS DOLLYWOOD OVER BRANSON
*FALSE*
STEVE SMITH HAVE TROUBLE WITH KEYBOARD DUE TO GIANT HAIRY HANDS
STEVE SMITH HAVE SOMETHING ELSE GIANT AND HAIRY
STEVE SMITH NOT BIG FAN OF GRANOLAS, BUT WON’T LET THAT STOP HIM.
“GM did not provide details about the unexpected seizure. It said that vehicles and other assets had been taken from its facilities.”
I don’t think unexpected is the word they were looking for. Don’t build a plant in a people’s republic unless you want the government to steal it.
“General Motors Venezolana, GM’s local subsidiary, was established in 1948…”
“We were surprised to discover that we still owned it.”
My single negative GM experience: I rented a new Chevy Impala in Phoenix, AZ ca. 2007, and pulled off the highway to fill up with gasoline. I lunge the gas pump nozzle into the car’s fuel manifold, and it stubs. “Dafuq?” I look down, and the manifold and fuel pipe weren’t even tethered to the body in any meaningful sense, so the manifold and fuel pipe were almost totally mobile. I then use the edge of the gas pump nozzle to move the manifold back on center, fill up, and then tighten the cap on.
Single positive GM experience: My Pontiac Vibe (Toyota Corolla/Matrix guts) cost $6000 at 100k miles, used, and is around 205k miles with essentially no major maintenance issues.
Neutral GM experience: None.
I have an 02 z71 silverado that has about 275k on it. I rebuilt the engine at about 225k and rebuilt the suspension at around 210k. The transmission is still good and the truck drives well. It’s been good to me. I bet I’ll keep it another 5 years or so.
I thought GM loved government taking over its business? I haz a confused.
I was thinking the same thing.
It’s not like they don’t have experience in laying in bed with the government.
They didn’t appreciate the change in positions.
Just because the company consented to missionary does not mean they consented to anal
Socialist dictators don’t do affirmative consent?
Well the liquor store is almost open, I’ll see you guys later. Good morning to all.
Venezuela is useful for many things. If a prog won’t agree Cuba, north korea, the PRC etc are socialist hellholes because of long half lifes, then Venezuela is a modern example for them to sputter over and try to explain away.
Also if somebody says “Atlas Shrugged” is unrealistic then you can point at example after example from Venezuela that mirrors AS and ask if this did not happen to our southern looters.
Rand wrote one-dimensional villains because it was an accurate portrayal of the subject matter.
I always get a chuckle when people say her villains were unrealistic. Having lived through the February Revolution, perhaps her experience of psychopathic mass murderers wasn’t quite as nuanced as others.
It speaks a lot of resilience of private enterprise and profit motive in general when things still get made in Venezuela after years of this shit
Not just that, but the basic human drive to be productive.
Australia unveils major changes to citizenship process
My preferred open borders strategy for the US is to make immigration easier than it is now and citizenship harder.
Actually, citizenship would be easier, just less people would qualify to try.
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My plan, which isn’t libertopian, would be a 330 day work permit for virtually anyone who wants one. Simple background check at border to make sure you aren’t a felon/terrorist. Any time within the 330 days you can go back to your home country for 30 days and then get another 330 day permit. No quotas, no H-1B bullshit. Just spend a month at home each year. This is not a citizenship path work permit.
A permanent resident/citizenship path permit would also exist, but would be more strictly controlled.
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A minimum of two days back home for every one spent in this country. They’re residents of their home country, not here. Also, no accomodation for dragging minor children along. They’re here to work, not the settle.
They are here to work, 30 days back home per year is fine. I am trying to make it easy to get a mexican gardener and discourage sneaking across the border.
I am trying to make it hard to permanantly replace people who live here with people who don’t. Just get three gardeners on rotation if you want.
My actual position is stictly closed-border, no migrant workers, but I’m offering a compromize.
My position was a compromise away from true open borders.
Your compromise solves nothing as it doens’t discourage illegal immigration.
Mine makes illegal immigration worthless to most immigrants. The ones that are still crossing illegally have something to hide.
From current data, merely threatening to enforce the rules we already have has reduced illegal crossings. Actual enforcement will discourage them further. One year in three might make them think about investing those other two in fixing their home country. That will even further reduce the incentive to come here.
How about you can move here, live here, and/or work here for as long as you want. If you want to be a voting citizen you have to be born here or live here continuously for 15 years (maybe 20) and be able to prove that you have done so.
How bout no.
Without at least one citizen parent, you leave open the birth tourism citizenship pathway.
We should start collecting all the remains scattered through the desert and posting the bones on a border wall as a warning.
A little something for you stoners.
What does that have to do with Eugene?
Speaking of Eugene Stoner.
If anyone wants yet another example of the rock stupid rules of the NFS
the AR-7 Pistol variant
The only mechanical difference between the .22 rifle and the .22 pistol’s key components is the positioning of the locking lug on the barrel/reciever joint. They should be fully interchangable but…
If you modify a ‘rifle’ reciever to accept the pistol barrel you’ve made an SBR and without permission are a criminal.
If you modify a ‘pistol’ reciever to accept a rifle barrel, you’re okay so long as you don’t put a rifle stock on…
Video Not Available. *Mind Blown*
You in some kind of furrin country or something?
It’s Cosplay by Panda Bear.
There are benefits. I don’t get to see SNL skits either.
Thanks for the Cars tune sloopy! Here’s is a favorite video of mine
The Cars are a highly underrated band. Lots of very catchy tunes.
+1 Cars’ first record.
Ric Ocasek gives hope to tall, skinny, weird-looking dudes everywhere.
Ric Ocasek gives hope to tall, skinny, weird-looking *rich* dudes everywhere.
FIFY
Tall, skinny, weird-looking, rich, AND very talented dudes.
You can stop now guys.
Ric Ocasek gives hope to
tall, skinny, weird-looking, rich, AND very talented dudesrockstars everywhere.Back in my early 20s, a friend said I looked like Ric Ocasek.
tall, skinny, weird-looking dudes
Yup, pretty much.
My lack of musical talent meant that didn’t really give me much hope.
Ocasek (at crossroads): “I want to be talented, famous, and have an incredibly beautiful wife.”
Devil: “Pick two and you’ve got a deal.”
