ZARDOZ NEEDS ANSWERS!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ HAS LIFTED YOU FROM BRUTALITY, TO SNARK AT THE BRUTALS WHO ARE LEGION. AND, ZARDOZ HAS GIVEN YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. IN RETURN, ZARDOZ WOULD ASK FOR SOME SUGGESTIONS FROM THE CHOSEN ONES. THE VORTEX TRIES TO KEEP CURRENT, AND THEREFOR DECIDED TO INTRODUCE THE “GIG ECONOMY” TO THE ETERNALS.
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IT HAS NOT GONE WELL. FIRST, THE ARTISAN BREAD MAKING VENTURE:
THE PRODUCTION STAFF SEEMED HAPPY ENOUGH…
WE LOVE MAKING GREEN BREAD FOR ALL OF ETERNITY! REALLY!
BUT, THE CUSTOMER BASE WAS LESS THAN PLEASED.
SAME THING EVERY DAY….CAN’T YOU SEND SOME SOURDOUGH OR A CROISSANT ONCE IN A WHILE?
BUT EVEN THAT FAILURE WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE UTTER FLOP THAT CAME NEXT…
THE VORTEX CANCELLED ITS RIDE-SHARING PROGRAM…”BRUTALCART”.
YOU TRY GETTING A BUNCH OF WHINY IMMORTALS TO PULL A CART. IF IT WEREN’T FOR ZED, THE VORTEX WOULD NOT HAVE EVEN BEEN ABLE TO ROLL OUT A PROTOTYPE.
THUS, ZARDOZ WOULD ASK THE CHOSEN ONES FOR SUGGESTIONS AS WHAT TO TRY NEXT. FOR YOUR EFFORTS, ZARDOZ WILL GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK:
- WHAT IS THE BRUTAL EXPRESSION… “EXCELSIOR, THE WOLVES DEVOUR THEMSELVES”? THE VORTEX HAS INFORMED ZARDOZ THAT AN IRON LAW IS ALSO IN PLAY – “ME TODAY, YOU TOMORROW”. THE BRUTAL ZUCKERBERG PROBABLY THOUGHT HE HAD BOUGHT GRACE WITH HIS PAST PRONOUNCEMENTS AND SURREPTITIOUS AID TO THOSE NOW ATTACKING HIM. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED.
- ZARDOZ BELIEVES THE CHOSEN ONES WOULD CALL THIS DUNG-STIRRING, YES? WAIT…THE VORTEX INFORMS ZARDOZ IT IS “@#$%STIRRING”. WHATEVER IT IS LABELED, IT IS SURE TO RAISE SOME BLOOD PRESSURE AMONG THE BRUTALS.
- ZARDOZ WILL HAVE TO RECRUIT THE LEAD FIGURE IN THIS STORY AS A BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR. WHILE A TERRIBLE POLICEMAN, IT IS APPARENT HE IS A GOOD EXTERMINATOR. SO SAYS HIS LAWYER: Salamoni’s attorney, John McLindon, said he will appeal the officer’s firing to a civil service board. Salamoni knows he probably can’t return to the Baton Rouge police force but wants to prove he did nothing wrong, his lawyer said.“He did what he was trained to do,” McLindon added.
- ZARDOZ IS HOLDING OUT HOPE FOR THE BRUTAL NATIONS OF ITALY AND FRANCE TO GO TO WAR! … WHY ARE THE CHOSEN ONES LAUGHING? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY “THEY WILL BOTH TRY TO SURRENDER FIRST”? WILL THEY NOT FIGHT TO THE DEATH? … OH, ZARDOZ SEES. WELL, ZARDOZ WILL HOPE FOR THE BEST ANYWAY.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
You Know Which other Italian went to war with France and vice-versa?
Julius Caesar?
I just finished commentaries this afternoon, Amazing guy
Shouldn’t that be “Yusef just finished”?
You Know Who Else…
Minos?
Well Played, Yusef announced to Winstons Mother 🙂
Caesar was incredibly intelligent with a multitude of talents.
Many of his best accomplishments resulted from him fucking up first in some embarrassing ways. So, to his credit, he usually found a way to pull himself out of the bad situations he often created.
+1 siege of Alesia
Ides of March = 4d chess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar#Conquest_of_Gaul
Rename July and abolish Leap Day!
Napoleon?
So is he the Italian or the Frenchman in your view?
Yes.
Correct answer, Cookie for YOU!
Was gonna say Napoleon, and then this.
Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi?
Not interested in puny links by ZARDOZ, but on the movie front, “Death of Stalin” is very entertaining with a lot of “laugh out loud” moments that had all of us in the theater laughing (mostly older folks) – but not nearly as consistently funny throughout as “In the Loop”. Obviously being based directly on real events, it’s a LOT darker. Thankfully Beria in particular gets his just desserts on screen – no rehabilitation of any of them here.
I’d say Jason Isaacs as Zhukov really steals the show on the whole though. Great cast overall.
Is Isaacs playing mirror universe Zhukov?
your Mom did….
I guess no one saw Star Trek Discovery…
Not watching that – but yeah – Marshall Zhukov. Great performance.
