The Ides of March they are upon you/All the live long day. If you belong to a certain college fandom, that will be rattling around in your head if it wasn’t already. Otherwise, it’s just a Thursday that feels like Friday to me because holy hell does it take a lot of energy to pretend to have things to do. I am in the waiting stage of a project, and a little like a smart dog left at home too long. I’m about to start tearing shit up out of boredom. That’s not great. Also, some sportzball thing is happening — sorry Sooners fans. Missed it by that much. So onto the links
More collusion between the Trump administration and Russia. This time the administration is attempting to throw the Gnostics off the truth by apply sanctions! Don’t fall for it, Sheeple!
I hope he was eye-blinking SOS through this whole interview. H/T SF
Conclusive video footage of that brave SRO standing around attempting to draw fire by not seeking better cover. “Investigators revealed Peterson’s focus was on getting nearby streets and the high school shut down and keeping deputies away from the building.” Were a crowd to descend on his home and burn it down with him inside it, I’d have a hard time convicting them of anything worse than burning trash without a permit.
Cue Dennis Hopper speech from True Romance: “Your great-great-great-grandmother f’d a Denisovan. In fact, Denisovans did so much f’ing with Mongolian women that they changed the whole bloodline.”
Holy shit, this is horrific. A footbridge installed last weekend collapsed in Miami. It looks flat and there are people under there.
This has nothing to do with anything, but the song came up earlier offline and I feel like sharing some guitar.
How ‘bout some afternoon tits and ass?
http://archive.is/dFwdy
Try to make it past 9. I DARE YOU.
If you don’t, you’ll miss out on 70, however.
So that bridge collapse, and those dead people, that’s pret FUCK IT PUSSY EAT SOME TITTAYS
I’m glad we’re on the same page.
I believe the correct formulation is “Keep Calm and Chive On”, bro.
OOO YEAH SNAP INTO SOME TITTAYS
Slim Jim + Tits = Utopia.
Macho Man Randy Savage would be proud
I never thought titty pics could turn into a dead horse, but here we are, Warty. Also: SQUAT MOAR U SKNNY BITCH
I was watching some girl squat in the power rack next to me and her butt was touching her heels she was going so deep. I’ve been diligent to go 90 degrees, but should I go deeper?
/crushes series of softballs out of park.
That had to be on purpose.
*Fans self*
Always go deeper, FM.
I come here with serious questions and this is the response I get? Also, I’ll try, Jesse.
I come here with serious questions and this is the response I get?
In my head-canon you’re here entirely for the constant sexual harassment with morbid undertones and everything else is just incidental.
TAKE SOME CREEPSHOTS OF DAT ASS PUSSY AND POST EM ON THE FUCKIN CHIVE OH YEAAAAAAAAAAH
Go at least to the point at which the crease of your hip is below the top of your knee. Go deeper if you can get there without relaxing your back and looking like a cat taking a shit.
So deep as possible with good form. Thank you, Dr Warty.
DOCTOR TITTTAYS, TiD THE D IS FOR DEM TITTTTTTTAYS OH YEAH LOOKIT DEM TITS
If it’s too much and you have to drop the weight, do some kipping pull-ups for your penance.
*Salutes smartly
You’re trolling with you comment on 70 aren’t you?
She has pizza.
19’s been working on her calves, I see
#86 is Angela White. I’ll take her.
So there’s an active shooter scenario across the street (literally). At least two people shot, shooters appear to be holed up in an apartment and cops are swarming.
It’s not even summer yet.
Where are you?
At work (Newport News, Va). There’s an apartment complex across the street and section 8 housing down the street. Usually, the problems come from the section 8 housing, not today.
Ah, the pleasant streets of Bad News.
Actually across the street and holed up and trying to build an alibi?
You’re not helping.
Be safe and always remember to follow the rules of an active shooter situation.
(1) Asses the situation
(2) Log on to Glibs to see Q’s girly post
(3) Mention casually that there is an active shooter situation going on across the street
The guys in the back want to start testing the 90 lb jackhammers. They sound vaguely like an automatic rifle.
I said “yeaaaahhhhhh….. NO”
Those guys have a death wish
They’re in the back. They just want to get Scruffy shot.
I want you on my emergency preparedness team, JS.
“I’m the guy who can’t spell “assess” correctly. Follow me to find a computer so we can look at Q’s girly pics.”
– Me leading people to their untimely end in an active shooter situation
We’ll get them open casket services to show off the erections they were sporting.
Why can’t I watch both? My office window faces that side. Tits and guns, tits and guns….
Agreed. I’m more than partial myself to Girls of the IDF.
*Nods aggressively
SHUT UP PUSSY LOOKIT DEM TITTTTTAYYYYYYYS
Ms Scruffy: Oh God- there’s a shooting across the street
Scruffy: Shut-up, I’m trying to log onto Glibs
Ms Scruffy: There’s blood everywhere outside!
Scruffy: Damn it, woman- Q’s got some new pictures. Will you keep it down
Ms Scruffy: Oh no, no, no- there’s a SWAT team returning fire
Scruffy: I swear to God- if you don’t shut-up I’m going to shove you out the door. Never interrupt tittays
Swarming, not storming?
Waiting on SWAT. They’ve surrounded one of the apartment buildings.
Last time SWAT showed up over there, they shut down my street and set up their MOBILE COMMAND HEADQUARTERS.
Last time?
It’s been a few years. A sheriff tried to serve a warrant and the asshat yelled thru the door “I’VE GOT A GUN”
It didn’t go well for him in the end, but that was after several dozen cops camped out around him for a few hours and burnt thru god knows how many tens of thousands of dollars.
But they got that sweet sweet overtime and got to go home at the end of the day.
Is it block war? This sounds like block war.
This is not good. Stay safe!
Dumb question: What would an inactive shooter scenario be?
The shooting is done and it’s safe for the copes to put up yellow tape and collect overtime.
They don’t build em like they used to……
and it IS Florida so…..