I’ll agree with “catchy”.
Maybe he tricked the devil. I am guessing his first wife wasn’t supermodel hot.
That was just what I needed.
::applauds wildly::
Rickroll 2.0.
Apparently O’Reilly is a Trump substitute for the left. They are celebrating the taking of his scalp on all of their websites like it’s some major victory.
I’ve never seen more than 15 secs of O’Reilly in my life. But I don’t watch cable, nor do I like the OMG! news channels.
I think that’s pretty common for people under the age of 70.
A faux-populist who nevertheless couldn’t resist bringing up his education at the Kennedy School of Government at every possible fucking opportunity. I can see how that would really irk the left…
I could never figure out his core audience. The man is a self-important moron.
I personally used to like how he would frequently condescendingly refer to his audience as “the folks” when interviewing guests of a higher social strata and explain their strange and unusual viewpoints. Selling idiots their own stupidity is nice work if you can get it, I guess.
My mom.
Does that include Reason ? he asks jokingly
The Dalmia hatebot did an article yesterday about how his scalp represents a victory of free markets–because advertiser boycott. Progressives everywhere believe their boycott was responsible for getting him off the air. That’s why they’re celebrating.
That didn’t really have much to do with it. Dalmia’s article never once mentioned the real reason O’Reilly is unemployed–it was about Murdoch appeasing UK regulators so that they’ll approve his pending umpty-ump billion dollar acquisition of Sky. That decision is due in a few weeks. I put up articles from the NYT, CNN, Variety, The Telegraph, and the Financial times spelling this all out.
This wasn’t a triumph of social justice warrior activism. This wasn’t an example of markets functioning properly to cater to consumer tastes.
This was an example of UK regulators censoring an American news personality off the air. Regardless of how we feel about O ‘Reilly, UK regulators effectively regulating American news is no cause for libertarians to celebrate.
I suppose celebrating UK regulators censoring American news as if it were a triumph of free markets is better than equating deporting illegal aliens with enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, but we’re talking about clearing a really low bar, here.
It should be obvious that it had nothing to do audience pressure. Everyone has known O’Reilly was a creep for years, if not decades. IIRC he had to settle a case back the early 00’s because he was repeatedly phone-sexing a subordinate and she had him on tape doing his sexy O-Reilly thang (shudders).
“His sexy O-Reilly thang?” Um, what in God’s name would that be? Or do I even want to know? He calls her a pinhead?
I think it was something like “When I see you, my dick goes up, then it goes down… you can’t explain that.”
OK, I LOL’ed out loud at that.
No, he calls his junk a pinhead.
I saw you savage DanO repeatedly with sources that you know he regularly visits, which was amusing.
Waste of effort. He’s just a troll.
The further adventures of getting a security pass on a Navy base continues. I’m guessing the new admiral in charge decided that he hadn’t gotten a cut of the business so he’s going to find a new Eskimo-owned business to farm it out to.
I look forward to the thousands of dollars in new fees that I’ll have to pay for my employees and the nightmare circus of new bureaucratic hoops to jump thru.
When I was laid off in 2008, I got a make-do security job with Alutiiq at NAS Whiting Field to pay the bills until I found another real job. That was an…..interesting company to work for.
Call me crazy but I think Paul Ryan and the establishment Republicans are going out of their way to torpedo the Trump presidency. Not that I really like either camps policies.
I like the tax reform and Obamacare repeals – which are the things Paul Ryan is deliberately torpedoing.
Hey, remember back in 2012 when Paul Ryan was a cold-blooded Randian who was going to wheel Grandma off a cliff?
Me neither.
Oh, he will be a cold-blooded Randian again, when the media narrative needs him to be
Credit where it is due. That was unequivocally the best political ad of all time.
I’m still partial to Dale Peterson firing a warning shot at the guy stealing his campaign signs.
I love it. If Republicans really were that brutal, I would be full-team-red.
Raising the level of political discourse, one ad at a time.
I’d like it if they actually wanted to repeal Obamacare, instead of repealing it and replacing it with something just as bad.
The proposal to eliminate state income tax deductions is genius. Even though it would impact me, there is no reason why the people of Texas and Florida should be subsidizing the high income tax rates of California and Massachusetts. This will also allow them to reduce the rate without having to deal with the stipulation that revenues not be impacted.
Except that the good people of TX and FL can deduct their sales tax payments instead of income taxes.
And property taxes.
Reposting from last night’s thread, because I still don’t feel well
I’m stressed and I need to clear my mind. With apologies to Derpy, I’m doing my own Spot the Not.
Each of these, except for one, are descriptions for anime series currently airing in Japan.
1.
The “new sibling romantic comedy” revolves around Masamune Izumi, a light novel author in high school. Masamune’s little sister is Sagiri, a shut-in girl who hasn’t left her room for an entire year. She even forces her brother to make and bring her meals when she stomps the floor. Masamune wants his sister to leave her room, because the two of them are each other’s only family.
Masamune’s novel illustrator, pen name “Eromanga”, draws extremely perverted drawings, and is very reliable. Masamune had never met his illustrator, and figured he was just a disgusting, perverted otaku. However, the truth is revealed… that his “Eromanga-sensei” is his own younger sister! To add to the chaos that erupts between the siblings, a beautiful, female, best-selling shoujo manga creator becomes their rival!
2.
Because she committed the sin of pride against God, the Great Angel Lucifer was cast into Hell and became a Fallen Angel. Also at the lowest level of Hell, the hierarchy of demons have sealed away Lucifer’s powers. Lucifer had lost everything, but along with the Demon King of Envy, Leviathan, that admires Lucifer and a high school girl she met on Earth named Totsuka Maria, she becomes the Demon King of Pride Lucifer and begins her journey to revenge on the Seven Demon Kings of Hell. A book of Revelations with the “Seven Deadly Sins” portrayed by beautiful Demon Kings is about to begin.
3.
Miyanaga Saki is a high school freshman who does not like mahjong. Ever since she was a child, she would lose her New Year’s gift money during her family’s mahjong game. If she won, her parents would be upset, and if she lost, well, she lost. As a result, she has learned to play in such a way that her score always remains plus/minus zero: Not good enough to win, but not bad enough to lose. When we meet her, she is being dragged to her school’s mahjong club by an old friend. How will a girl who hates mahjong, yet has become adept at the game as a result of her upbringing, cope in this environment?