I’ll go see it at some point.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS MOVIE REVIEWING CHOSEN ONE.
MR. ZED WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT THAT “PUNY LINKS” CRACK…
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Is Macron still the great cosmotarian hope?
Leonid “Slutsky“. I see what you did there.
Were people really this dumb about facebook before? Or do they just need something to whine about besides PhAkENEws because they realize that isn’t winning, but that is still the source of their new FB outrage?
Actually it should be, “were people really this dumb before?”. It seems to be a universal thing these days.
Yes, they were.
I heard a comment yesterday about tech companies “selling themselves as an unalloyed good”. Which apparently is a new thing that no company has done before ever, so we can’t be expected to be at all skeptical as consumers.
That has been my question as well. You mean to tell me they did not know the business model of FB? Seriously? I think it has to do with Trump winning the election and the need to blame yet someone else. It can’t be because Hillary is a bitter crooked old woman who has never told the truth in her life.
Yep- they were in fact even dumber. But you didn’t find out about it as easily.
So the Italians are the only Nation France can Bully?
Payback for Asterix…
Quite a lot of of Africa would beg to differ. The French still impose something close to martial law every once in a while in nominally independent former colonial holdings when things get a bit too real. France has very quietly remained a colonial power long after the others gave up on the whole thing.
OT: THE DETROIT HARDWOOD BRUTAL WAS HIGHLY UNDERRATED (adapted from my archives)
Win Shares in basketball are a mathematical estimate of a player’s total contribution toward team victories. And if we were only keeping track of points, then points would correlate 100% with Win Shares. Obviously, we count lots of things: Minutes Played, Rebounds, Assists, Steals, Blocks, Turnovers, Made and Missed FGs, Made and Missed FTs. A player can score a lot of points but be deficient in other areas and thus have fewer than expected Win Shares; the converse is also true.
Many years ago, ESPN had a baseball column looking at running five-year peak totals (based on WAR) for all non-pitchers – a given year would be the start of the five-year peak. For example, 1970 would be the starting point of a five-year period from 1970 to 1974, which would be followed by 1971-75, etc. He singled out the top five in every five-year block, and made mention of a notable player or players. I enjoyed it so much, I copied his idea and applied it to basketball. It was no small feat to accrue 50 Win Shares over a five-season stretch; most of the players who did it are the names everybody knows.
From the 1983-84 through the 1987-88 seasons, here are the top six in Win Shares:
1) Larry Bird, 75.3
2) Magic Johnson, 61.9
3) Kevin McHale, 57.5
4) Adrian Dantley, 55.0
5) Michael Jordan, 53.6 (in a hair over three seasons out of five)
6) BILL LAIMBEER, 49.0
Let’s discuss Bill Laimbeer in general terms: his style of play, his range of abilities, his personal traits. Matter of fact, let’s start there, because Bill Laimbeer was a dirty bastard. He was not above throwing a stray elbow, stepping underneath a jump-shooter, undercutting a guy finishing at the rim…Laimbeer played basketball with the idea that one could use any tactic to prevent the opposition from scoring; after all, officials are there to blow the whistle, right? Why should players have to police themselves?
But dirty play has no value in Win Shares. Laimbeer didn’t finish with 49 WS in five seasons because he knocked Mark Price out of games. There have been dirty players before and since Laimbeer, and virtually none of them had as much non-dirty basketball to contribute as Laimbeer. Laimbeer was a high-post center who shot efficiently, turned the ball over rather seldom, and was a fine rebounder. How fine? In these five seasons, only three players finished in the top ten in the NBA in rebounding every season: Moses Malone, Buck Williams, and Bill Laimbeer. In that period, there were 10 instances of players grabbing 1000 or more rebounds: Charles Barkley (1986), Moses Malone (1985), Charles Oakley (1987, 1988), Buck Williams (1984, 1985, 1987), and Bill Laimbeer (1984, 1985, 1986). By one measure, Laimbeer was the best rebounder in those five seasons: no one grabbed more total rebounds from 1984-1988. So, like most players who pile up the Win Shares, Laimbeer excelled in one area of the game – in this case, rebounding.
All right – you hated Bill Laimbeer back in the day and all of this sounds like so much snake oil, like I’m putting on the dog here. So he hung around the rim and gathered up a bunch of uncontested rebounds, so what? It’s an absurd system that puts him right behind great players like Bird, Magic, McHale, Dantley, and Michael Jordan. There’s no way Bill Laimbeer is in the same zip code as those guys.
What people should make an effort to understand is that there are three elements that give a player his value: ability, efficiency, and durability. Ability is the one that jumps out at all of us: here goes Jordan off the dribble for a big jam, there’s Bird shooting the three, it’s Magic with the no-look dish, etc. Efficiency is maximizing assets while minimizing liabilities. And durability is the least sexy element of value there is: it’s called showing up and staying on the floor. (Bill Laimbeer didn’t miss one game during this five-year period) Your MVP-types usually score well in every area: they have a lot of ability, they are efficient, and they are durable. Bill Laimbeer was not blessed with a lot of ability, but he made the most of his; he played efficiently, and he played many minutes in every game for a team that averaged 49 wins a year and made a Finals appearance in those five seasons (1988).