They don’t build em like they used to……
The article did mention that it was a new “quick-build” method used to construct it, so this is probably the cause. A standard foot-bridge is such a common thing that it would be almost impossible to mess up from the engineering side, so there was probably a construction failure (my bet is bad concrete) or they were using some newfangled design.
Ban assault foot bridges.
No one needs a bridge with a thing that goes up.
Or especially a thing that goes down.
Bobarian’s first job in the Army
This could never have happened if we wouldn’t allow unregulated bridges to kill our children.
The bridge collapse if further evidence of our nation’s crumbling infrastructure!
Oh, wait, construction started in 2017 and it was just getting completed.
See, it must be Trumps fault!!!111!!11one!!eleventy1!!
It’s a shame a bridge doesn’t fall on Scot Peterson
Something something… lowest bidder…. something something…. disadvantaged ownership….
I really hope the pools of fluid that CBS just showed were just oil from the bridge landing on the car engines.
Hope might be thin, sadly
We’re all alpha testers now.
The bridge was supposed to be opened next year only. It was an unfinished bridge: without stairs or ramps.
If Congress had paid and extra $billion for it, this wouldn’t have happened.
It seems like you can’t say “infrastructure” without saying “crumbling” in front of it,
“crumbling infrastructure” is one of those must-do combos like “commit suicide”.
I wonder which low-level Caucasian civil engineer gets fired at the connected engineering and construction firm.
“More collusion between the Trump administration and Russia.”
Trump and Putin are playing 32 dimensional Hungry, Hungry Hippos
Well done links today, Brett
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-08/the-battery-will-kill-fossil-fuels-it-s-only-a-matter-of-time". Something something rumors of death, something
The Battery Will Kill Fossil Fuels—It’s Only a Matter of Time
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Batteries, once relegated to powering small devices like remote controls and watches, are now poised to energize the things most central to daily life, from smartphones to cars to entire homes and offices. And Big Oil’s taken notice. At CERAWeek by IHS Markit — an annual conference that has drawn some of the largest names in the world of fossil fuels to Houston this week — executives met to talk batteries, not once, but twice.
“The question is no longer if batteries will disrupt the power sector,” IHS wrote in a description of one of the discussions, “but rather how much and how fast?” (If it’s any indication of how the industry itself feels about this, the first of these sessions was held across the street from the actual conference, at a restaurant, and it was still packed.)
I remain skeptical.
Author does admit to some short term obstacles later in the article.
Do they ever get to talking about how those batteries get charged?
Always with the negative waves, Moriarity!
Always loved that movie.
They’re already charged right out of the package when you buy them.
The rechargeable ones are charged by plugging them into the wall.
Duh.
Or how they get made?
#thinkoftheAfricans
How are large batteries filled with corrosive acids more ‘green’ than fossil fuels?
Magic.
Duh.
If you think CO2 is the world’s greatest threat, a bit of acid here and there may be a worthwhile tradeoff.
I’m kidding, the moment batteries become sufficiently good to replace gasoline in cars, the Greens will rise against them.
See: evolution of attitude towards natural gas as the price went down. Or the way BC Greens treat hydroelectric power (it’s actually viable and profitable up here).
Also, nuclear power
Batteries already power smartphones. Don’t they?
/hand cranks WWII era phone…
My cell phone is a combination of water and nuclear powered.
That power is merely stored in batteries.
My cell phone is powered by coal and NG.
I can’t comment on the article, because the link is broken, but a nuclear powered America with battery powered cars appeals to me because it sticks it to all the oil snob countries.
*Obviously if nuke/bat wins in a free market.
You can’t hug your kids with nuclear bats
True. Mostly because I don’t have kids.
What’s the downside?
*Pages Gojira*
I’m sure there’s none.
*shelters in place while nuclear bats and Gojira battle for dominance over Tokyo*
None at all.
Nuclear bats want to suck your cytoplasm.
Can you beat them with nuclear bats?
I can’t comment on the article, because the link is broken, but a nuclear powered America with battery powered cars appeals to me because it sticks it to all the oil snob countries.
Personally, I’m hoping for the Fallout world, where ever car is powered by its own miniature nuclear reactor.
Well, remote controls, phones, and watches never ran off of coal or gasoline, so there’s that.
Besides, maybe science people can help me out here, but my understanding is that fossil fuels, particularly in the case of gasoline, is that they’re both relatively simple technologically-speaking and they’re very efficient in terms of capturing and using the energy produced by burning them. Electricity is great for things like electronics (naturally) and light and watches and so forth because you need something that can scale down, is reasonably safe for use in a living space, and is easy to transport. But it’s not particularly well-suited to powering motors. Batteries in particular are very heavy relative to the equivalent amount of gasoline or diesel.
And in most places, your “electric” car is either a hybrid, meaning it’s using gasoline to generate electricity, or it’s fully-electric, which is to say it’s indirectly coal-powered.
fully-electric, which is to say it’s indirectly coal-powered.
Just because its electric doesn’t mean its generated by coal. It could be nuclear, NG, oil, solar, water, etc.
That being said, I love blowing peoples minds when they mention how much they love that their new electric car is 100% emission free. “Well, you’re just making the emissions somewhere else, where you can pretend it doesn’t exist. That’s nice, ain’t it?” The look on people’s faces for the next two seconds is priceless.
I don’t get why this isn’t common knowledge.
In LA, for example, they haven’t built a new power plant in decades. Anything added to the grid since then has used power generated by a coal plant in Arizona.
I don’t get why this isn’t common knowledge.
Because chicken comes from the grocery store.
Out of sight, out of mind is pretty common.
Outsourced emissions need to include manufacturing and disposal. I have a couple True Believers in my family and they hate it when I ask questions about their smugmobiles.
My sister was Lee’s than pressed when I ran through the math and showed her that unless she keeps it for an unreasonably long time without needing new batteries, that my 1994 civic was far ‘greener’ than her Nissan.
Bleh. Less than pleased, rather. Stupid phone.
The worst automotive thing for the environment was “Cash For Clunkers”.
Wasn’t too great for the poor either.