4.
Shimogamo Yasaburo has the blood of a mystical racoon-like creature – a tanuki – but has the ability to transform into a human. He lives a playful life in Kyoto, where humans, tanuki, and tengu live side-by-side. Yasaburo and his family finally come to terms with their father’s death, reconciling with human and tengu alike. However, the son of Yasaburo’s teacher returns to the city after a century abroad, stirring up a world of trouble for everyone in Kyoto’s mystical underbelly.
5.
“The Harvest Show” is a concert where all of the different grains show off their beauty to everyone watching, and “HarveStars” is the name given to the grains who put on the best performances. In this modern age of rice acreage reduction policies and Westernization of eating habits, bread has become the most popular grain in Japan, and dinner tables are dominated by “Yeast King,” the bread HarveStars. But five new rice students have enrolled at Kokuritsu Inaho Academy, a school on the verge of shutting down, and they form a new group called “Love Rice” that’s practicing to beat Yeast King at the Harvest Show and win back the popularity rice once had… This heartfelt “kome”-dy featuring anthropomorphized grains is full of laughter and passion! Two grains aren’t needed at the dinner table… so which will become the true HarveStar?
6.
The Private Aichi Symbiosis Academy was originally a high school for high-class girls. When it became co-ed, the girls, out of fear, asked to be permitted to bring weapons to school. When that was enforced, a five-member vigilante corps-like organization called the “Supreme Five Swords” was also formed.
After many generations, the five swords eventually became a group which corrected problematic students, and the academy started proactively accepting such students in order to correct them.
Nomura Fudou was sent to this school after being part of a huge brawl. What will he do when the only options he has after enrolling are being expelled from that school or being corrected the way the rest of the male students there were…by being forced to dress and act like a girl!
*roll the die*
3
What’s “anime”?
I don’t get the appeal of anime and never will.
That said, I think the not is #2.
I’m pretty sure it’s not 3 because I know that’s the plot of a real manga series. I’m going to go with 5 but frankly all of it is pretty plausible, though I guess that’s kind of the point.
It’s actually 3.
I figured out after looking at something that I kind of cheated. I knew Saki as a manga series and a live action series, but didn’t know it had been the subject of an anime. Several in fact. But not this season (first season aired in 2009).
It’s also listed on TV Tropes under “Everyone’s a Lesbian”, so there you go.
It’s understanable
Because, as parents, we all understand the urge to kill that mouse.
Chuck E Cheese can turn even the most reasonable person homicidal.
I feel incredibly lucky that my daughter doesn’t really like the place, so the only time we’ve been there is for birthday parties.
In defense of the Gawker commenters, they are correct that Ann Coulter really does NOT have the right “as an American” to show up at Berkeley and give her talk. The right belongs to those who invited her. They are the aggrieved party; they are the ones who need to fight this.
Of course, this isn’t precisely the point the commenters are making. That is because, shockingly enough, they are fucking idiots. But Coulter isn’t really on the money either.
I dunno, at a public uni I’d say she has some right to show up there and give a talk, even if she doesn’t have a right to any particular venue. It’s supposed to be a public space.
Maybe she can show up like the street preachers. But “public space” in the mere sense of being a government-owned facility certainly does not suggest a free for all. The school is not a public park and rec center. There are time, place, and manner restrictions that are much more robust than those in those types of spaces, and they are often heavily affected by one’s status with the university. There very much is such a thing as trespassing on a public university campus.
Maybe she can show up like the street preachers.
That’s what I was thinking. You should have a right to access the property you’re paying for, even if you aren’t guaranteed a venue or audience of your preference.
There are time, place, and manner restrictions that are much more robust than those in those types of spaces, and they are often heavily affected by one’s status with the university.
Should there be though? I think you should have a right to access the public spaces of the university. So in that narrow sense I’d say she’s right. She doesn’t have a universal right to show up and speak wherever she pleases. But if you don’t have a right to access the public spaces then they aren’t very “public”. The manner in which public universities selectively create time, manner and place restrictions makes them a bit of a joke, just like the “press zones” and “free speech zones” in fenced-off 10×10 paddocks near the capitol.
Oh, there is quite generally too much TPM restrictions. **Those** are certainly not a free-for-all for the **authorities**. (Remember the LAX case way back in the day where the airport authority, with almost cartoonish stupidity, banned “first amendment activities”?) We need to seriously rethink the policies in place in cities regarding permits and such. Likewise the “free speech zones” on college campuses have no place in a free society.
I would stress again, though, that merely being a **government** facility does not make it a “public” space in the sense of a right to **access** for the general public. It is certainly appropriate and standard procedure for a public university to maintain a distinction between those affiliated with the university and those who are not. They are permitted to have different TPM restrictions for the former than the latter. Again, there’s no real expectation that it be like a public park just because it is, in a related but substantially different sense, a “public” school. It’s a totally different ballgame.
As Ronald Reagan said – if she pays for the hall and the mic, she gets to speak into it. (or a group who wants to hear her talk)
I’m pretty sure Coulter is speaking to the invite being rescinded after she met the conditions put on her (that aren’t put on other speakers, btw). She’s perhaps a little off base but her overriding point is that Berkeley are deliberately letting violent leftist thugs shut down speech they (both the thugs and the admin) don’t like rather than upholding the 1A rights of an invited speaker from a recognized campus organization.
She’s certainly right in the spirit of the Law and 1A if not the technical statute of school policy. And furthermore, she has every right to arrive in campus and speak in any public space other non-students are permitted to speak at.
Oh, certainly she can show up in such a space. But other than that she was most fundamentally off base with her identification of the injured party. She should have, and most certainly could have, gone on righteously ranting about the injustice visited upon the students from the inviting org. It would have made the point even better and clearer, and drawn just as much attention and looked even better on her part. But I think her ego may have gotten in the way of her seeing that, and she cast herself in the victim role despite the clear advantages of putting it otherwise. Shocking, I know.
But I think her ego may have gotten in the way of her seeing that, and she cast herself in the victim role
Yeah. Because she IS the victim. She was invited. Her invitation was approved. She made plans to attend and speak in accordance with the terms set by the school and then it was arbitrarily rescinded because people that oppose her views have threatened violence if she’s allowed to speak.