So where’s Isiah Thomas, then? He was durable, missing only eight games in those five years. And he had a lot of ability, as anyone who watched basketball in that era could confirm. Isiah had two weaknesses: 1) he wasn’t terribly efficient, and 2) he was not a good defender. (Laimbeer wasn’t a great defender, but he was at least adequate.) These are weaknesses relative to his many strengths, of course. You might think of Bill Laimbeer and Isiah Thomas as parts of a car: Laimbeer is the frame, and Isiah is the steering wheel. The steering wheel is much more important than the frame – you’re not going anywhere by car without one – but you don’t have a car without a frame. Bill Laimbeer, with his annual 82 games and 2800 minutes and 50% FG and 87% FT and 16 PPG and 11 RPG and positive AST/TO ratio and 130+ BLK plus STL was a pretty good frame to build a car with. He was dirty and a crybaby and a bit of a horse’s ass, but that was a problem for referees and opponents to worry about, not the Pistons.
Cool story, Ken.
I lol’d, but you’d need the sentence to paragraph ratio to be close to 1:1.
Where’s Ken been lately? Haven’t seen him around in a while. Hope he’s just busy or annoyed and not in a bad way or anything.
He’s at TOS quite a lot more than here lately, just my Observation…..
Laimbeer is way up there on my list of players I despised the most. He was basically a WWF heel in a basketball uniform.
The Warriors need the Pistons treatment.
When you spend time trying to hurt others… you have removed yourself from basketball playerdom, and have become the hoop version of the hockey goon. I always hoped when he undercut a jump shooter, the guy would either knee him in the throat or flail a leg and kick him in the balls. When Detroit slid down the sewer, and Chicago took over as top dog from the classless Isiah Thomas and Bill Laimbeer, I laughed for months.
Oh, I’m not excusing Laimbeer’s assholeness. In fact, I think this shows that his antics strongly undermined his actual value as a player.
Danny Ainge.
Only time I ever came close to hitting my ex was when after watching a rec-league game I played in, she said “you’re a lot like Ainge”.
IT HAS NOT GONE WELL. FIRST, THE ARTISAN BREAD MAKING VENTURE:
I thought artisanal mayo was where it was at?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS MAYO WONDERING CHOSEN ONE. ANYONE WHO SUGGESTED THAT WAS CLEANSED. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Leonid Slutsky, head of the foreign affairs committee in Parliament’s lower house, the State Duma, has been accused of making lewd sexual comments and groping by members of the Western media covering Russia.
Hmm…..
*EDIT FAIRY HAS BLESSED YOU*
Whoops… screwed up the tag. Only Slutsky should be bolded.
Are you saying it… got out of hand?
Yes
Thank you Edit Fairy!
I thought fairies were supposed to be dainty?
That one looks like a linebacker. With implants.
Stop Fairybody shaming, you shitlord!
“The moms who fatally veered off a California cliff with at least three of their six adopted kids were being investigated for starving their children before Monday’s crash — and one was previously convicted of domestic assault for hitting their little girl, according to new reports.
Cops say they still have no evidence Jennifer and Sarah Hart deliberately drove their SUV off the road — but have noted that there were no skid or brake marks where the vehicle went over. Three of the kids’ bodies had been found as of Thursday morning, while the others — including 15-year-old Devonte, whose image went viral after he was photographed tearfully hugging a white cop at a 2014 protest in Ferguson, Missouri — remain missing.”
https://nypost.com/2018/03/29/moms-of-family-who-drove-off-cliff-have-dark-history-of-abuse/
Black lives matter unless you are driving them off a cliff?
It was in response to Ferguson but the actual hug took place about 1700 miles away in Portland.
Eh, what is being off a third of a continent when you are a reporter?
This is tragic, but… I’m going to guess they had every signal on.
What a mess Europe is.
EU ‘legalities’ or not, that was ‘sans politesse’.
My kid is watching Nickelodeon and there’s a commercial for a movie called “Smallfoot” where it seems that a bunch of Yeti discover humans and all I can think is STEVE SMITH. I hope y’all are happy.
LOL
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN NICK WATCHING ONE. I AM SURE FRIEND STEVE SMITH IS HAPPY… SHOULD HE BE RECEIVING ROYALTIES. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Did you explain it to your daughter? That there is an intro into the birds and the bees talk.
“See honey, he rapes hikers”
“What’s rape daddy?”
I AM
I guess that nun ain’t as tight with God as she thought.
Sloopy is celebrating.
Meh. If it was football, we’d hear the anguish from here. Hoops….not so much.
Yeah, it’s not like Duke won.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN JURIS DOCTORATED ONE. HAD THAT HAPPENED, ZARDOZ HAD BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS STANDING BY… ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Why did I decide to make my Necrons tournament legal? I don’t attend tournaments. There are more requirements for painting them.
Ah well, these are still gorgeous scarabs I’ve ended up with.
I wanna see!
I’m almost done with the warriors too, I’ll post a group shot.
Shooting at the walls of heartache?
Ted, you’re a scandal.