“Obstacles”
None of which, I’m betting without reading, were energy density or other similar unalterable physical properties of our universe.
https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/974011713187205121
The dingbat didn’t fall far from the tree
Cunt
You know, the proggies drive me so nuts that it’s always good to be reminded of why I’m no longer a Republican. Thanks, Liz!
The only reason why I thought there might be hope for Trump’s foreign policy was because neocons hated him so much
Neocons hate everybody, which is why they want to kill everybody.
That’s just dumb.
Sick burn:
Damnnnnnnnn.
Chortle
Does she have any claim to fame besides being Dick Cheney’s daughter (and all around douche bag?)
She’s Wyoming’s representative in the House, but that’s probably her father’s coattails.
From the “collusion” link
Look, if the Russia storyline ends up with shitposters getting fucked, this will truly be the darkest timeline!
Also, nice “Gnostic” crack there, Brent!
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/974341685676249088
Iowa Hawk, America’s sweetheart
woodcockclarke
@woodcockclarke
6h6 hours ago
Replying to @iowahawkblog
Don’t say ‘fat’. Say ‘plus sized’.
No, no, NO! It’s “curvy,” goddammit! That’s what my models always tell me!
Do they ever get to talking about how those batteries get charged?
Good intentions.
*waves hands, disappears in puff of smoke*
You ever partied so hard you woke up with a Denisovan?
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovan
You rock, CW.
I do, don’t I?
Golf clap for the both of you.
There’s just no pleasing some people
But some said they would oppose Amazon’s presence in their city, whether or not they were offered tax cuts.
“Right now in Pittsburgh, we’re losing three black people every day from the city to the surrounding area,” said Carl Redwood, a community organizer and professor of social work at the University of Pittsburgh. “Amazon coming won’t change that trend. It will accelerate the trend.”
“My view is that they should keep on walking,” he added. “Don’t come to Pittsburgh. Amazon is not welcome here.”
Anti-HQ2 activists in Atlanta and Washington shared Redwood’s concern about the displacement of black communities from cities, and the tech industry’s execrable track record for hiring black and Latino employees does not give them confidence that selecting a majority black city will change that.
Kamen said she expected Amazon would have “district residents work in the janitorial jobs and construction, and give all the high paying jobs to incoming white workers”.
I’m all in favor of *not* giving Amazon massive tax breaks, and anybody who isn’t a complete idiot realizes Amazon HQ2 is going to radically alter whatever city it lands in, but this is starting to look like opposition for its own sake, because Bezos is like rich, and shit.
So Pittsburgh is so bad even the black people are leaving? Or Pittsburgh is doing so great the black people are making bank by cashing out?
The professor is mad that black people won’t do what he wants them to do.
White flight or gentrification – make up your fucking minds as to which one is bad.
I don’t see why Gentrification would be such a bad thing. Unless, of course, the local residents completely fail to take advantage of the job opportunities that crop up with the influx of disposable income, and there are absolutely no owner-occupied housing units because everyone is on section 8 benefits…
That’s the problem with the Left. I think they make some fair points about gentrification when it is being subsidized by tax dollars, but then their complaints always just devolve into some race baiting. They always present a Catch 22 situation
If if it’s with tax dollars, I don’t think their points are fair. Their precious city government always needs more revenue and if it comes from the state – the rest of the population the left actually hates – then they’re usually in favor of it.
What they can’t stand is seeing people that are supposed to love and serve the left just up and leaving to go hang with the despised suburbanites.
I see cities that use property tax revenues from the city (not state) to subsidize ‘artist lofts’ and Jamba Juice (I’m not kidding). And that’s complete bullshit
I honestly don’t recall ANY leftists bitching about subsidizing artists lofts and what not. Usually they’re bitching about a developer using his own money and demanding set-asides – which usually means rents have to increase to the point that overpriced outlets like Jamba Juice have to be courted to offset the costs.
“Right now in Pittsburgh, we’re losing three black people every day from the city to the surrounding area,” said Carl Redwood, a community organizer and professor of social work at the University of Pittsburgh. “Amazon coming won’t change that trend. It will accelerate the trend.”
I’m unclear, is he complaining or bragging?
Can anyone explain to me why Google took away the ability to just view an image from their image searches? Like, I don’t want to visit this fucking site. I want to steal this picture as quickly and efficiently as possible. Fuck off.
Yeah, that sucks.
Ok, that actually is racism. Assuming black people can’t work at Amazon/are incompatible with the tech industry? Fuck that.
“‘Anti-HQ2 activists in Atlanta and Washington shared Redwood’s concern about the displacement of black communities from cities,””
if they spread out all over the place, we can’t use them as reliable voting blocs!
^THIS
Although if you’ve seen the gerrymandered districts in Illinois you’d know that problem has been resolved years ago.
And God forbid they should start blackin’ up the liberal suburbs! We’ve already got three black couples, and you know once you reach a critical mass they start speaking in Ebonics and wearing dashikis and being loud all the time!
If Amazon gives them jobs, they might start caring about taxes like asshole Republicans.
Bezos isn’t lining the right people’s pockets. Just like Obama in Chicago. I mean, if anyone should know better, it’s him. Community organizers gotta eat!
Look, there are rules to the dance! Before you pay them off, they need to whine so you identify key figures, then you go back and forth in the media to keep your visibility up, then a theatrical summit meeting, and only then do you start trading.
Once he’s established himself locally, then we can go on auto-pilot payouts.
I just think of it as someplace gaining 3 black people.
/optimist
These dead pharohs put up more of a fight than the living ones did…
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/15/bad-news-matt-damon-might-leaving-u-s-trump/
Matt Damon is leaving the US because of Drumpf. Electing Trump was totally worth it I guess. America is Great Again!
Hope he takes his schoolteacher mother with him.
Nah, she’s got to stay here to make sure she collects her six figure pension
This calls for a celebration. Maybe he can take Affleck with him and my generation will not suck quite as hard due to their absence.
to be fair, California is already a foreign country
He’s not leaving, if you RTA.