In what way is she not legitimately a victim here?
Because her **rights** were not violated; the inviting students’ were. It may suck to be her. That is not the same.
Her rights most certainly are being violated. The hall was rented for her. The school negotiated the terms with her. They agreed to let her speak. Then they arbitrarily rescinded the invite because her opponents are violent.
Once the school granted her the right to speak through the invitation of a campus org they granted her standing on campus to a particular venue at a particular time. That was further established when they negotiated follow-up terms with her. Once they decided to treat her differently than other invited and approved speakers, based on potential violent actions by her opponents, they treated her differently in an arbitrary and capricious manner not consistent with their public speaking policy.
Want to test whether she is a victim or not? Let the campus org that invited her invite an anti-fa leader to speak under the same terms. If thy are allowed to, then can you really say their rights have been violated rather than hers?
Yes. Because they have a right to invite *whomever* the fuck they please to speak. How on Earth would your experiment show that it isn’t, in fact, *their* rights being violated rather than hers? What, are their rights not being violated because they were permitted to invite a speaker who was ideologically agreeable to the Administration *rather than their own*? What the fuck kind of right is that?
If Ann Coulter has a contract law case over the cancellation, according to the terms of their agreement, then yes, her rights have been violated and I hope she wins or settles her breach of contract suit. I somewhat doubt that contingency has not been addressed. But the issue is most certainly not a *First Amendment* one. Her hosts would be the party with proper standing on that matter.
The school negotiated with her. She’s been granted standing there. That’s what makes it a violation of her rights since the campus org never rescinded her invite.
If there’s anything I’ve ever learned in dealing with contracts and negotiations, it’s that once you start negotiating directly with someone (Ann Coulter) as opposed to through an intermediary (the campus org), your relationship with that person has changed from third party to a party of the contract. Therefore she became directly subject to the 1A when Berkeley reached out directly to her to make accommodations for her speech to be permitted.
They did? I should indeed have followed it more carefully. I’m actually surprised a university would gratuitously expose itself like that. They usually have very good lawyers.
I’m assuming she is telling the truth when she said the school made specific demands of her when they started negotiating when, where and how the event would unfold. That constituted a direct negotiation. And they’re bound to make any such negotiation consistent, as well as any conditions, otherwise they’re arbitrarily and capriciously establishing rules in order to prevent her from speaking.
Again, we can disagree here. But contracts, both verbal and written, are things I deal with often enough that I know a reasonable court would not look too kindly to a public institute granting people different access based on the potential actions of those who oppose their views.
I am maybe being a bit pedantic here. I can indeed see how she would be outraged and angry. But I think by being a bit more precise about the whole thing she could actually make her point even *more* compellingly. Be outraged on behalf of the students! They are, indeed, the ones who made her presence legitimate (if they had never wanted her there, and indeed if they happen to now decide they don’t want her there from here on, she has no particular “right” to be a guest of the university unless she can find another sponsor; she’ll have no more “right” there than a common homeless person). Besides, it’s just a good look.
Personal question. I have never been a big sci fi reader (except for Vonnegut, which I guess would be classified as ‘sci fi’), but I recently started reading ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’. I noticed that articles (such as “the”, “an”, etc.) are missing from the writing. Is this correct or did I buy some knock-off version that is written in foreign exchange student English?
Please mark your spoilers – I haven’t gotten around to TMIAHM yet.
RH;DR
Harsh. I liked Starship Troopers and Stranger In A Strange Land, from what I remember.
After I chucked “The Cat Who Walked Through Walls” at a wall, I decided not to inflict his work on myself again.
You have to start with his earlier stuff, not his later. Try stuff from the 1950s not the 1980s.
Green Hills of Earth was great and very enjoyable to read.
That’s funny. Exact same book inspired exact same reaction in me. And I make it all the way thru most books I start even if I decide that I hate them.
Eventually I did give Stranger in a Strange Land a shot. And was able to finish it at least. But it’s still not really that good either.
That was a pretty terrible book. Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, and Harsh Mistress are all much better.
I never finished Stranger, every time I get to the religion part I stall out.
I never finished that book either. And I’ve read a lot of Phillip K. Dick and KW Jeter.
SPOILER:
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free, because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything that I do.
That is my favorite quote from TMIAHM.
The protagonist/narrator basically has foreign exchange student English. Hence the Russian words thrown in at random.
Thanks
I actually listened to the audio book of that one – I remember some funny accents and slang.
Well, it’s referred to as Loonie slang, I believe. No articles and non-English words sprinkled in (such as Stilyagi), due to the intermingling of the convicts from all over. At one point the Professor tells Mannie to knock it off when talking to the normals, IIRC.
Paraprofessional educator is a thing?
It requires at least a four-year degree in parapsychology. A more competent professional in the field would have recognized the clear signs here of the work of a poltergeist or demon. But such is the substandard talent pool our public schools are faced with these days.
My fiancee works with special needs kids at a local elementary school.
The amount of times she comes home with stories where she had to convince other teachers not to call CPS for minor things is astonishing. Not all, but a lot of teachers definitely want to completely dump any responsibility onto people wholly incapable of handling kids like this. Which is odd, considering they are the ones paid to do that exact thing
Apologies in advance
That’s literally the only thing I can think about when I hear “special needs teacher” now, because I have the maturity of a 12 year old.
I volunteer at special needs schools about twice a week. I’ve been bitten, scratched, you name it. Any sane person accepts the reality that the kids aren’t to be held to the same standards as other kids. Unless the kid had a real weapon like a gun or knife, it’s the school and parawhatevers to handle the situation.
Dare I say that, somehow, Coulter actually looks kind of attractive in that picture?
You feeling alright?
Chipwooder’s new theme song
I figured Crying Game.
If you want to oogle some hard-right shrew, I’d take Lauren Southern over Coulter. I might even join Gavin McInnes’ gay gang ‘The Proud Boys’ just to hit on her.
Lauren Southern? Would.
Absolutely.
You take that back! Southern is no shrew! She is pretty hot though.
I don’t care what the haters say. Anne Coulter = Would
She is not unattractive, but the actual physical act would involve too much cuts, bruises, and abrasions. That, and the 9″ clitoris.