Allright Yusef. Here you go
A patrol from the Roukatekh Dynasty
*Raukatekh
I named the guys and I’m mistyping it,
Korean Make More Than KIA!, Artillery for Sale!
“The K9 won on the basis of technical capabilities, field tests and a South Korean reputation for quality and reliability.”
That sentence is why I own two Kias
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htart/articles/20180328.aspx
Arty tease. No pics.
here,
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F2%2F2b%2FK-9thunder.jpg%2F300px-K-9thunder.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FK9_Thunder&docid=vvULiJpHpqOImM&tbnid=l3Gb9Mo4wBgHpM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwjZ1q3c8JfaAhVK72MKHbsaAvgQMwg7KAAwAA..i&w=300&h=230&bih=809&biw=1598&q=korean%20k9&ved=0ahUKEwjZ1q3c8JfaAhVK72MKHbsaAvgQMwg7KAAwAA&iact=mrc&uact=8
The K9’s a Samsung? Cool, just so long as they don’t issue a recall for exploding batteries. (Batteries, get it? See what I did there?)
…
I’ll show myself out.
*narrows OD officer gaze*
*unconsciously glances at Switzy’s sock color*
Technically, shouldn’t that be Tulpa’s sock?
This color…
Overdose officer? Interesting.
Ordnance Corps!
Did you work with this guy?
How in the HELL did you get film of my… I mean, no. That is silly. Not at all.
*mops flop sweat*
Tip the veal and try the waitress.
Wakka-wakka! /Fozzy Bear
I’ve been recently reviewing the career of actor, Timothy Carey (The Wild One, East of Eden, The Killing, Paths of Glory, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, etc)
he was mentioned as a favorite of Kubrick, Cassevetes, and Tarantino
I have decided that he deserves special recognition for one thing in particular; many think hollywood’s greatest ‘ethnic’-exploitation sin was “casting italians and jews and mexicans’ to play Native Americans. I think that is wrong. I think Hollywood’s greatest ethnic insult was casting an Italian/Irish weirdo to play a bayou Acadian in a movie called “Poor White Trash”
I honestly can’t tell what in god’s name any of those accents are *supposed* to be, but the one thing i’m absolutely certain of is that none of the actors are actually from louisiana, or even southern, most likely. In fact, i’d bet its possible that none of them even heard what it was they were supposed to be imitating before filming began. It sounds like a bunch of italians and jews from Newark pretending to be cave-men.
If memory serves, Frank Zappa had the good sense to repudiate The World’s Greatest Sinner later in his career.
Accent? What the heck was that dancing?
He looks like me when I dance fuck around – or after I sign up a new kid.
i thought the accent was at least ‘funny because it sounded more like dudes from brooklyn or staten island’ than cajuns,
rather than the dancing, which was just some sort of frightening “LSD meets santaria-voodoo” sort of shi
This crap between the games is so damn boring. Making me want to take a nap.
That’s a bit harsh. I think saying they are like Kamala Harris is a nicer way to put it.
as seen on Fox News at gym
Clinton: Men are never told to just go away
Clinton: No I will not shut up
You stay classy, lady.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/30/politics/hillary-clinton-election-loss/index.html
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Hillary Clinton suggested Thursday that the criticism she should “go away” following her election loss to President Donald Trump is based in sexism, arguing that her critics never asked that of losing candidates who are male.
“That began to happen after the election. … I was really struck by how people said that to me — you know, mostly people in the press, for whatever reason — like, ‘Oh, you know, go away, go away,'” Clinton said at an event at Rutgers University.
Ruth Mandel, director of the university’s Eagleton Institute of Politics, had asked Clinton what her response has been to people who call for her “‘get off the public stage and shut up.'”
“They never said that to any man who was not elected,” Clinton said. “I was kind of struck by that.”
She went on to reference former presidential contenders who had lost their bid for the White House but did not shrink away from political discussion.
“I’m really glad that, you know, Al Gore didn’t stop talking about climate change,” Clinton said of the former Democratic vice president who ran for president in 2000.
She continued, “And I’m really glad John Kerry went to the Senate and became an excellent secretary of state.”
“And I’m really glad John McCain kept speaking out and standing up and saying what he had to say,” Clinton said of the Arizona Republican.
“And for heaven’s sakes, Mitt Romney is running for the Senate,” said Clinton, referring to the 2012 Republican nominee’s campaign for Senate in Utah.
Clinton added that she’s “really committed to speaking out and doing what I can to have a voice in the debate about where our country is going.”
***
[head desk]
Really? I’m certain Jeb! hears just that on daily basis.
Yeah…nobody in the history of the Republic had EVER been told to go away after losing a Presidential election.
…
Da fuq?
That’s right…especially by their critics.
Hell, they told Donald Trump to shut up and get off the stage when they were under the impression that he could never win and Hillary was inevitable.
What news outfit was it that moved coverage of him to the entertainment section?
HuffPo, and to be fair most politics is applesauce these days.
Very true
OMG just die already
Bill (goes down on Hillary. Pulls back and recoils): What the heck?
Hillary: I rubbed salmon on my pussy. What’s wrong? I thought you like salmon.