Why would I read the article when I can make wild speculations off of the headline? How do you not know that? You just outed yourself as a mole
Damon has allegedly bought a home in Byron Bay, NSW. I guess to be closer to the likes of Nicole Kidman or Chris Hemsworth. Though I didn’t recognize any Aussie celebrities when I was in Byron Bay.
The bad news in the headline is that it is completely false; he has not bought a house and has no plan to move to Australia, according to his publicist.
You commented after reading the article, which is not our custom. You have outed yourself as a mole
Imposter.
Get him.
The true Bobarian would have said something like: “Take Lena Dunham too” without reading the article. The impostor read the article. That’s a massive faux pas
Wait, are you positing the existence of some kind of…Anti-Tulpa?
Because the concept is disturbing and mind-boggling. A place where entities that are not Tulpa exist?!
Something I’d expect Tulpa to say… to himself.
True Fact: Nolan came up with Inception as a simplified model oh his attempts to understand Tulpa.
He failed. Except for all the money, fame and recognition it brought.
“Teachers should make, like, a billion dollars a year! On an unrelated note, my vast wealth and I are leaving the country.”
What a shitty fucken call against Milan. Fuck you Arsenal. Fuck you refs.
And fuck you Welbeck. Wanker.
That was bad. He flopped!
and keeping deputies away from the building
Wat?
That’ll learn her
“You are banned! You and your children! And your children’s children!…For three months!”
“they hoped would go viral”
mission accomplished
Lots of bad decisions in such a short span of time.
Not sure what good putting her in prison for a long time does, though. Suicide by girlfriend, really.
I mean, I don’t care how hot she is or how long we’ve been together, if the special lady in my life comes at me with a deadly weapon, one of us is dying. If she’s crazy or angry enough to do it once, she’s gonna do it again. Or she’s gonna think you’re suspicious and beat you to the punch.
10 Ways to Check Your Privilege With Fast Food and Other Service Workers
The tips in the article are fine since they mostly boil down to “don’t be an asshole”, I just think it’s funny that apparently you can’t just tell SJWs “don’t be an asshole”, you need to dress it up with a lot of Marxist/SJW/class warfare bullshit.
It’s simple – don’t piss off the people who handle your food.
This is why I only eat at places where the staff is too weak from overwork to take revenge.
Apart from the self-preservation aspects, how about just a general “don’t be a dick to people”.
Nah, it’ll never catch on.
Actually, the more I think about it, this article kind of pisses me off.
Because it’s not saying that you shouldn’t be an asshole because being an asshole isn’t nice, or that everyone deserves respect, or anything like that.
Instead, it’s saying that you shouldn’t be an asshole to people who have (what the author considers to be) shitty jobs, because those people are victims.
Could have summed it up as be polite and respectful and clean up after yourself, like Mom taught you.
Ghost of Boondoggles Past
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Cost_Autonomous_Attack_System
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The Low Cost Autonomous Attack System (LOCAAS). In 1998 the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army Lockheed Martin began to examine the feasibility of a small, affordable cruise missile weapon for use against armoured and unarmoured vehicles, materiel and personnel, and if so develop a demonstration program.[1] The program has cost approx. $150,000,000 so far; the cost per unit is calculated to be $30,000 based on a production of 12,000 units.
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Had it worked, that sounds like a good deal – AFVs cost a lot more than that. Even a technical might be a net gain, if relative spending power is taken into account.
But, I guess it was cancelled before it entered production, based on the numbers (12,000 * 30,000 = 360M).
This kind of thing keeps getting upgraded and renamed and more expensive.
For instance.
if i recall, current cruise missiles cost in excess of a few million, so this would be wildly affordible
i think many bombs – dumb bombs – cost in the 10s of $1000s themselves.
I saw this by accident a few weeks ago. It did not improve my opinion of sportsball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spl4ENm1Jlk
Earl Campbell used to have 25 or 30 runs a game more violent than that.
Earl Campbell and John Riggins made careers out of tougher runs than that.
Hell, add John Alstott and Christian Okoye to that list.
Jim Brown.
Plastic Bags = Better for the environment than those hipster cotton jobbies
the problem with these arguments is that the reason people use X vs Y isn’t because they want to help the environment
its because they WANT TO BE SEEN as wanting to help the environment
its not about “material reality”, its about “social cachet”
so no one will change what kind of bag they use, because the underlying reason isn’t even the thing being attacked.
I find it lame when I see men carrying those lame bags into the grocery store. It goes to show how easily misled people are when it comes to suff like this. Me, I’m all for paying the lousy nickel for the plastic bag.
The main thing I like about the reusable bags is that baggers are back to trying to fit things generally into fewer bags after years of drifting in the other direction. I grocery shop a few times per week for ~2 people there’s no reason I should have so many bags fora few items that they become unwieldy enough for a second trip to my car.
Jesse gets it.
they become unwieldy enough for a second trip to my car.
Are there no longer any shopping carts in California?
On my front “lawn”, no. For all of its failings it is not a hobo encampment yet.
According to the chart, a paper bag needs to be used 43 times to be better for the environment than a plastic bag. Which seems to be the ratio of bag usage at the grocery store anyway so it’s a wash. Also, a paper bag is safer to put over a child’s head.
Meh.
I like going to ethnic places and they average one item per bag.
I use them for other stuff.
I’m on the opposite side of this – the local grocery tries their best to shove as much stuff as possible into one bag, so half the time I end up with one bag that’s so overstuffed it’s difficult to carry and 1-2 loose items that won’t fit, instead of just two easy 2/3 full bags.
They’re doing that because they don’t want to give you plastic bags.
They do the same to me. I always tell them ‘itsokay. I’ll pay for the bags. Just don’t squish my zucchini.’
“Just don’t squish my zucchini.’”
Some folks pay good money for that, Rufus.
I was wondering who was going to be the first to react to that line.
I’m hurt that you had to wonder.
Shit, I held off to let jesse take his shot.
You’re a good man, Tundra.
I apologize.
I use three stupidly-strong woven nylon bags I got from my local Safeway before I got married (over a quarter of a century ago). And yes, I do wash them, because otherwise they’re disgusting, frankly.