Would watch.
::waves hand in front of Chipwooder’s eyes to make sure he isn’t blind::
Too much bathub gin.
There isn’t enough alcohol in the world to cause me to agree with that.
Nah, you guys – Chipwooder is right. Ann Coulter & wood go hand in hand.
I see what you did there. *narrows gaze*
Fashion question: is it appropriate for my attorney wife to wear a leather skirt in court? I say no but I think lawyers have to look conservative as undertakers. Maybe a colorful silk (Hermes) scarf.
Need picture to decide
Full disclosure: Lord H is better known in D.C. circles as the second Mr. Bader Ginsburg.
Leather skirt should be fine
One where she is bending over and looking back at the camera? It may be the only way to settle this.
Depends on the judge/jury
I was scheduled for two events: state pretrial for an assault charge, second was a settlement conference for divorce. Settlement conference was adjourned.
I think edgy is OK either way, but I did change since the hubs said something. To a slit skirt, but it is still knee length.
How to your other wives feel about it? If your other wives don’t like your attorney wife’s choice, you should let her know.
pendants gotta pedant.
or even pedants
I thought we were talking about leather skirts!
I think it would be like the female equivalent of My Cousin Vinny’s leather jacket.
The next time you come in my courtroom, you will look lawyerly. And I mean, you comb your hair. You wear a suit, and that suit had better be made out of some kind of…..cloth.
Fred Gwynne was awesome in that role.
“What’s a ‘yute’?”
Let the record show that counselor is holding up two fingers!
Vinny Bagodonuts wore a leathuh jacket in court, so should be OK.
I’d say that really depends on the skirt and the woman. If it’s a tiny, tanned-to-a-high-sheen, leather mini skirt on a woman who’s got “a little extra,” I’m going to have to say that’s right out.
If it’s knee length or a little longer and your wife is smoking hot…. Well… sometimes you just have to use what God gave you.
It’s knee length and dark leather. She’s Nordic with good legs, but my my fashion sense says “It looks like you’re going clubbing!”
If in doubt I’d say opt for more conservative. You don’t often see male lawyers show up to court in a leather jacket.
I think you’re allowed one piece of clothing that’s “on the edge” if the rest of your outfit is pretty conservative. Maybe with low, basic pumps or flats and a nice blouse and scarf… But I’d stay away from “fuck-me” heels/boots, excessively gaudy jewelry, or other pieces that are a little out there, like low cut tops.
These are the rules I use, and I work in finance–another notoriously “fashion conservative” industry. I’m the first person clients see when they come in, and I get a lot of compliments on how I look, despite my dykey hair cut and weird ear piercings.
That depends = is her client Twisted Sister?
Does she want to win? If so, then yes.
Kamala Harris wore a leather skirt at my wife’s citizenship ceremony. She’s a horrible politician, but the leather skirt almost made me forget about it. So if your wife looks good in a leather skirt, I say go for it.
Ya know, everyone is always all for a homeless bill of rights, right up until the homeless start getting in the way of your trip to Whole Foods. Then you have to re-employ the disgraced non-PC town sheriff to round all the homeless up and deport them somewhere else so you can get back to shopping.
“the signatures mostly came from people who live outside Denver.”
Why am I not surprised?
“the signatures mostly came from people who live outside Denver.”
Boulder.
“Maybe it will keep those stinky creeps off the Mall.”
I love this day. I take it off from work every year.
I also love telling people that I’m going to celebrate, just to see who takes the bait. Spoiler: it’s a trap!
“Oh, you’re going to celebrate…my birthday…too? Well, that’s very thoughtful of you ^_^” Man, you want to see someone back peddle…
DUDE WEED LMAO
Fucking Seth Rogen. This is the End: giant turd. Sausage Party: could have been a good concept, but utterly ruined horrible dogshit of a movie.
I haven’t seen either of those. Sounds like I’m not missing out.
Will probably watch Pineapple Express today, though. Or play the Dark Side of the Rainbow as background noise while I do, um, other stuff.
Pineapple Express was enjoyable, but mostly because of the mullet guy from what I can remember.
Aww, I thought Sausage Party was going to be good! I don’t find Seth Rogen particularly appealing in general though. I did like Superbad and those “Know how I know you’re gay” clips with Paul Rudd that I have seen on the Internet.
I went into Sausage Party wanting to like the movie. Here’s what started to kill it for me: how the script is peppered with curse words. Mind you, I’ve got no fuckin’ problem with the volume of the shitty curse words, but how they were implemented in the script was stupid and the movie just becomes trite dog turd. To quote Ryan Philippe: “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.”
Is that a quote from The Way of the Gun?
Indeed. The opening fight and the sperm bank scenes are my favourites. Also jumping bare-armed into the broken glass try hotel fountain.
*dry
Sweet. Thought I recognized it. The opening scene is a thing of beauty – who HASN’T wanted to deck Sarah Silverman?
Or fuck-start her head?
I thought Sausage Party was decent. This is the End is truly an exercise in wankery, though.
The chuckle-worthy moment for me from This is the End was the wagging dong on the giant demon walking around destroying LA. In hindsight, I don’t know how I made it through the whole thing.
It’s it really your birthday?
It really is. It’s on my birth certificate and driver’s license and everything.
29 years old, as of ~6 pm MDT
Happy Birthday:)
Thank you 🙂
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear Riven.
Happy birthday to you.
(in celebration of your first birthday since the song entered the public domain.)
Many thanks, Diego 🙂
29 years old?
Good Lord, young lady. Shouldn’t you still be in pre-school or something? 😉
So, are you pie or cake? Also, Happy Birthday 🙂
Happy Birthday!!~
Danke!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to Riven,
you’ve earned what you’re given,
kind bud and that hopefully, the cute JW girl,
happy birthday to you
Thank you both! That’s mighty kind of you 🙂
What an ugly commute this AM.
Fat chicks: don’t wear yoga pants, they’re not for you!
Fat chicks need lovin’ too /John
Not sure if Jezebel linked this but Berkeley should have fun with her. I had actually linked this yesterday with some comment about her and Shikha and Thunderdome or something.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-04-19.html
I’m reading an (original as far as I can tell) hardcover of Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs, who had his correspondence censored by the British Army in WW1. 40 pages in and it’s disturbing – as to be expected – but a little disjointed. I hope the narrative ties together a bit more but I’ll plow ahead.