Bill: i do. On a plate. With lemon and capers. Not as juice oozing from your cunt.
Hillary (hurls salmon at Bill): Here! Go eat your fucken salmon with your fancy capers!
Argh! Stop! At least with Sugar free I can just not click the more button.
More, more, more,
How do you like it?
I still remember the purple 45 with the fat little Buddha on it. Buddha records I believe was the label.
The song was recorded thanks to capital controls.
And the singer was a porn star.
from the other place in the before time
***
“Inside every human being, there are treasures to unlock,” Huckabee sighed as he tugged on his wedding ring. The ring was snug a rusted nut on his meaty, hairy finger.
From the closet, Huckabee heard a muffled drawl: “You just about ready? This hog is ready for his slop!”
The ring finally popped off like a champagne cork. Huckabee paused to look at the family picture on his desk before putting it in the desk drawer. It was from the Arkansas State fair. He had eaten his son’s cotton candy while the son was at the port-a-potty. Huckabee had said he dropped it and had to throw it the trash. He had used the same ruse that day to get a corndog from his daughter and a funnel cake from his wife.
“OK Wilbur, I’m ready!” Huckabee shouted as he dropped his pants. The closet door creaked open part way. A leg clad in pink fishnets poked out enticingly. The leg bent slowly back and forth.
A female voice began to imitate the rustle of cymbals- “Ch, ch-ch, ch, ch-ch-ch…” The door opened further. Huckabee felt a jolt of arousal at the fringe of the pink negligee. “Oh, Hillary, yes…” Huckabee blurted out.
“You’re supposed to call me ‘Wilbur'” Clinton gently corrected him as she flopped her post-menopausal breasts in tired shimmy. She stopped briefly to adjust the elastic strap on her plastic pig nose.
Clinton dropped to all fours and let out a few hearty oinks and snorts. Huckabee began mock chasing her while shouting “Soo wee! I’m gonna getcha!”
Huckabee was mesmerized as Clinton’s haunches and thighs shuddered like a cat preparing to vomit. She rounded the desk once and kicked over the wastebasket to slow down Huckabee’s advance. Huckabee rushed forth and grabbed Clinton in a bear hug.
“Wee! Wee! Wee!” Clinton squealed. He gingerly carried her a few steps a nearby table strewn with Christian pamphlets. Huckabee let Clinton down and brushed off the table with an angry sweep of his hand.
Clinton laid her upper body on the table and put her feet on the floor. A web of spider veins blossomed on the backs of her knees. On the small of her back was a fading tattoo of her beloved childhood pet- a stray kitten she had named Peanut.
Clinton thought lovingly of cradling Peanut as Huckabee panted and thusted through her like aging airboat through a weed-choked bayou. 5 minutes, then 10 minutes, then 20 minutes passed. Huckabee stopped. He hadn’t been able to finish in years. Tears began to well up in his eyes as he withdrew. Clinton stood and turned to face him.
“I’m sorry…” he began to blubber. Clinton placed her finger on his lips and shushed him. She embraced him and whispered in his ear “what difference at this point does it make?”
A buzz from Clinton’s purse cut the embrace short. She checked her phone. “Bill got caught hiding in the dressing room at Lane Bryant. I have to go pick him up at the sheriff’s office.”
“OK. Was it good for you?” Huckabee asked hopefully.
“Fantastic” Clinton said as she hurriedly changed into a beige pantsuit.
After she had left, Huckabee redressed, reset the family photo and put back on his wedding ring with the help of some leftover coconut butter.
He took an old bible off his bookshelf. He loved the feel of the leather cover. He opened it to Exodus 22:19 and set it on his desk. From a desk drawer, he retrieved a small whip. He read the verse slowly and then hit himself on the back with all his might.
“Whosoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.”
THWACK!
He hurried to finish his ritual so as not to miss the kick-off.
***
The first line is an actual Huckabee quote.
I don’t recall any of the losers she mentions there blaming everything under the sun for their loss. Maybe Gore and a few hanging chads but that eventually went away and all sane people ignore him today.
And they mostly left political office. Very fee have lost an actual presidential election and tried again.
She might turn out to be our time’s version of Harold Stassen…
I am 99.44% certain that Mrs. Clinton doesn’t give two shits about “climate change”. I can just see her slapping her minions around on a regular basis and asking them “What are those loser shit progs talking about today?”
I didn’t realize that Al Gore only spoke about climate change when he ran for President.
What Hillary doesn’t (want to) realize is she is speaking primarily about her election. The other’s didn’t wallow in their failure. Nor did they keep blaming every one else for their loss.
Mitt Romney could not be reached for comment.
I know it’s good derp when I groan from agony from just reading the title.
ADMIT EVERYBODY
Instead of defending the SAT, let’s advocate a genuinely egalitarian education system…
by NATHAN J. ROBINSON
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/admit-everybody
***
There is no fair way to create a meritocracy. This is because the notion of “merit” is itself loaded with unfair premises. People will always have differing life histories, capacities, and opportunities, and so any assumption that those who “rise to the top” of a competition have superior deservingness will be false. That doesn’t mean that everyone is equally qualified to be a surgeon or a structural engineer or a social worker, or that there should be no evaluations to make sure the people who have certain jobs can do them. Instead, it means that we can never conclude that people got those qualifications did so because they “earned” it more than others, and we should be skeptical of any idea of a “fair competition.”