The things they’re selling to people now as “reusable bags” is shite.
**SIGH** “are shite.”
SP! WHERE THE **HELL** IS MY EDIT BUTTON?!?
I use them because I just don’t want a bunch of plastic bags.
Actually, I don’t use them. I always forget to bring them and wind up with a hundred plastic bags because the idiot bagging the groceries puts one item per bag.
I hang them on the door handle for the front door once I’ve put away the groceries and grab them on the way out to my car in the morning. I’ve gone from always forgetting them to never. It’s just a matter of making it routine like checking for your phone, wallet, and keys before walking out.
Good idea. I’ll probably put a hook by the door for them.
I’m both lazy and absent-minded. If I don’t make things easy for myself I probably won’t get it done.
I just get new plastic bags at the grocery store every trip. They cost 10 cents a bag, but it’s worth it. After I’ve loaded the groceries into my car, I take the plastic bags, slather them with motor oil, and stick them to the roof of the nearest Prius. Once that’s aflame I feel satisfied that I have done my good deed for the day.
I use them to piss off environmentalists.
Plus my kitten’s litter.
So you’re confirming Gilmore’s assertion that your bag choice is largely signaling?
Also produce bags have largely filled the void with cleaning up after the cat, and they’re much less likely than standard grocery bags to have random holes in the bottom leaking cat shit all over the house when you go to take them out, cursing and tripping over the cat who now emptied desires only to be filled again.
“So you’re confirming Gilmore’s assertion that your bag choice is largely signaling?”
lol.
Nah.
It goes straight into a black Glad bag. So no worries about….leakage.
I think the “signaling” thing isn’t necessarily conscious
its that people attach significance to their decisions that is mostly invented for the sake of ego-fluffing. they like to feel like they’re “doing something”. banal behaviors are often motivated by this “how do i see myself” stuff, and are extremely hard to get people to change unless they can attribute some other new and positive-value to the alternative choice.
simply going, “doing what everyone else was already doing” is better for the environment lacks that sort of ‘this is something that reflects well on me’ hook.
this sort of thing is derived from my decades of working w/ CPG companies and talking to tons of marketers who, while utterly boring about most topics, sometimes had fascinating insights into consumer behavior/patterns and thought-processes.
related: marketing memo talks about tricking people into thinking they’re buying craft beer
https://torontolife.com/food/labatt-marketing-memo-suggests-tricking-people-thinking-theyre-buying-craft-beer/
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There is no shortage of ridicule-worthy bullshit in this very short brief (probably most notably that it contains the nonsensical sentence “flavoursome taste to drive Shock Top penetration with Experience Maximizers in the ‘Reward Myself’ need state.” Holy shit that’s a mouthful of corporate garbage)
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YOU CAN’T JUST THROW THEM AWAY
and what if you need to suffocate a small child or collect dog poo? the utility is endless.
both of those uses are equally well served with produce bags, Gilmore. In fact, I’d say a produce bag is more elegant for suffocating small children, not that I have strong opinions on this topic at all…
I guess trash floating in the ocean created some kind of singularity….
Isn’t the garbage patch the size of Texas/25% the size of Texas/400% the size of Texas on the Pacific Gyre? How fast do gyres need to be before they become vortices?
I will say I don’t miss jellyfish scares that were actually just clusters of plastic bags while swimming on the LA coast.
I can see that getting old quickly.
I had one incident where a particularly big wave and I had a tussle and I got somewhat tangled in a plastic bag and thought I’d die, but that seems like a relatively rare occurrence.
“How fast do gyres need to be before they become vortices?”
Sheesh, Jesse, it depends on how much they gimble in the wabe. Everyone knows that.
If Lewis Carrol was a weather man:
Forecast of the Borogroves: Tomorrow, brillig, high of 64 with a 50% chance of mimsy. Over in the Slithy Toves, we have a low pressure front moving in from the southeast. Over the next 2 days, we’re gonna see of gyre and gimble, but by the weekend the mome raths should outgrabe just in time for the Rose Bowl parade. Back to you, Chet.
*interestingly,
Reason has written, quite literally *dozens* of articles about plastic bags
Kochtopus-influence! They’re in the…. pocket(?)……. of Big Bag!
they *are* made from petroleum.
About that Russian nerve agent:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novichok_agent
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Extremely potent fourth-generation chemical weapons were developed in the Soviet Union and Russia from the 1970s until the early 1990s, according to a publication by two chemists, Lev Fedorov and Vil Mirzayanov in Moskovskiye Novosti weekly in 1992.[13][14][a] The publication appeared just on the eve of Russia’s signing of the Chemical Weapons Convention. According to Mirzayanov, the Russian Military Chemical Complex (MCC) was using defense conversion money received from the West for development of a chemical warfare facility.[2][3] Mirzayanov made his disclosure out of environmental concerns. He was a head of a counter-intelligence department and performed measurements outside the chemical weapons facilities to make sure that foreign spies could not detect any traces of production. To his horror, the levels of deadly substances were 80 times greater than the maximum safe concentration.[3][15]
The existence of Novichok agents was admitted by Russian military industrial complex authorities when they brought a treason case against Mirzayanov. According to expert witness testimonies prepared for the KGB by three scientists, Novichok and other related chemical agents had indeed been produced and therefore the disclosure by Mirzayanov represented high treason.[b]
Mirzayanov was arrested on 22 October 1992 and sent to Lefortovo prison for divulging state secrets. He was released later because “not one of the formulas or names of poisonous substances in the Moscow News article was new to the Soviet press, nor were locations … of testing sites revealed.”[3] According to Yevgenia Albats, “the real state secret revealed by Fyodorov and Mirzayanov was that generals had lied—and were still lying—to both the international community and their fellow citizens.”[3] Mirzayanov now lives in the U.S.
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There are generations of chemical weapons? I can’t keep track of the fighter plane generations and why the latest is supposedly better.