Hmm – I see it’s available for free on Kindle.
That sounds fascinating. I’ve recently been listening to those Dan Carlin WWI podcasts people rave about – enjoying them but still not into the whole podcast thing. I’d rather just read something so I can absorb it at my own pace. Anyway, it’s amazing how little most of us know of WWI compared with WWII when WWI is so crucial to almost everything that’s happened since.
The 20th Century began on July 28, 1914. We still live with its repercussions.
Podcasts are great for travelin’ – I also listen to them during lunch, but I hear ya. There is just so much information in a three hour long podcast that it’s hard to keep track of it all. WW1 is a hard study though – after the initial Battle of the Frontiers, the war turns into a slogging meat grinder.
This is true. Reading about WWI almost inevitably becomes a gray haze of soldiers being mowed down in front of trenches over and over and over again. It gets both dull and incredibly depressing.
WW1 has been one of my biggest pet interests ever since i was a young boy and noticed everyone talked about the sequel all the fucking time, but even the most educated adults I respected couldn’t tell me a single fucking thing about the Great War except that we fought the Germans then too.
When 2014 rolled around, I expected a sort of extended period of renewed interest in the war spread out over the remaining four years. Instead, fucking *nothing*. We’ll probably get a few commemorations on TV as the end approaches next year, but that’s it. I am disappointed and a little disgusted, frankly. WW1 may be the single most important war for humanity to keep in mind. It is probably mankind’s greatest single tragedy in the classical sense. Much as i “love” the subject (I disagree that it is the slightest bit boring; it was one of the most fascinating turning points in human history), sometimes I just can’t deal with getting in too deep; after 100 years it still is utterly haunting and takes so much out of you to contemplate.
Well, first of all, America’s role in the Great War was much more minor than WWII, so it’s unsurprising that it never captured the American imagination like WWII. Total American combat fatalities were 53K – the British lost 19K on the first day at the Somme alone. Second of all, by dull I meant that, unlike WWII, the battles were largely the same in character. Enormous set-piece battles over the same ground repeatedly, some grinding on for months, with enormous loss of life while gaining very little in territory. The war was rather monotonous in a horrific way. Finally, something Carlin points out in his podcast – Hitler was the best thing that could have ever happened to the Kaiser. Kaiser Bill was the big villain of the war, popularly regarded as this monster…..yet compared to Hitler he’s practically a figure of tragic comedy. The unique evil of the Nazis renders the previous Reich rather tame in comparison, and there isn’t this shine of nobility surrounding WWI as there is WWII.
I do agree with you that the mass ignorance of the Great War in this country is a terrible shame given how incredible the impact it had (and still has to this day), but I understand why that is so.
You’re right; how chauvinist of me! WW1 is of course a much bigger deal in Europe. When you don’t lose a third of your male population, as France did, it’s a little hard to really relate. (Makes you almost want to be a bit more understanding of France’s WW2 conduct, for instance.) Still, America should be paying attention because it’s America that needs to learn the lesson these days. If we can be interested in the Scottish Wars of Independence from the High Middle Ages we can manage this.
Kaiser Bill really was a *massive* dick. There was one kind, gentle, liberal Hohenzollern in the post-unification age–his dad, Frederick III. The fact that he died almost immediately was a fascinatingly fateful historical development. Charles of Austria, on the other hand, really did deserve his recent beatification. Not perfect, but a powerfully decent man (along with his wife and their family) that history is extremely lucky to have had in place.
It really only is forgotten here. Over in Europe, it’s a huge deal. I remember when I went to England back in September 2014, visited the Imperial War Museum in London, and they had a massive exhibit just devoted to the Great War, as well as countless memorials/stained glass windows commemorating it.
It needs to be taught more here though (along with better history and civics and economics in general.)
I have to disagree pretty strongly. There has probably been no period of more rapid change in military technology, organisation and tactics. Armies in 1914 were late 19th century forces plus a few maxim guns; by 1918 they’re recognisably modern in every respect. If you’re finding the war dull I recommend looking for books by proper military historians rather than “popular histories”, and looking at every time and place except the first half of the war on the Western Front.
Good point about the Front! We have been fascinated at the stasis of the stereotypical Western trench. But the East for example is quite fascinating, too, and anything but static!
Only really on the Western Front. Reading about the other fronts, it’s far more interesting and mobile. I recommend reading up on German East Africa, especially. It was essentially one German army fighting a guerilla war against a numerically and better supplied superior British and Portuguese force and being able to outmaneuver them for four years.
Excellent book, but horrifying and disturbing.
I’ll dig up the rest of this piece later when I get the chance.
RIGHTS FOR ALL
by Anita Bolivar Yzaguirre-Stehling
The notorious extreme right-wing website, reason.com, suffered a downturn in web traffic over the past several months when a bloc of their long-time commenters, too extreme and too right-wing even by the Koch Brothers’ standards, left to start their own website, glibertarians.com. Racist-sexist-homophobic doesn’t begin to describe the truly hateful tone at that site, one in which a user can search for posts under the “Jews” tag.
In their morning post of links on April 20th, one of their posters – an obvious supporter of police brutality – asked the following questions while sharing a link:
Hey, if the police officers can have one, shouldn’t the homeless get a Bill Of Rights as well? Ooh, I have a better idea: why don’t we just have one for all of us and apply it equally?
Note the spiteful tone in the first question, making it obvious that this cis-het white shitlord doesn’t care about the rights of the homeless. Then, in the second question, he dares to make another snarky appeal to equality. What this Ken Spicer (his connections to Donald Trump couldn’t be more obvious) is referring to is the so-called Bill of Rights in the US Constitution, a document which codified the superiority of rich white slave owners. To suggest that each disadvantaged group in America (which rules the police right out) doesn’t deserve its own Bill of Rights is to literally declare to the world, “I want to reinstate slavery and deny women the right to vote”.