…
The conclusion I agree with is that the SAT may be the “least bad” of three options for competitive admissions, when compared with using grades or Mushy Holistic Factors, and that therefore eliminating the SAT alone won’t in and of itself produce greater equality and could backfire. (I even have a certain soft spot for the SAT because it enabled me, a person who didn’t know any of the weird upper-class “holistic” signals that impress colleges, to go to a good college.) But the conclusion I disagree with is that this somehow makes a “progressive case for the SAT,” or that we should “defend the SAT.” This is the same logic that causes people like Nicholas Kristof to argue that because sweatshops are supposedly better than farm labor, there is a progressive case for sweatshops and we should defend them. This is one of the differences between liberalism and leftism: liberalism argues for the least bad of several bad options, while leftism insists on having a better set of options.
…
In other words: just admit everybody. The whole “competitive” nature of undergraduate admissions is absurd to begin with, and the very fact that students are sorted according to “merit” is socially corrosive. Let’s face it: college isn’t like brain surgery or social work. People’s lives aren’t in your hands. Instead of finding the “top ten best people” we should be selecting “anyone who has proved they are capable of doing the expected work.” Competitive admissions are as irrational as grading curves.
…
My vision of universities is as a place where anybody can come and learn, so long as they can do the work. Now, you could argue that at elite schools, the work is so hard that only a few people would be qualified to do it. That’s false, though. I have been a TF at Harvard, so I am acquainted with the level of rigor in the undergraduate curriculum, and it’s obvious that vastly more students than the 4.8% they actually admit are capable of passing the courses. In fact, possibly the majority of the applicants could do fine.
…
We don’t need “best” and “worst” universities, ranked from top to bottom, we just need “universities,” places where people go to explore human knowledge and acquire the skills that enable them to do things that need doing. Progressive education means an end to the illusion of meritocratic competition, an end to the SAT, and the realization of a vision of equal education for all.
***
Trying to kill me via derp overdose, eh Nathan? Nice try, but it ain’t gonna work.
What’s like to be me reading this:
https://youtu.be/sjdnCC6n4xk?t=7m20s
Nate has never heard of open admissions community colleges?
Or Antioch?
Or as some of my colleagues call them, high school with ashtrays.
It’s like high school is the high point of life and everything else afterward is downhill. There is no existence after age 22 apparently.
[glances at palm; sees blinking crystal]
I read the first two sentences and I was out.
Father than I got.
Somebody told you that life was fair kid?
The best NJR can hope for is Body Heat era Kathleen Turner, though he’s more deserving of Californication era KT.
while leftism insists on having
a better set of options. some utopian shit that would never happen but which would give the government a nice excuse to grab some more authorityI have to admit that I’m kind of on board. I think the US might indeed be a better place if Harvard and Yale had to admit several million undergrads each year.
I am convinced the Jack’s Link advertising team have learned of STEVE SMITH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDMczBAlcn4
‘America’s Never Been Great’: Student Records Teacher Saying Trump ‘MAGA’ Slogan Trying to Bring Back Segregation
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/03/31/teacher-anti-trump-rant-georgia-student-records-teacher-ripping-maga-make-america-great
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On “Fox & Friends,” Abby Huntsman interviewed a Georgia middle school student who captured audio of her teacher ripping President Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again” slogan.
Josie Orihuela of Hampton Middle School near Atlanta began recording on her phone when sixth-grade teacher Johnetta Benton began reaming out the president.
“When my president says let’s Make America Great Again, when was he talking about?” Benton is heard asking, and later adding that Trump must mean when “[America] was great for Europeans.”
“Because,” Benton continues, “when it comes to minorities, America has never been great for minorities.”
Huntsman said the incident happened at the same high school where another teacher requested students write letters to their lawmakers demanding gun control.
***
Snitches get stitches, Josie.
Completely inappropriate for sixth grade.
Jesus what a bunch of idiots.
I’m not going to pretend that America is or was a paradise for non-wypipo. But it sure is odd that tons of non-white people came here in the past and continued to do so in waves. If it’s such a horrible racist place, why did they keep showing up and sending for their families?
Could it be possible that people also face discrimination in their native lands? Could it be possible that even if there is horrible bigotry in the US, the economic opportunities made it a better place to be a minority than any other place on Earth?
“began recording on her phone when sixth-grade teacher Johnetta Benton began reaming out the president.”
It’s like we speak a completely different language.
Villanova is putting on a clinic against Kansas.
JUST WHAT WE NEED – THE BORING AGAINST THE ENTITLED.
So this afternoon I took a large kitchen spoon out to clean the ashes from the kettle grill so I can finish my pork roast tomorrow. I set the giant spoon on the table out there and a bird shit in it. What are the odds of that? Sure, I can’t win the lottery but bird shit sailing through the air will land in my spoon. Is this an omen of good things or bad things to come, or does it just mean I need to wash my spoon?