I would bet chemical weapons are far better with each generation using a lot less money than fighter jet development
Its less ‘fighter development’ than it is materials engineering, software, RADAR development these days.
the Russian Military Chemical Complex (MCC) was using defense conversion money received from the West for development of a chemical warfare facility
Because of course they were. Stories like these contribute to why I’m a cynical person.
today I learned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPB_mine
EFPs are older than I thought.
The real difference between this and current stuff is “100 millimeters of rolled homogeneous armour” . That’s paint and track damage on an M1.
Some of the new stuff is capable of doing 600 to 1200 mm.
Oddly the plastic windows on hummers stoped several efp’s I saw from penetrating where I saw an M1, a Bradley and three hummers hit in the metal armor taken out. Hummers don’t really count though as they tend to take themselves out of action.
Can anyone explain to me why Google took away the ability to just view an image from their image searches? Like, I don’t want to visit this fucking site. I want to steal this picture as quickly and efficiently as possible. Fuck off.
Hit share and copy the link.
^^This . Actually faster than the previous way.
Yeah, I like it better, too.
I want to steal this picture as quickly and efficiently as possible. Fuck off.
Answers “Can anyone explain to me why Google took away the ability to just view an image from their image searches?” as succinctly as you could possibly hope for.
Okay, so it wasn’t just me. Infuriating.
Yeah, it’s an anti-piracy thing they agreed to so they could still do business with one of the stock photo companies (Getty?). It’s caused me to start using Bing more than I would have (i.e. more than never).
But she seemed like such a nice girl
Theranos has been a big embarrassment for the world of private health-care investment. It deepened on Wednesday, when the SEC detailed what it called “massive fraud” committed by the company, its CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former President Ramesh Balwani.
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Fortunately, Theranos is an outlier. But it should also be a cautionary tale for investors.
First and foremost, the sheer extent and audacity of the fraud perpetrated by Theranos’s leaders separates it from the pack. According to the SEC complaint, the blood-testing company misled investors about its financials; what its proprietary technology could do (not much); the number of tests it outsourced to other companies (most of them); and the extent and status of its relationships with pharma companies, the Department of Defense, and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.
So blonde. So believable.
She suck[er]ed in Mattis as a director.
Interesting article in the Atlantic about Germany’s refugee screening program. Gets into the details of how the process works and how the whole thing is (of course) fraught politically.
The Atlantic is often a frustrating mix of “1 genuinely good article” surrounded by “100 screaming proggy horseshit thinkpieces”
Very true. This is one of the former. The half a dozen articles they also had up today/yesterday about Tillerson being fired from SecState fall into the latter category.
funny, the guy drops this as tho its especially cynical, yet seems to have forgotten that he began his piece by noting *exactly the same thing* the very first time he bothered to examine who these migrants were firsthand.
today in projection
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve
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Use italics liberally to indicate that you are using words in a highly specific and idiosyncratic sense.
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Follow these steps, and your success will be assured. (It does help if you are male and Caucasian.)
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Jordan Peterson appears very profound and has convinced many people to take him seriously. Yet he has almost nothing of value to say.
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In a reasonable world, Peterson would be seen as the kind of tedious crackpot that one hopes not to get seated next to on a train.
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Sociologist C. Wright Mills, in critically examining “grand theorists” in his field who used verbosity to cover for a lack of profundity, pointed out that people respond positively to this kind of writing because they see it as “a wondrous maze, fascinating precisely because of its often splendid lack of intelligibility.”
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Having safely established that Jordan Peterson is an intellectual fraud who uses a lot of words to say almost nothing,…
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Peterson’s diagrams are ridiculous. I’ll give NJR a point for that. It reminded me of Christopher Langan’s Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe.
And Peterson really went off the rails here:
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What, for example, are we to make of his interpretation of The Simpsons, which stresses the importance of having a cruel bully around to keep the soft effeminate kids from taking over: “Without Nelson, King of the Bullies, the school would soon be overrun by resentful, touchy Milhouses, narcissistic, intellectual Martin Princes, soft, chocolate-gorging German children, and infantile Ralph Wiggums. Muntz is a corrective…
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He has a point on Nelson.
https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Nelson_Muntz
If he says absolutely nothing, then why do people lose their shit over him? To me he seems completely normal, and he doesn’t say much that’s really profound. His skill is in standing up for common sense, which is a much needed service.
NJR again? Christ what an asshole (and see my link below about millenial assholes).
At this point I think Derpy has a hate-crush on him.
I’m not judging – if Anita Sarkeesian were honest, I’d never give her a second look…
Russian scientists use lasers to destroy mini asteroids
The data suggests an Earth-threatening nonmetallic asteroid measuring 600 feet across would require a 3-megaton bomb to destroy it.
The data suggests an Earth-threatening nonmetallic asteroid measuring 600 feet across would require a 3-megaton bomb to destroy it.
*cues up soundtrack for Armageddon*
We’re ready.
Do you want more Gojira? Because turning one big asteroid into 10,000 radioactive asteroids sounds like a good way to get more Gojira.
Funerals for Fallen Robots
New research explores the deep bonds that can develop between soldiers and the machines that help keep them alive.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/funerals-for-fallen-robots/279861/
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When Boomer was lost on the battlefield in Taji, Iraq, his brothers in arms gave him a funeral. The tribute involved a 21-gun salute, and the awarding of both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star Medal. All in recognition, according to a soldier who has worked with Boomer’s comrades, of Boomer’s heroism and of the many lives he had saved on the battlefield.
It was a funeral that was typical in every way but one: Boomer was a machine. He was a MARCbot, an inexpensive robot designed to seek out and disarm explosives. He — Boomer was, apparently, a he — saved soldiers’ lives as he tooled his way into dangerous zones, taking one for the team in the most selfless way possible. The tributes in Taji, be they figurative (the Bronze Star) or more literal (the firearmed salute), recognized all this. “Some people got upset about it,” the soldier recalls of Boomer’s improvised funeral, “but those little bastards can develop a personality, and they save so many lives.”
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Johnny 5
is alivegave the last full measure of his devotion.Wait they shot off a bunch of assault rifles in salute? Do they expect us to believe that the spent rounds didn’t fly across the globe and kill some small kid on their way to school?