It’s important to review history in order to learn from it, so let’s review this Bill of Enslavement, excuse me, Bill of Rights and see how this “sloopy Inca” (again, mockery of First Peoples) character comes to believe that it confers equal rights to all of us:
1) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The Founding Patriarchs had huge blind spots about their own worldview, which is common to conservatives. There’s nothing stopping Congress from legislating against atheists, and certainly, had legislation been introduced to prohibit the practice of Islam, it would have been passed and signed into law with flying colors. Shitlord reasoning would simply point out that Islam is not a legitimate religion, and thus not subject to First Amendment protections.
And “freedom of speech” is a license to Hate Speech. The Founding Patriarchs, with their lock-step world view, couldn’t recognize the hatred of their utterances. Free speech meant one could just say whatever they wanted without consequence. Had womyn, racial minorities, and trans-persons been allowed to serve in Congress at that time, hate speech would have been justly exempted from First Amendment protections. It is also amusing that the Founding Patriarchs used the amendment to protect the press, because it was a two-way street in those times. Journalists of that time, having come from the same stagnant swamp of white shitlords that the Patriarchs did, were simply unwilling to speak truth to power. Compare that situation to the diversity in newsrooms today, and there’s no question that press protection would fall by the wayside if the Constitution was being drafted today.
LOL I love how this isn’t parody. Right? Right????
This should be a regular feature.
OMFG
Where is that from?
No, you’re fucking kidding me! You’re that prominent already? Was this a real, honest media piece about GLibs? Where was it?
Congratulations to all, and thanks again for all your hard, uncompensated work. I had to admit when you announced it I was skeptical it would amount to anything, but you definitely deserve the recognition. A citation from a more “friendly” source can’t help but be just around the corner either!
Sorry, guys – there’s no link because I made it all up.
I would do this from time to time at Reason. The formula:
1) a plausibly ridiculous leftist name for the author
2) argument from assertion
3) mix in some typical leftist/SJW language
and boom, instant and, I believe, accurate parody.
BOO! I do not take kindly to being made Poe’s buttmonkey.
STEVE SMITH MAKE YOU HIS BUTTMONKEY
To quote Billy Bob Thornton: Thank the fuck Christ!
Seriously though, this should be a feature. Quotemine the articles/commentary once in awhile and write up an outlandish lefty “guest” critique of it.
This . . . is awesome.
I’m so proud to know you folks, in the digital sense, that is. And FS Jr? You should submit this to HuffPo or Jezebel or somesuch. Really.
“One of their posters”
One of their posters? I’m just “one of their posters”?!?!?! That broad needs to get yer shit straight!
Also, whichever one of you this was needs to not use my real name since it doesn’t show up anywhere in my post. And while it’s part of my email address, I doubt a proggy retard would be smart enough to link through my handle to find it.
Sorry sloop, I thought your real name was an open secret round these parts.
It is. But an outsider wouldn’t be likely to include it in a critique. Because they’d likely not know it from the past.
And I don’t care if everybody knows my name. But I’ll never shed the “sloopy” handle.
True, I wouldn’t expect a leftist blogger to find your email address, see that it belongs to sloopyinca, and figure out that it’s your real name. That’s more deductive reasoning than they seem capable of.
You Inca’s sure are touchy.
Wow, that is some invincibly ignorant, clueless, and delicious DERP!
Thanks for sharing.
Godammit, I was hoping that was real!
You, sir, are gifted with a talent for spinning tales. Well done.
sloopy inca? I thought it was sloop yinca!
Am I on a hate list now?
Heatst on the the “Sokal hoax” of social justice grievance peddling. The putative author of the article sounds pretty lefty anyway, what with analogizing Trump’s “Muslim ban” to apartheid. It wasn’t, and it isn’t, but okay. I guess I’m getting less mileage out of the stunt than others: it seems like an indictment of HuffPo’s loose editorial standards rather than some grand expose of the left’s bigotry toward whites, which is a known quantity and nobody denies. Not vehemently, anyway. So where’s the meat here?
Heat Street is run by loony Trump-hater Louise Mensch, who sees Russians hiding in her broom closet.
The one doing the Muslim ban = apartheid comparison wrote the hoax piece that HuffPo published. I linked Heatst because the source Heatst uses is firewalled at work.
That’s excellent. Excellent.
Since today is the day it is, I thought I’d give an update to my previous post about starting my own business. Even if we are pretty deep in the links at this point.
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind. I put the rental house on the market, sold it in 5 days at full asking for about an 80% profit in 3 years. Then had the buyer back out during the 5 day remorse period. So it is back on the market. Not worried, our real estate market is ridiculous. I expect another offer by the end of the weekend.
On the actual venture side. My partner and I had a couple of experts come in to help us setup a special type of trellis for our High Value Plants as well as building some hoop houses and making some improvements to our existing veg and flower rooms. We all worked like field…uh, hands. Yeah, hands. We should be able to get 3 turns from the small operation by Oct. It’s kind of funny. I grew up in a rural town from folks who worked in the cotton mill and farming and spent the first 20 years of my adult life trying to get as far the fuck away from manual labor as I could. 3 Piece Suits, Spreadsheets, and all that. Now, I find myself leveling ground, building greenhouses, potting plants, watering them, and discovering I really enjoy it.
We also have started looking at land for expansion and making the jump from med to rec and working on the business model, overall strategy, and starting to pencil in more of the numbers. I’m tired but happy, my wife and girlfriend are happy, as they both seem to find the idea of being with a “farmer” appealing. I’ve even managed to maintain my gym routine, though I’ve backed down the cardio component. Shoveling dirt, moving plants, watering, etc burns a lot more calories than sitting at a desk in an office.
The operation is generating some revenue already, but we’re at that early stage of pouring every damn penny back into the business, neither of us taking any money out yet for ourselves. Poor boying/redneck engineering lots of our solutions for now, but that is all part of the fun.
Questions?
Did you get to keep the security deposit from the seller that backed out?
In the state we live in, the buyer essentially has 10 days from the time of the offer being accepted to back out and keep the earnest money. IT is really only a deposit from day 10 until closing. The market is so ridiculously hot though, I don’t think it hurts us much. It was off the market mostly for the week days and this weekend looks to be nice.
Yeah, I have a question. You have a wife *and* a girlfriend? Or she has a girlfriend?
Also what kind of plants will you be growing? Just wondering.
I have both. And yes, they are aware of each other but they aren’t involved other than as friends.