I would have thought you’d wash it after using it on ash.
So what you are saying is since I was going to wash it anyways it means nothing? I need meaning in this event and you are not helping.
Kill. All. Birds.
The bird did it deliberately.
Birds are assholes.
Seconded.
I’ll just put this here.
You take that back! I see cute little pairs of ducks swimming around the Hudson when I’m hanging outside for smoke breaks.
Are you saying cute things can’t be assholes?
Let’s not get carried away.
Oh! Look how cute it is!
It means you are supposed to change your meal plan to smoked turkey.
Clean your own spoon, eh!
/Jordan Peterson
Is none of the above an option?
That’s what they call an omen, Scatufex Maximus.
***
The New School, a self-described “progressive” university in New York City, is offering a course this semester on “feminist economics,” a field created by “feminist socialists” to combat capitalism.
According to the course description, feminist economics is “a way of radically reconceptualizing and reorienting the study of economics” in ways that are more “transformative” for women.
***
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10707
Aka a theft based economy.
A key point to these ‘femenist [field of study]’ is that they want to remake the field rather than contribute to it.
I looked at the schools homepage and are we sure this is just not a scam to take money from rich kids who want to be seen as thinking correctly? They surely can’t believe their own bs right? I would respect them if they are just con artists.
Enh… they have classes for norms too. I’ve taken a couple.
So they are a legit school with a sideways economic dept? What I was reading sounds nuts.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10713
***
The Dartmouth College library recently produced an online guide to “Feminist Geography” to assist budding scholars in ridding the field of “masculinist” practices.
According to the guide, feminist geographers “challenge the masculinist formation of science as objective, gender-neutral, and value-free” by studying topics such as “spatial subjectivities” and “emotional geographies.”
***
Emotional geography.
https://youtu.be/KNIZofPB8ZM
So women are emotion, irrational, and incapable of subjective thought?
As a woman, these people make me want to scream “Stop Helping!”
The Dartmouth College library recently produced an online guide to “Feminist Geography” to assist budding scholars in ridding the field of “masculinist” practices.
We had mandatory yearly HR training recently. It took three sessions to get everyone through. They show videos about sexual harassment and what not, and stereotyping blah blah blah. It made me laugh each morning of the sessions when the gaggle of HR ladies would ask us to go get the heavy things out of their cars. It was all I could muster to not say, “I am feeling gender stereotyped here and I think you should unload your own damn car and carry that yourself.”
http://feministengineering.org/
***
Doing research at Purdue University to develop a more inclusive, engaged, and socially just vision of engineering education
…
The philosophy of the FREE research group is that we do what we can to say what needs to be said, that we hold our community in high esteem as we might with a religion, that wasting time, effort and energy is a form of disrespect of ourselves and of others, and that noticing daily details of ourselves and others helps honour each of us as human beings.
***
[head desk]
HEY, HOW ‘BOUT THEM LINKS THAT WAS POSTED?!
*waves Glibertarians flag*
Hey look we got a Counter-revolutionary over here.
“HEY, HOW ‘BOUT THEM LINKS THAT WAS POSTED?!”
The more the merrier, right?
Finding derp and sharing is what I do.
The more the merrier, right?
No, not really.
What links?
The 4 that got posted before Derpy hit with 10 or so of his own.
Kind of makes you wonder why we bother.
And they wonder why no one takes them seriously.
“socially just vision of engineering education”
Their bridges only collapse on people who deserve it.
https://media.giphy.com/media/l0G16s5kkDyJxjlZe/giphy.gif
I don’t know which “wave” of feminism is being touted these days but I thought this one kind of failed back when it was called “communism”.
Can Kansas just forfeit? I’m sick of listening to this. I want to go home and have a beer.
I’m home having a beer watching Kansas suck… pretty good evening, now that the kids are in bed.
Now ESPN can spasm over Villanova and the rest of us can simply not bother watching.
https://www.thewrap.com/frank-stallone-calls-david-hogg-headline-grabbing-punk-twitter-punches-back/
Frank is right, but he maybe could have worded it a little better. But, fuck everyone who think this kid can’t be criticized. It’s OK for him to call gun owners blood thirsty murderers (I’m paraphrasing) but no one is able to say a single “bad” thing about him. They can all fuck off.
Enh, if he can’t take heat, he should get out of the kitchen.
He didn’t accept Ingraham’s apology and then tells people to ‘love thy neighbour’.
He’s calling people all sorts of nasty things and feels shielded because of his self-righteous position.
He is a punk.
I can’t believe he has enough power to scare advertisers from her show.
Yeah, that is shocking, and a little scary.
Eh, it’s like the Parents Television Council. Progressivist neo-puritanism with child preachers and shame, shame, SHAME!
Where’s Frank Zappa when you need him?
I guess I’m conflating different censorship-advocacy groups, but whatev
I don’t know if that’s a fair comparison. The Twitter mob has enough power to actually put people out of business. To my knowledge the worst the Puritans ever did was stop TV shows from having tits and swear words…and they are losing that fight.
Well, he does kind of look like Damien.
Seriously. He’s creepy af. I’ve seen The Dead Zone so I know how this is going to end for him.