WE KNOW ASSAULT RIFLES ARE SO UNIQUELY DANGEROUS THAT THEY CANNOT BE USED FOR ANYTHING!!
Some of those soldiers may have been under the age of 21!
Because the FDA doesn’t have anything else to do…
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/15/593870771/fda-advances-plan-to-slash-nicotine-in-cigarettes
So they want to make cigarette smoking more deadly?
Because if you lower the nicotine to tar ratio, guess what’s going to happen to the tar exposure needed to get the same level of dose as before?
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One concern is that cutting nicotine in cigarettes could result in smokers smoking more or inhaling smoke more deeply to compensate. Another concern is that slashing nicotine could lead to a black market in high-nicotine cigarettes.
But the FDA says research has indicated that there may be ways to prevent such negative outcomes.
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And those ways are….?
Vaping?
Oh, the FDA is doing a bang up job of keeping e-cigarettes from penetrating the market. It’s very, very important to the FDA apparatchiks that the body count of nicotine users stays high.
Change the batteries in your Sarcasmotron 2000.
I thought I was violently agreeing… /kicks orphan
Ban all doctors from providing care to smokers.
/NHS
” there may be ways to prevent such negative outcomes.”
the studies which suggest nicotine reduction can lead to cessation all had to be conducted in controlled environments where subjects had no access to “regular” cigarettes.
all the studies done ‘in the wild’ showed that consumers simply smoked more, or “cheated” with high-nicotine cigs to occasionally compensate.
keep in mind that the Tobacco industry has heavy influence over FDA’s various ideas
there is better than even chance that this is being promoted from within the industry
Baptists and Bootleggers 2: Regulatory Capture Bugaloo
DeVos still doin good shit.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/education-union-devostated/
NOT ACCORDING TO FACEBOOK!
Jordan Peterson appears very profound and has convinced many people to take him seriously. Yet he has almost nothing of value to say.
-says the vapid ninny at Current Affairs.
Seriously. That clown probably just can’t understand what Peterson is saying.
Or simply doesn’t want to.
Robinson couldn’t understand the ingredients label on a box of Cheerios.
But the FDA says research has indicated that there may be ways to prevent such negative outcomes.
Summary execution of freelance tobacco merchants like Eric Garner?
This would be the same govt that made sure alcohol was adulterated to increase toxicity during Prohibition, so yeah, that makes sense.
Driving home today, the Minnesota Public Radio announcer spent the sports segment covering the results of the Minnesoda Girl’s BBall tournament. So woke!
A shitlord would have mentioned the NCAA tourney, or the Kurt Cousins signing or something. Not our beloved MPR though. #LeanIn
“We don’t care if you’re interested, this is what you’re supposed to be interested in!”
/MPR
I agree with the “you will be made to care” diagnosis.
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Several years ago, I had an encounter with a young man who told me in no uncertain terms that he did not care about the rapid movement to legalize same sex marriage in the United States. It did not affect him, would not affect him and he did not care about the issue at all.
I replied to him that he would be made to care by the secular left in America. They will abide no dissent on the issue. If he decides, because of his faith, that same sex marriage is a sin, he will be made to change his mind or shut up. He could lose his job, his home, and see his career annihilated if he cared the wrong way. Sadly, since that time, I have been proven right.
The secular left in America has its own religion — the state. Worship of the state and the self cannot tolerate dissent or competition, and therefore is moving aggressively to shut down, silence, and drive from the town square any competing ideas. Evil has been preaching tolerance, but now that it is dominate, it seeks to silence good.
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https://townhall.com/columnists/erickerickson/2016/02/19/you-will-be-made-to-care-n2121248
Don’t get me started on the Lynx.
I agree that they are a great WNBA team and if nothing else is on, watching a game is OK (better than soccer imho). But try to not LOVE AND ADORE the Lynx among a certain proggie set and you are in big trouble.
Both my mother and sister belong in that tribe. Neither of them like sports that much, but as liberated wimmen they demand you pretend the Lynx are as compelling as any other local sportsball team.
Luckily for me I have been fairly dismissive of sportsball teams for the last 10 years or so. I am allowed to sort of be indifferent to the Lynx too. My poor father, though, has to pretend for the sake of his sanity that he loves the Lynx.
What is funny is that the reason I was listening to MPR was because the local sports radio stations were carrying the Kurt Cousins presser and no way I was listening to Hannity. All I wanted was to hear the results of the NCAA tourney to see how my brackets were going.
Well if they were the Minx maybe we’d find them more compelling.
I agree that they are a great WNBA team and if nothing else is on, watching a game is OK (better than soccer imho)
Shut your whore mouth!
Marxism is cancer.
https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2018/03/14/two-men-hope-to-make-colorado-the-first-state-to-redistribute-income/
Whose theory is this, exactly? Bernie’s?
Brendan O’Neil on Lauren Southern and the other two whose names I can’t be bothered to spell.
Why we must have the right to call Allah gay
Mary Whitehouse, not a Doctor Who fan either.
Christ, what an asshole.
“discomfort with our blasphemy laws grew, and eventually they were scrubbed off the statute books in 2008.”
Maybe they need to scrub a little harder
Twitter suspends Crowder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL41mis9aPE
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Conservative comedian/commentator Steven Crowder has been suspended from Twitter following the release of a video he created at SXSW wherein intern SvenComputer is forced to crash a LGTBQ “Gender Nonconformity” meet up at SXSW. In the video, Sven dressed up as a computer, where he repeated lines fed to him by Crowder.
I’d show it to you, but that video has been deleted by YouTube.
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No worries. I’m sure the Streisand effect is about to kick in.
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/03/14/steven-crowder-suspended-twitter-youtube-removes-video/
The gist is a guy dressed up as a computer and went to the BLT meeting and got mad when they wouldn’t accept his identification as a computer.
He didn’t even get mad.
Hooray! The video is back up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1nEUWcNcrw
went to the BLT meeting
They wouldn’t make him a sammich?
Days of our derp. I’d be inclined to agree with the headline, but then I read what these assholes have to say and it’s like, not so fast.