My business partner has a small medical cannabis grow he’s been doing for many years. We’re going to be taking it recreational and plan to add processing as well. We’re using the med grow as the launch pad. There’s a cap on the number of plants per med grower that are in flower, but no cap on the /size/ of each plant or the number in veg. So we’re doing work now to increase the size and therefore the yield while starting the process of getting the rec. license where there is no cap on number of plants and we can legally do processing. We are boot-strapping the whole operation with relatively small investment compared to some of the folks with more experience that are jumping in with millions of dollars from backers. But we have some advantages, and right now the demand is so far outstripping the supply we think it has a shot. We already have more demand than we can meet, but we are scaling up fast. It’s a really interesting business.
Our company makes some equipment for cannabis processing:
http://evansmactavish.com/cannabis-processing-equipment.html
Thank you. Bookmarked for further research.
Some want more diversity in science, some want to humanize the research enterprise, some are alarmed by President Trump — and others want to advocate for the value of research and evidence-based decisions.
Kay. It’s a march. For science. Reasons for marching: “The reason I’m marching is for diversity in STEM fields,” said Delgado, who will represent the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science
Aright then. I fucking love science!
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/seattles-march-for-science-has-many-goals-at-heart-scientists-want-to-advocate-for-evidence-based-decision-making/
others want to advocate for the value of research and evidence-based decisions.
Like not hysterically trying to destroy the fossil fuel sector over weak-to-nonexistent suggestions of catastrophic anthropomomololorgic global warming?
I’m also guessing alternative medicine types will not be strongly represented. Since they talk a lot about ‘evidence based results’.
Of course, they think anecdotes = evidence.
others want to advocate for the value of research and evidence-based decisions
“You mean studies showing GMOs are safe?”
“No, GMOs are bad.”
“Oh, so studies showing fracking does not pollute groundwater when done properly?”
“No, fracking is always bad.”
“Hmm. Studies showing that pesticide residue is minimal and harmless?”
“No, pesticides are definitely bad. Go organic.”
“Vaccine safety?”
“You kidding? My kids aren’t vaccinated, I don’t want them to get autism.”
“Um… global warming?”
“THAT’S THE ONE!!! YOU DENIERS HAVE TO STOP IGNORING THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS!!!”
This is comment #410. Can we get 10 more and then stop for the day? How precise is the spontaneous order here?
That would be…like, so far out, man
I read it as schfifty five. But my math is a little rusty.
Oh, total comments. Carry on. I think mine are 421 and 422, so thank me for fucking it up.
Good job, ya done fucked it up!
Give your balls a tug ya titfucker
From the Jezebel link. Paging Dr. Freud.
What would y’all penised-Americans think of this for a bday or xmas present? (I would axe* the chicks, too, but I’m-a give this to a dude)
*What I did there – do you see it?
If he is a serious outdoorsy type and wood* use it fairly often, then I say yes. IMO that is too nice of a gift to only be used once or twice.
What I did there…did you see it?
Is that secret code for: “actually I want to get him Axe body spray”? If so, do it.
With your link, that tool is baaaad ass. I love the multi-hex wrench cored out of the middle. Awesome.
Just get a hatchet and be done with it. All those extra “tools” on there get kinda useless with a hatchet attached to it. I would have serious reservations about swinging something around with that attachment setup they have.
Estwing hatchet
Woah! for that kind of money get a Leatherman multi-tool as well.
That hatchet isn’t compact like the one I linked to. The main point was that it was small and could go in a glove compartment.
Once you stick a handle on the head it’s gonna be a similar size. By the look of the picture there are two set screws that you will need to loosen to get the nut free so it can rotate. If that is the case you need a small allen wrench to fix and remove your handle to the head.
I know it has a fun and looks cool factor but personally I find that those can be vexing when it comes to actual usage.
anywho, my two cents.
The dude in question does A LOT of travel/camping/roughing it for his job. He rarely stays in motels. Thought I’d put together a lil package for him with the axe and a little stove.
Here’s the axe in action from CRH
That guy is a bonehead. wacking that little dried out limb with hatchet, just put a foot on it and snap. A small hammer would have achieved the same result.
I use my hatchets for splitting more than chopping. Cut to length with a saw, then split.
Don’t you rag on CRH!!!
Also, he likes weapons n shit.
no no no no no no no.
it’s gimmicky as shit and looks like the worst of every conceivable world. no chance that hatchet holds up over a tough log chopping weekend. he could be carving a spoon or wooden effigy to you and it slips off and now he’s short a thumb.
for $180 too?? no way. DO NOT.
get him a solid multi-tool or if you really want to get him a compact hatchet, this is the best on the planet:
http://cspforestry.com/products/gransfors-bruks-hand-hatchet-413.html?gclid=CJ-9jfHKs9MCFYxLDQodwloGcw
i know because i have one. it’s actually for my daughter as i’ve already engraved her name down the side opposite the Gransfors logo but she’s still too young for it.
24 lbs!?! You’ll get your workout with that one.
…further down, 1 1/2 lbs, that’s more like it.
This one looks more “gift like” than my Estwing suggestion.
it’s as beautiful as it is robust.
I like Raston’s suggestion. That will turn into “grandpa’s hatchet” and the grandkids will fight over who gets it after he dies.
Like the hammer in Earth Abides?
assuming KibbledKristen’s boyfriend survives the pestilence, yes, exactly like that.
OK, so how about a really nice hand-forged Bowie?
sure. just don’t skimp on the sheath.
this shovel’s also pretty badass in a funny way. it comes with a belt sheath b/c the edges are sharp (meant for bushwacking or fighting?). hey, that’s multi-purpose!
https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Steel-92SFS-Special-Forces/dp/B008TSPSZM/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_4?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1492715137&sr=1-4-fkmr0&keywords=sfs+shovel+with+sheath
Get a Ka-Bar kukri. If it’s good enough for Gurkhas, it’s good enough for me, and I’ve never been less than satisfied with a Ka-Bar.
I was thinking to visit a forge next time I’m down seeing my Pa (Western NC). I’ll see if whoever I visit can make a Kukri for me. Or maybe a Viking battleaxe (like me, ha! ha!)
That looks like it would be illegal in more than a few cities… perfect.