Classic concern trolling. He learned from the best.
Agreed. And people (looking at you Laura Ingraham) need to quit apologizing for getting back lash. The shit head is an authoritarian punk ass douche and deserves to be called as much. Survived a shooting? It is my understanding he wasn’t even in the same building. Everyone in any large city tonight who has not been shot has survived a shooting by proxy with that logic.
I don’t even think he was at the school, he was at home from what I’ve read.
IIRC, he is on video saying when he heard about the shooting he grabbed his camera and went to school to “document” it.
You are correct, sir.
Looks like snopes is questioning what that interpretation, however. I’m not going to bother.
According to this article that is incorrect and based on a CBS quote taken out of context
Fair enough.
seriously? wtf?
That was an out of context quote. He said he rode his bike back in the evening.
However, he (incidentally) made it clear in that same interview that he wasn’t in the building where the shooting occurred. Which is a surprise to no one.
I’m embarrassed that I know this stuff. It’s a step below following the Kardashians and Jenners.
Finally over, hopefully they don’t drag out the post game show; I hate when they do that.
They just keep babbling, I hate these post game shows.
Kansas can fuck off. I had my hopes up for a Glibs bracket win and they dashed them against the rocks on the beach in the sea of life. Sad!
I have Chocolate Cherry Stout and this to listen to, Tasty….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_goHl-GuNk
Tasty!
That is good music to take the edge off of this hangover.
Indeed!
That’s lame, I’m listening to this.
It’s cool because it has a midget.
It’s a good song. The video is weird.
I’m still listening to the ‘Destination unknown’ video someone posted like a month ago. I don’t know why, it’s really not my bag musically, but I find I keep going back and watching it over and over.
This one?
That’s the one, I think it’s that catchy hook that I can’t get enough of.
Can’t imagine why anyone would watch that…..
Bah-ba, Bah-ba, Bah-ba-ba, Bah-ba…
Dave Brubeck ,the Ultimate Jazz Nerd,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs
How about some Metallica?
Or some Aerosmith
Metallica!? I clicked anyway and was pleasantly surprised.
I can’t thread for shit
Yeah, and Morello’s drum work is fantastic. In fact, all the stuff on the Time Out album is, IMHO, mind-blowing good.
To hold onto the mood
https://youtu.be/FI8d36w_ijw
Something I just heard on Tucker Carlson: “Every work place should hire the best, but place a premium on diversity.” Square circle. Good luck.
Hey, it worked for Theranos.
Minnesoda nice:
Minnesota woman accused of using racial slurs, sex toy and more to harass neighbor
She added that she suffers from incontinence and hip problems, preventing her from sometimes making it upstairs to her second-floor bathroom. In those instances, she uses her backyard instead, Madison said.
That is what they all say.
When I do this it’s because I am suffering from alcohol and laziness.
Sometimes I go out and urinate on my compost pile at night. It’s good for the compost, and there’s no point in wasting water when I could get dispose of it for free.
I was peeing in my back yard just this afternoon. Then I realized that there were people on the football field of the local high school, which is at this time of year not that well screened from my back yard by undergrowth. I put it away a little too quickly, because misunderstandings could happen. The nice weather fooled me- in June I can pee out there to my heart’s content because of the shrubberies.
All you need is a spark and then you can watch it all burn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-8ZP3NUl-E
Minnesoda horny
Bestiality charge dismissed after defendant pleads guilty to burglary
So, other than the dog sex, I find it weird that a) he has three middle names and b) they abbreviate only one of them.
3 middle names = Muslim of course
Fucking Rock!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSQp7YOPdJ8
Rock like Mother fucker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzkXGIRaxcI
I’m not much of a Van Hagar fan, but this song kicks ass.
Excuse me while I take fifty points from MikeS’s musical taste score.
This should get those points back for me
umm, No.
Listen to it a few times. It’ll grow on you
meh, I liked it better when Nick Cave and Kylie Minoquinoguire did it, I’ll give you 25 points back anyway case let’s face it I’ve been drinking.
Drunk The Hyperbole is something very special.
He is. I especially like it when he changes shirts as the night goes on
And that is my favorite shirt
Quad Laser, the bullet is enormous.
I hope he can see this, because I am doing it as hard as I can
nice!
Who do you think you are?
This is totally not my typical genre of music, but I like it
I’ve shed a fair amount of weight lately and discovered a weird lump on my sternum. I think I took a puck there when I was a kid. That got me reminiscing about other memorable body shots of my youth. My gym teacher was a gingery Welshman that used to play for our national rugby team. A hard case. When we were playing at something sometimes he’d join in just to show us pasty little fuckers up. We were doing “battle royale” on the wrestling mat one day and damned if I wasn’t winning. I push the last kid off the mat and turn to raise my arms in triumph when I see at the last second that Mr. Osborn has entered the fray. He beetled forth and head-butted me in the solar-plexus. Center-shot. The only time that I was literally knocked unconscious until I was speared in the short ribs playing football. He went about 200 lbs and I probably weighed 125. Christ, what an asshole!
Happy Easter Glibs. I got a new job so I won’t be on as much.