The biggest fault I can find with Boomers? The generation(s) we raised. [Happily I can claim exception to that status quo as my son just earned his PhD in bio-chem and has lived on his own in grad school for 6 years; nor will he be moving back home.]
It sure is fun to watch them ruthlessly stereotype and collectivize. I thought that was a Romper Room no-no.
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The boomers inherited a rich, dynamic country and have gradually bankrupted it. They habitually cut their own taxes and borrow money without any concern for future burdens. They’ve spent virtually all our money and assets on themselves and in the process have left a financial disaster for their children.
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But again, the boomers seem to have no appreciation for social solidarity.
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And it just so happens that the boomers are not socially inclined and have a ton of maladaptive personality characteristics.
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I’ve always seen the boomers as a generational trust-fund baby: They inherited a country they had no part in building, failed to appreciate it, and seized on all the benefits while leaving nothing behind.
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Something that doesn’t get discussed enough is how hostile so many of these boomers are to science. It’s not hard to connect this aversion to facts to some of these disastrous social policies.
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This is a generation that is dominated by feelings, not by facts. The irony is that boomers criticize millennials for being snowflakes, for being too driven by feelings. But the boomers are the first big feelings generation. They’re highly motivated by feelings and not persuaded by facts.
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On an abstract level, I think the worst thing they’ve done is destroy a sense of social solidarity, a sense of commitment to fellow citizens. That ethos is gone and it’s been replaced by a cult of individualism. It’s hard to overstate how damaging this is.
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Good grief, replace “boomers” with “Jews”, and… never mind.
Well, most of our problems have not been addressed because that would require higher taxes and therefore a sense of social obligation to our fellow citizens.
Higher taxes, like totally wouldn’t create an even larger bureaucracy.
Oh, and regarding Stuff Baby Boomers Like, apparently there’s another Kennedy conspiracy movie in the works.
The bridge gave way suddenly while the traffic light for motorists on Tamiami Trail was red and the concrete span flattened a row of at least eight stopped vehicles. Police on the scene said at least six people could be dead but the exact number of victims remained unconfirmed.
What a shit show.
If you look at the intended design it’s a cable-supported bridge, and they laid the long span across the roadway without the pillar or cables up yet. Shit show indeed.
Broward Deputy Scot Peterson stands safely behind a concrete wall taking no action as high school students lay dead and wounded just feet away, newly released video of the Florida school shooting shows.
Brave Sir Robin
Miami is having a gun buy back. Turn in your unwanted firearms for a minimum $50 gift card or up to $250 for an AR-15 or AK-47-style rifle.
Top men at work here.
Guns are like potato chips. They’ll make more.
$250 for an AR-15 lower? I’ll take twenty!
By which I mean make and give back.
This is a generation that is dominated by feelings, not by facts. The irony is that boomers criticize millennials for being snowflakes, for being too driven by feelings. But the boomers are the first big feelings generation. They’re highly motivated by feelings and not persuaded by facts.
Wut?
You know, Brooks, Facts. For example: Baby Boomers are one big collective.
If you look at the intended design it’s a cable-supported bridge, and they laid the long span across the roadway without the pillar or cables up yet.
WTF?
I bought a whole beef tenderloin. Other than filets, what could I do with it?
Beat a vegan to death with it?
What a waste of lovely meat!!!!
It tenderizes the vegan.
Yeah, but the vegan tastes like soy and sadness no matter what you do.
Beef Wellington
What could I use to bind the ‘shrooms besides pate? I hate pate.
Do a black pepper crust and roast to perfection. Yum.
It’s Friday for me, so *Slap!*
today’s derp winner
Feds Fund Trans Plays, Cowboy Poetry, ‘Social Justice’ Theater
New NEA grants totaling $370,000 go to anti-Trump activists, liberal projects
http://freebeacon.com/culture/feds-fund-trans-plays-cowboy-poetry-social-justice-theater/
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The National Endowment for the Arts is spending over $300,000 on new transgender plays, “social justice” theater, and other liberal projects.
The latest round of grants awarded by the Trump administration last month continues several Obama administration projects, including Smart People, a play set in the Harvard faculty lounge, and additional funding for cowboy poetry.
Two separate grants are supporting the play Sensitive Guys, where female and “gender non-conforming” actors play men who like to sit around and discuss “male privilege.”
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The Mixed Blood Theater Company, which received the funding for new trans works, is also performing Sensitive Guys. The theater describes the play as a “social satire” on “complicity” and “what it really takes to face the patriarchy.”
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“Three plays offer three complementary prisms to trans theater: one written by a trans playwright with a cast including gender nonconforming actors; one that revolves around a central trans character written by a cisgender Latino playwright; and one by a cisgender playwright with a cast of trans and gender nonconforming actors with a trans-inclusive metaphorical theme,” the theater company explains.
Aside from Sensitive Guys, the trans works include No Bull, a play about a girl who self identifies as a bull, and Mermaid Hour, which explores the “gender continuum through the prism of a pre-pubescent transgender biracial girl.”
“These NEA-supported projects are good examples of how the arts build stronger and more vibrant communities, improve well-being, prepare our children to succeed, and increase the quality of our lives,” said NEA chairman Jane Chu when announcing the new grant recipients.
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The NEA is also renewing funding for the play Smart People, which follows a “diverse group of Harvard intellectuals” confronting the “issues of racial bias and stereotyping” on the eve of Barack Obama’s election.
The Boston Globe said the play “firmly pushes back against the notion that we’re living in a ‘post-racial society.'”
The NEA gave $20,000 for a premiere of the play in Chicago.
Former senator Harry Reid’s beloved cowboy poetry is again receiving funding from the taxpayers, with $35,000 going to the Western Folklife Center for an “archiving of recordings of early Cowboy Poetry Gatherings and field research.”
The Civilians, the Brooklyn theater group that brought you the taxpayer-funded global-warming musical, received $10,000 for a new play about charter schools. An early run painted charter schools as “inexperienced and ineffectual.”
The above projects total $370,000 in taxpayer funding.
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